中国地质大学远程与继续教育学院大学英语(专升本)阶段性作业解析.doc

中国地质大学远程与继续教育学院大学英语(专升本)阶段性作业4 单选题 1. A coelacanth is a kind of living fossil, first discovered when one was caught off Madagascar马达加斯加）in 1938. A coelacanth is a kind of _____(5分) (A) rock (B) plant (C) fish (D) animal 您的回答：C 正确 2. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test--- even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadow land of hope, and everyone with a dream must learn to live there. “ the shadow land of hope” means_____(5分) (A) the wonder land one often dream about (B) the bright future that one is looking forward to (C) the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached (D) a world that exists only in one’s imagination 您的回答：C 正确 3. Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion (5分) (A) Valuable (B) useful (C) doubtful (D) helpful 您的回答：C 正确 4. Many different people find that online method requires them to use their experiences and that online learning offers them a place to communicate with each other. This forum for communication removes the visual barriers that hinder some students in expressing themselves. (5分) (A) a place for online learning (B) a place to exchange opinion (C) a place to exchange opinion (D) the experience for online learning 您的回答：C 正确 5. I can make this decision because Ive gone down this road with patients many times. Recently I operated in vain on an eighty-year-old woman with cancer of the liver... There was nothing I could do to relieve the problems the cancer had caused. “in vain” means_____(5分) (A) unsuccessfully (B) effortlessly (C) with difficulty (D) with expectation 您的回答：A 正确 阅读理解 We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. “Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen?” “When I got that great job, did Jerry really feel