东北师范大学大学英语（一）高起专21秋学期在线作业2

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 40 道试题,共 100 分)

1.The great use of a school education is not so much to teach you things ______ to teach you the art of learning.

A.than

B.rather than

C.nor

D.as

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2.I didn’t mean ______ anything, but these apples looked so good I couldn’t resist ______ one.

A.to eat…trying

B.to eat…o trying

C.eating…to try

D.eating…to trying

3.It is ______ that I would like to go to the beach.

A.so nice weather

B.such nice weather

C.so nice a weather

D.such a nice weather

4.The boy told his father that he would rather ______ an astronaut.

A.become

B.to become

C.becoming

D.became

5.By no means ______ their own language well.

A.it is true that all English people know

B.is it true that do all English people know

C.it is true that do all English people know

D.is it true that all English people know

6.Whatever the rule is, you may be sure he will keep _____ it.

A.on

B.in

C.off

D.to

7.David likes country life and has decided to ______ farming.

A.go in for

B.go into

C.go through

D.go after

8.The purpose of the official inquiry is to ______ the true facts leading to the loss of the ship at sea.

A.come at

B.come for

C.come into

D.come over

9.If I ______ in the twenty-first century, I ______ my vacation in a very different way.

A.should live…would spend

B.will live ….should spend

C.are living … should have spent

D.will be living…would have spent

10.Three hours ______ enough for us to finish the task.

A.are

B.has

C.is

D.were

11.There isn’t anything wrong with the radio, ______?

A.is there

B.is it

C.does it

D.does there

12.Three hours ought to be enough time, ______?

A.oughtn’t three hours

B.didn’t they

C.shouldn’t it

D.shouldn’t three hours

13.Some quite artistic, yet inexpensive fabrics are now being _____ from British mills.

A.turned over

B.turned out

C.turned up

D.turned off

14.He works ______.

A.lone

B.lonely

C.alone

D.lonesome

15.You should spend ______ in the study of the various senses and uses of the common words.

A.much time as you can

B.as time much as you can

C.time as many as you can

D.as much time as you can

16._____ is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

A.That

B.Whatever

C.Whichever

D.However

17.“______ twenty dollars a big sum to her?”“I suppose so.”

A.Will be

B.Is

C.Are

D.Were

18.Generally there are ______ television programs for children on Saturday.

A.little

B.much

C.a large number of

D.a large amount of

19.I had my hair cut at the _____ around the corner.

A.barber

B.barbers

C.barber’s

D.barbers’

20.______ to see a film with us today?

A.Did you like

B.Would you like

C.Will you like

D.Have you liked

21.When he just got off the plane, he gave us a good description of ______ in Spain.

A.what he had seen

B.that he had seen

C.which he had seen

D.he had seen what

22.______ with the corresponding period of last year, the output of chemical fibers in the first quarter rose by 15%.

A.Comparing

B.To compare

C.Compared

D.Compare

23.In Britain, and on the Continent too, the Japanese are viewed _______ a threat to domestic industries.

A.like

B.as

C.with

D.for

24.There are many kinds of metals ______.

A.each has its special properties

B.one has its special properties

C.each having its special properties

D.having its special properties

25.Recently, he has lost all his ______.

A.wage and saving at card

B.wages and savings at card

C.wages and saving at card

D.wages and savings at cards

26.Those of us who are over fifty years old should get ______ blood pressure checked regularly.

A.their

B.their’s

C.our

D.ours

27.She didn’t want to buy it, ______.

A.however good was it

B.however good it was

C.for how good might it be

D.for how good it might be

28.It was ______ late in the evening that the students returned to the dormitories.

A.till

B.before

C.when

D.not until

29.Whoever ______ a full night’s sleep will be more than rewarded in heightened productivity, creativity and focus.

A.invests at

B.invests in

C.invests by

D.invests with

30.As usual,______ man was given his individual assignment.

A.every

B.each

C.all

D.both

31.All that can be done ______.

A.has done

B.has been done

C.have done

D.have been done

32.Henry ______ a rich man today if he had been more frugal in the past.

A.would be

B.is

C.will be

D.was

33.On his way to school he met ______, so he sent him to hospital.

A.very ill man

B.much sick man

C.serious ill man

D.very sick man

34.The students in the classroom ______ not to make so much noise.

A.need

B.ought

C.must

D.dare

35.They like to take a vacation ______.

A.one time the year

B.one time in a year

C.once a year

D.once in a year

36.In order to save time, I ______ my shopping to once a week.

A.cut off

B.cut out

C.cut up

D.cut down

37.______, I must do another experiment.

A.Be it ever so late

B.It is ever so late

C.It be ever so late

D.So late it be ever

38.If a claim is kept ______, it is more likely to be recognized.

A.live

B.lived

C.alive

D.living

39.The ______ about nuclear energy revolves around the waste problem.

A.public’s chief concern

B.public chief concern

C.chief public concern

D.chief concern of public’s

40.The young doctor could not sleep at night, his thoughts ______ him no peace.

A.gave

B.giving

C.being given

D.to give