高二英语选修8各单元词汇检测练习
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高二英语选修8各单元词汇检测练习
Unit 1 A land of
diversity
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。
第一组：strait, hire, apparent, seagull, racial,
nationality, bakery, slavery, slip,
majority,
applicant, ferry
1 It is _________ from her accent that she is
from the north of China.
2 China is a big
country with 56 __________.
3 The Taiwan
_________ separates Taiwan from the mainland.
4 Did I call you Richard? Sorry, Robert, just
a __________ of the tongue.
5 They have
appealed for an end to the __________
discrimination in aspects such as
employment.
6 It was time to end the _________ and set
slaves free.
7 You can buy newly-made cakes
from across the __________.
8 There were more
than 50 ___________ for the job, but only 10 were
employed.
9 The __________ of representatives
are in favor of the plan, only a few are against
it.
10 There is no bridge over the river
between the primary school and the village. So
those
children need to be __________ to and
from school.
11 He was ________ three years
ago and he is content with the job in the company.
12 A _________ is a seabird with long wings
and usually with white or black feathers.
第二组：swap, cattle, socialist, mixture, means,
immigration, insert, indicate,
percentage,
luggage, aircraft, react
13 China is a
__________ country with the Chinese Communist
Party ruling.
14 Over the past years, there
has been a big rise in __________ to the USA.
15 __________ coins into the slot and press
for a ticket.
16 We own a big farm, where
sheep and _________ are kept.
17 What
_________ of the population in China are farmers?
18 Some people can _________ badly to seafood,
such as shrimps.
19 Research
__________ that eating habits are related to
health.
20 An __________ carrier is a large
ship that carries planes which use it as a base to
land
on and take off from.
21 His
telephone is out of service. Is there any other
__________ of contacting him?
22 I’ve
finished this magazine. Can I _________ with you?
23 Water is a _________ of hydrogen and
oxygen.
24 After getting off the train, I
asked Peter to stay with our __________ while I
found a
taxi.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
by means
of make a life occur to team up with
mark
out take in a greatgood many
1 Our trip
__________ a visit to the old temple built in the
Ming Dynasty.
2 It never __________ me to ask
him for help.
3 I got to know Jack years ago
and now we __________ each other quite well.
4 Thoughts are expressed ___________ words.
5
___________ workers joined in the general strike
last week. They wanted higher wages.
6 The old
man used to ___________ by selling newspapers.
7 We _________ a tennis court on the lawn.
Unit 2 Cloning一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。
第一组：clone, arbitrary, moral, merely, resist,
decoration, assumption, commercial,
differ,
straightforward, regulation, disturbing, media
1 It is impossible to make _________ about how
people feel about the new law.
2 It is very
_________ to think that a fierce tiger that
escaped from a zoo wandered
about. 3 Dolly,
the _________ sheep, lived for only six years.
4 All the new employees are asked to learn
about the rules and _________ of the
company
and they must obey them.
5 Never draw an
__________ conclusion before you think carefully.
6 American English __________slightly from
British English in vocabulary, spelling and
pronunciation.
7 The bank strongly
__________ cutting down interest rates.
8 The
__________ covered Hu Jintao’s visit to Hong Kong
in honor of the 10th
anniversary celebrations
since its return to China.
9 Huaqiangbei and
Dongmen are both the ___________ heart of
ShenzhenCity.
10 He is _________ a boy of
five, but he can speak very good English.
11
That some evil leaders hoped to clone themselves
raised some _________ questions
among the
world.
12 I like to make friends with those
_________ people. I hate those who are dishonest.
13 Christmas is drawing near. Let’s go and buy
some __________ to make our house
and
Christmas tree more beautiful.
第二组：breakthrough, obtain, argument, forbid,
reasonable, ceiling, accumulate,
undertake,
zebra, bother, retire, procedure
14 Xiao Lin
likes to spend all his time playing online
computer games at a net bar. Now his
mother
_________ him to go to visit any net bar.
15
Your application must go through a few __________
before it is finally approved.
16 We had an
__________ with the waiter about the bill because
we thought he
overcharged us.
17 He was
fortunate to have _________ a big fortune by
investing wisely in the stock
market.
18
Professor Wang works very hard, for he both
teaches and __________ research.
19 His
explanation was not _________, so all of us didn’t
accept it.
20 The electric fan is hanging
from the _________ of the room.
21 After
years of hard work the five doctors achieved a
________ in cancer treatment.
22 My father is
currently 59 years old and will __________ from
work next year.
23 By reading this book I am
sure that you will __________ a lot of information
about
Britain.
24 Sorry to _________ you,
but there is a call for you on line two.
25 A _______ is an African wild animal
like a horse with black and white lines on its
body.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
be
cast down object to in favour of be bound to
(do)
from time to time bring back to life
pay off
1 During my stay in Japan my sister
visited me ___________.
2 I __________ to know
that she failed in the final exam.
3 All your
efforts will ___________. Just keep it up!
4
All those present at the meeting __________ the
plan.
5 He has made full preparations for the
exam. He __________ succeed.
6 Are there
anyone __________ human cloning?
7 I think
some day dinosaurs may be ___________ through
cloning.
Unit 3 Inventors and inventions
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。
第一组：discovery, criteria, dot, passive, patent,
current, monitor, straw, tap,
distinguish
1 The countryside is _________ with small
villages.
2 I have bought a new PC with a 17
inch colour _________.
3 The __________ of a
child’s body in the river shocked the community.
4 Remember to turn off the _________ after
you wash.
5 Insert a drinking __________ here
and you will suck the milk out.
6 The new
regulation played a __________ but not active role
in the reform of the factory.
7 He made a new
invention and applied for a _________.
8 I am
interested in ________ affairs so I surf the
internet to read the latest news every day.
9
What __________ do you think can assess a
student’s ability?
10 Liu Xiang has
__________ himself as an athlete.
第二组：perfume,
valid, stable, helicopter, practical, power,
application, product,
file, triangle
11
The __________ landed on the roof of the building
to save those trapped in the big fire.
12 My
passport is __________ for only one month. I must
renew it.
13 The new _________ gained great
success after it was introduced to the market.
14 Please draw a right-angled __________ with
a set square(三角尺).
15 If you want to
be a member of our club, please fill in an
_________ form first.
16 __________ is one of
the great four inventions in ancient China.
17 After three days of treatment the patient’s
condition is very __________.
18 Every
__________ on the same disk must have a different
name.
19 In that cosmetics section you can
buy expensive well-known French _________.
20
From a _________ point of view, this is not a good
place to live in.
第三组：refrigerator, committee,
bear, forehead, version, court, abrupt,
convenient,
jam, mess, expectation
21
Aspecial _________ was set up to look into that
matter.
22 The weather here
is changeable. Sometimes it has an _________
change in temperature.
23 Would you like
to play tennis with me? I have already booked a
tennis _________.
24 The temperature
here is always below zero degrees. I cannot really
__________ living in such
cold weather!
25 It is very _________ from here to downtown.
There are many buses running along this street.
26 The Chinese _________ of Harry Porter is
due for publication this September.
27 I was late because I was held up in a
traffic __________. 28 __________ of life for both
men
and women has improved greatly in China in
the past 20 years. 29 Put the ice creams in the
__________. Or they will melt very soon. 30
Your room is in a _________. Why not put things in
place?
31 I felt my son’s _________ and
thought he must be running a fever.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
call up
now and then in case dive into set out to
(do) get through in
truth hang on out
of order ring back ring off set about
1 It turned out that the newcomer was
__________ a spy.
2 I won’t __________ my
brother unless something unexpected happens. 3
Please __________. I
will go and get her. 4
Our freezer is __________ again. We’d better buy a
new one instead of
repairing it. 5 Last winter
that writer __________ writing a new long novel. 6
The police
__________ investigate the cause of
the fire. 7 Please take your credit card with you
_________your money is not enough. 8 He is not
here right now; will you please __________
later? 9 She _________ her bag and took out a
few coins. 10 The line is engaged; I cannot
_________ to his office. 11 I must _________
now because I will go to a meeting. 12
___________, I visit my grandpa and grandma in
the country. Unit 4
Pygmalion一、请根据
各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。
第一组：mistaken, sob, brilliant,
compromise,
plot, disgusting, status, bathtub, adaptation,
superior1 At first neither of
the two sides
would give in but after lengthy talks they reached
a __________. 2 Over the years
women want to
be given equal _________ and pay with men. 3 I
thought I saw someone I knew,
but
actually I was _________. 4 This film is an
__________ of a famous writer’s works and it is
well received. 5 A__________ is a container
that you put water in and then you get into to
wash
your whole body. 6 Although I disagree
with him, yet I cannot speak out, for he is my
immediate
__________. 7 She has one of the
most __________ minds in her country. 8 They were
put into
prison because they were accused of
__________ against the state. 9 Listen! I hear a
baby
_________ in the next room.
10 I
think it is very __________ that some people show
off themselves in public.
第二组：pence, classify,
pronunciation, hesitate, alphabet, betray,
overlook, antique,
dismiss, uncomfortable
11 Mary’s ___________ is the best in our
class. She speaks very standard English. 12 The
books
are often ___________ according to
subject. 13 Since it was a well-paid job I didn’t
_________
for a moment about taking it. 14 She
was terrified of saying something that would make
her
_________ herself. 15 –How much
altogether? – Fifty ________, please. 16 Looking
into the
matter, the police _________ an
important fact. 17 From across the street there is
an _________
shop, where you can see very old
but often valuable objects. 18 School is
_________. The
students will enjoy a two-month
summer holiday. 19 The chair is so hard that it
feels _________
to sit on.
20 The English
vocabulary is arranged in the order of __________.
第三组：classic, pronounce, condemn, musical,
outcome, nail, troublesome,
fortune,
effective, ambassador
21 My daughter is very
__________. She can play quiet a few instruments.
22 Ahigh school
diploma (文凭) __________ him to
work in a factory with a low pay. 23 The film
Casablanca is
really a __________ among the
many foreign films. 24 President _________ the
country to be in a
state of war. 25 He
graduated from a foreign affairs university and
worked as the British
__________ to the United
Nations. 26 His son is addicted to computer games
and cannot get rid of
them. It is really a
__________ problem for him. 27 This kind of new
drug is very __________
against cancer but a
little expensive. 28 Please bring me a hammer and
I will _________ the
painting up. 29 She is
hoping her US performance will be the first step
on the road to fame and
_________.
30 The
negotiation is still on. We are waiting for the
final __________.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
pass…off
as make one’s acquaintance(make the acquaintance
of sb.) in
amazement generally speaking in
terms of show…in the other day take
away fade out in need of
1 It
was a bad year for films, __________ both quantity
and quality.
2 He escaped by __________
himself _________ a guard. 3 Peter, please
_________ the man at
the door ________. 4 It
was in London that I ____________ Jones, who was
an electrical
engineer. 5 I don’t know who has
____________ my dictionary. 6 I happened to have
read this
story in a magazine ___________. 7
___________, girls are more careful than boys. 8
Our school
is badly ___________ two teachers
of English. 9 ___________ the music at the end of
the scene.
10 I looked at him ___________.
Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
一、请根据各句上下文的意义，选择正确的单词填入空白处。 第一组：patient,
systematic,
applaud, accuracy, alternative,
punctuation, tentative, division, yogurt,
affection,
preserve, analysis, skilful,
radioactive, botany1 Ariver forms the ________
between
Shenzhen and Hong Kong. 2 Our troops
made a ________ plan to attack the enemy, which
was
well prepared and organized. Finally it
worked out quite well. 3 This is a 14th century
house,
which is perfectly ________ and visited
by lots of people. 4 We had no ________ but to
wait for
the rain to stop. 5 I have lived in
New York for years and have a great _________ for
it. 6 Some
kids prefer ________ to pure milk.
7 _________ is the scientific study of plants and
their
structure. 8 I made a _________
arrangement to see him on Friday and I would let
him know if
any change. 9 She works as a
teacher at a kindergarten. She is very _________
with those
children. 10 Only those __________
teachers are qualified to teach Senior 3 students.
11
Radium(镭) discovered by Madame Curie is a
kind of _________ element. 12 Your blood
samples(样本) are sent to the lab for _________
to see if you have got infected with AIDS. 13 He
kicked the ball with great ________ and scored
a goal. 14 _________ marks in English are not
completely the same as those in Chinese.
15 My speech was so exciting that all the
audience began to _________.
第二组：somehow,
interrupt, primitive, relief, dizzy, ample,
specific, arrest, assume,
significance,
category, sharpen, accelerate
16 Those money
was collected for a _________ purpose, that is, to
sponsor those poor children
living in the
remote mountain villages. 17 Please don’t
_________while we are talking. 18 The
central
government decided to raise interest rate, for
inflations continued to __________. 19 The
results of the survey can be divided into
three main _________. 20 Let us _________ that the
plan
succeeds. Then what would you do next? 21
Don’t look at him. He did so in order to
__________
others’ attention. 22 The meeting
is of such great _________ that I have to attend
it. 23 My knife
is blunt. It needs _________.
24 Climbing to such a height makes me feel
_________. 25 Don’t be
worried. We have
_________ glasses for all the guests. 26 News of
their safety came as a great
_________ to us
all. 27 __________, I don’t feel that I can trust
him. 28 There still existed a few
__________ tribes in that African
country.
二、把下列短语填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填短语的形式变化）：
regardless of cut up look ahead
1 He went
ahead and did it, __________ its consequences.
2 I ________ the meat on the plate. 3
_________ and you will enjoy a bright future.
选修八
Unit 1 一 第一组：1 apparent 2
nationalities 3 Strait 4 slip 5 racial 6
slavery 7 bakery
8 applicants 9 majority
10 ferried 11 hired 12 seagull 第二组：13 socialist
14
immigration 15 Insert 16 cattle 17
percentage 18 react 19 indicates 20 aircraft
21
means 22 swap 23 mixture 24 luggage
二 1 takes in 2 occurs to 3 team up with 4
by means of 5 A good many 6 make a
life 7
marked out
Unit 2
一 第一组：1 assumptions 2
disturbing 3 cloned 4 regulations 5 arbitrary
6 differs 7
resists 8 media 9 commercial
10 merely 11 moral 12 straightforward 13
decorations
第二组：14 forbids 15 procedures 16
argument 17 accumulated 18 undertakes 19
reasonable 20 ceiling 21 breakthrough 22
retire 23 obtain 24 bother 25 zebra
二 1
from time to time 2 was cast down 3 pay off 4
objected to 5 is bound to 6 in
favour of 7
brought back to life
Unit 3
一 第一组：1 dotted
2 monitor 3 discovery 4 tap 5 straw 6 passive
7 patent 8 current
9 criteria 10
distinguished 第二组：11 helicopter 12 valid 13
product 14 triangle 15
application 16 Power
17 stable 18 file 19 perfume 20 practical
第三组：21 committee
22 abrupt 23 court 24 bear
25 convenient 26 version 27 jam 28 Expectation
29
refrigerator 30 mess 31 forehead
二 1
in truth 2 call up 3 hang on 4 out of order 5
set about 6 set out to 7 in case
8 call
back 9 dived into 10 get through 11 ring off
12 Now and then
Unit 4
一 第一组：1
compromise 2 status 3 mistaken 4 adaptation 5
bathtub 6 superior 7
brilliant 8 plotting
9 sobbing 10 disgusting 第二组：11 pronunciation 12
classified 13
hesitate 14 betray 15 pence
16 overlooked 17 antique 18 dismissed 19
uncomfortable
20 alphabet 第三组：21 musical 22
condemned 23 classic 24 pronounced 25
ambassador
26 troublesome 27 effective 28
nail 29 fortune 30 outcome
二 1 in terms
of 2 passing…off as 3 show..in 4 made the
acquaintance of 5 taken
away 6 the other day
7 Generally speaking 8 in need of 9 Fade out 10
in
amazement
Unit 5
一 第一组：1 division
2 systematic 3 preserved 4 alternative 5
affection 6 yogurt 7
Botany 8 tentative 9
patient 10 skilful 11 radioactive 12 analysis
13 accuracy 14
Punctuation 15 applaud
第二组：16 specific 17 interrupt 18 accelerate 19
categories 20
assume 21 arrest 22
significance 23 sharpening 24 dizzy 25 ample
26 relief 27
Somehow 28 primitive 二 1
regardless of 2 cut up 3 Look ahead