Exercises about Units 6—10 Dictation Cloze Test: Fill in each blank of the following passage with an appropriate word: The aim of education is to stimulate impulses, encourage free thinking and boldness in thought and keep alive various interests. But the single sex (1)________ by following the simple uniform structure and(2)_______ a separate curriculum for males and females does anything but this. (3) ______ of being provided with a rich expansion of experience, students are only (4) _______ to a segment of knowledge. Such a form of education interferes (5) ________ individual freedom and entails a loss of autonomy of (6)_______. If a boy enjoys sewing, I see no reason why he should be barred from(7)________ and thread. If a girl wants to attempt baseball, she should not be punished for (8) “_______.” I need scarcely say that when I am off duty or on vacation I have little inclination to laugh: the cowhand is glad when he can forget the (9)____, the bricklayer when he can forget the mortar, and (10 )_______ usually have doors at home which don’t work or drawers which are hard to open. Confectioners like sour pickles, butchers like marzipan, and the baker prefers sausage (11)______ bread; bullfighters raise pigeons for a hobby, boxers turn pale when their children have nosebleeds: I find all this quite natural, for I never laugh(12)______ duty. I am a very solemn person, and people consider me—perhaps rightly so--- a (13)______. A question often asked is: “What are the marks of an educated man?” It is (14)_____ that one may gain no inconsiderable body of (15)______ in some special field of knowledge without at the same time acquiring those habits and(16)_____ which are the marks of an educated gentlemen. A reasonable (17)______ of learning must of course accompany an education, but, after all, that amount need not (18)_____ so very great in any one field. An education will make its mark and find its evidence in certain traits, characteristics, and (19)______ which have to be acquired by patient endeavor, by following good examples, and by receiving wise discipline and (20)______ instructions. Carefully the young man typed an e-mail plea on a (21) ______ at the University of Western Australia in Perth. “Seeking Help to（22）_____ My Son,” Yongxin Deng wrote, explaining that he was an (23)______ Newcomer searching for “ kind people all over the world” to (24)______ “ any help or information.” Think of books. And think of their disadvantages. They are (25)______ very expensive. They are heavy. Anyone moving house realizes just (26)______ heavy. They take up a lot of space. They (27)_______ dust on the shelves when you’re (28)_____ reading them. And they get damaged. Does it (29)_______ you, then, to learn that in a few years’ time the book will perhaps be (30)_______ ---a thing of the past? Paraphrase the following Such uncertainty denotes a rejection of such concepts as ‘ gender appropriate’ and ‘stereotyped sex roles’ which are only social norms invented by man, imposed on man, but rest their logic nowhere. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. When manners are superficial, artificial, and forced, no matter what their form, they are bad manners. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. …but just how the Internet phenomenon will continue to unfold is open to question. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The constant sunshine and mild climate of southern California made it an ideal site for shooting motion pictures. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Word Derivation: Example: Every motorist dreams of a car of the future that does not have to be __________ (fuel) Every motorist dreams of a car of the future that does not have to be refuelled. 1. If a substance cannot blow up or burst, it is __________. (explode) 2. If something cannot be thought, it is literally __________. (think) 3. A falsehood is the same as an __________. (true) 4. If a letter lacks an address, it is __________. (address) 5. If something is not of the world, or ghostly, it can be called ___________. (earth) 6. If someone has lost hope, he is __________. (heart) 7. If somebody behaves badly, he will pay for his __________ (conduct) some day. 8. If you have borrowed money from your friend, you must remember to __________ (pay) it. 9. If you feel tired after a day's work, a hot bath may __________ (fresh) you. 10. If you make the same mistake again and again you are __________ (cure). Translation：Choose the most appropriate word to translate the following sentences. 1. 医院越来越需要男护士。（masculine; male） __________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________. 2. 两个总统，这一个比另一个要好些（superior; good） __________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________. 3. 受过教育的人的第二个必不可少的显著特点是待人礼貌，举止文雅（trait; characteristic; manners; politeness）。 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________. 4．我想到，有一次我的硬盘驱动器出现了一个棘手的问题。（challenging; difficult） ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________. 5. 他们中一些人的光环突然消失，只剩下空虚和巨额债务。（glamour; attraction） _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________. Key Dictation About fifty or sixty years ago, there were few schools for infants. Young children worked in dark, unpleasant classroom. They wore uniforms and they sat at uncomfortable desks. The children wanted to play, but their teachers were very strict, so the children had to sit quietly and learn numbers or the alphabet by heart. Today, very young children usually have an enjoyable and useful time at school. They attend a kindergarten or play school and ‘play’ at reading, writing, and counting, or they enjoy themselves working things, singing, drawing or painting. Their classrooms are attractive and pleasant and their teachers usually supervise them in a very kind and helpful way. So for most children these days are very happy days. Cloze Test 1. (1) school (2) prescribing (3) Instead (4) accessible (5) with (6) self-determinism (7) needles (8) deviance 2. (9) cow (10) carpenters (11) to (12) off (13) pessimist 3. (14) plain (15) learning (16) traits (17) amount (18) be (19) capacities (20) sound 4. (21) computer (22) Save (23) Internet (24) offer 5. (25) becoming (26) how (27) collect (28) not (29) surprise (30) obsolete Paraphrase the following Such uncertainty means a rejection of such concepts as “ the clear classification of people into two sexes” and “ the fixed social roles of the sexes.” People invent social norms and find themselves forced to accept them. But such social norms are not based on reasonable thinking. She had been hoping they would move or carry the mechanical teacher to another place once for all. If ways if behaving are insincere, strained or unnatural, showing a lack of true feelings, they are impolite or poor manners, no matter how they are embodied. …but just how the Internet phenomenon will spread is likely to cause doubt. Southern California, which usually enjoys sunshine and boasts a mild climate, became a most desirable place for making movies. Word Derivation: 1. inexplosive 6. disheartened 2. unthinkable 7. misconduct 3. untruth 8. repay 4. unaddressed 9. refresh 5. unearthly 10. incurable V. Translation：Choose the most appropriate word to translate the following sentences. 1. There has been an increasing demand for male nurses in hospitals. 2. Of the two presidents, this one is superior to that one. 3．A second and indispensable trait of the educated man is refined and gentle manners. 4. It occurred to me that on one occasion, I was having a challenging problem with a hard drive. 5. A few of them lost their glamour quite suddenly and were left with nothing but emptiness and colossal debts.