Quiz 10
Name ________Class ________ No. ___________Score __________
Part I. Fill in the blanks with the given words. Change forms where necessary.
accumulate, clarify, determine, endeavor, pertain, renown, specify, strenuous, thief,vary,
1. He _______________ a fortune through property speculation.
2. There are wide regional ___________ in house prices.
3. People call for establishing laws ___________ to employment rights.
4. The _______ and precision of his prose has been appreciated by the readers.
5. They are admired for their dogged ___________ to learn the language.
6. Xinjiang is _________ for the real Uygur flavor.
7. You said you live in the West Country, could you be a bit more ___________?
8. The doctor advised Tom to avoid __________ exercise.
9. Car ______ is on the increase.
Despite our beat ____________, we couldn’t get the machine started.
Part II. Translate the Chinese into English and make sentences with them.
警察马上采取行动抓获了这名杀人犯。
他们的故事可追溯到日本人占领中国东北的那个年代。
他才一出门大雨就倾盆而下。
她不知如何向父母解释而不知所措。
Part III. Paraphrase.
Each language has its own strict grammatical rules pertaining to the ways words are formed and put together in sentences.
Like a living organism, a language has an unbroken history which goes back so far in time that scholars are not able to find its ultimate origin.
When one is endeavoring to learn a language, its grammatical rules may seem very strict, but actually the rules do permit slight variations that do not make a great deal of differences in meaning or seriously interfere with the clarity of communication.
…there is enough tolerance within any language…. English is not unique in this respect.