Quiz 12
Name _________ Class __________ Score __________
Part I. Vocabulary: choosing the proper word to fill in the blanks, changing its form where necessary.
tactics, sponsor, obsolete, initial, advocate, intervene, avert, fidelity, conceit, forge
1. Guerrilla ________ were employed during most of the war.
2. They have wronged me too, you know, as your ________ and guarantee, and it would have served for my revenge as well.
3. In this manner, a man of talent, and of great antiquarian erudition, limited the popularity of his work, by excluding from it every thing that was not sufficiently _________to be altogether forgotten and unintelligible.
4. What will be the period of transit of the projectile when endowed with sufficient _________ velocity?
5. The doctor __________ a smoking ban in the entire house.
6. You can't see the lake from there because the house ____________.
7. Then no man, however wise, will be able to _________ the consequences that must ensue.
8. I embrace this opportunity to assure you once more of my unalterable ________ to your interests.
9. But beware how you presume on an appearance of indifference, which is nothing but _________ in disguise.
10. After a long time of mutual trading and negotiating, the two companies _______ a close relationship.
Part II. Expressions: making sentences with the given expressions and structures.
1. 她一进门天就下雨了。
2. 借助他人的研究他成功的设计出新的机器。
3. 他被失业困扰了很久了。
4. 在建立新工厂时应考虑到环境问题。
5. 如果价格合适我们就买下你所有的产品。
Part III. Paraphrases: explaining the following sentences in simple English.
Then, the principles of laisez-faire were generally accepted ---- in fact, were regarded as almost sacred.
Looking back on the famine, the most remarkable fact was that it should ever have reached such proportions.