1. Blank Filling with Words

Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word in the box in the proper form.

reminiscence          blush            tandem             fair   litter                 fringe           linger

 

1. She           for shame.

2. His knowledge of English is          ,but ought to be better.

3. The old house is on the          of the forest.

4. Her room was in a         .

5. He should have gone out but         over her meal till it was late.

6. The horses tug two supply-laden sleds in        .

7. There is a         of his father in the way he walks.

 

2. Blank Filling with Phrases

Fill in the blanks with proper phrases of “bead”

head somebody off        head for         have a head of         a bid head

 

1. Where are you          .

2. The teacher praised Cecilia foe her drawing in the class.And that caused her to have           about her art talent.She even said that she would be a next Picasso in the future.

3. Everyone in the class believes that their math teacher           numbers.He could remember all the cell phone numbers of his students.

4. The police            the fleeting criminal.

 

3. Blank Filling

Fill in the blanks in the proper form of “reminiscence”

1. The scene awakened            of my youth.

2. These pictures are            of my late father.

3. Old friends like to            about the “good old days”.

 

4. Cloze

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.

 

Have you ever wondered what our future is like?Practically all people (1)      a desire to predict their future (2)      .Most people seem inclined to (3)       this task using causal reasoning.First we (4)       recognize that future circumstance are (5)       caused or conditioned by present ones.We learn that getting an education will (6)       how much money we earn later and that swimming beyond the reef may bring an unhappy (7)       with a shark. Second,people also learn that such (8)       of cause and effect are probabilistic(可能的）in nature.That is,the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are (9)        ,but not always.Thus,students learn that studying hard (10)        good grades in most instance ,but not every time.Science makes these concepts of causality and probability more (11)        and provides techniques for dealing (12)       then more accurately than does causal human inquiry.In looking at ordinary human inquiry,we need to (13)        between prediction and understanding .Often ,even if we don’t understand why,we are willing to act (14)          the basis of a demonstrated predictive ability. Whatever the primitive drives (15)          motivate human beings,satisfying them depends heavily on the ability to (16)          future circumstances.The attempt to predict is often played in a (17)          of knowledge and understanding.If you can understand why certain regular patterns (18)         ,you can predict better than if you simply observe those patterns.Thus,human inquiry aims (19)     answering both “what”and “why” question,and we pursue these (20) by observing and figuring out.

 

1. A.exhibit         B.exaggerate         C.examine           D.exceed

2. A.contexts        B.circumstances       C.inspections         D.intuitions

3. A.underestimate   B.undermine         C.undertake          D.undergo

4. A.specially        B.particularly         C.always            D.generally

5. A.somehow       B.somebody          C.someone          D.something

6. A.enact          B.affect              C.reflect            D.inflect

7. A.meeting        B.occurrence          C.encounter         D.contact

8. A.patterns        B.designs             C.arrangement       D.pictures

9. A.disappointed    B.absent              C.inadequate        D.absolute

10. A.creates         B.produces            C.loses            D.protects

11. A.obscure        B.indistinct            C.explicit          D.explosive

12. A.for            B.at                  C.in               D.with

13. A.distinguish      B.distinct             C.distort           D.distract

14. A.at             B.on                 C.to               D.under

15. A.why           B.how                C.that             D.where

16. A.predict         B.produce             C.pretend          D.precede

17. A.content         B.contest              C.contest          D.context

18. A.happen         B.occur               C.occupy          D.incur

19. A.at             B.on                  C.to              D.beyond

20. A.purposes       B.ambitions             C.drives          D.goals