Unit 9 Invention: Quiz

1. Directions: Read each of the following sentences carefully and choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1) I need a ________ pair of shoes for my journey to Africa.
A. fashionable B. bearable C. durable D. honorable
2) Millions of Germans ________ from Europe to America.
A. immigrated B. emigrated C. integrated D. transferred
3) They had organized a Christmas _________ through the center of town.
A. movement B. demonstration C. entertainment D. procession
4) I will ________ you whatever assistance I am able to offer.
A. render B. entitle C. present D. establish
5) Your letter has been ________ to the authorities concerned.
A. transported B. transcended C. transferred D. transformed
6) As the tale ________ we learn more about Max’s childhood.
A. emerges B. appears C. unfolds D. depicts
7) The report ________ Mr. Clarke and Mr. Heseltine for special criticism.
A. points out B. rules out C. singles out D. figures out
8) On account of ________ evidence, the case was dismissed.
A. sufficient B. efficient C. proficient D. deficient
9) More parents now use ________ nappies for their babies.
A. movable B. portable C. replaceable D. disposable
10) An executive editor of the Times, he held a position of almost ________ power in American journalism.
A. unparalleled B. unbelievable C. untouchable D. unpredictable
11) The difference in experience between the two players is ________.
A. negligent B. neglectful C. negligible D. negative
12) They need every ________ of information they can get.
A. scrape B. scrap C. scrabble D. scribble
13) Last night, the president presented a short, ________ version of his speech.
A. symbolic B. simplistic C. simplified D. simulated
14) We mustn’t become ________ about our progress.
A. complacent B. complimentary C. complicated D. compulsive
15) It is a ________ to say you support the government but would not vote for it in an election.
A. contraction B. contribution C. conviction D. contradiction
16) A vital witness ________ to say that she saw Tanner wearing the boots.
A. came by B. came around C. came forward D. came along
17) I’ve ________ a list of candidates that I’d like to interview.
A. drawn out B. drawn on C. drawn back D. drawn up
18) Reports that a doctor had died from AIDS ________ a panic among his former patients.
A. set out B. set off C. set on D. set up
19) The plane has two scheduled stops to ________ passengers and fuel.
A. take off B. take on C. take in D. take back
20) “I hear you are enjoying your new job.” “________, I find it rather dull.”
A. By contrast B. In contrast C. On the contrary D. To the contaray
2. Directions: Read the incomplete passage carefully and choose the best one from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D to fill in each blank and complete the passage.
Innovation has always been a powerful force in American culture. When the automobile 1)______, it changed everything from personal mobility and the way cities developed to the ritu- als of courtship. Air conditioning helped the South rise again. Widely available birth-control mea- sures 2)______ forever the relations between men and women. Jet airplanes telephones, and broadcasting demolished 3)______ and make the world a global village.
As a new millennium approaches, the rate of American innovation is soaring—a signal that so- cial and economic change, which is already occur- ring at breakneck speed, will in all likelihood 4)______. Twice as many patents were 5)______ last year by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office as in 1980. the shift to a digital economy, best exemplified by the explosive growth of the Internet, is 6)______ everyday products and practices. A few pennies’ 7)______ of digital electronics, for example, makes a bit of push into an animated, talking Furby that every kid wants for Christmas. When drivers step on the gas 8)______ of a Corvette, they’re telling a computer to 9)______ the speed of the engine.
New ideas are 10)_____ in America like no place else on Earth. We’re not only constitution- ally free to say and do almost any thing, we have the 11)_____ and talents to give life and form to new thoughts. Whether it’s a new way to teach music, a new product, or a new company, these notions, big and small, transform the 12)_____ of American life. Silicon Valley is the best exam- ple. In that yeasty zone 13)_____ south from San Francisco, someone with a good idea for a new product can go to a local venture capital firm for start- up 14)_____, as well as for advice and guidance. Other 15)_____ and adventuresome people are ready to join up to help develop the new idea, perhaps for a share of stock in the nascent (开始发展的) enterprise. Costly new fac- tories are not required; existing manufacturers are eager to make the product on contract. Per- haps most important, 16)_____ is not fatal. “There’s not a big stigma (羞辱) attached to being involved with a company that doesn’t make it,” says Charles Holloway, co-director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Fradu- ate School of Business, located in the heart of the valley.
17)_____, government encourages innova- tion. “It costs $60,000 to get a Europe-wide patent,” says Bruce Lehman, head of the patent and Trademark Office. If you are two guys in a garage in Lyon, you can’t 18)_______ that “Here, a patent costs about $4,000”. Break- throughs created by federal researchers have long been 19)_____ quickly and cheaply to private hands. American agriculture historically 20)_____ from federal research. The basic tech- nology underpinning the Internet was developed for military communications and released for widespread private development. By contrast, Minital, a screen and keyboard attached to the phone that was conceived by the Frech govern- ment telephone company in the early 1980s, has never evolved. It’s frozen in time, a relic of an earlier technological age.
1). A. came up B. came along C. came over D. came to
2). A. substituted B. replaced C. altered D. promoted
3). A. gap B. distance C. border D. distinction
4). A. accelerate B. advance C. accommodate D. administer
5). A. withheld B. decreed C. admitted D. granted
6). A. transferring B. transmitting C. transforming D. transplanting
7). A. worth B. value C. sale D. purchase
8). A. door B. brake C. pedal D. handle
9). A. acquire B. adopt C. allocate D. adjust
10). A. fostered B. rendered C. forwarded D. reckoned
11). A. measures B. means C. media D. mechanism
12). A. landscpae B. outlook C. circumstance D. perspective
13). A. drifting B. prolonging C. stretching D. penetrating
14). A. aids B. income C. funding D. investment
15). A. talented B. distinguished C. professional D. industrial
16). A. error B. failure C. defeat D. fault
17). A. In addition B. In short C. In general D. In case
18). A. achieve B. access C. afford D. attain
19). A. transferred B. transformed C. translated D. transmitted
20). A. rewarded B. supported C. sponsored D. benefited