Unit 12 Fact and fantasy
一. 单项选择
1. This man’s appearance _____ her of her father.
A. remembers B. recalls C. suggests D. reminds
2. She drew the ______ before switching on the light.
A. shades B. masks C. coverings D. curtains
3. --Why do people prefer to take a window seat on the plane?
--Because the window _____ the outside world.
A. takes a view of B. keeps a view of C. has a view of D. gives a view of
4. The two leaders have _______ the foundations of a new era in cooperation between their countries.
A. laid     B. lied          C. lain        D. set
5. As an economist, he was able to _______ some light on the problem.
A. put       B. make          C. throw         D. bring
6. As soon as I was on _______, I began to have second thoughts about leaving.
A. abroad B. broad           C. aboard        D. board
7. --Have you finished the work?
    --Not yet. I _______ to do it just a moment ago.
A. set off              B. set up     C. set out               D. set down
8. I want to call his _______ to the result of the experiment.
A. attention   B. attack      C. information   D. eye
9. He was in hospital for six months. He felt as if he was _____ from the outside world.
A. cut out B. cut off C. cut up D. cut through
10. A man who hesitates ______ everything cannot do anything successfully.
A. to do B. doing C. for doing D. in doing
11. He has never got a job, because he travels around the world most of his time.
A. positive B. perfect C. permanent D. punctual
12. Have you made out your _____ for a passport?
A. appointment B. application C. apposition D. appreciation
13. He is still _____ after the accident, which made us all surprised.
A. living B. alive C. live D. lively
14. They _____ the young man in front of me from head to toe.
A. searched B. searched for C. looked for D. found
15. _____ her death in 1886, the poet had become a legend in her hometown.
A. It was before long B. Before long
C. When long before D. Long before
二. 完形填空
You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another 16 . At the start they only fight with their hands, but soon they begin 17 one another over the heads with chairs. It goes on until one of the men crashes (猛撞) through a window, and 18 thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead! Of course, he isn’t really 19 . With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? 20 the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast-moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for 21 . These men are 22 “stuntmen” (特技演员). That is to 23 , they perform “tricks”.
There are two sides to their work. They 24 do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall 25 a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground 26 on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (垫子). 27 , when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the “glass” is made of 28 . Although their work depends on tricks of this kind, it calls for a 29 degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on exact 30 . For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle screen, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are 31 paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously hurt, and sometimes 32 . A Norwegian stuntmen, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) 33 to open, and he was killed. In spite of (不管) all the risks, this is 34 a profession for “men only”. Men no longer dress up 35 women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. Nowadays there are “stunt girls” too!
16. A. hardly B. slowly C.
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