模块五测试二.doc

牛津英语模块五 Unit 2 单元测试二 第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 1. —What do you think of his story in the jungle(丛林)? —_____ , I can’t believe it. A. Attractive B. Obvious C. Cheerful D. Ridiculous In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world, and now the plane Boeing 747 has come into use for years. In the early 20th century a world market for only 4 million automobiles was made because “the world would run out of chauffeurs.” Shortly after the end of World War II (1945), the whole of Volkswagen，factory and patents, was offered free to Henry Ford II. He dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle as a bad design. Today, more than 70 million motorcars are produced every year. The Beetle became one of the best-selling vehicles of all time. The telephone was not widely appreciated for the first 15 years because people did not see a use for it. In fact, in the British parliament it was mentioned that there was no need for telephones because we have enough messengers here. Western Union believed that it could never replace the telegraph. In 1876, an internal memo（备忘录）read: This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793 - 1859) didnt believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers would die of asphyxia（窒息）.” Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h. In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for maybe only five computers. Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox（施乐复印机）had already successfully designed... but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Perhaps the guy wh