新视野大学英语第四册1-8单元练习全.docx

Unit One (Book Four)形成性练习 I．RF (快速阅读一篇) (题目分类：多项选择题) 4-RF-01 Key: 1-5 F T N T F 6-10 N F F T F Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over a passage quickly and read ten statements after it.For statements1-10, write T (for True) if the statement agrees with the information given in the above paragraph(s); F (for False) if the statement contradicts the information given in the above paragraph(s);N (for Not given) if the statement is not given in the above paragraph(s); Memories of AfghanistanAfghanistan----- a country on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, a land filled with fleeing refugees, starving people, and turbaned terrorists in training camps. TV pictures tell the story of a country in ruin and poverty, a country brought almost to total destruction by twenty years of war and struggle. Yet once-----though poor-----this was a proud nation, and a beautiful country, and one with a rich cultural heritage…… Apart from the nations of Europe, there are few countries in the world that have never been under colonial rule----or at least never in recent times; Afghanistan was one of them. Many centuries ago, Genghis Khan’s troops rode down from Mongolia, mercilessly killing the mountain tribesmen of Afghanistan who dared to resist the invader; but apart from this humiliating period in time, the Afghanistans----who are in fact a mixture of three separate ethnic groups----have held their heads high in the face of invasion. The country that is now at the center of the world’s attention was once one of the world’s proudest nations, and a nation that other countries invaded at their own risk. In the 19th century the armies of the British Empire knew that Afghanistan was not a country to interfere with.A hundred and twenty years ago, in 1881, British soldiers were nonetheless stationed in the Afghan capital, Kabul. They were there for two reasons, firstly to help stop the Russians from invading the country, and secondly to ensure the existence of an indepen