Book 2 Unit 8 大学英语综合教程自主学习测试题U8B2.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 4 大学英语综合教程第二册自主学习测试题（Unit 8） Unit 8 Text A A Fable for Tomorrow Text B Excerpts from Silent Spring I. Useful expressions (20 points) Directions: Please find out the English equivalence in Text B and write down the correct answers in the blank. ……是由环境塑造的_____________ 反向效果________________ 举足轻重的力量_______________ 4. 最令人惊恐的人类侵犯环境的活动________________ 普遍存在的环境污染____________________ 6. 漫漫的时间长河___________________ 成功地证明……__________________ 8. 达尔文的适者生存理论________________ 人类鲁莽的步伐________________ 10. 大自然的从容节奏_______________ II. Reading comprehension (30 points) Section A (10 points) Directions: Please select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. The history of life on earth has been a history of __(11)__between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earths vegetation and its animal life have been (12) by the environment. Considering the whole (13) of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight. Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to (14) the nature of his world. During the past quarter century this (15) has not only increased to one of disturbing magnitude but it has changed in character. The most (16) of all mans assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it (17) not only in the world that must support life but in living t issues is for the most part irreversible. In this now (18) contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized (19) of radiation in changing the very (20) of the world