《高级英语1》（第四版）quiz 9.doc

Quiz—Lesson 9 高级英语 Advanced English 1 I. Choose the one which can fully express the meaning of the words given below: …has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the desert. A. turn down B. turn C. move or strike gently D. switch on …a small reduction in one country’s emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth. A. flexible B. executable C. approachable D. executable …in a small tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. A. freezing B. noctilucentC. torrid D. scorching …or “pressure ridges” of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. A. crush B. huddleC. hover D. crash …precisely at the equator in Brazil – where billowing clouds of smoke regularly blacken the sky above the immense but now threatened Amazon rain forest. A. surge B. soar C. slash D. stab …first cloaked in the evening darkness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. A. blot B. beam C. glimmer D. trap …in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. A. laying out B. dying outC. handing out D. putting out The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amount of ultraviolet radiation… A. disturb B. abrupt C. invade D. immerse …to exploit the earth for sustenance — making the consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war… A. forbearance B. resemblance C. vigilance D. maintenance …the superpowers and is based on an obsolete understanding of what war is all about. A. suspended B. outdated