人文英语4单元自测八

1、单元自测八一.选择填空题1、 How long will you be away from Italy?About a month2、 How are you feeling now?Much better3、The old houses are being pulled down to makeroom for a new office block.4、He studied hard at school when he was young, which contributed a lot to his success.5、By the year 2021, China's popul

2、ation probably will have reached 1.4 billion.6、 Have you ever been to Tokyo? _No, but I hope to go there next year.7、 What time does the train leave?At half past five8、How much has the companybrought in this year?9、 All students are required to translate this poem from _English into Chinese.10、 He w

3、ould be studying at the university now if he _had passedthe entrance examination.What's the weather like in this area?It's rainy.12、This overcoat cost too much. What's more, they are muchtoo _small for me.13、It is no use _ trying to remember only grammar rules.14、 There's no need tur

4、ning off the radio as I'm used to studying with it on.15、 In general , the northerners have a particular liking for dumplings while the southerners are fond of rice.二、阅读理解正误判断题NEWORK - The five menfacing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty. They would state their criticisms of U.

5、S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the menwould not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it. Ali and four other men are accused of killing

6、nearly 3,000 people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack. The U.S. Justice Departmentannounced earlier this month that they will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site.Ali is also known as Ammaal-Baluchi. He is a nephewof claimed 9/11 planner, Khalid She

7、ikh Mohammed.Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain“their assessment ofAmerican foreign policy, " Fenstermaker said.“Their assessment is negative," he said.Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others. But he said th

8、e men have discussed the trial among themselves.Fenstermaker was first quoted in The New York Times in Sunday's editions.Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder decided to try the men in a New York City civilian courthouse. It has warned that the trial would provide the defendants with a propaga

9、nda platform.DeanBoyd, a spokesmanfor the Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express their views,“ webelieve the courts and the federal judge maygovern the trial. The course of justice will be led appropriately and with minimal break, as federal cou

10、rts have done in the past. 1. The five menthought that the U.S. foreign policy should be blamed for the 911 attack. ( T )2. Scott Fenstermaker is the lawyer for Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and four other men. ( F )3. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 911 attack( T )4. The press didn't care about th

11、is civilian federal trial( F )5. We can infer from the article that the prisoners also have their freedom to express their own views in the U.S.A( T )选择题Alternative Legal BillingHourly billing is 95 percent of lawyers If you want something-Win Strategies the best way to be charged still perform thei

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18、uld consider using ( blended hourly fees )5. Youhave to eye the clock whenyou talk to the lawyer whenyou choose ( the old “ bill by the hour deal )选择题Is that 6 a.m. wokeout getting in the way of good sleep? Don't think your fat cells won't notice. A new study published in The Annals of Inter

19、nal Medicine (a medical journal) finds that inadequate shut-eye has a harmful effect on fat cells, reducing their ability to respond to insulin (胰岛素)by about 30 percent. Over the long-term, this decreased response could set the stage for type-2 diabetes (a medical condition in which someone has too

20、much sugar in his or her blood), fatty liver disease and weight gain.The study adds to a growing body of evidence that there' "an intimate relationship between the amount of sleep weget and our ability to maintain a good, healthy body weight, " says sleep expert Helene Emsellem, direct

21、or of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders in Chevy Chase, Maryland. But Americans don't seem to be getting the message that we need seven to nine hours par night. More than 1 in 5 of us, according to a report from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, is getting six or fewer hours o

22、f sleep per night, on average.So how did researchers study fat cells in the Annals paper? Matthew Brady of the University of Chicago and a group of colleagues selected and persuaded seven volunteers to take part in the research project. They were all young, thin and healthy and agreed to sleep for e

23、ight nights in a sleep lab. “For four nights they were allowed to stay in bed for 8.5 hours a night, " says Brady. Then, a month later, they came back for four additional nightsbut this time they were allowed just 4.5 hours ofsleep per night. And after each visit, researchers got a sample of th

24、eir fat. Brady explains that the fat cells responded significantly to the loss of sleep. “I was very surprised to be honest, " he says.Bad things can happen whenfat cells becomeless responsive to insulin. “Fat cells are actually your friend, " he says. "They're there to store lipids (血月旨)." Whenlipid