文中词汇 unit 6.7

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Directions: There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, D. Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

1. We tend to identify microbes with the disease-causing minority among them, the little buggers that trigger the tickling mis of a sneeze or the pustule on otherwise smooth skin.
   A. simplify B. identify C. clarify D. classify
2. When microbes are not killing us, we are largely oblivious to them.
   A. famous B. ingenious C. oblivious D. innocuous
3. So we study how they evolve to outfox our immune system or to spread more easily from one person to another.
   A. involve B. evolve C. revolve D. evaluate
4. A growing number of studies show that our anthropocentric view is sometimes unjustified.
   A. unjustified B. undetermined C. undefined C. unprecedented
5. Many of the virulence genes that help pathogens to cause disease have counterparts in marine microbes with no track record of infecting humans.
   A. counteracting B. infecting C. involving D. interacting
6. Those who make things all have a different understanding of the practical, emotional, and sensual aspect of their materials.
   A. sensual B. sensitive C. sensible D. sentimental
7. Our ancestors knew this from experience but did not know why. Nevertheless, this gradual accumulation of knowledge got us to the 20th century before any real appreciation of the structure of materials was understood.
   A. collection B. conclusion C. accumulation D. accommodation
8. By eschewing material knowledge, we cease to understand the world around us.
   A. continue B. conclude C. cease D. complete
9. We feel proud of the technological marvel that is a smartphone, and yet we upgrade-ditch one for a newer model-at the first opportunity.
   A. marvel B. method C. mode D. middle
10. This series of columns won’t be an exhaustive survey of materials, not a catalogue of the most important ones.
    A． exhausting B. exhausted C. exhaustive D. exhaust
    Directions: There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with one word or phrase underlined.
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    Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, D. Choose the word or phrase that is closet in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
11. It can quickly oscillate from flood to drought, from scalding heat to freezing cold, and total darkness to intense solar radiation.
    A. season B. slide C. soar D. swing
12. A thick capsule that shields a microbe from dehydration could also shield it from our immune system.
    A. attacks B. protects C. recovers D. engages
13. The coincidental evolution hypothesis might be irksome annoying to some.
    A. interesting B. encountering C. annoying D. attractive
14. What are the odds that an adaption to one challenge would perfectly predispose an organism to another?
    A. difficulties B. possibilities C. identities D. realities
15. Evolution, however, is all about small probabilities manifesting through long timescales and large numbers-and microbes have both.
    A. appearing B. adverse C. antagonizing D. adapting
16. My obsession with materials started as a teenager.
    A. strong interest B. strong will C. strong point D. strong wind
17. The 20th century is hailed as the age of silicon, after the breakthrough in materials science that ushered in the silicon chip and the information revolution.
    A. praised B. processed C. provided D. projected
18. Polymers were used to produce celluloid and ushered in a new visual culture, the cinema.
    A. stretched B. stressed C. started D. strengthened
19. I was puzzled by their obscurity.
    A. complexity B. similarity C. responsibility D. functionality
20. Materials are at the heart of every company I visit and it is hard not to conclude that although Google and Twitter may dominate technology headlines, materials transformation is still what makes the world go around.
    A. control B. communicate C. convert D. contend