Unit-25 Robert 葉老師英文

一、字彙與慣用語選擇
1. ( ) At times, we take everything for granted and don’t accept others’ help ____.
(A)involuntarily (B)ungratefully (C)gratefully (D)regretfully
2. ( ) At the wedding, the bride looked at her loving parents with deep _____.
(A)hesitation (B)annoyance (C)regret (D)gratitude
3. ( ) Much to my _____, the mosquitoes kept biting me all night.
(A)maturity (B)pride (C)annoyance (D)relief
4. ( ) The problem is beyond _____. We are sorry that we can do nothing about it.
(A)routine (B)appreciation (C)cabinet (D)remedy
5. ( ) Most oil resources in the Middle Eastern countries are distributed in the ____ areas along
Persian Gulf.
(A)fatal (B)continental (C)coastal (D)horrible
6. ( ) Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan are _____ so they decided to adopt a child.
(A)short (B)atmospheric (C)infertile (D)starving
7. ( ) Before the dancers performed onstage, they _____ in advance.
(A)warmed up (B)fueled up (C)lived on (D)melted away
8. ( ) People are not really sure about the history of the tower, but they know it is ____ 100
years old.
(A)gratefully (B)roughly (C)hesitantly (D)involuntarily
9. ( ) Tessa ____ “Just go away!” as I walked into her room. Obviously, she was in a really bad
mood.
(A)regretted (B)scraped (C)annoyed (D)roared
10. ( ) Ray was ____ by a crash of thunder last night, but he fell asleep soon afterward.
(A)awoken (B)seized (C)calmed (D)soothed
11. ( ) When you reach ____, you will have more courage and self-confidence to make your
own decisions.
(A)drifts (B)cabinets (C)maturity (D)hesitation
12. ( ) Soft music can ____ our stress. When listening to it, we can have peace of mind.
(A)suppress (B)seize (C)soothe (D)scrape
13. ( ) Don’t worry so much about Donald. He just got a few _____ in the car accidents.
(A)scrapes (B)incidents (C)drifts (D)remedies
14. ( ) James stared at the blackboard but his heart had already ____ to the playground.
(A)leaned (B)hesitated (C)roared (D)drifted
15. ( ) The old man gave a(n) ____ sigh when seeing his old pictures, in which he looked young
and handsome.
(A)rough (B)awake (C)grateful (D)involuntary
16. ( ) Although Simon intended to cheat on his wife, his ____ stopped him in time.
(A)regret (B)scrape (C)conscience (D)remedy
17. ( ) No one can ever live twice; it’s important to ____ the day and live your life to the fullest.

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(A)soothe (B)seize (C)upset (D)suppress
18. ( ) The young mother put her son to bed and lovingly _______.
(A)tucked him in (B)woke him up (C)drove him away (D)let him down
19. ( ) Our manager was greatly impressed by the applicant’s enthusiasm and decided to offer
him the job ____.
(A)on the right track (B)time after time (C)over again (D)on the spot
20. ( ) The girl was _____ over the table to blow out the candles on the birthday cake.
(A)scraping (B)suppressing (C)haunting (D)leaning
21. ( ) His new novel provides a vivid ____ of an unfortunate man.
(A)property (B)population (C)portrait (D)pollution
22. ( ) The police investigated carefully the ____ car accident that caused ten deaths on the
highway.
(A)fatal (B)continental (C)fertile (D)regional
23. ( ) Rain forests are seen as the lungs of the earth, for they absorb carbon dioxide in the
daytime and ____ oxygen at night.
(A)estimate (B)expand (C)discharge (D)starve
24. ( ) For the purpose of environmental protection, farmers should not use too many chemical
____ on the land.
(A)tragedies (B)shortages (C)victims (D)fertilizers
25. ( ) Faced with _____ criticism, the manager was forced to quit.
(A)coastal (B)severe (C)continental (D)extinct

二、文法選擇
1. ( ) Before Cody went to bed, he had studied English, done math exercises, and _____ a
history report.
(A)wrote (B)writing (C)written (D)to write
2. ( ) Lisa found that Paul was the _____ same person that helped her out with her debts.
(A)very (B)much (C)such (D)ever
3. ( ) Mr. and Mrs. Risen took great pride _____ their daughter's outstanding performance at
school.
(A)on (B)in (C)of (D)for
4. ( ) The man was hit by a car and _____ bleeding on the road.
(A)lie (B)lied (C)lain (D)lay
5. ( ) Greenhouse gases _____ into the atmosphere in huge amounts, and make it impossible
for the sun's heat to escape into _____.
(A)are discharged; space (B)are discharged; the space
(C)discharged; space (D)discharged; the space
6. ( ) When Andrew moved to Taiwan, he was not used to _____ with chopsticks because he
used to _____ with fork and spoon at home in the U.S.A.

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(A)eating; eat (B)eat; eating (C)eat; eat (D)eating; eating

7. ( ) I could not help but scream with joy ____ that I won first prize in the game.
(A)to hear (B)as hearing (C)to hearing (D)upon hearing
8. ( ) If the careless mother had not left her baby alone at home, the fire ____ the baby.
(A)may not kill (B)could not kill
(C)had not killed (D)would not have killed
9. ( ) If we ____ a longer winter vacation, we would have gone abroad.
(A)had had (B)have (C)had (D)have had
10. ( ) My mother got married to my father ____ her early thirties.
(A)from (B)in (C)of (D)with
11. ( ) When I was walking across the playground, a ball hit me ____ my forehead.
(A)in (B)for (C)on (D)to
12. ( ) The sweater is poorly made. It feels rough _____ my skin.
(A)with (B)over (C)from (D)against
13. ( ) Jeff couldn’t sleep all night, with the terrible killing scene he saw during the day _____
him.
(A)haunt (B)haunted (C)haunting (D)haunts
14. ( ) Mom _____ that bicycle for me if she _____ enough money last Friday.
(A)could buy; had (B)could buy; had had
(C)could have bought; had (D)could have bought; had had
15. ( ) Nicholas spent all his money on real estate and bought _____.
(A)one house after another (B)from house to house
(C)in another house (D)few houses
16. ( ) Students in this college have decreased ____ number in recent ten years due to the low
birthrate.
(A)for (B)of (C)in (D)on
17. ( ) This fatal warming is caused by the huge ________ of carbon dioxide discharged into the

atmosphere by the burning of fuels.

(A)number (B)numbers (C)amount (D)amounts
18. ( ) Global warming can also lead to severe climate change, and this may cause the deaths of
hundreds of people ________ a time.
(A)for (B)in (C)at (D)upon
19. ( ) Cecilia's outstanding achievement in journalism is ________ her diligence.
(A)because of (B)as a result of (C)owing to (D)due to
20. ( ) After Mike finished eating, a friendly waitress asked him _____ the food _____.
(A)was; good (B)×; was good
(C)if; was good (D)whether; good or not

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三、綜合測驗
1. In 1989, Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club became a best-seller in the United States. It was
the first Asian American story to reach the general American reading public. Based on Tan’s very
own life experience, the story ___1___ out the cultural and generational problems within four
Chinese-American families.
Tan’s mother left China for America just before the Communists took over the country. She left
behind her ___2___ ex-husband, who was always causing trouble to her and their children, and
started a new life with her daughter, Amy Tan in California. However, Tan had a hard time getting
along with her mother, for she considered her to be too “Chinese”. In the meantime, Tan was also
___3___ and ashamed by the Chinese part of herself; instead, she wanted her “stronger, more
independent American side” to come out.
The turning point was a trip to China with her mother in 1987. Tan says that she is ___4___ to
her mother for the trip because it made her realize that she was a lot more American than she
thought. If it had not been for this experience, she ___5___ to respect her roots. Hoping to share
these stories with those who have the same problems living between two cultures, Tan came out
with The Joy Luck Club and many other novels.
( 1 ) ( ) (A) dishes (B) closes (C) points (D) moves
( 2 ) ( ) (A) annoying (B) soothing (C) mature (D) involuntary
( 3 ) ( ) (A) calmed (B) awoken (C) upset (D) seized
( 4 ) ( ) (A) hesitant (B) rough (C) regretful (D) grateful
( 5 ) ( ) (A) would not know (B) would not have known (C) will not know (D)will not have known
2. The Image of Motherhood
More than 140 years ago in London, 67yearold Anna McNeill Whistler agreed to act as a model
for her son, an artist James Whistler. The portrait that Whistler did __1__ his late thirties went on to
become one of the world’s most famous works of art. Upon __2__ the painting, a wellknown
Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle volunteered to model for Whistler.
For the painting, James Whistler sat his mother in a chair. He had her put on a black dress and a
white hat. The wall behind her was gray. Whistler then had his mother stare off to the side of the
painting. He did not have her smile.
Whistler did not really mean his creation to be about his mother, __3__ he meant it to be a study
of the use of quiet colors. However, after the painting was bought by an important museum in Paris,
it somehow became a symbol of motherhood. Then in 1934, the U.S. Post Office issued a stamp
which featured Whistler’s work with the words, “In Memory and in Honor of the Mothers of
America.”
Now, when “Whistler's Mother” is mentioned, many people can picture the old lady dressed in
black. However, very few know that this great work originally was given the name of “Arrangement

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in Grey and Black, No. 1,” and Thomas Carlyle’s was “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2.” If
Whistler __4__ with gray colors in his work, a famous French composer Claude Debussy might not
have been inspired to create different shades of a certain sound in his music. The painting now is
__5__ valued at 30 million dollars. Maybe knowing about the huge price tag put on her portrait
would make Whistler’s mother smile.
( 1 ) ( ) (A) on (B) at (C) in (D) of
( 2 ) ( ) (A) seeing (B) seen (C) saw (D) he saw
( 3 ) ( ) (A) although (B) for (C) if (D) whenever
( 4 ) ( ) (A) has not experimented (B) didn’t experiment
(C) experimented (D) had not experimented
( 5 ) ( ) (A) hesitantly (B) ungratefully (C) roughly (D) involuntarily

四、文意選填
Today, we see Mother’s Day as a day to do something special for our mothers. However, the
celebration of the Mother’s Day now was ___1___ in the past. In ancient Egypt, people worshipped
the goddess Isis every year to show their ___2___ to motherhood. By ___3___ 600 BC, the Greeks
honored mothers through the worship of Rhea, the mother of the gods.
During the 16th century, in England and other parts of Europe, it was common for children to
leave home to work. Each year, these children were given a day off to go back home. Practiced
___4___, it became a tradition called “Mothering Sunday”. On “Mothering Sunday,” children were
not only seeing their mothers but returning to their “mother churches,” where they had gone to
while ___5___ living at home. These children ___6___ wild flowers on the way home and gave
them to their churches or their own mothers. As part of the custom, a light cake called “Simnel” was
___7___ to the whole family on the dining table, adding even more flavor to the special holiday.
Mother’s Day that we know now is an American ___8___. Feeling ___9___ for her mother’s
support, a woman called Anna Jarvis wanted to set aside this day to honor mothers after her mother
died in 1905. The idea got ___10___ public support, and in 1913, the U.S. government made the
second Sunday in May “Mother’s Day.” Later, as other cultures learned about this practice,
Mother’s Day was soon celebrated worldwide.
(A) wide (B) picked up (C) roughly (D) still (E) nowhere to be found
(F) respect (G) creation (H) dished out (I) grateful (J) time after time
1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____
6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10. _____

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