2014春中国石油大学（华东）《科技英语》在线作业2

《科技英语》2014年春学期在线作业（二）
一、单选题
1.  Who would you rather_________with you tomorrow, Tom or Smith?
A. have to go
B. have go
C. have gone
D. had go
正确答案：B
2.  If we had known that she had planned to go abroad today, we _____ at the airport.
A. would see her off
B. would have seen her off
C. should see her off
D. must have seen her off
正确答案：B
3.  Tom's father, as well as his mother, _____ in New York for a few days more.
A. ask him to stay
B. asks him to stay
C. ask he should stay
D. asks he should stay
正确答案：B
4.  The International Whaling Commission warns that if nothing is done to save the whales now the species will soon be _______.
A. imitated
B. intimated
C. contaminated
D. exterminated
正确答案：D
5.  He is a strange character，_________is very hard to get along with.
A. who
B. which
C. that
D. where
正确答案：A
6.  The following year, ______ victories in local elections strengthened the Conservatives’ position.
A. a series of
B. a link of
C. a pattern of
D. a connection of
正确答案：A
7.  _______ has recently been done to provide more buses for the people, a shortage of public vehicles remains a serious problem.
A. That
B. What
C. In spite of what
D. Though what
正确答案：C
8.  The general secretary’s decision to invest was a ______ mistake, resulting in a heavy loss of money.
A. firm
B. private
C. costly
D. realistic
正确答案：C
9.  The oil spillage in the Gulf was of such _______ that its effects will last for decades.
A. magnificence
B. maintenance
C. magnitude
D. manipulation
正确答案：C
10.  ______ is no reason for discharging her.
A. Because she was a few minutes late
B. Owing to a few minutes being late
C. The fact that she was a few minutes late
D. To be a few minutes late
正确答案：C
11.  I chose a small room with the window _____ the street.
A. faces
B. faced
C. facing
D. to face
正确答案：C
12.  The longer the economic decline is allowed to go on, the more difficult it will be to ______ it.
A. underline
B. upset
C. resume
D. reverse
正确答案：D
13.  The present wave of strikes ______ from discontent among the lower-paid.
A. stems
B. traps
C. raises
D. ranges
正确答案：A
14.  The receptionist, _____ job was to answer the phone, had laryngitis（喉炎）.
A. whose
B. which
C. to whom
D. that
正确答案：A
15.  Up to 22 people were killed and 187 others injured in a suicide bomb attack which ______ a demonstration in a northern Iraqi city.
A. transported
B. targeted
C. yielded
D. aimed
正确答案：B
16.  The opposing political party is getting ready to ______ a powerful attack on the government.
A. intend
B. imprint
C. cast
D. mount
正确答案：D
17.  I suppose you couldn't let me borrow your car this evening, _____?
A. couldn't you
B. don't you
C. could you
D. will you
正确答案：C
18.  It's too bad Rhonda is moving to Arizona.---I wish it _____ so far away.
A. weren't
B. couldn't be
C. won't be
D. isn't
正确答案：A
19.  _____ I don't like are the long, dark nights of winter.
A. That
B. What
C. Which
D. This
正确答案：B
20.  On the whole speculation is ______ upon because it sometimes drives prices up.
A. frowned
B. disapproved
C. represented
D. affected
正确答案：A