中石油职称英语通用选读2013版1-15课习题和答案.doc

Lesson 1 The Value of Time1. If our time is usefully used, it will produce some useful piece of work which will ______ its price in the market.A. catch B. fetch C. attach D. approach2. There can be no doubt that time is _______ into money.A convert B. revert C. conventional D. convertible3. Let them remember that an hour misspent is ______ to the loss of a banknote.A. equipped B. equation C. equivalent D. equivalence4. Moreover, our life is ________ our time.A. nothing more than B. anything other than C. something more than D. anything more than5. But we are too often ________ to loss of an hour or of a day.A. different B. indifferent C. differed D. difference6. Some years have to be spent in merry-making, _____ on our own account______ for the sake of others.A. neither…nor B. either …or C. either… and7. We shall find about 15 or 20 years at our ______ for active work. A. dispose B. compose C. disposal D. supposal8. If we allow one moment to _____ away, we shall never be able to recoup the loss.A. slip B. take C. put D. sleep答案：1B 2D 3C 4 A 5 B 6 B 7C 8ALesson 2 English Is a Crazy Language1. English muffins weren’t invented in England _______ French fries in France.A. while B. not C. either D. nor2. Sweetmeats are candies ______ sweetbread, which aren’t sweet, are meat.A. what B. as C. which D. while3. We take English for _______.A. ground B. great C. granted D. grant4. But if we explore its ________, we find that quicksand can work slowly.A. parade B. paraphrases C. paragraphs D. Paradoxes5. Did you make ______ to Tom for his loss?A. mend B. mind C. amends D. amend6. You can _______ through the annals of history.A. combine B. comb C. tomb D. combat 7. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of _____________of them, what do you call it?A. one but all B. all only one C. all but one D. all besides one8. Sometimes I think all the English speakers should ___________ to an asylum for verbally insane.A. be permitted B. be omit