1、The wheels of the fast road vehicles were fashioned from crude stone disks.

(A) hand carved (B) roughly made (C) flat

2、Known as" The First Lady of Song", Ella Fitzgerald got her start as a professional singer when she won a contest at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1934.

(A) an award (B) an argument (C) a competition

3、A star begins life as a large ball of slowly rotating gas that contracts slowly under its own weight.

(A) deflates (B) weakens (C) shrinks

4. Mary Mapes Dodge exercised considerable influence on children's literature in the late nineteenth century.

(A) stylistic (B) great (C) personal

5. Iron is converted to steel by removing most of the impurities present in cast iron.

(A) altered (B) developed (C) reduced

6. When her parents started shouting at each other, Anna used to creep under the table and cry.

(A) crawl (B) fly(C) hop

7. The rapid expansion of cities during the Industrial Revolution created a housing crisis.

(A) avoided (B) brought about (C) aggravated

8. The works of novelist Joyce Carol Oates are moving chronicles ofcontemporary life in the United States.

(A) simultaneous (B) controversial (C) modem

9. The cerebellum is the section of the brain that coordinates the movements of voluntary muscles.

(A) executes (B) integrates (C) differentiates

答案：BCCBA ABCB

詳解：

roughly made

加工粗糙的

The roughly made bed on which he was born had no proper sheets and blankets.

他出生的那張粗造濫制的床上沒(méi)有像樣的床單或毯子。

a competition

競(jìng)賽

To them, life is a competition — they have to do better than their peers to be happy.

對(duì)他們來(lái)講，生活是一場(chǎng)競(jìng)賽——他們不得不超過(guò)他們的同類，才會(huì)感到快樂(lè)。

shrinks

vi. 收縮;畏縮

vt. 使縮小，使收縮

n. 收縮

So if you have the same amount of income each year, your purchasing power gradually shrinks.

所以說(shuō)，如果你每年的收入都相同的話，你的購(gòu)買力則在逐漸縮水。

great

adj. 偉大的，重大的;極好的，好的;主要的

n. 大師;大人物;偉人們

We have great expectations of him.

我們對(duì)他抱著很大的期望。

altered

v. 改變(alter的過(guò)去分詞)

adj. 改變了的;蝕變的

n. 為參加短程高速汽車賽而改裝的賽車

Have you altered your mind?

你改變主意了嗎?

crawl

vi. 爬行;匍匐行進(jìn)

vt. 爬行;緩慢地行進(jìn)

n. 爬行;養(yǎng)魚(yú)池;匍匐而行

A child learns to crawl before he learns to walk.

小孩在學(xué)走路之前先學(xué)爬。

brought about

引起;使掉頭

The public should pay to use highways, but such high rates have not only brought about suffering, they have inhibited economic vitality.

市民需要為使用高速公路而付費(fèi)，但是這么高的費(fèi)率，不僅帶來(lái)了傷害，它也抑制了經(jīng)濟(jì)活力。

controversial

adj. 有爭(zhēng)議的;有爭(zhēng)論的

They tried their best to run away from controversial issues.

他們盡力避開(kāi)有爭(zhēng)議的問(wèn)題。

integrates

v. (使)結(jié)合;(使)一體化;(使)合并(integrate的第三人稱單數(shù)形式)

It seems to me though that whoever integrates the best across multiple devices and gets the highest quality applications built for their platform will be the winner.

不過(guò)，在我看來(lái)，無(wú)論是誰(shuí)，只要它整合了跨多種設(shè)備中的最好部分，并獲得了最好質(zhì)量的平臺(tái)應(yīng)用的話，那么它就會(huì)是勝出者。