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　　《Great Scientists 》同步练习
　　（满分100分）
　　第一部分　　语法和词汇知识（每题1分，共15分）
　　1. It will make no difference whether our pay will be _______ 5% this year.
　　A. risen by B. raised by C. raised to D. risen to
　　2. He slipped and had his leg broken. _______, he will have to be away from school for two or three months.
　　A. In any case B. After all
　　C. As a result D. In this way
　　3. His success _______ his hard work.
　　A. results in B. results from
　　C. lies on D. roots in
　　4. Scientists have made a major ____ in cancer research.
　　A. break-in B. breagh
　　C. breakup D. breakdown
　　5. An expert was _____ to give a speech on how to learn English well.
　　A. brought in B. brought on
　　C. brought out D. brought up
　　6. The old man was taking a walk, ____ by his grandson.
　　A. supporting B. supported
　　C. being supported D. having supported
　　7. —What about the price of petrol now?
　　—It has been ______ 20 percent since the beginning of this year.
　　A. increased to B. risen by
　　C. increased by D. risen to
　　8. Patience is an important ____ of a happy and rewarding life. After all, some things are worth waiting for.
　　A. lesson B. experience C. purpose D. quality
　　9. Mr. Green, who is a member of Labor Party, has _____ Mr Brown as President.
　　A. taken place B. taken the place
　　C. in place of D. replaced
　　10. How beautifully she sang! I have never heard _______ song.
　　A. the better B. a better C. the best D. a best
　　11. He is known _____ his being on time, so we don’t know the reason ____ his being late this time.
　　A. for; of B. as; for C. for; for D. of; of
　　12. The hero’s story ____ differently in the newspapers.
　　A. was reported B. was reporting C. reports D. reported
　　13. —George and Lucy got married last week. Did you go to their wedding?
　　—No. I ____. Did they have a big wedding?
　　A. was not invited B. have not been invited
　　C. hadn’t been invited D. didn’t invite
　　14. The mayor of Beijing says that all construction work for the Beijing Olympics ____ by 2006. (2004北京)
　　A. has been pleted B. has pleted
　　C. will have been pleted D. will have pleted
　　15. The number of deaths from heart disease will be reduced greatly if people ____ to ear more fruit and vitamins.
　　A. persuade B. will persuade
　　C. be persuade D. are persuaded
　　第二部分　　能力培养（共50分）
　　第一节　　完形填空（每空1分，共20分）
　　Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory (迁移的) flights? Scientists tried their best to find the 1 to this question for many years. The reasons have been discovered only lately.
　　2 ago experiments showed that birds depend on the sun to guide them 3 . But what about birds that fly mainly by night? 4 with man-made stars have 5 that certain night-flying birds are able to follow the 6 in their long distance flights.
　　One such 7 , a warbler (鸣禽), had spent its lifetime in a 8 and had never flown under a natural sky. Yet is showed its 9 by birth to use the stars for guidance. The bird’s cage was put under a man-made star-filled sky at migration 10 . The bird tried to fly 11 the same direction as 12 taken by other birds in the building. Any 13 in the position of the make-believe (虚构的) stars 14 a change in the direction of its flight.