[新概念英语第三册第54课视频]新概念英语第三册第54课习题答案及解析

【Multiple choice questions】
　　Comprehension
　　1 We may learn more about the behaviour of insects _____ .
　　a. and become so fascinated by them that we are no longer moved by them
　　b. but we are no less likely to lose our irrational fear of them
　　c. provided they remain unaware of our presence while we observe them
　　d. as long as they only harm each other and not us
　　(背熟答案)
　　rational 理性的 / irrational 没理性的
　　logical / illogical
　　reasonable / unreasonable
　　retional / irrational
　　outrageous / ridiculous
　　be likely to do 有可能做
　　no less likely 可能性不大
　　we are no less likely to do sth.
　　2 The ant is an insect which _____ .
　　a. will eat its way through anything from picnic lunches to aphids
　　b. lives in a highly organized society which we find disqusting
　　c. once it has killed its prey, will bear it Home in a triumphal column
　　d. shows great ingenuity at finding its way round any obstacle in its path
　　3 Had the peach tree been planted on the opposite side of the house _____ .
　　a. it might not have survived the severe winters
　　b. the writer would not have spent days looking at it
　　c. the ants would have had further to go before reaching it
　　d. the ants would not have found another route of access to the leaves
　　4 The reason for the ants’ swarming up and down the tree was that _____ .
　　a. they collected a kind of honey from the leaves
　　b. they fed on a kind of honey contraned in the sap of the tree
　　c. they were milking a kind of honey from the aphids on the leaves
　　d. they needed to go back to their nest in the branches of the tree
　　up and down 上上下下 /来来回回
　　around 来来回回
　　Clusters of insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves.
　　Structure
　　5 By reading about them, we may increase our understanding but _____ dispel our fears. (ll.7-8)
　　a. we will not b. it does not c. this will not d. not
　　结合第1题
　　6 Most of our fears are unreasonable, but we find _____ . (l.12)
　　a. it impossible to erase them b. that they cannot erase
　　c. them to erase impossible d. erasing them impossible
　　背熟题干和答案
　　7 ---- an experiment which, _____ failure to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated. (ll.22-23)
　　a. even though it was b. in spite of the c. despite its d. was a
　　in spite of / despite / in contempt of / in disregard of
　　8 _____ long to find an answer to ... (ll.30-31)
　　a. The ants had not been b. The quick ants had not been
　　c. The ants had not spent d. It had not taken the ants
　　it takes sb. or sth. some time to do
　　Vocabulary
　　9 Even when we know that the ant is an industrious creature which leads a highly organizedlife, we cannot _____ being filled with ... (ll.8-10)
　　a. refuse b. help c. prevent d. lose
　　can not help doing / can not resist doing
　　10 ---- we have read about the _____ sense of direction which bee possess ... (l.11)
　　a. unknown b. mysterious c. infinite d. disabled
　　uncanny
　　L54-05 end 11’58”
　　L54-06 begin 3’11”
　　11 The tree occasionally produces _____ fruit. (ll.19-20)
　　a. deliciously fresh b. sweet and juicy c. tender d. exotic
　　luscious
　　deliciously fresh 美味的
　　tender 温柔的，
　　exotic 未来的
　　12 I had been completely defeated by the _____ (ll.29-30)
　　a. speedy swarms b. hungry hordes c. inventive creatures d. ingenuous insects
　　speedy / swift / rapid / fast / quick/ hasty
　　ingenuous 天真的，老实的
　　【Key to Multiple choice questions】
　　1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. B 11. B 12. C

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