新概念英语第三册习题答案及解析Lesson 39

　　Comprehension

　　1 Why were the passengers so relieved when the boulders disappeared?

　　a. Bruce could now drive even faster.

　　b. They had covered the greater part of the distance to the village.

　　c. It seemed less likely that they would meet with disaster.

　　d. They had seen the huge fissure that lay ahead of them.

　　2 When they reached the fissure, Bruce stopped the car because _____ .

　　a. the passengers had begged him to do so

　　b. he wanted to know the exact dimensions of the fissure

　　c. he thought it was safer to drie across it without the passengers

　　d. he was not sure whether the car was wide enough to bridge it

　　In response to renewed pleadings , Bruce stopped.

　　3 Bruce’s reaction to the final episode shows that _____ .

　　a. he was not the sort of person to be perturbed by anything

　　b. he was extremely brave in face of danger

　　c. he had underestimated the depth of the pool

　　d. when it came to crossing water, his driving was nto good enough

　　(背熟)

　　Structure

　　4 He believed _____ a car as fast as it could possibly go. (ll.7-8)

　　a. driving in b. he would drive c. to drive d. in driving

　　believe sb. / sth. that / in

　　5 _____ when the boulders suddenly disappeared. (l.13)

　　a. How relieved we felt b. What a relief we were feeling

　　c. So relieved we felt d. How we felt relieved

　　what感叹句的主体词是名词;how 感叹句的主体词是形容词。

　　6 Bruce _____ when the car came to a grinding halt. (l.21)

　　a. hadcharged through it midway b. charged through it to the middle

　　c. charged midway through it d. was in the middle of charging through it

　　7 Bruce cherfully announced that the engine _____ out of oil. (l.22)

　　a. ran b. had run c. was running d. has run

　　run out of

　　Vocabulary

　　8 Glancing at his map, heinformed us that the next village was _____ twenty miles away. (ll.4-5)

　　a. simply b. boringly c. only d. in significantly

　　9 ---- where nothing could _____ but clumps of trees. (ll.13-14)

　　a. hinder our rogress b. spoil our course c. hold up our train d. harm our way

　　hinder== obstacle

　　10 When we pleaded _____ , bruce stopped. (l.15)

　　a. afresh b. aloud c. repeatedly d. forcibly

　　11 He said: ‘It’s fifteen miles _____ the village. ’ (ll.19-20)

　　a. until b. to c. from d. before

　　12 ---- obstacle was a shallow pool of water half a mile _____ . (ll.20-21)

　　a. side by side b. from top to bottom c. from side to side d. up and down

　　【Key to Multiple choice questions】

　　1. C 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. A 10 .C 11. B 12. C
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