C. lose out D. loose out 正确答案：C 得分：2分
55. Unfortunately, alternatives to bombing the North Vietnam were hard to ____.
A. come by B. come in C. come to D. come down 正确答案：A 得分：2分
56. I ____ every loyal Confederate to cast them out.
A. call in B. call upon C. call off D. call out 正确答案：B 得分：2分
57. You should ____ go swimming right after eating.
A. know better than to B. know better as to C. know better than D. know better as 正确答案：A 得分：2分
58. I agree with her ____, but not entirely.
A. to some point B. by a certain degree C. to some extent D. in a certain range 正确答案：C 得分：2分
59. He lay ____ sat in the armchair after drinking a lot of wine.
A. rather than B. less than C. other than D. more than 正确答案：A 得分：2分
60. It was in the name of freedom ____ Kennedy led his country into its cruel.
A. while B. that C. as D. when 正确答案：B 得分：2分
新世纪综合单元测试——Unit 2 Book 4
Listening Comprehension
True or False
Directions: There are ten statements in this section. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Listen carefully and decide whether each of the following is true or false. (10 points)
1.
True
False
Script: Material and technological advances make Americans happier according to the survey. 正确答案：F 得分：0分 2.
True
False
Script: Judged by most standards, one has to admit that Americans today are wealthier than they were in the middle of the last century. 正确答案：T 得分：0分 3.
True
False
Script: People tend to feel happy and excited on hearing good news but they soon take it for granted. 正确答案：T 得分：0分 4.
True
False
Script: Economists and social scientists have focused their efforts on the relationship between happiness and technology. 正确答案：F 得分：0分 5.
True
False
Script: Easterlin showed that getting wealthier seemed to make a country's citizens much happier. 正确答案：F 得分：0分 6.
True
False
Script: Technological advancements and their timely application have not brought about any changes in our lives. 正确答案：F 得分：0分 7.
True
False
Script: Both the defenders of technology and the opponents of it emphasize the advantages or disadvantages of technology without taking the time to look at the opposite point of view. 正确答案：T 得分：0分 8.
True
False
Script: As for biotechnology, the author believes that for any disturbance of the natural laws, a high price must be paid. 正确答案：T 得分：0分 9.
True
False
Script: The author believes that a closer relationship and human interaction between the doctor and the patient exists nowadays. 正确答案：F 得分：0分 10.
True
False
Script: According to the author, the person who uses the technology should be blamed for all the negative impacts on our lives. 正确答案：T 得分：0分
Compound Dictation
Directions: You will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 11-20 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. (10 points)
Over the past few weeks we've heard reports of serious 11 in wireless networking and chip and pin readers, and seen how web browsers could fall 12 to %us into inadvertently visiting fake websites.
The 13 fear that malicious software might start infecting our mobile phones was given a 14 when the Information Security Center at US university Georgia Tech outlined how phone software could be 15 to create \controlled.
And now a group of researchers at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland have shown that you can read what is typed on a keyboard from 20m away. It takes some 16 equipment to do it, but with the right antennae and a bit of luck it seems that you can detect the radio 17 coming from the wires that connect keyboards to computers and tell just what someone is typing. And even though the kit you need isn't the sort of stuff that your average credit-card skimmer is going to have lying around their flat, it shows that 18 .
The researchers suspect that cheaper keyboards with poor shielding are to blame, 19 . This is a good example of how lack of foresight can lead to security problems when faster hardware catches up with the assumptions made by system designers, and 20 . 11.
正确答案：vulnerabilities 得分：0分 12.
正确答案：victim 得分：0分 13.
正确答案：longstanding 得分：0分 14.