Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.
For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war (战争). By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.
About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn’t have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.
A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The Green Revolution (革命) is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的) scientists who had green thumbs.
【小题1】According to the passage, a greenhorn means________ now.

完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

1.We had so much trouble _____________________ our proposal.   (talk)

我们费了好大的劲才说服他接受我们的提议。

2.How come such a rich man robbed the bank?  It _______________________. (sense)

这么富有的一个人怎么会抢银行呢？这讲不通呀。

3.Many of the soldiers were diagnosed with cancer after they came back from the front because they ______________________ radiation during the war.   (expose)

很多士兵从前线回来都被诊断出了癌症，因为他们在战争期间曾暴露在辐射中。

4.Our software, unless _________________________, may not serve us well in our work.  (update)

除非定期升级，否则我们的软件无法很好地为我们服务。

5.The Western markets _________________________ cheap products made in China. (flood)

西方国家的市场上充斥着中国制造的廉价商品。

6.Only if you work hard from now on ______________________ your classmates in studies.   (catch)

只有从现在开始努力，你在学习上才能赶上你的同学

7.________________________________ at 2013 World Swimming Championships made us all very proud.   (win)

孙杨在2013年游泳世锦赛上夺得三枚金牌使我们都非常骄傲。

8.Luckily we brought with us a map, without which we                ___ in the jungle.（get）

幸运的是，我们带了地图，要不然在丛林里就迷路了。

9.Peter learned German, French and Spanish at an evening school, ____________ fluently now. (speak)

彼得在一所夜校学习了德语、法语和西班牙语，所有这些语言他现在都讲得很流利。

10.I can’t help thinking what it is in the computer games __________________ the boys.  （appeal）

我禁不住想，电脑游戏中到底是什么吸引了这些男孩子。

1.Can’t you _____________  your attention ________ your research (集中) ?

2.Yesterday his teachers __________him_______ cheating in the exam.(指责)

3.It’s Spring Festival, we are ____________  __________ go home. (渴望)

4.Only when the war ends ________  _________live a better life.(只有当战争结束，他们才能过上较好的生活)

5. ______ is no doubt______ the plan will succeed.(毫无疑问，这个计划会成功的)。

6.We are very happy, because our students all _________  _________ us.（我们很高兴，因为所有学生都认可我们）

7.It was a good concert------I enjoyed the last song _________  _____________（特别）.

8.She often_________ out a sudden scream as if she _______dying, in fact , nothing serious. (她常突然发出尖叫，好像要死似的，其实无大碍) .

9.I saw a house ________  ________ a squire .（我看到房子向地主哈腰）

10.This __________（涵盖）5000 years of civilization from many parts of the world,___________(包括) America, China, Egypt and other countries.

二.根据所给汉语完成下列各句。10%

1.她爱唱歌并对跳舞很有天赋。

She loves singing and ________ a _________ _________ dancing.

2. 既然你已经知道了他住在哪儿，为什么不去找他呢？

________ ________ you have known where he lives, why not go and find him?

3. 尽管山很高，他们还是成功登上山顶。

Although the mountain was very high, they __________ ________ climb up to the top.

4. 史密斯太太昨晚生了个儿子。

Mrs. Smith ________ ________ ________ a son last night.

5. 与其说这颜色是蓝色，不如说它是绿色。

The colour seems green ________ ________ blue.

6. 我昨天偶然遇见一位老朋友并和他聊了一会儿。

Yesterday I ________ ________ an old friend and talked with him for a while.

7. 直到战争结束他才在纽约定居了下来。

Only when the war was over ________ ________ _________ __________ in New York.

8. 我看见她匆忙走开,但我并没有跟她讲话。

I _________ _________ of her hurrying away but I didn't try to speak to her.