新概念英语第三册 Lesson 40(课文6)

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Homework:
1  A good hoax is a joke which depends on _____ .
a. deceiving people into behaving in a way which amuses everyone but themselves
b. doing something like calling the fire bridge to a nonexistent fire
c. at least two parties being led to believe the other is fraudulent
d. people disguising themselves to look like other people
deceive sb. into doing sth.
2  When the policeman first arrived outside the university _____ .
a. the student hid in an archway to see what happened next
b. he told the workmen if they disobeyedhim he would call four policemen
c. the workmen refused to take his request that they should move seriously
d. he was polite to the workmen as he had expected them to be students
They didn't take the police seriously
3  When did it become clear to the police that the workmen were not students?
a. when one of the workmen angrily said he was going to call the police.
b. Not until one of the workmen asked if he could telephone the police.
c. When the policeman saw whom the workman was ringing from the pay phone.
d. Only after they had arrested the workmen and taken them to the station.
4 他专攻工程学
5 他们只有用武力保卫他们的国家,否则他们就无法存在.
6 知道机器发生了故障, 他们才拉下开关.
7 我们没有收到任何暴风雪的事前警告.
8 我打电话给警察,他们几分钟就到了.
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ACC
1 He specializes in engineering.
2 They could not exist unless they defended their country by force of arms.
3 Only when something went wrong with the machine did they turn of the switch.
4 We received no advance warning of the storm.
5 I phoned the police and they were on the scene within minutes.