上海电力学院大学英语3期末试卷及答案(4)

Part I Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the BEST choice.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they were always coming in for criticism. Their critics say, "It's unfair that. this entirely unproductive industry should absorb millions of pounds each year. Why don't they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it's the customer who pays.."

The poor old customer. He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read.

Lots of people pretend they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is almost impossible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy the blank walls of a railway station while you are waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper?

We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies would not subsist (生存) without this source of revenue (收入). The fact that we pay so little for our daily papers or can enjoy so many broadcast programs is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!

Another thing we mustn't forget is the "small ads', which are in nearly every newspaper and magazine. What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community!

1. By saying "Advertisers tend to think big.”, the writer means ___

A. advertisers always charge much money for putting advertisements

B. most advertisers are strong and powerful

C. advertisers are inclined to talk big

D. advertisers are usually too proud

2. The word "they" (Para3, Line 3) refers to ____

A. those people who pretend as though they never read ads

B. advertisements

C. the claims made by people

D. critics

3. All but one example belongs to the "small ads. The exception is the advertisement which ___

A. announces one's wishes to employ a servant

B. provides the information on a house for sale

C. announces an important technological innovationD. offers a job for a housekeeper

4. We learn from the passage that without advertisements

A. the price of goods will be lower

B. we are unable to know anything about household goods

C. we will have to pay the full price of a newspaper

D. we won't listen to commercial radio

5. Which of the following is Not the purpose of advertising?

A. To sell goods.

B. To perform a useful service to the community.

C. To inform people.

D. To reduce the price of newspapers.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage

Few people would defend the Victorian attitude on children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud' (弗洛伊德) and his colleagues did away with all that and parents have been puzzled ever since. The child's happiness is all-important, they say, but what about the parents' happiness? Modern child-rearing manuals (育儿手册) would never permit cruelty to children. The trouble is that you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might cause?

The poor 'child may never recover from the dreadful experience. So it is the parents that bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complex (不正常心理) which a hundred years ago hadn't even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive spoiling (纵容) of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good. Psychologists have succeeded in weakening parents' confidence in their own authority. And it hasn't taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modern classics oh child care, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much advice flying about, mum and dad just don't know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents' lives are regulated according to the needs of their kids. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lack of authority over the years makes adolescent (少年)rebellion against parents all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for instance, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey?

6. We know from this passage, that parents nowadays ___ their children.

A. are too tolerant with C. often argue with

B. are irresponsible for D. are bored with

7. In the old days, children ____

A. were in charge of parents

B. were not allowed to make much noise

C. always suffered complexes

D. did not dare to speak to their parents

8. The phrase "get wind of "(Para3, Line2) most likely means “______”.

A. become accustomed to C. try to avoid

B. find out about D. begin to suspect9. Which of the following can be inferred from this passage?

A. Victorian child rearing is a model for parents to follow.

B. Psychologists have much to answer for today's problems on child care.

C. With the help of so much advice, raising children is easier than ever.

D. Parents like to enjoy freedom when there is a party in the house.

10. What's the main idea of this passage?

A. The excessive permissiveness of today's parents is harmful to children.

B. Psychologists shouldn't interfere so much with child care.

C. Parents should take the Victorian attitude towards children.

D. Children are too sensitive to be hurt.

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum(钟摆) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the distinction observed, "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like a minute, but when you sit on. a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours." Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age.

They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass. For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach. Since most of us spend fewer days at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in structured time could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older.

Expectation and familiarity also make time seem' to' flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we've never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real notion of when We'll arrive, we experience the trip as lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become tontine. Thus taking a different route on occasions can often help slow the clock.

When days become as identical as beads(珠子) on a string, they blend together, and even months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day -- to stop time, so to speak.

Learning something new is another way to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seem so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery.

11. The passage is meant to_____.

A. state the principles and ways to kill time

B. explain why time flies and how to slow it down

C. describe various notions about time

D. show the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time

12. According to the passage, when people live an identical and routine life, time seems to_____.

A. slow down C. speed up

B. to stop D. be in a psychological sense

13. The quotation in the first paragraph is used to indicate_____.

A. the distinction between physical time and psychological timeB. that time should not be measured by a pendulum

C. that physical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time

D. that, with little regard of a clock or calendar, psychological time is quite puzzling

14. Which of the following examples does not make time seem to flow more rapidly?

A. Office work structured with schedules.

B. An excursion to a familiar place.

C. The learning of something difficult and interesting.

D. Life of a businessman filled with appointments.

15. Near the end of the fourth paragraph, the word "novelty" could be best replaced by _____.

A. excitement C. disillusion

B. unfamiliarity D. amusement

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage

This is supposed an enlightened age, but you wouldn’t think so if you could hear what the average men think of the average women, who still carry on the sex war because their attitude remains basically hostile. Even in the most progressive societies, women continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens. To hear some men talk, you'd think that women belonged to a different species (种)!

On the surface, the comments made by men about, women abilities seem lighthearted.

The same tried jokes about women drivers, are repeated day in and day out. This apparent lightheartedness does not conceal the real contempt that men feel for women. No matter how much men sneer at women, their claims to superiority are not borne out by statistics. Let's consider the matter of driving, for instance. We all know that women cause far fewer accidents than men. They are too conscientious and responsible to drive like an insane man. But this is a minor argument about small differences. Women have succeeded in any job you care to name.

Yet men go on maintaining the fantasy that there are many jobs which women can't do. Top level political -negotiations between countries, business and banking are almost entirely controlled by men, who jealously guard their so-called "right". Even in otherwise enlightened places like Switzerland, women haven't even been given the vote. This situation is certainly preposterous! The arguments that men put forward to exclude women from these fields are all too familiar. Women, they say, are unreliable and irrational. They depend too little on cool reasoning and too much on intuition (直觉) and instinct to arrive at decisions. They are not even capable of thinking clearly. Yet when women prove their abilities, men refuse to acknowledge them and give them their due. So much for a man's ability to think clearly.

16. According to the passage, men___

A. are always reliable enough to control the top level business talks

B. always prove their superiority by their successes

C. are always capable of thinking clearly

D. always take unfriendly attitudes towards women

17. The word "preposterous" (Para. 3, Line '6) can be replaced by “______”.

A. ridiculous C. rigid

B. indifferent D. indispensable18. By saying "men refuse, to acknowledge them" (Para. 3, Line 12), the author refers to men's

unwillingness to recognize_____.

A. women's rights C. women's proven abilities

B. women's progress D. women's clear thinking

19. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

A. Switzerland is a civilized country in many aspects

B. our time is already an enlightened age in all aspects

C. men tell those repeated jokes to show their care for women

D. there are actually many jobs that women cannot do

20. Which of the following can best summarize the passage?

A. Men shouldn't make those lighthearted comments on women.

B. Women should be granted equal rights in the .workplace.

C. It's high time men cease to regard women as second, class citizens.

D. Women have proved that they are equal and even superior to men in many fields.

Part II. Vocabulary and structure

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.

21.He failed because he ___ confidence in himself.

A. lacked

B. lacked of

C. was lacking

D. lacked for

22. Vast ___ this hospital was , it was all too small for the endless queue of the sick and wounded

who needed nursing.

A. However

B. as

C. although

D. so

23. The building of the new roads had been ___ by the bad weather.

A. held up

B. taken up

C. held off

D. taken off

24. ___ you can’t find the book --- it had fallen behind the chair.

A. No doubt

B. No more

C. No longer

D. No wonder

25. If birds or animals ___ , they travel from one part of the world to another, especially in the

autumn and spring.

A. immigrate

B. emigrate

C. migrate

D. migrant

26. He was proved ___ of murder.

A. /

B. guilt

C. guilty

D. guitar

27. Many laid-off workers went ___ necessities in the unemployment days.

A. out of

B. part of

C. lack of

D. short of

28. The type of education one receives surely ___ one’s course in life.

A. forms

B. types

C. promises

D. shapes

29. He ___ his voice to let everybody hear him.

A. strung

B. strained

C. strode

D. stranded

30. She is too ___ about what she will eat and drink.

A. sensitive

B. indifferent

C. particular

D. especial

31. He sometimes went there to catch a ___ of the mountain in the distance.

A. glimpse

B. glance

C. view

D. eyesight32. The food has been ___ by flies and so you mustn’t eat it.

A. confronted

B. connected

C. constituted

D. contaminated

33. This is a collection of books which are recently made ___ to the public.

A. accessible

B. considerable

C. permissible

D. respectable

34. All the characters in this book are ___ .

A. imaginary

B. imagination

C. imaginable

D. imaginative

35. The children are busy ___ the Christmas tree.

A. admitting

B. trimming

C. tripping

D. trapping

36. He ___ to provide information about everyday life in Britain.

A. set on

B. set off

C. set out

D. set about

37. His work has ___ while he was away.

A. piled up

B. added up

C. gathered up

D. bundled up

38. It is in his best interests, ___ in yours.

A. as long as

B. as soon as

C. as well as

D. as good as

39. This map is drawn to the ___ of one inch to a hundred miles.

A. ratio

B. portion

C. dimension

D. scale

40. In addition to these foods the body also needs small ___ of protective substances call Vitamins.

A. quantity

B. quality

C. quantities

D. qualities

41. _____ candidates are women.

A. Half the

B. The half

C. Their half

D. Half a

42. She was on leave _____ days.

A. the few last

B. few another

C. few

D. the last few

43. _____ friends usually speak highly of him.

A. His some

B. His many

C. Many his

D. Some his

44. _____ cases have been reported.

A. Such few

B. Such some

C. Few such

D. Some these

45. The additional will take _____ months.

A. the other

B. another five

C. other five

D. the more

46. The manager promised to have my complaint _____.

A. looked through

B. looked into

C. looked over

D. looked after

47. Children are ___ to have some accidents as they grow up.

A. obvious

B. indispensable

C. bound

D. doubtless

48. ___ the flood, the ship would have reached its destination on time.

A. In case of

B. In spite of

C. Because of

D. But for

49. In your first day at the school you will be given a test to help the teachers to ____ you to a

class at your level.

A. locate

B. assign

C. deliver

D. place

50. There is no electricity again. Has the ___ blown?

A. fuse

B. wire

C. plug

D. circuit

Part III Cloze

Directions : There are 20 blanks in the following passage, for each blank there are four choices

marked A), B) C) and D) on the right side of the paper. Yow should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.

For more than 80 years, the graduate

School of M.I.T. has (51)_______ to promote 51. A. sustained

the best environment for advanced study B. searched

C. sought

D. suspend

among creative workers, both (52)______ and 52. A. faculty

students, as a community of scholars B. workers

C. colleagues

D. leaders

(53)______ to extend knowledge. With this 53. A. to work

goal in mind, the Institute, for almost B. work

C. worked

D. working

50 years, has consistently (54) _____ the 54. A. rewarded

largest number of master's and doctor's B. awarded

degrees in engineering in the nation, C. repaid

D. sent

and in recent years has (55)_____ the top 55. A. led

in doctoral output in mathematics and B. been put

C. ranked

D. listed

physical and life sciences. (56)_____ , 56. A. In addition

graduate programs in economics, social B. However

sciences and humanities, architecture C. Therefore

and urban studies, and management have D. Hence

assumed an important role in the broad

(57)______of graduate education at M.I.T.. 57. A. tendency

B. focuses

C. opportunity

D. scope

Graduate education at M.I.T. places

special emphasis (58)____a consideration of 58. A. in

B. upon

C. at

D. to

the relevance of science and (59)_____to the 59. A. technology

complex problems of society. In order to B. technique

C. skill

D. trade

(60)____such problems, it is often necessary 60. A. apply

to utilize an interdisciplinary B. promote( 学科间的) approach which C. handle

D. catch

may（61）______expertise (专门知识) 61. A. involve

in several different departments: Although B. interfere

C. intervene

D. interview

(62)_____ an individual basis such programs 62. A. from

can be developed for many students, there B. on

C. in

D. at

are other (63) _____which become so 63. A. preparations well developed that special curricula B. opportunities

C. problems

D. options

are available. This is the () ______ in . A. case interdisciplinary areas Such as B. question instrumentation, oceanography, operations C. occasion research, biomedical engineering, D. example economics and urban studies, and

environmental engineering. 'Students in such

(65) _____are supervised(指导) by special faculty 65. A. projects

B. schools

C. programs

D. topics committees (66)_____by dean of the Graduate 66. A. appointed School. B. pointed

C. appalled

D. verified

The (67)______ scope and high quality 67. A. confined

of its graduate education have made M. IiT. B. narrow

C. mean

D. broad

(68)______in the international field. In 68. A. a leader

B. to be a leader

C. being a leader

D. been a leader recent years it has also become a place

(69)______minority students can 69. A. in that participate profitably in academic work B. where

C. for that

D. in it

(70) _____all levels. 70. A. at

B. within

C. inD. by

Part IV Writing

Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic My

View on Donating Blood. You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below.

1．人们对献血有不同的看法。

2．我的观点与理由。

大学英语三级水平试卷（4）答案

Part One Reading Comprehension

1. a

2. B

3. C

4. C

5. D

6. A

7. B

8. B

9. B 10. A

11. B 12. C 13. A 14. C 15. B 16. D 17. A 18. C 19. A 20. C

Part Two Vocabulary And Structure

21. A 22.B 23.A 24.D 25. C 26. C 27. D 28. D 29. B 30. C 31. A 32. D 33 .A 34. A 35. B 36. C 37.

A 38. C 39. D 40. C 41. A 42. D 43.

B 44.

C 45. B 46. B 47. C 48.

D 49. B 50. A

Part Three Cloze

51. C 52. A 53. D 54. B 55. C 56. A 57. D 58. B 59. A 60. C

61. A 62. B 63. D . A 65. C 66. A 67. D 68. A 69. B 70. A

Part IV Writing

My View on Donating Blood

People’s views on donating blood vary from person to person. Some people think that it is glorious to donate blood. They hold this view because those who are in urgent need of blood can be saved. But others hold that it is foolish of people to donate blood. In their opinion, blood is very precious and losing 200 ml or more may do harm to their health.

As to me, I agree with the first opinion. The reasons of my choice are as follows.

First, while it is true that the loss of too much blood is dangerous to one’s health, it doesn’t mean that donating a little blood is also harmful. On the contrary, doctors say that donating a little blood can promote metabolism. Second, there are many people who need our help. If a little of my blood can pull back somebody on the way to death, will there be anything that can make me even happier?

Therefore, donating blood is glorious.