Part I Vocabulary (20 points)
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the proper words given below. Change the form where necessary. Write the words chosen on your answer sheet.
burst into absorb minor critical to your taste
the latter command echo at first glance contact
decrease take back relieve find out hazard |
2. I’ll _______ you by telephone when I hear anything new.
3. Jim had a ______ problem with his car, but he fixed it himself.
4. __________, the essay looked quite good, but actually it was full of mistakes.
5. Henry listened and heard nothing but the _________ of his own voice.
6. There are plastic and wooden garden chairs but _______ are more expensive.
7. They are making further efforts to _________ the cost of production.
8. It’s true that these Herbs (药草) can be used to ________ pain.
9. We have a great variety of pictures for you to choose from. You can select the one which is most ____________.
10. After spending a year in Australia, the little girl has gained quite a good __________ of spoken English.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence.
1. As anyone who has ________ an accident will tell you, the apparent security of cars is deceptive (给人以假象的).
A. sampled B. survived
C. vanished D. scraped
2. The policeman told the children _____play in the street.
A. didn't B. to not
C. not to D. don't
3. Many of the stars can't be seen because they are too____.
A. near to us B. far behind
C. far away D. close to the earth
4. She pressed her lips together, trying to _______tears.
A. give up B. burst into
C. hold back D. take back
5. Donald McIntyre was arrested by the police on suspicion of being connected in the ________ disappearance of a man.
A. evident B. ancient
C. critical D. mysterious
6. I have ______to tell you.
A. important something B. something important
C. important anything D. anything important
7. However, promotion is not always easy to achieve, as I _______when I first returned to work in 1977 after my degree course.
A. turned out B. acted out
C. found out D. sought out
8. Many people enjoy the book Harry Potter _____ by JK Rowling.
A. who writes B. which was written
C. was written D. which is writing
9. Go and find out _____ there will be a train for Shanghai today.
A. whether B. that
C. When D. where
10. There's too much noise. _____ of the two boys can fall asleep.
A. All B. Both C. None D. Neither
11. The only way to______ a fear is to face it, and to do so as frequently as possible.
A. commit B. enlarge
C. communicate D. conquer
12. I like reading this kind of books,_____.
A. up and down B. the more, the better
C. once again D. not only
13. ----How did you do in yesterday's test?
----Not very well, _____.
A. I'm afraid B. of course
C. thank you D. I'm sure
14. Please ____the word in the dictionary if you don't understand it.
A. look up B. keep on
C. have a look D. pick up
15. ----- ______, Mr. White? You don't look well.
-----I've got a bad cold for two days.
A. How are you B. What's the trouble
C. How are you feeling D. How are you getting on
16. Music, for both of us, is a part of life we treasure, and Michael has found his records and tapes a constant ________ of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him.
A. source B. illustration
C. addition D. package
17. A sob caught his throat and he coughed to ________ it.
A. prohibit B. mask
C. emit D. crash
18. At 6:30 a.m. next morning the train ________ Central Station, Glasgow.
A. pulled into B. came down
C. laid out D. sought out
19. Early in the morning, I was ______ out of bed to repair a minor fault on the car.
A. distracted B. dragged
C. wakened D. assigned
20. A personal friend of an artist may have a real _________ in writing criticism (批评), as he may learn about the artistic intentions which are not explained to others.
A. advantage B. observation
C. background D. privacy
PartⅢ. Reading Comprehension (20 points)
Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions, and to each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer according the passages.
Passage One
The good news we get from TV and radio makes us feel more kindly toward other people, but bad news—especially news of cruelty and violence—stirs up suspicion and a sense of competition toward others.
These are the findings of 10 years of experiments by research psychologists(心理学家) at Columbia University, who conclude that broadcasters encourage hostile(敌对的) behavior by stressing bad news.
“We found that the news people are exposed to either encourages them to concentrate on the differences between themselves and others, or on the common problems that make them feel, “We’re all in this together,” explained Dr. Harvey Hornstein.
“News about one human being helping another … brings out feelings of trust and cooperation. But news about one person actually doing harm to another changes our estimate of other people for the worse.”
In an early experiment in 1968, Dr. Hornstein and his associates, who had been dropping wallets (钱包) for two years to test the honesty of people, discovered that on June 4, 1968, not one wallet was returned.
“That was the night Robert F. Kennedy was shot,” he recalled. “Strangers suddenly seemed dangerous, and nobody wanted to return a lost wallet to a stranger.
“But good news on the other hand, lifts us up,” he stressed, citing the date of July 4, 1976, America’s Bicentennial(两百年的) celebration. “On that way, we all felt safe and good. Being American was the thing. We all felt as if we all belonged together.”
Recent tests support these conclusions. In one experiment, 60 subjects were exposed to good news, bad news or music. Then they were told to play a game with a non-existent person supposedly in another room. It was a game of choice that emphasized cooperation or competition.
After hearing good news, the overwhelming majority, 91 percent, played cooperatively. But after hearing bad news, competitive responses were over three times as high—up to 28 percent, from 9 percent.
“If we watch television and see a lot of blood,” said Dr. Hornstein, “we’re probably assuming that the world is a dirtier place than we assumed before we saw that TV violence. And we’ll deal with the next individual we
come upon as if he is part of that grim(冷酷的) picture of humanity. After the good news, it’s the reverse.”
1. According to the findings of researchers at Columbia University, when people hear good news, they feel___________.
A. happier B. more kindly toward others
C. safer than they really are D. more competitive
2. Dr. Harvey Hornstein found that when people hear news about one person actually doing harm to another, they tend to ________________.
A. regard other people as worse than they really are
B. treat total strangers as suspects of cruel crimes
C. become hostile towards neighbors and friends
D. think about the common problems facing mankind
3. What did Dr. Hornstein and his associates discover on the night of June 4, 1968?
A. Robert F. Kennedy was shot. B. Their wallets were lost.
C. People in America suddenly became dishonest.
D. Nobody returned the wallets they dropped.
4. We can infer from the passage that on July 4, 1976, most probably___________.
A. people drank and sang and danced
B. lost wallets were returned to their owners
C. everybody wanted to be American
D. even criminals were friendly to others
5. We can conclude from the passage that________________.
A. violence on TV leads to more violence on the streets
B. broadcasters should emphasize good news rather than bad news
C. the world is a dirtier place than we assume it to be
D. people are more competitive when they are faced with challenges
Passage Two
Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work, they can give a simple direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I fix sick people” or “I teach primary school”. As a theoretical(理论的) physicist, I never had this luck. Society has come to expect many things from the physicists. It used to be that we only had to discover the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques that would power the next Silicon Valley(硅谷). With these expectations we were fairly comfortable: they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes us uncomfortable -----and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to---is that in this century we have become, though unwillingly, gurus on questions such as “ what is the nature of Reality(现实)?”
We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began and what is the nature of matter. The answers we are coming up with are just not easy to comprehend for the average person.
So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people to understand.
1. According to the passage, in a way physicists are________.
A.intelligent B.comfortable C.strange D.unlucky
2. Judging from the context, the word “guru” in the first paragraph most probably means a person_________.
A.who acts as a teacher and answers big questions
B.who gives wrong answers to big questions
C.who does not have answers to real big questions
D.who is eager to supply answers to big questions
3. Which of the following is true according to what the author says about physicists?
A. Physicists do not like their jobs.
B.Physicists live in two different worlds.
C.Physicists are coming up with new answers to old questions.
D. Physicists don’t have to tell people what they are doing.
4. Which of the following statements is true of theoretical physicists?
A. They only have to answer the basic questions about the world.
B. They have contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley.
C. They have disappointed the expectations of many people.
D. They have found it hard to make friends with ordinary people.
5. Which of the following is true about the job of today’s physicists?
A. It is getting easier and easier with the help of modern technology.
B. It is not related to any practical use.
C. It cannot be done by a person with average intelligence.
D. It is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
PartⅣ. Translate the following sentences into English (20 points)
1. 他决心继续他的实验,不过这一次他将用另一种方法来做。
2. 她在读这部小说时,不禁想起了她在农村度过的那五年。
3. 玛丽觉得单靠自己的力量执行她的计划是困难的。
4. 除了每周写作文外,我们的英语老师还给我们布置了八本书在暑假里阅读。
Part V Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. (20 points)
1. What would she like? A pair of slippers perhaps. Or a new cardigan. A cardigan would be lovely. Blue’s such a pretty colour. Jim had always liked her in blue. Or a table lamp. Or a book, a travel book, with pictures, or a little clock, with clear black numbers. So many lovely things.
大学英语(二)答案
Part I (每题2分,共20分)
1. absorb 2. contact 3. minor 4. At first glance
5. echoes 6. the latter 7. 8.
9. to your taste 10.command
Part II (每题1分,共20分)
1-5 BCCCD 6-10 BCBAD
11-15 DBAAB 16-20 AB___
PartⅢ.: (每题2分,共20分)
BADBB DABBD
PartⅣ. (每题5分,共20分)
1.He is determined to continue his experiment but this time he'll do it another way.
2.
3.
4. In addition to/Apart from writing compositions on a weekly basis, our English teacher assigned us eight books to read during the summer vacation.
Part V.(共20分)
1. 她想要什么样的礼物呢?也许是一双拖鞋,或者是一件新的羊毛开衫。要真是一件羊毛开衫那就太好了,蓝盈盈的,那颜色该多么漂亮。过去吉姆就总喜欢她穿蓝的。再不就是一盏台灯,或者一本书,一本带照片的游记;一只小钟也行,钟面带醒目黑色数字的小钟。让人喜欢的东西可真多。