中国矿业大学英语自主学习试题精简

读写教程第二册第八单元测试 试卷编号： b2-r-u8-lf1 Part 1 Understanding Long Conversations (Each item: 1) Directions:In this section youll hear a long conversation or conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog. 1.A. How to become a professor. B. what to study in the future. C. When best to talk to her parents. D. Why she should study science. 2. A. History. B. Science. C. Germany. D. Parenthood. 3. A. What will be most important for her. B. What will help her go to Germany. C. What will contribute the most to history. D. What will give her a better chance to find work. 4. A. History is of equal importance. B. Job market is changing constantly. C. Interest should be the decisive factor. D. Science is of greater importance. 5. A. It is useful in getting a job. B. It is helpful in making a decision. C. It is convincing to persuade her parents. D. It is supportive to her studies. Part 2 Understanding Passages Directions:In this section youll hear a passage or passages. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog. 6. A. Your class work. B. Your job. C. Your values. D. Your career. 7. A. Office work. B. Teacher. C. Engineering. D. Technical drawing. 8. A. Office work. B. Teacher. C. Engineering. D. Technical drawing. 9. A. Typing. B. Memorizing. C. Setting values D. Learning. 10. A. College. B. Technical school. C. Home by yourself. D. Job. Part 3 Vocabulary and Structure Directions:Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 11. A _ of territory had always been a wish of the ruler of that country. A. introduction B. expansion C. intention D. expectation 12. The _ of the film star really disappointed her fans. A. precious B. absence C. present D. absent 13. You have to _ all mistakes from the essay before you hand it in. A. judge B. display C. reveal D. eliminate 14. The middle-aged woman worried about her _ future with no money and no family. A. gloomy B. bright C. splendid D. fearful 15. A _ of robbers broke into the bank and took away all the money. A. gather B. school C. rank D. gang 16. I asked her the question as soon as I saw her, but she only gave me a(n) _ answer instead of a definite one. A. direct B. implicit C. clear D. infinite 17. In some markets there may be only one seller. _ is to be avoided. A. Situation as this B. Such a situation C. Such a situation of this kind D. A situation of this 18. At first, the speaker was referring to the problem of pollution in the country, but halfway in her speech, she suddenly _ to another subject. A. committed B. changed C. favored D. transferred 19. A healthy life is frequently thought to be _ with the open countryside and home-grown food. A. tied B. bound C. involved D. associated 20. He was _ entry to the theatre for not being properly dressed. A. denied B. rejected C. given D. required Part 4 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice) Directions:Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Questions 21 to 25 are based on the same passage or dialog. Sylvester and I are watching television advertisements because we need information for a class research project. We have to discuss realism and dreams in television advertising, and so we are looking for examples of things that are not true in television advertisements. The question we are asking is, “Is the advertisement true to life, or does it offer an unreal picture of the product?“ Sylvester is keeping track of the lies, and he already has quite a long list. He says that all housewives seem to live in lovely homes, dress beautifully, and love their household chores. They smile and boast about floor cleaners and proudly display their dirty clothes, dirty tabletops, and dirty children. In addition, he has never seen men doing housework. Sylvester thinks that this view of family life is filled with things that are not true. I am keeping track of the people who appear in the advertisements. I have found handsome men chasing after beautiful women, and they are always recommending brand X toothpaste or brand Y cologne (科隆香水). I see teenagers and children with their friends, having wonderful time at parties and at school, and they are usually enjoying large, happy family gatherings. I think that these advertisements are also filled with things that arent true. Sylvester and I have discovered that much of American life is pictured unrealistically on television. Teenagers do not always have fun at parties, and very few people love doing chores. People do have problems but few of these are ever shown in advertisements. Instead, we watch Cinderella discover a miracle floor cleaner, finish the kitchen chores, and waltz off to the ball. Our heads are filled with these dreams, and they also suggest that, for any problem, brand Z will provide the instant cure. Sylvester and I will have very few facts and a lot of dreams to write about in our research reports. 21. Why are the speaker and Sylvester watching television? A. They are looking for good products. B. They are trying to be like TV people. C. They are interested in advertising. D. They are doing a school project. 22. What are they trying to find out about TV advertisements? A. Whether they tell the truth about life. B. Whether they have both men and women. C. Whether they show a good way to live. D. Whether they are fair to women and men. 23. What does the author think about how teenagers are shown? A. It is incomplete. B. It is unrealistic. C. It is true to life. D. It is too boring. 24. Sylvester and the author have come to the conclusion that television advertising _. A. truly reflects American life B. lack in much imagination C. seldom shows problems D. gives great fun to children 25. The most suitable title for the passage is _. A. A Class Research Project on TV B. American Life to Be Shown C. Children Like to See Advertisements D. Untrue things in TV Advertising Part 5 Cloze (with Options) Directions:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the choices. Questions 26 to 45 are based on the following passage. What is the meaning of life? I am sitting alone in a corner in an unremarkable little house in the dark to26_.(rack crack distress focus) my brains for an answer. I am 27._ (contented inferior satisfied depressed.) I have just 28._ (missed lacked lost gained) my job and my husband has recently left me. I am 35 years old. It is 29_.( evident noticeable recognizable visible) that the meaning of life is to do what you are told 30._( after until when yet )you are about 25 years old and then to marry who you are told to marry. If you are 31._( favorable successful fortunate convenient), there is a brief period of being in love before 32._( neither nor both either) your relatives or your husband tells you that it is your 33._( duty plan dream job) to get pregnant and have children. You may have had a(n) 34._ (encouraging promising amusing promoting) career with a good salary, but that is about to end. Your children will 35._ (challenge question demand render) constant attention and you will be 36._( presented rendered left performed )a housewife. You will recognize that your youth has passed and begin to grow old. 37. _(Understandably Actually Accordingly Appropriately), your husband will leave you for someone younger. My services as a wife are 38._( no way no longer not so long as before long) required. The whole question 39_. (puzzles questions doubts disorders) me for a moment. How did I get to this point? I am not 40._( right exact specific certain) that I can say that I have ever made a major 41._(conclusion definition determination decision) on my own. I start to get depressed, but then I am 42._( struck occurred beaten knocked) by something quite curious: freedom. There is no one 43. _(to say to tell to talk to speak )me what to do. I am no longer 44. _(committed enclosed confined imprisoned )by the wisdom of my parents. I realize that my ambition had been to have a(n) 45._( work trade business occupation) and freedom, not a husband and a stay-at-home lifestyle. The infinite possibilities excite me. 读写教程第二册第八单元测试 2 试卷编号： b2-r-u8-lf2 Part 2 Understanding Passages Directions:In this section youll hear a passage or passages. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog. 6. A. Dignity and satisfaction. B. Dignity and priority. C. Freedom and priority. D. Satisfaction and freedom. 7. A. Dignity. B. Satisfaction. C. Freedom. D. Priority. 8. A. Big pay. B. Great freedom. C. Big enterprises. D. High satisfaction. 9. A. A deep sense of satisfaction. B. A deep sense of freedom. C. A deep sense of priority. D. A deep sense of dignity. 10. A. Having smaller responsibilities. B. Having bigger responsibilities. C. Having immediate dignity. D. Having immediate priority. Part 3 Vocabulary and Structure Directions:Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 11. You can put on your jeans. It is just a(n) _ party. A. wonderful B. incredible C. formal D. informal 12. I am not surprised at all that she chose the white skirt. She always has a _ for white. A. prefer B. preferable C. preference D. preferred 13. This expert will _ his remarks to e-business (电子商务) this time. A. coordinate B. render C. confine D. depict 14. Because he hates dishonesty he is _ on his children when they tell lies. A. heavy B. strong C. hard D. strict 15. Writing is a slow process, requiring _ thought, time, and effort. A. reasonable B. considerable C. memorable D. numerable 16. Students or teachers can participate in trips to lovely beaches around the island at regular _ . A. gaps B. rates C. lengths D. intervals 17. You should have been more patient _ that customer; Im sure that selling him the watch was a possibility. A. with B. for C. of D. at 18. It isnt cold enough for there _ a frost tonight, so I can leave Jims car out quite safely. A. would be B. being C. was D. to be 19. Civilization as we know it today is in _ danger. A. consistent B. constant C. consistently D. constantly 20. There is a forecast that the _ for a good crop harvest will be rather poor this year. A. prospect B. protection C. proportion D. promise Part 4 Skimming and Scanning (True/False+Blank Filling) Directions:Read the following passage or passages and then answer the questions. For the first 7 questions in each passage, mark Y (YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage, mark N (NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage, mark NG (NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For the remaining 3 questions in the same passage, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Questions 21 to 30 are based on the same passage or dialog. The Spelling of English The spelling of English words is a problem that not even native-born users of the English language have ever been able to solve. Why should the same vowel (元音) sound be spelt differently in “siege“ and in “seize“? Why should the same initial consonant (辅音) sound be spelt differently in “cat“ and in “kitchen“? There are answers but the questions are not worth answering. One simply has to accept the reality that much of English spelling sometimes doesnt make much sense, is sometimes phonetic (语音的) (as in the purely phonetic spelling of the negative word “no“), and is sometimes the way it is because of history (as in “know“, which sounds exactly the same as “no“, but keeps an initial “k“ which was lost from the spoken language hundreds of years ago). Reform Attempts Over the years, there have been some people who have wanted to make some changes in spelling. The American dictionary maker Noah Webster, in his first dictionary, gave up “silent letters“ such as the “b“ at the end of “thumb (拇指)“, which he spelt phonetically as “thum“. American readers were as cautious as the British. Modern Webster dictionaries spell the word “thumb“, keeping the silent “b“. George Bernard Shaw left part of his large fortune to set up a phonetic alphabet for English. A team of language experts followed his wishes. But their book on the subject caused no enthusiasm. Use of a Dictionary in Spelling English spelling continued unchanged. Publishing houses employ what they call “copy editors“, experts in spelling, to tidy up the material written by hand of many best-selling authors who can write excellent stories but who cannot spell! My advice is: keep a dictionary nearby. You do not lose face by using it. I can assure you that thousands of native English speakers would not write a page of their own language without a dictionary close at hand. Now that so many people are using computer programs that check spelling, dictionary searching is much easier. Perhaps one day the computer will do all the spelling for us but until then keep your dictionary nearby and use it all the time. Doubling or Not? Now for a useful spelling tip. It arose from a question I heard from a university graduate whose only language was native-born English. Forgetting“ but “budgeting“; “hoping“ but “hopping“; “offering“ and “buttering“ but “transferring“; “targeted“ but “omitted“. Is there any way of deciding when and where not to double the final letter before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed“? Here are a few rules. In words of one syllable (音节), if the vowel before the final consonant is long, no doubling of the final consonant is done before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed“: hope, hoping, hoped; mate, mating, mated. If the vowel is short, then double the final consonant before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed: hop, hopping, hopped; mat, matting, matted. In words of more than one syllable, if the vowel before the final consonant is long, follow the same “rule“ as for words of one syllable, that is, no doubling of the final consonant before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed“. For example: elope, eloping, eloped; emigrate, emigrating, emigrated. In a word of more than one syllable, if the vowel before the final consonant is short, doubling or non-doubling of the final consonant depends on where the stress (voice emphasis) falls in speech. (In the following examples the syllable that carries the stress is printed in CAPITAL LETTERS). If the stress falls on the final syllable, then double the final consonant before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed“: forGETTing, transFERRing, transFERRed. If the stress falls elsewhere, then do not double the final consonant before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed“: BUDGeting, BUDGeted, GARDening, GARDened, OFFering, OFFered. This will solve most of the problem. But spelling is not an exact science. There are grey areas. For example, the one-syllable word “bus“ can become “busing“, “bussing“, “bused“, and “bussed“ all available, while a “foreign“ borrowing like the word “focus“ results in the variants “focusing“, “focussing“, “focused“, and “focussed“ all being acceptable. Spelling Differences Between British English and American English The final letter “l“ goes its own way and performs differently in American English and in British English-“travelling“ in the UK, “traveling“ in the USA. American Express issues “travelers“ cheques in US dollars and “travellers“ cheques in English pounds. If in doubt, reach for the dictionary. But the above-mentioned general rule is a good general guide. There are some other principal differences in spelling between British English and American English. Some words end in -tre in British English and -ter in American English, such as “centre“ and “theatre“ and “center“ and “theater“. Words like “colour“ and “labour“ end in -our in British English while in -or in American English. We need to pay attention to these differences in spelling. 21. The passage mainly describes the spelling differences between British English and American English. A. Y B. N C. NG 22. “Know“ and “no“ have the same pronunciation but different spellings due to history. A. Y B. N C. NG 23. Noah Webster felt very sorry about the failure of his efforts in changing the spelling of some words. A. Y B. N C. NG 24. After some language experts failed in their attempts to change the English spelling, English spelling remained unchanged. A. Y B. N C. NG 25. Native English speakers dont have to use a dictionary when they are writing. A. Y B. N C. NG 26. If a verb of one syllable has a short vowel, we should double the final consonant before the addition of “-ing“ or “-ed“. A. Y B. N C. NG 27. Though spelling isnt an exact science, there are always clear rules that we can always trust. A. Y B. N C. NG 28. The word “focus“ has two acceptable -ing forms and -ed forms because it is . 29. If you are not sure of the spelling, you should turn to the . 30. The differences in spelling between American English and British English requires us to . Transcript: BCCAB Is it better to be a small fish in a big pond or a big fish in a small pond? Sometimes we see two ponds: one is small and the other is big. In the small pond the big fish seem to enjoy great dignity and priority, while in the big pond a lot of small fish swim freely. It is also true in the case of work. Job hunters may have to decide whether to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond. There are distinct differences between working in large or small enterprises. In large enterprises, you can derive a deep sense of satisfaction from being a member of a well-known organization. You may get well pai