大学英语预备级2复习纲要一.doc

201209学期大学英语预备级2复习纲要一Part I. Vocabulary and GrammarDirections: For each of the following 10 incomplete sentences, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. 1. Jack，you seem in high spirits._We won the match 4-0.A. Guess what? B. So what? C. No wonder. D. No double2. _all of them are strong candidates, only one will be chosen for the post.A. Since B. While C. If D. As3. More highways have been built in China, _it much easier for people to trave form one place to another.A. making B. made C. to make D. having made4. Would you get me a bar of chocolate from the kitchen?_one?A. Other B. Every C. Another D. More5. The new stadium being built for the next Asian Games will be _the present one. A. as three times big as B. three times as big asC. as big as three times D. as big three times as6. Dont get off the bus until it_.A. stopsB. stoppedC. will stopD. shall stop7. I took _tea than you.A. lessB. fewC. fewerD. little8. The squirrel was lucky that it just missed _.A. catchingB. to be caughtC. being caughtD. to catch9. I must be off now. Its time I _ to school.A. goB. wentC. will goD. am going10. To serve the people means giving as _and ask for as _as possible.A. muchlittleB. muchfew C. manya littleD. morelessPart II. Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 2 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 1Beyond the Factory: Child Labor in the CitiesAt the beginning of the nineteenth century, factory owners faced few restrictions on the way they employed their children workers, who were between the age of 7 and 12. Gradually laws came into being.The first child-labor laws were passed at the state level in America and usually focused on both required education and a minimum age for employment. And added rules limited the length of the workday for children. Pennsylvania, for example, limited the workday to 10 hours for children under 12. However, government officials cared little whether businesses followed the law. In fact one group of children was left entirely unprotected by labor laws the children of immigrant families.By the beginning of the twentieth century, piecework appeared, for which people were paid by the piece. Significant numbers of women sewed baby dresses or mens neckties and made the artificial flowers used to decorate hats. Piecework turned homes into factories that were free from the law, and countless children worked long hours alongside their mothers and old sisters.Manufactures exploited the system shamelessly and paid the lowest wages they could. Embroidering (刺绣) a silk dress, which was a 10-day job, might generate a five-dollar payment. In the case of willowing, workers needed to add more strands to ostrich feathers used on hats to make them longer and more graceful. The first willowers were paid 15 cents per inch, but a few months later, the pay was reduced to 13 cents. Within three years, willowers were earning only three cents per inch.In order to survive under these circumstances, pieceworkers had even their youngest children help them. In one Italian neighborhood, a three-year-old girl helped her mother sew clothes. In another case, a child of eight who had lived in New York for three years had never been to school at all and could speak almost no English. Slowly child labor laws brought these abuses to an end.11. The first child-labor laws required _.A. workplace safety and conditionsB. minimum payment and ageC. education and working timeD. minimum payment and schooling12. Manufactures who hired women to do piecework _.A. were kind and concerned employersB. were sometimes called willowersC. usually paid the lowest salaryD. forced children to turn home into factories13. Willowing was a kind of_.A. handwork activity B. workplaceC. payment requirement D. workers14. By raising the example of the three-year-old girls experience in the last paragraph, the author intended to_.A. show how poor the situations were for children workersB. blame those adult pieceworkers for allowing children to workC. attract attention to protect young childrenD. emphasize the importance of educating young children15. Which of the following sentences best summarizes the passage? _ A. The first child-labor laws were limited due to working at the state level.B. Early child-labor laws offered no protection to children who worked at home.C. Some immigrant children did not learn English because of their piecework.D. Child-labor laws should have come into being before children became workers.Passage 2SHANGHAI-Famed Chinese scientist Qian Weichang died here on Friday morning, saddening millions of his countrymen.He was 98.Qian, a pioneer in mechanics and applied mathematics in modern China, was one of the three famous Qians in Chinas science and technology field. He was well known alongside Qian Xuesen, the father of Chinas space program, and Qian Sanqiang, a nuclear physicist who oversaw the development of Chinas nuclear program.Wu Shuqing, former president of Peking University, said Qian was an internationally well-known scholar whose modesty and conduct has set a good example for following generations.After learning about Qians death, millions of Chinese people offered their condolences (吊唁) online.Many students from Shanghai University, where Qian was a former president, burst into tears after hearing the news, saying it was a great loss to the university and to China.For those off campus for the summer vocation, many visited their university website, which had been turned gray. Some said they planned to return to the campus to mourn him. Many of those still on campus voluntarily joined preparations for a mourning (哀悼) service that will begin at the university on Saturday.The university has set up two mourning halls at two of its campuses and publicized the mourning time and phone numbers at the two sites.Qian was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in 1912. Although he was initially not good at science, he chose to study physics at Tsinghua University because he believed science and technology were the keys to strengthening China in the 1930s.He graduated from Tsinghua in 1935, and earned his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Toronto in Canada in 1942.He returned to China in 1946 and became a mechanics professor and later vice-president at Tsinghua University.Qian made great contributions to the engineering applications of sciences, such as the fluttering of airplanes, armor penetration, the design of instruments and pipe systems.He is an academician (院士) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.16. Qian Weichang used to work at _.A. Tsinghua University and Peking UniversityB. Shanghai University and Toronto UniversityC. Peking University and Shanghai UniversityD. Tsinghua University and Shanghai University17. According to the passage, the students expressed their sadness to Qians death in the following ways EXCEPT that they_.A. held mourning meetings in the universityB. could not stop crying for losing himC. went to the university to mourn him themselvesD. offered their help to the mourning service18. The passage tells us that _made Qian Weichang aim at science in his university time.A. his talents at studyB. his failures at scienceC. the familys expectationD. his love to the country19. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage? _ A. Qian Weichang graduated from Tsinghua University.B. Qian Weichang used to work side by side with Qian Xuesen and Qian Sanqiang.C. Qian Weichang spent at least four years studying and living abroad.D. Qian Weichang was not good at science before he went to university.20. What is the best title of this passage? _ A. Respected Scientist Passes on at 98.B. The Great Life of the Scientist Qian Weichang.C. The Whole Nation Mourn Qian Weichang.D. A 98-year Old Man Passed in Shanghai.Part III. Translate English into Chinese. Directions: For this part, you are required to translate English into Chinese. The story of our English language is typically one of the massive stealing from other languages. That is why English today has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words, while other major languag