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上海师范大学标准试卷2006 2007 学年 第二学期 考试日期 2007 年1月24日 科目：基础英语（A2卷） 英语 专业 本科 06 年级 _ 班 姓名 学号 _ 题号一二三四五六七八总分得分我承诺，遵守上海师范大学考场规则，诚信考试。签名：_I. DICTATION （10%）II. VOCABULARY (20% 1 point for each)(A) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. (10% 1 point for each)1. Car _ (emit) contributes greatly to the green house effect, which is why many major cities in the world have begun to curb the number of cars.2. As a boy, I just dont understand girls _ (infatuate) with shopping for beautiful clothes or cosmetics.3. The students are encouraged to read English novels in the original, not those _ (simplify) ones.4. Through his unremitting efforts, his talent in music finally gained _ (recognize) in the country.5. Jason always follows his own _ (incline) instead of thinking of others feeling.6. Ever since she was a little girl, she has dreamed of becoming a Hollywood _ (celebrate) and living a life of glamour and luxury.7. We may be enjoying a life of material comforts and still complaining about it, while in some other corners of the world peoples life is a daily struggle for survival in deeply _ (humane) conditions.8. He is a linguistic prodigy and can speak several languages with _ (proficient).9. He was _ (coercive) by the kidnappers to call his family and tell them to prepare 1 million dollars if they didnt want him to die.10. After seven days, the flood finally _ (recession) and the residents began to return to their shattered homes.(B) Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the following in its appropriate form. (10% 1 point for each) knock out plead with belch shed light on hew bestow upon address decompose come up with put in perspective1. With this faith, we shall be able to _ out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.2. Every time I walk past that factory, I can see its huge chimneys _ heavy black smoke into the sky.3. If he says no to your request, there will be no use _ him. Nothing will change his mind.4. On Thanksgiving Day, many farmers feel grateful for the fruits of nature that God has _ them.5. When asked to list the people who they admired the most, the students _ entirely different lists.6. The Shanghai Municipal Government has taken many measures to _ the worsening traffic problem.7. Recent research has _ the causes of the disease.8. I think you should _ your failure in the contest _ by considering what it teaches you, not how it beats you.9. Yesterday a can of beer dropped from a high-rise building, hit a passer-by on the head and _ him _ instantaneously.10. As nobody cared to clean it up, the trash in the alley started to _ and give off a terrible smell. III. TEXT COMPREHENSION & REPRODUCTION (30%)(A) Substitute each italicized part with a word or expression that fits into the sentence both semantically and grammatically. (20%, 2 points for each) 1. He said, “This is a bad night for car trouble, but youre all set now.”2. In 1942, Peck made his debut on Broadway with The Morning Star.3. The essence of success is that theres never enough of it to go round in a zero-sum game.4. Unstructured time, dead time, downtime, wasted timeit makes us ill at ease.5. I have toiled and moiled for you day and night.6. It was then that I began to suspect that my father had wanted to mend the breach as much as I had.7. While I was going through it, Anne endured my moods but didnt allow me to complain.8. Eventually, they mass-produced my head, and it did look just like me.9. Now Im married to the girlfriend I had when I met Marcia, and Im indebted to her for that.10. While as many as 25,000 would find their way to safety, 5,000 would not.(B) Answer the question in ONE COMPLETE sentence. (10%)Why, according to Mohandas K. Gandhi, should not a public worker accept costly gifts? IV. TRANSLATION (10%, 2 points for each)1. 那部侦探小说是那样的扣人心弦， 我的目光一刻都不能离开它。（compelling）2. 老师说如果我们相信某事是真的，就应该坚持。（hold on to）3. 汤姆很失望他的儿子不愿子从父业，接管公司。（follow in ones footsteps）4. 我将不得不动用我的存款去支付儿子的学费。（draw upon）5. 他已决定放弃经商， 致力于慈善工作。（dedicate to）V. CLOZE (15%, 1 point for each) Directions: There are 15 blanks in the following passage. Each blank is provided with four possible choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the one that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.The 20th century is a time when communications have greatly increased, with satellite communications, fax machines and talking computers. (1) _, our ability to use the greatest tool of communication, (2) _, has not increased in spite of this (3) _ in communications. (4) _, people are unfortunately losing the (5) _ to use language as a tool for thought and are becoming dependent on images rather than (6) _ thought as a basis for expression. This is the tragic (7) _ of the rapid growth in television. (8) _ enhancing our thinking and communication skills, television is powerful influence (9) _ the development of communication.Television works through (10) _, rather than through language. Television programs make use of fast-moving images that constantly change. This is (11) _ an attempt is made to maintain the viewers attention through short, dramatic pictures. On commercials, (12) _, the average length of a shot is one and a half seconds. In the United States, children see over 1000 commercials a week, which makes 675,000 TV commercials by the time the child is 18 years old. But what is the effect of watching such a large amount of television on the childs (13) _ development? Mainly, it changes them from being active (14) _ into passive observers of things, (15) _ aim at entertainment rather than enrichment and understanding.1. A) Otherwise B) However C) Furthermore D) Therefore2. A) television B) telephone C) computer D) language3. A) difference B) experienceC) development D) intention4. A) For this reason B) On the other handC) On the contrary D) As a result5. A) time B) abilityC) courage D) opportunity6. A) in B) by C)on D) with7. A) news B) result storyC) event D) result 8. A) Rather than B) Because ofC) Even thoughD) Except for9. A) for B) in C) againstD) onto 10. A) colors B) actors C)sounds D) images11. A) beforeB) becauseC) when D) how12. A) above all B) as usual C) in additionD) for example 13. A) physical B) mental C) emotionalD) language 14. A) participantsB) readersC) learners D) helpers15. A) who B) andC) yet D) whichVI. READING COMPREHENSION (15%, one point for each)Passage One When high-tech industries are struggling, the next high-tech boom may be getting started. When laid-off executives and scientists dont have enough to do, they dream of running their own companies or building new products. So they start new companies offering those new products.Thus, while the giant companies suffer through hard times, dozens of new companies are quietly setting up shops. Often these new firms create the new products of the next boom. When these breakthrough products capture the publics imagination, the new boom explodes. Old and new firms rush to copy the product. The industry shoots into a period of frantic growth that may last two years or more.Then the publics love affair with the product ends, or a giant company takes over the whole market. Then the boom is over. The industry slumps back into the next recession. This bust-boom-bust cycle has happened over and over in high technology: in the late 1960s with minicomputers, in the mid-70s with video games, in the early 80s with personal computers and VCRs, and in the early 90s with the Internet and dot coms.1. How were the high-tech booms of the late 1960s, and the mid-70s, the early 80s, and the early and mid 90s different?A. Their patterns of boom and decline are different.B. Only in the mid-70s did firms rush to copy the new product.C. Only in the early 80s was there a major new breakthrough product.D. Different innovative products and services led each boom.E. Economic conditions varied while the new companies were getting started.2. What is the correct sequence of each high-tech boom cycle?A. large companies develop new product, new market booms, industry slumps.B. development during previous boom, short recession, new boom.C. development of new product during slow period, boom, industry slumps.D. company mergers, development of new product, booming new market, leveling off.E. mass advertising campaign, booming sales, new firms created, period of stability.3. According to the passage, which of the following might cause a high-tech boom to end?A. scientists developing a new productB. the public losing interest in the new productC. other firms copying the productD. computers becoming obsoleteE. executives getting laid offPassage TwoWinston Churchill was Prime Minister of England during World War II when England was attacked by Germany. In the early, terrible days of the war, bombings and lost battles depressed the English people and threatened to destroy their will to fight Hitler.Churchill knew he needed a way to cheer up the people. He knew the hated Nazi symbol, the swastika, had originally symbolized good. So Churchill invented a symbol, a V for Victory, that he used whenever he appeared in public. To make the V for Victory sign, he held his hand up, palm out, with the first two fingers raised to form a V.When English people saw it, they laughed, because if the hand had been reversed, palm in, it would have made a rude English gesture. Churchill was telling the people what he really thought of Hitler. The V for Victory gesture soon became known world wide as a sign of hope.4. You can infer that Churchills fellow citizens saw the double meaning in his gesture because the article states that A. English people laughed when they saw the reversed gesture.B. English people were depressed with the bombings and lost battles.C. Churchill was Prime Minister of England.D. the swastika had originally been a symbol for good.E. Churchill invented the V for Victory symbol.5. You can infer that without a strong leader like Churchill, England might have lost the war to Germany because the passage states that A. Churchill told the English people what he really thought of Hitler B. the V for Victory sign became known as a symbol of hopeC. Churchill invented a symbol for power, death, and war.D. bombings and lost battles had depressed the people and threatened their will to fight.E. Churchill was Prime Minister during World War II.6. The author of this passage would most likely agree that good leaders A. use rude gesturesB. leave the countryC. never joke about warD. understand the needs of the peopleE. dont use symbolsPassage ThreePrehistoric men and women enjoyed a more varied diet than people do now, since they are species of plant and several hundred thousand types of living creature. But only a tiny percentage of these were ever domesticated. Modern shops have accelerated a trend towards specialization which began in the earliest days of agriculture. The food of the rich countries has become cheaper relative to wages. It is speedily distributed in supermarkets. But the choice annually becomes less and less great. Even individual foods themselves become more standardized. We live in the world of the carrot specially blunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag, and the tomato grown to meet a demand for a standard weight of eighteen tomatoes to a kilo. Siri von Reis Altschul asks: “Only the three major cereals and perhaps ten other widely cultivated species stand between famine and survival for the worlds human population and a handful of drug plants has severed Western civilization for several thousand years. A rather obvious question arises: are we missing something?” After all, there are 800,000 species of plant on earth.7. In prehistoric times peopleA. ate much more than we do today.B. lived mainly on plant food.C. had a wide-ranging diet.D. had a wider choice of natural food.8. Most of the food we eat today isA. meant to be eaten quickly.B. marketed without delay.C. eaten in the supermarket.D. intended for immediate consumption.9. Most of us have become conditioned to expectA. no variation in our diet.B. a reduction in food supplies.C. a specialist diet.D. food conforming to a set standard.10. According to the text, world population today survives onA. the products of Western civilization.B. several thousand plants and cereals.C. a minimal number of cultivated foods.D. species planted one thousand years ago.11. The conclusion seems to be that weA. could make use of more natural species.B. dont cultivate the right kind of food.C. produce more food than we need.D. cultivate too many different species.Passage FourWhat is the definition of organic food? Is it food that is better, cleaner, or safer for you? New rules set down by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) say that organic foods must be produced without hormones, antibiotics, herbicides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers, genetic modification, or germ-killing radiation.What can buy that is labeled organic? You can buy fruits (especially grapes, apples, citrus, and tree nuts) or vegetables (especially lettuce and tomatoes). You can buy dairy (eggs and milk). You can buy meat or grains (wheat, rice, corn, barley, and oats). You can buy convenience foods (such as nutrition bars or chips and salsa). You can even buy wine and beer, diapers, baby clothes, or dog biscuits.People buy organic food or goods even though they may cost fifteen percent more than regular items. The chief reason for the interest in organic food is superior flavor. However, people also buy organic because of concern for the environment. A person buying cereal might be concerned about the number of birds killed by pesticides. Beyond that, some people buy organic because of political or spiritual reasons. For example, a person buying pork might want it to come from animals that have lived in a natural environment.How much of our food and goods are produced by organic methods? In 2002, it was less than two percent. But the available products have increased from fifteen to twenty percent over the past decade. Look to the future for more organic items.12. The word “organic” has many positive connotations.(隐含意义) Circle all that apply.A. better tastingB. less likely to cause illnessC. more expensiveD. more naturalE. safer for the environment13. What is the main idea of this passage?A. growing interest in organic products.B. diseases caused by pesticidesC. fattening meat and poultry with hormonesD. reasons to buy organic foodsE. concern for the organic items14. To summarize the purpose of the article in one word, you should focus on A. freshnessB. costC. marketingD. happinessE. health15. Many people eat organic foods for the superior flavor. What can you infer about chefs who serve only fresh food that is in season?Chefs know they mustA. protect the environmentB. please the tastes of their customersC. spend more money on organic foodD. help disease prevention organizationE. trust the US Department of Agriculture上海师范大学标准试卷 答题纸2006 2007 学年 第二学期 考试日期 2007 年1月24日 科目：基础英语（A2 卷）英语 专业 本科 03 年级 _ 班 姓名 学号 _题号一二三四五六七八总分得分我承诺，遵守上海师范大学考场规则，诚信考试。签名：_I. DICTATION （10%）II. VOCABULARY (20%，1 point for each)(A) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. (10% 1 point for each)1. 2.3. 4.5. 6.7. 8.9. 10 (B) Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the following in its appropriate form. (10% 1 point for each) 1. 2.3. 4.5. 6.7. 8.9. 10 III. TEXT CO