2006-2007学年第一学期期末05级本科英语考试题(B).doc

2006-2007学年第一学期期末05级本科英语考试题（B）Part Listening Comprehension (20%)Listen to the following 20 short conversations. Each conversation is followed by ONE question. After you hear the question, therell be a break of 15 seconds. During the break, youll read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which one is the best answer. 1. A. Where to visit in New York. B. What to recommend in the restaurant. C. How to spend the winter holiday. D. Why to visit New York. 2. A. Artists. B. Musicians. C. Tour guides. D. Businessmen. 3. A. Surprised. B. Upset. C. Sympathetic. D. Angry. 4. A. Bring a gift to Mary. B. Buy some food for the dinner. C. Invite Mary and her daughter to dinner. D. Buy a Barbie doll for Marys daughter. 5. A. The Buffalo nickel is very precious. B. The Buffalo nickel is distinct from other American coins. C. The Buffalo nickel is no longer in use. D. The Buffalo nickel is the symbol of the honor of the US. 6. A. Read the letter with the woman together. B. Tell the woman the origin of Uncle Sam. C. Mail a letter for the woman. D. Correct his mistake as the woman tells him. 7. A. The woman is talking about the arrangement of the trip. B. The man is making an announcement. C. The trip will only take the morning. D. They will take the trip by train. 8. A. A famous painting. B. An old farm house. C. Medieval artists. D. Gothic windows. 9. A. The woman is dishonest. B. John often tells truth. C. The woman and John are good friends. D. The womans mother has a low opinion of John.10. A. The news reflects the fact. B. The news exaggerates the fact. C. The news is very interesting. D. The news is very special.11. A. New dictionaries. B. Evolution of languages. C. New words and expressions in English. D. Forms of languages.12. A. The woman is seriously ill. B. The man experienced a terrible job interview. C. The man will work for IBM for two years. D. The woman is employed by IBM.13. A. See the movie. B. Review for a test. C. Move to a new house. D. Write a book review.14. A. Personal and local issues. B. Americans way of thinking. C. The nations progress. D. Differences between the specific and general approaches to thinking.15. A. “Comfort zone” differs from country to country. B. “Comfort zone” makes people feel comfortable when they talk with others. C. Not all human beings have “comfort zones”. D. People of different cultures have different “comfort zones”.16. A. 186 feet. B. 115 feet. C. 168 feet. D. 151 feet.17. A. The aircraft they built could not keep in the air for several hours. B. Other inventors soon improved the brothers plane. C. They gave up building aircrafts after 1909. D. They turned to other businesses.18. A. Cokes are more popular in the USA than in China. B. Cokes are young peoples favorite in the USA. C. People of any age in China prefer Coca-Cola. D. Cokes are sold only in small world corners.19. A. The difference between soccer and American football. B. American football is the worldwide sport. C. The popularity of football in the US. D. American people are not as enthusiastic for soccer as for football.20. A. At the beginning of the school year. B. Just after spring break. C. During final exams. D. In the mid-term of the semester.Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (10%)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions and mark your answers on the following Answer Sheet .For questions 21-25, mark A(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; B (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; C (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Your Laptop Care Guide Your laptop（笔记本电脑）is not just an expensive toy its one of your most important assets while at work and play. Its extremely important that you take good care of it. You should know about each piece of the hardware, and follow these simple guidelines.Dont Eat or Drink near Your Laptop! Fluids are the number one enemy of electronic items. If you do spill something on or in your laptop, turn the computer off immediately and unplug it. If there is standing liquid, try to dry that liquid off. Leave the laptop off and sitting at least overnight to allow time for it to dry. Our INTREON Care Centre can repair light to medium damage, but you can be without your laptop for days if any of its major components has to be replaced. If something catastrophic（灾难性的）does occur, you may wish to request for a laptop from us or to do a trade-in for a newer model.Dont Move Your Laptop While It Is On! This can severely damage your hard drive, and may cause you to lose files. In the case of hard disk damage, our specialized DATA RECOVERY laboratory will help you retrieve your priceless data using sophisticated recovery equipment.Dont Leave It in Your Car, an Unlocked Locker, or a Classroom! Laptop thefts in Singapore are relatively rare, but not impossible, and it will cost you a minimum of a few thousands of dollars to get a new laptop, not to mention all the files you lost.Back Up Your Personal Files Regularly! Put your personal files on an external hard drive, which is automatically backed up daily, burn a CD or DVD, or you can choose to do a HARD-DISK CLONING before you clean up or reformat your system for better performance.Dont Download Random Software off the Internet! Most of these “seemingly useful” softwares contain spy-ware, which will damage your Windows installation, waste resources, generate pop-up ads, and report your personal information back to the company that provided that software. A kitten that walks around your screen may be cute, but you wont think it is when you need to bring your laptop to our INTREON Care Centre for repair!Dont Dismantle Your Laptop or Attempt Repair! Laptop repair is a specialized skill and it is a dynamic problem solving process. If you are untrained, you will easily damage the delicate components of your laptop, lose your valuable data, or worse suffer from electrical shocks.Keep Your Laptop Within the Safe Temperature Range! Every laptop has a recommended safe range of operating temperature (usually about 10-35 degree Celsius). Prolonged exposure of a laptop to extreme cold or hot temperature can result in glitches（故障）and possible hardware damage. As such, we offer the following recommendations: Dont leave your laptop sitting in the car for extended periods of time. This applies during both hot and cold weather. Dont leave the laptop computer sitting exposed to direct sunlight or near any heat source for extended periods of time.Avoid Static Electricity（静电）and Magnetic Fields! Static is the enemy. It can ruin your system and your disks. Avoid magnetic fields. Be careful with the TVs, speakers and phones. Both can cause problems for laptop and diskettes.Consider Getting Your Laptop Insured! Is your laptop insured? Find out from your authorized agents: Whats covered? How much will you pay if something happens? A good insurance will come in handy especially when you are traveling overseas.Take Good Care of Your LCD. The screen on a laptop is an LCD (liquid crystal display) composed of individual transistors at every pixel（像素）. The screens of the laptop have 1,470,000 pixels. Each pixel is separate transistor/liquid crystal combination. If any one is damaged you will have a permanent black spot on your screen. To be sure, the loss of a single pixel will not make your screen unusable, but if you physically damage the screen you will probably lose more than a single pixel. The screen is the single most expensive part of your laptop. Most damage to it is non-repairable. Replacing it can cost between $600-$1,000. Here are some tips for you to take good care of LCD. Keep your screen in good shape; stay away from it. Thats to say, do not poke it with your finger-or even worse-with a pen or pencil. If you want to show something on the screen to someone else, point “from a distance” or use your mouse and cursor（指针）to point to the item of interest (incidentally, you can make your cursor much larger and/or change its shape if you find it hard to see on the screen). If you do get fingerprints of dirt on your screen, you can clean it-with care and the proper cleaning solution. Remember, your laptop screen surface is thin, flexible plastic, not glass. DO NOT use glass cleaner. The ammonia（氨）that is a primary component of most glass cleaners will eventually yellow the screen and make it brittle. Your first attempt to clean a screen should be with a soft cloth (not paper towels) dampened with water. If a gentle wipe this does not work, then use rubbing alcohol at 50% or less strength. You can buy commercial cleaning solutions and cleaning pads for computer screen, but make sure they specially say “for laptop or LCD screens”. Never pour or spray it directly onto the screen where it may run off and damage electronic components. The same care tips hold true for any LCD screen that you may have-for a desktop computer or TV as well as for laptops.Other Considerations We would recommend getting some sort of padded carrying cases for your computer. Not only does it provide greater protection for your laptop in case of impact, but it also makes it easier to carry your laptop. Most major computer stores and department stores carry a wide variety of padded cases to suit your needs and tastes.21. The purpose of this passage is to tell us how to take care of our laptops. YNNG22. The first step to deal with the computer damaged by fluids is to turn off electricity immediately. YNNG23. The INTREON Care Centre can repair light, medium to heavy laptop damage. YNNG24. When our laptop has some minor problems, we can dismantle it ourselves and repair it in order to save money and time. YNNG25. To put a laptop at a hot place for a long period of time may cause damage to it. YNNGPart Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (30%)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item on the following Answer Sheet . You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. If our society ever needed a reading renaissance（复兴）, its now. The National Endowment for the Arts released “Reading at Risk” last year, a study showing that adult reading 26 have dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, with the steepest drop among those 18 to 24. “Only one half of young people read a book of any kind in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you read one short story in a teen-ager magazine, that would have 27 ,” laments a director of research and analysis. He 28 the loss of readers to the booming world of technology, which attracts would-be leisure readers to E-mail, IM chats, and video games and leaves them with no time to cope with a novel. These new forms of media undoubtedly have some benefits, says Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You. Video games 29 problem-solving skills; TV shows promote mental gymnastics by 30 viewers to follow complex story lines. But books offer experience that cant be gained from these other sources, from 31 vocabulary to stretching the imagination. “If theyre not reading at all,” says Johnson, “thats a huge problem.” In fact, fewer kids are reading for pleasure. According to data 32 last week from the National Center for Educational Statistics long-term trend assessment, the number of 17-year-olds who reported never or hardly ever reading for fun 33 from 9 percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004. At the same time, the 34 of 17-year-olds who read daily dropped from 31 to 22. This slow but steady retreat from books has not yet taken a toll on reading ability. Scores for the nations youth have 35 constant over the past two decades (with an encouraging upswing among 9-year-olds). But given the strong apparent correlation between pleasure reading and reading skills, this means poorly for the future.A. percent B. remained C. rose D. rates E. percentage F. counted G. relieved H. presentI. Believing J. released K. forcing L. improveM. styles N. building O. attributesSection BDirections: There are 4 passages in this section. 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 and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions36 to 40 are based on the following passage. With so many scientists devoted to earthquake study, there are very few “unknowns” about these powerful forces of nature. But only one crucial（至关重要的）piece of information is missing（遗漏的）: how to predict them. The ability to predict earthquakes would forever change their impact on the world. Two scientists may be one step closer to that goal. According to Andrew Freed and Jian Lin, the two largest quakes to hit Southern California in the last 10 years may have been connected. The 1992 Landers earthquake and the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake occurred on neighboring faults about 12 miles from each other. Many large earthquakes cause aftershocks - tremors（震动）that occur for several weeks or months after the initial quake. But after shocks generally grow weaker over time and eventually disappear. Other scientists do not believe the Hector Mine earthquake was an aftershock of the Landers quake. Freed and Lin propose that a build-up of stress in the earths upper crust after the Landers earthquake may have caused the Hector Mine earthquake seven years later. If they are correct, then scientists may be able to monitor stress levels in the earths crust after an earthquake to help predict future quakes. Big earthquakes induce a large amount of stress on the earths lower crust. However, the earths crust is made of a viscoelastic（黏弹性的）material, which means that it cannot sustain（维持）stress for longer periods of time. Under Freed and Lins theory, the upper and lower parts of the crust deform（变形）separately under quake-induced stress. Eventually, the lower-crust stress slowly moves into the upper crust and can cause another quake in the same region. In their Nature report, Freed and Lin use a stress model to illustrate the effects of Landers on the Hector Mine quake, and also the predicted stress effect on other faults in Southern California, including the San Andreas fault. To expand this tool for use in all earthquakes, however, more information is needed. Precise data on the viscosities（粘质）of the upper and lower mantles（地幔）are needed, according to the study.(337 words)36. What is the passage mainly about? A. The great devotion to earthquake study. B. The possible progress in earthquake prediction. C. The historical study in earthquake cases. D. The precise data on earthquake connections.37. According to Freed and Lin, the 1992 Landers earthquake and the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake may have been connected, because . A. the time between the two earthquakes was very short B. the distance between the two places was quite near C. the former might be the cause of the latter D. the two earthquakes happened on the same fault38. Freed and Lins theory is . A. focused on the stress level for earthquake prediction B. acceptable to most the scientists C. regarded as an impact on the world D. applicable（可适用的）to all earthquakes39. Freed and Lin believe that aftershocks . A. gradually become weaker and disappear in general B. are the result of the increasing stress after the first earthquake C. may happen several years after the initial earthquake D. both B and C40. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? A. Very few remains mysterious about earthquake except for its prediction. B. Quake-induced stress first forms in the lower crust of the earth. C. Freed and Lin published their report in the magazine of Nature. D. Freed and Lins stress model helped predict the San Andreas earthquake.Passage TwoQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage. There is a new type of small advertisement becoming increasingly common in newspaper classified columns. It is sometimes placed among “situations vacant”, although it does not offer anyone a job, and sometimes it appears among “situations wanted”, although it is not placed by someone looking for a job, either. What it does is to offer help in applying for a job. “Contact us before writing your application”, or “Make use of our long experience in preparing your curriculum vitae or job history”, is how it is usually expressed. The growth and apparent success of such a specialized service is, of course, a reflection on the current high levels of unemployment. It is also an indication of the growing importance of the curriculum vitae (or job history), with the suggestion that it may now qualify as an art form in its own right. There was a time when job seekers simply wrote letters of application. “Just put down your name, address, age and whether you h