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大学英语A Test 1Reading ComprehensionPassage OneWhat makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental (done with the mind) exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often, and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.Parents should also be careful what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as That was a very clever thing you did or You are such a smart child.1. The words intelligent and brilliant in the first paragraph mean _ while dull in the second paragraph means _. A. bright and splendid.slow in thinking and understanding B. pretty and handsome.ordinary-looking C. great and mon D. hopeful and helpful.careless答案： A2. According to the context we can guess that a genius is _ while an idiot is _. A. a normal person.a funny person B. a strong person.a weak person C. a highly intelligent person.a foolish or weak-minded person D. a famous person.an ordinary person答案： C3. A person _ is more likely to become a genius. A. whose parents are clever B. who often thinks about difficult problems C. who are often helped by his parents and teachers D. who are born with a good brain and putting it to active use答案： D4. It is better for parents _. A. to praise and encourage their children more often B. to be hard on their children C. to leave their children along with nothing to do D. to give their children as much help as possible答案： A5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the article? A. Parents play an important part in their childrens growth. B. The less you use your mind the duller you may become. C. Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live. D. Parents should always encourage their children.答案： CPassage TwoIf you have recently started collecting stamps, or are thinking about starting, you may be wondering if the hobby is expensive. Can you enjoy it with limited money? What if you have no money at all for the hobby? The answer is an absolute positive one.Not all collections consist mainly of unused stamps that you buy in the post office. Used stamps are worth saving, have value, and they may cost you nothing. In fact, many stamp collectors save only used stamps!The first place to search for stamps, then, is your own mailbox. You can ask people who write to you to use commemorative (纪念性的) stamps on their mail. Also, if you write away for offers that require a self-addressed stamps envelope, you can put commemoratives on your return envelopes, knowing that they will come back to you later. Neighbors, friends, and relatives are another good source of stamps. A majority of people is only too happy to save the stamps on their mail for someone who will appreciate them. You may even know someone who works in an office that gets a lot of mail. Many businesses get a lot of foreign mail and regularly throw away stamps that may have interest or value to a collector. And dont forget to ask your parents if they have any old letters which may still have stamps on the envelopes.Now that you have stamps on paper, what do you do with them? The most common way to get stamps off paper is to soak them in water, then dry them on paper. To understand more about soaking stamps, it is best to find a handbook on stamp collecting at the library.Stamp clubs are another place to get stamps. A club may offer stamps as prizes, or have inexpensive stamps you can afford to buy. If you dont have a stamp club around you, try to start one with a few others. All it takes are four or five other stamp collectors who are interested in getting together to learn about and trade stamps and ideas. Obtaining a pen pal (笔友) in another country is a very good way to get stamps from that country. His or her extra stamps may seem really common in that country, but over here they are much scarcer.1. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word positive in Paragraph 1? A. certainB. interestingC. impossibleD. clear答案： A2. Which of the following is true? A. Collecting stamps is a bad hobby. B. Collecting stamps is a hobby for rich people. C. Used stamps are all worth collecting. D. Collecting used stamps can save your money.答案： D3. The writer suggests that you should _. A. ask your friends to write to you as often as possible B. ask your friends to write to each other as often as possible C. tell your pen pals to write to you as often as possible D. get used stamps from all kinds of people you know答案： D4. To soak used stamps in water is the best way to _. A. get rid of the printB. make the stamps clean C. get stamps off paperD. increase the value of the stamps答案： C5. If you are a member of a stamp club, you can _. A. become rich by collecting stampsB. have a meeting every day C. get more stamps without anythingD. exchange stamps with the other members答案： D 二、词汇与语法1. I dont think his remarks are relevant _ our discussion. A. toB. atC. forD. with答案： A2. As the work became more familiar, his _ toward school changed from dislike to great enthusiasm. A. position B. attitude C. manner D. action答案： B3. That poorly dressed old man felt quite _ at such a big party attended by many important figures. A. in the way B. out of the way C. out of place D. in place答案： C4. The Chinese food _ good. A. are tasted B. tastes C. is tasted D. taste答案： B5. You should give the application to the man _ at that chair. A. sits B. to sit C. sat D. sitting答案： D6. Youd better tell him what to do next as soon as he _ back. A. come B. came C. is coming D. comes 答案： D7. They are willing to care for the _ and disabled. A. oldestB. elder C. older D. elderly答案： D8. Scarcely had the car stopped _ the cell phone began to ring. A. thanB. whenC. afterD. before答案： B9. They found the conditions there _. A. much improveB. much to improveC. much improvedD. be much improved答案： C10. On hearing the news of _the examination, the boy was very happy. A. his having passed B. he passedC. his being passedD. to pass答案： A 三、完型填空In every cultivated language there are two great classes of words which, taken together, comprise the whole vocabulary. First, there are those words 1 which we become acquainted in daily conversation, which we learn, that is to say, from the 2 of our own family and from our familiar associates, and which we should know and use 3 we could not read or write. They concern the common things of life, and are the stock in trade (惯用手段) of all who 4_ the language. Such words may be called popular, since they belong to the people 5 and are not the exclusive right of a limited class. 6 , our language comprises a multitude of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings 7 to every educated person, but there is little necessity to use them at home or in the market-place. Our first 8 with them comes not from our mothers lips or from the talk of our school-mates, but from books that we read, lectures that we listen to, or the more formal conversation of 9 educated speakers who are discussing some particular topic in a style appropriately elevated above the habitual level of everyday life. Such words are called learned, and the 10 between them and popular words is of great importance to a right understanding of linguistic process.1. A. atB. byC. withD. through答案： C2. A. membersB. relativesC. matesD. fellows答案： A3. A. despiteB. even ifC. sinceD. as well as答案： B4. A. sayB. applyC. practiceD. speak答案： D5. A. at leastB. at mostC. at largeD. at best答案： C6. A. As a matter of factB. In short C. In generalD. On the other hand答案： D7. A. knowB. are knownC. are knowingD. knowing答案： B8. A. encounterB. approachC. acquaintanceD. experience答案： C9. A. highlyB. deeplyC. greatlyD. mainly答案： A10. A. contradictionB. discrepancyC. similarityD. distinction答案： D 四、汉译英1. 是信息技术使大众教育成为可能。2. 商店在各种报纸上登了很多广告。3. 我有很多爱好，其中之一就是集邮。4. 这是你自己的错，不要将工作的失败归咎于别人。 五、写作Instructions: Your essay should be no less than 150 words. You are to write an essay on the topic My Dream House. You should base your essay on the outline below:a) 描述你现在住所的状况b) 你梦想的住所是什么样子c) 在你的梦想住所都可以做哪些活动大学英语A Test 2一、阅读理解Passage OneDo you find getting up in the morning so difficult that its painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that youre hot. Thats true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: Get up, John! Youll be late for work again! The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarreling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family including their kid has.You cant change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe youre sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract (对抗) your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This wont change your cycle, but youll get up steam and work better at your low point.Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn (呵欠) and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.1. If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _. A. he is a lazy person B. he is not sure when his energy is low C. he refuses to follow his own energy cycle D. he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening答案： D2. Which of the following may end family quarrels according to the passage? A. Awareness of family members energy cycle. B. Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members. C. Attempts to change family members energy cycle. D. Familiar monologues.答案： A3. If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should _. A. get to bed earlierB. get up earlier than usual C. overcome his lazinessD. change his energy cycle答案： B4. You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will _. A. help to keep your energy for the days work B. keep your energy cycle under control all day C. enable you to concentrate on your routine work D. help you to control your temper early in the day答案： A5. Which of the following statement is NOT true? A. Children have energy cycles, too. B. Habit may help a person adapt to his own energy cycle. C. Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peaks at different hours of day. D. Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save ones energy.答案： CPassage Two The purpose of this part of the book is to help you become more efficient in reading by speeding up the process generally. Most people can learn to cover material much faster than they do now while maintaining a high level of comprehension. Improvement in reading efficiency has several major benefits. We need reading skills to benefit from the wealth of information that is now available in printed form. Most people get the rough outlines of their daily news from television and radio. However, the printed word still provides the in-depth coverage of topics that really produces well-informed people. Reading is also a great source of entertainment for many people. For students, it is the primary method of studying. The time you now spend reading can be made much more productive by increasing your reading rate. For some people this will mean that they can obtain more information in the same length of time. For others it will mean that time now devoted to reading can be used in other more interesting and profitable ways. To determine how fast you are reading, you first have to get some idea of the number of words in a given passage. Then you simply divide the number of words by the number of minutes it takes to read. That will give your rate in words per minute.1. The passage is taken from _. A. a story bookB. a news report C. a report on a scientific researchD. a book on reading答案： D2. Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit from reading according to the passage? A. Reading will help readers get more information. B. By reading readers will have an in-depth coverage of daily news. C. Students must read so that they can master knowledge. D. Improvement of reading helps readers get outlines of daily news.答案： D3. This passage mainly discusses _. A. different kinds of reading B. the importance of improving reading skills and how to calculate reading rate C. reading as a source of entertainment D. different ways to improve reading speed答案： B4. reading efficiency in Paragraph 2 means _. A. the average reading rate B. the ability of reading fast with a good understanding C. reading materials readers like D. reading habits答案： B5. Reading speed can be calculated by _. A. counting how many words a reader has read B. dividing the total number of words a reader read by the time he spends on reading C. timing how many minutes a reader has read D. asking help from the teacher答案： B 二、词汇与语法1. The theory of class currently prevailing in the West is _ based on what Max Weber, a German sociologist, proposed. A. fairlyB. kindlyC. largelyD. greatly答案： C2. He can always _ excellent proposals to help the company make profit. A. come up with B. come upon C. come up to D. come out答案： A3. They spend all their spare time, _ their spare money, on their experiments. A. as soon as B. as well as C. as long as D. as much as 答案： B4. You should give the application to the man _ at that chair. A. sits B. to sit C. sat D. sitting答案： D5. Maggie _the floor when she _the door bell ring. A. was sweeping heardB. swept heard C. was sweeping was hearingD. swept was hearing答案： A6. By Saturday, I _ here for three weeks. A. will be workingB. will have workedC. will workD. work答案： B7. The point is worth _. A. being mentionedB. mentioningC. to mention D. mentioned答案： B8. Not until 1868 _ made the capital of the state of Georgia. A. Atlanta wasB. was AtlantaC. when Atlanta wasD. when was Atlanta答案： B9. You may get good grades by studying only before examinations, but you will only succeed _ by studying hard every day. A. in particularB. in the long run C. in seasonD. in the end of答案： B10. The new teller could not _ how to use her calculator until the boss explained. A. amount toB. figure outC. add up toD. consult from答案： B 三、完型填空 Who designed the first helicopter (直升飞机)? Who _1_ the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most _2_? There is an answer _3_ all these questions - Leonardo de Vinci (达芬奇). Leonardo may have been the greatest genius _4_ have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldnt _5_ a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked. But Leonardo _6_ an inventor. He was one of the greatest artists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master painter, and as he got older he became _7_ more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand ten different ways _8_ he was ready to paint. Many of Leonardos wonderful p