大学英语2总复习题库.doc

大学英语2综合复习资料I. Use of English (20%)1. I havent seen Billy for 10 years. _A. Either have I. B. So have I.C. Havent I. D. Neither have I.2. What would you like, tea or coffee? _A. Yes, I would. B. Coffee, please.C. Yes, please. D. It very nice.3. Do you know who telephoned me? _A. I heard it was Sally. B. Yes, I remember it now.C. No, I didnt phone you. D. Yes, I know you well.4. Excuse me, how far is the airport from here? _A. You can take a taxi. B. Its about thirty miles.C. Ill fly to Sydney. D. Its only six hundred dollars. 5. Ive got two tickets for the match. Shall we go and watch it together? _A. The tickets must be expensive. B. The match must be exciting.C. Why not? Lets go.D. The place is too far away.6. I was worried about chemistry, but Mr. Brown gave me an A! _.A. Dont worry about itB. Congratulations! Thats a difficult course C. Mr. Brown is very goodD. Good luck to you!7. Id like to book a flight to Shanghai, please. _.A. No, of course not B. Do you mind if I said no? C. Yes, sir, single or return? D. You cant. We are busy8. I learned that you won the 100-meter race this morning. Congratulations! _.A. Thank youB. No, I cant say I did well in the race C. Just luckyD. No, no. I ran slowly9. Can I help you, sir? _.A. Its all rightB. I dont mind C. No, Im leaving soon D. Thanks. Im just having a look 10. Excuse me, is this seat free? _.A. No, you cant sit here B. Sorry, it is taken C. Yes, it is seated by a boy D. Yes, but I dont know11. Hello, could I speak to Don, please? _A. Who are you?B. Whos there?C. Who could I help?D. Whos speaking?12. May I help you, madam? _ A. Sorry, I have no idea.B. Yes, I know what to say.C. Youd better give me a hand.D. Yes, Id like 2 kilos of oranges. 13. What about going for a walk? _ A. Its good for you.B. Thats all right.C. So, do I.D. Why not? A good idea.14. I think the Internet is very helpful. _ A. Yes, so do I.B. Its a very good idea.C. Neither do I. D. Id rather go surfing on it.15. Will you go on a picnic with us tomorrow? _A. Yes, but Ill have English classes.B. Sorry, I have an appointment with Dr. Brown.C. Im afraid I have no idea.D. I wont. Its kind of you.16. Do you have the time? Sorry, I have no watch. _A. What a shame! B. Thanks anyway. C. It doesnt matter. D. Why not buy one?17. May I see the dentist now?_. A. Is it a real emergency? B. Do you have an appointment?C. In that case, youll have to wait. D. Ill talk to the dentist and squeeze you in.18. 1,500, but thats my last offer. OK. Its a _.A. cost B. price C. reward D. deal19. We were talking about the new play _, remember? Yes, I enjoyed it very much.A. the other day B. another day C. some day D. other day20. You keep on coughing. Whats the matter? Oh, Ive got a cold. Nothing serious, _.A. yet B. indeed C. though D. anywayII. Reading Comprehension (40%) Passage 1Amy Johnson was a pioneer airwoman in Britain. She was born on July 1, 1903, in Yorkshire and lived there until 1923 when she went to Sheffield University to study for a BA. After graduation she took a job as a secretary to a London lawyer. At the same time she became interested in aviation（飞行）, and to succeed in some project which would prove to the world that women could be as competent as men in a male-dominated field in those days. Early in 1930, she chose her objective: to fly solo to Australia and to break the previous record of 16 days. Her parents and some of her friends lent her money to buy a used airplane. Amy set off on May 5, 1930. Her route took her over Vienna and Baghdad. She was caught in a sandstorm and had to make an emergency landing in the desert. Six days later she landed in India. After experiencing much hardship, she finally reached Australia on May 24, completing a flight of 11,000 miles. She was the first woman to fly alone to Australia. In later years, she set several other records in flight history. 21. What is the passage mainly about?A. Amy Johnsons life story as a female flyer. B. Amy Johnsons great contribution to aviation. C. Amy Johnsons determination to be a pilot. D. Amy Johnsons flight to Australia. 22. When did Amy Johnson become interested in flying? A. In 1923. B. In 1930. C. After she received a BA. D. After graduation from Yorkshire University. 23. How long did it take her to fly to Australia? A. 17 days. B. 18 days. C. 19 days. D. 20 days. 24. How was Amy Johnsons flight to Australia? A. Exciting. B. Unpleasant. C. Disappointing. D. Difficult. 25. What can be concluded from the passage? A. Amy Johnsons parents were rich and generous. B. Amy Johnsons dream came true. C. Amy Johnson was the first woman who owned an airplane. D. Amy Johnson was the first pilot to fly to Australia all by herself. Passage 2Do 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 (精力充沛) is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes before noon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar sayings as: “Get up, John! Youre 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 quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.You cant change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. 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 work better at your low point.Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. When you get up, 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.26. According to the new findings of Dr. Kleitman, if a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably_.A. he is a lazy personB. he refuses to follow his own energy cycleC. he is not sure when his energy is lowD. he is at his energy peak in the afternoon or evening27. Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?A. Unawareness of energy cycles.B. Familiar saying.C. A change in a family members energy cycle.D. Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.28. If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should_.A. change his energy cycleB. overcome his lazinessC. get up earlier than usualD. go to bed earlier29. You are advised to act slow when you rise in the morning because it will_.A. help to keep your energy for the days workB. help you to control your mood early in the dayC. enable you to concentrate on your routine workD. keep your energy cycle under control all day30. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save ones energy.B. Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of day.C. Habit helps one adapt to his own energy cycle.D. Children have energy cycles, too.Passage 3Pigeons have been used as messengers for 500 years, because of their special ability to find home. The mystery of the homing pigeon is on how it navigates and how it finds home. We now know that there are two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun. Just getting rough directions from the sun is easy. However, getting accurate directions from the sun takes more care. To tell direction accurately from the sun, one needs to know the exact time. All plants and animals seem to have built-in clocks. Usually these biological clocks are not quite exact in measuring time. However, they work pretty well, because they are “reset” every day, maybe when the sun gets up. Do pigeons use their biological clocks to help them find direction from the sun? We can experiment to find out. We can keep pigeons in a room lighted only by lamps. And we can time the lighting to make their artificial “days” start at some different time from the real outside day. After a while we have shifted their clocks. Now we take them far away from home and let them go on a sunny day. Most of them start out as if they know just which way to go, but choose a wrong direction. They have picked a direction that would be correct for the position of the sun and the time of day according to their shifted clocks. The above experiment shows that homing pigeons can tell directions by the sun. What happens when the sky is darkly overcast by clouds and no one can see where the sun is? The pigeons still find their way home. So it seems that pigeons also have some extra sense of direction from the earths magnetic field when they cannot see the sun. 31. Pigeons have been used as messengers, for they have special ability _. A. to send lettersB. to find home C. to carry food for men D. to lead the way for people32. The secret of the homing pigeons is _. A. how they find foodB. how they find home C. how they take a letterD. how they take care of children33. All plants and animals reset their biological clocks when _. A. the sun risesB. the sun sets C. the moon risesD. the moon sets34. The experiment tells us that the pigeons fly _ because of the shifted biological clocks. A. in a wrong direction B. in a correct direction C. in all directionsD. in a circle35. Pigeons have _ to tell the direction when it is cloudy by using the earths magnetic field. A. sharp eyesB. sensitive hearing C. sense of direction D. brain wavesPassage 4Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the friendship for granted, we often dont clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very few for example, the average among students is about 6 per person. In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their shared interest vary enormously. As we get to know people we take into account things like age, race, economic condition, social position, and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a marked difference in age and background.Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs, to have attitudes and interests in common they often talk about“being on the same wavelength”. It generally takes time to reach this point. And the more intimately involved people become, the more they rely on one another. People want to do friends favors and hate to break a promise. Equally, friends have to learn to put up with annoying habits and to tolerate differences of opinion.In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the association between two people. But the supporting and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.36. According to the author, _.A. all those who get on well with each other are friendsB. every student has 6 friendsC. everyone understands clearly how to make friendsD. friends are closer than people who just get on well with each other37. When we make friends, we consider such things as age, race, and background, because _.A. it is not easy to have a friendly relationship with people when there is a marked difference in age and backgroundB. the degree of friendship between two people and the reason for their shared interest can vary greatlyC. friends need to know all these thingsD. these are the most important factors to make friends38. In Paragraph 2,“being on the same wavelength” means “_”.A. using the same frequency while talkingB. keeping the same friendly relationship as other people doC. having similar ideas, beliefs, attitudes and interestsD. having the same background39. Which of the following is NOT implied or directly stated in the passage?A. Even friends may have differences of opinions.B. Friends never argue with each other.C. It generally takes time for people to become close friends.D. Someones habits may annoy his friends.40. To strengthen friendly relationship, people_.A. must hold friendship ceremoniesB. have to eliminate differences in backgroundC. should make friends with those who are of the same age and of the same raceD. should support and understand each other through shared experiences and emotionsPassage 5Have you ever wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colors? Colors in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves. Birds, especially seagulls, are very fond of locusts, but birds cannot easily catch locusts because locusts change their colors together with the change of the color of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown color as crops have. Some other pests with different colors from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they have to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at night. If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of coloring is to protect themselves. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usually invisible to the eyes of hunters, because they have the color much like the barks of trees. An even more strange act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over, its enemies cannot find it, and it immediately swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all. 41. This passage mainly talks about _. A. the change of color in locusts B. the protective coloration of animals and pests C. how a certain sea fish protects itself D. animals or pests can dye themselves different colors42. Locusts are not easily wiped out by their enemies because _. A. they are powerful enough B. they are dangerous to their enemies C. they take on the same colors as crops D. they fly extraordinarily fast43. The pests that have different colors from plants usually appear at night because _. A. birds take their rest when night comes B. their enemies can easily find them and eat them C. they have the habit of coming out in darkness D. its easy for them to destroy plants in darkness44. Bears and wolves have the same colors as barks of trees because _. A. they fear other beasts B. they prefer brown or grey colors C. they enjoy walking through forests quietly D. the colors help prevent themselves from being noticed45. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of years because _. A. it is the most powerful in the sea B. it can swim much faster than any other fish C. it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it D. it can send out a kind of liquid which can kill its enemiesPassage 6Every country has its heroes. They may be soldiers or sports people, doctors or film stars. We admire them for their courage, their strength, their devotion to duty or their talent. Their example inspires us to live better, to work harder. Terry Fox was a young student who loved life and who loved sports. When he was just 18 years old a terrible tragedy occurred: his right leg had to be cut off because of cancer. Such an experience would have destroyed a weaker person but Terry Fox was a fighter. He refused to give up. Instead, while he was recovering from the operation, an idea slowly formed in his mind. He decided he would run across Canada in order to raise money for cancer research. Slowly and carefully, he began to train. Every step was extremely painful, but he insisted, increasing the distance covered day by day. Sixteen months later, in the spring of 1980, he was ready for the long journey across Canada his Marathon of Hope. It was a time of inspiration and heartbreaking emotion. Through television, every home saw his distinctive style of running a kind of half-hop and half-run. Thousands of people lined the route to encourage him and to wish him well. They also gave money to fight cancer. Then, on September the 1st 1980, after 143 days and more than 5000 kilometers compl