大学英语III--考前辅导(200810).doc

1 大学英语大学英语 III 考前辅导考前辅导 Part I Vocabulary and Structure Directions In this section there are 35 incomplete sentences For each sentence there are four choices marked A B C and D and choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet with a single line through the center 1 If you take this medicine twice a day it should your cold A healB cureC treatD recover 2 When Mr Black retired his son the business from him A took inB took overC took afterD took off 3 Father followed the doctor s as when to give his son medicines A conclusionB regulationC considerationD instruction 4 It was that the restaurant discriminated against black customers A addicted B alleged C assaulted D ascribed 5 The blind little boy was always interested in what s around him A coming outB passing byC turning outD going on 6 It seemed to me that the only thing that was to get her husband back to her A matter B mattered C would matter D could matter 7 enough he should discuss with me as to when he should get married A StrangelyB ObviouslyC StrangeD Obvious 8 Her health has been affected and may altogether if the strain continues A break downB break offC break out D break up 9 I d like to this old car for a new model but I can t afford it A interchangeB exchangeC replace D convert 10 It is virtually impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages A effective B adequate C efficient D accurate 11 Upon his shameless act I could hardly my indignation A hold onB hold toC hold backD hold up 12 Instead of giving a faithful description of the event he presented a rather picture of what had happened A distorted B twisted C false D perverted 13 He was so from things around him that I wondered whether he did listen to what I said just now A separatedB dispatchedC detachedD touched 14 If you have a car you can move around freely so you will no longer be forced to rely on public and will not be compelled to work locally A transform B transport C transplant D transfer 15 There were 50 people in the restaurant when the bomb blew A upB overC outD in 16 Your essay on the whole is good but it is too long and has to be A writtenB madeC takenD cut 17 He would give no for his behavior A reasonB aimC targetD cause 2 18 I you had returned the book yesterday A wantB would ratherC likeD had better 19 The police looked the past record of the suspect A inB afterC intoD up to 20 There is no in applying for that job as you are not properly qualified A reasonB resultC chanceD point 21 He happened to fall on the ground and all the books he had held in his arms A loosedB droppedC disappearedD lost 22 If I had looked less respectable that I would have been found guilty A there is every chanceB a chance exists to say C I have a chanceD chances will stand 23 Have this and your fever will soon be A brought upB brought backC brought aboutD brought down 24 Everyone has to be well for tonight s party A dressedB decoratedC tailoredD turned 25 I wish I longer this morning but I had to get up and come to class A have slept B might have slept C slept D could have slept 26 There are several characteristics of the textbook attention A worthwhileB worth of C worthyD worthy of 27 The driver thinks that accidents only happen to other people A mostB usualC averageD general 28 We will find a lot of time and ways to go over your reading in class before the time A dueB preciseC exactD correct 29 He didn t his mother that he was telling the truth A admitB insureC convinceD believe 30 The effect of the shock will soon A wear downB wear awayC wear offD wear out 31 The boy kept gazing at the sky long after the plane had went A out of fashionB out of controlC out of dangerD out of sight 32 I want myself and my students the ivory tower and the real world A from away B out of into C to against D for out of 33 Upon the gunfire of the aggressive human hunter the birds immediately flushed and some in nearby bushes A lightenedB alightC lightD lit 34 I started back a covey close to the house A to have pleased found B to have found pleased C to pleased have found D pleased to have found 35 She felt and did nothing but sleep the whole day A slackB the slackC slackingD slackly 36 Owning an automobile greater expense than he had expected A entailedB renderedC thrustD contributed 37 You may get good grades by studying only before examinations but you will only succeed 3 by studying hard every day A in particularB in the long runC in seasonD in the end of 38 She that difficult book with no trouble at all A thought throughB brought out C caught up withD breezed through 39 She was with cold and fear being alone in the dark forest A sharingB shudderingC shatteringD shivering 40 Many people caught at the rapidly spreading and died afterwards A sicknessB epidemicC illnessD disease 41 I like watching TV to the cinema A more than to go B more than going C than going D rather than to go 42 The government is taking measures to wipe out those CDs and VCDs A piratingB pirateC piratedD pirates 43 I have much time and thought on the problem but I am no nearer to finding a solution A exposedB expendedC exhaustedD exerted 44 The new building all the other buildings in the town A dwarfsB distortsC desertsD depresses 45 If you give John an hour to the situation he ll tell you what to do next A break up B tie upC take upD size up 46 The captain had an leg made of wood A inherentB average C artificialD ordinary 47 I like to ask questions A answer which students struggled B what struggles to answer C that students must struggle to answer D which answer struggles 48 He could still recall that river that ran through the village A glass likeB glassierC glassfulD glassy 49 Every large city has its population of vagrants A shifting B shift C shifted D shifts 50 A good director is to a successful film A indispensableB invariableC in tangibleD incredible 51 If Mr Smith can t find a job as a teacher he can his skill as a printer A change intoB change back into C fall back onD fall on 52 He is still young but he has the to win first place A potentialB functionC prosperityD success 53 He demanded a hundred dollars but had to half that amount A rest onB settle forC cut intoD fall back on 54 Would it be all right if I left a bit early Yes A with pleasureB all at onceC go on pleaseD by all means 55 The children found a of birds in the bushes A coveyB litterC setD herd 4 56 Einstein was a great scientific A talent B intelligence C gift D genius 57 At clear night one can see the stars in the sky A threwB scatteredC spreadD sowed 58 Don t the news to the public until we give you the go ahead A release B discard C relieve D retain 59 All our hopes of rebuilding the business this new product A consist ofB rest onC lie inD bring about 60 I wish he would from scattering his ash all over the carpet A preventB refrainC shelterD protect Part II Reading Comprehension Directions There are four passages in this part Each passage is followed by five questions For each question there are four choices marked A B C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet with a single line through the center 1 Not long ago I faced an enjoyable yet formidable challenge I was returning to my old neighborhood in the South Bronx to speak to the students of m old school Morris High As we drove down streets where my friend Gene Norman and I used to race bicycles I thought of the pitfalls awaiting the kids living here the drugs the temptations and the crime What could I say to encourage them As we passed the hamburger place that I used to haunt I remembered my growing up years here the joys the sorrows and the choices Even then kids face choices There were drugs in my neighbourhood and a youngster could gain easy access to them if tempted But in my family the decision was simple you just didn t do it We knew it was stupid and the most self destructive thing you could do with the life God had given you At age of 17 I found a summer job in a local soft drink bottling plant at 90 cents an hour I was thrilled On my first day of work having joined the ranks of other newly hired teenagers I was full of enthusiasm The bottling machines caught my eye but only the white boys worked there I was hired as a ported and the foreman handed me a mop I got to work I mopped what seemed like acres of sticky cola stained floor I decided to be the best mop wielder there ever was Right to left left to right One day someone let 50 cases of cola crash to the cement and brown sticky foam cascaded across the floor It was almost more than I could bear But I kept on mopping Right to left left to right As our car rolled on our driver s voice broke my reverie we re here General I looked up at my old school it hadn t changed much As I walked up its familiar stone steps I remembered acing up them to beat the bell The setting for my talk to the student body was the gymnasium I remember this place I told the students I remember it all I remember running through Van Cortland Park with the track team the rout I used to take each day from my home to Kelly Street to school I also remember upon occasions experiencing the feeling you can t make it I continued But you can When I was coming up opportunities were limited But now the opportunities are there to be anything you want to be But wanting to be isn t enough dreaming about it isn t enough 5 You ve got to study for it work for it fight for it with al your heart energy and soul so that nothing will be denied you I wanted them to make the right choices to work hard and not lose sight of a dream And I wanted them to know that someone is always watching 1 Why does the author say that he faced an enjoyable yet formidable challenge Because A he was very much afraid of returning to his old neighborhood B he was going to make a speech to schoolboys and schoolgirls of Morris High C his old neighborhood is problematic with drugs temptation and crimes D there are pitfalls on the road his car was driven on and this worried him 2 The author thinks it was for kids to face choices when he was young A very difficultB only natural C not very easyD really a sad thing 3 According to the author the stupid and the most self destructive thing you could do with the life God had given you is A to get easy access to choices B to get addicted to drugs C to haunt around the hamburger place D to resist the temptation of drugs 4 In the sentence As our car rolled on our driver s voice broke my reverie The word reverie here means A a piece of dreamy musicB fantastic notion or theory C delusionD musing state 5 Which statement is true according to the article A The author was very excited about his first job B The author was the best mop wielder there ever was C The author went back to his old school as a general D The author believed that you can become anything you want 2 My Wonderful Lousy Poem When I was eight or nine years old I wrote my first poem My mother read the little poem and began to cry Buddy you didn t really write this beautiful beautiful poem Shyly proud bursting I stammered 结结巴巴地说 that I did My mother poured out her praise Why this poem was nothing short of genius I glowed What time will Father be home I asked I could hardly wait to show him what I had accomplished My mother said she hoped he would become around seven I spent the best part of that afternoon preparing for his arrival First I wrote the poem out in my finest flourish 花体 字 Then I used colored crayons 蜡笔 to draw an elaborate border around it Then I waited As 7 o clock drew near I confidently placed it right on my father s plate on the dining room table But my father did not return at seven Seven fifteen Seven thirty I could hardly stand the suspense 悬念 I admired my father He was head of Paramount Studios 派拉蒙电影公司 in Hollywood but he had begun his motion picture career as a writer He would be able to appreciate this wonderful poem of mine even more than my mother 6 This evening it was almost 8 o clock when my father burst in He was an hour late for dinner His mood seemed thunderous He could not sit down but circled the long dining room table with a drink in his hand calling down terrible oaths 诅咒 on his employees Imagine we would have finished the picture tonight my father was shouting Instead that moron suddenly gets it into her beautiful empty little head that she can t play the last scene So the whole company has to stand there at 1 000 a minute while this silly little blank walks off the set And now I have to beg her to come back He wheeled 旋转 in his pacing 踱步 paused and glared at his plate There was a suspenseful silence What is this He was reaching for my poem Ben a wonderful thing has happened my mother began Buddy has written his first poem And it s beautiful absolutely amaz If you don t mind I d like to decide for myself Father said I kept my face lowered to my plate as he read that poem It was only ten lines But it seemed to take hours I could hear him dropping the poem back on the table Now came the moment of decision I think it s lousy he said I couldn t look up My eyes were getting wet Ben sometimes I don t understand you my mother was saying This is just a little boy You re not in your studio now These are the first lines of poetry he s ever written He needs encouragement I don t know why my father held his ground Isn t there enough lousy poetry in the world already No law says Buddy has to become a poet I couldn t stand it another second I ran from the dining room up to my room threw myself on the bed and sobbed When I had cried the worst of the disappointment out of me I could hear my parents still quarreling over my first poem at the dinner table That may have been the end of the anecdote but not of its significance for me A few years later I took a second look at the first poem and reluctantly I had to agree with my father s harsh judgment It was a pretty lousy poem After a while I worked up the courage to show him something new a short story My father thought it was overwritten but not hopeless I was learning to rewrite And my mother was learning that she could criticize me without crushing me You might say we were all learning I was going on 12 As I worked my way into other books and plays and films it became clearer and clearer to me how fortunate I had been I had a mother who said Buddy did you really write this I think it s wonderful and a father who shook his head no and drove me to tears with l think it s lousy A writer in fact every one of us in life needs that mother force the loving force from which all creation flows and yet the mother force alone is incomplete even misleading finally destructive It needs the balance of the force that cautions Watch Listen Review Improve Those conflicting but complementary 互相补充的 voices of my childhood echo down through the years wonderful lousy wonderful lousy like two opposing winds battering 连续猛击 me I try to steer my small boat so as not to turn over before either 7 Between the two poles of affirmation 肯定 and doubt both in the name of love I try to follow my true course 1 When the mother cried Buddy you didn t really write this beautiful beautiful poem A she didn t believe that her son had really written this beautiful poem B she was not sure whether her son had written this poem C she meant that an eight or nine year old boy could not have written such a wonderful poem D she wanted to let her son know she was amazed that he had written such a beautiful poem 2 That afternoon the author spent a great deal of time A rewriting his poem B drawing pictures around the poem C carefully copying and decorating the poem D Both A and B 3 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the next A The author was confident that his father would like the poem better than his mother did B The author s father had once worked as film script 剧本 writer and was then working as a film director C The father returned home late and was very angry that evening D They did not finish the film because the movie star refused to play the last scent 4 We may infer from the context that the word lousy means A very bad B childish C meaningless D overwritten 5 My father held ground could best be replaced by A My father was shouting loudly B My father was very angry C My father refused to give in D All of the above 6 On hearing his father s judgment the author felt A pained B hurt C disappointed D all of the above 7 Which of the following conclusions do you think the author might agree with A This childhood event changed the author s course of life B This event made the author all the more determined to become a writer C Looking back on the event in his childhood the author sees it in a new light and comes to realize its great significance D From his first poem experience the author knew that he could never become a poet so he started to work his way into stories plays and films 8 The author owes his success as a professional writer A to his own courage and confidence B more to his mother s praise than to his father s criticism C more to his father s caution than to his mother s encouragement D to both his mother s warm encouragement and is father s harsh judgment 9 Quite a few figurative expressions are used in the story Two of them that appear in the last paragraph I try to steer my small boat and I try to follow my true course are both 8 A metaphors B similes C personifications D symbols 10 Another good title for this passage might be A An Anecdote in my Childhood B Two Conflicting but Complementary Voices C A Scene to Remember D An Important Lesson 3 A Doctor on Night call It s a privilege to be a doctor How lucky you are to be a doctor It s a privilege to be a doctor is it Anyone who s a doctor is right out of luck I thought Anyone who s studying medicine should have his head examined You may think I want to change my jo