武汉大学2011—2012学年度第一学期英语测试试卷.doc

武汉大学20112012学年度第一学期大学英语三级2010级快班期末试卷（B卷）2012年01月03日学号 姓名 院（系） 英语班号: _考生注意事项：1 本次考试共计120分钟（14:30 16:30）；2 在答题卡准考证号一栏添入自己的学号；3 准考证号一栏涂黑相应的阿拉伯数字（漏填或填错将影响卷面得分）； 4 在试卷类型处涂黑A或B （机读卡的试卷类型在答题卡右上角，主观题答题卡试卷类型在答题卡上方。两卡都要填写试卷类型。漏填或填错将影响卷面得分）；5 主观题部分（词汇、翻译、作文等）写在主观题答题卡上；6 考试结束时请将机读答题卡、主观答题纸和试题册一并交给监考人员（不交试题册者按零分处理）；7 请将姓名、学号等相关信息填入上栏（重修学生请在姓名后注明“重修”二字）。8 考生联系方式_. 审题人： Part I Listening Comprehension (25%)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear eight short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.1. A) In the library. B) In a hospital.C) In an elevator.D) At a railway station.2. A) Dont drink beer.B) Boil the beer.C) Drink dark beer.D) Dont use ice.3. A) Jessica may be late for the opening ceremony. B) Jessica may have caught a wrong train. C) Jessica may not come by the train. D) Jessica may miss the sports meeting.4. A). $171.B) $190.C) $261.D) $3425. A) The woman doesnt think it was the mans fault. B) The woman blames the man for his absence. C) The woman thanks the man for his absence. D) The woman blames the traffic jam.6. A) Watching a game with her husband.B) Going to a game. C) Her husbands absence.D) Her husbands watching a game.7. A) Hes worried.B) Hes happy.C) Hes sympathetic.D) Hes angry.8. A) Since last year.B) For a few days. C) For a few hours.C) For several weeks.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear some questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Questions 9-12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) Characteristics of a new type of fuel.B) How to develop alternative energy sources. C) Where a new energy source is located. D) A more economical diesel fuel.10. A) Hes studying for a test.B) He missed the class. C) He lost his notes.D) Hes doing research on alternative.11. A) It will reduce the cost of running large vehicles. B) It will increase the amount of unpleasant odors from vehicles. C) It will eventually destroy the ozone layer. D) It will reduce the amount of pollutants in the air.12. A) To help him explain the information to his roommate. B) To help him write a paper. C) To prepare for test. D) To tell her if the notes are accurate.Questions 13-15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13. A) All students pay the same amount per year. B) Students choose how many meals a week they will pay for. C) Students got money back for meals they dont eat. D) Some students get free meals.14. A) They can invite guests to meals at a reduced price. B) They receive cards that allow them to be served first. C) They can help decide what will be on the menu. D) They pay less per meal than those who eat there only part of the time.15. A) By paying for meals one at a time. B) By borrowing a students card. C) By ordering their meals in advance. D) By buying a weekend meal card.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear TWO passages. Each passage will be read TWICE. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with information you get from the recording.(注意：本部分请直接把答案写在主观答题纸上。)Passage OneThere are many S1_ belief about sleep walkers. One of the most common is the idea that it is dangerous or even S2_ to waken a sleepwalker suddenly. Experts say that the shock suffered by a sleepwalker suddenly S3_ is no greater than that sleepwalker are free from S4_. Actually most sleepwalkers trip over rugs or S5_ their heads on a door at one time or another.Passage TwoWould you give one of your kidneys to your best friend? It seems the S6_ act of friendship, yet studies have shown that at least half of all transplant physicians S7_ of the practice. Most transplant centers forbid it, accepting only living donors who are related to the patient. It is not fear of tissue S8_ or some other biological concern that S9_ these physicians. According to several surveys, transplant doctors suspect the S10_ and mental health of unrelated donors.Part IIReading Comprehension (30%)Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneWhats hot for 2007 among the very rich? A $7.3 million diamond ring. A trip to Tanzania to hunt wild animals. Oh, and income inequality. Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years. But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class. In December, Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U.S News & World Report, which he owns. “Our nations core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating,” lamented (哀叹) the 117th-richest man in America. “Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder. Average income for a household of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a row.” He noted that “Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy.” Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckermans anger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class Americans. “Its an outrage that any Americans life expectancy should be shortened simply because the company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care coverage,” said the former chairman of the International Steel Group. Whats happening? The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy. Given the recent change of control in Congress, popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California governor to offer universal health care, these guys dont need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows. Its possible that plutocrats are expressing solidarity with the struggling middle class as part of an effort to insulate themselves from confiscatory tax policies. But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesnt keep plutocrats up at night. They can live with that. No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic integration will be more difficult in the United States because of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic insecurity. In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders. And when the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods, its likely to encourage reciprocal action abroad. For people who buy and sell companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the world, thats the real nightmare.16. What is the current topic of common interest among the very rich in America? A) The fate of the ultrawealthy people. B) The disintegration of the middle class. C) The inequality in the distribution of wealth. D) The conflict between the left and the right wing.17. What do we learn from Mortimer Zuckermans lamentation? A) Many middle-income families have failed to make a bargain for better welfare. B) The American economic system has caused many companies to go bankrupt. C) The American nation is becoming more and more divided despite its wealth. D) The majority of Americans benefit little from the nations growing wealth.18. From the passage we can learn that _. A) the very rich are fashion-conscious B) the very rich are politically sensitive C) universal health care is to be implemented throughout America D) Congress has gained popularity by increasing the minimum wage19. What is the real reason for plutocrats to express solidarity with the middle class? A) They want to protect themselves from confiscatory taxation. B) They know that the middle class contributes most to society. C) They want to gain support for global economic integration. D) They feel increasingly threatened by economic insecurity.20. What may happen if the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods? A) The prices of imported goods will inevitably soar beyond control. B) The investors will have to make great efforts to re-allocate capital. C) The wealthy will attempt to buy foreign companies across borders. D) Foreign countries will place the same economic barriers in return.Passage TwoHe that has wife and children has given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children, should have greatest care of future times; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, who thought they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences. Nay, there are some other, that account wife and children, but as bills of charges. Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer. For perhaps they have heard some talk. Such an one is a great rich man, and another except to it, Yea, but he hath a great charge of children; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives, are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, makes the vulgar soldier more biased. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often proud, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she thinks her husband wise; which she will never do, if she finds him jealous. Wives are young mens mistresses; companions for middle age; and old mens nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry,- A young man not yet, an elder man not at all. It is often seen that bad husbands, have very good wives; whether it be, that it raises the price of their husbands kindness, when it comes; or that the wives take a pride in their patience. But this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends consent; for then they will be sure to make good their own folly.21. According to the writer, who is more likely to make great contributions to the public, a married man or a single man?A) A single man, because he can dedicate this whole life to the course of serving the public, he is more likely to achieve the greatest fame and do the best work.B) A married man, because he is more mature and shoulders more responsibility of the community and will always tries to change the public for the better.C) Neither single men nor married men could serve the public well because they cannot rid themselves of their earthly existence and would always harbors selfish ideas.D) The writer does not offer a clear idea in the passage.22. What is the most important reason for choosing a single life?A) A single life has a lot merits such as dedication to ones work, no family burden, and more charity.B) A single life will always be attracted to the opposite gender who appreciate the charm of being a single man.C) The biggest attraction of single life is liberty. A man who is sensitive to restriction should choose to be single as marriage is, at best, a certain type of restriction.D) The biggest reward of single life is the care and concern the community would put on those single men as they are the disadvantageous group.23. According to the writer, what kind of man can make a good husband?A) A wealthy and caring man who would provide his family comfortable house and a spiritual shelter.B) Men with grave natures, led by social customs, can make faithful and loving husbands such as Ulysses.C) Men with robust constitution and high spirit who could take care of the low-end chores if his family members suffer from illness.D) An open-minded man yet faithful to his lover and would never commit adultery. 24.What role does a wife play at different stages of a mans life?A) Wives are young mens mistresses; companions for middle age; and old mens nurses.B) Wives are mens sex object when they are young; cooks for middle age; and old mens companions.C) Wives are teachers for young men; nurses for old men and mistresses for old men.D) Wives are nurses for old men sex object for middle age; and old mens companions.25. According to the writer, what kind of men usually have good wives?A) Bad husbands usually have good wives either because of their good luck or because of their charm in their outlook.B) Bad husbands usually have good wives either because their goodness seems more precious compared with their badness or because the wives take pride in their patience.C) Good husband usually have good wives either because of their good temper or because of the masculinity.D) Good husband usually have good wives either because of their power or because of their potent sexuality.Passage ThreeAmitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks. As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989. he ended his work there disgusted with his students overwhelming lust for money. “Theyre taught that profit is all that matters” he says. “Many schools dont even offer ethics courses at all.” Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students. “By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest,” he wore at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these “business-leaders-to-be.” “I really feel like I failed them,” he says. “If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them.” Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished. What he found wasnt encouraging. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concept of ethics and morality in the boardroom and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways. Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says theres much about business schools that hed like to change. “A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests.” Etzioni has seen a lot thats left him shaking his head. And because of what hes seen taught in business schools, hes not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. “In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools. I suspect,” says Etzioni. Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership. “People with poor motives will always exist,” he says. “Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity.” Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals wit