大学英语第二学期期末考试试卷.doc

江西财经大学06-07学年第二学期期末考试试卷试卷代码： 34062A 授课课时： 32课程名称： 大学英语II 适用对象： 06级本科非涉外班试卷命题人 吴春英 试卷审核人 张善军，张生萍Part I Reading Comprehension (skimming and scanning) (1 point each, 10 points)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to read the passages quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet. For questions 1-7, markA(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. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Build up Your VocabularyExactly what do you do during a normal day? How do you spend your time? Paul T. Rankin very much wanted an answer to that question. To get it, he asked sixty-eight individuals to keep an accurate, detailed record of what they did every minute of their waking hours. When he consolidated his findings, he discovered that the average individual spent 70 percent of his waking time doing one thing only-communication. That meant either reading, writing, speaking or listening.Put that evidence alongside of the research findings uncovered by the Human Engineering Laboratories. In exploring aptitudes and careers involving, among other things, data from 30,000 vocabulary tests given yearly, they discovered that big incomes and big vocabularies go together. Vocabulary, more than any other factors yet known, predicts financial success.And it all fits. Each word you add to your vocabulary makes you a better reader, writer, speaker and listener. Furthermore, linguistic scientists are quick to point out that we actually think with words. If that is so, new words make us better thinkers as well as communicators. No wonder more words are likely to mean more money. What better reason for beginning right now to extend your vocabulary?Take reading. What exactly do you read? Common sense says you read words. Research confirms that fact. “Vocabulary in context” contributes 39 percent to comprehension. Thats more than any other factor isolated and studied-even more than intelligence. And “word in parts” contributes more to speed of reading than any other factor-28 percent. In short, your efforts to improve vocabulary will pay off in both comprehension and speed.Suppose, as youre reading along, you come across a strange word “lumtebs”. Did you find yourself stopping for a closer look at “lumtebs”? Pardon the spelling slip. Thats actually the word stumble(偶然发现). The letters just got mixed around. Obviously you now know that strange words do slow you down-or even stop you completely. Furthermore, strange words hinder comprehension. Which is easier to understand, “eschew garrulity” or “avoiding talking too much”?What you need is a vital, dynamic approach to vocabulary building. Hybrid(混合种)corn combines the best qualities of several varieties to ensure maximum productivity. A hybrid approach to vocabulary should, in the same way, ensure maximum results. Thats why you should use the CPD formula.Through ContextWhen students in a college class were asked what should be done when they came across an unknown word in their reading, 84 percent said, “Look it up in the dictionary.” If you do, however, you short-circuit the very mental processes needed to make your efforts most productive.But theres another reason. Suppose someone asks you what the word fast means. You answer, “speedy or swift”. But does it mean that in such contexts as “fast color”, “fast woman”, or “fast friend”? And if a horse is fast, is it securely tied or galloping（飞驰）at top speed? It could be either. It all depends. On the dictionary? No, on context-on how the word is actually used. After all, there are over twenty different meanings for fast in the dictionary. But the dictionary doesnt tell you which meaning is intended. Thats why it makes such good sense to begin with context.Through Word PartsNow for the next step. Often unfamiliar words contain one or more parts, which, if recognized, provide definite help with meaning. Suppose you read that someone “had a predilection for reading mysteries”. The context certainly isnt too helpful. But do you see a prefix, suffix or root that you know? Well, theres the familiar prefix pre-, meaning “before”. Look back at the context and try inserting “before”. Reading mysteries apparently comes “before” something else.Or take the word “monolithic”. Try to isolate the parts. There is the prefix mono-, meaning “one”, and the root lith, meaning “stone”. Finally, theres the suffix ic, meaning “consisting of”. Those three parts add up to this definition: “consisting of one stone”.To speed up your use of word parts, you will be introduced to the fourteen most important words in the English language. The prefix and root elements in those few words are found in over 14,000 words of desk dictionary size. With those amazingly useful shortcuts, you can build vocabulary, not a snails pace, one word at a time, but in giant strides, up to a thousand words at a time.Your second step, then, is to look for familiar word parts. If they do not give you exact meanings, they should at least bring you much closer.Through the dictionaryNow you can see why you should consult the dictionary last, not first. Youve looked carefully at the context. Youve looked for familiar word parts. Now you play Sherlock Holms-an exciting role. You hypothesize. In light of context or word parts, you try to solve a mystery. What exactly does that strange word mean? Only after you go through the mental gymnastics to come up with a tentative definition should you open the dictionary to see if youre right.After all, those first two steps or approaches spark a stronger than usual interest in that dictionary definition. Youre now personally involved. Did you figure out the word meaning? Your heightened interest will lead to a better memory of both word and meaning. It also encourages your development of the habits needed to accelerate your progress. And when you see in black and white the definition you had expected, what a feeling of accomplishment is yours. In that way, the CPD Formula provides the exact dynamic interplay of approaches for maximum effectiveness.Well, there it is, your new formula-Context, Parts, Dictionary. Use it! The exercise that follows will give you specific, step- by- step help in sharpening your awareness of contextual clues, learning the most useful word parts, and using the dictionary with increased accuracy and ease. The results will be like the money in the bank.1. Paul T. Rankin found that the average individual spent most of his waking time either reading, writing, speaking or listening.2. Researchers in the Human Engineering Laboratories discovered the evidence that big vocabulary means big financial success.3. Reading through “vocabulary in context” is more effective than reading through “word in parts”.4. Hybrid corn is not like a hybrid approach to vocabulary in that hybrid corn doesnt ensure maximum results which the latter ensures.5. In reading, most college students will consult the dictionary when they encounter a new word, which offers greater help.6. Often, reading through familiar word parts definitely helps understand the meaning of unfamiliar words one reads.7. This passage is meant to teach readers how to enlarge their vocabularies by means of the CPD Formula.8. It is advised that you not consult the dictionary before you go through the mental gymnastics to get _.9. Compared with consulting the dictionary, readers heightened interest in using context and word parts will lead to _ of word and meaning.10. The benefits of using _ will be similar to depositing money in the bank.Part II Reading Comprehension (reading in depth) (2 points each, 40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part .Each passage is followed by five questions or 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 One Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passageEducation in the United States is compulsory for children up to about the age of sixteen. Most young people stay in school longer than that. Most graduate from high school at the age of seventeen or eighteen.Almost half of these high school graduates continue their education at a college or university. Education for most young people in this country is free up to the time they graduate from high school. There are private schools, but most parents send their children to public schools, where students do not pay tuition. When young people go to college, however, they must pay tuition at a public university or a private university. University costs are going up a lot. Private universities have become very expensive because the government does not help the private schools.Who pays? The parents of children in college may have to pay more, or often the students may have to find a job. There students have to worry about assignments and grades and also about their jobs. If they work too much at their jobs, they may be absent from class or miss assignments or make too many errors on tests. They may even fail their courses and have to leave the university.For many students, the problem of getting an education is not just a problem of homework and exams. They also have to make money to pay for tuition. And professors dont teach them how to do that! 11. In the United States, almost half of the high school graduates _.A) go to colleges and universitiesB) need not pay any tuitionC) have to enter open universitiesD) work hard to avoid errors on tests12. Which of the following statements is not true?A) Most parents prefer to send their children to public schools rather than to private schools due to tuition.B) Education is not free until the students graduate from high school.C) University costs are on the increase.D) The students may be absent from class if they work overtime.13. The private university students have to pay more money for tuition because _.A) the government does not finance the private universitiesB) none of the companies support the private universitiesC) the teaching quality of the private universities is far superior to the public onesD) they have some trouble in passing the exams14. If they need money, college students _.A) have to ask the local authorities for helpB) have to find jobsC) need to get a higher educationD) should work hard and earn more15. The main idea of the passage might be _.A) selecting a good university in the United StatesB) the increase in university costs in the United StatesC) the argument about education in the United StatesD) the problem of getting an education in the United StatesPassage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passageMany things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to change; the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.16. In the second paragraph the author thinks that _.A) some backward race doesnt have a language of its ownB) some race in history didnt possess a language of its ownC) any human race, whether backward or not, has a languageD) some races on earth can communicate without language17. According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have _ languages.A) complicated C) primitive B) uncivilized D) well-known18. The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are _.A) just as old as some well-known languagesB) just as sophisticated as some well-known languagesC) more developed than some well-known languagesD) more complex than some well-known languages19. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A) A language is a means of expressing a particular cultureB) All languages can well express their respective culturesC) American Indian languages are as sophisticated as EnglishD) Some languages are better than other languages20. According to the author, language changes are more likely to occur in _.A) grammar C) vocabularyB) pronunciation D) intonation Passage ThreeQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passageThis story began about 10 years ago. I was coming out of a very bad marriage. For seven long years my husband spent his every waking moment telling me just what was wrong with me. When I finally asked for a divorce, he answered by telling me that I would never find anyone to love me because I was just so unattractive. This went on for about two years. One night one of my friends convinced me to go out with her. We went to a nightclub and that is when I met him.Clint was playing a game with a girl. I sat in the corner watching him. I didnt feel that I had whatever it took to get up and mix with others because of my self-esteem(自尊心) problem. Finally I got up the courage to order a drink for him. When he got it, he gave me the most dazzling(感人的) smile. We spent the rest of the evening talking until I realized that it was almost morning. I figured that he was simply being nice to me because I had bought him a drink, but the very next day he called and told me that he could not stop thinking about me and that he wanted to meet my kids too.About 3 months later, my divorce was final and Clint sat my boys down and asked them if it was all right with them if he asked me to marry him because he could not imagine life without the three of us anymore. I was so touched that he went to my boys and asked for their approval because they were the “men of the house” at the ripe old ages of 2 and 4. They said yes and we have all been together ever since. Clint gave me and my boys a second chance at a wonderful life. Not a day goes by that he doesnt tell us that we are the best thing that ever happened to him and that he loves us. 21. The writers first marriage was unsuccessful because _.A) her husband often woke her up at midnightB) her husband kept criticizing herC) she was unattractiveD) she had a self-esteem problem22. When the writer asked for a divorce, her husband _.A) told her that she would never find one who loved her as he didB) delayed two years before giving her a replyC) accused her of having an affairD) said that she was unattractive and not worth loving23. When the writer first met Clint, she felt that _.A) she should have listened to her friend and met Clint earlierB) Clint was a nice, dazzling young manC) Clint could not be really interested in herD) she would find true love in Clint24. The writer was particularly touched by Clint because _.A) he loved the kids and asked for their approval of the marriageB) he said that he could not imagine a life without her and the kidsC) he believed that at 2 and 4, the two kids were the “men of the house”D) he kept her company and talked with her until the next morning25. The writers marriage to Clint is important to her mainly because _.A) it gave her and her sons a second chance to live a happy lifeB) every day Clint would tell the writer that he loved herC) it helped her to regain her self respectD) it made her kids happy, which is all she cared aboutPassage FourQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passageA good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of new from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interview to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never complet