滨州学院2007-2008学年第一学期期末考试

1 滨州学院 2007 2008 学年第一学期期末考试 非英语专业 本 2007 级 大学英语 新视野 试卷 C 答案一律写在答题纸上 在本试卷上做答无效 I Listening Comprehension 15 points Section A Directions listen to the tape and complete the following passage with the missing words Maggie 1 swimming but she doesn t care for skiing She 2 flying on planes and traveling by train but she 3 getting on buses because they are too crowded and dirty She is not interested in playing the piano and she 4 reading to playing computer games She 5 going to Chinese restaurants and her 6 food is spicy Sichuan bean curd After work she is keen on listenin to music She 7 light music to rock because light music makes her feel 8 She 9 watching TV in the evening She thinks a lot of news 10 but sitcoms are the last kind of thing for her to watch Section B Directions listen for the missing words in the sentences you hear and choose the correct consonant cluster in each sentence 11 I ve never been A pr B pl C br D bl 12 Mrs Johnson s chinldren usually before they eat A pr B pl C br D bl 13 The city of Dalian impressed me because it s so A gl B kl C gr D kr 14 The in the city should be better A str B tr C dr D kr 15 Mother told Mary not to so quickly A st B sp C sk D sl 16 I think my listening has a lot A bl B br C pl D pr 17 What a idea A pr B pl C kl D kr 18 The shoe shop is at the corner of the A tr B dr C str D kr 19 After I I got a job in the City Bank A kr B pr C br D gr 2 20 I m not an major but I like English a lot A kl B gl C br D bl II Vocabulary and Structure Directions Choose the best one to complete each sentence 20 points 21 Measures had to be taken in face of the housing problem that in the city A roseB raisedC aroseD produced 22 By the side of the new teaching hall built in the 1930s A there stands a libraryB stands a library C a library standsD does a library stand 23 I got a little when I learned that the appointment with the general manager was changed to another time A concernedB distractedC upsetD awful 24 Mother dropped the glass she was standing up from her seat A andB butC soD as 25 After a long period of regular exercise I now much less than I used to A weighB likeC growD increase 26 She had to several times a night when her baby was ill A call outB get aheadC wake upD come to 27 It is said that to the plan so far have been positive A reactionsB viewsC ideasD opinions 28 Have you ever noticed that Jack always a picture of quiet self worth A impressesB focusesC projectsD communicates 29 We also use other forms of communication we may be aware or unaware A to whichB of whichC whichD that 30 The train was slow I was almost two hours late A soB suchC veryD that 31 His thoughts were from the subject by the arrival of his friends A attractedB sufferedC distractedD related 32 She is a woman who is certain of her ideas and actions A significantB awareC confidentD intense 33 I admit that the problems are difficult I don t agree that they can t be solved A For fear thatB BecauseC WhileD Until 34 I m going to spend the winter vacation in Shanghai I have relatives A becauseB whichC thatD where 35 The she is in is whether to get married and live her own life or to stay at home supporting the family 3 A troubleB problemC choiceD dilemma 36 Though possible punishment some students are still inclined to cheat on tests A aware ofB knowingC recognizingD being aware 37 It is nice to travel with paid by your employers at no cost to yourself A facilitiesB costsC loansD activities 38 The gasoline destroyed the company and injured many people A exploredB extendedC exportedD explosion 39 The policeman went from house to house whether anyone had seen the lost boy A inquiringB interruptingC informingD introduction 40 On our trip out of the country we visited in England A relationshipB relationsC relativesD personnel III Cloze With Two Choices Provided Directions Read the following passage carefully and choose the correct one from the two choices given to fill in each blank 10 points The opportunity to study English through 41 A a B an online course requires 42 A excess B access to a computer a phone line and a modem Studying online 43 A rewards B requires as much time commitment and discipline to meet minimum standards and complete assignments as 44 A does B do the regular classroom Also 45 A like B unlike the 46 A actual B virtual classroom you need to practice carry a dictionary with you and use a notebook for listing new words 47 A At the end B Finally you understand almost everything you see in English say anything you want and make mistakes while you 48 A continue B continually learn Not only does learning another language online 49 A teach B teach you the value of hard work 50 A also B but also it gives you insights into another culture IV Reading Comprehension Directions Read the following passage s carefully and do the multiple choice questions 30 points Text 1 On a practical level teachers need a wide variety of skills and abilities They have to be ready to spend many hours at home planning their lessons and preparing homework They have to be well organized in class patient with students able to appear bright and interested even if they are in fact tired or unhappy and lively enough to control a group of young people for almost 200 days a year Outside the classroom they may have to prepare teaching materials to choose books to use as texts to help organize the work of other teachers or to organize spare time 4 activities for students If you think that you have all the necessary qualities you may feel that you would like to be a teacher One way to decide if you live in the United States is by joining a club for future teachers such as Student Action for Education Clubs like this give advice about your field and also allow you to watch teachers at work attend meetings and experiment with teaching methods and equipment You could also talk with the job advisor at your school or university Finally you could try teaching a younger student or becoming an advisor at a summer camp for children Any activity in which you are dealing with children will help you decide whether you have a calling for teaching 51 The first paragraph is mainly about A how to plan lessons and prepare homework B how to help organize the work of other teachers C how to prepare teaching materials D various skills and abilities teachers need 52 According to the author a teacher should show a firm mind A that suffers only from tiredness B that suffers only from unhappiness C that suffers only from unusual tiredness or unhappiness D that is able to control tiredness and unhappiness 53 The second paragraph is mainly concerned with A the ways of deciding one s future employment B the ways to decide whether teaching should be one s future employment C joining a club for future teachers D talking to an advisor when choosing future employment 54 Student Action for Education is A a summer camp for childrenB an activity at a summer camp C a club for future teachersD a club for job advisors 55 Which of the following does the author suggest to a person who wants to be a teacher A Watching teachers at work or organizing students spare time activities B Joining a future teachers club talking with job advisors or working with children C Preparing and correcting homework experimenting with teaching methods and equipment D Planning lessons or attending teachers meetings Text 2 In the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT 麻省理 工大学 researchers are working on a project they call the last book This may sound bad to book lovers After all the Media Lab devotes itself mainly to 5 computers Looking at a computer means reading a screen which is decidedly not the way most people want to read a book particularly the last one Reading text on a computer screen is limiting and tiresome You can t see where you are or how far you have to go You can t turn the pages quickly without reading much to compare parts of the text or to see what your eye finds freely You can t comfortably carry a computer screen around with you to bed to the beach or to the bathroom You can t collect computer screens or cover them beautifully or place them on bookshelves in the way the English writer Anthony Powell described in his Books Do Furnish a Room But hold everything The news is far from bad The book of the future described to me on a visit to the Media Lab is really a book just like Goodnight Moon Paradise Lost or the Gutenberg Bible It has a cover that could be made of leather if you wanted and hundreds of pages you can turn one at a time or turn over quickly The key to this book is something called electronic 电子的 ink or e ink which can be added to the page from within instead of by a press It was developed by Joseph Jacobson an assistant professor at MIT As the capacity of the book s memory grows whole libraries may be installed Jacobson predicts that this book is able to store the entire U S Library of Congress 国会 whose holdings number more than 17 million books Yet the book would still have the familiar advantages of a book Jacobson says You could turn off its power and carry it anywhere Jacobson greatly admires the usual book After all he added if books had been invented after the computer they would have been considered a big breakthrough They run on very low power at a very low cost Every book ever published in a single copy Will this really happen How soon could the last book be available A first model of it with just a few pages could be put together in two to three years with one of 400 pages taking a year or two longer Jacobson said How much will it cost Jacobson says the final book will probably sell for 2 to 4 for each reusable page or 500 to 1 000 for a book although he is working on ways to reduce costs further Will books no longer equip a room It looks as if they won t though people will continue to collect old fashioned books Gutenburg Bible 古登堡圣经 是现存西方第一部完整的书籍 是最早的活字印刷 品 因印刷者而得名 三卷完整的原书现收于美国国会图书馆 法国国家图书馆和不列 颠博物馆 56 In the third sentence of Paragraph 2 the word decidedly means A certainlyB importantlyC necessarilyD easily 6 57 One can imagine that in his Books Do Furnish a Room the English writer Anthony Powell described books as A a piece of furnitureB a piece of bread C a valuable thingD a waste 58 The sentence But hold everything in Paragraph 5 means A Please try to get everythingB Please don t jump to conclusions C Please have a look at everythingD Please behave yourself 59 In what sense is the last book different from regular books A It has no pages B It has no ink C It can t be carried to whatever place you like D It has memory 60 Which of the following is true according to the passage A The last book is much expensive than a regular book B Regular books will be thrown away as garbage C The last book is no match for the regular book D Relatively it takes a longer time to publish a last book Text 3 Theirs is a modern love drama They met on the Internet and fell deeply in love with each other They shared secrets memories feelings even though they had never laid eyes on each other And now the very technology that had brought them together was tearing them apart Kevin is a pleasing fellow quick with a smile trustworthy A security guard for a hospital in northern Idaho he keeps emergency room patients company and walks nurses to their cars at night He remembers the first day he went to the Internet It was August 1995 and the computer was in the hospital library It wasn t long before he was spending most of his free time in front of the screen It was purely by accident Kevin says that he discovered online pornography 色情内容 First he looked out of curiosity Each time I thought I had seen it all he says some new sex practice popped up Eventually the online sex world came to take the place of any real world contact with women I can be a little bit shy he says and this was an alternative that kept me from feeling lonely Then came a message from Marie a young mother of three looking for company on an Internet singles site Kevin fired off an immediate response and the two began a dialogue that would last two months before he made the 50 mile drive to meet her A few months later they 7 were married What Marie loved about Kevin was his kindness his interest in her kids What she didn t know was that every time she was reading one of Kevin s love e mails he was at the other end of the connection looking secretly at pornography sites I knew he was always online Marie says But I thought that it was just because he was interested in meeting new people Whenever Kevin was home he was online with the door closed A few times he called her in to look at an especially wild site She was annoyed but didn t worry until he turned away from her in bed Have you been looking again she would cry By January Kevin knew he had a serious problem He promised that he would never use the computer at home But there was still the machine at the hospital Every night he would use his master key to get into the closed library and favour his curiosity as never before Sometimes for his entire eight hour work time he would sit in front of the screen When his bosses asked him to look in on the library where some unusual computer activity had been noticed he stopped using the computer for a month and then headed straight back to the same place This time though he walked into a trick Earlier this summer the hospital installed cameras and software that reco