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考生注意：1学号、姓名、专业班级等应填写准确。2考试作弊者，责令停考，成绩作废。广西民族大学相思湖学院课程考试试卷（2010-2011学年度第二学期期考）4. A. The mans daughter likes the woman.B. The mans daughter should be this way.C. The mans daughter is a good child.D. The mans daughter should behave herself.5. A. The mans daughter has made progress in her studies.B. The mans daughter has changed a lot.C. The man and the woman have often met.D. The meetings between them have improved6. A. Their daughter is too young to wear eye-liner.B. The woman should not give in to their daughter.C. Wearing eye-liner is not so bad for their daughter.D. The man should have agreed with the woman before.7. A. It gives people something to think about.B. It teaches important lessons to children.C. It should be removed from every home.D. It can have a bad influence on children. 8. A. They have taught him to be selfish,B. They have taught him to be greedy.C. They have been selfish toward him.D. They have not done him any harm.9. A. Mother and son.B. Father and daughter.C. Teacher and studentD. Husband and wife.10. A. 15 percent.B. 50 percent.C. 73 percent.D. 75 percent.Section C Spot Dictation (5%)Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 16 to 20 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Nowadays most young people are _16_ to choose their own careers according to their professional abilities and interests. This concern is all very well, but young people are often poor judges of their own _17_, and need instructions in the choice of a career. In the old days, sons followed their fathers trade or profession and _18_ the work that best suited the interests of the family and possibly of society too. The totally free_19_ of a career is often_20_ for the individual and sometimes even a danger to society.Part II Vocabulary (10%)Directions: Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a word or phrase chosen from the Words & Phrase box. Change the forms where necessary.advantage desire head average likely effect tend dream outweigh complex preventive disturb 21. My husband and I _ of sailing around the world before our daughters were even born.22. But the advantages of our floating school far _ any disadvantages.23. We do miss s few things that most home-schooled children are able to take of. 24. Their arrivals only increased our _ to live the cruising (乘船巡游)lifestyle.25. In holidays, millions of people _ for beaches, museums and so on.26. Others choose to make some natural trips without _ the nature balance. 27. On _, it is said, Americans move every five year. 28. You are also less _to catch a cold if you get more sleep. 29. But it can also have a (n) _on our financial well-being. 30. Healthy people also _ to be happier and more confident in themselves,which can breed(产生) success. 课程名称：10大学英语II（普通班） 考核时长：120分钟 考核方式：闭卷 任课教师：集体学 号 题 号一二三四五六总 分评 卷 人得 分姓 名Part IListening Comprehension (20%)Section AShort Conversations (10%)Directions: You will hear 10 short conversations. For each conversation, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answerA, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.1. A. To tell his daughter not to get pregnant.B. To take comfort in knowing his daughter is OK.C. To assure his daughter he wont leave her to cope on her own.D. To order his daughter to leave the family.2. A. Its too difficult to understand.B. Its something his sons should read.C. Its much better than other parenting books.D. It helped him to understand his kids.3. A. Smoking is harmful.B. She should go to see a doctor.C. Her lungs are dirty.D. The doctor knows best.Section B Passage (5%)Directions: In this section you will hear 1 passage. The passage will be spoken twice. After listening, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D to complete the following sentences.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A. A leg. B. Fighting spirit. C. An arm. D. Both arms.12. A. Meeting his mother. B. Meeting a lover. C. Fighting in combat. D. Achieving peace.13. A. Protecting the children. B. Creating love between countries. C. Achieving peace at last. D. Bringing people from different countries together.14. A. 1,000,000. B. 16,000. C. 12,000. D. 50,000.15. A. Some werent successful. B. Some were happier than Thomsons. C. Most were in the Pacific. D. Most were in the U.S. 专业班级命题教师集体教研室主任签 字系主管领导签 字卷别A Part III Reading Comprehension (30%)Section A: Skimming and Scanning (10%)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 31-37, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 38-40, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Entertainment in LondonBuying BooksLondoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy proper books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being the biggest bookshop in the world to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens time. Many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books of philosophy, politics or any other of the various subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet!Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the busy and crowded roads, to Farringdon Road in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grand as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on to barrows(推车) which line the gutters(贫民区). And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them, pounce towards the sellers. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.Both Charing Cross Road and Farringdon Road are well-known places of the book buyer. Yet all over London there are bookshops, in places not so well dinner or late supper. Many restaurants in theatreland ease the situation by catering specially for early or late dinners.of decline, is about to pick up again. Although some quite large provincial towns do not have a professional theatre, there are others, such as Nottingham, Hull, Coventry or Newcastle, which have excellent companies and where a series of plays are performed during one season by a resident group of actors. Some towns such as Chichester or Edinburgh have theatres which give summer seasons. Even in small towns a number of theatres have been built in the last few years to cater for the local population.Music in BritainIt is debatable whether the tastes of kings reflect those of their subjects. However, three English monarchs certainly shared their peoples linking for music. Richard (1157-1199), the Lionheart, composed songs that he sang with his musician, Blondel. It is said that when the king was a prisoner in Austria, Blondel found him by singing a song known only to him and the king, who took up the tune in the tower of the castle in which he was secretly imprisoned. Henry V (1491-1547), notorious for his six wives, was a skilled musician and some of his songs are still known and sung. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and her husband, Prince Albert, delighted in singing ballads. The great composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a welcome guest at their court, where he would accompany the Queen and the Prince when they sang.The British love of music is often unfamiliar to foreigners, probably because there are few renowned British composers. The most famous is Henry Purcell (1658-1695), whose opera Dido and Aeneas is a classic. The rousing marching song Lillibulero attributed to Purcell, now used by BBC as an identification signal preceding Overseas Service news bulletins, was said to have sung James out of three kingdoms when he fled from Britain in 1688. Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is known for his choral and orchestral works, some of which have been made more widely known by the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), a composer with a very personal style, has become world-famous for such operatic works as Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was deeply influenced by English folk music, as is shown by his variations on the old tune Green-sleeves (which most people consider a folk song). In recent years there has been a great revival of folk music, and groups specializing in its performance have sprung up all over Britain. This phenomenon has its roots in the work of Cecil Sharp (1859-1924), who collected folk songs and dances.Present-day concern with music is shown by the existence of something like a hundred summer schools in music, which cater for all grades of musicians, from the mere beginner to the skilled performer. These schools, where a friendly atmosphere reigns, provide courses lasting from a weekend to three or four weeks, and cover a wide range, from medieval and classical music to rock-and-roll and pop. There are also important musical festivals in towns such asPassage Three (10%)Among all the animals, the ape is most like human beings. Both people and apes have the similar brain structure, the similar nerve system, and the similar kind of blood.There are four kinds of apes: the chimpanzee(黑猩猩), the orangutan(猩猩), the gorilla(大猩猩), and the gibbon(长臂猿). They live in the deep forests and warm tropical regions of Africa and of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia.All apes are covered with brown, reddish-brown, or black hair everywhere on their bodies except their faces, feet, and hands. Their hands each have four fingers and a thumb that helps them grip things the way our thumbs help us. But they also have a thumb on each foot instead of a big toe. Thus they can hold things with their feet also. Having short, weak legs, apes do not walk on the ground very much. However, their arms are very strong. This enables them to swing from branches and travel very quickly from tree to tree. These animals live in small family groups that move from place to place in search of vegetables and fruits. They also eat eggs, small animals, nuts, and insects. When they are tired, they build nests in the trees. But they rarely sleep there for more than a night or two. Then they move on to look for more food. There are some differences among the following three kids of apes. The gibbon is never more than three feet high and weight only about fourteen pounds. The gorilla grows to be six feet tall and weight up to 600 pounds. The orangutan is smaller than the gorilla. It stands three to five feet tall and weight up to 200 pounds. Chimpanzees are the smartest of all apes. They can be taught to sit at a table and eat, to dress themselves, and to do things that human children can do.known, where the books are equally varied and exciting. It is in the sympathetic atmosphere of such shops that the loyal book buyer feels most at home. In these shops, even the life-long book-browser is frequently rewarded by the accidental discovery of previously unknown delights. One could, in fact, easily spend a lifetime exploring Londons bookshops. There are many less pleasant ways of spending time!Going to the TheatreLondon is very rich in theatres: there are over forty in the West End alone-more than enough to ensure that there will always be at least two or three shows running to suit every kind taste, whether serious or lighthearted.Some of them are specialist theatres. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where the great opera singers of the world can be heard, is the home of opera and the Royal Ballet. The London Coliseum now houses the English National Opera Company, which encourages English singers in particular and performs most operas in English at popular prices.Some theatres concentrate on the classics and serious drama, some on light comedy, some on musicals. Most theatres have a personality of their own, from the old, such as the Theatre Royal (also called the Haymarket) in the Haymarket, to the more modern such as the recently opened Baibican centre in the city. The National Theatre has three separate theatres in its new building by Waterloo Bridge. At the new Barbican centre the Royal Shakespeare Company has their London hometheir other centre is at Stratford-on-Avon.Most of the old London theatres are concentrated in a very small area, within a stones throw of the Piccadilly and Leicester Square tube stations. As the evening performances normally begin either at seven-thirty or eight p. m., there is a kind of minor rush-hour between seven-fifteen and eight oclock in this district. People stream out of the nearby tube stations, the pavements are crowded, and taxis and private cars maneuver into position as they drop theatre-goers outside the entrance to each theatre. There is another minor rush-hour when the performance finishes. The theatre in London is very popular and it is not always easy to get in to see a successful play.Before World War , theatre performances began later and a visit to the theatre was a more formal occasion. Nowadays very few people dress for the theatre (that is, wear formal evening dress) except for first nights or an important performance. The times of performance were put forward during the war and have not been put back. The existing times make the question of eating a rather tricky problem: one has to have either early dinner or late supper. Many restaurants in theatreland ease the situation by catering specially for early or late dinners. Television and the difficulty of financing plays have helped to close many theatres. But it seems that the worst of the situation is now over and that the theatre, after a period Aldeburgh, Bath, and Cheltenham.Pop-music festivals draw thousands of people, especially young people. In the great cities there are resident world-famous orchestras and from all over the world great performers come to play or sing in Britain. In many towns there are brass bands, and the players are often such people as miners or members of the local fire brigade, for music in Britain is not just an elegant interest, it is above all democratic.31. Which of the following do the great readers in London probably buy the least?A. NewspaperB. MagazineC. PaperbackD. Hardback32. Chafing Cross Road is very famous because_.A. all kinds of bookstores are along the streetsB. it lies right in the center of LondonC. they have the cheapest books in LondonD. the biggest bookstore in the world is there33. What can you learn about Farringdon Road?A. Its to the east of London.B. Its a street of bookstores.C. Its a center for second-hand books.D. Its where worthless books are sold. 34. What does the author mean by saying some of them are specialist theatres?A. Those theatres only have operas showB. The theatres are especially good for their ballet showC. These theatres offer really affordable ticketD. They each hold a special type of play or show35. Because of the theatre performances, the area around Piccadilly and Leicester Square tube stations gets crowded_.A. before seven-thirtyB. between seven and eightC. at about eight oclockD. from seven-fifteen to eight36. What kind of change did World War I1 bring to the theatres?A. The putting forward of dinnerB. The costume of the performanceC. The time of the performanceD. The restaurants nearly offer different food37. What, according to the author, caused the decline of theatre business?A. There are not professional theatres in large provincial towns.B. During World War , a lot of theatres were destroyed.Directions: In this part, you will have to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Passage Two (10%)学 号姓 名专业班级C. Some people begin to choose stay at home and watch TV.D. The performance of the plays is becoming worse and worse.38. According to the author, three music lovers of the royal family members are _39. The British love of music is no