中大大学英语三2013年下半年第3次作业.docx

课程大学英语（三） 测试大学英语三2013年下半年第3次作业 已开始13-10-27 下午12:01 已提交13-12-5 下午9:26 状态已完成 分数得 96 分，满分 100 分 已用时间945 小时 25 分钟。 说明问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分说明：本作业包括阅读题10篇， 每篇5题， 共50题， 每题2分， 总分100分。Passage 1Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhis idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil relights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best known speech I Have a Dream before the Lincoln Memorial. The dream is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. Thus, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Luther Kings honor. He lives in peoples hearts forever.(1)、Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.答案 所选答案：A. T问题 2 得 2 分，满分 2 分(2)、Martin Luther King was a black minister only.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 3 得 2 分，满分 2 分(3)、Martin Luther Kings Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years. 答案 所选答案：A. T问题 4 得 2 分，满分 2 分(4)、The underlined word delivered in the second paragraph could be replaced by gave. 答案 所选答案：A. T问题 5 得 2 分，满分 2 分(5)、The best title for this passage is Civil Rights Law.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 6 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage2When having a meal, a European usually holds the knife in the right hand, and the fork in the left. He uses the knife and fork with his both hands. He keeps his knife and fork in his hands until he finishes eating. But an American, on the opposite, may use just one hand whenever possible and keep the other hand on his lap. He uses the fork in his right hand to pick up fried potatoes. When he has to cut his meat, he changes his fork to the left hand and cuts it. Then he puts down the knife and changes his fork to his right hand to pick up the sliced meat. Then, perhaps, he will suddenly think of his coffee or orange. So he has to put down his fork in order to drink his coffee or orange. Now you can see, an American is busy all the time at the dinner table. By the way, Europeans usually have their coffee after meals, but many Americans prefer to have coffee during the meal. If you are present at a formal dinner, you might be confused to find so many forks, knives and spoons put before you. You might be at a loss to know what to do with them. Dont worry. The rule is simple. You just use them in the order in which they lie, beginning from outside towards the plate. The small fork on the outside on the left is for salad. The spoon on the outside on the right is for soup. There is another little knife, called a butter spreader, on a bread-and-butter plate on the left. As the bread is passed, each guest helps himself and puts his pieces on the small plate. Next to the soup there will probably be the blunt knife for fish, which is smaller and blunter than other knives.1. When do Europeans usually drink their coffee?答案 所选答案：B. After meals. 问题 7 得 2 分，满分 2 分2. The right way to use the forks, knives and spoons is to use _. 答案 所选答案：B. them from the outside to the inside 问题 8 得 2 分，满分 2 分3. The butter spreader is _. 答案 所选答案：C. a knife 问题 9 得 2 分，满分 2 分4. The spoon on the outside on the right is for _. 答案 所选答案：A. soup 问题 10 得 2 分，满分 2 分5. The best title for this passage is _. 答案 所选答案：D. Dinning Customs of the West问题 11 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage 3Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry.In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families can not be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consists only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other peoples children, leaving those families free to move from job to job.(1)、The passage discusses influence of science and industry on American families.答案 所选答案：A. T问题 12 得 2 分，满分 2 分(2)、Families of the past, the present and the future are described in the passage.答案 所选答案：A. T问题 13 得 2 分，满分 2 分(3)、People no longer want to have children.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 14 得 2 分，满分 2 分(4)、Grandparents will take the chief responsibility of raising children in the future. 答案 所选答案： F问题 15 得 2 分，满分 2 分(5)、Large families cannot fit in with a highly industrialized society. 答案 所选答案：A. T问题 16 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage 4It has been reported that in colleges across the United States, the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera has suddenly become in. Between the hours of 11 a.m. and 4:30 pm, college television lounges are filled with soap opera fans who cant wait to see the next episode in the lives of their favorite characters.Actually, soaps are more than a college favorite; theyre a youth favorite. When school is out, high-school students are in front of their TV sets. One young working woman admitted that she turned down a higher paying job rather than give up watching her favorite serials. During the 1960s, it was uncommon for young people to watch soap operas. The mood of the sixties was very different from now. It was a time of seriousness, and talk was about social issues of great importance.Now, seriousness has been replaced by fun. Young people want to be happy. It may seem strange that they should turn to soap opera, which is known for showing trouble in peoples lives. But soap opera is enjoyment. Young people can identify with the soap opera character, who, like the college-age viewer, is looking for happy love, and probably not finding it. And soap opera gives young people a chance to feel close to people without having to bear any responsibility for their problems.(1)、What is soap opera?答案 所选答案：C. The daytime serial dramas on TV. 问题 17 得 2 分，满分 2 分(2)、What can be the best title of the passage? 答案 所选答案：C. Soap opera fans.问题 18 得 2 分，满分 2 分(3)、Which is NOT the reason why the soap opera has suddenly become in among American young people ? 答案 所选答案：D. Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles.问题 19 得 2 分，满分 2 分(4)、What can we learn from the passage? _ 答案 所选答案：C. Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now.问题 20 得 2 分，满分 2 分(5)、What message does the author want to convey to us? _ 答案 所选答案：B. The peoples favorites to drama works change along with the times.问题 21 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage 5My Aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart disease. Aunt Edith didnt accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in the library and found an article in a magazine about a well-known heart surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the life of someone with the same disease. The article said his fees were very high; Aunt Edith couldnt possibly pay them. But could he tell her of someone whose fees she could pay? So Aunt Edith wrote to him. She simply listed her reasons for wanting to live: her three children, who would be on their own in three or four more years; her little-girl dream of traveling and seeing the world. There wasnt a word of self-pityonly warmth and humor and the joy of living. She mailed the letter, not really expecting an answer. A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didnt wait to come in; she stood in the hall and read aloud:Your beautiful letter moved me very deeply. If you can come to Houston, there will be no charge for either the hospital or the operation. Signed :Michael DeBakey(1)、Aunt Edith stopped working as a secretary when she knew she had a very serious heart disease.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 22 得 2 分，满分 2 分(2)、From the story we can see Aunt Edith accepted defeat easily. 答案 所选答案：B. F问题 23 得 2 分，满分 2 分(3)、In Aunt Ediths letter to the doctor, she showed she was warm, humorous and enjoying living. 答案 所选答案：A. T问题 24 得 2 分，满分 2 分(4)、When Aunt Edith mailed her letter, she didnt expect the doctor would give her a reply. 答案 所选答案：A. T问题 25 得 2 分，满分 2 分(5)、Michael DeBakey mainly told Aunt Edith in the letter that her disease was so serious that he couldnt cure her.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 26 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage 6The mass media influences all aspects of our lives, including the learning of gender roles. Newspapers and magazines, television, and film all have an influence on how we view the roles of women and men and on how we think they should behave. Four decades ago, traditional womens magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Family Circle talked to women as though they were children who needed to learn the basics of how to care for their families. Today, magazines do not do this. However, they still tend to define the female role in terms of homemaking and motherhood, and to offer beauty advice to help women attract men and please husbands. There are now a few less traditional magazines such as Ms. that show women in a range of roles and that cover a much wider range of topics. Television commercials have also, until recently, presented women primarily as sex objects and as housewives. Young sexy women were shown admiring older men who smoked a particular cigarette brand. Housewives were shown smiling joyfully about their clean bathrooms, or looking guilty for not using the right laundry soap to wash their husbands clothes. These days advertisers are more careful about the way they present women, and they are presented in a variety of roles. However, it is still quite common to see advertisements where beautiful young women are dressed in sexy clothes to sell cars or other products. One study also found that the changes are mainly on nighttime television, with daytime commercials still tending to portray women doing household chores. Prime-time television programs also often used to stereotype women. In past decades, women were usually portrayed as lovers, as mothers, or as weak, passive girlfriends of powerful, effective men. Todays TV programs are somewhat different. Women are more likely to be presented as successful and able to support themselves and their families, but the traditional stereotypes of women are still there. Even when women are depicted as career women, the storylines suggest that they should be sexy as well. 1. The best title for this passage is _. 答案 所选答案：A. Gender Roles in the Media问题 27 得 2 分，满分 2 分2. What makes Ms. different from other womens magazines? 答案 所选答案：C. Ms. is interested in a wider range of womens role. 问题 28 得 2 分，满分 2 分3. It can be inferred that _ might be a new type of women image on the television commercials. 答案 所选答案：D. career women who enjoys her career success 问题 29 得 2 分，满分 2 分4. From the context we know “to stereotype women” (Line 1, Paragraph 4) refers to _. 答案 所选答案：A. to tag on women some fixed roles and images问题 30 得 2 分，满分 2 分5. Which of the following statement do you think the writer would least agree with in terms of the medias attitude towards women? 答案 所选答案：A. The mass media always presents to us a variety of women images as they are in daily life. 问题 31 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage 7After retiring from 30 years of teaching, Ethell Pepper could easily have decided to sit back and relax and enjoy a peaceful retirement. But that kind of life is not for Ethell Pepper. I just wanted to do something different. If you are going to participate in life, do it. Dont just sit down and look out of the window. She says. At 68, she decided to become one of the pioneer participants in a program at the University of California. The program offers campus housing and classes to people over sixty. She enrolled in a class called Human Relationships and a Diverse Society. I taught my minority students in my English and drama classes in high school for 20 years. But in this course, I found out a lot about other cultures that I didnt know then. One of the more important lessons that Im learning is to perceive, not to judge. Older adults can add to the educational resources of university by bringing with them a lot of valuable experience. Their presence on campus helps break some long believes on aging. Young students may have fears of growing older. But that kind of fear can be reduced as they see that older people can be active, healthy, and continue to contribute to society. The younger students can begin to see aging as a natural part of living.(1)、Ethell entered university when she was 68.答案 所选答案：A. T问题 32 得 0 分，满分 2 分(2)、Ethell has been teaching minority students for 20 years.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 33 得 2 分，满分 2 分(3)、Ethell enjoyed staying with young people.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 34 得 2 分，满分 2 分(4)、Elderly people bring a great deal of useful experience to the university.答案 所选答案：A. T问题 35 得 2 分，满分 2 分(5)、Ethell is learning how to teach minority students.答案 所选答案：B. F问题 36 得 2 分，满分 2 分Passage 8Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and self-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions. Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes? It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A persons conception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other peoples reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on all areas of their lives. Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance that they are doing the right thing. Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased by compliment with a statement like this one, Youre just saying that to make me feel good. I know its not true. It is clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful. Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcome shyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes hand in hand with a lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weaknesses as well as their strengths. Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Lets not allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life. (1)、 What does the author try to prove by citing what kind of impression am I making? (Para. 1)_ 答案 所选答案：B. Peoples shyness made them care too much about their appearance and actions.问题 37 得 2 分，满分 2 分(2)、According to the writer, self-awareness is _. 答案 所选答案：A. a good quality问题 38 得 0 分，满分 2 分(3)、That shy people react to a compliment in such a way is _. 答案 所选答案：B. unreal问题 39 得 2 分，满分 2 分(4)、Which of the following statements is tru