中南大学《英语(上)》.doc

. Man has a big 1(?) . He can think, learn and speak . Scientists 2(?) to think that men are different from animals because they can think and learn. They know now that animals can learn. Dogs, rats, and birds can learn. 3(?) scientists are beginning to understand that men are different from animals , because they can speak. Animals cannot speak. They 4(?) noises when they are afraid, or angry, or unhappy. Apes are our 5(?) cousins. They can understand some things more quickly than human beings, and one or two 6(?) a few words. But they are still different from us. They cannot 7(?) words and make sentences. They cannot think 8(?) us because they have no language. They cannot think about the past or the future. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been able to 9(?) civilization because he has language. Every child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, but no animal learns to speak. How 10(?) children learn? Scientists do not know. They only know that man can speak because he has a big brain. （20分） (1) 选题1 （2分）A.brainB.headC.mindD.spirit 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) 选题2 （2分）A.to useB.usedC.useD.using 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) 选题3 （2分）A.SinceB.WhenC.SoD.Which 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) 选题4 （2分）A.makeB.are makingC.madeD.being made 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) 选题5 （2分）A.nearB.nearerC.nearestD.the nearest 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (6) 选题6 （2分）A.are learningB.have learnedC.learntD.learn 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (7) 选题7 （2分）A.linkB.connectC.joinD.mix 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (8) 选题8 （2分）A.asB.forC.likeD.about 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (9) 选题9 （2分）A.developingB.developC.developsD.development 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (10) 选题10 （2分）A.hasB.didC.doesD.do 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：2. In one Hong Kong secondary school every candidate for a teaching post is asked the question, “What are your views on discipline in and 1(?) the classroom?”The answer may be, “I believe in great freedom in the classroom, pretty much allowing the students to do their own thing in the subject I am teaching,” That man will not be 2(?).Why not? Because, even though he may arouse the interests of the studentsand 3(?)is goodhe, nevertheless, is guilty of not leading his students interests 4(?)the necessary and useful way of full comprehension of their subject.5(?) a singing or boxing student who practiced on his own and merely came an instructor 6(?) for encouragement. Good instructions demands specific details on the best methods to 7(?) and the dangers to guard against. And, so while permissiveness in the classroom may benefit a few brilliant students, it can hardly benefit the majority.A syllabus and a workbook are necessary tools. And 8(?) used intelligently and imaginatively, they will help all students 9(?) teacher may neglect the whole training procedure and yet every teacher worth his salt must encourage the better students to advance beyond the limits of an assigned course.Will todays young person accept discipline? He will if he sees examples of the 10(?)results of it. （20分） (1) 第1空 （2分）A.ofB.outsideC.forD.to 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) 第2空 （2分）A.employedB.pleasedC.agreedD.attracted 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) 第3空 （2分）A.itB.thatC.whichD.he 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) 第4空 （2分）A.alongB.nearbyC.fromD.beyond 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) 第5空 （2分）A.WatchB.BecomeC.SupposeD.Imagine 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (6) 第6空 （2分）A.oftenB.neverC.frequentlyD. occasionally 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (7) 第7空 （2分）A.teachB.checkC.followD.come 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (8) 第8空 （2分）A.althoughB.ifC.sinceD.for 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (9) 第9空 （2分）A.EachB.OneC.NoneD.No 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (10) 第10空 （2分）A.goodB.badC.sameD.various 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：3. Coca-Cola is the best-selling soft drink in the world. 165 million Cokes are sold every day, from the equator to the Arctic. But whereas outside the USA Coke tends to be a young persons drink, inside the USA anybody of any age, of any income can drink it without embarrassment on any occasion.Coke is not the only cola drink. Pepsi Cola is a well-known rival and has its devotees, for it is not as sweet as Coke. Cola drinks contain caffeine from the kola nut and are the only soft drinks which are stimulating as well as refreshing.There are excellent wines produced in California which are praised by European connoisseurs(行家), but some Americans consume a lot of alcohol in the form of cocktails-mixture based on spirits like whisky, gin and vodka.Hamburgers and hot dogs are perhaps the best-known American food. Hot dogs - sausages (香肠)between bread rolls can be bought in smack bars and from hot dog stands on streets corner. And from San Francisco to New York, in cheap or medium-priced restaurants, hamburgers will be on all the menus, in company with steaks, fried chicken and seafood. They come with French fries and crisp green salad, and for dessert you will be offered apple pie, cheese cake, chocolate layer cake, ice-creams and ice-cream sundaes(圣代). No ice cream in the world is more delicious than American ice cream. （15分） (1) What may be the best title for this passage? （3分）A.The Competition Between Coke and PepsiB.American Food and WineC.American Food and DrinkD. American Ice cream 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) Which of the following statement about “coca-Cola” is true according to the passage? （3分）A. It gives one new strength or vigor when one is tired.B. It is more popular outside America than inside America.C.It is not as sweet as Pepsi.D.It is stimulating because it contains alcohol. 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) “Gin” mentioned in Para. 3 is most likely to be _. （3分）A. another cola drinkB.a kind of soft drinkC. a kind of alcoholD.a kind of mixed liquid 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) Which of the following may appear on the table of cheap or medium-priced restaurants in the US. （3分）A.Bread, seafood and ice-cream sundaeB.Hamburger, fried chicken and ice-cream.C.Hot dog, salad and apple pieD.Hamburger, steak and coffee 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) What is the purpose of this article? （3分）A.To boast (称颂) Americans excellence in food and drink.B.To attract people to taste American food.C.To introduce American food and drink to the readersD. To persuade the readers to drink Coke instead of Pepsi. 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：4. As our knowledge of health and fitness increases, people are becoming more and more interested in not only taking care of themselves physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. As a result, many are turning to more complete approaches to health, including less mainstream fitness methods such as yoga.Yogas origins lie in Hindu philosophy, which was developed thousands of years ago in India.Today, yoga is a system of movements and meditation that emphasizes physical control and discipline as a way to achieve a state of spiritual knowledge.Yogas ideal state of knowledge is reached after a person has gone through eight different stages. These include aspects of self-control, religion, postures, regulation of breath, restraint of senses, steadying of the mind, meditation, and profound thought. For a practitioner of yoga, the progression through these stages is a movement from the physical toward a perfect mental state.There are eight major schools of yoga, each varying in its area of emphasis. The type of yoga that is taught in the West is mainly a combination of exercise and meditation called Hatha Yoga.Hatha Yoga is said to have a number of positive effects, such as reducing weight, strengthening muscles and nerves, cleaning out the body, and generally improving health and prolonging life.Recent decades have seen yoga gain widespread acceptance as a method of staying in shape, as well as a way of handling stress. Pop singer Madonna and supermodel Christy Turlington are just two of the many celebrities known to be strong advocates of yoga.At present, there is a lot of speculation and uncertainty about yoga and its effects. One thing, however, is certain: In our modern world of fast-paced lifestyles, taking time out to meditate and do some relaxing exercise cannot be a bad thing! （15分） (1) People are becoming more and more interested in . （3分）A. only mental and spiritual healthB.only physical healthC.both physical health and mental healthD. either physical health or mental health 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) Some people practise yoga because they think it is . （3分）A. a more complete approach to heathB. a less mainstream fitness methodC. a way of improving spiritual healthD. a system of movements and meditation 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) Yogas ideal state of knowledge is reached after a person eight different stages. （3分）A. has confirmedB. has experiencedC. has controlledD.has combined 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) According to the author, people now have a lot of about yoga and its effects. （3分）A.thoughtB.emphasisC.praiseD.doubt 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) Yogas origins lie in_philosophy, which was developed thousands of years ago in_. （3分）A.Christian, EnglandB.Hindu, India.C.Christian, IndiaD.Buddhist, China 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：2. Salt can be removed from seawater. But the present methods are so expensive that it is not practical to 1(?) the salt out of the great quantity of water that would be 2(?) .Men in boats at sea have been able to drink seawater from which they removed the salt 3(?) using the suns rays.You can do the same thing at your homes. Place a large flat pan with low sides on the ground. 4(?) the pan with salty water. Place a piece of glass on the pan so that one end is higher than the other. Allow the lower section of the glass to extent 5(?) the edge of the pan.Put another pan under the lower section of the glass to collect the fresh water. As the sun warms the glass, the 6(?) water from the pan is drawn up to the upper side of the glass, where it gathers in drops of liquid. As more and more drops collect on the glass, the water runs down into the 7(?) pan. This water will be clear and without salt.When all water has been drawn out, salt will cover the 8(?) of the pan.Scientists who study the sun are trying 9(?) cheap ways to use this method in many experiments concerned with making seawater 10(?) . （20分） (1) 第1空 （2分）A.takeB.bringC.keepD.help 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) 第2空 （2分）A.pollutedB.requiredC.producedD.recycled 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) 第3空 （2分）A.inB.byC.forD.with 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) 第4空 （2分）A.PutB.FillC.PourD.Setting 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) 第5空 （2分）A.beyondB.belowC.aboveD.down 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (6) 第6空 （2分）A.saltyB.freshC.cleanD.warm 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (7) 第7空 （2分）A.smallB.swallowC.collectingD.gathered 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (8) 第8空 （2分）A.edgeB.sideC.floorD.bottom 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (9) 第9空 （2分）A.to discoverB.to improveC.setting upD.taking up 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (10) 第10空 （2分）A. helpfulB. into useC. harmfulD. expensive 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：3. Moving cold air will create a rain belt which will move from west to east in the north today and tonight. The potential of heavy rain is being weakened in areas along the Huaihe River. Eastern areas in the northwest will have light to moderate rain, to be accompanied by heavy rain or short thunder showers in some places. Light to moderate rain is also expected in areas along the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers, the lower reaches of the Hanshui River, western and northern areas south of the Yangtze River, South China and eastern areas of the Southwest. Western and southern areas in South China will be hit by heavy rains or rainstorms. Heavy rain is also likely in western areas south of the Yangtze River and eastern part of Southwest. （15分） (1) What will be created according to the passage? （3分）A.rain beltB.The potential of heavy rainC.Moving cold airD.Short thunder showers 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) What is being weakened? （3分）A.rain beltB.The potential of heavy rainC.Moving cold airD. Short thunder showers 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) What is also expected in some areas? （3分）A.Heavy rainB.Moderate rainC. Light rainD. Light to moderate rain 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) Where will heavy rains or rainstorms occur? （3分）A.Southern areas in South ChinaB.Western areas in South ChinaC.Western and southern areas in South ChinaD. Northern areas south of the Yangtze River 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) What is this passage? （3分）A. An advertisementB.noticeC.piece of newsD.weather forecast 标准答案：C 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：4. It was not yet eleven oclock when a boat crossed the river with a single passenger who had obtained his transportation at that unusual hour by promising an extra fare. While the youth stood on the landing-place searching in his pocket for money, the ferry man lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, together with the newly risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the strangers figure. He was a young man of barely 18 years old, evidently the country breed, and now, as it seemed, on his first visit to the town. He was wearing a tough gray coat, which was in good shape, but which had seen many winters before this one. The garments under his coat were well constructed of leather, and fitted tightly to a pair of muscular legs; his stockings of blue yarn must have been the work of a mother or sister, and his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the grayer head of the lads father. In his left hand was a walking stick, and his equipment was completed by a leather bag not so abundantly stocked as to inconvenience the strong shoulders on which it hung. Brown, curly hair, well-shaped features, bright, cheerful eyes were natures gifts, and worth all that art could have done for his adornment. The youth, whose name was Robin, paid the boatman, and then walked forward into the town with a light step, as if he had not already traveled more than thirty miles that day. As he walked, he surveyed his surroundings as eagerly as if he were entering London or Madrid, instead of the little metropolis of a New England colony. （15分） (1) The story took place in _. （3分）A. winterB.fallC. summerD.spring 标准答案：A 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (2) The boatman was willing to take the young man across the river because _. （3分）A. he felt sorry for him because the young man looked poorB. he saw that the young man was richC. he was going to row across the river anywayD.He wanted to make extra money 标准答案：D 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (3) From the way he looked, it was evident that Robin was _. （3分）A. a wealthy merchants sonB.a country boyC. a soldierD. a foreigner 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (4) The stockings that Robin wore were obviously _. （3分）A.worn-outB. handmadeC. very expensiveD. much too big 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语： (5) How did Robin appear as he walked into the town? （3分）A. He was tired.B. He was cheerful and excitedC.He seemed very sad.D.He seemed frightened by the strange surrounding. 标准答案：B 考生答案： 考生得分：0 分 评语：3. Some people say that human beings are the only animals that have language. Is this true? It is a very difficult question to answer. A person must have a good definition of “language”. Different kinds of animals must be studied. Some animals certainly seem to have a communication system. That system may or may not be a language. For example, the bee has ways of telling other bees about food. The dolphin has ways of giving information to other dolphins. The monkey can use a human language system. Does this mean animals have language? The answer to this question depends on how “language” is defined. We may define language as any system for exchanging information. If this definition is used, then bees, dolphins, and monkeys all have a language. But language may be defined in another way. We may define language as a system for exchanging inform