北京联合大学大学英语课程一课一练试卷集-第三册第六课

北京联合大学大学英语课程一课一练试卷（第三册Unit Six）Part IWriting(30 minutes)注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on Should Smoking be Banned. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below:1. 有些人认为不该禁烟2. 有些人坚持要禁烟3. 我的看法Part IIReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)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 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.My Daughter Smokes My daughter smokes. While she is doing her homework, her feet on the bench in front of her and her calculator clicking out answers to her math problems, I am looking at the half-empty package of Camels lying carelessly close at hand. I pick them up, take them into the kitchen, where the light is better, and study them - they are filtered, for which I am grateful. My heart feels terrible. I want to weep. In fact, I do weep a little, standing there by the stove holding one of the instruments, so white, so precisely rolled, that could cause my daughters death. When she smoked Marlboros and Players I hardened myself against feeling so bad; nobody I knew ever smoked these brands. She doesnt know this, but it was Camels that my fatherher grandfathersmoked. But before he smoked “ready-mades”- when he was very young and very poor with eyes like lanterns- he smoked Prince Albert tobacco in cigarettes he rolled himself. I remember the bright-red tobacco tin, with a picture of Queen Victorias partner, Prince Albert, dressed in a black dress coat and carrying a walking stick. The tobacco was dark brown, pungent (刺鼻的), slightly bitter. I tasted it more than once as a child, and the old tins could be used for a number of things: to keep buttons and shoelaces in, to store seeds, and best of all, to hold worms for the rare times my father took us fishing. By the late forties and early fifties no one rolled his own anymore (and few women smoked) in my hometown in rural Georgia. The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both heroes and heroines smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly addicted to cigarettes. He never looked as high-class as Prince Albert, though; he continued to look like a poor, overweight, overworked colored man with too large a familyblack, with a very white cigarette stuck in his mouth. I began smoking in eleventh grade, also the year I drank numerous bottles of terrible sweet, very cheap wine. My friends and I, all boys for this venture, bought our supplies from a man who ran a segregated (隔离的) bar and liquor store on the outskirts of town. Over the entrance there was a large sign that said COLORED. We were not permitted to drink there, only to buy. I smoked Kools, because my sister did. By then I thought her smoke-darkened lips and teeth looked glamorous. However, my body simply would not tolerate smoke. After six months I had a constant sore throat. I gave up smoking, gladly. My father died from the poor mans friend, pneumonia, one hard winter when his usual lung troubles had left him low. I doubt he had much lung left at all, after coughing for so many years. He had so little breath that, during his last years, he was always leaning on something. I remembered once, at a family reunion, when my daughter was two, that my father picked her up for a minute - long enough for me to photograph them - but the effort was obvious. Near the very end of his life, and largely because he had no more lungs, he quit smoking. He gained a couple of pounds, but by then he was so slim that no one noticed. When I travel to Third World countries I see many people like my father and daughter. There are lots of large advertisement signs directed at them both: the tough, “take-charge” older man, the glamorous, “worldly” young woman, both puffing off. In these less developed countries, as in American ghettoes (贫民区) and on reservations, money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and addicting their children, eventually wiping themselves out. I read in the newspaper that cigarettes butts (烟蒂) are so toxic that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die. My daughter would like to quit, she says. We both know the statistics are against her; most people who try to quit smoking do not succeed. There is a deep hurt that I feel as a mother. Some days it is a feeling of uselessness. I remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant, how patiently I taught my daughter how to cross a street safely. For what, I sometimes wonder; so that she can gasp through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did? There is a quotation from a battered womens shelter (受丈夫虐待的妇女避难所) that I especially like: Peace on earth begins at home. I believe everything does. I think of a slogan for people trying to stop smoking: Every home is a no smoking zone. Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters those who must sit by, occasionally beg or complain, and helplessly watch. I realize now that as a child I sat by, through the years, and literally watched my father kill himself. For the rich white men who own the tobacco companies, surely one such victory in my family is enough. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1.The fact that her daughter smokes _the author.A) amazes B) amuses C) upsets D) inspires 2.Before he smoked ready-made cigarettes, the authors father_. A) rolled cigarettes himself B) smoked Prince Albert cigarettes C) was very healthy D) carried a walking stick 3.The author used the old tins for a number of things EXCPET_.A) to keep shoelaces B) to store seeds C) to keep buttons D) to fish worms 4.The author gave up smoking because _. A) she found drinking more glamorous B) it affected her health C) her fathers death shocked her D) her sister quitted . 5. The authors father quitted smoking because _.A) his lung troubles worsened. B) he became aware of the risks of smoking C) he hoped to gain weight D) he loved his family so much 6. In her travels, the author has found that in less developed countries many people _.A) persuade their children to smoke B) resist the temptation of smoking C) die of hunger and smoking D) go to the tobacco companies 7.According to paragraph 8, the author thinks her daughter _. A) is against quitting smoking. B) may fail to quit smoke C) is confident of success D) will keep her promise 8.Coupled with Holley movies in which hero and heroine _, the tobacco industry won over people who were addicted to cigarettes. 9. I remember I _ when I was pregnant and I taught my daughter patiently how to cross a street safely.10.Smoking is a form of _ that also batters those who must sit by.Part IIIListening Comprehension (略)(35 minutes)Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) trapped I)awareB) unawareJ)advance C) potentialK)roughly D) declare L)acknowledge E) harmM)drastic F) realizeN)casesG) fortunately O)seldomH) apply Although drinking licenses might seem a wide idea, I believe _47_ measures are needed. Licensing drinking would _48_the growing medical agreement that _49_ one drinker in 10 has a genetic inclination to addiction. In many _50_, future alcoholics are dangerously _51_ of their internal time bomb. They dont choose to become drunk, but once _52_ in the disease they can do enormous _53_ to other and themselves. Because some _54_ alcoholics wouldnt bother to _55_ for a drinking license, licensing would act as a screenpreventing a small percentage of the misery in _56_. Section BDirections:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.The Culture of Lead Time Advance notice is often referred to in America as lead time, an expression which is significant in a culture where schedules are important. While it is learned informally, most of us are familiar with how it works in our own culture, even though we cannot state the rules technically. The rules for lead time in other cultures, however, have rarely been analyzed. At the most they are known by experience to those who lived abroad for some time. Yet think how important it is to know how much time is required to prepare people, or for them to prepare themselves, for things to come. Sometimes lead time would seem to be very extended. At other times, in the Middle East, any period longer than a week may be too long. How troublesome differing ways of handling time can be is well illustrated by the case of an American agriculturalist assigned to duty as an attach of our embassy in a Latin country. After what seemed to him a suitable period he let it be known that he would like to call on the minister who was his counterpart. For various reasons, the suggested time was not suitable; all sorts of cues came back to the effect that the time was not yet ripe to visit the minister. Our friend, however, persisted and forced an appointment, which was reluctantly granted. Arriving a little before the hour (the American respect pattern), he waited. The hour came and passed; five minutes - ten minutes - fifteen minutes. At this point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office. This gave him the feeling that he had done something concrete and also helped to overcome the great anxiety that was stirring inside him. Twenty minutes - twenty-five minutes - thirty minutes - forty-five minutes (the insult period)! He jumped up and told the secretary that he had been cooling his heels in an outer office for forty-five minutes and he was damned sick and tired of this type of treatment. This message was relayed to the minister, who said, in effect, Let him cool his heels. The attachs stay in the country was not a happy one. The principal source of misunderstanding lay in the fact that in the country in question the five-minute delay interval was not significant. Forty-five minutes, on the other hand, instead of being at the tail end of the waiting scale, was just barely at the beginning. To suggest to an Americans secretary that perhaps her boss didnt know you were there after waiting sixty seconds would seem absurd, as would raising a storm about cooling your heels for five minutes. Yet this is precisely the way the minister registered the complaints of the American in his outer office! He felt, as usual, that Americans were being totally unreasonable. Throughout this unfortunate episode the attach was acting according to the way he had been brought up. At home in the United States his responses would have been normal ones and his behavior correct. Yet even if he had been told before he left home that this sort of thing would happen, he would have had difficulty not feeling insulted after he had been kept waiting for forty-five minutes. If, on the other hand, he had been taught the details of the local time system just as he should have been taught the local spoken language, it would have been possible for him to adjust himself accordingly.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。57. Lead time is an important concept of a persons culture that is _.A) learned casually and without planning B) vague because its rules have not been stated technically C) not taught formally in the classroom D) only learned through experience 58. For an American, having to wait 15 minutes for an interview is _.A) annoying B) frustrating C) tolerable D) unacceptable59. Which of the following has the same meaning as cooling his heels?A) Standing. B) Waiting. C) Sitting. D) Relaxing.60. In that particular Latin American country, letting people wait for 45 minutes is considered _.A) unreasonable B) impolite C) objectionable D) quite normal61. The American diplomat felt insulted because he _.A) was unaware of the local time systemB) did not adjust himself to the local life styleC) was not familiar with local tradition D) did not speak the local languagePassage TwoQuestions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.The Impact of Time Have you ever studied your calendar and wondered where the weeks and months went? Time seems to fly when we are too busy to be in the moment. If you want to be present for your life, slow down and create timelessness by engaging in activities that give you joy. In a book by Dr. Stephen Rechtschaffen, called Timeshifting: Creating More Time To Enjoy Your Life, the author states that 95 percent of us suffer from time poverty. This is when you feel frustrated, stressed, trapped and under constant pressure. You have the nagging feeling you should be engaged in something else and life seems to be slipping away. Our challenge with the pace of society begins when we are children. Children move to a different rhythm; at times they move fast, but when they discover something new and exciting, or something they love, they slow down and are present. Timelessness is a child at play. To children, the rhythm of society is a rude awakening. One morning I woke up late and raced through my morning trying to get my children ready for school. My preschooler was drawing with colored pencils and was lost in the moment of making beautiful art when I interrupted him. I grabbed the pencils and tossed them into a bag but not before he retaliated by screaming and throwing his paper. My oldest son was not impressed when I told him we had to go. I was at fault for pushing these children out of their rhythm. I should have given them more time. They have their whole lives to run at societys pace. Think about time and its impact on your life. If you conduct yourself as if you are driving 200 miles an hour and suddenly slow down to 50 miles an hour, you will feel major discomfort or may have an accident. If you work all day and life is hectic, what do you do when you get home? You turn on the television, computer or stereo to ease the transition and keep a similar rhythm that you experienced during the day. Going from chaos to a quiet environment is awkward. It is uncomfortable because we slow down and have time to reflect on our lives and challenges. Most of us prefer not to deal with inner conflicts, so we keep busy. We turn on technology and tune out. It is easier to keep busy in a society that emphasizes speed, efficiency, profits and results. We fear slowing down because a tougher economy means company downsizing and downsizing means eliminating inefficient workers. Slowing down is perceived to be a weakness and if we value our jobs, we will work longer and harder and give up our precious resource: free time. Slowing down need not be permanent. Rather it is a rest stop, like a break in music, a breath of fresh air. Slowing down allows us to recharge and restructure our world. It is necessary for balance and it is a challenge to impose. When you follow this path, have a network of family and friends for support. Find moments in each day to rest, stretch, exercise, meditate or do whatever you need to unwind. Choose activities that allow you to lose track of time. Set little goals for yourself and think of ways to improve. Read, ask others for suggestions and expect some setbacks. Your new life will not happen overnight but that is fine because it takes time to adjust to time escapes. Remember: Rome was not built in a day.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。62. If we want to relieve ourselves of the feeling of time poverty we should _. A) take time out to relax B) take our time in doing our work C) do things that we enjoy doing D) change our jobs63. For children, to be present is _. A) to move to different rhythms B) to enjoy themselves playingC) to live according to their own rhythm D) to play at a slower pace64. Why do most people turn on the technology after a long and tiring day? A) To avoid thinking about life and its problems.B) To enjoy watching TV or listening to the stereo.C) To adjust themselves to a slower pace of life. D) To make the best use of their time at home.65. Its easier to keep busy than to slow down because _. A) we are accustomed to working long hoursB) we dont want the economy to slow downC) we dont want to give up our free timeD) our society stresses efficiency and speed in our jobs66. Why is slowi