大学英语试题

1、窗体顶端姓名：_    班级：_   学号：_    日期：_     unit 9 vocabulary & reading试卷编号： unit9readingquiz考试时间： 120 分钟满分： 100 分 Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze)     (Each item: 1) Directions:Fill

2、in the blanks in the following passage(s) by selecting suitable words/expressions from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words/expressions more than once. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.I get the sense that students confuse success in school with success in life. Studen

3、ts learn how to study and how to get better grades in classes or 1. better on tests. And so they do. Unfortunately, and disturbingly, they 2. to mistake a false target for a truer one. It is not better grades that students should be putting 3. effort into. Neither should they 4. themselves with the

4、numerous tests that they take. For these tests 5. only to help them learn course material. And this material exists only to help them learn things that will be useful in life outside of the university. So then, while in the university, students should be 6. themselves for a prosperous future, instea

5、d of working to improve classroom performance. Instead of 7. good grades your goal, try to learn skills that will help you later on. Become 8. in a foreign language or two. You could also learn mechanics or navigation, anything that will 9. to the workplace. It is impossible for me to predict with c

6、ertainty whether concentrating on 10. your abilities rather than focusing on your school grades will lead to a more productive and enjoyable future. However, in the instances in which I am familiar, people who focused on abilities rather than grades were infinitely more successful. Questions 11 to 2

7、0 are based on the following passage.Happy is the man who acquires the habit of reading when he is young. He has 11. a lifelong source of pleasure, instructions, and inspiration. The blessings which the reading habit confers on (赋予) its possessor are many. 12. we choose the right kind of books, read

8、ing gives the highest kind of 13. . Some books we read simply for pleasure and 14. , for example, good novels. When we are tired, or the brain is weary with serious study, it is a healthy recreation to lose ourselves in some 15. story written by a master hand. But to read nothing but books of fictio

9、n is like eating nothing but cakes and sweetmeats (糖果). As we need plain whole some food for the body, so we must have serious reading for the mind. And here we can choose according to our taste. There are many noble books on history, biography, 16. and science which we ought to read, and which will

10、 give us not only pleasure but a(n) 17. . And we can develop a taste for serious reading. So that in the end it will give more solid pleasure than even novel and books of fiction. Nor should poetry be neglected, for the best poetry gives us noble 18. and beautiful imaginings clothed in lovely and mu

11、sical language. Books are the most 19. of friends. Our friends may change, or die, but our books are always 20. waiting to talk to us. They are never cross, peevish (易怒的), or unwilling to converse, as our friends sometimes are. No wonder a reader becomes a "book-lover".   Part 2 Cloze

12、 (with Options)     (Each item: 0.5) Directions:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the choices.Questions 21 to 40 are based on the following passage.Nowadays most people decide quite 21. what kind of work they would do. When I was at school, we h

13、ad to choose 22. when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. " 23. , scientists will earn a lot of money," my parents said. 24. I tried to learn physics and chemistry, but in the 25. I decided that I 26. a scientist. It was a long time 27. I told my parents that I wasn't happy a

14、t school. "I didn't think you were," said my mother. 28. ," said my father. "Well, the best thing to do now is to look for a job." I 29. about it with my friends Frank and Lesley. 30. of them 31. suggest anything, but they promised that they would ask their friends. A fe

15、w days later 32. I was still in bed, 33. telephoned. "Is that Miss Jenkins?" a man's voice asked. "I 34. your hobby is photography and I've got a job that might interest you in my clothes factory. My name is Mr. Thomson." He seemed pleasant on the phone 35. I went to see

16、him. I was so excited that I almost forgot 36. goodbye, "Good luck!" my mother said to me. I arrived 37. early and when Mr. Thomson came he asked me if I 38. waiting a long time. "No, not long." I replied. After talking to me for about twenty minutes he 39. me a job-not as a phot

17、ographer though, 40. a model! Questions 41 to 60 are based on the following passage.Honoré de Balzac, the famous French writer, was a man of many accomplishments. In his own 41. , one of his main accomplishments was his ability 42. a student of handwriting. He had spent much time 43. this subje

18、ct, and he often told his friends that he could 44. describe a person's character from a 45. of that person's handwriting. One day, a woman friend 46. him a sample of a boy's 47. . She said that she wanted 48. what Balzac thought of the boy's character. Balzac studied the handwriting

19、 carefully 49. a few minutes. Then he looked at the woman 50. . The woman, however, told him that the boy was no 51. of hers and that he could 52. her the truth. "Good!" said Balzac. "Then I can speak 53. ." He then went on 54. that he thought the boy was a 55. and lazy person. H

20、e added that the boy should be 56. carefully, otherwise, he 57. grow up to bring disgrace 58. his family. "Isn't that strange?" said the woman, 59. . "Because this happens to be a page 60. your own copybook, which you yourself used when you were a boy."   Part 3 Skimming

21、 and Scanning (True/False)     (Each item: 1) Directions:Read the following passage. Then decide whether the following statements are True or False.Questions 61 to 65 are based on the same passage or dialog.Time limitation: 3 minutes and 48 seconds A scandal (丑闻) at the Universit

22、y of Virginia last week has focused attention on the battle against copying from the Internet, which has made cheating (欺骗) in the Information Age easier, faster and-until now-harder to catch. In one case, 122 students are guilty of copying information for a physics exam. They could be expelled (开除)

23、 or lose their recently earned degrees from the school in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Suspicion (怀疑) surfaced when a student who scored poorly on a paper complained to physics Professor Louis Bloomfield that some people were getting better grades by copying others' work. Bloomfield created

24、 a computer program to search for similar phrasing of six consecutive (连续的) words or more. He ran 1,500 term papers handed in by email over the last few years through the program and found 122 had similar wording-including 60 papers that were nearly the same. His widely reported findings illustrate

25、how some have taken advantage of the online world. "The school is really struggling with this issue of how easy it is to copy from the Net," said Wendy Robinson, who teaches an "Ethics（道德）and the Internet" course at Duke University. "It really runs wild on campuses." At

26、 the urging of university officials, more than a dozen states have fought back by passing laws against the sale of term papers that can be passed off as students' own work. 61.A professor at a university not only has to teach but, according to this passage, has to watch out for people who are no

27、t honest.TF62.Professor Bloomfield learned about dishonest students through a report from other students.TF63.According to the author's opinion, Bloomfield's findings show that dishonest students in the information age are easy to catch.TF64.The University of Virginia students who copied pap

28、ers were kicked out.TF65.To make sure that you do not get caught copying papers you should make sure no more than five consecutive words are copied at a time.TF  Part 4 Skimming and Scanning (Short Asnwer)     (Each item: 1) Directions:Read the following passage. Then fill i

29、n the blanks to complete the statements that follow the passage.Questions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage.Time limit: 4 minutes and 12 seconds Many people do not think of trees as a crop. But Christmas trees are a crop just like any other. In the United States alone, people last year bou

30、ght more than one thousand million dollars worth of Christmas trees. The usual tree for the holiday is a fir (冷杉), spruce (云杉), or pine. They stay green all year, and are called evergreens. They have thin needles instead of leaves, preventing the loss of water during dry or cold periods. This qualit

31、y makes evergreens the perfect choice. In fact, they can stay green for many weeks, even after being cut. The trees take an average of seven years to grow until they are ready for harvest. Every year, more than seventy million Christmas trees are planted. Growers plant at least two new trees for eve

32、ry one they harvest. The Agriculture Department says eighty percent of homes in the United States have some kind of Christmas tree. Unlike other crops, Christmas trees have a competitor (竞争者) made of plastic. They never turn brown, and can be used from year to year. In 1989, sales of natural trees a

33、nd artificial (人工的) trees were equal. By the year 2000, however, sixty-one percent of all trees sold were plastic. The number of real Christmas trees sold has decreased in recent years. It is not surprising that fewer hectares (公顷) are being planted in Canada. But the price of real Christmas trees h

34、as continued to increase. The average tree now costs about thirty-six dollars. 66.In the West, the Christmas tree is regarded as a crop because _.67.The fir, pine, and spruce are called "evergreens" because they _.68.It can be understood that people in the U.S.A. buy Christmas trees becaus

35、e they want to _.69.Nowadays, most of the Christmas trees Americans buy are made of _.70.Even though people are buying fewer trees, the price of trees has _.  Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)     (Each item: 2) Directions:Read the following passages carefully a

36、nd choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Questions 71 to 75 are based on the same passage or dialog.The Last Book? 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

37、book lovers. After all, MIT devotes itself mainly to 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

38、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 cov

39、er them beautifully, or place them on bookshelves in the way the English writer Anthony Powell described in his book. But hold everything! The news is far from bad. The book of the future described to me on a visit to MIT is really a book, just like any other. It has a cover that could be made of an

40、ything you want, 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 th

41、e capacity of the book's memory grows, whole libraries may be added. 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 c

42、ould 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 publi

43、shed 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 fin

44、al 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. 71.In the third sentence

45、of Paragraph 2 the word "decidedly" means _.A. certainlyB. importantlyC. necessarilyD. easily72.One can imagine that in his book, the English writer Anthony Powell described a book as _.A. a thing of beautyB. a piece of breadC. a valuable thingD. a waste73.The sentence "But hold every

46、thing!" in Paragraph 4 means "_".A. Please try to get everythingB. Please don't not jump to conclusionsC. Please have a look at everythingD. Please control yourself74.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

47、 carried to whatever place you like.D. It has memory.75.Which of the following is True according to the passage?A. The last book is much more 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 long

48、er time to publish a last book.Questions 76 to 80 are based on the same passage or dialog.British writer Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel Childhood's End describes a future world society. The following is part of his description. By the standards (标准) of all earlier ages, it was Utop

49、ia (a perfect society). Ignorance, disease, poverty(贫穷), and fear had actually stopped existing. The memory of war was fading into the past as a bad dream disappears with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of all living men. With the energies of society going to construction sites, t

50、he face of the world had been remade. It was a new world. Production had become largely automatic: the robot (机器人) factories produced goods in such unending production lines that all the ordinary goods of life were practically free. Men worked in the interest of the comfort they wanted; or they did

51、not work at all. It was one world, although the old names of the old countries were still used. There was no one on earth who could not speak English, who could not read, who was not within range of a television set, who could not visit the other side of the world within twenty-four hours. Crime had

52、 almost disappeared. It had become both unnecessary and impossible. When no one lacks anything, there is no point in stealing. One of the most obvious changes had been a slowing down of the mad speed that had so described (赋予.特征) the twentieth century. Life was freer than it had been for generations

53、. It, therefore, had less competing for the few, but more peace for the many. Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing wrong with relaxing (休闲) as long as it did not fall into ordinary laziness. Education was now much more thorough and much more

54、 common. Few people left college before twenty-and that was merely the first stage, since they usually returned again at twenty-five for at least three more years, after travel and experience had broadened their minds. Even then, they would probably take review courses at times for the rest of their

55、 lives in the subjects that particularly interested them. Another great change was the great moving ability of the new society. Thanks to the efficiency of air transport, everyone was free to go anywhere at a moment's notice. There was more room in the skies than there had ever been on the roads

56、, and the twenty-first century had repeated, to a large degree, the great American achievement of putting a nation on wheels. It had given wings to the world. There were plenty of specialists, but few creative workers broadening the areas of human knowledge. Curiosity remained, and the free time to

57、enjoy it, but the heart had been taken out of original scientific research. It seemed fruitless to spend a lifetime searching for secrets that the great creators had probably found ages before. 76.In the last sentence of the first paragraph the word "it" refers to _.A. the memory of warB.

58、the warC. the bad dreamD. the past77.The phrase "With the energies of society going to construction sites" (Para. 3) means that _.A. when workers go to the building sitesB. when workers put all their efforts into buildingC. when workers put all their energies into building factoriesD. when

59、 workers use all the energies on the construction sites78.Education in the future will be _.A. more interestingB. particularly interestingC. more common but less freeD. more complete and free79.Which of the following is NOT true of the future world according to the passage?A. People will seldom experience war.B. There will be no stealing.C. English will be th