大一第二学期英语期末试卷

1、杭州师范大学外国语学院2008-2009学年第一学期期末考试大学英语III »考试试卷（A）（此卷适用于2007级本科学生，不包括音体美）命题教师：集体命题题号IIIIIIIVV总分得分得分Part I Listening Comprehension (共 20 分，每题 1 分) Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said

2、.Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question you hear.B) Twice a week.D) Four times a week.1. A) Once a week.C) Three times a week.2. A) He left his notes at home.B) He doesn ' t know where his notes are.C) He does

3、n ' t want to lend his notes to the woman.D) He agrees to lend her his notes.3. A) He will go in spite of the cold weather.B) He won ' t go since he is not feeling well.C) He will go when he feels better.D) He won' t go as he hasn4. A) Check the timetable. earlier.'t finished his wor

4、k.B) Go to the railway stationD) Cancel the tripB) In Boston.D) In Washington.C) Travel on a later train. earlier.5. A) In New York.C) In Newport.6. A) A clerk at the airport information desk.B) A clerk at the railway station information desk.C) A policeman.D) A taxi-driver.7. A) A guest and a recep

5、tionist.B) A passenger and an air hostess.C) A customer and a shop assistant.D) A guest and a waitress.8. A) He s better.B) He s feeling worse.C) He s sick in bed.D) He has recovered.9. A) The man didn t want the woman to have her hair cut.B) The woman followed the man s advice.C) The woman is weari

6、ng long hair now.D) The man didn t care if the woman had her hair cut or not.He will return from Paris in two weeks.E) He is studying French in Paris.F) He is having a vacation in Paris.G) He is planning to go back to Paris in a year.Section B PassagesDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 sho

7、rt passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a

8、single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.Washing plates.B) Clearing tables.C) Shining shoes.D) Sweeping the floor.He must work six days a week.B) He should never be late for work.C) He must study hard in his spare time.D) He should not

9、 bring his friends to the restaurant.To pay him for his work.B) To let him have 3 meals a day in the restaurant.C) To give his friends free drinks.D) To allow him to have more free time.Because the boy was not a full-time worker.B) Because the boy had made some mistakes.C) Because he thought the boy

10、 had failed to meet his requirements.D) Because he thought it was his son who should pay him.Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.Watching traditional plays.B) Visiting the magnificent libraries.C) Boating on the river.D) Cycling in narrow streets.There are many

11、 visitors there.B) There are many students there.C) There are many old streets there.D) There are many bicycles there.He thinks the city is too crowded.B) He likes the place very much.C) He thinks the streets are too narrow.D) He admires the comfortable life of the students there.Passage ThreeQuesti

12、ons 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.He was good at writing about interesting people.B) It was much easier to write stories about people.C) He believed that people are always easier to learn about other people.D) He thought people played an important role in world events.Action.

13、 B) World News. C) Enterprise. D) Faces and places.He is a sportsman.B) He is an actor.C) He is a photographer.得分（共10分，每题分）D) He is a publisher.Part II Vocabulary and StructureDirections:There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For eachsentence, there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D)

14、 Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.21. A _ is a threat to some big cities.A) hunger B) starveC) famineD) fame22. Mark often attempts to escape whenever he breaks trafficregulations.A) having been finedB) to be finedC) to ha

15、ve been finedD) being fined23. I would never have a court of law if I hadn t been so desperate.A) sought forB) accounted forC) turned upD) resorted to24. We must not touch this switch under any_ .A) situation B) giantC) circumstances D) civilization25. They incorporated her suggestions their plans.A

16、) toB) intoC) atD) for26. These excursions will give you an even deeper into our languageand culture.A) inquiry B) investigation C) inputD) insight27. We must learn to see things in their rightand avoid makingmistakes.A) prospective B) prosperity C) perspective D) permissive28. They _the dam with sa

17、ndbags when the flood came.A) enlargedB) multiplied C) increasedD)reinforced29. Writing is a slow process, requiring thought, time, and effort.A) significantB) considerable C) enormousD)numerous30. The old couple decided to a boy and a girl though they hadthree children of their own.A) adaptB) bring

18、 C) receiveD) adoptis a little bit difficult for the old couple to on such a smallpension.A) take offB) get off C) take byD) get by32. Teachers will not cheating on exam.A) literateB) considerate C) decorateD) tolerate33. The little girl is a pretty young woman.A) growing out B) growing into C) grow

19、ing upD) growingfrom34. Slavery was not finally in the British Empire until 1833.A) advanced B) addicted C) abolishedD) appreciated35. My neighbor was arrested this morning because the police himof carrying out two bomb attacks.A) doubted B) suspicious C) suspectedD) was doubt36. After four election

20、 defeats, the Labor Party once again faces the painful task of reconstruction.A) successive B) successful C) succeedingD) succeeded37. The teacher tries to on his students the necessity of beinghonest.A) expressB) expression C) impressiveD) impress38. His bad English is a to his getting a job.A) clu

21、bB) pubC) barnD) bar39. These flowers were for you but my mother thought they werefor her,A) intentionalB)intended C)intentD) intending40. Doctors are required to keep patients ' records completely.A) confidence B)confidential C) confidentD)confidentlyPart III Reading Comprehension (共30分，每题 2分)得

22、分Directions: There are 3 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Passage OneQuestions

23、41 to 45 are based on the following passage.Cathy and Wayneare in their late 20' s, have been married five years, and are childless. The last time a memberof Cathy' s family asked, “When are you going to start a family " her answer w as, “We re a family! ”Cathy and Wayne belong to a gro

24、wing number of young married couples who are deciding not to have children. A recent survey showed that in the last five years the percentage of wives aged 25 to 29 who did not want children had almost doubled. What lies behind this decision which seems to fly in the face of biology and societyPerha

25、ps the most publicly outspoken childless couple are Ellen Peck and her husband William. They are not against parenthood but against the social pressures that push people into parenthood whether it is what they really want or not.“It ' s a life - style choice, “ Ellen says. "We chose freedom

26、 and spontaneity (自发性)，privacy (清静)and leisure. It ' s also a question of where you want to give your efforts within your ownfamily or in the larger community. This generation faces serious questions about the continuity of life on earth as well as its quality. Our grandchildren may have to buy

27、tickets to see the last redwoods (红杉)or line up to get their oxygen ration (氧气量).There are menwhocomplain about being caught in a traffic jam for hours on their way home to their five kids but can' t make theassociation between the children and the traffic jam. In a world seriously threatened by

28、 the consequences of overpopulation we r e concerned with making life without children acceptable and respectable. Too many children are born as a result of cultural pressure. And the results show up in the statistics on divorce and child-abuse. ”41. What does the memberof Cathy s family meanby sayi

29、ng “Whenare you going to start a family ”A) When are you going to have childrenB) When are you going to get marriedC) When are you going to buy a houseD) When are you going to move to a new house42. The number of childless young couples .A) is decreasingB) is increasingC) has more than doubledD) rem

30、ains unchanged43. “To fly in the face of ” in the second paragraph means .A) to run into B) to come across C) to follow D) to go against44. Which of the following statements is true of the PecksA) They propose that young couples have no children.B) They urge that family planning be made obligatory.C

31、) They think that no pressure should be put on young couples who do not want children.D) They think that there would be no divorce or child-abuse if young couples are not pressured into parenthood.45. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of overpopulation mentioned in this passageA) Traffic j

32、am.B) The using up of precious natural resources.C) The lowering of the quality of life.D) War.Passage TwoQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Psychologists now believe that noise has a considerable effect on People's attitudes and behavior. Experiments have proved that in noisy

33、 situations (even temporary ones), people may act more irritably and less cooperatively; in more permanent noisy situations, many people cannot work hard, and they suffer from severe anxiety as well as other psychological problems. However, psychologists distinguish between "sound" and &qu

34、ot;noise". "Sound" is measured physically in decibels. "Noise" cannot be measured in the sameway because it refers to the psychological effect of sound and its level of "intensity" depends on the situation. Thus, for passengers at an airport who expect to hear airp

35、lanes taking off and landing, there may be a lot of sound, but not much noise (that is, they are not bothered by the noise). By contrast, if you are at a concert and two people behind you are whispering, you feel they are talking noisily even if there is not much sound. You notice the noise because

36、it affects you psychologically. Bothsound and noise can have negativeeffects, but what is most important is if the person has control over the sound. People walking down the street with earphones, listening to music that they enjoy, are receiving a lot of decibels of sound, but they are probably hap

37、py hearing sounds which they control. On the other hand, people in the street without earphones must tolerate a lot of noise which they have no control over. It is noise pollution that we need to control in order to help people live more happily.46. According to the passage, people.A) can not work b

38、etter in a noisy situationB) will suffer from complete deafness because of noise pollutionC) can be psychologically affected by working in very noise factoriesD) may cooperate well in a noisy surrounding47. "Sound” , as defined by the psychologist,.A) can be measured in the same way that "

39、noise" is measuredB) may be extremely harmful to healthC) is not at all different from "noise"D) can be measured by machines48. People waiting at an airport.A) enjoy hearing airplanes taking off and landingB) are usually not troubled by the noiseC) can easily tell sound from noiseD) a

40、re often physically affected by the noise49. People enjoy listening to music,.A) though they are receiving a lot of decibels of sound in factB) because it does not have any negative effectC) because they do not have to tolerate the noise around themD) even though it is sometimes unpleasant hearing s

41、trange sounds50. We can conclude from the passage that we need to control noise pollution if .A) we want to stay both psychologically and physically healthyB) we don't want to be physically dentC) we want to cooperate wellD) we don't want to be anxiousPassage ThreeQuestions 51 to 55 are base

42、d on the following passage.Representatives of Callahan Media Associates (CMA) announced today that the news agency would attempt to buy the National Broadcasting System (NBS), the second largest television and radio network in the United States. Ronald Callahan, son of Jessica Callahan, who started

43、CMA, told reporters that he expects his company's offering price to be high enough to win out over other offers. Heindicated that NBSexecutives had already discussed reorganization plans that might result from a CMA takeover.A native of the United Kingdom, Jessica Callahan began to buy newspaper

44、s, magazines, and radio stations in the United States eight years ago, and CMA now owns or controls more than fifteen news organizations here. Before she became a leader in media in this country, she had established her family-owned companyas one of the most important forces in British TV and newspa

45、pers. Callahan started her news career more than twenty-five years ago, and she had worked as a reporter on three different papers when she took the job of editor of England's Birmingham Herald (伯 明 汉 先 驱 报 ), a newspaper that had been experiencing financial difficulties for several years. Her s

46、uccess in raising the news reporting standards as well as making the Herald into a profitable business gained Callahan the attention and respect of the British news establishment. By the time she was 35, she had become a publisher and started CMA, which is now one of the largest media organizations

47、in the world.Callahan had never visited the United States before she came to Miami and becamethe publisher of the Miami Journal almost eight years ago, but she had been reading the newspaper for several years, and she said that she liked the paper's style. After she had owned the Journal for jus

48、t over a year, she bought a small radio station in Georgia, and in the next five years she went on to acquire news organizations in several different parts of the country.If CMAbecomesthe owner of NBS, for the first time it will have control over a nationwide TV network. In an interview last week, P

49、hilip Rosen, the president of NBS, said that he was not very happy about the purchase. He agreed that Callahan and CMAhad done a lot to help American newspapers become more financially secure, but he expressed fears that the new managementwas going to makenews coverage on NBSirresponsible. He stated

50、 that he hoped he could remain with NBSbut said that this might not be possible.51. The writer thinks that CMA's offer to buy the National Broadcasting System is probably .A) The only oneB) a good oneC) unacceptably lowD) of great competition52. Jessica Callahan captured the confidence of the pr

51、ess after she became the editor of Birmingham Herald because .A) she was experiencedB) she had strong financial backgroundC) since then it started to make moneyD) she enjoyed good popularity53. Jessica Callahan has never .A) visited the United StatesB) owned a national TV networkC) worked as an edit

52、orD) read the Miami Journal54. The attitude of NBStop executive to the CMAtakeover was that .A) he was opposed to the purchaseB) he hoped the takeover would not affect the system's fameC) he was afraid NBS would suffer serious financial loss D) he could not leave his present positionof the follo

53、wing can be the best title for this passageA) Jessica Callahan - a Successful WomanB) CMA - from British to USAC) CMA Buying NBS?得分D) CMA's Attractive Offer to NBSPart IV Cloze（ 共 10 分，每题分）Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A),

54、B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.There are more than forty universities in Britainnearly twice asmanyas in 1960. During the 1960s eight completely new ones were founded, and

55、ten other new ones were created 56 converting old colleges of technology into universities. In the same period the 57 of students more than doubled, from 70000 to 58 than 200,000. By 1973 about 10% of men aged from eighteen 59 twenty-one were in universities and about 5% of women.All the universitie

56、s are private institutions. Each has its 60 governing councils, 61 some local businessmen and local politicians as 62 a few academics. The state began to give grants to them fifty years 63 , and by 1970 each university derived nearly all its 64 from state grants. Students have to 65 fees and living

57、costs, but every student mayreceive from the local authority of the place 66 he lives a personal grant which is enough to pay his full costs, including lodging and 67 unless his parents are 68 . Most 69 take jobs in the summer 70 about six weeks, but they do not normally do outside 71 during the academic year. The Department of Education takes 72 for the payment which cover the whole expenditure of the 73 , but it does not exercise di