华东师大辅修专业英语资料第一学期期末考试样卷

华东师范大学二专考试样卷

课程名称：____综合英语_______

学生姓名：_______________ 学号：___________

专业：_英语__________ 年级/班级：__________

课程性质：第二专业

I．Fill in blanks with the words from the following box. ( 15分，每题1分)

1. For a moment the news put her in a mood.

2. The exhausted dishwasher felt dismayed at the sight of the _________plates high in the sink.

3. In an attempt to rebuild the local economy, the city council decided to_________ those regulations that would hinder foreign investment.

4. Computer science is said to be the science of the young. You see, new technologies come out .

5. The artist the pretentious businessman who offered to buy his new painting.

6. Music was one of the things which Beethoven to the last minute of his life.

7. The instrument is obviously a piece of wood.

8. Beyond the pond is a white pagoda, whose is reflected in the emerald green water.

9. Movies that are nothing but of sentimental love have little appeal to today’s audience.

10. Travelling to remote areas, or even to unhabitated regions has become a ___________among city dwellers.

11. Language students should, first of all, the misconception that they can learn a language with clear and ultimate success.

12. The company director claimed that such criticism was and unjust.

13. The of getting a scholarship has kept me awake all night.

14. On October 21, a cold, day, I went outdoors for my early-morning chores.

15. It is not to find someone to release the bird down south.

II Cloze ( 20分，每题1分)

In the United States, conducting opinion polls is very popular. A newspaper, a magazine, a TV station,r 1 r a professional polling organization asks a representative group of Americans several questions to determine r 2 their opinions are about a given topic. The people r 3 r for the poll are supposed to represent a broad cross-section of the American population.r 4 r, the pollsters choose men and women of different r 5 r, occupations, and races r 6 r the same proportion that these groups are found in the population. Sometimes, however,r7 r samples are taken r8 r pick people by chance. Both methods are designed to learn r9 r the average person, sometimes called “the man r10 r”, believes.

Polls are very popular around election time r11 r everyone wants to know which candidate is r12 r in the race and what the voters are thinking about the key issues of the r13 r. Many politicians have their own polling organizations to keep them in constant touch r14 r public opinion. There are three well-known polling organizations which r15 ublic opinion on a variety of topics: Louise Harris and Associates, the

Roper Organization, and Gallup International Research Institutes. A poll r16 r by these groups is r17 r referred to 18 r“a Harris poll”, “a Roper poll”, or “a r19 r poll”. Results of different polling organizations on r20 r topics may be found in magazine called Public Opinion.

1. A) or B) and C) / D) except

2. A ) that B) what C) if D) where

3. A) choosing B) having chosen C) chosen D) choose

4. A) So to speak B) To say nothing of that

C) Not to mention that D ) To say nothing of that

5. A) careers B) ages

C) status D) nationalities

6. A) on B) at C) to D) in

7. A) chosen B) casual C) random D) chance

8. A) and B) to C) so as to D) which

9. A) whom B) what C) if D) which

10. A) in the street B) on the road C) on the street D) In the road

11. A) because B) for C) although D) if

12. A) winner B) loser C) ahead D) behind

13. A) battle B) campaign

C) movement D) competition

14. A) to B) along C) in D) with

15. A) measure B) influence C) check D) dominate

16. A) organized B) arranged C) conducted D) planned

17. A) greatly B) popularly

C) lovingly D) considerably

18. A) be B) say C) for D) as

19. A) Associates B) Organization

C) Gallup D) International

20. A) diverse B) wide C) daily D) special

III Choice ( 30分，每题1分)

1. The thieves planned to __________ the messenger.

A) interrupt B) intervene

C) interfere D) intercept

2. He gave a brief __________ of the history of the university before the opening of the

conference.

A) reference B) statement

C) account D) comment

3. He is __________ because of lack of sleep.

A) drooling B) drowsy

C) drooping D) dropping

4. He was able to __________his small income by working in a bar at night.

A) multiply B) amplify

C) accumulate D) supplement

5. Our research has focused on a drug which is so __________ as to be able to change

brain chemistry.

A) potent B) influential

C) powerful D) energetic

6. They decided to __________ the traffic away from the affected areas.

A) shift B) adjust C) divert D) change

7. A safety analysis __________ the target as a potential danger. Unfortunately, it was

never done.

A) would identify B) will identify

C) would have identified D) will have identified

8. In the past, most foresters have been men, but today, the number of women

__________ this field is climbing.

A) engaging B) devoting

C) registering D) pursuing

9. The engine has more than 3000 __________, made of a number of different

materials.

A) composition B) compounds

C) constitutions D) components

10. In Russia, working wives have been the __________ throughout the Soviet ear.

A) case B) criterion C) norm D) standard

11. Just as the soil is a part of the earth, __________ the atmosphere.

A) as it is B) the same is

C) so is D) and so is

12.The news, though not wholly bad, was so __________ that I could no longer

concentrate on my work.

A) disastrous B) anxious

C) regretful D) disturbing

13. There are several possible explanations for the greater job __________ in Japan in

contrast to the greater job mobility in the United States.

A) creativity B) security

C) sensitivity D) stability

14. Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is __________ loud

continuous noise.

A) subject to B) filled with

C) associated with D) attached to

15. The man’s confession hardly seems __________ .

A) credible B) incredible

C) credential D) credulous

16. There are some words in Chinese that have no exact __________ in English.

A) equality B) equations

C) equities D) equivalents

17. Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is

his insistence that it __________ in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.

A) is to be analyzed B) has been analyzed

C) be analyzed D) should have been analyzed

18. The young offender was released in __________ of his good behavior.

A) case B) way C) view D) even

19. Those students have particular problems __________ to living in Britain.

A) acknowledgment B) adjusting

C) amusement D) announcement

20. __________ , he would not have recovered so quickly.

A) Had not he been taken good care of B) Hadn’t he been taken good care of

C) Had he been not taken good care of D) Had he not been taken good care of

21. It was not until she arrived in class __________ she realized she had forgotten her

book.

A) and B) then C) when D) that

22. John ______ a restless person. He kept moving from country to country.

A) must be B) should be

C) must have been D) should have been

23. Ted has told me that he always escapes __________ as he has a very fast sports car.

A) to fine B) to be fined

C) being fined D) having been fined

24. Foolish pride is considered as __________ .

A) dismay B) mischief C) disgust D) vanity

25. The river is already __________ its banks because of excessive rainfall; and the city

is threatened with a likely flood.

A) parallel to B) level in

C) flat on D) flush with

26. The color TV set that you bought at a lower price is __________ the one that we

bought at a slightly higher price.

A) inferior to B) more inferior to

C) more inferior than D) inferior than

27. To get a better view of the landscape outside the window, __________ .

A) our seats had to be changed B) our seats were to be changed

C) we had to change our seats D) our seats were changed by us

28. It is of the utmost importance that gasoline __________ smoothly in the engine if it is

to function properly.

A) burns B) burn C) would burn D) has burned

29. Is there any hope of __________ the banner?

A) Xiao Liu’s group’s winning B) Xiao Liu group’s winning

C) Xiao Liu group winning D) Xiao Liu’s group winning

30. The student in the dormitories were forbidden, unless they had special passes,

__________ after 11 p.m.

A) staying out B) by staying out

C) to stay out D) from staying out

IV Reading Comprehension ( 20分，每题1分)

TEXT A

Basic to any understanding of Canada in the twenty years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930’s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950’s supported a growth in the population, but the expa nsion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood as 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.

After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 if stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling into step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time to the Industrial Revolution.

Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 ( the increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be compared to the children of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.

1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A) Educational changes in Canadian society.

B) Canada during the Second World War.

C) Population trends in postwar Canada

D) Standards of living in Canada

2. According to the passage, when did Canada’s baby boom begin?

A) In the decade after 1911.

B) After 1945.

C) During t he depression of the 1930’s.

D) In 1966.

3. When was the birth rate in Canada at its lowest postwar level?

A) 1951. B) 1956. C) 1957. D)1966.

4. Which of the following is not a cause of the decline in population growth after 1957?

A) Young people received more education.

B) Numerous marriages ended in divorce.

C) Living standards kept rising.

D) Young married couples spent most of their money on cars and houses.

5. The word “It” in line 3 of the last paragraph refers to .

A) “the horizon”

B) “nine percent”

C) “the growth in Canada’s population”

D) “another large population wave”

TEXT B

Tomorrow evening about twenty million Americans will be shown, on their television screens, how easy it is to steal plutonium and produce “the mo st terrifying blackmail weapon ever devised”; a home made atomic bomb

They will be told that no commercial nuclear plant in the United States, and probably in the world, is adequately protected against a well planned armed attack by terrorists, and that there is enough information on public record to guide a nuclear thief not only to the vaults of nuclear plants where plutonium is stored, but also to tell him how the doors of those vaults are designed.

The hour-long television program, “The Plutonium Connection”, makes its point by showing how a 20-year-old student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in five weeks designed an atomic bomb composed of plutonium and parts from a hardware store.

The young man, whose identity is being kept secret for fear that he may be kidnapped by terrorists, is quoted as saying: “I was pretty surprised about how easy it is to design a bomb. When I was working on my design, I kept thinking there’s got to be more to it than this, but actually there isn’t. It’s simple.”

The student worked alone, using information he obtained from science libraries open to the public. The television program, produced for non-commercial stations across the country by a Boston educational station, shows how quantities of other “secret” information are available to anyone.

The Atomic Energy Commission’s public reading room in Washington is described by the narrator as “the first place a bomb-designer would visit when he was planning his plutonium theft. On file there and freely available are the plans for every civilian nuclear installation in the country.”

The program seems certain to create enormous controversy, not only over the lack of nuclear safeguards, but also over the morality of commissioning the student to design a bomb and the wisdom of drawing attention to the ways that a nuclear thief can work.

Even an official of the Public Broadcasting System, which is distributing the TV program, confessed to qualms; “It’s a terribly important subject, and people should know about the dangers, bu t I can’t help wondering if the program won’t give someone ideas.”

“The Plutonium Connection” explain, for example, that the security system of nuclear plants were all designed to prevent sabotage by perhaps one or two agents of some foreign power, but now this appears less of a hazard than the possibilities of an attack by an armed band of terrorists with dedicated disregard for their own lives.

The program discussed two major plutonium reprocessing plants in the US; one already operating in Oklahoma, one being completed in South Carolina, neither of which has more than a handful of armed guards to supplement the alarms, fences and gun-detectors that Government security requires. Both are in such remote areas that it would take at least 45 minutes for a sizable police force to be assembles, if there were an attack.

An official of the South Carolina plant, a joint operation of Allied Chemical, Gulf Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, admits to television viewers that the “system we’ve designed would probably not preve nt” a band of about twelve armed terrorists from entering.

Pilfering plutonium is even easier, the program suggests. Despite constant inventories, there are inevitably particles of plutonium unaccounted for, (about 11 a month at the Oklahoma plant, owned by the Kerr-McGee oil company, which in a year adds up to enough to make an atomic bomb It is suggested that pilfering would be even easier if instrument technicians were unscrupulous enough to alter their measuring devices.

The television film also shows radioactive fuel being transported to nuclear processing plants in commercial armored cars. As a safety measure, US drivers of such cars are ordered to contact headquarters by radio telephone every two hours, but the equipment is “cumbersome and unreliable”, and in difficult terrain there are radio blackout areas.

The programme ends with a warning from Dr. Theodore Taylor, a former Atomic Energy Commission officer who has long contended that any person of modest technical ability could make an atomic bomb, “If we don’t get this problem under international control with the next five or six years, there is a good chance that it will be permanently out of control.”

6. The student found out how to design an atomic bomb .

A) during his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B) from information available on TV program

C) from information he found in science libraries

D) at a hardware store

7. It would be very easy to attack the plutonium reprocessing plants

because .

A) the plants are not properly safeguarded

B) the local police are not efficient enough

C) plutonium has been stolen before

D) they were badly designed

8. The underlined “ this” in line 3, paragraph 9 refers to .

A) a foreign power

B) the security system of some nuclear plants

C) sabotage by a foreign power

D) the attack by terrorists

9. What information will NOT be included in tomorrow’s TV program?

A) How the student designed the atomic bomb.

B) How technicians are bribed by foreign powers.

C) How one can get the necessary information about making atomic bombs in public

reading rooms.

D)How radioactive fuel is transported to nuclear processing plants.

TEXT C

Mental deterioration is by no means an inevitable consequence of aging, but it is common enough to be a significant public-health problem. Experts estimate that 15% of people over the age of 65 have some mental impairment; of these, about 5%, or more than a million in total, -are so seriously affected that they can no longer care for them selves. Approximately half of the 15% have Alzheimer’s disease, a disorder that is marked by progressive deterioration of memory, learning and judgment. No one knows its underlying cause, but some tantalizing clues have been found.

For example, the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients may contain ten to thirty times the normal amounts of aluminum, which can be toxic to nerve cells. Also, brain cells that normally produce acetylcholine, a chemical released during the transmission of nerve signals, seem not to do it properly if they are deficient in somatostatin, one of a class of chemicals called neuropeptides.

None of these clues have yet led to any accepted explanation or cure for the disease. Until recently, many specialists considered the problem hopeless. Today scientists are pursuing each new clue, and a national organization, the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, has been set up to promote research, to educate, and to exchange information and advice among families of suffers. Its address is Suite 602, 360 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 60601.

10. Approximately how many people over the age of 65 in the United States are suffering

from mental deterioration?

A) More than a million.

B) Over three million.

C) Two and a half million.

D) Not mentioned in the passage.

11.According to the passage, Alzheimer’s Disease will cause deterioration

in, .

A) ones judgment

B) ones ability to walk

C) ones faculty of hearing

D) ones eyesight

12. The report has made it clear that abnormal amounts of aluminum in the

brain .

A) may stimulate nerve cells

B) could cause memory to deteriorate

C) could be poisonous to nerve cells

D) might improve memory

13. We can conclude from the report that .

A) scientists and s pecialists are divided in their opinions on whether Alzheimer’s

disease is curable

B) neuropeptides and acetylcholine are of the same class of chemicals

C) mental impairment is an inevitable result of aging

D) we are still far away form a convincing explanation and workable cure for

Alzheimer’s disease

TEXT D

Traditional Chinese medicine hasn’t changed much in the last two hundred years. Following methods and recipes hundreds of years old, the Kwang Yuan company still carefully prepares and combines herbs and other natural substances to treat a variety of symptoms. However the modern age brings modern challenges. To stay competitive, the company must keep tight control of its extensive inventory. Adding to the complexity, the Chinese names of the rare substances they deal with require equally rare Chinese characters. Kwang Yuan turned to us at IBM for help with their situation. An IBM small business computer lets them generate even the most obscure Chinese characters, and a custom program helps keep the inflow and outflow of products and raw materials in harmony. The result is lower operating costs and less waste. IBM is helping small businesses improve productivity throughout the Asia-Pacific region. IBM can prescribe an invigorating mix: hardware, software and the specialized experience to help you get your business running more efficiently. We’re not mixing the medicine, but we can help restore your fiscal heath.

14. According to the passage, an IBM small computer is used in a

company .

A) to modernize traditional Chinese medicine

B) to help cure a variety of disease

C) to prepare ancient medicines

D) to process Chinese characters

15. To keep the company competitive, it is necessary to .

A) guard its catalog of products closely

B) use simplified Chinese characters instead of obscure ones

C) change traditional Chinese medicine to meet the challenges of modern times

D) use common Chinese names for the rare substances

16. IBM small business computers can help .

A) r estore one’s health

B) prepare prescriptions

C) improve a company’s financial situation

D) teach new the preparation of traditional medicine

TEXT E

When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant objects clearly.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes bec ome cloudy because of cataracts. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

When night falls, colors become fainter to the eye and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown accustomed to the dark, you can see better if you use the sides of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small object to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because, when you turn your head, you are looking at the object too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they cannot see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this misapprehension occurs because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.

The eye is very similar to a camera: to take a picture there must be enough light, but not too much. On a camera, the opening of the lens can usually be adjusted. If there is not too much light outside, you open the lens diaphragm wide. If the sun is shining brightly, you close the lens diaphragm. This is what your eye pupil does automatically. When the light is bright, your pupil grows small; when there is not much light, the pupil grows larger.

17. Which of the following cannot be corrected by glasses?

A) Astigmatism.

B) Nearsightedness.

C) Cataracts.

D) Not mentioned.

18. To see a small object at night, it is best .

A) to look straight at it

B) to look in a slightly different direction

C) to blink your eyes often

D) to squint your eyes

19. An eye is different from a camera in that .

A) it does not need to focus on an object to see it clearly

B) it focuses automatically

C) it adjusts to different lights

D) it opens and shuts

20. A man on night duty may sometimes believe that he sees something moving to one

side of him. This is because .

A) the center of the eye is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye at night

B) his eyes cannot adjust to the darkness

C) he is looking at it too directly

D) his eyes cannot detect colors at night

V Translate the following sentences into English. ( 10分，每题2分)

1.建筑工地上的噪音让他难以忍受。(put up with)

2.他的这部小说表明，他对这个国家的文化了解得非常多。(testify to)

3.这样的好机会千载难逢。(once in a blue moon)

4.他没当成歌星，却成了一位非常成功的商人。(make it)

5.公司要关心的事之一是确保员工的安全。(one’s concern)

VI. Choose one of the following questions to answer. (5分)

1.In the text “Time to Stop Excuses for lateness”, how do Asian and Westerners react to

unpunctuality?

2.In the text “Hummingbird Winter”, what descriptions in the story enable

you to conclude that the hummingbird enjoyed its relationship with the narrator?