天津大学2011级_英语在线测试样题

PART 1 (5 points)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentence, please choose one from the four choices given that can best complete its meaning.
1. Engineers may help produce guided missiles, industrial robots, or _______
limbs for the physically handicapped.
A. artificial
B. artistic
C. authentic
D. articulate
2. Unlike hackers, who gain unauthorized ________ to computer or
telecommunication systems for the challenge or even the principle of it, crackers do so for malicious purposes.
A. password
B. entry
C. access
D. approach
3. Instead of probing for ________ of alien life on Mars’ harsh surface, some
researchers have suggested looking inside the planet, where there is mounting evidence of water ice near the equator and the potential for underground aquifers that could support basic, microbial organism.
A. signs
B. trails
C. marks
D. symptoms
4. Unlike a lecture, a seminar is a place for experiment, for testing out ideas,
for challenging concepts ________ during the lecture, and a place to clarify any confusion or misunderstanding a student may have been left with after the lecture.
A. taught
B. preached
C. transmitted
D. delivered
5. The truth is that there is no quick and easy way to lose weight and improve
physical fitness; despite all the ________ made by advertisers for such products, the truth is that the only way to achieve a fitter, healthier and more attractive body is through diet and regular exercise.
A. claims
B. clamors
C. pronouncements
D. advertisements
6. Defining and strengthening identity is a central task of adolescence and is
the crucial building block that ________ effective communication, stress management, and decision making.
A. permits
B. prevents
C. hinders
D. hampers
7. Most new technologies, with the exception of those associated with
weaponry, have had hugely ________ effects for most people extending our capabilities and indeed our lives to an extent that our ancestors could not have imagined.
A. formal
B. urgent
C. harmful
D. beneficial
8. Electronic files are replacing ________ filing cabinets, and intelligent
facsimile and copying machines are appearing together with a variety of printers able to print anything from letter-quality characters to four color diagrams.
A. subsequent
B. substantial
C. conventional
D. conservative
9. It's true that humanity has seen a ________ of crises, wars and atrocities,
but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
A. line
B. serial
C. set
D. succession
10. Suddenly, we knew as much about the lives of our ________
acquaintances as we did about the lives of our intimates—what they’d had for dinner, how they felt about Tiger Woods and so on.
A. remote
B. close
C. distant
D. friendly
PART 2 (5 points)
Directions: In this part of the test, you have 5 paragraphs given in wrong order. Please re-organize these paragraphs so that they make a coherent text. The third sentence has already been correctly placed for you.
__ __ D __ __
A. Perhaps we’ll learn to do what my mother did. She used to keep a store of
paper bags in a kitchen drawer and use them again and again in those days and the shopkeeper weighted out the amount you wanted.
B. Can you believe it? There’s a world paper shortage, there’s a national bottle shortage, and we’re running out of raw materials like timber and tin—or so the papers say.
C. All this packaging makes shopping cleaner and more convenient, but at what cost? Every time you throw away a paper bag you’re throwing away part of a tree—and trees don’t grow overnight! At this rate there soon won’t be any tress left, and then what shall we do?
D. You can’t even buy a loaf of bread w ithout getting a piece of paper round
it—that’s if you can find a loaf that hasn’t already been sliced and then wrapped. Supermarkets are the worst offenders. Pieces of meat are put on small plastic trays and then wrapped in polythene, cartons of cream are put in extra-paper bags at the checkout point, fruit and vegetables are packed in plastic bags, cheese is sold wrapped in polythene and eggs come in special cardboard or plastic boxes.
E. Well, I’ve just emptied my shopping basket after my weekly shoppin g trip
and it was full of things made from these scarce materials. Half of what I’d bought I threw away at once: all those unnecessary paper bags, plastic
bags, fresh wrapping paper and old newspapers they put the food in nowadays.
KEY:
1-5 ACADA
6-10 ADCDC
B E D
C A
B. Can you believe it? There’s a world paper shortage, there’s a national bottle shortage, and we’re running out of raw materials like timber and tin—or so the papers say.
E. Well, I’ve just emptied my shopping basket after my weekly shopping trip and it was full of things made from these scarce materials. Half of what I’d bought I threw away at once: all those unnecessary paper bags, plastic bags, fresh wrapping paper and old newspapers they put the food in nowadays.
D. You can’t eve n buy a loaf of bread without getting a piece of paper round it—that’s if you can find a loaf that hasn’t already been sliced and then wrapped. Supermarkets are the worst offenders. Pieces of meat are put on small plastic trays and then wrapped in polythene, cartons of cream are put in extra-paper bags at the checkout point, fruit and vegetables are packed in plastic bags, cheese is sold wrapped in polythene and eggs come in special cardboard or plastic boxes.
C. All this packaging makes shopping cleaner and more convenient, but at what cost? Every time you throw away a paper bag you’re throwing away part of a tree—and trees don’t grow overnight! At this rate there soon won’t be any tress left, and then what shall we do?
A. Perhaps we’ll learn to do what my mother did. She used to keep a store of
paper bags in a kitchen drawer and use them again and again in those days and the shopkeeper weighted out the amount you wanted.。