大学英语III第五单元

返回我的课程Part 1 Fill in the Blanks (with the right preposition or adverb)(每小题：1 分)Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with an appropriate preposition or adverb. Fill in each blank with only ONE word. 1.The monkey reached out its hand banana. 2.When he bent dress, she knew he was being particularly kind to her at themoment. 3.In ancient times, women with no children were barred4.An old man was coming 5.country. 6.Pullconversation, will you?time.A. accomplishesB. has accomplishedC. can accomplishD. accomplish2.______ dog was among the first animals to be domesticatedis generally agreed upon by authorities (权威人士) in the field.A. Until theB. It was theC. TheD. That the3._______ is no reason for discharging her.A. Because she was a few minutes lateB. Owing to a few minutes being lateC. The fact that she was a few minutes lateD. Being a few minutes late4.The environment of this city will be more seriously polluted (污染) ______ effective measures are taken to prevent factoriesfrom sending out poisonous gases and wastewater.A. ifB. onceC. howeverD. unless5._____ more and more scientists carrying out large-scalescientific research, the space industry will become morepromising.A. AsB. BecauseC. WithD. Since6.Advertising is distinguished from other forms ofcommunication _______ the advertiser pays for message tobe delivered.A. in thatB. whereasC. whichD. now that7.The meeting was put off because we _______ a meetingwithout Jack.A. objected for havingB. objected to haveC. were objected to havingD. objected to having8.The house was not very old. It __________.A. ought not to have knocked downB. ought not to have been knocked downC. ought not to knock downD. ought not be knocked down9.He has a large collection of books, _______ are written inEnglish.A. any thatB. many of whichC. many in whichD. among many that10.The children went to the construction site to watch the irontower ______.A. to erectIn recent years, there has been an increasing need for teachers to be "responsible". This means that the public expects teachers to succeed in teaching important information to the young. Teachers' salaries today, while not much, certainly are much higher than they were in the past. These increases have come about because people have realized that quality people, individuals who are highly able to teach, will not do it if they are not offered enough money. Today almost no one says that "anybody will do" for a teacher. The public expects "quality people" to teach the young, and progress is being made to give salaries that will make people who have abilities become teachers.1.In the author's opinion, the job of a teacher ________.A. is done best by family membersB. is too complex for most peopleC. is free of rulesD. is important for society2.The cause for the new job of "teacher" was ________.A. the increased importance of laborB. the need for specialistsC. the strict rules of the governmentD. the increased number of children in school3.According to the writer, ________ is on the increasenowadays.A. a need for teachers to have responsibility for themselvesB. a need for teachers to teach responsibility to studentsC. the numbers of students who are entering schoolD. the numbers of people who take the job of teacher4.We learn from this passage that ________.A. money encourages teachers to be responsibleB. money is not a responsible reason to become a teacherC. money is a good way to attract people to become teachersD. money was much higher for teachers in the past5.What do people hardly ever say these days?A. Anyone can be a teacher.B. Progress is being made.C. Teachers have abilities.D. Quality people are teaching the young.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.For most people learning to drive, the driving test arises ahead as a major barrier. It is also a general source of conversation whenever drivers are gathered together. There are probably more tall stories about the driving test than about any other motoring subjects; the most remarkable thing about those stories is the number of times the old ones appear again, years after they were first heard, in new and exaggerated forms.All driving examiners have had to pass a very strict selection process, followed by at least six weeks' training. In the course of this training the Department makes sure that their driving is of a consistently high standard.Driving test centers are chosen with equal care. It would be nice to have centers and examiners town by town. But this is just not possible, because the centers have to be at places where there is enough parking space for candidates (考生) and where there are enough test routes. Routes are carefully chosen to make sure that they are all roughly comparable-the proportion of right and leftturns, hills, pedestrian (行人) crossings and so on. The object of allthis is to make sure, as far as possible, that all candidates in the driving test have to cope with the same sort of conditions whether they take the test in New York or California.The work that examiners do in actually carrying out tests is checked continuously by supervising examiners. This is to make as sure as possible that every candidate for the driving test has a proper and equal chance of showing the examiner, in the words of the Regulations, "that he is competent to drive without danger to and with due consideration for other users of the road." This is all that the examiner is concerned with.6.It can be learned from the passage that _______.A. whenever people learning to drive get together, they oftentalk about the driving testB. new and exaggerated stories about the test are alwaysappearingC. there are more tall stories about the driving test than anyother subjectD. the same stories about the test reappear years later7.According to the passage, driving examiners _______.A. are trained for six weeks, then have a difficult selectioninterviewB. are given regular driving tests themselves by supervisingexaminersC. sometimes have more than six weeks' trainingD. are tested during the selection process to see if their drivingis of a high standard8.There isn't a test center in every town because ________.A. some examiners can go to occasional centers from thepermanent centersB. routes and conditions have to be the same everywhereC. there has to be enough parking space for the candidatesand the examinersD. not every town could provide enough test routes close topermanent centersvarious ways to their new technological world. Just getting by in aforeign land without some grasp of the local language is difficult,says Mr. Prensky. Computer immigrants have had to learn to usetechnologies such as the Internet and mobile phones. But relativelyfew of them have embraced video games. The word "game" itselfalso confuses matters, since it makes them seem like playthings."What they don't understand, because they've never played them,is that these are complex games, which take 30, 40 or 100 hours tocomplete," says Mr. Prensky. Games are, in fact, played mainly byyoung adults. Only a third of gamers are under 18."It's just a generational divide," says Gerhard Florin, the Europeanboss of Electronic Arts, the world's biggest games publisher."People do not know what they are talking about, because theyhave never played a game. And yet, they say that millions ofgamers are stupid or violent." Computer natives who have playedvideo games since childhood already regard them as a form ofentertainment equivalent to films and music. Older computernatives now have children of their own and enjoy playing videogames with them.The gaming industry is trying to address the generational divide. Itis producing games designed to appeal to people who have neverplayed games and encouraging gamers (who may occasionallyplay simple web-based games, or games on mobile phones) to playmore. This has led to the development of games with a widerappeal. Some of them replace the usual control pad with novelinput devices: microphones (麦克风) for singing games, camerasfor dancing and action games, and even musical instruments. Inaddition, the industry has started to attract more women, who seemto prefer social simulation (模拟) games such as "The Sims", andolder people, who (if they play games at all) often prefer versions ofcard games and board games. Other promising areas includeportable (便携式的) gaming, mobile gaming and online downloadsof simple games. Many people enjoy gaming, but do notnecessarily want to commit themselves to a long quest that will takedozens of hours to complete.May gaming make people violent?But aren't critics right to worry that gaming might make peopleviolent? In his paper, Mr. Williams describes his study carried outwith Marko Skoric of the University of Michigan. The studyconcentrated on a "massively multiplayer (多人参与的) onlinerole-playing game" (MMORPG) called "Asheron Call 2". This typekill monsters to build up attribute points. It is "virtually more violentthan the average video game and should have more effect, giventhe highly repetitive nature of the violence", the researchers noted. Two groups of subjects were recruited, none of whom had played MMORPGs before and many of whom had never played video games at all. One group then played the game for a month, for an average of nearly two hours per day. The other group acted as a control. All people who participated were asked questions about how often they had aggressive social interactions (such as arguments with their spouses) during the course of the month to test the idea that gaming makes people more aggressive. Game players, it turned out, were no more aggressive than the control group. Whether the test subjects had played games before, the number of hours spent gaming, and whether they liked violent movies or not, made no difference. The researchers noted, however, that more research is still needed to assess the impact of other types of games. All games are different, and only when more detailed studies have been carried out will it be possible to say anything about the impact of gaming.Games have great potential in education.What's more, plenty of games, far from encouraging violence, aremorally complex, subtle and, very possibly, improving. Many nowexplicitly require players to choose whether to be good or evil, andtheir choices determine how the game they are playing develops.Several games based on the "Star Wars" movies require players tochoose between the light and dark sides of the Force, equivalent togood and evil.Even games with no educational purpose require players to learn agreat deal. Games are complex and force players to make a hugenumber of decisions. Gamers must construct ideas about thein-game world, learn its rules through trial and error (错误) , solveproblems and puzzles, develop strategies and get help from otherplayers through the Internet when they get stuck.Games can be used in many other ways. Tim Rylands, a Britishteacher in a primary school near Bristol, recently won an awardfrom Becta, a government education agency, for using computergames in the classroom. By projecting the fantasy world of "Myst",a role-playing game, on to a large screen and encouraging his11-year-old pupils to write descriptions and reactions as he plays it,So games are inherently good, not bad? Actually they are neither, like books, films, the Internet, or any other medium. All can be used to depict sex and violence, or to educate and inform. Indeed, that there is violence and sex in games is arguably a sign of the maturity of the medium, as games become more like films.1.Video games are valuable or stupid depending on________________.A. what is overlookedB. whom is askedC. whether they are violentD. whether they are educational2.No evidence exists to show that video games________________.A. are overlookedB. make people violentC. have great potentialD. are violent3."Computer immigrants" are older people who have had to________________.A. get by in a foreign landB. play complex gamesC. adjust to the new technologyD. grow up with technology4.What do we learn about "computer natives"?________________A. They enjoy playing video games with children.B. They have played games since childhood.C. They are producing games which are violent and stupid.D. They like films and music as entertainment.5.What is said about the gaming industry? ________________A. It has started to attract more young adults.B. It is trying to persuade older people to play singing games.C. It is producing games that will take dozens of hours tocomplete.D. It is trying to attract people who have never played games.6.Asheron Call 2 is a kind of game that ________________.A. is less violent than the average video gameB. critics are right to worry about, as it is violentC. requires the player to kill monsters to build up attributepointsD. requires the player to travel around the world7.In the study of MMORPGs, game players________________.A. could not control their game playB. asked many questionsC. were more aggressiveD. were not especially violent(To be shown in 3 days.)Total: 75正确率：75% => 就此结束考试，返回我的课程。