大学英语试题10

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unit 10 vocabulary & reading
试卷编号：unit10readingquiz
考试时间：120 分钟
满分：100 分
Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze)
(Each item: 1)
Directions:Fill 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.
When is it OK to lie? Many people say being honest is always the best strategy. I would like
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accident. The surgeon did a(n) 3.conflict
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"Not at all," I replied. This was a lie.
Or what about cancer patients who lose their hair after their medical treatment? They often
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I have watched many older and wiser relatives of mine tell giant lies to make people feel better. These lies were very apparent to me. What amazed me, though, is how 6.
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Questions 11 to 20 are based on the following passage.
What are your goals for life? Most people want to 11.apply
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want to enrich the lives of others by treating each person with respect. I want to use all of my
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feeling better. I want to create a climate of trust where people can be themselves. I want to
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steady all of my abilities to help a neighbor in need of assistance.
It may be fashionable these days to try to gain fame and fortune. I do not see the attraction,
though. For me, a good deed need not be noticed. My reward 17.apply
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an inner feeling of warmth. When I observe the growth of another individual I am rewarded. When I see that others around me are demonstrating a good set of core values, I am rewarded.
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reminder of how
things should be. That is my goal for this life.
Part 2 Cloze (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.
Have you ever cheated on a test? I 21.
a strong sense of integrity or that I learned my lesson about cheating any way other than the hard way. 22.
My fifth grade teacher was an expert at catching students who cheated. He was 23.
and we would follow along and mark them right or wrong. One 24.
while I was correcting a particularly tough question on a test, he gave us a 25.
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school. Whatever the reason, I 29.do right was not working.
We handed our papers in to him when he was finished giving us the answers and we were
finished making the corrections. Two days later my teacher 30.
of six students. My name was one of them. He instructed us to 31.
hall to speak with him individually. Each student who went to meet with him before me
still a(n) 35.
I had cheated on the test. I knew that it was too late to
regret by admitting the truth, so I remained silent. He 37.
had cheated. In fact, I had originally got all of the answers on the test right, but he had given
us the strange answer to tempt us 38.
good about myself and I wanted badly to be sent home so that I did not have to face my
classmates. Unfortunately, I only received a firm 39.
class. To make matters worse, this particular teacher was also my next-door neighbor. For weeks, I protested when my mother would tell me to go outside to play, because I was afraid I
might 40.
Questions 41 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Are good people in short supply? Is it progressively difficult to have a strong sense of
morality? What exactly is integrity? The answer
And as for integrity, it is like having an inner 42.
right. We often refer to the integrity of the soldiers. They protected the people and the land,
and 43.44.
a helpful and positive attitude. And, 46.
to these values firmly. Most people will actually go 47.
right.
a little money or that honest people are scarce 49.
trust of strangers. We need to continue to focus on the positive and make a 50.
a model for others and 51.
person would lend a hand and I would do 53.
probably the case. Most people are truly helpful if they can be, and when we look at others
with this in 54.
that's all that it 55.
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could be considered forgetful and the things she has lost are
has lost her wallet three times in the past five years. Each
least $50 in it. Each time it was found by someone who 59.
integrity by returning it to her by means of an address or telephone number within the wallet.
The money and 60.
person who found her wallet from taking the money and saying that it was missing when they found the wallet, but that's not what happened.
Part 3 Skimming 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: 4 minutes and 12 seconds
What kind of car will we be driving in 2010? They would be rather different from the type we know today, with the next twenty years bringing greater change than the past fifty. The people who will be designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems may well accelerate (加速) the pace of automotive design. Today they are students on the transport design course at London's Royal college of Art.
Their vision (相象中的画面) is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along "intelligent" roads equipped with built-in power supplies. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for travel in the city.
Instead of today's seating arrangements-two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward-the 2010 car will have a versatile (有许多用途的) interior with adults and children in a family circle.
This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated (复杂的) road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash (撞) into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.
61.Those who will design the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems will
quicken change in cars.
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62.The car designers are most likely to believe that we will always have an imperfect world.
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63.From the passage we know that inside the future car, seats are arranged in a circle.
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64. A future road will direct a car to its destination.
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65.We can infer from the passage that it will be impossible for cars in the future to crash into one
another because computers control the driving and find the route.
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Part 4 Skimming and Scanning (Short Asnwer)
(Each item: 1)
Directions:Read the following passage. Then fill in 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 18 seconds
Most Americans spend far more of their leisure time with entertainment and information sources than in any other occupation. Of all information and entertainment sources, television is clearly dominant (支配的), with newspapers a close second, at least as a source of news and other information. Our exposure (暴露,接触) to all of these sources is important, however, because they all contribute (贡献) materials for the construction of the world in our heads. For most people, increased use of one medium does not decrease use of another. In fact, in certain cases, and especially for certain purposes, the more one uses one medium, the more likely one is to use others. There are various factors that can cause you to expose yourself to one source selectively. Some of that selective exposure is probably due to the psychological pressure you feel when avoiding the discomfort caused by the confrontation with facts and ideas contrary to your beliefs, attitudes, or behavior. However, some selective exposure is not due to such pressure for consistency but to other factors, such as your age, education, and even the area in which you live and the people with whom you associate.
Quite a different sort of factor that affects your information and entertainment experiences is the social context of exposure-whether you are alone or with others when you are exposed to a medium; whether you are at home, at the office, in a theater, and so on. These contexts are as much a potential part of the message as film images on the screen or words on the page.
66.____________ occupies our leisure time more than any other hobbies or occupation.
67.Our exposure to information and entertainment sources is important because mass media
shapes ___________________.
68.The author is suggesting that perhaps the ideas inside your head are not your own because
you absorb the commercial messages that _________________.
69.From "the more one uses one medium, the more likely one is to use others", it can be inferred
that a person who likes to read newspapers likes ________________________.
70.The passage mainly tells us that people's exposure to information and entertainment is
__________________________.
Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)
(Each item: 2)
Directions:Read the following passages carefully and 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.
Theirs is a modern love drama. They met on the Internet and fell deeply in love with each other. They shared secrets, memories, feelings-even though they had never laid eyes on each other. And now, the very technology that had brought them together was tearing them apart.
"Kevin" is a pleasing fellow-quick with a smile, trustworthy. A security guard for a hospital in northern Idaho, he keeps emergency room patients company and walks nurses to their cars at night. He remembers the first day he went to the Internet. It was August 1995, and the computer was in the hospital library. It wasn't long before he was spending most of his free time in front of the screen.
It was purely by accident, Kevin says, that he discovered online pornography (色情内容). First he looked out of curiosity. "Each time I thought I had seen it all," he says, "some new sex practice popped up. Eventually, the online sex world came to take the place of any real-world contact with women. "I can be a little bit shy," he says, "and this was an alternative that kept me from feeling lonely."
Then came a message from "Marie," a young mother of three looking for company on an Internet singles site. Kevin fired off an immediate response, and the two began a dialogue that would last two months before he made the 50-mile drive to meet her. A few months later, they were married.
What Marie loved about Kevin was his kindness, his interest in her kids. What she didn't know was that every time she was reading one of Kevin's love emails, he was at the other end of the connection looking secretly at pornography sites. "I knew he was always online," Marie says. "But I thought that it was just because he was interested in meeting new people."
Whenever Kevin was home, he was online, with the door closed. A few times, he called her in to look at an especially "wild" site. She was a little bothered by it but didn't worry until he turned away from her in bed. "Have you been looking again?" she would cry.
By January, Kevin knew he had a serious problem. He promised that he would never use the computer at home. But there was still the machine at the hospital. Every night, he would use his master key to get into the closed library and favor his curiosity as never before. Sometimes, for his entire eight-hour work time, he would sit in front of the screen. When his bosses asked him to look in on the library, where some "unusual" computer activity had been noticed, he stopped using the computer for a month, and then headed straight back to the same place.
This time, though, he walked into a trick. Earlier this summer, the hospital started using cameras and computer programs that recorded Kevin's every mouse(鼠标) click. On June 27, his bosses
confronted him and took him to the police station nearby. He was kept in the station for three days. Now Kevin lives under the continual watch of his wife and his boss.
71.It is ________ that brings Kevin and Marie into love and marriage and then possibly
separates them.
A. the Internet
B. Kevin's bosses
C. their love drama
D. the police
72.The phrase "popped up" in the middle of Paragraph 3 means ________.
A. appeared suddenly
B. left quickly
C. returned quickly
D. moved quickly
73.At first Kevin was a man of ________.
A. honesty
B. dishonesty
C. lies
D. sympathy
74.We know for sure that by and by Kevin almost forgot his role ________ at the hospital
completely.
A. as a father
B. as a husband
C. as a security guard
D. as an actor
75.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Kevin had seen Marie before their marriage.
B. Before their marriage Marie didn't know Kevin was online looking at some pornography
sites.
C. Had Kevin stopped looking online for pornography forever, he would not have been kept in
the police station for three days.
D. The relationship between Kevin and Marie as husband and wife will remain the same as
before.
Questions 76 to 80 are based on the same passage or dialog.
It was so quick and easy. A fourteen-year-old boy in Scottsdale, Arizona, put his $50 bill on a color copying machine. Within seconds he transformed $50 into $550, and he was ready to shop.
Twenty years ago only a few people had the skills or equipment to make fake money. Today computer, copier, and printer technology is so good that almost anyone can "make" money. With the new technology there is a new kind of casual faking machine. These machines are called casual because they don't have special skills and because they don't need to plan much.
The number of bills made by casual fakers on their home or office computer is growing fast. In fact, this number has doubled every year since 1989! There is no way to stop faking 100 percent. But the government has recently found a few ways to make casual faking very difficult.
One way is to put very, very small words, called microprints(微型印刷品), in hidden places on the bill. The words are only 6/1000 inch. No one can read them without a magnifying glass, a special glass that makes things look bigger. And they are too small to come out clearly on a copier. If someone copies a bill that has microprints and you look at the copy through a magnifying glass, instead of microprinted words, you will see only black lines.
Another way to stop people from making fake money on their home computers is to use special color-changing ink. Money printed with color-changing ink will look green from one angle and yellow from another. Home computers cannot use color-changing ink. So any copies from a home computer will have normal ink and can be noticed quite easily.
Additionally, money is made on special paper with very small pieces of red and blue silk mixed in. And on each bill there is a special line that runs from the top to the bottom of the bill. Suppose, for example, that you hold a $20 bill up to the light. If you do this, you can see the line has the words "USA twenty". The line turns red if you put it under a special light. This line and the special paper
with red and blue silk are not easy for home computers to copy.
The government must try many different ways to stop faking. It needs to keep changing the way money is made because fakers can learn to copy the changes. Today copiers can't copy microprinted words or color-changing ink. But, in a few years, who knows?
76.It can be concluded from the first three paragraphs that ________.
A. most children above the age of 14 can fake money
B. new high technology makes money faking easier
C. anyone who has a computer can fake money
D. casual faking machines are called casual for the reason that no skills and planning are
required
77.The word "magnifying" (Line 3, Para. 4) means ________.
A. making larger
B. making smaller
C. making clearer
D. making easier
78.You can be sure that the bill is faked when ________.
A. you see microprinted words on the bill
B. you see green ink from one direction and yellow from another on the bill
C. you see a special line on the bill that runs from the top to the bottom and that has such
words as "USA hundred"
D. you see normal ink on the bill
79.In the last paragraph the second sentence is a(n) ________ of the first.
A. explanation
B. definition
C. analysis
D. description
80.The author ends the article with ________.
A. a conclusion
B. an idea and a worry
C. a prediction
D. a review
Questions 81 to 85 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Many teachers like to teach all the new words and structures in the text before reading begins. I am not going to say that new language should never be taught this way, but I have often thought that this is the dullest part of the lesson, and that the teaching would have been more effective if it had taken place actually during the process of reading.
It is difficult to make hard-and-fast rules, but you will frequently find that a new structure hardly needs explaining if it is taken in context; whether you want to teach it for active use is a matter beyond the scope of this book. For our purposes, if it can be understood without specific teaching, then it is not a barrier to the reader and to spend time on it would be pointless.
The same is true of vocabulary. You may feel the need to teach a few key words before the students begin to read, but other new words may be so unimportant that you do not want to draw attention to them, while others you will want to use for practicing the skill of inferring meaning from context. If your list of key words to be taught is long, this is a warning that the text is too difficult.
Of course we are here facing the conflict between learning to read and learning the language. Your attitude will be determined partly by the kind of texts you use; if they are specifically intended to present new language, you cannot just ignore it. But the students have to learn to read as well; use supplementary texts for this if you can, but at least use the language teaching texts in such a way that they provide genuine reading tasks i.e. that students actually get practice in interpreting them. This will involve not teaching all the new language beforehand; helping the students to use the context as a guide to interpreting some of the new language; and practicing the new items after reading rather than before, in at least some cases.
Some of the problems will be alleviated by dealing with the text in short sections. The new language from a single section will be more manageable than the new language from the whole
text, so the dull preparatory work will be split up into short, more acceptable bits.
81.As for teaching a text, which of the following would be the LAST to be suggested?
A. To clear up all the language difficulties before reading starts.
B. To divide the text into short sections.
C. To encourage the students to learn the new language in context.
D. To practice the new language after reading if necessary.
82.According to the passage, if the texts are intended to present new language, the teacher
________.
A. should use supplementary texts to teach new language
B. should not forget to teach reading while presenting new language
C. should teach and practice new language before reading
D. can put reading practice aside for the time being
83.What does "hard-and-fast" (Line 1, Para. 2) mean?
A. alternative
B. specific
C. complicated
D. fixed and unchangeable
84.In the first sentence of the last paragraph "alleviated" means _________.
A. made more concrete
B. made more specific
C. paid more attention
D. made easier
85.The passage is mainly about _________.
A. reading skills
B. teaching reading skills
C. dealing with new language items
D. teaching foreign languages
Questions 86 to 90 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Halley's Comet (慧星) completed its latest trip around the Earth in 1986. It is now speeding toward the far-distant edges of our solar system. People on Earth will not be able to see it again until 2062. Scientists in many countries waited and prepared for years for the return of Halley's Comet. They planned new ways to observe the comet as it came near the Earth.
Comets are of great interest to scientists. This is because the space objects are believed to have changed very little since the solar system was formed 4,600 million years ago. Scientists believe that if they can learn more about the elements in a comet, they will understand more about conditions when the solar system was new.
Halley's Comet is probably the most famous comet. Historians say it was first noted about 2,200 years ago. The visit of the bright space object has been observed and recorded every 76 years since then. The comet was named after British scientist Edmund Halley. In the early 1700s, Halley studied records of the appearance of huge balls of fire flying across the sky. And he studied the sky to make his own observations. Halley was the first person to recognize that the balls of fire were really the same bright object, a comet. Halley said the comet circled the sun just as the planets did. And he said the comet's trip around the sun took about 76 years.
Since the discoveries by Edmund Halley, people have waited for that bright comet to return. When it came, people looked at it through small telescopes (望远镜) they held in their hands. And scientists looked at it through huge telescopes placed on top of mountains where the air was clear. But the most recent visit of Halley's Comet was the first time scientists could study the comet up very close. They did this through scientific instruments sent into space.
86.Halley's Comet is ________.
A. a planet
B. fire in space
C. a star
D. a bright space object
87.Which is the best topic of this passage?
A. What Is a Comet?
B. Halley's Comet
C. The Discovery of Halley's Comet
D. How Halley's Comet Was Discovered
88.Scientists are interested in comets in that ________.
A. comets are bright space objects
B. people will not be able to see them until 2062
C. they believe that if they can learn more about the elements in a comet, they will
understand more about solar system
D. the space objects are believed to have changed very little since the solar system was
formed 4,600 million years ago
89.The most recent appearance of Halley's Comet was different because scientists could study
the comet using ______________.
A. instruments sent into space
B. telescopes they held in their hands
C. huge telescopes on top of mountains
D. space stations that could get them very close
90.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. People will be able to see Halley's Comet in 2062.。