湘潭大学继续教育学院英语考试试题

湘潭大学继续教育学院英语考试试题
Part 1 Dialogue Completion (15 points)
Directions: there are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part, each of them followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C or D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.
1.Speaker A: I really appreciate your help.
Speaker B: __________.
A. Never mind.
B. That’s a great idea.
C. My pleasure.
D. Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.
2. Kris: Mary, tomorrow is my birthday. Would you like to come to my birthday party tomorrow
evening?
Mary: ___________.
A .I’d like to. B. Tomorrow will be a fine day. C. Don’t worry. I will do it for you. D.
Sure.
3. Ted: Your friend Tom was seriously injured in a car accident yesterday.
Ron: ___________.
A. I’m very annoyed at this news.
B. I’m glad to hear this. I’m awfully sorry to hear that.
C. Do you know where he is now?
D. That’s a real let-down.
4. Laura: I feel very tired after a day’s work.
Hilary: Why do n’t you go out for a walk?
Laura: _________.
A.I don’t think so.
B. That sounds nice.
C. Do you like walking?
D. So long.
5. Emma: I can’t stand living in this place any more.
Mathew: ___________.
A. Why don’t you move then?
B. You’d better choose what you like.
C. You’d probably have to go by yourself.
D. Sorry, I have no idea about what you have said.
6. Harry: I won’t have it any more.
Ruth: ___________.
A. So do I.
B. so will I .
C. Nor doI.
D. neither will I.
7. Roger: Have a nice weekend!
Janet: ___________.
A. The same to you.
B. You do too.
C. The same as you.
D. You have it too.
8. Maria: Do you think you will get a pay rise next year?
Leo: ___________.
A.I hope so .
B. I’m afraid so.
C. I believe not so.
D. I hope not so.
9. Wendy: _________?
Wayne: For about 2 weeks.
A. How long are you going to stay here
B. How soon will you leave this place
C. How often do you come here
D. How many times have you come here
10. Jeremy: __________?
Max: Wonderful.
A. What’s the film about
B. How did you like the film
C. What do you think of the film
D. How about seeing the film
11. Thomas:__________?
Ronald: I’m going to do a bit of research work. What abo ut you?
A. What’s your plan for this weekend
B. How are you getting on with your research work
C. Will you make a plan for this weekend
D. Will you have a good time this weekend
12. Dick: Don’t forget to come to our party tomorrow.
Judy: __________.
A. I don’t.
B.I won’t.
C.I can’t.
D. I haven’t.
13. Jodie: The light in the office is still on.
Folia: Oh, I forgot___________.
A. turning it off
B. turn it off
C. to turn it off having
D. turned it off
14. Gavin: Could I borrow your dictionary?
Darren: Yes, of course you____.
A. might
B. will
C. can
D. should
15. Brazil: May I use your phone?
Wendy:_______.
A. It’s doesn’t matter.
B. Go ahead. C .No, I don’t mind. D. No, you needn’t. Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For e each of them followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C or D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
The concept of culture has been defined many times, and although no definition has achieved universal acceptance, most of the definitions include three central ideas: that culture is passed n from generation to generation, that a culture represents a ready-made prescription for living and for making day-to-day decisions, and, finally, that the components of a culture are accepted by those in the culture as good, and true, and not to be questioned. The eminent anthropologist George Murdock has listed seventy-three items that characterize every known culture, past and present. The list begins with Age-grading and Athletic sports, runs to Weaning and Weather Control, and includes on the way such items as Calendar, Fire making, Property Rights, and Tool making . I would submit that even the most extreme advocate of a culture of poverty viewpoint would readily acknowledge that, with respect to almost all of these items, every American, beyond the first generation immigrant, regardless of race or class, is a member of a common culture. We all share pretty much the same sports. Maybe poor kids don't know how to play polo, and rich kids
don't spend time with stickball, but we all know baseball, and football, and basketball. Despite some misguided efforts to raise minor dialects to the status of separate tongues, we all, in fact, share the same language. There may be differences in diction and usage, but it would be ridiculous to say that all Americans don't speak English. We have the calendar, the law, and large numbers of other cultural items in common. It may well be true that on a few of the seventy-three items there are minor variations between classes, but these kinds of things are really slight variations on a common theme. There are other items that show variability, not in relation to class, but in relation to religion and ethnic background-funeral customs and cooking, for example. But if there is one place in America where the melting pot is a reality, it is on the kitchen stove; in the course of one month, half the readers of this sentence have probably eaten pizza, hot pastrami, and chow mein. Specific differences that might be identified a signs of separate cultural identity are relatively insignificant within the general unity of American life; they are cultural commas and semicolons in the paragraphs and pages of American life.
16. According to the author's definition of culture, ____ .
A. a culture should be accepted and maintained universally
B. a culture should be free from falsehood and evils
C. the items of a culture should be taken for granted by people
D. the items of a culture should be accepted by well-educated people
17. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Baseball, football and basketball are popular sports in America.
B. Pizza, hot pastrami, and chow main are popular diet in America.
C. There is no variation in using the American calendar.
D. There is no variation in using the American language.
18. It can be inferred that all the following will most probably be included in the seventy-three items except ____.
A. heir and heritage
B. childrearing practices
C. dream patterns
D. table manners
19. By saying that ""they are cultural commas and semicolons..."" the author means that commas and semicolons ____.
A. can be interpreted as subculture of American life
B. can be identified as various ways of American life
C. stand for work and rest in American life
D. are preferred in writing the stories concerning American life
20. The author's main purpose in writing this passage is to ____.
A. prove that different people have different definitions of culture
B. inform that variations exist as far as a culture is concerned
C. indicate that culture is closely connected with social classes
D. show that the idea that the poor constitute a separate culture is an absurdity
Passage Two
It is 3A.M. Everything on the university campus seems ghostlike in the quiet, misty darkness - everythingexcept the computer center. Here, twenty students rumpled and bleary-eyed, sit transfixed at their consoles, tapping away on the terminal keys. With eyes glued to the video screen, they tap on for hours. For the rest of the world, it might be the middle of the night, but here
time does not exist. This is a world unto itself. These young computer ""hackers"" are pursuing a kind of compulsion, a drive so consuming it overshadows nearly every other part of their lives and forms the focal point of their existence. They are compulsive computer programmers. Some of these students have been at the console for thirty hours or more without a break for meals or sleep. Some have fallen asleep on sofas and lounge chairs in the computer center, trying to catch a few winks but loathe to get too far away from their beloved machines.
Most of these students don't have to be at the computer center in the middle of the night. They aren't working on assignments. They are there because they want to be - they are irresistibly drawn there.
And they are not alone. There are hackers at computer centers all across the country. In their extreme form, they focus on nothing else. They flunk out of school and lose contact with friends; they might have difficulty finding jobs, choosing instead to wander from one computer center to another. They may even forgo personal hygiene.
"I remember one hacker. We literally had to carry him off his chair to feed him and put him to sleep. We really feared for his health," says a computer science professor at MIT.
Computer science teachers are now more aware of the implications of this hacker phenomenon and are on the lookout for potential hackers and cases of computer addiction that are already severe. They know that the case of the hackers is not just the story of one person's relationship with a machine. It is the story of a society's relationship to the so-called thinking machines, which are becoming almost ubiquitous.
21. We can learn from the passage that those at the computer center in the middle of the night are ____.
A. students working on a program
B. students using computers to amuse themselves
C. hard-working computer science majors
D. students deeply fascinated by the computer
22. Which of the following is NOT true of those young computer "hackers"?
A. Most of them are top students majoring in computer programming.
B. For them, computer programming is the sole purpose for their life.
C. They can stay with the computer at the center for nearly three days on end.
D. Their ""love"" for the computer is so deep that they want to be near their machines even when they sleep.
23. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that ____.
A. the ""hacker"" phenomenon exists only at university computer centers
B. university computer centers are open to almost everyone
C. university computer centers are expecting outstanding programmers out of the "hackers"
D. the "hacker" phenomenon is partly attributable to the deficiency of the computer centers
24. The author's attitude towards the "hacker" phenomenon can be described as ____.
A. affirmative
B. contemptuous
C. anxious
D. disgusted
25. Which of the following may be a most appropriate title for the passage?
A. The Charm of Computer Science
B. A New Type of Electronic Toys
C. Compulsive Computer Programmers
D. Computer Addicts
Passage Three
Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts, and other vocations, like farming and fishery, that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary, is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fibre of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity, and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom, and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a close guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, the divine, associated freely with his fellow-creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called ""popular science"" makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it - as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.
26. Special words used in technical discussion ____.
A. never last long
B. are considered artificial language speech
C. should be confined to scientific fields
D. may become part of common speech
27. It is true that ____.
A. an educated person would be expected to know most technical terms
B. everyone is interested in scientific findings
C. the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him
D. various professions and occupations often interchange their dialects and jargons
28. In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the terminology of
A. farming
B. sports
C. government
D. fishery
29. The writer of the article was, no doubt ____.
A. a linguist
B. an essayist
C. a scientist
D. an attorney
30. The author's main purpose in the passage is to ____.
A. describe a phenomenon
B. be entertaining
C. argue a belief
D. propose a solution
Passage Four
In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew's deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more than 2,000 extra claim adjusters to the devastated area to assist the 200 stationed there. Many of the reserves arrived in convoys of motor homes. Others flew in
from as far away as Alaska and California. Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines, Allstate rushed to set up its own communications system. Allatate expects to pay out 1.2 billion to cover more than 121,000 damage claims as a result of Andrew.
All told, U.S. property and casualty insurers have been hit with more than 8 billion in Andrew-related claims, making the hurricane the most costly single calamity to strike the industry since the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 (cost: 6 billion, after inflation). With claims continuing to pour in, Andrew threatens to take a painful toll on the already battered property-casualty insurance industry and its 100 million policy-holders. The final bill, analysts predict, is likely to top 10 billion. While most well-capitalized insurers are expected to weather the storm, less anchored firms are in danger of being blown away, leaving U.S. consumers stuck with the tab. Says Sean Mooney, senior researcher at the Insurance Information Institute: "It will take years before the industry digs itself out from the wreckage left by Andrew. Some [companies] will be buried by it."
Hurricane Andrew is the latest in a string of mishaps to plague the American insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city's downtown district, costing insurers 300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: 1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida an Kansas. They cost insurers a combined 700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Inky, smashed into Hawaii, causing 1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty insurers have paid out a record 13 billion in claims so far this year, far surpassing the previous high of 7.6 billion in 1989, the year of Hurricane Hugo and California's Bay Area earthquake. Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insurers are already lobbying for rate relief.
31. According to the passage, ""Allstate Insurance"" most likely refers to ____.
A. one of the property and casualty insurers in the U.S.
B. the only insurance company responsible for the damage claims by Andrew
C. the insurance industry as a whole
D. the biggest insurance company in the U.S.
32. As is stated in the second paragraph, the result of Hurricane Andrew is likely to ____.
A. lead to inflation throughout the U.S.
B. make the largest insurers suffer the most
C. put the industry in Sough Florida out of action
D. cause insurers with insufficient funds to go bankrupt
33. Using context clues, we may infer that "stuck with the tab" most probably means ____.
A. "caught in the hurricane"
B. "exposed to natural disasters"
C. "trapped in financial difficulties"
D. "extremely vulnerable to further damages"
34. The end of the passage implies that, to compensate for their huge loss, the insurers will ____.
A. resort to a very big increase in insurance premiums
B. ask for subsidies from the federal government
C. reduce their insurance coverage thereafter
D. require a higher interest rate from the bank
35. The main purpose of the passage is to ____.
A. show the severe damages and heavy losses caused by Hurricane Andrew
B. suggest that U.S. insurers are virtually unable to cover the damage claims any more
C. tell about the difficult situation faced by the insurers throughout the U.S.
D. prove that disasters tend to cause ever worsening devastation as time goes on
Part II Vocabulary and Structure（15 points）
Directions：In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A，B，C，and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 36. By no means _____to move to a new place far away from her workplace，because it isn't convenient for her family and herself.
A. Jane will agree
B. will Jane agree
C. Jane will disagree
D. will Jane disagree
37. You can，_____ the sky is clear，see as far as the old temple on top of the mountain，but not today.
A. when
B. where
C. though
D. because
38. With everything she needed _____，she went out of the shop，with her hands full of shopping bags.
A. bought
B. to bu
C. buying
D. buy
39. Having taken our seats，_____.
A. the professor began the lecture
B. the lecture began in no time
C. we were attracted by the lecturer immediately
D. the bell announced the beginning of the lecture
40. In recent years many football clubs _____ as business to make a profit.
A. have run
B. have been run
C. had been run
D. will run
41. After 15 years in the United States，he has finally decided to_____ American citizenship.
A. concentrate on
B. apply for
C. look out for
D. appeal on
42. It is well known that teaching is a job _____ enough patience.
A. calling on
B. calling off
C. calling for
D. calling in
43. Surely it doesn't matter where the clubs get their money；what_____ is what they do with it.
A. counts
B. applies
C. stresses
D. functions
44. I didn't expect to receive a postcard from you！It's really _____my wildest imagination.
A. behind
B. beyond
C. except
D. through
45. It doesn't make____ to buy that expensive coat when these
cheaper ones are just as good.
A. sense
B. opinion
C. use
D. program
46. The task is too much for me，so I can't carry on _____ any longer.I must get some help.
A. singly
B. simply
C. alon
D. lonely
47. Americans eat _____vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.
A. more than twice
B. as twice as many
C. twice as many
D. more than twice as many
48. The two girls are getting on very well and share _______ with each other.
A. little
B. much
C. some
D. none
49. The taxi driver was put in_____prison because his car had knocked down a child. His wife went to_____ prison to see him twice a month.
A./；/
B. the；the
C./；the
D. the；/
50.Without my glasses I can hardly_____ what has been written in the letter.
A. make for
B. make up
C. make out
D. make over
51.Her heart _____faster when she entered the exam hall.
A. jumped
B. sank
C. beat
D. hit
52. Would you mind keeping a（n）_____ on the house for us while we are away？
A. eye
B. look
C. hand
D. view
53. I am afraid that his phone number has slipped my _____for the moment.
A. head
B. brain
C. mind
D. sense
54. It was the wealth of the _____pioneer landowner John Harvard that made Harvard Universitypossible.
A. precious
B. curious
C. anxious
D. prosperous
55. I am not sure whether we can give the right advice _____emergency.
A. on account of
B. in case of
C. at the risk of
D. in spite of
56. Vingo was released from prison _____the successful efforts of his friends to prove his innocence.
A. according to
B. as a result of
C. for reasons of
D. with the help of
57. Some of the meat came from Canada. How about_____？
A. another
B. the other
C. others
D. the rest
58. The man has a special talent for art and is _____of a musician.
A. anybody
B. anything
C. somebod
D. something
59. I know Jonathan quite well and never doubt_____ he can do a good job of it.
A. whether
B. that
C. when
D. what
50. How many more decades will have to pass_____scientists succeed in providing a cure for cancer？
A. when
B. before
C. since
D. until
61. The engineer is not happy with the project，and_____is her boss.
A. neither
B. so
C. either
D. as
62. _____ for a long time，but he tried his best to catch up with his classmates.
A. Having been ill
B. Being ill
C. Though he was ill
D. He was ill
63. How close parents are to their children _____a strong influence on the development of the children's character.
A. have
B. has
C. having
D. had
64. He changed his name，_____ that nobody would find out what he had done before.
A. having thought
B. to think
C. thinks
D. thinking
65. There is so much work _____today Would you be kind enough to lend me a hand？
A. having done
B. to be done
C. being done
D. will be done
Part IV Cloze Test (10 points)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each sentence there are four marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own. 66 the turn of the century when jazz was born, America had no prominent 67 of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was 68 , or by whom. But it began to be 69 in the early 1900s.Jazz is America’s contribution to70 music. In contrast to classical music, which 71 formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free form. It bubbles with energy, 72 the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz 73 like America, and 74it does today. The 75 of this music are as interesting as the music 76 .American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz 77 .They were brought to Southern States 78 slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long 79 . When a Negro died his friend and relatives 80 a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the 81 .On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion. 82 on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their 83 , but the living were glad to be alive. The band played84music, improvising(即兴表演) on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes 8 at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of jazz.
66. A. By B. At C. In D. On
67. A. music B .song C. melody D. style
68. A. discovered B. acted C. invented D. designed
69. A. noticed B. found C. listened D. heard
70. A. classical B. sacred C. popular D. light
71. A. forms B. follows C. approaches D. introduces
72. A. expressing B. explaining C. exposing D. illustrating
73. A. appeared B. felt C. seemed D. sounded
74. A. as B. so C. either D. neither
75. A. origins B. originals C. discoveries D. resources
76.A. concerned B. itself C. available D. oneself
77.A. players B. followers C. fans D. pioneers
78. A. for B. as C. with D. by
79. A. months B. weeks C .hours D. times
80. A. demonstrated B. composed C. hosted D. formed 81.A.demonstration B. procession C. body D. march
82.A.Even B. Therefore C. Furthermore D. But
83. A. number B. members C. body D. relations
84.A.sad B. solemn C. happy D. funeral
85. A. whistled B. sung C. presented D. showed
Part V Writing
Direction: Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic Starting Career in a Big City or Small Town？You should write at least 100 words following the outline given below in Chinese (20 points)
1. 很多的大学生毕业后留在大城市工作；
2. 也有人选择到小城镇开始自己的职业生涯；
3. 结合自己的实际情况谈谈自己的想法。