新理念网络学习大厅综合测试第四册Unit2

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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.
1.
A) T
B) F
Script: In the last seventy years, the automobile industry has been revolutionized due to the computer revolution.
正确答案：B
2.
A) T
B) F
Script: A smart car can help eliminate all the traffic accidents.
正确答案：B
3.
A) T
B) F
Script: A smart car can send out a warning signal if you are making a serious driving mistake.
正确答案：A
4.
A) T
B) F
Script: The computer revolution will surely solve those traffic problems such as traffic jams.
正确答案：B
5.
A) T
B) F
Script: By establishing the relation between the rotations in the steering wheel and the car’s position on a map, some navigational systems can tell us where the car is.
正确答案：A
6.
A) T
B) F
Script: Smart highways are quite environment-friendly and benefit us in more than one way.
正确答案：A
7.
A) T
B) F
Script: To turn the automated trip into reality, we have to rely on many extremely advanced technologies.
正确答案：B
8.
A) T
B) F
Script: The computer vision system is easily influenced by weather problems and might give some inaccurate information.
正确答案：A
9.
A) T
B) F
Script: Computers in the vehicles are designed to handle more accurate decisions about where and when to change lanes to avoid interference with other vehicles.
正确答案：A
10.
A) T
B) F
Script: In fact, it is more difficult and expensive to implement an advanced technology than people perceive.
正确答案：B
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The private automobile has long played an important role in the United States. In fact, it has become a (11)_________________ and important part of the American way of life. By giving workers rapid (12)_________________ , the automobile has freed them from having to live near their place of work. This has encouraged the growth of the cities, but it has also led to traffic problems.
For farm families the automobile is very (13)_________________ . It has made it possible for them to travel to town very often for business and for (14)_________________ , and also to transport their children to (15)_________________ schools.
Family life has been (16)_________________ in various ways. The car helps to keep families together when it is used for picnics, (17)_________________ , and other shared experiences. However, when teenage children have the use of the car, their parents can’t (18)_________________ on them. There is a great danger if the driver has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs, or showing off by speeding or breaking down traffic laws.
(19)_________________ of such accidents have formed an organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). These women want to prevent further tragedies. They have worked to (20)_________________ to limit the youngest drinking age. Students have formed a similar organization, SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving) and are spreading the same message among their friends.
Script: The private automobile has long played an important role in the United States. In fact, it has become a necessary and important part of the American way of life. By giving workers rapid transportation, the automobile has freed them from having to live near their place of work. This has encouraged the growth of the cities, but it has also led to traffic problems.
For farm families the automobile is very helpful. It has made it possible for them to travel to town very often for business and for pleasure, and also to transport their children to distant schools.
Family life has been affected in various ways. The car helps to keep families together when it is used for picnics, outings, and other shared experiences. However, when teenage children have the use of the car, their parents can’t keep an eye on them. There is a great danger if the driver has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs, or showing off by speeding or breaking down traffic laws. Mothers of victims of such accidents have formed an organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). These women want to prevent further tragedies. They have worked to encourage the government to limit the youngest drinking age. Students
have formed a similar organization, SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving) and are spreading the same message among their friends.
正确答案：necessary
正确答案：transportation
正确答案：helpful
正确答案：pleasure
正确答案：distant
正确答案：affected
正确答案：outings
正确答案：keep an eye
正确答案：Mothers of victims
正确答案：encourage the government
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
The car, and the roads it travels on, will be 21 in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow’s “smart cars” will be 22 . “We’ll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and 23 and talk and act,” predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future.
24 40,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents. The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so 25 that we don’t even bother to 26 them in the newspapers anymore. Fully half of these fatalities come
from drunk drivers, and many others from 27 . A smart car could eliminate most of these car accidents. It can sense if a driver is drunk 28 electronic sensors that can pick up alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse to 29 the engine. The car could also alert the police and provide its precise 30 if it is stolen.
A) vice versa B) location C) sensors D) vast
E) mobility F) mention G) duplicate H) start up
I) carelessness J) fill out K) revolutionized L) smell
M) Adversely N) Approximately O) via
21.______________________
正确答案：K
22.______________________
正确答案：C
23.______________________
正确答案：L
24.______________________
正确答案：N
25.______________________
正确答案：D
26.______________________
正确答案：F
27.______________________
正确答案：I
28.______________________
正确答案：O
29.______________________
正确答案：H
30.______________________
正确答案：B
Section B
Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.
Passage One
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in for an unwelcome surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer (锁止器), and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.
For now, such devices are only available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilization technology could soon start to trickle down to ordinary cars, and should be available in the UK in two months.
The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro-processor and memory, and a GPS satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted.
In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed,” says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.
Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won’t allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.
But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting bold of the owner’s keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system.
If the car travels 100 meters without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen. The hundred meters minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal.
Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle’s movements via the car’s GPS unit.
31.
What’s the function of the remote immobilizer fitted to a car?
A) To help the police make a surprise attack on the car thief.
B) To allow the car to lock automatically when stolen.
C) To prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops.
D) To prevent car theft by sending a radio signal to the car owner.
正确答案：C
32.
By saying “The pattern of vehicle crime has changed” (Lines 1-2. Para. 4), Martyn Randall suggests that ________.
A) it takes a longer time for the car thief to do the stealing
B) self-prepared tools are no longer enough for car theft
C) the thief has to make use of computer technology
D) the thief has lost interest in stealing cars over 10 years old
正确答案：B
33.
_______________ is essential in making a modem car tougher to steal.
A) A coded ignition key
B) A unique ID card
C) A special cellphone signal
D) A GPS satellite positioning receiver
正确答案：A
34.
Why does the tracking system set a 100-metre minimum before sending an alarm to the operations centre?
A) To leave time for the operations centre to give an alarm.
B) To keep police informed of the car’s movements.
C) To give the driver time to contact the operations centre.
D) To allow for possible errors in the GPS system.
正确答案：D
35.
What will the operations centre do first after receiving an alarm?
A) Start the tracking system.
B) Contact the car owner.
C) Block the car engine.
D) Locate the missing car.
正确答案：B
Passage Two
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
According to some individuals, if your house is built in the right position, this may affect your success in life, which seems strange to many people. However, to believers in Feng-Shui, or the art of geomancy, not only the position but also the choice of decorations and even the color of your home can mean the difference between good fortune and disaster. This art has been practiced for centuries in China and is still used all over South East Asia. Even the huge Hong Kong banks call in a geomant if they are planning to build new offices.
Like many Oriental beliefs the geomant’s skill depends on the idea of harmony in nature. If there is no imbalance between the opposing forces of Yin and Yang, the building will bring luck to its inhabitants. This means that the house must be built on the right spot as well as facing the right direction, and also be painted an auspicious color. For instance, if there are mountains to the north, this will protect them from evil influences. If the house is painted red, this will bring happiness to the occupants while green symbolizes youth and will bring long life. The geomant believes that unless all these are considered when choosing a site for construction, the fortune of the people using it will be at risk.
Indeed, to ignore the geomant’s advice can have fatal results. The death of the internationally famous Kung-Fu star, Bruce Lee, has been used as an example. It is said that when Lee found out that the house he was living in was an unlucky one, he followed a geomant’s advice and installed an eight-sided mirror outside his front door to bring him luck. Unfortunately, a storm damaged the mirror and the house was left unprotected from harmful influences. Soon afterwards Lee died in mysterious circumstances.
Not only is Feng-Shui still used in South East Asia, but it has also spread right across the world. Even in modern New York a successful commercial artist called Milton Glaser has found it useful. He was so desperate after his office was broken into six times that he consulted a geomant. He was told to install a fish tank with six black fish and fix a red clock to the ceiling. Since then he has not been burglarized once. It may seem an incredible story, but no other suitable explanation has been offered.
36.
From the passage we can infer that Feng-Shui is NOT used in ______.
A) Japan
B) New York
C) Hong Kong
D) China
正确答案：A
37.
Geomants believe that ______.
A) houses must only be painted red
B) houses must face mountains
C) nature and life should be in harmony
D) green is an unlucky color
正确答案：C
38.
Geomants think that the reason for Bruce Lee’s death is that ______.
A) he didn’t follow the geomants’ advice
B) he installed an eight-sided mirror
C) he misunderstood the geomant’s advice
D) a storm damaged the protection for his house
正确答案：D
39.
The story of Milton Glaser shows that ______.
A) colors are not important in geomancy
B) geomancy is used in the West
C) geomancy is used by artists
D) the fight against crime is being won
正确答案：B
40.
Which of the following best describes geomancy?
A) It is a style of Oriental decoration.
B) It is a type of painting.
C) It is an ancient Chinese belief called Feng-Shui.
D) It is an architectural design.
正确答案：C
Part III Vocabulary and Structure ( 11 minutes )
Directions: There are a number of incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.
41.
Many new safety features have been ________ in the new version of this popular car.
A) incorporated
B) associated
C) cooperated
D) excluded
正确答案：A
42.
This book gives a brief ________ of the history of the castle and details of the art collection in the main hall.
A) reference
B) research
C) outlook
D) outline
正确答案：D
43.
My job at the assembly line of the car factory is rather ________.
A) bore
B) bored
C) monotonous
D) monotony
正确答案：C
44.
We should always ________ our own rights.
A) stand for
B) stand up
C) stand up for
D) stand by
正确答案：C
45.
The doctor told Penny that much ________ to the sun is bad for the skin.
A) exposure
B) extension
C) exhibition
D) disclosure
正确答案：A
46.
He always ________ extra responsibilities without any complaint.
A) takes to
B) takes in
C) takes over
D) takes on
正确答案：D
47.
He was elected president of the Literary Research Association by _______ of his academic and organizational abilities.
A) virtue
B) means
C) way
D) chance
正确答案：A
48.
Diamonds have little _______ value and their price depends almost entirely on their scarcity.
A) extinct
B) permanent
C) surplus
D) intrinsic
正确答案：D
49.
No sooner had Mr Green finished explaining the poem than the students' questions _______ to pour in.
A) begin
B) began
C) beginning
D) had begun
正确答案：B
50.
Before using your new pressure cooker, read the following ______ carefully.
A) notices
B) announcement
C) instructions
D) advertisement
正确答案：C
51.
I'd like to take advantage of this opportunity to thank you all for your ______.
A) profit
B) benefit
C) cooperation
D) occasion
正确答案：C
52.
It was ______ you that the drowning boy was saved and all was well.
A) due to
B) thanks to
C) but for
D) owing to
正确答案：B
53.
The room connects with the dining hall ___________ a hall way.
A) in accordance with
B) in case of
C) by means of
D) by no means
正确答案：C
54.
The little girl lovingly ______ Chris' face with the tips of her fingers.
A) clapped
B) felt
C) stroked
D) whisked
正确答案：C
55.
Radar is used to extend the _____ of man's senses for observing his environment, especially the sense of vision.
A) validity
B) liability
C) capability
D) intensity
正确答案：C
56.
Most people closely _____ a pounding heart and sweating palms with the experience of emotion.
A) classify
B) identify
C) satisfy
D) modify
正确答案：B
57.
Beware of the men around you who _____ fame and wealth.
A) go after
B) follow up
C) seek for
D) desire of
正确答案：A
58.
The newcomer was _____ until he could display his wisdom and talent.
A) awaiting
B) working hard
C) expecting
D) biding his time
正确答案：D
59.
Like the sun, the planets shift their positions so slowly that their day-to-day motion is hard to ___________.
A) discover
B) detect
C) ascertain
D) disguise
正确答案：B
60.
This is a new discovery that has a number of industrial ___________.
A) supplies
B) contracts
C) applicants
D) applications
正确答案：D
Part IV Translation ( 10 minutes )
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
61. The reunion of the mainland and Hong Kong had been a dream for many people, and it was the efforts and wisdom of Deng Xiaoping that ____________________ (使它变成现实).
正确答案：turned it into reality
62. Only three years after the collapse of the projected EDC and Political Community structures, European integration was ____________________ (随时会迈出一大步).
正确答案：poised to take a great leap forward
63. ____________________ (为了降低生产成本) the factory managed to introduce a new assembly line.
正确答案：In order to decrease the cost of production
64. ____________________ (我们正深受污染之苦) that we ourselves have been causing.
正确答案：We are suffering from the pollution
65. ____________________ (玛丽似乎掌控了所有的事) by the time he returned.
正确答案：Mary seemed to have things in her hands
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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.
1.
A) T
B) F
Script: There are so many people killed in car accidents that all are reported in the newspaper every day.
正确答案：B
2.
A) T
B) F
Script: If the driver becomes sleepy, a computer in the dashboard could stop the car immediately.
正确答案：B
3.
A) T
B) F
Script: The dull and tiring process of long-hour driving will put long-distance drivers in a dangerous position.
正确答案：A
4.
A) T
B) F
Script: Sensors in the smart cars can locate their positions independently.
正确答案：B
5.
A) T
B) F
Script: When a satellite passes by, it gives off a radio signal which can be discovered by a receiver in a car’s computer.
正确答案：A
6.
A) T
B) F
Script: As the price of microchips is dropping sharply, the application of GPS in the future are actually boundless.
正确答案：A
7.
A) T
B) F
Script: Because of the development of technology, we are able to visualize your trip by an automated highway system.
正确答案：A
8.
A) T
B) F
Script: The laser systems are more effective at discovering untidy vehicles and operating in bad weather conditions.
正确答案：B
9.
A) T
B) F
Script: There remain some non-technical difficulties to be overcome such as liability, costs and perceptions.
正确答案：A
10.
A) T
B) F
Script: It is very important for us to realize the fact that automated vehicles have already been widely used in our daily life.
正确答案：A
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Some pessimistic experts feel that the automobile is bound to fall into disuse. They see a day in the not-too-distant future when all autos will be (11)_________________ and allowed to rust. Other authorities, however, think the auto is here to stay. They hold that the car will remain a (12)_________________ means of urban travel in the foreseeable future.
The motorcar will (13)_________________ change significantly over the next 30 years. It should become smaller, safer, and more (14)_________________ , and should not be powered by the gasoline engine. The car of the future should be far more (15)_________________ than present types. (16)_________________ of its power source, the auto in the future will still be the main problem in urban traffic jams. One proposed solution to this problem is the (17)_________________ highway system.
When the auto enters the highway system, a retractable (可伸缩的) arm will drop from the auto and make contact with a rail. It is quite similar to those powering (18)_________________ electrically. Once attached to the rail, the car will become electrically powered from the system, and control of the vehicle will pass to a central computer. The computer will then monitor all of the car’s movements. The driver will use a telephone to (19)_________________ his destination into the system. The computer will calculate the best route, and (20)_________________ the car all the way to the correct exit from the highway. The driver will then be free to relax and wait for the buzzer that will warn him of his coming exit.
Script: Some pessimistic experts feel that the automobile is bound to fall into disuse. They see a day in the not-too-distant future when all autos will be abandoned and allowed to rust. Other authorities, however, think the auto is here to stay. They hold that the car will remain a leading means of urban travel in the foreseeable future.
The motorcar will undoubtedly change significantly over the next 30 years. It should become smaller, safer, and more economical, and should not be powered by the gasoline engine. The car of the future should be far more pollution-free than present types. Regardless of its power source, the auto in the future will still be the main problem in urban traffic jams. One proposed solution to this problem is the automated highway system.
When the auto enters the highway system, a retractable (可伸缩的) arm will drop from the auto and make contact with a rail. It is quite similar to those powering subway trains
electrically. Once attached to the rail, the car will become electrically powered from the system, and control of the vehicle will pass to a central computer. The computer will then monitor all of the car’s movements. The driver will use a telephone to dial instructions about his destination into the system. The computer will calculate the best route, and reserve space for the car all the way to the correct exit from the highway. The driver will then be free to relax and wait for the buzzer that will warn him of his coming exit.
正确答案：abandoned
正确答案：leading
正确答案：undoubtedly
正确答案：economical
正确答案：pollution-free
正确答案：Regardless
正确答案：automated
正确答案：subway trains
正确答案：dial instructions about
正确答案：reserve space for
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
On an eight-mile stretch of Interstate 15 ten miles north of San Diego, traffic engineers are 21 an MIT-designed system which will introduce the “automated driver.” The plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch 22 spikes buried in the
highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads. Cars will be 23 into groups of ten to twelve vehicles, only six feet 24 , traveling in unison, and controlled by computer.
25 of this computerized highway have great hopes for its future. By 2010, telematics may well be 26 one of the major highways in the United States. If successful, by 2020, as the price of 27 drops to below a penny a piece, telematics could be adopted in thousands of miles of highways in the United States. This could prove to be an 28 boon as well, saving fuel, reducing 29 , decreasing air pollution, and serving as an 30 to highway expansion.
A) fatality B) Promoters C) Protesters D) magnetic
E) apart F) installing G) alternative H) brings about
I) inevitable J) microchips K) traffic jams L) cultivation
M) incorporated into N) environmental O) bunched
21.______________________
正确答案：F
22.______________________
正确答案：D
23.______________________
正确答案：O
24.______________________
正确答案：E
25.______________________
正确答案：B
26.______________________
正确答案：M
27.______________________
正确答案：J
28.______________________
正确答案：N
29.______________________
正确答案：K
30.______________________
正确答案：G
Section B
Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.
Passage One
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
You slip the key into the ignition and crank the engine to life. But before you put the car into gear, you tap a key on the keyboard mounted by the steering wheel, and your newest e-mail flashes up on the windscreen.
This seductive satyr is what you get when you cross a car and a computer. Dubbed the “network vehicle”, or net-mobile, it may soon come to a driveway near you (probably the one belonging to your rich neighbor). In a net-mobile, a motorist could tap into a regional road system but also to map out a route around rush-hour traffic snags. Drivers and passengers will be able to send and receive e-mail, track the latest sports scores or stock quotes, surf the Web, and even play video games. Or so, at least, say a number of computer-industry firms such as Microsoft, Sun, IBM and Netscape.
The modern car is already an electronic showcase on wheels. On-board microcomputers improve fuel economy and reduce emissions. They operate anti-lock brake systems, and on some cars even regulate the firmness of the shock absorbers. But much of the technology needed to add extra is available now. A prototype network vehicle, produced by a consortium of Netscape, Sun, IBM and Delco (an automotive electronics firm based in Michigan), was introduced at the recent annual computer industry show in Las Vegas.
It not only offered such desktop-computer-like services as e-mail, but allowed a driver to use them without looking away from the road. It was operated by voice commands and projected its data on to the windscreen, using the same sort of head-up display system found in modern fighter jets. Members of the consortium think a real-world network vehicle could be in production in as little as four years.
Car-makers have already begun rolling out some of the features found on these。