新世纪大学英语综合教程第一册第一单元网络课程学习测试题及答案

新世纪综合单元测试——Unit 1 Book 1
Listening Comprehension
True Or False
Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 4 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. (10 points)
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True False
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True False
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True False
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True False
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True False
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True False
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True False
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True False
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True False
10.
True False
Spot Dictation
Directions: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 numbered from 11-20 with the exact words you have just heard. When the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. (10 points)
Studies have shown that American children who learn to read by the 11 are less likely to end up in prison, 12 school, or take drugs. Adults who read literature on a 13 basis are more likely to attend a 14 arts event, visit an art museum, do 15 or charity work, and participate in 16 activities. Literacy rates in the United States are also more highly correlated to 17 than IQ. Reading books is generally regarded as being a 18 pastime, while at the same time requiring the brain to 19 text so it can be stimulated. Because of this it is sometimes considered to cause at least a 20 increase in one's mental faculties.
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Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices. Click on the best choice. (20 points)
Passage One
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that sign languages are unique — a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on
an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world's only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the "hand talk" his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoe's idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).
It is 37 years later. Stokoe — now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture — is having lunch at a café near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that sign languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff — it's brain stuff."
21. The study of sign language is thought to be _______.
A. a new way to look at the learning of language
B. a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language
C. an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language
D. an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language
22. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by _______.
A. a famous scholar in the study of the human brain
B. a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts
C. an English teacher in a university for the deaf
D. some senior experts in American Sign Language
23. According to Stokoe, sign language is _____.
A. a substandard language
B. a genuine language
C. an artificial language
D. an international language
24. Most educators objected to Stokoe's idea because they thought _____.
A. sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people
B. sign language was too artificial to be widely accepted
C. a language should be easy to use and understand
D. a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds
25. Stokoe's argument is based on his belief that _____.
A. sign language is as efficient as any other language
B. sign language is derived from natural language
C. language is a system of meaningful codes
D. language is a product of the brain
Passage Two
A great majority of our nine million college students are in school not because they want to be or because they want to learn. They are there because it has become the thing to do or because college is a pleasant place to be in; because it's the only way they can get parents or tax-payers to support them without working at a job they don't like; because mothers want them to do so, or for some other reason entirely not related to the course of studies for which college is supposedly organized. Some of the professors and administrators estimate that no more than 25 per cent of their students are interested in class work. For the rest, college is at best a social center or a place where time can be killed, and at worst a young people's home or even a prison that keeps them out of the way of economic life for a few more years.
I no longer accept the idea that college is the best place for all high-school graduates. Just as the United States was the first nation to make great efforts to teach every small child to read and write, so during the 1950s, we became the first and the only great nation to offer higher education to all. During the 60's we built great state university systems as fast as we could. And adults — parents, employers, high school teachers began to push the youth to get an education. By 1970, colleges and universities were spending more than 30 billion dollars yearly. But still only half our high-school graduates were going on.
Now the babies have graduated from college, the rate of growth of the student population has begun to increase. To keep their universities financially supported many institutions have begun to attract students by using whatever means they can. They sell college like soap, promoting features they think students want: creative programs, an environment helpful to meaningful personal relationships, and an education so free that it doesn't sound like college at all.
26. The reason for most U. S. college students to go to school is NOT that ____.
A. mothers want them to go
B. college is a pleasant place
C. they want to continue their education
D. it's the only way to get financial support
27. According to this passage, most of the college students _____.
A. do not like to study
B. like to make friends at college
C. find their universities as comfortable as their homes
D. complain that a college is like a prison
28. The U.S. became the first and the only nation to make efforts to offer higher education to all during the _____.
A. 1960s
B. 1950s
C. 1970s
D. none of these
29. In order to get financial support, many institutions have begun to ______.
A. sell soap to high-school graduates
B. spend more than 30 billion dollars yearly
C. make every effort to increase the student population
D. offer their students a large number of practical courses
30. The best title for this passage might be _____.
A. Crisis of U.S. Universities
B. U.S. Students Today
C. Why Do They Go to College?
D. Higher Education in the United States
Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence.(60 points)
31. So I'm sure to get opportunities to display my talent in ____.
A. addition
B. bulletin
C. advertisement
D. message
32. That fat woman looked ____ in her tight golden dress.
A. natural
B. ridiculous
C. normal
D. reputable
33. He knew it was useless to ____ with his father.
A. provide
B. resent
C. upset
D. argue
34. After the class, the coach gave ____ instruction to the newcomer.
A. individual
B. single
C. alone
D. one
35. The explorers set up a ____ at the foot of the mountain.
A. basis
B. basic
C. base
D. foundation
36. He still smokes despite the ____ warnings of his doctor.
A. continuous
B. continual
C. constant
D. perpetual
37. Too many people fail to realize that real ____ goes in both directions.
A. association
B. commuter
C. community
D. communication
38. You must go there quickly ____ you will not be back in time.
A. or so
B. or else
C. as well
D. nor
39. It's ____ learning the text by heart without understanding it.
A. no use
B. no doubt
C. difficulty
D. trouble
40. This suggested that matter can be converted into energy, and ____.
A. on the contrary
B. vice versa
C. in the opposite
D. each other
41. The United Nations ____ formed in San Francisco in 1945.
A. were
B. are
C. was
D. is
42. ____ wants to take part in this party may get the ticket.
A. Whoever
B. Who
C. Everybody
D. Anybody
43. I remember ____ for the job, but I have forgotten the exact amount.
A. get paid
B. that I receive pay
C. being paid
D. to be paid
44. There used to be some trees by the lake, ____?
A. was there
B. weren't there
C. wasn't there
D. were there
45. Charles regretted ____ the TV set last month. The price has now been raised.
A. not to buy
B. not buy
C. buying not
D. not buying
46. He did poorly in his examinations ____ that he studied hard for them.
A. considered
B. taken into account
C. considering
D. in view
47. ____, we wouldn't have made so many mistakes.
A. Because of your distraction
B. Had we concentrated on our work
C. With your distraction
D. If we concentrated on our work
48. Your advice that she ____ till next month is reasonable.
A. wait
B. will wait
C. is going to wait
D. waits
49. Unless you go on ____ something else, you'll lose your efficiency.
A. doing
B. with doing
C. to do
D. for doing
50. Some people strain the truth to make an ____ sound more thrilling.
A. advantage
B. adventure
C. advance
D. advice
51. Please ____ the mess in here before you go.
A. clear out
B. clear down
C. clear in
D. clear up
52. He ____ from the bridge and rescued the drowning child.
A. dived
B. divided
C. died
D. divine
53. Chinese handwriting has infinite power to express differences of ____ and cultivation.
A. feature
B. characteristic
C. nature
D. character
54. If you have finished we can have a coffee — if not, you ____ keep working.
A. would better
B. better to
C. better
D. would better to
55. ____ succeeding in career if your health runs down?
A. What's the point at
B. What's the point of
C. Is that the point of
D. Is there the point of
56. I want to buy a sweater the same style ____ the one I am wearing.
A. like
B. than
C. to
D. as
57. If someone deserts you when you are in trouble, he will not be ____.
A. a friend of you
B. yours friend
C. a friend of your
D. a friend of yours
58. — Come on, Mike. Here is your present.
— OK, how nice of you! I ____ you ____ to bring me a present.
A. hadn't thought; were going
B. never thought; were going
C. didn't think; were going
D. never think; are going
59. From his muddy shoes I naturally ____ that he had been walking through the woods.
A. drew the conclusion
B. drew to a close
C. come to conclude
D. brought to a conclusion
60. So isolated ____ he ____ no one said a word in his favor.
A. did ... who
B. did ... that
C. was ... which
D. was ... that。