新视野大学英语第三版B2U1测试题&答案

Part 4 Banked Cloze(每小题：1 分)Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once.Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.A. fluentB. acquisitionC. diverseD. reverseE. competentF. competitiveG. skim H. beneficial I. enhanceJ. engage K. comprehension L. confusionM. proficiency N. exposure O. efficiencyTesting has replaced teaching in most public schools.Instead of teaching reading or writing skills which are (1)encouraged to (2)the learning process. For instance, they ask students to read the questions at the end of a reading text first, and then teachthem to (3)with various test-taking skills. We wonder whether the test-taking skills really help improve their language (4)The ability to read or write should (5)comprehension of reading texts or (6)writing develops simply through learning test-taking skills. Teachers must be careful when they teach students how to read and write to avoid any false language (7)skills will only end up with more (8)in learning because students have become more interested in test-taking skills rather thanconcentrating on the nature and quality of what should be taught.As a result, students may be (9)in taking tests while they have little or no (10)to serious reading or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk about what they read, which is definitely disastrous to their academic preparation.Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four words or expressions given. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage.Researchers have been trying to find how men and women are different in many ways. Take solving problems with (1)goals as an example. It has been found that even though men and women can solve problems (2)well and efficiently, there are always some (3)differences between them.Women focus more on the process (4)merelysolving the problem itself. For most women, it is anopportunity to (5)others while discussing with them. It is also (6)for them to work in a team, and they would like to(7)They usually prefer to (8)for cooperation, as they believe solving a problem canprofoundly (9)team. The process of solving a problem can (10)feel closer to or more distant from others.(11)different way (12)(13)same as women. For them, the process of solving a problemis (14)as solving it. Whatmen usually do is to (15)and focus on solving the problem only. They focus more onhow to solve a problem (16)there is a possible chance for them to (17)tend to be more (18)work instead of group work. They prefer to (19)themselves alone. For most men, solving a problem presentsan opportunity to make them feel (20)to show their abilities in facing a challenge.Families, Teachers Navigate Evolving TechnologyA) Children grow up carrying devices in their pockets with the ability to access all the knowledge of humanity, for good or ill. The digital age presents both unlimited possibility and frightening threats for children, families and schools around the world. Ever-evolving technology has added a new layer of difficulty to an unheard-of challenge facing Iowa's kids, the subject of a year long The Des Moines Register special project. Today more than ever, technology develops faster than society can determine its implications, experts say. Among the issues confronting children and parents are:B) From their first step onto the Internet, today's children create a digital footprint of potential permanence. Teachers and parents, often with limited knowledge of new technologies, are competing to coach their children how to manage the reputations they build through blogs and social media use, and to understand the potential harm of lives made public via the Internet. The hope, teachers say, is to avoid the situation illustrated by a university student who earlier this month talked about her breath-alcohol level and arrest at a football game. Thatled to national news coverage of "Vodka Sam", the nickname tied to the student's claimed Twitter account.C) Texting and social media have extended bullying from the school grounds to an anyplace, 24-hour suffering. "There is concern that because students are always connected, they cannot get away from bullying even after they physically leave school," said John Palfrey, one of the authors of the book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.D) Iowa families with low or moderate incomes struggle to gain access to expensive technology and connect to the Internet. Governor Terry Branstad considers access to technology so important that he ordered state officials earlier this month to come up with a plan to guarantee every Iowan Internet access by 2015. The digital divide is widest for the poor, according to data from Connect Iowa, a partnership between the Iowa Department of Economic Development and Connected Nation, a national task force devoted to increasing access and adoption of broadband communication. Just 58 percent of Iowa households with an income of $25,000 or less own a computer, compared with a statewide average of 81 percent. The lack of exposure to digital learning adds to other missed educational opportunities that can prevent poor children's success in school and, later, the workplace.E) With Internet access comes concerns about predators who would try to tempt children into cheating, crime or sexual exploitation. A 2010 US Department of Justice report to Congress found that federal child exploitation cases had climbed 40 percent since 2006. The biggest contributor to the rising caseload: technology-facilitated child exploitation. Lisa Adams, a Norwalk, Iowa, mother of three daughters, described that the preteen daughter of a family friend was stalked (纠缠) online by an adult man. The police were involved. "I'm terrified," said Adams, who teaches developmentally disabled students in Johnston, Iowa. "I don't know what good can come from having unrestricted, 24-hour access to all this technology. Then again, I'm the one who sleeps with my phone by the bed and uses it as an alarm clock."F) Research shows that constant technology use can change from habit to addiction. Some youths experience anxiety when cut off from their feeds for extended periods, saidCandice Odgers of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. "Many kids are glued to their phones," she said. "It can reach a point where it's unhealthy, especially if they never disconnect. Some sleep with their phones under their pillow, so they will hear a text come in – or feel it when the phone vibrates – so they can respond at all hours of the night because they're worried that if they don't respond, they will offend someone." Frequent technology use also is associated with lack of exercise and outdoor activities. In a 2009 Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study, heavy use was linked to sleep deprivation, which can cause obesity, depression and other psychological troubles.G) But amid this large amount of potential dangers, today's technology also presents before-unimagined possibilities to entertain, educate and inspire. Teachers are working to integrate cellphones, iPads and laptops into their classrooms. That allows teachers to partner with parents in teaching digital citizenship, pushing the idea of the long-term consequences – and benefits – of how kids manage their online presence and behaviors.H) "The goal is to get students to treat digital presence like a portfolio (系列产品)," said Scott McLeod, a professor who is a director of innovation for the Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency, which serves about 45 public school districts in north central and northwest Iowa. "You want students developing critical thinking skills while they move around the digital world. You want them asking questions about whether this photo is appropriate or could I word this better?"I) Some educators once feared that the abbreviations and confusing structures of texting would lower writing skills. But blogging and social media use by students have instead encouraged teamwork and improved writing performance, according to a 2012 study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit research organization. Of 2,462 teachers surveyed, 96 percent said digital technologies "allow students to share their work with a wider and more varied audience". Nearly 80 percent said the technologies "encourage greater collaboration among students".J) The continued combination of technology and the classroom also helps students become better evaluators of information. In earlier years, Luke Safris, 14, a student at Johnston High School, would use the first few links in a Google search to find information he sought. Now, Safris, a debate team member, is more careful with which sources he trusts. "You have to look closer," he said. "Is it .com or .org? Who made the page? What biases are there? You have to think about it and not just go with the first thing you see."K) Language arts teacher Erin Olson hopes to inspire thinking like Safris' among all her students. Olson helps teachers integrate technology into classrooms. She understands the concerns of teachers who prefer more traditional methods to reach students, and of parents who worry districts are spending too much money on what they perceive as playthings. But Olson sees it differently. "Not using technology isn't an option," she said. "We're preparing students for their tomorrows. Not teaching technology, not discussing it or using it is like having a big lake in your backyard and not knowing how to swim."(1)their pillow while sleeping so as to quickly respond to a message.(2)concerns of parents and supports using technology in classrooms.(3)percent of Iowa families own a computer, and the state officials are working for Internet access the whole state.(4)nowadays can improve their writing skills and encourage collaboration among them.(5)Paragraph GEducators are working hard to makefull use of the educating and entertaining advantages of digital devices in their classrooms.(6)Paragraph EChildren would be easily temptedinto cheating or crime with technology and internet access.(7)Paragraph BParents and teachers are tryingtheir best to help children in this digital age, although they themselves know little about modern technologies.(8)Paragraph FChildren's addiction to technologycan deprive them of sleep, exercise and outdoor activities, which will result in many psychological problems.(9)Paragraph JWith the combination of technologyand the classroom, students are becoming more careful with the information and its sources.(10)Paragraph AThe digital technology developsfast and raises various problems for both children and parents.Part 7 Reading comprehension(每小题：2 分)Directions: Read the following passages carefully. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer to each question.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.When I was a kid, I read every comic book ever published. I quickly went through all of them in a couple of days, and then reread the good ones until the next issues arrived.But as I got older, my eyeballs must have slowed down! I mean comic books started to pile up faster than my brother Russell. It wasn't until much later did I realize it wasn't my eye balls that were to blame. They're still moving as well as ever. The problem is there's too much to read these days and too little time to read every word of it.Now, besides novels and newspapers, I read different kinds of books and magazines. There are hundreds of techniques you could learn to help you read faster. But I know of three that are especially good.Previewing is especially useful for getting a general idea of heavy reading, like long and hard magazine or newspaper articles. Read the entire first two paragraphs of whatever you've chosen. Next read only the first sentence of each successive paragraph. Then read the entire last paragraph. It can give you as much as half the comprehension in as little as one-tenth the time. Skimming is a good way to get a general idea of light reading, like short and simple popular magazines or the sports and entertainment sections of the newspaper. Think of your eyes as magnets. Force them to move fast. Sweep each line and pick up only a few key words in each line. Clustering trains you to look at groups of words instead of one at a time to increase your speed and comprehension enormously. It is a totally different way of seeing what we read. Here's how to cluster: Train your eyes to see all the words in clusters of up to three or four words at a glance.With enough practice, you'll be able to handle more reading at school or work – and at home –in less time. You should even have enough time to read your favorite comic books.1.What did the writer realize later regarding his slowed-down eyeballs?A. His brother had more comic books than him.B. He couldn't read as fast as his brother.C. He couldn't finish reading all the comic books.D. He had too much to read but too little time to do it.2.Why is previewing especially useful for a heavy reading?A. You can read various kinds of books such as magazines.B. You can see the whole picture of a long reading in less time.C. You can understand the content completely within a short time.D. You can comprehend at least 50% of what you're reading.3.What is the use of the technique of skimming when you are doing light reading?A. It enables you to read some entertaining books.B. It enables you to think like magnets.C. It helps you pick up key words.D. It helps you get the information you want.4.What's the most important advantage when you do clustering?A. It helps you read faster and understand better.B. It lets you read in a totally different way.C. It allows your eyes to pick up three to four words at a time.D. It trains your eyes to see all the words in the reading.5.Which statement best expresses the main idea of this passage?A. Moving your eyes fast gives you a general idea.B. It is necessary to choose different methods for different readings.C. Different reading skills should be used at the same time.D. You may read faster by using reading techniques.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.Before computers were invented, the words byte and modem did not exist, and a mouse was something that made some people scream and run away. Words are added to language every day. Changes in society also cause changes in language.Changes in attitude also affect language. As people become more sensitive to the rights and needs of individual, it becomes necessary to change the words we use to describe them. The elderly are now called senior citizens. The handicapped are described as physically challenged. Many of the words we once used had negative feelings attached to them. New words show an awareness in today's society that differences are good and that everyone deserves respect. Even the names of certain jobs have changed so that workers can be proud of what they do. The trash man is now called a sanitation worker and a doorman is an attendant. One important influence on our language in the past decade has been the changing role of women in modern society. As women entered more and more areas that were once thought of as men's job, it became necessary to change the job titles. For example, a mailman is now a mail carrier, a watchman is a guard.Sometimes new words may seem awkward and silly, such as chair for chairman, fisher for fisherman, and drafter for draftsman. But change is never easy. People often fight change until it becomes a familiar part of everyday life.Women have fought long and hard to be treated equally in language as well as in society, because they know that changes in language can cause changes in attitudes. If every person isn't referred to as he, people will begin to realize that men aren't the only ones who are important or who have made great achievements. Most words that indicate only one gender have been replaced with words that refer to both males and females. Thus, a poetess is called a poet, a waitress is a server, and mankind has become humankind.6.Words are added to language ________.A. when new things are inventedB. when society changesC. when old words disappearD. all the time7.Words are changed because ________.A. it is part of everyday life.B. the handicapped should be proud of themselves.C. many old words cause negative feelings.D. some words look silly and awkward.8.A doorman is now called ________.A. attendantB. watchmanC. trash manD. server9.Which of the following is one important influence on our language in the past decade according to the passage?A. The changing attitude toward the elderly.B. The changing job market.C. The changing role of women.D. The changing social opinions.10.Which of the following best summarizes the passage?A. Language is always added with new vocabulary.B. Language changes with the changing of society.C. Changing language reflects the achievements of people.D. Changing language gives people more individual rights.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.People use more than just words to communicate. In fact, some researchers claim that less than half of a spoken message's real meaning is in the words used in the message. They say that most of a message's meaning comes from understanding how the speaker uses things like tone of voice and body language.Body language includes such things as the expression on the speaker's face, gestures that speaker makes with his or her hands, and the position of the speaker's body. Just as there are many different languages spoken around the world, there are many different ways for people to use body language, too. For example, gestures may imply different meanings in different cultures. Making a "thumbs up" sign in America means, "Great!" However, in Arab cultures, this gesture is extremely offensive. Although many gestures can be interpreted differently by different cultures, there are also many gestures that are almost universally interpreted in the same way. For example, by and large, a smile is understood as a sign of friendship or good will around the world. Also, using an open hand to gesture toward something is viewed as polite or friendly in most cultures.There are also some forms of body language that can be universally read with the meaning, "I am interested in you" or "I like you." Sometimes this kind of body language is used unconsciously between two people. These signs of interest include standing or sitting with both feet flat on the ground, mirroring or using the same gestures as the other person, and turning one's body to fully face the other person.Body language experts point out one important thing. The person's culture is only one factor that can influence his or her use of body language. The time and place where the body language is being used can have a lot to do with a person's body language. If the person has had a bad day or if a meeting takes place in a crowded place, the body language a person uses may be very different from under other circumstances.11.According to the passage, more than half of a spoken message's real meaning comes from ________.A. words used in the messageB. things used in the messageC. the speaker's tone of voiceD. the speaker's tone and body language12.The second paragraph describes ________.A. an example of a gesture not used in IndiaB. different meanings of gestures in different culturesC. how gestures can change the meaning of wordsD. useful gestures in Arab cultures13.If a person starts copying your body language, what does this suggest?A. He/She is interested in you.B. He/She isn't interested in you.C. He/She doesn't agree with you.D. He/She agrees with you.14.People may use different body languages ________.A. only in different placesB. only at different timeC. under different circumstancesD. under few circumstances15.What is the main idea of the passage?A. Body language is an important part of communication.B. Body language is affected by culture.C. Body language can be extremely offensive.D. Body language can tell you whether people like you.本文档部分内容来源于网络，如有内容侵权请告知删除，感谢您的配合！。