大学英语综合教程第一册Unit2自测题

Unit 2 Text B Never Let a Friend DownI. Useful expressions (20 points)Directions: Please find out the English equivalence in Text B and write down the correct answers in the blank.1. 足球赛____________________2. 烧荒_____________________3. 行走很费劲_________________4. 逆风而行_____________________5. 火墙______________________6. 燃烧的汽油___________________7. 挣扎着站起来______________________8. 减轻烧伤的疼痛_____________________________9. 振作精神________________________10. 绝不抛弃朋友_______________________II. Reading comprehension (30 points)Section A (10 points)Directions: Please select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Royce saw a second explosion rock the car, as it was eaten up by (11) ._______ I’d be ashes now if Bill hadn’t gotten me out, he thought. Looking down, Royce was shocked by the extent of his injuries. His stomach and left hip were (12) _______ in deep burns. (13) _______ still, his fingers were burned completely out of shape.Lying on his back, Bill was in (14) _______ bad shape. Pieces of blackened flesh and skin hung from his forearms, hands and legs.Bill looked across at his friend. Reading the (15) _______ clouding Royce’s face, Bill said, “I’ll get help. You hang on.” Royce nodded, but as he watched Bill (16) _______ off slowly across the blackened field, he wondered how his friend was going to walk almost two miles and get over three fences.A lifetime spent around the (17) _______ people who make their home in the Australian bush had (18)_______ fixed into Bill’s soul two (19)_______ : never give up no matter how bad the odds and never let a friend down. Now, with every step sending pain (20) _______ through every part of his body, he drew on those twin pillars of character. If I don’t make it, Royce will die out there, he told himself over and over.A. despairB. coveredC. arguingD. toughE. setF. principlesG. permanently H. flames I. laborer J. worse K. join L. participateM. surprise N. piercing O. equallySection B (20 points)Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. You should decide on the best choice.Passage oneSpace is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors（流星）but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food, which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage -- a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed（畸形的）children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and, during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.21. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that ______.A. it protects him against the harmful rays from spaceB. it provides sufficient light for plant growthC. it supplies the heat necessary for human survivalD. it screens off the falling meteors22. We know from the passage that ________.A. exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatalB. the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in comingC. radiation is avoidable in space explorationD. astronauts in spacesuits needn’t worry about radiation damage23. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members _______.A. is insignificantB. seems overestimatedC. is enormousD. remains unknown24. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.A. the Apollo mission was very successfulB. protection from space radiation is no easy jobC. astronauts will have deformed children or grandchildrenD. radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers25. The best title for this passage would be _______.A. The Atmosphere and Our EnvironmentB. Research on RadiationC. Effects of Space RadiationD. Importance of Protection against RadiationPassage 2Exchange a glance with someone, then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer, and you have made a different statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person’s gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up（打量）and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to emit a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contact, what sociologist Erving Goffman (1963) calls “a dimming of the lights.” You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger’s eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.If you hold eye contact for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and the situation. For instance, a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again. But if one man gives another man a 3-second-plus stare, he signals, “I know you”, “I am interested in you,” or “You look peculiar and I am curious about you.” This type of stare often produces hostile feelings.26. It can be inferred form the first paragraph that _______.A. every glance has its significanceB. staring at a person is an expression of interestC. a gaze longer than 3 seconds is unacceptableD. a glance conveys more meaning than words27. If you want to be left alone on an elevator, the best thing to do is __________.A. to look into another passenger’s eyesB. to avoid eye contact with other passengersC. to signal you are not a threat to anyoneD. to keep a distance from other passengers28. By “a dimming of the lights” (Para.1, Line 9) Erving Goffman means “_______”.A. closing one’s eyesB. turning off the lightsC. ceasing to glance at othersD. reducing gaze-time to the minimum29. If one is looked at by a stranger for too long, he tends to feel ___________.A. depressedB. uneasyC. curiousD. amused30. The passage mainly discusses __________.A. the limitations of eye contactB. the exchange of ideas through eye contactC. proper behavior in situationsD. the role of eye contact in interpersonal communicationIII. Translation (20 points)Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. 31.Since the basketball match has been postponed, we__________________________________________ (不妨去参观博物馆).32.Mary ________________________________ (看上去对考试很担心), because she hasn’t learned the texts by heart.33.Since I graduated from Nanjing University in 1985, I have kind of ____________________________________________ (与我的大学同学失去了联系).34.______________________________________________(大多数父母所关心的) is providing the best education possible for their children.35.She managed to scramble out of the vehicle _________________________________________ (当车子突然起火).IV. Writing (30 points)Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a letter. Suppose you are Zhang Ying. Write a letter to Xiao Wang, a schoolmate of yours who is going to visit you during the week-long holiday. You should write at least 120 words according to the suggestions given below in Chinese.(1) 表示欢迎(2) 提出对度假安排的建议(3) 提醒应注意的事项。