大学英语2-4A卷

三明学院2011-2012学年第二学期
大学英语2-4课程试卷〔A〕
一、Listening Comprehension（Section A每题1分，共10分；Section B 每题2分，共10分；
Section C 每题1分，共10分。

此部分共30分）
Section A (每题1分，共10分)
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, one question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then write down the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. A) She works so hard in a gym but she has been absent for a while.
B) She works so hard that she is too busy to go to the gym.
C) She does all her exercises in the gym.
D) She does a lot of exercise in the open area but goes to the gym if she can.
2. A) Population in China.
B) The consequence of gender imbalance.
C) Marriage for Chinese men.
D) 30 million Chinese men.
3. A) She got delayed.
B) She didn‟t see the movie.
C) She was late for the movie class.
D) She was caught in a traffic jam.
4. A) The chair is very expensive.
B) The chair is indeed very old.
C) The chair was bought last Sunday.
D) The chair was bought at a low price.
5. A) The woman doesn‟t know the Smith‟s well.
B) Either of them knows the real situation.
C) The situation was more difficult than she realized.
D) The situation was less difficult than she realized.
6. A) A car in front broke down.
B) A car bomb exploded.
C) A car got burnt.
D) A car bumped into a frame.
7. A) 1957. B) 1960.
C) 1989. D) 1992.
8. A) He will go to the dancing party.
B) He wants to have a cup of tea.
C) He does not like dancing at all.
D) He prefers dancing to tea.
9. A) Building a house. B) Booking the hotel.
C) Traveling to the sea. D) Selling an apartment.
10. A) Go out of the town. B) Go shopping online.
C) Go to the shopping mall. D) Look for it nearby.
Section B (每题2分，共10分)
Directions: You are going to hear two passages. Each will be followed by some questions. Choose the best answer from the four choices given. Then write down the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
1. A) 44% of 7113 Americans aged 20 to 69.
B) 7113 Americans aged 20 to 69.
C) 44% of 7110 Americans aged 20 to 59.
D) 7110 Americans aged 20 to 59.
2. A) 4 out of 10.
B) Half of them.
C) A majority of them.
D) All of those who are in their 20s.
3. A) Trust. B) Companionship.
C) Fidelity. D) Infidelity.
Passage 2
1. A) Send e-cards to lovers.
B) Make their own cards from left-over wrapping paper.
C) Buying flowers planted in a pot.
D) All of the above.
2. A) 13 000 000. B) 30 000 000.
C) 130 000. D) 300 000.
Section C (每题1分，共10分)
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 numbered from 1 to 7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 8 to 10 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, check what you have written. Then write down your answers on the Answer Sheet.
A busker is someone who performs music or an act on the street. The most common kind of busker plays a guitar. Passers-by will _____1_____ money into his or her guitar case. However, players of other instruments, from the classical _____2_____ to the handsaw, are also buskers. In fact, any kind of street performance can be regarded as a _____3______ of busking. This includes fire-breathers, jugglers, storytellers, mime artists and dancers.
In some cities busking requires a ____4______ while in others it is tolerated as long as it doesn‟t ______5_____ with noise and traffic regulations.
In Europe, city _____6_____ generally welcome buskers. It is believed that in busy city-center areas street performers create a festive and ______7_____ atmosphere that helps to attract more visitors and shoppers. As passers-by stop to enjoy street performances, they are more likely to take notice of the nearby shops and businesses,________________8________________________________ ______.
Busking is a fun activity for the performer. Buskers, _________________9______ _____________, can enjoy the experience of performing anonymously. The success of the performance depends solely on __________________10_____________ _____________. It‟s a fun way to be part of a festive crowd and practice performance skills in the meantime.
二、Vocabulary（每题1.5 分，共15分）
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary.
1. Taxes are an which may fall on everybody.
2. We _ ___ the authority's decision not to close the hospital.
3. By the age of 20, Mozart had written some ten operas and was well prepared for the demanding audiences that ____ him in Vienna.
4. After only three years in the American market, our US sales there ____ those in Japan.
5. Priests thought angrily that the soldiers ____ the church by using it as a stable.
6. We ___ knowledge not only from books, but also from practice.
7. It is well-known that photographic paper is highly ___ to light.
8. The first part of Law School Admission Test evaluates skills in reading comprehension, in figure _____ and in the evaluation of written material.
9. I have to question the __ of forcing poor people to pay for their medical treatment.
10. Nothing will stop them in their __ for truth.
三、Reading Comprehension（每题2 分，共30 分）
Directions: This part is to test your reading ability. There are 3 passages for you. After reading the following passages, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should make the correct choice and write down the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage A Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage.
In 1993, I had my first opportunity to visit Russia as a representative of the University of California. I was there to provide some technical assistance in the area of agricultural labor management. “Russians are a very polite people,” I had been tutored before my arrival. One of my interpreters, once I was ther e, explained that a gentleman should pour the lemonade (a type of juice) for the ladies and show other courtesies to them.
Toward the end of my three-week trip I was invited by my young Russian host and friend, Dmitri Ivanovich and his lovely wife Yielena out to dinner. At the end of a wonderful meal Yielena asked if I would like a banana. I politely declined and thanked her, and explained I was most satisfied with the meal. But the whole while my mind was racing: “What do I do? Do I offer her a banana even though they are as close to her as they are to me? What is the polite thing to do?”
“Would you like a banana?” I asked Yielena.
“Yes,” she smiled, but made no attempt to take any of the three bananas in the fruit basket. “What now?” I thought.
“Which one would you like?” I fumbled.
”That one,” she pointed at one of the bananas. So all the while thinking about Russian politeness I picked the banana Yielena had pointed at and peeled it half way and handed it to her. Smiles in Yielena and Dmitri‟s faces told me I had done the right thing. After this experience I spent much time letting the world know that in Russia, the polite thing is to peel the bananas for the ladies. Sometime during my third trip I was politely disabused of my notion.
“Oh no, Gri gorii Davidovich,” a Russian graciously corrected me. “In Russia, when a man peels a banana for a lady it means he has a romantic interest in her.” How embarrassed I felt. And here I had been proudly telling everyone about this tidbit of cultural understanding.
Certain lessons have to be learned the hard way. Some well meaning articles and presentations on cultural differences have a potential to do more harm than good and may not be as amusing. They present, like my bananas, too many generalizations or quite a distorted view.
Some often-heard generalizations about the Hispanic culture include: Hispanics need less personal space, make less eye contact, touch each other more in normal conversation, and are less likely to participate in a meeting. Generalizations are often dangerous, and especially when accompanied by recommendations such as: move closer when talking to Hispanics, make more physical contact, don‟t expect participation, and so on.
Differences between people within any given nation or culture are much greater than differences between groups. Education, social standing, religion, personality, belief structure, past experience, affection shown in the home, and a myriad of other factors will affect human behavior and culture.
Sure there are differences in approach as to what is considered polite and appropriate behavior both on and off the job. In some cultures “yes” means, “I hear you” more than “I agree.” Length of pleasantries and greetings before getting down to business, level of tolerance for being around someone speaking a foreign (not-understood) language, politeness measured in terms of gallantry or etiquette (e.g., standing up for a woman who approaches a table, yielding a seat on the bus to an older person, etc.) and manner of expected dress are all examples of possible cultural differences and traditions.
In Mexico it is customary for the arriving person to greet the others. For instance, someone who walks into a group of people eating would say provecho (enjoy your meal). In Chile, women often greet both other women and men with a kiss on the cheek. In Russia women often walk arm in arm with their female friends. Paying attention to customs and cultural differences can give someone outside that culture a better chance of assimilation or acceptance. Ignoring these can get an unsuspecting person into trouble.
There are cultural and ideological differences and it is good to have an understanding about a culture‟s customs and ways. Aaron Pun, a Canadian ODCnet correspondent, wrote: “In studying cross-cultural differences, we are not looking at individuals but a comparison of one ethnic group against others. Hence, we are comparing two bell curves and generalizations cannot be avoided.” Another correspondent explained the human need to categorize. True, but the danger comes when we act on some of these generalizations, especially when they are based on faulty observations. Acting on generalizations about such matters as eye contact, personal space, touch, and interest in participation can have serious negative consequences.
1. What did the author learn about Russians before he visited Russia?
A) They are very polite.
B) They are frank and romantic.
C) Their behavior is usually very different.
D) They are very hospitable.
2. How did the author feel about his peeling a banana for a woman in Russia during his first visit to Russia?
A) He felt he did the right thing in line with Russian culture.
B) He felt embarrassed for having broken a Russian custom.
C) He felt he was making a mistake.
D) He felt excited about his romantic experience.
3. How did the author realize that he had made a cultural blunder?
A) He studied Russian etiquette after his first visit to Russia.
B) He got a hint from the lady he offered the banana to.
C) He was politely corrected by a Russian during his third visit.
D) He consulted some books and realized his mistake.
4. What does the author mean by the study of cross-cultural differences?
A) Studying the differences between individuals within one ethnic group.
B) Making a comparison between one ethnic group and another in terms of culture.
C) Making cultural generalizations about one culture based on the standards of the other.
D) Comparing and categorizing different cultures.
5. What can we infer about the author from the passage?
A) He was a male tourist.
B) He could speak Russian very well.
C) He often traveled around the world.
D) He was an expert in world cultures.
Passage B Questions 6-10 are based on the following passage.
When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation. I suggested that they should stay at …bed and breakfast‟ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
“We didn‟t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought …V ACANCIES‟ meant …holidays‟, because the Spanish word for …holidays” is …vacaciones‟. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said …V ACANCIES‟, which in English mea ns there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said …NO V ACANCIES‟, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word …DIVERSION‟ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word …DIVERSION‟ on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris, when someone offered me some more coffee, I said …Thank you‟ in French. I meant that I would like some more. However, to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that …Thank you‟ in French means …No, thank you.‟
6. My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______.
A. learning English
B. finding places to stay in England
C. driving their car on English roads
D. going to England by car
7. I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______.
A. they would be able to practise their English
B. it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels
C. it would be convenient for them to have dinner
D. there would be no problem about finding accommodation there
8. “NO V ACANCIES” in English means ______.
A. no free rooms
B. free rooms
C. not away on holiday
D. holidays
9. If you see a road sign that says …Diversion‟, you will ______.
A. fall into a hole
B. have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself
C. find that the road is blocked by crowds of people
D. have to take a different road
10. When someone offered me more coffee an d I said …Thank you‟ in French, I ______.
A didn‟t really want any more coffee
B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away
C. really wanted some more coffee
D. wanted to express my politeness
Passage C Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage.
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor: you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn‟t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher‟s work and the actor‟s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don‟t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience in his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
11. What is the text about?
A. How to become a good teacher.
B. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.
C. What teachers and actors could learn from each other.
D. The similarities and differences between a teacher‟s work and an actor‟s.
12. A good teacher ____________.
A. knows how to hold the interest of his students
B. must have a good voice
C. knows how to act on the stage
D. stands or sits still while teaching
13. In what way is a teacher‟s work different from an actor‟s?
A. The teacher must learn everything by heart.
B. He knows how to control his voice better than an actor.
C. He has to deal with unexpected situations.
D. He has to use more facial expressions.
14. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that _________.
A. students can move around in the classroom
B. students must keep silent while theatre audience need n‟t
C. no memory work is needed for the students
D. the students must take part in their teachers‟ plays
15. Why is it that some good teachers are unable to play well on the stage?
A. Nobody has taught them how to act on the stage.
B. Their audiences are different.
C. It is impossible for them to do so much memory work.
D. They are not used to repeating exactly the same words.
四、Cloze（每题1 分，共10分）
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A), B), C),
or D) on your Answer Sheet.
Accidents are caused; they don‟t just happen. The reason may be easy to see: an overloaded tray, a shelf out of reach, a
patch of ice on the road. But more 1 than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune— 2 , tiredness or just bad temper—that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.
Road accidents, for example, happen 3 after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world 4 they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.
By definition, an accident is 5 you cannot predict to avoid. Most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.
It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions made people more 6 to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety 7 , and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are 8 work due to accident. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment—noise and fatigue, 9 or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, 10 three times the normal risk of accidents at work.
1. A. usual B. seldom C. always D. often
2. A. destruction B. disappointment C. satisfaction D. frustration
3. A. often B. always C. frequently D. never
4. A. so B. therefore C. that D. as
5. A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something
6. A. likely B. necessary C. dispensable D. easily
7. A. methods B. ways C. responsibilities D. precautions
8. A. fired from B. absent from C. dismissed from D. fined from 9. A. boredom B. excitement C. enjoyment D. contentment
10. A. take B. run C. make D. get
五、Translate the following sentences into English（每题3分，共15分）
1. 随着职务的提升，他担负的责任也更大了。

(take on)
2. 要是他适合当校长，那么哪个学生都可以当。

(no more...than)
3. 理个发他就要收500元，简直不可思议。

(charge)
4. 我爷爷虽然70岁了，但他的爱好广泛，从下国际象棋到爬山，多种多样。

(range from ... to)
5. 他们登上的飞机起飞后立刻就消失了。

(soar，out of sight)
三明学院2011-2012学年第二学期
大学英语2-4 答题纸〔A 〕
一、 Listening Comprehension （Section A 每题1分，共10分；Section B 每题2分，共10分； Section C 每题1分，共10分。

此部分共30分）
Section A (每题1分，共10分) Section B (每题2分，共10分) Section C (每题1分，共10分) 1.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. _________ _ 9. _
10. _
二、Vocabulary
（每题 1.5 分，共15分）
1.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10.
三、Reading Comprehension （每题2 分，共30 分）
四、Cloze （每题1 分，共10分）
五、Translate the following sentences into English （每题3分，共15分）
1.___________________________________________________________________
2.___________________________________________________________________
3.___________________________________________________________________
4.___________________________________________________________________
5.___________________________________________________________________。