新视野1级英语试题

New HorizonCollege English Test

Band One

2003．12

Paper One

Part I Listening Comprehension: (20%)

Section A

Directions: You hear five sentences in this section. Each will be read only once. After hearing one statement, you should read the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Decide

which one is closest in meaning to the statement you’ve just heard.

1. A. James missed the bus this morning.

B. James’s alarm clock didn’t go off this morning.

C. James forgot he had classes this morning.

D. James didn’t wake up on t ime this morning.

2. A. You must finish this section of the test within fifteen minutes.

B. It took fifteen minutes to finish this section of the test.

C. There is fifty minutes left for this section of the test.

D. You have finished this section of the test in fifty minutes.

3. A. I feel very well now.

B. I felt better before.

C. I have never felt well.

D. I have always felt well.

4. A. The speaker’s salary is ＄250.

B. The speaker’s salary is ＄750.

C. The speaker’s salary is ＄500.

D. The speaker’s salary is ＄125.

5. A. My best friend is my roommate.

B. My roommate is very nice, but he is not my best friend.

C. My roommate is not very nice, but my best friend is.

D. If my roommate were nicer he would be my best fiend.

Section B.

Directions: In this section, you’ll hear a short passage. The passage will be read twice. At the end of the passage, you’ll hear five questions, Listen carefully and choose the best

answer to each question.

6. A. Yuri Gagarin. B. John Glenn.

C. Yuri Gagarin and John Gl enn.

D. The passage doesn’t say.

7. A. By spaceship. B. By aircraft.

C. By space shuttle.

D. By rocket.

8. A. In 1960. B. In 1963.

C. In 1961.

D. In 1962.

9. A. Three times. B. Five times.

C. Four times.

D. Once.

10. A. The first men who landed on the moon.

B. The first men who went up space.

C. The first who thought of going up by rocket.

D. The first who invented the rocket.

Section C. （请将答案写在答题纸上）

Directions: There is a passage with ten blanks in this section. You’ll hear the passage read twice. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with what you have heard.

Is there a dark side to the computer revolution? Do computers do harm to our (1) _________ or our society?

It certainly doesn’t seem that way on the surface. You don’t (2) _________ your home computer to turn its game gun on you. And how can machine be (3)_________?

The truth of the matter, however, is that any new technology, computer (4)__________, has a dark side.

Computers will change the way the (5)___________ works. But the computer revolution will also bring (6)___________ with it.

Many jobs, for example, will be taken over by robots and computer-controlled machinery. Since many of these jobs are tiresome and even (7)__________, that seems like a step in the right direction. But it’s a big (8) ______ to the people whose jobs are threatened.

Quite a different problem, but one that is (9) __________ growing trouble, is that computers may make people feel uncomfortable in life. This problem was（10) __________ discussed by many people.

Part II Reading Comprehension(30%)

Directions: Read the following passages carefully and do the multiple-choice questions.

Passage A

A boy between the ages of 6 and 14 still admires his mother and has plenty to learn from her.

But his interests are changing --- he is becoming more interested in what men have to offer.

A boy knows he is turning into a man. He has to learn from a man to complete his development.

The father's job is to step in over time. If there is no father around, then the child depends more on finding other men --- at school, for example. Yet men are leaving teaching, especially