!!大学英语统考复习(本科)课程习题集

大学英语（本科）课程习题集I．Directions:In each of the following sentences, there are 4 choices marked A), B),C), and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes each sentence.1. A huge __ ___ was planned to celebrate the city’s millennium.A. banquetB. billC. ofD. budget2. John did quite well in his exams, __ ____ how little he studied.A. becauseB. consideringC. ifD. unless3. It is very __ ____ of you to spend all your weekends helping the old folk.A. nobleB. interestingC. upsetD. happy4. I’m trying to ______ the amount of coffee I drink.A. takeB. add toC. cut down onD. make up5. Passengers complain that the trains are ______ cancelled.A. onceB. frequentlyC. veryD. too6. After the quake(地震), many people intend to ______ orphans.A. adaptB. takeC. getD. adopt7. I’ve been trying to ______ him to see a doctor.A. conceptB. convinceC. believeD. conceive8. She _____ a reward for her efforts.A. divideB. payC. deservedD. deserve9. Many managers are ______ to changes.A. predictB. sparkC. resistantD. capacity10. Sales were five percent lower than ______.A. lookB. predictC. dedicationD. make11. Students must have ______ to a good library.A. accessB. stuffC. deviceD. goals12. Her death was a great ______ to all the family.A. mistakeB. joyC. painfulD. distress13. Can fish hear fishermen ______ along the stream?A. movedB. to moveC. movingD. be moved14. He felt him ______ her hand.A. touchB. touchedC. have touchedD. had touched15. The emperor combined these walls ______ one continues wall.A. forB. intoC. atD. by16. Have you made up your mind? No, I ______ the matter.A. have consideredB. consideredC. have been consideringD. was considering17. H is mother’s life have been so hard ______ she finally gone mad.A. whatB. whoC. whomD. that18. His success is ______ his hard work.A. due toB. own forC. forD. because19. I can’t help ______when I heard this good news.A. jumpedB. jumpingC. to jumpD. be jumping20. The girl ______ the bicycle is Jane.A. riding onB. driving inC. driving onD. riding in21. Under no circumstance ______ agree to such a proposal.A. I wouldB. would IC. to whichD. for which22. Bob wishes that he ______ that house last spring.A. boughtB. had boughtC. buysD. were buy23. Solid is different from liquid ______ the solid has definite shape.A. whichB. thatC. in whichD. in that24. They always give the vacant seats to ______ comes first.A. whoB. whomC. whomeverD. whoever25. I do not doubt ______ he is qualified for the position.A. thatB. whyC. whetherD. how26. Although research is important, the university exists ______ for the students.A. totallyB. usuallyC. reallyD. primarily27. Small children learn by ______ their parents.A. obeyingB. observingC. behavingD. imitating28. They were glad to find her smiling and totally ______.A. with easeB. at easeC. in easeD. to ease29. Two students did not ______ for class today.A. show upB. show offC. show inD. show out30. Sweat was beginning to ______ on his forehead.A. break inB. break upC. break downD. break out31. She ______ up the stairs, so as not to wake up her sleeping parents.A. crawledB. staggeredC. tiptoedD. slipped32. At the end of his speech the audience stood up and ______.A. clappedB. clashedC. crashedD. cracked33. He ______ for me when I was in trouble.A. spoke inB. spoke upC. spoke byD. spoke out34. All of us ______ to fight for the prize but we failedA. spare no effortsB. lookC. pursueD. spare efforts35. In the course of ______ some birds have lost the power of flight.A. evolutionB. involutionC. developD. evaluation36. My opinion, ______ is the same with yours.A. in the rightB. on the wholeC. other thanD. whereas37. I’d like to work abroad to _____ my horizons.A. expandB. broadenC. burdenD. extend38. Such tasks are ______ the scope of school children.A. beyondB. besidesC. behindD. before39. He ______ their country the Middle Kingdom.A. askedB. saidC. spokeD. called40. The firm is being ______ by a large company.A. taken offB. taken intoC. taken overD. taken out41. Passengers complain that the trains are ______ cancelled.A. onceB. frequentlyC. veryD. too42. After the quake(地震), many people intend to ______ orphans.A. adaptB. takeC. getD. adopt43. I’ve been trying to ______ him to see a doctor.A. conceptB. convinceC. believeD. conceive44. She _____ a reward for her efforts.A. divideB. payC. deservedD. deserve45. Many managers are ______ to changes.A. predictB. sparkC. resistantD. capacity46. Sales were five percent lower than ______.A. lookB. predictC. dedicationD. make47. Under no circumstance ______ agree to such a proposal.A. I wouldB. would IC. to whichD. for which48. Bob wishes that he ______ that house last spring.A. boughtB. had boughtC. buysD. were buy49. Solid is different from liquid ______ the solid has definite shape.A. whichB. thatC. in whichD. in that50. In the course of ______ some birds have lost the power of flight.A. evolutionB. involutionC. developD. evaluationII. Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 6 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 questions. For each question there are 4 choices marked A), B), C), andD). Choose the ONE answer that best completes each sentence.Passage 1Hong Kong is among the world’s largest film exporters. Hong Kong’s film industry as a whole relies on overseas revenues, given the limited size of the domestic market. Asia accounts for the majority of the foreign sales income. Many filmmakers are also turning their attention to entering the North American film market.Hong Kong’s films have gained increasing recognition from the international film industry. Apart from buying rights for theatrical distribution, Hollywood is also interested in acquiring rights to remake Hong Kong movies. For example, renowned US director Martin Scorsese has remade Hong Kong’s Infernal affairs as Hollywood’s The Departed.Hong Kong has a unique advantage in bridging the Chicness mainland with the Western audiences and opening a window on the world for Chinese audience. Hong Kong film talents have managed to make their names known in both the Eastern and Western movie markets. Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, one of Hong Kong’s top actresses, won the Best Actress award at the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.While major film companies have their own distribution departments, smaller independent film makers usually rely on distribution companies to sell their films in overseas markets. Key channels for international distribution are the three main film markets in Los Angeles, Cannes and Milan, where producers, distributors and buyersmeet to initiate deals for the distribution of films. Hong Kong has hosted an annual film market since 1997 to promote Hong Kong as a film distribution center in the region.Hong Kong’s television br oadcasters sell their products using the following methods: programming licensing, pre-packaged programme content and subscription fees, with satellite distribution and landing rights now becoming an increasingly important source of revenue. Hong Kong possesses the best design and multimedia capabilities in the region. For instance, Hong Kong-based Imagi International , a digital animation(动画) house, has successfully secured a contact from Hollywood giant Dream Works SKG for the computer-generated (GG) animation hit Shrek 2.51. Who remade Hong Kong’s film Infernal Affairs? ______A. John WooB. Cory YuenC. Martin ScorseseD. DreamWorks52. What area accounts for the biggest overseas revenues of Hong Kong’s f ilmindustry? ______A. JapanB. AsiaC. North AmericaD. France53. Which of the following are the three main film markets in the world? _____A. Tokyo, New York and Shanghai.B. Beijing, Berlin and Milan.C. New York, Milan and Madrid.D. Cannes, Milan and Los Angeles.54. In what ways do Hong Kong’s TV broadcasters sell their products?_____A. Satellite distribution and remarking.B. Programme licensing, and pre-packaged programme content.C. Satellite distribution, subscription fees and landing.D. Both B and C.55. Which company has successfully secured a contact from DreamWorks? _____A. FILMARTB. Imagi International.C. Centro DigitalD. CEPAPassage 2There are many links between the growing population and worsening environment, partly because an ever-increasing number of people depend on a fixed natural resource base in order to live.“The United Nations predicts that the global population, presently at 6 billion, will peak at about 10 billion in the next century and then become stable and even decrease.” It is understandable that even if food crops increase sufficiently, other renewable resources, including many fisheries and forests, are already under pressure.“Our food production doubled from 1961 to 1964, but there are still people who go hungry”. This is because human population has increased more rapi dly than the food production. Resources are an important environmental concern, which range from water and soil to different kinds of minerals. These materials are very basis of modern civilization.As the world population grows, demand for mineral and energy resources climbs. Resources are commonly divided into two groups. Some are classified as renewable, which means they can be replenished over relatively short time spans such as water, sun. By contrast, many other resources are classified as non-renewable. Important metals such as iron, copper fall into this group. Although these and other resources continue to form, the processes that create tem are so slow that significant deposits take millions of years to come into being.How long will the remaining supplies of basic resources last? Can alternatives be found? If we are to cope with an increasing demand and a growing world population, it is important that we have some understanding of our present and potential resources.56. Which of the following statements is NOT true? ______A. worsening environment is related to growing population.B. A lot of renewable resources are already under pressure.C. Water and soil is not an environment concern.D. demand for mineral and energy resources is rising with the growing population.57. What do we learn from “Our food production doubled from 1961 to 1964, butthere are still people who go hungry”? ______A. There is not enough food in the world.B. The human population has increased rapidly.C. Food production is too small.D. People can’t get food to eat.58. Which of the following resources is NOT mentioned in this passage? ______A. Water and soilB. MineralC. ElectricityD. Metals59. Some resources are classified as non-renewable because ______A. if they are used up they will disappear forever.B. the processes that create them are very slow.C. they are not available any more.D. they can be replenished over relatively short time spans.60. What’s the author’s attitude toward the issue of the resources? ______A. WorriedB. IndifferentC. PositiveD. NegativePassage 3America is in no immediate danger of “running out of water”. People in the West have been aware that water is a precious commodity and must be conserved. In the damp East, an excess of water led to complacency until two factors created concern over our water supply. First, the periods of drought from the 1961 to 1966 in the Northeast affected crop production and used up the surface and ground water supplies. Second, attention was called to rapid increases in the rates of pollution of these waters resulting from increased urban and industrial growth. As a result, there is an increasing awareness of the need for conserving the quantity and quality of our nation’s water supplies.Water is a renewable resource, but it is not exhaustible. When used for municipal,industrial, or agricultural purposes, it is not destroyed, but generally finds its way back into our water supply. This used water now carries some waste materials. These dirty waters are often dumped into large bodies of water or are disposed of on land. In the latter instance, evaporation concentrates some of the wastes on the soil surface. On the other hand, water moving through the soil will eventually carry some of the wastes down into the ground water supplies. Eventually, all water evaporates and later returns to the earth as rain or snow in a relatively purer state.Through this never-ending cycle, there is just as much water in this country now as there ever was. The amount, however, does not increase. Our rapid population growth and our agricultural and industrial expansion have caused our water needs to soar. By withdrawing water from streams too quickly, we have in some instances upset the balance of nature’s built-in renewal processes for conserving water. As a result, some of our streams and lakes have become “wet deserts.” There is still plenty of water in them, but its water is so polluted that it supports almost no life at all.61. The passage is mainly about_____.A. water resources of the United StatesB. the renewal processes of water in matureC. the importance of water conservationD. water pollution in America62. The word “drought” in the sentence “First, the periods of dro ught---ground watersupplies.” m ost probably means_____.A. catastrophe of too much rainB. danger of running out of waterC. calamity dry weatherD. damage caused by typhoon63. Water is relatively purer in_____.A. fast moving streams and riversB. underground water suppliesC. mountainous areasD. rain and snow64. When the author says that lakes have become “wet deserts”._____A. he is being angryB. he is being optimisticC. he is being sadD. he is being humorous65. It is implied in the passage that______A. water can be polluted by desertsB. there are many water conservation programs in AmericaC. water keeps evaporating from the earth’s surfaceD. water is not polluted by waste materialsPassage 4Man is a land animal, but he is also closely tied to the sea. Throughout history the sea has served the needs of man. The sea has provided man with food and a convenient way to travel to many parts of the world. Today, nearly two-thirds of theworld’s population lives within 80 kilometers of the sea coast.In the modern technological world, the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive (=continue to live). Resources on land are beginning to be used up. The sea, however, still can be hoped to supply many of man’s needs.The list of riches of the sea yet to be developed by man’s technology is impressive. Oil and gas explorations have been carried out for nearly 30 years. Valuable amounts of minerals exist on the ocean floor ready to be mined.Fish farming promises to be a good way to produce large quantities of food. The culture of fish and shellfish is an ancient skill practiced in the past mainly by Oriental people.Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way similar to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents and waves offer possible use as a source of energy.Technology is enabling man to explore ever more deeply under the sea. The development of strong, new materials has made this possible.The technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. Experts believe that by the year 2000 the problems that prevent us from exploiting fully the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved.66. What is the beat title for the passage?A. Needs of Man.B. Sea Harvest and FoodC. Sea and Sources of EnergyD. Sea Exploring Technology.67. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.A. man hasn't completely made use of the riches of the seaB. technology for exploring the sea has been solvedC. harvesting rice in the sea will be made possibleD. in the near future man can live on the ocean floor68. Why does the author mention a steamship in paragraph 5?A. To illustrate that man can make use of sources of energy from the sea.B. To show that a steamship is better than other kinds of ships.C. To argue that man should use steamships.D. To indicate that it is warmer in the ocean than on land.69. According to the author, technology is important because ______.A. resources on land are running short in ten yearsB. man can use it to explore the deeper seaC. it is a lot of fun diving into the seaD. ancient people used it to explore the sea70. According to the author, when will the problems to explore the deeper sea largelybe solved?A. In the next generation.B. At the end of the 20th century.C. In the near future.D. By the middle of the 21st century.Passage 5Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs that are now done by human beings.They pointed out that at a circus(马戏团)，for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing quite skillful things. Perhaps you have seen on television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may notice that the trainer always gives the animal a piece candy or a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many different animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get a reward for doing them.Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and soldiers in both old and modern times have used geese to give a warning by making a lot of noise when a stranger or an enemy comes neat. But it may be possible to train animals to work in factories. In Russia, for example, pigeons, which are birds with good eyesight, are being used to watch out for faults in small steel balls that are being made in one factory. When the pigeon sees a ball which looks different from others, it touches a steel plate with its beak. This turns on a light to warn people in the factory. At the same time a few seeds are given as a reward. It takes three to five weeks to train a pigeon to do this and one pigeon can inspect 3000 to 4000 balls an hour.Apes（猿）have been used in America in helping to make cars, and scientists believe that these large monkeys may be used one day to gather crops and even drive trains.71. What made scientists think animals can be made to work for us one day?A. Animals are very skillful at a circus.B. They are big and strong.C. Some animals are as clever as human beings.D. Animals can be trained because they like to get something as a reward.72. The trainer usually gives the animal a piece of candy or fruit __________.A. when it is hungryB. before it plays a trickC. when it starts to play a trickD. after it has done the trick73. The “reward” in the passage means _________.A. an honor given for doing somethingB. money paid for doing somethingC. attention paid to good conductD. something given in return for work74. Many animals may be trained to so simple jobs if they know ________.A. who their trainers areB. they will be praised by their trainersC. they will get a rewardD. something dangerous will happen to them75. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Scientists believe apes may drive trains someday.B. Apes have worked in some factories.C. Apes may one day be used to gather crops,D. An ape is not a large monkey.Passage 6The average North American driver travels 12,000 miles per year. In order to get the maximum life out of an automobile, you must provide it with proper maintenance. Proper maintenance can reduce air pollution, extend the value of the vehicle, save on fuel bills, prevent breakdowns, and lead to better performance.You should change the oil in all of your vehicles every 3,000 miles. Whenever you change the oil you can also change the oil filter. Oil filter remove dirt and debris (废物，垃圾) from oil. As the car runs the oil filter will become clogged with excess debris from the oil. In order for an engine to run, it also requires air. This air must be filtered to stop dirt from damaging the engine. Every time you change the vehicle’s oil you should inspect the car for any unexpected wear and tear.Due to the performance and the sheer heat of combustion car engine become very hot. Anti-freeze(防腐剂，抗凝剂) is used as a coolant for your vehicle system. This coolant should be replaced every two years. By doing that you extent the life of your radiator (散热器). Other fluids that require maintenance at 60,000 miles include brake fluid, and power steering fluid.The use of properly inflated and well maintained tires is critical. The tire that holds the car to the road is your first line of safety. Tires usually have a expectancy(寿命) which dictated by the manufacturer. It is recommended that you follow this life expectancy which usually averages 30,000 miles.A vehicle should be driven properly by no exerting extra stress. Extra stress can lead to overheating. Overheating is the prime cause of premature life of belts, gaskets(密封垫), hoses, and seals. If any of these parts become a problem it is a much better idea to replace the part than to repair it.76. On average, how many times a year should a North American driver changes theiroil? ______A. 4B. 5C. 3D.977. How often should you inspect your car for internal damage? ______A. Once a yearB. Twice a yearC. Four times a yearD. Three times a year78. What fluid helps stabilize the temperature of your car? ______A. Brake fluidB. Power steering fluidC. Transmission fluidD. Antifreeze79. How can driving excessive speeds damage your automobile internally? ______A. They premature life of automobile parts and devices.B. They burn the tires.C. They extend the life expectancy of radiator.D. They clog the oil filter.80. Following manufacturers guidelines, after how many oil changes would youexpect the basic tire needs to be replaced? ______A. 5B.8C. 9D.10III. TranslationDirection: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.1.他的照片出现在当地报纸的头版。