北大16秋《大学英语3-第六组》在线作业

一、阅读理解(共10题，每题2分，共20分)请阅读以下文章，回答文章后的五个小题。

每个小题只有一个最佳选项。

1).Coffee is a powerful drink. On a personal level, it helps keep us awake and active. On a much general level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.Coffee plants grow wild in parts of Africa and were probably used by travelling tribes (部落）for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the 1400s that people figured out they could roast its seeds. “Then it really took off,”said historian Mark Pendergrast—author of Uncommon Grounds: the History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. By the 1500s, the drink had spread to coffeehouses across the Arab world within another 150 years, it took Europe by storm. “It actually had a major impact on the rise of business,” Pendergrast says. Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas.The insurance industry was founded hundreds of years ago in one of London’s 2,000 coffeehouses. Literature, newspapers and even the works of great composers like Bach and Beethoven were also inspired in coffeehouses.It is often said that after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists (殖民者）attacked British tea ships and threw large boxes of tea into the harbor, Americans everywhere switched over to drinking coffee. “There’s a lot of truth to the story, I found,” Pendergrast says. He mentions a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, in which the Founding Father declares his love of tea but says he will have to learn to accept coffee instead, because drinking tea had become unpatriotic (不爱国的).For all the upsides coffee has brought the modem world, it also brought its fair share of downsides, too. Europeans carried coffee with them as they colonized various parts of the world, and this frequently meant they made people into slaves in order to grow it.1. According to the passage，which of the following has nothing to do with coffee?A. Literature.B. Newspapers.C. The insurance industry.D. The oil industry.2. According to the passage，which of the following is NOT TRUE?A. The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.B. Europeans figured out ways to use coffee during the 1670s.C. During the 1770s, more and more Americans began to drink coffee.D. Coffee is a refreshing drink.3. The author of the book believes that__________.A. drinking coffee was unpatrioticB. 2000 insurance companies were set up hundreds of years agoC. Europeans were responsible for the existence of slaveryD. coffee actually influenced the rise of business4. The phrase “took off” in the second paragraph means “_________”.A. dropped to the groundB. became very successfulC. removed its coatD. went away suddenly5. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?A. When Coffee Became PopularB. Coffee Is a Powerful DrinkC. How Coffee Influenced the Course of HistoryD. What Impact Coffee Has on Human Behavior2).The most famous collections of fairy tales (童话) are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in 1812. They didn’t think they were writing for children. They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture. Their first edition(版本) was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales. They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children.But the Grimms needed money. They had made a bad deal with their publisher and received little payment for their first book. At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair in his house one could sit on without worrying it would break. So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children. He selected a few of the tales, made them much longer, and polished up t he language. He didn’t add morals, but he did slip in character judgments and moralizing comments wherever he could.The Grimms’ fairy tales also have one characteristic that would seem to make them unsuitable for children. Many of them include vio lent incidents. In “Hansel and Gretel” an old woman is burned to death in an oven, and in “Little Red Riding Hood” a child is eaten by a wolf.When he revised the tales for children, Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence. In fact, he sometimes even ramped it up. For example, in the first edition of the tales, Cinderella forgives her sisters at the end. It’s only in the second edition, the one intended for children, that her birds peck(啄) out their eyes.Why, then, have the Grimms’ fairy tales become classics of children’s literature, so much so that it is hard to imagine a child who doesn’t know Cinderella’s story or Snow White’s?One answer is that only a few of the tales survived into modern times. The first edition of the Grimms’ fairy tales had 210 tales. By 1825 it was down to 50. And today only a dozen or so of the tales are often reprinted in children’s collections.But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.6. Why did Wilhelm Grimm set out to adapt his book for children?A. To deal with readers’ complaints.B. To improve his financial situation.C. At the request of his publisher.D. To preserve the ancient stories in print.7. When revising the fairy tales, Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT ___.A. adding character judgmentsB. making the tales much longerC. deleting the violent scenesD. polishing up the language8. What does the expression “ramped it up” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Started.B. Allowed.C. Classified.D. Increased.9. Which of the following statements about the Grimms’ fairy tales is TRUE according to the passage?A. They were originally intended to be children’s stories.B. Generally speaking, the tales that have endured can help children deal with the challenges life brings to them.C. A large number of the tales made it to the modem age.D. They are less violent than the children’s stories being written today.10. What is the passage mainly concerned with?A. History of fairy tales.B. Ways to preserve the oral tradition.C. The Grimms’ fairy tales.D. Violence in fairy tales.二、词汇与结构(共15题，每题2分，共30分)11. So much _______ about his ships on the sea that he didn’t sleep for a singl e minute all night.A. did he worryB. he did worryC. he worriedD. worried be12. His new novel is said ______ into a film last year.A. to makeB. to have madeC. to be madeD. to have been made13. In Britain, the best season of the year is probably ______ spring.A. laterB. latterC. lastD. late14. If it ______ tomorrow, the basketball match has to be canceled.A. rainB. rainsC. rainedD. will rain15. We hear that they will _____ a new school here.A. set downB. set upC. set offD. set out16. He will never forget the days _____ he spent in Japan.A. whenB. afterC. thatD. how17. Would you ___________to come to the meeting this weekend?A. be so kindB. be kind asC. be so kind asD. be kind18. He will write to me as soon as he ___________home.A. will have returnedB. returnsC. returnedD. will return19. By the end of this term, we_________ 3, 000 English words in all.A. will learnB. will have learnedC. have learnedD. had learned20. __________ is known to all, the earth moves around the sun once a year.A. ThatB. AsC. WhatD. It21. __________is generally believed, there is no water on the moon.A. AsB. WhatC. ThatD. It22. He devoted his whole life to __________care of the disabled children.A. takesB. takingC. tookD. take23. A: ___________ Madam, Is there a post office near here?B: Keep on going ahead. Turn right at the first crossroads. Then you'll find one there.A. SorryB. You are welcomeC. Excuse meD. Thanks a lot24. The American couple have____ a two-year-old child, who lost his parents in an earthquake.A. adjustedB. affordedC. approvedD. adopted25. You should be ____ of yourself, telling lies at your age.A. ashamedB. accurateC. adequateD. attractive三、改错(共5题，每题2分，共10分)请在以下句子划线部分中，挑出错误的选项。