本科英语三(1份)

2008-2009 学年第二学期大学英语（三）课程考试试题（A）卷类别成教学院夜大学拟题人张宪涛适用专业 09级本科（答案写在答题纸上，写在试题纸上无效）I. Match the words with their meanings and write down the corresponding letters on the blanks. (10 points;1 point each)1._____v. to express feeling of annoyance, pain, unhappiness, dissatisfaction, grief, etc.2._____n. a branch of learning studies at university.3.______adj. Depending on each other; necessary to each other.4.______adv. That can not be prevented from happening5.______v. to cause to be carried out effectively6._______adj. Having or showing a knowledge of social life and behavior7._______n. a way of setting right (anything bad)8._______adj. Not able to be well understood.9._______v. to measure, judge, and record on a map the details of (an area of land)10.______v. to become worse.A. enforceB. disciplineC. inevitablyD. interdependentE. complainF. surveyG. indistinguishableH. deteriorateI. remedy J. sophisticatedII. V ocabulary and Structure (10 points; 1 point each)There are 10 incomplete sentences in this section. For each of these, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.11. He compared the girl______ a flower. A. to B. with C. in D. for12. Civilization consists ____having a constructive attitude. A. of B. on C. About D. in13. I’ve had enough ______ this weather.A. at B. with C. of D. from14. ______ between them while they waited for the girl to come back.A. A word was hardly saidB. A word was said hardlyC. Hardly a word was saidD. Hardly was said a word15. When she finally arrived she apologized _____ so late.A. that she cameB. that she was comingC. for comingD. to come16. She added that if he had telephoned her before lunch, she _____ the book there.A. tookB. would have takenC. would takeD. would be taking17. Some hotel staff speak _____ English. A. little B. small C. fewD. scarcely18. It’s no use _____ to get a bargain these days.A. to expectB. expectingC. you expectD. looking forward19. I wish I ____ to go to work on Monday morning.A. haven’tB. wouldn’t haveC. shouldn’t haveD. didn’t have20. Does anyone know _____ this coat might be?A. whose B. whom C. to whomD. who III. Reading Comprehension (20 points; 2 pints each)There are 2 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each question there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. Decide on the choice that best answers the question.Passage 1Molting is one of the most involved process of a bird’s annual life cycle. Notwithstanding preening and constant care, the marvelously intricate structure of a bird’s feather inevitably wears out. All adult birds molt their feathers at least once a year, and upon close observation, one can recognize the frayed, ragged appearance of feathers that are nearing the end of their useful life. Two distinct processes are involved in molting. The first step is when the old, worn feather is dropped, or shed. The second is when a new feather grows in its place. When each feather has been shed and replaced, then the molt can be said to be complete. This, however, is an abstraction that often does not happen: incomplete, overlapping, and arrested molts are quite common.Molt requires that a bird find and process enough protein to rebuild approximately one-third of its body weight. It is not surprising that a bird in heavy molt often seems listless and unwell. But far from being random, molt is controlled by strong evolutionary forces that have established an optional time and duration. Generally, molt occurs at the time of least stress on the bird. Many songbirds, for instance, molt in late summer, when the hard work of breeding is done but the weather is still warm and food still plentiful. This is why the woods in late summer often seem so quiet, when compared with the exuberant choruses of spring.Molt of the flight feathers is the most highly organized part of the process. Some species, for example, begin by dropping the outmost primary feathers on each side (to retain balance in the air) and wait until the replacement feathers are about one-third grown before shedding the next outermost, and so on. Others always start with the innermost primary feathers on both sides. Most ducks shed their wing feathers at once, and remain flightless for two or three weeks while the replacement feathers grow.21. The passage mainly discusses how_______.A. birds prepare for breedingB. bird feathers differ from species to speciesC. birds shed and replace their feathersD. birds are affected by seasonal changes22. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a reason that songbirds molt in the late summer? ________.A. Few predators are in the woodsB. The weather is still warmC. The songbirds have finished breedingD. Food is still available23. Some birds that are molting maintain balance during flight by ______.A. constantly preening and caring for their remain feathersB. dropping flight feathers on both sides at the same timeC. adjusting the angle of their flight to compensate for lost feathersD. only losing one-third of their feathers24. The author discusses ducks in order to provide an example of birds that __________.A. grow replacement feathers that are very longB. shed all their wing feather at one timeC. keep their innermost feathersD. shed their outermost feathers first25. It can be inferred from the discussion about ducks that the molting of their flight feathers takes___________.A. a year B. a season C. several months D. a few weeksPassage 2By the turn of the century, the middle-class home in North America had been transformed. “The flow of industry has passed and left idle the loom in the attic, the soap kettle in the shed,”Ellen Richards wrote in 1908. the urban middle class was now able to buy a wide array of food products and clothing—baked goods, canned goods, suits, shirts, shoes, and dresses. Not only had household production waned, but technological improvements were rapidly changing the rest of domestic work. Middle-class homes had indoor running water and furnaces, run on oil, coal, or gas, that provided ice for refrigerators. Electric power was available for lamps, sewing machines, irons, and even vacuum cleaners. No domestic task was unaffected. Commercial laundries, for instance, had been doing the wash for urban families for decades; by the early 1900’s the first electric washing machines were on the market.One impact of the new household technology was to draw sharp dividing lines between women of different classes and regions. Technological advances always affected the homes of the wealthy first, filtering downward into the urban middle class. But women who lived on farms were not yet affected by household improvements. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, rural homes lacked running water and electric power. Farm women had to haul large quantities of water into the house from wells or pumps for every purpose. Doing the family laundry, in large vats heated over stoves, continued to be a full day’s work, just a scanning and preserving continued to be seasonal necessities. Heat was provided by wood or coal stoves. In addition, rural women continued to produce most of their families’ clothing. The urban poor, similarly, reaped few benefits from household improvements. Urban slums such as Chicago’s nineteenth ward often had no sewers, garbage collection, or gas or electric lines; and tenements lacked both running water and central heating. At the turn of the century, variation in the nature of women’s domestic work were probably more marked than at any time before.26. What is the main topic of the passage? __________A. The creation of the urban middle classB. Domestic work at the turn of the centuryC. The spread of electrical power in the United StatesD. Overcrowding in America cities27. According to this passage, what kind of fuel was used in a stove in a typical middle-class household? ________.A. Oil B. Coal C. Gas D. Wood28. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a household convenience in the passage? ___________.A. The electric fanB. The refrigeratorC. The electric lightD. The washing machine29. According to this passage, who were the first beneficiaries of technological advances? __________.A. Farm women B. The urban poor C. The urban middle classD. The wealthy30. Which of the following best characterizes the passage’s organizati on? ____________.A. Analysis of a quotationB. Chronological narrativeC. Extended definitionD. Comparison and contrastIV. Among the four choices provided below each question, find the one which can best explain the italicized word or expression. (10 points; 2 points each)31. Actually, it will take everybody’s efforts to keep city noises from increasing.A. go on increasingB. prevent…from increasingC. keep…increasingD. stop…to increase32.…, and the concepts and theories that interpret them. A. explain B. translate C. understand D. examine33. The price of any foreign currency…is thus a major issue.A. exampleB. something printedC. resultD. a matter of concern34. Man is a part of …and has done more to upset the ecology.A. turn…overB. cause… to be disturbedC. cause…to worryD. cause confusion to35. At…you arrive at a scarce item in Tokyo—a parking lot--…A. hard to findB. rareC. expensiveD. badly neededV. Fill in each of the following blanks with a suitable form of the word given in brackets. (10 points;1 point each)36. People’s _____ about the cloud noise there forced the government to close that factory. (complain)37. His parents didn’t consent to his _____ with Mary. (marry)38. Some measures must be taken to preserve the _____ of the sol. (fertile)39. The singer sang with incredible ______ and zest. (strong)40. Before 1949, the Chinese working class suffered from _____. (poor)41. Apart from its tourist attraction, Niagara Falls is also famous for its ____ of electricity through water power. (generate)42. The _____ of computer science to other branches of knowledge has proved to be a very broad scientific field. (apply)43. His _____ led to his final failure. (ignore)44. One of the main characters in Shakespeare’s play A Merchant of V enice is the _____ Shylock. (greed)45. The natural environment ____ greatly from place to place. (different)VI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. (14 points; 2 points each)46. He earns twice as much as I do.47. Man’s knowledge about himself and nature has grown into a variety of sciences.48. In many respects international trade is no different from domestic trade.49. The trouble with deserts is that they tend to creep outwards on to the fertile soils.50. Through my association with Americans during the past six years I had gradually adopted some of their ways.51. Thanks to TV, we can know what is happening all over the world at home.52. The weather has been very disappointing for three successive days.VII. Translate the following sentences into English. (16 points; 2 points each)53. 他身体很壮，足够搬起那个箱子。