大学英语3试题A卷

河南科技学院新科学院2013~2014学年第一学期期终考试 《大学英语3》试卷 A 第１页 共5页

河南科技学院新科学院2013-2014学年第一学期期终考试

大学英语3试题（A ）

注意事项：1.在试卷的标封处填写院（系）、专业、班级、姓名和准考证号。

2.考试时间共120分钟。

Directions: There are 3 passages

in this section. Each

passage is followed by some questio ns or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Shee t 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

For Roy Johnson, a senior magazine editor, the latest indignity came after a recent dinner at a fancy restaurant in the wealthy New York City suburb where he and his family live. First the parking valet handed him the keys to his Jaguar instead of fetching the car. Then an elderly white couple came out and handed him the keys to their black Mercedes-Benz. “It took them a while to realize that I was not a valet,” says Johnson. “It didn ’t matter that I was dressed for dinner and had paid a handsome price for the meal, just as he had. What mattered was that I didn ’t fit his idea of someone who could be equal to him.”

Such incidents, which are depressingly familiar to African-Americans of all ages, incomes and social classes, help explain why black and white attitudes often differ so completely. A recent survey found that 68 percent of blacks believe racism is still a major problem in America. Only 38 percent of whites agreed.

Many Americans find the gulf between blacks and whites bewildering. After all, official segregation(隔离) is a bad memory and 40 years of law, policies and court decisions have helped

African-Americans make significant progress toward equal opportunity. Indeed, a black man born in Harlem could be the nation’s next president.

But racism persists, unmistakable to every black but largely invisible to many whites. It is evident in the everyday encounters African-Americans have with racial prejudice and discrimination, like the valet parking incident. Such encounters often strike whites as trivial misunderstandings. But they remind blacks that they are often dismissed as less intelligent, less industrious, less honest and less likely to succeed. Some insults are clearly racist; others may be evidence of insensitivity or bad manners rather than racial prejudice. But the accumulation of insults feeds anger.

“What is amazing to me is the number of whites who express surprise that any of this happens,”observes Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who says she has been watched at shopping malls.

1. The word “valet” in the first paragraph most probably means .

A) a restaurant owner B) a driver of expensive cars

C) a wealthy-looking gentleman D) a restaurant employee taking care of dinners’ car

2. Roy Johnson was unfairly treated because .

A) his car was inferior in quality B) he didn’t wear proper clothes

C) he failed to express himself clearly D) he is black

3. From the passage we can learn that .

A) both blacks and whites are bewildered by racism

B) examples of racism are becoming rare in the US

C) official segregation is forgotten because of bad memories

D) a black man born in Harlem will be the next US president

4. It is implied in the passage that many white people deny the presence of racism in the US because

.

A) they tend to regard instances of racism as trivial misunderstandings

B) they have never seen any instance of racism in their daily encounters

C) they believe African-Americans have made significant progress

D) they have treated black people as their equals on all occasions

5. Judging from the context, the most possible explanation for Mary Frances Berry’s being watched at shopping malls is that .

A) she was a celebrity

B) she didn’t fit people’s idea of an Afro-American woman

C) many people nowadays are insensitive and rude

D) she is black

答案：1-5 DDAAD

Passage two

Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following passage:

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