大学英语一级期末试题

大学英语一级期末考试试题（A卷）

课程名称:《 大学英语读写I 》 任课教师签名: 大学英语教学部（一教） 出题教师签名: 题库 审题教师签名: 张文君___ 考试方式 （ 闭 ）卷 适用专业 07级化工与制药学院、材料学

院、理学院、经管学院和produced quicker results. I started practicing these techniques every day, and as I started to read faster, my understanding increased. I found that I stopped daydreaming and thinking about other things while I was reading, and started getting the larger meaning. I was reading faster and comprehending better.

I found that when you read slowly, word by word, you get lost in the words, lose the bigger picture, and your comprehension drops. When you read faster, your comprehension goes up because instead of getting lost in the words, you see the general picture.

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考试时间 （ 120 ）分钟

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Part I. Reading Comprehension (2’X20=40’)

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

3. Passage One

When I was in 7th grade, I had a lot of trouble in reading. My mother used to sit by my side, and explain each paragraph of each school reading assignment to me because I didn't understand what I was reading. She would have to read each

paragraph to me, and then after each paragraph, she told me the general meaning of 4. what we just read.

In class, I tried to hide the fact that I couldn't read. My teachers gave us the last

10 minutes of class to start our reading homework, and I would sit there for the last ten minutes of class staring at the page, pretending I was reading it. I remember a terrible feeling of not wanting to get into trouble for not being able to understand. I

5. had to wait until I got home so my mother could explain it to me. How did I ever get into Cornell University?

By eighth grade I started understanding a little on my own, but I was reading at a very slow speed. In eighth grade, I got hold of all the speed reading books I could get

my hands on. I read them all very slowly at the time. I even went out and took a course on speed-reading. Then I developed my own way which was easier and

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The main difficulty the writer had in reading in her 7th grade was that

__________.

A) she often forgot her school reading assignments B) she had difficulty reading with comprehension C) she had a poor vocabulary and very bad grammar D) she always looked elsewhere when asked to read

The writer would pretend to be reading in the last 10 minutes of class because

________.

A) she was afraid of being found out B) the reading class was terrible C) she had to do what others were doing D) her mother told her to do so

The writer's reading ability improved a great deal mainly because __________.

A) she entered Cornell University B) she took a course on speed reading C) her mother managed to help her out

D) she developed her own way of

reading

From her own experience, the writer found that _______.

A) one's comprehension drops if one reads too slowly B) in order to understand better, one has to read slowly C) one does not pay enough attention to information if one reads fast D) many people read fast in order to save time

After reading this passage, we think that the writer wrote the passage in order to

_______.

A) prove to readers the importance of higher education B) tell a story in honor of her mother C) give a detailed description of different reading skills D) prove the importance of fast reading Passage Two:

Yukio is a twenty-four year old Japanese businessman. A few months ago, his company sent him to work at its New York City office for half a year. This was his first experience living in the United States.

Yukio thought New York City was very exciting, but he also found it very strange. It was difficult for him to get used to it. He found it strange to be with people from so many different races. He sometimes found American people very direct, open and honest though at the same he felt curious about them. He wished he could become friends with some Americans, but he wasn't sure how to get along with them. Most of the time, he felt very lonely and missed Japan.

But soon some sunshine came into his life. A new clerk came to work in his office part-time. She was American, as were most of the clerks in his office. Her name was Cindy. She was very clever, friendly and good-looking. Cindy was also a student studying business. Cindy and Yukio got along very well. They talked together whenever possible. Cindy told Yukio her dreams of having a successful business. She said she was not really interested in getting married or having children. She wanted to use all of her energy for business. Yukio found Cindy very interesting and very different from the women he knew before. In a similar way, Cindy found Yukio unique among all the men that she knew. Soon the two fell in love and they were both very happy.

But now it is almost time for Yukio to return to Japan. Yukio wants Cindy to return to Japan with him and marry him. But Cindy doesn't speak any Japanese. She fears that Yukio wants her to become an ordinary wife and have children right away. Cindy wants Yukio to stay in New York City.

They feel very bad, not knowing what they should do. Should they stay in New York? Should they go to Japan? Sometimes they think they should separate, but they also feel they cannot live without each other.

6. A few months ago, Yukio __________.

A) was sent to New York City by his company B) went to New York City for a meeting

C) was told to open a new office for his company in New York City D) met his former girlfriend Cindy in New York City

8. Cindy was not really interested in getting married, because _______.

A) Yukio didn't want to stay in New York City B) Cindy doesn't speak any Japanese

C) Yukio and Cindy didn't get along well sometimes D) Cindy wanted a successful business

9. According to your opinion based on the reading passage, which of the following

statements is true?

A) Yukio thought people in New York were the same as people in Japan. B) Cindy was Yukio's first American girlfriend

C) Cindy had many other Japanese boyfriends before Yukio D) Yukio spoke very little English

10. The main idea of the passage is: ________.

A) There can be difficulties in falling in love with a person from another culture B) American people and Japanese people cannot understand each other

C) A man misses his country

D) A businessman and his clerk often fall in love with each other

Passage Three:

In the United States, about 750,000 persons have suffered AIDS. More than one half of them have died.

But doctors say evidence also shows there is no reason for persons to become terrified (惊吓) by the disease. The AIDS virus is spread during sex with an infected partner, or by infected blood. But doctors say their studies show the disease is not spread through normal, close social activities.

A study by one research team was printed in the New England Journal (杂志) of Medicine. The doctors studied one-hundred-one family members who lived with AIDS and lived in crowded conditions. The family members shared many personal goods with the patients. These included toothbrushes, drinking glasses, beds, towels and toilets.

Doctors said only one family member — a five-year-old girl — got the AIDS virus. They note, however, that the girl's mother had the disease. They believe the girl probably was born with the virus. No other family member in the study got the AIDS virus or showed any signs of the disease.

The head of the study, Gerald Friedland, said if the disease is not easily spread in crowded homes, it also will not spread easily in factories, offices, schools and other

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7. According to the reading passage, Cindy __________.

A) didn't like Japan B) was a student and a businesswoman D) was dreaming of something not

C) was a student and a clerk

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public places. Doctor Friedland said the study also shows there is no reason to punish AIDS patients and to force them to live separately from other persons.

American health officials recently warned, however, that some health care workers should take special care. The report noted the AIDS virus is carried in blood and other body fluids. It said health care workers should put protective (保护性的) covers over their eyes and skin during medical operations, dental (牙科的) work, or other times when the patient may bleed.

In the United States, most AIDS patients are homosexual (同性恋的) men, people taking drugs who used infected needles (针头), and persons who received infected blood. More recent studies show the AIDS virus also can be spread during heterosexual (异性的) relations. It can spread either from the man to the woman, or from the woman to the man.

11 Doctors say there is no reason for people to be frightened about AIDS because

_______.

A) it is not deadly

B) few people are infected with AIDS

C) the AIDS virus is not spread in everyday social activities. D) the AIDS virus is not spread during sex

D) the health care workers may be infected by the blood

15 _______ are least likely to be infected with the AIDS disease.

A) People who use drugs

B) Persons who offer infected blood to others

C) Men who are gay D) Married men

Passage Four:

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanaton. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues(自言自语) as: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!”The possible explaination to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help. Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe your’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract(对抗) your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This wont change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam(鼓足干劲) and work better at your low point.

Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy of concentration for your sharper hours.

16. If a person finds gettings up early a problem, most probably _________.

A) he is a lazy person

B) he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

C) he is not sure when his energy is low

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12 The study of 101 family members who lived with AIDS patients shows that

________.

A) the AIDS is not spread by personal goods

B) women are more likely to get the AIDS virus than men

C) married men are less likely to get AIDS than unmarried ones D) the AIDS virus is passed by drinking glasses

13 According to Doctor Friedland, there is no reason to _______.

A) stop meeting AIDS patients B) stop living with AIDS patients

C) fear that AIDS can be passed from a mother to a baby D) fear that the AIDS virus can be passed during sex

14 Health workers were warned to take special care when the patient bleeds because

_______.

A) AIDS can be passed by touching the patient's body B) AIDS can be spread by touching the patient's skin

C) AIDS virus can be carried in blood or other body fluids

D) he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening

17. Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?

A) Unawareness of energy cycles. B) Family monologues.

C) A change in the family member’s energy cycle.

D) Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.

18. If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should

______.

A) change his energy cycle B) overcome his laziness

C) get up earlier than usual D) go to bed earlier

19. You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will _________.

A) help to keep your energy for the day’s work B) help you to control your temper early in the day

C) enable you to concentrate on your routine work D) keep your energy cycle under control all day

20. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

A) Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one’s energy.

B) Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peaks at different hours of day.

C) Habit helped a person adapt to his own energy cycle. D) Children have energy cycles, too.

Part II. Vocabulary (0.5’X30=15’)

Directions: Choose the best one to complete each sentence.

21. On my way to school, I saw people ______ advertisements and sample products. A. conveying B. creating C. discarding D. distributing

To ______ the success in the World Cup, the Chinese team practiced very hard in 22.

the past months. A. insure B. assure C. ensure D. secure

23. He was so angry that he just couldn’t ______ from telling them what he thought. A. hold off B. hold on C. hold back D. hold up

24. We ______ Edison’s success to his intelligence and hard work..

A. subject B. attribute C. owe D. refer

25. I suggested he should _____ himself to his new conditions. A. adapt B. adopt C. regulate D. suit

26. The nurse _____ his pain by giving him a cold drink. A. released B. set free C. relieved D. relived

27. The islands are ______ from the mainland by a vast stretch of sea. A. isolated B. divided C. blocked D. split

28. I can’t ______ why she married a man like that. A. reason out B. figure out C. make out of D. take out

29. I know the place is a _______, but make yourself at home. A. disorder B. paradise C. mess D. palace

30. He ______ me goodbye from the train window. A. waved B. shook C. swung D. swayed

31. Don’t stand around waiting for someone lese to take the ______. A. initiative B. captivity C. creative D. activity

32. The singer called for a member of the ________ to join him on stage. A. entertainment B. proportion C. audience D. civilization

33. I think he will come to find us, so we ______ where we are. A. may as well stay B. may stay as well C. as well may stay D. as may say well

34. The boy, wanting to be independent, _____ his father’s offer of help. A. turned down B. turned from C. turned away D. turned against

35. As we can no longer wait for the delivery of our order, we have to _______it. A. postpone B. refuse C. delay D. cancel

36. By law, when one makes a large purchase, he should have _______ opportunity to

change his mind. A. accurate B. urgent C. lack D. adequate

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37. There were no tickets ______ for Friday’s performance. A. enable B. responsible C. possible D. available

38. Many people complain of the rapid ______ of modern life. A. rate B. speed C. pace D. growth

39. Although the traffic is not busy, he likes to drive at a _______ speed. A. spare B. fast C. modest D. moral

40. The representatives ______ their discussion after the coffee break. A. jammed B. undertook C. skipped D. resumed

41. They _____ the local government to approve plans for their reform programme. A. urged B. referred C. realized D. shrugged

42. I can’t _______ this gentle young woman with the radical political essays she has

written. A. anticipate B. participate C. associate D. contract

43. I recognize the face but can’t _______ her name. A. regain B. remake C. reunion D. recall

44. The president’s speech was really brilliant. Do you think it was _____ by himself

or by someone else? A. composed B. argued C. assigned D. violated

45. I’m going to ______ those books if you’ve finished reading them. A. discard B. approach C. hunt D. sponsor

46. She couldn’t _______ the pressures of her new job. She had to quit it. A. tend B. handle C. twist D. blast

47. Because of rising cost, we spent _______ money on the project as had been

planned.

A. twice much B. twice as much C. twice D. twice as more

48. I don’t know what is wrong with the machine. We need an engineer to ______ the

problem.

A. undertake B. encounter C. reveal D. identify

49. It won’t take long to _____ the situation. But I need some more time before I

come up with a plan to solve the problem. A. sum up B. size up C. figure out D. wipe out

50. Why not _____ to Professor Smith for advice? He is an expert in this field. A. go B. your going C. to D. you go

Part III: Cloze (1’x15=15’)

Directions：There are 15 blanks in the following passage．For each blank there are four choices marked A），B），C）and D）．You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage．Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center．

Many students find the experience of attending university lectures to be a confusing and frustrating experience. The teacher speaks for one or two hours, perhaps illustrating(演示) the talk with slides(幻灯片), writing up important information on the blackboard, 51 reading material and giving out 52 .The new student sees the other students continuously writing on notebooks and 53 what to write. Very often the student leaves the lecture 54 notes which do not catch the main points and which become hard even for the 55 to understand. Most colleges provide courses which 56 new students to develop the skills they need to be 57 listeners and note-takers. 58 these are unavailable, there are many useful study-skills guides which enable learners to practice these skills 59 .In all cases it is important to 60 the problem 61 actually starting your studies. It is important to 62 that most students have difficulty in acquiring the language skills 63 in college study. One way of solving these difficulties is to attend the language and study-skills classes which most colleges 64 throughout the academic year(学年). Another basic way is to find a study partner 65 it is possible to identify difficulties, exchange ideas and provide support.

51. A. attributing B. contributing C. distributing D. explaining 52. A. assignments B. information C. content D. definition 53. A. suspects B. understands C .wonders D. convinces 54. A. without B. with C .on D. except 55. A. teachers B. classmates C. partners D. students 56. A. prevent B .require C. assist D. forbid 57. A. effective B. passive C. relative D. expressive 58. A. Because B. Though C .Whether D. If

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