大学英语第三册(8)

10. Sometimes it is very difficult to _______ some of the English words. Even the native speaker can not help.

A) decrease D) delight

B) create C) define B) financial C) male

11. Students with _______ problems may apply for student loans.

A) economic D) economical A) desert D) involve

12. Both sugar and salt can ______in water.

B) absorb C) dissolve B) fault C) foundation

13. I have not heard anything from him since his _______.

A) departure D) acceptance A) conduct D) sweat

14. Without a proper education, people could _______ all kinds of crimes.

B) stoop C) commit

15. Several loudspeakers are _______ from the ceiling and we can hear the speaker very clearly.

A) connected D) suspended A) temper D) contain

B) sustained C) associated

16. This morning in the class, our teacher lost his _______ at last because he could not stand any more.

B) terror C) verse

17. It is not ---_______ for me to return all the books to the library now because I still need some of them for my research.

A) continuous D) sufficient A) compass D) campus A) ruin D) impose

B) difficult C) convenient

18. When traveling alone in the mountains, you’d better take a _______ with you in case you get lost.

B) compress C) compulsive

19. As a teacher, you should not _______ the students from asking questions in class.

B) restrain C) import

20. If you have any problems during your study here, please do not _______ to call me for help

A) hesitate D) request

B) despair C) urge

21.Some people who are successful language learners find it difficult to ___________in other fields.

A) succeed B) result C) achieve score

D)

22.It was___________ many centuries later that the ancient Greeks placed the science of map-making on a sound footing.

A) not B) until C) not until D) until not

23.Heart surgery causes the costs of general hospital care to ___________.

A) raise B) arise C) rise D) arouse

24.Keep in __________ that all people are different and some may progress faster than others.

A) head B) brain C) heart D) mind

25.He keeps on with physical training in winter ___________cold it is .

A) whatever B) no matter how C) whether or not D) although

26. As you have been, the value of a nation’s currency is a ____ of its economy. A) reaction B) reflection C) response D) revelation

27. The computer has brought about surprising technological changes ____ we organize and produce information.

A) in a way B) in the way C) in that way D) in no way

28. The woman was worried about the side effects of taking aspirins, but her doctor____ her that it is absolutely harmless.

A) retrieved B) released C) reassured D) revived

29. The shop assistant was dismissed as she was ___ of cheating customers. A) accused B) charged C) scolded D) cursed

30. He is the only person who can ____ in this case, because the other witnesses were killed mysteriously.

A) testify B) charge C) accuse D) rectify Part II Reading Comprehension Direction:

There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five question, for each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET. Passage 1

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child—or even an animal, such as a pigeon—can learn to recognize faces, we all take this ability for granted.

We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from other.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing

someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you

were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so.

But if you were asked to describe a “nice person”, you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Fordin Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words charactering differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types—people are described with such terms.

People have always tried to “type” each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villains or the hero’s role. In fact, the words “person” and “personality” come from the Latin persona, meaning “mask”. Today most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we easily tell the “good guys” from the “bad guys” because the two types differ in appearance as well as in actions.

31. By using the simile (直喻) of fingerprints, the author tells us that _____.

A) people differ from each other in facial features

B) people have difficulty in describing the features of fingerprints C) people have different personalities D) people can learn to recognize faces

32. According to this passage, some animals have the gift of _____. A) typing each other

B) telling people apart by how they behave C) recognizing human faces

D) telling good people from bad people

33. Who most probably knows best hw to describe people’s personality?

A) Psychologists. B) The modern TV audience. C) The ancient Greek audience D) The movie star.

34. According to the passage, it is possible for us to tell one type of person form another because _____.

A) human faces have complex features

B) people differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics C) human fingerprints provide unique information D) people’s behavior can be easily described in words 35. Which of the following is the major point of the passage? A) How to get to know people.

B) Why it is necessary to identify people’s personality. C) Hoe best to recognize people.

D) Why it is possible to describe people.

Passage 2

Everyone talks about the “five” senses of man. And it’s true that we get our

information about the outside world from our sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Researchers tell us that the sense of sight—our visual sense—gives us up to 80% of what we know about the world outside our bodies; while the other senses, the auditory (hearing), the olfactory (smell), the tactile (touch), and the gustatory (taste) bring into our brains information about the other twenty percent of what is happening. But there are two other senses that we cannot get along without, though they are very seldom given any credit for helping us to survive in this difficult world. These are the sense of balance, and the kinesthetic sense.

The sense of balance, without which we could act like a drunkard after a heavy bout with the bottle, is located in the inner ear. The inner ear contains three curved tubes (the semi-circular canals) filled with liquids. The shifting of these liquids activates nerve endings in the linings of the canals, and nerve impulses from these nerve endings help our brains to keep us upright.

The kinesthetic sense is actually made up of nerve impulses that arise from nerves planted in close contact with our muscles. These nerve messages are constantly telling us what position our limbs，trunk and head are in. They serve as a continuous “feedback” system to help us know how to move our various parts, and when to hold them still. Otherwise, we would lack the coordination to run, jump, dance, twist, or even sit still. Incidentally, the word “kinesthetic” comes from two Greek words meaning “motion” and “feeling”. The kinesthetic sense gives us our ideas about our own motion.

36. The best title for this passage is _____.

A) Our Five Major Senses. B) The Overlooked Senses. C) The most Important Senses D) The Sense of Balance. 37. What is the main idea of the passage?

A) We get most of our information about the outside world form our senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.

B) The sense of sight gives us up to 80% of what we know about the world outside our bodies.

C) The sense of balance keeps us upright.

D) Two important senses which are often over-looked are the kinesthetic sense and the sense of the balance.

38. The kinesthetic sense is located in the ______.

A) nerves B) brain C) skin D) inner ear 39.Nerve impulses originating in the inner ear______. A) keep us vertical B) regulate our hearing

C) gives us our ideas about our motion

D) tell us what is happening in the outside world.

40. People who cannot see are able to get along in the world, but it would be probably most difficult to get along if we lost the use of the ______. A) Sense of smell. B) Sense of touch. C) Sense of taste D) Kinesthetic sense. Passage 3

40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started as Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi German, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.

In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, thing have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the disabled were held in Rome. In the same place was the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.

The Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can’t enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize, and take part in the

games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at the Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more year are still needed to convince those fortune enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.

41. The first games for the disabled were held _____ after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrived in England.

A) 40 years B) 21 years C) 10 years D) 9 years

42. Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in _____.

A) New York B) London C) Rome D) Los Angeles 43. In Paragraph 3, the word athletes’ means____ A) People who support the games B) People who watch the games C) People who organize the games D) People who compete in the games

44. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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