英语阅读一试题

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2005－2006学年第一学期期末考试

《英语阅读一》试卷A（450人）

（适用于国际语言系05级商务英语&涉外旅游&会展&04英6专业）

考试时间90分钟，满分100分

Part One（每小题2分，共40分）

What is intelligence, anyway?

What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received a kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.

All my life I?ve been registering scores like th at, so that I have the complacent feeling that I?m highly intelligent, and I except other people to think so, too. Actually, though, don?t such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by the people who make up the intelligence tests—people with intellectual tends similar to mine?

For instance, I was with an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles—and he always mended my car.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I?d prove myself a moron. And I?d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute. Its worth is determined by the society I live in. Its numerical evaluation is determined by a small subsection of that society which has managed to force itself on the rest of us as a judge of such matters.

Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say:” Doc, a deaf-and-dumb guy went into a hardware store to ask for some snails. He put two figures together on the counter made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two figures he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”

I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two figures. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed heartily and said, “Why, you dumb fool, he used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said, smugly, “ I?ve been tryin g that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quiet a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I?d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you are extremely educated, doc, I knew you could not be very smart.”

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

A: Comprehending the text

Choose the best answer.

1. The normal score of the aptitude test is

a. 160

b. 80

c.100

d. 140

2. T he author?s exceptionally high score on the aptitude test

a. caused much trouble at the base.

b. gave rise to much excitement at the base.

c. won him quick promotions.

d. helped him to get the position he desired.

3. The author thinks that all his high scores simply mean that

a. he is highly intelligent.

b. he was very good at answering a certain type of academic questions.

c. he can do better than others in anything he tries.

d. he is more intelligent than manual workers.

4. The author used to believe that

a. he was far more intelligent than his auto-repair man.

b. the auto-repair man was more intelligent than he was.

c. they were equals in intelligence.

d. they were smart in different ways.

5. When it came to fixing the car, the author

a. had full confidence in his auto-repair man.

b. had doubts about his auto-repair man?s ability.

c. listened to God?s advice.

d. had no idea who he should turn to for help.

6. If the auto-repair man devised an intelligent test,

a. the author would score high.

b. the author would score low.

c. the author would get an average score.

d. the author would still score above averag

e.

7. In t he author?s view, intelligence

a. is a relative matter.

b. is absolute.

c. can not be measure

d.

d. can be evaluated in different ways.

8. When the author heard the answer of auto-repair?s question about asking for scissors,

a. he thought the question was interesting.

b. he was not sure about his answer.

c. he thought the question was not worthy of an answer.

d. he thought the question was tricky.

9. When the auto-mobile man tried his question on the author

a. he had no idea what the result would be.

b. he was certain that the author would be caught.

c. he knew that the author would give the correct answer.

d. he knew that the author would give an unusual answer.

10. In the opinion of the auto-repair man,

a. educated people are more intelligent.

b. there is no difference between the intelligence of educated and uneducated people.

c. too much education may make a person stupid sometimes.

d. IQ tests don?t mean a thing.

B: Understanding vocabulary.

Choose the correct definition according to the context.

1. When I was in the army, I received a kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160.

a. natural ability

b. emotional

c. jigsaw puzzle

d. unusual

2. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.

a. angry scene.

b. complain strongly

c. unnecessary nervous excitement

d. pay attention to

3 I have the complacent feeling that I?m highly intelligent, and I except other people to think

a. unhappy

b. self-satisfactory

c. pleased

d. dismay

4. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.

a. assumed

b. discussed

c. decided

d. known

5. When anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it.

a. mistaken

b. do something wrong

c. happened

d. stop working properly

6. I?d be a moron, too.

a. a cute person

b. a stupid person

c. a clever person

d. a ingenious person

7. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly.

(1) a. without words b. body language

c. connected with words

d. spoken language

(2) a. cinch b. complicated c. pushover d. not difficult

8. He wanted scissors.

a. a kind of striking tool

b. knife

c. chopsticks

d. a kind of cutting tool

9. I?ve been trying that on all my customers today.

a. wear something

b. have an test on somebody

c. put on

d. make efforts to do something

Part Two

Reading Comprehension（每小题2分，共40分）Passage one:

Japan is poor in energy resources. It is said that about eighty percent of the energy resources used in Japan are imported in order to provide the people with enough electricity. Oil, coal and natural gas are imported from many foreign countries to generate electricity.

There most common kinds of power plants are nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power plants. The largest amount of electricity is generated by thermal power plants. However, the percentage of electricity generated by thermal power plants has been dropping. The percentage of electricity generated by hydroelectric and other power plants has also been dropping. This percentage became the lowest of the three in 1990 and is still declining. On the contrary, nuclear power plants have been generating more and more electricity. In 1997 the percentage of electricity generated by nuclear power plants had more than doubled from 1980. More nuclear power plants are said to be planned and to be under construction.

Nuclear power plants, however, can be dangerous. Nuclear accidents cause enormous problems in a variety of fields, such as fishing, farming, the breeding of animals and so on. Such problems last for generations. It is said to be very difficult to ensure 100% safety in the nuclear industry.

What should we do? Today, nearly forty percent of electricity is produced by nuclear power plants. It may not be a wise solution to close all nuclear power plants and to stop the generating of electricity there just because the nuclear industry can be unsafe. What is important is to use strict and thorough safety checks in the nuclear industry.

1. Japan has to import

a. a large amount of electricity from a lot of foreign countries.

b. a large amount of oil, coal and natural gas to stop using nuclear power.

c.. energy resources to generate enough electricity.

d. energy resources to save its own natural resources.

2. Which of the following is not true?

a. Nuclear power plants are now producing most of the electricity in Japan.

b. The percentage of electricity generated by thermal power plants has been decreasing.

c. People will continue to use nuclear power plants although they can be dangerous.

d. The percentage of electricity generated by nuclear power plants has been increasing.

3. According to the author, it is important to

a. stop generating electricity at nuclear power plants.

b. close nuclear power plants for a few years.

c. use strict and thorough safety rules to control the nuclear industry.

d. try to find new ways of generating electricity.

4. W hat's the topic discussed in this passage?

a. Thermal power plants in Japan.

b. Nuclear power plants was more and more important to Japan.

c. Energy problems in Japan.

d. Dangers of Nuclear power plants.

Passage two

For many women, life today is very different from life in the time of their grandmothers. The changes have come very slowly, but in many countries women now take a more active part in society.

There are many different reasons why this change has taken place. Part of the reason is industrialization. Many women moved away from rural areas where they used to work in agriculture, to the towns and cities where they stared to work in industry. In Europe, however, the biggest changes came with the world wars.

During the World War I and World War II, many men went away to fight. This meant that

more and more women had to work outside the home. For many women, this was the first time that they were independent and that they had their own money. They were not wealthy, but many women were not so poor as they used to be. At the end of the war, they did not want to go back to the kind of life they used to have.

In many countries, women also started to fight for the right to vote in elections and to make political decisions. Their votes were important, so male politicians had to start thinking about what women were asking for.

Other important changes affected the lives of many women. First, in many countries more girls started to go to school. In the past, people thought that education was too expensive to “waste” on girls. In time, governments started to provide education for girls, and women were then able to get better jobs.

5. What is the best title for this passage?

a. Women?s Lives.

b. Women Today

c. Advantages of War

d. Changes in Women?s Lives.

6. The reasons for the changes in Women?s Lives lie in

a. industrialization.

b. the world war.

c. more changes for women to go to school.

d. all of the abov

e.

7. People used to think that

a. they had no money to spend on women?s education.

b. women needed only to stay at home.

c. there was no need for women to get education.

d. women were too weak to go to school.

Passage three

His name was Lee Jun Fan Y uen Kam when he was born in the United States in 1940. A nurse at the hospital said he should have an American name too. She suggested the name …Bruce”.

Bruce?s father was a movie actor. Young Bruce appeared in his first movie with his father when he was only two months old. Bruce and his parents returned to their home in Hong Kong in 1941. Bruce began to act in Chinese movies at the age of six. In Hong Kong, Bruce Lee began his life-long interest in the Chinese system of self-defense called Kung Fu. He studied with Yip Man, master of the famous Wing Chun Kung Fu. Bruce was also involved in many street fights. His parents decided this must stop. They sent him back to the United States. He became a university student, and opened a school to teach Kung Fu later. Bruce Lee was not a big man .However, people who saw him fight could not understand how he could be so powerful. He seemed to have the strength of several men.

In 1966, Bruce Lee acted in American television series called “The Green Hornet”. The program was not a success. But many Hollywood movies actors began studying Kung Fu with him. He appeared in several other television programs. Bruce Lee returned Hong Kong in 1971 to act in a Chinese movie “Fists of Fury?. The movie was extremely popular in Asia. He followed this with another film,“ The Chinese Connection”. It was extremely popular too. In 1973, Bruce Lee made his most famous movie, “Enter the Dragon”. It was the first movie made in cooperation between American and Chinese movie companies. But Bruce Lee died a few weeks before the movie was released. He was thirty-two years old. Doctors said his death as caused by swelling of the brain. More than 20000 people attended his funeral in Hong Kong before his body was taken to American for burial. “Enter the Dragon” became as major hit. It made Bruce Lee an internationally famous movie star. However, his early death ended what would have been a very successful movie career.

8 Which of the following is not true about Bruce?

a. He was an American.

b. He learnt Kong Fu from Yip Man.

c. He was not a big man.

d. He died at an early ag

e.

9.Bruce first acted in Chinese movies in the year of

a. 1941

b. 1946 c, 1966 d. 1971

10. Bruce?s best movie was

a. The Green Hornet

b. Fists of Fury

c. The Chinese Connection

d. Enter the Dragon

11. Bruce died

a. in a traffic accident

b. of a disease

c. in a street fight

d. from hard work

12. Which is the right order according to this passage?

a. Bruce acted in Chinese movies.

b. Bruce became a university student.

c. Bruce acted in the film “The Chinese Connection”.

d. Bruce returned to Hong Kong.

e. The film “Enter the Dragon” was released.

f. Bruce died at the age of 32.

A. d-a-b-c-f-e

B. b-c-a-d-e-f

C.d-a-b-c-e-f

D. b-d-a-c-f-e

Passage four

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the aim of education them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. Life is varied; so is education. As soon as we realized the fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a proper system of education.

In some countries with advanced industries, there is free education for all. Under this system, people, no matter whether they are rich or poor, clever or foolish, have a chance to be educated at universities or colleges. It was once thought, by free education all the problems of a society can be solved. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough. We find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees that there are jobs for them to fill. As a result of their degrees, they refuse to do what they think is “low” work. In fact, to work with one?s hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.

But we have only to think for a second to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmers is as important as that of a professor. We can live without education, but we would die if none of us grew crops. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would get terrible diseases in our towns. If there were no service people, because everyone was ashamed to do such work, the professor would have to waste much of their time doing housework.

On the other hand, if all the farmers were completely uneducated, their production would remain low. As the population grows larger and larger in the modern world, we would die if we did not have enough food.

In fact, when we say all of us must be educated to fit ourselves for life, it means that all must be educated: firstly, to realize that everyone can do whatever job is suited to his brain and ability; secondly, to understand that all jobs are necessary to society and that it is bad to be ashamed of one?s own work or to look down upon someone else?s; thirdly, to master all the necessary known-how to do one?s job well. Only such education can be called valuable to

society.

13. Which of the following is not true about education.

a. it is an end in itself.

b. it is only a means.

c. it is varie

d.

d. it is free sometimes.

14. According to the second paragraph, some people can not find a job because

a. there is a social problem.

b. there are not many jobs.

c. these people get university degrees.

d. these people do not want to do “low” work.

15.The work of a completely uneducated farmers is as important as that of a professor because

a. without education all of us would live a more meaningful life.

b. without farmers we would have to grow crops ourselves.

c. without farmers we would die of food shortage.

d. without farmers we would have to do housework ourselves.

16. All of us must be educated to understand or realize that

a. the more people with university degrees we have, the better life we will have.

b. we could not live without education.

c. everyone should have a chance to be educated at universities or colleges.

d.. everyone can do a job that is suitable for him.

17.Which of the following is true according to the text?

a. there should be free education for all in every country.

b. farmers should also receive education.

c. people with university degrees can always find a job.

d. professors are more important than farmers in a society.

Passage five

More than 100 works of art by about 100 Chinese and Japanese artists are on show at the China Millennium Monument in western Beijing until December 5.

The exhibition is sponsored by the International Cultural Exchange Center under the Chinese Ministry of Culture, the China Millennium Monument Foundation, and the Japanese Association of World Arts, and Cultural Promotion.

The show is one of the major events celebrating the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relation between China and Japan.

The meaning of this exhibition has gone beyond artistic exchange between the two countries. It has become a symbol of the common wish of the people of both countries for peace and friendship.

The exhibits include ink paintings and calligraphy. Most of the artists in the exhibition have been highly active and influential over the past two decades. This is the first time this kind of exhibition has been held. The arts of ink painting and calligraphy are world arts as well. There are endless possibilities for these arts to develop, in form and techniques.

18. According to the text, China established diplomatic relation with Japan

a. 30 years ago

b. 100 years ago

c. 50 years ago

d. 24 years ago

19. The underlined sentence probably means that

a. the exhibition has gone out of these two countries.

b. the exhibition is not only an artistic exchange but also a symbol for peace and friendship.

c. the exhibition includes not only paintings from China but also paintings from Japan.

d. the exhibition is a success because it has brought about great economic benefits to china.

20.The subject discussed in the text is

a. friendship between two countries

b. a successful exhibition

c. the exhibition without friendship

d. friendship beyond exhibition

Part Three

Vocabulary on the text.（每小题1分，共20分）

1. Atzel was beside himself with joy.

a. very happy

b. almost mad

c. very calm

d. nearly confused

2. She hung on to Ma and sobbed.

a. leant against Ma

b. hugged Ma

c. pushed against Ma

d. went to Ma

3. It opens up the possibility for other music events, as well as sports events, theatre and talk shows to be broadcast live to the Internet.

a. increase

b. has

c. projects

d. offers

4. Both water and wind power are cheap forms of energy and they are easily available but they can only create a small quantity of energy.

a. able to be obtained

b. able to be created

c. able to be used

d. able to be discovered

5. But at night, thinking about Mr. B.—Who could scare just about anybody I know, even my father—it seemed perfectly sensible to cheat.

a. understandable

b. senseless

c. reasonable

d. possible

6. A few minutes later we saw his enraged red face above the wall on the far side of the field.

a. angry

b. keen

c. biting

d. excited

7. A cab drew up and an Englishman got out.

a. passed by

b. came to a stop

c. went to

d. caught up

8. I replied that I did and asked what time our train was due to at Lyons.

a. arrived

b. expected

c. stopped

d. leaving

9. Then the rop was pulled again and Buck had to let go.

a. give up

b. leave

c. move along

d. go away

10.Buck was beaten , but he was not broken.

a. dead

b. seriously injured

c. losing courage

d. crushed physically and mentally

11.The city is concerned with finance, but it is also a market for goods of almost every kind, from all parts of the world.

a. is famous for

b. is an important place of

c. has trouble with

d. concentrates on

12. The Mayor makes a solemn promise to carry out his duties faithfully, and the Lord chief justice hands the Mayor his sword of office.

a. formal

b. sincere

c. immediate

d. serious

13. Sour cream sounded perfectly revolting.

a. unthinkable

b. disgusting

c. welcome

d. serious

14. Our family beat a retreat back to the sofa as if chased by energy soldiers.

a. withdrew hurriedly

b. became frightened and went

c. found our way

d. made haste

15. The Physics of Modern Age was published 45 years ago, and is still around today.

a. is useful

b. is available

c. is here and there

d. is praised

16. I now understand a serious scientific phenomenon.

a. fact

b. knowledge

c. news

d. conclusion

17. I see his spelling—binding personality and faith in the beauty of knowledge and nature.

a. fascinating

b. unbending

c. excellent

d. interesting

18. Then she spotted something between two trailers.

a. stepped on

b. felt

c. saw

d. picked up

19.My confidence started to disappear the day Angela Brady showed up at the pool for workout.

a. was called

b. got ready

c. arrived

d. reported

20. I had never felt so left out, so disappointed in my whole life.

a. depressed

b. exhausted. C. low—spirited d. neglected

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《英语阅读》试卷A（450人）（适用于国际语言系05级商务英语&涉外旅游&会展&04英6专业）

考试时间90分钟，满分100分

Part One（每小题2分，共40分）

1-5 __________________ 6-10____________________

11-15 ________________ 16-20 ___________________

Part Two

Reading Comprehension（每小题2分，共40分）

1-5 __________________ 6-10____________________

11-15 ________________ 16-20 ___________________

Part Three

Vocabulary on the text.（每小题1分，共20分）

1-5 __________________ 6-10____________________

11-15 ________________ 16-20 ___________________

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考试时间90分钟，满分100分

Part One（每小题2分，共40分）

1-5 __c, b, a, a, a___ 6-10___b, d, d, b, c___

11-15__a, c, b, a, d__16-20__b, c, b, d, b__

Part Two

Reading Comprehension（每小题2分，共40分）

1-5__c, a, c, b, d___6-10____d, c, a, b, d___

11-15__b, a, a, d, c_ 16-20_d, b, a, b, d____

Part Three

Vocabulary on the text.（每小题1分，共20分）

1-5 ___b, a, d, a, c__6-10___a, b, b, a, c___

11-15_d, d, b, a, b__16-20_c, a, c, d, d____

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