Test 2 for U6
I. Grammar and vocabulary.
Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B,C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
1. Please comment on the likely champion of this year's Euro Cup__________the point of view of a professional football player.
A. in B. on C. from D. about
2. patience is what prevents him from reaching his goal.
A. Alack B. Lacking C. Lacking of D. Lack
3. is estimated that over 70,000 lives were lost in the rare earthquake which struck Sichuan on May 12th.
A. As B. What C. It D. That
4. The coach, as well as all the fans around the world that he will bring victory to their team.
A. knows B. know C. have known D. knew
5. I seldom stay anywhere in the evening the reading room.
A. except B. except for C. except to D. except in
6. Though he is a very experienced player, he takes every training session a real match.
A. as seriously as B. so serious as
C. as serious as D. so seriously as
7. Before his death, Qu Yuan was very calm and predicted that the Wu State would be defeated at last, __________proved to be a reality several years later.
A. when B. which C. that D. it
8. He to give up smoking, but he couldn't resist the temptation.
A. intended B. was intending C. had intended D. intends
9. The Dragon Boat Festival, also the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.
A. is called B. calling C. being called D. called
10. Whether as part of a school report or a further education course, essays are designed to test your thinking, writing and study skills.
A. written B. to be written C. being written D. writing
Section B
Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
It was a very cold evening, an old man was waiting for a ride across the river. He saw several hor百度竞价推广en pass by but he didn't ask for any help. The wait seemed______________．Then came another rider，the old man______________ his eye and said, “Sir, would you mind doing me a favor？”
STOPping his horse，he replied, “Of course.” Almost______________, the old man could not get______________the ground. The hor百度竞价推广an helped him onto his horse. He took the old man not just across the river，______________to his home.
“Sir, you didn't even ask the other riders for help, why? What______________I had said ‘no’ and left you there？” the hor百度竞价推广an asked.
The old man looked at him straight in the eyes and said, “I looked into their eyes, I found they didn't care，______________told me it would be useless, but when I looked into______________， I saw kindness.”
These words touched the rider deeply. “Thank you for______________you've said, I hope I will never be too busy to help others.” With that, Thomas Jefferson, the______________ president of the US, turned his horse around and went away.
1．______2.______3.______4.______5.______
6．______7.______8.______9.______10.______
Section C：
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. active B. set C. protection D. breathes E. fairly F. nearly G. shelter H. survive I. signal J. typical |
Some desert animals can __________ the summer heat and dryness because they are very unusual. The camel, for example, can experience and bear an increase in the temperatures of its body and its blood of 9 °C without anything bad happening to it. In addition, it can drink a lot of water at one time; then store enough water in parts of its body to supply its needs for two weeks or more. The kangaroo, on the other hand, gets all the water it needs from water that it produces when it ______________________________ . However, most animals need to maintain a ______________________________ constant body temperature, and will die if it rises more than 5 °C. Therefore, they need to find some way to stay away from the heat of the summer sun. Nor can many animals either store or produce water in their bodies, as the camel and kangaroo can. So they must find ways to keep their bodies from losing water because of the heat. Because very few desert animals can survive the high temperature of a ________________________________________ summer's day, most of them are __________ in the night. only after the sun has __________ does the desert come fully to life. The night is relatively cool, and the darkness provides __________ not only from the sun, but also from other animals and from the birds. So the coming of darkness is the __________ for the large majority of animals and insects to start again their search for water and food. When morning comes, most of them seek shelter again: many go underground; __________ all find some dark and cool places where they can keep away from the sun's heat.
II. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the con text.
One day a police officer managed to get some fresh mushrooms. He was so __________what he had bought that he__________to share the mushrooms with his brother officers. When their breakfast arrived the next day, each officer found some mushrooms on his plate.
"Let the dog __________a piece first," suggested one careful officer who was afraid that the mushrooms might be ______________________________. The dog seemed to enjoy his mushrooms, and the officers then began to eat their meal saying that the mushrooms had a very strange __________quite pleasant taste.
An hour later, however, they were all astonished when the gardener rushed on and said seriously the dog was dead.__________, the officers jumped into their cars and __________ into the nearest hospital. Pumps were used and the officers had a very ______________________________ time getting rid of the mushrooms that ______________________________ in their stomachs. When they returned to the police station, they sat down and started to ______________________________ the mushroom poisoning. Each man explained the pain that he had felt and they agreed that ______________________________ had grown worse on their way to the hospital. The gardener was called to tell the way in which the poor dog had ________________________________________. "Did it ______________________________ much before death?" asked one of the officers, feeling very pleased that he had escaped a ______________________________death himself. "No," the gardener looked rather __________ . "It was killed the moment a car hit it."
1. A. sure of B. careless about C. pleased with D. disappointed at
2. A. had B. provided C. supplied D. offered
3. A. check B. smell C. try D. examine
4. A. terrible B. poisonous C. tasteless D. smelly
5. A. besides B. but C. and D. or
6. A. Immediately B. Carefully C. Suddenly D. Slowly
7. A. rushed B. walked C. rolled D. went
8. A. good B. wonderful C. hard D. meaningful
9. A. sTOPped B. dropped C. settled D. remained
10. A. study B. discuss C. record D. remember
11. A. this B. these C. it D. they
12. A. died B. experienced C. killed D. felt
13. A. suffer B. eat C. harm D. spit
14. A. strange B. painful C. peaceful D. natural
15. A. happy B. interested C. surprised D. excited
Section B
Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several ques tions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: "I'm only a 1,050." The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test , which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1,100 or 1,550, has become the focus at this time of their life.
It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life's doors will remain forever closed.
According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student's future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indication — like a student's high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student's academic proficiency , they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student's potentialities . This is not to suggest that we should sTOP using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of many methods used.
1. The purpose of the SAT is to test students' .
A. strong will B. academic ability
C. full potentialities D. confidence in school work
2. Students' self-respect is influenced by their .
A. scores in the SAT B. achievements in mathematics
C. job opportunities D. money spent on education
3. This passage is mainly about .
A. how to prepare for the SAT B. stress caused by the SAT
C. American higher education D. the SAT and its effects
Researchers were testing the effects of different coloured walls on two groups of visitors to an exhibit of paintings. For the first group the room was painted white; for the second, dark brown. Movement of each group was followed by an electrical system under the carpet. The experiment revealed that those who entered the dark brown room walked more quickly, covered more area, and spent less time in the room than the people in the white environment. Dark brown stimulated more activity, but the activity ended sooner.
Another experiment presented three groups of __________ with the same photographs, but each group was in a different kind of room — an "ugly" room like a storeroom in disorder, an average room, such as a nice office, and a tastefully designed living room with carpeting and drapes . Results showed that the subjects in the beautiful room tended to give higher ratings to the faces than did those in the ugly room. Other studies suggest that students do better on tests taken in comfortable, attractive rooms than in ordinary-looking or ugly rooms.
4. From the two experiments it may be possible to conclude that .
A. students should take an exam in a comfortable and dark brown room
B. different kinds of colours and rooms will stimulate more activity
C. beautiful rooms and a white colour will cause people to give higher ratings to the face
D. environment will have effects on the people's movement
5. Compared with the people in the dark brown room, the people in the white room will_______.
A. spend less time B. become more active
C. stay longer D. influence students' marks
6. The underlined word "subjects" means .
A. courses to be studied
B. TOPics to be discussed
C. persons to be experimented with
D. students to be examined
The literal meaning of philosophy is "love of wisdom". But this meaning does not tell us very much. Unlike the other disciplines philosophy cannot be defined by what you study, because it is actually unlimited. Anything can be the subject matter of philosophy: art, history, law, language, literature, mathematics, and in fact, the other academic disciplines are directly related to philosophy. For this reason you get a Doctorate of Philosophy in biochemistry, or computer science, or psychology.
Two broad sub-fields of philosophy are logic and the history of philosophy. Logic is the science of argument and critical thinking. It provides sound methods for distinguishing good from bad reasoning. The history of philosophy involves the study of major philosophers and of the development of philosophy.
Of what use is philosophy? First it is useful in educational advancement. It is necessary for understanding other disciplines. only philosophy questions the nature of the concepts used in a discipline, and its relation to other disciplines. And through the study of philosophy, one develops sound methods of research and analysis that can be applied to any field.
There are a number of general uses of philosophy. It strengthens one's ability to solve problems, to communicate, to organize ideas and issues, to persuade, and to take what is the most important from a large quantity of data. These general uses are of great benefit in the career field, not necessarily for obtaining one's first job after graduation, but for preparing for positions of responsibility, management and leadership later on. It is very shortsighted after all, to take a course of studies only for the purpose of getting one's first job. The useful skills developed through the study of philosophy have significant long-term benefits in career advancement. No other discipline systematically follows the ideals of wisdom, leadership, and capacity to resolve human conflict.
7. According to Paragraph 1, philosophy can best be described as the study of__________.
A. social sciences
B. natural sciences
C. both social and natural sciences
D. the subject matter of politics
8. With the study of philosophy, you can .
A. become a great leader
B. succeed in everything
C. find a good job soon after graduation
D. make progress in your career development
9. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Philosophy is an independent discipline.
B. Logic helps you to become a better thinker.
C. The study of philosophy brings you immediate benefits.
D. The meaning of philosophy is too limited to define.
10. From the passage, we can conclude .
A. not all the subjects have to do with philosophy
B. a person will get a Ph. D. if he/she studies philosophy
C. philosophy can be helpful for the study of any other subject
D. philosophy is the only solution to all the problems in the world
III. Translation.
1．我还没收到他们对我申请的回复。
2．假如遇见麻烦，请跟我联络。
3．因为很多缘由，这家公司被禁止向任何中小学提供赞助。
4．大家非常难理解那些无视其他人的痛苦，依旧问心无愧的人。
5．虽然这位老师在大地震中活了下来，但因为他没尽力挽救学生，他成为了公众批评的对象。
