全新版大学英语学习大厅综合教程第五单元B卷

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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 13 minutes ) Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false. 1.

A) T B) F

Script: I, as a cook, was busy in preparing a traditional dinner for the people in the ship on the Thanksgiving Day. 正确答案： A 2.

A) T B) F

Script: \正确答案： A 3.

A) T B) F

Script: I wrote three thank-you letters to my dad, one of my professors and my grandma respectively. 正确答案： B 4.

A) T B) F

Script: What I appreciate my father most is that he has taught me to love reading. 正确答案： A 5.

A) T B) F

Script: I thanked Nelson mainly because his prayer had a positive impact on my life. 正确答案： A 6.

A) T B) F

Script: I wept over my father’s letter because he said he had a sense of achievement after reading my letter.

正确答案： B 7.

A) T B) F

Script: Those who were grateful in the experiment seemed to live a happy and active life. 正确答案： A 8.

A) T B) F

Script: Those who focused on hassles appeared more materialistic and unwilling to share their possessions with others. 正确答案： B 9.

A) T B) F

Script: In one study, waitresses who wrote a message about an upcoming dinner special on the check received higher tips. 正确答案： A 10.

A) T B) F

Script: Gratitude makes you take an optimistic and positive attitude towards life. 正确答案： A Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Thanksgiving in the United States is a day Americans have set aside to gather with loved ones, to (11)_________________ , to be mindful of the gifts, both large and small, that they are grateful for, and to celebrate the (12)_________________ that gratitude itself brings to their lives.

Like many Americans who have lost their jobs due to America’s ailing (13)_________________ , Nancy has battled with (14)_________________ swings in 2010. Still, she finds (15)_________________ in keeping what she calls a “gratitude (16)_________________ ,” where she (17)_________________ down all the little things she can be thankful for. “I was sitting in Nussbaum’s cafeteria up the street having coffee. And I love going there and just having coffee and I thought I was grateful for that place being there. Or for my kids. Or the fact that someone said something nice that day that I was glad to hear.” Nancy adds that everyday life is full of small gifts that (18)_________________ . “But when you start to write, it starts to come out. It makes me realize that I have more in my life to be happy about than I thought I did.”

For his part, Kyle, an art teacher, prefers to cultivate (19)_________________ for whatever life has in store. “I’m grateful for every day, man,” he says with a grin. “Every moment is new and exciting. There is always something good, something bigger and better (20)_________________ , and coming everyone’s way.”

Script: Thanksgiving in the United States is a day Americans have set aside to gather with loved ones, to feast, to be mindful of the gifts, both large and small, that they are grateful for, and to celebrate the value that gratitude itself brings to their lives.

Like many Americans who have lost their jobs due to America’s ailing economy, Nancy has battled with mood swings in 2010. Still, she finds solace in keeping what she calls a “gratitude journal,” where she jots down all the little things she can be thankful for. “I was sitting in Nussbaum’s cafeteria up the street having coffee. And I love going there and just having coffee and I thought I was grateful for that place being there. Or for my kids. Or the fact that someone said something nice that day that I was glad to hear.” Nancy adds that everyday life is full of small gifts that can elude awareness. “But when you start to write, it starts to come out. It makes me realize that I have more in my life to be happy about than I thought I did.”

For his part, Kyle, an art teacher, prefers to cultivate a thankful attitude for whatever life has in store. “I’m grateful for every day, man,” he says with a grin. “Every moment is new and exciting. There is always something good, something bigger and better coming my way, and coming everyone’s way.” 正确答案： feast 正确答案： value 正确答案： economy 正确答案： mood 正确答案： solace 正确答案： journal 正确答案： jots

正确答案： can elude awareness 正确答案： a thankful attitude 正确答案： coming my way

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes ) Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Rather than saying they would forgive that I hadn’t 21 thanked them, instead, for Pete’s sake, they were thanking me — for having remembered, for having considered they had done anything so 22 .

Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too 23 , so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.

The Reverend Nelson wrote that his 24 as a “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt. “I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome 25

that his career had been appreciated.

A glance at Grandma’s 26 handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “settin’ down” some letter to relatives. 27 , Grandma would slowly 28 one word, then the next, so that a finished page would 29 hours. I wept over the page 30 my Grandma’s recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me — whom she used to diaper!

A) sentimentalB) reassuranceC) exceptionalD) Character by character E) representingF) consumeG) sensationalH) similar I) accomplishJ) familiarK) obviouslyL) assurance M) presentingN) decadesO) previously 21.______________________ 正确答案： O

22.______________________ 正确答案： C

23.______________________ 正确答案： A

24.______________________ 正确答案： N

25.______________________ 正确答案： B

26.______________________ 正确答案： J

27.______________________ 正确答案： D

28.______________________ 正确答案： I

29.______________________ 正确答案： F

30.______________________ 正确答案： E Section B

Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice. Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

I’d heard about the feel-good benefits of a gratitude attitude. Hoping for tips, I called professor Emmons, who pioneered research on the benefits of positive thinking. Emmons quoted new studies that indicated that even pretending to be thankful raises levels of the chemicals associated with pleasure and contentment. He recommended keeping a log of everything I’m grateful for in a given week or month.

I followed his suggestions, but my first attempts at keeping a gratitude list were pretty weak: coffee, naps, caffeine in general. As my list grew, I found more uplift: freshly picked blueberries; the Beatles’ White Album; that I’m not bald.