西安工程大学2011级理工本科第二学期英语A卷 - 图文

-------------------------------------------------------------- 试题A 成绩 课程名称 大学英语1 考试时间 2012 年 _ 月 _ 日_ 时___分至 时___分 √ 教 研 室 大学英语教研室 开卷 闭卷 适用专业班级 2011级 理工类本科 提前 期末 √ 班 级 姓名 学号 本次考试共120分钟，考试共分五个部分。所有答案必须答在最后一页的答题纸及机读卡上，装--------------------请写清姓名，班级，学号。 做题时，请将最后一页答题纸单独撕下。 交卷时，请将试题册和答题纸，机读卡三部分分别上交。 听力考试于考试开始三分钟后放音，频率Fm 86.5兆赫。 请于考试开始前提前试音。 订--------------------Part I Listening Comprehension (25 questions, 1 point for each, 25 points in total) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and 线the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you -------------------------------------------------------------- must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which one is the best answer. 1. A) Borrow Martin’s computer. B) Buy his own computer. C) Stay home and complete his paper. D) Save time by using a computer. 2. A) By bike B) By bus C) By car D) On foot 3. A) She wants to borrow the man’s student ID card. B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected. C) She won’t be able to get any discount for the ticket. D) The performance turned out to be disappointing. 4. A) Five minutes B) Fifteen minutes C) Twenty-five minutes D) Fifty minutes 5. A) She will do exercises at home. B) She will go picnicking with her parents. C) She will watch TV at home. D) She will help her mother do the housework. 6. A) He’s eager to watch the new play. B) He has to study for the exam. C) He is extremely interested in plays. D) He can accompany the woman to the play. 考生注意：舞弊万莫做，那样要退学，自爱当守诺，最怕错上错，若真不及格，努力下次过。

7. A) She went to the school library. B) She went to the museum. C) She went to the cinema. D) She went to visit her friends. 8. A) In the library. B) In a restaurant. C) At a bus stop. D) In the hospital. 9. A) Because it is not so comfortable. B) Because it is too fast for him to walk around. C) Because he has to get up early. D) Because it always costs hours to reach the airport. 10. A) Write to his mother. B) Read his mother’s letter. C) Stay at home and watch TV. D) Go out with the woman. 试试 Section B 题题 Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages and 1 long passage. At the end of each 共共 passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. 5 7 After you hear one question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) ,B) ,C) and D). Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. 页页 Passage One 第第 Questions 11 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1 1 11. A) Students can develop their own interests in open classrooms. B) Students will not take exams in open classrooms. 页页 C) Students are responsible for their own education in open classrooms. D) Students can enjoy learning in open classrooms. 12. A) Because they don’t know how to get used to the choices of open education. B) Because there are too many rules in open classrooms. C) Because many students worry about grades and rules. D) Because they should be responsible for their own education. 13. A) They like it. B) They don't believe in it. C) They think it is a good idea. D) They think it is a waste of time. 14. A) Teachers think the student can enjoy learning. B) Teachers think the student can develop his own interests. C) Teachers think the student can have good grades. D) Teachers think the student has many problems in a traditional school. 15. A) He thinks open education is better than traditional one. B) He thinks open education is a good idea in practice.

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C) He thinks open education is a good idea, but may not work well in practice. D) He thinks open education is a bad idea in theory. --------------------------------------------------------------Passage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6 17. A) Smile. B) Eye contact. C) Pointing finger. D) Learning backwards. 18. A) By staring. B) By peeking. C) By smiling. D) By short eye contact. 19. A) It means the speaker is nervous. B) It means the speaker is friendly. C) It means the speaker wants to emphasize something. D) It means the speaker is excited. 20. A) By making too many gestures. B) By making a direct stare. 装C) By moving our bodies towards the person we talk with. --------------------D) By moving our bodies away from the person we talk with. Passage Three Questions 21 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 订-------------------- 21. A) Newspapers. B) Books. C) Personal information. D) Magazines. 22. A) Word. B) Access. C) Powerpoint. D) Excel. 23. A) Computers help students compose papers. B) Computers help students download useful software. 线C) Computers help students search for information. -------------------------------------------------------------- D) Computers help students communicate with others. 24. A) He should take courses from other universities. B) He should take courses online. C) He should turn to professors by e-mail. D) He should turn to Microsoft Office. 25. A) With the help of computers, students won’t work hard. B) Without the help of computers, students can’t finish their education. C) Computers have both advantages and disadvantages. D) Computers can benefit the academic lives of students in many ways.

Part II Blank Filling (10 questions, 1 point for each, 10 points in total) Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten 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. Please write the corresponding letter, rather than the following word, on your answer sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. (注意：此部分试题请在 答题纸上作答，把单词对应的字母代码填写在答题纸上，不允许填写单词。) A) automatic B) driving C) motorways D) failure E) down F) taxation G) rental H) exempt I) drivers J) armed 试 K) stopped L) painted M) express N) crossings O) digital 题 共 If you've never driven in the UK before, don't plan to pick up a car at the airport and drive 7 straight onto a motorway heading for a major city. Take a train to your first out-of-town destination 页 and adjust to 26 on the left along quieter roads first. Build up your confidence on country and secondary roads, before trying high speed 27 and big city centers. 第 When renting a car in the UK, make sure to ask for an 28 transmission if you are more comfortable driving one. UK drivers usually learn to drive a standard transmission first and most 2 29 cars are manual. On motorways, the speed limit is usually 70 mph, but on country roads it 页 slows 30 to 40 or 50 mph. And once you enter a village, the speed limit is never more than 30mph --- slower limits are posted. Be careful about this because all over the UK, town centers are now 31 with speed cameras that watch the unwary (粗心的). If you see a yellow sign with a picture of a camera on it, a 32 speed camera will be watching you within about 200 yards. A zebra is a pedestrian crossing. Once a pedestrian steps off the curb onto a zebra crossing, you must stop and remain 33 until the pedestrian has finished crossing and has stepped back onto the sidewalk. Zebras consist of white stripes 34 on the road. They are further marked by stripes poles, on each end, topped with ball-shaped yellow lights. Usually, they also have spotlights aimed at the stripes on the road. Most settled areas will have one or more zebra 35 , near shops, schools, businesses and churches. Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (20 questions, 2 points for each, 40 points in total) Passage One Staying married has its benefits, especially financial, as a new US-wide study shows: the wealth of a married person is almost double that of somebody who is single. Divorce among US baby boomers reduced personal wealth by about 77 percent compared to that of --------------------------------------------------------------a single person, while the financial standing among those who remained married almost doubled, according to a nationwide study released this week. “If you really want to increase your wealth, get married and stay married. On the other hand, divorce can devastate your wealth,” said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research. Married people will see an increase in wealth that is more than just adding the assets of two single people, according to the study that was published in the Journal of Sociology. Those who remained together saw a 93 percent gain in wealth compared to that of a single person, while individuals facing divorce saw their financial situation deteriorate long before the decree became final, according to Zagorsky. The study used data from surveys taken over a 15-year period involving 9,055 Americans who were between 21 and 28 years old in 1985. Those respondents who remained single had a steady, but slow 装--------------------growth in wealth, from less than $2,000 at the start of the surveys up to an average of about $11,000 after 15 years. However, those who married and stayed that way showed a sharp increase in wealth accumulation after marriage, growing to an average $43,000 by the 10th year of marriage or by about 16 percent a year. For people who married and then divorced, there was a slow build-up of wealth during the early years of marriage and then a steadily decline about four years prior to divorce. “Many of these 订--------------------people may have separated before the divorce became official, which would help explain why wealth starts falling so early,” Zagorsky said. “Divorce is often a long and messy process, and you can see this in the four-year decline in wealth.” The study also cast doubt on a common assumption that divorce is much harder financially on 线women than on men. In fact, it showed that women suffered financially only slightly more than men. -------------------------------------------------------------- 36. According to the study, when did the divorced individuals begin to suffer from decrease in wealth? A) Three years before the divorce. B) Long before they got divorced. C) As soon as they got divorced. D) Four years after the divorce. 37. What does “respondents” in Paragraph 5 mean? A) Analysts B) Researchers C) Divorcees D) Subjects 38. Who gains the sharpest increase in wealth accumulation? A) Those who remain single B) Those who remain married C) The divorced D) It's hard to say 39. Why does wealth start falling so early for the divorced? A) Divorce is time-consuming and complicated to handle B) They may have separated before the divorce. C) Divorce is a costly process. D) Wealth may be separated because of divorce.

40. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A) It is advisable to remain single in order to accumulate more wealth B) The study shows that men financially suffered more than women. C) It is widely thought that women suffer much greater loss in wealth in divorce D) The result of the study accords with the common assumption of men’s and women’s loss in divorce. Passage Two Can you remember the first time you learned how to ride a bike or drive a car? Learning these skills changed your life forever and opened up new horizons. Learning about computers can be like 试 learning how to ride a bike or drive a car. Once you have invested the time to master the skills, you 题 共 will never go back to the old days. The new technology is simply too convenient and too powerful. Technological developments through the years have enabled us to do more with less effort. We 7 have continuously looked for better ways of doing things. Each invention and new development has 页 allowed us to extend our capabilities. Today we see one of the most dramatic technologies ever developed—the computer. It extends the capabilities of our minds. Computers have saved organizations millions of dollars. Furthermore, these same computer 第 systems have opened up new opportunities that would have gone undiscovered or neglected. The 3 computer can multiply what we can do，and the return on investment is high. The growth of computer 页 usage is surprising. On the other hand，the computer can do serious damage. Invasion of privacy，fraud (欺诈)，and computer-related mistakes are just a few shocking examples. The computer is like a double-edged sword. It has the ability to cut us free from some activities，but it can also cut deeply into profits, personal privacy, and our society in general. How it is used is not a function of the current technology. It is strictly a function of how people decide to use or misuse this new technology. The choice is yours，and only through a knowledge of computer systems will you be able to avoid the dangers while enjoying the many, many benefits of the computer age. 41. The writer thinks learning about computers is like 1earning how to ride a bike or drive a car because _____________________ . A) it is simple and practical B) it needs a lot of practice C) it leads people to new life experiences D) it takes much time to master the skills 42. The word “extend” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to A) change B) multiply C) save D) master 43. According to the passage, computers bring people the following benefits EXCEPT . A) avoiding mistakes B) saving money C) making money D) opening up opportunities 44. According to the writer, the bad effects of computers can be avoided if we . -------------------------------------------------------------- A) have sound knowledge of computer systems B) tell people not to misuse computers C) have strict rules over the use of computers D) make more investments in the technology 45. This passage is probably written for ___ . A) computer teachers B) computer producers C) computer learners D) computer programmers Passage Three As high school students flock to social networking sites, campus police are scanning their Facebook and MySpace pages for tips to help break up fights, monitor gangs and prevent crime. Some students object to police looking over their shoulders. But officers responsible for school safety say routine checks of the online forums often add to the knowledge they gather from hallways or 装schoolyards. --------------------In recent years, school administrators have blamed some campus fights on Internet conflicts and urged parents to keep watch on their children's computer activity. But students who use the Web to let their 500 closest friends know what they are doing at all times are sometimes surprised that police are watching, too. 订--------------------Police don't have special privileges on Facebook or MySpace. Students who want to go unobserved can change privacy settings so that their profiles are displayed only to a list of approved people. But the default settings leave those profiles open to many Internet users (in case of Facebook) or all of them. Employers and college admissions counselors have examined online profiles of student applicants for some time. Police across the country have been doing the same for the past two or three years, said 线-------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Quinn, a spokesman for the Minnesota-based National Association of School Resource Officers. \’re already familiar with the technology, it doesn't take you but a couple of minutes to hook into the student population and keep an eye on things,\An entrance into MySpace profiles found high school students discussing drugs, sex and fights. It was all publicly available (although in language that caused a reporter to blush). Late last month, Fairfax Country police announced the arrests of seven Chantilly area teenagers for trying to recruit Franklin Middle School students to a gang. That investigation was aided when a student showed the school resource officers gang symbols littering one of the suspects' MySpace profiles. Fairfax police say they pride themselves on the addressing issues in schools before they develop into major problems. Keeping an eye on Facebook and MySpace has become an extra tool in that effort, they said. 46. Why do campus police scan networking sites like Facebook and MySpace? A) Because the police is the only channel to get in touch with the students.

B) Because the police can know more about the youngsters through them C) Because students have fierce argument on these sites. D) Because the police may detect gang-fighting through the Internet. 47. What does the phrase “look over their shoulders”(para.2) mean? A) Limit their rights of taking freely online. B) Have an eye on what students are talking about online. C) Take good care of the students who are innocent. D) Neglect what they have found. 48. If students want to protect their privacy online, they should______________. A) change the topics of their conversation online. 试 B) organize a protest to show their dissatisfaction. 题 C) stop using the websites completely. 共 D) set up rules to allow only the approved to see their profiles. 7 49. The possibility of making the social websites helpful to the police is mostly based on the 页 _____________. A) technical support offered by the websites. B) students' casualness on the releasing information online. 第 C) insider who tip the police a lot. 4 D) the large group of users of the social websites. 页

50. What' s the main idea of the passage? A) Police are making use of the Internet to maintain good public order. B) Students should not carelessly reveal their dissatisfaction on the Internet. C) Social networking websites have bad influence on high school students. D) Parents should make use of the Internet and take control of what their children are doing online. Passage Four The frightening rise in crimes of violence throughout the country has caused more and more people to arm themselves. They buy guns to protect their homes and to carry with them for personal safety when traveling. Unfortunately，instead of safety，what the new handgun owner too often gets is personal tragedy. As I found out in my reading, a handgun does not protect the American home very well. The home handgun is far more likely to kill or injure family members and friends than anyone who breaks in, and is especially harmful to young adults and children. Because 90 percent of break-ins take place when no one is home，the handgun bought for defense is very often stolen. According to some statistics，each year about 100,000 handguns are stolen from ordinary citizens. These guns then enter the criminal underworld and are used in more