四川农业大学《大学英语（Ⅲ）—英语应用文写作》2024-2025学年第一学期期末试卷.doc

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四川农业大学《大学英语（Ⅲ）—英语应用文写作》2024-2025学年第一学期期末试卷
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第一部分 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1、Those   have six or more close friends are described as "very happy".
A．whose B．who
C．which D．when

2、At school, it is essential that every child ______ equally regardless of family background.
A．treating B．treated C．be treated D．is treated

3、The creation can keep people away from their smart phones in a way similar to ________ e﹣cigarettes have allowed people to quit smoking．
A．that B．how
C．which D．what

4、When in trouble，remember to stay calm，and everything will well．
A．turn back B．turn up C．turn down D．turn out

5、To make extra-class education run on the right track, China is tightening _____ of after-school training institutions.
A．application B．regulation
C．adaptation D．cooperation

6、As you can see, the number of cars on our roads ________ rising these days.
A．was keeping B．keep
C．keeps D．were keeping

7、The world is not always ______we wish it to be.
A．that B．which
C．what D．where

8、If we use the new recycling method, a large number of trees .
A．are saved B．will save C．will be saved D．have saved

9、(2015·北京)___________the early flight, we ordered a taxi in advance and got up very early.
A．Catching B．Caught
C．To catch D．Catch

10、—He is eager to try something he has never tried before.
—Oh, I see. That’s _______ he’s different from others.
A．when B．where C．how D．what

第二部分 阅读理解（满分20分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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What does Thanksgiving mean to you? I hear one boy say, “It means a big dinner.” I think we all agree with him. Who does not welcome and enjoy a good dinner! I hear Mary say, “Thanksgiving means a day off from school.” I guess you are right too. School is not such a charming place that girls and boys are unwilling to have an occasional holiday.
Now I am going to ask some of the older people what the day means to them. There is a young woman. She is a stenographer (速记员). She says, “Thanksgiving means a day away from the office. I am at the office every day except Sunday, and I do appreciate, now and then, a day that is really my own.” Yonder is a traveling salesman. What does Thanksgiving mean to you? He says, “It means a day at home. Last year I spent one hundred and sixty-nine nights away from home. I have three children. I should like to see them every day. There are times when many days pass and I do not see them. Thanksgiving week I plan to be at home.”
There are others I could ask. Each has his answer. But Thanksgiving has a special meaning for us. It is the Harvest time. I have here an apple. Isn’t this a beautiful apple? What color! Who mixed the paints, who handled the brush to give such color to this apple? God. He, in his infinite love and wisdom, has provided, through the unfailing laws of nature, for the growth, sweetness, coloring and beautifying of all the products of the fields. This apple is but one of many kinds of fruits.
Praise, then, is the great meaning of Thanksgiving. God, our heavenly Father, sends us every good gift. From his generous hand come our daily and nightly mercies. We should praise him every day. But the day for the united chorus of praise is Thanksgiving.
1、The first two paragraphs want to tell us .
A．people have different ways to celebrate Thanksgiving
B．Thanksgiving has a different meaning for different people
C．how people celebrate their Thanksgiving
D．what Thanksgiving really means to most people
2、If the writer continued to ask an orphan what Thanksgiving means to him, he would most probably say, “It means ”.
A．a longer holiday at home
B．a delicious dinner with his friends
C．a beautiful song from a famous singer
D．a good day together with his parents
3、In the writer’s opinion, on Thanksgiving everyone should feel .
A．grateful for what they have
B．satisfied with what God gave us
C．amazed at how perfect an apple is
D．excited about how differently Thanksgiving means

B
Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was then known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphase（s重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.
Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed.
This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mum’s voice.
More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s developers, thinks systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.
Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sample belonged to a person whose real speech they had just listened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cloned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than chance). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert witness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous potential value for disinformation”.
As might be expected, countermeasures to recognize such deception （ 欺 骗 ） are being developed.
Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms（算法） that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where slices of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-editing software suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technology may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a world which makes it easy to put authentic-sounding words into the mouths of opponents — be they colleagues or heads of state.
1、Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about .
A．significant elements influencing voice cloning
B．possible applications of voice cloning in reality
C．complexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voice
D．differences between traditional and existing voice banking
2、What’s Hasbro’s attitude towards Vivo Test’s new app?
A．Optimistic. B．Conservative.
C．Unconcerned. D．Subjective.
3、The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleagues shows that volunteers .
A．identified cloned speech in about 45 seconds
B．preferred a real speech to a voice sample
C．proved only a little harder to fool than software
D．found it hard to use the software to record their voices
4、What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．Investments should be increased to advance voice cloning.
B．Long-term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voice cloning.
C．Disagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cloning are getting serious.
D．Problems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the efforts that have been made.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．
One Bite at a Time
Stephen was on campus to register when I first met him.
One summer day 1 I was heading for the administration building, I heard someone call my name. I 2 around and saw Philip, one of my colleagues standing with another young man. As Philip introduced me to the young man, named Stephen, he reminded him that he would be taking one of my 3 , Introduction to Literature. With a somewhat 4 expression, Stephen asked if my class was going to be "hard". Would he be able to pass? I 5 he was concerned about failing before the 6 day of classes. We talked about what the class would 7 and I saw Stephen's eyes getting big with 8 .
Then I remembered a bit of classical dialog:
Question: "How do you eat an elephant?"
Answer: "One bite at a time."
I told him to 9 his work that way. To do his assignment, all of them, and to get them in on time. I added that most 10 students I knew made a timetable of all the assignment so they could 11 their workload.
As time went on, I learned more of Stephen's story. He had 12 in middle school. It had taken him longer to finish than most young people. Family members, including his mother, kept reminding him that he was a 13 . Now, in the face of their negative-saying he had been admitted into college. He told me that before coming to our campus no one had believed he had much 14 .
Stephen didn't become an "A" student. He didn't make any honor rolls. Still, he managed to 15 most of his courses by being in class every day, turning in all of his assignment on time and breaking down his studying into 16 digestible parts. By passing course after course he began to gain a measure of self-respect. He was a great singer and he was 17 the school's cross-country team.
Every time I saw him on campus, he would brighten up and say, "One bite at a time." Whenever he introduced me to his friends, he would tell them that he was 18 when he was supposed to be failing. His 19 , he said, was that he was 20 what I taught him before classes ever started: "Take it one bite at a time."
1、A．after B．when C．until D．once
2、A．turned B．sat C．moved D．went
3、A．jobs B．tests C．classes D．projects
4、A．innocent B．angry C．inspired D．pained
5、A．sensed B．imagined C．heard D．admitted
6、A．gathering B．parting C．closing D．opening
7、A．change B．adjust C．cover D．produce
8、A．interest B．anger C．fear D．excitement
9、A．avoid B．continue C．present D．approach
10、A．quiet B．optimistic C．energetic D．successful
11、A．plan B．increase C．reduce D．measure
12、A．fitted B．hesitated C．struggled D．progressed
13、A．cheat B．failure C．winner D．leader
14、A．experience B．information C．potential D．honor
15、A．pass B．begin C．take D．design
16、A．full-sized B．bite-sized C．pocket-sized D．medium-sized
17、A．for B．on C．at D．of
18、A．changing B．recovering C．concentrating D．succeeding
19、A．secret B．skill C．reply D．theory
20、A．spreading B．considering C．practicing D．expressing

第二节（每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Hoh Xil or Kekexili is the world’s third 1． (large) uninhabited (无人居住的) area Many examples of wildlife can 2． (find) in the remote area of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau The view of mountains, glaciers and lakes here 3． (make) it a good place in terms of natural beauty
At the 41st session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee 4． (hold) in Poland, Hoh Xil was approved5．a new world heritage site, becoming the 51st world heritage site in China It is home to more than 230 species of wildlife,6． (include) the endangered Tibetan antelope The illegal hunting of Tibet antelope used to be 7． serious problem in the 1990s The wool of Tibetan antelopes, soft and warm, can be obtained without hurting the animals But poachers (盗猎者) would choose simply8． (kill) them before taking the wool,9． caused the number of Tibetan antelopes to drop rapidly The struggle to stop illegal hunting was described in the 2004 film Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
Now that Hoh Xil has made it onto the UNESCO list, it’s believed that the 10． (protect) of the region’s wild animals and special ecosystem will be more effective

第四部分 写作（共两节）第一节 短文改错（满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
When taking a test,you may feel shaky,sweaty,with your heart beat quickly、It means you get test anxiety、Actually,test anxiety is the type of performance anxiety、You feel worrying about how you can perform well and focus with some bad things that may happen、Test anxiety create more pressure on you,that may prevent you from doing your best、But test anxiety can overcome、The following method can help deal with test anxiety and let you to gain a perfect score、First,make full preparations for the test and think positive、Then,learn some breathing exercises to help calm yourself down、

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
你班英语课上以“I Have A Dream”为题进行“说”的练习，请你写一份讲稿，内容包括：
1．你的梦想是什么；
2．你为何有此梦想；
3．你如何实现梦想。
注意：
1．词数不少于50；
2．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Hello, everybody! __________________________________________________________________________
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Thank you.

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