《新视野大学英语1》期末试卷A2.doc

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2011级《新视野大学英语Ⅰ》期末考试试卷（A）
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2、考试时间120分钟。
3、考试方式：闭卷
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一、Listening Comprehension (15%) 15题（每小题1分，共15分）

Section A
Directions：In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken ONLY ONCE. After each question there will be a pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the BEST answer. Then write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. A. 6:28 bus. B. 6:18 bus. C. 6:38 bus. D.4:28 bus.
2. A. Sue and Sharon. B. Sue and Mary C. Sharon. D. Mary.
3. A. $4.00. B. $5.00. C. $1.00. D. $9.00.
4. A. Peter’s. B.Hers. C. Tom’s. D.The man’s.
5. A. At a church. B. At a library. C. In England. D. At a theatre.
6. A. He arrived at the subway station late.
B. The subway is not on time.
C. The subway is left an hour ago.
D. The woman kept him from boarding the subway.
7. A. It will probably rain. B. It will probably be foggy.
C. It will probably not rain. D. It will probably be cold.
8. A. Take four pills. B. Hesitate to take any pills.
C. Take the doctor’s advice. D. Take eight pills.
9 A. He should sit in the smoking section.
B. He should ask the stewardess for help.
C. He should move to another part of the plane.
D. He should put out his cigarette at once.
10. A. It’s easy
. B. It is unreasonable because there are too many multiple choices..
C. The woman didn’t like it.
D. It was too difficult to comprehend.

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. Then listen to the passage again. 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 heard.
Getting attention and making an 11 is not an event — it’s a course of action. You are part of it and the person through whom the message is sent. So getting attention means 12 both your mind and body.
The person who makes the greatest 13 is usually someone who is most himself or herself. Children and animals are always 14 themselves. Being just themselves they seldom send “mixed messages”. Mixed messages make an 15 feel unsafe — as if they can’t quite believe their eyes or ears.

二、Reading Comprehension (40%) 20题（每小题2分，共40分）
Directions: There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose ONE best answer. Then write your answers on the Answer Sheet .

Passage 1
The word horsepower(马力) was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world’s first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power.
Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.
He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.
Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine.

16. The selection says that Watt made the first _____.
A. steam engine B. widely used steam engine
C. engine D. useful engine
17. Watt wanted to find a way to _____.
A. measure the work his engine could do
B. tell people how powerful his engine was
C. lift a 3300-pound weight
D. Both A and B
18. He made up a unit of measurement based on the strength of _____.
A. a man B. a horse C. ten horses D. his engine
19. One horsepower would equal the _____.
A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could lift
C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse.
20. The best title for this selection is _____.
A. Watt’s Engine B. The Origin of the Term Horsepower
C. Units of Measurement D. It Happened 200 Years Ago

Passage 2
Greenwich is on the River Thames, five miles from the middle of London, and its history is two thousand years old. The first English people were fishermen there, and they named the place Greenwich, meaning “green village”. Later the English kings and queens lived at Greenwich in their beautiful palaces.
The name of the earliest palace was Placentia. Its windows were made of glass — the first in England. Henry VIII lived there. He knew that England must be strong at sea. So he started two big ship yards (造船所) at Greenwich, and for 350 years the ships which were made there were the best in the world.
But trouble was coming to Greenwich. In 1649, a war started in England and for eleven years there was no king. The men who had worked for him at Placentia decided to live in the place themselves. They sold all its beautiful things, and bought small pieces of the palace garden with money. Finally, the war ended and King Charles II came back. But Placentia was falling down. So King Charles built a new and bigger palace, which is now open to the public.
At this time, Charles was worried about losing so many of its ships at sea — their sailors did not know how to tell exactly where they were. So in 1675, Charles made John Flamsteed, the first astronomer in England, try to find the answer. Flamsteed worked in a new building on the high ground in Greenwich Park. From it, with a telescope which he made himself, Flamsteed could look all round the sky. And he did, night after night, for twenty years. Carrying on Flamsteed’s work a hundred years later, an astronomer called Harrison finally made a clock which told the time at sea, and helped sailors to know where they were. You can see Harrison’s clock, still working, in Greenwich’s museum of the sea. Because of Flamsteed’s work, every country in the world now tells its time by Greenwich Time.

21. The first English people living in the “green village” were ________.
A. sailors B. fisherman
C. King Charles and his family D. the families of kings and queens
22. Placentia was ________ palace in Greenwich.
A. the biggest. B. the smallest.
C. the earliest. D. the latest.
23. What kind of trouble happened to Greenwich in 1649?
A. A war started in England. B. Placentia was destroyed.
C. Shipyards were built. D. King Henry died.
24. Charles made John Flamsteed try to find ________.
A. how to tell the time
B. how to build ships
C. a way for sailors to tell their position at sea
D. a place to set up a telescope
25. Who made the first clock which could tell the time at sea?
A. Harrison. B. Flamsteed. C. Henry. D. Charles.

Passage 3
To help ourselves and others, it is important to know something about drugs. A drug is a chemical substance. It can bring about a physical, emotional, or mental change in people. Alcohol and tobacco are drugs. The caffeine found in coffee, tea, and some soft drinks is a drug.
Drug abuse (滥用) is the use of a drug, legal or illegal, that hurts a person or someone close to him. A drug user is the person who takes the drug. There are many kinds of drug users. There are experimental users. These users take drugs all the time. But they are often able to keep up with the normal routine of work, school, housework, and so on. Dependent users can’t relate to anything but drugs. Their whole life centers around drugs. They feel extreme mental or physical pain when without drugs.
All drugs can be harmful. The effect of any drug depends on a lot of things. How a drug acts depends on how much or how often it is taken. It depends on the way it is taken. Some drugs are smoked. Others swallowed or injected. Drugs act differently on different people. The place and the people around you affect the way a drug works.
Sometimes people take more than one drug. Multiple drug use is not only common, but also harmful. A deadly example is the use of alcohol and sleeping pills at the same time. Together these drugs can stop normal breathing and lead to death.
It is not always easy to tell if someone is using drugs. In the early stages, drug use is often hard to see. Sometimes people like drugs or need drugs so much that they can’t do without them. They are dependent upon drugs. Only a few kinds of drugs, like narcotics (麻醉剂), can cause physical dependence. But almost any drug, when it is misused, can make a person think he needs it all the time. By this time it is too late and the person is “hooked”.
Tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana (大麻) are three common drugs. These three are called the “gateway drugs”. They are the first ones most people use and become dependent on.

26. The term “drugs” in the passage refers to ________.
A. a medicine B. a chemical C. narcotics D. alcohol
27. How many kinds of drug users are named in the second paragraph?
A. Numerous. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
28. The writer makes this passage clear by using ________.
A. deductions B. numbers C. facts D. reasons
29. The passage hints that drug abuse can result in ________.
A. hair loss B. physical pain C. sleeping pain D. mental faint
30. What is the main idea of the article?
A. Drug abuse is on the rise in America.
B. It is necessary to make people aware of something about drugs.
C. The use of drugs should be made illegal.
D. Most people are dependent on drugs.

Passage 4
Until the twentieth century cigarettes smoking was not a widespread habit. The cigarette industry started in the 1870’s with the development of the cigarette manufacturing machines. It helped produce great numbers of cigarettes very quickly and reduced the price greatly. And consequently more and more people, both men and women, began to smoke cigarettes. Men as a group, however, smoke more than women. But the highest proportion of smokers is found in the age group of 24 - 44, regardless of sex difference.
Income, education, and occupation all play a part in determining a person’s smoking habits. City people smoke more than people living on farms. Well-educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer years of schooling and lower incomes. 0n the other hand, if a well-educated man with a higher income smokes at all, he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.
The situation is somewhat different for women. There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family incomes and higher education than among the lower income and lower education groups. These more highly educated women tend to smoke more heavily.
Among teenagers the picture is similar. There are fewer teenaged smokers from upper-income, well-educated families, and fewer from families living in farm areas- High school students who are preparing for college are less likely to smoke than those who do not plan to continue their education after high school. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both their parents smoke.

31. When did cigarettes smoking begin to become a widespread habit among men and women according to the author?
A. Before 1870’s.
B. In the year of 1870.
C. When cigarettes were made in large numbers.
D. When women began to smoke cigarettes.
32. Among which group of people are you likely to find the highest proportion of cigarettes smokers according to the passage?
A. Teenagers. B. People in their thirties.
C. People over fifty. D. Students under twenty.
33. Which of the following has little to do with a person’s smoking habit?
A. How much money he earns. B. What kind of job he does.
C. How much education he has got. D. How long he has worked.
34. Which is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Well-paid men with good education are more likely to smoke.
B. Women with high family income and good education are more likely to smoke.
C. Generally speaking, well-educated women with higher income smoke very few cigarettes.
D. well-educated men usually smoke more packs of cigarettes than well-educated women.
35. What does the author mean by writing “among teenagers the picture is similar” in the last paragraph?
A. Teenagers smoke as many cigarettes as adult.
B. There are as many teenager smokers as adult smokers.
C. Family income and education have much the same effect on forming habits among teenagers.
D. Teenager smokers have a picture that looks similar to that of adult smokers.

三、Vocabulary and Structure (15%) 30题（每小题0.5分，共15分）
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

36. John ________ to be a polite man. But in fact he is very rude.
A. pretends B. assures C. affords D. melts
37. John is ________ these days, so we cannot count on him.
A. leave on B. on leave C. leave for D. for leave
38. The people living in these apartments have free ________ to that swimming pool.
A. access B. excess C. excursion D. recreation
39. Animals can become unusually ________ when they are upset by a sudden environmental change.
A. puzzled B. predominant C. vigorous D. aggressive
40. Many difficulties have ________ as a result of the change over to a new type of fuel.
A. risen B. arisen C. raised D. arrived
41. There were no tickets ________ for Friday’s performance.
A. preferable B. considerable C. possible D. available
42. It’s surprising that this innocent-looking person should have ________ such a crime.
A. acted B. committed C. made D. performed
43. The price of beer ________ from 50 cents to $4 per liter during the summer season.
A. alter B. ranged C. separated D. differed
44. Mary was fresh from university and therefore ________ experience.
A. is lacking B. lacks of C. lacks in D. is short of
45. When you fill in the application form, please use your ________ address so that we can contact you easily later.
A. policy B. plain C. permanent D. principal
46. The doctor’s ________ is that he’s just got a bad cold.
A. treatment B. diagnosis C. judgment D. diagnose
47. It is essential that these application forms ________ back as early as possible.
A. must be sent