大学英语视听说教材试题.doc

Unit 1
1.A) She envies the man.
B) She congratulates the man.
C) She thinks money causes trouble.
D) She wants to borrow money from the man.
2.A) He was very angry.
B) He is still learning to drive.
C) He is helping Mary obtain a driver's license.
D) He has a driver's license.
3.A) She will regret her decision.
B) She does not think much of her boyfriend.
C) She will wait for the right time to get married.
D) She still wants to marry the guy.
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4.A) The woman has not overcome her grief.
B) The woman has returned to normal.
C) The man's mother has died.
D) The woman is comforting the man.
5.A) She needs more fresh air in the room.
B) She can't make her voice heard in the noisy room.
C) She has to work too hard.
D) Nobody is listening to her opinions.
Soft answers turn away wrath.

1.  
A) A stain on a new dress.
B) A woman's desire for money.
C) Pleasure changed into rage.
D) Fury turned into delight.
2.
A) The man has spilled wine on her dress.
B) The man is rude to her.
C) The man refuses to apologize.
D) She doesn't know the man.
3.
A) She looks like one of his friends.
B) She looks very young.
C) She looks attractive.
D) She looks like a child.
4.
A) He asks her to hand over her dress immediately.
B) He offers to take her home to change the clothes and get her dress cleaned.
C) He pays the woman immediately.
D) He takes her home to give her a new dress.
5.
A) To buy her a fashionable dress.
B) To buy her a brand-name dress.
C) To have dinner with the woman.
D) To exchange phone numbers with the woman.
Big John is coming!
A bar owner in the Old West has just hired a timid bartender. This (S1) owner of the establishment is giving his new hire some instructions on (S2) running the place. He tells the timid man “If you ever hear that Big John is coming to town, (S3) drop everything and run for the hills! He’s the biggest, nastiest (S4) outlaw who’s ever lived!”
A few weeks pass (S5) uneventfully. But one afternoon, a local cowhand comes running through town (S6) yelling, “Big John is coming! Run for your (S7) lives!”
When the bartender leaves the bar to start running, he is knocked to the ground by several townspeople rushing out of town. (S8) As he’s picking himself up, he sees a large man, almost seven feet tall. He’s muscular, and is growing as he approaches the bar.
He steps up to the door, orders the poor barkeep inside, and demands, “I want a beer NOW!”
He strikes his heavy fist on the bar, splitting it in half. (S9) The bartender nervously hands the big man a beer, hands shaking. He takes the beer, bites the top of the bottle off, and downs the beer in one gulp.
As the terrified bartender hides behind the bar, the big man gets up to leave, “Do you want another beer?” the bartender asks in a trembling voice.
“Dang it, I don’t have time!” the big man yells, (S10) “I got to get out of town! Don’t you hear Big John is coming?”
A View of Happiness

1.
A) To illustrate their great attracting force.
B) To illustrate how to place the positive and negative poles.
C) To illustrate the difference between animals and inanimate objects.
D) To illustrate a state of happiness.
2.
A) They will need water.
B) They will need a rest.
C) They will want more food in the future.
D) They do not want any more food.
3.  
A) Learning happiness can take place only with conscious efforts.
B) Learning happiness can take place subconsciously.
C) Only animals with a great ability to learn can experience happiness.
D) Only human beings can experience happiness.
4.
A) They are balanced by two poles of magnets.
B) They satisfy animals with water and food.
C) They are blessed.
D) They are not limited to short-term satisfaction.
5.
A) Happiness is a state of balance.
B) Happiness arises from physical satisfaction.
C) The difference between animal and human satisfaction.
D) Long-term goals versus short-term goal
Reason and Emotion
1.
A) Something you may regret later.
B) Something you desire.
C) An emotional response from the audience.
D) Logical argument by the audience.
2.  
A) They complement each other.
B) They contradict each other.
C) Emotion is more important.
D) Reason is more important.
3.
A) Cold attitude to other people.
B) Feeling cold when criticized.
C) Using only intellectual logic.
D) Combining logic with feeling.
4.  
A) They should accept everything in their religion.
B) They should reject anything in a different religion.
C) They should adopt a balanced approach.
D) They should place human feelings above logical argument.
5.
A) Most decisions are based on emotion.
B) Most decisions are based on reason.
C) It is not easy to combine reason with emotion.
D) In most decisions there is no clear distinction between reason and emotion.
Depression
1. The problem with the man is that he failed in the last exam and does not know how to deal with the next exam.
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2. The woman advises the man to work harder though she is not yet sure if he can get better marks.
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3. After working for just half an hour the man begins to get a little bored.
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4. The woman advises the man to look at the bright side of the issue to stay in high spirits.
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5. Finally the man decides to take the woman's advice.
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Unit 2
1.A) She had modeling experience.
B) She had practiced a lot.
C) She paid high fees.
D) She complained to the right person.
2.A) The man speaks favorably of it, and the woman speaks unfavorably.
B) The woman speaks favorably of it, and the man speaks unfavorably.
C) Both the man and the woman speak favorably of it.
D) Neither the man nor the woman speaks favorably of it.
3.A) Only vegetables and fruit.
B) A lot of fish and meat.
C) New diets.
D) Traditional diets.
4.A) She is a blonde.
B) She envies a blonde's white skin.
C) She looks dark and unattractive.
D) She looks brown and attractive.
5.A) Business.
B) Vanity.
C) A stronger body.
D) Slimming.
A Friendly Stylist

1.
A) It's quite cheap.
B) It's reasonably expensive.
C) It's far too expensive.
D) He can't afford it unless he robs somebody.
2.
A) There is an imbalance between him and his hairstyle.
B) It is a work of art.
C) It is an imaginative style.
D) It needs disjunction.
3.
A) Create peaks.
B) Create a pigtail.
C) Put in streaks.
D) All of the above.
4.
A) It will make it a disjunction.
B) It will make it a work of art.
C) It will make it look like a foreigner's hairstyle.
D) It will make it look like the skin of a tiger.
5.
A) How a customer is tricked.
B) How a customer gets a good service.
C) How to create a work of art.
D) How to avoid disjunction.
The Voice Lift
After the face-lift, the forehead tightened, and the (S1) nose job, something still might be revealing your age: your (S2) voice.
For patients who think their trembly, hoarse words don’t (S3) match their newly face and figure, there’s a procedure that claims to make them (S4) sound younger too: the voice lift.
There are two general kinds of voice lifts. In some cases, implants (S5) inserted through an incision in the (S6) neck bring the vocal cords closer together. Doctors also use injections of (S7) fat or other substances to plump up the cords, so that the voice sounds younger.
(S8) The voice lift is becoming more widely known among an aging population, who try to make themselves sound younger.
“I speak in a great deal, or I was shouting, on a particular day, at the end of the day, I would feel exhausted,” said Robert Brown, 75, (S9) a retired construction engineer who underwent the voice lift several years ago, “I don’t know if I sound younger, but the hoarseness is gone, which is such a great improvement.”
(S10) Voice lift can also benefit people like performers, lawyers, teachers, and telephone operators who need to have a strong voice and hope to shave years off the sound of their voice.
Plastic Surgeries for Men

1.
A) Men's use rose 44 percent and women's use fell 57 percent.
B) Men's use rose 44 percent and women's use rose 57 percent.
C) Men's use rose 47 percent and women's use fell 36 percent.
D) Men's use rose 47 percent and women's use rose 36 percent.
2.
A) The number of men rose while that of women fell.
B) The number of women rose while that of men fell.
C) The numbers of both men and women rose.
D) The numbers of both men and women fell.
3.
A) 44 percent.
B) 13 percent.
C) 47 percent.
D) 54 percent.
4.
A) Women's use rose 6 percent while men's use fell 40 percent.
B) Women's use rose 60 percent while men's use fell 14 percent.
C) Men's use rose 6 percent while women's use fell 40 percent.
D) Women's use rose 60 percent while men's use rose 14 percent.
5.
A) Methods of cosmetic surgery.
B) Cosmetic surgery for both good appearance and job hunting.
C) More men than women are having cosmetic surgery this year.
D) Cosmetic surgery is catching on with men.
Beauty Contests and Plastic Surgeries
1.
A) 23.
B) 19.
C) 14.
D) 4.
2.
A) More people have become taller.
B) More people like to watch beauty contests.
C) It is easier to achieve the ideal measurements.
D) It is easier to make more money.
3.
A) Plastic surgery.
B) Colored contact lenses.
C) Hair dye.
D) All of the above.
4.
A) Brazil.
B) Venezuela.
C) America.
D) France.
5.
A) Finding a better man.
B) Finding a modeling job.
C) Becoming a beauty queen
D) Advertising beauty tools.
Is it true beauty?
1. When the woman says that Camilla must put makeup on with a spoon, she means Camilla uses makeup sparingly.
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2. The woman speaker believes that natural materials can bring one's beauty out.
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3. The woman speaker believes cucumbers will make one's skin rough.
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4. The man suggests the woman write a book on beauty secrets.
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5. The woman is serious when she recommends the man to put cucumber slices on his bald spot.
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Unit 3
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B) Moderate damage.
C) Small loss of lives.
D) No loss of lives.
2.A) Traveling to India.
B) Looking at a landslide.
C) Sending an e-mail to the man.
D) Waiting for the woman's e-mail.
3.A) She is on a holiday in Asia.
B) She is coming back from a holiday.
C) She is staying home.
D) She can't come back due to a flood.
4.A) It delayed the flight by 20 hours.
B) It made a mess of part of the city.
C) It hurt a lot of people.
D) It influenced Tokyo.
5.A) Destructive.
B) Beautiful.
C) Both A) and B).
D) Safe.
Is tsunami delicious?

1. A) A giant ocean wave.
B) A kind of food.
C) A bus.
D) A Japanese person.
2. A) There will be an eastward ocean current.
B) There will be a westward ocean current.
C) They would be swallowed up by the ocean waves.
D) They would be able to eat fish.
3. A) Cool.
B) Calm.
C) Dangerous.
D) Frightening.
4. A) An earthquake.
B) A volcano.
C) A landslide.
D) A warm current.
5. A) Several meters.
B) About a dozen meters.
C) Dozens of meters.
D) Over 100 meters.
Flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The death too continues to (S1) climb from last week’s flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The U.S. Agency for International Development (S2) reports that at least1,068 people are dead, 1,600 are (S3) missing, and 25,000 are in need of emergency food and other forms of (S4)assistance. In Dominican Republic, 414 are dead and 274 are missing, all from the town of Jimani.
A key(S5) factor in the widespread destruction is the extensive deforestation and the (S6) presence of settlements along the floodplains of rivers.
The flooding was driven by intense rainfall. A low-pressure system (S7) originating in Central America brought exceptionally heavy rain and thunderstorms to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from May 18 t o25. (S8) Rainfall exceeded 500 mm (or 19.7 inches) along the border areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic during that period. At the town of Jimani, Dominican Republic, 250mm (or 10 inches) of rain fell in just 24 hours, causing the Solie River to overflow its banks from May24 to 25.The heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding and extensive debris flowed over the entire region. Swollen rivers and debris cut off many of the roads traversing the area along the base of the mountains. (S9) This made it difficult for humanitarian relief worker to rescue stranded people and deliver badly. Now people want to know: How often do floods and related landmass movement also caused landsides in a few places.
(S10)Analysis of the past date shows that major floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti are now a near-annual event. Since 1986, twelve lethal events have occurred on the island.
A Blizzard

1. A) The definitions of blizzards.
B) The disasters caused by blizzards.
C) The amount of snow brought by blizzards.
D) The strong winds caused by blizzards.
2. A) One can't see anything beyond a mile.
B) One can't see anything beyond a quarter of a mile.
C) The wind blows at a speed of 23 miles per hour.
D) The wind blows at a speed of 31 miles per hour.
3. A) Visibility is decreased to 2 kilometers.
B) Visibility is decreased to 1.5 kilometers.
C) The wind blows at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour.
D) The wind blows at a speed of 32 kilometers per hour.
4. A) A blizzard blowing over a piece of land.
B) A blizzard hitting a plain.
C) When the snow has stopped falling, the visibility increases and wind force decreases.
D) When the snow has stopped falling, the visibility and wind force remain.
5. A) Winter storm -- whiteout -- blizzard.
B) Whiteout -- winter storm -- blizzard.
C) Winter storm -- blizzard -- whiteout.
D) Blizzard -- winter storm -- whiteout.
Description of a Tsunami
1. A) They were swept two kilometers inland.
B) They struggled to their feet.
C) They swam towards their cars.
D) They ran back to their hotels.
2. A) People ran to higher places.
B) Bodies hung from trees.
C) Local people picked up stranded fish.
D) Tourists picked up stranded fish.
3. A) Several hundred.
B) More than 1,000.
C) Almost 100,000.
D) More than 140,000.
4. A) Insurance is claimed.
B) Dead bodies are buried.
C) External help is requested
D) Disease spreads.
5. A) The destruction caused by a tsunami.
B) The causes of a tsunami.
C) The nature of a tsunami.
D) The relationship between earthquake and tsunami.
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Drought in South Africa
1. The water levels at some dams have dropped to under 20% while the ground water table has dropped by 30%.
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2. The government has to open the dams to provide more water for the people.
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3. Water for farming must be restricted because people's daily use of water cannot be reduced.
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4. Maize farmers have to wait for one week to plant their crops.
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