综合英语试卷B.doc

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中央民族大学成人教育学院2007年第 二 学期
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In this part there are 5 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer.
TEXT A
1 If you are buying a property in France, whether for a permanent or a holiday home, it is important to open a French bank account. Although it is possible to exist on traveller's cheques, Eurocheques and credit cards issued by British banks, the fees for these services can be expensive. 2 The simplest way to pay regular bills, such as electricity, gas or telephone, particularly when you are not in residence, is by direct debit (a sum withdrawn from an account) from your French account.
3 To open a current account, you will need to show your passport and birth certificate and to provide your address in the United Kingdom. You will be issued with a cheque book within weeks of opening the account. In France it is illegal to be overdrawn. All accounts must be operated in credit. However, there are no bank charges.
4 Note that cheques take longer to clear in France than in Britain, and can only be stopped if stolen or lost.
5 The easiest way to transfer money from a British bank account to a French one is by bank transfer: simply provide your British bank with the name, address and number of your French bank account. The procedure takes about a week and costs between ￡5 and ￡40 for each transaction, depending on your British bank.
6 Alternatively, you can transfer money via a French bank in London. You can also send
a sterling cheque (allow at least 12 days for the cheque to be cleared), Eurocheques or traveller's cheques.
7 Finally, it is a good idea to makes friend of your French bank manager. His help can
prove invaluable.
1. If you buy a property in France, you can save money by
A. having a French bank account.
B. transferring money from Britain.
C. cashing traveller's cheques of Eurocheques.
D. using credit cards issued by British banks.
2. One advantage French banks have over British banks is that____.
A. you may take out more money than is in the account.
B. the interest rates on bank accounts are higher.
C. cheques are dealt with more rapidly.
D. you do not have to pay for services.
3. The swiftest way to send money from England to France is____.
A. to forward an English cheque to your French bank.
B. to go to a French bank in London.
C. to use a cashier's cheque.
D. to arrange a bank transfer.
4. The best title for this passage is
A. How to Open a French Bank Account.
B. The Difference between Banking in Britain and France.
C. The Way to Transfer Money from Britain to France.
D. A Guide to Banking in France.
TEXT B
PROOF AGAINST HEART ATTACKS
1. Does a drink a day keep heart attacks away? Over the past 20 years, numerous studies have found that moderate alcohol consumption -- say, one or two beers, glasses of wine or cocktails daily -- helps to prevent coronary heart disease. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine added strong new evidence in support of that theory. More important, the work provided the first solid indication of how alcohol works to protect the heart.
2 In the study, researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Havard Medical School compared the drinking habits of 340 men and women who had suffered recent heart attacks with those of healthy people of the same age and sex. The scientists found that people who sip one to three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are. The apparent source of the protection: those who drank alcohol had higher blood levels of high-density lipoproteins (脂蛋白), the so-called good cholesterol (胆固醇), which is known to repel heart disease.
3 As evidence has mounted, some doctors have begun recommending a daily drink for patients of heart diseases. But most physicians are not ready to recommend a regular happy hour for everyone. The risks of teetotalling are nothing compared with the dangers of too much alcohol, including high blood pressure, strokes and liver troubles -- not to mention violent behaviour and traffic accidents. Moreover, some studies suggest that even moderate drinking may increase the incidence of breast and colon (结肠) cancer. Until there is evidence that the benefits of a daily dose of alcohol outweigh the risks, most people won't be able to take a doctor's prescription to the neighbourhood bar or liquor store.
5. The medical article quoted in the passage demonstrates____.
A. the way in which alcohol can help the heart.
B. how a couple of cocktails daily can stop heart problems.
C. why alcoholic drinks are dangerous to one's health.
D. that reports on the advantages of alcohol were misfounded.
6. Experiments showed that nondrinkers had____.
A. larger amounts of good cholesterol.
B. smaller amounts of good cholesterol.
C. higher blood pressure.
D. lower blood pressure.
7. According to the passage, moderate drinking____.
A. is recommended by most doctors for heart patients.
B. should be allowed on prescription.
C. is still not medically advisable.
D. is not related to liver problems.
8 The main theme of this passage is____.
A. the change in recent drinking habits.
B. the connection between cancer and alcohol.
C. whether moderate drinkers outlive nondrinkers.
D. whether alcohol may be good for your health.
TEXT C
RUN, RABBITS, RUN
From Greenwich to The Mall is good sport for all
1 In its 13 years, the London Marathon has acquired a pedigree of excellence. That excellence is not just the awesome energy of the best runners and the smoothness of the organisation, but also the quality of determination shown by all the competitors, male and female able-bodied and disabled. When more than 26,000 gather at Greenwich tomorrow morning， only a few will be in the running to win the big prize money. The success of this event is that most of the athletes would be prepared to pay serious money just for the privilege of running the 26 miles 385 yards to The Mall past the most famous urban scenery in the world.
2 The London Marathon has become one of Britain's leading sports events. Since 1981, something like 45 million has been raised in individual sponsorship for charities. Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of people will line the route to cheer and to gasp in sympathetic participation. Millions will watch on television. Although they will be excited by the struggle for first place, they will also identify with the ordinary person trying to fulfil his or her physical potential. Many spectators will wonder whether next year they could complete the historic distance. That is how athletic dreams are born.
3 If the London Marathon and the growth in interest in physical fitness have transformed the lives of many adults, it is also important that children should have the opportunity to fulfil their ability in individual competitive sports.
4 Team games should be an essential ingredient of physical education in the national curriculum. However, coexisting with the playing of team games there should be an equal emphasis on the importance of individual competitive sports at all levels in schools.
5 The Government must be careful that in insisting on the value of team games in schools, it does not ignore the value of individual activities, which are practised throughout the world and form the basis of the Olympic Games. Many of the runners in the London Marathon tomorrow have found courage, fulfilment and fitness through training for the event. These are qualities that schoolchildren can, and should, acquire through a variety of demanding individual activities in physical education.
9. In order to enter the Marathon, participants must____.
A. pay an entrance fee.
B. assemble in one specific area.
C. be able to run 26 miles, 385 yards
D. compete for the right to take part
10. The main attraction of the Marathon for non-participants is____.
A. the amount of money raised for charity.
B. the chance to take part the following year.
C. witnessing the contestants' determination.
D. a concern with the race's history.
11. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Individual sports are as important as team games.
B. Individual sports are more important than team games.
C. Individual sports are less important than team games.
D. It is hard to say which is less or more important.
12. According to the writer, the Government's policy on physical education____.
A. should not promote team games at all.
B. upholds the principles of the Olympic Games.
C. is active in producing successful Marathon participants.
D. should encourage those qualities pursued by Marathon participants.
TEXT D
NO STOPPING HIM: THE FAST MAN WITH A FAST CAR
1 On the track, the form embodies power, each curve and line is moulded for speed.
2 For the man at the wheel is the fastest athlete in the world today: Linfbrd Christie. European, Commonwealth and World champion, who has just taken delivery of his new car, the latest version of the Toyota Supra.
3 It is a conspicuously fast car. The result perfectly matches Christie's own character, and shares his inability to compromise when it comes to delivering performance.
4 The Supra, priced a few pence short of ￡39,000, is rumoured to be caphble of 180 mph, but the speed is artificially limited to 155 mph. From a standing start, It can reach 60 mph in under five seconds.
5 The Supra might raise Christie's profile with the police, but if he is pulled over nowadays it is usually by an officer seeking a chat and an autograph rather than anything more official. After an incident in 1988 when he was stopped, he prosecuted the police and won ￡30,000 compensation for wrongful arrest.
6 Safety is high on the list of Supra extras with driver and passenger airbags; antilock braking; electronic traction control to avoid wheel-spin; side-impact door beams; and a steering column that collapses to protect the driver in an accident. Then there is the six- speed gearbox; cruise control; air-conditioning; alarm and immobiliser.
7 Christie, the British athletics team captain since 1990, will enjoy the comfort of the Supra during a hectic few weeks this June and July when he visits Sheffield, Wales, Gateshead, Wrexham, Edinburgh, Crystal Palace, and then Gateshead again, as his season builds towards the Commonwealth Games in August and the world Cup in September.
13. The Supra is a suitable car for Linford Christie because____.
A. it is an expensive model. B. it has high standards. C. if helps promote sports. D. it is very safe.
14. On the subject of speed, the car can travel____.
A. at a maximum Of 180 mph. B. at the same speed as the previous model.
C. at a maximum of 155 mph. D. faster than the previous model.
15. Nowadays if Christie is stopped by the police it is____.
A. because he drives very fast. B. because he is not a thoughtful driver.
C. often for informal reasons. D. due to what happened in 1988.
16. According to the writer the Supra's most outstanding feature is its____.
A. six-speed gearbox. B. alarm System:
C. air conditioning. D. safety features.
TEXT E
TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN, TO COME TO
THE AID OF THE MANGEL-WURZEL
1 I am going to mobilise public opinion sufficiently to bring to the very top of the nation's
conservation agenda the severely endangered species I have in mind, I think all I ask now, is
that the mangel-wurzel be not allowed to die out.
2 The mangel has been a great friend to the traditional British farmer. It is the easiest of crops to grow and is seemingly resistant to any disease. There is a price to be paid in that it is a delicate crop that cannot be lifted by machine or it w ill be bruised and rot, so has to be hauled by hand which is expensive. But why, just because it is a sensitive soul, should it be allowed to pass away? I have now grown five crops and each has been better than the previous one. I had high hopes that we might achieve that happy state, where the mangels were so huge it took two men to lift one. But my dreams lie shattered across the desks of the seed merchants who insist there is no mangel seed to be found.
3 Things have been on the decline for some years. A catalogue from the 1920s listed more than 30 varieties, yet the most I have ever been offered is a choice of two. This year there is no choice at all. The next question that arises is how I am going to break this to the livestock, and to the cows in particular who have done spectacularly well when winter arrived and I stopped feeding them corn and gave them mangels instead. How can I bring myself, next New Year, to offer them miserable pellets of something indescribable when they have spent the whole of the autumn looking forward to the day when their jaws will sink into that crisp, ruddy root and the sweet juices will flow?
4 The seed suppliers tell me things will be better next year but I am not certain I trust them. Our only hope now is to create a demand for mangels, make them into a fashion item, get them into Habitat. As a crop, they would be quite easy to grow in a garden and whilst not the most attractive of border plants they make wonderful wine, I am told.
5 This may all sound far-fetched, but the situation is serious and demands an urgent and imaginative response: any ideas you may have would be welcome. My Farmers' Cyclopedia of 1912 tells me that mangel-wurzel means, roughly translated from German, "root of scarcity". Let us hope that it does not live up to its name.
17. There is a severe shortage of mangel-wurzel owing to____.
A. a crop infection. B. growing difficulties.
C. production costs. D. a lack of seed.
18. In which season is mangel-wurzel fed to the animals?
A. Summer. B. Autumn. C. Winter. D. Spring.
19. The author's next move in defence of the mangel is____.
A. to rely on the seed suppliers. B. to get his cows to eat another type of crop.
C. to make it seem stylish to grow mangels. D. to introduce a new variety of mangel-wurzel.
20. The author's purpose in writing this passage