Integrated Skills of English
TEST 17
(ANSWER SHEET)
For multiple choices from Part I to Part II
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PART III TRANSLATION
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PART IV. COMPOSITION WRITING
2008级英语本科 综合英语2 试卷(甲)
PART I VOCABULARY & STRUCTURE (30%)
There are 30 incomplete sentences or complete sentences with an underlined part in it. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence or replace the underlined part. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
1.All ____ should be done has been done.
A. what B. which C. that D. whatever
2.I, ____ your best friend, will try my best to help you.
A. who is B. who am C. that is D. which am
3.Can you lend me the book ______ the other day?
A. you talked about it B. that you talked
C. about that you talked D. you talked about
4.The two old friends talked about the persons and places _____ impressed them most.
A. which B. who C. where D. that
5.The very thing _____ brought about a complete change in her life was the liberation.
A. which B. that C. who D. when
6.The way _____ you are doing it is complete crazy.
A. in which B. by which C. on which D. at which
7.I still remember the summer _____ we had the drought.
A. which B. why C. where D. when
8. China is not the same country ______ it was 20 years ago.
A. that B. as C. which D. when
9. Tom told the teacher the reason ______ he was late again.
A. that B. for why C. for that D. for which
10. He has two sons, and _____ are college students.
A. both of which B. both of whom C. both of them D. both of who
11. He still lives in the room ______ is in the north of the city, and ______ there is a beautiful garden.
A. which…where B. where… where C. where… which D. of which… which
12. I will never forget the days ______ we spent together.
A. that B. on when C. when D. on which
13. Galileo collected facts _____ the earth and all the other planets move around the sun.
A. that B. which C. \ D. A and B
14. It was in 1969 _____ two Americans got to the moon by spaceship.
A. which B. when C. that D. as
15. _____ who leave the room last ought to turn off the lights.
A. Anyone B. Who C. Those D. Whoever
16. The doctor, _____ help the engineer managed to invent a new instrument, was praised.
A. that B. with whose C. who D. whom
17. I want to buy the same watch ______ you are wearing.
A. as B. that C. which D. who
18. I’d like to propose that students _____ more time for independent study.
A. be allowed B. are allowed
C. were allowed D. allowed
19. His pale face suggests that he _____ from some kind of disease.
A. suffer B. is suffering
C. be suffered D. should suffer
20. Sam’s new apartment is in a _____ building in the downtown area.
A. twelfth story B. twelve story C. twelve-stories D. twelve-story
21. The “unsinkable” passenger liner Titanic sank on her maiden _____ when she struck an iceberg in the Atlantic.
A. trip B. tour C. journey D. voyage
22. Try to avoid using clichés when you are making a speech or your audience will lose interest in it.
A. stereotyped plate B. curse C. officialdom D. euphemism
23. I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen.
A. disobeying God’s commandments B. an offense against God
C. an offense against moral principles D. offense for which there is severe punishment by law
24. She is not likely to come to the party in this rain as she lives miles away from here.
A. doesn’t like to B. is unwilling to
C. probably will not to D. is reluctant to
25. When a book-lover enters a bookshop, he will soon be absorbed in some book or other, totally unaware of his surroundings.
A. be engrossed in B. take in C. assimilate D. ingest
26. Now an ordinary piece of light fiction, say, Gone With the Wind, doesn’t require the most active kind of reading.
A. not heavy B. not dark C. primarily for amusement D. serious
27. The number of unemployment dropped dramatically.
A. slightly B. impressively C. lightly D. tenderly
28. Space and possessions are _______ ------ parents have little liberty in the rooms of the children, and children cannot do what they want in their parents’ domain.
A. separated B. isolated C. divided D. individualized
29. To our great astonishment, our football team has won a(n) _______ victory instead of a marginal one.
A. major B. superb C. overwhelming D. exciting
30. My sister met him at he Grand Theater yesterday afternoon, so he ________ your lecture.
A. couldn’t have attend B. mustn’t have attend
C. shouldn’t have attend D. wouldn’t have attend
PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30%)
A: In this section there are four passages followed by 20 questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (20%)
Passage A
Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work, they can give a simple, direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I fix sick people” or “I teach primary school”. As a theoretical physicist, I never had this luck. Society has come to expect many things from the physicists. It used to be that we only had to discover the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques that would power the next Silicon Valley. With these expectations we were fairly comfortable: they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes us uncomfortable ---- and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to ---- is that in this century we have become, though unwillingly, gurus on questions such as “What is the nature of Reality?”
We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began and what is the nature of matter. The answers we are coming up with are just not easy to comprehend for the average person.
So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people to understand.
31. According to the passage, in a way physicists are __________
A. intelligent B. comfortable
C. strange D. unlucky
32. Judging from the context, the word “guru” in the first paragraph most probably means a person _________.
A. who acts as a teacher and answer big questions
B. who give wrong answers to big questions
C. who does not have answers to real big questions
D. who is eager to supply answers to big questions
33. Which of the following is true according to what the author says about physicists?
A. Physicists do not like their jobs.
B. Physicists live in two different worlds.
C. Physicists are coming up with new answers to old questions.
D. Physicists don’t have to tell people what they are doing.
34. Which of the following is true of theoretical physicists?
A. They only have to answer the basic questions about the world.
B. They have contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley.
C. They have disappointed the expectations of many people.
D. They have found it hard to make friends with ordinary people.
35. Which of the following statements is true about the job of today’s physicists?
A. It is getting easier and easier with the help of modern technology.
B. It is not related to any practical use.
C. It cannot be done by a person with average intelligence.
D. It is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
Passage B
Researchers in Spain reported that animals, especially mammals, evolved some of the skills underlying the use and development of language long before language itself ever evolved.
It is the first time that an animal other than a human or monkey has been shown to have this skill.
For their study neuroscientist Juan Toro and his colleagues at Barcelona’s Scientific Park tested 64 adult male rats. They used Dutch and Japanese because these languages were used in earlier, similar tests, and because they are very different from one another in use of words, rhythm and structure.
The rats were trained to respond to either Dutch or Japanese using food as a reward. Then they were separated into four groups --- one that heard each language spoken by a native, one that heard synthesized (混合的) speech, one that heard sentences read in either language by different speakers and a fourth that heard the languages played backwards. Rats rewarded for responding to Japanese did not respond to Dutch and rats trained to recognize Dutch did not respond to Japanese. The rats could not tell apart Japanese or Dutch played backwards.
Results showed that rats could discriminate natural sentences when uttered by a single speaker and not when uttered by different ones, nor could they distinguish the languages when spoken by different people. Human newborns have the same problem, although tamarins(小绢猴)can easily tell languages apart even when spoken by different people.
It was striking to find that rats can track certain information that seems to be so important in language development in humans.
The study shows which abilities that humans use for language are shared with other animals, and which are uniquely human. It also suggests what sorts of evolutionary precursors (前身) language might have.
36. 64 adult rats have been tested to show that _______.
A. rats can be trained to speak Japanese and Dutch
B. rats have some of the skills potential to the use and development of language
C. rats are able to recognize a language when it is spoken by different people
D. rats can understand the words, rhythm and structure of a language
37. Dutch and Japanese are chosen to be the test languages because __________.
A. they were used in earlier, similar tests
B. some rats can recognize Dutch and some Japanese
C. Dutch and Japanese belong to different families of language and they were used earlier in similar tests
D. Dutch and Japanese have different words, rhythm and structure
38. Rats were rewarded when they ________.
A. could respond to either of the two languages
B. could respond to both Dutch and Japanese
C. could tell apart Japanese or Dutch played backwards
D. could discriminate natural sentences spoken by different speakers
39. The sentence “Rats rewarded for responding to Japanese did not respond to Dutch and rats trained to recognize Dutch did not respond to Japanese” is closest in meaning to “ __________.”
A. When rats were trained to respond to one respond to one of the two languages, they didn’t respond to the other
B. When rats responded to Japanese, they were rewarded. When rats responded to Dutch, they were not rewarded
C. Given good rewards and special training, a rat could respond to both Dutch and Japanese
D. For rats, responding to one language is less difficult than to two languages
40. The test results have shown us all of the following EXCEPT __________.
A. rats can distinguish the languages spoken by a single person
B. rats share some of the abilities for language with human beings
C. rats can track certain information which seems to be important in language development in humans
D. rats can discriminate natural sentences spoken by different speakers
Passage C
How many languages do you speak? One, maybe two, you say? Wrong! If you speak English, you use words from at least 35 foreign languages. Want proof? Read the next two sentences out loud:
“Jane saw a baby squirrel outside the window. Although she was still wearing her cotton pajamas, she hurried outside to look at it.”
There. You just spoke five languages--- counting English! “Baby” comes from a Dutch word spelled the same way. “Squirrel” is French. “Cotton” was first an Arabic word and “pajamas” was taken right from the Urdu language of India. Surprised?
You shouldn’t be. Tim Morris is an English professor at the University of Texas, Arlington. He says that when we speak English, we’re using bits and pieces of many languages.
Dr. Morris asks his college English classes to count “loan words” --- words we use that were taken directly from other languages. He jokes about the term “loan words”. “It seems unlikely that we’re going to give these words back after we’ve done with them,” he says. “Imported words” might be a better term.
According to studies done by Morris and others, simple English sentences may contain 15 percent or less of these “loan words.” Complex sentences may be 50 percent or more “imports.” Scientific papers might use mostly loan words. “We use imports constantly,” Morris says, “generally without any idea we are using them...”
41.It can be known from the passage that if one speaks English, one is likely ___________.
A. to know many foreign languages well
B. to read some sentences out loud
C. to make mistakes when asked to speak a foreign language
D. to know some words of other languages
42. The two sentences in the second paragraph are used by the writer of the passage to _____.
A. tell a story about Jane
B. show that the English language has quite a few foreign words
C. test the readers’ knowledge of English grammar
D. prove that foreign languages are easy to learn
43. Prof. Morris prefer using the word “imported” instead of “loan” because ______.
A. “imported” is an easier word
B. his students have difficulty understanding the word “loan”
C. he likes to tell jokes in class
D. the so-called “loan words” will not be given back
44. What kind of writing in English most contains foreign words?
A. Novels B. Scientific papers C. Poems D. Students’ writings
45. From what is said in the passage, we can know that _____________.
A. many English-speaking people several foreign languages
B. Tim Morris knows at least 35 foreign languages
C. English-speaking people usually know which word is imported and which is not
D. Most people are unaware of the foreign word that they use
Passage D
Britain is not just one country and one people, even if some of its inhabitants think so. Britain is, in fact, a nation which can be divided into several separate parts, each part being an individual country with its own language character and cultural traditions. Thus, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales(and even Cornwell perhaps)do not claim to belong to “England”. Welsh (or Cornish)and many of them prefer to speak their own native tongue which in turn can't be understood by the others.
These cultural minorities have been Britain’s original inhabitants. In varying degrees they have managed to preserve their national identity, their particular customs and ways of life. This is probably even more true of the industrialism as the border areas have been. The Celtic races are said to be Scots would rather forget about their reputation for excessive thrift and for their singing. The Celtic temperament as a whole produces numerous writers Welsh Dylan Thomas, to mention but a few.
46. Some British people regard Britain as_______.
A.a single, unified country
B.a country of foreign cultures
C.a wholly Celtic country
D.an individualistic unit
47.“Their own native tongue”means _______.
A.the language of a foreign country
B.the language of their own country
C.the British way of speaking
D.a secret language
48.“A cultural minority”could be described as _______.
A.cultured people who are few in number
B.people of the same race who is small in stature
C.members of racial groups under the age of 21
D.small racial groups
49. According to the passage some cultural minorities have_______.
A.lost their individual characteristics centuries ago
B.keep their individual character
C.lost count of their numbers
D.managed to preserve their English character
50. What is mentioned as being one of the probable reason for preserving traditional life?
A.Ethnic custom.
B.A specialized life style.
C.The growth of industrialism.
D.Geographical isolation.
Passage E
B: In this section there are one passage followed by 10 statements. Decide whether they are true or false, and write T for true and F for false. Write your answers in the corresponding brackets on the ANSWER SHEET. (10%)
English in the World
The rise of English is a remarkable success story. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain over two thousand years ago, English did not exist. At the end of the sixteenth century, when Shakespeare was in his prime, English was the native speech of between five to six million Englishmen. After that, its development was extraordinary. The speakers of English --- including Scots, Irish, Welsh --- traveled into every corner of the globe. Wherever they went, they brought their language. Today, English is used by at least one billion people, and about 400 million speak it as a mother tongue, scattered across every continent and surpassed only by the speakers of Mandarin Chinese. Three quarters of the world’s mail, including telexes and cables, is in English; it is the language of the air, of the sea, and of Christianity. Apart from Britain and America people use English as a second language in countries like India and Singapore, where it is officially used for education, broadcasting, and administration. Then there is English as a foreign language used in countries like Holland, where English is used to promote trade and scientific exchanges,
Because so many people from different cultures are using English, they have not only added new words to the language, but also updated the language --- making it more suitable for their particular needs. The so-called “the Queen’s English” is now native only to England. Some people go so far as to suggest that we should talk not of English, but of Englishes.
51. ( ) English was used as an international language in Shakespeare’s time.
52. ( ) English is the language used by all religious people.
53. ( ) English is the language of technology only in Silicon Valley and Shanghai.
54. ( ) Today, English is used by about six hundred million people as either second language or a foreign language.
55. ( ) The number of native English speakers is bigger than that of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.
56. ( ) The function of English as a second language is slightly different from that of English as a foreign language.
57. ( ) English is widely taught in China as a second language.
58. ( ) Only 25 percent of the world’s mail, including telexes and cables, is in other languages.
59. ( ) Although so many people from other cultures are using English, English is still unchanged and maintains its purity.
60. ( ) The word “Englishes” suggests that there are varieties of English used by people of different regions.
PART III TRANSLATION (20%)
Translate the following English sentences into Chinese and write your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
61. I shambled in and looked timidly round at the clerks. I had an idea that a person about to open an account must needs consult the manager.
62. If, however, I listen to the voice of the officialdom, it turns out that I am a disadvantaged senior citizen, registered as disabled, drawing a retirement pension, renting a leisure garden and, presumably, immortal because I shall never die --- I shall merely pass away.
63. That night, for the last time in my life but one --- for I was a big boy twelve years old --- I cried.
64. I want to persuade you to “write between the lines”. Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.
65. Want to see how much the world has changed in the past decade? Log on to the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the world enquire (British spelling, please). You’ll get about 30,000 hits.
PART IV COMPOSITION WRITING (20%)
Write a composition of no less than 150 words on the topic “Internet: A Blessing or a Curse?”
Make sure that your composition meets the following requirements:
1. Your composition should be a piece of argumentation;
2. You must declare what your position is;
3. You do not ignore the counter-arguments;
4. You make your points more convincing by demolishing the counter-arguments.
Write your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
KEY TO TEST 17
Part I VOCABULARY& STRUCTURE (1×30 = 30)
1-5 CBDDB 6-10 ADBDC
11-15 AAACC 16-20 BAABD
21-25 DAACA 26-30 CBDCA
Part II READING COMPREHENSION
A: 1×20=20; B: 1×10=10)
A: 31-35 DABBD 36-40 BCADA
41-45 DBDBD 46-50 ABDBB
B: 51-55 FFFTF 56-60 TFTFT
Part III TRANSLATION (4×5=20)
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Part IV COMPOSITION (20)