Integrated Skills of English
TEST 18
（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（乙）
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. This tree is losing _____ leaves because _____ getting too much water.
A) its, it’s B) its, its
C) it’s, its D) it’s, it’s
2. A good author is _____ who can express the common thing in an uncommon way.
A) those B) one
C) that D) this
3. The police _____ she _____ herself, but it is suspected that she may have been killed.
A) says, hanged B) says, hung
C) say, hanged D) say, hung
4. To get insurance (保险) from that company you must meet two _____: you can’t have an accident in your record, and you must promise never to have _____.
A) criterion, it B) criterion, one
C) criteria, it D) criteria, one
5. Whatever one has planned to do is _____ to be altered (改变) in the process.
A) bound B) eager
C) embarrassed D) prohibited
6. Music, for both of us, is a part of life we treasure, and Michael has found his records and tapes a constant _____ of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him.
A) source B) illusion
C) addition D) package
7. The only way to _____ a fear is to face it, and to do so as frequently as possible.
A) commit B) conquer
C) communicate D) enlarge
8. It can be argued, for example, that teaching can be _____ more effectively if teacher and student take their appropriate (合适的) roles.
A) disciplined B) handled
C) accomplished D) proposed
9. The result of every accident, however _____, is a rise in the cost of insurance (保险).
A) radical B) rare
C) reluctant D) minor
10. The boy _____ turned the TV off as the clock struck ten, time for him to go to bed.
A) disappointedly B) reluctantly
C) fortunately D) undoubtedly
11. I’d like to propose that students _____ more time for independent study.
A) be allowed B) are allowed
C) were allowed D) allowed
12. His pale face suggests that he _____ from some kind of disease.
A) suffer B) is suffering
C) be suffered D) should suffer
13. We know that drinking, smoking, and overwork _____ risks to our health, but most of us seem to accept them.
A) spoil B) accumulate
C) involve D) seal
14. A sign at our local church is in wood, with gold lettering, but the _____ is already fading （褪色）after three years.
A) product B) medal
C) later D) latter
15. _____ speak louder than words.
A) Acts B) Activities
C) Actions D) Activeness
16. Please turn your music down --- it’s very _____.
A) distracting B) distracted
C) distract D) distraction
17. It has been only twenty-five years _____ television came to control American free time..
A) that B) since
C) when D) from
18. They looked both ways before _____ the street.
A) cross B) crossed
C) crossing D) across
19. _____ their intelligence, they aren’t doing well in school.
A) Although B) Because of
C) Due to D) In spite of
20. _____ they saw in China made a deep impression on them.
A) / B) That
C) Which D) What
21. _____ my astonishment, they published my poem.
A) To B) With
C) In D) For
22. Mr. Smith plans to retire from office as soon as all her children are _____.
A) self-made B) self-supporting
C) self-respecting D) self-educated
23. Bill Clinton _____ George Bush for the presidency in 1992.
A) won B) beat
C) defeated D) succeeded
24. Sam’s new apartment is in a _____ building in the downtown area.
A) twelfth story B) twelve story
C) twelve-stories D) twelve-story
25. _____ twice for the disease, she was so weakened that she could barely stand up.
A) Having been operated on B) Being operated on
C) Operating on D) Be operated on
26. He remembered ____________ in this school when he was ten years old.
A) being taught B) to teach
C) teaching D) to be taught
27. Janet has learned to drive, but she’d like to have __________.
A) the own car B) a car of her own
C) an own car D) the car of her own
28. On a _____ day, our professor works in the lab from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
A) following B) previous
C) typical D) diligent
29. 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
30. __________ dates back to the 1870s.
A) That the invention of the telephone
B) The invention of the telephone
C) With the invention of the telephone
D) The invention of the telephone that
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
Every evening, some part of the British Commonwealth hears the chimes of Big Ben, largest of the bells in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. The tower is popularly called Big Ben, but it is the great bell which really is Big Ben. It is this bell which chimes out the quarter hours to the people of London. For Britons at sea or living in distant lands, the sound of Big Ben is still a link with home, for the chimes are broadcasting each evening by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Big Ben has been chiming out the quarter hours now for over a century. It started chiming on June 11, 1859.
At that time, Parliament couldn’t decide what to name the bell. A light-hearted member of Parliament called attention, in a speech, to stout Sir Benjamin Hall, Queen Victoria’s Chief Lord of the Woods and Forests.
“Call it Big Ben,” said the speaker, and the name stuck.
Big Ben is 9 feet in diameter（直径）, 7 feet 6 inches tall, and the thickness where the hammer strikes is 8.75 inches.
The clock that regulates the chiming of Big Ben keeps good time. In 1939, the Royal Astronomer made a 290-day check on the performance of the clock. He found that during this test the margin of error was less than two-tenths of a second in 24 hours on 93 days and greater than one second only on 16 of the 290 days.
There was an unexpected slight error on August 12, 1945 and fear swept throughout the Ministry of Works. On that dark day, the clock was five minutes slow. A flock of birds had rested on the minute hand.
31. Aside from popular usage, Big Ben is really the __________.
A) clock tower of the Palace of Westminster
B) great bell in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster
C) exclusive radio signal of the BBC
D) both A and B
32. The year 1959 was the __________.
A) 59th anniversary of Big Ben C) last year Big Ben was heard
B) 100th anniversary of Big Ben D) year in which Big Ben was restored
33. Big Ben is __________.
A) 4.5 feet in radius (半径) C) 8.75 feet tall
B) 7 feet 6 inches in diameter D) 9 feet in radius
34. In 1939, the Royal Astronomer found that the clock that regulates the chiming of Big Ben __________.
A) was usually very inaccurate
B) lost 24 hours in 290 days
C) had a very small margin of error most of the time
D) no longer kept good time due to war damage
35. In the Royal Astronomer’s 290-day check, the clock’s margin of error was __________.
A) less than one-tenth of a second every day
B) five minutes a week
C) greater than one second on 16 days
D) 16 seconds a day.
Passage B
When we think of creative people the names that probably spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Pablo Picasso, i.e. great artists, inventors and scientists—a selected and exceptionally gifted body of men with rare talent and genius. The tendency to regard creativity and imaginative thinking as the exclusive of a lucky few disregards the creative and imaginative aspects inherent in the solution of many of the tasks we regularly have to face- the discovery and development of new methods and techniques, the improvement of old methods, existing inventions and products.
Everyone has creative ability to some extent. Creative thinking involves posing oneself a problem and then originating or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new analogies, discovering new combinations, and/ or new applications of things that are already known. It follows, then, that a creative person will exhibit great intellectual curiosity and imagination. He will be an alert observant with a great store of information which he will be able to sort and combine, in the solution of problem. He will be emotionally receptive to new and unconventional ideas and will be less interested in facts than in their implication. Most important of all, he will be able to communicate uninhibitedly and will not be too concerned about other people’s reaction to his apparently “crazy” notions. People called the Wright brothers mad but it did not stop them from becoming the first men to construct and fly a heavier-than-air craft.
36. The author believes that creative thinking __________.
A) is only possessed by great artists
B) is needed in the solution of many problems
C) requires rare talent and genius
D) belongs to a lucky few
37. In order to solve scientific problems, people __________.
A) should not be afraid of what others think
B) should be mad
C) must possess crazy notions
D) should have inhibitions
38. Creative thinking involves __________.
A) drawing new pictures of old things
B) observing the actions of great people
C) finding a problem and originating a solution
D) discovering new emotions
39. A creative person must look at facts __________.
A) for their face-value B) and remember them
C) for what they imply D) which are less interesting
40. The work “unconventional” (line 2, Para. 2) probably means __________.
A) not ordinary B) unacceptable
C) not political D) not creative
Passage C
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 (理论的) 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 (硅谷). 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（现实）?”
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.
41. According to the passage, in a way physicists are __________
A) intelligent B) comfortable
C) strange D) unlucky
42. 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
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. 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 D
Researchers in Spain reported that animals, especially mammals (哺乳动物), evolved (发展) some of the skills underlying（是…基础）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 (奖励). 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 (区别) 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 (独特地) human. It also suggests what sorts of evolutionary precursors (前身) language might have.
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. 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 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 100 words to express your regretful feeing of having missed seeing a friend.
The letter is written by Harold in New York to his friend in another city on February 28, 2009. The body paragraphs must include:
------ great disappointment at having missed seeing the friend
------ reasons for being absent
------ remembering the time of not having seen each other
------ asking after the addressee and his/her family
------ telling about self
------ expressing hope to see the addressee
Make sure the letter is in the right format.
Write your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
KEY TO TEST 18
Part I VOCABULARY& STRUCTURE (1×30 = 30)
1-5 ABCDA 6-10 ABCDB 11-15 ABCDC
16-20 ABCDD 21-25 ABCDA 26-30 ABCDB
Part II READING COMPREHENSION
A: 1×20=20; B: 1×10=10）
A: 31-35 CBACC 36-40 BACCA 41-45 DABBD 46-50 BCADA
B: 51-55 FFFTF 56-60 TFTFT
Part III TRANSLATION （4×5=20）
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Part IV COMPOSITION （20）
