新视野大学英语四Quiz1-ReadingUnit1-2题目及答案

Part 1 Multiple Choice

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Directions: Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 1.

Almost all the countries in the world hoped that the warring

sides would ________ a compromise. A. affect

B. effect

C. come

D. lead 2.

Our talk was completely ________out by the roar of the

machines. As a result, we had to communicate with gestures. A. decreased

B. reduced

C. smashed

D. drowned 3.

She was arrested for ______ state secrets to a foreign reporter

in return for her son going abroad. A. getting away

B. giving away

C. breaking away

D. putting away 4.

Can you ______ furnishing your house luxuriously at a time

when the company is losing so much money? A. verify

B. identify

C. justify

D. clarify 5.

There _______ new problems in respect of the relationship

between the two countries in recent years. A. rose

B. raised

C. lifted

D. arose 6.

The professor kept speaking about his new discovery in the

field, only ____ occasionally to have a mouthful of tea. A. dropping off

B. breaking off

C. putting off

D. setting off 7.

His health ________ as he ate too little and worked too hard

for months on end. A. broke up

B. broke through

C. broke down

D. broke off 8.

After the meeting the workers went back to their ________

workshops. A. respectable

B. respective

C. respectful

D. respected 9.

The theory of class currently prevailing in the West is _____

based on what Max Weber, a German sociologist, proposed. A. fairly

B. kindly

C. greatly

D. largely

10. His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any

________ of it at all. A. interpretation

B. meaning

C. reason

D. sense

11. No one in the class could ________ the right answer to the

question. A. describe

B. furnish

D. assess

12.

The dentist could ________ no signs of decay in my teeth.

A. determine

B. define

C. assign

D. detect

13.

To his great joy he discovered that his ears became ________.

A. sensitive

B. aware

C. efficient

D. sensible

14.

He made no ________ to his illness till after the lesson.

A. remark

B. comment

C. reference

D. opinion

15. We need to make sure that we ________ our resources as

fully as possible. A. achieve

B. operate

D. expel

16.

The economy looks set to ________ its growth into next year.

A. endure

B. persist

C. remain

D. sustain

17. It was the only thing that I could do—I don't have to ________

myself to anyone. A. account

B. justify

C. discount

D. clarify

18. The shop assistant says if I leave $10 as a ________, they'll

keep the dress for me. A. deposit

B. loan

C. guarantee

D. fee

19. It was such a(n) ________ to hear that Marta was found safe

and well. A. concern

C. expectation

D. relief

20. If consumers realize that they are likely to be ____ by

foodstuffs, they will not buy them. A. fined

B. sued

C. contaminated

D. charged

21. I think you should question their ________ in offering to lend

you the money. A. motives

B. reasons

C. ideals

D. initiatives

22. The government is trying to _____ public confidence in its

management of the economy. A. recover

B. relieve

C. preserve

D. restore

23. She was using all her powers of persuasion to ______ the

Griffins to remain in the town.

B. induce

C. expel

D. tempt

24.

There's nothing on TV tonight, ________ rubbish.

A. rather than

B. more than

C. better than

D. other than

25.

Our hopes ________ and fell in the same instant.

A. arose

B. raised

C. rose

D. aroused

26. A season ticket _______the holder to make as many journeys

as he wishes within the stated period of time. A. entitles

B. grants

C. presents

D. promises

27. Only a selected number of landladies in the neighborhood

have been allowed by the university to take in ________.

A. residents

B. lodgers

C. settlers

D. inhabitants

28. The Car Club couldn't ________ to meet the demands of all its

members. A. assume

B. ensure

C. guarantee

D. confirm

29. Extensive reporting on television has helped to ________

interest in a wide variety of sports and activities. A. assemble

B. generate

C. yield

D. gather

30.

He has recently ________ golf for relaxation.

A. taken up

B. taken with

C. taken on

D. taken over

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Part 2 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)

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Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred (上帝的) texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic (施虐狂的) impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. As to fear, I think, we also need well-documented cases of children being dangerously terrified (恐惧) by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches (女巫), two-headed dragons, magic carpets (魔毯), etc., do not exist; and that, instead of indulging (沉溺) his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick (女巫乘骑的扫帚柄) or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted (中魔法的) girl-friend.

No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane (精神健全的) child has ever believed that it was. 1.

The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when

it is _______.

A. repeated without variation

B. treated with respect

C. adapted by the parent

D. set in the present 2.

Some people dislike fairy stories because they feel that they

________.

A. tempt people to be cruel to children

B. show the primitive cruelty in children

C. lend themselves to undesirable experiments with children

D. increase a tendency to have sadistic impulses in children 3.

According to the passage great fear can be stimulated in a

child when the story is ________. A. set in reality

B. heard for the first time

C. repeated too often

D. dramatically told 4.

The author's mention of broomsticks and telephones is meant

to suggest that ________.

A. fairy stories are still being made up

B. there is confusion about different kinds of truth

C. people try to modernize old fairy stories

D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the

passage?

A. Fairy stories are anything but beneficial to the growth of

children.

B. Fairy stories teach children the way to adapt to the society.

C. No fairy story should be taken as the true description of the

reality.

D. No fairy story should be told to the children without modification.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. In the primary school, a child is in a comparatively simple setting and most of the time forms a relationship with one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school, a new world opens up and frequently it is a much more difficult world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils. He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways of the primary school, for he senses the need for a more cautious approach in the secondary school where there are older pupils. Secondary staff and pupils suffer from the pressures of academic work and seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers with specialist roles may see hundreds of children in a week, and a pupil may be able to form relationships with very few of the staff. He has to decide which adults are approachable; good schools will make clear to every young person from the first year what guidance and personal help is available—but whether the reality of life in the institution actually encourages requests for help is another matter.

Adults often forget what a confusing picture school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal of movement, a great number of people—often rather frightening-looking people—and realizes that an increasing number of choices and decisions have to be made. As he progresses through the school the confusion may become less but the choices and decisions required will increase. The school will rightly expect the pupil to take the first steps to obtain the help he needs, for this is the pattern of adult life for which he has to be prepared, but all the time the opportunities for personal and group advice must be presented in a way which makes them easy to understand and within easy reach of pupils. 6.

According to the passage one of the problems for pupils entering secondary schools is that ________.

A. they are taught by many different teachers

B. they do not attend lessons in every subject

C. the teachers are not so friendly and helpful

D. the teachers give most attention to a few pupils 7.

In secondary schools every pupil having problems should

________.

A. know how to ask for help

B. go to ask any teacher he can find

C. discuss his problem in class

D. turn to his parents for help 8.

It can be inferred from the passage that the author is mainly

concerned about ________. A. academic standards

B. the role of specialist teachers

C. the training of the individual teachers

D. the personal development of pupils 9.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. All the secondary schools know the way to encourage

students' requests for help.

B. The secondary schools are responsible for offering personal

and group advice to new pupils.

C. Secondary school pupils enjoy greater freedom in

communicating with teachers and fellow pupils.

D. Secondary school pupils can easily get the help they need.

10. The most appropriate title for the passage is ________.

A. Primary School and Secondary School

B. Problems for New Secondary School Teachers

C. Problems for New Secondary School Pupils

D. Academic Work and Personal Relationship

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage. The US military has blocked public access to nearly all its web sites after its servers were attacked by a new computer virus.

Late last week, the US Space Command, which provides security for military computers, instructed all military organizations to block public access after a number of sites had contracted the virus, called the "Code Red" bug, according to an official.

The virus is known as a "denial of service" bug, because it replicates (自我复制) itself by reading the data files on a network server and sending copies to other servers—thereby multiplying and

sometimes crashing a system—and denying access to legitimate (合法的) users of the site.

"The Code Red worm did in fact show up in some DoD (Department of Defense) web sites and we're working to contain that," Command Spokesman Army Maj. Barry Venable said. "Ways we're going about that include blocking public access to the Web sites, because that's the way this worm works, to prevent it from using our networks to propagate (繁殖) itself."

The virus exploits a security flaw (缺陷) in certain Microsoft network servers. The flaw was announced last month when a patch was released to fix it.

"To protect our DoD web sites from being compromised, DoD organizations have been told to review the status of the Internet information servers... to make sure that all the patches that were previously installed had been installed," says Venable. Only a handful of the major Defense Department sites, with the suffix ".mil," appear currently accessible to the public, including the central public affairs site DefenseLink and the military services' main homepages. Public access is blocked to information connected to those sites, and others such as the National Missile Defense site and

the US Air Force's European site. Registered Department of Defense personnel continue to have access to the sites, Venable said. 11.

Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. The Code Red Worm.

B. DoD Blocks Public Web Site Access.

C. DoD Was Attacked.

D. Protect DoD Web Sites Against Viruses.

12. The word "contracted" (Para.2) most probably means

________.

A. make less or smaller

B. get an illness

C. make a legal agreement

D. formally agree to marry somebody

13. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Code

Red worm?

A. It can multiply in large numbers.

B. It may make a computer system stop working.

C. It's included in a patch released by Microsoft.

D. It may destroy the connection between legitimate users and the sites.

14. Public access is blocked to most DoD web sites so that

________.

A. the Code Red worm can't use the web site to replicates itself

and send copies

B. DoD organizations can have necessary patches installed to

protect their sites

C. the defense secrets can be prevented from being revealed

D. the mistake in certain Microsoft network servers can be corrected

15. Which of the following is NOT a measure taken by DoD to fight

against the Code Red worm? A. Blocking public access.

B. Shutting down e-mail.

C. Reviewing the status of the Internet information servers.

D. Having necessary patches installed.

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. The decline in moral standards—which has long concerned social analysts—has at last captured the attention of average Americans. And Jean Bethke Elshtain, for one, is glad.

The fact that ordinary citizens are now starting to think seriously about the nation's moral climate, says this ethics (伦理学) professor at the University of Chicago, is reason to hope that new ideas will come forward to improve it.

But the challenge is not to be underestimated. Materialism and individualism in American society are the biggest obstacles. "The thought that 'I'm in it for me' has become deeply rooted in the national consciousness," Ms. Elshtain says.

Some of this can be attributed to the decay of traditional communities, in which neighbors looked out for one another, she says. With today's greater mobility and with so many couples working, those bonds have been weakened, replaced by a greater emphasis on self.

In a 1996 poll of Americans, loss of morality topped the list of the biggest problems facing the US. And Elshtain says the public is correct to sense that: Data show that Americans are struggling with problems unheard of in the 1950s, such as classroom violence and a high rate of births to unmarried mothers.

The desire for a higher moral standard is not a lament (挽歌) for some nonexistent "golden age," Elshtain says, nor is it a wishful (一厢情愿的 ) longing for a time that denied opportunities to women

and minorities. Most people, in fact, favor a decrease in prejudice. Moral decline will not be reversed until people find ways to counter the materialism in society, she says. "Slowly, you recognize that the things that matter are those that can't be bought."

16.

Professor Elshtain is pleased to see that Americans ________.

A. have adapted to a new set of moral standards

B. are longing for the return of the good old days

C. have realized the importance of material things

D. are awakening to the lowering of their moral standards

17. The moral decline of American society is caused mainly by

________.

A. its growing wealth

B. the self-centeredness of individuals

C. underestimating the impact of social changes

D. the prejudice against women and minorities

18. Which of the following characterizes the traditional

communities? A. Great mobility.

B. Emphasis on individual effort.

C. Concern for one's neighbors.

D. Ever-weakening social bonds.

19.

In the 1950s, classroom violence ________.

A. was something unheard of

B. attracted a lot of public attention

C. was by no means a rare occurrence

D. began to appear in analysts' data

20. According to Elshtain, the current moral decline may be

reversed ________.

A. if people can return to the "golden age"

B. when women and men enjoy equal rights

C. when people rid themselves of prejudice

D. if less emphasis is laid on material things

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