统考大学英语A 试卷（2005年12月）

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大学英语A试卷

Information for the Examinees:

This examination consists of FOUR parts. They are:

Part Ⅰ: Listening Comprehension (30 points, 30 minutes) Part Ⅱ: Reading Comprehension (30 points, 35 minutes) Part Ⅲ: Vocabulary and Structure (20 points, 25 minutes) Part Ⅳ: Writing (20 points, 30 minutes)

The total score for his examination is 100. The time allowed for this examination is 2 hours (120 minutes).

Part Ⅰ: Listening Comprehension (30 points)

Instructions: ★ This Listening Test will take approximately 30 minutes. ★ There are three sections in this part. ★ There will be a pause of 30 seconds before each section to allow you to read your questions. ★ There will be a pause of 30 seconds after each section to allow you to think about your answers. ★ Each recording will be played twice. All answers must appear on the Answer Sheet. Section A Questions 1-5 are based on this section.(10 points)

Directions: Listen to a short telephone conversation between a doctor’s receptionist and his patient and complete the following form by filling in each blank with an appropriate word or number Write your answer on the Answer Sheet. 1. Name: Harry 2. Address: Holly Trees, Hastings 3. Telephone Number: 4. Problem: 5. Action Taken: Doctor to Section B Questions 6-15 are based on this section.(10 points)

Directions: You are going to listen to a conversation. As you listen, decide whether statements

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6-15 are true or false. Write T for true and F for false against the number of the statement. 6. I t is a fashion to keep fit in America these days. 7. Over half of the American population is overweight.

8. There are fewer overweight people in lowincome groups than in high income groups in America.

9. People tend to eat more in hot weather.

10. The woman in the conversation is Japanese. 11.Japanese eat more fat and oil than Americans.

12.Americans used to exercise more than they do nowadays. 13.Many Americans watch TV for several hours every day. 14. David didn’t do anything about his weight. 15. David succeeded in losing weight permanently.

Section C Questions 16-25 are based on this section.(10 points)

Directions: Questions 16-20: Listen to the first part of a monologue about a post office robbery and choose the best answer from A, B, C trod D.

16. According to the speaker, the robbery took place . A. just after she came back from lunch B. when she was having lunch C. before she went to have lunch D. right after their lunch time

17. Which of the following is true of the female robber? A. She was strong. B. She was black. C. She was short. D. She was thin.

18. What does the speaker remember about the two men? A. One was dark, the other was blonde. B. One of them was wearing sunglasses. C. One was about 20, the other about 30. D. One of them was with a beard.

19. The exact sum taken away by the robbers was pounds. A. 540 B. 514 C. 450 D. 415

20. It can be learned from the talk that the speaker . A. is good at remembering details B. hasn’t recovered from the shock

C. first reported the robbery to the police D. didn’t Check losses until the police came

Questions 21-25: Listen to the last part of the monologue and fill in the blanks with the wordsyou hear on the recording.

Well, Inspector Brown then asked me if I saw them (21). And I said yes. I saw them escape, not by car, not on (22), but by bike. I’m (23). I couldn’t believe it, but that was exactly what I saw. But Inspector Brown seemed to (24) my account. And he asked to speak to my colleagues and wished to find out more (25)

about what happened. I wondered whether my colleagues could be of more help.

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Part Ⅱ: Reading Comprehension (30 points)

Instructions: ★ This part will take approximately 35 minutes. ★ There are THREE sections in this part. Write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task. Section A Questions 26-30 are based on this section.(10 points)

Directions: Read the following six classified advertisements and match the problems in Column ] with the telephone numbers in Column II. One of the advertisements will not be used. Skim or scan the text as required and then mark your answers on the answer sheet. LOST AND FOUND FOR SALE FEMALE FOUND: Cat, 5 months COME to our moving sale: ROOMMATES old, black and white Plants, pottery, books, marking. Found near clothes, etc. Sat., Dec. 14- WANTED Linden and South U. Steve. 9:00-5:00 1612 Female, Own room near campus. 800-4661. Apt. 800-4696. Available December 1. Rent $80 per month until March 1st.$120 thereafter. Call Jill for details, 800-7839. BUSINESS SERVICES FOR RENT HELP WANTED EARLY HOUR WAKE UP 2 BEDROOM furnished SERVICE BABYSITTER-MY HOME apartment. Parking, laundry For prompt, courteous ethicalities. Dec. Aug.，$ If you are available some Wake up service, 800-0760. evenings and occasional 210/month. 800-9715. weekends to care for 2 school-age children. Please call Gayle Moore days 800-1111, evenings and weekends 800-4964. Column I Column II 26. Apply for a job of babysitting A. 800-7839 27. Look for a cat B. 800-4661 28. Look for an apt. to rent C. 800-4964 29. Want early hour morning call D. 806-9715

30. Want a female roommate E. 800-0760

Section B Questions 31-35 are based on this section.(10 points)

Directions: Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C and D.

The aroma of chocolate perfumes the air of the Rue d’Assas in Paris. Entering Christian Constant’s state-of-the-art boutique, you fund yourself in the kingdom of Paris’s king of chocolate, where the humble cocoa bean is turned into mouth watering chocolate Easter eggs.

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Constant, who is a chef, admits that chocolate is his passion and main interest in life. He fast developed a fascination with chocolate when he was working for Gaston Len6tre, a famous French pastry chef.

Every year he has a theme for decorating Easter eggs: this year his decorations are inspired by “Art Nouveau”. Tonight he has a dinner for 130 to organize and he has to prepare a three-foot-high Art Nouveau-style Easter egg by noon tomorrow. This, for Constant, is a normal schedule.

Constant believes that his chocolate creations are as much of a work of art as other sculptures. It is, therefore, understandable that the restaurant, which he opened last month, is situated in the National Monuments Museum in Paris. During the day the restaurant is a tea room and offers chocolate in every imaginable form. Customers can choose from a selection of sweet chocolate desserts or try the more exotic spicy chocolates. Constant is also a professional “nose,” working closely with the French Institute of Taste. He is capable of identifying 450 different tastes and flavors. Constant explains that the mouth, which can only taste four things-salt, sweet, acid and bitter-is “stupid” in comparison to the nose. He believes that the nose is everything.

In his book The Taste of Chocolate, he explains how in 1502 Christopher Columbus came across an island and went ashore. He was greeted by an Indian chief bearing gift, among which were huge sacks of beans which Columbus thought was local currency. To his surprise, they prepared a drink for him. But Columbus, who disliked the odd bitter taste, continued on his travels, ignorant of the fact that he had just tasted cocoa. Like Columbus, Constant travels the cocoa countries where he checks quality and works with local experts. Quality can vary depending on the region, year, and method of preparation. According to Constant, Venezuela and Trinidad have the best cocoa beans, which they export all over the world either as beans or as cocoa.

Constant, who is a hard worker, only sleeps three hours a night. He talks long into the night with members of a club he has formed. The club is called “The Chocolate Munches”. Their main official activity is to get together for monthly dinners where they eat a very tiny dinner and tons of chocolate desserts.

“I am an addict,” Constant admits, “and I don’t want to be cured!” 31. Which of the following is the most inclusive title for the passage? A. Chocolate-The Passion of a Lifetime. B. The Chocolate Munches Club. C. Chocolate-A New Art Form. D. The Last Word in Good Taste. 32. What does Constant do now?

A. He works for a French pastry chef.

B. He owns his own restaurant and tearoom. C. He is a sculptor for a museum in Paris. D. He is a chef in the Institute of Taste. 33. Constant’s newly-opened business . A. provides chocolates with various flavors B. exhibits all of his chocolate sculptures C. often needs to prepare a big Easter dinner D. serves as a national monument in Paris

34. The underlined part “Constant is also a ...’nose’” means . A. he believes he has the best nose in the world B. his nose can taste salt, sweet, acid and bitter

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C. his nose can identify various tastes and flavors

D. he is capable of smelling flavors from a long distance 35. According to Constant, .

A. ancient Indians used cocoa beans as local currency

B. Columbus checked the quality of cocoa beans in different places C. chocolate addiction makes people sleep less

D. the quality of cocoa beans varies from region to region

Section C Questions 36-40 are based on this section.(10 points)

Directions: Read the following passage and choose the best answer from ,4, B, C and D.

French are elegant people. They are artists in everyday life, having a very good taste in everything. They don’t like American tourists wearing jeans to go into their luxurious and exquisite five star restaurants. So one of the restaurants put a notice outside its front door. It read “No trousers, please!”

A gourmet coffee was sold in Tokyo as an antidote to stress. Its name supposedly meant to people that it would soothe the troubled breast. Yet when it was printed in English, it turned out to be “Ease Your Bosoms.”

Swedes started a promotion stunt to promote the sales of their vacuum cleaner named Electro. Their original ad slogan was translated as “Nothing sucks Like Electro.”

The General Motors’ selling of Chevrolet was very bad in South America. And the reason? The translation of this brand sounds like “no van”, which means “It doesn’t go” in Spanish.

When Pepsi-cola invaded the huge Chinese and German markets, the efforts initially fizzled. The product’s slogan, “Come alive with the Pepsi generation”, was rendered into German as “come out of the grave with Pepsi.” Coca-Cola also discovered something had gone wrong in Taiwan. The Chinese characters chosen for the world-famous product sound like “Bite the Wax Tadpole.”

A beer company’s slogan “Turn it loose” became, in Spanish, equivalent to “suffer from diarrhea.”

A company translated its sticky tape slogan into Japanese and came up with a sticky problem. The slogan “Sticks like crazy” became literally “it sticks foolishly” in Japanese.

A tonic produced in China is made of royal jelly and is supposed to be very effective for some chronic diseases. Yet it was translated as “oral liquid”, which means “aliva” in English. In the brochure, it was described in this way: “it tastes like medicine”, when the language in the original meant to use it as a food therapy.

Even the wrong nonverbal cue can bring havoc to a product. A baby food company initially packaged their African products just the same as in the U.S.—with a cute baby picture on the jar. They didn’t realize that because so many Africans cannot read, nearly all packaged products sold in African carry pictures of what is inside. Pureed baby! How horrible!

In an Asian city, where traffic is really very bad, to secure people’s safety, the municipal government has built underground passageways. Pedestrians are asked to use them whenever they need to cross the main street. A sign was posted once on the roadside, pointing to the entrance to an underrated passageway, intending to notify English speaking passengers, “Go underground ”. We chuckled at such clumsy translations. Is there anything wrong in the language? We must be aware that few words and idioms earl be literally translated. It’s best to hire the best for translation. Don’t take it for granted that as long as one speaks a little English, he is autonomously

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