新视野大学英语3期末试题

新视野英语3期末试题

一. Vocabulary （40%）

1. While a ________ amount of stress can be beneficial, too much stress can

exhaust you.

A. moderate B. modern C. large D. striking

2. The two brothers are very much _______, not only in walking but also in thinking.

A. like B. likely C. alike D. alive

3. He'll be angry if you try to ________ him. He is very busy now.

A. interfere with B. interfere in

C. disturb with D. worry about

4. Physical exercise is particularly necessary to primary pupils ________ it helps them power up

the brain.

A. by that B. on that C. in that D. to that

5. The British are not so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, ________

is often the case in other countries.

A. so B. as C. it D. that

6. Could you please _____ an appointment for me to see Mr. Smith?

A. manage B. arrange C. take D. prepare

7. Everyone on the team __________ winning the game.

A. attributed to B. contributed to C. distributed to D. led to

8. I like my teacher, but feel no ________ for her.

A. affection B. like C. feeling D. motion

9. As we can no longer wait for the delivery of our order, we have to ________ it.

A. accept B. cancel C. refuse D. delay

10. The early pioneers had to ________ many hardships to settle on the new land.

A. go along with B. go through

C. go back on D. go into

11. Ideas __________ from one's own experience are sometimes more valuable than those from

books.

A. derived B. deposited C. retreated D. restored

12. If you want to __________ a pleasant visit, find out as much as possible about the manners

and customs of your host country.

A. secure B. serve C. sure D. ensure

13. He was a man of noble ______. He came from an old and prominent family in Virginia.

A. origin B. source C. root D. resource

14. One of his eyes was injured in an accident, but after a ______ operation, he quickly recovered

his sight.

A. delicate B. considerate C. precise D. sensible

15. He played the guitar so well that everyone was _______.

A. affected B. aroused C. effected D. impressed

16. Last year the advertising rate ________ by 20 percent.

A. rose B. raised

C. aroused D. arose

17. The purpose of the seminar is to train some of the employees to work ________ in the branch offices abroad.

A. later B. late

C. lately D. latest

18. Drinking alcohol can ________ your ability to drive properly.

A. effect B. affect

C. influence D. impact

19. When we shook hands I was conscious of his firm ______________.

A. fist B. hand

C. punch D. grip

20. His plan sounds ________, so you'd better carry out.

A. feasible B. useless

C. worthy D. federal

二. Reading Comprehension （40%）

Passage one

The television camera is rather like the human eye. Both the eye and the camera have a lens, and both produce a picture on a screen. In each case the picture is made up of millions of spots of light.

Let us see how the eye works. When we look at an object— a person, a house, or whatever it may be — we do not see all the details of the object in one piece. We imagine that we do, but this is not the case. In fact, the eye builds up the picture for us in our brain, which controls our sight, in millions of separate parts, and, although we do not realize it, all these details are seen separately. This is what happens when we look at something. Beams of light of different degrees of intensity, reflected from all parts of the objects, strike the lens of the eye. The lens then gathers together the spots of light from these beams and focuses them on to a light-sensitive plate — the retina — at the back of the eyeball. In this way an image of the object is produced on the retina in the form of a pattern of lights.

The retina contains millions of minute light-sensitive elements, each of which is separately connected to the brain by a tiny fiber in the optic nerve. These nerve fibers, working independently, pick out minute details from the image on the retina and turn the small spots of light into nerve impulses of different strengths. They then transmit these impulses to the brain. They do this all at the same time.

All the details of the image are fed to the brain, and, as we taught our brain to add them together correctly, we see a clear picture of the object as a whole.

Television, which means vision at a distance, operates on a similar principle. A television picture is built up in thousands of separate parts.

Beams of light reflected from the subject being televised strike the lens of the television camera, which corresponds to the lens of the eye. The camera lens gathers together the spots of light from these beams and focuses an image of the subject on to a place, the surface of which is coated with millions of photo-electric elements sensitive to light.

The spots of light forming the image on the plate cannot be transmitted as light. So they are temporarily converted by an electronic device into millions of electrical impulses; that is, into charges of electricity.

These electrical impulses are then sent through space on a wireless wave to the homes of the viewers. They are picked up by the aerials and conveyed to the receivers — to the television sets. There, they are finally converted back into the spots of light that make up the picture on the television screen.

1. In the first paragraph we are told that the television camera resembles the human eye in

________________.

A. one way B. two ways

C. three ways D. a large number of ways

2. The retina is _______________.

A. a lens B. a beam of light

C. a part of the brain D. a light-sensitive plate

3. The nerve fibers connecting these light-sensitive elements to the brain ________________.

A. all work together B. help each other

C. work independently D. work in small groups

4. A camera lens focuses an image on to _______________.

A. the subject

B. a surface made up of millions of light-sensitive elements

C. a television set

D. millions of photo-electric beams of light

5. The spots of light forming the image on the plate in a television camera are converted into

_____________.

A. electricity B. pictures C. an electronic device D. a wireless

Passage two

At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. “Get out of the classroom into a job,” it said, and Ron obeyed. His father, supporting the decision, found a place for him in a supermarket. “You’re lucky, Ron,” he said. “For every boy with a job these days, there’s a dozen with-out.” So Ron joined the working world at twenty pounds a week. For a year he spent his days filling shelves with tins of food. By the end of that time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.

One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart and a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a café run by an elderly man and his wife. Before he had finished his sandwich, the woman had taken him for the rest of

the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron’s breath away. At quite times, Ron had to check the old man’s arithmetic in the records of business.

At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of seventeen to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for three weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; he was the only one who could keep the books.

6. Why did Ron Mackie leave school at sixteen?

A. His father made him leave.

B. He had reached the age when he had to leave.

C. He left because he was worried about the future.

D. He left because he wanted to start work.

7. What did Ron’s father think about his leaving school?

A. He thought his son was doing the right thing.

B. He advised him to stay at school to complete his education.

C. He did not like the idea, but he helped Ron to find work.

D. He knew there was a job for every boy who wanted one.

8. It took about a year for Ron to realize that _____________.

A. he worked well because he was interested in the job.

B. his work at the supermarket was dull.

C. being at work was much better than going to school.

D. the stone manager wanted to get rid of him.

9. Why did Ron leave the supermarket?

A. He knew he would find work in Bournemouth.

B. he took a job as a lorry driver.

C. he gave up the job because he felt unwell.

D. he wanted to work at the seaside.

10. Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because _____________.

A. he got on well with the manager there.

B. he knew how to keep the accounts of the business.

C. he had had experience of selling books.

D. he was young and strong.

Passage three

A strict vegetarian is a person who never in his life eats anything derived from animals. The main objection to vegetarianism（素食主义）on a long-term basis is the difficulty of getting enough protein — the body-building element in food. If you have ever been without meat or other animal foods for some days of weeks (say, for religious reasons) you will have notice that you tend to get physically rather weak. You are glad when the fast（禁食）is over and you get your reward of a delicious meat meal.

Proteins are built up from about twenty food elements called “amino-acid” (氨基酸), which are found more abundantly in animal protein than in vegetable protein. This means you have to eat a great deal more vegetable than animal food in order to get enough of these amino-acids. A great

deal of the vegetable food goes to waste in this process and from the physiological（生理学的）point of view there is not much to be said in favor of life-long vegetarianism.

The economic side of the question, though, must be considered. Vegetable food is much cheaper than animal food. However, since only a small proportion of the vegetable protein is useful for body-building purposes, a consistent vegetarian, if he is to gain the necessary 70 grams (克) of protein a day, has to consume a great bulk of food than his digestive organs can comfortably deal with. In fairness, though, it must be pointed out that vegetarians claim they need far less than 70 grams of protein a day.

11. A strict vegetarian _________________.

A. rarely eats animal products

B. sometimes eats eggs

C. never eats any animal products

D. never eats protein

12. We feel weak when we go without meat and other animal products _________________.

A. because we are reducing our food amount

B. because we do not get enough protein

C. because vegetables do not contain protein

D. unless we take plenty of exercise

13. Proteins are built up from _________________.

A. about twenty different foods

B. about twenty different vegetables

C. various fats and sugars

D. about twenty different amino-acids

14. Physiologically, life-long vegetarianism may not be good because _________________.

A. it makes people very thin

B. the body must process too much waste

C. the farmer lose money

D. vitamin-deficiency diseases may result

15. One thing in favor of vegetarianism is that __________________.

A. vegetable food is easier to digest

B. animal food is less expensive

C. vegetable food is cheaper

D. it is good for the digestion

Passage four

We lost two superstars in 1977. Neither man’s admirers have been able to understand the success of the other one. And this tells us something of the difference between the generations that the two singers represent.

There were similarities between Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley. Both reached fame while quite young and became very rich. Although neither one had any musical education, both developed their own musical styles — styles which were at first scorned by the critics and later studied as new forms in the art of popular song. Both men had successful movie careers despite a total lack of acting ability.

Both were creations of the microphone, which made it possible for singers with weak voices to be heard beyond the third row. With Bing the microphone was usually hidden; but Elvis brought it to the stage, took it from its support, stroked it, pressed it to his lips.

The difference between the two men reflects the changing values in American life. Crosby’s music was soothing; Presley’s was disturbing. Crosby was singing to wartime America. His audiences had all the disturbances they could handle in their private lives; they did not want to buy more at the record shop and the movie theater.

Crosby’s admirers always said how “relaxed” he was, how “natural and easygoing.” When Presley began his career, the whole country had become relaxed and easygoing. Its young people, who had no memory of troubled times, found it boring. They were hungry for excitement. They welcomed Elvis, who was not soothing, and who was certainly not the kind of young man their parents would admire. Presley was loud, gaudy, and vulgar— and he was bringing something new and exciting.

It is probably too simple to explain each man in terms of changes in the economic and political situation. Something in the culture was also changing. Crosby’s songs were saying something; their “message” was as important to the audience as the music. The words were often sweet and sentimental; ordinary, perhaps, but Crosby — and Frank Sinatra after him — gave them life and meaning. People remembered them, sang them, and thought of them as true to life. Although many of Presley’s songs were, in fact, quite sentimental too, it was mostly the song that moved the audiences. Rock’n’roll was a “sound” event. Songs stopped being songs and turned into noise. The Crosby generation has trouble with rock’n’roll because it makes the mistake of trying to understand the words. The Presley generation has trouble with Crosby because it finds the music unexciting and the words empty. The mutual lack of understanding may be a sign of how far we have come from troubled times, and how deeply we now distrust the value of words.

16. Crosby and Presley’s music was ___________________.

A. criticized and then recognized as innovative

B. appreciated by the critics immediately

C. praised by the critics and then studied

D. developed by the critics

17. The difference between the two men ______________ the changing values in American life.

A. ruins B. disturbs C. soothes D. mirrors

18. Presley’s admirers found Crosby’s work _________________.

A. boring B. easy-going C. too relaxed D. natural

19. “Rock’n’roll was a ‘sound’event” means rock’n’roll was ____________.

A. musical B. moving C. noisy D. sentimental

20. This passage is chiefly about ___________________.

A. the troubled times that Crosby and Presley lived in

B. the contrast between Presley’s and Crosby’s music and their audiences

C. wartime America

D. noisy rock’n’roll

三、Translation.(20分)

1 、Sports medicine experts have observed for years that endurance athletes , particularly

females ,frequently have iron deficiencies. Now a new study suggests that even moderate exercise may lead to reduced iron in the blood of women.

2、The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on an island in 1886 . It has Barthddi’s mother’s face and his wife’s body, but he called it “my daughter, Liberty”.

3、Although scientists still can not predict earthquakes , they are learning a great deal about how the large plates in the earth’s crust move , the stresses between plates , how earthquakes work, and the general probability that a given place will have an earthquakes .

4、Most experts agree that it would be psychologically harmful if a child sensed he had been brought into the world simply as an organ donor.

5、Officially , the U.S Navy does not recognize the triangle as a danger zone and is convinced that “the majority of disappearances (in the triangle) can be attributed to the unique features of the area’s environment.”

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