大学英语2总复习题库

《大学英语2》综合复习资料

I. Use of English (20%)

1. — I haven’t seen Billy for 10 years. — ________

A. Either have I. B. So have I. C. Haven’t I. D. Neither have I. 2. — What would you like, tea or coffee? — _________

A. Yes, I would. B. Coffee, please. C. Yes, please. D. It’ very nice. 3. — Do you know who telephoned me? — ________

A. I heard it was Sally. B. Yes, I remember it now. C. No, I didn’t phone you. D. Yes, I know you well. 4. — Excuse me, how far is the airport from here? — _________

A. You can take a taxi. B. It’s about thirty miles. C. I’ll fly to Sydney. D. It’s only six hundred dollars. 5. — I’ve got two tickets for the match. Shall we go and watch it together? — _________

A. The tickets must be expensive. B. The match must be exciting. C. Why not? Let’s go. D. The place is too far away. 6. — I was worried about chemistry, but Mr. Brown gave me an A! — _________.

A. Don’t worry about it B. Congratulations! That’s a difficult course C. Mr. Brown is very good D. Good luck to you! 7. — I’d like to book a flight to Shanghai, please. — ________.

A. No, of course not B. Do you mind if I said no? C. Yes, sir, single or return? D. You can’t. We are busy

8. — I learned that you won the 100-meter race this morning. Congratulations! — _________. A. Thank you B. No, I can’t say I did well in the race C. Just lucky D. No, no. I ran slowly 9. — Can I help you, sir? — ________. A. It’s all right B. I don’t mind C. No, I’m leaving soon D. Thanks. I’m just having a look 10. — Excuse me, is this seat free? — __________.

A. No, you can’t sit here B. Sorry, it is taken C. Yes, it is seated by a boy D. Yes, but I don’t know 11. — Hello, could I speak to Don, please?

— __________ A. Who are you? B. Who’s there? C. Who could I help? D. Who’s speaking? 12. — May I help you, madam? — _________

A. Sorry, I have no idea. B. Yes, I know what to say. C. You’d better give me a hand. D. Yes, I’d like 2 kilos of oranges. 13. — What about going for a walk? — _________ A. It’s good for you. B. That’s all right. C. So, do I. D. Why not? A good idea. 14. — I think the Internet is very helpful. — _________ A. Yes, so do I. B. It’s a very good idea. C. Neither do I. D. I’d rather go surfing on it. 15. — Will you go on a picnic with us tomorrow? — ___________

A. Yes, but I’ll have English classes. B. Sorry, I have an appointment with Dr. Brown. C. I’m afraid I have no idea. D. I won’t. It’s kind of you. 16. — Do you have the time? — Sorry, I have no watch. — ________________

A. What a shame! B. Thanks anyway. C. It doesn’t matter. D. Why not buy one? 17. — May I see the dentist now?

—______________.

A. Is it a real emergency? B. Do you have an appointment?

C. In that case, you’ll have to wait.

D. I’ll talk to the dentist and squeeze you in. 18. — ＄1,500, but that’s my last offer.

— OK. It’s a ________________. A. cost B. price C. reward D. deal

19. — We were talking about the new play ________, remember? — Yes, I enjoyed it very much.

A. the other day B. another day C. some day D. other day 20. — You keep on coughing. What’s the matter?

— Oh, I’ve got a cold. Nothing serious, ________.

A. yet B. indeed C. though D. anyway

II. Reading Comprehension (40%) Passage 1

Amy Johnson was a pioneer airwoman in Britain. She was born on July 1, 1903, in Yorkshire

and lived there until 1923 when she went to Sheffield University to study for a BA. After graduation she took a job as a secretary to a London lawyer. At the same time she became interested in aviation（飞行）, and to succeed in some project which would prove to the world that women could be as competent as men in a male-dominated field in those days.

Early in 1930, she chose her objective: to fly solo to Australia and to break the previous record of 16 days. Her parents and some of her friends lent her money to buy a used airplane.

Amy set off on May 5, 1930. Her route took her over Vienna and Baghdad. She was caught in a sandstorm and had to make an emergency landing in the desert. Six days later she landed in India. After experiencing much hardship, she finally reached Australia on May 24, completing a flight of 11,000 miles. She was the first woman to fly alone to Australia. In later years, she set several other records in flight history.

21. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Amy Johnson’s life story as a female flyer. B. Amy Johnson’s great contribution to aviation. C. Amy Johnson’s determination to be a pilot. D. Amy Johnson’s flight to Australia.

22. When did Amy Johnson become interested in flying? A. In 1923. B. In 1930.

C. After she received a BA.

D. After graduation from Yorkshire University. 23. How long did it take her to fly to Australia? A. 17 days. B. 18 days. C. 19 days. D. 20 days. 24. How was Amy Johnson’s flight to Australia? A. Exciting. B. Unpleasant. C. Disappointing. D. Difficult. 25. What can be concluded from the passage?

A. Amy Johnson’s parents were rich and generous. B. Amy Johnson’s dream came true.

C. Amy Johnson was the first woman who owned an airplane.

D. Amy Johnson was the first pilot to fly to Australia all by herself.

Passage 2

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

During the hours when you labor through your work, you may say that you’re \ That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic (精力充沛) is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes before noon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar sayings as: “Get up, John! You’re late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening, Much family quarrelling ends when husbands

and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll work better at your low point.

Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. When you get up, sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

26. According to the new findings of Dr. Kleitman, if a person finds getting up early a problem,

most probably_______. A. he is a lazy person

B. he refuses to follow his own energy cycle C. he is not sure when his energy is low

D. he is at his energy peak in the afternoon or evening

27. Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage? A. Unawareness of energy cycles. B. Familiar saying.

C. A change in a family member’s energy cycle.

D. Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.

28. If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should______. A. change his energy cycle B. overcome his laziness C. get up earlier than usual D. go to bed earlier

29. You are advised to act slow when you rise in the morning because it will______. A. help to keep your energy for the day’s work B. help you to control your mood early in the day C. enable you to concentrate on your routine work D. keep your energy cycle under control all day 30. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one’s energy.

B. Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of day. C. Habit helps one adapt to his own energy cycle. D. Children have energy cycles, too. Passage 3

Pigeons have been used as messengers for 500 years, because of their special ability to find home. The mystery of the homing pigeon is on how it navigates and how it finds home. We now know that there are two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun. Just getting rough directions from the sun is easy. However, getting accurate directions from the sun takes more care. To tell direction accurately from the sun, one needs to know the exact time.

All plants and animals seem to have built-in clocks. Usually these biological clocks are not quite exact in measuring time. However, they work pretty well, because they are “reset” every day, maybe when the sun gets up.

Do pigeons use their biological clocks to help them find direction from the sun? We can

experiment to find out. We can keep pigeons in a room lighted only by lamps. And we can time the lighting to make their artificial “days” start at some different time from the real outside day. After a while we have shifted their clocks. Now we take them far away from home and let them go on a sunny day. Most of them start out as if they know just which way to go, but choose a wrong direction. They have picked a direction that would be correct for the position of the sun and the time of day according to their shifted clocks.

The above experiment shows that homing pigeons can tell directions by the sun. What happens when the sky is darkly overcast by clouds and no one can see where the sun is? The pigeons still find their way home. So it seems that pigeons also have some extra sense of direction from the earth’s magnetic field when they cannot see the sun.

31. Pigeons have been used as messengers, for they have special ability ______. A. to send letters B. to find home C. to carry food for men D. to lead the way for people 32. The secret of the homing pigeons is _______. A. how they find food B. how they find home C. how they take a letter D. how they take care of children 33. All plants and animals reset their biological clocks when _______. A. the sun rises B. the sun sets C. the moon rises D. the moon sets

34. The experiment tells us that the pigeons fly ______ because of the shifted biological clocks. A. in a wrong direction B. in a correct direction C. in all directions D. in a circle

35. Pigeons have ______ to tell the direction when it is cloudy by using the earth’s magnetic field. A. sharp eyes B. sensitive hearing C. sense of direction D. brain waves

Passage 4

Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very few — for example, the average among students is about 6 per person. In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their shared interest vary enormously. As we get to know people we take into account things like age, race, economic condition, social position, and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a marked difference in age and background.

Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs, to have attitudes and interests in common — they often talk about“being on the same wavelength”. It generally takes time to reach this point. And the more intimately involved people become, the more they rely on one another. People want to do friends favors and hate to break a promise. Equally, friends have to learn to put up with annoying habits and to tolerate differences of opinion.

In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the association

between two people. But the supporting and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.

36. According to the author, ______.

A. all those who get on well with each other are friends B. every student has 6 friends

C. everyone understands clearly how to make friends

D. friends are closer than people who just get on well with each other

37. When we make friends, we consider such things as age, race, and background, because

______.

A. it is not easy to have a friendly relationship with people when there is a marked difference in

age and background

B. the degree of friendship between two people and the reason for their shared interest can vary

greatly

C. friends need to know all these things

D. these are the most important factors to make friends

38. In Paragraph 2,“being on the same wavelength” means “______”. A. using the same frequency while talking

B. keeping the same friendly relationship as other people do C. having similar ideas, beliefs, attitudes and interests D. having the same background

39. Which of the following is NOT implied or directly stated in the passage? A. Even friends may have differences of opinions. B. Friends never argue with each other.

C. It generally takes time for people to become close friends. D. Someone’s habits may annoy his friends.

40. To strengthen friendly relationship, people______. A. must hold friendship ceremonies

B. have to eliminate differences in background

C. should make friends with those who are of the same age and of the same race

D. should support and understand each other through shared experiences and emotions Passage 5

Have you ever wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colors? Colors in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.

Birds, especially seagulls, are very fond of locusts, but birds cannot easily catch locusts because locusts change their colors together with the change of the color of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown color as crops have. Some other pests with different colors from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they have to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at night.

If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of coloring is to protect themselves. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usually invisible to the eyes of hunters, because they have the color much like the barks of trees.

An even more strange act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a

kind of very black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over, its enemies cannot find it, and it immediately swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all.

41. This passage mainly talks about ______. A. the change of color in locusts

B. the protective coloration of animals and pests C. how a certain sea fish protects itself

D. animals or pests can dye themselves different colors

42. Locusts are not easily wiped out by their enemies because ______. A. they are powerful enough

B. they are dangerous to their enemies C. they take on the same colors as crops D. they fly extraordinarily fast

43. The pests that have different colors from plants usually appear at night because ______. A. birds take their rest when night comes

B. their enemies can easily find them and eat them C. they have the habit of coming out in darkness D. it’s easy for them to destroy plants in darkness

44. Bears and wolves have the same colors as barks of trees because ______. A. they fear other beasts

B. they prefer brown or grey colors

C. they enjoy walking through forests quietly

D. the colors help prevent themselves from being noticed

45. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of years because ______. A. it is the most powerful in the sea

B. it can swim much faster than any other fish

C. it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it D. it can send out a kind of liquid which can kill its enemies

Passage 6

Every country has its heroes. They may be soldiers or sports people, doctors or film stars. We admire them for their courage, their strength, their devotion to duty or their talent. Their example inspires us to live better, to work harder.

Terry Fox was a young student who loved life and who loved sports. When he was just 18 years old a terrible tragedy occurred: his right leg had to be cut off because of cancer. Such an experience would have destroyed a weaker person — but Terry Fox was a fighter. He refused to give up. Instead, while he was recovering from the operation, an idea slowly formed in his mind. He decided he would run across Canada — in order to raise money for cancer research.

Slowly and carefully, he began to train. Every step was extremely painful, but he insisted, increasing the distance covered day by day. Sixteen months later, in the spring of 1980, he was ready for the long journey across Canada — his Marathon of Hope. It was a time of inspiration and heartbreaking emotion. Through television, every home saw his distinctive style of running — a kind of half-hop and half-run. Thousands of people lined the route to encourage him and to

wish him well. They also gave money to fight cancer. Then, on September the 1st 1980, after 143 days and more than 5000 kilometers completed, everything came tragically to an end. Terry had to stop. He lived on for another nine months and died on June the 28th 1981. He was almost 23. 46. Terry Fox was a ______. A. student B. movie star C. soldier D. sportsman

47. What idea was gradually formed in Terry’s mind during his recovering stage? A. Earning money. B. Cutting off the other leg. C. Running across the country. D. Exercising hard. 48. Terry Fox started his Marathon of Hope ______. A. in September of 1980 B. in the spring of 1980 C. in June of 1981 D. in the fall of 1981 49. Terry Fox ran his journey ______.

A. with thousands of people supporting him B. without raising any money

C. with few people watching him on TV

D. with his teachers and classmates following him 50. The author’s attitude to Terry Fox is ______. A. sympathetic B. jealous C. indifferent D. admiring

Passage 7

You are a German living in Berlin. One day you’re walking down the street, minding your own business, when suddenly a stranger approached with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he holds a small electronic device close to his face and speaks slowly into it, saying, in English: “Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?” What should you do? (A. Run away; (B. Call the police; or, (C. Listen closely for the device to say, in German, “Konnen Sie mir bitte sager, which Sauerkraut Kaufen Kann?”

The most appropriate response would be (C. because the person in front of you is only a tourist trying to enjoy himself. The device is said to he the world’s first portable transistor—a hand-held microcomputer that—at the same time converts one spoken language into another.

The four-pound battery-operated product is called the Voice, and it is the creation of Advanced Products and Technologies an American electronics company. When the Voice is introduced in the United States in late April—at a price of $1,500—it will be capable of converting spoken English into Italian, German, French and Spanish. The product comes with separate cartridges (盒式储存器) for each of the four languages, which can be changed when the user travels from one country to another. The item will be sold in Europe soon after the U.S. Introduction, with cartridges that covert Italian, German, French and Spanish into English.

The Voice uses a microchip (微型集成块) and artificial Intelligence to translate Languages. It is started by voice command and produces voice output through a built-in speaker. Then the user makes a statement or asks a question, the Voice immediately repeats what has been said in another Language.

51. The stranger holding the Voice seems to be ________.

A. asking for some information

B. greeting the German C. amusing himself D. practising his German

52. The German sentence “Konnen Sie Kann?” means ________.

A. “Why don’t you ask the policeman.”

B. “Would you listen closely for the device to say?” C. “Can you say it again, please?”

D. “Can you tell me where I can buy some sauerkraut?” 53. The word “speaker” in the last paragraph refers to ________.

A. the person who speaks to the device B. a component part of the Voice C. the person who speaks German D. the speech produced by the Voice 54. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. The voice is an invention of an electronics company. B. The voice is a hand-held translator. C. The voice is new product in wide use. D. The voice is mainly a microcomputer. 55. The Voice can translate ________.

A. from German into any of the other four languages mentioned B. from and into English by using the same cartridges C. between any two of the above-mentioned languages

D. from English into any of the other four languages or the other way round

Passage 8

Editor:

While a new school term is about to begin, perhaps we should reconsider the matter of examinations. In July, two writers (Letters to the Editor) praised the cancellation of exams because they believe “tests don’t tell the whole story.”

As a teacher who has worked in four countries, I have had the experience that a student who earns good marks is generally a good student, and that a student’s final mark in a subject is usually a grade average of the year’s work. Of course there are exceptions, but they do not have the frequency that would give an unfair picture of a student’s ability.

The simple fact is that proper class work, diligent exam studies and good marks are almost certain indicators of a student’s future performance. The opposite, almost certainly, incompetence. There is no acceptable substitute for competition and examination of quality. How can teachers and future officials determine what a student has learned and remembered? Should we simply take the student word for it? Any institution that “liberates” students from fair and formal exams is misguided, if not ignorant. And surely the “graduates” of such institutions will lack trustworthiness, not to mention being rejected by foreign universities for graduate or other studies. When all is said and done, I sense that a fear of failure and a fear of unpleasant comparison with others is at the bottom of most ban-exams (废除考试) talk. Excellence and quality fear nothing. On the contrary, they seek competition and desire the satisfaction of being the best.

56. Which of the following will the author of this passage probably agree with?

A. Tests are not effective in measuring the students’ abilities. B. Tests are an effective measure of the students’ abilities. C. Tests can only measure some of the students’ abilities. D. Tests may not be useful for measuring students’ abilities. 57. The two writers mentioned in the first paragraph ________.

A. opposed judging students by the results of exams B. must have proposed other ways of testing students C. regarded exams as a way of punishing students

D. seem to be worried about the poor marks of their students 58. According to the letter, a student’s final mark ________.

A. is often encouraging

B. often gives a fair picture of the year’s work C. often proves unreliable

D. often tells whether he likes the subject of not

59. If a student graduated from a university which does not require exams he would ________.

A. have to continue his studies B. have a feeling of failure C. be incompetent D. not be admitted by foreign institutions

60. According to the letter, those who dislike the idea of examinations are probably afraid of ________.

A. competing with other students B. being graded unfairly C. working too hard D. being dismissed from school

III. Vocabulary and Structure (30%)

61. The more difficult the problems are, ______ able to solve them. A. I am the less likely B. the less likely I am C. I am less the likely D. the likely less I am 62. Every spare minute he gets is spent ______ his car. A. to wash B. in wash C. washing D. on washing 63. Don’t get off the bus until it ______. A. has stopped B. stopped C. will stop D. shall stop

64. ______ one occasion he helped an old woman who was in danger ______ the risk of his life. A. In, as B. On, at C. By, with D. At, in 65. —When ______ again?

—When he ______, I’ll let you know. A. he comes, comes B. will he come, will come C. he comes, will come D. will he come, comes 66. Hardly ______ the classroom when the class began.

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