宁波大学科学技术学院2012-1013学年第二学期大学英语2期末试题

试卷一 客观试题

Part I Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (48%)

Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or

statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

My daughter doesn’t know this, but it was Camels that my father, her grandfather, smoked. But before he smoked cigarettes made by manufacturers – when he was very young and very poor, with glowing eyes – he smoked Prince Albert tobacco in cigarettes he rolled himself. I remember the bright-red tobacco tin, with a picture of Queen Victoria’s partner, Prince Albert, dressed in a black dress coat and carrying a cane.

By the late forties and early fifties no one rolled his own anymore (and few women smoked) in my hometown of Eatonton, Georgia. The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. He never looked as fashionable as Prince Albert, though; he continued to look like a poor, overweight, hard-working colored man with too large a family, black, with a very white cigarette stuck in his mouth.

I do not remember when he started to cough. Perhaps it was unnoticeable at first, a little coughing in the morning as he lit his first cigarette upon getting out of bed. By the time I was sixteen, my daughter’s age, his breath was a wheeze, embarrassing to hear; he could not climb stairs without resting every third or fourth step. It was not unusual for him to cough for an hour.

I doubt he had much lung left at all, after coughing for so many years. He had so little breath that, during his last years, he was always leaning on something. One hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low, he died from “the poor man’s friend”, pneumonia. 1. When “my father” was very young and poor, he smoked ______.

A. Camels B. Marlboro

C. Prince Albert tobacco D. Queen Victoria tobacco 2. The underlined “smoked like chimneys” means ______.

A. smoking a lot B. smoking little

C. using a chimney to smoke

D. that the cigarettes look like chimneys

3. Which of the following CANNOT describe what “my father” looked like?

A. Poor.

B. Overweight. C. Hard-working.

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D. Fashionable.

4. When “my father’s” breath was a wheeze, ______.

A. he stopped coughing

B. he often coughed for less than an hour C. he felt rather difficult to climb stairs D. his breath was pleasant to hear 5. The underlined “left him low” means ______.

A. he was left to live in a low place B. his body was very weak C. he was not very happy

D. the speed at which he smoked was very low Passage Two

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

Eventually, however, the second stage of culture shock appears. This is “the hostility stage”. You begin to notice that not everything is as good as you had originally thought it was. You become tired of many things about the new culture. Moreover, people don’t treat you like a guest anymore. Everything that seemed to be so wonderful at first is now awful, and everything makes you feel distressed and tired.

Usually at this point in your adjustment to a new culture, you devise some defense mechanisms to help you cope and to protect yourself against the effects of culture shock. One type of coping mechanism is called “repression”. This happens when you pretend that everything is acceptable and that nothing bothers you. Another type of defense mechanism is called “regression”. This occurs when you start to act as if you are younger than you actually are; you act like a child. You forget everything, and sometimes you become careless and irresponsible. The third kind of defense mechanism is called “isolation”. You would rather be home alone, and you don’t want to communicate with anybody. With isolation, you try to avoid the effects of culture shock, or at least that’s what you think. Isolation is one of the worst coping mechanisms you can use because it separates you from those things that could really help you. The last type of defense mechanism is called “rejection”. With this coping mechanism, you think you don’t need anybody. You feel you are coping fine alone, so you don’t try to ask for help.

The defense mechanisms you utilize in the hostility stage are not helpful. If you only occasionally use one of these coping mechanisms to help yourself survive, that is acceptable. You must be cautious, however. These mechanisms can really hurt you because they prevent you from making necessary adjustments to the new culture.

6. When you are in the hostility stage, you try to feel better by ______.

A. becoming tired of many things about the new culture B. adjusting yourself to the new culture

C. experiencing the negative parts of the new culture D. devising some defense mechanisms

7. Which of the following is NOT the symptom of “the hostility stage” according to the passage?

A. You begin to feel upset and tired.

B. You start to notice that not everything is marvelous.

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C. You get bored with many things in the new culture. D. You become angry at many foreigners.

8. When does “repression” happen in “the hostility stage”?

A. When you pretend that you can accept everything and nothing troubles you. B. When you begin to act as if you are younger than you actually are. C. When you do not want to communicate with anybody.

D. When you do not need anybody and never ask anyone for help.

9. According to the passage, “isolation” is one of the worst coping mechanisms because you

______.

A. will be laughed at by foreigners

B. will become careless and irresponsible C. will be separated from those helpful things D. will be regarded as a child 10. In the writer’s eyes, one must be cautious even when occasionally using one of the defense

mechanisms because they prevent one from ______. A. feeling that these mechanisms are useful

B. making necessary adjustments to the new culture C. being easily affected by cultural differences

D. protecting himself against the effects of culture shock Passage Three

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

Each Indian was supposed to keep his birth name until he was old enough to earn one for himself. But his playmates would always give him a name of their own. No matter what his parents called him, his childhood friends would use the name they had chosen. Often it was not pleasing, such as Bow Legs or Bad Boy. But sometimes a name fit so well that the youngster found it difficult to shake it off. If he could not earn a better one from a war later, he could be stuck with a name like Bow Legs for the rest of his life.

The Indian earned his real name when he was old enough for his first fight against the enemy. His life name depended on how he acted during this first battle. When he returned from the war, the whole tribe would gather and observe the ceremony in which he would be given his name by the chief. If he had done well, he would get a good name. Otherwise he might be called Crazy Wolf or Man-Afraid-Of-a-Horse. So an Indian’s name told his record or described the kind of man he was.

A man was given many chances to improve his name, however. If in a later battle he was brave in fighting against the enemy, he was given a better name. Some of our great fighters had as many as twelve names – all good and each better than the last.

An Indian’s names belonged to him for the rest of his life. No one else could use them. Even he himself could not give them away because names were assigned by the tribe, not the family. So no man could pass on his name unless the chief and the tribe asked him to do so.

Sometimes an Indian would be asked to give his name to a son who had performed a noticed deed. I know of only three of four times when this happened. It is the rarest honor for a person – the honor of assuming (承担) his father’s name.

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11. Before an Indian earned his own name, ______ could give him a name besides his birth name.

A. his father B. the enemy

C. the chief of the tribe D. his childhood friends 12. Names were important to an Indian because ______.

A. their names were given by their fathers B. their names described their records

C. their names were chosen by their playmates D. their names were awarded by their chief

13. If an Indian had more than ten good names, it meant that ______.

A. he was a great fighter B. he had a lot of friends

C. many people in the tribe liked him D. he had fought in fewer than ten battles 14. The greatest honor an Indian could earn was ______.

A. a name given by the chief

B. the right to use his father’s name C. a ceremony to get his real name

D. a victory in his first battle against the enemy

15. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The names given by the playmates of an Indian were usually not pleasant. B. The life name of an Indian was earned in battle. C. An Indian had very few chances to better his name.

D. The Indians themselves were not allowed to give their names away.

Passage Four

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

Fred, a close friend of mine, lives with six hundred wild animals on a small island. Ever since he left school, where I first knew him, he has traveled all over Africa collecting animals for his zoo. He hoped to collect at least two animals of each kind on his island, like Noah before the Great Flood. But the flood that my friend was afraid of was a flood not of water, but of people. I expect you have heard of my friend; he writes books about his travels and about the wild and wonderful animals that he collects. The money from the books helps to pay for all the food that those animals eat.

Fred told me that when he was out looking for water last week (there is not enough water on the island, though there is plenty all around it), he found oil. He needs money for his travels, and for his zoo, and a little oil will buy enough water for a life time; but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it, it will be the end of his zoo and his life’s work.

So, if I know my friend, he will not tell anybody (but you and me) about what he found. 16. The writer got to know Fred when ______.

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A. Fred was at school

B. Fred began to write books C. Fred told him the secret

D. Fred began to collect animals

17. How many animals of each kind does Fred collect ______.

A. one B. two C. three

D. not mentioned 18. Fred is afraid of ______.

A. flood B. people C. oil

D. animals

19. Fred pays for the food that the animals eat by ______.

A. selling a little oil on his island B. traveling all over Africa

C. telling people about the secret

D. writing books about his travels and animals 20. Which of the following can be the best title for the story?

A. An Oil Finder

B. A Close Friend of Mine C. An Animal Collector D. A Man on an Island Passage Five

Questions 21 to 24 are based on the following passage:

The United Kingdom could find its full uniqueness in the two traditions – high tea and public houses.

The term “high tea” is used as a way to distinguish it from afternoon tea. It is called “high” tea because it was usually taken sitting atop stools in a tea shop or standing at a counter or buffet table. Also, “high” is used in the sense of well-advanced (like high noon, for example) to signify that it was taken later in the day. This ritual was first enjoyed by the English working class during the 1700s as a practical attempt to stave off (击退) hunger pangs between breakfast and supper, because eating just two daily meals was common at the time. Typically the fare of high tea is substantial (丰富的). It consists of a hot dish, followed by cakes and bread, butter and jam. Occasionally there would be cold cuts of meat, such as ham salad.

If high tea is about food, a pub which is formally called a public house is concerning the drink. The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns (酒馆). That is why visiting a pub is one of the Britain’s oldest forms of entertainment. The first pubs served only wine, but today they serve mainly beer and ale (麦芽酒). Modern pubs are often controlled by English breweries and only their owner’s products are sold there. To operate a pub in UK, a license which is difficult to obtain is required by law. Pubs open between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. every day except Sunday,

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when they must close at 10:30 p.m. The drinking age in Britain is 18, but fourteen-year-olds may enter a pub unaccompanied if they order a meal. Children may enter a pub with their parents until 9 p.m., which lets family enjoy reasonably priced pub meals together, and allows pubs to continue in their traditional roles as community centers.

21. Which of the following is NOT true concerning the reason why the first unique tradition is

entitled “high tea”?

A. The term indicates that it is different from afternoon tea.

B. People were sitting atop stools in a tea shop or standing at a counter or buffet table. C. It could make people feel high. D. It was taken later in the day. 22. What does the underlined word “fare” (Para.2, Line 6) mean in this passage?

A. An agenda of things to do. B. A paying (taxi) passenger. C. The sum of money charged.

D. The food and drink that are regularly consumed.

23. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Visiting a pub is the best way to talk about working or business in UK.

B. The law requires people to have a driving license if they want to open a pub.

C. Fourteen-year-olds are allowed to enter a pub for a meal even if they visit a pub alone. D. Pubs close half an hour earlier on Sundays because they are controlled by English breweries. 24. Why would families bring their children to the pub?

A. The pubs are community centers and the family could have a meal there. B. The meal is substantial in pubs who offer cakes and bread, butter and jam.

C. They want children to learn the law that the drinking age is 18 but not their ages. D. The parents cannot find people to babysit their children at home. Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (7%)

Directions: In this part, you will read one passage quickly and answer the following 7 questions

on the Answer Sheet with A (for YES), B (for NO) or C (for NOT GIVEN). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Deep Blues and Sunny Yellows

Vincent van Gogh is often remembered as the painter who cut off his ear in a fit (一阵) of passion. He was a lonely man who often went without food in order to buy paints, a man with few friends and a stormy temper. Van Gogh’s strong emotions not only affected his life, but his paintings as well.

Many of van Gogh’s paintings were inspired by warm, yellow sunlight because he loved how it could light up the world in different ways. His painting Sunflowers, for example, is filled with vivid yellows and browns. These colors give the painting a feeling of warmth and well-being. However, the sunflowers are actually dead and dying.

The result is a painting that mixes the warmth of life that van Gogh loved with the feelings of

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sadness that were all around him. It is a painting that is warm, beautiful and sad, all at the same time.

Van Gogh’s most famous painting, The Starry Night, takes this mixture of joy and sadness one step further. It is a landscape full of deep blues and shadows which represent the sadness van Gogh was feeling as he was painting, rather than what he was actually seeing.

This is why van Gogh’s images in his painting look more imagined than real. The stars and moon in The Starry Night are unusually bright, their light swirling (旋动) above the darkening hills. A tree that looks like black fire cuts through the view of the night, interrupting its beauty.

Because of his wild emotions, van Gogh was not understood during his life. He sold only one painting and never found true love. However, people today who stand in front of Sunflowers or The Starry Night can experience the same joy and sadness van Gogh once did, as he painted those deep blues and sunny yellows.

Famous works of Vincent van Gogh: (1885) The Potato Eaters (1888) Bedroom in Arles (1888) Café Terrace at Night (1888) The Red Vineyard (1889) The Starry Night (1889) Irises

(1889) Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (1889) Portrait de l’artiste sans barbe (1890) Portrait of Doctor Gachet 25. Van Gogh cut off his ear in order to attract attention from his friends. This statement is

______. A. True B. False

C. Not Given 26. According to the text, deep blues and sunny yellows reflect the joy and sadness van Gogh

once experienced. This statement is ______. A. True B. False

C. Not Given 27. Because of Van Gogh’s stormy temper, his wife left him when he was in trouble. This

statement is ______. A. True B. False

C. Not Given 28. The Starry Night was finished four years later than The Potato Eaters. This statement is

______. A. True B. False

C. Not Given

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29. Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, filled with vivid yellows and browns, was a painting of healthy plants.

This statement is ______. A. True B. False

C. Not Given 30. Van Gogh’s works tend to be imaginary because his paintings revealed what he felt rather than

what he saw in a real sense. This statement is ______. A. True B. False

C. Not Given 31. Van Gogh’s talent was not well recognized during his life. This statement is ______.

A. True B. False

C. Not Given

Part III Vocabulary and Structure (10%)

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four

choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 32. The boy broke the window, for ______ he was criticized by the teacher.

A. that B. this C. which D. what 33. I am very grateful ______ you ______ everything you have done for me. A. for; in B. to; in C. for; to D. to; for

34. Tom has a tense expression on his face, ______ he were expecting trouble to come at any moment.

A. as though B. even if C. even though D. in case 35. He had a pen in his hand when he came to the door to open it for me. He must ______ something. A. be writing B. have been writing C. write D. have been written 36. I am supposed to be resting and relaxing, but it is just a whole ______ of different things that have happened. A. bunk B. bunch C. bush D. bump 37. Every day the manager has to ______ to the chairman for how he spends the company’s money. A. accuse B. count C. account D. accord

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38. The football star seemed at his ______. He simply missed several chances to score.

A. worst B. most C. best D. least 39. The discovery seems to ______ that people lived here over 10,000 years ago. A. counsel B. compromise C. confirm D. congratulate

40. It is a real honor to have the opportunity of meeting the well-known artist ______ person. A. at B. to C. in D. for 41. Scientists have warned that the human race will run ______ the fresh water supply one day. A. over B. out of C. across D. after 42. It is a matter of that male businesspeople usually wear suits on formal occasions. A. convention B. conduct C. conversation D. consequence 43. My sole object was to get ______ from the snow, to get myself covered and warm. A. shell B. shelter C. shelf D. sheer 44. The old lady stopped and ______ the wall to rest for a moment. A. held on B. lived on C. counted on D. leaned on

45. It is a shame, ______ my viewpoint, that the article was copied instead of written by the author himself. A. in B. for C. from D. as 46. A good photograph can often ______ far more than words. A. deny B. depress C. confer D. convey 47. They tortured the man to make him ______ his crime. A. confess B. comment C. commit D. conduct

48. In manufacturing, cheaper materials are constantly being ______ for the more expensive kind. A. stimulated B. stereotyped C. specialized D. substituted 49. ______ the desert is like a sea, ______ is camel like a ship. A. As, as B. Such, as C. As, so D. Such, that 50. ______ the war lasts, ______ the people there will suffer. A. The more; the more B. The longer; the less

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C. The sooner; the less D. The longer; the more

51. The proposals deserve support as they give ______ to the needs of children.

A. order B. target C. priority D. requirement

Part IV Cloze (20%)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following two passages. For each blank there are four

choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best fits into the passages. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One

Gail and I had no 52 about what the future held 53 us as a married, mixed couple in America. The continual 54 of our strength was our mutual trust and respect.

We wanted to 55 the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only 56 ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were 57 , that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they 58 serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything 59 right. That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail’s parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were 60 a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect 61 our budding relationship. 52. A. hope C. belief 53. A. on C. for 54. A. source C. origin 55. A. copy C. forbid 56. A. find out C. find for 57. A. independent C. insignificant 58. A. overviewed C. overlooked 59. A. work out C. work on 60. A. going along C. going with

B. information

D. illusions B. to D. with B. resource D. initiative B. convey D. avoid B. finding out D. finding for B. incomplete D. incompatible B. oversaw D. overcame B. work in D. work at B. going down D. going through

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61. A. at C. on Passage Two

B. to

D. in

One aspect of American culture is a great belief in independence and self-reliance. Children are 62 to be independent. Many children are given 63 Americans call a “weekly allowance” and are inspired to have part-time jobs at young ages: for boys, newspaper routes, as for girls, baby-sitting. Parents often encourage their children to open 64 accounts, and some high school and college students have their own credit cards.

Although American families stress 65 , America is also a youth-oriented nation. In America, a great deal of public 66 is paid to children. In many American families, husband and wife will give up their own plans to go to a vacation 67 in order to please their children 68 choosing amusement parks like Disney World and Disneyland. The 69 industry in America is large and growing rapidly. Americans buy expensive toys for their children. For an American family, Christmas, Easter, and a child’s birthday are 70 events. All of these holidays 71 on the children. 62. A. forced C. encouraged 63. A. what C. where 64. A. school C. business 65. A. independence C. happiness 66. A. notice C. attention 67. A. spot C. park 68. A. in C. for 69. A. food C. clothing 70. A. major C. familiar 71. A. fall C. wait

B. considered

D. born B. which D. when B. stock D. bank B. affection D. enjoyment B. consideration D. care B. area D. zone B. by D. with B. toy D. housing B. family D. domestic B. depend D. center

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试卷二 主观试题

Part V Writing (15%)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic On the

Generation Gap. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:

1. 父母和孩子之间普遍存在代沟；

2. 代沟形成的原因（年龄，观点，缺少沟通等）； 3. 如何解决代沟问题

On the Generation Gap

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