全新版第二版综合B3U4-F
Part I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.
1.
A) T
B) F
Script: "Einstein was a space alien," laughs Harvard University physicist and science historian Peter Galison. "He was a man of his time."
正确答案： B
2.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein's interest in science and technology came naturally.
正确答案： A
3.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein had impressive powers of concentration.
正确答案： A
4.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein credited his discoveries to imagination and endless questioning more than orthodox intelligence.
正确答案： A
5.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein's brain looked much like any other, gray, crinkly, and, if anything, a trifle smaller than average.
正确答案： A
6.
A) T
B) F
Script: Later in life, Einstein produced a unified theory, combining gravity with other forces of nature.
正确答案： B
7.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein was slow in learning how to talk.
正确答案： A
8.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein developed his theory of special relativity starting in 1905, after taking a job at the Swiss patent office.
正确答案： A
9.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein loved America, appreciating that its bursts of exuberance were the result of freedom and individualism.
正确答案： A
10.
A) T
B) F
Script: Einstein discovered that nature was constructed in a wonderful way, and our task is to find out its mathematical structure.
正确答案： A
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
When we think of (11)_________________ people, the names that probably spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Pablo Picasso, a select and exceptionally (12)_________________ body of men with (13)_________________ talent and (14)_________________ . The tendency to regard creativity and imaginative thinking as the (15)_________________ province of a lucky few disregards the creative and imaginative aspects in the (16)_________________ of many o
f the tasks we regularly have to face — the (17)_________________ and development of new methods and techniques, the improvement of old methods, existing inventions and products. Everyone has creative ability to some extent. Creative talking involves posing oneself a problem and then originating or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new analogies, (18)_________________ , and/or new applications of things that are already known. It follows, then, that a creative person will exhibit great intellectual (19)_________________ . He will be alert and observant with a great store of information, which he will be able to sort out and combine in the solution of problems. He will be emotionally receptive to (20)_________________ ideas and will be less interested in facts than in their implications. Most important of all he will be able to communicate uninhibitedly (无拘无束地) and will not be too concerned about other people’s reaction to his apparently "crazy" notions. People called the Wright brothers mad but it did not stop them from becoming the first men to construct and fly a heavier-than-air craft.
Script: When we think of creative people, the names that probably spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Pablo Picasso, a select and exceptionally gifted body of men with rare talent and genius. The tendency to regard creativity and imaginative thinking as the exclusive province of a lucky few disregards the creative and imaginative aspects in the solution of many of the tasks we regularly have to face — the discovery and development of new methods and techniques, the improvement of old methods, existing inventions and products. Everyone has creative ability to some extent. Creative talking involves posing oneself a problem and then originating or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new analogies, discovering new combinations, and/or new applications of things that are already known. It follows, then, that a creative person will exhibit great intellectual curiosity and imagination. He will be alert and observant with a great store of information, which he will be able to sort out and combine in the solution of problems. He will be emotionally receptive to new and unconventional ideas and will be less interested in facts than in their implications. Most important of all he will be able to communicate uninhibitedly (无拘无束地) and will not be too concerned about other people’s reaction to his apparently "crazy" notions. People called the Wright brothers mad but it did not stop them from becoming the first men to construct and fly a heavier-than-air craft.
正确答案： creative
正确答案： gifted
正确答案： rare
正确答案： genius
正确答案： exclusive
正确答案： solution
正确答案： discovery
正确答案： discovering
new combinations
正确答案： curiosity and imagination
正确答案： new and unconventional
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Albert Einstein was 21 . For the third night in a row, his baby son Hans, crying, kept the household 22 until dawn. When Albert finally 23 , it was time to get up and go to work. He couldn't 24 a day. He needed the job to support his young family. Walking 25 to the Patent Office, where he was a "Technical Expert, Third Class," Albert worried about his mother. She was getting older and 26 , and she didn't 27 his marriage to Mileva. Relations were 28 . Albert 29 a passing shop window. His hair was a mess; he had forgotten to comb it again. Work. Family. 30 . Albert felt all the pressure and responsibility of any young husband and father.
A) exhausted B) disdain C) awake D) dozed off
E) skip F) briskly G) passionately H) frail
I) baffle J) approve of K) glanced at L) intuition
M) stimulate N) Making ends meet O) strained
21. ______________________
正确答案： A
22. ______________________
正确答案： C
23. ______________________
正确答案： D
24. ______________________
正确答案： E
25. ______________________
正确答案： F
26. ______________________
正确答案： H
27. ______________________
正确答案： J
28. ______________________
正确答案： O
29. ______________________
正确答案： K
30. ______________________
正确答案： N
Section B
Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.
Passage One
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
For about three centuries we have been doing science, trying science out, using science for the construction of what we call modern civilization. Every dispensable item of contemporary technology, from canal locks to dial telephones to penicillin, was pieced together from the analysis of data provided by one or another series of scientific experiments. Three hundred years seems a long time for testing a new approach to human inter-living, long enough to set back for critical appraisal of the scientific method, maybe even long enough to vote on whether to go on wi
th it or not. There is an argument.
Voices have been raised in protest since the beginning, rising in pitch and violence in the 19th century during the early stages of the industrial revolution, summoning urgent crowds into the streets on the issue of nuclear energy. "Give it back," say some of the voices, "It doesn't really work, we've tried it and it doesn't work. Go back three hundred years and start again on something else less chancy for the race of man."
The principal discoveries in this century, taking all in all, are the glimpses of the depth of our ignorance of nature. Things that used to seem clear and rational, and matters of absolute certainty — Newtonian mechanics, for example — have slipped through our fingers; and we are left with a new set of gigantic puzzles, cosmic uncertainties, and ambiguities. Some of the laws of physics are amended every few years; some are canceled outright; some undergo revised versions of legislative intent as if they were acts of Congress.
Just thirty years ago we call it a biological revolution when the fantastic geometry of the DNA molecule was exposed to public view and the linear language of genetics was decoded. For a while, things seemed simple and clear: the cell was a neat little machine, a mechanical device ready for taking to pieces and reassembling, like a tiny watch. But just in the last few years it has become almost unbelievably complex, filled with strange parts whose functions are beyond today’s imagining.
It is not just that there is more to do, there is everything to do. What lies ahead, or what can lie ahead if the efforts in basic research are continued, is much more than the conquest of human disease or the improvement of agricultural technology or the cultivation of nutrients in the sea. As we learn more about fundamental processes of living things in general we will learn more about ourselves.
31.
What CANNOT be inferred from the first paragraph?
A) Scientific experiments in the past three hundred years have produced many valuable items.
B) For three hundred years there have been people holding a hostile attitude toward science.
C) Modern civilization depends on science so man supports scientific progress unanimously.
D) Some people think three hundred years is not long enough to set back for critical appraisal of scientific method.
正确答案： C
32.
The principal discovery in this century shows ________.
A) man has overthrown Newton's laws of physics
B) man has solved a new set of gigantic puzzles
C) man has lost many scientific discoveries
D) man has given up some of the once accepted theories
正确答案： D
33.
Now scientists have found in the past few years ________.
A) the exposure of DNA to the public is unnecessary
B) the tiny cell in DNA is a neat little machine
C) man k
nows nothing about DNA
D) man has much to learn about DNA
正确答案： D
34.
The writer's main purpose in writing the passage is to say that ________.
A) science is just at its beginning
B) science has greatly improved man's life
C) science has made profound progress
D) science has done too little to human beings
正确答案： A
35.
The writer's attitude towards science is ________.
A) critical
B) approving
C) neutral
D) regretful
正确答案： C
Passage Two
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person to one's side in the Philippines, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell.
Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and language of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world.
Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four language on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual (多语的) guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them.
When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives — usually the richer — who speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters.
For many years, America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance. After all, America was the most powerful country of the world, the distributor of needed funds and goods.
But all that is past. American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs; we want to ha
ve a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even tough it may not always be the upper hand.
36.
It can be inferred that Americans being approached too closely by Middle Easterners would most probably ________.
A) stand still
B) jump aside
C) step forward
D) draw back
正确答案： D
37.
The author gives many examples to criticize Americans for their ________.
A) cultural self-centeredness
B) casual manners
C) indifference towards foreign visitors
D) arrogance towards other cultures
正确答案： A
38.
In countries other than their own most Americans ________.
A) are isolated by the local people
B) are not well informed due to the language barrier
C) tend to get along well with the natives
D) need interpreters in hotels and restaurants
正确答案： B
39.
According to the author, American's cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance will _______.
A) affect their image in the new era
B) cut themselves off from the outside world
C) limit their role in world affairs
D) weaken the position of the US dollar
正确答案： C
40.
The author's intention in writing this article is to make Americans realize that _______.
A) it is dangerous to ignore their foreign friends
B) it is important to maintain their leading role in world affairs
C) it is necessary to use several languages in public places
D) it is time to get acquainted with other cultures
正确答案： D
Part III Vocabulary and Structure ( 11 minutes )
Directions: There are a number of incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.
41.
I just _________ to see whether you've recovered or not.
A) come up with
B) come by
C) come away
D) come in
正确答案： B
42.
In his fifties, Dr. Brown became director of the chemical company, a position he ________ for the rest of his life.
A) attained
B) cherished
C) expanded
D) retained
正确答案： D
43.
He has learnt to deal properly with all kinds of _____________ situations.
A) compliant
B) compliment
C) complicated
D) involved
正确答案： C
44.
His mother does not approve ______________ abroad.
A) for his going
B) him to go
C) of his going
D) of him to go
正确答案： C
45.
A carpet is a textile __________.
A) cloth
B) stuff
C) goods
D) fabric
正确答案： D
46.
I tried to find out ________ that made Jimmy so distressed, but I failed.
A) what is
B) what was it
C) what it
D) what it was
正确答案： D
47.
_________ driving around all day looking for somewhere to park, why don’t you try taking a bus into town?
A) More than
B) Other than
C) Better than
D) Rather than
正确答案： D
48.
I tried to attract her attention but she was ________ in conversation with her boyfriend.
A) engrossed
B) engrossing
C) plunging
D) plunged
正确答案： A
49.
Evidence given by convicted criminals should always be treated with ________.
A) care
B) caution
C) awareness
D) carefulness
正确答案： B
50.
The lighting of the Olympic torch ______ peace and friendship among the nations of the world.
A) symbolizes
B) insures
C) illustrates
D) imposes
正确答案： A
51.
The teacher blows her ______ at the end of play-time.
A) smoke
B) whistle
C) pipe
D) chance
正确答案： B
52.
If you can, chat with one of the gray-haired guards, and you may hear the story of how his great-grandfather left his mountain ______ to come work for the Vanderbilts.
A) den
B) chart
C) cabin
D) locality
正确答案： C
53.
He had the long ______ fingers of a pianist.
A) fatty
B) slender
C) chilly
D) remarkable
正确答案： B
54.
The literal meaning of rhapsody (狂热、狂想) is "rapture, ecstasy, joy". Here, "rhapsodies" is used ______, meaning "mournful cries".
A) dramatically
B) genetically
C) mechanically
D) ironically
正确答案： D
55.
The men were ______ in layers of filth and grime.
A) scoured
B) caked
C) pried
D) detected
正确答案： B
56.
Computer networks have enabled us to communicate freely by ______ mails with people from all over the world.
A) dramatic
B) domestic
C) virgin
D) electronic
正确答案： D
57.
There are certain standards of civilized behavior in international relations which it should be possible to _______ in the family of nations.
A) take for granted
B) come into being
C) be occupied
D) be intent on
正确答案： A
58.
She won the competition three times in a _____.
A) chain
B) line
C) row
D) bank
正确答案： C
59.
Bread and butter _______ what Americans usually have for breakfast.
A) are
B) is
C) was
D) were
正确答案： B
60.
His appearance has changed so much that you ______ well not recognize him.
A) can
B) may
C) maybe
D) could
正确答案： B
Part IV Translation ( 10 minutes )
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English (with the given words or phrases).
61. 这个公司的成功归功于全体员工的努力。
________________________________________
正确答案： The success of the company can be credited to the staff’s effort.
62. 我对他的行为有点困惑。
________________________________________
正确答案： I’m a trifle puzzled at his behavior.
63. 物价上涨会引发增加收入的需求。
________________________________________
正确答案： Rising prices will stimulate demands for higher incomes.
64. 中午我正在打盹的时候电话铃响了。
________________________________________
正确答案： I was dozing off at noon when the phone rang.
65. 考虑到他如此贫寒的出身，他的成就显得愈加不平凡。
________________________________________
正确答案： His achievement was more remarkable in that he had come from such a poor family.