大学英语测试卷.docx

Passage 1
My neighbour Mitzi is a very bright 3-year-old who often comes over to my house to ask questions. We were taking a walk one day and I noticed that about 10 feet ahead and off to the side of our path was a dead bird. Well, Mitzi is a curious child and rather than get involved with a lot of questions about a dead bird. I made a detour and directed her attention in the opposite direction. I learned then that if you don’t want a 3-year-old to see something you step on it. Walking around it only makes it more obvious.
“What’s that?” Mitzi asked.
“It is a dead bird,” I responded.
As we approached the bird, she questioned further, ”What’s dead?”
“Dead is when the bird’s heart doesn’t go thump-thump anymore. The bird doesn’t breathe. It can’t sing or fly anymore.”
“Oh,” she acknowledged and started to pick up the bird. The bird had been dead for several days, so stopped her from touching it, giving her a stick instead to investigate the bird with. Very carefully she turned the bird over. There were worms and bugs on the bird, but this didn’t bother(烦扰)Mitzi at all. I made sure she couldn’t see my face because it bothered me.
“Can I take it home?” she asked. I suggested that instead, we cover it with leaves, and Mitzi agreed.
She gathered a bunch of leaves, and as she placed them on the bird, Mitzi asked, ”Do birds go to heaven?”
I thought to myself, here we go. I’d learned a long time ago that Mitzi frequently has her own ideas about what she asks, so I responded, ”Do you think birds go to heaven?”
She thought for a while and decided that they did. She continued to gather leaves and place them on the bird. All at once started taking leaves off the bird and announced, ” It won’t work.”
I knew things had been going too smoothly. ”What won’t work, Mitzi?”
“The bird can’t be in heaven and still be on the ground.” She sat down next to the bird and used the stick to poke(拨弄)at it. I was trying to figure out how to explain things to her without adding to her confusion when her face brightened and she asked, ”Can part of a bird go to heaven? ”
“What part?” I asked.
“The part that made the bird sing and fly.”
I put my arm around her and answered, ” Yes.” Together we covered the bird and continued on our walk.
1. While taking a walking, Mitzi and I found a dead bird____.
A) in the middle of the path B) far away from where we were
C) just outside my house D) near the path we were walking along
2. At the sight of the dead bird, I ____.
A) was anxious to tell Mitzi to look at it
B) tried to distract Mitzi from gazing on it
C) stepped on it for fear that Mitzi got frightened
D) was caught up in conversation with Mitzi over the bird
3. In the passage the expression similar to “make a detour” is ____.
A) come over B) walk around it
C) add to her confusion D) continue on our walk
4. None of the following statements is true except ____.
A)i was bothered by Mitzi’s one question after another
B) Mitzi was a little girl who kept asking silly questions
C) The bird died a few days ago, covered with leaves
D) My explanation of “dead” was easy enough for Mitzi to understand
5. The meaning of “Here we go” is ____.
A) we, like the bird, would also go to heaven
B) we could begin our discussion about the bird
C) she raised her own question, as I had expected
D) she needed to be taught more

Passage2
Roger Conner is a modern-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop. He has become the owner of a florist company whose sales are well over ￥100，000 a year.
One day when Roger was only twelve, he stopped at a local flower shop. He asked the owner if he could work for him, without pay, in order to learn the business. Roger started working every day after school and on weekends. After two years on the job，he finally asked for a small salary. The owners told him he ”wasn‘t good enough to be paid.” So he quit, and found a paying job at another local flower shop. He worked hard there, but after six months they laid him off because business was slow.
Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement. He started his business with only sixty-five dollars. He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out. This turned them into coolers for his flesh-cut flowers. His business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation(声誉) for top quality and fine service.
In 1977, Roger bought out the flower store where he had worked without pay for over two years. The people who said he “wasn’t good enough” were astonished to find that they were being taken over by a teenager. He had plans to renovate the whole store.
One of the reasons the owners sold out to Roger was that the store wasn’t doing well.But after Roger took over ownership and redid the
store，business started booming. In fact, business was so good after that one year, he celebrated by buying out the other store where he had worked. Roger then combined both stores and moved to a location in the center of his town.
The new store has2,000 square feet and seven employees. And he did it all before he reached the age of twenty.
6. The author is most eager to show that people who want to get ahead in business should______
A) work without pay. B) work hard and be persistent.
C) own a flower shop. D) work as teenagers.
7. Which of the following does NOT describe Roger Comer’s history in business?
A) He worked for two years without pay．
B) He needed luck to be successful．
C) He opened his first flower business in a basement．
D) He opened a store in the middle of his town
8. The style of the passage is mostly like a ____
A) newspaper article. B) television play.
C) humorous story. D) magazine interview．
9. Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the word” renovate” in the fourth paragraph?
A) relocate B) resell C) rebuild D) repaint
10. Which of the following statements about Roger Conner is NOT true? 
A) He gave customers better service than the other shops ha had worked for.
B) He was a very brave and heroic young man． 
C) He worked hard without pay in a flower shop, in order to get to know the business.
D) He is free to make decisions on the location of his shop.

Passage 3
Samoa Sasa sat cross-legged in his one-room, open-air home, and said through an interpreter: ”I am frightened by the sounds of progress everywhere. For most of my fifty years the time has stood still in Samoa. Now western-style homes are springing up around the village and the young men are leaving for New Zealand. In the town there are people from all over the world telling my government that what we need is progress. I don’t understand what all this progress is.”
He stood up and drove away some chickens strutting across the floor mats. He went on slowly:” The people of Luantuanauu Village and my eight children have always worked the banana plantations and respected the custom that the Matais (family chiefs) represented absolute authority.” Sasa himself was a Matais.” All the people in the old days owned all the land communally, they elected a parliament and they administered justice in each village, so there was little for our policemen to do. All that too has changed.”
He puffed at his clay pipe and went on:” We are a poor country and change must come, but I do not want it so fast. I do not want my children to go to New Zealand to look for big money. I want them to stay here in Luantuanauu and work our plantations as we have always done.”
The confusion Sasa feels is shared by many of the 150,000 Western Samoans--and undoubtedly by the peoples of other newly independent, developing nations as well.
Mr. Felise Vala, the young editor of the Samoan Times, expresses another point of view. “Already the streets are being torn up for a new road system that the island badly needs. A hospital is being rebuilt and a new one-million-pound hotel is being opened to promote tourism. We are modernizing the communications system and the Japanese have built sawmills and are building houses. We are being forced into the twentieth century. Of course many of our people are not sure that they want all this. Many want modern enjoyment but they don’t want to throw away our culture to get them. There is no easy answer because in many ways our culture slows down progress and development. The question people are asking is: what is balance between the past and the future?”
11. What do we learn from the passage about Samoa?
A) It is a newly independent, developing country.
B) It is still in a fairly backward state.
C) It is a country with agriculture as its major economy.
D) All of the above.
12. In the past fifty years or so, _____.
A) Samoa has had little progress.
B) Samosans have built lots of western-style houses.
C) People from different parts of the world have come to settle down in Samoa.
D) Young Samoans have kept leaving for New Zealand.
13. A Matais used to have absolute control over ____.
A) Samoa B) his village C) his family D) his plantations
14. In the past, according to Samoa Sasa, the police_____.
A) had to work very hard maintain law and order
B) were required to pay high respects to Matais
C) had almost nothing to do
D) administered justice in each village
15. We are told that many people in Samoa_____.
A) are eager to have rapid progress
B) find it difficult to choose between old and modern lives
C) do not want modern enjoyment
D) prefer to live the kind of life they are used to

Passage 4
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor: you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit motionless before his class: he stands the whole time while teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teachers work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand.
What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience, which is his glass. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
16. The passage is mainly about____.
A) how to become an ordinary teacher
B) what a good teacher should do outside the classroom
C) what teachers and actors could learn from each other
D) The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s
17. A good teacher ______.
A) knows how to hold the interest of his students
B) has a low voice
C) knows how to act on the stage
D) stands or sits motionless while teaching
18. In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?
A) The teacher must learn everything by heart.
B) He knows how to control his voice better than an actor.
C) He has to deal with unexpected situations.
D) He has to use more facial expressions.
19. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that____ .
A) there is no stage to watch
B) Students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t
C) No memory work is needed for the students
D) The students must take part in the play
20. Why can’t some good teachers play well on the stage?
A) Nobody has taught them how to act on the stage.
B) Their audiences are different.
C) It is impossible for them to do so much memory work.
D) They are not used to repeating exactly the same words.

Passage 5
England is not a big country: from north to south and from east to west it is only about three hundred miles across. But for a small country it has a surprising range of climate. People who have never visited England, or who have visited only one part of it, often make the mistake of thinking that it is a cold and wet country. Except for the summer months of June to September, this is probably true of the north of England and the Midlands. In the south, however, the climate is much more pleasant. One result is that when people retire from a job in the north they often prefer to move down to the milder south.
Perhaps the warmest part of the country is the south-west, which consists of the countries of Devon and Cornwall. The warm Gulf stream flows across the North Atlantic ocean from the Gulf of Mexico and makes the coastal regions of the south-west quite warm. Palm trees, bamboo and many semi-tropical plants grow well in the south-west of England, flowers and vegetables ripen as much as a month earlier than those elsewhere. Farmers in the area obtain a higher price for their vegetables and flowers because they are ready earlier. In winter there may be several feet of snow in other parts of England but there will probably be no snow at all in the southwest. This may be one of the reasons why the southwest is one of England's most popular holiday areas.
21. The distance from the center of England to south coast is about____. .
A) one hundred miles B) three hundred miles
C) one hundred and fifty miles D) six hundred miles
22. England is a country____. .
A) with a cold and wet climate B) with a surprising climate
C) with a pleasant climate D) with a variety of climates
23. According to the passage,____. .
A) flowers and vegetables from Devon are on the market one month earlier
B) farmers in the southwest grow as many vegetables and flowers as farmers elsewhere
C) people in the southwest have to pay a higher price for vegetables and flowers
D) vegetables in Cornwall ripen as much as a month earlier than flowers
24. In the north of England and the Midlands,____. .
A) it is cold wet all the year round
B) the climate is pleasant as a whole
C) it is warm most of the time in a year
D) only the summer is not cold and wet
25. In winter, people in Devon and Cornwa