河北工业大学学术英语读写与交流.doc

学术英语读写与交流
Unit 1 Understanding Hacking Drones
1. Which is not considered to be the three main communication links?
A. A wireless tether
B. A two-way link
C. One or more signals to notify other aircrafts
D. The incoming navigation signal from GPS satellites

2.Which is the correct explanation of “Achilles’ Heel” in this passage?
A. The name of one part of body
B. A name of a character in a story
C. A deadly weakness or vulnerable point
D. A mistake made by human being

3.What is the solution for the small drone to stay out of the way of other aircraft?
A. Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast
B. Inertial guidance sensors
C. GPS system
D. Spoofing

4.Which is not the harm of spoofing to the drone?
A. Jamming the signal from drone
B. Threating a GPS system
C. Causing a pilot to die

5. Compared to civil GPS, what is the serious problem of ADS-B to the drone?
A. Its transmissions are not authenticated
B. It is expensive to access to
C. It is rarely used
D. It is hard to control

6.To maneuver a drone up, down, sideways or forward require three main communication links . Please match the name of the feature with the sentence.
A. Nominalization
B. Passive voice
C. None of the above
D. Non-finite forms of verbs

7.It was only saved from crashing by an operator who was poised to override the spoofing commands. Please match the name of the feature with the sentence.
A. None of the above
B. Nominalization
C. Passive voice
D. Non-finite forms of verbs

8. By trying to adjust its location aloft based on erroneous data, the drone actually started to head directly toward the desert floor. Please match the name of the feature with the sentence.
A. Passive voice
B. Nominalization
C. None of the above
D. Non-finite forms of verbs

9. Staying out of the way of other aircraft is especially challenging for small drones. Please match the name of the feature with the sentence.
A. None of the above
B. Passive voice
C. Nominalization
D. Non-finite forms of verbs

10.The possibility of a midair crash between a drone and another aircraft will further complicated acceptance of drones. Please match the name of the feature with the sentence.
A. Non-finite forms of verbs
B. Nominalization
C. None of the above
D. Passive voice

11.Which of the following IS LEAST possibly the purpose of making a presentation?
A. To train the audience
B. To persuade the audience in order to sell some certain products
C. To inform the audience of a fact
D. To show off the speaker’s competency to the audience

12.The main structure of a presentation usually includes ________.
A. A beginning part, a middle part, and a summary
B. An exposition, an analysis, and a summary
C. A suspense, a rising part, and a climax
D. An introduction, a main body, and a conclusion

13.Which of the following is the most important content in the beginning part of a presentation?
A. Some shocking facts to arouse the audience’s interest
B. A joke to bridge the gap between the speaker and the audience
C. Outline of the presentation
D. Thesis statement to state clearly the topic of the presentation

14.Which of the following is not suggested when giving a presentation?
A. Use preaching method
B. Use examples
C. Use statistics and diagrams
D. Use visual aids

15.What can the speaker do to attract the audience?
A. Avoid eye contact
B. Talk to the screen
C. Try his best to be humorous
D. Use movements and gestures

Unit 2 Understanding The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence

1.Which of the following is not mentioned by the authors about the development of AT?
A. The emergence of AI would fundamentally change the economic growth prospects
B. AI improves the lives of people with disabilities.
C. AI has speeded up the way people travel around the world.
D. AI has changed the mode of education, making more people get access to extensive resources.

2.Which of the following is true?
A. Over 75% of smart phone users are still in developed countries.
B. By 2012, there were approximately six billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world.
C. In 2000, more than 30% of mobile phone subscriptions in the world were in developing countries.
D. The sale of smart phones, according to IDC, will make up about two-thirds of all sales by 2017.

3. “Billions of Innovators” refers to __________ .
A. those intelligent people in the history
B. 7.1 billion people on earth
C. invention and creation of mankind
D. AI machines

4. What is the meaning of the word “quibble” in paragraph 11?
A.A different decision.
B.A totally different point of view.
C.A small compliant and criticism about something unimportant.
D.A public act of denouncing.

5.Which of the following is not the authors’ description about “the second machine age”?
A. The development of the second machine age needs the financial support from industrialized countries.
B.The digital interconnection of the people on earth will further accelerate the second machine age.
C.The character of the second machine age is the combination of machine intelligence and billions of interconnected human brains.
D.3D printers, speech recognition and synthesis systems are the wonders of the second machine age.

6.Which of the following is NOT one of the guidelines of a good thesis?(
A.It asserts one main idea.
B.It is very interesting to attract the readers.
C.It states the writer’s clearly defined opinion on some subject.
D.It is often located in the first or second paragraph.

7.Which of the following is NOT the technique used by the author when he expressed the development of AI?
A.By citing examples.
B.By leading in others’ ideas.
C.By offering data.
D.By making comparison among past, now and future.

8.In the conclusion part of the text, the author talked about the new areas developed in AI.
A.All of the above is true
B.False
C.None of the above is true
D. True

9.Which part in the debating is the key?
A.Argument
B.Ideas
C.Speed
D.Delivery

10. How many people involved in each side in the debate we practice?
A.Seven
B.Eight
C.Three
D.Six

11. In order to grab your intended audiences, avoiding repetition is a must. So how to avoid repetition in thesis?
A.Sorts of examples
B.Providing statistics
C.Rephrasing related words and phrases
D.Variety of ideas

12.In summing up arguments, how many time is allocated for each member?
A.7 mins
B. 6 mins
C. 5 mins
D.4 mins

13.Are arguments important when it comes to debating?
A.Yes, arguments is the key.
B.Yes, they are connected.
C.No, they are strangers.
D. No, they are irrelevant.

14.The two parts contained in an introduction are _________.
A.general statement
B. supporting details
C.topic sentence
D.thesis statement

15.The functions of general statements are_________.
A.tell the controlling idea of the author
B.to attract your readers
C. lead in the topic
D.to make clear the subject of the essay

Unit 3 Understanding Nanotechnology-Based Batteries
1.In recent years nano has become a word, with many commodities using nanotechnology as the selling point.
A.fashionable
B.satisfactory
C.nauseous
D.depressing

2.What aspects can nanotechnology be applied?
A.All of above
B. housing
C.electronic products
D. health

3.What unit is nanometer of?
A.measurement
B.force
C.area
D. mass

4. How long is a nanometer?
A.one thousandth of a meter
B. one billionth of a meter
C. one millionth of a meter
D.one ten-thousandth of a meter

5.What can’t nanotechnology do for human beings?
A. improve human’s life quality
B.displace traditional technology
C.change human’s life style
D.be applied in many aspects of daily life

6.What does the word “idle” mean in the sentence “Lithium-ion batteries are presently popular in cell phones and laptops and they hold the charge when idle”?
A.having no jobs or work
B.(machines, factories)not working or being used
C. to stop them working
D. to spend time in a lazy way

7.What does the word “power” mean in the sentence “sixteen is the fourth power of two”?
A. the ability to do something
B.it is used in the expression to indicate that two must be multiplied by itself four times
C.energy, especially electricity
D.providing the energy that the machine needs in order to work

8.What does the word “field” mean in the sentence “Some people are worried that electromagnetic fields from electric power lines could increase the risk of cancer.”?
A.a particular subject of study or type of activity
B.an area of land or sea bed under which large amounts of a particular mineral have been found
C. an area of grass, for example in a park or on a farm
D.an area in which that particular force is strong enough to have an effect

9.How can you get the meaning of the speciality vocabulary
A.Consulting the dictionary.
B.Based on the context of the sentence.
C.All of the above.
D. Based on the basic meaning of the vocabulary.

10.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.Speciality vocabulary is concerned about a particular field of science.
B.A strategy for working out the meaning is to look at how a word is constructed.
C.Academic English is the same with the English people speak and write everyday.
D.We should get the right meaning rather than the almost right meaning of the vocabulary.

11.Which one is an appropriate way to start a summary?
A.This article focuses on the topic of...
B.This article shows that...
C.It is suggested that...
D.The author suggests...

12.How long should the summary be compared to the original?
A. 1/4
B.1/2
C.3/4
D.1/5

13.After finish the summary, what should you do?
A.Check for accuracy.
B.Ask someone to read your work.
C.Above of all.
D.Revise your work.

14.She brought home several Chinese and English novels, a few copies of Time and Newsweek and some textbooks. She intended to read all of them during the winter vocation. How to condense this sentence?
A.She brought home a lot of books to read during the vocation.
B.She intended to read several Chinese and English novels, a few copies of Time and Newsweek and some textbooks during the winter vocation.
C.She planned to read several Chinese and English novels, a few copies of Time and Newsweek and some textbooks during the winter vocation.
D.She brought home several Chinese and English novels, a few copies of Time and Newsweek and some textbooks to read.

15.We can substitute the first and second person pronoun for________________ .
A. the noun
B.the third person pronoun
C.the adjective
D.the verb

Unit 4 How to Write a Good Abstract: a Brief Introduction
1.Which title is more acceptable in English?
A.A Survey on Controlling Gas with the Flip of a Switch
B.Controlling Gas with the Flip of a Switch
C.A Study of Controlling Gas with the Flip of a Switch
D.A Research about Controlling Gas with the Flip of a Switch

2.Which title is more acceptable in English?
A.Unpicking patterns of global reef biodiversity
B.A Research on Unpicking patterns of global reef biodiversity
C.On Unpicking patterns of global reef biodiversity
D.A Report on the Unpicking patterns of global reef biodiversity

3.The proper tenses used to describe the background of an English abstract could be
A.past tense
B.present tense
C.present perfect tense
D.future tense

Unit 5 How to Write a Good Abstract: Avoiding Redundancy in Academic English
1.The proper English translation for “同性电荷相斥,异性电荷相吸”could be
A. Like charges repel each other ,while opposite charges attract.
B.Like charges repel each other , but opposite charges attract.
C.Like charges repel each other and opposite charges attract.
D.Like charges repel each other, opposite charges attract.

2.The better English collocation for the Chinese phrase “保护环境” could be
A.keep the environment friendly
B.environment protection
C.protect environment friendly
D.environmental protection

Unit 6 How to Write a Good Title, an Affiliation, Key Words and Acknowledgments
1.For the reader, the title is so critical to a research paper because it .
A.helps the reader decide whether the paper is worth reading further
B.gives the reader a first idea of the contribution
C.provides clues on the type of paper
D.All of above

2.What is not the quality of a good title?
A.Be specific
B.Be simple
C. Be standard
D.Be unified

3.Of an academic paper, what is the proper place of the introduction to the author?
A.C and D
B.below the title
C.the end of the paper
D.bottom of a front page

4.What is the function of key words?
A.It represents the theme or subject matter of the paper.
B.It is easy for the information retrieval clerks to make up the index and secondary document.
C.Readers can find out the theme of the paper by looking at the keywords.
D.All of above.

5.Which of the following statements is true?
A.Acknowledgement is usually after the References.
B.Keywords are usually used in the form of verbs, not nouns.
C.The keywords of a paper must be contained in the title and the abstract.
D. A title of a paper should be brief and concise.

6.Which one is not the typical structure of the Nominal Group Construction?
A.Zero-head nominal group.
B.Bi-head nominal group.
C.Uni-head nominal group.
D.Multi-head nominal group.

7.Valsartan, Captopril, or Both in Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Heart Failure is the structure of ____________.
A.Full-sentence construction
B.Compound construction
C. Question construction
D.Nominal group construction

8.Genome sequencing and informatics: New tools for biochemical discoveries is the structure of __________.
A.Full-sentence construction
B.Question construction
C.Compound construction
D.Nominal group construction

9.Which one is the example of Bi-head group construction?
A. Left Ventricular Dysfunction, or Both
B.Exposure to context may contribute to within-session changes in responding
C.Circling the spheres: A Dialogue
D.Bortezomib or High-Dose Dexamethasone for Relapsed Multiple Myeloma

10.Exposure to context may contribute to within-session changes in responding is the example of _______________.
A.Nominal group construction
B. Question construction
C.Compound construction
D.Full-sentence construction

Unit 7 How to Write a Good Literature Review
1._______ is actually more important because you have to finish some tasks which are decisive to your victory in writing a literature review.
A.The body part
B.the pre-writing stage
C.the post-writing stage
D.the writing stage

2. Which of the following is not a database convenient for majors of science to prepare for a literature review?
A.EI
B.IDC
C.IEEE
D.CI

3.Which of the following tasks might be included in the checking stage？
A.Av