2022年综合英语二级试卷.doc

扬州大学大学英语二级考试试卷

UCET Band 2A (-07-04)

Part I Listening Comprehension (35%)
Section A Conversations (15%)
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Questions 1 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) In a bank.
B) In the man’s house.
C) In a taxi.
D) In a restaurant.

2. A) Get some information.
B) Buy a heater.
C) Borrow some money.
D) Pay the rent.

3. A) $ 100.
B) $ 120.
C) $ 150.
D) $ 160.

4. A) To change her job.
B) To become a manager.
C) To stay at Jackson’s.
D) To become a shop assistant.

5. A) Secretary and boss.
B) Client and lawyer.
C) Student and teacher.
D) Patient and nurse.

6. A) She’s spending time going over her accounts.
B) She’s excited about going home.
C) She’s been home for only a few days.
D) She’s counting the number of vacation days.

7. A) He will no longer ask for their help.
B) He will regret not accepting their help.
C) He still needs their help.
D) He has to manage without their help.

8. A) He’s surprised she chose that agency.
B) He wonders why she’s kept her job.
C) He doesn’t know when her classes started.
D) He doubts she makes much money now.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) To discuss his trip to Mexico.
B) To bring him a message from Professor Grant.
C) To ask for help with an anthropology assignment.
D) To see what progress he’s made on his paper.

10. A) He couldn’t sleep last night.
B) He can’t find a quiet place to study.
C) He can’t narrow down his research topic.
D) He can’t find enough information for his research paper.

11. A) It would require a trip to Mexico.
B) It’s too broad a topic to research.
C) He doesn’t have relevant resource material.
D) He’s not interested in that part of the world.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) They are very modern.
B) They are very beautiful.
C) They are very relaxing.
D) They are very expensive.

13. A) She plays tennis.
B) She plays mah-jong.
C) She plays golf and table tennis.
D) She plays table tennis.

14. A) By email.
B) By phone.
C) By post.
D) By fax.

15. A) She views it as unnecessary.
B) She has never thought about it.
C) She finds it quite interesting.
D) She considers it very important.

Section B Short Passages (10%)
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A) A school which offers very good academic courses.
B) A summer course to keep the students busy during their vacation.
C) A school where students can earn some pocket money.
D) An educational project to help students learn to do practical work.

17. A) People who need job training.
B) High school students before going to college.
C) Middle-aged people who want to take college courses.
D) Children who are old enough to go to school.

18. A) one year ago.
B) Five years ago.
C) Six years ago.
D) Eighteen years ago.

Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) It interferes with listening comprehension.
B) It helps the listener to remember what has been said.
C) It has no effect whatsoever on listening comprehension.
D) It helps the comparatively bright students only.

20. A) 80%.
B) 90%.
C) 100%.
D) Twice as much as those who take notes.

21. A) They should review their notes from time to time.
B) They should read their notes every morning.
C) They should keep their notes as long as possible.
D) They should check their notes with other students before an examination.

Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A) Women are competing against men in all kinds of sports.
B) American women have always participated in sports.
C) American women were too fond of doing housework to be interested in sports.
D) Women are now active in sports.

23. A) Women are not thought to be unladylike to compete in sports.
B) Women are not as active as men in sports.
C) Many women are weak because they don’t participate in sports.
D) Many women are not interested in sports because they are too busy.

24. A) Women were weak and delicate.
B) Women enjoyed taking part in sports and games.
C) Women had different views on sports.
D) Women were interested in sports.

25. A) It has prevented them from participating in sports.
B) It is still an image of weakness and delicacy.
C) It has helped promote women’s participation in sports.
D) It has resulted from women’s active role in sports.

Section C Compound Dictation (10%)
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 numbered from L1 to L8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from L9 to L11 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Ecology is the (L1) ________ of how living creatures and plants exist together and depend on each other and on the (L2) ________ environment. Where an environment is undisturbed, the ecology of an area is in balance, but if a creature is exterminated or an alien species (L3) ________, then the ecology of the (L4) ________ will be upset. In other words, the balance of nature will be disturbed.
Man is part of the environment and has done more to upset the ecology during his short (L5) ________ on earth than any other living creature. He had poisoned the (L6) ________ and polluted both land and water. He has abused the earth’s natural (L7) ________ with no thought for the future, and has thought out the most devastating ways of killing his (L8) ________ men and every other sort of life at the same time.
(L9) ____________________________________________________________________, and many valuable animals and plants are being killed off. Besides, it is becoming increasingly difficult to grow enough food to preserve much of the earth’s population from starvation.
(L10) ___________________________________________________________________, if it is not already too late. If there is to be any remedy for our ills, that remedy lies in the hands of the young. The sooner they start doing something about it, the better.
Time is running out. (L11) __________________________________________________
_______________________________.

Part II Reading Comprehension (40%)
Section A Skimming and Scanning (10%)
Directions: In this section, you will have 15 minutes to go over the following passage quickly and then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Attention: mark
A (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
B (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
C (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Recycling
One of the most important changes in how modern societies respond to the problems of waste and its disposal is the development of techniques and processes for recycling materials that have been thrown away. Of course, recycling means that the material was cycled before. What the word really means is that the material has gone from a raw material to a factory or production process to be used by a consumer. Most plastics, for example, begin as crude oil from oil wells. A manufacturing process changes some of the chemicals in oil to plastics. The plastics are made into thousands of products and sent on to consumers who use them. When consumers are finished with their plastic bottles or toys or packages, they throw them away.
Unfortunately, as we often see on automobile bumper stickers, “Throw it away? There is no way.” What that means, of course, is that as we produce more and more waste, safe and easy places to put it are becoming fewer and fewer. Moreover, oil for plastics, trees for paper, and coal and oil to make heat for glass and metal production are also becoming harder to find and more expensive. One solution that can help solve problems of both supply and disposal is recycling, or using the same material more than once.
As an idea, recycling has been around for a long time. In fact, we might say that it has always been around, as long as people have used something after it has been used for something else. Using a coconut shell as a container after the coconut has been eaten may have occurred long ago. Glass jars are used to store screws or nails in many homes. Many industries have reused materials. Steel mills have added old steel to their furnaces, and glass companies have done the same with old glass. Paper has also been reused. In recent years, however, recycling is being seen as a more and more important way to reduce waste and the use of raw materials.
Many cities in the United States have begun recycling programs for household waste. Household waste, or the trash and garbage that we throw away from our homes, is made up mostly of paper. Food is the second largest part, and glass and metal are the next largest. Together, paper, glass, and metal make up almost 75 percent of the trash we throw away. If we could recycle much of that, we could greatly reduce the amount of trash we have to find a place for.
Some governments are also requiring more recycling. Japan already recycles about 50 percent of its household trash. The German government now has a very strict law requiring that most plastics and metal be recycled. This law has made a big change in the way automobiles are built and sold. Under the new law, automobile manufacturers must buy a car back when it is no longer useful. The car must then be separated into materials that can be recycled — metals, plastics, glass, and so on. This law has made automobile manufacturers think more carefully about the kinds of materials that go into automobiles and how those materials are used.
Recycling does not always go smoothly. Sometimes industries are not able to use all of the old material that is available. If paper manufacturers cannot use all of the old paper that is available, there will be no one to buy it and it will still have to be thrown away. The same is true for many metals and plastics. In Germany, problems have developed with their new law, because more materials are being recovered than manufacturers of new items can use. The government has to buy these materials, and it is costing a lot of money.
Closely related to the problem of usability is the problem of cost of recovery. There are many types of plastics, and not all of them can be reused or reused together. They have to be separated, cleaned, and sorted. Automobiles are made up of many types of metals and plastics. Separating all of these materials and recovering them for reuse can be expensive. This can make the recovered materials more expensive than new materials.
Recycling is a new way of looking at our use of the earth’s resources. Until now we have thought mostly of making new products with new materials and of throwing away old products when they are no longer useful. In the new way of using resources that is evolving, we will look at products that have been produced as resources for new products. It may not make a big change in how we manufacture cooking utensils, food packaging, or automobiles, but it will be a big change in where the materials for those products come from and where they go.
26. Recycling means using the same material more than once; it is not a completely new idea, but has become an important way of dealing with waste.
27. The amount of waste produced in the world has doubled in the past ten years.
28. Two reasons for recycling are lack of places to put waste and shortage of resources.
29. Plastics and food waste account for the largest percentage of the total trash and garbage in the United States.
30. In Germany, the government has laid down a strict law that more recycled materials should be used in all manufacturing industries.
31. Recycling goes so smoothly in Japan that most of its household trash, such as paper, glass and metal can be reused in one way or another.
32. In this article the author believes the recycling has turned out to be the only way of preventing modern societies from turning into throwaway societies.
33. Basically, there are two problems with regard to recycling: one is usability of recycled materials; the other is cost of recovery.
34. Recycling is of significance so that it provides us with a new way of looking at our use of the earth’s limited resources.
35. Recycling will finally lead to a big change in looking at our use of the earth’s limited resources.

Section B Reading in Depth (30%)
Directions: There are 3 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 and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage Two
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take 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 few, for example, the average among students is about six per person. In all the cases of friendly relationship, 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 kn