Paper One
| 大学英语考试样题 | ||||||
| Part I Listening Comprehension | ||||||
| Section A | ||||||
| Directions: In this section, you will hear several short conversations. At | ||||||
| the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. | ||||||
| Both the conversation and the question 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 centre. | ||||||
| 1.A) The man was in the hospital. | ||||||
| B) The man was on business trip. | ||||||
| C) The man was on vacation. | ||||||
| D) The man was visiting a sick aunt. | ||||||
| 2.A) 10:00 | ||||||
| B) 10:30 | ||||||
| C) 10:45 | ||||||
| D) 11:15 | ||||||
| 3.A) Please sit down. | ||||||
| B) She doesn't want him to sit down. | ||||||
| C) She'll mind if he sits down. | ||||||
| D) She doesn't want the man to sit with her. | ||||||
| 4.A) She would have something more important to do. | ||||||
| B) She had to meet a friend of hers. | ||||||
| C) She was not in the mood to attend the party. | ||||||
| D) She was afraid she might be kept too late. | ||||||
| 5.A) Took a photo of him. | ||||||
| B) Bought him a picture. | ||||||
| C) Held a birthday party. | ||||||
| D) Bought him a frame for his picture. | ||||||
| 6.A) A raincoat. | ||||||
| B) A sunny day. | ||||||
| C) A lovely hat. | ||||||
| D) An attractive hut. | ||||||
| 7.A) The reason for making an early start. | ||||||
| B) The process of her written work. | ||||||
| C) The topic of her research paper. | ||||||
| D) The reason of her decision. | ||||||
| 8.A) The term project was finished. | ||||||
| B) The woman received the best score. | ||||||
| C) He was sure his term project was good. | ||||||
| D) His score was better than the woman's. | ||||||
| 9.A) Engineering. | ||||||
| B) Insurance. | ||||||
| C) Scientific research. | ||||||
| D) Diplomatic services. | ||||||
| 10.A) He wants to say good-bye at the airport. | ||||||
| B) He would like her to take a day off. | ||||||
| C) He likes to watch the planes take off. | ||||||
| D) He thinks she should take the bus to the airport. | ||||||
| Part II Reading Comprehension | ||||||
| Directions: There are several passages in this part. 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 centre. | ||||||
| Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: | ||||||
| Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise | ||||||
| to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the | ||||||
| relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can | ||||||
| improve performance at work and school. Cognitive (认知学派的) researchers, | ||||||
| who study various aspects of mental life, maintain that rewards often | ||||||
| destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from | ||||||
| others. | ||||||
| The latter view has gained many supporters, especially among educators. But | ||||||
| the careful use of small monetary (金钱的) rewards sparks creativity in | ||||||
| grade-school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements (刺激) | ||||||
| indeed aid inventiveness, according to a study in the June "Journal of | ||||||
| Personality and Social Psychology". | ||||||
| "If kids know they're working for a reward and can focus on a relatively | ||||||
| challenging task, they show the most creativity," says Robert Eisenberger of | ||||||
| the University of Delaware in Neward. "But it's easy to kill creativity by | ||||||
| giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for | ||||||
| rewards." | ||||||
| A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high | ||||||
| grades for ordinary achievement ends up with uninspired students, | ||||||
| Eisenberger holds. As an example of the latter point, he notes growing | ||||||
| efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and restore | ||||||
| failing grades. | ||||||
| In earlier grades, the use of so-called token economies, in which students | ||||||
| handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points toward | ||||||
| valued rewards, shows promise in raising effort and creativity, the Delaware | ||||||
| psychologist claims. | ||||||
| 11.Psychologists are divided with regard to their attitudes toward _____. | ||||||
| A) the choice between spiritual encouragement and monetary rewards | ||||||
| B) the amount of monetary rewards for students' creativity | ||||||
| C) the study of relationship between actions and their consequences | ||||||
| D) the effects of external rewards on students' performance | ||||||
| 12.What is the response of many educators to external rewards for their | ||||||
| students? | ||||||
| A) They have no doubts about them. | ||||||
| B) They have doubts about them. | ||||||
| C) They approve of them. | ||||||
| D) They avoid talking about them. | ||||||
| 13.Which of the following can best raise students' creativity according to | ||||||
| Robert Eisenberger? | ||||||
| A) Assigning them tasks they have not dealt with before. | ||||||
| B) Assigning them tasks which require inventiveness. | ||||||
| C) Giving them rewards they really deserve. | ||||||
| D) Giving them rewards they anticipate. | ||||||
| 14.It can be inferred from the passage that major universities are trying | ||||||
| to tighten their grading standards because they believe ______. | ||||||
| A) rewarding poor performance may kill the creativity of students | ||||||
| B) punishment is more effective than rewarding | ||||||
| C) failing uninspired students helps improve their overall academic | ||||||
| standards | ||||||
| D) discouraging the students' anticipation for easy rewards is a matter of | ||||||
| urgency | ||||||
| 15.The phrase "token economies" (Sentence 1, Paragraph 5) probably refers | ||||||
| to _____. | ||||||
| A) ways to develop economy | ||||||
| B) systems of rewarding students | ||||||
| C) approaches to solving problems | ||||||
| D) methods of improving performance | ||||||
| Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage: | ||||||
| The decline in moral standards -- which has long concerned social analysts | ||||||
| -- has at last captured the attention of average Americans. And Jean Bethke | ||||||
| Elshtain, for one, is glad. | ||||||
| The fact that ordinary citizens are now starting to think seriously about | ||||||
| the nation's moral climate, says this ethics (伦理学) professor at the | ||||||
| University of Chicago, is reason to hope that new ideas will come forward to | ||||||
| improve it. | ||||||
| But the challenge is not to be underestimated. Materialism and | ||||||
| individualism in American society are the biggest obstacles. "The thought | ||||||
| that 'I'm in it for me' has become deeply rooted in the national | ||||||
| consciousness," Ms. Elshtain says. | ||||||
| Some of this can be attributed to the disintegration of traditional | ||||||
| communities, in which neighbors looked out for one another, she says. With | ||||||
| today's greater mobility and with so many couples working, those bonds have | ||||||
| been weakened, replaced by a greater emphasis on self. | ||||||
| In a 1996 poll of Americans, loss of morality topped the list of the | ||||||
| biggest problems facing the US. And Elshtain says the public is correct to | ||||||
| sense that: Data show that Americans are struggling with problems unheard of | ||||||
| in the 1950s, such as classroom violence and a high rate of births to | ||||||
| unmarried mothers. | ||||||
| The desire for a higher moral standard is not a lament (挽歌) for some | ||||||
| nonexistent "golden age", Elshtain says, nor is it a wishful (一厢情愿的) | ||||||
| longing for a time that denied opportunities to women and minorities. Most | ||||||
| people, in fact, favor the lessening of prejudice. | ||||||
| Moral decline will not be reversed until people find ways to counter the | ||||||
| materialism in society, she says. "Slowly, you recognize that the things | ||||||
| that matter are those that can't be bought." | ||||||
| 16.Professor Elshtain is pleased to see that Americans ________. | ||||||
| A) have adapted to a new set of moral standards | ||||||
| B) are longing for the return of the good old days | ||||||
| C) have realized the importance of material things | ||||||
| D) are awakening to the lowering of their moral standards | ||||||
| 17.The moral decline of American society is caused mainly by _____. | ||||||
| A) its growing wealth | ||||||
| B) the self-centeredness of individuals | ||||||
| C) underestimating the impact of social changes | ||||||
| D) the prejudice against women and minorities | ||||||
| 18.Which of the following characterizes the traditional communities? | ||||||
| A) Great mobility. | ||||||
| B) Concern for one's neighbors. | ||||||
| C) Emphasis on individual effort. | ||||||
| D) Ever-weakening social bonds. | ||||||
| 19.In the 1950s, classroom violence _____. | ||||||
| A) was something unheard of | ||||||
| B) was by no means a rare occurrence | ||||||
| C) attracted a lot of public attention | ||||||
| D) began to appear in analysts' data | ||||||
| 20.According to Elshtain, the current moral decline may be reversed _____. | ||||||
| A) if people can return to the "golden age" | ||||||
| B) when women and men enjoy equal rights | ||||||
| C) when people rid themselves of prejudice | ||||||
| D) if less emphasis is laid on material things | ||||||
| Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: | ||||||
| Alice Walker makes her living by writing, and her poems, short stories, and | ||||||
| novels have won many awards and fellowships for her. She was born in | ||||||
| Eatonton, Georgia. She went to public schools there, and then to Spelman | ||||||
| College in Atlanta before coming to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence | ||||||
| College, from which she graduated in 1966. For a time she lived in Jackson, | ||||||
| Mississippi, with her lawyer husband and small daughter. About Langston | ||||||
| Hughes, American poet, her first book for children, she says, "After my | ||||||
| first meeting with Langston Hughes I vowed I would write a book about him | ||||||
| for children someday. Why? Because I, at twenty-two, knew next to nothing of | ||||||
| his work, and he didn't scold me; he just gave me a stack of his books. And | ||||||
| he was kind to me; I will always be grateful that in his absolute warmth and | ||||||
| generosity he fulfilled my deepest dream of what a poet should be." | ||||||
| "To me he is not dead at all. Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of | ||||||
| him or speak of him. Once, just before he died, when he was sick with the | ||||||
| flu, I took him a sack full of oranges. The joy I felt in giving that simple | ||||||
| gift is undiminished by time. He said he liked oranges, too." | ||||||
| 21.The main topic of the passage is ________. | ||||||
| A) Alice Walker's reflection on Langston Hughes | ||||||
| B) the influence of Alice Walker on the writing of Langston Hughes | ||||||
| C) Langston Hughes' book about Alice Walker | ||||||
| D) a comparison of the childhoods of Alice Walker and Langston Hughes | ||||||
| 22.In the passage, Alice Walker is described as ________. | ||||||
| A) a research fellow at Spelman College | ||||||
| B) a professor at Sarah Lawrence College | ||||||
| C) a prize-winning writer of prose and poetry | ||||||
| D) an author of plays for children | ||||||
| 23.Before attending college, Alice Walker went to school in _________. | ||||||
| A) Atlanta, Georgia | ||||||
| B) Eatonton, Georgia | ||||||
| C) Jackson, Mississippi | ||||||
| D) Lawrence, Massachusetts | ||||||
| 24.The word "vowed" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to "_________". | ||||||
| A) confided | ||||||
| B) believed | ||||||
| C) disclosed | ||||||
| D) promised | ||||||
| 25.It can be inferred from the passage that Alice Walker's first | ||||||
| impressions of Langston Hughes were derived mostly from __________. | ||||||
| A) talking with his friend | ||||||
| B) reading his autobiography | ||||||
| C) studying his poetry | ||||||
| D) meeting him | ||||||
| Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage: | ||||||
| Real policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and | ||||||
| what they see on TV — if they ever get home in time. There are | ||||||
| similarities, of course, but the cops don't think much of them. | ||||||
| The first difference is that a policeman's real life revolves round the | ||||||
| law. Most of his training is in criminal law. He has to know exactly what | ||||||
| actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He | ||||||
| has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer and what is more, he | ||||||
| has to apply it on his feet, in dark and rain, running down an alley after | ||||||
| someone he wants to talk to. | ||||||
| Little of his time is spent in chatting to scantily-clad（穿衣很少的） | ||||||
| ladies or in dramatic confrontations with desperate criminals. He will spend | ||||||
| most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms | ||||||
| about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty ─ or not ─ of | ||||||
| stupid, petty crimes. | ||||||
| Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he's | ||||||
| arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much | ||||||
| of a problem. Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist | ||||||
| attacks — where failure to produce results reflects on the standing of the | ||||||
| police — little effort is spent on searching. | ||||||
| Having made an arrest, a detective really starts to work. He has to prove | ||||||
| his case in court and to do that, he often has to gather a lot of different | ||||||
| evidence. So, as well as being overworked, a detective has to be out at all | ||||||
| hours of the day and night interviewing his witnesses and persuading them, | ||||||
| usually against their own best interests, to help him. | ||||||
| 26.It is essential for a policeman to be trained in criminal law ______ . | ||||||
| A) so that he can catch criminals in the streets | ||||||
| B) so that he can justify his arrests in court | ||||||
| C) because many of the criminals he has to catch are dangerous | ||||||
| D) because he has to know nearly as much as a professional lawyer | ||||||
| 27.The everyday life of a policeman or detective is ______ . | ||||||
| A) exciting and glamorous | ||||||
| B) full of danger | ||||||
| C) devoted mostly to routine matters | ||||||
| D) wasted on unimportant matters | ||||||
| 28.When murders and terrorist attacks occur the police ______ . | ||||||
| A) prefer to wait for the criminal to give himself away | ||||||
| B) spend a lot of effort in trying to track down their man | ||||||
| C) make a quick arrest in order to keep up their reputation | ||||||
| D) usually fail to produce results | ||||||
| 29.Which of the following is true according to the passage? | ||||||
| A) Generally the detective's work is over once the arrest has been made. | ||||||
| B) People are usually willing to give evidence. | ||||||
| C) Policemen and detectives spend little time at the typewriter. | ||||||
| D) Policemen feel that the image of their lives shown on TV is not | ||||||
| accurate. | ||||||
| 30.Which of the following could be a suitable title for the passage? | ||||||
| A) Policemen and Detectives | ||||||
| B) The Reality of Being a Detective | ||||||
| C) Detective's Life — Fact and Fantasy | ||||||
| D) Drama and Reality | ||||||
| Part III Vocabulary and Structure | ||||||
| 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 answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding | ||||||
| letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. | ||||||
| 31.They have ________ most carefully the time and the materials needed to | ||||||
| complete the project. | ||||||
| A) picked out | ||||||
| B) left out | ||||||
| C) taken out | ||||||
| D) figured out | ||||||
| 32.Some people say that the need for cars ________ by the year 2003. | ||||||
| A) will have doubled | ||||||
| B) will be doubling | ||||||
| C) has been doubled | ||||||
| D) has doubled | ||||||
| 33.He described one of the airlines which ________ on display. | ||||||
| A) are | ||||||
| B) had | ||||||
| C) was | ||||||
| D) were | ||||||
| 34.It was required that the manufacturer ________ out the design | ||||||
| immediately. | ||||||
| A) worked | ||||||
| B) would work | ||||||
| C) work | ||||||
| D) works | ||||||
| 35.Many engineers urged that nuclear energy ________ to peaceful uses. | ||||||
| A) will be put | ||||||
| B) would be put | ||||||
| C) is put | ||||||
| D) be put | ||||||
| 36.Half the guards ________ the escaped prisoners, but they got away free. | ||||||
| A) went against | ||||||
| B) went after | ||||||
| C) tracked down | ||||||
| D) traced back | ||||||
| 37.Only after they had finished watching the football game _____________ to | ||||||
| prepare for the math examination. | ||||||
| A) they began | ||||||
| B) they had begun | ||||||
| C) had they begun | ||||||
| D) did they begin | ||||||
| 38.The dictator relied on abuse of his opponents ________ on sound | ||||||
| reasoning. | ||||||
| A) instead | ||||||
| B) no more than | ||||||
| C) or rather | ||||||
| D) rather than | ||||||
| 39.To save money for my education, Mother often took on more work than | ||||||
| ________ for her. | ||||||
| A) it was good | ||||||
| B) what was good | ||||||
| C) was good | ||||||
| D) being good | ||||||
| 40.There has been a great increase in retail sales, ____? | ||||||
| A) does there | ||||||
| B) isn't there | ||||||
| C) hasn't there | ||||||
| D) isn't it | ||||||
| 41.Such crimes may be so complex that months or years go by before anyone | ||||||
| _____ them. | ||||||
| A) discovered | ||||||
| B) will discover | ||||||
| C) would have discovered | ||||||
| D) discovers | ||||||
| 42.Apart from caring for her children, she has to take on such heavy | ||||||
| _______ housework as carrying water and firewood. | ||||||
| A) time-consumed | ||||||
| B) timely-consumed | ||||||
| C) time-consuming | ||||||
| D) timely-consuming | ||||||
| 43.The Car Club couldn't _______ to meet the demands of all its members. | ||||||
| A) assume | ||||||
| B) ensure | ||||||
| C) guarantee | ||||||
| D) confirm | ||||||
| 44.When I caught him _______ I stopped buying things there and started | ||||||
| dealing with another shop. | ||||||
| A) cheating | ||||||
| B) cheat | ||||||
| C) to cheat | ||||||
| D) to be cheating | ||||||
| 45.______ he works hard, I don't mind when he finishes the experiment. | ||||||
| A) As soon as | ||||||
| B) As well as | ||||||
| C) So far as | ||||||
| D) So long as | ||||||
| 46.After a few rounds of talks, both sides regarded the territory dispute | ||||||
| _______. | ||||||
| A) being settled | ||||||
| B) to be settled | ||||||
| C) had settled | ||||||
| D) as settled | ||||||
| 47.Not until 1868 ______ made the capital of the state of Georgia. | ||||||
| A) Atlanta was | ||||||
| B) was Atlanta | ||||||
| C) when Atlanta was | ||||||
| D) when was Atlanta | ||||||
| 48.Finding it difficult to ______ to the climate there, he decided to move | ||||||
| to the north. | ||||||
| A) fit | ||||||
| B) adopt | ||||||
| C) suit | ||||||
| D) adapt | ||||||
| 49.It's ____ my power to make final decision on the matter. | ||||||
| A) outside | ||||||
| B) beyond | ||||||
| C) out of | ||||||
| D) above | ||||||
| 50.Our classroom is ____ in the building. | ||||||
| A) bigger than any other one | ||||||
| B) bigger than every one | ||||||
| C) the biggest of all the others | ||||||
| D) the biggest than others | ||||||
| 51.It is necessary that the plan ____ before Thursday. | ||||||
| A) were fulfilled | ||||||
| B) was fulfilled | ||||||
| C) be fulfilled | ||||||
| D) would be fulfilled | ||||||
| 52.The long wait at airport security was tough to the five-year-old boy. To | ||||||
| keep him from ______, his mother decided to distract him with a civics | ||||||
| lesson. | ||||||
| A) making a disturbance | ||||||
| B) making a mistake | ||||||
| C) making friends with strangers | ||||||
| D) making himself busy | ||||||
| 53.To my knowledge, the personnel in the company work on the eight-hour | ||||||
| system. They start work at 8 a.m., and ______ at 5 p.m. with an hour's lunch | ||||||
| break. | ||||||
| A) knock out | ||||||
| B) knock down | ||||||
| C) knock off | ||||||
| D) knock at | ||||||
| 54.I expect a ______ paycheck when I get through with translating this | ||||||
| book. | ||||||
| A) rich | ||||||
| B) handsome | ||||||
| C) beautiful | ||||||
| D) heavy | ||||||
| 55.They make a big _____ from selling waste material to textile factories. | ||||||
| A) interest | ||||||
| B) fortune | ||||||
| C) profit | ||||||
| D) sum | ||||||
| 56.He felt that he ___ for the coldness that had grown between them. | ||||||
| A) blamed | ||||||
| B) was blamed of | ||||||
| C) was to blame | ||||||
| D) was to be blamed | ||||||
| 57.________ I wanted to find out first was how long it would take to | ||||||
| complete the bridge. | ||||||
| A) That | ||||||
| B) Those | ||||||
| C) What | ||||||
| D) Which | ||||||
| 58.His eyes then (# shifted #) to a small table that stood in the corner of | ||||||
| the room. | ||||||
| A) traveled | ||||||
| B) sought | ||||||
| C) searched | ||||||
| D) moved | ||||||
| 59.When ______, the power station will have nine 70,000kw generators. | ||||||
| A) is completed | ||||||
| B) completed | ||||||
| C) being completed | ||||||
| D) having completed | ||||||
| 60.The pressure of too much homework has led to an evident ______ in | ||||||
| interest in sports among the students. | ||||||
| A) absence | ||||||
| B) shortage | ||||||
| C) minimum | ||||||
| D) decline | ||||||
| Part IV Cloze | ||||||
| Directions: There are a number of blanks in the following passage. For each | ||||||
| blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the | ||||||
| ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on | ||||||
| the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. | ||||||
| Man cannot go on (* 61 *) his numbers at the present rate. In the (* 62 *) 30 | ||||||
| years man will face a period of crisis. (* 63 *) experts believe that there | ||||||
| will be a widespread food (* *). Other experts think this is (* 65 *) | ||||||
| pessimistic, and that man can prevent things (* 66 *) worse than they are now. | ||||||
| But (* 67 *) that two-thirds of the people in the world are undernourished or | ||||||
| starving now. | ||||||
| One thing that man can do is to limit (* 68 *) of babies born. The need (* 69 *) | ||||||
| this is obvious, but it is (* 70 *) to achieve. People have to (* 71 *) to limit | ||||||
| their families. In the countries of the population (* 72 *), many people like | ||||||
| big families. The parents think that this (* 73 *) a bigger income for the | ||||||
| family and ensures there will be someone in the family who will look (* 74 *) | ||||||
| them in old age. | ||||||
| Several governments have (* 75 *) birth control policies in recent years. | ||||||
| (* 76 *) them are Japan, China, India and Egypt. In some (* 77 *) the results | ||||||
| have not been (* 78 *). Japan has been an exception. The Japanese adopted a | ||||||
| birth control policy in 1948. People (* 79 *) to limit their families. The | ||||||
| birth rate fell from 34.3 per thousand per year to about 17.0 per year | ||||||
| (* 80 *). | ||||||
