科技英語試題(帶答案)

I. Use of English 1. Good-bye and thank you very much for a wonderful time. _A_. Hope to see you again. A. Thank you for your comingB. Not at all C. It was nothingD. Never mind2.Im sorry. I lost the key. _A_A. Well, its OK.B. No, its all right.C. You are welcome.D. You are wrong.3. Im so sorry for stepping on your foot. _A_. A. Thats all right B. No, its my fault C. You didnt hurt me at all D. Yes, dont worry about it4. Paul, _B_? Oh, thats my father! And beside him, my mother.A. what is the person over thereB. whos talking over thereC. what are they doingD. which is that5. Could I speak to Don Watkins, please? _C_A. Im listeningB. Oh, how are you?C. Speaking, please.D. Im Don.6. Would you rather come on Friday or Saturday? _D_ A. Yes, of course. B. The other is better.C. Whats the matter?D. Either would suit me.7. Would you mind if I turned the radio up？ _B_. A. Yes, pleaseB. No, go aheadC. No, thank youD. Yes, thatll be right8. _C_ He teaches physics in a school.A. What does your father want to do?B. Who is your father?C. What is your father?D. Where is your father now?9. I wonder what the weather will be like tomorrow. _D_ A. I dont like the weather at this time of the year. B. I dont mind if it is going to rain tomorrow. C. Why read the newspaper yourself? D. Lets listen to the weather report on the radio at ten.10. Why didnt you come to my birthday party yesterday? _D_A. Excuse me, my friend sent me a flower.B. Fine, I never go to birthday parties.C. Haha, I dont like birthday parties.D. Sorry, but my wife had a car accident11. Thank you for inviting me. _D_A. I really had a happy time.B. Oh, its too lateC. Oh, so slowly? D. Thank you for coming12. _C_. Its nothing to worry about. I never liked it anyway.A. I lost my walkman this morning B. I feel awful. Ive got a coldC. I feel terrible, but Ive left your tape somewhereD. Im sorry, but we dont have that medicine13. We are going to London for holiday next week. Would you mind taking care of my garden while were away？Not at all. _C_.A. Sorry, I have no time B. Id rather notC. With pleasure D. No, I wouldnt14. _B_ Well, they got there last Wednesday. So about a week.A. When did your parents arrive at Paris?B. How long have your parents been in Paris?C. Did your parents arrive at Paris last Wednesday?D. When will your parents go to Paris?15. Do you feel like taking a walk in the park? _C_. A. You may ask your brother to go, too B. Yes, but I cant afford the time C. No, Im really not in the mood for it this evening D. No, Id like it16. Hi, welcome back! Had a nice trip? _A_A. Oh, fantastic! Fresh air, and sunshine every day.B. Come on, Ive got lots of fun.C. By the way, I dont like Saturdays.D. Well, Ill look forward to your phone call.17. Oh, sorry to bother you. _C_A. Thats good.B. No, you cant.C. Thats Okay.D. Oh, I dont know.18. Jane: Tom, let me introduce you to Lucy. Tom: _B_ Lucy: Hi, Im Lucy Lee. A. Whats your name? B. Hello. C. Nice to see you. D. Sorry, not right now.19. Would you like to have dinner with me this Saturday, Mr. Wang? _C_.A. Oh, no. Lets not B. Id rather stay at home C. Id love to, but I have a meeting that day D. Thank you20. How often do you go dancing? _C_A. I will go dancing tomorrow.B. Yesterday.C. Every other day.D. Ive been dancing for a year.21. Youve won the football game. Congratulations! _A_. A. Its nice of you to say so B. We are really lucky C. No one else could do it D. Oh, not really22. Marilyn, Im afraid I have to be leaving now. _B_A. That sounds wonderful.B. Oh, so early?C. Not at all.D. Good luck!23. I was worried about my maths, but Mr. Brown gave me an A. _B_A. Dont worry about it.B. Congratulations! Thats a difficult course.C. Mr. Brown is very good.D. Good luck to you!24. Whats happened to my library books? _A_ . A. Ive no idea B. You borrowed them from the library C. You bought them yesterday D. Theyre about wild animals 25. Mike, I am going to skate in the mountains tomorrow. Oh, really？ _C_. A. Good luckB. Thank youC. Have a good timeD. Congratulations26. How about going to dinner at the Mexican restaurant tonight? _C_A. Forget it.B. Sorry, I like Mexican food.C. Thats great!D. Glad you like it.27. My children are always arguing. _A_ A. Just leave them alone. B. Thats right. C. Are you sure?D. How old are the boys?28. I wonder if I could use your dictionary？ Sure. _B_. A. Go onB. Here you areC. Go upD. Here are you29. Madam, do all the buses go downtown? _D_A. Wow, you got the idea.B. No, never mind.C. Pretty well, I guess.D. Sorry, Im new here.30. Where is Tom this morning? Hes got a cold. _A_ A. Just tell him to take it easy. B. Whats the matter with him? C. He is absent. D. What? Where is he?II. Reading Comprehension Passage 1Pigeons have been used as messengers for 500 years, because of their special ability to find home. The mystery of the homing pigeon is on how it navigates and how it finds home. We now know that there are two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun. Just getting rough directions from the sun is easy. However, getting accurate directions from the sun takes more care. To tell direction accurately from the sun, one needs to know the exact time. All plants and animals seem to have built-in clocks. Usually these biological clocks are not quite exact in measuring time. However, they work pretty well, because they are “reset” every day, maybe when the sun gets up. Do pigeons use their biological clocks to help them find direction from the sun? We can experiment to find out. We can keep pigeons in a room lighted only by lamps. And we can time the lighting to make their artificial “days” start at some different time from the real outside day. After a while we have shifted their clocks. Now we take them far away from home and let them go on a sunny day. Most of them start out as if they know just which way to go, but choose a wrong direction. They have picked a direction that would be correct for the position of the sun and the time of day according to their shifted clocks. The above experiment shows that homing pigeons can tell directions by the sun. What happens when the sky is darkly overcast by clouds and no one can see where the sun is? The pigeons still find their way home. So it seems that pigeons also have some extra sense of direction from the earths magnetic field when they cannot see the sun. 1. Pigeons have been used as messengers, for they have special ability _B_. A. to send lettersB. to find home C. to carry food for men D. to lead the way for people2. The secret of the homing pigeons is _B_. A. how they find foodB. how they find home C. how they take a letterD. how they take care of children3. All plants and animals reset their biological clocks when _A_. A. the sun risesB. the sun sets C. the moon risesD. the moon sets4. The experiment tells us that the pigeons fly _C_ because of the shifted biological clocks. A. in a wrong direction B. in a correct direction C. in all directionsD. in a circle5. Pigeons have _C_ to tell the direction when it is cloudy by using the earths magnetic field. A. sharp eyesB. sensitive hearing C. sense of direction D. brain wavesPassage 2The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, High school English teachers are not doing their jobs. He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established. My topic is not standards nor its decline (降低). What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young; he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult. My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies (缺陷). But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack. The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate. Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to todays young people, it naturally follows that todays English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise, young people would not commit offenses against the language. 6. The speaker the author mentioned in the passage believed that _D_. A. the language of the younger generation is usually inferior to that of the older generation B. the students had a poor command of English because they didnt work hard enough C. he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years D. English teachers should be held responsible for the students poor command of English 7. In the authors opinion, the speaker _B_. A. gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students B. had exaggerated the language problems of the students C. was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their jobs D. could think and speak intelligently 8. The authors attitude towards the speakers remarks is _C_. A. neutral B. positive C. critical D. compromising 9. It can be concluded from the passage that _D_. A. it is justifiable to include English as a school subject B. the author disagrees with the speaker over the stadard of English at Grade 9 level C. English language teaching is by no means an easy job D. Language improvement needs time and effort 10. In the passage the author argues that _A_. A. it is unfair to blame the English teachers for the language deficiencies of the students B. young people would not commit offences against the language if the teachers did their jobs properly C. to eliminate language deficiencies one must have sensitive eyes and ears D. to improve the standard of English requires the effort of several generations Passage 3Is there a “success personality” some winning combination of qualities that leads almost inevitably to achievement? If so, exactly what is that secret success formula, and can anyone cultivate it?At the Gallup Organization we recently focused in depth on success, probing the attitudes and qualities of 1 500 prominent people selected at random from Whos Who in America. Our research finds out a number of qualities that occur regularly among top achievers. Here is one of the most important, that is, common sense.Common sense is the most prevailing quality possessed by our respondents(回答者). Seventy-nine percent award themselves a top score in this category. And 61 percent say that common sense was very important in contributing to their success.To most, common sense means the ability to present sound, practical judgments on everyday affairs. To do this, one has to sweep aside extraneous ideas and get right to the core of what matters. A Texas oil and gas businessman puts it this way: “The key ability for success is simplifying. In conducting meetings and dealing with industry, reducing a complex problem to the simplest terms is highly important.”Is common sense a quality a person is born with, or can you do something to increase it? The oil mans answer is that common sense can definitely be developed. He attributes his to learning how to debate in school. Another way to increase your store of common sense is to observe it in others, learning from their and your own mistakes.Besides common sense, there are many other factors that influence success: knowing your field, self-reliance, intelligence, the ability to get things done, leadership, creativity, relationships with others, and of course, luck. But common sense stands out. If you cultivate these qualities, youll succeed. And you might even find yourself listed in Whos Who someday.11. It can be known from the passage that Whos Who_C_. A. is a very useful book telling us how to succeedB. is a book providing us with the information about the family life of some famous peopleC. is a book providing us with the names and brief biographies of the top successful peopleD. is a book from which we can find out the names of different peoples in the world12. According to the author, common sense_B_.A. is something that common people like bestB. is something that enables one to form correct opinions C. is a popular quality a person is born withD. is a quality that is possessed by common people13. The word“extraneous” in Paragraph 4 most probably means_D_.A. rightB. extraordinaryC. clearD. not related14. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor for success? BA. Intelligence.B. Modesty.C. Creativity.D. Good luck.15. The passage is mainly concerned with_D_.A. organizational ability and good work habitsB. the way to obtain big profits and achieve fame and successC. knowledge and interest which are primary to successD. what successful people have in commonPassage 4Baekeland and Hartmann report that the “short sleepers” had been more or less average in their sleep needs until the men were in their teens. But at about age 15 or so, the men voluntarily began cutting down their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school, work, and other activities. These men tended to view their nightly periods of unconsciousness as bothersome interruptions in their daily routines.In general, these “short sleeps” appeared ambitious, active, energetic, cheerful, conformist(不動搖) in their opinions, and very sure about their career choices. They often held several jobs at once, or workers full-or part-time while going to school. And many of them had a strong urge to appear “normal” or “acceptable” to their friends and associates.When asked to recall their dreams, the “short sleepers” did poorly. More than this, they seemed to prefer not remembering. In similar fashion, their usual way of dealing with psychological problems was to deny that the problem existed, and then to keep busy in the hope that the trouble would go away.The sleep patterns of the “short sleepers” were similar to, but less extreme than, sleep patterns shown by many mental patients categorized as manic(瘋?cè)?.The “l(fā)ong sleepers” were quite different indeed. Baekeland and Hartmann report that these young men had been lengthy sleeps since childhood. They seemed to enjoy their sleep, protected it, and were quite concerned when they were occasionally deprived of their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest. They tended to recall their dreams much better than did the “short sleepers.”Many of the “l(fā)ong sleepers” were shy, anxious, introverted (內(nèi)向), inhibited (壓抑), passive, mildly depressed, and unsure of themselves (particularly in social situations). Several openly states that sleep was an escape from their daily problems.16. According to the report,_D_.A. many short sleepers need less sleep by natureB. many short sleepers are obliged to reduce their nightly sleep time because they are busy with their workC. long sleepers sleep a longer period of time during the dayD. many long sleepers preserve their sleeping habit formed during their childhood17. Many “short sleepers” are likely to hold the view that _C_.A. sleep is a withdrawal from the realityB. sleep interferes with their sound judgementC. sleep is the least expensive item on their routine programD. sleep is the best way to deal with psychological troubles18. It is stated in the third paragraph that short sleepers _B_.A. are ideally vigorous even under the pressures of lifeB. often neglect the consequences of inadequate sleepC. do not know how to relax properlyD. are more unlikely to run into mental problems19. When sometimes they cannot enjoy adequate sleep, the long sleepers might _A_.A. appear disturbedB. become energeticC. feel dissatisfiedD. be extremely depressed20. Which of the following is Not included in the passage? BA. If one sleeps inadequately, his performance suffers and his memory is weakenedB. The sleep patterns of short sleepers are exactly the sane as those shown by m