《八級(jí)強(qiáng)化》期末試卷A試題卷

1、XXXXX）學(xué)院2011學(xué)年01學(xué)期英語(yǔ)專業(yè)2008級(jí)八級(jí)強(qiáng)化期末試卷（A）考試形式：（閉卷）題號(hào)I(B&C), II, HI(答題卡)I(A)IVVVI總分評(píng)分人得分核分人PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While liste ning, take no tes on the importa nt poin ts. Your no tes will

2、not be marked, but you will n eed them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on your ANSWER SHEET. Use the bla nk sheet for no te-taki ng.Now liste n

3、 to the min i-lecture.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this sect ion you will hear everyth ing ONCE ONLY. Liste n carefully and the n an swer the questi ons that follow. Mark the correct an swer to each questi on on your colored an swer sheet.Questi ons 1 to 5 are based on an in terview. At the end of the in t

4、erviewyou will be give n 10sec onds to an swer each of the followi ng five questi ons. Now liste n to the in terview.1. Accord ing to Nigel, most problems of air travel are caused by.A. un favorable weather con diti onsB. airports han dli ng capacityC. in adequate ticketi ng serviceD. overbook ing2.

5、 Which of the following is not mentioned as compensation for volunteers for the next flight out?A. Free ticket.B. Free pho ne call.C. Cash rewardD. Seat reservati on.3. Why does Nigel suggest that bus in ess travelers avoid big airports?A. Because all flights in and out of there are full.B. Because

6、the volume of traffic is heavy.C. Because there are more popular flights.D. Because there are more delays and can cellati ons.4. According to Nigel, inexperienee travelers are likely to make the following mistakes exceptA. book ing on less popular flightsB. buying tickets at full priceC. carry ing e

7、xcessive luggageD. pla nning long bus in ess trips5. Which of the followi ng stateme nts is INCORRECT?A. The possibility of disco unts depe nds on a travel age nt' s volume of bus in ess.B. Lon ger flights to the same dest in ati on maybe cheaper.C. It is advisable to pla n every detail of a tri

8、p in adva nee.D. Arranging for stopovers can avoid overni ght travel.1SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this sect ion you will hear everyth ing ONCE ONLY. Liste n carefully and the n an swer the questi ons that follow. Mark the correct an swer to each questi on on your colored an swer sheet.Questi on 6 is

9、based on the follow ing n ews. At the end of the n ews item, you will be give n 10 sec onds to an swer the questi on. Now liste n to the n ews.6. Which of the followi ng stateme nts is TRUE?A. Five gunmen were flow n to Iran in a helicopter.B. Most of the ran som was retrieved in the end.C. The chil

10、dre n were held for five days.D. The authorities have passed sentence on the gunmen.Questi on 7 is based on the follow ing n ews. At the end of the n ews item, you will be give n 10 sec onds to an swer the questi on. Now liste n to the n ews.7. Accord ing to the n ews, America n troops in PanamaA. w

11、ere attacked at refugee camps.B. were angry at delays in departure.C. attacked Cuba n refugee camps last week.D. will be in creased to 2,000.Questi on 8 is based on the follow ing n ews. At the end of the n ews item, you will be give n 10 sec onds to an swer the questi on. Now liste n to the n ews.8

12、. Which of the followi ng stateme nts is CORRECT? U.S. lawmakers.A. challenged the accord for freezing Pyongyang' s nuclear program.B. required the inspection of Pyongyang' s nuclear site for at least five years.C. were worried that North Korea may take adva ntage of the con cessi ons.D. bla

13、med the U.S. Negotiator for making no compromises with North Korea.Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given20 sec onds to an swer the two questi ons. Now liste n to the n ews.9. Accord ing to the n ews, the Italia n Parliame nt was asked to a

14、ct byA. the U.N.B.the Red Cross.C. the Defense Mi nister.D.the SwedishGovernment.10. On the issue of limited use of land mines, the Italian Parliament isA. non committal.B.resolute.C. un supportive.D.waveri ng.PART II READING COMPREHENSIONIn this sect ion, there are four readi ng passages followed b

15、y a total of twenty multiple-choice questi ons. Read the passages and the n write your an swers on your colored ANSWER SHEET.TEXT A“In a greater nu mber of huma n societies men ' s sure ness of their sex role is tied up with theirright, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not al

16、lowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some fe at.This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished.If talk and print are

17、 considered it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defenses which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the o

18、bvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business ofB. carry further the ideas of the earlier

19、 paragraphsC. support the first sentence of the same paragraphD. disown the ideas he is expressing15. The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraphA. is based on the study of archaeologyB. illustrates how people expect men to behaveC. is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant jokeD. proves

20、that the man, not woman, should be the wooer 'sTEXT B3In the firsLtarge partrunning the world.There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men's status.place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel. Seco

21、ndly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who work especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behavior: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domes

22、tic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities.Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that doe

23、s not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people 's sense of what is fundamentally proper in thdeifferentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off

24、 the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining more accurately the status of women

25、 in various periods.Although much has been accomplished for the modern period, pre-modern cultures have proved more difficult: sources are restricted in number, fragmentary, difficult to interpret, and often contradictory. Thus it is not particularly surprising that some earlier scholarship concerni

26、ng such cultures has so far gone unchallenged. An example is Johann Bachofen 's 1861 treatise on Amazons, women-ruled societies of questionable existence contemporary with ancient Greece.Starting from the premise that mythology and legend preserve at least a nucleus of historical fact, Bachofen

27、argued that women were dominant in many ancient societies. His work was based on a comprehensive survey of references in the ancient sources to Amazonian and other societies with matrilineal customs-societies in which descent and property rights are traced through the female line.Some support for hi

28、s theory can be found in evidence such as that drawn from Herodotus, the Greek “ historian ” of the fifth century B. C., who speaks of an Amazonian society, the Sauromatae, where the women hunted and fought in wars. A woman in this society was not allowed to marry until she had killed a person in ba

29、ttle.11. The phrase“ men' s sureness of their seinx trhoelefirst paragra”ph suggests that they A. are confident in their ability to charm womenB. take the initiative in courtshipC. have a clear idea of what is considered“ manly ”D. tend to be more immoral than women are12. The third paragraph do

30、es NOT claim that men .A. prevent women from taking up certain professionsB. secretly admire women's intellect and resolutionC. doubt whether women really mean to succeed in businessD. forbid women to join certain clubs and societies13. The third paragraph .A. generally agrees with the first par

31、agraphB. has no connection with the first paragraphC. repeats the argument of the second paragraphD. contradicts the last paragraph14. At the end of the last paragraph the author uses humorous exaggeration in order to .A. show that men are stronger than womenNonetheless, this assumption that the fir

32、st recorders of ancient myths have preserved facts is problematic. If one begins by examining why ancients refer to Amazons, it becomes clear that ancient Greek descriptions of such societies were meant not so much to represent observed historical fact-real Amazonian societies-but rather to offer “

33、morallessons ”on the supposed outcome of women' rule in their own society. The Amazons were often characterized, for example, as the equivalents of giants and centaurs, enemies to be slain by Greek heroes. Their customs were presented not as those of a respectable society, but as the very antith

34、eses of ordinary Greek practices.Thus, I would argue the purpose of accounts of the Amazons for their male Greek recorders was didactic, to teach both male and female Greeks that all-female groups, formed by withdrawal from traditional society, are destructive and dangerous. Myths about the Amazons

35、were used as arguments for the male-dominated status quo, in which groups composed exclusively of either sex were not permitted to segregate themselves permanently from society. Bachofen was thus misled in his reliance on myths for information about the status of women. The sources that will probabl

36、y tell contemporary historians most about women in the ancient world are such social documents as gravestones, wills and marriage contracts. Studies of such documents have already begun to show how mistaken we are when we try to derive our picture of the ancient world exclusively from literary sourc

37、es, especially myths.16. All of the following are stated by the author as problems connected with the sources forknowledge of pre-modern cultures EXCEPT.A. in completenessB. restricted accessibilityC. difficulty of interpretationD. limited quantity17. Which of the following can be inferred from the

38、passage about the myths recorded by the ancient Greeks?A. They may have in eluded portrayals of wome n holdi ng positi ons of power.B. They may have contained elaborate exp I a nations of in herita nee customs.C. They comprise almost all of the material available to historians about ancient Greece.D

39、. They may have contained exp I a nations of in herita nee customs and comprised all of the material available to historians about ancient Greece.18. Which of the following is presented in the passages as evidenee supporting the authorthe ancient Greeks deschptions of the Amazons?A. The requirement

40、that Sauromatae women kill in battle before marrying.B. The failure of historians to verify that women were ever governors of ancient societies.C. The classing of Amazons as giants and centaurs.D. The well-established unreliability of Herodotus as a source of information about ancient societies.19.

41、It can be inferred from the passage that the probable reactions of many males in ancient Greece tothe idea of a society ruled by women could best be characterized as.A. con fused and dismayedB. wary and hostileC. cynical and disinterestedD. curious but fearful20. The author suggests that the main re

42、as on for the persisti ng in flue nee of Bachofe nA. feminists have shown little interest in ancient societiesB. Bachofen ' s knowledge of Amazonian culture is unparalleledC. reliable information about the ancient world is difficult to acquireD. ancient societies show the best evidenee of women

43、in positions of powerTEXTCMeteorologists routinely tell us w hat next week ' s weather is likely to be, and climate scientists discuss what might happen in 100 years. Christoph Schar, though, ventures dangerously close to that middle realm, where previously only the Farmer ' Imanac dared go,

44、 what will next summer's weather be like? Following last year's tragic heat wave, which directly caused the death of tens of thousa nds of people, the questi on is of burning in terest to Europea ns. Schar asserts that last summer" s swelteri ng temperatures should no Ion ger be thought

45、 of as extraord i nary.2002 and 2003 in Europe, where we had a summer with extreme rainfall and record flooding followed by the hottest summer in hundreds of years, is going to be typical for future weather patter ns, ” he says.Most Europea ns have probably n ever read Sehar' s report (no t leas

46、t because it was published inthe scientifiejournal Nature in the dead of winter) but they seem to be bracing themselves for the worst. As part of its new national " heaivave plan " France issued a level-three alert when temperatures in Prove nee reached 34 degrees Celsius three days in a r

47、ow; hospital and rescueworkers were asked to prepare for an influx of patients. Italian government officials have proposed creating a national registry of people over 65 so they can be herded into air-conditioned supermarkets in the eve nt of a no ther heat wave. London's mayor has offered a 100

48、,000 pound reward for an ybody who can come up with a practical way of cooling the city' s underground trains, where temperatureshave lately reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius. (The money hasn' t been claimed.) Global warmingseems to have perm a nently en tered the Europea n psyche.If the pub

49、lic is more aware, though, experts are more con fused. When the In tergover nmental Panel on Climate Change hammered out its last assessment in 2001, scientists pulled together the latest research and made their best estimate of how much the Earth' s atmosphere would warm duriithe next century.

50、There was a lot they didn' t know, but they wereddo®仙lri®tt(bh|elyig the'gaps in time for the next report, due out in 2007. When they explored the fun dame ntal physics and chemibtr viea ofhe atmosphere, though, they found something unexpected: the way the atmosphere a nd, in parti

51、cular, clouds resp ond to in creasi ng levels of carb on is far more complex and difficult to predict than they had expected. "Whought we' cbeduce the uncertainty, but that hasn ' t happened," says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for AtmosphericResearch

52、and a lead author of the next IPCC report. " As we delve further and further into the scienee and gain a better understanding of the true complexity of the atmosphere, the uncertainties have gotten deeper."This doesn ' t mean, of couteejt the world isn' rtgA/fihiliy the biased or t

53、he deluded denythat temperatures have risen, and that human activity has something to do with it. The big question that scientists have struggled with is how much warming will occur over the next century? With so much still unknown in the climate equation, there's no way of telling whether warni

54、ngs of datastmjbLlie ttratoverblown or if things are even direr than we thought.Why do scie ntists like Schar make predicti ons? Because, like econo mists, it' s their job to hazarda best guess with the resources at hand-namely, vast computer programs that simulate what the Earth ' s atmosph

55、ere will do in certai n circumsta nces. These models in corporate all the latest research into how the Earth ' atenosphere behaves. But there are problems with the computer models. The atmosphere is very big, but also consists of a multitude of tiny interactions among particles of dust, soot, cl

56、oud droplets and trace gases that cannot be safely ignored. Current models don't have nearly the resolution they need to capture what goes on at such small scales.Scientists got an inkling that something was missing from the models in the early 1990s when they ran a peculiar experiment. They had

57、 the leading models simulate warming over the next century and got a similar answer from each. Then they ran the models again-this time accounting for what was then known about cloud physics.A. climate scientists are contemptuous of weather forecast.21. It can be inferred from the first paragraph th

58、at The situation inB. it is a venture to forecast what weather is like tomorrow.C. Schar has the audacity to do what others seldom do.D. Schar has made gloomy predictions on future weather.in the second paragraph probably means22. The expression" bracing themselves for the worstA. sneering at t

59、he impending difficulties.B. cheering themselves up for the worst situation.A. ambivalent.B. inexplicit.25. The main difference between the EarthA. their size.B. their content.C. preparing themselves for the worst situation.D. having a total disregard for the coming difficulties.23. All of the following statements are true of climate scientists EX