2013湖南大学远程第3册考试复习题第2套

Book Three Paper Two

Part I Reading Comprehension Section A

Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each followed by some questions. For each of

them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best

choice.

Passage 1

Have you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date?

Many people are afraid to assert themselves（坚持自己的权利）. Dr. Alberti, author of Stand Up, Speak Out, and Talk Back, thinks it's because their self-respect is low. \"Our whole set-up is designed to make people distrust themselves,\" says Alberti. \"There's always a 'superior' around: a parent, a teacher, a boss who 'knows better'.\"

But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help those people assert themselves. They offer \"Assertiveness Training\" courses (AT for short). In the AT course people learn that they have a right to be themselves. They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so. They learn to be aggressive without hurting other people.

In one way, learning to speak out is to overcome fear. A group taking an AT course will help the timid person to lose his fear. But AT uses an even stronger motive---the need to share. The timid person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels.

Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-image. If someone you face is more \"important\" than you, you may feel less of a person. You start to doubt your own good sense. You go by the other person's label. But, why should you? AT says you can get to feel good about yourself. And once you do, you can learn to speak out. 1. The problem the writer talks about is that _______. A) some people buy things they don't want B) some people are afraid of arguing for themselves C) there are too many \"superiors\" around us D) there is too much pressure from our society

2. The cause of the problem discussed in this passage is that _______. A) some people have a low self-image

B) there is always someone around who \"knows better\" C) salesmen talk people into buying things they don't want D) people don't share opinions in a group

3. The set-up of our society often _______. A) makes people distrust themselves

B) makes things more favorable for \"superiors\"

C) keeps people from knowing as much as their \"superiors\"

D) helps people to learn to speak up for their rights 4. AT is one solution to the problem in this passage, but one thing AT doesn't promote is to help

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people ________.

A) to share their feelings

B) to have a right to be oneself

C) to overcome their fear before others D) to be more aggressive

5. The title for this passage could be ________. A) Assertiveness Training B) Loss of Self-respect

C) The Importance of Human Rights D) Share Your Feelings with Others

Passage 2

The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale, you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbors and some to the manager of a local store. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you may stop producing.

If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing service for the market. If your father is a steelworker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or services for the market.

When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. If you spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and restaurants, you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck（送货车）, he is buying your labor in the labor market.

The market is everywhere, and it's very real. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It's telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't want you to do. 6. When we are producing for the market, ______. A) our life will become much easier B) we can help others in a better way C) our efforts are directed by the market D) we can avoid much waste of money

7. You are buying from the market when you ______. A) fix your bike by yourself B) look after your children C) take care of a sick person

D) eat out in a restaurant

8. The word \"real\" (line 1, Para. 4) probably means ______. A) urgent B) important C) serious D) concrete

9. According to the passage the market can tell people ______. A) how to drive a bargain

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B) what should be produced

C) when to stop selling D) how to increase profits

10. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? A) To show what the market can do. B) To explain what the market consists of. C) To indicate how to succeed in the market. D) To argue for the necessity of the market.

Passage 3

Just like children, deer often cross British roads to get to the other side. But the cost is the deer's life. At night, speeding cars hit and kill the animals. Now foresters are using natural animal instincts（本能）to prevent dangerous crossings.

In England, the British Forestry Commission has installed thousands of glowing red \"wolf eyes\" along woodland roads. The eyes are actually reflectors, plastic bars like the red reflectors on your bike. The ten-centimeter long bars are fixed on top of posts, with only these signs directed towards the woods rather than the roads.

When cars speed by, light rays from car headlights reflect off the reflectors' shining surface and flash into the woods. Deer are instantly scared by the wolf eyes ― even though wolves haven't hunted deer in Britain or even lived there for a hundred years!

Scientists think the glowing light imitates the \"eye shine\" of nightly beasts. (You've probably seen eye shine on cats. Mirror-like cells in the eyes reflect some light that hits them.)

The deer must not have \"forgotten\" that a wolf can run up to 72 km per hour in hot pursuit, or can sniff（嗅）deer out from 2.4 km away. In some areas where \"wolf eyes\" keep watch, 90 percent fewer deer have been killed at night.

11. In Britain, deer's life is threatened _____ . A) by worsening environment

B) by nightly beasts

C) by automobiles D) by illegal hunting

12. The word \"foresters\" (Line 2, Para. 1) refers to _____. A) workers in charge of forests B) traffic policemen C) raisers of wild animals

D) road-building engineers

13. The nightly beasts' eyes _____. A) are as bright as mirrors C) can work as plastic bars

B) are as shiny as car headlights D) can reflect incoming light

14. The success of \"wolf eyes\" proves that _____. A) the deer is a kind of very timid animal B) animals can always be easily cheated C) all things in nature are related to each other D) the deer's fear of wolves is genetically built 15. It is implied in the passage that _____.

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A) a wolf can run very fast in hot pursuit

B) Great Britain pays great attention to animal protection C) a wolf's smell is ten times more sensitive than man's D) Britain has built many highways through woodlands

Section B

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one

word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Summer in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, is the time for festivals. In August and September there are several different festivals which take place there.

The original Edinburgh International Festival started in 1947, and offers visitors a rich 16 of classical music, theatre, opera and dance. The same year that the official festival began, a handful of theatrical companies came to the festival and 17 their own event, which grew into what is now called the Fringe Festival.

The term 'fringe' means something on the outside of the main event, but over the years, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has become the largest of all the festivals, and indeed the largest arts festival in the world! The Fringe features performers and acts which are less 18 and more unconventional（非传统的） than those in the International Festival, and includes a lot of stand-up comedy shows, music and children's entertainment. The Edinburgh Fringe is seen as an important place for up-and-coming stand-up comedians to perform 19 .

At the same time in Edinburgh there are 20 other festivals, such as the Jazz and Blues festival, the Book Festival, the Film Festival, and even an Internet Festival! There is also a 21 festival called Mela, which celebrates the diversity of people living in Edinburgh, 22 people with South Asian origins.

Edinburgh Castle is the site of one of the most spectacular events - The Military Tattoo. A military tattoo has nothing to do with a tattoo on your skin! It means a 23 of military music, for example, by marching bands. In Scotland the military tattoo traditionally includes bagpipes and drums. This year the display will also 24 dancers, horses and motorbikes!

Though you have to 25 to attend most of the events at the various festivals, there are several groups who organize large numbers of free events as well.

A) at I) programme

B) pay C) various

J) performance K) actions L) especially M) through

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F) traditional G) multimedia H) multicultural

N) cost O) organised

Part II Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: There are 40 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. 26. Brown's comments on the project caused unexpected _____over the budget. A) controversy B) condition C) contact D) contradiction

27. He claimed with pride that he saw the football star Beckham _____ yesterday. A) in the way B) by the way C) in the flesh D) on the flesh

28. He tried to explain the complicated theory to me, but I got even more_____ by the technical terms in his explanation.

A)bewildering B) misunderstood

C) misleading

D) confused

29. What's the point of _____ for months over something that a good teacher could have explained in minutes?

A) racking your brains

30. The thesis is no easy work; you have to_____ over it for months. A) get at B) leave off C) pick up D) break your back

31. Mr. Wilson is quite satisfied with his new secretary because she's much more_____ than the former one.

A)effective B)efforts

C)diligence

D) efficient

B) resorting to

C) at a loss

D) looking

32. You could not be exempted from the punishment because there can be no_____ to the rule. A)anticipation B)expectation C)example D) exception

33. We hope the special loan from the bank will _____our company _____ the crisis. A)pull…out

B)take…out

C)take…into

D) pull … through

34. The number of people invited to the party _____ two hundred, but a number of them _____ absent for various reasons. A) were … was

B) was … were

C) was … was

D) were … were

35. What we are doing is to bridge the gap between the scientists and the market, _____their research achievements into commercial products. A)enabling

B)encouraging

C)allowing

D) converting

36. We had to refuse the dinner invitation because of a _____ engagement. A) primary B) preceding C) prior D) prevalent

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37. With the exception of a few_____ and acceptable reforms, the project is a failure as a whole. A) intense B) positive C) negative D) disappointing

38. Old houses have been pulled down to_____ greenery. A) give way B) make up of C) thanks to D) give way to

39. As a leading producer of spare parts for airplanes, our company is a long way _____ other companies. A) ahead of

40. The bank robber has been sentenced to a ten-year imprisonment. _____he had known the consequence before he committed the robbery. A) Though

B) Even if

C) If only

D) Only if

B) behind

C) along with

D) in the front of

41. The police have arrested two_____ in connection with the bank robbery. A) citizen B)criminal C)subjects D)suspects

42. The first priority of this government is to create a peaceful situation so as to _____ our

economic development. A) damage

43. Medical scientists are exhausting all possibilities to find a means of _____ life. A) lengthen B) shortening C) prolonging D) suviving

44. If the two parties could not reach a _____over the dispute, there would be no end to violence. A) compromise

B) conflicts

C) agreementt

D) promotion

B) promise

C) spoil

D) promote

45. As China is also a target of international terrorist acts, its government _____ against terrorism. A) makes use of B) comes into contact C) takes advantage of D) takes a stand

46. You will be overweight if you consume_____ amounts of fat. A) reckless B) instinctive C) extreme D) excessive

47. The court gave the heavy sentence, responding not to the facts but to the_____ public fear. A) controversy B) regulations

A) keep at bay B) under the sun

A) combat B) string

C) ban

C) irrational

D) prohibition

48. This high dosage of Vitamin C is an excellent way of helping to_____ nasty colds and viruses.

C) to his name

D) jumping the gun

49. With the loan from the bank, the company may be able to_____ the crisis.

D) survive

50. The students have been advised to_____ a healthy lifestyle - a balanced diet, enough rest and exercise to keep fit.

A)adept B)admit C)adapt D) adopt

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51. Many teenagers are found to_____ themselves too much in the virtual world presented by the computer games.

A) genius B) immerse C) resemblance D) devote

52. The police suspect that it was John who _____the murder. A) assumed

53. The local government's decision to reduce unemployment benefits enraged the workers who were laid off and they _____violent protest. A)dressed up B) jotted down

C) racked their brains

D) resorted to

. I begged him to tell me the truth , but he_____ doing anything illegal. A)allowed

B) denied

C)admitted

D) permitted

B) qualified

C) retreated

D) committed

55. I'd rather stay at home than go to the exhibition at the gallery; modern arts really don't _____to me.

A) refresh B) independent

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C)proper

D) appeal

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases given below. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage according to our textbook.

A. enabling B. rapidly C. at various stages D. handle the changes E. very nature F. necessary G. builds on H. employment market I. involved in J. concluded

The purpose of education is not only to train youngsters for the ____56____, but to prepare them for tomorrow's society. Because of the____57____ changing world, one can argue that changes will be continuous, which will make lifelong learning ____58____ for those who expect to ____59____successfully. While some may argue that their education commenced when they began school and ____60____when they completed it, modern reality suggests that education is a lifelong process, and the classroom is merely the beginning of the education process. The____61____of its definition implies that education is lifelong. Lifelong education ____62____and affects all existing educational providers, and extends beyond the formal educational providers to include all bodies and individuals ____63___learning activities.

Lifelong education means ________ people to learn at different times, in different ways, for different purposes ____65____of their lives and careers.

Part IV Translation

Directions: Translate the Chinese sentences into English. 66. 你不应在实验还没有做完就抢先下结论。

67. 经过两个月的不懈努力，警方终于在一个南方城市找到了罪犯的踪迹。

68. 认识到节约能源的重要性是一回事，但在生活的方方面面付诸实施又是另外一回事儿。 69. 这位国际知名导演拍摄的最新影片结果是彻底的失败。 70. 他悲叹一声，对我们说他年轻时也曾风光一时。

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Part V Writing

Write a short passage (100~120 words) with the title: Lifelong Learning based on the following outline.

1. 终生教育是必要的；

2. 人们继续学习是为了……；

3. 继续学习的途径有很多，其中包括……。

Lifelong Learning

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