西南大学网院2017年12月课程考试[0051]英语阅读一【答案】
西南大学网络与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷
类别：网教 专业：英语育、应用英语 2017年12月
课程名称【编号】：英语阅读一【0051】 A卷
大作业 满分：100分
请将选择题1-10； 31-50 的答案填在试卷末尾的表格里。将11-20,21-30和简答题的答案填在试题的横线处。
I. Vocabulary (20*1.5=30 points)
A. Choose the best answer from A, B, C and D to explain the underlined parts in the sentences.
1. You are fortunate to have parents that can take care of your biggest bills — tuition, room and board, transportation home.
A. teaching B. insurance C. fee for education D. entertainment
2. Looking at the whole semester, not just a sample week, makes plain how recurring expenses add up — like, say, $4 a day at Starbucks setting you back nearly $500.
A. for example B. look like C. love D. Similar
3. It’s easy to talk, because we already share a common interest. So at least you’ll usually get a decent conversation, even if it winds up going nowhere dating-wise.
A. adequate or sufficient B. happy or pleasant
C. kind or generous D. moral or reasonable
4. I worried that the roller coaster would be too scary for her, but she insisted playing.
A. funny B. interesting C. frightening D. exciting
5. But having been very chatty a few minutes previously, they all seemed to have become deaf mutes in his presence.
A. active B. naughty C. fatty D. talkative
6. After the awful meals we had last Christmas, I vowed to do more of the cooking myself.
A. promised B. committed C. assured D. defined
7. Will passengers waiting to board please go to the ticket counter?
A. put up a notice B. pay to sleep and eat meals
C. organize as a group D. get on a plane
8. We can discuss this problem via WeChat.
against B. through C. past D. with
9. A small man robbed a bank with a toy gun and was caught by a young teller of the bank.
A. guard B. bank clerk C. manager D. customer
10. When naturalization, the applicant should renouncing their prior citizenship.
A. give up B. refuse C. gain D. present
B. Give Chinese for the meaning of the underlined parts.
________ 11. Just show your ticket at the check-in counter.
________ 12. It happened prior to my arrival.
________ 13. The funeral service will be held at St. Laurence Parish Church
________ 14. You’d better consult the doctor for your headache.
________ 15. The new curriculum reform proposes students forming independent learning style.
________ 16. He was waiting for me to offer him a prescription, or to order more tests.
________ 17. If it was true that the mother’s actions over the next nine months would affect her offspring for the rest of his life.
________ 18. How do I know whether my message has been read by the recipient?
________19. Can I restrict the visibility of my photos?
________ 20. Laboratory work needs not only accurate measurements but also correct calculation.
II. Translation (10*3=30 points)
Translate the following sentences from the text into Chinese.
21. These courses will open your eyes to how much money works in the real world and introduce you to practical skills you’ll use the rest of your life.
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22. You won’t seem approachable if no one can see your face.
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23. It’s heartbreaking that we can’t spend our days together in the same neighborhood, walking the same streets, reading the same newspaper at the same coffee shop.
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24. I would be cordial and polite.
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25. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.
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26. If one or both of a person’s parents are citizens of a given state, then the person may have the right to be a citizen of that state as well.
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27. You can make a great living doing almost anything, as long as you love it.
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28. But there’s something that’s easy to lose sight of: These happy folks aren’t typical.
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29. I believe it is possible to transform our world.
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30. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us
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III. Reading Comprehension(20*1.5=30 points)
There are four passages, each with 5 statements or uncompleted sentences. Choose the best answer from A, B, C and D to complete the sentences or answer the questions.
Text A
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there had been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenient foods.
This important change in women’s life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interest of each of them.
31. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ______.
A. stay at home after leaving school B. marry men younger than themselves
C. start working again later in life D. marry while still at school
32. We are told that in an average family in about 1900 ______.
A. many children died before they lived to older than five
B. seven or eight children lived to be older than five
C. the youngest child would be fifteen
D. four or five children died when they were five
33. Many girls, the passage claims, are now likely to ______.
A. give up their jobs for good after they are married
B. leave school as soon as they can
C. marry so that they can get a job
D. continue working until they are going to have a baby
34. One reason why a woman today may take a job is that she ______.
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. need not worry about food for their children
D. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty
35. Nowadays, a husband tends to ______.
A. play a greater part in looking after the children
B. help his wife by doing much of the housework
C. feel dissatisfied with his role in the family
D. take a part-time job so that he can help in the home
Text B
The universities from which today’s universities are descendents were founded in the Middle Ages. They were established either by corporations of students wanting to learn, as in Italy, or by teachers wanting to teach, as in France. Corporations that had special legal or customary privileges for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of the incorporators were common in those days. The university corporations of the Middle Ages at the height of their power were not responsible to anybody, and could not be punished by any authorities. They claimed, and made good their claim, complete independence of all religious and nonreligious control. The American university was, however, at first a corporation formed by a religious group or by the state for the purposes of the group.
The American university in the seventeenth century was much closer to the American university today than to the university in the Middle Ages. The Puritan communities needed ministers and professional men and so they established universities to provide them. Later, religious groups built universities in order to extend their own influence. For example, the University of Chicago was founded by devout Baptists to combat the rising tide of Methodism in the Middle West and Shakers in the East. The president and the trustees of the University were required to have the proper religious relations in order to keep the University on the right path. Fortunately, the combination of John D, Rockefeller, William Rainey Harper, and the enlightened wing of the Baptist Church preserved the university from too narrow an interpretation of its purpose.
36. French universities in the Middle Ages were founded by ______.
A. the government B. groups of scholars
C. the Catholic Church D. students wanting to learn
37. Puritans set up universities primarily for the purpose of ______.
A. training school teachers
B. influencing the government
C. supplying professionals for corporations
D. providing ministers and professionals
38. The University of Chicago was established by ______.
A. Puritans B. Shakers C. Methodists D. Baptists
39. The writer mentions John D. Rockefeller and William Rainey Harper to show that ______.
A. they were important founders of the university
B. they were extremely faithful in their religious beliefs
C. they broadened the original goal of the university
D. they stuck to the founding principles of the university
40. Early universities in the U.S. were founded mostly for ______.
A. economic reasons B. political reasons C. academic purposes D. religious purposes
Text C
Generation of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is one of life’s essentials. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have all been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.
But for many people they thought first thing in the morning is by no means a pleasure. So despite all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1997 and 2003, the latest year for which figures are available, the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33 percent — from 8.8 million to 11.7 million according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of guilt about not eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years indicate that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect performance,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve performance.”
Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better performance is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves adults, not children. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, “is poor.”
41. The latest year for which figures could be obtained is ________.
A. the year the author wrote the article
B. 1997
C. any year between1997 and 2003
D. 2003
42. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that _______.
A. several studies have been done in the past few years
B. the omission of breakfast does no harm to one’s health
C. adult have made studies in this field
D. eating little in the morning is good for health
43. “…nor does giving people breakfast improve performance” means _______.
A. anyone without breakfast improve performance
B. not giving people breakfast improves performance
C. having breakfast does not improve performance, either
D. people having breakfast do improve performance, too
44. The word “literature” in the last sentence refers to _______.
A. stories, poems, plays, etc.
B. written works on a particular subject
C. any printed materials
D. the modern literature of America
45. What is implied but not stated by the author is that _______.
A. breakfast does not affect performance
B. Dr. Pollitt is engaged in research at an institution of higher learning
C. not eating breakfast might affect the health of children
D. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London
Text D
What is your favorite colour? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be optimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer greys and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy and you would rather follow than lead. You tend to be pessimist. At least, this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of colours preference, as well as the effect that colors have on human beings. They tell us, among other facts, that we do not choose our favourite colour as we grow up – we are born with our preference. If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.
Colours so influence our moods – there is no doubt about it. A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing. A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the scene of more suicides than any other bridge in the area – until it was reprinted green. The number of suicides attempts immediately fell sharply; perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or baby blue.
Light and bright colours make people not only happier but more active. It is an established fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are printed orange rather than black or grey.
46. “You would rather follow than lead” means ___________.
A. you don’t like to follow others
B. you would be a member rather than a leader
C. you would be afraid of following others
D. you would like to be a leader rather than a follower
47. If one enjoys life, one is sure to prefer ___________.
A. red to yellow B. blue to orange C. red to grey D. blue to yellow
48. “They tell us, among other facts, that we do not choose our favourite colour as we grow up.” “among other facts” means ________.
A. besides other facts B. in regard to other facts
C. not considering other facts D. according to other facts
49. Which of the following is true?
A. People’s preference of one colour to another is instinct.
B. People’s preference of one colour to another is acquired as they grow up.
C. More people happen to love brown because they saw something brown when they were born.
D. Colours have little influence on our moods.
50. Those who committed suicide preferred the bridge over the Thames River near London to others because of _________.
A. its shape B. its structure C. its colour D. its building materials
IV. Short Answer Questions (1*10=10 points)
Briefly answer ONE of the following questions in English.
A. Do you have any money wisdom? What is it?
B. Do you have any old friends? What is your understanding of friendship and old friends? Please give your opinions with your stories of your old friends.
C. Do you or your friends have any problems in using the smart phones? Do you have any suggestions to solve these problems?
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