大学英语二 课后习题
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Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)
(每小题：1 分)
Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Time spent in a bookshop can be most pleasant, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. You soon focus on some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent too much time there and must hurry off to keep some forgotten appointment.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is the main attraction of a bookshop. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can range round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the greeting, "Can I help you?" You needn't buy anything you don't want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished reading. Then, and only then, are his services necessary.
Once a medical student had to read a textbook which was far too expensive for him to buy. He couldn't obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in a bookshop. Every afternoon, therefore, he would go to the shop and read a little of the book at a time. One day, however, he was disappointed to find the book missing from its usual place. He was about to leave, when he noticed the owner of the shop making a gesture to him with his hand. Expecting to be scolded, he went towards him. To his surprise, the owner pointed to the book which was put away in a corner. "I put it there in case anyone had a desire to buy it!" he said, and left the delighted student to continue his reading.
spent in a bookshop can be most pleasant _______________.
A. only when you can find the book you want to buy
B. only when you are a book-lover
C. even when you enter it to avoid a sudden shower
D. even when you know you are late for an appointment
bookshop is of much attraction because ______________ .
A. it offers you an opportunity to forget about everyday life
B. it offers you an opportunity to listen to as much music as possible
C. it allows you to learn about new ideas and ways of doing things
D. it allows you to have a good excuse for being late for an appointment
a good bookshop __________.
A. an assistant should always follow you
B. an assistant should frequently approach you and offer help
C. you needn't buy anything you don't want
D. you can communicate freely with an assistant
medical student went to a bookshop every day _____________.
A. to look for
useful books
B. to read a textbook
C. to talk with the shop owner
D. to use the computer at the shop
owner of the bookshop put away the book ______________.
A. in case other people wanted to buy it
B. in case the medical student wanted to buy it
C. because he wanted to sell it at a high price
D. because he wanted to keep it for himself
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.
In the United States, it is not normal to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 p. m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it's a matter of life and death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
In social life, time plays a very important role. In the US guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation (邀请) to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But this is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten.
The meaning of time is different in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from cultures that treat time differently. To be on time is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not on time, they may be regarded as not polite or not fully responsible. In the US no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour; it would be bad-mannered. A person who is five minutes late is expected to apologize. If he is less than five minutes late, he will say a few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence.
you telephone someone early in the day, it means ___________________.
A. you are expected to explain why
B. you are not kind enough
C. you want to show your concern for him
D. you have a very important matter to discuss
expression "a matter of life and death" means __________________.
A. an issue of the greatest importance and emergency
B. a very important appointment
C. a matter of whether someone should live or die
D. a strong desire to communicate
the US guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded _______________.
A. if the invitation to a dinner party is not extended early enough
B. if the invitation to a dinner party is extended too far in advance
C. if the invitation to a dinner party is not extended repeatedly
D. if the invitation to a dinner party is extended to too many people
word "misunderstanding" can be explained as ____________.
A. failing to attend a party
B. failing to understand correctly
C. standing in one
e there is no law against it.
does the author try to persuade the reader?
A. He uses reasons.
B. He appeals to people's feelings.
C. He gives examples in his argument.
D. He simply states his opinion.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialog.
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon.
Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down.
With a team of colleagues (同事) at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain activity of a thousand people of different ages and varying (不同的) jobs.
Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the activity of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intelligence and feeling, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not change with age, and one can continue living without the ability to think and feel.)
Change of front and side parts, as bits die off, was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not to be seen in some sixty-and-seventy-year-olds.
Matsuzawa discovered from his tests that there is a simple answer to the loss normally associated with age?using the head.
The findings show in general terms that the decrease of the brain's ability to think begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White-collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.
Matsuzawa's findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must move around properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain needs. "The best way to keep blood moving well is through using the brain." He says, "Think hard and engage in conversation. Don't rely on pocket calculators."
team of doctors wanted to find out _________________________.
A. why certain people age sooner than others
B. how to make people live longer
C. the size of certain people's brains
D. which people are most intelligent
of the following statements is true?
A. People who work in the government don't age as quickly as people in the town.
B. The back of the brain is in charge of people's eating.
C. The easiest way to prevent the brain from aging is to improve our diet.
D. We are young when we have enough physical exercise.
doctor's tests show that _____________________________.
A. our brains shrin
tences is NOT true?
A. It was Levi who started the business of making blue jeans.
B. It was one tailor who started making blue jeans.
C. It was in California that blue jeans first became popular.
D. It was in California that gold was discovered.
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Rote-learning (死记硬背), spoon-fed education, produces a brand of kids that don't know what to do when entering university. They are disciplined into following, not leading. Yet the future depends on creativity and imagination. The world needs creators, makers and shakers of the new centuries, not the followers of the past centuries. As the numbers increase at college and university level, more students from the lower ends are likely to be thrown into a process designed to choose only learners that have proved excellent in listening to teachers.
There are three ways to learn: looking, listening and doing.
Students and teachers today are a product of learning by listening. The computer may not be liked by traditional teachers, who use rote-learning to put information, which will be out of date in a few years, into the heads of the students. With computer learning you learn by looking, listening and doing; you use three methods of learning, not just one. Therefore, you can learn faster.
The changing speed of information is frightening. What we learn now will be out of date in the near future. So what students are learning now at school may be replaced by the time they finish university. We have to learn by choice what to forget. Rote-learning for exams is one thing, but wouldn't it be better to learn how to learn? The students at university today could possibly be doing a job in the not too distant future which has not yet been invented.
ding to the author, the future doesn't need ____________.
A. creativity
B. imagination
C. creators
D. followers
the author's view, how can students learn well?
A. Carefully listen to the teacher in class.
B. Take down every single word said by the teacher.
C. Learn all the notes by heart.
D. Combine listening with looking and doing.
does the author mean by "The changing speed of information is frightening"?
A. We don't have enough time to adjust ourselves to the speed of information.
B. What we learned today may not be useful tomorrow.
C. The pace of life is too fast.
D. The world is changing every minute.
does the last sentence of the passage tell us?
A. Rote-learning is completely harmful.
B. Students may have to do jobs which are not yet in existence.
C. It's better to learn how to learn than learn what to forget.
D. Students must imagine the future.
author's attitude towards rote-learning is _________.
A. approving
B. disapproving
C. confident
D. opposite to what the words say
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Since the lat