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Book 2 Unit 3
试卷编号： 1000460203
考试时间： 80 分钟
满分： 100 分

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Part 1 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)
(Each item: 2)
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.

Coffee is one of the most popular (流行的) drinks throughout the world today. In fact, according to some estimates, over 30% of all adults in the world drink coffee at least once a day on the average.
Coffee contains a kind of drug called caffeine (咖啡因). Caffeine is a chemical that stimulates (刺激) the nerves of the body. Drinking coffee tends to make people a little bit more awake-at least for a short time―because of this stimulating effect on the nervous system (系统). A cup of coffee has, on the average, about 3% caffeine in it.

One story of the discovery of the coffee plant relates to this effect of caffeine. According to the story, coffee was discovered in East Africa. The story says that coffee was first found by a goat farmer named Kaldi. This was about the year 850.

Kaldi was leading his animals through the mountains and the goats were stopping repeatedly to eat the plants near the path. Suddenly, some of the goats started jumping up and down in a very strange way.

Kaldi figured out that the goats were acting this way because of the plants they were eating. Kaldi himself tried eating some of the green beans (豆荚) that the goats had been eating. He, too, felt the stimulating effect of the beans.

Kaldi wanted to prove what had happened, so he picked some of the beans and took them back to his home village, where he told his story. The green bean got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee" because the beans were discovered in a place called Kaffa in Africa.

Then for years, people used to eat a few of the green Kaffa beans when they were in the mountains and needed extra energy to do their work. It was later found that the coffee beans could be picked and then dried until they turned brown, and then they could be stored. If the beans were dried and stored, they could be used at any time.




1. What is caffeine?
A. A kind of seed.
B. A kind of plant.
C. A kind of drug.
D. A kind of nut.

2. What is the purpose of drinking coffee?
A. To become more awake.
B. To become more healthy.
C. To become more happy.
D. To become more clever.

3. Coffee was first found by a __________.
A. doctor
B. farmer
C. druggist（药剂师）
D. chemist（化学家）

4. How did the goats react after eating the plants?
A. They fell asleep.
B. They could not find their way home.
C. They started jumping up and down.

D. They wanted to eat more.

5. Why did the green bean get the name "Kaffa"?
A. Because Kaldi loved his home village very much.
B. Because Kaldi's goats loved the green bean very much.
C. Because the beans were discovered in a place by this name.
D. Because the beans could be picked and dried.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog.

In the United States 84 colleges now accept just women. Most of these colleges were established in the 19th century; they were designed to offer women the education they could not receive anywhere else. At that time major universities and colleges accepted only men. In the past 20 years many young women have chosen to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a result some women's colleges decided to accept men students too. Others, however, refused to change. Now these schools are popular (流行的) again.
The president of Trinity College (三一大学) in Washington, D.C. said that by the end of the 1980s women began to recognize that studying at the same school with men did not mean women were having an equal chance to learn. The president of Smith College in Massachusetts says a women's college permits women to choose classes and activities freely. For example, she says that in a women's college a higher percentage of students studies mathematics than in a college with both men and women.

Educational experts say men students in the United States usually speak in class more than women students do. In a women's college, women feel freer to say what they think. Women's schools also bring out leadership capabilities in many women. Women are represented everywhere. For example, at a women's college every governing office is held by a woman. Recent studies reportedly show that this leadership continues after college. American women who went to women's colleges are more likely to hold successful jobs later in life.




6. Women's colleges were established to ________________.
A. give women the same right of education that men enjoy
B. make changes to the traditional educational system (系统)
C. defy men's privilege (特权) in society
D. train women in particular fields

7. Studying at the same school with men does not mean ________________.
A. women can do the same thing as men
B. that women are given the same chance as men
C. women are allowed more freedom to develop themselves
D. the present educational system does not allow other choices

8. According to the passage, in women's schools _________________.
A. women are freer than if they study at the same school with men
B. women could do anything they want
C. they teach things peculiar to women
D. men are openly challenged

9. Which one of the following statements is NOT true about women's college?
A. Women feel freer to say what they think.
B. More women can participate in the management of the college.
C. A very high percentage of women will
become leaders later.
D. Women are more likely to be successful in their later careers.

10. The title of this passage is most likely to be ______.
A. Female Education in the United States
B. Women's Schools in the United States
C. Women Should be Given the Same Education as Men
D. Education in America

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.

Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females. However, this number changes a great deal, and by the age of maturity (成熟), the number of young men is about the same as that of young women. And among 70-year old people, there are twice as many women as men. But this great universal (普遍性) truth is changing. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that for the first time there will be too many boys in those crucial (至关紧要的) years when boys are searching for a mate. What is even more troubling is that the survival of so many boys has removed a chance for natural selection (选择) to do its work. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the difference in weight is due to genes (基因), a force of change has gone.
There is another way to commit evolutionary (进化的) suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Except in some religious communities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of children. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have disappeared.

For us, this means that people will no longer experience the physical changes that other living things do; our bodies are as perfect as they are ever going to be. Strangely, we have been able to make great advancements without physical change. In the past 100,000 years—even the past 100 years—our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We managed to make such changes because of technology and social systems.

Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of the process of change; they "look at living beings like a dog looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond their comprehension." No doubt we will be shocked at the ugliness of the 20th century way of life. But however amazed future people may be at how far from perfection we were, those future people will look just like us.




11. According to the author, what was the danger a man had to face in the past?
A. Lack of mates.
B. Strong competition.
C. Lower chance of living to maturity.
D. Genes.

12. The sentence "There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide" perhaps means _______________________________________.
A. there is another way to stop the society from making progress
B. you can kill yourself by an
other means
C. there is another factor to prevent us from evolving
D. we have to find a way to do something

13. Women except _______________ are having relatively small numbers of children.
A. those who live to be very old
B. those who live in religious communities
C. those who have the advantage of technology
D. those who live in poor countries

14. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because ____________________________.
A. life has been improved by technological advancement
B. the number of female babies has been declining
C. we have reached the highest stage of evolution
D. the difference between wealth and poverty (贫穷) is disappearing

15. What is this passage mainly about?
A. The change in the numbers of boys and girls.
B. Ways of continuing man's evolution.
C. The evolution future of nature.
D. Human evolution going nowhere.

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialog.

A little noticed change has been taking place in our time-world. The arrival of digital (数字的) time has been changing the way we act and think. I believe that it has put us to a higher level of anxiety, with greater expectations of efficiency.
The old, round, hand-moved time still kept a certain connection to the natural flow of things, to the roundness of the earth, and to the changes of light and seasons. Old, round time was outside ourselves, far enough removed from us so we could ignore it if we so chose.

It is not so with digital time, which is a beat. It beats instead of turning. It makes a sound like the sound of the heart and thus places itself smoothly into the body. More and more, we mistake its regular beat for our own, thus mistaking the demands of the world for our wishes.

Before wrist watches, time used to live in towers in the centers of towns. At that distance, it could be seen by everybody, but only if they so wished. It took an effort, an actual visit to "time". But then something happened. Time began to live with us, and now it is beginning to live in us.

I remember what it was like to be a child, absorbed in the endlessly changeable thing of time. For me there was only child time, divided meaninglessly and quite painfully by the orders of the parents into Bedtime, Wakeup Time, and School Time. But within each of those divisions (分割), Eternity still ruled. Later, of course, they managed to infect me with the anxious demands of clock time. Very soon, all that remained was the anxiety of that which was exact. The fast beats of the timepiece (时钟) cut Eternity to pieces.

Occasionally, I stop long enough to recall the times of childhood, but not often enough. Like everybody else, I am helpless before the new technologies. Time is a virus, and it is growing stronger.




16. Digital time has changed how we act and think by ____________________.
A. allowing us to work with more efficiency
B. giving us more time to do what we
mplete _______ influenza (流行性感冒).
A. pass by
B. decision against
C. recovery from
D. care of



34. He does his work carefully but he is terribly _______ it.
A. careful about
B. good at
C. slow at
D. interested in



35. To increase our working efficiency, it is necessary to _______ every moment we have.
A. include in
B. keep from
C. take advantage of
D. look up to



36. I _______ Alice, who was on her way to see how I was getting along.
A. came up with
B. got out of
C. ran over
D. ran into



37. She has nothing to do with the murder case. She is not _______ it.
A. concerned with
B. related in
C. involved in
D. concerned in



38. My parents are not interested in modern music. They are _______.
A. before the date
B. behind the times
C. after the fashion
D. against the tides (潮流)



39. The starter (赛跑发令员) gave the ________ for the race to begin.
A. advice
B. signal
C. glow
D. attention



40. Pipes made of plastic are now widely used in building as they are light and do not become _________ in water.
A. ripe
B. instant
C. rotten
D. mature


Part 3 Cloze (with Options)
(Each item: 0.5)
Directions:Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the choices.
Questions 41 to 60 are based on the following passage.

I didn't marry for love, money, or looks; I married for my parents. I was 41. matchedcompetedadjustedsuited with my husband at the ripe old age of twenty-seven 42. forofatby my parents. It is common 43. practiceprinciplepresentationphenomenon in Korean families when a daughter or son is unmarried and 44. greetingappearingannouncingapproaching thirty. There was so much 45. presencepressurephenomenonprejudice to "catch a man".
I didn't even 46. necessarynormallyneednecessarily want to catch a man; I really wanted to work! I knew that a 47. customtraditionaltraditionmutual husband would not allow me to do so. When I was twenty-five, I fell in love with a good man—this is all a secret my husband doesn't 48. know aboutknow forknow asknow how. The man I loved 49. appreciatedrecognizedarguedagreed that I could work and should have the same 50. freefreelyfreedomcustom that men have. I 51. worked withfaced withmet withdealt with my mother's resistance when I 52. supportedsupposedsucceededsuggested that we should be married. She was 53. embarrassedprejudicedburdeneddenied against him because he had only a bachelor's degree and didn't meet her 54. expectationsexplosionsexistenceexceptions for wealth. I continued to secretly meet with him, but when he asked me to run away with him I 55. doubtedindicateddefiedhesitated. I couldn't decide 56. overonbetweenwith my family and him. 57. SignificantlyPreviouslySeeminglyEventually, we just gave up on the whole idea. It wasn't 58. dramaticrealisticauthenticautomatic after all. I had real 5
lowing sentences from English to Chinese.



65. Unfortunately, this would be certain to meet with opposition from the people of different opinions.




66. Knowing both of them, I knew they would hit it off when they got to know one another better.

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