2014.05.04期中考试卷
革命烈士诗歌-人员管理制度
2013级2013～2014学年第二学期期中考试试卷
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Part I Reading Comprehension (15%)
Passage 1
Personal computers and the
Internet give people new choices about how to
spend their
time.
Some may use this
freedom to share less time with certain friends or
family members, but
new technology will also
let them stay in closer touch with those they care
most about. I know
this from personal
experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at
home, which is where I now spend most weekends and
evenings. My working hours aren't
automatically much shorter than they once were,
but I
spend fewer of them at the office. This
lets me share more time with my young daughter
than I
might have if she'd been born before
electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share
thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do
something fun - see a great film, perhaps -
and there are four or five friends who might want
to
hear about it. If you call each one, you
may tire of telling the story.
With e-mail,
you just write one note about your experience, at
your convenience, and address
it to all the
friends you think might be interested. They can
read your message when they have
time, and
read only as much as they want to. They can reply
at their convenience, and you can
read what
they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail
is also an inexpensive way to stay in close touch
with people who live far away.
More than a few
parents use e-mail to keep in touch, even daily
touch, with their children off
at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers
and the Internet offer another way of staying
in touch. They don't eliminate any of the old
ways.
1. The purpose of this passage
is to ________.
A. explain how to use the
Internet
B. describe the writer's joy of
keeping up with new technology
C. tell
the merits and usefulness of the Internet
D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about
personal computers and the Internet
2.
The use of e-mail has made it possible for the
writer to ________.
A. spend less time
working
B. have more free time with his
child
C. work at home on weekends
D. work at a speed comfortable to him
3.
According to the writer, e-mail has a clear
advantage over the telephone because e-mail
helps one _______.
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A. reach a group of people at one time
conveniently
B. keep one's communication
as personal as possible
C. pass on much
more information than the telephone
D. get in
touch with one's friends faster than the telephone
4. The passage discussed all the following
elements of e-mail EXCEPT _______.
A. its
cost
B. the way of writing
C.
the saving of time
D. its easy and
convenient use
5. The best subject for this
passage is ________.
A. Computers: New
Technological Advances
B. Internet: A New
Tool to Make Friends
C. Computers Have
Made Life Easier
D. Internet: A Convenient
Tool for Communication
Passage 2
It was so
quick and easy. A fourteen-year-old boy in
Scottsdale, Arizona, put his $$50 billon
a
color copying machine called a copier. Within
seconds he transformed $$50 into $$550, and he
was ready to shop.
Twenty years ago only a
few people had the skills or equipment to make
fake money.
Today computer, copier, and
printer technology is so good that almost anyone
can “make”
money. With the new technology
there is a new kind of casual faking machine.
These
machines are called casual because they
don't have special skills and because they don't
need
to plan much.
The number of bills
made by casual fakers on their home or office
computer is growing
fast. In fact, this number
has doubled every year since 1989! There is no way
to stop faking
100 percent. But the government
has recently found a few ways to make casual
faking very
difficult.
One way is to put
very, very small words, called microprints, in
hidden places on the bill.
The words are only
61000 inch. No one can read them without a
magnifying glass, a special
glass that makes
things look bigger. And they are too small to come
out clearly on a copier. If
someone copies a
bill that has microprints and you look at the copy
through a magnifying
glass, instead of
microprinted words, you will see only black lines.
Another way to stop people from making fake
money on their home computers is to use
special color-changing ink. Money printed with
color-changing ink will look green from one
angle and yellow from another. Home computers
cannot use color-changing ink. So any copies
from a home computer will have normal ink and
can be noticed quite easily.
Additionally,
money is made on special paper with very small
pieces of red and blue silk
mixed in. And on
each bill there is a special line that runs from
the top to the bottom of the
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2 页
bill. Suppose, for example, that you hold
a $$20 bill up to the light. If you do this, you
can see
the line has the words “USA twenty”.
The line turns red if you put it under a special
light. This
line and the special paper with
red and blue silk are not easy for home computers
to copy. The
government must try many
different ways to stop faking. It needs to keep
changing the way
money is made because fakers
can learn to copy the changes. Today copiers can't
copy
microprinted words or color-changing ink.
But, in a few years, who knows?
6. It can be
concluded from the first three paragraphs that
_______________.
A. most children above
the age of 14 can fake money
B. new high
technology makes money faking easier
C.
anyone who has a computer can fake money
D. casual faking machines are called casual for
the reason that no skills and planning are
required
7. The word “magnifying” in
Sentence 3, Paragraph 4 means ________.
A.
making larger
B. making smaller
C.
making clearer
D. making easier
8. You
can be sure that the bill is faked when ________.
A. you see microprinted words on the bill
B. you see green ink from one direction and
yellow from another on the bill
C. you see
a special line on the bill that runs from the top
to the bottom and that has such
words as “USA
hundred”
D. you see normal ink on the bill
9. In the last paragraph the second sentence
is a(n) ________ of the first.
A.
explanation
B. definition
C.
analysis
D. description
10. The
author ends the article with ________.
A.
a conclusion
B. an idea and a worry
C. a prediction
D. a review
Passage 3
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a
restaurant in New York City when a woman
and a
young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t
help overhearing parts of their
conversation.
At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you
been?” And the boy — who
could not have been
more than seven or eight years old — replied,
“Frankly, I’ve been feeling
a little depressed
lately.”
are changing. As far as I can
remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were
“depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we
were in high school.
Undoubtedly a change in
children has increased steadily in recent years.
Children don’t
seem childlike anymore.
Children speak more like adults, dress more like
adults and behave
more like adults than they
used to.
Whether this is good or bad is
difficult to say, but it certainly is different.
Childhood as it
once was no longer exists.
Why?
Human development is depended not only
on born biological states, but also on patterns of
gaining social knowledge. Movement from one
social role to another usually involves learning
the secrets of the new social positions.
Children have always been taught adult secrets,
but
slowly and in stages; traditionally, we
tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from
fifth
graders.
In the last 30 years,
however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been
equipped in 98
percent of American homes. It
is called television. Television passes
information to all viewers
alike, whether they
are children or adults. Unable to resist the
temptation (诱惑) , many
children turn their
attention from printed texts to the less
challenging, more attractive moving
pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of
fact, allows for a great deal of control over
the social information which children will
gain. Children must read simple books before they
can read complex materials.
11. According
to the author, feeling depressed is ________.
A. a sure sign of a mental problem in a child
B. a mental state present in all humans, including
children
C. something that cannot be avoided
in children’s mental development
D. something
hardly to be expected in a young child
12.
Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about
the adult world _________.
A. through
connection with society B. gradually and under
guidance
C. naturally without being taught
D. through watching television
13. According
to the author, that today’s children seem adult-
like results from ______.
A. the widespread
influence of television
B. the poor
arrangement of teaching content
C. the fast
pace of human scientific development
D. the
rising standard of living
14. What does the
author think of communication through print for
children?
A. It enables children to gain more
social information.
B. It develops children’s
interest in reading and writing.
C. It helps
children to read and write well.
D. It can
control what children are to learn.
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15. What does the
author think of the change in today’s children?
A. He feels their adult-like behavior is so
funny.
B. He thinks the change worthy of
note.
C. He considers it a rapid development.
D. He seems to be upset about it
13.
A. embarrassed
14.
A. expectations
15.
A. doubted
16.
A. over
17.
A. Significantly
B. prejudiced
B.
explosions
B. indicated
B. on
B.
Previously
B. realistic
B. replacements
C. burdened
C. existence
C. defied
C. between
C. Seemingly
C. authentic
C. reservations
C. relatively
D.
denied
D. exceptions
D. hesitated
D.
with
D. Eventually
D. automatic
D.
requirements
D. relation
Part II Close
(10%)
I didn't marry for love, money, or
looks; I married for my parents. I was
(1)__________ with my
18.
A. dramatic
husband at the ripe old age of twenty-seven
(2)_________ my parents. It is common (3)_________
in
19.
A. receptions
Korean families
when a daughter or son is unmarried and
(4)_________ thirty. There was so much
20.
A. relative
(5)_________ to
B.
related
I didn't even (6)________ want to
catch a man; I really wanted to work! I knew that
a
Part III Vocabulary and Structure (10%)
(7)________ 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 (8)__________. The man I loved
(9)_________ that I
1. It is a matter of
that male businesspeople usually wear suits on
formal occasions.
could work and should have
the same (10)__________ that men have. I (11)
_______ my mother's
A. convention B.
conversion C. convenient D. convert
resistance
when I (12)_________ that we should be married.
She was (13)__________ against him
because he
had only a bachelor's degree and didn't meet her
(14)_________ for wealth. I continued to
2.
The general public did not have confidence that
the government would be able to
secretly meet
with him, but when he asked me to run away with
him I (15)_________. I couldn't
this
difficult job.
decide (16)__________ my family
and him. (17)_________, we just gave up on the
whole idea. It
A. reach B. fulfil C. fill D.
carry
wasn't (18)_________ after all. I had
real (19)_________ about marriage after that.
I am now thirty and have a child. My husband
is a lawyer and a (20)_________ kind man.
3.
The rain was heavy and the land was flooded.
Occasionally, I email the man I didn't marry.
1.
A. matched
2.
A. for
3.
A. practice
4.
A. greeting
5.
A. presence
6.
A. necessary
7.
A. custom
8.
A. know about
9.
A. appreciated
10.
A. free
11.
A. worked with
12.
A. supported
A. conceivably
C.
adjusted
C. at
C. presentation
C.
announcing
C. phenomenon
C. need
C.
tradition
C. know as
C. argued
C.
freedom
C. met with
C. succeeded
D.
suited
D. by
D. phenomenon
D.
approaching
D. prejudice
D. necessarily
D. mutual
D. know how
D. agreed
D.
custom
D. dealt with
D. suggested
B.
considerably C. secondly D. consequently
B.
competed
B. of
B. principle
B.
appearing
B. pressure
B. normally
B.
traditional
B. know for
B. recognized
B. freely
B. faced with
B. supposed
4. The students can hardly speak English,
can he write English articles.
A. much B. much
less C. less D. much fewer
5. I would like to
find a job in a(an) company after I graduate.
A. poor B. promising C. declining D. desperate
6. Though the plan didn’t work well, he
following it.
A. persisted in B. persisted
with C. insisted in D. insisted with
7. Ellen
is a devoted friend; you can always count her
whenever you are in trouble.
A. by B. with C.
in D. on
8. The president went to the dinner
his acute illness.
A. despite B. though C.
although D. however
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9. If you have no , I would like to ask
your daughter to marry me.
A. idea B.
agreement C. objection D. object
10. The
picture is to the one in the Museum of Modern
Art in New York.
A. different B. identical C.
same D. indifferent
Part IV Matching (5%)
1. false
impression
2. suitable
3. fail to see
4. advise
5. later; following
6.
words; sign
7. cruel
8. go on
9.
decide
10. get on well with
a.
overlook
b. resolve
c. subsequent
d. hit it off
e. illusion
f. harsh
g. compatible
h. indication
i.
proceed
j. counsel
Part V Translation
(10%)
Chinese to English
1.
我对你的说法的真实性有些保留看法。(have reservations about)
2.
人人都知道他比较特殊：他来去随意。(be free to do sth.)
3.
留得青山在不愁没柴烧。
(as long as)
4.这是他第一次当着那么多观众演讲。(in the presence of sb.)
5. 期中考试迫在眉睫，你最好多花点时间看书。
(close at hand)