2013级2013～2014学年第二学期期中考试试卷

班级 姓名 学号 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 6/1000 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

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.

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 "catch a man".

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 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 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) 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

her whenever you are in trouble. A. by

B. with

C. in

D. on

8. The president went to the dinner A. despite B. though C. although

D. however

共 4页 第4页9. If you have no A. idea 10. The picture is A. different , I would like to ask your daughter to marry me. B. agreement C. objection D. object to the one in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 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)