新视野大学英语第四册quiz2试题附有答案
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读写教程第四册单元测试卷二
试卷编号：Book4-Quiz2
考试时间：120 分钟
满分：100 分
Part 1 Word Dictation
(Each item: 1)
Directions: Listen and write down the words you hear. You are going to listen to the recording twice. During the first time, write the word that you hear. Check your answers as you listen the second time.
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Part 2 Understanding Short Conversations
(Each item: 2)
Directions: In this section you'll hear some short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.
9.
A. The speakers are welfare caseworkers.
B. The speakers have cleaned up their apartment.
C. The speakers live together and receive welfare money.
D. The speakers have had their welfare payments reduced.
10.
A. The man would like to do something to help people.
B. The man would like to do something to get rich.
C. The man thinks the woman should do something to make her rich.
D. The man thinks the woman's new job is good.
11.
A. She is upset with her daughter's school.
B. She has nothing for her to do where she is.
C. She is starting her own company.
D. She has a new job.
Part 3 Understanding Long Conversations
(Each item: 2)
Directions: In this section you'll hear a long conversation or conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.
12.
A. Because she is Prof. Lee's daughter.
B. Because she used to do the job herself.
C. Because she works part time as Prof. Lee's secretary.
D. Because she just came out of an interview for the job.
13.
A. It should be higher.
B. It is the same as the post office pays.
C. It varies according to experience of different individuals.
D. It is satisfactory.
14.
A. To teach an introductory economics course.
B. To grade homework set.
C. To make up homework problems.
D. To do research work in the library.
15.
A. He is afraid he won't know enough to do the job well.
B. He fears that the job may be too boring.
C. He wonders if he'll have enough time to do the job.
D. He thinks Prof. Lee has some other candidates.
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the same passage or dialog.
16.
A. Things the woman is doing in class.
B. Happy people they both know.
C. The woman's feelings of wanting to die.
D. The man's feelings of wanting to die.
17.
A. Father and daughter.
B. Mother and son.
C. Teacher and student.
D. Doctor and patient.
18.
A. A classroom.
B. A shop.
C. A home.
D. A bridge.
19.
A. The woman doesn't have any serious problems.
B. The woman is feeling a little bit better now.
C. The man doesn't like ice cream as much as coffee.
D. The man doesn't know where he can buy coffee.
Part 4 Understanding Passages
(Each item: 2)
Directions: In this section you'll hear a passage or passages. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.
Questions 20 to 24 are based on the same passage or dialog.
20.
A. America achieving independence.
B. Americans living independently.
C. The chief virtues of Americans.
D. Centers for the elderly.
21.
A. 18%.
B. 10%
C. 20%.
D. 65%.
22.
A. More people living alone.
B. More people over the age of 65.
C. More old people live by themselves.
D. More two-or-more-job households.
23.
A. Americans of any age don't like to change their habits.
B. Americans of middle age don't want their parents to live alone.
C. Living with others means giving up independence.
D. Americans have doubts about living alone.
24.
A. Independence.
B. Old age.
C. Achievement.
D. Virtue.
Part 5 Multiple Choice
(Each item: 1)
Directions: Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
25.This diploma (毕业文凭) ________ that you have completed high school.
A. entitles
B. certifies
C. secures
D. approves
26.If the rain doesn't stop, people will be faced ________ serious flooding.
A. to
B. about
C. with
D. by
27.The article ________ China's educational achievements during the past 20 years and
outlined its development plans for the new century.
A. predicted
B. witnessed
D. intensified
28.He is watching TV? He's _______ to be cleaning his room.
A. known
B. supposed
C. regarded
D. considered
29.I recognized him at once, but his name ________ me for the moment.
A. escaped
B. missed
C. failed
D. ignored
30.I have already commented that colours will not show up unless the ________ of the light is
sufficiently great.
A. intensity
B. density
C. intention
D. temperature
31.It is well-known that the retired workers in our country are __________ free medical care.
A. involved
B. associated with
D. assigned to
32.The room is dark; Mr. Smith ________ to bed.
A. should go
B. should have gone
C. must go
D. must have gone
33.The famous actress did not show up at the party, _______ is disappointing.
A. that
B. which
C. what
D. it
34.His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any ________ of it at all.
A. interpretation
B. explanation
C. meaning
D. sense
35.I remember seeing him some years ago, but I don't ________ what he said.
A. remind
B. recognize
C. recall
D. reflect
36.If you think you can do my job better than I can, you are welcome to ________.
A. take it over
B. take it off
C. take it down
D. take it in
37.His results are not very ________. He does well one week and badly the next.
A. invariable
B. consequent
C. consistent
D. continuous
38.They are well ________ with each other since they once studied in the same university.
A. acquainted
B. recognized
C. acknowledged
D. identified
39.I did not mean ________ anything, but those apples looked so good I couldn't resist
________ one.
A. to eat; trying
B. to eat; to trying
C. eating; to try
D. eating; to trying
40.Don't worry about your son's illness. What he really needs is ________ a few days' rest.
A. nothing but
B. anything but
C. something but
D. everything but
41.________ you go on the earth, there is always gravity to keep you from falling off.
A. When
B. Wherever
C. Since
D. Because
42.________ is a fact many smokers choose to ignore.
A. To smoke is harmful to health
B. It is harmful to health to smoke
C. That smoking is harmful to one's health
D. Smoking is harmful to health
43.Most nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a
________.
A. scarcity
B. minority
C. minimum
D. shortage
44.The revolutionary fighter would rather die with his head high than _____ with his knees bent.
A. to live
B. living
C. live
D. lived
Part 6 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 45 to 49 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Choosing a travel companion is at least as uncertain as choosing a marriage partner. The chances of success are perhaps even less.
No law of causality (因果关系) exists to insist that in choosing a travel companion you will lose a friend. But it's not unlikely. The odds depend on the length and the rigorousness (严密) of the trip. Some friendships have a strength that will withstand even travel; others are by nature short-lived and travel merely hastens their dissolution (结束，终止).
Perhaps I should make it clear that in discussing this matter of travel companions I am confining myself to Platonic (柏拉图式的) friendships. Intimate friends may well be the best companions of all. Compromises and concessions from such companions clearly spring from a recognized emotional base that colors every issue. I'll confine myself, then, to companions, male and female, who are sharing a trip solely for company. Why bother at all with a travel companion? Why not travel alone, shiftily (机智地) pursuing one's goal? Some of the answers are obvious. A pleasant fellow traveler eases the stress and tensions, adds to the delights and rewards and pays half the bills. However, a bad-tempered companion quite often brings you to the point where you devoutly (虔诚地) wish you were alone.
Finding that suitable companion is something of an art and something of a gamble. But the choice should be determined by one important rule: travelers should be going on the trip with the same
idea in mind. They should hold in common a theory of travel.
45.Choosing a travel companion is hard and risky, because ________.
A. one may lose a friend
B. one may suffer financial losses
C. one may be trapped in the dangerous situation
D. one may miss the chance of finding the right marriage partner
46.When intimate friends travel together, ________.
A. the trip will hasten their dissolution
B. the trip will make them closer to each other
C. they will find the right ways to solve problems due to their relationship
D. they will make more friends on trip
47.It can be inferred from the passage that the companion talked about here is the person
________.
A. one can think of developing a deeper relationship with
B. one can travel with merely for company
C. one can count on for a free travel
D. one can learn much from
48.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Choosing a travel companion won't lead to the loss of friends.
B. Friendships cannot withstand the test of any trip.
C. A travel companion is badly needed if one wants to take a trip.
D. Like-minded people should travel together.
49.Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. Travel and Marriage-Two Similar Experiences
B. Finding a Good Travel Companion-a Risky Matter
C. Will Travel Damage the Friendship?
D. Should One Travel Alone or in Another's Company?
Questions 50 to 54 are based on the same passage or dialog.
During the long vacation I was accepted as a trainee bus conductor. I found the job fiercely demanding even on a short route with a total of about two dozen passengers. I pulled the wrong tickets, forgot the change and wrote up my log (行程记录) at the end of each trip in a way that drew hollow laughter from the inspectors. The inspectors were likely to check at any time. A conductor with twenty years' service could be dismissed if an inspector caught him accepting money without pulling a ticket.
It was hot that summer: 100° Fahrenheit (华氏) every day. Inside the bus it was 30° hotter still. It was so jammed inside that my feet weren't touching the floor. I couldn't blink (眨眼睛) the sweat out of my eyes. There was no hope of collecting any fares.
In these circumstances I was scarcely to blame. I didn't even know where we were, but I guessed we were at the top just before Market Street. I pressed the bell, the doors closed, and the bus surged forward. There were shouts and yells from down the back, but I thought they were the angry cries of passengers who had not got on. Too late I realized that they were coming from within the bus. The automatic doors at the back of the bus had closed around an old lady's neck as she was getting on. Her head was inside the bus. The rest of her, carrying a shopping bag was outside. I knew none of this at the time.
When I at last signaled the driver to stop, he crashed to a halt and opened the automatic doors. The woman dropped to the road. Unfortunately, the car behind turned out to be full of inspectors. Since it would have made headlines if a university student had almost half-killed a woman of an advanced age, I was given the opportunity to leave quietly.
50.What do we learn about the inspectors in the first paragraph?
A. They found the writer amusing.
B. They never wore uniforms.
C. They were feared by employees.
D. They distrusted older employees.
51.Why was the writer unable to do his job properly?
A. He wasn't tall enough.
B. The buses were too fast.
C. People avoided paying.
D. He couldn't move.
52.The old lady in the incident described ________.
A. was injured
B. fainted
C. was dragged
D. hit her head
53.When the incident with old lady happened, ________.
A. the writer had already decided to give up the job
B. the writer's employers wanted to avoid publicity
C. the writer was offered the chance to continue
D. the consequences were as the writer expected
54.What is the writer's attitude now to the job?
A. He feels responsible for the incident that ended it.
B. He thinks that he was unfairly treated by the inspectors.
C. He is ashamed that he was incapable of doing it properly.
D. He believes that it was an impossible job to do well.
Questions 55 to 59 are based on the same passage or dialog.
Urban (城市的) life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and rewards against dangers and stress; its moving force is, in the broadest sense, money. Opportunities to make money make
competition stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities, where opportunities are greatest. Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity (人所不知) of urban life, but today's ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever; there is much evidence that its extent has a direct relationship to the size of communities. City dwellers (居民) may become trapped in their homes by the fear of crime around them.
As defense against these developments, city dwellers tend to use various strategies to try and reduce the pressures upon themselves: contacts with other people are generally made brief and impersonal; doors are kept locked; telephone numbers may be ex-directory (未列入电话号码簿的); journeys outside the home are usually hurried, rather than a source of pleasure.
Inner areas of cities tend to be abandoned by the more successful and left to those who have done badly in the competitive struggle or who belong to minority groups; these people are then geographically trapped because so much economic activity has migrated to the suburbs and beyond.
Present-day architecture and planning have enormously worsened the human problems of urban life. Old-established neighborhoods have been ruthlessly (无情地) swept away, by both public and private organizations, usually to be replaced by huge, ugly, impersonal structures. People have been forced to leave their familiar homes, usually to be re-housed in tower blocks which are inconvenient, and fail to provide any setting for human interaction or support. The destruction of established social structures is the worse possible approach to the difficulties of living in a town or city. Instead, every effort should be made to conserve (保护) the human scale of the environment, and to retain familiar landmarks.
55.According to the author, living in a city causes stress because there are so many people who
are ________.
A. anxious to succeed
B. in need of help
C. naturally aggressive
D. likely to commit crime
56.The author thinks that crime is increasing in cities because ________.
A. people do not communicate with their neighbors
B. criminals are difficult to trace in large populations
C. people feel anonymous there
D. the trappings of success are attractive to criminals
57.The majority of people who live in inner cities tend to quit from the inner areas because they
________.
A. dislike having to travel far to work
B. have been forced by circumstances to do so
C. don't like the idea of living in the suburbs
D. have turned against society
58.Architectural changes have affected city life by ________.
A. scattering long-established communities
B. giving the individual a say in planning
C. forcing people to live on top of each other
D. making people move to the suburbs
59.The author's general argument is that urban life would be improved by ________.
A. moving people out of tower blocks
B. restoring old buildings
C. building community centers
D. preserving existing social systems
Part 7 Fill in the Blanks (with the right preposition or adverb)
(Each item: 1)
Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with an appropriate preposition or adverb. Fill in each blank with only ONE word.
60.The case is being looked ; when we have anything to report we'll write to them.
61.What information they do have is often inaccurate and loaded unreal
expectations.
62.He was convicted carrying an offensive weapon and got a 28-day suspended
sentence and a heavy fine.
63.He claims that his organization is a nonprofit one and he works for charity but
the table he's making money.
64.This is certainly true, but this explanation can hardly account the economic
disaster the country is facing now.
65."Cast this slave woman with her son," she commands Abraham, "for the son of
this slave woman shall not be here with my son Isaac."
66.He took off his shoes and stretched himself on the bed once he reached home,
tired from a whole day's work.
67.Sarah has to room with her identical twin Katie the time being until she finds a
place of her own.
68.Employers therefore resorted the reduction of costs, most particularly in
wages, in order to compete in world markets.
69.Thoreau was referred as the American high priest of solitude.
Part 1 Word Dictation
(Each item: 1)
1.receipt
2.certify
3.thrive
4.pension
5.solitary
6.inspiration
7.slippery
8.dilemma
Part 2 Understanding Short Conversations
(Each item: 2)
9-11 CDD
Transcript:
9.
M: We need to clean up the apartment before our caseworker arrives. If she sees this mess, she might reduce our welfare payments.
W: Can she do that? I didn't know that! What right does she have to lower our payments?
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
10
W: I got this new job working with homeless children in the city center. I'm really excited about it.
M: I bet. It doesn't sound like the kind of thing you can get rich doing, but it's sure to be satisfying, you know, by helping people and all.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
11.
M: What's with the truck parked outside of your home? What, are you moving away?
W: Yeah. Turns out my company wants me to head up a new office in another city. My daughter is upset about being sent to a new school, but nothing can be done.
Q: Why is the woman moving to another city?
Part 3 Understanding Long Conversations
(Each item: 2)
12-15 BDBC 16-19 CCDB
Transcript:
Long conversation 1:
W: Hi, Roy, are you waiting to see Professor Lee, too?
M: Yeah, since I got one of the five highest grades in her managerial economics class, she asked me if I'm interested in working as her assistant next semester. I'm here now for my interview.
W: Oh, yes, I know all about that job. I did it two years ago.
M: Really, did you like it?
W: I think it was the best job I've had at school. It paid eight dollars an hour, which was three dollars an hour more than I got working at the school post office the year before.
M: That is a good salary. What did you do?
W: I was in charge of grading all the problem sets that were assigned as homework. I never had trouble doing it, and of course, Prof. Lee was always available to help me if I had any questions.
M: I think I'd enjoy doing that sort of work. It would be very good experience for anyone thinking about becoming a teacher.
W: Absolutely. You also learn how to use the computer database, because the records are
kept on it, and building up your computer skills is a good preparation for lots of jobs.
M: The job sounds great, but I'm a little worried about how much time it might take.
W: It's pretty reasonable. It never took me more than five hours a week to do all the grading and then another thirty to forty minutes to record the grades on the computer.
M: That sounds manageable. I guess you can do the work when it fits into your own schedule, too, can't you?
W: Oh, yeah, you can do the grading in your room or in the library. You just need to get each set back for the next class, but that means you always have at least two days and sometimes four.
M: It sounds great.
W: Good luck with your interview.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. Why was the woman able to give Roy so much information about the job?
2. What does the woman say about the salary for the job?
3. What does Prof. Lee's assistant need to do?
4. Which of the following statements best describes Roy's main concern about the job?
Long Conversation 2:
M: What are you doing there?
W: What does it look like?
M: Looks like you aim to jump off the side of that bridge.
W: Very perceptive.
M: Now, why would you go and do a thing like that?
W: Go away. You don't know about my problems.
M: Hey, now. You're a student in my class, aren't you? I see you almost every day, don't I? I've noticed you not acting like your usual, happy self.
W: I've been miserable.
M: I didn't know that. Maybe you can talk to me about your feelings.
W: I haven't been able to talk to my mom or dad. What makes you think I can talk to you?
M: We're talking right now, aren't we? And I'm listening. How about you step away from the edge so we can talk some more? Huh?
W: All right.
M: Hey, that's great. Now let's go get some coffee.
W: I don't really like coffee. Ice cream would be all right.
M: Ice cream it is. There's a fantastic, little shop near here that serves 31 different flavors. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. What are the speakers talking about?
2. What is the relationship between the two speakers?
3. Where is the conversation taking place?
4. What can be inferred from the passage?
Part 4 Understanding Passages
(Each item: 2)
20-24 BBCCA
Transcript:
In less than 20 years, from 1975 to 1993, the number of Americans over 65 who live with their adult children declined by half, dropping from 18 percent to less than 10 percent. There are certainly many reasons for this decrease, from the improved health of older Americans to the number of two-or-more-job households. But a third of the over-65 population lives entirely alone.
When middle-aged children in America announce that their 80-or-90-year-old mother "still lives in her own house", I notice that they are quite proud and satisfied. But do the old people in the United States like to live alone?
No doubt some of them do. Or at least some of them prefer living alone. They don't like to change their habits or adjust to new ones when living with others. After all, independence is the chief virtue in this country.