北京联合大学大学英语课程一课一练试卷集 第三册第三课

北京联合大学大学英语课程一课一练试卷（第三册Unit Three）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on Advantages of Trying New Things. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given

below:

1. 大家普遍认为做熟悉的事情容易成功，不愿尝试新事物

2. 尝试新事物的好处

3. 我们应该勇敢尝试新事物

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the

four choices marked A),B),C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with

the information given in the passage.

If I Were 21

If I were 21 and wanted to study medicine, I don't think I'd go straight to school. I'd get a job as an aid in a hospital first — carrying out bedpans, if necessary — and look and listen. After a year or two of that, I might know what kind of medicine I wanted to study. Maybe I'd find that I preferred to become an expert in childhood diseases rather than a surgeon. I might even end up as a chemist or a maker of medical equipment. I'd see where the job led me.

I happen to have monkeylike tendency to want to feel, smell and taste things that arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researcher should be. But if I were 21 and not scientifically inclined, I wouldn't disdain a job selling plastic dishes, for instance, from door to door. I'd learn so much about people — much more than in a laboratory. I'd make money and have fun. And I might learn some new things about what people want to buy --new ideas that would help the researcher, the designer or the manufacturer. It isn't the job you take that matters --it's what you do with it.

I heard the other day of a young army officer who felt bitter when he left the army because his former employer had offered to give him his old job back --sealing envelopes. In the army, the young man, had been flying a bomber. Yet sealing envelopes is not a bad job. Some bright young man might derive an invention from it. Are envelopes made the way they should be, or does an envelope look the way it does because we're used to the way it looks? I don't know. What about the glue, our methods of stamping and addressing? What I'm getting at is that some people are too snobbish in their thinking about work to see the possibilities every job offers if it's done right. One way to find out what you want to do in life is to try all kinds of jobs. If you don't like working in a filling station, try a factory, an office, a shop, a farm. Not only will you find out what you want to do, but you will also pick up an amazing amount of useful information as you go along.

I know a young man who's unsure whether to be a boat-builder or an accountant. I suggested, when he asked my advice, that he sit down at a typewriter and write two essays --one on the advantages of being a boat-builder, the other on the advantage of being an accountant. Then he

should write two more on the disadvantages of each job and study what he's written. You never know what's in your mind until you get busy and let it out.

A lot of people seem to think that we can learn only in our teens. Kids get this impression from their elders and, on emerging from the university or armed services at the age of 22, imagine themselves "too old" to take up such a noble science as, for example, medicine.

I was in my early 70s when I started my study of medicine — not for a degree, but to enable me better to experiment with a medicine we're invented in our laboratories. Two years ago I took up hydrogen-electric welding, and I became a pretty good welder. I was trying to find a means of eliminating the sputter. I relate this in no spirit of boastfulness. I just want youngsters to know that they are never "too old" to learn.

Humans are producing more and more new things. The more we produce, the more people will work, and the more people will buy. Employment will snowball. There are more opportunities today than there have ever been, and they're increasing all the time. I think they're infinite. And the older I get the more I realize that the highest good is the good of the people. If I were considering a new occupation, I should weigh three things: how well it served the public; how much fun there was in it; and, of course, whether its financial reward would meet my needs.

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1. If the author wanted to study medicine at the age of 21, he would first________.

A) go to a medical college B) work in a hospital as an aid

C) decide which medicine he preferred D) become an expert in a certain disease

2. From the second paragraph, we learn the author is________.

A) a scientific researcher B) a disher seller

C) a chemist D) a maker of medical equipment

3. He thinks that the job of selling plastic dishes is _____ .

A) what he preferred in his twenties B) better than doing research in a lab

C) a way to learn much about people D) what a research should do

4. What does the author think of the young army officer in the third paragraph?____

A) He is no longer fit for the job of sealing envelopes.

B) He still has opportunities in his old job.

C) He will drive an invention from bombers.

D) He should decline the former employer’s offer.

5. The author cites the story of the young army officer to show________.

A) that sealing envelopes is not a bad job

B) that one should not feel bitter when given the old job

C) that it is a wise choice to take the old job

D) that we often neglect the possibilities every job offers

6. A common misconception among people is that ________.

A) we can learn only in our teens

B) university graduates are likely to learn a noble science

C) we never know what’s in our mind until we let it out

D) noble sciences are too difficult to take up

7. ____is NOT the author’s experience in his 70s.

A) Learning how to weld B) Trying to reduce the sputter

C) Getting a medical degree D) Experimenting with a medicine

8. The author advised the young man who’s not sure whether to be a boat builders or an

accountant to write essays on both ______________ of the two jobs and thought over what he had written.

9. The author relates the story in my 70s only to tell young people that they are _____________ .

10. The author has realized that the highest good is ____________.

Part III Listening Comprehension (略) (35 minutes) Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read

the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is

identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer

Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in

the bank more than once.

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

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There was a time when people moved no faster than their feet (or the feet of some animal that carried them). During that period, the artistic or __47__ spirit seemed to have free expression. Today, in order to be creative and yet move smoothly and __48__ through our fast-paced world, we must be able to __49___ at two different speeds. The mistake we’ve made, often with tragic__50__ , is to

try to do all our living at the speed our machines have __51__ upon us.

In order to live at this speed we must scan the surface of things, pick out the most striking aspects and disregard __52___ features. There’s certainly nothing wrong in this if we’re driving on a busy highway. But when we allow this pressure to invade every __53__ of our lives, we begin to lose touch, to have a feeling that we’re missing something. We’re _54__ for we don’t know what. When that happens, we’ve begun to suffer from aesthetic malnutrition. __55___, the cure for this condition is very pleasant, and although it takes a little self-discipline at the beginning, the results are _56__the effort.

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and

D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on

Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

Needing and Wanting Are Different

―Mom, can I have some money?‖ Those are the words my mother used to hear all the time. In return, I heard, ―Why don’t you get a job? Not to make me happy, but so that you have your own money and gain a bit more responsibility.‖ So last year I got a job with Montgomery Ward’s photo studio, working about 25 hours a week. For $ 5 an hour, I was a telephone salesman, trying to persuade people to come in for a free photograph.

All this was during football season and I was on the team as a kicker. To do football and homework and my job at the same time became really hard. I was burning out, falling asleep at school, not able to concentrate. My first class was physics and I hated it. I’d just sit there with my hand on my cheek and my elbow on the desk, and start dozing. One day, the teacher asked my partner what I was doing and she said, ―Oh, he’s sleeping.‖ The teacher came to the back of the class and stared at me. The whole class looked at me for about two minutes and laughed.

My third-period history teacher was really concerned. She was cool. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep in her class. She’d scream, ―Wake up!‖ and slam her hand on my desk. I’d open my eyes for about two minutes, pay attention and go back to sleep. She asked me if I could handle school, football and work. I said, ―Yeah. I’m doing OK so far. ‖ She said, ―Why? Why all this?‖

I told her it was for the things I need, when actually it was for the things I wanted. Needing and wanting are different. Needing something is like your only shoes have holes in them. But when a new pair of sneakers came out and I liked them, I’d get them. My parents didn’t feel it was right, but they said, ―It’s your money; you learn to deal with it.‖ Within two years I had bought 30 pairs. My parents would laugh. ―You got your job, you got your money—but where’s your money now?‖ They didn’t realize how much my job was hurting my schoolwork.

My priorities were all screwed up. On a typical night I did about an hour of homework. A lot of times it was hard for me to make decisions: do I want to be at work or do I want to be at practice? Do I want to worry about what I’ll have today or what I’ll have in the future? Sometimes I felt there was no right choice. One week in the winter I had to work extra days, so I missed a basketball game and two practices. (I’m on that team, too.) When a substitution opportunity came at the next game,

the coach looked at me and said, ―OK, we’re running I-5,‖ a new play they had developed during the practices I had missed. I told him I didn’t know it, so he told me to sit back down. I felt really bad, because there was my chance to play and I couldn’t.

I really did resent work. If I hadn’t been so greedy, I could have been at practice. But I kept working, and the job did help me in some ways. When you have a lot of responsibilities, you have to learn how to balance everything. You just grow up faster. At home, your parents always say, ―I pay the bills so while you’re here you’re under my rules.‖ But now with my money I say, ―No, no, no. You didn’t pay for that, I did. That’s mine.‖

Slowly, I’ve come to deal with managing money a lot better. At first, as soon as I had money, it was gone. Now it goes straight into my bank account. This year I decided not to work at all during football season. I have a lot more time to spend with other players after the game and feel more a part of the team. I’ve only fallen asleep in class once so far. I’m more confident and more involved in the classes. My marks are A’s and B’s, a full grade better than this time last year. I’m hoping that will help me get into a better college. I don’t go shopping as much. I look at all the sneakers in school and think, ―I could have those‖ but I don’t need them. Last year I thought that being mature meant doing everything. But I’m learning that part of growing up is limiting yourself, knowing how to decide what’s important, and what isn’t.

57. What was his mother’s response when the author asked her for money?

A) She criticized him for asking her for money all the time.

B) She told him she would be happier if he could find a job to earn money himself.

C) She told him that he should learn to be responsible by earning money himself.

D) She told him he could work with a photo studio to earn some pocket money for himself.

58. How was the author’s studies affected when he got his first job?

A) He could only do an hour’s homework every day.

B) He had to skip his schoolwork to be on the job.

C) He frequently fell asleep during classes.

D) He received poor grades for all his courses.

59. What did the author mean when he said ―My priorities were all screwed up‖?

A) He couldn’t decide which things were most important and should be done first.

B) He lost a good opportunity to play on the college football team.

C) He did not understand that studying was the most important thing for him.

D) He felt lost about what to do in the future.

60. What did the author feel was one of the benefits of taking on a job?

A) He could help his family pay some bills.

B) He could do whatever he wished to do.

C) He learned to determine what his priorities were.

D) He realized the importance of having his own bank account.

61. According to the passage, one part of growing up was ______.

A) to learn how to control oneself B) to do all sorts of things to gain experience

C) to strive for better grades D) to learn how to save money

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Passage Two

Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.

The Kind of Work Daddy Does

It is not surprising that modern children tend to look blank and dispirited when informed that they will someday have to ―go to work and make a living.‖ The fact is they cannot visualize what work is in corporate America.

Not so long ago, when a parent said he was off to work, the child knew very well what was about to happen. His parent was going to making something to fix something. The parent could take his offspring to his place of business and let him watch while he repaired a car or built a table.

When a child asked, ―What kind of work do you do, Daddy?‖ his father could answer in terms that a child could come to grips with. ―I fix steam engines.‖―I make horse collars.‖Well, a few fathers still fix engines and build things, but most do not. Nowadays, most fathers sit in glass buildings performing tasks that are absolutely incomprehensible to children. The answers they gave when asked, ―What kind of work do you do, Daddy?‖ are likely to be very puzzling to the child.

―I sell space.‖―I do market research.‖―I’m a data processor.‖―I’m in public relations.‖―I am a system analyst.‖ Such explanations must seem nonsense to a child. How can he possibly imagine anyone analyzing a system or researching a market?

In the common everyday job, noting is made any more. Things are now made by machines. Very little is repaired. The machines that make things make them in such a fashion that they will quickly fall apart in such a way that repairs will be too expensive. Thus the buyer is encouraged to throw the thing away and buy a new one. In effect, the machines are making junk.

The handful of people remotely associated with these machines can, of course, tell their inquisitive children ―Daddy makes junk.‖ Most of the work force, however, is too remote from junk production to sense any contribution to the industry. What do these people do?

Consider the typical twelve-story glass building in the typical American city. The building is filled with people who think of themselves as working. At any given moment during the day perhaps one-third of them will be talking into telephones. Most of these conversations will be about paper for paper is what occupies nearly everyone in this building.

What is a child to make of all this? His father may be so important that he lunches with other men about paper. Suppose he brings his son to work to give the boy some idea of what work is all about. What does the boy see happening?

His father calls for paper. He reads paper. Perhaps he makes an angry red mark on paper. He telephones another man and says they had better lunch over paper.

At lunch they talk about paper. Back at the office, the father orders the paper retyped and reproduced in quintuplicate, and then sent to another man for comparison with paper that was reproduced in triplicate last year.

Imagine his poor son afterwards thinking about the mysteries of work with a friend, who asks him, ―What does your father do?‖ What can the boy reply? ―It beats me,‖ perhaps, if he is not very observant. Or if he is, ―something that has to do with making junk. I think. Same as everybody else.‖

62. According to the author, why do children feel disheartened when they have to go to work?

A) Because they have little understanding of what work is like.

B) Because they are not ready to work on their own.

C) Because they fear the prospect of having to earn their own living.

D) Because they see no meaning in today’s work.

63. Why could a child understand his father’s job better in the past?

A) Because most of the jobs at that time were of a more functional nature.

B) Because his father had the time and patience to explain the job to him.

C) Because he was allowed to watch his father work.

D) Because the only jobs then was making things for family use.

64. Why does the author make the remark that ―the machines are making junk?‖

A) Because the machines no longer make things people need.

B) Because the machines make things that break down easily.

C) Because the machines themselves are constructed of junk.

D) Because the machines make products that aren’t worth repairing.

65. According to the passage, if a child were to observe his father at work nowadays, ______.

A) he would think that his father was doing something very meaningful

B) he would be puzzled at seeing his father dealing only with paper all the time.

C) he would not understand the meaning of his father’s work

D) he could see how complicated his father’s job was

66. What is the tone of the passage?

A) Pessimistic B) Critical C) Optimistic D) Ironic

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Part V Cloze (15 minutes) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE

that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet

2 with a single line through the centre.

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Part VI Translation (5 minutes) Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

Please write you translation on Answer Sheet 2.

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87. If your roommate has a high fever and her throat hurts, ________________________（那她可

能得流感了）.

88. If the book isn’t on the table, ________________________________(那它就在其中的一个抽

屉里).

89. We soon ____________________________ (对她无休止的抱怨感到厌倦)and tried to avoid

her as much as possible.

90. Mr. Smith has long wished for a chance to relate his lunar landing experience to the young

people around him, _________________________(单他一直没有足够的时间可支配)

91. Recognition of the importance of Dr. Hawkins’s research may be difficult or impossible for a

layman, but _____________________________ (它肯定会对我们的生活产生经久的影响).

Part VII Multiple Choice

Directions: Complete the following sentences by choosing the proper words or phrases.

1. To _____ his position in Congress, he held talks with the leaders of different parties.

2. The company was _____ with severe financial problems, so it had to postpone paying the workers.

3. With a salary of half a million a year, he’s lost a lot of money to ____ of.

4. ____ the lighting –it’s unpleasant to lie with a bright light shining in your eyes.

5. A double room with a balcony overlooking the sea had been ____ for the businessman from Hong

Kong.

6. I’m sorry that I’m in no ___ to dance with you after a day’s hard work.

7. Mary Ann felt painfully _____ to deal with the company’s financial crisis.

8. His revolutionary works in linguistics have ____ intense interest among linguists.

9. He was a great musician, but he didn’t get the ____ he deserved when he was alive.

10. The businessman found the fast-food business ____ competitive, so he decided to invest in other

businesses.

11. When you are in the States, you have to prepare yourself for the ____ of the tax laws, which I

never understood.

12. What he is interested in is how our ____ of death affects the way we live.

13. I agree with it in ____, but I doubt if it will happen in practice.

14. I found it very refreshing to_____ ideas with your father. He has some very original views on

how to deal with modern industrial pollution.

15. Frank was admitted to hospital for _____ after complaining of chest pains.

Part VIII Matching

Directions: Match the definition in Column B with the phrasal verbs in Column A.

Part IX Vocabulary

Directions: Complete the following statements with the correct form of the words given in brackets.

1.He said that my garden was the most_________garden he had ever seen. (delight)

2.The area had one of the world’s greatest _________ of wildlife, but now wildlife is rarely seen.

(concentrate)

3.Some people say that St. Peter’s Cathedral is typical of Roman＿＿＿＿＿＿, but I wonder

whether it is true to fact. (architect)

4.The parents grew worried as they found when the other children _________ and played together,

their child, Ted, never joined in. (interaction)

5.It’s unlikely that a novelist remains ___________ to the problems of the world in which he lives.

(different)

6.These manuscripts are ________ to scholars and should be kept in a museum. (value)

7.He was charged with illegal ___________ of a great number of weapons and was sentenced to

three years’ imprisonment. (possess)

8.The human body has great self-_______ powers, and sometimes all it needs to overcome a mild

illness is rest and a healthy diet. (heal)

9.If you have any question ________ our products, please feel free to contact our customer service

department. (concern)

10.Having sold the house, Jim had a large sum of money at his __________. (dispose)