暨南大学考试试卷

暨南大学考试试卷

A．Read the two passages in this part and complete the questions after each of them. (10*2 = 20 points )

Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

No one thought of anything even a little bit about the zipper until Whitecomb L. Judison came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and bucks. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies squzzed themselves into long corsets.

Judison’s slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engeneer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a stree railway system and motor-cars.

Judison invented the first zipper (called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker) in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took twenty-two years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical.

1.Before Judison invented the zipper, people found buttoning clothes to be _____.

A. interesting

B. budersome

C. easy

D. comfortable

2. When Judison’s invention first appeared, people ______.

A. has expected it for a long time

B. were very much surprised

C. didn’t understand it

D. were indifferet to it

3. The first zipper was invented in ________.

A. the end of the 18th century

B. the beginning of the 19th century

C. the end of the 19th century

D. the beginning of the 20th century

4. The word “ingenious” means ____.

A. clever

B. admirable

C. important

D. useful

5. A good title for the above passage is ______

A. Judison the Inventor

B. How the Zipper Works

C. The Principle of the Zipper

D. The Invention of the Zipper

Passage 2

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

Everyone who eats in Carman’s Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job, a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day, you come to Carman Luntzel. The six-foot, 46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks, she also acts as her restaurant’s discussion leader and matchmaker. When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn’t meeting women, she put his pictire on a bulletin board, with the words: “Girls. Nice guy. Give him a break.”

Last September a coffeepot left on a red burner nearly destroyed the restaurant. Luntzel didn’t have insurance. But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman’s.

Bereft at the though of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie---and no more Carman dishing out advice and help---her customers pitched in. They boarded up her windows, removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls. It wasn’t just the regulars. A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash. A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzels’s pockets as she left. Just three weeks after the blaze, Lunzel was serving breakfast again .” It was incredible, “ she says.

“There’s a sense about Carman that is just can-do,” says regular Kevin Vaughan. “It’s infectious.”

6. The word “powerhouse” in paragraph one means ______.

A. a small powerplant

B. a good restaurant

C. an enegetic person

D. an angry person

7. Carman Luntzel was all of the following except ______.

A. a cook

B. a discussion leader

C. a matchmaker

D. a insurance agent

8. What happened last September?

A. There was a fire which nearly destroyed the restaurant.

B. Luntzel lost a coffee pot.

C. An insrance company offered to help.

D. Carman could always turn bad news into good news.

9. How many weeks did it take to reopen the restaurant?

A. 2 weeks

B. 3 weeks

C. 2 months

D. 3 months

10.What was infectious about the restaurant?

A. The food served

B. the effeciency of work

C. The desire of regualr diners

D. The spirit of helping others.

B. Read the following passage and decide whether the statements are True or False. Write T or F in the bracket after the statement. (5*1= 5 points ) BEIJING - Xu Lei, a 33-year-old stay-at-home mother, decided to go organic by planting her own fruit and vegetables inside her apartment in downtown Beijing. She is now able to harvest a variety of produce, including tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins and potatoes.

I hope my husband and my little daughter can eat more healthily by planting our own dinner table food," said Xu. "Of course, if these vegetables are not sufficient for our family, then I will go to supermarkets for more organic food.

Organic food is produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic(合成物) inputs such as synthetic pesticides（杀虫剂）and chemical fertilizers, are not genetically modified, and are not processed using irradiation（照射）, industrial solvents（溶剂）, or chemical food additives（添加剂）.

In recent years, China has witnessed a surge in organic farming among ordinary people who advocate the use of traditional farming methods without the use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides. Many white-collar workers who live in downtown Beijing even travel to the suburbs, rent a plot of land and cultivate their own

vegetables and fruit, spending weekends toiling over the soil.

“Organic food has become more and more popular in recent years," said a saleswoman called Wang at a Beijing Ito Yokado Store, which supplies a range of organic food from Xiaotangshan in Beijing's Changping district. "Sales of organic food are especially good during the weekend when people stay at home and have the time to cook their own meals”

According to Ursula Chen, a former consultant to the United States Agricultural Trade Office in Guangzhou, nearly all supermarkets on the Chinese mainland have doubled their shelf space for organic goods. Imported organic products are also available in some high-end retail store

The Chinese consumers are now believed to consume more than twice as much organic food as health-conscious Japan. The Chinese government statistics show the market is worth about 10 billion yuan ($1.55 billion), having quadrupled over the past five years.

The booming demand has driven many companies to try to corner the market. Beijing Leading Green Food Co Ltd is one of them.

An oasis in a Beijing suburb, the organic food company covers an area of 8.67 hectares, which is full of organic mushrooms

“We invested 115 million yuan in the company and made a 20 percent net profit by selling mushrooms," said Li Dajiang, board chairman of Beijing Leading Green Food

The company's annual output has reached 5 million kilograms, and sales revenue of the company is now 100 million yuan annually, Li said.

Most of the company's organic food goes to supermarkets in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang and Shijiazhuang. But "if demand of organic mushrooms continue to climb at home and abroad, we will consider doing business overs eas, of course”.

According to the China Organic Food Certification Center, a top organic food certification agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, the country's organic exports totaled $350 million in 2006 (the most recent available data), and have continued to surge

The country now represents 5 percent of global trade in such products. China now ranks third worldwide in organic farmland, after Australia and Argentina, up from 45th in 2000.

Fueled by the rising demand, an estimated 2 million hectares of farmland are under organic cultivation, while some 1,400 companies and farms have been certified organic.

According to the agency, most of the organic produce are shipped to closer markets such as Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. But organic soybeans, rice and other grains, along with frozen vegetables and fruit concentrate, also travel to the US and European markets.

Scholars believe that exports are the main driving engine behind the sector's growth. But Li from Beijing Leading Organic Food thinks the domestic market is playing a key role.

“Most of my counterparts and friends' orders come from Chinese retailers, and I

believe the prosperity in the 'green' food industry will stay robust over the next decades”

1. Xu Lei, a full-time mother, plants her own fruit and vegetables inside her apartment just for fun. [ ]

2. Traditional farming methods do not use any fertilizers at all. [ ]

3. Many supermarkets in China have enlarged their shelf space for organic goods, either local or imported. [ ]

4. Beijing Leading Green Food Co Ltd is one of the companies that tries to monopolize the organic food market. [ ]

5. Scholars and businessmen both agree that demand for organic food is from overseas markets. [ ] C. Answer the questions based on the passage you read in part B. (1、2*4=8 points；3=7 points; Total 15 points)

1.Why is there a surge in organic farming among ordinary people in China?

2. Li from Beijing Leading Organic Food is optimistic about the green food industry in the future. What might be the reasons for such positive belief?

3. What’s your opinion on organic food? (Write at least 100 words.)

1. Recovery seems a distant _______, not least because during Spain's long boom

production costs rose too fast.

A. prospect

B. respect

C. inspect

D. prosper

2. I immediately bought a used manual typewritter and felt like a _____ writer.

A. general

B. generous

C. genuine

D. genetic

3. Viewed from every ______ angle, your project has no chance of approval.

A. conceit

B. considerate

C. considering

D. conceivable

4. This still left us with the question of where the gold came from. And it was Nevis who first made the _______ suggestion.

A. crude

B. crucial

C. competitive

D. commercial

5. If the virus cannot _________, it cannot cause illness.

A. reply

B. produce

C. provide

D. replicate

6. Recycling has been one of the growth industries of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Recycling is not a _________.

A. fad

B. field

C. aera

D. fever

7. A t eacher should ______ from the interest, develop a student a good study habit, attain thus the purpose of teaching.

A. comment

B. complete

C. support

D. commence

8. The only place within our _______ was a row house on a little street called

Pemberton.

A. mean

B. means

C. meaning

D. meaningfulness

9. “I’m _______,” Dorothy thought, then realized she was speaking out loud.

A. necessary

B. useful

C. redundant

D. abundant

10. He has made a declaration to the _______that all fighting must stop at once

A. efficiency

B. affect

C. effect

D. audience

11. Hatha is a very general term that can ________ many of the physical types of

yoga.

A. encompass

B. compass

C. enhance

D. strengthen

12. Chinese not only use numbers to appeal for good fortune, they also bring them out

to ______ people out.

A. bite

B. spit

C. curse

D. chew

13. Even in today’s China, many people s till _________ _______ great significance to

numbers.

A. prescribe to

B. describe to

C. ascribe to

D. inescribe to

14. "168", on the way to success, is _________ in Mandarin Chinese.

A. synonym

B. antonym

C. pseudonym

D. homophone

15. Malaria(疟疾), as we all know, kills _________ one million people a year.

A. appropriately

B. approximately

C. completely

D. competitively

16.From this _______, sleeping until noon on Saturday is not enough to pay back the

ten lost hours as wellas meet your nightly requirement of eight.

A. part

B. scene

C. example

D. perspective

17. Please keep doing what you are doing, you are a _______ and inspiration to many

people.

A. key role

B. role model

C. a case in point

D. a good example

18. You don't have to ________ environmental protection to promote economic

growth

A.discard

B. improve

C. sacrifice

D. care

19. The university also offers an English Language Institute. But (Gallaudet) says this

program does not ________ acceptance to the university.

A. guide

B. guarantee

C.secure

D.guard

20. The runway of this airport is undergoing expansion to ________ large planes.

A. accommodate

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C. meet

D. launch

Translate the five sentences into Chinese

1. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never requited.

2. There was a certain combative ness in her voice, as if those who did not help has sided with the dark forces responsible for litter, decay and dilapidation.

3.The shadows had turned into dazzling limelight.

4. One of the goals for the recycling community in the next decade must be to identify and replicate the factors that determine success.

5. If only human beings could develop such defenses, atomic war would lose some of its terrors.

1. To somewhat insulate recycling programs from severe market swings, the efficiency of recycling programs must be improved.

2. As fathers, old expectations were to protect, discipline, and provide for their offspring.

3.Add to this that people have psychological activity and the ability to link things together in their minds, and a whole set of auspicious-attracting and evil-expelling habits took shape.

4. There was more crime than we had been exposed to in the past

5. He had a real way with words and instilled in me an appreciation and knowledge for language.

the brackets in front of the word you choose.

The rain still fell in a ___1___ gray sheet when Dorothy opened her bedroom curtains to peer ___2___. “Another gray day, gray and gloomy,” she ___3___, though really the rain was more than welcome after last year’s ___4___.

“Old and gray and ___5___, just like me,”she added to herself, though it wasn’t exactly true. Her hair wasn’t ___6___ gray, and she was only in her mid-fifties, middle-aged really, she knew. And usually she acted younger than her years, if anything. She could still do all the work she’d ever done---keep the house going, plant and ___7___ the garden, drive truck when needed---___8___ maybe she wasn’t as speedy at some tasks, as she once was. And Tim, her son, did ___9___ a couple of years ago, that she needn’t bother to drive the tractor anymroe. But that was because it wasn’t really necessary, anyway, it wasn’t she was getting old. So why, all of a ___10___, did she feel old?

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