2010年中国地质大学江城学院学位证英语题

College English Test—Band 4

Part I Multiple Choice (20 points)

Directions：There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part．For each sentence there are four choices marked A)，B)，C) and D)．Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence．Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre．

1.The business would be a success，owned it．

A)whatever B)however C)whoever D)wherever

2.The talks were the base of the later agreement．

A)innate B)initial C)insane D)intent

3.She the shoes that match the dress．

A)picked out B)picked up C)picked off D)picked on

4.Her mother never ceases you about her trouble．

A)to tell B)tell C)telling D)of telling

5.Jack the armload of books on the desk．

A)spelt B)spit C)spoiled D)spilled

6.Parents some of their characteristics to their children．

A)transform B)transfer C)transport D)transmit

7. Niagara Falls is a great tourist ，drawing millions of visitors every year．

A)attention B)attraction C)appointment D)arrangement

8.He is about his chances of winning a gold medal in the Olympics next year·

A)optimistic B)optional C)outstanding D)obvious

9.She has a strong appetite English learning．

A)in B)on C)for D)with

10.The ringing bells the news of the birth of the prince．

A)exclaimed B)proclaimed C)disclaimed D)claimed

11.The waste pipe is blocked；try it out with hot water．

A)rushing B)brushing C)crushing D)flushing

12.The mother tried to her son’s interest in music by taking him to concerts when he was

young．

A)foster B)cherish C)utilize D)give

13.The school dining room as a meeting place for teachers and students．

A)organizes B)uses C)exerts D)functions

14.Parliament will the budget proposals next week．

A)debate B)argue C)dispatch D)criticize

15.The economic for Europe is not very bright because of the energy crisis.

A)outbreak B)output C)outlook D)outcome

l6.In face of the threat of immediate death，one of the villagers was yielding.

A)frightened away B)frightened into

C)frightened off D)frightened out

17.The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always the scientist's

time-keeping methods．

A)as a result of B)in the way of

C)at the mercy of D)at the cost of

18.Because of heavy snowballs in the region we had to the meeting of the Conservation

Group．

A)put aside B)put off C)put through D)put out

19.The more he watched the play, the more he became in it．so that he began to think

himself part of it．

A)contained B)include C)participated D)involved

20.IS it advisable to keep in with society's custom?

A)confusion B)connection C)conformity D)contrast

Part II Reading Comprehension(40 points)

Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. 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 write it on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage：

In our society the unwritten rules of communication discourage the direct expression of most emotions. Count the number of genuine emotional expressions you hear over a two-or three-day period and you'll discover that emotional expressions are rare. People are generally comfortable making statements of fact and often delight in expressing their opinions，but they rarely disclose how they feel．

Not surprisingly, the emotions that people do share directly are usually positive. For example, one study of married couples revealed that the partners shared flattering feelings of face-saving ones. They also willingly disclosed both positive and negative feelings about absent third parties．On the other hand, the husbands and wives rarely expressed face-threatening feelings or hostility．

Surprisingly, social rules even discourage too much expression of positive feelings. A hug and kiss for Mother is all right, though a young man should shake hands with Dad. Affection toward friends becomes less and less frequent as we grow older, so that even a simple statement such as "I like you" is seldom heard between adults．

A review of research on emotional expression supports the cultural stereotype(典型)of the non-emotional male and the more emotional female. As a group, women are more likely than men to express their emotions. They are better at distinguishing between related feelings such as liking and loving, and they are more likely to have more affectionate relationships than men. Of course，these gender(性别)differences are statistical average, and there are many men and women who do not fall into these types．

21.Why do people rarely express their feelings?

A)Because they would not feel comfortable doing so.

B)Because they like fats better．

C)Because they think personal feeling would distort facts.

D)Because thy seldom have positive feelings.

22.Which Of the following utterances expresses a face-threatening feeling?

A)You are not doing well this time，but you will be OK．

B)Jane always phones her boyfriend at work.

C)You seldom have time even talking to me．

D)You look pretty today．Where did you get that sweater?

23.The traditional view holds that ．

A)people become more silent when they grow old

B)people even seldom express positive feelings to others

C)men are better at expressing their feelings than women

D)women are better at expressing their feelings than men

24.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A)All women are better at recognizing feelings than men.

B)All men are better at recognizing feelings than women.

C)The average men do not like women.

D)Some men are better at expressing themselves than women.

25.When people grow older , .

A)they are better at expressing their feelings

B)they express positive feelings only to their spouses

C)they often try to stay away from friends

D)they hid their feelings better

Questions 26 to 30are based on the following passage:

The military aspect of the United States Civil war has always attracted the most attention from scholars．The roar of gunfire, the massed movements of uniformed men, the shrill of bugles, and the drama of hand-to-hand combat have fascinated students of warfare for a century. Behind the lines，however life was less interesting．It was the story of back-breaking labor to provide the fighting men with food and arms, of nerve-tingling uncertainty about the course of national events, of heartbreak over sons or brothers or husbands lost in battle. If the men on the firing line won the victories, the means to those victories were forged on the home front.

Never in the nation's history had Americans worked harder for victory than in the Civil War. Northerners and southerners alike threw themselves into the task of supplying their respective armies. Both governments made tremendous demands upon civilians and, in general, received willing cooperation.

By 1863 the Northern war economy was rumbling along in high gear(速档). Everything from steamboats to shovels was needed-and produced. Denied Southern cotton, textile mills turned to wool for blankets and uniforms. --Hides—by the hundreds of thousands were turned into shoes and harness and saddles；ironworks manufactured locomotives，ordnance(兵器), armor plate. Where private enterprise lagged(落后), the government set up its own factories or arsenals(兵工厂), Agriculture boomed, with machinery doing the job of farm workers drawn into the army.

26. With what topic is the passage primarily concerned?

A)Why the south lost the Civil War.

B)The Causes of Civil War.

C)Where the Civil War Battles Were Fought.

D)The Civilian Response to the Civil War.

27.According to the passage，during the Civil War the south no longer provided the North With

A)cotton B)wool C)hides D)shoes

28.The underlined word "Hides" is closest in meaning to which of the following?

A)Animal skins．C)Disguises．

B)Tree trunks．D)Shelters．

29.Where in the passage does the author mention a contribution made by the government to the war economy?

A)In the end of the passage．

B)At the beginning of the passage.

C) In the middle of the passage.

D)None of the above.

30.Tile author implies that students of the Civil War usually concentrate on the .

A)home front B)government C)battlefield D)economy

Questions 31 t035 are based on the following passage：

Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from‘invisible earnings’to pay for its needed，growing imports．From the sending out of things the Greeks，earn only $285 million；from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional 375 million and this washes out the almost $400 million by which imports exceed exports.

It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma(古希腊银币名)out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus-- $66 million. Greece has a decent reserve of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.

In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don’t mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece's problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $60 to $70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countryside, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago 1 wrote here：“Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government's red tape and shrewdness about small points.”

Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time 1 talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.

Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful，historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities. Tourism itself has jumped from approximately $31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome-without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.

31.The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is .

A)Greek income and expenditures.

B)The improving economic situation in Greece.

C)The value of tourism.

D)Military expenditures.

32.Many peasants earn less than

A)$60 a week.

B)$2 a week.

C)$l a day.

D)$10 a month.

33.The Greek Government spends

A)more than 25% of its budget on military terms.

B)More than its collects.

C)A third of a billion dollars in gold.

D)Less than 25% of its budget on military terms.

34.According to the passage, Greece has

A)a dictatorship.

B)a monarchy.

C)a single majority party.

D)too much red tape.

35.Greece imports annually goods and materials

A)totaling almost $700 million.

B)that balance exports.

C)that are paid by tourists.

D)costing $66 million.

Questions 36 to 40 a re based on the following passage：

Believe it 0r not, optical illusion(错觉)can cut highway crashes. Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.

Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C, is planning to repeat Japan's SUCCESS. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes On selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.

Excessive speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents. according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards are the greatest------curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.

Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.

Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.

36.The passage mainly discusses .

A)a new way of highway speed control

B)a new pattern for painting highways

C)a new approach to training drivers

D)a new type of optical illusion

37.On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that

A)they could avoid speed-related hazards

B)they are driving in the wrong lane

C)they should slow down their speed

D)they are approaching the speed limit

38.The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former

A)can keep drivers awake

B)can cut road accidents in half

C)will have a longer effect on drivers

D)will look more attractive

39.The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety Plans to

A)try out the Japanese method in certain areas

B)change the road signs across the country

C)replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons

D)repeat the Japanese road patterns

40.What does the author say about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?

A)They are falling out of use in the United States.

B)They tend to be ignored by drivers in a short period of time.

C)They are applicable only on broad roads.

D)They cannot be applied successfully to traffic circles.

Part III Translation (20 points)

Section A (10 points)

Directions: Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET．

Subways are underground systems of high speed trains, which are mostly found in large cities such as New York, London, Paris, Beijing, Sydney, and Tokyo. Subway trains move more quickly and efficiently than buses they will deliver you to within walking distance of almost any place in the city. They are inexpensive and help solve city traffic problems. The one drawback of subway trains is that they are often crowded and noisy.

Section B (10 points)

Directions: Translate the fallowing paragraph into English. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET．

并非只有婚姻关系才需要宽恕。我们与子女、朋友、同事、邻居，甚至陌生人相处时同样需要宽恕。事实上，没有宽恕的氧气，任何人际关系都无从维系。宽恕并不是脾气好的人们才拥有的特质，它是所有关系的必要条件，也是自己的身心健康不可缺少的。

Part IV Writing (20 points)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write composition on the topic Happiness Is a Journey. You should write at least 120 words．and base your composition On the outline given below in Chinese:

1．我们总是希望将来的生活更美好；

2．我们应该珍惜现在的生活；

3．快乐是个过程，不是终点。