新理念网络学习大厅综合测试第四册 Unit7

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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 15 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.

1.

A) T

B) F

Script: The falling of the World Trade Center shattered Americans’ illusion about the nation’s invulnerability.

正确答案：A

2.

A) T

B) F

Script: The suicidal attack on the Pentagon took place at the same time as the attacks on the World Trade Center.

正确答案：B

3.

A) T

B) F

Script: The 9/11 terrorist attacks were called as the second Pearl Harbor by some commentators.

正确答案：A

4.

A) T

B) F

Script: A new World Trade Center will be rebuilt on the spot where it once stood.

正确答案：B

5.

A) T

B) F

Script: Bearing the memory in mind, New Yorkers carried on their lives and rose to fight against terrorism.

正确答案：A

6.

A) T

B) F

Script: Although time can heal the wounds in the heart of people, the memory will never fade away.

正确答案：A

7.

A) T

B) F

Script: The joint attack on al Qaeda and its Taliban allies successfully drew the Al Qa eda’s leaders into the mountains on the Pakistan border.

正确答案：A

8.

A) T

B) F

Script: The Iraq war turned out to be wrong because there were no mass destructive weapons found.

正确答案：A

9.

A) T

B) F

Script: Now, al Qaeda and its Taliban allies no longer threaten Afghanistan, but just Pakistan itself.

正确答案：B

10.

A) T

B) F

Script: The author implies that the war should be made a partisan matter rather than for public concern.

正确答案：B

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

The economic effects of the terrorist attacks in the United States last week are spreading across the country and the world. The attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. have hurt many (11)_________________ , especially the airline industry and financial markets. Many companies have been forced to dismiss thousands of workers. Many (12)_________________ states are concerned about their economic future.

Monday was the first day of (13)_________________ on the American stock market since the attacks September Eleventh. The stock market suffered major losses. The Dow Jones industrial (14)_________________ lost seven percent of its value. The other major (15)_________________ of the value of American stocks fell to their lowest levels in three years.

Some economic experts say the drop in the value of stocks could directly affect long-term spending. They say it may cause people to lose trust in the economy and spend less money. Businesses across the country already have reported (16)_________________ in sales. Experts note that the American economy was close to a (17)_________________ even before the attacks.

The airline industry was probably hardest hit by the attacks. The nation’s skies (18)_________________ to all air travel. High fuel and labor costs are making the situation worse. The airlines are losing hundreds of millions of dollars each day.

Major airlines in the United States have announced (19)_________________ almost eighty-thousand workers. A major builder of airplanes, Boeing, says it will dismiss as many as thirty-thousand workers. Airlines in many other countries are cutting flights and jobs. Many other businesses dependent on the airline industry also (20)_________________ .

Script: The economic effects of the terrorist attacks in the United States last week are spreading across the country and the world. The attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. have hurt many businesses, especially the airline industry and financial markets. Many companies have been forced to dismiss thousands of workers. Many individual states are concerned about their economic future.

Monday was the first day of trading on the American stock market since the attacks September Eleventh. The stock market suffered major losses. The Dow Jones industrial average lost seven percent of its value. The other major measures of the value of American stocks

fell to their lowest levels in three years.

Some economic experts say the drop in the value of stocks could directly affect long-term spending. They say it may cause people to lose trust in the economy and spend less money. Businesses across the country already have reported decreases in sales. Experts note that the American economy was close to a recession even before the attacks.

The airline industry was probably hardest hit by the attacks. The nation’s skies were temporarily closed to all air travel. High fuel and labor costs are making the situation worse. The airlines are losing hundreds of millions of dollars each day.

Major airlines in the United States have announced plans to dismiss almost eighty-thousand workers. A major builder of airplanes, Boeing, says it will dismiss as many as thirty-thousand workers. Airlines in many other countries are cutting flights and jobs. Many other businesses dependent on the airline industry also have been harmed.

正确答案：businesses

正确答案：individual

正确答案：trading

正确答案：average

正确答案：measures

正确答案：decreases

正确答案：recession

正确答案：were temporarily closed

正确答案：plans to dismiss

正确答案：have been harmed

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

A) penalty B) miracles C) statistically D) sapped

E) newsstands F) camouflage G) wreckage H) dawned on

I) resembled J) solidarity K) normally L) aftermath

M) disrupted N) nerve center O) margin

21. ______________________

正确答案：L

22. ______________________

正确答案：G

23. ______________________

正确答案：B

24. ______________________

正确答案：D

25. ______________________

正确答案：I

26. ______________________

正确答案：F

27. ______________________

正确答案：K

28. ______________________

正确答案：E

29. ______________________

正确答案：N

30. ______________________

正确答案：J

Section B

Directions: There are several 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.

Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, structural engineers are trying hard to solve a question that a month ago would have been completely unthinkable: Can building be designed to withstand catastrophic blasts inflicted by terrorists?

Ten days after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers, structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) headquartered at UB traveled to ground zero(被毁现场) as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation. “Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, those buildings that are still standing, but that sustained damage,” said M. Bruneau, Ph. D. “Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why those buildings remain standing, while our long-term goal is to see whether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existing technologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the event of terrorist attacks,” he added.

Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate in startling detail the monumental damage inflicted on the World Trade Center towers and buildings in the vicinity. One building a block away from the towers remains standing, but was badly damaged. “This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that used to be part of that building,” explained A. Whittaker, Ph. D. “The column became a missile that shot across the road, through the window and through the floor.”

The visit to the area also revealed some surprises, according to the engineers. For example, the floor framing system in one of the adjacent buildings was quite rugged, allowing floors that were pierced by tons of falling debris to remain intact. “Highly redundant ductile framing systems may provide a simple, but robust strategy for blast resistance,” he a dded. Other strategies may include providing alternate paths for gravity loads in the event that a load-bearing column fails.

A. Reinhorn, Ph. D. noted that “Earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of many buildings in the past. It induces dynamic response and extremely high stresses and deformations in structural components. Solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may be directly

applicable to blast engineering and terrorist-resistant design. Part of our mission now at UB is to t ransfer these solutions and to develop new ones where none exist at present.”

31.

The question raised in the first paragraph is one _________________.

A) that was asked by structural engineers a month ago

B) that is too difficult for structural engineers to answer even now

C) that was never thought of before the terrorist attack

D) that terrorists are eager to find a solution to

正确答案：C

32.

The project funded by the National Science Foundation________________.

A) was first proposed by some engineers at UB

B) took about two days to complete

C) was to investigate the damage caused by the terrorist attack

D) was to find out why some buildings could survive the blasts

正确答案：D

33.

The column mentioned by Dr. Whittaker____________________.

A) was part of the building close to the World Trade Center

B) was part of the World Trade Center

C) was shot through the window and the floor of the World Trade Center

D) damaged many buildings in the vicinity of the World Trade Center

正确答案：A

34.

A surprising discovery made by the investigators during their visit to ground zero is that ________.

A) floors in the adjacent building remain undamaged

B) some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance to explosion

C) simple floor framing systems are more blast resistant

D) floors in one of the adjacent buildings were pierced by tons of debris

正确答案：B

35.

What Dr. Reinhorn said in the last paragraph may imply all the following EXCEPT that ________.

A) blast engineers should develop new solutions for terror-resistant design

B) blast engineering can borrow technologies developed for terror-resistant design

C) solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may apply to terrorist-resistant design

D) blast engineering emerges as a new branch of science

正确答案：D

Passage Two

Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.

In her international bestselling Talk to the Hand, author Lynne Truss argues that common courtesies such as saying “Excuse me” are practically extinct. There are certainly plenty who would agree with her.

Is it really true? We decided to find out by experiments. In dozens of American cities, our reporters performed two experiments: “door tests” (Would anyone hold one open for them?) and “document drops” (Who would help them retrieve a pile of “a ccidentally”dropped papers?). Along the way, the reporters encountered all types：men and women of different races, ages，professions, and income levels.

While 90 percent of the people passed the door test，only 55 percent passed the document drop. Are people less likely to help others when doing so takes extra effort or time? Not always, the reporters found. Take the pregnant woman who thought nothing of bending down to help us with our papers. Or the woman named Liz who balanced two coffees，her keys and her wallet on a takeout tray with one hand，while picking up papers off the wet pavement with the other. Her reason for helping? “I was there,”she said.

Overall, men were the most willing to help, especially when it came to document drops. In those，men offered aid 63 percent of the time, compared to 47 percent among women. Of course, men weren’t entirely democratic about whom they’d help. All of them held the door for the female reporter, and were more than twice as likely to help her pick up fallen papers than they were to help our male reporter.

By far, the most common reason people cited for being willing to go out of their way to help others was their upbringing. “It’s the way I was raised,” said one young woman who held a door open despite struggling with her umbrella on a rainy day in Brooklyn. We realize this isn’t a rigorous scientific study, but we believe it is a reasonable real-world test of good manners around the globe. And it’s comforting to know that in a place where millions of people push on e another each day to get ahead, they’re able to do it with a smile. Hey, if they can make nice here，they can make nice anywhere.

36.

Which of the following is the best word to describe the experiments?

A) Scientific.

B) Biased.

C) Revolutionary.

D) Realistic.

正确答案：D

37.

The examples of the pregnant woman and Liz are used to show that some people___________________.

A) may take the trouble to help others

B) won’t take the trouble to help others

C) may help others save time

D) won’t help others save time

正确答案：A

38.

According to the experiments, ________________.

A) women are more careful

B) women are more likely to need help

C) men are more ready to help

D) men are more democratic in helping others

正确答案：C

39.

Helping others is a behavior that is largely influenced by_______________.

A) social norm

B) family education

C) personal situation

D) personal character

正确答案：B

40.

The results of the experiments have shown that common courtesies_______________.

A) are still with us

B) are disappearing

C) vary with professions

D) need rigorous study

正确答案：A

Part III Vocabulary and Structure ( 10 minutes )

Directions: There are a number of incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.

41.

He cherishes the ________ that she loves him.

A) imagination

B) illusion

C) illustration

D) intension

正确答案：B

42.

Thick, white smoke completely ________ the sun.

A) blotted out

B) burst out

C) blotted up

D) burst in

正确答案：A

43.

The president’s statement was ________ by all parties.

A) announced

B) denounced

C) declared

D) denoted

正确答案：B

44.

Time ________ all sorrows.

A) heaps

B) heals

C) hauls

D) heels

正确答案：B

45.

The pursuit of good ends does not ________ the employment of bad means.

A) misguide

B) justify

C) accept

D) allow

正确答案：B

46.

I ________ of the way he behaved at the meeting.

A) disapproved

B) condemned

C) disagreed

D) objected

正确答案：A

47.

Apart from blue eyes, blonde hair is also ________ of Swedish people.

A) specific

B) peculiar

C) characteristic

D) particular

正确答案：C

48.

Everyone else was killed in the accident. I was the only one to ________.

A) alive

B) outlive

C) survive

D) relive

正确答案：C

49.

He is ________.

A) something of a poet

B) anything of a poet

C) something of the poet

D) anything of the poet

正确答案：A

50.

Today, housework has been made much easier by electrical _____.

A) facilities

B) appliances

C) instruments

D) equipment

正确答案：B

51.

I'm not sure whether I can gain any profit from the investment, so I can't make a(n) _____ promise to help you.

A) exact

B) defined

C) definite

D) sure

正确答案：C

52.

I tried to make him laugh, but he was ___________ jokes.

A) in accordance with

B) in excess of

C) in no mood for

D) in correspondence with

正确答案：C

53.

The silence was abruptly ___________ by the sound of Mia’s loud vo ice.

A) shrunk

B) strengthened

C) sheltered

D) shattered

正确答案：D

54.

The pupils were brought to the airport to watch how carefully the pilot _____ the plane down.

A) brought

B) landed

C) flew

D) took

正确答案：A

55.

Investigators are searching the _________ of the plane to try and find the cause of the tragedy.

A) accommodation

B) circulation

C) emergency

D) wreckage

正确答案：D

56.

The old overseas Chinese looked in _____ at his hometown, which changed so greatly that he could hardly recognize it.

A) strange

B) confusion

C) difficulty

D) unfamiliarity

正确答案：B

57.

She denied that it was a lie, but she knew _____ of hearts that it was.

A) in her heart

B) in mind

C) at the center

D) at the bottom

正确答案：A

58.

The teacher _____ books and made sure that each student would have his own.

A) attributed

B) circulated

C) distributed

D) classified

正确答案：C

59.

The human problems associated with living in the ocean will need to be studied _____.

A) in detail

B) in turn

C) in itself

D) in part

正确答案：A

60.

The _____ of ice-cream sold increases sharply in the summer months.

A) sum

B) total

C) average

D) amount

正确答案：D

Part IV Translation ( 10 minutes )

Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

61. ____________________ (所有的准备工作都劳而无功) because the visit was cancelled.

正确答案：All that preparation was for nothing

62. To become a writer, a person ____________________ (必须首先要富有想象力).

正确答案：must, first of all, be imaginative

63. The bag of sweets on the table was ____________________ (对孩子是难以抗拒的诱惑).

正确答案：too strong a temptation for a child to resist

64. The death of his parents was a ____________________ (对这个年轻人是个沉重打击).

正确答案：mortal blow to the young man

65. The log cabin stayed empty ____________________ (除了我们暑假期间来).

正确答案：except when we came during the summer vacation

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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.

1.

A) T

B) F

Script: The twin towers of the World Trade Center were once one of the mightiest symbols in New York.

正确答案：A

2.

A) T

B) F

Script: Due to another terror attack, there was once a major damage to the World Trade Center in 1993.

正确答案：B

3.

A) T

B) F

Script: On Day Two morning, some anxious relatives waited for the papers to look for all the possible information about the disappeared.

正确答案：B

4.

B) F

Script: The 9/11 attacks had immediate and overwhelming effects upon American people.

正确答案：A

5.

A) T

B) F

Script: For President Bush, the 9/11 attacks were more than an act of terror.

正确答案：A

6.

A) T

B) F

Script: As time goes by, people will totally forget the miseries and pains that the 9/11 attacks brought.

正确答案：B

7.

A) T

B) F

Script: September 11 was one of the most serious attacks on American territories in history.

正确答案：A

8.

A) T

B) F

Script: In fact, Saddham Hussein was a religious extremist.

正确答案：B

9.

A) T

B) F

Script: Dr. King’s words warn us that we should focus on self-development as well as war abroad.

正确答案：B

10.

B) F

Script: There are still some serious tensions hard to be settled in Iraq.

正确答案：A

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

For almost thirty years, the World Trade Center stood more than 410 meters above New York City's financial center. The two towers of the Center were the tallest buildings in the city. They had more than 100 (11)_________________ . Then on the morning of September 11, two hijacked airplanes (12)_________________ the buildings.

Many people died immediately in (13)_________________ and fires. Others ran down countless steps in an effort to escape the buildings. Others waited for help in their offices. Then, one after another, both buildings fell. The collapse of the towers killed thousands of people. It also (14)_________________ or damaged surrounding buildings.

Engineers from the state of Illinois soon will (15)_________________ the collapse of the buildings for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their early study, however, shows that the buildings (16)_________________ up well. One tower (17)_________________ standing for about 47 minutes after the plane hit it. The other tower stayed up for about one hour and forty minutes after it was struck. The fact that the towers stayed up as long as they did (18)_________________ to escape.

Several experts have said no building could have resisted the attacks. The terrorists (19)_________________ the largest explosions and the hottest fires possible. So they loaded the planes heavily with fuel. The heat from the burning fuel weakened the steel structure of the towers. These fires burned far hotter than fires used to (20)_________________ . They also burned longer. The intense heat caused the upper levels of the buildings to fall. Then the lower levels also fell.

Script: For almost thirty years, the World Trade Center stood more than 410 meters above New York City's financial center. The two towers of the Center were the tallest buildings in the city. They had more than 100 levels. Then on the morning of September 11, two hijacked airplanes struck the buildings.

Many people died immediately in explosions and fires. Others ran down countless steps in an effort to escape the buildings. Others waited for help in their offices. Then, one after another, both buildings fell. The collapse of the towers killed thousands of people. It also wrecked or damaged surrounding buildings.

Engineers from the state of Illinois soon will investigate the collapse of the buildings for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their early study, however, shows that the buildings held up well. One tower remained standing for about 47 minutes after the plane hit it. The other tower stayed up for about one hour and forty minutes after it was struck. The fact that the towers stayed up as long as they did permitted many people to escape.

Several experts have said no building could have resisted the attacks. The terrorists meant to cause the largest explosions and the hottest fires possible. So they loaded the planes heavily with fuel. The heat from the burning fuel weakened the steel structure of the towers. These fires burned far hotter than fires used to test building materials. They also burned longer. The intense heat caused the upper levels of the buildings to fall. Then the lower levels also fell.

正确答案：levels

正确答案：struck

正确答案：explosions

正确答案：wrecked

正确答案：investigate

正确答案：held

正确答案：remained

正确答案：permitted many people

正确答案：meant to cause

正确答案：test building materials

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

A) raining B) screams C) smoldering D) coincidence

E) denounced F) just for once G) digest H) invincibility

I) untrustworthy J) entombed K) blotted out L) collective

M) finger-pointing N) flourished O) vulnerable

21. ______________________

正确答案：C

22. ______________________

正确答案：H

23. ______________________

正确答案：B

24. ______________________

正确答案：K

25. ______________________

正确答案：J

26. ______________________

正确答案：G

27. ______________________

正确答案：O

28. ______________________

正确答案：M

29. ______________________

正确答案：E

30. ______________________

正确答案：A

Section B

Directions: There are several 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.

Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Islamic terrorism may be a distant threat for Shearer Lumber Products, a timber company based in Idaho. But eco-terrorism is a very real one. In November, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an underground organization, gave warning that it had “spiked” trees in the Nez Perce national forest to protest against logging. Spiking involves hiding metal bars in tree trunks, thereby potentially crippling chain saws and hurting people. More such attacks are expected.

The nation’s forests have seen a sharp increase in violent incidents — equipment vandalized, people intimidated — over the past ten years. Shearer now carefully inspects every tree before cutting and has been using metal detectors to check every trunk being processed. Yet Ihor Mer eszczak, of the Nez Perce Forest Service, says it has been hard to get the FBI’s attention, and investigations have got nowhere.

The ELF is only one thread in a web of underground radical environmentalists. Its aim is to inflict as much financial pain as possible on organizations or people who, by its lights, are exploiting the environment. The ELF, though made up of anonymous cells, nonetheless operates a website offering tips on how to cause fires with electric timers. Until recently, it also had a public spokesman.

Together with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which operates along the same lines, the ELF is estimated to be responsible for over $45m-worth of damage in North America over the past few years. In 1998, it caused fires that did $12m-worth of damage in Vail, Colorado, to make the point that the ski resort’s expansion was threatening places where lynxes live. Since September 11th, the ALF and ELF have claimed responsibility for starting a fire at a primate research center in New Mexico, releasing mink from an Iowa fur farm, and firebombing a federal corral for wild horses in California.

Are they terrorists? The two groups reject the label, claiming to take all precautions against harming “animals, whether humans or not”. But earlier this year Louis Freeh, the FBI’s boss, listed both organizations among the most active domestic terrorist groups. The House subcommittee on forests, which Mr. McInnis heads, will hold a hearing on eco-terrorism in February. But he has annoyed some mainstream green groups by asking them to denounce the ELF’s and ALF’s methods. Greenpeace, for instance, says that its disapproval is self-evident, and resents being asked to express it. Mr. McInnis still wants their answer by December 1st, but the