09级本科英语报刊阅读试题

延安大学西安创新学院期末考试命题专用纸延安大学西安创新学院2010 ～2011 学年第二学期期末考试试卷课程名称：英语报刊阅读命题教师姓名：赵贯丽系别、专业、班级：外语系英语09级本科0901班、0902班卷面总分： 100 分考试时长： 100 分钟考试类别：闭卷□√开卷□其他□注：答题内容请写在答题纸上，否则无效。

I．Matching (1*10=10)Directions: Choose from the list A-O the correct correspondence for each of the abbreviations in the list 1-10. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. AP A. 北大西洋公约组织2. IPOs B. 石油输出国组织3. GATT C. 国际货币组织4. Yawns D. 美国钱币协会5. NATO E. 美联社6. IMF F. 国内生产总值7. OPEC G. 下院议员8. ANS H. 原始股9. GDP I. 无趣族16. UAL Corp’s United Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc are discussing a possible merger as the industry moves toward finishing the consolidation begun after the 2001 terror attacks, two people familiar with the talks said, according to Bloomberg News.17. All the 14 fishermen from Zhejiang Province, who had floated at sea in a lifeboat for about 20 hours after their vessel capsized at the mouth of the Yangtze River, are safe.18. A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy suffocated to death in an apartment his parents had locked him and his older brother in during a fire yesterday.19. HUNDREDS of workers at a state-owned wildlife park in south China’s Guangdong Province are on strike over pay disputes, leaving the animals unfed.20. GENERAL Motors Corp is moving past the cost cuts of 2006 to transform itself into a company that puts car and truck design above everything, company officials said.A. GM aims to be design leaderB. Merger talk hits US airlinesC. The fishermen were rescued after 20 hours in icy oceanD. Park workers strike over payE. Boy dies locked in burning dwellingF. General Motors Corp aims to be the design leaderG. More changes in store ahead of mergerH. A boy died locked in burning dwellingI. Fishermen rescued after 20 hours in icy oceanJ. Animals unfedIV. Brief Reading (2*5=10)Directions: Read the five briefs from China Daily and answer questions 21-25 with a correct choice A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.21. ANAHEIM, California Artificial eyeballs that move like real ones have been implanted in 4000people and may help many people embarrassed by odd movements of the traditional “glass eye,”experts say.This story is aboutA. eyeballs.B. artificial eyeballs.C. 4000 people.D. the traditional “glass eye”.22. MAASTRICHT, Netherlands A historical European Community summit expected to set the12-nation group on the road to a single currency and a joint foreign policy opened yesterday with Britain standing firm against a federal Europe.This story is aboutA. a summit.B. the 12-nation group.C. a single currency.D. a joint foreign policy.23. MOSCOW Hungry and exhausted passengers stormed an aircraft of The State Airline Aeroflot andordered its crew to operate a flight which had been delayed more than 24 hours, Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.This story is aboutA. a long flight delay.B. Tass news agency.C. a flight.D. an aircraft.24. United Nations Warning that the world’s population could triple in 100 years and w ipe out anyadvances of the 20th century, a former World Bank president yesterday proposed a multibillion-dollar global birth control program.This story is aboutA. the world’s population.B. advances of the 20th century.C. a former World Bank president.D. a birth control program.25. SHIMIA, India A mountain train popular with Hindu pilgrims and tourists came off the tracks onSaturday, sending three carriages plunging into a ravine and killing at least 26 people.The story is aboutA. Hindu pilgrims and tourists.B. A mountain train.C. A ravine.D. A train accident.V. Article reading (3*15=45)Read the three articles below and answer questions 26-40 with a correct choice A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.(1)Holly Hunter is a gifted character actress who is featured by her various abilities and the raw energy she invests in her performances. In 1993, Hunter gave the most widely acclaimed performance of her career in the N ew Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion’s film The Piano, in which she portrayed Ada, a nineteenth century Scotswoman to New Zealand with her young daughter to enter into an arranged marriage with a man she has never met. Although in retrospect it is clear that Hunter was the ideal choice for the part, she was far from what Jane Campion had in mind for her heroine. Hunter was determined to get the role, however, and did not rest until Campion agreed to give her an audition.One of the reasons Hunter wanted the role so much was that The Piano challenges established notions about relations between the sexes. “What makes this fascinating is that once sexuality begins operating between two people, it is generally understood the woman will want a commitment of love to accompany the sexual commitment, yet in this movie, the reverse is true. It is the men ? both men ? who want her to commit herself in love. They want love much earlier.”In the end, Hunter won the part, and she performed the musical sequences herself. Hit with audiences and critics alike, The Piano owed its success to Hunter. “Hunter is a revelation, magically expressive and startlingly beautiful,” Jack Kroll wrote of her performance in Newsweek. According to Anthony Lane, writing in the New Yorker, “Ada i s vastly self-possessed yet free of vanity, and Hunter rises to the challenge with terrifying compulsion: In one sharp close-up, she stares straight at you, and through you, and jerks you back in your seat.” Hunter won an Oscar for best actress for her per formance in The Piano and she was also named best actress at the Cannes Film Festival.26. What is the passage mainly about?A. It explains the reason why Hunter competed for the main character in The Piano.B. It informs the readers of the great success and honor brought to Holly Hunter.C. It gives a brief narration of Holly Hunter and the film she starred in.D. It talks about the plot and the characters of the film The Piano.27. Hunter’s great interest in the major role in the film lay in thatA. the plot of the film was quite extraordinary.B. she knew that her success in the role would bring great honor to her.C. she opposed traditional notions about sex.D. the character of the heroine was attractive to her.28. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Hunter was not famous until she played the role in The Piano.B. The Piano is the only successful film that Hunter has ever starred.C. The film was a success mainly because of Hunter’s performance.D. In Hunter’s eye, the heroine in the film didn’t actually understand love.29. What can be inferred from the passage about Ada, the heroine of the film?A. she didn’t love her husband much in the early stage of their marriage.B. her husband died before she moved to New Zealand.C. she was content to marry a man she had never met.D. she was a quite selfish wife at that time.30. What is the best title for the passage?A. Commitment of LoveB. Campion and the PianoC. A Gifted Character ActressD. Holly Hunter and the Piano(2)All the recent news on AIDs is bad. The death of Rock Rudson last year raised public concern about the epidemic almost to the point of panic. But that reaction subsided for a time as people were reassured about the reliability of new test for donated blood and the improbability of contracting the disease casually. Now general concern is focused not so much on personal risk since most cases continue to occur in the high-risk group of male homosexuals and drug addicts but on the growing realization that this disease is having a deep impact on our society in a number of ways.It is absorbing financial and other resources. AIDS patients require long-term care in hospitals and out-patient facilities, and the health care systems in such cities as New York and San Francisco are not prepared to handle the demand. Bellevue, a large and respected municipal hospital in New York, devotes one out of every four beds in its department of medicine to AIDS patients. Most are hospitalized for months, and few have any private insurance. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta estimates that hospital expenditures for the first 10,000 AIDS patients (There are now more than 16,000) were about $1.4 billion. The total economic cost to the nation of this group of cases is estimated to come to $6 billion in health care, disability and lost productivity.Private insurers were unprepared for the crisis since the invariably fatal disease hits primarily young people. Ninety percent of the victims are between 20 and 49 years old. It is becoming increasingly difficult for those in high-risk groups to get heath and life assurance, and in the absence of private coverage, public funds must be used. In addition, many of the victims are, for all practicalpurposes, homeless, rejected by disapproving or frightened friends and family, without employment, and in need of emotional and psychological support. It must be given.More important, there is bad news on the medical front. In spite of a stepped-up research program there is no sign of an imminent breakthrough to a cure. More than 8,000 American victims have already died; no one has recovered. The public has also learned that earlier assurances that only 5-10 percent of those who have been exposed to the virus will contract the disease were far too optimistic. Researchers have now raised that figure to at least a third. Estimates of expected future cases have, accordingly, been adjusted upward.A Bellevue doctor reflected the despair of those who deal with AIDS patients every day: “The cost is staggering, the grief is overwhelming, and there is no end in sight.” Yet these physicians and others continue to work and to hope. Others not directly involved can help by giving support to public funding for research, hospital and hospice care, and support services. A public resolve to provide care now and an eventual cure for those who suffer is the best response.31. The word “subside” in para.1 probably meansA. lessenB. sinkC. vanishD. settle32. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Senior citizens are more likely to contract AIDS compared with young people.B. Many AIDS victims suffer not only physically, but also emotionally and psychologically.C. People will refuse donated blood in the future because it is likely to contain AIDS virus.D. Doctors have lost their hope to see an eventual cure for the AIDS patients.33. By saying “the cost is staggering, the grief is overwhelming, and there is no end in sight”, theBellevue doctor suggests thatA. People in the country should donate more money to treat the AIDS patients.B. People who deal with AIDS patients every day feel desperate.C. Doctors and others have lost their hope in treating the AIDS patients.D. AIDS patients should still cherish hope even though the disease is hard to cure34. Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the passage?A. The American public are now mainly concerned with their own risk.B. Americans have realized that AIDS has a powerful impact on their society.C. Male homosexuals run a higher risk of catching AIDS.D. Drug addicts are more likely to contract AIDS.35. Which of the following best states the theme of the passageA. There is no good news on AIDS.B. The total economic cost for AIDS patients is staggering.C. Nationwide efforts must be made to find a cure for AIDS.D. AIDS has a deep impact on American society.(3)Although the United States cherishes the tradition that it is a nation of small towns and wide-open spaces, only one in every eight Americans now lives on a farm. The recent population trend has been a double one, toward both urbanization and suburbanization. Metropolitan areas have grown explosively in the past decade, and nearly half this increase has been in the suburbs. With the rapid growth of cities has come equally rapid decentralization. The flight of Americans from the central city to the suburbsconstitutes one of the greatest migrations of modern times. Quiet residential sections outside cities have become conglomerations of streets, split-level houses, and shopping centers.This spurt of suburban expansion, however, does not alter the basic fact that the United States has become one of the most urbanized nations on the face of the earth. Census Bureau figures show that the rural population has been shrinking steadily since 1830. When the United States became a nation it had no large cities at all; today some fifty cities have populations of more than 158,000. Mammoth complexes of cities are developing in the area of the East Coast and the east north-central states, on the Pacific and Gulf coasts and near the shores of the Great Lakes. Some sociologist now regard the entire 600-mile stretch between Boston and Washington, DC，an area holding a fif th of the country’s population as one vast city or, as they call it megalopolis.36. A traditional American belief is thatA. few people live on farms.B. the nation consists mainly of small towns and wide open spaces.C. the population of United States is not great in the world.D. the united States is a nation of big cities.37. The selection says that trends are towardA. the growth of cities and shrinking of small towns.B. the growth of both rural and suburban areas.C. the shrinking of both urban and suburban areas.D. the growth of urban and suburban areas.38. Decentralization is best defined asA. movement from the central city to rural areas.B. movement from the central cities to their suburbs.C. disorderly expansion of the central cities.D. Shrinking of metropolitan areas39. One aspect of the recent population trend isA. the rural. population decreases.B. the rural population increases..C. the urban population decreases.D. the whole population decreases.40. Megalo polis is the sociologist’s name forA. a suburban area around a cityB. large city and its suburbs.C. group of towns organized as a cityD. group of cities blending to form one huge city.VI. Detailed reading (3*5=15)Directions: Read the following passage and then answer the questions. Write your answer on the answer sheetGambling linked to good health in elderlyOlder recreational gamblers are even healthier than non-gamblers, according to a surprising Yale University study. The results are the opposite of what researchers expected, though the findings are not rock-solid. They are based only on telephone reviews.The survey showed that recreational gamblers65 and older reported being in better health than theirpeers who don’t gamble.The older gamblers also reported less alcoholism, depression, bankruptcy and imprisonment than younger recreational gamblers.But the social aspects of gambling —whether it’s slot machines(赌具)at a casino, poker games with friends or bingo at a church hall —may be an explanation for how the study turned out, Yale epidemiologist Rani Desai said."There’s this whole concept of healthy aging —that folks who continue to remain engaged in activity, especially in the community and in social activities, stay healthier longer, so I think this is a reflection of that. It’s not that gambling makes you healthy, it’s that gamblers are healthier," Desai said.41. What are the finding are based on?42. Do the findings have strong evidence(证据)?43. Who is in better health according to this passage?44. Do the older gamblers like drinking alcohol compared with the young gamblers?45. Does Desai think gambling makes people healthy according to this passage ?。