新世纪综合单元测试

新世纪综合单元测试——Unit 1 Book 1Listening ComprehensionSpot DictationDirections: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 numbered from 11-20 with the exact words you have just heard. When the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. (10 points)Studies have shown that American children who learn to read by the 11 are less likely to end up in prison, 12 school, or take drugs. Adults who read literature on a 13 basis are more likely to attend a 14 arts event, visit an art museum, do 15 or charity work, and participate in 16 activities. Literacy rates in the United States are also more highly correlated to 17 than IQ. Reading books is generally regarded as being a 18 pastime, while at the same time requiring the brain to 19 text so it can be stimulated. Because of this it is sometimes considered to cause at least a 20 increase in one's mental faculties.11.third grade 12.drop out of 13.regular 14.performing 15.volunteer 16.sporting 17.weekly earnings 18.relaxing 19.process 20. temporaryReading ComprehensionDirections: There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices. Click on the best choice. (20 points)Passage OneSign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that sign languages are unique — a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world's only liberal arts university for deaf people.When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the "hand talk" his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuinelanguage? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoe's idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).It is 37 years later. Stokoe — now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture — is having lunch at a café near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that sign languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff — it's brain stuff."21. The study of sign language is thought to be _______ .A. a new way to look at the learning of languageB. a challenge to traditional views on the nature of languageC. an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a languageD. an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language22. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by _______ .A. a famous scholar in the study of the human brainB. a leading specialist in the study of liberal artsC. an English teacher in a university for the deafD. some senior experts in American Sign Language23. According to Stokoe, sign language is _____ .A. a substandard languageB. a genuine languageC. an artificial languageD. an international language24. Most educators objected to Stokoe's idea because they thought _____ .A. sign language was not extensively used even by deaf peopleB. sign language was too artificial to be widely acceptedC. a language should be easy to use and understandD. a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds25. Stokoe's argument is based on his belief that _____ .A. sign language is as efficient as any other languageB. sign language is derived from natural languageC. language is a system of meaningful codesD. language is a product of the brainPassage TwoA great majority of our nine million college students are in school not because they want to be or because they want to learn. They are there because it has become the thing to do or because college is a pleasant place to be in; because it's the only way they can get parents or tax-payers to support them without working at a job they don't like; because mothers want them to do so, or for some other reason entirely not related to the course of studies for which college is supposedly organized. Some of the professors and administrators estimate that no more than 25 per cent of their students are interested in class work. For the rest, college is at best a social center or a place where time can be killed, and at worst a young people's home or even a prison that keeps them out of the way of economic life for a few more years.I no longer accept the idea that college is the best place for all high-school graduates. Just as the United States was the first nation to make great efforts to teach every small child to read and write, so during the 1950s, we became the first and the only great nation to offer higher education to all. During the 60's we built great state university systems as fast as we could. And adults — parents, employers, high school teachers began to push the youth to get an education. By 1970, colleges and universities were spending more than 30 billion dollars yearly. But still only half our high-school graduates were going on.Now the babies have graduated from college, the rate of growth of the student population has begun to increase. To keep their universities financially supported many institutions have begun to attract students by using whatever means they can. They sell college like soap, promoting features they think students want: creative programs, an environment helpful to meaningful personal relationships, and an education so free that it doesn't sound like college at all.26. The reason for most U. S. college students to go to school is NOT that ____.A. mothers want them to goB. college is a pleasant placeC. they want to continue their educationD. it's the only way to get financial support27. According to this passage, most of the college students _____.A. do not like to studyB. like to make friends at collegeC. find their universities as comfortable as their homesD. complain that a college is like a prison28. The U.S. became the first and the only nation to make efforts to offer higher education to all during the _____.A. 1960sB. 1950sC. 1970sD. none of these29. In order to get financial support, many institutions have begun to ______.A. sell soap to high-school graduatesB. spend more than 30 billion dollars yearlyC. make every effort to increase the student populationD. offer their students a large number of practical courses30. The best title for this passage might be _____.A. Crisis of U.S. UniversitiesB. U.S. Students TodayC. Why Do They Go to College?D. Higher Education in the United StatesVocabulary and StructureDirections: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence.(60 points)31. So I'm sure to get opportunities to display my talent in ____.A. additionB. bulletinC. advertisementD. message32. That fat woman looked ____ in her tight golden dress.A. naturalB. ridiculousC. normalD. reputable33. He knew it was useless to ____ with his father.A. provideB. resentC. upsetD. argue34. After the class, the coach gave ____ instruction to the newcomer.A. individualB. singleC. aloneD. one35. The explorers set up a ____ at the foot of the mountain.A. basisB. basicC. baseD. foundation36. He still smokes despite the ____ warnings of his doctor.A. continuousB. continualC. constantD. perpetual37. Too many people fail to realize that real ____ goes in both directions.A. associationB. commuterC. communityD. communication38. You must go there quickly ____ you will not be back in time.A. or soB. or elseC. as wellD. nor39. It's ____ learning the text by heart without understanding it.A. no useB. no doubtC. difficultyD. trouble40. This suggested that matter can be converted into energy, and ____.A. on the contraryB. vice versaC. in the oppositeD. each other41. The United Nations ____ formed in San Francisco in 1945.A. wereB. areC. wasD. is42. ____ wants to take part in this party may get the ticket.A. WhoeverB. WhoC. EverybodyD. Anybody43. I remember ____ for the job, but I have forgotten the exact amount.A. get paidB. that I receive payC. being paidD. to be paid44. There used to be some trees by the lake, ____?A. was thereB. weren't thereC. wasn't thereD. were there45. Charles regretted ____ the TV set last month. The price has now been raised.A. not to buyB. not buyC. buying notD. not buying46. He did poorly in his examinations ____ that he studied hard for them.A. consideredB. taken into accountC. consideringD. in view47. ____, we wouldn't have made so many mistakes.A. Because of your distractionB. Had we concentrated on our workC. With your distractionD. If we concentrated on our work48. Your advice that she ____ till next month is reasonable.A. waitB. will waitC. is going to waitD. waits49. Unless you go on ____ something else, you'll lose your efficiency.A. doingB. with doingC. to doD. for doing50. Some people strain the truth to make an ____ sound more thrilling.A. advantageB. adventureC. advanceD. advice51. Please ____ the mess in here before you go.A. clear outB. clear downC. clear inD. clear up52. He ____ from the bridge and rescued the drowning child.A. divedB. dividedC. diedD. divine53. Chinese handwriting has infinite power to express differences of ____ and cultivation.A. featureB. characteristicC. natureD. character54. If you have finished we can have a coffee — if not, you ____ keep working.A. would betterB. better toC. betterD. would better to55. ____ succeeding in career if your health runs down?A. What's the point atB. What's the point ofC. Is that the point ofD. Is there the point of56. I want to buy a sweater the same style ____ the one I am wearing.A. likeB. thanC. toD. as57. If someone deserts you when you are in trouble, he will not be ____.A. a friend of youB. yours friendC. a friend of yourD. a friend of yours58. — Come on, Mike. Here is your present.— OK, how nice of you! I ____ you ____ to bring me a present.A. hadn't thought; were goingB. never thought; were goingC. didn't think; were goingD. never think; are going59. From his muddy shoes I naturally ____ that he had been walking through the woods.A. drew the conclusionB. drew to a closeC. come to concludeD. brought to a conclusion60. So isolated ____ he ____ no one said a word in his favor.A. did ... whoB. did ... thatC. was ... whichD. was ... that。