南京信息工程大学语言文化学院英语系试卷B综合英语3课程试卷( B卷)参考答案及评分标准

南京信息工程大学

2008─2009学年第1 学期

综合英语3 课程试卷(B卷)

注意：1、本试卷共9页；2、考试时间120分钟；出卷时间：20XX年12月

3、姓名、学号等必须写在指定地方；

4、本考卷适用专业年级：英语（本）20XX级任课教师：沈广湫、姜萍，张玉环

学号姓名

Task One Spelling (10%)

In this section, you are required to spell the word according to its English definitions and its first letter. Please write down your words on the ANSWER BOOKLET.

1. a________ a signature of a famous person

2. e_________ to illegally force someone to give you something, especially money, by threatening them

3. i_________ rude and not respectful, especially to someone who is older or more important

4. a________ something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and

offering the possibility of choice

5. a__________ to obtain something

6. o_________ ideas, methods, or behavior are accepted by most people to be correct and right

7. n_________ (especially of ideas) unclear and lacking form

8. i_______ impossible to change

9. v_________ almost entirely

10.a_________ lacking individuality, distinction, or recognizability

Task Two Translation (10%)

Translate the following sentences into English with the given words or phrases. Please write your translation on the ANSWER BOOKLET.

1. 毕业后，她先是做老师，然后当了校长。（to start with）

2.他请人把东西用一块蓝布包好，装进箱子里。(wrap)

3.她获得了年度最佳女演员奖，大家都觉得她当之无愧。（deserve）

4.他们的争吵源于一个小小的笑话。(arise out of)

5.老师对他们说，未来怎么样全看个人所受的教育。(hinge on)

Task Three: Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. Please write your translation on the ANSWER BOOKLET.(10%)

No one remembers Branwell’s name, much less his art or literature, but Bronte sister’s tragically shot lives teach us even more of life than of literature. Their sacrificed genius cries out to us that in modern society we must value children not by their physical strength or sexual gender, as we would any mere beast of burden, but by their integrity, strength, commitment, courage—spiritual qualities

abundant in both boys and girls. Patrick Bronte fathered Branwell, but more importantly, he fathered Anne, Emily and Charlotte. Were he alive today he would surely urge us to put away our passéprejudices and avoid his own tragic and irrevocable error of putting all of his eggs in one male basket! Task Four Vocabulary and Grammar (20%)

There are 20 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.Please mark your choice on the ANSWER BOOKLET.

1.If Adam hadn’t been at home, he _______ come and fetch them in his car.

A. hadn’t been able to

B. wouldn’t hav e been able to

C. haven’t been able to

D. wasn’t able to

2. In a bank you usually have a current account, which is the one where you put your salary and then _______ money to pay your everyday bills.

A. withdraw B overdraw C. draw D. deposit

3. We asked the man of a Music Kiosk if there were traditional Russian songs such as An Evening in the Suburbs of Moscow, and he seemed confused. So we sang the melody to ___________.

A. rack his brains

B. cross his mind

C. jog his memory

D. bear in mind

4. The factory operated __________ until the order was filled.

A. at times

B. to the minute

C. day by day

D. around the clock

5. Excuse me, but it is time to have your temperature __________.

A. take

B. taking

C. to take

D. taken

6. The drunkard was found _______ under the bench in the park.

A. to lie dead

B. lying dead

C. lie dead

D. lying died

7. In order not to be heard, the woman ________ that someone was moving about in the bush.

A. screamed

B. shouted

C. spoke

D. whispered

8. As the train will not leave until one hour later, we _______ grab a bite at the snack bar.

A. may well

B. just as well

C. might as well

D. as well

9. The defendant was finally found ______ of the charge.

A. ignorant

B. innocent

C. free

D. accused

10. He climbed up into the tree and picked all the fruit _______ reach.

A. at

B. near

C. within

D. beyond

11. It’s no good _____ him. He is always indifferent towards others’ matters.

A. turning to

B. turning into

C. to turn to

D. to turn into

12. It was the driver’s _______ that cause him to step on the gas instead of the brake after his car went over the curb.

A. fraud

B. alarm

C. terror

D. panic

13. It is an important______ of the company to promote its new products.

A. toil

B. task

C. labor

D. work

14. Looking from the village bridge, you will see that the green field______ as far as those trees down

there.

A. spreads

B. grows

C. expands

D. stretches

15. It wasn’t such a good dinner _______she hadpromised us.

A. that

B. which

C. as

D. what

16. _______ drills that have no real topic have to remain as they are.

A. Manufacture

B. Manipulative

C. Manipulate

D. Manifest

17. In Transforming Mars, the recommended program______ five stages.

A. falls into

B. falls for

C. falls down

D. falls in

18. The audience waited in ______ silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.

A. respective

B. respect

C. respectful

D. respectable

19. Young people are not ________ to stand andlook at works of art; they want art they canparticipate in.

A. conservative

B. content

C. confident

D. generous

20. They found the lecture hard ______.

A. to understand

B. for understanding

C. to have understood

D. understand

Task Five Reading Comprehension (20%)

In this section there are four passages followed by 20 questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer or complete the statement. Please mark your choice on the ANSWER BOOKLET.

Passage One

Digital image scans are often more detailed than those taken by digital cameras: even a low-end film scanner, with resolution of only 1800 dots per inch (also stated as pixels per inch), turns 35-millimeter film into digital images of about five megapixels, more resolution than most amateur digital cameras provide. Scanners that resolve 4 000 d.p.i. or more have higher resolution than even professional digital single-lens-reflex cameras.

That is a mixed blessing: the more detailed the scan, the slower. And stored in the high-quality TIFF format, digital image files at 4 000 d.p.i. can take more than 130 megabytes of computer disk space; TIFF files from eight-megapixel digital cameras take up less than 30 megabytes.

Big files also take a long time to load, and editing them requires a lot of computer memory. But as with a digital camera, there is no need to use the highest-quality settings for every photo, just for the ones you hope to enlarge a lot or crop until one face in the crowd becomes a portrait.

For less demanding shots, you can save file space by reducing the scanner's resolution and other settings, and saving files as compressed JPEG's rather than as TIFF'S. At 1 800 d.p;i., a TIFF image takes up only about a fifth as much space as at 4 000 d.p.i. Saving the image as a JPEG file, which compresses files by discarding the least conspicuous picture details, can reduce file size by one-third to more than 90 percent, depending on the level of compression you select. These changes will usually be undetectable on a computer monitor and on prints up to 8 by 10 inches.

Perhaps because of the precision needed, film scanning is not a rapid process, and the higher your quality standards, the longer it takes. Higher resolution, greater color depth and large file sizes slow the process. So do some of the corrective features in scanners or their software.

1. According to the passage, digital image scans__________.

A. have higher resolution than professional digital single-lens-reflex cameras

B. have resolutions ranging between 1 800 d.p.i. and 4 000 d.p.i.

C. can turn images into films

D. resolve better than most amateur digital cameras

2. The fact that digital image Hies at 4 000 d.p.i. stored in the high-quality tiff formatoccupy 130 megabytes of computer disk space indicates___________.

A. an advantage of the scans

B. the precision of scanned images

C. a disadvantage of the scans

D. a blessing of the scans

3. If you save scanned files in the JPEG format, __________.

A. you can reduce file size by one-third at most

B. the details discarded will not be detected

C. the prints usually make no difference

D. you can compress the file size you want

4. Which of the following is true?

A. Scans use the TIFF file format to save bigger images.

B. Scans use the JPEG file format to save smaller images.

C. The more precise a picture is, the more space it needs on the computer disc.

D. Computer monitors cannot distinguish between compressed files and uncompressed files.

5. The above passage mainly discusses__________.

A. the benefits of digital cameras

B. the weaknesses of scans

C. relation between precision and speed for scans

D. ways to achieve more detailed images with scans

Passage Two

Americans are proud of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general, why are forms so popular in the United States?

Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more professional than civilian clothes. People have become conditioned to expect superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform tends to inspire more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to lose professional identity than to step out of uniform?

Uniforms also have many practical benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible. They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.

Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent loss of individuality experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms, the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without change, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.

Uniforms also give rise to some practical problems. Though they are long-lasting, often their initial expense is greater than the cost of civilian clothes. Some uniforms are also expensive to maintain, requiring cleaning rather than the home laundering possible with many types of civilian clothes.

6. It is surprising that Americans who worship variety and individuality_______.

A. still judge a man by his clothes

B. hold the uniform in such high regard

C. enjoy having a professional identity

D. respect an elevator operator as much as a general in uniform

7. People are accustomed to think that a man in uniform_______.

A. suggests quality work

B. discards his social identity

C. appears to be more practical

D. looks superior to a person in civilian clothes

8. The chief function of a uniform is to_______.

A. provide practical benefits to the wearer

B. make the wearer catch the public eye

C. inspire the wearer's confidence in himself

D. provide the wearer with a professional identity

9. According to Paragraph 4, people wearing uniforms_______.

A. are usually helpful

B. have little or no individual freedom

C. tend to lose their individuality

D. enjoy greater popularity

10. The best title for this passage would be_______.

A. Uniforms and Society

B. The Importance of Wearing a Uniform

C. Practical Benefits of Wearing a Uniform

D. Advantages and Disadvantages of Uniforms Passage Three

RobertSpring, a 19th century forger, was so good at his profession that he was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of famous Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he prospered by selling his small but genuine collection of early U.S. autographs. Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection, he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale and circulation.

Forgers have a hard time selling their pr oducts. A forger can’t approach a respectable buyer but must deal with people who do not have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example, they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title pages, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals.

In Spring’s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the southern states, so Spring invented a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson. For several years Miss Fanny’s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts belonging to her famous father. Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.

11. Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada?

A. There was a greater demand than in America.

B. There was less chance of being detected there.

C. Britain was Spring’s birthplace.

D. The prices were higher in England and Canada.

12. After the Civil War, there was a great demand in Britain for __________.

A. southern money

B. southern manuscripts and letters

C. signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin

D. Civil War battle plans

13. RobertSpring spent 15 years __________.

A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia

B. as a forger

C. corresponding with Miss Fanny Jackson

D. as a respectable dealer

14. According to the passage, forgeries are usually sold to __________.

A. sharp-eyed experts

B. book dealers

C. persons who aren’t experts

D. owners of old books

15. Who was Miss Fanny Jackson?

A. The only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson.

B. A little-known girl who sold her father’s papers to RobertSpring.

C. RobertSpring’s daughter.

D. An imaginary person created by Spring.

Passage Four

It is observed that some children are backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the cues and signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to mop up language rapidly. There are critical times, it seems, when children learn more readily. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.

Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.

Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about Man's brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy-bear with the sound pattern "teddy-bear". And even more incredible is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the hubbub of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in novel ways.

But speech has to be triggered, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the cues and signals in the child's babbling, clinging, grasping, crying, smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child's non-verbal cues is essential to the growth and development of language.

16. The reason some children are backward in speaking is that_______.

A. they do not listen carefully to their mothers

B. their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them

C. their brains have to absorb too much language at once

D. their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak

17. The phrase "mop up" (Line 2, Paragraph. 1) most probably means "_____".

A. develop

B. understand C absorb D. analyze

18. According to the passage, "critical times" (Line 3, Paragraph. 1) refers to "______".

A. difficult periods in the child's life

B. important stages in the child's development

C. times when mothers often neglect their children

D. moments when the child becomes critical towards its mother

19. Which of the following is implied in the passage?

A. The child's brain is highly selective.

B. Children who start speaking late are usually very clever.

C. Children do not need to be encouraged to speak.

D. By the age of four children still make many grammatical mistakes.

20. What will happen if the mother does not respond to her child's signals?

A. The child will stop giving out signals.

B. The child will make less effort to speak.

C. The child will invent a language of its own.

D. The child will never be able to speak properly.

Task Six Cloze (10%)

There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D beneath the passage. You should choose the one answer that best fits in to the passage.Please Mark your choice on the ANSWER BOOKLET.

Most children with healthy appetites are ready to eat almost anything that is offered them and a child rarely dislikes food 1 it is badly cooked. The way a meal is cooked and served is most important and an 2 served meal will often improve a child’s appetite. Never ask a child whether he likes or dislikes a food and never 3 likes and dislikes in front of him or allow anybody else to do so. If the father says he hates fat meat or the mother 4 vegetables in the child’s hearing he is 5 to copy this procedure. Take it for granted that he likes everything and he probably will. Nothing healthful should be omitted from the meal because of a 6 dislike. At meal times it is a good custom to give a child a small portion and let him come back for a second helping rather than give him as 7 as he is likely to eat all at once. Do not talk too much to the child during meal times, but let him get on with his food, and do not allow him to leave the table immediately after a meal or he will 8 learn to swallow his food so he can hurry back to his toys. Under 9 circumstances must a child be coaxed 10 forced to eat.

1. A. if B. until C. that D. Unless

2. A. adequately B. attractively C. urgently D. eagerly

3. A. remark B. tell C. discuss D. argue

4. A. opposes B. denies C. refuses D. offends

5. A. willing B. possible C. obliged D. likely

6. A. supposed B. proved C. considered D. related

7. A. much B. little C. few D. many

8. A. hurriedly B. soon C. fast D. slowly

9. A. some B. any C. such D. no

10. A. or B. nor C. but D. neither

Task Seven Writing (20%)

Write on the ANSWER BOOKLET a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

What College Means to Us

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of mark.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

南京信息工程大学语言文化学院英语系

2008 ─2009 学年第1 学期

综合英语3课程试卷(B卷)参考答案及评分标准

Task One Spelling (5%) (5% 0.5 points for each 10 items)

Task Two C-E Translation (10% 2 points for each 5 items)

1. After graduation, she became a teacher to start with, then the headmaster of a school.

2. He had his things wrapped in a piece of blue cloth and put into the suitcase.

3. Everybody thinks that she deserved the award Best Actress of the Year.

4. Their argument arose out of a small joke.

5. The teacher told his students that their future prospects hinged on their education.

每个单句2分；要求必须使用划线短语翻译，未使用或使用错误，扣1分；其它每个错点（包括单词拼写、语法和标点符号错误等）扣0.25分，单句扣完为止。

Task Three E-C Translation (10%)

现在，无人记得布兰韦尔的名字。更不用说他的艺术或文学了。然而从勃朗特三姐妹悲剧性的夭折中，我们学到的不仅是文学，更重要的是生命的真谛。她们牺牲了的天分向我们大声疾呼：在现代社会，我们不能像评价驮畜那样，仅仅以体力和性别来评估自己的子女了；而必须就正直、能力、责任心、勇气等男女孩子都具有的精神品质来评价他们。帕特利克·勃朗特养育了布兰韦尔，但更重要的是，他养育了安妮、艾米莉和夏洛蒂。倘若此人仍活着的话，他一定会迫切敦促我们抛弃陈旧的偏见，以免使他自己的悲剧和抱憾终生的过失重演：将一切希望都押在一个男性后裔身上。

每题1分，任何错误均不能得分

每题0.5分，任何错误均不能得分

Task Five: Writing (15%)

(1)本题满分为15分

(2)成绩共分五档：15~13；12~10；9~7；6~4；3~0。

(3)具体评分标准如下：

COMPOSITION MARKING SCHEME