大学英语A 3

 

一、阅读理解

1、    Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.

    During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you're "hot". That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, John! You'll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarreling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family including their kid has.

You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract (对抗) your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam and work better at your low point.

Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn (呵欠) and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

 

(1)、If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably       .

  A：he is a lazy person

  B：he is not sure when his energy is low

  C：he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

  D：he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening

答案： D

(2)、Which of the following may end family quarrels according to the passage?

  A：Awareness of family member's energy cycle.

  B：Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.

  C：Attempts to change family member's energy cycle.

  D：Familiar monologues.

答案： A

(3)、If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the morning, he should       .

  A：get to bed earlier

  B：get up earlier than usual

  C：overcome his laziness

  D：change his energy cycle

答案： B

(4)、You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will ______.

  A：help to keep your energy for the day's work

  B：keep your energy cycle under control all day

  C：enable you to concentrate on your routine work

  D：help you to control your temper early in the day

答案： A

(5)、Which of the following statement is NOT true?

  A：Children have energy cycles, too.

  B：Habit may help a person adapt to his own energy cycle.

  C：Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peaks at different hours of day.

  D：Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save one's energy.

答案： C

2、    The purpose of this part of the book is to help you become more efficient in reading by speeding up the process generally. Most people can learn to cover material much faster than they do now while maintaining a high level of comprehension.

    Improvement in reading efficiency has several major benefits. We need reading skills to benefit from the wealth of information that is now available in printed form. Most people get the rough outlines of their daily news from television and radio. However, the printed word still provides the in-depth coverage of topics that really produces well-informed people. Reading is also a great source of entertainment for many people. For students, it is the primary method of studying.

    The time you now spend reading can be made much more productive by increasing your reading rate. For some people this will mean that they can obtain more information in the same length of time. For others it will mean that time now devoted to reading can be used in other more interesting and profitable ways.

    To determine how fast you are reading, you first have to get some idea of the number of words in a given passage. Then you simply divide the number of words by the number of minutes it takes to read. That will give your rate in words per minute.

 

(1)、The passage is taken from        .

  A：a story book

  B：a news report

  C：a report on a scientific research

  D：a book on reading

答案： D

(2)、Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit from reading according to the passage?

  A：Reading will help readers get more information.

  B：By reading readers will have an in-depth coverage of daily news.

  C：Students must read so that they can master knowledge.

  D：Improvement of reading helps readers get outlines of daily news.

答案： D

(3)、This passage mainly discusses        .

  A：different kinds of reading

  B：the importance of improving reading skills and how to calculate reading rate

  C：reading as a source of entertainment

  D：different ways to improve reading speed

答案： B

(4)、"reading efficiency" in Paragraph 2 means        .

  A：the average reading rate

  B：the ability of reading fast with a good understanding

  C：reading materials readers like

  D：reading habits

答案： B

(5)、Reading speed can be calculated by        .

  A：counting how many words a reader has read

  B：dividing the total number of words a reader read by the time he spends on reading

  C：timing how many minutes a reader has read

  D：asking help from the teacher

答案： B

       

二、词汇与语法

1、I must admit I have a ________ for history.

  A：preference  

  B：reference    

  C：deference    

  D：conference

答案： A

2、Ten minutes earlier,             we could have caught the last train.

  A：or else       

  B：but     

  C：otherwise        

  D：and

答案： D

3、I haven't finished yet. I just need _______ ten minutes.

  A：another  

  B：other 

  C：the other 

  D：the others

答案： A

4、Rod is determined to get a seat for the concert ______ it means standing in a queue all night.

  A：as if           

  B：provided            

  C：even if        

  D：whatever

答案： C

5、At the end of 2004, there were around 6,000 foreign printing companies in China, ______ up around 4 percent of national total.

  A：made                 

  B：to make             

  C：making  

  D：having made

答案： C

6、You must speak slowly, so that you can make yourself ________.

  A：understood  

  B：being understood

  C：understanding                

  D：to be understood

答案： A

7、 I advise that she _______ another day.

  A：will come

  B：comes        

  C：came     

  D：should come

答案： D

8、I was very tired. Otherwise, I _________ to the theatre with you.

  A：had gone

  B：would go

  C：went        

  D：would have gone

答案： D

9、The ship took machines and other goods back to the port ________ it had set off.

  A：from which

  B：to which     

  C：which 

  D：in which

答案： A

10、Man has never ceased to search for cures for such ________ diseases as cancer and AIDS.

  A：dead

  B：dying

  C：death

  D：deadly

答案： D

       

三、完型填空

    People sometimes confuse acquaintances with friends. The two terms have something in common, but, as far as I'm concerned, there are more    1    between them. An acquaintance is one    2    name you know, who you probably have something in common with and who you feel comfortable around.    3    you don't share your life with most of them because you don't know enough about them.

    A friend, however, is    4    you love. Not that you are "in love" with them, but you    5    them and you think about them when they are not there. You feel    6    with them because you know they won't hurt you. You know that if you have a problem, they are there to listen.

    Friends are the people who prevent you    7    making mistakes and help you when you do. They are the people whose hand you can hold. You can hug or give them a kiss and don't make them feel nervous because they    8    the things you do and they love you for them. They stick with you and stand by you. They hold your hand. They wish you    9    a happy life.

    In a word, one's life can be the same without a(n)    10   . But if you lose a friend, you will feel something wrong with your life.

(1)、

  A：disadvantages

  B：advantages

  C：differences

  D：similarities

答案： C

(2)、

  A：whose

  B：who

  C：that

  D：which

答案： A

(3)、

  A：Because

  B：So

  C：Even if

  D：But

答案： D

(4)、

  A：everyone

  B：anyone

  C：someone

  D：nobody

答案： C

(5)、

  A：look into

  B：pick up

  C：care for

  D：turn down

答案： C

(6)、

  A：funny

  B：safe

  C：satisfied

  D：scared

答案： B

(7)、

  A：to

  B：from

  C：in

  D：at

答案： B

(8)、

  A：wonder

  B：dislike

  C：admire

  D：understand

答案： D

(9)、

  A：to live

  B：live

  C：living

  D：lived

答案： A

(10)、

  A：enemy

  B：friend

  C：acquaintance

  D：family

答案： C

        

四、汉译英

(1)、为了你的健康，你不该总是加班。

(2)、你能帮我安装一下这个软件吗？（set up）

(3)、听到这个消息，没有一个人不感到兴奋。

(4)、任何人如果停止汲取新知识，就肯定会落后。

       

五、写作

Nowadays water crisis has become a problem worldwide. People cannot have adequate clean drinking water. Write an essay on the topic "How to Deal with Water Crisis". You should base your essay on the outline below.

1.水资源危机是一个世界性问题，多年来全世界各部门以及各国政府做出了许多努力，解决水危机问题。

2.同时水源浪费现象很严重。

3.你认为有效的节水措施该有哪些？