新视野大学英语四级期末考试试卷(A)考生注意：本试卷满分100分，考试时间120分钟Directions: Choose the best answer toeach question and write down the answer on your ANSWER SHEET.21. He always prefers to start early rather than ____everything to the last minute.A. leaveB. leavingC. leavesD. left22. If you think you can do my job better than I can, you are welcome to ______.A. take it overB. take it offC. take it downD. take it in23. It was ______ that he didn't go to the party.A. because he was illB. he was illC. his illnessD. because his illness24. Can you ________ furnishing your house luxuriously at a time when the company is losing so much money?A. verifyB. identifyC. justifyD. clarify25. His health _____ as he ate too little and worked too hard for months on end.A. broke upB. broke throughC. broke downD. broke off26. ______ for your laziness, you could have finished the assignment by now.A. Had it not beenB. Weren't itC. It were notD. Had not it been27. After the meeting the workers went back to their _____ workshops.A. respectableB. respectiveC. respectfulD. respected28. I don't think his remarks are relevant _____ our discussion.A. toB. atC. forD. with29. Hardly ____ time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country.A. he hadB. he had hadC. had he hadD. had he30. Petrol is refined from the ______ oil we take out of the ground.A. crudeB. rudeC. freshD. original31. All flights ____ because of the terrible weather, they had to go there by train.A. having been canceledB. having canceledC. had been canceledD. were canceled32. The government is believed to be considering _____ a law making it a crime to import any kind ofweapon.A. to passB. have passesⅡ. Vocabulary (20%)装订线姓名：学院：专业；学号：任课教师：2C. passedD. passing33. He has been ________ of murdering the Japanese visitor.A. blamedB. chargedC. accusedD. arrested34. Investigators agreed that passengers on the airliner ______ at the very moment of the crash.A. should have diedB. must have diedC. must be dyingD. ought to die35. The twentieth century has witnessed an enormous worldwide political, economic and cultural________.A. traditionB. transmissionC. transportationD. transformation36. There is no _______ to the house from the main road.A. accessB. exposureC. avenueD. edge37. _______ in his reading that Susan hadn't dared to make a sound.A. So was he absorbedB. So absorbed he wasC. So absorbed was heD. So he was absorbed38. They are well ________ with each other since they once studied in the same university.A. acquaintedB. recognizedC. acknowledgedD. identified39. The government is determined to _____ the established policy of developing agriculture.A. go afterB. go byC. go aheadD. go on40. Things might have been much worse if the mother _______ on her right to keep the baby.A. has been insistingB. would insistC. had insistedD. insistedDirections:Read the following passages carefully and choose the best to each question and write down your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Passage 1The term "culture shock" has already begun to creep into the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that involvement in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger.The culture shock phenomenon causes a breakdown in communication, a misreading of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious malady （弊病）, future shock. Future shock is brought on by the premature (提前的) arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow.Ⅲ. Reading comprehension. (30%)Take an individual out of his own culture and set him down suddenly in an environment sharply different from his own, with a different set of clues to different conceptions of time, space, work, love, religion, sex,−react to and everything else, then the dislocation he suffers will be severe. Given few clues as to what kind of behavior is rational(合理的) under the radically new circumstances, the victim may well become a danger to himself and others.Now imagine not merely an individual but an entire society, an entire including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational−generation suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass−members disorientation (迷失方向), future shock on a grand scale.This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching（把... 淹没）upon our heads and most people are unprepared to cope with it.41. Culture shock occurs when ________.A. one loses all hopes of returning to his home environmentB. one expresses ideas and emotions contrary to what he intends to expressC. one cannot make accurate judgment using one's own value standardsD. one cannot conduct negotiations for goods of fixed prices42. Future shock is much more serious than culture shock as ________.A. it concerns the problems of the futureB. it affects people on a grand scaleC. it causes mass casualtiesD. it destroys the foundation of the society43. The word 'clue' in Paragraph 3 most probably refers to something that ____.A. disorients an individualB. disturbs an individual's normal way of lifeC. helps an individual to function in societyD. arouses an individual's interest in the new culture44. One of the good measures to prevent future shock is to ________.A. get people well-prepared for the future changesB. keep people well-informed of the cultures in different placesC. make people fight against the possible future changesD. acquaint people with the harm of the future changes45. It can be inferred that the author's tone in the passage is ________.A. humorousB. exaggeratedC. ironicD. seriousPassage 2Young people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special programme in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village.3Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or painting. Others sit around and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to spend his free time.When people live together, rules are necessary. In this programme the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”One of the teenagers has this to say about th e experience: “You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”46. In one special programme in New York State, young and older people ____.A. are friendly to one anotherB. teach one another new ways of building housesC. do not work togetherD. spent eight weeks together, working as farmers47. All the members work some time every day mainly to _______.A. lead a busy lifeB. learn new skills of farmingC. get used to life on the farmD. find value and pleasure in work48. Living together, _______.A. the teenagers have to obey the rules the adults madeB. the members don’t have to obey rulesC. the members are not allowed to break the rules they make togetherD. the members have no free time except on weekends49. What happens if someone breaks a rule?A. They talk about the person who has broken the rule.B. They discuss the problem in the whole group.C. They blame the person who has broken the rule.D. They ask a lot of questions.50. The last paragraph shows that the teenager thinks his experience in the programme is _______.A. disappointingB. helpfulC. tiringD. unpleasantPassage 3During the first half of the nineteenth century much thought was given to building the Panama （巴拿马）Canal. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought an increased demand for a transportation link across Panama. A railroad line was completed after six years of hard labor in the swamps (沼泽) and jungles. Over two thousand workmen died from yellow fever and malaria (疟疾). In 1881 a French organization tried to build a canal across the Isthmus（巴拿马地峡）. For eleven years workmen struggled against heat and disease. At least 15,000 died before the French gave up their attempts to build the canal. For years the abandoned machinery lay in the jungles. At the close of the Spanish-American War the United States bought a strip of land ten miles wide across the Isthmus.4Immediate attention was given to the control of diseases. In two years yellow fever was completely eliminated（消除）. Because of the work of American medical heroes, it was possible to build the splendid Panama Canal.51. Prior to(在…之前) the successful completion of the Panama Canal, ________.A. France bought a strip of land across the Isthmus of PanamaB. Malaria was wiped out as a killer diseaseC. one country failed in its attempts to build a canalD. American doctors were honored for their work52. The building of the Panama Canal represents ________.A. man's unyielding desire for progressB. man's unceasing thirst for dangerC. man's ability to resist diseaseD. man's spirit of invention53. What was given priority by the United States?A. Buying a strip of landB. Starting building the canal immediatelyC. The prevention of illnessD. The Spanish-American War54. The author writes this article according to ________.A. order of importanceB. space orderC. simple listingD. time order55. What is the main idea of the passage?A. The elimination of yellow fever.B. The discovery of gold in California.C. The efforts recorded in the building of the Panama Canal.D. The work of American medical heroesPassage 4In the primary school, a child is in a comparatively simple setting and most of the time forms a relationship with one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school, a new world opens up and frequently it is a much more difficult world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils. He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways of the primary school, for he senses the need for a more cautious approach in the secondary school where there are older pupils. Secondary staff and pupils suffer from the pressures of academic work and seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers with specialist roles may see hundreds of children in a week, and a pupil may be able to form relationships with very few of the staff. He has to decide which adults are approachable; good schools will make clear to every young person from the first year what guidance and personal help is available —but whether the reality of life in the institution actually encourages requests for help is another matter.Adults often forget what a confusing picture school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal of movement, a great number of people — often rather frightening-looking people — and realizes that an increasing number of choices and decisions have to be made. As he progresses through the school5the confusion may become less but the choices and decisions required will increase. The school will rightly expect the pupil to take the first steps to obtain the help he needs, for this is the pattern of adult life for which he has to be prepared, but all the time the opportunities for personal and group advice must be presented in a way which makes them easy to understand and within easy reach of pupils.56. According to the passage one of the problems for pupils entering secondary schools is that________.A. they are taught by many different teachersB. they do not attend lessons in every subjectC. the teachers are not so friendly and helpfulD. the teachers give most attention to a few pupils57. In secondary schools every pupil having problems should ________.A. know how to ask for helpB. go to ask any teacher he can findC. discuss his problem in classD. turn to his parents for help58. It can be inferred from the passage that the author is mainly concerned about ________.A. academic standardsB. the role of specialist teachersC. the training of the individual teachersD. the personal development of pupils59. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. All the secondary schools know the way to encourage students' requests for help.B. The secondary schools are responsible for offering personal and group advice to new pupils.C. Secondary school pupils enjoy greater freedom in communicating with teachers and fellowpupils.D. Secondary school pupils can easily get the help they need.60. The most appropriate title for the passage would be ________.A. Primary School and Secondary SchoolB. Problems for New Secondary School TeachersC. Problems for New Secondary School PupilsD. Academic Work and Personal Relationship67新视野大学英语四级期末考试试卷(A)考生注意：本试卷满分100分，考试时间120分钟（试卷二）61. 别为这点小事大惊小怪的，这可是我最不愿看到的。