试卷代号：7142 8079 座位号青岛广播电视大学2006—2007学年度第一学期大学英语(1)试题(非英语专业)2007年1月I. Vocabulary and Structure: choose the best answer.(20%)1. If you want to ______ that you get the diploma, you have to work harder and take all thesecurricula and pass them.A. insureB. assureC. ensureD. secure2. The picture ____ the days when I spent my childhood in the countryside.A. remindedB. recollectedC. rememberedD. recalled3. Mr. Smith had an unusual ____: he was first an office clerk, then a sailor, and ended up as a school teacher.A. professionB. occupationC. positionD. career4. People could hardly ____ their anger when they found millions of dollars of public funds had been used to build luxurious houses for city officials.A. hold backB. draw backC. keep backD. hold up5. I believe they are the most _______ people we have in China.A. hopefulB. likelyC. prospectiveD. promising6．A good student is eager to learn and does not need to be ________ about being absent too much.A. questionedB. askedC. warnedD. persuade7．Women, ___________ men, have the right to work.A. as soon asB. as long asC. as far asD. as well as8．The shirt is ________ for you to wear.A. too tighterB. too tightC. so tightD. much tighter9．All of you can master English within two years ________ you d on’t want to.A. ifB. untilC. asD. unless10．Y ou should take complete __________ for the accident.A. controlB. objectionC. businessD. responsibility11．He suddenly remembered that his school bag ________ at home.A. has been forgottenB. had been forgottenC. has been leftD. had been left12．The bell ________ the end of class rang, interrupting our heated discussion.A. indicatingB. indicatesC. indicateD. indicated13. Here are some toys. Y ou can ______ one or two for your little son as a birthday gift from me.A. make outB. pick outC. work outD. take out大学英语(1)试题第1页(共8页) 14. Hardly had he finished his speech _________ the audience started cheering.A. whenB. andC. thanD. as15. Students are expected to __________ their classes regularly.A. presentB. performC. attendD. follow16. Billy never dreams of _________ for him to travel abroad.A. there to be chanceB. there being a chanceC. there is a chanceD. being a chance17. The twin brothers were so much alike that even their own parents ________ one ________ the other sometimes.A. mistook … forB. longed … forC. took … overD. named … after18. When she heard that her husband had died in an accident, she broke into ______.A. cryB. shockC. painD. tears19. For my part, I have not the slightest doubt ________ he is an honest man.A. ifB. thatC. whetherD. what20. They found a dying old man _______ on the ground when the door was broken open.A. laidB. liedC. lyingD. lainII. Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases given below. Change the forms where necessary.(20%)succeed keep up with acquire injure in honour of reject gratefulappreciate there is no way entire keep one’s balance use up delaycontent straight away quit attend burn out execute pass away1.We often hear it said that the best way to _________ a foreign language is to live in the countrywhere it is spoken.2.Y ou have to work hard if you want to _________ in your courses.3.Everything is developing so quickly in today’s world that I am afraid I can’t __________ all thechanges.4.Why did you _________ the job offer? Y ou will never find a better job.5.My finger was __________ when I tried to collect the broken glass by hand.6.The students are planning a big party _____________ their retiring teacher.7.She married again after her husband’s death because ____________ she could send all herchildren to school.8.I am ____________ to my parents for all that they have done for me.9.We deeply ___________ your kindness and thoughtfulness.10.Of course she is our landlord; she owns the __________ building.11.Don’t worry if you ___________ the shampoo ----- I’m going shopping tomorrow.12.The little girl had to hold onto the railing to _________________.13.If you are not __________ with the way the computer operates, bring it back and we will look atit again.14.Because of some problems with the engine, there will be a _________ of ten minutes before theplane takes off.15. Time is running out. We’d better start work ______________.16.A friend of mine has recently decided to ________ his highly-paid but demanding job in an大学英语(1)试题第2页(共8页)密封线内不要答题American company.17.After the fire the factory was completely ____________.18.The doctor tried to __________ the worst injured soldiers first.19.They were married 74 years when his wife _________ at the age of 92.20.The man asked for forgiveness before he was __________ for murder.III. T ranslate the sentences into English.（15%）(注意：高职学生做1—5题，普专学生做4—8题，否则答题无效)1. My friend told me __________ long ago, but I have forgotten it now. (如何玩这个游戏)2. The peace talks between the two enemy countries began ______________. (1961年6月28日在第三方国家)3. _____________, the more likely you are to win the race. (你跑的越快)4. We didn’t consider him for the job, __________________________ but because he didn’t do well in the test. (不是因为他没有经验)5. This book is _________________. (和我上星期读的那本一样有趣)6. His body was shaking. It was ____________. (好像她经历了什么可怕的事情)7.这是我听到过的最动听的音乐. (beautiful)8.如果我是你,我肯定会接受这份工作.IV. Reading Comprehension.（30%）(注意：高职学生做A,B,C题，普专学生做A,C,D题，否则答题无效)ANoah Webster was born in Connecticut. He lived during the time of George Washington. He attended law school for a while, then he went home and found that his family needed help. He took a job teaching school to earn money to support them.The school was very poor and as the teacher, he had to do everything. He had to clean and repair the building as well as teach. But he wanted to set a good example for his students, so he did every task well.Later, he decided to write a spelling book and a grammar book. He went from town to town in many states showing people his books. He called them “American books for American children”.Over the years, he found that the people in America spoke many languages and they could not understand each other. He thought the re needed to be one language, a “mother tougue”, so that people could understand each other and work together. He decided to make a dictionary for the people.He changed some of the spellings of words. He changed words such as “musick” to “music”,“centre”to “center”, and “plough” to “plow”. He wanted to change “tougue” to “tung” and “women” to “wimmen”, but people didn’t want to make the changes, so he kept the old spellings of those words.When he started working on his dictionary, he wanted everything in it to be right. He spent more than 20 years and tousands of dollars finding out where the words first appeared and how we came to use them. He looked in libraries in England, France and the United States and did all the work himself.When the dictionary was finished, it had 70,000 English words in it. He called it “an American Dictionary of the English Language.”1. When Noah Webster taught in a school, he also cleaned and repaired the school building because大学英语(1)试题第3页（共8页）______________.A.the school asked him to do soB.he could earn more money to support his familyC.he wanted to work in a clean environmentD.he wanted to set a good example for the students2. Why did Webster decide to make a dictionary?A.Because he had already written a spelling book and a grammar bookB.Because he felt his students needed one in their studyC.Because he thought America should have its own dictionaryD.Because he wanted to help people understand each other3. From the examples in Para. 5, we learn that Webster wanted to change the spelling of some words so as to __________________.A.make the words shorter and easier to writeB.match the spellings with the pronunciation of the wordsC.help people understand the words betterD.create an American dictionary of the English language.4. Which of the following spelling did Webster NOT change?A. WomenB. CentreC. PloughD. Musick5. Webster spent more than 20 years and thousands of dollars in order to ___________.A.collect more English wordsB.attract more people to use his dictionaryC.make everything in his dictionary right.D.Change the spelling of the wordsBAgriculturists believe amaranth(苋属植物) is the most promising crop to come along in the near future. It has been discovered that amaranth is a highly nutritious food. It has something that is missing in wheat and rice. Amaranth can be made into flour and many other foods. Bread made from amaranth is heavy and very compact compared with the light and airy bread common in Noth America.It is true that breeding a wild plant into a major food crop such as wheat requires much research time. Agriculturists know that it has taken hundreds of years of breeding different kinds of wheat to get the kinds we have today. At present, there are several problems in growing amaranth as a crop. Because it is a wild plant, it is hard to know the date when the crop will be ready to be harvested. It is impossible to know the height of the plants or the yield of a given amount of seed. It is important to breed a plant of the same height and one that can be harvested at a certain time each year.Some agriculturists feel that selling the amaranth crop may not be easy. Wheat is still the major crop needed by most countries. There are many questions about amaranth planting. How much will it cost to grow and harvest amaranth? Does the crop require special equipment to harvest it? Will a new crop be accepted by people who are used to eating other crops? It will be some time before we have answers to all these questions.大学英语(1)试题第4页（共8页）Amaranth may be the kind of crop that poorer countries need to feed hungry people. It can grow in many environments and in areas unable to support other crops.1. Agriculturists believe amaranth is a promising crop in the future because _________.A. it is tasted goodB. it is very nutritiousC. it doesn’t require much research timeD. it is a wild plant2. Amaranth ___________________.A.has something that is missing in other cropsB.can be made into light airy breadC.can be harvested many times a yearD.has a higher yield than other crops3. One of the problems in growing amaranth as a crop is that ________.A.the plant is not of the same heightB.it is unknown whether the plant will be harvested or notC.amaranth does not have many kindsD.it is impossible to know the yield of a given amount of seed4. Agriculturists have begun to think about all the following questions except _______.A.how much it costs to grow and harvest amaranthB.whether amaranth requires special equipment to harvest itC.whether amaranth can be planted in most countriesD.whether amaranth will be accepted by people5. Amaranth may be the kind of crop that poorer countries need because __________.A.it grows very fastB.it grows in areas unable to support other cropsC.it takes less money to plant amaranth than other cropsD.it can be made into many kinds of foodCSince we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human conditions is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with life changes and daily hassles. People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health likely.Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational 大学英语(1)试题第5页（共8页）support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrume ntal support ― financial aid, material resources and needed services — that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.1. Interpersonal relationships are important because ___________.A. they can cure a range of illnesses such as heart disease, etc.B. they help people to cope with life in the information eraC. they awaken people’s desire to exchange resourcesD. they are indispensable to people’s social well-being2. Research shows that people’s physical and mental health ___________.A. depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troublesB. relies on the social welfare systems which support themC. has much to do with the amount of support they get from othersD. is closely related to their strength for coping with major changes in their lives3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “c ushions” (Para. 2) ___________?A. Lays the foundation for.B. Lessens the effect of.C. Adds up to.D. Does away with.4. Helping a sick neighbor with some repair work is an example of _________.A. informational supportB. social companionshipC. instrumental supportD. the strengthening of self-respect5. Social companionship is beneficial in that ___________.A. it helps strengthen our ties with relativesB. it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyableC. it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakesD. it draws our attention away from our worries and troubleDWhether the eyes are the windows of the soul is debatable, but that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two months of a baby’s life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in profile. This attraction to eyes as opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. In one study, when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where babies are carried on their mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode (编码) or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle reveals that the “proper place to focus one’s gaze during a conversation in Japan is on the neck of one’s conversation partner.”The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined: 大学英语(1)试题第6页（共8页）speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for about one second, then glance away and they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with the listener or reassure themselves that their audience is still attentive, then shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, meanwhile, keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is important that they are looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow becomes evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses; there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses.1. The author is convinced that the eyes are _________.A. something the value of which is largely a matter of long debateB. something through which one can see a person’s inner worldC. of considerable significance in making conversations interestingD. of extreme importance in expressing feelings and exchanging ideas2. Babies will not be stimulated to smile by a person _________.A. whose face is seen from the sideB. whose face is covered with a maskC. whose front view is fully perceivedD. whose face is free of any covering3. According to the passage, the Japanese fix their gaze on their conversation partners’ neckbecause _________.A. they don’t like to keep their eyes on the face of the speakerB. they need not communicate through eye contactC. they didn’t have much opportunity to communicate through eye contact in babyhoodD. they don’t think it polite to have eye contact4. According to the passage, a conversation between two Americans may break down due to________.A. improperly-timed ceasing of eye contactB. eye contact of more than one secondC. one temporarily glancing away from the otherD. constant adjustment of eye contact5. To keep a conversation flowing smoothly, it is better for the participants________.A. not to make any interruptionsB. not to glance away from each otherC. not to wear dark spectaclesD. not to make unpredictable pausesVI. Writing.Book Order FormsThe following is part of a book order form. Fill in the form with the information given below in Chinese.李园园要在贝思德书店订购三种书籍, 期书名和单价分别为:1. Jane Eyre $12大学英语(1)试题第7页（共8页）2. Gone with the Wind $283. Pride and Prejudice $17她的个人信息如下:联系地址: 中国山东省青岛市大连路16号. 邮编: 266012单位电话: 86-532-8266211 家庭电话: 86-532-86892988 电子邮箱: liyy78@大学英语(1)试题第8页（共8页）。