大学英语（2）第二次网络作业（新教材）一、阅读：( 1 )A few years ago it was common to speak of a generation gap between young people and their elders. Parents said that children did not respect and listen to them, while children said that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared? Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many people argue that it is built into every part of our society.One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own ways of life. In a more traditional society, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and like, and often to continue the family jobs. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose jobs different from those of their parents.In our society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did, to find better jobs, to make more money and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, that is another cause of the gap between them. Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is the third cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, senior people are valued for their knowledge, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime maybecome out of date. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities. No doubt, the generation gap will continue in American life for some time to come.1. The first paragraph tells us that ____A__.a. the problem of the generation gap draws much attentionfrom peopleb. it is out of date to talk about the generation gapc. children and parents are trying to understand each otherd. it is very important for people to frequently communicatewith each other2. In a more traditional society, old people___A____.a. have their children respect and listen to themb. do not care for their children at allc. expect their children to rebel against themd. do not live together with their children3. In American society young people_____B___.a. do not need to find jobsb. leave home at an early agec. have better education than their parentsd. marry people younger than them4. Which of the following is NOT the cause of the generation gap? Ba. Young people like to depend more on themselves.b. Parents do not love their children dearly.c. American society changes rapidly.d. Parents expect too much of their children.5. The main idea of the passage is ____C____.a. that the generation gap needs consideringb. when the generation gap is necessary in American societyc. why the generation gap existd. how we can reduce the generation gap( 2 )If you ask some people,” How did you learn English so well?”You may get a surprising answer:“ In my sleep!”There are people who have taken part in one of recent experiments to test “Learn---While---Sleep”methods, which are now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects, of which English is only one.Specialists say that this “sleep----study”method speeds language learning greatly. They say that the average person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the period during the day---and this does not affect his rest in any way. A word of warning, however, sleep teaching will only strengthen in your mind what you have studied already while you are awake.In an experiment, lessons were broadcast over the radio. Each lesson lasted twelve hours—from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary were given with the student awake. At 11 p.m. a lullaby(催眠曲) was broadcast to send the student to sleep and for the next three hours the radio whispered the lesson again into his sleeping ear. At 2 a.m. a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes to review the lesson. The soft songs sent him back to rest again while the radio went on. At 5 a.m. his sleep ended and he had to go through the lesson again for three hours before breakfast.6. Compared with other methods of learning, the Learn---While---You---Sleep method is___C___.a. slowerb. very tiringc. quickerd. very simple7. By this method, one ___C___.a. starts to learn a new lesson in sleepb. learns how to sleep betterc. is made to remember his lessons in sleepd. can get more knowledge over the radio8. In the experiment, the first part of the lesson was given___D___.a. around midnightb. after lullabies were broadcastc. all through the twelve hoursd. while the student was awake9. Before each lesson finishes, the student has to ____D___.a. get up and take breakfastb. be wakened by a loud noisec. listen to the lesson again in sleepd. review the lesson by himself10. The “sleep---study”method is being tried in many countries to teach__D__.a. Englishb. grammar and vocabularyc. languagesd. a number of subjects二. 介词填空: （按第2册课本第3-4单元课文内容填入适当的介词）11. __ In__ other words(换句话说)，if you get paid once a month, thenyou have to budget accordingly so that you won’t run out of money before the end of the month.12. If you get paid every two weeks or every week, figure __ out____(计算出，合计出) which of your bills have to be paid on each payday.13. The bosses should be rather unhappy as many male office workerslike to keep an eye _ on ___(密切注视) important NBA games via the Internet.14. It’s handy to have something in the freezer and less costly___ in ___ the long run (从长远来看)than making a quick trip to the store after work and picking up only what you need for that night’s meal.15. A good way to begin the budgeting process is to sort _ out __(挑选出，整理好)all of your legal and financial papers and file themso you can find what you need when you need it.。