新视野网络3练习题5

Part 2 Understanding Short Conversations(每小题： 分) Directions: In this section you'll hear some short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.       Questions 1 to 1 are based on the following passage.     1.   A. The man wants to marry the woman. B. The woman wants to marry the man. C. The man and woman are married. D. The man's mother wants the two to marry.     Questions 2 to 2 are based on the following passage.     2.   A. On the street. B. In the woman's home. C. With his mother. D. In his own place.     Questions 3 to 3 are based on the following passage.     3.   A. Boyfriend and girlfriend. B. Husband and wife. C. Grandmother and grandson. D. Brother and sister.     Questions 4 to 4 are based on the following passage.     4.   A. 14. B. 8. C. 7. D. 3.     Questions 5 to 5 are based on the following passage.     5.   A. Mother and son. B. Father and daughter. C. Teacher and student. D. Husband and wife.     Part 3 Understanding Long Conversations(每小题： 分) Directions: In this section you'll hear a long conversation or conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.       Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.     1.   A. Going to the store. B. Working at a factory. C. Buying a gift. D. Going to a birthday party.   2.   A. Work. B. School. C. A party. D. A doctor's office.   3.   A. He wants to give the woman a surprise. B. He has no money on him. C. He hates to go to stores. D. He is tired from a week's work.   4.   A. The man will pay the woman back for sure. B. The man will suffer a hard week at the factory. C. The man will buy the birthday present. D. The man will spend the day relaxing.   5.   A. A factory. B. A store. C. A home. D. A party.     Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.     6.   A. Husband and wife. B. Mother and son. C. Father and daughter. D. Doctor and patient.   7.   A. Inside a home. B. In a doctor's office. C. Outdoors. D. In a TV studio.   8.   A. The woman doesn't like the outdoors. B. The boy wants to visit his friend Tommy outdoors. C. The kite belongs to the boy. D. The doctor said that the boy should stay inside.   9.   A. 2. B. 3. C. 6. D. 7.   10.   A. Go inside. B. Watch TV. C. Play a game. D. Read a book.     Part 4 Understanding Passages(每小题： 分) Directions: In this section you'll hear a passage or passages. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.       Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.     1.   A. America achieving independence. B. Americans living independently. C. The chief virtues of Americans. D. Centers for the elderly.   2.   A. 18%. B. 10% C. 20%. D. 65%.   3.   A. More people living alone. B. More people over the age of 65. C. More old people live by themselves. D. More two-or-more-job households.   4.   A. Americans of any age don't like to change their habits. B. Americans of middle age don't want their parents to live alone. C. Living with others means giving up independence. D. Americans have doubts about living alone.   5.   A. Independence. B. Old age. C. Achievement. D. Virtue.     Part 5 Cloze (with four choices provided)(每小题： 分) Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices given for each blank.   Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage.   If you choose to be alone on purpose, you can wholly devote yourself to thinking. But how often do you think about thinking? Several years ago a college administrator told me that if he wanted to do any serious thinking, he had to get up at 5:30 in the morning—I suppose because that was the time 1. it was best. At that time, no one would 2. him. More recently I heard a professor remark that when his friends catch him 3. the act of reading a book, they say, "My, it must be nice to have so much free time." And 4. I am an English teacher—a person who should know better—I find myself feeling vaguely guilty 5. I go to the library to read. It is a common belief that if a man is thinking or reading, he is doing nothing. It's easy to understand the reasons for this 6. thinking. One problem is that to most of us, thinking 7. suspiciously like doing nothing. A person in deep thought is an uninspiring sight. He 8. back in a state of relaxation. He looks relaxed in his chair as he stares 9. space. He gives every appearance of wasting time. 10. , he's leaving all the hard work for us! But thinking is far different 11. laziness. Thinking is one of the most productive activities a person can 12. . And thinking does 13. time and effort. It's a common misconception that if a person is bright, wonderful ideas will 14. spontaneously into his mind. Unfortunately, the brain doesn't 15. this way. 16. Einstein had to study and think for months at a time. Thinking was necessary for him before he could 17. his theory of relativity. Those of us who are 18. intelligent find it a struggle to create our ideas. To create even a 19. good idea, takes time for thought. I have to spend months for a good idea to enter my head, let 20. a brilliant one. So is it right to take thinking as doing nothing?     Part 6 Multiple Choice(每小题： 分) Directions: Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.             1. His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any ________ of it at all. A. interpretation B. explanation C. meaning D. sense           2. His dramatic change in opinion was ________ by the unspeakable wrong done to him. A. brought out B. brought to C. brought up D. brought about           3. The rain looked as though it had ________ for the night. A. set off B. set out C. set in D. set up           4. I'd rather you ______ anything about it for the time being. You should take a break first. A. not do B. don't do C. didn't do D. won't do           5. The dictionary is to the student ________ the tool is to the worker. A. what B. that C. as if D. though           6. ________ you go on the earth, there is always gravity to keep you from falling off. A. When B. Wherever C. Since D. Because           7. Don't worry about your son's illness. What he really needs is ________ a few days' rest. A. nothing but B. anything but C. something but D. everything but           8. ________ for your laziness, you could have finished the assignment by now. A. Had it not been B. Weren't it C. It were not D. Had not it been           9. He was ________ admittance to the restaurant for not being properly dressed. A. denied B. rejected C. stopped D. accepted           10. If you think you can do my job better than I can, you are welcome to ________. A. take it over B. take it off C. take it down D. take it in     Part 7 Reading Comprehension (Banked Cloze)(每小题： 分) Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.   Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.   When I was 25, I gave up my job and apartment to go and live in the woods. I was tired of this 1. world dictating how much money I needed to make just to survive. I wanted to find 2. so I could rest my weary (疲倦的) mind. So, I built a small hut to live off the land. I suppose I took 3. from Henry David Thoreau. I remember he once says, "I never found the companion that was so 4. as solitude." There was a small pond near my cabin with a beautiful garden. I 5. that I would spend my days writing poetry and playing my guitar while the birds sang. I had to boil the water in a kettle on the wood burning stove before I could drink it. Every morning I took my axe outside and 6. wood for the fire. Every afternoon I 7. my garden. Unfortunately, the sunlight had to 8. through the trees and my garden never got enough light. Most of time I just ate dried beans and rice. I became so tired of eating beans and rice that I practically 9. every time I took a bite. Every night, I wrote down my 10. observations and sang to myself. When winter came I became cold, lonely and ready for company, so I moved back to the city.         Part 8 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)(每小题： 分) Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.       Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. Choosing a travel companion is at least as uncertain as choosing a marriage partner. The chances of success are perhaps even less. No law of causality (因果关系) exists to insist that in choosing a travel companion you will lose a friend. But it's not unlikely. The odds depend on the length and the rigorousness (严密) of the trip. Some friendships have a strength that will withstand even travel; others are by nature short-lived and travel merely hastens their dissolution (结束，终止). Perhaps I should make it clear that in discussing this matter of travel companions I am confining myself to Platonic (柏拉图式的) friendships. Intimate friends may well be the best companions of all. Compromises and concessions from such companions clearly spring from a recognized emotional base that colors every issue. I'll confine myself, then, to companions, male and female, who are sharing a trip solely for company. Why bother at all with a travel companion? Why not travel alone, shiftily (机智地) pursuing one's goal? Some of the answers are obvious. A pleasant fellow traveler eases the stress and tensions, adds to the delights and rewards and pays half the bills. However, a bad-tempered companion quite often brings you to the point where you devoutly (虔诚地) wish you were alone. Finding that suitable companion is something of an art and something of a gamble. But the choice should be determined by one important rule: travelers should be going on the trip with the same idea in mind. They should hold in common a theory of travel.   1. Choosing a travel companion is hard and risky, because ________. A. one may lose a friend B. one may suffer financial losses C. one may be trapped in the dangerous situation D. one may miss the chance of finding the right marriage partner   2. When intimate friends travel together, ________. A. the trip will hasten their dissolution B. the trip will make them closer to each other   C. they will find the right ways to solve problems due to their relationship   D. they will make more friends on trip       3. It can be inferred from the passage that the companion talked about here is the person ________.   A. one can think of developing a deeper relationship with   B. one can travel with merely for company   C. one can count on for a free travel   D. one can learn much from       4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?   A. Choosing a travel companion won't lead to the loss of friends.   B. Friendships cannot withstand the test of any trip.   C. A travel companion is badly needed if one wants to take a trip.   D. Like-minded people should travel together.       5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?   A. Travel and Marriage-Two Similar Experiences   B. Finding a Good Travel Companion-a Risky Matter   C. Will Travel Damage the Friendship?   D. Should One Travel Alone or in Another's Company?       Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage. The 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 (意味) 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 arrival of the future. It may well be the most important disease of tomorrow. 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 cues to react to—different conceptions (概念) of time, space, work, love, religion, sex, and everything else, then the dislocation he suffers will be severe. Given few clues as to what kind of behavior is rational 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 generation—including its weakest, least intelligent, and most irrational members—suddenly transported into this new world. The result is mass 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.   6. Culture shock occurs when ________. A. one loses all hopes of returning to his home environment B. one expresses ideas and emotions contrary to what he intends to express C. one cannot make accurate judgment using one's own value standards D. one cannot conduct negotiations for goods of fixed prices   7. Future shock is much more serious than culture shock as ________. A. it concerns the problems of the future B. it affects people on a grand scale C. it causes personal insults D. it destroys the foundation of the society   8. The word "cue" in Para. 3 most probably refers to something that ________. A. puzzles an individual B. disturbs an individual's normal way of life C. helps an individual to function in society D. arouses an individual's interest in the new culture   9. One effective way to prevent future shock is to ________. A. get people prepared for future change B. keep people informed of foreign cultures C. have people resist possible future change D. acquaint people with the harm of future change   10. It can be inferred that the author's tone in the passage is ________. A. humorous B. exaggerated C. radical D. serious     Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage. Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful (可怕的) silence. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing (发出嗡嗡声) of a fly, but he longs to join the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure. The object of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas. It is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz: there is even a buzz that is as exasperating (使人恼怒的) as the continuous ping (砰声) of a mosquito. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a mute (哑巴). Most buzzing, fortunately, is agreeable to the ear, and some of it is agreeable even to the mind. He would be a foolish man, however, who waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors. Those who despise (看不起) the weather as a conversational opening seem to me to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they have had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing at immense length, they are proud of themselves on their success as conversationalists.   11. The significance of man's speaking ability is that ________. A. it proves his existence as a man B. it raises his position as a man C. it makes him enjoy meaningful conversations D. it gets him out of trouble   12. The statement that "ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly" suggests that ________. A. most of the human conversations are inspiring and instructive B. most of the human conversations are as irritating as the noise made by a fly C. most of the human conversations can be dismissed as meaningless D. most of the human conversations can be regarded as the effective activities   13. According to the passage, a man will look silly if he ________. A. makes mistakes in the conversation B. feels reluctant to join in the conversation C. fails to communicate anything new to others in the conversation D. misunderstands others' meanings in the conversation   14. In the author's opinion, the introduction of weather as a conversational opening indicates ________. A. the ignorance of the conversationalist B. the start of an acceptable conversation C. the coming of something new D. the boring nature of the conversation   15. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? A. At a dinner party, everyone prefers to talk like a mosquito. B. People despise meaningless conversations. C. People take pride in their roles as conversationalists. D. One can always learn something useful from conversation.