东北农业大学13春《大学英语》作业题6(middle)答案
作业题6(middle)Part I Vocabulary and Structure
Directions:
There are 30 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET .
1. Different ____ of sheep give wool of varying length.
A) broods B) types C) kinds D) breeds
2. There were some ____ flowers on the table.
A) artificial B) unnatural C) false D) unreal
3. They watched with ____ as the tightrope walker struggled to remain his balance.
A) panic B) alarm C) horror D) terror
4. I had to stand in a ____ for hours to get tickets for the film.
A) row B) processionC) tail D) queue
5. We should keep a ____ eye on the prisoners every moment.
A) jealous B) envious C) jealousy D) envy
6. I have no objection ____ your story again.
A) to hearB) to hearingC) to having heard D) to have heard
7. I would appreciate ____ it a secret.
A) your keeping B) you to keepC) that you keep D) that you will keep
8. The neighborhood boys like to play basketball on that ____ lot.
A) valid B) vain C) vacant D) vague
9. Many people like white color as it is a ____ of purity.
A) symbol B) sign C) signal D) symptom
10. Those acting for the defendant proposed to appeal ____ the sentence.
A) to B)against C) for D) out
11. Over the last fifteen years, running has become a popular ____ for 30 million participants of the ages.
A) fantasy B) pastime C) symposium D) penalty
12. Our hopes ___ and fell in the same instant.
A) aroused B) arose C) raised D) rose
13. I have had my eyes tested and the report says that my ____ is perfect.
A) vision B) horizon C) outlook D) perspective
14. When he tried to make a ____ , he found that the hotel was completely filled because of a convention.
A) reservation B)claim C) mess D) revision
15. The automatic doors in supermarkets ____ the entry and exit of customers with shopping carts.
A) furnish B) induce C)facilitate D) allocate
16. We shall probably never be able to ____ the exact nature of these sub-atomic particles.
A) assert B) impart C) ascertain D) notify
17. In Africa, educational costs are very low for those who are ____ enough to get into universities.
A) ambitious B) fortunate C) aggressive D) substantial
18. Under the present system, state enterprises must ____ all profits to the government.
A) turn down B) turn up C) turn out D) turn in
19. Some criminals were printing ____ dollar bills until they were arrested.
A) decent B) fake C) patent D) suspicious
20. Weeks ____ before anyone was arrested in connection with the bank robbery.
A) elapsed B) expired C) overlapped D) terminated
21. The hotel ___ $60 for a single room with bath.
A) claims B) demands C) prices D) charges
22. Being a pop star can be quite a hard life, ___ with a lot of traveling heavy schedules.
A) as to B) in relation to C) owing to D) with regard to
23. Many in the credit industry expect that credit cards will eventually ____ paper money for almost every purchase.
A) exchange B)reduce C) replace D) trade
24. New York ____ second in the production of apples, producing 850,000, 000 pounds this year.
A) ranked B) occupied C) arranged D) classified
25. Finding a job can be ____ and disappointing, and therefore it is important that you are prepared.
A) exploiting B) frustratingC) profiting D) misleading
26. Everyone should be ____ to a decent standard of living and an opportunity to be educated.
A) attributed B) entitled C) identified D) justified
27. The manager promised to keep me ____ of how our business was going on.
A) to be informedB) on informing C) informed D) informing
28. She was complaining that the doctor was _____ too much for the treatment he was giving her.
A) expending B) costing C) charging D) informing
29. You have nothing to ____ by refusing to listen to our advice.
A) gain B) grasp C)seize D) earn
30. Which sport has the most expenses ____ training equipment, players’ personal equipment and uniforms?
A) in place of B) in terms of C) by means of D) by way of
Part II Reading Comprehension
Direction:
There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five question, for each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET.
Passage 1
“You must be mad” was the general comment of family, friends and colleagues. “Giving up a teaching post now, when there isn’t much chance of finding another one, ever!”
“And what about all that lovely money you’re earning, and all those long holidays!”
But I had already come to my lonely decision, after months of concealed suffering. The devil of unemployment should be enough to make those of us fortunate enough to have a job pulling up the drawbridge (吊桥) behind us, and yet here was I, prepared to join the noisy army on the opposite bank.
But I knew I could no longer continue in the teaching profession. To wake up in the morningwith a fear of the day ahead, to force a hasty breakfast down an unwilling throat and then set off for work with pounding heart and frozen face had become habitual, and I had turned to tranquilizers (镇定剂) to help me along.
It had not always been as bad as this. Ten years before I had managed well enough, and the holidays used to come round just in time.
But I, in common with most other teachers, am enormously self-critical, and I knew now that I was no longer “managing”. My classes were noisy, the children were not learning very much, and my’ attempts to cope with changing teaching methods produced very little effect. At one time my very presence in the doorway would be enough to ensure a partial silence. Now they give a vague “Hello, Miss”, and carry on. I had run out of enjoyment and enthusiasm. It was time to stop.
But was it all my own failure? In fairness to myself, I don’t think it was. I had plenty of ideas, I loved my subject, and, by and large, I liked children.
I had been idealistic. But the reality I faced was bored children, over-stimulated by video-watching the night before and tired out by a late bedtime. They were children who were given the wrong food at the wrong time, who came breakfast-less to school and then stuffed themselves with gum, chocolates and sweets bought on the way; who were “high” with hunger in the lesson before lunchtime and giggled (咯咯地笑) restlessly as the cooking smell from the school kitchen came drifting to all floors.
I have been trying to create the basic conditions in which teaching becomes possible, but I have failed, and no longer have the stomach for the job. And that is why I’m giving up.
31. What does “the noisy army” (Para. 3) refer to?
A) a military force B) a labour union C) the unemployed D) demonstrators
32. The writer decided to quit her job chiefly because ____________.
A) the teaching profession is too much for her
B) she was too hard on herself and therefore unhappy with her teaching effect
C) the class had become impossible to teach
D) she didn’t like new teaching methods
33. Which of the following statement is closest in meaning to “At one time my very presence in the doorway would be enough to ensure a partial silence.” (Para6)?
A) Formerly, my arrival at the classroom would very well make at least some of the students stop talking or playing.
B) For a while, when I appeared in the doorway, the class would quite down.
C) Every time I made my appearance in the doorway, the students would become silent.
D) Once in the past, I could silence half of the class simply by standing in the doorway!
34. All of the following are reasons that children couldn’t concentrate in class EXCEPT ________.
A) they were tired because they went to bed too late
B) they were fed up with their lessons and school work
C) they were not properly fed by their parents
D) they were overexcited by too much video-watching the night before
35. Which of the following about the writer is true?
A) Being too young, the writer found it difficult to grow affectionate for children.
B) As she set off for work, she felt nervous at the prospect of teaching.
C) It was very difficult for her to give up teaching.
D) Although she was responsible, she never truly enjoyed teaching.
Passage 2
Today’s kids absorb lots of messages, values and attitudes from the media and from friends. Advertisements whet their appetite for many things they don’t need. What they do need is an understanding of the value of the dollar.
How do kids learn to be economically savvy (机智的) ? Most schools do not teach the financial facts of life; it’s up to parents to help kids grow into responsible and skillful money earners, savers and spenders.
To learn about money, kids first need to have some. Early on, parents often hand out money on an as-needed basis. But experts say paying a regular allowance is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan. Some call it “learning capital”.
A child is ready for an allowance around age five or six, when he becomes aware of the relationship between money and shopping, can differentiate coins, can add and subtract, has spendingopportunities and asks parents to buy him things.
How much allowance? Some experts recommend giving a dollar for each year of age, but Sharon Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota disagrees: “I think $ 5 a week is too much for a five-year-old, and $15 is probably not enough for a 15-year-old.” What’s right for the child depends on three factors: the child’s level of development, what the parents can afford, and what the parents expect him to pay for.
Whatever the amount, kids will soon feel they need more. But Sharon Danes insists that children don’t need an automatic raise each year. “There’s no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they’re a year older,” she says. “The reason for getting a greater part of the family-income pie is so they can learn more about balancing demands and resources.”
36. In Para. 1, “whet their appetite” most probably means ____________.
A) make them wish for more B) spoil their appetite
C) sharpen their sensation D) stimulate their consuming power
37. What is the best way for children to learn to be economically savvy?
A) Parents don’t give them money until they really need it.
B) Children are taught the financial facts of life at school.
C) Parents regularly give them a certain amount of money.
D) Parents help children become skillful money earners.
38. At the age of five or six, children are capable of all the following EXCEPT _____.
A) identifying the face value of money
B) solving simple arithmetic problems
C) knowing that with money they can get things from stores
D) going shopping themselves
39. What is Professor Sharon Danes’ attitude toward the proposal of giving children a dollar for each year of age?
A) She believes this will surely encourage children to ask for more.
B) She doubts whether there is such thing as “right amount” for parents to give to their children.
C) She thinks it is unnecessary to increase the amount each year.
D) She insists that children can only get money when they study well.
40. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the last sentence of the passage?
A) The purpose of giving children money is to let them know more about how to use money and how to plan.
B) If they want to get more from the family income, they must have enough knowledge of family economy.
C) Children can get more money on the condition that they are able to balance demands and resources.
D) To give children more money is to make them understand the importance of balancing demands and resources.
Passage 3
A number of recent books have reworked subjects, forms and writing techniques. Today's children read stories about divorce, death, drugs, air pollution, political extremism and violence. Relying on the magic of the illustrator, all kinds of books are being published.
Before they know to read, babies can play with books made of cloth or books made to take in the bath. Later on, they are given picture books that may be cubical（立方形）or triangular, outsized or very small. They also like work-books which come with watercolors and paintbrushes, and comic books（漫画册）filled with details where they have to spot a figure hidden among thousands of others.
Not that the traditional children's books are being neglected. There are still storybooks where the pages pop up（跳起）when they are opened, to make a forest or a castle. Among the latest ideas are interactive stories where readers choose the plot（情节）or ending they want, and books on CD, which are very popular in rich industrialized countries.
The public has enthusiastically greeted the wealth of creativity displayed by publishers. "Previously, giving a child a book as often seen as improper," says Canadian author Marie-France Hebért. Her books, published by a French-language publisher, sell like hot cakes in hundreds of thousands of copies. "There's a real appetite for reading these days and I try to get across to children the passion for reading which is food for the mind and the heart, like a medicine or a vitamin."
41."Reworked" as used in Paragraph 1 means "___________________".
A) reworded B) rewritten C) processed D) revised
42.In the second paragraph the author lists the kinds of books ___________________.
A) recently published B) of various shapes C) babies like D) popular among children
43.Which of the following statements is true?
A) Books made of cloth came out earlier than picture books.
B) When you buy work-books you will be given free comic books.
C) Traditional children's books are not being removed from market.
D) Babies cannot have books while taking a bath.
44. The expression "get across to children" in the last paragraph probably means "___________________".
A) pass on to children B) make children believe C) teach children D) get around to children
45.The main idea of the last paragraph is that people have ___________________.
A) warmly welcomed the abundance of wealth shown by publishers
B) warmly welcomed the enormous amount of creativity shown by publishers
C) showed great enthusiasm in publishers of treat wealth
D) reacted strongly to the unlimited creativity of publishers
Passage 4
Every body gets sick. Disease and injury make us suffer throughout our lives until, finally, some attack on the body brings our existence to an end. Fortunately, most of us in modern industrialized societies can take relatively good health for granted most of the time. In fact, we tend to fully realize the importance of good health only when we or those close to us become seriously ill. At such times we keenly appreciate the ancient truth that health is our most precious asset, one for which we might readily give up such rewards as power, wealth, or fame（荣誉）.
Because ill health is universal problem, affecting both the individual and society, the human response to sickness is always socially organized. No society leaves the responsibility for maintaining health and treating ill health entirely to the individual. Each society develops its own concepts of health and sickness and authorizes certain people to decide who is sick and how the sick should be treated. Around this focus there arises, over time, a number of standards, values, groups, statuses, and roles: in other words, an institution（体系；机构）.To the sociologist（社会学家）, then, medicine is the institution concerned with the maintenance of health and treatment of disease.
In the simplest pre-industrial societies, medicine is usually an aspect of religion. The social arrangements for dealing with sickness are very elementary, often involving only two roles: the sick and the healer（治疗者）.The latter is typically also the priest（牧师）, who relies primarily on religious ceremonies, both to identify and to treat disease: for example, bones may be thrown to establish a cause, songs may be used to bring about a cure. In modern industrialized societies, on the other hand, the institution has become highly complicated and specialized, including dozens of roles such as those of brain surgeon, druggist, hospital administrator, linked with various organizations such as nursing homes, insurance companies, and medical schools. Medicine, in fact, has become the subject of intense sociological interest precisely because it is now one of the most pervasive and costly institutions of modern society.
46.Which of the following statements is true according to Paragraph 1?
A) Nowadays most people believe they can have fairly good health.
B) Human life involves a great deal of pain and suffering.
C) Most of us are aware of the full value of health.
D) Ancient people believed that health was more expensive than anything else.
47.The word "authorize" in Paragraph 2 means "___________________".
A) make way for B) give power to C) write an order for D) make it possible for
48.In Paragraph 2, we learn that the sociologist regards medicine as ___________________.
A) a system whose purpose is to treat disease and keep people healthy
B) a universal problem that affects every society
C) a social responsibility to treat ill health
D) a science that focuses on the treatment of disease
49.According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is NOT true?
A) In the past, bones might be used to decide why people fell ill.
B) In pre-industrial societies priests sometimes treated patients by singing.
C) Modern medicine is so complicated that sociology no longer has a place in it.
D) There were only two roles in an elementary medical system, the patient and the one who tried to cure him.
50.The author of this passage is mainly concerned with ___________________.
A) sociological aspects in medicine B) medical treatment of diseases
C) the development of medical science D) the role of religion in medicine
Part III Cloze
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper, you should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
All the recent news on AIDS is bad. The death of Rock Hudson _51__ public concern about the _52__ almost to the point of panic. Now general concern is _53__ not so much on personal risk but on the growing realization _54__ this disease is having a strong impact _55__ our society in a number of ways.
For one thing, it is _56__ financial and other resources. AIDS patients require long-term care in hospitals and outpatient _57__. The centre for Disease Control in Atlanta evaluates that hospital _58__ for the first 10,000 AIDS patients were about $1.4 billion. The total economic cost to the nation of AIDS cases is estimated to _59__ to $6 billion in health care, disability, and lost _60__.
Private insurers were unprepared for the crisis _61__ the invariable fatal disease hits primarily young people. It is becoming increasingly _62__ for those in high-risk groups to get health and life insurance, and in the _63__ of private coverage, public funds must be used. In _64__, many of the victims are __65_ by disapproving of frightened friends and family, without employment, and _66__ need of emotional and psychological support.
There is also bad news on the medical _67__. In spite of a stepped-up research program there is no sign of an _68__ breakthrough to a cure.
Yet the physicians and others continue to work and to hope. Others not directly _69__ can help by giving support to public funding for research, hospital and support services. A public _70__ to provide care now and an eventual cure for those who suffer is the best response.
51. A) caused B) raised C) resulted D) rose
52. A) epidemic B) casualty C) disasterD) collapse
53. A) directed B) paid C) focused D) devoted
54. A) when B) as C) which D) that
55. A) to B) for C) on D) with
56. A) adopting B) absorbing C) connectingD) emphasizing
57. A) facilities B) functions C) supplements D) surgeons
58. A) investments B) expenditures C) tax D) cost
59. A) add B) come C) equal D) sum
60.A) stability B) trust C) efficiency D) productivity
61.A) since B) unless C) although D) before
62.A) available B) profitable C) unavoidable D) difficult
63.A) abundance B) absence C) attendance D) appearance
64.A) conclusion B) fact C) addition D) short
65.A) accepted B) revealed C) released D) rejected
66.A) for B) in C) with D) at
67.A) field B) area C) world D) front
68.A) forthcoming B) eventual C) intelligent D) inevitable
69.A) concerned B) observed C) investigatedD) involved
70.A) resort B) participation C) resolve D) refugee
Part IV Writing
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition based on the topic “Stop Smoking”. You must write at least 100 words, and the following is the beginning of each part. Remember to write clearly:
1.Smoking can cause many diseases and pollute the environment；
2.Although smoking is good for nothing3.Efforts must be taken to stop smoking.
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