2018年12月-大学英语2复习题库

大学英语

2

一

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客观题：

1.

At the middle of this year the government ________ a huge military parade.

A. staged

B. staging

C. has staged

D. have staged

2. Two days later, Juan Carlos was ______ king.

A. crowned

B. crowing

C. has crowned

D. have crowned

3. It's the best thing that ever ______ to me.

A. happened

B. happening

C. has happened

D. have happened

4 Ministers are as keen as ever to wrap their activities in a _____ of secrecy.

A. shrouds

B. shroud

C. shrouding

D. shroudings

5. The team played _______ throughout the competition.

A. magnificent

B. magnificently

C. magnifical

D. magnificat

6. Stars _______ Joan Collins are expected to attend.

A. include

B. including

C. has included

D. have included

7. Very little was said as we ______ the arrival of the chairman.

A. await

B. awaits

C. awaited

D. have awaited

8. You'll be able to earn an average rate of return of 8% on your _____.

A. invest

B. investors

C. investment

D. investments

9. They started out by looking at the computer screens which _____ the images.

A. display

B. displaying

C. has displayed

D. have displayed

10. Campuses are usually accessible by public _______.

A. transport

B. transportation

C. transporting

D. transportating

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客观题：请阅读以下文章并根据理解选择最恰当的答案。

TEXT A

For

generations

of

students,

writing

term

papers

has

been

a

major

source

of

nerves

and

frustration. But for those with Internet access, relative resources are just a few links away. All

one has to do is to go to the appropriate Web site, where online papers can either be purchased,

ordered, or downloaded for free.

Collegiate Care Research Assistance, for instance, may do the job. Do you want to

paper on

’

s irreconcilable moral dilemmas

your

s.

Some

sites,

such

as

Term

Paper

Emporium

and

Absolutely

Free:

Online

Essays

offer

course papers for free. Simply press the button and download

—

if you find the paper you want,

that is.

Students

are,

of

course,

fully

aware

of

these

web

site

resources,

and

some

people

worry

that

the

Internet,

once

regarded

as

a

best

learning

tool,

could

become

the

best

aid

yet

for

cheating.

For teachers, the problem is figuring out whether a student

’

s authorship is authentic. But,

as

teaching

assistant

Jane

Morrison

explained,

the

task

may

not

be

too

difficult

for

a

careful

teacher.

’

t look at me but look at their feet. And

students who wrote every bit of it can talk about the paper very intelligently and look me in the

eye,

Copying term papers is nothing new, but the appearance of the Internet raises the issue: Is

this new technology making cheating more widespread?

A senior official Gary Handman at Berkeley doubts it.

to cheat regardless of the technology.

This view was backed by Berkeley graduate student Arianne Chernock, who says that, after

all, students have to decide what

’

s best for themselves.

’

s a question of honesty. We

’

re here

to learn, so we

’

ve got to make the most of it ourselves.

And inventive teachers can make their assignments almost cheat-proof.

you

structure

the

assignment

in

a

creative

way,

and

if

students,

for

instance,

have

to

transform

the

information

into

a

handout,

or

do

a

drama,

or

write

an

account

in

first

person

narrative, then you may stop cheating,

That kind of strategy, some experts say, will basically force students to do more than simply

download their education.

11. In the past students __________________.

A. were happy about writing term papers

B. were eager to write term papers

C. considered paper writing as a joy

D. considered paper writing as a source of stress

12 What do some people worry about according to Paragraph 4?

A. They worry that students might become lazier

B. They worry that students might lose their interest in learning

C. They worry that the Internet could become the best tool for cheating

D. They worry that the Internet could become the best learning tool.

13. According to Paragraph 6, students feel _______ copying papers from the Internet.

A. guilty about

B. excited when

C. anxious about

D. uncertain about

14What did Gary Handman argue in Paragraph 8?

A. Students tend to cheat

B. The new technology made cheating more widespread

C. The new technology helped students in the way of cheating

D. He was doubtful whether the new technology made cheating more widespread

TEXT B

Retracing one of the most important trading routes of ancient civilization, this remarkable

tour

aboard

the

luxury

Golden

Eagle

and

Shangri-La

trains

follows

in

the

footsteps

of

such

legendary figures as Alexander the Great and Marco Polo.

Crossing

both

Russia

and

China

as

well

as

some

of

the

remotest

former

Soviet

republics---Kazakhstan,

Turkmenistan

and

Uzbekistan---

our

journey

will

take

in

some

of

the

most magnificent yet little-visited sights from the ancient world. Eastbound trips start in Russia

’

s capital Moscow, where we have plenty of time to explore. We travel on to Volgograd---better

known

as

Stalingrad---where

the

Soviets

turned

the

course

of

the

Second

World

War,

before

heading for far remoter places that own their importance to a time much further back in history.

The Kara Kum

desert

is followed

by

the

amazing

2,500

–

year-old

cities

of Khiva

and