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全新版第二版综合
B2U8-C
Part I Listening Comprehension ( 10
minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will
hear ten statements. Numbers 1
to 6 are
based on Text A while the rest are based on Text
B. Each
statement will be read ONLY
ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether
each statement is true or false.
1.
A) T
B) F
Script: People came to fish the
streams, which flowed clear and cold
out of the hills and contained shady
pools where trout lay.
正确答案：
A
2.
A) T
B) F
Script: The doctors
were not puzzled by new kinds of sickness
appearing among their patients.
正确答案：
B
3.
A) T
B) F
Script: There was now no sound; only
silence lay over the fields and
woods
and marsh.
正确答案：
A
4.
A) T
B) F
Script: There had been
several sudden and unexplained deaths among
adults and children.
正确答案：
A
5.
A) T
B) F
Script: Though the litters were small,
the young survived, thus the
farmers
were still able to raise pigs.
正确答案：
B
6.
A) T
B) F
Script: The people silenced the rebirth
of new life in this stricken
world
themselves.
正确答案：
A
7.
A) T
B) F
Script: The most
alarming of all man's assaults upon the
environment
is the contamination of
air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and
even lethal materials.
正确答案：
A
8.
A) T
B) F
Script: Such a barrage of poisons
called
to lay down on the surface of
the earth without making it unfit for all
life.
正确答案：
B
9.
A) T
B) F
Script: Chemicals
sprayed on croplands lie short in the soil without
entering into living organisms.
正确答案：
B
10.
A)
T
B)
F
Script: One in six countries in the
world face food shortages because
of
severe droughts.
正确答案：
A
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will
hear a passage three times.
When the
passage is read for the first time, you should
listen carefully
for its general idea.
When the passage is read for the second time, you
are required to fill in the blanks with
the exact words you have just
heard.
Finally, when the passage is read for the third
time, you should
check what you have
written.
Most people have (11)
_______________
environmental pollution
in
the form of an open garbage dump.
However, pollution can also be (12)
.
Some kinds of pollution do not actually
dirty the land, air,
or water, but they
reduce the quality of life for people and (13) ___
.
For example, noise from
(14) _____________
and machinery can
be
considered
forms of
pollution.
Environmental pollution is
one of the most (15)
___________
problems facing humanity.
Badly polluted air can cause (16) ___________
illnesses. Some air
pollutants have reduced the capacity of the
atmosphere to (17) __
the sun's harmful ultraviolet (18)
____________
.
Many
scientists believe that these and other air
pollutants have begun to
change
(19)__________
around the
world. Ocean pollution (20) __________
many marine organisms.
Script: Most people have witnessed
environmental pollution in the
form of
an open garbage dump. However, pollution can also
be invisible.
Some kinds of pollution
do not actually dirty the land, air, or water,
but they reduce the quality of life for
people and other living things.
For
example, noise from traffic and machinery can be
considered forms of
pollution.
Environmental pollution is one of the
most serious problems
facing humanity.
Badly polluted air can cause life-threatening
illnesses.
Some air pollutants have
reduced the capacity of the atmosphere to filter
out the sun's harmful ultraviolet
radiation. Many scientists believe that
these and other air pollutants have
begun to change climates around the
world. Ocean pollution endangers many
marine organisms.
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witnessed
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invisible
other living
things
traffic
serious
life-threatening
filter out
radiation
climates
endangers
Part II
Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In
this section, there is a passage with several
blanks.
You are required to select one
word for each blank from a list of choices
given in a word bank following the
passage. Read the passage through
carefully before making your choices.
Each choice in the bank is
identified
by a letter. You may not use any of the words in
the bank more
than once.
Then a strange blight 21 the area and
everything began to
change. Some evil
spell had 22 the community: mysterious maladies 23
the
flocks of chickens; the cattle and
sheep sickened and died. Everywhere
was
a 24 of death. The farmers spoke of much illness
among their
families. In the town
the doctors had become more and more 25
by new kinds of sickness
appearing
among their patients. There had been several
sudden and 26
deaths not only among
adults but even among children, who would be 27
suddenly while at play and die within a
few hours.
There was a strange 28
. The birds, for example
—
where
had
they gone? Many people
spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding
stations in the backyards were 29
.
The few birds seen
anywhere were
moribund; they
30
violently and
could not fly. It was a spring without voices.
A)
sweepingB)
unexplainable C) swept D) unexplained E) stricken
F)
shadow G) stillness H) trembled I)
deserted J) settled down K)
shookL)
threw M) crept over N) settled onO) puzzled
21.
_
_________________________
正确答案：
22. ____
M
正确答案：
23. ____
N
正确答案：
24. ____
C
正确答案：
25. ____
F
正确答案：
26. ____
O
正确答案：
27. ____
D
正确答案：
28. ____
E
正确答案：
29. ____
G
正确答案：
30. ____
I
正确答案：
H
Section B
Directions: There
are several passages in this section. Each passage
is followed by some questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them
there are four choices marked A), B),
C) and D). You should decide on the
best choice.
Passage One
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the
following passage.
When school was out,
I hurried to find my sister and get out
of the schoolyard before seeing anybody
in my class. But Barbara and her
friends had beaten us to the playground
entrance and they seemed to be
waiting
for us. Barbara said,
impressed.
faintly envious giggling sounds.
moved you to the front of the room,
dopey? Didn't you know you were in
the
C class before, way in the back of the
room?
Of course I hadn't known. The
Wenatchee fifth grade was
bigger than
my whole school which had been in North Dakota,
and the idea
of subdivisions within a
grade had never occurred to me. The subdividing
for the first marking period had been
done before I came to the school,
and l
had never, in the six weeks when I'd been there,
talked to anyone
long enough to find
out about the A, B, and C classes.
I
still could not understand why that had made such
a
difference to Barbara and her
friends. I didn
'
ytet know
that it was
shameful and dirty to be a
transient laborer and ridiculous to be from
North Dakota. I thought living in a
tent was more fun than living in a
house.
I didn't know that we
were gypsies, really (how that thought
would have excited me then! ). It
didn't occur to me that we were all
looked upon as one more of the
untrustworthy natural phenomena, drifting
here and there like mists or winds, I
didn't know that I was the only
child
who had camped on the Baumann's land ever to get
out of the C
class.
I only
knew that for two happy days I walked to school
with
Barbara and her friends, played
hopscotch and jumped rope with them at
class intervals, and was even invited
into the house for some ginger ale
—
a strange drink
I had never tasted before.
31.
The tone of this passage as a whole is
___
.
A)
reflective
B)
enthusiastic
C)
impersonal
D)
defensive
正确答案：
A
32.
The narrator had most
probably been placed in the C class because
_
A)
she was a poor reader
B)
she had come
from a small school
C)
the marking system confused her
D)
all children
of transient laborers were placed in the C class
正确答案：
D
33.
The basic reason why
people in the community distrusted the transient
workers was that the transient workers
.
A)
tended to be
lawbreakers
B)
had little schooling
C)
were afraid of
strangers
D)
were
temporary residents
正确答案：
D
34.
Which of
the following is NOT the characteristic of
Gypsies?
A)
Wandering around the world.
B)
Making ginger
ale in their house.
C)
Never planting something.
D)
Being
foreigners wherever they go.
正确答案：
B
35.
Immediately after the
narrator was moved to the A class, what was the
attitude of Barbara and Barbara's
friends towards her?
A)
Dislike.
B)
Acceptance.
C)
Apology.
D)
Jealousy.
正确答案：
B