山大英语专升本三(3)

SHANDONG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST

FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

（本科第

3

册）

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I. Vocabulary and Structure (15%)

There are 30 questions in this section. For each of the questions, there are 4 choices marked

A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best answers the question.

1. Is the city noted

D

its champagne?

A. in

B. about

C. on

D. for

2. Everyone blames you

A

a certain mistake.

A. on

B. for

C. in

D. against

3. The Mississippi River carries great amounts of fine sand and silt into the Gulf of Mexico south of

New Orleans.

D

A. collections

B. mounds

C. reserves

D. quantities

4. In arithmetic, a number stands for the size of a set of things.

D

A. measures

B. estimates

C. cancels

D. represents

5.

The theory of plate tectonics provided scientists with a framework for understanding how and

why the various features of the Earth constantly change.

D

A. goal

B. motive

C. subject

D. structure

6. Without exception, the earliest literate societies originated along the banks of great rivers. D

A. public libraries

B. schools

C. naval academies

D. communities

7. An employment contract can be mutually beneficial to both employer and employee.

D

A. obviously

B. hardly

C. frequently

D. jointly

8. The school ____D

______ is worn on the boys’ caps.

A. stamp

B. label

C. figure

D. badge

9. The committee was under ____B_________ to reach agreement before midnight.

A. duty

B. pressure

C. control

D. influence

10. If you ask me, she _____A______ too high an opinion of herself.

A. keeps

B. takes

C. has

D. feels

11. His business is growing so fast that he has to ____B________ more workers.

A. take up

B. take on

C. take over

D. take out

12. At that time they were poor and they went _______D______ a difficult time.

A. down

B. along with

C. in for

D. through

13. New ways must be found to facilitate the ___B_____ of the problem.

A. revision

B. solution

C. decision

D. conclusion

14.

One’s mastery of a foreign language is largely deter

mined by his ___D____ to the language.

A. measure

B. exposure

C. pressure

D. seizure

15.

She couldn’t understand his ____

C_____ of country life to city life.

A. liking

B. reference

C. preference

D. loving

16. The rapid ___A_____ of the country into a world power surprised the world.

A. change

B. shift

C. growth

D. break

17.

The

__A_____

of

the

various

sciences

are

in

some

way

more

important

than

the

sciences

themselves.

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A. application

B. use

C. usage

D. implication

18.

In recent years, the ___C____ of a wide variety of electronic tools has greatly speeded up the

chemists’ work.

A. production

B. research

C. development

D. making

19.

City dwellers may not be conscious of their ___D_______ of water because water supply is

convenient in the city.

A. carefulness

B. hatefulness

C. gratefulness

D. wastefulness

20. Before 1949, many poor children in China died of ____B_____.

A. shortage

B. starvation

C. hunger

D. anger

21. The use of wild animals in circuses was an innovation first introduced in the United States.

D

A. a number

B. a program

C. a musical spectacle

D. a new idea

22. In his

The Old Man and The Sea

, Ernest Hemingway celebrates the indomitable courage of an

elderly fisherman.

C

A. discusses

B. investigates

C. praises

D. analyzes

23. People who live in cold climates eagerly look forward to warm, ___C______ summer holidays.

A. airy

B. stuffy

C. sunny

D. clean

24. Why do we have to put up with this ___D_______?

A. worry

B. anxiety

C. eagerness

D. disturbance

25. A motor-car may be regarded as a ___B_______ wealth.

A. personnel

B. personal

C. individual

D. single

26. His illness may result

C

malnutrition.

A. in

B. to

C. from

D. for

27. The manager will have to hire two people to make up

B

the lost time.

A. in

B. for

C. on

D. of

28. _____D_______ between them while they waited for the girl to come back.

A. A word was hardly said

B. A word was said hardly

C. Hardly a word was said

D. Hardly was said a word

29. They supposed he was ____D_____ man to be allowed to miss his flight.

A. a too important a

B. a too important

C. too important

D. too important a

30. A motorway was ____B

___ through the garden of one house.

A. building

B. being built

C. built

D. gong to build

II. Cloze (10%)

There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A,

B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best fits into the passages.

The great power of tornadoes is almost

(31)

. The speed of this whirling funnel-shaped

(32)

may be more than 500

(33)

per hour. It can tear up trees, carry buildings away, and

can even lift large trucks

(34)

the highway. The tornado is like a giant vacuum sweeper that

(35)

up anything in its

(36)

. Experts believe that the most violent force of a tornado is

(37)

inside the funnel, where a vacuum is created because of very low air pressure. When this

vacuum

moves

(38)

a

building

which

is

filled

with

air

under

(39)

pressure,

the

difference

between

the

air

pressure

inside

the

building

and

that

outside

causes

the

building

to

explode. The largest tornado

(40)

record had a funnel a mile wide.

There are many interesting stories about the strange things that tornadoes have done in the U.S.

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Common

wheat

(41)

has

been

driven

several

inches

(42)

posts

and

trees.

Buildings

have

been

(43)

completely

around

on

their

foundations

and

have

remained

(44)

.

People

and

animals

have

been

(45)

hundreds

of

feet,

often

suffering

no

physical

harm.

Feathers have been

(46)

from chickens. Cars, trucks, and even whole freight-trains have been

carried away.

A few years ago in the

(47)

of Indiana, three people were walking into a church just as a

tornado

(48)

. Two walked up the steps into the church building and the third person went

(49)

into the basement. In that moment, the church building was carried away and the two

persons

(50)

were killed. The one in the basement was not hurt.

31. A. inbelievable

B. unknowable

C. unseeable

D. unbelievable

D

32. A. storm

B. wind

C. rain

D. breeze

D

33. A. miles

B. meters

C. inches

D. feet

A

34. A. above

B. over

C. off

D. up

D

35. A. sucks

B. breathes

C. stuck

D. struck

A

36. A. passing

B. path

C. pass

D. past

B

37. A. seen

B. looked

C. sought

D. found

A

38. A. beyond

B. into

C. over

D. off

C

39. A. normal

B. ordinary

C. common

D. usual

A

40. A. in

B. of

C. off

D. on

A

41. A. stick

B. branch

C. straw

D. grass

C

42. A. inside

B. into

C. onto

D. past

C

43. A. turned

B. moved

C. shifted

D. switched

C

44. A. unchanged

B. unwounded

C. uninjured

D. undamaged

D

45. A. brought

B. taken

C. carried

D. fetched

C

46. A. removed

B. broken

C. infected

D. split

A

47. A. county

B. city

C. state

D. province

C

48. A. stub

B. struck

C. stuck

D. stuff

B

49. A. over

B. above

C. down

D. up

C

50. A. upward

B. upstairs

C. downstairs

D. downward

B

III. Reading Comprehension

(40%)

There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some

True-False

questions or

Multiple- Choice

questions. Choose among A, B, C, and D or between T and F to answer each

question. Write the letter of your choice on your Answer Sheet.

Passage 1

If we view a science as a body of systematized knowledge, then chemistry is usually called a

natural

science

because

it

is

concerned

with

knowledge

of

the

natural

world.

At

times

we

may

wonder why

there is no complete system

into which all of chemistry fits perfectly. Gaps in the

present system, however, show that chemis

try is still a growing subject and that we haven’t yet

discovered all of its facts, laws, and theories. In other words, chemistry as a science is very much

with us today, and its future holds the bright promise of much more to come.

Man’s knowledge about h

imself and nature has grown into a variety of sciences. The growth of

the separate sciences has been more developmental than intentional. The separation of the natural

sciences into physical and biological sciences, and physical sciences into physics and chemistry,

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happily breaks up a larger body of knowledge into more manageable parts. At the same time we

should

remember

that

the

concepts,

techniques,

and

applications

of

the

various

sciences

are

interdependent and not exclusively a part of one science or another. In this respect, chemistry is a

key science among the natural sciences because everyone, regardless of the area of natural science

he wishes to pursue, needs at least an introduction to the principles and simpler applications of

chemistry as a foundation for his specialty.

Chemistry

deals

with

the

properties

of

matter,

changes

in

matter,

the

laws

and

principles

describing these changes, and the concepts and theories that interpret them. Traditionally, chemistry

has evolved into four provinces: organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry.

The traditional area of organic chemistry is concerned primarily with compounds of carbon,

and

inorganic

chemistry

deals

with

non- carbon

compounds.

Physical

chemistry,

a

productive

marriage

of

physics

with

chemistry,

includes

the

problems

of

chemical

reactions,

the

energy

associated

with

them,

the

structure

of

molecules,

and

the

nature

of

various

states

of

matter.

Analytical chemistry emphasizes the development of precise methods of analyzing the chemical

composition of substance. Analysis may be qualitative (what is in it?) or quantitative (how much of

each component is in it?). In recent years, the development of a wide variety of electronic tools has

greatly speeded up the chemist’s work and has made poss

ible more accurate measurements as well

as measurements of new factors.

Chemistry has grown up as a discipline during the past 200 years. It is younger than astronomy

but older than psychology. Today, when a student begins to study a discipline, such as chemistry, it

may appear to him that the subject is completely “worked out,” that all the answers have been found,

and that there is nothing new to discover. Because there is a huge body of knowledge

—

facts,

theories, and applications

—

already worked out, this impression is understandable. However, more

new chemistry than ever is now being discovered in these three areas. There are over tow million

entries in the current index to the chemical literature each year, and at least 300,000 new compounds

are

made

annually.

An

intellectual

discipline

must

provide

for

freedom

of

exchange

of

ideas,

discoveries, and applications. Consequently, an intellectual discipline thrives best in an academic

atmosphere.

51. If we

view

a science as a body of ….

C

A. examine

B. look at

C. consider

D. watch

52.

Gaps

in the present system, however, show that ….

D

A. distance

B. an empty space between two objects

C. difference

D. a lack (of something)

53. Chemistry deals with the

properties

of matter, ….

B

A. possession

B. quality

C. ownership

D. fortune

54. Chemistry has grown up as a

discipline

….

D

A. obedience and self-control

B. punishment

C. a method of training

D. a branch of learning

55. There are over two million

entries

in the current index to…

B.

A. entrance

B. a list

C. a gate

D. the right to enter

Passage 2

For centuries town and country have been regarded as being in opposition to each other. It has

been suggested that the superficial differences between the two

—

wide-open spaces contrasting with

brick and concrete

—

are less important than the contrasting attitudes of town and country.

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