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大学英语A7

一、阅读理解

Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa? Talking? What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about? Betty shrugs. Talk? We're friends. Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is "marked and unmistakable."

More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress. "Most women," says Rubin, "identified at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives."

"In general," writes Rubin in her new book, "women's friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are marked by shared activities." For the most part, Rubin says, interactions between men are emotionally controlled - a good fit with the social requirements of "manly behavior."

"Even when a man is said to be a best friend," Rubin writes, "the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa."

1.What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ______.

A.he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

B.women have so much to share

C.women show little interest in ballgames

D.he finds his wife difficult to talk to

2.Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to ______.

A.a male friend

B.a female friend

C.her parents

D.her husband

3.According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?

A.Ending his marriage without good reason.

B.Spending too much time with his friends.

C.Complaining about his marriage trouble.

D.Going out to ballgames too often.

4.Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph?

A.Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves.

B.Women are more serious than men about marriage.

C.Men often take sudden action to end their marriage.

D.Women depend on others in making decisions.

5.The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around _____.

A.happy and successful marriages

B.friendships of men and women

C.emotional problems in marriage

D.interactions between men and women

“You’re trying to control my life,” says my nine-year-old son. “I don’t know why you think you can do that, but you can’t.” I received this bit of information after I asked Gabriele to put his dirty socks in the basket. And I get no sympathy from my mother, who says,“You let him have his way from the beginning.”

It’s true. I have always asked Gabriele’s opinion, found out how he felt about things - treated him as my peer, not my child. And what have I got from my troubles? A lot of back talk. At least I’m not alone; it’s a complaint heard among parents across the country.

It’s not just that we’re confused by the contradictory advice offered in parenting books. The fact is, in an effort to break away from how we were raised - to try something more liberal than our parents’ “do it because I say so”approach - our generationhas gone too far. “Today’s parents want to be young, so they try to be friends with their children,”says Kathy Lynn, a parenting educator.

“When it comes to discipline, our society has gone from one extreme to the other,”says Ron Moorish, a behavior specialist. “We used to use the strap, to intimidate. Then we had permissiveness, and now it’s about giving children choices and allowing them to learn from their own experiences.”

Real discipline, says Moorish, is about teaching. “By correcting our children when they do something wrong, we teach them how to behave properly,”he says. But this only works, he emphasizes, if parents regain their position of authority. Children will always be children. The key is for parents to choose to take the time to guide and teach their kids.

Rita Munday, a mother of four children, couldn’t believe the dramas that played out in the children’s shoe store she operated. She often saw children insist on having the high-priced, brand-name shoes. And even when the mother didn’t want to spend the money, she would give in when the kid started acting up and throwing shoes around.

Rhonda Radice, Munday’s younger colleague, is one parent who has bucked the trend and is proud of it. “I don’t negotiate with them. You can’t. I’ve seen parents come into the store and bribe their children to behave. You shouldn’t have to buy love and respect.”

6.The author’s way of treating her son ____________.

A.is shared by many parents

B.is encouraged by her mother

C.proves to be quite successful

D.shows little concern for the child

7.It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

A.parents should learn to make friends with their children

B.parents need to follow the advice of parenting books

C.today’s children enjoy more freedom than the previous generation

D.today’s parents are better at raising children than the previous generation

8.According to the passage, to have “discipline”means that parents should ___________.

A.adopt the “do it because I say so”approach

B.teach their children to understand the rules

C.negotiate with their children for a decision

D.never allow their children to have their ways

9.If Ronda Radice is the parent who has “bucked the trend”, which of the following can also be cited as the example for “bucking the trend”?

A.Parents buy whatever their children want.

B.Parents treat their children as their equals.

C.Parents make decisions for their children.

D.Parents maintain authority over their children.

10.The main point of the passage is to __________.

A.compare different ways of raising children

B.analyze the problems faced by today’s parents

C.explain the importance of understanding children

D.point out the mistakes made by the older generation

二、词汇与语法

11.Before I can give you an estimate,I must _______ the amount of material required.

A.make out

B.work out

C.turn out

D.pick out

12.The storage vessel has a ________ of 10,000 liters.

A.capacity

B.capability

C.ability

D.faculty

13.Put the statue ____ we can all see it.

A.which

B.where

C.when

D.what

14.The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ________ as the plane was making a landing.

A.seated

B.seating

C.seat

D.to be seating

15.John suggested _________ anything about it until they found out more facts.

A.not to say

B.not say

C.to say not

D.not saying

16.- Hurry, there is a bus coming.

- Why run? There'll be another ______.

A.one in two or three minutes

B.one after two or three minutes

C.after two or three minutes

D.one for two or three minutes

17.- How exciting! I drove my new car at a speed of 110km/h on Sunday morning.

- Were you crazy? You ________ yourself!

A.must have killed

B.would have killed

C.should have killed

D.could have killed

18.They ________ thankful to have the opportunity to further their studies.

A.would like to be

B.ought to be

C.would rather be

D.had better be

19.On hearing the news of _____the examination, the boy was very happy.

A.his having passed

B.he passed

C.his being passed

D.to pass

20.You may get good grades by studying only before examinations, but you will only succeed ________ by studying hard every day.

A.in particular

B.in the long run

C.in season

D.in the end of

三、完型填空

Arnold Alexander's funeral was a quiet __21__. It was attended by the only __22__ he had in the world, his niece and nephew, and by a few friends. The priest who had travelled __23__ a hundred miles into this wild part of the county was now getting ready for the simple ceremony. Alexander, or 'Alex' as his friends __24__ call him, had led a hard life __25__ for gold in a lonely part of Western Australia. He had always refused to work in a gold mine __26__ he believed that he could do better on his own. Although he was not a boastful person, he had often declared that one day he __27__ find a lump of gold as big as his head and with that he would retire and live in 30 for the rest of his life. But his dreams of great wealth __28__ came true. For many years he had hardly earned enough money to keep himself alive.

Two men now gently lifted the rough wooden box that __29__ Alex's body, but they almost dropped it when they heard a loud cry from the grave-digger. His spade had struck something hard in the rocky soil and he was shouting excitedly. Then he held up a large stone. Though it was covered __30__ dirt, the stone shone curious1yin the fierce sun1ight:it was unmistakably a heavy piece of solid gold!

21.

A.accident

B.event

C.affair

D.incident

22.

A.relation

B.relations

C.relationship

D.relationships

23.

A.to

B.of　

C.in 　

D.over

24.

A.liked

B.past

C.used 　

D.used to

25.

A.look

B.looking　

C.looked

D.had looked

26.

A.because

B.so　

C.even

D.only

27.

A.would

B.must

C.ought to

D.for

28.

A.ever

B.never　

C.always

D.once

29.

A.contains　

B.containing

C.contained

D.having contained

30.

A.in　

B.with　

C.within

D.below

四、汉译英

31.电视上动画片太多了，以致于很多孩子熬夜看电视。

ere are so many cartoons on TV that many children stay up late to watch them.

32.他们受到的教育越多，就越能更好地完成工作。

e better educated they are/The more education they receive, the better they can perform in their work.

33.我们想知道她是否会出席这个音乐会。

are wondering whether she will attend/come to this concert.

34.他记得在离开阅览室时，把灯关上了。

remembered turning off the light when he left the reading-room.

五、写作

35.写作

Instructions:Your essay should be no less than 150 words.

There are different ways of getting information: reading, watching TV, or surfing the Internet（上网）. Write an essay on the topic "Ways of Getting Information". You should base your essay on the outline below.

1.现代社会获取信息方式的多样化。

2.你更喜欢哪种方式，原因是什么。

3.不同的人为不同的目的应选择合适的方式。