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大学英语A7

一、阅读理解

During the meal, you'd better be careful not to leave a spoon in a soup bowl or coffee cup or any other dish. The coffee spoon ought to be on the saucer, the soup spoon ought to be on the plate under the bowl. When you are having soup, make the least noises and use the side of your spoon inside out this way, not the tip. And you mustn't pick up your soup bowls so as to drink away the last drops of your soup from the bottom of the bowl.

Very often there is only one main course and salad, followed by your sweet. If you find the meal not enough, say "Oh, it's delicious!" and ask for some more of the chicken or steak or whatever you have just had. The hostess will be very glad that you appreciate her cooking and will give you an extra portion. But if you observe the Chinese way of being polite and say "No, thank you" when the hostess offers you more, you will most probably starve later, because Americans will never press food on you. Yet it is not polite to keep silent and not to talk with the person next to you. It would be considered good manners if you handle your silverware with care so that they don't make any noise. When coffee comes, drink it from your cup. The coffee spoon should rest on the saucer while you are drinking. And smoking, of course, is rarely seen at a dinner table. Well, when the meal is finished, the guests put their napkins on the table and stand up, the men again helping the ladies with their chairs.

After the dinner, the guests usually stay for an hour or two, then they would say, "Well, I'm afraid I must be going now." The host and hostess would of course urge everyone to stay longer. "What, already? Won't you have another coffee?" The guests, for instance, would say, "I'd love to, but I have to be up early tomorrow morning. Thank you for a most enjoyable evening. Good-night."

And if you stay overnight or over the weekend, it will be courteousto send a thank-you note to the host or hostess the following day, very often with a small gift such as a box of chocolate or some flowers as a token of appreciation of their hospitality.

1.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A.How to Prepare for a Meal.

B.Never Press Food on Your Guest.

C.Table Manners in the U.S.A.

D.How to Enjoy a Dinner.

2.The passage suggests that ______.

A.to make the hostess happy you should ask for more food even if you are full

B.you should keep silent at a dinner table in order to be polite

C.if you want to be friendly with the person next to you, you should press food on him

D.talking is necessary at a dinner table

3.At a dinner table, you do all of the following except ______.

A.making the least noise possible

B.picking up your soup bowl to drink away the last drop

C.handling your silverware with care

D.drinking the coffee from your cup

4.What does "courteous" in the last paragraph mean?

A.Friendly

B.Generous

C.Polite

D.Noble

5.The passage implies that ______.

A.different nations have different customs

B.Chinese customs are quite similar to American ones

C.both Chinese and Americans have soup before the main course

D.if you are polite, the hostess will press more food on you

What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.

We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental (done with the mind) exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often, and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.

Parents should also be careful what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as "That was a very clever thing you did" or "You are such a smart child".

6.The questions in the first paragraph are raised to _____.

A.introduce the topic of what makes a clever mind

B.compare Albert Einstein with ordinary people

C.summarise the characters of an intelligent person

D.prove that there are no answers to these questions

7.According to the context we can guess that a genius is ______ while an idiot is ______.

A.a normal person...a funny person

B.a strong person...a weak person

C.a highly intelligent person...a foolish or weak-minded person

D.a famous person...an ordinary person

8.A person ______ is more likely to become a genius.

A.whose parents are clever

B.who often thinks about difficult problems

C.who is often helped by his parents and teachers

D.who is born with a good brain and putting it to active use

9.It is better for parents ______.

A.to praise and encourage their children more often

B.to be hard on their children

C.to leave their children alone with nothing to do

D.to give their children as much help as possible

10.Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

A.Parents play an important part in their children's growth.

B.The less you use your mind the duller you may become.

C.Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.

D.Parents should always encourage their children.

二、词汇与语法

11.Jack's university education gave him ______ over boys who had not been to college.

A.a benefit

B.a profit

C.a view

D.an advantage

12.There are too many distractions here for me to _______ my term paper.

A.look into

B.concentrate on

C.come up with

D.look down upon

13.Frequently single-parent children ____some of the functions that the absent adult in the house would have served.

A.take off

B.take after

C.take in

D.take on

14.I would ask Bob to lend us the money if I ________ him.

A.had known

B.have known　

C.knew

D.know

15.Some people waste a lot of food _______ some others haven't enough to eat.

A.after

B.when

C.as

D.while

16.His answer was so confusing that I could hardly make any ________ of it at all.

A.sense

B.meaning

C.intelligibility

D.interpretation

17.Scarcely had the car stopped ________ the cell phone began to ring.

A.than

B.when

C.after

D.before

18.The manager urged his staff not to _________ the splendid opportunity.

A.drop

B.escape

C.miss

D.slide

19.Not until 1868 ______ made the capital of the state of Georgia.

A.Atlanta was

B.was Atlanta

C.when Atlanta was

D.when was Atlanta

20.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

三、完型填空

In 1959 the average American family paid $989 __21__ a year's supply of food. In 1972 the family paid $1,311. That was a price __22__ of nearly one-third.

Every family has had this sort of experience. Everyone agrees that the cost of __23__ a family has risen sharply. But there is less agreement when reasons for the rise are being discussed. Who is really __24__?

Many blame the farmers who produce the vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, and cheese __25__ stores offer for sale. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the farmer's share of the $1,311 spent by the family in 1972 was $521. This was thirty-one percent __26__ than the farmer had received in 1959. But farmers claim that this increase was very small __27__ to the increase in their cost of living. Farmers tend to blame others for the sharp __28__ in food prices. They particularly blame those who __29__ the farm products after the products leave the farm. These include truck drivers, meat packers, manufacturers of packages and other food containers, and the owners of stores where food is sold. They are among the "middlemen" who stand __30__ the farmer and the people who buy and eat the food. Are middlemen the ones to blame for food price?

21.

A.on

B.to

C.for

D.with

22.

A.paid

B.increase

C.decrease

D.income

23.

A.expense

B.expenditure

C.feeding

D.living

24.

A.responsible

B.fault

C.reason

D.cause

25.

A.these

B.that

C.they

D.them

26.

A.rather

B.different

C.better

D.more

27.

A.leading for

B.included

C.compared

D.known

28.

A.rise

B.arise

C.promote

D.rising

29.

A.sale

B.buy

C.eat

D.process

30.

A.for

B.out

C.among

D.between

四、汉译英

31.污染的水是村民们得病的原因。

e polluted water is the cause of the villagers' disease/illness.

32.在英语学习中，我们最需要的就是练习。

learning English, what we need most is to practice.

33.我们会尽最大努力来帮助她做这个工作。

will do/try our best to help her with her/the work.

34.如果他早上八点出发，现在应该到那里了。

he started/set off at 8 o'clock in the morning, he should have been there by now.

五、写作

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

Directions:You are to write an essay on the topic "My View on Fake Commodities".You should base your composition on the outline below:

1．假冒伪劣商品状况。

2．假冒伪劣商品造成哪些危害。

3．你的态度如何。