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大学英语A5

一、阅读理解

The purpose of this part of the book is to help you become more efficient in reading by speeding up the process generally. Most people can learn to cover material much faster than they do now while maintaining a high level of comprehension.

Improvement in reading efficiency has several major benefits. We need reading skills to benefit from the wealth of information that is now available in printed form. Most people get the rough outlines of their daily news from television and radio. However, the printed word still provides the in-depth coverage of topics that really produces well-informed people. is also a great source of entertainment for many people. For students, it is the primary method of studying.

The time you now spend reading can be made much more productive by increasing your reading rate. For some people this will mean that they can obtain more information in the same length of time. For others it will mean that time now devoted to reading can be used in other more interesting and profitable ways.

To determine how fast you are reading, you first have to get some idea of the number of words in a given passage. Then you simply divide the number of words by the number of minutes it takes to read. That will give your rate in words per minute.

1.The passage is taken from______.

A.a story book

B.a news report

C.a report on a scientific research

D.a book on reading

2.Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit from reading according to the passage?

A.Reading will help readers get more information.

B.By reading readers will have an in-depth coverage of daily news.

C.Students must read so that they can master knowledge.

D.Improvement of reading helps readers get outlines of daily news.

3.This passage mainly discusses______.

A.different kinds of reading

B.the importance of improving reading skills and how to calculate reading rate

C.reading as a source of entertainment

D.different ways to improve reading speed

4.“reading efficiency”in Paragraph 2 means______.

A.the average reading rate

B.the ability of reading fast with a good understanding

C.reading materials readers like

D.reading habits

5.Reading speed can be calculated by______.

A.counting how many words a reader has read

B.dividing the total number of words a reader read by the time he spends on reading

C.timing how many minutes a reader has read

D.asking help from the teacher

Remember global warming? Back in December, the threat of climate change was thundering and the rich countries agreed to cut their carbon-dioxide and other green-house-related emissions. Since then, interest has cooled markedly, and many European countries are already running away from the promises they made so loudly a few months ago. But there has been much talk, and a bit of action, to encourage renewable energies such as wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms. These emit no greenhouse gases, but tend to cost more than coal, oil or gas.

The better, simpler idea is to remember that the easiest way to reduce something is to tax it - in this case, by taxing the carbon content power. The dirtier the power, the more tax it would pay. So dirty coal would be more expensive than clean coal, which would see its price rise in relation to oil, which would be more expensive compared with gas, which would lose some of its price advantage over renewables.

Unless a carbon tax was so huge as to be economically crippling, it would not remove the price differential between all renewables and fossil fuels. But it would narrow that gap, by fixing the differing environmental costs into the price - a useful principle in itself. It would also give renewable producers a strong incentive to cut costs, and fossil-fuel suppliers the motivation to clean their products.

Precedents suggest strongly that a carbon tax would be effective. But the disadvantage to carbon tax is political. After almost a decade of trying, the European Union gave up an attempt at a European carbon tax last year. ’s ruling coalition is fighting against a proposed energy tax. In , politicians believe that even mentioning the notion is certain death. But many of the political objections could be met if a carbon tax were made up for the loss elsewhere, for example by lowering payroll or sales taxes. There is always suspicion when governments come up with clever new ways to tax, and rightly so. The response to that suspicion should be to win the argument, not to abandon it.

6.According to the passage, the easiest way to remove global warming is ___________.

A.to encourage people to use renewable energies

B.to cut down the cost of wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms

C.to force people to pay more tax for the carbon content of power

D.to talk less but act more

7.The standard of paying tax was _________.

A.that the more carbon content of power it contained, the higher tax one would pay

B.that oil would be more expensive than clean coal

C.that renewables would be most expensive of all

D.in the order that renewables are the most expensive while clean coal the cheapest

8.We can infer from the passage that carbon tax ___________.

A.may not be as effective as people expect

B.has encouraged renewable producers to cut costs

C.has reduced consumption of the carbon content energy successfully

D.couldn’t be that effective if fossil fuels would not be forbidden

9.The word “crippling”(Para. 3) most probably means _________.

A.greatly increasing

B.seriously weakening

C.sharply declining

D.abruptly halting

10.The reason why many countries stopped introducing carbon tax eventually was mainly that ___________.

A.governments had tried to put it into effect for many years but with no obvious result

B.if one country made up the loss by paying the carbon tax, other countries would follow it

C.governments were afraid of being suspected if they adopted the new tax

D.governments had been discussing what to do with carbon tax for a long time, but they hadn’t come to an agreement

二、词汇与语法

11.We were so busy that we had to _______ going on holiday for a month.

A.put out

B.put away

C.put down

D.put off

12.After what he has done for you, I think you should have given him some support, _______ you disagree with him.

A.no matter what

B.however much

C.whatever

D.wherever

13.Bill always does _______ he pleases, without regard to the feelings of others.

A.however

B.that

C.whatever

D.which

14.Only after he has acquired considerable facility in speaking _______ to learn to read and write.

A.he began

B.will he begin

C.did he begin

D.must he begin

15.He won't succeed any way, ________ hard he tries.

A.whatever

B.no matter

C.as

D.however

16.He has gone to the post office to ________ a parcel that has come to him from his brother.

A.gather

B.mail

C.collect

D.pick

17.At the end of 2004, there were around 6,000 foreign printing companies in , ______ up around 4 percent of national total.

A.made

B.to make

C.making

D.having made

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

A.after

B.when

C.as

D.while

19.By the time he arrives in , we ________ here for two days.

A.shall stay

B.have been staying

C.will have stayed

D.have stayed

20.Purchasing the new production line will be a ________ deal for the company.

A.forceful

B.profitable

C.tremendous

D.favorite

三、完型填空

The book is the best research machine invented. Since mass printing began a few hundred years ago, it has given hundreds of millions of people __21__ they could not have found anywhere else.

But many readers don't know __22__ a book is organized to help them. They see the different elements of a book. However, the __23__ for such organization puzzles them.

The first thing to look at is the title and author. __24__, a title doesn't tell you very much about what is inside, but usually it does. Sometimes a subtitle __25__ you more information than the main title. __26__ a book has a dust jacket, read the inside flops（书封皮折向里面的部分）. They usually give you a fairly good breakdown of __27__ the book is about. Behind the title page in most books is the copyright notice. It is __28__ to look at this, especially the last date of copyright. Suppose you are studying space travel, a book with a 1916 copyright will not __29__ moon landings.

Check the author's background, if possible. Now and then, you can find it in a beginning part called a preface. Read carefully about the author. Do you think he or she is __30__ to write on the book's subject? Does his or her background make the author an expert in this field?

21.

A.things

B.machines

C.research

D.information

22.

A.that

B.how

C.what

D.whether

23.

A.reason

B.rule

C.routine

D.value

24.

A.All at once

B.Ever since then

C.Every now and then

D.Once in a while

25.

A.shows

B.gives

C.presents

D.supplies

26.

A.If

B.As

C.Since

D.Though

27.

A.what

B.which

C.that

D.there

28.

A.possible

B.convenient

C.easy

D.important

29.

A.report

B.lecture

C.cover

D.expose

30.

A.skilled

B.selected

C.qualified

D.specified

四、汉译英

31.互联网使每个人在任何地方和任何时候接受教育成为可能。

e Internet makes it possible for everyone to receive education anywhere and anytime/that everyone can receive education anywhere and anytime.

32.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.

33.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.

34.昨天我去拜访他，看看他是否能解决这个问题。

visited him yesterday to see if he could work out /solve the problem.

五、写作

35.写作

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

There exist some environmental problems in our country. Please illustrate your opinion on the topic “The Environmental Problems in Our Country”. You should base your essay on the outline below.

1.列举存在的环境问题。

2.分析形成这些问题的原因。

3.提出解决问题的建议。