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大学英语A8

一、阅读理解

No one's ability to remember names is perfect. Yet this important skill gives you the advantage in business and personal relations. "A person's own name is the sweetest and most important sound." Dale Carnegie wrote in How to Win Friends and Influence People. It is often the ticket to a friendship, a closed deal or a new partnership, and it generates instant good will in a way no other courtesy can.

Peter Dupre, a restaurateur, also makes it a point to remember names. When one of his regular customers introduced him to a friend named Connie recently, he made sure to thank her by name as she left the restaurant. "From the pleasantly shocked look on her face, I could tell not only that she would be back, but that she would bring in new customers," the restaurateur said. "Remembering one person's name in my business can get me 100 new patrons."

Forgetting someone's name, on the other hand, can cause hurt feelings and make you feel socially inept and uncomfortable. Even worse, it can create a powerfully negative first impression that works against you long afterward.

I was once a consultant to a company considering which of three senior executives to be promoted to be president. As I toured a production area with one of the candidates - a very bright and qualified man - I was surprised that he knew the names of very few employees under him. He greeted workers vaguely with "How's it going?" and substituted "son" or "kiddo" for the person's name. Since the job of company president involved considerable social interaction with a broad range of people, I noted thisin my report. He didn't get the job.

I have found that memory lapses（失误） often boil down to a question of concentration. Generally, we store important information in long-term memory and hold less-meaningful data in short-term memory. The challenge is to take the commonplace - like "that man's name" -and somehow make it significant so it gets deposited in long-term memory.

1.Remembering others' names is an important skill because ______.

A.it enables you to make more friends

B.it helps you close deals in business

C.it brings you new partners

D.all of the above

2.After Peter Dupre thanked his new customer Connie by name, ______.

A.Connie explained she was a regular customer indeed

B.Connie pretended to be pleasantly shocked

C.he knew Connie would return and bring more customers later

D.he knew Connie made a point of remembering others' names

3.What is one possible result of forgetting someone's name?

A.You are more popular with other people.

B.You are given advantage inbusiness and personal relations.

C.You may give the other persona powerfully negative first impression.

D.You will hurt no one's feelings.

4.In the last line of paragraph 4, “this” refers to ______.

A."his gift for speech"

B."his failure to greet people under him by their names"

C."his chance of being promoted to be president"

D."social interaction"

5.Memory lapses usually take place when ______.

A.one doesn't focus on things

B.one fails to distinguish important information from less-meaningful data

C.one stores important information in long-term memory

D.one finds it necessary to remember others' names

Halloween (October 31) is a holiday widely celebrated with different names in many countries. Although it originated as a religious holiday, it has lost its religious connections in the . It is now celebrated largely as a children's day, and many American children look forward to it for days and weeks beforehand.

The orange pumpkin is harvested at this time of year and is hollowed out, a funny face cut into it, and a candle placed inside as decorations in the window. City folks, nowadays, sometimes use paper pumpkins for decorations. Some years ago, the holiday was celebrated by dressing up in strange and frightening costumes and playing tricks on one's neighbors and friends, such as ringing door bells, throwing bits of corn on the window panes, and in other ways making minor disturbances. More recently, children come to the door to have friends and neighbors admire their costumes and guess who they are behind the false faces and receive treats of candy, fruit or cookies. They say, "Trick or Treat", meaning "I will play a trick on you if you do not give me a treat."

This practice has even more recently developed into a significant international activity. Instead of or along with candy, the children collect money for UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). This special collection of money by children for needy children throughout the world is known as "UNICEF Trick or Treat". Begun only recently, it results in several million dollars each year contributed to UNICEF. The collection box is orange, reminiscent of the pumpkin.

6.What does Halloween originate from?

A.A children's day.

B.A children's trick.

C.A religious day.

D.A UNICEF day.

7.What is the symbol of Halloween?

A.Pumpkin

B.Candle

C.Costumes

D.Money

8.The holiday was celebrated in the following ways some years ago EXCEPT ______.

A.putting on strange and frightening costumes

B.receiving treats of candy, fruit or cookies

C.playing tricks on one's neighbors and friends

D.ringing door bells

9.Why do children collect money in the Halloween?

A.They love money.

B.They want to get enough money to buy themselves candy.

C.The adults are willing to give them money.

D.They want to help other children.

10.The collection box is dyed orange because ______.

A.children love orange

B.orange stands for happiness

C.orange is the color of pumpkins

D.orange is loved by adults

二、词汇与语法

11.After a meal in a restaurant, you ask the waiter for the _______.

A.bill

B.note

C.receipt

D.menu

12. has been following the foreign policy to develop relations with other countries on the _______ of the five principles of peaceful co-existence.

A.basis

B.bases

C.ground

D.foundation

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

A.however

B.that

C.whatever

D.which

14.Not only _______ our money, but we were also in danger of losing our lives.

A.we lost

B.lost we

C.we did lose

D.did we lose

15.At that moment she was standing a few meters away from __________ we are now.

A.where

B.what

C.which

D.there

16.It is generally considered unwise to give a child _______ he or she wants.

A.however

B.whatever

C.whichever

D.whenever

17.You must speak slowly, so that you can make yourself ________.

A.understood

B.being understood

C.understanding

D.to be understood

18.The pilot of the plane is ________ for the passengers' safety.

A.conscious

B.responsible

C.necessary

D.regulated

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

A.whatever

B.no matter

C.as

D.however

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

A.after

B.when

C.as

D.while

三、完型填空

Everyone likes a person with good manners but no one likes a person with bad manners.

"Yes," you may say, "__21__ what are good manners? How do I know what to do and what not to do?"

Here are some examples of the things that a well-mannered person does or does not do. He never __22__ at people when they are in trouble. __23__, he tries to help them. He is always kind, never cruel, __24__ to people or animals. When people are waiting for a bus, or in a post office, he takes his turn. He does not push __25__ the front of the queue. In the bus, he gives his seat to an older person or a lady who is standing. If he accidentally bumps into someone, or gets in their way, he says "__26__me" or "I'm sorry".

He says "please" when making a request, and "Thank you" when he receives __27__. He stands up when speaking to a lady or an older person, and he does not sit down __28__ the other person is seated. He does not __29__ other people when they are talking. He does not talk too much himself. He does not talk loudly or laugh loudly in public. When eating, he does not speak __30__ his mouth full of food. He uses a handkerchief when he sneezes（打喷嚏） or coughs.

21.

A.therefore

B.or

C.but

D.so

22.

A.smiles

B.laughs

C.enjoys

D.delights

23.

A.Instead

B.Instead of

C.Rather than

D.Though

24.

A.both

B.nor

C.neither

D.either

25.

A.in

B.for

C.to

D.before

26.

A.Pardon

B.Forgive

C.Release

D.Excuse

27.

A.anything

B.something

C.everything

D.one thing

28.

A.even though

B.as

C.so that

D.until

29.

A.interrupt

B.join

C.mix up

D.bother

30.

A.when

B.with

C.after

D.since

四、汉译英

31.学习新技术的目的在于应用。

e purpose of learning a new technology lies in its application.

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.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.

34.由于2008年的奥运会，北京发生了重大变化。

e to/Because of 2008 Olympic Games, great changes in Beijing/great changes have taken place in .

五、写作

35.写作

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

There exist some social problems such as smoking, drug-abuse or unemployment. Please illustrate your opinion on the topic “The Social Problems in Our Society”. You should base your essay on the outline below.

1.列举你认为存在的社会问题。

2.分析形成这些问题的原因。

3.提出解决这些问题的建议。