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大学英语A9

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

A report consistently brought back by visitors to the is how friendly, courteous and helpful most Americans were to them. To be fair, this observation is also frequently made of and Canadians, and should best be considered North American. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the . Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment. For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence.

Dullness and loneliness were common problems of the families who generally lived distant from one another. Strangers and travelers were welcome sources of diversion, and brought news of the outside world. The harsh realities of the frontier also shaped this tradition of hospitality.

Someone traveling alone, if hungry, injured, or ill, often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cabin or settlement. It was not a matter of choice for the traveler or merely a charitable impulse on the part of the settlers. It reflected the harshness of daily life: if you didn’t take in the stranger and take care of him, there was no one else who would. And someday, remember, you might be in the same situation. Today there are many charitable organizations which specialize in helping the weary traveler. Yet, the old tradition of hospitality to strangers is still very strong in the , especially in the smaller cities and towns away from the busy tourist trails. "I was just traveling through, got talking with this American, and pretty soon he invited me home for dinner - amazing." Such observations reported by visitors to the are not uncommon, but are not always understood properly.

The casual friendliness of many Americans should be interpreted neither as superficial nor as artificial, but as the result of a historically developed cultural tradition. As is true of any developed society, in a complex set of cultural signals, assumptions, and conventions underlies all social interrelationships. And, of course, speaking a language does not necessarily mean that someone understands social and cultural patterns. Visitors who fail to "translate" cultural meanings properly often draw wrong conclusions. For example, when an American uses the word "friend", the cultural implications of the word may be quite different from those it has in the visitor’s language and culture. It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest. Yet, being friendly is a virtue that many Americans value highly and expect from both neighbors and strangers.

6.In the eyes of visitors from the outside world, ___________.

A.rude taxi drivers are rarely seen in the

B.small-minded officials deserve a serious comment

C.Canadians are not so friendly as their neighbors

D.most Americans are ready to offer help

7.It could be inferred from the last paragraph that ___________.

A.culture exercises an influence over social interrelationship

B.courteous convention and individual interest are interrelated

C.various virtues manifest themselves exclusively among friends

D.social interrelationships equal the complex set of cultural conventions

8.Families in frontier settlement 成人学历 s used to entertain strangers ___________.

A.to improve their hard life

B.in view of their long-distance travel

C.to add some flavor to their own daily life

D.out of a charitable impulse

9.The tradition of hospitality to strangers ___________.

A.tends to be superficial and artificial

B.is generally well kept up in the

C.is always understood properly

D.has something to do with the busy tourist trails

10.What’s the author’s attitudes toward the American’s friendliness?

A.Favorable.

B.Unfavorable.

C.Indifferent.

D.Neutral.

二、词汇与语法

11.Scientists everywhere are trying to _______ a cure for AIDS.

A.expect

B.invent

C.discover

D.make

12.Miss White said she met him _______ chance yesterday morning.

A.with

B.by

C.for

D.through

13.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

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

A.however

B.that

C.whatever

D.which

15.______ Jerry at 8 o'clock. He will have had his breakfast by then.

A.Pick out

B.Pick at

C.Pick on

D.Pick up

16.That poorly dressed old man felt quite ________ at such a big party attended by many important figures.

A.in the way

B.out of the way

C.out of place

D.in place

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

A.sense

渝粤题库 B.meaning< 渝粤教育 /p>

C.intelligibility

D.interpretation

18.He left orders that nothing ______ until the police arrived.

A.was touched

B.had been touched

C.should be touched

D.were touched

19.How did you like the ________ of the interpreter at the press conference?

A.performance

B.achievement

C.material

D.words

20.The pilot of 广东开放大学 the plane is ________ for the passengers' safety.

A.conscious

B.responsible

C.necessary

D.regulated

三、完型填空

In , winter is the season not only for visits to the theatre, opera, concerts and ballet, but also for shopping or for sightseeing.

, one of the coldest cities in the world, has plenty to offer during the winter months, __21__ in the way of entertainment-and the shops act like a magnet with __22__ array of presents for the Christmas shopper, followed by large scale bargains in the January sales. But it's not only that __23__ value shopping-most of our suburban and provincial centres have just as much to offer to the __24__ shopper.

__25__ you're based in , you don't have to spend all your time there-and that goes for all the year __26__, too. Take a train or coach and see what __27__ Britain has to offer; there are many excursions, even in winter, and among the great country houses __28__ keep their stately front doors open throughout the year are Longleat and Woburn Abbey. Hire a car and drive across __29__ the beauty of the winter landscape-the scenery will be __30__ beautiful-and the people will have more time to chat to you at this time of year.

21.

A.normally

B.especially

C.occasionally

D.generally

22.

A.its

B.that

C.those

D.their

23.

A.offers

B.opens

C.shows

D.follows

24.

A.eager

B.lazy

C.lonely

D.nervous

25.

A.As though

B.As for

C.Even if

D.As long as

26.

A.over

B.about

C.through

D.round

27.

A.ever

B.else

C.other

D.others

28.

A.where

B.what

C.which

D.those

29.

A.into

B.on

C.over

D.from

30.

A.still

B.ever

C.as much as

D.even more

四、汉译英

31.这个会议室不够大,容纳不了300人。

is meeting room is not big enough to hold 300 people.

32.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 .

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.与同事们和睦相处对我来说很重要。

's important for me to get along with the/my colleagues.

五、写作

35.写作

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

Directions:You are to write an essay on the topic “How to Improve Traffic Conditions”. You should base your essay on the outline below.

1．目前我国的城市交通状况

2．造成这种状况的原因

3．可能的解决方案