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大学英语A4

一、阅读理解

We do love our children, but what they can do to our marriages is another story. A recent review found that marriage satisfaction dropped 42% after the first baby. The shift from lovers to parents can rock your marriage down to its roots. That's why we're here to help.

　　First，don't blame yourselves on mistakes you made. Experts say the first baby is the biggest challenge your marriage will ever face. You're both lack of experience, so it's no big deal if each of you makes any mistake. Don't feel guilty or personally responsible for the mistakes and don't blame your spouse (配偶). You're only responsible if you don't do anything to fix them up.

　　Second, talk about your frustrations (沮丧) and fatigue. You must know that kisses and hugs are not all for caring for your little one; feeding, changing, bathing and entertaining your baby make you feel exhausted physically and mentally. You should find time to talk together about your frustrations, fatigue, and even moments of anger. These feelings are normal － not a sign that you're a bad parent. Accepting each other's feelings can even keep you feeling closer.

　　Third, be frank about the losses as well as the gains. New parents often worried silently and separately about all the ways a new baby has changed their lives, creating marriage distance. A new dad may feel that the new baby has taken his place as number one in his wife's affection. A new mom may feel sad about the ways pregnancy, nursing, and the demands of child care have changed her body. These feelings are normal too. Sharing them will help you feel better.

　　Finally, take part in groups for new parents. If you compare notes with other new parents, you can be provided with emotional support. You will also have a sense of sure that, no matter how busy things are, it's just part of life. You'll be far less likely to blame your marriage and much more likely to find solutions － and feel good about what you're doing together.

1.The purpose of the passage is to ______.

A.warn lovers not to have children渝粤题库 p>

B.do some researches on marriage

C.teach people how to make friends

D.help lovers adapt to the role as parents

2.According to the author, it ______ if you make mistakes when looking after your first baby.

A.doesn't matter

B.is important

C.can do harm

D.is dangerous

3.Which of the following is suggested to be shared between couples?

A.Frustrations.

B.Fatigue.

C.Anger.

D.All of the above.

4.If you compare notes with other new parents, you will find ______.

A.life varies too much

B.it's just part of life

C.life is complicated

D.marriage is perfect

5.How many suggestions does the author give in this passage?

A.Two.

B.Three.

C.Four.

D.Five

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 成人学历 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. Germany’s ruling coalition is fighting against a proposed energy tax. In America, politicians believe that even mentioning the notion is 广东开放大学 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.Bob doesn't look his age, I guess he is somewhere in ________.

A.his forty

B.his forties

C.forties

D.forty

12.Such views might sound _______ at that period but they are out of date now.

A.senseless

B.sensitive

C.sensible

D.insensitive

13.Of the two houses the family prefers _________.

A.the more isolated one

B.the one isolated 国家开放大学 more

C.the most isolated one

D.the much isolated one

14.A good ad often uses words ______ people attach positive meanings.

A.in which

B.to which

C.which

D.that

15.Her determination to ________ her goal of life motivated her to greater effort.

A.retain

B.attain

C.maintain

D.entertain

16.This famous temple is believed _________ about 800 years ago.

A.being built

B.having built

C.to have built

D.to have been built

17.The manager promised to keep me ____ of how our business was going on.

A.to be informed

B.on informing

C.informed

D.informing

18.For most people, it takes _______ effort to memorize a long poem.

A.to consider

B.considering

C.considerable

D.considerate

19.Football is _________ the most popular sport of the world.

A.so far

B.by far

C.far from

D.much far

20.Jackson is not ________ as you imagine.

A.so a big fool

B.so big a fool

C.such big a fool

D.a such big fool

三、完型填空

Greg Midkiff gets in his car to go buy some milk. But he doesn't ___21___ drive to the grocery store and back home. He looks carefully up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___22___ such as strange cars, loud noises, broken windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Greg Midkiff belongs to a neighborhood watch group. His group meets on the third Wednesday of every month. That's ___23___ the members get together to discuss community ___24___. They want to help the police keep their homes, streets, and families safe.

Stan Weinzapfel, a policeman, said, “The ___25___ of a neighborhood watch group is to educate people about safety. In the past, you knew your ___26___ and your neighborhood. So if a strange car drove through, ___27___ knew about it. That's what we want to get now.”

“We want the criminals to know that we pay enough attention.” said Midkiff. Tina Stedman, the president of their neighborhood watch group, ___28___ Midkiff. “People seem to have the attitude that crime happens to other people but not to them. They would think: well, it's ___29___ happened to me,” she said, “but if a nearby house is burst into, I don't think you will be comfortable sitting in your own house.”

Ruth McKi 渝粤教育 nney has been in the neighborhood watch group since the 1980s. She feels the neighborhood watch groups are effective ___30___ keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees. “Police are good people, but they can't do everything,” he says.

21.

A.always

B.then

C.when

D.just

22.

A.ordinary

B.surprising

C.unusual

D.pleasant

23.

A.where

B.when

C.who

D.what

24.

A.safety

B.service

C.health

D.reward

25.

A.result

B.purpose

C.effect

D.story

26.

A.policemen

B.criminals

C.neighbors

D.visitors

27.

A.everything

B.something

C.everyone

D.someone

28.

A.agrees with

B.disagrees with

C.forgets about

D.remembers of

29.

A.always

B.sometimes

C.usually

D.never

30.

A.with

B.on

C.about

D.in

四、汉译英

31.这套设备的花费共计１万元人民币。（amount to）

e total cost of the equipment amounts to RMB10,000 yuan.

32.英语是世界上运用最广泛的语言之一。

glish is one of the most widely used languages in the world.

33.只要尽我们所能，我们就一定能实现目标。

long as we try/do our best, we can/will certainly achieve our/the goal.

34.为了提高生活水平，他不得不找一份兼职工作。

order to improve his living standard, he has to find a part-time job.

五、写作

35.写作

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

Pollution is becoming more and more serious all over the world, and people's health is threatened. How to solve this problem remains one of the most important issues for each country. Write an essay on the topic "The Problem of Pollution". You should base your essay on the following outline.

1.全球污染现象变得日益严重。

2.全世界人民都非常关注这一现象。各国政府也采取了一定的措施来解决这一问题。

3.我们应该怎么做。