大学英语(二)
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山东建筑大学继续教育学院试卷 第 1 张共 3 张 4. She pressed her lips together, trying to _______tears. 大学英语（二）试题 A. give up B. burst into C. hold back D. take back 5. Donald McIntyre was arrested by the police on suspicion of being connected in the ________ disappearance of a man. Part I Vocabulary (20 points) A. evident B. ancient Directions: Fill in the blanks with the proper words given below. Change the form where C. critical D. mysterious necessary. Write the words chosen on your answer sheet. 6. I have ______to tell you. burst into absorb minor critical to your taste the latter command echo at first glance contact decrease take back relieve find out hazard 1. At first, Tom found it difficult to ________ what his teachers said in class. 2. I’ll _______ you by telephone when I hear anything new. 3. Jim had a ______ problem with his car, but he fixed it himself. 4. __________, the essay looked quite good, but actually it was full of mistakes. 5. Henry listened and heard nothing but the _________ of his own voice. 6. There are plastic and wooden garden chairs but _______ are more expensive. 7. They are making further efforts to _________ the cost of production. 8. It’s true that these Herbs (药草) can be used to ________ pain. 9. We have a great variety of pictures for you to choose from. You can select the one which is most ____________. 10. After spending a year in Australia, the little girl has gained quite a good __________ of spoken English. Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20 points) Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. 1. As anyone who has ________ an accident will tell you, the apparent security of cars is deceptive (给人以假象的). A. sampled B. survived C. vanished D. scraped 2. The policeman told the children _____play in the street. A. didn't B. to not C. not to D. don't 3. Many of the stars can't be seen because they are too____. A. near to us B. far behind C. far away •D. close to the earth A. important something B. something important C. important anything D. anything important 7. However, promotion is not always easy to achieve, as I _______when I first returned to work in 1977 after my degree course. A. turned out B. acted out C. found out D. sought out 8. Many people enjoy the book Harry Potter _____ by JK Rowling. A. who writes B. which was written C. was written D. which is writing 9. Go and find out _____ there will be a train for Shanghai today. A. whether B. that C. When D. where 10. There's too much noise. _____ of the two boys can fall asleep. A. All B. Both C. None D. Neither 11. The only way to______ a fear is to face it, and to do so as frequently as possible. A. commit B. enlarge C. communicate D. conquer 12. I like reading this kind of books,_____. A. up and down B. the more, the better C. once again D. not only 13. ----How did you do in yesterday's test? ----Not very well, _____. A. I'm afraid B. of course C. thank you D. I'm sure 14. Please ____the word in the dictionary if you don't understand it. A. look up B. keep on C. have a look D. pick up 15. ----- ______, Mr. White? You don't look well. -----I've got a bad cold for two days. A. How are you B. What's the trouble C. How are you feeling D. How are you getting on 山东建筑大学继续教育学院试卷 第 2 张共 3 张 16. Music, for both of us, is a part of life we treasure, and Michael has found his records and “But good news on the other hand, lifts us up,” he stressed, citing the date of July 4, 1976, America’s Bicentennial(两百年的) celebration. “On that way, we all felt safe and good. Being tapes a constant ________ of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him. American was the thing. We all felt as if we all belonged together.” A. source B. illustration C. addition D. package Recent tests support these conclusions. In one experiment, 60 subjects were exposed to good news, bad news or music. Then they were told to play a game with a non-existent person 17. A sob caught his throat and he coughed to ________ it. supposedly in another room. It was a game of choice that emphasized cooperation or A. prohibit B. mask competition. C. emit D. crash 18. At 6:30 a.m. next morning the train ________ Central Station, Glasgow. After hearing good news, the overwhelming majority, 91 percent, played cooperatively. But after hearing bad news, competitive responses were over three times as high—up to 28 A. pulled into B. came down percent, from 9 percent. C. laid out D. sought out “If we watch television and see a lot of blood,” said Dr. Hornstein, “we’re probably assuming that 19. Early in the morning, I was ______ out of bed to repair a minor fault on the car. the world is a dirtier place than we assumed before we saw that TV violence. And we’ll deal with A. distracted B. dragged the next individual we C. wakened D. assigned 20. A personal friend of an artist may have a real _________ in writing criticism (批评), as he come upon as if he is part of that grim(冷酷的) picture of humanity. After the good news, it’s the reverse.” may learn about the artistic intentions which are not explained to others. 1. According to the findings of researchers at Columbia University, when people hear good news, A. advantage B. observation they feel___________. C. background D. privacy PartⅢ. Reading Comprehension (20 points) A. happier B. more kindly toward others Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some C. safer than they really are D. more competitive 2. Dr. Harvey Hornstein found that when people hear news about one person actually doing harm questions, and to each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best to another, they tend to ________________. answer according the passages. Passage One A. regard other people as worse than they really are The good news we get from TV and radio makes us feel more kindly toward other people, but B. treat total strangers as suspects of cruel crimes bad news—especially news of cruelty and violence—stirs up suspicion and a sense of C. become hostile towards neighbors and friends competition toward others. D. think about the common problems facing mankind These are the findings of 10 years of experiments by research psychologists(心理学家) at 3. What did Dr. Hornstein and his associates discover on the night of June 4, 1968? Columbia University, who conclude that broadcasters encourage hostile(敌对的) behavior by A. Robert F. Kennedy was shot. B. Their wallets were lost. stressing bad news. C. People in America suddenly became dishonest. “We found that the news people are exposed to either encourages them to concentrate on the D. Nobody returned the wallets they dropped. differences between themselves and others, or on the common problems that make them feel, 4. We can infer from the passage that on July 4, 1976, most probably___________. “We’re all in this together,” explained Dr. Harvey Hornstein. A. people drank and sang and danced “News about one human being helping another … brings out feelings of trust and B. lost wallets were returned to their owners cooperation. But news about one person actually doing harm to another changes our estimate of C. everybody wanted to be American other people for the worse.” D. even criminals were friendly to others In an early experiment in 1968, Dr. Hornstein and his associates, who had been dropping 5. We can conclude from the passage that________________. wallets (钱包) for two years to test the honesty of people, discovered that on June 4, 1968, not A. violence on TV leads to more violence on the streets one wallet was returned. B. broadcasters should emphasize good news rather than bad news “That was the night Robert F. Kennedy was shot,” he recalled. “Strangers suddenly seemed C. the world is a dirtier place than we assume it to be dangerous, and nobody wanted to return a lost wallet to a stranger. D. people are more competitive when they are faced with challenges 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/882b285c571810a6f524ccbff121dd36a32dc48d.html