法语大学英语二考试B

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2010年春季学期2009级法语专业 《大学英语》（二）课程考试试卷( B 卷)

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一、 从以下每题四个答案中选出最合适的一个选项或与下划线单词意思最接近的选项。 (每小题 1 分，共 10 分)

1. I strongly _____of anyone who goes out at night and leaves his or her children alone. A. disapprove B. disprove C. object D. oppose

2. They sent out more than 30 invitations to the seminar, but only 20 people showed up. A. turned up B. took part in C. attended D. accepted

3. Nobody ventured to speak to the angry King.

A. attempted

B. volunteered

C. dared

D. wanted 4. The children ____ in line, then walked quietly into the school

A. gathered

B. stood

C. formed

D. performed

5. She showed the caring side of her nature when she opened a hostel for homeless people.

A. concerning

B. sensitive

C. generous

D. loving 6.Do not let yourself be persuaded into buying things that you do not really want. A. cheated into B. talked into C. made into D. misled into 7. Scientists in California believe they may have discovered a way to delay the aging process..

A. prolong

B. stop

C. postpone

D. quicken

8. Soccer hooligans just laughed at the sort of sentence that the court gave them

A. smiled at

B. made fun of

C. accepted

D. obediently

9. He tried to steer the conversation away from such dangerous topics A. change B. pick C. select D. elect

10．The man who installed our washing machine advised me not to use the hottest wash. A. checked B. set up C. repaired D. disassembled

二．为下列空白选出最合适的一个词并将代码填入空白处。(每小题 1 分，共 10 分)

Proper street behavior in the United States requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a 1 just enough to show that you’re 2 of his presence. If you look too little, you appear haughty or furtive, too much 3 you’re inquisitive. Usually what happens is that people 4 each other until they are about eight feet 5 , at which point both cast down their eyes. Sociologist Erving Goffman 6 this as “a kind of dimming 昏暗 of lights.”

Much of eye behavior is so 7 that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a 8 with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes. 9 are he looks at you more often than is usual with 10 a little longer than the normal. You interpret this as a sign —a polite one —that he is interested in you as a person rather than just in the topic of conversation. Probably you also feel that he is both self confident and sincere. 1. A. friend B. foreigner C. passerby D. stranger 2. A. aware B. curious C. ignorant D. upset 3. A. so B. or C. and D. but

4. A. peep B. stare C. gaze D. eye

5. A. aside B. apart C. away D. adjacent

6. A. demonstrates B. describes C. deduces D. designates

7. A. vague B. obscure C. subtle D. uncertain

8. A. discussion B. communication C. greeting D. conversation 9. A. Chances B. Possibilities C. Opportunities D. Expectations 10. A .glances B. touches C. talks D. sights

三．英译汉（20 分)

“We are slaves to nothing but the clock,” it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. We budget 预算 it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge 收费for it. It is a precious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass 沙漏, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count.

四．阅读。（每小题 2 分，共 40分)

Passage One

As infants, we live without a sense of the past; as adults, we can recall events from

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decades ago. Scientists have only a vague understanding of this remarkable transition, when our sense of time expands beyond this morning’s feeding and last week’s both, but now they know a bit more: Conor Liston of Harvard University has determined that the beginnings of long-term recall arise between the ninth and the 17th month of a baby’s life, coinciding with structural changes in the memory-processing regions of the brain. Besides explaining why Junior doesn’t remember last month’s trip to Disney World, these results should help guide future research on the link between early behavioral development and changes in the infant brain.

“It wasn’t clear how long children in the first year of life could retain a memory of an event, ” Liston said. “We were interested in testing the hypothesis that neurological developments at the end of the first year and the beginning of the second would result in a significant enhancement in this kind of memory.”

Liston showed a simple demonstration to infants ages 9, 17, or 24 months old.

The test results showed a huge difference between the test children who had been 9 months old when they saw the first demonstration and those who had been older. Whereas 9-month-olds don’t really remember a thing afte r four months, 17-and 24-month-olds do.” Liston says, “something is happening in the brain between 9 and 17 months old that enables children to encode these memories efficiently and in such a way that they can be retained and retrieved after a long period of time,” Liston say. Re searchers believe that changes in certain regions of the brain’s drive the rapid expansion of childhood recall. Previous studies have shown that the frontal lobes in humans begin to mature during the last quarter of the first year of life.

Liston’s work many help explain why adults can rarely remember anything from before their second birthday or so. Most people simply accept his “ infant amnesia “ as a fact of life. “but it’s not clear why a 40-year-old has plenty of memories for something that happened 20 years ago, but a 20-year-old has basically no memories for something that happened when he was 2 or 3,” Liston says. He suggests that the same brain mechanisms that were not yet able to encode long-term memories in 9-moth-olds may also play some role in adults’ inability to remember events of infancy. Researchers still need to look at other areas of cognition-such as what role language ability plays in memory-to really fully understand why people can’t remember anything that happen ed before 2-3 years of age. But one thing is clear: When 1-year-old Snookums claims he doesn’t remember breaking the heirloom china five months ago, he’s almost surely telling the truth.

1. Conor Liston___

A. has only a vague understanding of infants’ poo r memory

B. has found something more about the origin of long-term recall

C. has detected the regions of the brain responsible for memory-processing

D. has established a theory about memory development

2. According to this passage, __may promote the rapid expansion of childhood recall. A. the development of a sense of the past B. the last quarter of the first year of life C. certain regions of the brain

D. the maturation 成熟 of the frontal lobes 前突in humans

3. According to Liston, ____initiate(s) the long-term recall ability of child A. early behavioral developemt

B. the memory-processing regions of the brain

C. the changes in the brain between 9 and 17 months old

D. the changes in the brain between 17 and 24 months old

4. According to this passage, it is normal that___

A. a 1-year-old cannot recall what has happened one month ago

B. a 20-year-old can recall what happened when he was 2

C. a 20-year-old fails to recall what has happened one month ago

D. a 40-year-old has few memories for an event that happened 20 years ago

5. The proper title for this passage should be____ A. L isten’s Testing

B. Forgetting and Memory

C. Baby’s forgotten Years

D. The Role Language Ability Plays in Memory

Passage Two

Making and selling fake copies of well-known products has been a nice little earner for crafty craftsmen over thousands of years: in Roman Gaul, unscrupulous potters would put the seals of better-known competitors on their urns so they would sell better. Until the 1980s, counterfeiting was a relatively small-scale business, restricted mainly to copying luxury fashion items, such as watches and leather goods, in limited quantities. But in the 1990s it was transformed into a much bigger, broader industry, with large-scale production and distribution of false versions of such everyday items as biscuits and shampoo. Modern technology is making it ever easier to create near-perfect copies of branded goods for a fraction of the retail price of the real thing.

By its nature, the extent of counterfeiting is hard to measure precisely, but a study by the International Chamber of Commerce reckoned that it grew from perhaps 3% of world trade in 1990s to 5% in 1995. John Pepper, chairman of Procter& gamble, a consumer-goods multinational, says it may now be 7%-9%, or over $450 billion a year.

In some developing countries, the authorities have had, at beat, an ambivalent attitude towards the booming manufacture of fake goods in their midst. After all, it created jobs for local people and, at first sight, appears only to hurt foreign firms, Thus the richer countries whose firms are the main victims have had to use a mixture of persuasion and threats to get poorer nations to crack down on the pirates, The Uruguay round of world trade talks, which ended in 1994, resulted in an Agreement on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual-Property Rights (Trips), which obliges all member countries of the World Trade Organization to impose penalties for counterfeiting and other breaches of intellectual-property rights: to enforce their piracy laws adequately: and to help firms inhibit trade in faked versions of their products.

Besides offering poorer countries trade privileges in return for a clampdown on counterfeiting, rich countries have tried convincing them that if they try harder to enforce intellectual-property rights, they will win more foreign investment. But, realizing that persuasion is having little effect, they are also resorting to threats: on January 15th, America issued a warning to the Philippines and Taiwan, two of the world’s leading piracy centers, that they may have their trade privileges taken away unless they crack down harder on the counterfeiting gangs. Taiwan’s justice minister, Chen Ding -nan, has

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vowed to rid the island of its reputation are a pirates’ den. But the coun terfeiters are mocking his efforts: some pirated video discs of the new James Bond film “Die Another Day”, widely available on Taiwan’s streets, carry the taunting message “come and catch me, Chen Ding-nab”.

6. The first paragraph is written to tell us that___.

A. the history of counterfeiting 赝品 is more than thousands of years.

B. counterfeiting is an effective way to make more money

C. modern technology is responsible for the booming manufacture of fake goods

D. counterfeiting has become more and more rampant

7. The second paragraph is mainly about___. A. the extent of counterfeiting in world trade

B. the difficulty to measure the extent of counterfeiting

C. a study by the International Chamber of Commerce

D. what John Pepper, chairman of Procter & Gamble, says

8. The underlined word “ambivalent” in the third paragraph most probably means___

A. critical

B. contradictory

C. positive

D. negative

9. in order for poorer countries to crack down on counterfeiting,___ A. more jobs have to be created there for local people B. rich countries resort to both persuasion and treats C. the World Trade Organization was set up

D. the Uruguay 乌拉圭 round of world trade talk was held in 1994

10. Rich countries intend to ____

A. offer poorer countries trade privileges

B. take away the trade privileges they have given poorer countries

C. clamp down counterfeiting in poorer countries

D. threaten the counterfeiting gangs in Philippines and Taiwan

Passage Three

Central Park, emerging from a period of abuse and neglect, remains one of the most popular attractions in New York City, with half a million out-of-towners among the more than 3 million people who visit the park yearly. About 15 million individual visits are made each year.

Summer is the season fir softball, concerts and Shakespeare; fall is 5 stunning; winter is wonderful for sledding, skating and skiing; and springtime is the loveliest of all. It was all planned that way.

About 130 years ago Frederic Law Olmsted and his collaborator Calvert Vaux submitted their landscaping plan for a “rectangular parcel ” two miles north of the town’s center. The barren swampy tract, home 10 for squatters and a bone-boiling works that made glue, was reported as “a pestilential spot where miasmic odors taint every breach of

air ”. It took 16 years for workers with pickaxes and shovels to move 5 million cubic feet of earth and rock, and to plant half a million trees and shrubs, making a tribute to nature---a romantic 19th century 15 perception of nature.

What exists today is essentially Olmsted and Vaux`s plan, with more trees, buildings and asphalt. Landscape architects still speak reverently of Olmsted`s genius and foresight, and the sensitive visitor can see the effects he sought.

11 With what subject is the passage mainly concerned? A The lives of Olmsted and Vaux. B New York City`s tourist industry

C Examples of 19th -century art in New York City

D The Development of Central park

12 According to the passage, which is the prettiest time of the year in Central park? A Winter B Spring C Summer D Fall

13 It can be inferred that the “rectangular parcel ” mentioned in para 3 is______. A the site of Central Park

B a gift presented to New York

C a skyscraper in New York

D the proposed design for Central Park

14 According to the passage, before Olmsted and Vaux began their work, the area now occupied by Central Park was___. A a romantic place

B an infertile, marshy space

C a green and hilly park

D a baseball field

15 It can be inferred from the passage that today’s landscape architects praise Olmsted for his___.

A enthusiasm

B skill at designing factories

C concern for New York`s homeless people

D foresight in anticipating New York`s suburbanization

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Passage Four

Experiments on monkeys were viewed much more negatively than those involving mice. Indeed, only experiments to test or develop drugs to treat childhood leukaemia were seen as justifying monkeys suffering. In Britain, experiments involving primates are very tightly controlled. Researchers must convince government officials that the knowledge to be gained justifies any suffering to the animals, and that that adequate date cannot be obtained by using other species.

In practice, this means that monkeys are unlikely to be used in leukaemia research, as the disease can be studied in other animals. But attempts to develop AIDS vaccines depend heavily on experiments with related viruses in monkey, in which some of the animals are likely to become ill. Our poll indicated that a majority of British people would oppose these experiments.

In the US, where regulations are less stringent, the goal of developing an AIDS vaccine is seen as sufficient justification for injection chimpanzees, our nearest relatives, with potentially lethal strains of HIV . And while most people are probably not aware of such facts, 64per cent of those we polled judged correctly that regulations governing animal experiments in Britain are as strict, or stricter, than those in other developed countries. Just 11 per cent though that British rules are less strict, while 24 per cent said they didn’t know.

In one respect, however, our poll reveals a disturbing gap in people’s knowledge, which the British government might want to address. No prescription drug is marketed without first being tested in animals, yet people are either unaware that this is the case, or don’t want to acknowledge the fact, While 35 per cent of the people we polled said they or close family member had been prescribed a drug for a serious illness in the past two years or so, lonely 18 per cent of these people-6 per cent of the total sample-knew it had been tested on animals. Significantly, this small group was more favorably disposed to animal experimentation than the larger number who said they weren’t aware their dru gs had been tested on animals. Indeed, with 66 per cent of then backing animal research in our question, they were more positive about animal experiments than everyone we polled except the hunters and fur coat wearers.

While people may not be in full possession of the facts about animal research, many experiments that arte licensed in Britain-including hundreds of thousands of toxicity tests and fundamental biological studies-could be banned if regulators were to follow the majority views expressed in our poll.

People can clearly weigh the pros and cons of animal experimentation. It’s time for those who want to pursue a peaceful debate to seize the initiative.

16. Most people ignore the fact that___

A. no new drugs would ever be developed without monkeys being involved

B. all the prescription drugs sold on market have been tested on animals

C. leukaemia 白血病 can hardly be studied in animals other than monkeys

D. adequate data can still be obtained without using monkeys in animal research

17. In the US, it is believed that ___

A. monkeys can be involved in the experimentation to develop an AIDS vaccine 疫苗 B . to test potential lethal drugs on animals isn’t justifiable in any case C. animal research is justified only if it helps us gain new knowledge D. the regulations governing animal research should be less strict

18. According to this passage, ___ of those being polled were aware that the drug they had been prescribed had been tested on animals A.6% B.18% C.35% D.66%

19. We can learn from this passage, ___ may be negative about animal experimentation A. the hunters and fur coat wearers B. those who support animal research

C. those who are unaware that their drugs had been tested on animals

D. those who are in full possession of the facts about animal research

20. The author’s attitude toward animal experimentation is ___ A. negative B. positive C. subjective D. objective

五．作文. (20分)

Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in no less than

150 words about

"Should College Student Have Mobile- phone? ".

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2010年春季学期2009级法语专业 《大学英语》（二）课程考试答题纸B 卷

注意：1、本答题纸共 1 页； 2、考试时间: 120 分钟 3、姓名、学号必须写在指定地方

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