阶段自测（Unit 11—Unit 15）

Part One

Ⅰ．Vocabulary and Structure（10 points, 1 point for each）

1．Until recently daydreaming was ______by most people as either a waste of time or a symptom of neurotic tendencies.

[A] regarded           [B] thought

[C] believed           [D] reviewed

2．At its best, daydreaming was considered a compensatory ______for the real things in life.

[A] alternative         [B] substitute

[C] exchange          [D] substance

3．New tests on pregnant animals would ________the dangers of using such drugs.

[A] reveal             [B] reverse

[C] revise             [D] relax

4．It used________36 monkeys to test a sample of polio vaccine, now it takes only 22.

[A] take              [B] taking

[C] to take            [D] to taking

5．The essential problem of man in a computerized age ______the same as it has always been.

[A] attains            [B] contains

[C] maintains          [D] remains

6．The danger is not so much that man will be controlled by the computer ______that he may imitate it.

[A] so                [B] as

[C] than              [D] in

7．To a worker, leisure means simply the hours to relax and rest in order to work efficiently, but to the laborer, leisure means freedom ______a dull or boring task.

[A] of                 [B] for

[C] from               [D] against

8．Grabbing Weinstein ______the collar, the attacker told her he had a gun and forced her into the car.

[A] by                 [B] at

[C] on                 [D] with

9．______as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor.

[A] As long             [B] As well

[C] So long             [D] So far

10．In a computerized age, the question persists and indeed grows _______the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are.

[A] that                [B] which

[C] what               [D] whether

Ⅱ．Cloze Test（10 points, 1 point for each）

Rivers are one of the most important natural resources. Many of the world’s great cities are located on rivers, and almost every country has__11__one river flowing through it that­­__12__an important part in the lives of__13__ people.

Since the beginning of history, people have used rivers__14__transportation. Some great rivers are the Mississippi, the Nile, the Congo etc. The best of__15__for navigation, however, is the Amazon in Brazil, It is so wide and so deep__16__large ships and ocean liners can go about two thousand miles upon it. Besides__17__, rivers provide food, water to drink, water for crops, and opportunities for fun.

However, large cities and industries that are located upon rivers often make__18__. As the cities grow in__19__ and the industries increase in number, the water in the rivers becomes polluted with chemicals and other materials. People are learning the importance, however, of doing more to keep their rivers clean if they want to__20__ the benefits of this natural resource.

11．[A] at first         [B] at last

[C] at most        [D] at least

12．[A] puts           [B]plays

[C] takes          [D] sets

13．[A] their           [B] theirs

[C] its             [D] it’s

14．[A] for            [B] with

[C] at             [D] on

15．[A] some          [B] any

[C] most          [D] all

16．[A] that           [B] which

[C] as            [D] so

17．[A] traveling       [B] touring

[C] fishes         [D] transportation

18．[A] questions      [B] problems

[C] matters        [D] affairs

19．[A] range          [B] style

[C] size           [D] area

20．[A] enjoy          [B] enforce

[C] endanger       [D] entertain

Ⅲ．Reading Comprehension（30 points, 2 points for each）

Passage One

I’ve got a mobile phone, e-mail and voice mail. But why am I so lonely? Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution：we stopped talking to one another.

Every advance in communications technology is a setback（挫折、倒退）to the effective communication of human being. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a teller（出纳员）who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into the ATM? Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery shop. In some supermarket chains you can check yourself out, avoiding those check-out people who look at you and ask how you are doing.

I’m not an opposite of modern technology. I own a cellular phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail system, and an e-mail account. I never thought of giving them up. While, more and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. The communications industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.

So I’ve put myself on technology restriction：no instant messaging with people who live near me, no talking on the mobile with friends instead of having a cup of tea together at afternoon, no letting the voice mail pick up a call when I’m home.

21．We learn from the first two paragraphs that______.

[A] the author has not talked to his friends since he got a mobile phone, e-mail and voice mail.

[B] the more he communicates with the help of modern technology, the lonelier the author feels

[C] advances in communication technology are meant to prevent people from seeing each other

[D] the communication revolution is actually aimed to stop people from talking to each other

22．According to the second paragraph, which of the following is NOT a convenience brought by modern technology?

[A] sending messages instantly on internet

[B] talking without seeing each other

[C] going to make a deposit at the bank

[D] checking yourself out in a supermarket

23．The author’s attitudes towards modern technology may be best described as______.

[A] objective

[B] enthusiastic

[C] resistant

[D] indifferent

24．By“I’ve put myself on technology restriction”(the last paragraph), the author means______.

[A] modern technology means restriction to his freedom

[B] he has found that modern technology is quite limited

[C] he has reduced the use of some modern technology

[D] he has decided to give up the use of modern technology

25．“Voice mail”most possibly refers to a device to______.

[A] record your words on a tape and mail them to your friends

[B] record a phone call so that you can listen to it at other time

[C] turn your written materials into sounds and send them out

[D] turn sounds into written materials so you can read them

Passage Two

Researchers have found that migrating（迁徒的）animals use a variety of inner compasses to help them navigate. Some direct themselves by the position of the sun. Others navigate by the stars. Some use the sun as their guide during the day, and then switch to star navigation by night One study shows that the homing pigeon uses the Earth’s magnetic fields as a guide in finding its way home, and there are indications that various other animals, from insects to mollusks（软体动物）, can also make use of magnetic compasses. It is of course very useful for a migrating bird to be able to switch to a magnetic compass when clouds cover the sun；otherwise it would just have to land and wait for the sun to come out again.

Even with the sun or stars to guide by, the problems of navigation are more complicated than they might seem at first. For example, a worker honeybee that has found a rich source of nectar（花蜜）and pollen（花粉）flies rapidly home to report. A scientist has discovered that the bee sent out to look for food delivers her report through a complicated dance to the other workers not only how far away the food is, but also what direction to fly in relation to the sun. But the sun does not stay in one place all day. As the workers start out to gather the food, the sun may already have changed its position in the sky somewhat, In later trips during the day, the sun will seem to move farther and farther toward the west. Yet the worker bees seem to have no trouble at all in finding the food source. Their inner clocks tell them just where the sun will be, and they change their course correspondingly.

26．According to the first paragraph, all the following help animals navigate except_______.

[A] the position of the sun

[B] the position of the stars

[C] the clouds in the sky

[D] the earth’s magnetic field

27．What makes it necessary for a bird to turn to a magnetic compass when navigating?

[A] The possibility of bad weather.

[B] The constant motion of the sun.

[C] Its special pattern of migration.

[D] Its need to change home constantly.

28．According to the second paragraph, what information does the dance of the bee communicate to the other worker bees?

[A] The time of the day.

[B] The location of the sun.

[C] The kind of the food.

[D] The position of the food.

29．What enables the bees to fly by the sun even though the sun’s position is not fixed?

[A] The report delivered by the worker looking for food

[B] The biological clocks in their bodies.

[C] Their excellent eye-sight.

[D] Their long-term memories.

30．The main idea of the passage is______.

[A] bees can communicate with each other by dancing

[B] animals have internal devices for migration

[C] the sun is necessary for the migration of animals

[D] the earth’s magnetic fields guide pigeons home

Passage Three

Life really should be one long journey of joy for children born with a world of wealth at their feet.

Internationally famous child doctor Robert Coles is the world’s top expert on the influence of money on children. He has written a well-known book on the subject,“The Privileged Ones”, and his research shows that too much money in the family can cause as many problems as too little.“Obviously there are certain advantages to being rich,”says the 53-year-old doctor,“such as better health, education and future work prospects. But most important is the quality of family life. Money can’t buy love.”

It can buy a lot of other things, however, and that’s where the trouble starts. Rich kids have so much to choose from that they often become confused. Over-indulgence（溺爱）by their parents can make them spoilt. They tend to travel more than other children, from home to home and country to country, which causes feelings of restlessness.

“But privileged children do have a better sense of their positions in the world,”adds Mr. Coles,“and they are more self-assured”The rich children inherit（继承）the property from their parents and enjoy a high income. So money will never be one of their problems.“However, they will have a sense of isolation,”warns Dr. Coles,“and they could suffer from the hardship of not being able to deal with the everyday world because they will never really be given the chance. Everything they have achieved is because of an accident of birth. There can be no tremendous inner satisfaction about that.”

Today’s wealthy parents perhaps realize their riches can be more of a heavy load than a happiness to their children. So the first thing for them to consider is to ensure that their families are as rich in love as they are in money.

31．According to Robert Cole’s research,______.

[A] it is better to have little money than to have too much

[B] money can help bring good health and good education

[C] being rich means having high quality of family life

[D] money can bring love as well as many other things

32．What does the word“restlessness”in Paragraph 3 most possibly mean?

[A] The feeling of being disturbed.

[B] The feeling of being loved.

[C] The feeling of being uneasy.

[D] The feeling of being excited.

33．According to the passage, which one of the following is NOT an advantage enjoyed by rich children?

[A] They have too much to choose from.

[B] They are more confident than others.

[C] They have a better sense of their positions.

[D] They enjoy a higher income than others.

34．The author seems to suggest that______.

[A] rich children should be taught to enjoy their wealth.

[B] rich children should be deprived of their wealth.

[C] children should be educated to earn as much money as possible.

[D] children should be provided with love as well as money.

35．The best title for the passage is______.

[A] Money and Love

[B] Wealth and Health

[C] The Wealthy Children

[D] Children’s Education

Part Two

Ⅳ．Word Spelling（10 points, 1 point for two words）

36．混乱，失调 n.  d _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺7个字母）

37．症状，征兆 n.  s _ _ _ _ _ _（缺6个字母）

38．想睡的 a.  s _ _ _ _ _（缺5个字母）

39．替换，代替 v.  r _ _ _ _ _ _（缺6个字母）

40．志愿者n.  v _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺8个字母）

41．细节 n.  d _ _ _ _ _（缺5个字母）

42．店员 n.  c _ _ _ _（缺4个字母）

43．令人厌烦的 a.  b _ _ _ _ _（缺5个字母）

44．精巧的，微妙的 a.  s _ _ _ _ _（缺5个字母）

45．（使）变紧 v.  t _ _ _ _ _ _（缺6个字母）

46．竞争n.  c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺10个字母）

47．装置，器械 n.  d _ _ _ _ _（缺5个字母）

48．回答，反应 n.  r _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺7个字母）

49．非法的 a.  i _ _ _ _ _ _（缺6个字母）

50．否定的，反面的 a.  n _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺7个字母）

51．繁殖，再生产v.  r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺8个字母）

52．自杀 v./n.  s _ _ _ _ _ _（缺6个字母）

53．估价，评价 v.  e _ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺7个字母）

54．具体的 a.  c_ _ _ _ _ _ _（缺7个字母）

55．缺乏的，稀有的 a.  s _ _ _ _ _（缺5个字母）

Ⅴ．Word Form（10 points, 1 point for each）

56．Weinstein’s body, with hands and feet bound, ______(discover) by a hiker on March 17.

57．The sign that what a man does is of social value is that he______(pay) money to do it.

58．While______(exercise) your imagination, you should be alone and completely undisturbed.

59．Whenever______(confront) with a task which seemed too hard to be dealt with, he would stretch out on his laboratory sofa and let fantasies flood his mind.

60．______(be) happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important.

61．He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy______(do).

62．The number of animals______(use) in laboratory tests has declined over the last 20 years.

63．“All you have to do is let me______(go) and take my car,”said the teacher.

64．If the medicine______(invent) today, it would never be released for human use.

65．Facts are too easily regarded as evaluated certainties rather than as the______(raw) of raw materials crying to be processed.

Ⅵ．C-E Translation（15 points, 3 points for each）

66．把未经动物实验的药物用在人身上是不负责任的。

67．人们相信，习惯性的白日梦幻会把人同社会疏远。

68．一件工作被归类为劳作或工作，不取决于工作本身。

69．正是在她兜里发现的这封信使警察找到了杀害她的人。

70．人们总是倾向于把逻辑与价值相混淆。

Ⅶ．E-C Translation（15 points）

If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year. A noted scientist. Ellsworth Huntington, concluded from other men’s work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.

He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer. Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in spring man’s mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature. Fall is the next-best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be good time to take a long vacation from thinking.

阶段自测（Unit 11—Unit 15）答案

Ⅰ．Vocabulary and Structure

1．A      2．B      3．A      4．C      5．D

6．B      7．C      8．A      9．D      10．D

Ⅱ．Cloze Test

11．D     12．B     13．C     14．A      15．D

16．A     17．D     18．B     19．C      20．A

Ⅲ．Reading Comprehension

21．B     22．C     23．A     24．C      25．B

26．C     27．A     28．D     29．B      30．B

31．B     32．C     33．A     34．D      35．C

Ⅳ．Word Spelling

36．disorder       37．symptom           38．sleepy

39．replace        40．volunteer           41．detail

42．clerk          43．boring             44．subtle

45．tighten          46．competition         47．device

48．response         49．illegal             50．negative

51．reproduce        52．suicide            53．evaluate

54．concrete         55．scarce

Ⅴ．Word Form

56．was discovered    57．is paid          58．exercising

59．confronted        60．to be           61．doing

62．used             63．go             64．were invented

65．rawest

Ⅵ．C-E Translation

66．It would be irresponsible / not responsible to use drugs on people that had not been tested on animals.

67．It is believed that habitual daydreaming will distance people from society.

68．Whether a job is (to be) classified as labor or work does not depend on the job itself.

69．It was the letter found in her pocket that led the police to her killer.

70．There has always been a tendency to confuse logic with values.

或People always tend to confuse logic with values.

Ⅶ．E-C Translation

如果你跟大多数人一样，那么你的智力是随季节变化的。你可能在春天比在一年中的任何其他时候都聪明得多。一个著名的科学家埃尔斯沃思·亨廷顿从他人及自己对不同气候的人们的研究中得出结论：气候与温度对我们的智力有明显的影响。

他发现，凉爽的天气远远比夏天的炎热更有利于创造性思维。这并不是说所有的人在夏天比在一年中的其他时间更笨，但这确实意味着大多数人的思考能力在夏天是最差的。春天似乎是思考的最好季节。一个原因可能是，在春天，使整个自然界发生重大变化的因素同样也影响了人的脑力。秋天是第二个最好的季节，其次是冬天。至于夏天，可能是给大脑放长假的最好季节。