內(nèi)蒙古大學2016-2017學年大學英語考試試卷

1、內(nèi)蒙古大學考試試卷（2016 2017學年度 第 2學期）課程名稱： 大學英語 B卷主要命題者：大學英語教研室 I 試卷編碼： 3251171002 考核專業(yè)班級： 2015級 B班I. Listening Comprehension (20%) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversatio

2、n and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C), and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single line through the center. 1. A) 250 dollars. B) 300

3、 dollars. C) 350 dollars. D) 400 dollars. 2. A) A student. B) A teacher. C) A lawyer. D) An interviewee. 3. A) To punish Sam. B) To tell him about a new job. C) To teach Sam a good lesson. D) To ask him to stop drinking. 4. A) The course is the most important among all the other courses. B) The cour

4、se is not so important as the woman thinks. C) The man may as well think the course important. D) The man will be forced to study the course. 5. A) Tom will be there at 8:30. B) Tom will not show up. C) Tom is always late. D) Tom is usually on time. 6. A) A retirement party. B) A faculty reception.

5、C) A class reunion. D) A birthday party. 7. A) The first house they saw is too expensive. B) They may save some money for the time being. C) She is happy with the price set by the sellers. D) Less money will be spent in maintaining the house. 8. A) Follow the directions. B) Practise working together

6、. C) Carry the parts together. D) Overcome any difficulties. 9. A) Tomorrow. B) By the end of this month. C) Next week. D) Next Friday. 10. A) More than an hour and a half. B) Not more than half an hour. C) Less than an hour and a half. D) More than two hours. Section B Directions: In this section,

7、you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the 1 corresponding letter with

8、a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) The climate varies a little all over the United States. B) The climate varies a lot in the United States. C) There is no variation in climate in the United States. D) The climate is

9、very pleasant all the year round. 12. A) It is cold in winter and hot in summer. B) It is warm in winter and comfortably cool in summer. C) It is warm in winter and unpleasantly hot in summer. D) It is neither cold nor hot all the year round. 13. A) They grow them by themselves. B) They get them by

10、ships. C) They get them by airplanes. D) They get them by trucks and trains. Passage Two Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A) At a bus stop. B) At a crossroad. C) At the side of the road. D) At the library. 15. A) It was a foreign car. B) The engine looked very bad

11、. C) There were not proper tools. D) He did not know anything about the car at all. 16. A) They worked in the library. B) Their home was near the library. C) The girl liked books very much. D) The girl wanted to borrow a book, which would teach her boy friend something about cars. Passage Three Ques

12、tion 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 17. A) Computer is able to translate all kinds of texts. B) Machine translation has become a major service industry. C) Machine translation has been very successful in all the major languages. D) Translation by computer will certainly have

13、a bright future. 18. A)Because an important US science institute believed that the method could not be put in practice. B) Because an important US science institute urged to built a more powerful computer. C) Because an important US science institute thought that the method was of no value. D) Becau

14、se an important US science institute did not have enough money to go on with the research. 19. A) Some scientists went on with the researches of machine translation although all the funds were cut. 2 In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and B) Most languages are stil

15、l translated with original methods. In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and C) Poems, novels and plays are usually translated by translators. D) Translation by computer saves a lot of manpower and time. 20. A) Communication Improvement B) Translators Translation C)

16、Language Translation D) Machine Translation Part II Fast Reading (10%) Directions:answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passag

17、e; N (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The port provides a fascinating and rich understanding of the movement of people and goods around the world. We understand a port as a center of

18、land-sea exchange, and as a major source of livelihood and a major force for cultural mixing. But do ports all produce a range of common urban characteristics which justify classifying port cities together under a single generic label? Do they have enough in common to warrant distinguishing them fro

19、m other kinds of cities? A port must be distinguished from a harbor. They are two very different things. Most ports have poor harbors, and many fine harbor see few ships. Harbors is a physical concept, a shelter for ships; port is an economic concept, a center of land-sea exchange which requires goo

20、d access to hinterland(內(nèi)地) even more than a sea-linked foreland前陸(與內(nèi)地相對而言 ). It is landward access, which is productive of goods for export and which demands imports, that is critical. Poor harbors can be improved with breakwaters(防浪堤), and dredging(挖泥)if there is a demand for port. Madras and Colom

21、bo are examples of harbors expensively improved by enlarging, dredging and building breakwaters. Port cities become industrial, financial and service centers and political capitals because of their water connections and the urban concentration which arises there and later draws to its railways, high

22、ways and air routes. Water transport means cheap access, the chief basis of all port cities. Many of the world biggess t cities, for example, London, New York, Shanghai, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Jakarta, Calcutta, Philadelphia and San Francisco began as ports that is, with land-sea exchange as

23、 their major function but they have since grown disproportionately in other respects so that their port functions are no longer dominant. They remain different kinds of places from non-port cities and their port functions account for that difference. Port functions, more than anything else, make a c

24、ity cosmopolitan. A port city is 3 open to the world. In it races, cultures, and ideas, as well as goods from a variety of places, mix and enrich each other and the life of the city. The smell of the sea and the harbor, the sound of the boat whistles or the moving tides are symbols of their multiple

25、 links with a wide world samples of which are present in microcosm( 微觀世界) within their own urban areas. Sea ports have been transformed by the advent of powered vessels, whose size and draught have increased. Many formerly important ports have become economically and physically less accessible as a

26、result. By passed by most of their former enriching flow of exchange, they have become cultural and economic backwaters or have acquired the character of museums of the past. Much domestic port trade has not been recorded. What evidence we have suggests that domestic trade was greater at all periods

27、 than external trade. Shanghai, for example, did most of its trade with other Chinese ports and inland cities. Calcutta traded mainly with other parts of India and so on. Most of any city population s is engaged in providing goods and services for the city itself. Trade outside the city is its basic

28、 function. But each basic worker requires food, housing, clothing and other services. Estimates of the ratio of basic workers to service ones range from 1:4 to 1:8. No city can be simply a port but must be involved in a variety of other activities. The port function of the city draws to it raw mater

29、ials and distributes them in many other forms. Ports take advantage of the need for breaking up the bulk material where water and land transport meet and where loading and unloading costs can be minimized by refining raw materials or turning them into finished goods. The major examples here are oil

30、refining and ore refining which are commonly located at ports. It is not easy to draw a line around what is and is not a port function. All ports handle, unload, sort, alter, process, repack and reship most of what they receive. A city may still be regarded as a port city when it becomes involved in

31、 a range of functions not immediately involved with ships or docks. Cities which began as ports retain the chief commercial and administrative center of the city close to the waterfront. The center of New York is in lower Manhattan between two river mouths, the City of London is on the Thames, Shang

32、hai along the Bund. This proximity to water is also true of Boston, Philadelphia, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong, where the commercial, financial, and administrative centers are still grouped around their harbors even though each city has expanded into a metropolis. Even

33、a casual visitor cannot mistake them as anything but port cities. 21.A port is different from a harbor in that harbor is a physical concept, while port is an economic concept. 22. Madras and Colombo were originally poor harbors to be improved later on with breakwaters and dredging. 23.Shanghai is as

34、 important a port city to China as New York to the United States. 24. Many formerly important ports have been rendered economically and financially less accessible simply because more sea routes have been discovered. 25.The majority of any city population s deals with manufacturing and farming, whil

35、e the majority of the population in those ports are engaged in transportation. 4 26.The port functions including separating the bulk material where water and land transport meet and then refining those raw materials to minimize the loading or unloading costs. 27.A city may not still be regarded as a

36、 port city if it is engaged in a series of functions not closely related to transportation, loading and unloading. 21.YNNG 22.YNNG 23. YNNG24.YNNG 25.YNNG 26. YNNG27.YNNG28. Many of the world famous ports have developed their industrial or commercial functions faster than their original functions so

37、 that their _. 29.The port function of the city attracts _ and sends them out by other different modes of transportation. 30. Cities like New York, London and Shanghai, which began as ports still maintain their positions as the leading _ centers close to the waterfront. Part III Reading comprehensio

38、n ( Reading in Depth ) 20% Passage One Sugar is so much a part of our modern life that we only really think about it when, for some reasons, we can not obtain it. It has been known to man for at least 3000 years, but has come into common use only in modern times. Sugar is, then very important to our

39、 civilization. But what exactly is it? Of course, most of us recognize sugar immediately as the sweet material which we put in coffee or cakes. This common form of sugar is derived from two plants: the sugar cane (a type of grass which grows to a height of twenty feet) and the sugar beet (which grow

40、s under ground). About 90% of the sugar produced is used as food. Only 10% is used in industry for other purposes than food production. Yet sugar has great possibilities for use as the basis of chemicals. It can even be used for making plastics. In the future these potential uses will certainly be d

41、eveloped more than in the past. There are many reasons why we should increase the production of sugar. Most important is that it is one of the most highly concentrated energy foods. Sugar cane and beet produce an average of 7,000,000 calories. 31. Most people recognize sugar as _ . A) food B) grass

42、C) the sweet material D) plant 32. Sugar has been known to man for at least _ . A) 7,000,000 years B) 6000 years C) 3000 years D) 4000 years 33. The common form of sugar is derived from _ . A) the sugar cane B) the sugar beet C) coffee or cakes D) both A and B 34. About 90% of sugar is used for _ .

43、A) caked B) sugar cane and beet C) coffee D)food 35. Which of the following is NOT true? A) Only 10% of sugar is used in industry for other purposes than food production. B) Sugar is one of the most highly concentrated energy foods. 5 C) Sugar can not be used for making plastics. D) Sugar can be use

44、d for making plastics. Passage Two What is the relation between the code and culture which creates it, and which it transmits to the next generation? Linguists in the anthropological tradition had tried to establish links with meanings expressed with meanings expressed lexically: Eskimo words for sn

45、ow，Arabic words for camel and so on. Yet vocabulary onlyreflectsculture by courtesy of its internal organization as a whole; and the assertion that“becausecamelsare important to the Arabs，therefore they have a lot of different words forthem”is a statement as much about English as about ArabicPresuma

46、bly nothing is more important than rice to the Chinese；yet Chinese has a single word for rice and it means various other things besides. Chinese happens to be a type of language that favors general nouns. As the essential medium for people to organize and convey their ideas，language is no longer wha

47、t it seemed to be for the traditional linguists who used to think of language as simple formal codes. Its also closely related to the context，social or anthropological, in which the communication takes place. Today most linguists come to realize that language is an important component of culture. It

48、 determines not only the form in which ideas are transmitted, but also the method with which the content of the ideas are organized. In this perspective, 1anguage is also a communicative base on which the members of a speech community form their ideas in a way that is readily comprehensible to other

49、 members of that community. It is also regarded as part of culture that is related to other fields of humanity studies. But what is merely comic(滑稽的 )when applied to lexics(詞匯學 )becomes seriously misleading when applied to grammar. As Whorf pointed 50 years ago，it is naive and dangerous to take isol

50、ated grammatical phenomena and try to relate them to features of a cultureWhen linguists recognized this ,their response was to avoid the language-culture issue altogether，thus closing the door on an important area of researchThat there is a relationship between a code and the culture that engenders

51、(造成)it is beyond question；but it is an extremely complex and abstract one36. The first paragraph mainly discusses_ A) the early history of human language B) how important words are in the cultural issue C) the way in which people name different things D) the relation between language and culture on

52、the lexical level 37. According to the anthropologists，the importance of a meaning_ A) reflects the customs B) is reflected by the number of words referring to it C) is connected with next generation D) reflects certain cultures 38. The author cites the only Chinese word for rice show that _ A) the

53、Chinese people especially enjoy rice 6 B) demand B) fall apart B)taken its off B) stayed B) have been built B) favorable B)bunch, down B) exciting B) positive C) declaration C) get away C) made a difference C) lay C) are building C) stiff C) put, back C)fantastic C) destructive D) demonstration D) g

54、o down D) shown up D) kept D) are going to build D) constructive D) put, away D) monotonous D) constructive B) the Chinese people have a different viewpoint B) demand B) fall apart B)taken its off B) stayed B) have been built B) favorable B)bunch, down B) exciting B) positive C) declaration C) get a

55、way C) made a difference C) lay C) are building C) stiff C) put, back C)fantastic C) destructive D) demonstration D) go down D) shown up D) kept D) are going to build D) constructive D) put, away D) monotonous D) constructive C) important foods are not always named by many words D) something cultura

56、lly important may not be important in language 39. From the Arabic words for camel and the Eskimo words forsnow, we can infer that _ A) language may reflect living conditions B) different languages may have the same origin C) people enjoy different things in different culture D) language can be used

57、 to show peoples versatility 40. Which of the following most appropriately describes the authors logic of writing this passage? A) Analyze an issue and in the end draw a conclusion. B) Present and analyze an opinion and then argue against it. C) Compare two different opinion and then argue against i

58、t . D) Present a question, analyze it and make effort to answer it, and in the end leave the question unanswered. IV. Vocabulary (15%) 41. The opening speeches sounded more like _ of war than offering of peace. A) announce 42. Their marriage was already _ even before his wife went abroad. A) fade aw

59、ay 43. Im pleased to hear of your job offer-all that hard work at school has obviously _. A) paid off 44. A rich old lady _ dead at home for two weeks-and nobody knew anything about it. A) lived 45. Smart cars _which can monitor ones driving and the driving conditions nearby. A) have built 46. Now t

60、hat weve got a loan from the bank, our project is financially _. A) feasible 47. At the beginning of the race, the runners were _ together on the track, but later some of them got_ and left the others behind. A) bunched, ahead 48. “Our routine on Mir(和平空間站 )rarely changed, but the days were not _ at