背英语09商英旅英阅读A

Understanding vocabulary(20 points)

1.

Buck growled, and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck.

A

became

frightened

B

feel

pain

C was puzzled

D

made a low, threatening sound

2.

Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go.

A give up

B leave

C move along

D go away

3.

Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground.

A feel violently and noisily

B rushed suddenly and speedily

C cried loudly and wildly

D was pushed

4.

“

Well, Buck, my boy

”

, he said

in

a friendly voice, we

’

ve

argued a little, and

I

think the best thing to do now is to stop.

A worked

B know each other

C quarreled

D misunderstood

5.

Buck was beaten (he knew that ) but he was not broken.

A dead

B seriously injured

C losing courage

D crushed physically and

mentally

6.

Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed, although he did not have

to be a friend.

A ruled

B listened to

C accepted

D recognized

7.

One

day

was

very

like

another,

but

Buck

noticed

that

the

weather

was

getting

colder.

A could say

B felt

C thought

D saw

8.

Two minutes later the last of the dogs was chased away.

A driven off

B checked up

C pressed through

D caught

9.

Growling,

he

threw

himself

at

the

snow,

and

a

moment

later,

he

had

jumped

upwards into the daylight.

A gave oneself up to

B rush violently at

C blamed oneself

for

D played

with

10.

He walked around the tents trying to find the other dogs. But, to his surprise, they

had disappeared.

A

gone

out

of

sight

B

gathered

together

C

given

up

hope

D

stayed

away

Task 1 (20 points)

Directions:

After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or

unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or

statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, or D. You should make the

correct choice

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real,

yet

disappear

soon

if

situations

change.

Neither

side

feels

hurt

by

this.

Both

may

exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while

—

then

no

more.

If

the

same

two

people

meet

again

by

chance,

even

years

later,

they

pick

up

the

friendship.

This

can

be

quite

difficult

for

us

Chinese

to

understand,

because

friendships

between

us

flower

more

slowly

but

then

may

become

lifelong

feelings, extending (

延伸

) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays,

and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their

hospitality (

好客

) easily.

Another

difficult

point

for

us

Chinese

to

understand

Americans

is

that

although

they

include

us

warmly

in

their

personal

everyday

lives,

they

don’t

show

their

politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the

practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as

hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may

take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express

their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal

with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves

from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them

from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their

homes than to

go to

restaurants,

except

for purely

business

matters. So accept

their

hospitality at home!

1. The writer of this passage must be ______.

A. an American

B. a Chinese

C. a professor

D. a student

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

3. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit

an American friend, we will probably be ______.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport

B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home

D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

4

.

The

underlined

words

“generous

with

our

time”

in

Paragraph

3

probably

mean

______.

A. strict with time

B. serious with time

C. careful with time

D. willing to spend

time

5. A suitable title for this passage would probab

ly be “______”.

A. Friendships between Chinese

B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality

D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

Task 2 (20 points)

Directions:

This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements

are numbered 41 through 45.

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City

when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor.

That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After

writing many letters asking for admission(

录取

) to medical schools, she was finally

accepted by a doctor in

Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school

and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.

In

1849,

after

graduation

from

medical

school.

she

decided

to

further

her

education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(

外科医师

) , but a serious eye problem

forced her to give up the idea.

Upon

returning

to

the

United

States,

she

found

it

difficult

to

start

her

own

practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor,

along

with

another

woman

doctor,

managed

to

open

a

new

hospital,

the

first

for

women and children Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own

hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.

6

. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?

A. She couldn’t get admitted to medical school

B. She decided to further her education in Paris

C. A serious eye problem stopped her

D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States

7. What main obstacle(

障碍

) almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming for a

doctor?

A. She was a woman.

B. She wrote too many letters.

C. She couldn’t

graduate from medical school.

D. She couldn’t set up her hospital.

8.

How

many

years

passed

between

her

graduation

from

medical

school

and

the

opening of her hospital?

A. Eight years

B. Ten years

C. Nineteen years

D. Thirty-six years

9. Acco

rding to the passage, all of the following are “firsts” in the life of Elizabeth

Blacekwell, except that she ______.

A. became the first woman physician

B. was the first woman doctor

C. and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children

D. set up the first medical school for women

10. Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her lift in _______.

A. England

B. Paris

C. the United States

D. New York City

Task 3 (20 points)

Directions:

The following are some expressions for us. After reading them, you are

required to find the Chinese equivalents in the table below. You should put the

corresponding letters in the brackets, numbered 46 through 50.