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英语专业四级模拟试题15
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描述:英语专业四级模拟试题15
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Part I Dictation
共 15分 / 15分钟
Section A
Dictation
1 小题
15分
Part II Listening Comprehension
共 30分 / 20分钟
Section A
Conversations
10 小题
10分
Section B
Passages
10 小题
10分
Section C
News Broadcast
10 小题
10分
Part III Cloze
共 20分 / 15分钟
Section A
Multiple Choice
20 小题
20分
Part IV Vocabulary and Grammar
共 30分 / 15分钟
Section A
Multiple Choice
30 小题
30分
Part V Reading Comprehension
共 20分 / 31分钟
Section A
Multiple Choice
20 小题
20分
Part VI Writing
共 25分 / 45分钟
Section A
Composition
1 小题
15分
Section B
Note-Writing
1 小题
10分
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part I Dictation
15分 / 15分钟
Part II Listening Comprehension
30分 / 20分钟
Part III Cloze
20分 / 15分钟
Part IV Vocabulary and Grammar
30分 / 15分钟
Part V Reading Comprehension
20分 / 31分钟
Part VI Writing
25分 / 45分钟
Section A
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET.Now listen to the passage.
Section A
In this section, you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Conversation One
Questions 2 to 5 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the conversation.
2.
Which one of the listed responsibilities does NOT belong to the position?
A) Lab data analysis.
B) Filing documents.
C) Helping other students.
D) Watching over tests.
3.
What is the position the girl wants to apply for?
A) Students leader.
B) Class monitor.
C) Teaching Assistant.
D) Lab Assistant.
4.
Which one of the following is NOT a benefit that the position offers?
A) Excusing a course.
B) Credits.
C) Salary.
D) Extra points in final exam scores.
5.
What will be considered of an applicant besides study performance?
A) Working history.
B) Family background.
C) Attitude towards other students.
D) Team spirit.
Conversation Two
Questions 6 to 8 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the conversation.
6.
How much does a movie ticket usually cost?
A) $50.
B) Less than $50.
C) More than $50 and less than $200.
D) More than $200.
7.
Why did Jenny want to see the movie?
A) Because she’s read the book.
B) Because she wants to see the actor in it.
C) Because the movie is an old classic.
D) Because her friends recommended it.
8.
Why did George say they should arrive at the cinema around 9?
A) Because there would be a lot of audience.
B) Because she could get some snacks there.
C) Because the cinema required it.
D) Because they would meet another friend there.
Conversation Three
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the conversation.
9.
Which aspect didn’t Adam ask about the apartment?
A) Location.
B) Appliances.
C) Rent.
D) Environment.
10.
Among the furniture listed below, which one was NOT mentioned by Mrs. Higgins?
A) Dressing table.
B) Stool.
C) Desk.
D) Chest of drawers.
11.
Which room can be presumed to be colder than others in winter?
A) Bedroom.
B) Study.
C) Bathroom.
D) Living room.
Section B
In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Passage One
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
12.
How many people are joining hands to provoke the movement?
A) 3.
B) 4.
C) 5.
D) 6.
13.
What is the main content of the movement?
A) Promoting nuclear weapons abolishment.
B) Teaching how to dismantle nuclear weapons.
C) Persuading all countries to disarm themselves.
D) Having more conferences to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
14.
How many officials and experts did the Stanly Foundation gather?
A) 20.
B) 50.
C) 25.
D) 52.
15.
Which one of the following was an article published in August 2008?
A)
General and Complete Disarmament
.
B)
International Security
.
C)
Adelphi papers
.
D)
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
.
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
16.
According to the passage, which part of the organ of a pig may NOT catch an illness that is similar to a human’s?
A) Heart.
B) Lungs.
C) Kidney.
D) Stomach.
17.
According to the passage, the problem that the artificial way of breeding pigs will bring is that ___________.
A) pigs will stop evolving
B) pigs can easily be harmed by diseases
C) many species of pigs will disappear
D) pigs will gradually lose their intelligence
18.
According to the passage, which of the listed animal may be less smart than pigs?
A) Apes.
B) Monkeys.
C) Dolphins.
D) Dogs.
Passage Three
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
19.
When did the first kind of distance education appear?
A) At the beginning of 16th century.
B) At the beginning of 17th century.
C) At the beginning of 18th century.
D) At the beginning of 19th century.
20.
According to the passage, an online MBA degree can be described as __________.
A) cheap and unreliable.
B) valuable and prestigious.
C) either cheap and unreliable or valuable and prestigious.
D) undesired.
21.
For which person of the following is an online MBA degree suitable?
A) A busy manager.
B) An eager student.
C) A beginner businessman.
D) A middle-aged office worker.
Section C
In this section you will hear several news items. Listen to the news items carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
News Broadcast One
Questions 22 to 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
22.
Where did the aircraft crash?
A) Along eastern American coastline.
B) Close to Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier.
C) In Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Center.
D) Close to Banda Aceh.
23.
What happened to the people on the aircraft?
A) They were all killed.
B) They were sent back to Indonesia.
C) They were sent to an aircraft carrier.
D) They were buried at the site.
News Broadcast Two
Questions 24 to 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
24.
What is the purpose of the confirmation hearings?
A) To approve Dr. Rice to join the Foreign Relations Committee.
B) To approve Dr. Rice to be a new senator.
C) To get a chance to be nominated.
D) To get a chance for approval of the Senate.
25.
Why was that vote delayed?
A) Disagreement from other politicians.
B) Appeal from the public.
C) Opposition from the media.
D) Disapproval from the Senate.
News Broadcast Three
Questions 26 to 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
26.
How many car bombs were reportedly prepared to interfere the election?
A) 25.
B) 150.
C) 250.
D) 130.
27.
How many attacks together killed 25 Iraqis?
A) Eight Suicide bomb attacks.
B) Two Baghdad terrorist attacks.
C) More than four car bomb attacks.
D) Four suicide bomb attacks.
News Broadcast Four
Questions 28 to 29 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
28.
Why did the two million Muslims journey to Mecca?
A) To fight the evil.
B) To make Five Pillars.
C) For Hajj.
D) For annual celebration.
29.
Which of the following is NOT true about the stampedes?
A) They were fatal.
B) They happened years ago.
C) They happened during the journey.
D) They happened in Saudi Arabia.
News Broadcast Five
Questions 30 to 31 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
30.
How many people fell victims of the accident?
A) Less than 11.
B) More than 211.
C) Around 121.
D) About 112.
31.
Why was Juan Manuel Alvarez charged?
A) His suicide attempt caused the accident.
B) His drunk driving caused the accident.
C) His conducting of the train caused the accident.
D) His misusing of the traffic lights caused the accident.
Section A
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.
E. L. Doctorow’s
(32)________ in history when a new style on the piano was breaking
(33)________ traditions and new social forces were changing
(34)________ people lived, worked, and played. The novel portrays a spirit in the United States characterized
(35)________ patriotic celebrations, parades,
(36)________ concerts, and political picnics. Trains and interurban trolleys moved great
(37)________ of people from one place to another. Automobiles were becoming popular with the wealthy. Every one wore white in summer and women carried parasols (阳伞). It was a time of change: the United States was undergoing an irrevocable
(38)________ from rural to
(39)________ , from provincial to worldly, and
(40)________ again would the country display that innocence which could be so appealing and so disturbing at the same time.
(41)________ in the strength of the country. The novel is also
(42)________ the unrest that comes with change — women seeking
(43)________ , equality, and the vote; working people
(44)________ for safe working conditions and higher wages; immigrants seeking better lives for themselves and their children; and black Americans seeking the racial tolerance that was still
(45)________ them almost fifty years
(46)________ the Civil War had been
(47)________ to set them free. The novel follows the members of a family in New Rochelle, New York, from about 1900 until the Great War of 1914-1918. The family members are never identified by their names. They are
(48)________ called Mother, Father, Grandfather, Mother’s Younger Brother, and the Little Boy.
(49)________ characters, both real and
(50)________ , are interwoven
(51)________ the life of the family in New Rochelle. Houdini, the famous magician, illusionist, and escape artist, drives through town in his black 45-horsepower Pope-Toledo Runabout and swerves into a telephone pole in front of the family’s house. Mother’s Younger Brother falls in love with a beautiful actress of the day, Evelyn Nesbit.
32.
A) area
B) age
C) epoch
D) era
33.
A) art
B) entertainment
C) instrumental
D) musical
34.
A) how
B) when
C) where
D) why
35.
A) as
B) by
C) of
D) with
36.
A) community
B) free
C) open
D) public
37.
A) crowds
B) groups
C) numbers
D) swarms
38.
A) alteration
B) renovation
C) transformation
D) transmission
39.
A) city
B) metropolitan
C) town
D) urban
40.
A) neither
B) never
C) nor
D) not
41.
A) assertion
B) assurance
C) certainty
D) confidence
42.
A) about
B) against
C) on
D) over
43.
A) freedom
B) liberation
C) liberty
D) right
44.
A) campaigning
B) fighting
C) protesting
D) striking
45.
A) declined
B) denied
C) neglected
D) refused
46.
A) after
B) before
C) once
D) since
47.
A) attacked
B) battled
C) fought
D) struggled
48.
A) easily
B) modestly
C) plainly
D) simply
49.
A) Many
B) New
C) Other
D) Several
50.
A) fantastic
B) fictional
C) imaginary
D) illusory
51.
A) among
B) by
C) through
D) with
Section A
There are some sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
52.
______ the weather, I’m sure we would have had a better view from the top of the tower.
A) In case of
B) But for
C) Because of
D) In spite of
53.
She got out of the car, but left her purse in the vehicle with the door _______.
A) unlocked
B) unlocking
C) to be unlocked
D) being unlocked
54.
Many a time _____ terrible hunger and thirst, since food there was scarce.
A) does he suffer
B) did he suffer
C) he suffers
D) he suffered
55.
He’s lived in New York and Chicago, but he doesn’t like _______ city very much.
A) neither
B) any
C) either
D) both
56.
Everyone wants to do something that matters, ________?
A) doesn’t everyone
B) doesn’t it
C) don’t they
D) does he
57.
They planned for _______ another board meeting.
A) there being
B) there to being
C) there be
D) there to be
58.
When you are right you cannot be _____ radical.
A) very
B) too
C) so
D) such
59.
It’s about time we _______ back our city from the automobile.
A) have taken
B) will take
C) took
D) would have taken
60.
This cup and saucer _______ in good quality and graceful design.
A) is
B) are
C) have been
D) has been
61.
The evidence is invalid _______ it was obtained through illegal means.
A) that
B) which
C) in that
D) when
62.
She is not supposed to date with a man who is _______ she.
A) twice as old as
B) twice old than
C) as twice old as
D) older twice than
63.
That’s just _______ we basically disagree with him.
A) where
B) there
C) which
D) what
64.
If you study hard, you’ll succeed. If ______, ______.
A) no, no
B) not, not
C) no, not
D) not, no
65.
If there is _____ thing that annoys me, it’s people who don’t keep their promises.
A) a
B) any
C) some
D) one
66.
In "She made Tom and Mary her assistants." "Assistants" is the _______ of the sentence.
A) complement
B) adverbial
C) object
D) predicative
67.
All his attempts to unlock the safe were_______, because he was using the wrong key.
A) vain
B) waste
C) futile
D) infertile
68.
The sentence is _______ since it can be interpreted in two different ways.
A) vague
B) ambiguous
C) enigmatic
D) faint
69.
Can you tell me, please, what special ____________ is required to make this delicious dish?
A) component
B) ingredient
C) constituent
D) element
70.
A decision of this ________ had to have national support.
A) magnitude
B) longitude
C) latitude
D) solitude
71.
The older movies are great and _______ many good memories for me.
A) bring about
B) bring back
C) bring out
D) bring up
72.
The auto industry could face a labor ______ within the next few years.
A) decline
B) shortage
C) vacancy
D) loss
73.
An ______ bonus is offered by an employer to encourage employees to meet specific goals.
A) inspiration
B) intuition
C) award
D) incentive
74.
The chairman reminded the speaker to ______ himself to the subject under discussion.
A) refine
B) conclude
C) confine
D) confess
75.
The dictator met his ______ after ten years of rule.
A) doom
B) gloom
C) boom
D) Congress
76.
Since Henry has believed he has a _______ blood, he became really conceited and narcissistic.
A) blue
B) green
C) red
D) yellow
77.
I should like to ________ it to you as a reference book.
A) comment
B) command
C) commend
D) commence
78.
Cut the apple ________ and remove the core.
A) by half
B) in half
C) in halves
D) by halves
79.
The contract shall take ______ upon being signed and sealed by both parties.
A) force
B) action
C) office
D) effect
80.
His argument simply doesn’t _______ to close scrutiny.
A) keep up
B) stand up
C) look up
D) pay up
81.
The witnesses also noticed he had a coffee _______ on the front of his white shirt.
A) stain
B) mark
C) spot
D) patch
Section A
In this section there are several passages followed by some questions or unfinished staments, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
Text A
Once a child has been diagnosed with diabetes, is it irreversible or can the family help? If a child has Type 1 diabetes, that is juvenile diabetes and that is not what we are talking about here. If they have that, that means their pancreas isn’t working, therefore they are not producing insulin. They have to give themselves injections the rest of their life or they have to be put on a pump that gives them the injections. Type 2 diabetes is what we are talking about, the number six killer of Americans. If you are overweight and you have an elevated blood sugar because your insulin cannot deal with all the carbohydrates and sugar that you have in your body, then you can control it. Basically, you can cure it by losing the weight. To give you one example, I had a young patient who was sent to me by an endocrinologist years ago. The endocrinologist had him on oral medication and told him that he was going to have to go on injections if he didn’t lose the weight. He came to me, but did not lose any weight for two and a half months. He went back to the endocrinologist, who said, "Okay, it’s time for insulin." The patient said to him, "Give me another chance." He came back to me, and lost 45 pounds. Not only did he not need the insulin, but he didn’t need his oral medication anymore. The bottom line is that with Type 2 adult diabetes, you can cure it.
82.
Insulin is a substance which ________.
A) help people lose weight
B) increases sugar in the blood
C) keeps a stable blood sugar
D) absorbs the carbohydrates
83.
People start to get Type 1 diabetes at ________.
A) all ages
B) the old age
C) the middle age
D) the early age
84.
All the following statements about adult diabetes are true EXCEPT that ________.
A) weight-control is important for patients with diabetes
B) it kills more people than any other disease in the US
C) it is reversible and curable
D) insulin injection is used only in grave cases
Text B
Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognized; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth. "That’s glorious fun!" said the sprite. If a good thought passed through a man’s mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror, and the sprite laughed heartily at his clever discovery. All the little sprites who went to his school — for he kept a sprite school — told each other that a miracle had happened; and that now only, as they thought, it would be possible to see how the world really looked. They ran about with the mirror; and at last there was not a land or a person who was not represented distorted in the mirror. So then they thought they would fly up to the sky, and have a joke there. The higher they flew with the mirror, the more terribly it grinned: they could hardly hold it fast. Higher and higher still they flew, nearer and nearer to the stars, when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning, that it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth, where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces. And now it worked much more evil than before; for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world, and when they got into people’s eyes, there they stayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for that which was evil. This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed. Some persons even got a splinter in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for their heart became like a lump of ice. Some of the broken pieces were so large that they were used for windowpanes, through which one could not see one’s friends. Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly. Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy.
85.
The fact that ________ is NOT true with the mirror.
A) beautiful things look poor and mean
B) all the broken pieces distorted everything in the same way
C) ugly things look pretty and beautiful
D) it can laugh
86.
The wicked sprite ________.
A) had a good sense of humor
B) taught all the other sprites
C) wanted to show people a real world with the mirror
D) was very excited about his invention
87.
The passage is a(n) ________.
A) novel
B) essay
C) fairy tale
D) short story
Text C
In his Poetics Aristotle (384-322 BC) classifies plot into two types: simple (haplos), and complex (peplegmenos). The simple plot is defined as a unified construct of necessary and probable actions accompanied by a change of fortune. The complex plot, says Aristotle, is accompanied by two other features, namely; peripeteia or reversal, and anagnorisis, or recognition. It is this which Aristotle feels is the best kind of tragic plot, in that it provides the best possibility of delivering tragic pleasure. Before we look at the distinctive features of the complex plot, it would perhaps be instructive to examine those features which it shares with the simple plot. The unity of structure recommended by Aristotle includes the tripartite division of the plot into the beginning, the middle and the end, as well as the unities of time and action. He stresses unified action, where all action in the plot carries a definite link to other actions, and subsequent actions are the necessary and probable outcomes of the former. Necessary and probable are terms which recur throughout Poetics. They stand for the universality of poetry in that they point to how or what actions should logically be in a given situation. Unity of action, therefore, does not mean all that happens to the protagonist, but precisely what comprises a particular whole action according to the norms of necessity and probability. Unity of time, in contrast to its neo-classical applications, here simply means the time span in which the tragic action can be best comprehended by the audience, given the constraints of human memory, and the wholeness of the action. Finally, we come to the change of fortune. It is either from good to bad or the reverse. The former is more characteristic of tragedy but in a later section Aristotle complicates the idea by saying that those plots where the catastrophe is averted by recognition are best. The change of fortune is also accompanied by a complication of events (desis) and their resolution (lusis).
88.
________ is not a feature of a simple plot.
A) Recognition
B) A change of fortune
C) The unity of structure
D) Necessary and probable actions
89.
According to Aristotle, the best tragic plot must ________.
A) have a complex plot
B) deliver tragic pleasure
C) feature in reversal and recognition
D) be marked by a change of fortune
90.
Aristotle thought that ________.
A) a plot must have three parts: the beginning, the middle and the end
B) audience is attentive and can closely follow the actions on stage
C) the best plot prevents the audience from seeing the tragedy immediately
D) the change of fortune makes people become richer or poorer
91.
The coming parts of the passage most probably discusses ________.
A) how to write poetry
B) the features of a complex plot
C) the method of developing a simple plot
D) the importance of a change of fortune
Text D
Our universe might have originated from a black hole that lies within another universe. The idea centers on how matter and energy falling into a black hole could in theory come out a "white hole" in another universe. In such a situation, both the black hole and the white hole are mouths of an Einstein-Rosen bridge, popularly known as a wormhole. With that in mind, theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski at Indiana University conjectured that when a black hole forms upon the collapse of a dying star, a universe is born at the same time from the white hole on the other side of the wormhole. If our universe was born from a black hole in another universe, it would be impossible to cross its event boundary and see the other side, meaning one cannot prove or disprove this idea that way. So how might one test this conjecture? One implication of Poplawski’s concept is that our universe is "closed." "In cosmology, there are three models for our universe," Poplawski explained. "The first is that it’s closed, the second is that it’s 'open,' and the third is that it’s ‘flat.'" If it is closed, and one tries to venture to the edge of our universe, one would eventually loop back to where one started. "It would be like walking on the surface of the Earth — if you walk to the east, at some point you come back across the west," Poplawski said. If our universe is flat, and one tries to venture to its edge, one would never reach it, as it continued on infinitely. The same would hold true if the universe is open, "only it would be ‘curved,’" Poplawski said. This means that if two beams of light were shot into space parallel to each other, in a flat universe they would stay parallel, while in an open universe they would actually get farther from each other. If our universe lies "within" another universe, "the prediction would be that our universe is closed," Poplawski said. "That could be tested at some point. If the universe is closed, if one watches the stars, their light would be visible on the opposite side of the sky. If the universe is really big, the light from those stars might not have had time to do that yet, but maybe at some point we could see this." Also, black holes rotate, evidence suggests, and if our universe’s parent black hole was spinning, "then one direction might be preferred in our universe, evidence we could see at large scales," Poplawski said.
92.
The wormhole theory maintains that ________.
A) it is the Einstein-Rosen bridge which connects the two universes
B) a white hole appears when a star collapses
C) the two ends of a wormhole are both black holes
D) a white hole attracts matter and energy
93.
Poplawski’s contribution to the wormhole theory is that ________.
A) our universe has limited boundary
B) our universe was born together with a black hole
C) our universe was born in the wormhole
D) our universe looks like a circle
94.
The "flat" and "open" universe models differ in the aspect that ________.
A) a "flat" universe has no edge but an "open" universe has one
B) there are beams of light in a "flat" universe but no in an "open" universe
C) the "flat" universe theory can be proved but the "open" universe theory can not be
D) a "flat" universe does not bend but an "open" universe has a curved shape
95.
If two parallel beams of light were shot into an "open" universe, they would ________.
A) go parallel
B) go to opposite directions
C) cross with each other in a certain point
D) go gradually apart
96.
The "closed" universe model is in line with the theory that ________.
A) stars can be seen on the opposite side of the earth
B) one direction is preferred in our universe
C) our universe is formed by loops
D) our universe was born from a black hole
Text E
Southern slavery was highly diverse. Slaveholdings varied according to size, location, and crops produced. Slavery in cities differed substantially from that in the countryside. Masters exhibited varying temperaments and used diverse methods to run their farms and plantations. Slaves served as skilled craftsmen, preachers, nurses, drivers, and mill workers, as well as field hands and house servants. Despite these variations, southern slavery displayed some distinctive features. Unlike slavery in the rest of the New World, which depended on the continued importation of Africans, that in the southern United States was self-sustaining: during the half century after the end of legal importation in 1808, the slave population more than tripled. One consequence of this natural population growth was an equal ratio of males to females that — in contrast to the male preponderance in slave societies heavily dependent on imports from Africa — facilitated the formation of strong families. Another was the emergence of a slave population that, despite its distinctive cultural norms, was increasingly American in birth and character. Slaves adopted the religion of their masters, for example, but adapted it to their own particular needs. In short, Africans became African-Americans. Equally important was the moderate ratio of slaves to nonslaves, which set the South off both from societies in which slavery was legal but slaves were few and from Caribbean countries like Haiti and Jamaica, where slaves formed over 90 percent of the population, lived on immense estates with hundreds of other slaves, and rarely saw their owners. Throughout the antebellum period, slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population. Most lived on large farms and small plantations — three-quarters on holdings with fewer than fifty slaves — with resident masters who took an active role in directing them and were committed to slavery not just as an economic investment but as a way of life. The slave-master relationship was intense and unstable. Slaves strove mightily to improve their conditions, sometimes by running away or striking back at hated individuals but more often by focusing on their families, friends, and churches. Although slaves were able to secure a measure of social autonomy in their quarters, that autonomy was severely limited by the masters’ pervasive interference in their lives. Owners held Bible readings, nursed the sick, provided material conditions that were relatively high by international standards, and prided themselves on caring for their "people." But they (and their overseers) subjected the slaves to countless arbitrary regulations, resorted frequently to the lash, took sexual liberties with slave women, separated family members more often than they admitted, and strove to keep their human property in a state of complete dependence.
97.
Slaves in Southern America ________.
A) lived on farms and plantations
B) served different duties
C) were ill-treated by their masters
D) had no stable life
98.
"Preponderance" in Para. 2 means ________.
A) dominance in number
B) superiority in social status
C) physical strength
D) advantage in skills
99.
In most cases the slave masters in the southern US ________.
A) actively involved themselves in slaves’ life
B) formed strong families with slaves
C) had hundreds of slaves working together
D) allowed their slaves total freedom provided that they stayed on their plantation
100.
The passage is best entitled as ________.
A) Southern Slavery and Southern Society
B) Miseries of Southern Slaves
C) African-Americans
D) A History of Southern Slavery
101.
The tone of the passage is ________.
A) critical
B) sympathetic
C) objective
D) indifferent
Section A
Write a composition of about 200 words based on the following:To be a talent requires a lot of qualities and features, for example, international perspective. We see an increasing number of university students in China are now seeking opportunities to study abroad for one year or only a short summer. What are the elements that will make this experience helpful?The Benefits of Studying AbroadYou are to write in three parts. In the first part, state specifically what your view is. In the second part, support your view with one or two examples.In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Section B
Write on ANSWER SHEET a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:
Write a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation: You are Jane. You have just moved into a new dormitory building. But the students above your room are being very noisy with parties and music loud. You are writing a note of complaint to the dormitory supervisor, trying to seek help.
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