西南交通大学网络教育
课程作业
年级：2016-7班
层次：专升本
专业名称：土木工程（铁道工程）课程名称：大学英语Ⅲ-7
学号：16823
姓名：x
大学英语Ⅲ第7次作业(计分数) * 本次作业满分为100分。成绩要记录为平时成绩，请认真完成
一、单项选择题(只有一个选项正确，共40道小题)
1.[本题2分]–Would you like me to call a taxi for you?
–____C______
(A) I‘d like to.
(B) Please do. Thank you just the same.
(C) Would you please?
(D) No, it‘ll trouble you.
2.[本题2分]–Can you pass me the potatoes?
–_____A_____
(A) Don‘t you think they are delicious?
(B) Sorry, they don‘t taste good.
(C) Sorry, they are too heavy for me to carry.
(D) Don‘t you think you‘ve had enough?
3.[本题2分]–Would you do me the favor to give me a lift?
–_____A______
(A) With pleasure
(B) Not at all
(C) Never mind
(D) Yes, quite right
4.[本题2分]–Do you mind if I sit next to you?
–_____D______
(A) Yes, you may.
(B) I‘d be glad to.
(C) Sit down, please.
(D) Not a bit.
5.[本题2分]–Will you do me a favor?
–Yes, _____C______.
(A) please
(B) I like it
(C) I‘ll be very glad to
(D) I‘m glad
6.[本题2分]–Do you mind my taking this seat?
–_____D______
(A) Yes, sit down please.
(B) No, you can‘t take it.
(C) Yes, take it please.
(D) No, of course not.
7.[本题2分]–Do you think I could borrow your dictionary? –_____C______
(A) Yes, you may borrow.
(B) Yes, go on.
(C) Yes, help yourself.
(D) Yes, you could.
8.[本题2分]–Will you fill in the form please?
–______A_____
(A) Sure.
(B) I‘m so glad you‘ve come.
(C) Not at all.
(D) No, thanks.
9.[本题2分]–Can I smoke here?
–Well, ___B____, if you don‘t mind.
(A) go ahead
(B) I‘d rather you didn‘t
(C) no problem
(D) certainly
10.[本题2分]–Would you mind ___C___?
–Sure, go ahead.
(A) if I turn off the light
(B) if turning off the light
(C) I turning off the light
(D) me turn off the light
11.[本题1分] So clear was his ___B___ of the case that others had no more to say.
(A) attitude
(B) presentation
(C) remark
(D) comment
12.[本题1分] We have to ___C___ a communication task in the given situation.
(A) company
(B) accompany
(C) accomplish
(D) complish
13.[本题1分] He went ahead regardless of all warnings about the danger of his ___D___.
(A) missionary
(B) misfortune
(C) missing
(D) mission
14.[本题1分] Work for the member of the new society is a matter of honor and __B__.
(A) business
(C) cause
(D) emotion
15.[本题1分] The flowers in the park were __A____.
(A) pleasing
(B) pleased
(C) please
(D) pleasure
16.[本题1分] His work is a __B____ to this theory.
(A) authority
(B) challenge
(C) demand
(D) channel
17.[本题1分] I hope these job hunting ___B___ would help you find a job.
(A) strategy
(B) strategies
(C) strap
(D) strategic
18.[本题1分] Free mail may be a good deal, ___C___ it has a hidden price.
(A) so
(B) as long as
(C) even if
(D) even
19.[本题1分] He tried to cheer them ___D___ with funny stories.
(A) on
(B) in
(D) up
20.[本题1分] No one can __D____ anything without effort.
(A) complete
(B) finish
(C) ache
(D) achieve
21.[本题1分] The most __C____ problem any economic system faces is how to use its reso urces.
(A) critic
(B) puzzling
(C) crucial
(D) urge
22.[本题1分]I can‘t imagine ___D___ that with them.
(A) doing
(B) do
(C) to be done
(D) being done
23.[本题1分]Anne couldn‘t concentrate ___D___ what she was doing while her family were watching TV.
(A) to
(B) in
(C) for
(D) on
24.[本题1分] Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison __ _B___.
(B) as well
(C) as well as
(D) in addition
25.[本题1分] Nowadays more and more consumers would not believe many of the manufac tures‘ ___D___.
(A) inform
(B) demand
(C) pronounce
(D) claim
26.[本题1分] The Watergate scandal brought divisions to the country and ___A___ let to Ni xon‘s resignation.
(A) ultimately
(B) firstly
(C) however
(D) endlessly
27.[本题1分] Women love to talk. Silence intimidates them and they feel a need to fill it, _ __C___ they have nothing to say.
(A) when
(B) unless
(C) even if
(D) if
28.[本题1分]–Who used to like singing?
–I ___B___.
(A) does
(B) did
(C) do
29.[本题1分] I would appreciate ___D___ back this afternoon.
(A) you‘re calling
(B) you call
(C) you to call
(D) your calling
30.[本题1分] The teacher ___C___ a passage to the class.
(A) dice
(B) direct
(C) dictate
(D) discuss
31.[本题1分] The average output of the factory is expected to double this year as a result of a ___B___ signed between the two companies.
(A) constant
(B) contract
(C) content
(D) context
32.[本题1分]It‘s hard to ___A___ my family that we can‘t afford a new car.
(A) convince
(B) consider
(C) conceive
(D) continue
33.[本题1分] The idea ___A___ alarmed her.
(A) somewhat
(B) anyway
(C) somehow
(D) anyhow
34.[本题1分] What a ______ headache! I seem ___C___ ill.
(A) terrible; terrible
(B) terribly; terribly
(C) terrible; terribly
(D) terribly; terrible
35.[本题1分] Death is often a welcome ___A___ from pain.
(A) relief
(B) release
(C) damage
(D) fatigue
36.[本题1分] Our plan is to allocate one member of ___D___ to handle this task.
(A) stuff
(B) crew
(C) people
(D) staff
37.[本题1分] The high-speed trains can have a major __D____ on travel preferences.
(A) surprise
(B) power
(C) force
(D) impact
38.[本题1分] His ___C___ for her made him blind to everything else.
(A) patience
(B) proposal
(C) passion
(D) emotion
39.[本题1分] She went upstairs to see if he was still asleep ___D___.
(A) from time to time
(B) at one time
(C) in the same time
(D) behind the time
40.[本题1分] __A___ is a good form of exercise for both young and old.
(A) Walking
(B) The walk
(C) To walk
(D) Walk
二、阅读理解、完形填空题(共5道小题)
41.
The richest man in the world once stated that, ―Back when I was a teenager, I envisio ned the impact that low-co st computers could have. ?A computer on every desk and in eve ry home‘ became Microsoft‘s corporate mission, and we have worked to help make that po ssible‖. He has succeeded in his quest, his company Microsoft becoming the largest in the world. In fact, Bill Gates and his company Microsoft have changed the way the entire worl d operates.
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle. During his years at public school, Gates was not challenged and lost interest in school. He was somewhat of a troublemaker, and his parents decided to move him to a private school, Lakeside Elementary. It was her e that he discovered his passion for computers. A friend helped him write his first program at this age, and Gates never stopped after that. In high school, he helped the staff write programs for payroll. After this success, Bill co-founded a company with friend Steve Allen that helped the government track street traffic patterns. In 1972, after finishing up high sc hool, both Allen and Gates went off to Harvard University, where he met Steve Ballmer an d the dream for Microsoft started becoming a reality.
Gates and his high school friend Allen started developing software for the very first mi crocomputer. The finished language was called MS-BASIC, and is still a programming langu age used today.
After his sophomore year, both Gates and Allen felt they could have greater success in the business environment, so they left Harvard in 1975 and founded a small programming company called Microsoft.
1976 was an important year for Gates and his small company. The company rented th eir first building in Albuquerque, New Mexico and claimed the name Microsoft in the state. Microsoft sold their product very cheaply, believing that their mission statement, ―A c omput er on every desk in every home‖ would sell software in such great quantity that they coul d make a profit. The first few years in Microsoft were hard; Bill worked very long hours, h andling coding, finances, and conducting business calls.
(1).[本题2分]In the first paragraph the underlined word ―envision‖ means ____A______.
(A) aware
(B) see
(C) notice
(D) imagine
(2).[本题2分]Which is NOT true about Gates‘ school day? C
(A) Gates made a lot of trouble in school.
(B) Gates developed his interest in computer in Lakeside Elementary.
(C) Gates couldn‘t follow what the teacher taught in school.
(D) Gates finished his elementary education in a private school.
(3).[本题2分] Why did Bill Gates quit his college education? B
(A) He was not challenged in Harford.
(B) He felt he could achieve greater success in business.
(C) He wanted to put the knowledge learned from book into practice.
(D) He wanted to be the richest man in the world.
(4).[本题2分] What can we learn about Microsoft? D
(A) Microsoft had a smooth start.
(B) MS-Basic was the first product of Microsoft.
(C) Microsoft made profit by selling products at a high price.
(D) Microsoft made it possible for every family to have a computer.
(5).[本题2分] According to the passage, which of following was NOT done by Bill Gates? D
(A) Bill Gates developed a programming language which is still used today.
(B) Bill Gates wrote programs for payroll.
(C) Bill Gates worked overtime for his company.
(D) Bill Gates worked as a governor to track street traffic patterns.
42.
The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, An ne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasura ble contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, thr ee months before I was seven years old.
On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant. I guess ed vaguely from my mother‘s signs and fro m the hurrying to and fro in the house that so mething unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.
I felt approaching footsteps. I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother. So me one took it, and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal all things to me, and, more than all things else, to love me.
The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. W hen I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word ?d-o-l-l‘. I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. When I finally s ucceeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Ru nning downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fin gers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncom prehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, s
tand and walk. But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.
(1).[本题2分]In the first paragraph the underlined word ―it‖ refers to ____C______.
(A) the wonder the author was filled with
(B) the immeasurable contrast
(C) the day Mrs. Sullivan came to the author‘s life
(D) the author‘s memory
(2).[本题2分] Which of the following is NOT true about what happened on the afternoon of that eventful day? D
(A) All the family members were hurrying to and fro.
(B) The author sensed something unusual would happen.
(C) The author waited on the steps with expectation.
(D) Mother introduced the new teacher to the author.
(3).[本题2分] Miss Sullivan did a lot to the author EXCEPT ____D______.
(A) loving her
(B) teaching her to spell words
(C) showing her a lot of new things
(D) curing her disease
(4).[本题2分]Before Sullivan‘s coming which of the following was beyond the author‘s kno wledge? C
(A) Words consist of letters of the alphabet.
(B) Words exist.
(C) All of above.
(D) Everything has a name.
(5).[本题2分] Where would this passage most likely be extracted from? C
(A) Review.
(B) Drama.
(C) Auto-biography.
(D) Science Fiction.
43.
Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Mo st children will ―obey‖ s poken instructions some time before they can speak, though the w ord ―obey‖ is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usuall y shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gest ure and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spok en words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly express ive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can‘t be said to show the bab y‘s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It i s agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and tha t by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The pro blem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be conside red as speech.
It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on wha t a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use at s even months of ―mama‖ as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningles s sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after th e child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.
(1).[本题2分]The author‘s purpose in writing the first paragraph is to show that children _ __D___.
(A) are born cooperative
(B) are passive in the process of learning to speak
(C) usually obey without asking questions
(D) learn to speak by listening
(2).[本题2分] Children who start speaking late ____B____.
(A) often take a long time in learning to listen properly
(B) usually pay close attention to what they hear
(C) probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
(D) may have problems with their listening
(3).[本题2分]Which of the following is TRUE about a baby‘s first noises? C
(A) That is a sign that he means to tell you something.
(B) That is an early form of language.
(C) That is an expression of his moods and feelings.
(D) That is an imitation of the speech of adults.
(4).[本题2分] The speaker implies____D____.
(A) parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
(B) children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
(C) children who are good at imitating learning new words more quickly
(D) even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating
(5).[本题2分] The best title for this passage would be ___B___.
(A) Early Forms of Language
(B) How Babies Learn to Speak
(C) Noise Making and Language Learning
(D) A Huge Task for Children
44.
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as rule, to have it retold in identi cally the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacr ed texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a pare nt can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an
improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or aro using his sadistic（残酷成性的）impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a c ontrolled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cr uelty than those who had not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impulses every child has an d, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, cases of children being dangero usly terrified by some fairy stories. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the plea sure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not obj ectively true, that giants, witches, two headed dragons, magic carpets, etc, do not exist; a nd that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphi a on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their encha nted girl friend. No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and n o sane child had ever believed that it was.
(1).[本题2分] According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE about fairy tale?
A
(A) Fairy tale will be more effective if it is adapted by parents.
(B) Fairy tale must be made easy so that children can read it on their own.
(C) Fairy tale cannot be read to children without variation because they find no pleasure i n it.
(D) Fairy tale is no longer needed in developing children‘s power of memory.
(2).[本题2分] According to the passage, some people who are openly against fairy tales ar gue that ____B____.
(A) fairy tales increase a tendency to sadism in children
(B) fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have been adapted by their parent
(C) children who have read fairy stories pay little attention to the study of history and m echanics
(D) fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show the primitive cruelty in children
(3).[本题2分]In the writer‘s opinion to rid children of fears, fairy stories should be ______ D____.
(A) told in a realistic setting
(B) presented vividly
(C) repeated many times
(D) told only once
(4).[本题2分] Which of the following is TRUE about the function of fairy stories? B
(A) Fairy stories harm children greatly.
(B) Fairy stories have advantages in c ultivating children‘s fancy.
(C) Fairy stories have a very bad effect on children.
(D) Fairy stories help children to come to terms with fears.
(5).[本题2分] According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? A
(A) Fairy tale s may beneficially direct children‘s aggressive, destructive and sadistic impuls es.
(B) If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales instead of being taught how to adapt t o reality by studying history and mechanics the world should be full of madman.
(C) Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary figures with magical powers whic h has nothing to do with external world.
(D) Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy story is heard for the first time.
45.In his quarters at the White House over Christmas 1941, Winston Churchill, the __(1)_ _ British Prime Minister, was in the bath, dictating to an assistant. Coming out of the bath room, Churchill dropped his towel, and there was the PM, in all his naked glory, pacing an d talking. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. ―Come in,‖ Churchill said as he turned
to face Franklin Roosevelt, who apologized and began to __(2)__ . The Prime Minister sto pped him. ―You see, Mr. President,‖ he said, ―I have nothing to hide __(3)__ you.‖ Both men laughed, and after Churchill returned home from this trip, Roosevelt told him, ―It is fu n to be in the same decade with you.‖
Long after Roosevelt‘s death and very late in Churchill‘s life, Lady Clementine Churchill invited Roosevelt‘s son, James, to visit the __(4)__ Prime Minister. ―He‘d like that, and ma ybe it would cheer him up,‖ she said. ―He‘s been a bit __(5)__.‖
Churchill seemed feeble, but when he saw Roosevelt, his face __(6)__. Holding his gue st‘s hand, he asked James to sit and talk. ―From time to time he would ask me __(8)__ I remembered someone I‘d never met, and he spoke about a message he‘d sent me, when he‘d never sent me a message in his life,‖ James __(7)__. ―At first I was puzzled. Then I realized he thought I was my father.‖Seeing his mistake, Churchill was ―terribly disappoin ted‖.
For a fleeting instant, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had been at the top of the tower again, __(9)__ in the old man‘s mind, and the thought had been pleasing—frien ds indeed, down the decades, shoulder to shoulder in the __(10)__ of democracy. And so the tale unfolds still.
(1).[本题1分] A
(A) visiting (B) visited (C) visit (D) to visit
(2).[本题1分] A
(A) retreat (B) retard (C) retail (D) retain
(3).[本题1分] B
(A) against (B) from (C) off (D) back
(4).[本题1分] A
(A) former (B) earlier (C) past (D) before
(5).[本题1分] B
(A) upward (B) down (C) downward (D) up
(6).[本题1分] C
(A) light (B) light up (C) lit up (D) lit
(7).[本题1分] C
(A) though (B) who (C) if (D) what
(8).[本题1分] C
(A) relived (B) memoried (C) recalled (D) remembered
(9).[本题1分] B
(A) if only (B) only (C) only if (D) if
(10).[本题1分] B
(A) coarse (B) course (C) curse (D) cause