精读单元测试——Level 3 Unit 5
Listening
Directions: There are ten statements in this section. Number 1 to 6 are based on the main text while the rest are based on the passage in Reading Activity. Listen carefully and decide if each of the following is true or false. (10 points)
1.
True False
The boy never had any doubt about his mother's ability to do everything successfully.
正确答案：T
得分：1分
2.
True False
Mother cried because she was going to lose her new job for not knowing how to type.
正确答案：F
得分：1分
3.
True False
The full enrollment and a waiting list of the day nursery proved that nothing could stand in mother's way once she set her mind to do it.
正确答案：T
得分：1分
4.
True False
In order to earn enough money to get their children well-educated, the boy's mother had 80 acres of land to farm besides her fulltime jobs.
正确答案：F
得分：1分
5.
True False
Seeing his mother crying in his presence, the boy gradually got aware that she bore a heavy pressure for the family.
正确答案：T
得分：1分
6.
True False
Mother's courage to go ahead not only helped herself find a respectable job but also inspired her son to overcome difficulties in his career.
正确答案：T
得分：1分
7.
True False
The author was an orphan and was brought up by her aunt in Morgantown, West Virginia. 正确答案：F
得分：1分
8.
True False
The author was left in a big house all by herself when her Aunt Ruth went to work, so she felt lonely.
正确答案：F
得分：1分
9.
True False
The author's mother was once a teacher full of love of her students.
正确答案：T
得分：1分
10.
True False
It was not until twenty years later when she was grown up and had a baby of her own that the author knew what her mother had been like.
正确答案：T
得分：1分
Compound Dictation
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use
the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. (10 points)
Dear mum, from the very beginning, you have supported me with your love. You gave me the 11 to try, the stimulation to dream, and the strength to believe in myself; you gave me the 12 care and 13 understanding. Your love is 14 like a flower, strong like a 15 , and 16 like the seasons. I won't forget your loving 17 forever, mum, although it seems beyond seeing or touching. It is noticeable by my heart.
Dear mum, 18 . Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I know nothing in the world can express my love to you. But 19 . I want to have a dance with you and dad in the graceful and loving music. "Dear mum, thanks for all what you have done to me in the past twenty five years. Thanks for your love, 20 . Happy Mother's day, mum. Wish you happy, healthy and beautiful everyday. I will love you forever."
11.
正确答案：confidence
得分：1分
12.
正确答案：tender
得分：1分
13.
正确答案：sincere
得分：1分
14.
正确答案：pleasing
得分：1分
15.
正确答案：mountain
得分：1分
16.
正确答案：reliable
得分：1分
17.
正确答案：gentleness
得分：1分
18.
正确答案：I am really so grateful to have a mother like you 得分：1分
19.
正确答案：on this special day, I still want to send you a colorful bunch of fresh wildflowers 得分：1分
20.
正确答案：your tender care and fostering, your understanding and encouragement
得分：1分
Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices. Click on the best choice. (20 points)
Passage One
Growing into success is not an easy thing to experience. You will really get knocked around a bit as you determine to win in your chosen career. The biggest disadvantage you have to handle is the fear of failure. It can lead to many disastrous results.
The first thing fear of failure does is to breed an overcautious approach to opportunity. Knowing when and how to make use of opportunity is fundamental to career success. Having knowledge about the opportunity, you then need to determine timing. Positive and negative factors listed, you make your decision. If you have a fear of failure, you might be slow in taking the last step even though the opportunity passes detailed analysis.
Secondly, fear of failure can keep you from speaking up and making the kind of impact that could uplift your career. A well-spoken word that solves a problem or sets off creativity could be just the thing to get you noticed as a valuable part of the team, but if you're sitting there stewing over (担忧) the kind of response you'll get, then more times than not, you'll remain silent and miss your moment to shine.
Thirdly, fear of failure causes you to miss the point of personal and professional growth. Failing is one of the best tutors in career development. Consider the story of a new bank president who went to meet his predecessor (前任). Upon being introduced he quickly said, "I would like to know what have been the keys to your success." The older man looked at him for a moment and replied, "Young man, I can sum it up in two words: Good decisions." To that the young man replied, "Sir, but how does one come to know which are the good
decisions?" "One word, young man," replied the old man. "Experience." "That's all good and well," said the young executive, "but how does one get experience?" "Two words," replied the old man, "Bad decisions."
If you really want to succeed, be prepared to grow into it. Lose your fear of failure and take a chance to do something that's important to you. You'll be glad you did.
21.If you fear failure, chances are that __________.
A.you are too careful to take timely action to catch an opportunity
B.you overestimate negative factors
C.you are always making an analysis
D.you put safety on the top of a list
正确答案：A
得分：2分
22.Putting forward an idea or suggestion that solves a problem may __________.
A.make your team valuable
B.make your characters shine
C.get your value recognized
D.get your creativity noticed
正确答案：C
得分：2分
23.The story in the fourth paragraph tells us that __________.
A.we grow with experience
B.we should learn from those with more experience
C.we should be modest and learn from our predecessors
D.we cannot grow without failures
正确答案：D
得分：2分
24.If you determine to win in your chosen career, you should __________.
A.get knocked around a bit
B.not be too cautious
C.do something important to you even if some sort of danger is involved
D.pay a lot of attention to making correct decisions
正确答案：C
得分：2分
25.Which of the following is not related to the main points of the passage?
A.When your door of opportunity opens, walk boldly through it!
B.Luck is a dividend (红利) of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
C.Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
D.Once bitten, twice shy.
正确答案：B
得分：2分
Passage Two
In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men.
Then came World War I and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man's secretary became his personal servant, charged with remembering his wife's birthday and buying her presents, taking his suits to the dry-cleaners, telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay, and of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand.
Now all this may be changing again. The microchip (电脑微晶片) and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical (文书的) work that secretaries did. Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work — and then men will want to do it again.
That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he had predicted is already under way in the US.
Once high technology had made the job of secretary less routine, will there be a male takeover? Man should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as them — not just because they can buy negligees (女式长睡衣) for the boss's wife, but because they are as efficient and well-trained to cope with word processors and computers, as men.
26.Secretaries used to be men because __________.
A.women were considered inefficient
B.people thought men couldn't concentrate on their work in the presence of women
C.there were less job opportunities before World War I
D.men thought highly of the job of secretary
正确答案：B
得分：2分
27.The task of a woman secretary involves the following except __________.
A.not disturbing her boss when he is busy
B.choosing birthday gifts for her boss's wife
C.typing business letters for her boss
D.sorting and keeping papers
正确答案：A
得分：2分
28.Now things are beginning to change __________.
A.with more and more men entering into the secretarial work
B.as there are more job opportunities for women
C.with high technology coming into the office
D.as people no longer look down upon clerical work
正确答案：C
得分：2分
29.Men will want to be secretaries again because __________.
A.the job has become easier to handle
B.the job will receive more respect than before
C.they have learned to do the job as well as women
D.they'd like to have a better-paid job
正确答案：B
得分：2分
30.The author believes that before long __________.
A.men will take over women's jobs as secretaries
B.men will take over most of the office work
C.women will be better-trained to handle office machines than men
D.there will be men secretaries as well as women secretaries
正确答案：D
得分：2分
Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. (60 points)
31.What she said has touched me on a __________ place.
A.tender
B.tend
C.tending
D.tended
正确答案：A
得分：2分
32.She couldn't __________ her tears any longer and wept (哭) aloud.
A.run out
B.hold back
C.go back
D.help out
正确答案：B
得分：2分
33.Don't let a little dispute __________ a great friendship.
A.reach out
B.hold back
C.break up
D.spring up
正确答案：C
得分：2分
34.The people in the war-torn countries __________ for freedom and peace.
A.desired
B.bound
C.tucked
D.longed
正确答案：D
得分：2分
35.Why, if you don't communicate, if every time your children tell you something they truly believe, you immediately __________ them, then of course they stop talking to you and won't tell you the truth.
A.recalled
B.scold
C.interfere
D.approve
正确答案：B
得分：2分
36.My __________ didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
A.folks
B.races
C.nations
D.ethics
正确答案：A
得分：2分
37.What I did mind was not __________ I had to walk a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a group of small boys, but __________ most of my friends would be enjoying themselves at that time.
A.what / that
B.that / what
C.that / that
D.which / what
正确答案：C
得分：2分
38.His term of office as President of the school has __________.
e out
B.given out
C.reached out
D.run out
正确答案：D
得分：2分
39.Wisdom consists in the __________ to tell the differences between the probable and improbable, and in accepting the inevitable.
A.disability
B.ability
C.proficiency
D.vulnerability
正确答案：B
得分：2分
40.Now, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) of the People's Republic of China is __________ established.
A.formally
B.formerly
rmally
D.evenly
正确答案：A
得分：2分
41.His humorous remark relieved the __________ in the room.
A.stillness
B.tension
C.pressure
D.urgency
正确答案：B
得分：2分
42.Unknown forces were __________ to throw over the government.
A.on end
B.on effect
C.at work
D.in action
正确答案：C
得分：2分
43.We send __________ for a set of bed linen (床单) we saw advertised in a magazine.
A.in
B.down
C.up
D.away
正确答案：D
得分：2分
44.The manager gave her his __________ that her complaint would be investigated.
A.assumption
B.assurance
C.certainty
D.insurance
正确答案：B
得分：2分
45.The government has __________ its ambassador from Paris.
A.recalled
B.readjusted
C.reframed
D.redefined
正确答案：A
得分：2分
46.He's got a fortune __________ away in a Swiss bank account.
A.tucking
B.to tuck
C.tucked
D.having tucked
正确答案：C
得分：2分
47.He was __________ to resist the temptation.
A.frantic
B.drawn
C.formal
D.helpless
正确答案：D
得分：2分
48.It was a long time before the police caught __________ to what he was really doing.
A.up
B.at
C.on
D.out
正确答案：C
得分：2分
49.With opium, marijuana and cocaine (鸦片、大麻和可卡因), they put to sleep all who
__________ in their way.
A.flip
B.stand
C.help
D.rack
正确答案：B
得分：2分
50.Judith bent forward like her unsophisticated sister, and tried to hide her __________ in
a similar manner.
A.embarrassment
B.stillness
C.conscience
D.vulnerability
正确答案：A
得分：2分
51.But in vain did he __________ his imagination; rich as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.
A.track
B.ranch
C.tract
D.rack
正确答案：D
得分：2分
52.The committee gave us permission to go __________ with our building plans.
A.ahead
B.about
C.after
D.against
正确答案：A
得分：2分
53.Be on __________ against those who are jealous of your success.
A.duty
B.guard
C.shift
D.switch
正确答案：B
得分：2分
54.We had to __________ our trip when we heard John's mother was ill.
A.assume
B.exhaust
C.interrupt
D.enroll
正确答案：C
得分：2分
55.The traditional pattern of classroom experience at the college level brings the professor and a group of 20 to 30 students together for a 45-to-50-minute class __________ two or three times a week.
A.section
B.faction
C.subsection
D.session
正确答案：D
得分：2分
56.The small branches of the tree __________ back and scratched his face.
A.flipped
B.floated
C.flattered
D.fluttered
正确答案：A
得分：2分
57.To __________ the reunion dinner and stay away from Chinese New Year means losing many great opportunities to form stronger family and friendship ties.
A.flip
B.skip
C.jump
D.swing
正确答案：B
得分：2分
58.It wasn't __________ he tracked down his lost wallet.
A.before long
B.long after
C.long before
D.after long
正确答案：C
得分：2分
59.Parents are firmly convinced that to send their child to kindergartens or __________
schools will have an unfavorable influence on the growth of children.
A.public
B.motel
C.low
D.nursery
正确答案：D
得分：2分
60.The children waited with eager __________ for Christmas.
A.anticipation
B.prediction
C.enrollment
D.assumption
正确答案：A
得分：2分。
