大学英语A5

大学英语A5

一、阅读理解

1、Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey.

To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look at our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attackers.

Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting their food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use--that of controlling and domesticating their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival.

The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets. Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead, the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that were no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten but there were other much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.

(1)、The author believes that sporting activities ______.

A：are forms of biological development

B：have actually developed from hunting

C：are essentially forms of taming the prey

D：have changed the ways of hunting

答案： B

(2)、In a football game what is equal to the prey in hunting is ______.

A：any member of the opposing team

B：the goal

C：The goalmouth

D：the football

答案： C

(3)、For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.

A：successful farmers

B：cooperating hunters

C：runners and jumpers

D：skillful sportsmen

答案： B

(4)、The word \"operation\" (Paragraph 4) refers to ______.

A：sports activities

B：hunting

C：prey killing

D：domesticating animals

答案： B

(5)、Which of the following best summarizes the idea of the passage?

A：It is farming that gives human beings enough leisure time for sporting activities

B：Farming is very important in human civilization because it saves human beings from risks and uncertainties of hunting for survival

C：It is hunting that provides human beings with much simpler ways of obtaining meaty meals

D：Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern man to exercise hunting skills which his forefathers developed for survival

答案： D

2、Imagine your sitting on your front garden admiring the shining sun when your neighbor comes with that annoying car with the noisy sound and the exhaust

pipe blowing out this horrible black smoke. What are you going to do about it?

In our modern days, too many people depend on their cars to get to work or to drop off their children to school. However, is it safe to have an increasing number of cars on our roads?

Research shows that cars create serious pollution. Exhaust from all combustion engines produces harmful effects on the health of both car users and all innocent walkers. Cities have become islands of toxic chemicals from the unrestrained use of vehicles burning fossil fuels. The harmful health effects of car exhaust are pervasive and difficult to measure. For example, people with asthma would suffer with attacks due to the pollution. The world wild life also suffers from the cars' toxic emissions. No matter how much manufacturers try to make cars environmentally friendly, it will damage our earth in one way or another.

Additionally, cars are too dangerous for our community. Careless drivers put themselves and others in danger. Cars are critical to walkers especially to children if the driver is not looking on the road or somehow distracted. Have you known someone whose toes or feet have been run over by cars while crossing the street?

Lastly, cars create social problems, which could lead to poor health. A few drivers suffer \"Road Rage\" and put themselves, loved ones and others in a threatening situation. Some cars create disturbing noises, which disturbs people

living near highways, freeways, etc. not to get enough sleep. People depend on their cars so much they forget to exercise their bodies and end up being obese or having a heart problem.

As a result of the excessive number of cars on our roads, everyone's life is in danger. In order to create an environmentally friendly and safe world, it is necessary for each country to limit the permits in number to control regional air pollution. Second, car manufacturers should try to improve the efficiency of vehicles, such as finding solutions to emissions of combustion engines, developing new power sources such as new fuels, natural gas. Third, try to improve efficiency of traffic by setting up dedicated bus lanes and giving priority to car-pools and vehicles with 3 or more passengers. Besides, traffic can be scheduled; for example, commercial traffic at night; large companies can shift working hours and decentralize administrative operations.

(1)、 Exhaust from cars is ________.

A：harmless

B：pollutive

C：not serious

D：ineffective to walkers

答案： B

(2)、In author's view, it is_____ to make cars be friendly to environment.

A：impossible

B：feasible

C：hopeful

D：potential

答案： A

(3)、 _____ will be the major victims in the car accident.

A：Walkers

B：Children

C：Car-drivers

D：Traffic police

答案： B

(4)、 Cars caused some social problems except_____.

A：obesity

B：a quick temper

C：employment

D：sleep problem

答案： C

(5)、Which of the following is not true as to handling car problems?

A：Reducing the number of cars.

B：Using a car in the restricted area.

C：Finding alternative fuels.

D：Scheduling the traffic.

答案： B

二、词汇与语法

1、If we don't stop the population from increasing at such a rapid rate, there will ________ not be enough room left on the earth for human to stand, let alone development.

A：constantly

B：mainly

C：eventually

D：lately

答案： C

2、The theory of class currently prevailing in the West is ______ based on what Max Weber, a German sociologist, proposed.

A：fairly

B：kindly

C：largely

D：greatly

答案： C

3、He left orders that nothing ______ until the police arrived.

A：was touched

B：had been touched

C：should be touched

D：were touched

答案： C

4、You should give the application to the man ______ at that chair.

A：sits

B：to sit

C：sat

D：sitting

答案： D

5、The Chinese food ______ good.

A：are tasted

B：tastes

C：is tasted

D：taste

答案： B

6、Not only Tom but also his wife ______fond of watching television.

A：are

B：were

C：be

D：was

答案： D

7、On hearing the news of _____the examination, the boy was very happy.

A：his having passed

B：he passed

C：his being passed

D：to pass

答案： A

8、In Britain people drive ______the left.

A：at

B：on

C：to

D：in

答案： B

9、You have only 1000 words in which to ______ his speech.

A：amount to

B：sum up

C：lead to

D：take up

答案： B

10、The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all ____ to us.

A：satisfy

B：satisfied

C：satisfying

D：satisfactory

答案： D

三、完型填空

Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die, but people now live longer than they 1 . Yet, all living things still show the __2 of aging, which will eventually 3 death.

Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity, the cells of the body and the organs they form do not function as well as they did in childhood. The body provides less 4 against diseases and is more inclined 5 accident.

A number of related causes may contribute to aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not 6 when they die. In an aging person the new cells may not be as capable 7 growth as those of a young person.

Another 8 in aging may be changes within the cells themselves. Some of the protein chemicals in cells are known to change with age and become less flexible. This is why the skin of old people wrinkles. This is also the reason old people 9 in height. There may be other more important chemicals changes in the cells. Some complex cell chemicals, such as DNA and RNA, store and 10 information that the cells need. Aging may affect this process and change the information-carrying molecules so that they do not transmit the information as well.

(1)、

A：had

B：use to

C：were used to

D：used to

答案： D

(2)、

A：fact

B：effect

C：function

D：symbol

答案： B

(3)、

A：affect

B：produce

C：result in

D：result from

答案： C

(4)、

A：protection

B：demand

C：decline

D：delay

答案： A

(5)、

A：to

B：for

C：against

D：from

答案： A

(6)、

A：replaced

B：born

C：recovered

D：discovered

答案： A

(7)、

A：with

B：for

C：of

D：to

答案： C

(8)、

A：factor

B：effect

C：reason

D：element

答案： A

(9)、

A：short

B：shrink

C：lengthen

D：increase

答案： B

(10)、

A：pass to

B：pass from

C：pass on

D：pass on to

答案： C

四、汉译英

(1)、只要尽我们所能，我们就一定能实现目标。

(2)、我们会尽最大努力来帮助她做这个工作。

(3)、他对新闻界的看法是，记者们不是支持他，就是反对他。

(4)、他记得在离开阅览室时，把灯关上了。

五、写作

写作

Instructions:Your essay should be no less than 150 words. Pollution is becoming more and more serious all over the world, and people's health is threatened. How to solve this problem remains one of the most important issues for each country. Write an essay on the topic \"The Problem of Pollution\". You should base your essay on the following outline.

1.全球污染现象变得日益严重。

2.全世界人民都非常关注这一现象。各国政府也采取了一定的措施来解决这一问题。

3.我们应该怎么做。