中国人民大学-大学英语二级-2006期中考a

2006级大学英语二级期中考试试卷（B）

（Nov. 16, 2006）

Part I Listening Comprehension (30 points) Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Mark the your answer on the Answer Sheet. 1. A) Everyday. B) On weekends. C) On weekdays. D) Seldom.

2. A) The woman was not quite sure why it was so rainy. B) They both loved the season very much. C) The man didn't expect the woman to answer the question. D) They didn't see eye to eye with each other.

3. A) Thursday afternoon. B) Thursday morning. C) Tuesday morning. D) Tuesday afternoon.

4. A) Freshmen and their parents' fears. B) Parents' problems. C) Parents' dream. D) The start of college. 5. A) He was too late to bring it. B) He thought the store would deliver it. C) He asked Mary to get it.

D) To get food from stores is the last thing he would like to do.

6. A) At the information desk. B) On the platform. C) On the train. D) Near the stairs. 7. A) He is very busy. B) He is not familiar with the city. C) He just came from the airport. D) He didn't take the bus yesterday.

8. A) She feels that the trip will take too long. B) The students haven't chosen a teacher. C) The teacher has to choose a place first. D) It's not certain if the trip will take place.

9. A) Walked around the classroom. B) Tested the students. C) Reviewed the previous lessons. D) Checked the students' homework. 10. A) Coldly. B) Gladly. C) Angrily. D) Unkindly. Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear several short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage:

11. A) Collapse and delirium. B) Indigestion and depression. C) Liable to lose one's temper and become thin. D) Complications and illness.

12. A) Eating or drinking to excess. B) Taking a sleep. C) Spending hours in talking with their friends. D) Screaming loudly. 13. A) Singing and dancing. B) Eating and drinking. C) Screaming and dancing. D) Shopping and watching movies.

14. A) Stress may cause serious problems. B) There are many methods of coping with stress. C) What is the most important is that people can deal with stress effectively

rather than how people cope with it.

D) What are the most effective methods of relieving stress.

Questions 15 to 19 are based on the following passage:

15. A) Gold was discovered. B) The first railroad was completed. C) The Golden Gate Bridge was constructed. D) Telephone communication was established.

16. A) In 1776. B) In 1848. C) In 1862. D) In 1937. 17. A) Two million. B) Three million. C) Five million. D) Six million.

18. A) It is more than one mile long. B) It cost thirty-two million dollars. C) It was completed in 1937. D) All of the above.

19. A) He is giving a lecture about San Francisco. B) He is working as a tourist guide. C) He is chatting with his friends. D) He is giving a lesson to his students.

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the following passage:

20. A) Several years ago. B) A hundred years ago. C) A thousand years ago. D) Thousands of years ago.

21. A) A small profit on more sales. B) A large profit on more sales. C) A large profit on fewer sales. D) None of the above. 22. A) Few of them. B) A few of them. C) Half of them. D) Most of them.

Section C

Directions: Listen to the piece of news from BBC and then decide whether the statements are true or false. Write “T” for true and “F” for false. 23. Yahoo and Google are social networking sites.

24. MySpace is one of the top five English-language websites.

25. It is more difficult for young people in UK to manage the social lives on the net. 26. MySpace claims to have 95 million members with 500,000 new members joining the community each week.

27. The success of MySpace lies in its simplicity.

28. Love of chatting is at the heart of the community in MySpace. 29. Users of social networks pay for service.

30. Members of social networks can meet each other and communicate online.

Part II Reading Comprehension (30 points) Directions: There are several passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

Most western people regard the cat as a pet and cherish it very much. It is

reported that some famous western person look on the cat as their child, but others hate it in their bones. This forms a very sharp contrast. The famous British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved cats very much in his later years. He raised a white cat. Whenever he had his meal, he must share it with his cat, or he would have no desire to eat his meal and he would also be in low spirits. Sometimes his loving cat wasn't at the table. He must send his servant to find it or he wouldn't have his meal until his cat came back. It's hard for us to understand this. The well-known American general Bert Lears always mentioned the cats he raised whenever he wrote to his family. In the war between America and Mexico he wrote to his daughter, Alice, asking her to send his big cat to his big headquarters at the front, as soon as possible. He wanted the cat to boost his courage and cheer him up. As a result, he was triumphant in battle.

But, on the other hand there are some famous persons who hate cats terribly. The most terrible behavior may be from the famous English poet Percy Bysse Shelley. Shelley wrote his poems with affection, but treated his cats unfriendly. Once when he flied a kite to make an electricity experiment like Franklin, he tightly tied up a male cat under the kite. Then he sent the kite into the air in the presence of wind and lightning, accompanied by crashes of thunder. The cat with a sorrowful voice was burned to death like a piece of coal. However, Shelley was very happy. If Shelley had taken this action today in England, he would be sentenced to imprisonment for life and fined a lot of money because of killing the animal.

31. Churchill loved his cat so much so that ____. A) he would have no appetite in the absence of the cat B) he would ask his servants to give some food to the cat whenever he ate

something

C) he slept with the cat at nights D) he would not do anything without the company of the cat

32. Lears sent for his big cat most probably because ____. A) it could bring him good luck B) he missed the cat very much C) in the presence of the cat, he could be in high spirits D) he needed the cat to encourage his soldiers to fight bravely

33. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A) Churchill had meals with his cat in his later years. B) Lears eventually lost the battle. C) Churchill's cat often ran out of the house. D) Lears' cat had certain magic power.

34. When Shelley flied the kite, there was no____. A) wind B) lightning C) rain D) thunder

35. According to the passage, had Shelley lived in modern times, ____. A) he would treat animals more friendly B) he would be able to write more affectionate poems C) he would have no chance to raise a cat D) he would be put into prison for his cruel acts

Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

We don't have beds in the space shuttle, but we do have sleeping bags. During the day, when we are working, we leave the bags tied to the wall, out of the way. At bedtime we untie them and take them wherever we've chosen to sleep. On most space shuttle flights everyone sleeps at the same time. No one has to stay awake to watch over the spaceplane; the shuttle's computers and the engineers at Mission Control do that. If anything goes wrong, the computers ring an alarm and the engineers call us on the radio.

On the space shuttle, sleep time doesn't mean night time. During each ninety-minute orbit the sun \and shines through our windows for about fifty minutes; then it \the sun out of our eyes, we wear black sleep masks.

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