第一周作业
1. He didn?t ________ enough time for his central work, so he hurried through it at the last moment, its quality being unsure.
A. draw B. pass C. decide D. budget 【参考答案】：D
2. Tom helped to clean my house for an hour as my friend, but just imagine he should ________ 500 dollars for it .
A. recover B. charge C. withdraw D. discharge 【参考答案】：B
3. Angry and clamorous, the woman ________ her way through the crowd to catch the last bus, wishing to arrive home in time for the New Year?s Eve.
A. elbowed B. handed C. backed D. headed 【参考答案】：A
4. A man living alone for long may have no bosom friend, for the latter can not be made without frequent sincere ________.
A. reaction B. response C. interaction D. interruption 【参考答案】：C
5. According to the ________ in my college, every time some colleague is rewarded with the fat prize money, he or she is willing to invite other ones to dinner.
A. conversation B. convention C. contract D. conclusion 【参考答案】：B
6. She criticized me for loving ________ , but I refuted her flatly, “ It doesn?t mean I don?t love my job, nor that I am lazy!”
A. happiness B. service C. scenery D. leisure 【参考答案】：D
7. She is fond of ________ the domestic situation, and it ought to have been fine. But to my surprise she should be disinterested in news reports.
A. assessing B. deciding C. improving D. correcting 【参考答案】：A
8. If you insist on ________ into the economic case, you will risk offending your father-in-law, for he is chief-in-charge of this department.
A. intruding B. entering C. combining D. probing 【参考答案】：D
9. The married couple have worked hard many years in their private retail shop. ________ they
have earned a large amount of money.
A. Particularly B. Rationally C. Consequently D. Repeatedly 【参考答案】：C
10. We are both clever enough to fulfill the task; we don?t lack ________ but lack the determination to endure hardship.
A. devices B. advances C. attentions D. processes 【参考答案】：A
11. ________ the limited 20 minutes, she has done a good job of giving your house a thorough cleaning. Why complain to her about it?
A. Giving B. Given C. Give D. Gave 【参考答案】：B
12. Each one attending the happy ________ has shared a feeling that they belong in a warm collective, forever helping each other.
A. collecting B. gathering C. grouping D. forming 【参考答案】：B
13. What the rules and regulations mean is that they are impartial to everyone and have the very ________ as their essence.
A. personality B. impersonality C. personification D. person 【参考答案】：B
14. Developing a healthy style of life is of great ________ to one?s longevity, as is shown by a large amount of survey data.
A. significance B. application C. improvement D. denotation 【参考答案】：A
15. They have ________ a survey of the children aged 5 in terms of oral expression ability, thus knowing the girls are superior to boys.
A. handled B. solved C. conducted D. proposed 【参考答案】：C
16. The ________ of a good habit in daily life demands of us not only sound judgment but also strong will--- it?s clear to you?
A. requirement B. commitment C. acquisition D. contribution 【参考答案】：C
17. Her mother?s death by traffic accident sank her in deep sorrow, and yet my solacing words ________ it to some degree.
A. relaxed B. loosened C. tightened D. alleviated 【参考答案】：D
18. Not having ________ with her, I don?t know whether she is likely to go abroad with me on a month-long journey.
A. interacted B. cooperated C. isolated D. conflicted 【参考答案】：A
19. The cause of her jealousy of me is very simple: I have a(n) ________ amount of money and moreover mine is far more than hers.
A. considerate B. considerable C. ignorable D. ignorant 【参考答案】：B
20. Some say one?s ________ is a born thing while others think it is acquired from the long process of life unconsciously.
A. quality B. style C. character D. tendency 【参考答案】：C
阅读理解
Directions:In this section there are some passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements with four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You are supposed to read the passage and make the best choice to complete each question or unfinished statement. Then type the answer in the blank on the web page.[题数:15;分数:30分;参考时间:30分0秒]
题 41 - 45 Passage 1
Why bother with the study of history? What possible connections exist between an increasingly remote past and our own predicaments(困境) in the present? Can stories about other peoples in other places at any other times have any meaning in an age of vaulting (飞速发展的) technology and traumatizing (惊人)change? Is it reasonable to think that anyone can benefit from the experiences of others in a presumably unprecedented(前所未有的) time when our political and economic systems falter (踉跄), and the nuclear, peril causes nightmares of dread? These questions hold more than rhetorical importance and compel serious answers. Undergraduates in all programs of study need to know what they can hope to learn and how their experiences will affect their capacity to think and act creatively in the future.
Skeptics have often argued that a knowledge of history will not provide much help. The American industrialist Henry Ford characterized history as \\the observation probably tells more about the limitations of Ford's mind that about the nature of history, other luminaries(名人) have expressed similar reservations. In the seventeenth century, the French scientist and mathematician Rene Descartes worried that undue curiosity about the past would result in excessive ignorance of the present. Another Frenchman, Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, a philosopher and historian, described history as \Although he meant the comment as an appeal for history written more accurately, he inadvertently gave support to the cynical claim that historians invariably fall into one of three camps: those who
lie, those who are mistaken, and those who simply do not know. Even so powerful a thinker as Georyg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a nineteenth-century German, feared that the only thing we can learn from history is that no one learns anything from history.
Undoubtedly the writing of history is a perilous (危险的) venture. A common lament among historians is the fact that every day requires them to face up to their incomprehension of the world and their incapacity to interpret their evidence correctly. Surely they should rank among the hum- blest of people. Nevertheless, for many, the sheer joy of the endeavor makes the risk worthwhile. Some even have assigned to themselves important and useful functions. Most historians regard the study of history as a way for human beings to acquire self-knowledge.
Edward Gibbon, the great English historian of the Roman Empire, sadly described the historical record as consisting of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. \certainly indicative of a wretched and disreal (阴沉的) state of affairs, his remark also held forth the possibility of escaping such conditions through rational in quirt. Transcendence over the past could come about only through knowledge.
Other historians have invoked (行使) their discipline as a kind of ethical sanction (制裁). Lord Acton, a Victorian Englishman, insisted upon maintaining morality as the sole impartial criterion of men and things. \called upon historians to act as arbiters, defending the proper standards, out of an expectation that the threat of disapproval in the future might discourage incorrect behavior in the present. Historians should call malefactors to account for their misdeeds. Still others presumed the existence of links between the past and the future and suggested that comprehension of what had taken place might prepare for what will come about. How to get ready for the unknown has always posed a great problem. People Santayana, a Harvard philosopher, asserted early in the twentieth century that people who forget about the past are condemned to repeat it. This utilitarian (实利主义的) conception saw in the discipline a way of developing workable strategies for survival. History comprised the recollections of all people. Santayana's claim affirmed that things learned from experience could aid in the avoidance of mistakes, pitfalls, and catastrophes in the future.
41. This passage is primarily concerned with ____.
[A] difficulties encountered in writing history of any kind
[B] a comparison of various approaches and attitudes to history as a science [C] a summary of functions of writing history
[D] the improbability of writing and convening and detailed history 【参考答案】：B
42. Henry Ford regarded history as \ [A] a narrow bed [B] real knowledge
[C] a useful discipline of study [D] nonsense 【参考答案】：D
43. The biggest difficulty facing historians might be their ____.
[A] inability to offer convicting and correct explanations to each historical figure or event [B] lack of evidence for their interpretation [C] obsession with absolute accuracy [D] unwillingness to Doter prêt history from different perspectives 【参考答案】：A
44. Which of the following statements is true?____
[A] Pried Rich Hegal didn't agree with Voltaire on the in liability of history. [B] Lord Acton suggested that history have nothing to do with moral standards.
[C] Many historians enjoy studying history in order to help humans see themselves better. [D] Edward Gibbon lined in the Roman Empire. 【参考答案】：C
45. The author is likely to go on to ____. [A] talk about the importance of history
[B] give his own opinions on the aims and purposes of historical studies [C] prove the invalidity of history books
[D] present more schools of thought in studies of history 【参考答案】：B
题 46 - 50 Passage 2
As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase. I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and railway tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.
When my turn came, I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown-looking object not different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me a form and told me to make a list of the chief contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me.
After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could have easily claimed the case already. This had not happened fortunately. For after a time, I found the case lying on its side high up in a corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was soon satisfied that it was mine and told me I could take the case away. Again I took out my wallet: this time to pay. I pulled out a ten-shilling note and the “lost” receipt slipped out