综合教程部分
第一单元：
卷A
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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 14 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.
1. A) T B) F
Script: In 1905, at the age of 26 and five years before he was able to get a job as a professor of physics, Einstein published five of the most important papers in the history of science — all written in his \
正确答案： B 2. A) T B) F
Script: Einstein proved that atoms and molecules existed.
正确答案： A 3. A) T B) F
Script: Einstein argued that light came in little bits (later called “photons”) and thus laid the foundation for quantum mechanics.
正确答案： A 4. A) T B) F
Script: Before Einstein, the last scientist who had such a creative outburst was Sir Isaac Newton.
正确答案： A 5. A) T B) F
Script: The United Nations has declared 2008 “The World Year of Physics” to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s “miracle year”.
正确答案： B 6. A) T B) F
Script: Einstein’s brain looked quite different.
正确答案： B 7. A) T B) F
Script: Einstein is remembered not just as a scientific genius, but also from tales of his warm personality, simple tastes and somewhat eccentric habits.
正确答案： A 8. A) T B) F
Script: Einstein was slow in learning how to talk.
正确答案： A 9. A) T B) F
Script: By the age of 17, Einstein already had a predilection for solving complicated problems in applied arithmetic.
正确答案： B 10. A) T B) F
Script: An uncle, Jakob Einstein, an engineer, introduced Einstein to the joys of algebra.
正确答案： A
Section B
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 blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Psychologists take opposing views on how external rewards, from warm praise to cold (11)_________________ , affect motivation and (12)_________________ . Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their (13)_________________ , argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive (14)_________________ , who study various aspects of mental life, (15)_________________ that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on (16)_________________ and gifts from others. The (17)_________________ view has gained many supporters especially among educators. But the careful use of (18)_________________ sparks creativity in grade school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements indeed aid inventiveness, according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. \a relatively challenging task, they show the most creativity,\says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. But it's easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating (19)_________________ for rewards. A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for ordinary achievement ends up with uninspired students, Eisenberger holds. As an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and restore failing grades. In early grades, the use of so-called token economies, in which students handle changing problems and receive (20)_________________ toward valued rewards, shows promise in raising efforts and creativity, the Delaware psychologist claims.
Script: Psychologists take opposing views on how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school.
Cognitive researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from others. The latter view has gained many supporters especially among educators. But the careful use of small monetary rewards sparks creativity in grade school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements indeed aid inventiveness, according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. \task, they show the most creativity,\says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. But it's easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for rewards. A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for ordinary achievement ends up with uninspired students, Eisenberger holds. As an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and restore failing grades. In early grades, the use of so-called token economies, in which students handle changing problems and receive performance-based points toward valued rewards, shows promise in raising efforts and creativity, the Delaware psychologist claims.
正确答案： cash
正确答案： creativity
正确答案： consequences
正确答案： researchers
正确答案： maintain
正确答案： approval
正确答案： latter
正确答案： small monetary rewards
正确答案： too much anticipation
正确答案： performance-based points
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select
one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Albert Einstein was 21 . For the third night in a row, his baby son Hans, crying, kept the household 22 until dawn. When Albert finally 23 , it was time to get up and go to work. He couldn't 24 a day. He needed the job to support his young family. Walking 25 to the Patent Office, where he was a \worried about his mother. She was getting older and 26 , and she didn't 27 his marriage to Mileva. Relations were 28 . Albert 29 a passing shop window. His hair was a mess; he had forgotten to comb it again. Work. Family. 30 . Albert felt all the pressure and responsibility of any young husband and father.
A) exhausted B) disdain C) awake D) dozed off E) skip F) briskly G) passionately H) frail I) baffle J) approve of K) glanced at L) intuition M) stimulate N) Making ends meet O) strained
21. ______________________
正确答案： A
22. ______________________
正确答案： C
23. ______________________
正确答案： D
24. ______________________
正确答案： E
25. ______________________
正确答案： F
26. ______________________
正确答案： H
27. ______________________