大学英语（3）期末考试说明

大学英语（3）期末考试说明

大学英语（3）是普专各专业第三学期的必修课。为帮助同学们搞好期末复习，特将考试形式、题型、复习范围说明如下：

一、考试方式

本课程的考试形式为闭卷，考试时间120分钟，重点考查词汇，基础语法知识，阅读理解能力和翻译能力和听力，请考生做好准备。

二、考试题型

Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20%, 1 each)

Part II Reading Comprehension (40%, 2 each)

Part III Vocabulary and Structure (15%, 1 each)

Part IV Cloze (10%, 1 each)

Part V Translation (15%, 3 each)

三、对题型的解释

Part ⅠListening Comprehension (20%, 1 each)

此题共二十个小题，要求学生能够听懂有一定难度的句子和简短的对话，并根据理解进行选择，考生应重点复习听力教材的Quiz和Test部分。

Part II Reading Comprehension (40%, 2 each)

此题包含有四到五篇阅读理解文章，二十个小题，每题两分，考查学生的阅读理解能力，材料选自教材之外，但词汇量要求与教材持平。

Part III Vocabulary and Structure (15%, 1 each)

此题共十五个小题，每题一分，考察学生对词汇的掌握和理解，请考生复习词汇。

Part IV Cloze (10%, 1 each)

此题为一篇文章，十个小题，每题一分，材料选自精读教材的课后练习和复习练习。

Part V Translation (15%, 3 each)

此题共五句话，每句三分，全部选自于精读教材的课后练习和复习练习。

四、复习范围

复习范围是教材10个单元的课文，请参照以下题型进行期末复习。（仅供参考。）

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Part I Listening Comprehension (20%)

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Section II Reading Comprehension (40%)

Direction: There are 5 reading 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 center.

In the 1900's, American townspeople usually washed and brushed their teeth and combed their hair in the kitchen. Or they kept a water pitcher (大水罐)and a wash basin in their rooms and took care of these things there.

The bathtub was a wash tub (澡盆) filled with water from the stove. If you were small enough you could sit down by drawing your knees to your chest. Otherwise, you washed yourself standing up. Often all the women and girls in the family bathed together. Then the men and boys did. In most families this was Saturday night because Sundays they went to church.

A small number of families did have running water. But that depended on whether there was a water system where they lived and on whether they could afford the plumbing(水管设施). Some people had bathtubs in their homes as early as 1895. But many others did not have their first bath in a bathtub until 1910 or later when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.

1. In the first paragraph, “took care of” means ________.

5. We can infer (推断) that the plumbing at that time _______.

A. cost little

B. was more expensive than a water system

C. was too expensive for every family to afford

D. was not necessary

CARIFF, Wales singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition (传统) of storytelling.

"It might seem strange that people still want to listen to instead of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again, "said David Amibrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival in Wales.

"Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time. " he said early this month.

Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound.

Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.

Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving (coming back into use or existence) storytelling in Wales.

"It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here." Ambrose said.

6. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling _______.

A. will be more popular than TV

B. will be popular again

C. started in Wales

D. are in the hands of some old people

7. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn _______.

A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago

B. why they tell the stories in a throat singing way

C. how cold it has been where the Inuit live

D. how difficult it is to understand the Inuit

8. According to the writer, which of the following is not true?

A. Storytelling once stopped in Wales.

B. Storytelling has a long history in Wales.

C. Storytelling is always well received in Wales.

D. Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales.

9. The underlined phrase “in good hands” means.

Greek soldiers sent messages by turning their shields (盾) toward the sun. The flashes reflected light could be seen several miles away. The enemy did not know what the flashes meant, but other Greek soldiers could understand the messages.

Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.

In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.

In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet. It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.

Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented in America in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.

10. According to this passage, the Roman way of communication depended very much upon _______.

Because we can feel that things are heavy, we think of weight as being a fixed quality in an object, but it is not really fixed at all. If you could take a one pound packet of butter 4, 000 miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound.

Why would things weigh only a quarter as much as they do at the surface of the earth if we took them 4 000 miles out into space? The reason is this: All objects have a natural attraction for all other objects; this is called gravitational attraction, but this power of attraction between two objects gets weaker as they get farther apart. When the butter was at the surface of the earth, it was 4 000 miles from the centre (in other words the radius (半径)) of the earth is 4 000 miles). When we took the butter 4 000 miles out, it was 8 000 miles from the centre, which is twice the distance.

If you double the distance between two objects, their gravitational attraction decreases (减少) two times two. If you treble (翻三倍) the distance, it gets nine times weaker (three times three). If you take it four times as far away, it gets sixteen times weaker (four times four) and so on.

14. The best title for this passage is _______.

As more women in the United States move up the professional ladder, more are finding it necessary to make business trips alone. Since this is new for many, some trips are certainly in order. If you are married, it is a good idea to encourage your husband and children to learn to cook a few simple meals while you are away. They will be much happier and probably enjoy the experience. If you will be eating a good meal alone, choose good restaurants. In the end, they will be much better for your digestion (消化). You may also find it useful to call the restaurant in advance and state that you will be eating alone. You will probably get better service and almost certainly a better table. Finally, and most importantly, anticipate (提前做准备) your travel needs as a businesswoman; this starts with lightweight luggage which you can easily manage even when fully packed. Take a folding (折叠) case inside your suitcase; it will come in extremely handy (极其方便) for dirty clothes, as well as for business documents and papers you no longer need on the trip. And make sure you have a briefcase so that you can keep currently required papers separate. Obviously, experience helps, but you can make things easier on yourself from the first by careful planning, so that right from the start you really can have a good trip!

18. Who is the author's intended audience?

A. Working women who have no time for cooking.

B. Husbands and children of working women.

C. Working women who must travel on their own.

D. Hotel personnel who must attend to working women.

19. Why is lightweight luggage important for the travelling businesswoman?

A. It provides space for dirty clothes.

B. It is easy to move.

C. It can double as a briefcase.

D. It is usually big enough to carry all business documents.

20. Where would this passage most likely appear?

A. In a magazine specially for women.

B. In a restaurant and hotel guide.

C. In a news magazine.

D. In a journal for top ranking businessmen and women.

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Part III Vocabulary and Structure (15%)

Direction: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. Vickie had most probably ___ her for another sort of girl.

12. The girl in the snapshot was smiling sweetly, ___.

A. her long hair flowed in the breeze

B. her long hair flowing in the breeze

C. her long hair flow in the breeze

D. her long hair was flowing in the breeze

13. Mother insisted that ___.

A. they be back before nine in the evening

B. they are to be back before nine in the evening

C. they ought to be back before nine in the evening

D. they had to be back before nine in the evening

14. The professor paused as if ___ his students to ask questions on the point he had just made.

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Part IV Cloze (10%)

Direction: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

When I was walking down the street the other day, I happened to (1) a small brown leather purse lying on the sidewalk. I (2) it up and opened it to see if I could (3) the owner’s name. There was nothing inside it (4) some change and an old photo – a picture of a woman and a young girl of about twelve years old, who looked (5) the woman’s daughter. I put the photo back and (6) the purse to the police station, where I (7) it to the desk sergeant. (8) I left, the sergeant took down my name and address (9) the owner (10) want to write and thank me.