新視野二級試題B卷及答案

1、New Horizon College English TestBand 2( B )2005. 6Paper OneI Listening Comprehension (20%)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken o

2、nly once.After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C), and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single line through the center.Example: You will hear:M: Is it possible for you to work late,

3、 Miss Grey?W: Work late? I suppose so, if you really think it snecessary.Q: Wheredo youthinkthis conversationmostprobably took place?You will read:A) At the office.B) In the waiting room.C) At the airport.D) In a restaurant.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they

4、 had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have takenplace at the office. Therefore, A) “ At the office ” is the best answer. You should choose A and mark it with a single line through the center.1. A. John s cottage is as old as Pauls.B. Johns cottage is much newer than Paul s. C. Johns

5、cottage is much older than Pauls.D. Johns cottage is similar to Paul s.12.A. 55 minutes.B. 45 minutes.C. 40 minutes.D. 35 minutes.3. A. Eat in a restaurant and then see a movie. B. Watch TV at home.C. She hasntdecided yet.D. Prepare for tomorrow s exam.4.A. An air stewardess.B. A post office clerk.C

6、. A waitress.D. A shop assistant.5.A. Going to the museum.B. Going to the wedding party.C. Going to Arizona.D. Going to New Mexico.6.A. A repairman.B. A salesman.C. A doctor.D. A postman.7.A. At a reception desk.B. In a hotel.C. At a supermarket.D. At a tailor s shop.8. A. The train will not arrive.

7、B. The train was caught in an accident.C. The train may arrive at 9:15.D. The woman isn tsure when the train will arrive.9.A. Study late again.B. Go to bed early.C. Change his mind.D. Get up late in the morning.10. A. He can speak French and English. B. He can speak only English.C. He can speak only

8、 French.D. He can speak several languages.Section BDirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You will hear thepassage read twice. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with whatyou have heard.No matter what type of holiday you are looking for, you will find the1in Switzerlan

9、d. There is really no other country quite like it, for there you havesome of the2and most beautiful scenery in the whole of Europe togetherwith an attractive3, hotels and the friendliestpeople you couldwish tomeet.Thinkof the variety of4. You may seek outdoor sporting5 .Walking, swimming, riding, sa

10、iling and fishing are just a few of the many 6 forenjoying your holidays. Then there is an infinite7of excursions by coachor railway,free afternoonson a lake steamer, visitsto _8_cities,these are just afewmoreofthevarietyof9for your holiday in2Switzerland. In the evening music fills the air, 10 it i

11、s the local village band or an all-star variety show.Part II. Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions: Read the following four passages carefully and answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage 1A man was telling one of his friends wh

12、y he was content with his married life. "My wife makes all the small decisions," he explained, "and I make all the big ones, so we never try to have too much influence in each other's business and never get annoyed with each other. We have no complaints and no arguments."&quo

13、t;That sounds reasonable," answered his friend sympathetically. "And what sort of decisions does your wife make?""Well," answered the man, "she decides what jobs I apply for, what sort of house we live in, what furniture we have, where we go for our holidays, and things

14、 like that."His friend was surprised. "Oh?" he said. "And what do you consider important decisions then?""Well," answered the man, "I decide who should be President, whether we should increase our help to poor countries, what we should do about the atom bomb (

15、 原子彈 ), and things like that."11. The man was content with his married life because_.A) he and his wife loved each other deeplyB) he has more power in family lifeC) he and his wife were responsible for different thingsD) he had many good friends12. His friend _.A) didn't believe what the ma

16、n said at firstB) insisted that a man have the right to make all decisions in family lifeC) thought the man's wife had no right at all in family lifeD) was curious about which decisions the man made and which ones his wife made13. The man can decide _.3A) which house to buyB) where to workC) whe

17、re to go for their holidayD) none of above14. We can tell from the story that_.A) the man's wife has the final say in the familyB) the man has the final say in the familyC) the man's friend will follow his exampleD) the man and his wife respect each other15. Your choice of the title would be

18、_.A) A man and his friendB) A loving husbandC) A happy married lifeD) A couplePassage 2Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70-year old people there are twice as many women

19、as men. But the great universal ( 普遍性 ) of male mortality is being changed. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that for the first time there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural sel

20、ection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more force of evolution has gone.There is another way t

21、o commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Except in some religious communities, very few women have15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of children. Again, differences between people a

22、nd the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have disappeared. India shows what is happening. The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples. The grand mediocrity of today-everyone being the same in survival and number of chil

23、dren-means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in middle-class compared to the tribe.For us, this means that evolution is over; the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change. No other species fills so many places in nature. But in the past 100 000

24、years- even the past 100 years-our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We did not evolve,4because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describethose ignorant of evolution; they "look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly b

25、eyond his comprehension." No doubt we willremember a 20th century way of life beyond comprehension for its ugliness.But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us.16. According to the author, what was the danger a man had to face?A) Lack of

26、 mates.B) Fierce competition.C) Lower survival.D) Gene.17.The sentence "Thereis another waytocommitevolutionarysuicide"perhaps means _.A) there is another way to stop the society from making progressB) you can kill yourself by another meansC) there is another factor to prevent us from evol

27、vingD) we have to find a way to do something18. The example of India interprets that _.A) wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor peopleB) natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poorC) the middle-class population is 80% smaller than that of the tribesD) India is one of th

28、e countries with a very high birth rate19. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because_.A) life has been improved by technological advanceB) the number of female babies has been decliningC) our species has reached the highest stage of evolutionD) the difference between wealth and

29、 poverty is disappearing20. What is the main idea of the passage?A) Sex ratio changes in human evolution.B) Ways of continuing man's evolution.C) The evolution future of nature.D) Human evolution going nowhere.Passage 3Rote-learning ( 死記硬背 ), spoon-fed education, produces a brand of kids that do

30、n't know what to do when entering university. They are disciplined into following, not leading. Yet the future depends on creativity and imagination. The world needs creators, makers and shakers of the new centuries, not the followers of the past centuries. As the numbers increase at college and

31、5university level, more students from the lower ends are likely to be thrown intoa system designed to choose only learners that have proved excellent in listening to teachers.There are three ways to learn: looking, listening and doing.Students and teachers today are a product of learning by listenin

32、g. The computer may not be liked by traditional teachers, who use rote-learning to put information, which will be out of date in a few years, into the heads of the students. With computer learning you learn by looking, listening and doing; you use three methods of learning, not just one. Therefore,

33、you can learn faster.The changing speed of information is frightening. What we learn now will be out of date in the near future. So what students are learning now at school may be replaced by the time they finish university. We have to learn by choice what to forget. Rote-learning for exams is one t

34、hing, but wouldn't it be better to learn how to learn? The students at university today could possibly be doing a job in the not too distant future which has not yet been invented.21According to the author, the future doesn't need _.A) creativityB) imaginationC) creatorsD) followers22 In the

35、 author's view, how can students learn well?A) Carefully listen to the teacher in class.B) Take down every single word said by the teacher.C) Learn all the notes by heart.D) Combine listening with looking and doing.23 What does the author mean by "The changing speed of information is fright

36、ening"?A) We don't have enough time to adjust ourselves to the speed of information.B) What we learned today may not be useful tomorrow.C) The pace of life is too fast.D) The world is changing every minute.24 What does the last sentence of the passage tell us?A) Rote-learning is completely

37、harmful.B) Students may have to do jobs which have not yet been invented.C) It's better to learn how to learn than learn what to forget.D) Students must look into the future.25 The author's attitude towards rote-learning is _.A) approvingB) disapproving6C) confidentD) opposite to what the wo

38、rds sayPassage 4A man was telling one of his friends why he was content with his married life. "My wife makes all the small decisions," he explained, "and I make all the big ones, so we never try to have too much influence in each other's business and never get annoyed with each o

39、ther. We have no complaints and no arguments.""That sounds reasonable," answered his friend sympathetically. "And what sort of decisions does your wife make?""Well," answered the man, "she decides what jobs I apply for, what sort of house we live in, what furn

40、iture we have, where we go for our holidays, and things like that."His friend was surprised. "Oh?" he said. "And what do you consider important decisions then?""Well," answered the man, "I decide who should be President, whether we should increase our help to

41、poor countries, what we should do about the atom bomb ( 原子彈 ), and things like that."26 The man was content with his married life because_.A) he and his wife loved each other deeplyB) he has more power in family lifeC) he and his wife were responsible for different thingsD) he had many good fri

42、ends27 His friend _.A) didn't believe what the man said at firstB) insisted that a man have the right to make all decisions in family lifeC) thought the man's wife had no right at all in family lifeD) was curious about which decisions the man made and which ones his wife made28 The man can d

43、ecide _.A) which house to buyB) where to workC) where to go for their holidayD) none of above29 We can tell from the story that_.A) the man's wife has the final say in the familyB) the man has the final say in the familyC) the man's friend will follow his example7D) the man and his wife resp

44、ect each other30Your choice of the title would be_.A) A man and his friendB) A loving husbandC) A happy married lifeD) A couplePart III. Vocabulary and Structure (30%)Directions: Choose the best one to complete each sentence.31. No one imagined that the apparently _ business man was really a crimina

45、l.A. respectiveB. respectableC. respectfulD. reverent32.In many colleges, students don'thave sufficientaccess _ thelibrary.A. toB. atC. inD. from33.I _ my eyes round the room but saw nothing unusual.A. injectedB. castC tossedD. threw34.There have been many _ in their marriage but they still love

46、each other.A. ups and downsB. from head to toeC. time and againD. over and over35.After she became a lawyer, she decided to _ in contract law.A. studyB. specializeC. learnD. contribute36. As so many overseas and domestic business people have come to invest and build new businesses, the place looks m

47、uch more _ than it did a few years ago.A. propertiedB. tediousC. prosperousD.unremarkable37.Applicants forthe typist'sjob willbe judged _ how accurateand fast they are.A. in favor ofB. in terms ofC. in ways ofD. in spite of38.Some say yes and others say no; I don't know _ to follow.A. whethe

48、rB. whatC. whomD. how39.We forgave her bad temper because we knew that her father's illness hadput her under great _.A. tensionB. crisisC. stressD. nervousness40.The noise of the traffic _ Paul from his work.A. preventedB. distractedC. annoyedD. upset41.In copying this paper, be careful not to l

49、eave _ any words.8A) outB) aloneC) offD) behind42.I am not used to speaking _ public.A. inB. atC. onD. to43.She wouldn't even take a drink, _ stay for dinner.A. much moreB. much fewC. much lesserD. much less44. With the increasing of environmental awareness, many green belts_ all over the countr

50、y.A. spring offB. spring upC. spring inD. spring out45. The company offered him high pay as an _ to accept the job.A. inducementB. aimC. invitationD. apple46. We love peace, yet we're not the kind of people to yield _ any military threat.A. upB. inC. atD. to47. Many of the earliest _ into the Un

51、ited States established large farms.A. illegalsB. immigrantsC. migrantsD. emigrants48.John says that his present job doesn't provide him with enough _for his organizing ability.A. scopeB. openingC. capacityD. range49.The little boy had walked for a long day; he was feeling _ .Hemust have a good

52、rest.A. excitedB. lazyC. exhaustedD. happy50.Students _ to the hall for a lecture given by a famous professor.A. blockedB. flockedC. staggeredD. drifted51.Inquiries _ the conditionof the patients may be madepersonally or by telephone.A. revealingB. concerningC. affectingD. following52. I could not p

53、ersuade him to accept it,_ make him see the importance of it.A. if only I could notB. or I could notC. no more than I couldD. nor could I53._ for my illness I would have lent him a helping hand.A. Not beingB. Without beingC. Had it not beenD. Not having been54.The boss thought him a trouble-maker an

54、d turned him _.A. backB. downC. toD. around55.Unless he is _ intense love, he hardly ever looks into someone9else's eyes for very long.A. confessingB. refusingC. grantingD. covering56. _ that may eventually reduce the amount of labor needed on construction sites by 90 percent.A. So clever are the construction robotsB. Such construction robots are cleverC. So clever the construction robotsD. Such clever construction robots are57. He