新視野二級試題B卷 及答案

1、New HorizonCollege English TestBand 2 ( B )2005. 6Paper OneIListening 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 on

2、ly 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 its necessary.Q: Where do you think this conversation most probably 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 w

4、ork they had tofinish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place 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. Johns cottage is as old as Pauls. B. Johns cottage is much newer than Pauls.C. Jo

5、hns cottage is much older than Pauls. D. Johns cottage is similar to Pauls.2. 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 hasnt decided yet. D. Prepare for tomorrows exam.4. A. An air stewardess. B. A post offi

6、ce clerk. C. 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 tailors shop.8. A. The t

7、rain will not arrive. B. The train was caught in an accident.C. The train may arrive at 9:15. D. The woman isnt sure 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 E

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

9、u will find the 1 inSwitzerland. There is really no other country quite like it, for there you have some of the 2 and most beautiful scenery in the whole of Europe together with an attractive 3 , hotels and the friendliest people you could wish to meet.Think of the variety of 4 . You may seek outdoo

10、r sporting 5 . Walking, swimming, riding, sailing and fishing are just a few of the many 6 for enjoying your holidays. Then there is an infinite 7 of excursions by coach or railway, free afternoons on a lake steamer, visits to _8_ cities, these are just a few more of the variety of 9 for your holida

11、y in Switzerland. In the evening music fills the air, 10 it is 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 Ans

12、wer Sheet.Passage 1A 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 others business and never get annoyed with each other. We have no com

13、plaints 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 furniture we have, where we go for our holidays, and things like that.

14、 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 (原子彈), and things like that. 11. The man was content with

15、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) didnt believe what the man said at firstB) insisted that a man have the right to make all deci

16、sions in family lifeC) thought the mans 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 _.A) which house to buyB) where to workC) where to go for their holidayD) none of above14. We can tell from the story th

17、at_.A) the mans wife has the final say in the familyB) the man has the final say in the familyC) the mans friend will follow his exampleD) the man and his wife respect each other15. Your choice of the title would be_.A) A man and his friendB) A loving husbandC) A happy married lifeD) A couplePassage

18、 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 as men. But the great universal (普遍性) of male mortality is being changed. Now, boy ba

19、bies 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 selection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby surviving depended on it

20、s 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 to commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Except in some rel

21、igious communities, very few women have 15 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 and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have disappeared. In

22、dia 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 children-means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in middle-class compared

23、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 years- even the past 100 years-our lives have been transformed but our bodies have n

24、ot. We did not evolve, because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution; they look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension. No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond comp

25、rehension 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 mates.B) Fierce competition.C) Lower survival.D) Gene.17.The sentence There is another way

26、to commit evolutionary suicide 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 evolvingD) we have to find a way to do something18.The example of India interprets that _.A) wealthy p

27、eople 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 the countries with a very high birth rate19. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving

28、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 poverty is disappearing20. What is the main idea of the passage?A) Sex ratio changes in human evol

29、ution.B) Ways of continuing mans 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 dont know what to do when entering university. They are disciplined into following, not leading. Yet the fut

30、ure 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 university level, more students from the lower ends are likely to be thrown into a system designed to choose o

31、nly 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 listening. The computer may not be liked by traditional teachers, who use rote-learning to put information, which wi

32、ll 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, you can learn faster. The changing speed of information is frightening. What we learn now will be out of dat

33、e 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 thing, but wouldnt it be better to learn how to learn? The students at university today could possibly be do

34、ing a job in the not too distant future which has not yet been invented. 21According to the author, the future doesnt need _.A) creativityB) imaginationC) creatorsD) followers22In the authors view, how can students learn well?A) Carefully listen to the teacher in class.B) Take down every single word

35、 said by the teacher.C) Learn all the notes by heart.D) Combine listening with looking and doing.23What does the author mean by The changing speed of information is frightening?A) We dont have enough time to adjust ourselves to the speed of information.B) What we learned today may not be useful tomo

36、rrow.C) The pace of life is too fast.D) The world is changing every minute.24What does the last sentence of the passage tell us?A) Rote-learning is completely harmful.B) Students may have to do jobs which have not yet been invented.C) Its better to learn how to learn than learn what to forget.D) Stu

37、dents must look into the future.25The authors attitude towards rote-learning is _.A) approvingB) disapprovingC) confidentD) opposite to what the words 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

38、 make all the big ones, so we never try to have too much influence in each others business and never get annoyed with each other. 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 ma

39、n, 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 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

40、 we should increase our help to poor countries, what we should do about the atom bomb (原子彈), and things like that. 26The 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 thing

41、sD) he had many good friends27His friend _.A) didnt believe what the man said at firstB) insisted that a man have the right to make all decisions in family lifeC) thought the mans wife had no right at all in family lifeD) was curious about which decisions the man made and which ones his wife made28T

42、he man can decide _.A) which house to buyB) where to workC) where to go for their holidayD) none of above29We can tell from the story that_.A) the mans wife has the final say in the familyB) the man has the final say in the familyC) the mans friend will follow his exampleD) the man and his wife resp

43、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 criminal.

44、A. respectiveB. respectableC. respectfulD. reverent32. In many colleges, students dont have sufficient access _ the library.A. toB. atC. inD. from33. I _ my eyes round the room but saw nothing unusual.A.injected B. cast C tossed D. threw34. There have been many _ in their marriage but they still lov

45、e 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 look

46、s much more _ than it did a few years ago.A. propertiedB. tediousC. prosperousD.unremarkable37. Applicants for the typists job will be judged _ how accurate and fast they are.A. in favor ofB. in terms ofC. in ways ofD. in spite of38. Some say yes and others say no; I dont know _ to follow.A. whether

47、B. whatC. whomD. how39. We forgave her bad temper because we knew that her fathers illness had put 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 lea

48、ve _ any words.A) out B) aloneC) off D) behind42. I am not used to speaking _ public.A. inB. atC. onD. to43. She wouldnt 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 country.A

49、. 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 were not the kind of people to yield _ any military threat.A. upB. inC. atD. to47. Many of the earliest _ into the United Sta

50、tes established large farms.A. illegalsB. immigrantsC. migrantsD. emigrants48. John says that his present job doesnt 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 _ .He must have a good rest.A. e

51、xcitedB. lazyC. exhaustedD. happy50. Students _ to the hall for a lecture given by a famous professor.A. blockedB. flockedC. staggeredD. drifted 51. Inquiries _ the condition of the patients may be made personally or by telephone.A. revealingB. concerningC. affectingD. following52. I could not persu

52、ade 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 and

53、turned him _.A. backB. downC. toD. around55. Unless he is _ intense love, he hardly ever looks into someone elses 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 cons

54、truction robotsB. Such construction robots are cleverC. So clever the construction robotsD. Such clever construction robots are57. He lost his parents at ten and had to live at his uncles _.A. costB. chargeC. expenseD. pay58. Since the matter was extremely _, we dealt with it immediately.A) toughB.

55、tenseC. urgentD. instant59. When John dropped the plate, it _. A) smashed B) compoundedC) slappedD) collapsed60. When traveling, you are advised to take travelers checks, which provide a secure _ to carrying your money in cash.A. substituteB. selectionC. preferenceD. alternativePaper TwoPart IV. Word forms: (5%)Directions:Fill in the blanks with an appropriate form of the word given.1. No case is likely to be _(identify) in