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SHANDONG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST

FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

（本科第4册）

I. Vocabulary and Structure (15%)

There are 30 questions in this part. For each of the questions, there are 4

choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best answers the question.

1. Researchers have only succeeded in marking off fragmentary stretches of

DNA.

A. combined B. single C. connected D. disconnected

2. Companies now have an incentive to file more selective applications.

A. motivation B. excitement C. amusement D. pressure

3. The sloppy reasoning of the speaker disappointed his supporters.

A. plain B. discontinuous C. inconsistent D. careless

4. After three years of efforts, the scientists got _______ further than

isolating a single gene with a single known function.

A. no B. Never C. seldom D. not

5. There is still _______ about Lawrence’s novels.

A. competition B. controversy C. contention D. contest

6. Some films have a misleading _____ on children.

A. effect B. affect C. fault D. deficiency

7. Global warming is likely to _____ a series of unpleasant effects.

A. double B. fasten C. trigger D. alleviate

8. That young man still denies _______ the fire behind the store.

A. start B. to start C. having started D. to have started

9. ______ receiving financial support from family, community or the

government is allowed, it is never admired.

A. As B. Once C. Although D. Lest

10. I’d rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than _______ a

room with someone else.

A. share B. to share C. sharing D. to have shared

11. American football and baseball are becoming known to the British public

through televised _______ from the United States.

A. transfer B. deliveries C. transportation D. transmissions

12. Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue

that the power of the medium is _______ .

A. granted B. implied C. exaggerated D. remedied

13. Philip Roth was ______ as a major new author in 1960.

A. published B. hailed C. guided D. supposed

14. A _____ number of books on this subject are in the library.

A. little B. limited C. tiny D. low

15. The river dried up during the hot _______.

A. period B. fit C. scorcher D. spell

16. Daylight ______ long in the summer time.

A. lingers B. stays C. hovers D. persists

17. An electronic message snapped his concentration.

A. caused to lose concentration suddenly B. broke off

C. ceased D. stopped

18. It is vital for parents to supervise teens as well as to teach them how to

manage time.

A. prior B. very important C. fatal D. superior

19. The solid particles were filtered ____ ____ before the solution was used.

A. out B. over C. off D. on

20. I had a bizarre taste, which I acquired playing football games.

A. odd B. unconventional C. special D. extra

21. The result of the first game was catastrophic.

A. gloomy B. prosperous C. valueless D. of a total failure

22. It dawned on us that we were engaged in a sport, not in play.

A. It was clear B. We came to understand

C. We were forced to believe D. We were convinced

23. By making tapes for her children, Rebekah tried to cram a lifetime of love

______ a few precious hours.

A. with B. in C. on D. into

24. The terminal patient has to face and contend __ ___ death.

A. to B. against C. to D. with

25. She breathed a ______ of relief when the expected disaster did not

happen.

A. sigh B. breath C. air D. gas

26. He had to contend ___ ___ many difficulties when he was a young man.

A. with B. against C. upon D. over

27. Democracy and freedom in American families enable each family member

to have a ________ .

A. speak B. tell C. say D. talk

28. Fred ________ the bag as his by telling what it contained.

A. identified B. recognized C. determined D. admitted

29. It was his _____ wish that we should go without him.

A. aggressive B. suggesting C. distinct D. express

30. These surveys indicate that many crimes go _______ by the police,

mainly because not all victims report them.

A. unrecorded B. to be unrecorded

C. unrecording D. to have been unrecorded

II. Cloze (10%)

There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank, there are four

choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.

It fascinates me to observe the way in __ (31)___ children so often react against

their parents’ ideas, while at the same time _ _(32)___ their parents’

characteristics. That is to say, the children grow up to _ _(33)___ different views

from their parents’, yet to have ___(34)___ personalities. There is a __ _(35)____

going on in the toy world at present over whether children should be ___(36)___ to

have war toys. I don’t believe in encouraging war toys, but I do not see any

___(37)___ in forbidding them when I think of the __ (38)___ of my friend Harry.

Harry is the __ (39)___ of strict parents who were totally opposed to war. He

was never allowed toy soldiers __ (40)___ a boy, never allowed toy guns. Harry grew

up and went into the army, becoming a first-class soldier and ___(41)___ all sorts of

military honors in a rather fierce unit. He became the opposite in __ (42)___ way of

what his parents might have expected __ (43)___ their son. And yet there is a

gentleness about Harry which shows a ___(44)____ personality. There is a

sympathetic element about the man which I can see __ (45)____ have come from

his family. In ___(46)___ of doing things differently from our parents, a lot of the

spirits gets passed on.

Parents in all conscience have to __(47)___ their children what they believe to

be right; but it is not so much your ideas that the children _ (48)___ as your

example. Perhaps the best __ (49)__ to teach one’s child gentleness is not to

forbid toy guns, but to be gentle in one’s __ (50)___ every day life.

31. A. what B. it C. which D. that

32. A. holding B. attaining C. carrying D. keeping

33. A. give B. have C. get D. grow

34. A. similar

35. A. fighting

36. A. dismissed

37. A. stain

38. A. experience

39. A. niece

40. A. when

41. A. winning

42. A. each

43. A. on

44. A. calm

45. A. must

46. A. case

B. identical C. common D. ordinary

B. struggle C. war D. quarrel

B. encouraged C. misled D. ventured

B. spot C. point D. dot

B. advantage C. expense D. adventure

B. son C. nephew D. daughter

B. for C. while D. as

B. won C. having won D. did win

B. single C. individual D. every

B. at C. from D. against

B. quiet C. silent D. serene

B. need C. want D. long

B. spite C. situation D. occasion

47. A. put B. place C. teach D. give

48. A. follow B. trace C. watch D. expect

49. A. means B. route C. method D. way

50. A. own B. individual C. private D. public

III. Reading Comprehension (40%)

There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some True-False

questions or Multiple-Choice questions. Choose among A, B, C, and D or between

T and F to answer each question.

Passage 1

The bustle of the hospital was a welcome distraction as I opened my new

patient’s chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a

disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again

about her getting a driver’s license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw

myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about than I did.

Rebekah was only 32, admitted for chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery.

When I entered her room it took me a moment to spot her amid the bouncing

forms of three giggling little girls.

I told Rebekah I would be her nurse and she introduced her husband, Warren;

six-year-old Ruthie; four-year-old Hannah; and two-year-old Molly. Warren coaxed

the girls away from their mother with a promise of ice cream and assured Rebekah

they would return the next day.

As I rubbed alcohol on her arm to prepare it for the intravenous line, Rebekah

laughed nervously. “I have to tell you that I’m terrified of needles.” “It’ll be

over before you know it,” I said. “I’ll give you a count of three.”

Rebekah shut her eyes tightly and murmured a prayer until it was over. Then

she smiled and squeezed my hand. “Before you go, could you get my Bible from

the table?” I handed her the worn book. “Do you have a favorite Bible verse?”

she asked.

“Jesus wept. John 11:35.”

“Such a sad one,” she said. “Why?”

“It makes me feel closer to Jesus, knowing he also experienced human

sorrow.”

Rebekah nodded thoughtfully and started flipping through her Bible as I shut

the door quietly behind me.

During the following months I watched Rebekah struggle with the ravages of

chemotherapy. Her hospital stays became frequent and she worried about her

children. Meanwhile I continued to contend with raising my own kids. They always

seemed either out or holed up in their rooms. I missed the days when they were as

attached to me as Rebekah’s little girls were to her.

For a time it had seemed Rebekah’s chemotherapy was working. Then

doctors discovered another malignant lump. Two months later, a chest X-ray

revealed the cancer had spread to her lungs. It was terminal.

Help me to help her

through this,

I prayed.

One day when I entered her room, I found her talking into a tape

recorder. She

picked up a yellow pad and held it out to me. “I’m making a tape for my

daughters,” she said.

I read the list on her pad: starting school, confirmation, turning 16, first date,

graduation. While I worried about how to help her deal with death, she was

planning for her children’s future.

She usually waited until the early hours of the morning to record the tapes so

she could be free from interruptions. She filled them with family stories and

advice—trying to cram a lifetime of love into a few precious hours. Finally, every

item in her notes had been checked off and she entrusted the tapes to her

husband.

I often wondered what I would say in her place. My kids joked that I was like an

FBI agent, with my constant questions about where they’d been and who they

had been with.

Where

, I thought,

are my words of encouragement and love

?

It was three o’clock one afternoon when I got an urgent call from the hospital.

Rebekah wanted me to come immediately with a blank tape. What topic has she

forgotten? I wondered.

She was blushed and breathing hard when I entered her room. I slipped the

tape into the recorder and held the microphone to her lips. “Ruthie, Hannah,

Molly—this is the most important tape.” She held my hand and closed her eyes.

“Someday your daddy will bring home a new mommy. Please make her feel

special. Show her how to take care of you. Ruthie, honey, help her get your

Brownie uniform ready each Tuesday. Hannah, tell her you don’t want meat sauce

on your spaghetti. She won’t know you like it separate. Molly, don’t get mad if

there is no apple juice. Drink something else. It’s okay to be sad, sweeties. Jesus

cried too. He knows about sadness and will help you to be happy again. Remember,

I’ll always love you.”

I shut off the recorder and Rebekah sighed deeply. “Thank you, Nan,” she

said with a weak smile. “You’ll give this one to them, won’t you?” she

murmured as she slid into sleep.

A time would come when the tape would be played for Rebekah’s children,

but right then, after I smoothed Rebekah’s blanket, I got in my car and I hurried

home. I thought of how my Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and suddenly

that quirk, which had annoyed me so many times, seemed to make her so much

more precious. That night the kids didn’t go out; they sat with me long after the

spaghetti sauce had dried into the dishes. And we talked—without interrogations,

without complaints—late into the night.

51. According to the first paragraph of the passage, the nurse was not happy

because D .

A. she was disappointed with her son

daughter

B. she had an argument with her

C. she did not want to work in the hospital

her children

D. she was dissatisfied with

52. According to the nurse, Rebekah was most concerned with D .

A. the progress of chemotherapy

B. the tape that would let the children remember her

C. the happy and healthy growth of her children at their different stages of life

D. the relationship between her children and their future step-mother

53. The words in italics in the fifteenth paragraph of the passage refer to

A .

A. what the nurse thought about in her own mind

B. questions the nurse asked her children

C. the fact that the nurse blamed herself for not taking good care of the

patient

D. questions the nurse asked Rebakah C

54. Words on the last tape do not support which of the following statements?

A. Rebekah respected her children when they had some different habits.

B. Rebekah was lenient and amiable thinking of the step-mother her children

would have in the future.

C. Rebekah was very strict with her children and she forced them to change.

D. Rebekah cared for her children so much that she looked into great details of

their growth.

55. It can be inferred from the passage that the nurse and her children would

C .

A. remain alienated from each other

B. talk with interrogations and complaints

C. be as attached to each other as Rebekah and her children

D. contend with each other

Passage 2

There are a few ineluctable facts about buildings. They are expensive, time

consuming and labor intensive to make. They are strongest if built from the

sturdiest materials. Well, no, on all accounts.

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban first turned to paper tubes because they were

cheap but then discovered they had other qualities too: strength, recyclability and,

most importantly, beauty. He has built homes, pavilions and churches, some of

them permanent, using little more than cardboard tubes. “I was interested in

weak materials,” says Ban, 42. “Whenever we invent a new material or new

structural system, a new architecture comes out of it.” Ironically, Ban may be

closer to the old modernist ideals than many who build today in glass and steel. He

wants beauty to be attainable by the masses, even the poorest.

Ban first began to use the tubes in the 80’s, in exhibitions. Impressed by the

material’s load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard “improved wood”), he

thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated

34-ply tubes to build a community hall and houses. Working with the United

Nations, Ban has shaped paper log houses to Turkey and Rwanda. “Refugee

shelter has to be beautiful,” he says. “Psychologically, refugees are damaged.

They have to stay in nice places.”

But it’s not all about utility. Ban has managed to turn ugly-duckling

cardboard into some gorgeous swans.. The Japanese pavilion he created for this

year’s EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany, is a huge undulating grid of paper tubes

enclosed, like a covered wagon, with a paper canopy. An eight-ton, 27-m-long

lattice arch of tubes currently swoops over the garden at the Museum of Modern

Art in New York City, casting a thatch of ever changing shadows.

Ban’s designs touch the earth lightly in more ways than one. After EXPO 2000,

his pavilion will be shipped to a recycling center to be returned to the pulp from

whence it came. Just try that with bricks.

56. According to the first paragraph, the author suggests that C .

A. buildings should be made out of sturdiest materials

B. buildings are always strong if they are built from the sturdiest materials

C. some materials, seemingly weak, can build strong buildings

D. sturdiest materials can not build strongest buildings

57. Whenever we invent a new material or new architectural system, a new

architecture comes out of it. The underlined part means A .

A. comes into being B. gets out of it

C. gets rid of it D. breaks away from it

58. The author says Ban may be closer to the old modernist ideals because

C .

A. he doesn’t build in glass and steel

B. paper tubes are not considered as modern materials

C. he gives the masses access to the beauty of architecture by using paper

tubes

D. even the poorest can afford houses made by paper tubes

59. What is the most important factor that caused Ban to use the paper tubes

in buildings? A

A. Beauty. B. Load-bearing capacity.

C. Rarity. D. Warmth brought about by the material.

60. “Just try that with bricks.” By this sentence, the author suggests that

A .

A. ironically, it is impossible for other materials to be recycled as people do

with paper tubes

B. people should try different ways to recycle building materials

C. renovations should be made to recycle bricks

D. it is possible for bricks to be recycled the same way as paper tubes

Passage 3

Living standards have soared during the twentieth century, and economists

expect them to continue rising in the decades ahead. Does that mean that we

humans can look forward to increasing happiness?

Not necessarily, warns Richard A. Easterlin, an economist at the University of

Southern California, in his new book,

Growth Triumphant: the Twenty-first Century

in Historical Perspective.

Easterlin concedes that richer people are more likely to

report themselves as being happy than poorer people are. But steady

improvements in the American economy have not been accompanied by steady

increases in people’s self-assessment of their own happiness. “There has been

not improvement in average happiness in the United States over almost a half

century—a period in which real GDP per capita more than doubled,” Easterlin

reports.

The explanation for this paradox may be that people become less satisfied

over time with a given level of income. In Easterlin’s words: “As incomes rise, the

aspiration level does too, and the effect of this increase in aspirations is to vitiate

the expected growth in happiness due to higher income.”

Money can buy happiness, Easterlin seems to be saying, but only if one’s

accounts get bigger and other people aren’t getting more. His analysis helps to

explain sociologist Lee Rainwater’s finding that American’s perception of the

income “necessary to get along” rose between 1950 and 1986 in the same

proportion as actual per capita income. We feel rich if we have more than our

neighbors, poor if we have less, and feeling relatively well-off is equated with

being happy.

Easterlin’s findings challenge psychologist Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy

of wants” as a reliable guide to future human motivation. Maslow suggested that

as people’s basic material wants are satisfied they seek to achieve nonmaterial or

spiritual goals. But Easterlin’s evidence points to the persistence of materialism.

“Despite a general level of affluence never before realized in the history of

the world,” Easterlin observes, “material concerns in the wealthiest nations today

are as pressing as ever and the pursuit of material needs as intense.” The evidence

suggests there is no evolution toward higher order goals. Rather, each step

upward on the ladder of economic development merely stimulates new economic

desires that lead the chase ever onward. Economists are accustomed to deflating

the money value of national income by the average level of prices to obtain

“real” income. The process here is similar—real income is being deflated by

rising material aspiration, in this case to yield essentially constant subjective

economic well-being. While it would be pleasant to envisage a world free from the

pressure of material want, a more realist projection, based on the evidence, is of a

world in which generation after generation thinks it needs only another 10% to

20% more income to be perfectly happy.

Needs are limited, but not greed. Science has developed no cure for envy, so

our wealth boosts our happiness only briefly while shrinking that of our neighbors.

Thus the outlook for the future is gloomy in Easterlin’s view.

“The future, then, to which the epoch of modern economic growth is leading

is one of never ending economic growth, a world in which ever growing

abundance is matched by ever rising aspirations, a world in which cultural

difference is leveled in the constant race to achieve the good life of the material

plenty; it is a world founded on belief in science and the power of rational inquiry

and in the ultimate capacity of humanity to shape its own destiny. The irony is that

in this last respect the lesson of history appears to be otherwise: that there is no

choice. In the end, the triumph of economic growth is not a triumph of humanity

over material wants; rather, it is the triumph of material wants over humanity.”

61. The author claims that the higher living standard does not necessarily

mean increasing happiness.T

62. Steady improvement is always accompanied by steady increases in

people’s happiness.F

63. The higher the aspiration level is, the happier the people will be.F

64. Easterlin’s findings can be used as evidence to support divergent views.F

65. Economy can’t keep a sustained development because it is constantly

deflated by the rising material aspiration.T

Passage 4

I love shopping, even if it is just window-shopping. Shopping in the States is

always a pleasant experience. There are different types of shops that operate to

cater to your different needs. To buy groceries, you can go to the convenience

store, the supermarket or the mass merchandiser (such as Wal-Mart). To buy

some clothes and big-ticket items, you can go to the mall or factory outlets. I go to

two places most often, the supermarket and the mall.

In almost every city or large town, you can find several big-chain supermarkets.

They have more than a dozen checkouts and are one-stop shops since you can buy

almost everything there: food, cosmetics, clothes, medicine, etc. You name it. With

the development of technology, some of these supermarkets have installed the

automatic checkout lanes for customers. I was so thrilled the first time I used the

automatic checkout lane. Most packaged goods have barcodes and you just scan

them on the scanning machine when you checkout. Some items, such as produce

(vegetables and fruits), do not have barcodes on them. You need to input their

label numbers, which can be found on the list glued to the scanning machine.

These automatic checkout lanes help the stores reduce their labor cost and

increase their efficiency. Every grocery store has promotions on different kinds of

products every week. Usually you can find a store weekly newspaper with featured

promotions for that particular week. I am a bargain hunter, forward-buying a lot of

daily products if I feel I need them in the future. Once, I saw a featured promotion

on Panteen 2-in-1 shampoo plus conditioner. Although I did not need it at that

time, I felt it was a good deal. So I decided to buy two bottles. However, I couldn’t

find any such Panteen on the shelf. I went to a sales clerk and asked if he could find

any for me. He told me that the store was out of the stock and it would not have

any in until the next week. The unfortunate thing was that by then the promotion

would be over. However, the clerk told me that I could go to the customer service

counter and I would be given a rain-check, which would guarantee the promotion

price for me on that particular item. In the following week, with the rain-check, I

bought the products at the last week’s promotion price.

Another time, I bought two bags of salad at a grocery store. When I scanned

them, the screen showed a different price from what the store advertised. Out of

curiosity, I went to the customer service counter and asked why. The lady who

helped me went to the shelf to double-check the price. When she came back, she

apologized to me, saying that the store didn’t scan the price properly. According

to the internal policy of the store, if the customer found out a scanning problem,

he would get the product for free as an award for him or a penalty to the store.

When I left the store with the two bags of free salad, I marveled at the honesty of

the store clerk. If she had not told me, I would never have had any chance to know

that the store had this internal policy.

A shopping mall in the States is composed of many individual specialty shops

and nation wide chain stores, such as Sears and JC Penny. What impresses me

most when shopping in the mall is its return policy. No matter what you buy, shoes,

pants or big-ticket items such as TV and VCR, if you find some problems with them

or simply do not like them any longer, you can return them within 30 days. You

won’t be challenged at the customer service counter as long as you have your

receipt. Of course there are some people who might take the advantage of this

return policy, especially when they need something for a momentary use. That’s

why you can always find a long line of people waiting to return their goods right

after Christmas.

Then the cliché that “the customer is God” rings true to me when I shop in

the States. Sometimes I believe that at a certain corner of the world there is a god

seeing to the benefits of the customer.

66. All products can go through the automatic checkout lane though some of

them don’t have barcodes.F

67. The quality of products on promotion is not guaranteed. F

68. Scanning problem will be corrected by the customer himself. F

69. Customer will get some money as award for finding out errors. F

70. Never has anyone taken the advantage of return policy. F

IV. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or

expressions given in brackets. (10%)

71.科学家们已成功分离出具有单项已知功能的单个而明显的基因。(isolate, function)

Scientists have already isolated the genes which have the single known

function.

72. 通讯技术的每一个进步都是人类交往的亲密程度的一种倒退。(advance, setback)

Each advance of communicating technology is a setback of people’s

intimacy.

73.这件事对我很有益，使我从此不再多愁善感。（keep from）

It is useful for me to keep me from sensitivity.

74.这些学生错误地以为，若他们讲得不像美国人，就是讲得不好，所以也就不敢讲。

(falsely, accordingly, be fearful of)

Those students falsely believed that if they cannot speak like Americans ,they

are not good English speaker and accordingly they are fearful of speaking.

75.使我感到惊奇的是，托玛斯太太的忠告真管事儿。(to my…)

To my surprise, the suggestion from is really useful.

V. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. (10%)

76. It is impossible to identify and isolate an “English” culture that is

common to all the speakers of English.

辨认和分离出让所有说英语的人都认同的英语文化是不可能的。

77. A President should

be imbued with

a sense of responsibility for the nation.

总统应该对于国家充满责任感。

78. Parents can help teens focus by making education relevant to their lives

and by understanding how they learn best.

家长们可以关注孩子们的生活来教育他们，也可以关注他们擅长学什么来理解他们。

79. Science has developed no cure for envy, so our wealth boosts our

happiness only briefly while shrinking that of our neighbors.

科技不能治愈妒忌，因此我们的财富只能在短期增加我们的幸福感和对我们的邻国施

压。

80. At first they refused but I managed to

bring

them

around to

my way of

thinking.

开始他们是拒绝的，但是后来我把他们带到了我的思路中。

VI. Writing (15%)

For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the

topic

MY IDEA OF OPPORTUNITY

. You should write at least 120 words and base

your opinions on sound proofs or facts. The following points may serve as a

framework.

(1)你认为机会是什么？是不是每个人都有机会?

(2)你认为怎样才能抓住机会？

MY IDEA OF OPPORTUNITY

The air we breathe is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet without

it we could not survive more than a few minutes. For the most part, the same air is

available to everyone, and everyone needs it. Some people use the air to sustain

them while they sit around and feel sorry for themselves. Others breathe in the air

and use the energy it provides to make a magnificent life for themselves.

Opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. Opportunity is so freely

available that we take it for granted. Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create

success. Opportunity must be seized and acted upon in order to have value. So

many people are so anxious to "get in" on a "ground floor opportunity", as if the

opportunity will do all the work. That's impossible.

Just as you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to succeed. It takes

more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity, however. You must make

use of that opportunity. That's not up to the opportunity. That's up to you. It

doesn't matter what "floor" the opportunity is on. What matters is what you do

with it.

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