本科英语I半期练习

1、13 级专升本英语 I 半期练习题Part Listening Comprehension （本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）Section A Directions: Listen to the conversation and choose the best answer to the questions you hear01. What are the man and woman talking about? A) What they are planning to do at Christmas B) What they traditionally do at Christmas?C) How they spent their ChristmasD) How to choose Christmas gifts.02. Why didnt the woman celebrate Christmas with her family?A) Because it was inconvenient since she was far away from home.B) Beca

2、use she didnt have enough money to go home again since going home on Thanksgiving had cost a lot.C) She had a date with her friends at Christmas.D) She planned to go to the mans house.03. What did she do with her friends at Christmas ?A) They decorated the Christmas tree.B) They ate roast turkey at the Christmas dinner.C) They sang Christmas songs together.D) All of the above.04. Which of the following is NOT true as for how the man spent Christmas with his family?=A) He and his family went to a

3、 party at their friends house.B) They went to church.C) They exchanged gifts with each other.D) They spent a lot of time eating and playing games together.05. What do the man and the woman think of giving and receiving gifts at Christmas?A) The man prefers receiving gifts while the woman likes giving people gifts.B) The woman prefers receiving gifts while the man likes giving people gifts.C) The man thinks receiving gifts can make him very happy.D) Both the man and woman think it is necessary to

4、 exchange gifts on Christmas Day. Section B Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the missing information.Hello, I am a 06)_ at Brown University and I have a 07) _apartment to share with you. If you are a male, non-smoker; clean and 08) _ , you could be the one I am looking for. The apartment is on 09)_ of an apartment building, with an elevator and laundry in the basement. It is located on Bright Road, a 10)_ to the south entrance of the university. The apartment is medium sized and

5、 furnished; equipped with 11) bedroom, closet, telephone, 12)_ balcony, cable /satellite, 13)_ Internet; microwave, parking, and yard. The rent is $300 per month, 14)_ and utilities are not included. If you are interested, please call 15) _.Part I Reading Comprehension （本大题共20小题，每小题2分，共计40分）Passage One Back in 1967, social psychologist Stanley Milgram had an idea. Stanley Milgram- Everybody knows at least a few other people, he reasoned, and those people know another people. Therefore, just goin

6、g through the people you know, you should be able to contact any person on earth. Milgram conducted experiments by sending letters to random acquaintances（漫无目的的广泛相交）, asking them to pass the letter on through their friends to an unknown person. Milgram His experiments, confirmed later with e-mail tests, showed that were all connected by no more than six degrees of separation. That is, you can reach any person in the world through a chain of six people. It might be comforting to know that your fr

7、iends friends friends friends friend knows Bill Gates or Jennifer Lopez but its not really that useful. Tracing the chain is time-consuming and inconvenient. But thats changing now, thanks to the development of online databases. While many people use their PCs to keep track of their contacts and address books， new services like Friendster and Spoke combine these address books together. This way youre not only in touch with your own-friends, but with their friends and their friends friends. Looki

8、ng for someone who works in marketing at Sony Music in Tokyo？ Going to Paris for the weekend and looking for someone to have dinner with? Just check the Friendster files theres sure to be a friend of a friend of a friend in there. So whats the catch? If you want to use Friendster or similar services, you need to build a profile including your real name, where you work, your job, where you went to school and who your friends are. This lack of anonymity might seem likely to scare users off, but ap

9、parently people are hungry for contact with real people: in less than nine months, Friendster has already signed up over four million users. 16. The experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram are intended to_.A) show the law of“six degrees of separationB) test his reasoningC) reach any person in the worldD) ask his friends to pass the letter on17. The first sentence in the fifth paragraph can be replaced by“_”A) So whats the problem?B) So what gets your attention?C) So whats the discovery?D) So what can you take?18. The passage mainly discusses_. A) the theory of six degrees of separationB) he results caused by Stanley Milgrams experimentsC) the way to trace a chain of six peopleD) onli

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