1、基础英语综合课期末样卷学院 专业 姓名 学号 ( 密 封 线 内 不 答 题 )密封线线_ _ 深圳大学期末考试试卷开/闭卷闭卷A/B卷A课程编号课程名称研究生公共英语（普通班）学分3命题人(签字) 审题人(签字) 年 月 日题号一二三四五六七八九十基本题总分附加题得分评卷人Shenzhen University Graduate English Examination Part I Listening Comprehension (35 points)(特别说明：听力部分共包括4个passages, 前3个听力题库中选取的内容，只有最后1个passage 是题库之外的)Section A D
2、irections: In this section you will hear a passage twice. During the first reading, you should listen carefully for a general idea of the whole passage. During the second reading, you should fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear to make the sentences complete. Be sure to write your answer
3、s on the Answer Sheet. 1. This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Women are on their way to holding more than half of all American jobs. The latest government report shows that their share of nonfarm jobs nearly reached fifty percent in September. Not only have more and more women entered
4、the labor market over the years, but the _ on men. In October the unemployment rate for men was almost eleven percent, compared to eight percent for women.2. Industries that traditionally use lots of men have _. For example, manufacturing and building lost more jobs last month. 3. But health care an
5、d _ have had job growth. Both of those industries employ high percentages of women. 4. Thirty years ago, women earned sixty-two cents for every dollar that men earned. Now, for those who usually work full time, women earn about eighty percent of what men earn. And women hold fifty-one percent of goo
6、d-paying _ jobs. 5. Yet a study released Thursday said men still hold about nine out of every ten top positions at the four hundred largest companies in California. The results have _ in five years of studies from the University of California, Davis. 6. Also, a new research paper in the journal Sex
7、Roles looks at the experiences of women who are the main earners in their family. Rebecca Meisenbach at the University of Missouri in Columbia interviewed fifteen women. She found they all _ and many enjoyed having the power of control, though not all wanted it. 7. But they also felt _. 8. Partly th
8、at was because of _ that working women will still take care of the children. Also, men who are not the main earners may feel threatened. 9. The job market continues to suffer the effects of last years financial crash. Now, a judgment has been reached in the first case involving _on Wall Street. 10.
9、Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year. A jury found Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin not _ to investors. The hedge funds they supervised lost their value in two thousand seven. But jurors said there was no clear evide
10、nce that they meant to mislead investors. The Justice Department continues to investigate other companies. Section BDirections: In this section you will hear a passage twice. Then you should give brief answers to the questions printed on the examination paper. Be sure to write your answers on the An
11、swer Sheet. (contemporary topic 选取)11. What is the SETI project looking for?12. Why do some scientists think there is intelligent life on other planets?13. How many other galaxies are there in the universe?14. How does the SETI project look for life in other galaxies?15. Why is locating other intell
12、igent life so exciting according to the teacher?16. Why does the SETI project look for radio signals?17. How fast do radio signals travel? 18. How long is needed for a radio signal to travel from the nearest galaxy to earth? 19. How fast does the fastest rocket travel?20. Why doesnt the SETI project
13、 use rockets to look for intelligent life?Section C Directions: In this section you will hear two passages. Each passage will be read twice. After each passage there will be some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on th
14、e best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Questions for Passage One of Section C （VOA special 题库中选取）21. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Danny?A. He suffers from insomnia.B. He doesnt get enough sleep.C. He hates school.D. He often listens to classical music
15、 far into the night.22. According to sleep experts, kids like Danny _. A. are extremely lazy B. need to see the doctor C. are not lazy kids D. are learning disabled23. Teenagers biological rhythms _. A. prefer later wake-up times B. prefer earlier bedtimes C. favor earlier wake-up times D. favor the
16、 school hours24. According to Breus, insufficient sleep _. A. will not affect a driver with a tremendous amount of experience B. is caused by a form of depression C. can ensure good academic performanceD. can affect a kids athletic performance 25. Some research studies show that childrens grades ris
17、e _.A. because they go to bed earlier than beforeB. because of later school start timeC. because they adapt themselves to the class schedulesD. because they have good teachersQuestions for Passage Two of Section C （VOA special 课外选取） 26. _ is the leading cause of disability in older people according
18、to the World Health Organization. A. Dementia(痴呆症) B. Loss of memory C. Blindness D. Hearing problem27. People with dementia may show the following symptoms EXCEPT_. A. becoming far-sighted B. forgetting family members C. intellectual deterioration D. becoming furious28. Renata Sousa and other resea
19、rchers studied the causes of disability _. A. among 50,000 old people B. in some developed countries C. among people who are 65 or younger D. in seven developing countries29. According to the new study, dementia was the largest cause of disability in the elderly in _. A. London B. Mexico C. Venezuel
20、a D. rural India30. The researchers suggest that more attention should be given to _. A. chronic diseases of aging people B. heart disease and cancer C. chronic diseases of the brain and mindD. aging problemPart II Reading Comprehension (20 points )（特别说明：阅读部分都是课外的，是负责出题的老师原创的阅读考题。文章选自近期的较权威的英语报刊杂志。）
21、Directions: In this part you are required to read three passages. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each question 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. Passage One It is becoming increasi
22、ngly clear that the comfort of a good fit between man and machine is largely absent from the technology of the information age. Consider the humble wristwatch, which has been transformed into a kind of wrist-mounted personal computer, with a digital display and a calculator pad whose buttons are too
23、 small to be pressed by a human fingertip. In fact, the very usefulness of the digitization of time is open to question. People generally care less about knowing the time to the nanosecond than about seeing how long theyve got until lunch. With digital watches that requires a little figuring (the pu
24、rpose of the calculator pad, perhaps), whereas with the old analog watches, the ones with hands, its clear at a glance. Worse, by replacing the watchs conventional stem-winding mechanism with a puzzling arrangement of tiny buttons, the manufacturers created a watch that was very hard to reset. One l
25、eading manufacturer was upset to discover that a line of its particularly advanced digitals was being returned as defective by the thousands, even though the watches actually worked perfectly well. Further investigation revealed that they were coming back soon after purchase and afterwards in two la
26、rge batchesin the spring and the fall, when the time changed.Charles Mauro, a consultant in New York City, is a prominent member of a branch of engineering generally known as ergonomics, or human-factorsthe only field specifically addressing the question of product usability. Mauro who has won many
27、awards for industrial design and human-factors research, was brought in to provide some help to the watch manufacturer, which was experiencing what Mauro calls “the complexity problem.” With “complexity” defined as “a fundamental mismatch between the demands of a technology and the capabilities of i
28、ts user”, the term nicely captures the essence of our current technological difficulty. That mismatch might be measured by the increasing length of the instruction manuals required to work so many of the new gadgets. About the digital-watch manufacturer Mauro asks, “Can you believe that the company
29、actually expected you to carry around a thirty-page manual in your wallet?”The complexity problem is everywhere, but it is most apparent around the house. Americans deficiencies in programming the VCR are so well known that they have become a laughing stock. According to one consumer survey, a third
30、 of all VCR owners have given up trying to program their machines for time-delayed viewing. It is a measure of Americans desperation that a multi-million-dollar industry has sprung up to sell other technology, involving reference numbers, to provide assistance. And our troubles are not confined to t
31、he VCR. According to a survey by the marketing specialist Laurence Feldman, 50% of Americans cant work other programmable equipment either, and, thanks to the availability of the computer chip everywhere, that now includes almost everything: telephones, fax machines, thermostats, even coffee makers. Soon we may add the house itself to the list, as plans proceed to link up thes
