[测试题]

Part One Text-related Part

I. The following Paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentence. One word or expression for each blank only.
   This is one of the oldest ___1___, and it can be ___2___ anywhere, at any age, and with or without the use of ___3___. It always has been the ___4___ of choice for people who find the world too brutal or too complex to be endured. By ___5___, this way of life is ___6___. In one way or another, its practitioners ___7___ the society which they scorn and ___8___ which they refuse to take any responsibility. Some of us find this distasteful—an ___9___ kind of life. ___10___ for the poor in spirit, with low levels of both energy and pride, it may be ___11___ intolerable choice ___12___.

    Todd Rundgren, the composer and singer, agrees, “Rock Music,” he says, “is really a ___13___ expression rather than a musical force. Even Elvis Presley wasn’t really a great musical ___14___. It’s just that Elvis managed to ___15___ the frustrated teenage spirit of the 1950s.” Of course Presley horrified ___16___ America. Newspapers ___17___ against him, and TV networks ___18___ him. But Elvis may have proved ___19___ Horowitx and Rundgren believe. __20__ he appeared __21___ the Ed. Sullivan Sunday night variety show in front of millions, a kind of “debate” took place. __22__ of the viewers _23_, while most of the younger viewers 24 .

A. adult B. most C. on D. editorialized
E. strategy F. available G. in H. practiced
I. undignified J. but K. parasitic L. the least
M. embody N. applauded O. what P. banned
Q. when R. force S. frowned T. sociological
U. expedients V. definition W. batten on X. hallucinogens

II. There are 15 sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.
25. Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating ______, a place where ideas clash and crash.
26. Bob Dylan touched ______ disaffection. He spoke of civil rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness.
27. At first glance, this course is far from ______.
28. A few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can still escape to the bucolic life—but in general the ______ of migration is flowing the other way.
29. “More than any other generation,” he said, “our generation views the adult world with great ______ … there is also an increased tendency to reject completely that world.”
30. “Jagger,” he said, “grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of ______ listeners.
31. The Rolling Stones, ______ street-fighting men, demanded revolution.
32. Like all artists, these rock musicians ______ feelings and beliefs that help us see and form our own.
33. The people responsible are, ______, the adults who have been running things.
34. ______ civilization began, certain individuals have tried to run away from it in hopes of finding a simpler, more pastoral, and more peaceful life.
35. These are the ones whose revolutions did not ______; they have been able to keep on cheerfully plotting their holocausts right into their senescence.
36. They ______ to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.
37. “And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never ______ us billion-dollar babies.”
38. So far as I have been able to discover, there are only four basic ______..
39. Roughly, their attitude might be ______ about like this: “The world is in pretty much of a mess, full of injustice, poverty, and war.”

A. alternatives B. ever since C. Skepticism D. sweating
E. arrogant F. from G. surge H. spirit
I. hesitation J. chase K. inviting L. come out
M. stream N. alternates O. presumably P. come off
Q. sense R. forum S. sweltering T. nerve
U. platform V. conceived of W. mirror X. summed up

III. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and mark the corresponding letter.
40. As it was an informal dinner, most people (A. wore, B. were dressed) in their comfortable clothes.
41. Filled with great (A. adulation, B. admiration) for their integrity and courage, he was determined to be a man like them.
42. The woman’s constant gossip (A. exhilarated, B. exasperated) her husband, who was busy writing a paper for an important symposium the next day.
43. Laura was born and raised in a medium-sized town (A. lived, B. inhabited) mainly by factory workers.
44. The (A. rambling, B. rumbling) speaker went on and on for 3 hours and he never came to his point.
45. The English (A. Argument, B. Debate) Contest has been a great event on our campus for years.
46. Hastily, the headmaster took a (A. glance, B. sight) at the newspaper headlines.
47. Eventually, the hunters came to his (A. save, B. rescue) and sent him back to New York.
48. On their very first date, she felt an immediate (A. attraction, B. appeal) to him.
49. To keep fit, he often has plain but (A. noisome, B. wholesome) food.
50. There is nothing new here; just the same old ideas in a different (A. guise, B. form)
51. Military life (A. cleansed, B. washed) him of his laziness and wickedness.
52. The presence of the consul greatly (A. glorified, B. dignified) the ceremony.
53. The orchestra were (A. toning, B. tuning) for the concert when the audience walked into the concert hall.
54. The girl stared at the man with her (A. bewildering, wilder) eyes.

IV. Translate the following into English.
55．他把它看作一个美国社会努力为自己的感情及信仰进行解释及再解释的地方。
56．他唱到民权、核散落物以及孤独。他唱到变革和老一代人的惶惑。
57．因为即使在最好的情况下，他们胜利的曙光也从未照耀在他们梦寐以求的清除了人类一切卑劣自私的灿烂的新世界上。
58．当时作为一名大学校报的编辑，我也和现在的积极分子一样猛烈抗议这种情况。
59．当３０年代的那些大问题大致得到一些控制时，新的问题又取而代之――个富有社会中出现的史无前例的问题：种族歧视、保持城市适于居住，对付在陌生的伪装下的战争等问题。

V. Translate the following into Chinese.
60. The Beatles showed there were a range of emotions between love and hate.
61. They lived, in bitter disillusionment, to see the establishment they had overthrown replaced by a new one, just as hard-faced as and stuffy.
62. It is they alone who combine invention and exaggeration, reason and motion, word and sound, music and politics.”
63. This strategy is always popular among those who have no patience with the tedious working of the democratic process or who believe that basic institutions can only be changed by force.
64. The relevant question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with it.

VI. Answer the following questions in English.
65. What are the four alternatives of young people to deal with the present society according to Four Choices for Young People?
66. What does rock music tell us about the American society?
67. Why “Rock music is really a sociological expression rather than a music force?
68. Does the writer’s preference reflect his pacifist view on social revolutions?
69. What were some of the major subjects that rock music dealt with?

Part Two Proficiency Part

Read the following passage and answer the questions:
Test Your Nutrition IQ
[All of us eat every day, but most of us don’t understand nutrition. How much do you know about good nutrition? Please answer these twelve questions based on current ideas about food and health. The answers may surprise you.]

A. How much do you know about nutrition? If your knowledge is similar to that of food shoppers who answered three surveys for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, then you probably share some wide-spread misinformation about nutrition. Are the following statements true or false?

1. Your will get proper nourishment if you just eat a variety of foods.
False. Variety is not a guarantee of good nutrition. But adults can generally get a balanced diet by including several servings daily from the four main food group: two or more from the mild group (mild, cheese, yogurt, and other dairy foods); two or more from the meat group (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and meat alternates such as dried beans, lentils, and nuts); four or more from the bread group (bread, cereal, noodles, rice and other grain products); four or more from the vegetables and fruit group.
2. People who don’t eat meat or fish can still stay health.
True. As long as people eat enough dairy foods, eggs, and meat alternates. They can get essential protein.
3. Food eaten between meals can be just as good for health as food eaten at regular meals.
True. Nutritional value depends on what types of food you eat, not when you eat them. Eating a hard-boiled egg or an orange as a snack can contribute to a well-balanced diet.
4. Fresh vegetables cooked at home are always more nutritious than canned or frozen vegetables.
False. The nutritional difference depends more on how vegetables are handled or prepared than in whether they are bought fresh or packaged. Overcooking, for example, destroys many nutrients. Vegetables cooked in too much water can lose a significant amount of vitamins.
5. A high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet is ideal for losing weight.
False. There’s nothing magical about protein. The simple truth is that you have to either eat fewer calories or use up more in order to lose weight. Yet one on the most common myths about weight control is that carbohydrates, not too many calories, make fat.
6. When dieting, avoid starchy foods, such as bread or potatoes.
False. If you cut out starchy foods, such as peas, potatoes, bread, and rice, you cut out very good sources of several B vitamins, Vitamin C, and other nutrients. Moreover, ounce for ounce, bread and potatoes have fewer calories than sirloin steak and roast beef.
7. If you weigh what you should, you’re getting proper nourishment.
False. Proper weight alone doesn’t show whether a diet is lacking in vitamins and minerals. The scales make no distinction between the similar number of calories of a an of low-nutrition soda and two eggs, but body chemistry does.
8. Taking extra vitamins beyond the recommended daily allowances won’t give you more energy.
True. It’s widely believed that extra vitamins provide more energy. But taking more than the body needs doesn’t make it function better, any more than overfilling your gas tank makes your car run better.
9. Natural vitamins are better supplements for the diet than synthetic vitamins.
False. There is no difference. A vitamin has the same properties and specific chemical structure whether made in a laboratory or taken from plant or animal parts.
10. Older people need the same amount of vitamins as younger people.
True. Older people need the same amount of vitamins as younger people although they need fewer calories. Certain illnesses raise the requirements for some vitamins, but that is true for the young as well as the old.
11. Food grown in poor, worn-out soil is lower in vitamins than food grown in rich soil.
False. The vitamins in our foods are made by the plants themselves. They don’t come from the soil. However, the minerals in a plant depend on the minerals in the soil.
12. Food produced with chemical fertilizers is just as nutritious as food grown with natural fertilizers.
True. So-called “natural” fertilizer such as manure must first be broken down by soil bacteria into basic compounds. These compounds, taken up by the plant, are identical whether they come from natural or from chemical fertilizers.

B. If you answered at least eight of the questions correctly,
you can consider yourself well informed about food and nutrition by today’s standards. But remember that nutrition is a complex and growing science, and that today’s beliefs may be changed as new information becomes available.
lentil: 小扁豆
carbohydrate: 碳水化合物
starchy:　淀粉的
sirloin:　牛的上部腰肉

VII. There are 10 incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer.
70. According to the writer, ______________.
A. many people have incorrect ideas about nutrition.
B. most people are well informed about nutrition.
C. many people don’t care about nutrition.
D. most people know little about nutrition.
71. A balanced diet includes beans, lentils, nuts and the like because ________.
A. it is necessary to eat all kinds of food in order to get proper nutrition.
B. they are the most important of the four main food groups.
C. they can be used to substitute meat, poultry, fish, eggs, etc.
D. they don’t add fat to your body.
72. The idea delivered in paragraph 6 is ________.
A. bread and steak have the same number of calories per ounce.
B. starchy foods are unnecessary in a balanced diet.
C. you should include starchy foods in your diet.
D. Starchy foods are better than steak and roast beef in that they carry fewer calories.
73. The purpose of mentioning a can of soda and two eggs is to show that ________.
A. a can of soda and two eggs are nutritionally similar.
B. A can of soda and two eggs have a similar number of calories.
C. A can of soda and two eggs make a good snack.
D. Even if you weigh what you should, it doesn’t mean that you are getting proper nourishment.
74. The description of “overfilling your gas tank” shows that ________.
A. why you should take extra vitamins.
B. Why you don’t need extra vitamins.
C. Why extra vitamins cost more.
D. Why extra vitamins provide more energy.
75. In regarding to nutrition, the following statements are true except ________.
A. overcooking destroys many nutrients.
B. Both fresh and frozen vegetables are nutritious.
C. It makes no difference how you prepare vegetables.
D. Vegetables should not be cooked in too much water.
76. To buy food produced in good and fertile soil means _______.
A. you can get food rich in vitamins.
B. You have to spend more money.
C. You can get food rich in minerals.
D. You do care about nutrition of food.
77. Older people should eat less than younger people because _______.
A. older people need less vitamins than younger people.
B. Older people don’t digest as well as the younger people.
C. Younger people need more minerals than the older people.
D. Younger people need more calories than the older people.
78. We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. This writing is highly scientific and reliable.
B. Chemical fertilizers destroy the nutrition of plants slightly.
C. It is good to eat food at regular meals.
D. What’s written in this passage might be proved wrong someday.
79. A good title for this article would be ________.
A. Nutrition: A Complex Growing Science
B. How to Lose Weight
C. What You Should Know about Nutrition
D. Find the Right Food to Eat

VIII. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is the closest in meaning to the underlined part.
80. If you cut out starchy foods, you cut out good sources of nutrients.
A. eliminate
B. use a knife on
C. eat
D. get rid of totally
81. One of the most common myths about weight control is that carbohydrates, not too many calories, make fat.
A. Carbohydrates cause people to grow fatter.
B. It is true that weight control means the control of carbohydrates.
C. Too many calories, instead of carbohydrates, make fat.
D. It is really mysterious to think about weight control.
82. The scales make no distinction between the similar number of calories of a can of low-nutrition soda and two eggs, but body chemistry does.
A. body chemistry will reveal the difference between proper nutrition and improper nutrition.
B. Body chemistry depends on calories.
C. Soda and eggs are essential for a good body chemistry.
D. Body can distinguish between a can of soda and two eggs.
83. Taking extra vitamins beyond the recommended daily allowances won’t give you more energy.
A. more than the suggested daily amount
B. far from the allowed amount
C. under the suggestion of some people
D. more than you can afford to buy every day.
84. Natural vitamins are better supplements for the diet than synthetic vitamins.
A. Natural vitamins are as good as synthetic vitamins.
B. Natural vitamins are better than synthetic ones.
C. Natural vitamins are good for keeping fit.
D. Man-made vitamins are more nutritious than natural vitamins.

IX. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
85. As long as people eat enough dairy foods, eggs, and meat alternates, they can get essential protein.
86. The nutritional difference depends more on how vegetables are handled or prepared than in whether they are bought fresh or packaged.
87. The simple truth is that you have to either eat fewer calories or use up more in order to lose weight.
88. A vitamin has the same properties and specific chemical structure whether made in a laboratory or taken from plant or animal parts.
89. So-called “natural” fertilizers such as manure must first be broken down by soil bacteria into basic compounds.

X. Answer the following essay question in English with 80-100 words.
What impresses you most about getting proper nourishment?

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