广东财经大学华商学院试题纸
2014-2015学年第二学期考试时间共120分钟
课程名称大学英语II（A卷）课程代码0700024课程班号14本科全院B层班级共6页
考生姓名班级学号
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Part I Listening Comprehension(1×20points)
Directions:This part is to test your listening ability.It consists of3sections.
Section A
Directions:This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues.There are5recorded dialogues in it.After each dialogue,there is a recorded question.Both the dialogues and questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question,you should decide on the correct answer from the4choices marked A),B),C)and D) given in your test paper.Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Example:You will hear:
You will read:A)New York City.
B)An evening party.
C)An air trip.
D)The man’s job
From the dialogue we learn that the man is to take a flight to New York.Therefore,C)An air trip is the correct answer.You should mark C)on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
[A][B][C][D]
1.A)Report to his boss C)See his doctor
B)Talk with his agent D)Visit his lawyer
2.A)The airport is too far away.B)The man has missed the bus.
C)This bus does not go to the airport.D)There is no bus to the airport.
3.A)Before8:45.B)Before9:15.C)After9:00.D)At9:00.
4.A)The man works in the city center.B)The man wants to live in the suburbs.
C)The woman works in the suburbs.D)The woman lives in the city center.
5.A)They can not agree on the price.B)The man's order is too small.
C)The man asks for earlier delivery.D)They disagree on the discount.
Section B
Directions:This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations.There are2recorded conversations in it.After each conversation,there are some recorded questions.Both the conversations and questions will be spoken two times.When you hear a question,you should decide on the correct answer from the 4choices marked A),B),C)and D)given in your test paper.Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Conversation1
6.A)The screen has gone black.B)The keyboard does not work.
C)The connections are broken.D)The power supply is off.
7.A)Start the computer again.C)Check the connections.
B)Change the mouse.D)Replace the keyboard.
Conversation2
8.A)Happy.B)Excited.C）Nervous.D)Angry.
9.A)A copy of his resume.B)An application form.
C)A recommendation letter.D)A recent photo.
10.A)Fashionably.B)Carefully.C)Nicely.D)Formally.
Section C
Directions:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from11to17with the exact word you have just hea
rd.For blanks numbered from18 to20you are required to fill in the missing information.Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.
Customers in restaurants behave differently.Here are three stories about their funny and disgusting behaviors.
1.One lunchtime,I was waiting on a man who was dining alone.He looked like a_____11_____ businessman:he was wearing_____12_____clothes and he had a cell phone and a newspaper with him.He talked on his phone for most of the meal.When I brought his_____13_____,he told me that he had to leave the restaurant for a few minutes.He left his phone on the table.Well,after about ten minutes,he still hadn't come back to the table.I went over to the table and realized that the_____14_____phone was actually a toy.The man never came back to pay his bill.
2.I work as a server in a fast-food restaurant.It's a drive-through restaurant:customers drive up to the window and speak into the intercom."May I take your order?"I said into the intercom as_____15_____.A voice replied,"Hamburger,cheeseburger,double cheeseburger,small and large_____16_____beef sandwich,chicken sandwich,regular fries,large fries,apple pie,chocolate shake,strawberry shake,Coke,diet Coke,7UP and orange juice."The____17______prepared the larg
e order and filled several bags.When the customer got the food,she was shocked."But that wasn't my order,"she said."I was reading the menu to my little girl."
3.Our restaurant has tables outside,on the street.People often_____18_____or a glass of wine while they are out for a walk.One day a woman came along with a big dog.She tied her dog to the table,sat down and ordered a glass of white wine.Everything was fine for a few minutes—then a man rode by on a moped.The dog chased the moped,pulling the table behind it,and of course the woman's wine_____19_____.So we cleaned everything up,and brought the customer another glass of wine.Later we gave her the bill for her drinks.She _____20_____the second glass of wine because"it wasn't her fault"that she couldn't drink the first one!
PartⅡFind appropriate verbs or phrases which fit the items(A-J).(1×10points)
()21.freeze A.the naughty boy
()22.harbor B.fingers at Tom
()23.restrict C.the handkerchief neatly in his jacket pocket
()24.adhere D.all the opportunities
()25.point E.for one’s doctorate
()26.discipline F.one’s blood
()27. the principle
()28.study H.a new task
()29.grab I.ill feelings
()30.take on J.our access to public facilities
Part III Fill in the blanks with appropriate words or phrases in the box.(1×10points)广东财经大学华商学院学费
on a trial basis fired wherever In spite of empty
served columnist admiration loosely act
Can an employee do his or her job too well?If so,what do you do?Praise?Raise?Discipline?Terminate? Today’s guest_____31____tells the true story of Foster,who did his job too well.
Eight years ago I first met Mr.Foster,an old busboy at an airport._____32____his age and physical handicap,he would go____33_____he was needed instead of waiting to be summoned.What is more,he _____34____every customer with the same enthusiasm whether they gave him tips or not,or no matter how much the tips were.Impressed and inspired,I developed a great_____35____for him in the following years.I would contrast him with his fellow workers who were just____36_____assembled there,idly waiting for tables to become_____37____.However,Mr.Foster was ordered to stop helping people and____38_____like his co-workers.Later,he was____39_____.Though he was back at work______40___several months later,his spirit was gone.And today I learned that he quit his job—his heart was broken.
Part IV Reading Comprehension(2×10points)
Directions:There are2passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions41to45are based on the following passage.
When my family moved to America in2010from a small village in Guangdong,China,we brought not only our luggage,but also our village rules,customs and culture.One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders.Unluckily,this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.
I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant.One time,when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple,the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly.I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly.As soon as I said that,her face showed great displeasure.My manager,who happened to hear what I said,took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive(敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description“old”.I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife.After the couple heard my reason,they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences,so they laughed and were no longer angry.
In my village in China,people are proud of being old.Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty,and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience.Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.
However,in the United States,people think“growing old”is a problem since“old”shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well.Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging,and women put on makeup,hoping to look young.When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly,they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young.I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.
After that,I changed the way I had been with older people.It is not that I don’t respect them any more;I still respect them,but now I don’t show my feelings through words.
41.Jack brought the couple their food very fast because_______.
A.the manager asked him to do so
B.he respected the elderly
C.the couple wanted him to do so
D.he wanted more pay
42.When Jack called the couple“elderly”,they became_______.
B.satisfied
C.unhappy
43.In Jack’s hometown,_______.
A.people dislike being called“old”
B.people are proud of being old
C.many people reach the age of seventy or eighty
D.the elderly are the first to get food in restaurants
44.After this experience,Jack_______.
A.lost his job in the restaurant
B.made friends with the couple
< longer respected the elderly
D.changed his way with older people
45.Which of the following is TRUE?
A.The more Jack explained,the angrier the couple got.
B.Jack wanted to show his feelings through words after his experience.
C.The manager went back to the table and apologized to the couple.
D.From this experience,Jack learned more about American culture.
Passage Two
Questions46to50are based on the following passage.
When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of2009,they’ll b
e joined by a new face;Andrew Hamilton,the55-year-old provost(教务长)of Yale,who’ll become Oxford’s vice-chancellor(副校长).
Hamilton isn’t the only educator crossing the Atlantic.Schools in France,Egypt,Singapore,etc,have also recently made top-level hires from abroad.Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays,and like so many businesses,it’s gone global.Yet the talent flow isn’t universal.High-level personnel tends to head in only one direction:outward from America.
The chief reason is that American schools don’t tend to seriously consider looking abroad.For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president,it wanted a leader familiar with the state government,a major source of the university’s budget.“We didn’t do any global consideration,”says Patricia Hayes,the board’s chair.The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson,a69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist(活动家)who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund-raising.Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing,since U.S.schools are reliant heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.
Many European universities,meanwhile,are still mostly dependent on government funding.But govern
ment support has failed to keep pace with rising student number.The decline in government support has made funding-raising an increasing necessary ability among administrators.
In the past few years,prominent schools around the world have joined the trend.In2003,when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard,another former Yale provost,as its vice-chancellor,the university publicly
stressed that in her previous job she had overseen“a major strengthening of Yale’s financial position.”
Of course,fund-raising isn’t the only skill outsiders offer.The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind of promoting international programs. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.
46.What is the current trend in higher education discussed in the passage?
A)Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S.
B)A lot of political activists are being recruited as administrators.
C)American universities are enrolling more international students.
D)University presidents are paying more attention to funding-raising.
47.What is the chief consideration of American universities when hiring top-level administrators?
A)The political correctness.B)Their ability to raise funds.
C)Their fame in academic circles.D)Their administrative experience.
48.What do we learn about European universities from the passage?
A)The tuitions they charge have been rising considerably.
B)Their operation is under strict government supervision.
C)They are strengthening their position by globalization.
D)Most of their revenues come from the government.
49.Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard as its vice-chancellor chiefly because_____.
A)she was known to be good at raising money
B)she could help strengthen its ties with Yale
C)she knew how to attract students overseas
D)she had boosted Yale’s academic status
50.In what way do top-level administrators from abroad contribute to university development?
A)They can enhance the university’s image.
B)They will bring with them more international faculty.
C)They will view a lot of things from a new perspective.
D)They can set up new academic disciplines.
Part V Translation(25points)
A:Chinese to English:please translate the following Chinese passage into English.Write your answer on the Answer sheet.(10points)
51.我们四个都上大二了，我们没打算住在宿舍，从来没想过。我们自以为自己既聪明又成熟，因此合计着租个房住。每个人都有自己单独的卧室，大家合用一个洗手间。四个小伙子，一个洗手间。听起来很合理，对不？但还是先看看爱德华（Edward）吧。爱德华一用完洗手间就没人想用了，因为总有东西会被用完、用光、用尽。
___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ B:English to Chinese:please translate the following two English passages into Chinese.Write your answer on the Answer sheet.(15points)
52(7points).It was obvious he was having a hard time not laughing.The woman thought:“My God,what a spectacle I’ve made of myself.”She was too embarrassed to speak.She wanted to make an apology,but words failed her.How do you apologize to two perfectly respectable gentlemen for behaving as though they were going
to rob you?
___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 53(8points).Experts agree that today’s18-to30-year-olds have more debts than their forebears.That’s especially true of the majority of high school graduates who go on to college,where people commonly get student loans and credit cards,even if they don’t have jobs.After all,young adults accept student loans and credit cards gladly and most repay dutifully.But critics worry that corrosive social effects result from the habit of taking on debt before one has sufficient income to repay.
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Part VI Writing(15points)
Directions:In this part,you are required to write a composition in no less than120words on the topic “The Popularity of Getting Certificates on Campus”.Write your composition neatly on Answer Sheet.
Suggested Outline:
1.大学校园内各种证书（Certificate）的报考十分火热
2.大学生考证的原因
3.考证面前，我的选择
The Popularity of Getting Certificates on Campus
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