《综合英语精读3 A》测试题答案
综合英语精读3ⅠBASIC KNOWLEDGE TEST
PART ONE: Match the words with their explanations.
( )1embrace Aoffering a price
( )2edge Bcentral
( )3scratch Cextremely eager
( )4barrier D to show a preference for somebody way
( )5fatigue E to make one’s mind off something
( )6distract F great tiredness
( )7favor G something placed in the
( )8desperate Hto rub a surface with something pointed
( )9focal I to move little by little
( )10bidding J to hold something in armsⅡREADING
PART ONE (Questions 1-7) ? Read these sentences and the currency report.
? Which paragraph does each Sentence (1~7) come from?
? For each sentence mark one letter (A, B, C or D)
Example
Toshuku had the astonishing large debts.
Answer B
()1. The IMF mentioned that it would update its prediction.
()2. Nikkei-225 index dropped by than 2 per cent yesterday.
()3. Japanese government is going to take action to stop the Asian currency slide.
()4. Daiwa Securities and Nikko Securities were to be punished.
()5. Japan was to have massive income tax cuts.
()6. Lending money to countries suffering great difficulties has quickened its pace.
()7. Nikko Securities received a three-month ban.Japan acts on currency slide
A
The Bank of Japan’s move, yet to be officially confirmed, indicates that the Japanese government is determined to play a role in stopping the Asian currency slide which has taken a heavy toll elsewhere in the region and could have accelerated if it was felt that Japan would allow the Yen to decline in value to make local goods more competitive.
Support for the Yen may prove to be more effective than the massive income tax cuts announced on Tuesday. These have been judged an inadequate response to the gravity of Japan's economic problems.
B
This disappointment was reflected in the Japanese stock market yesterday, with the blue chipNikkei-225 index dripping by more than 2 per cent. Market sentiment was also depressed by news of the fourth largest post-war bankruptcy taking down the foodstuff trader Toshuku with debts totaling an astonishing $4bn. The company blamed the bursting of the "bubble" economy for its woes. Toshuku is the ninth listed company to go under this year.
C
Meanwhile the long running' scandal; of leading stockbrokers involvement with racketeers came to a head yesterday with news that Daiwa Securities and Nikko; Securities, two of Japan's biggest stockbrokers, were to be severely punished for I paying off racketeer who had threatened to disrupt shareholder meetings if they were not paid off. The Ministry of Finance ordered Daiwa to cease its own account business in stock, futures and options trading for four months, while Nikko received a three month ban.
D
Meanwhile, it has sped up its procedures for lending money to countries suffering "exceptional" difficulties. Only two months after it published its latest forecasts for the world economy, the IMF has said it will update its predictions. The fund has made it clear that the document, to be released on Sunday afternoon will trim its growth forecast. In October, the fund’s economists put world growth in 1998 at 4. 3 per cent, a faction higher than this years likely figure. It foresaw a slowdown in the US, UK and Japan, but its prediction of 2. 6 per cent Japanese GDP growth now looks "Very optimistic. So does its 7. 4 per cent figure for likely Asian growth.
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PART TWO (Questions 8-13)
? Look at the article below about the poll and the questions over the page.
? Each' question has four suggested answers or ways of finishing the sentence, A, B, C and D.
? Mark one letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet, for the answer you choose.Gallup poll
With prospects of an end to an end to the hallowed old British measures of inches and feet and pounds, the Galiup .polL people wandered how well-known its metric alternative might be. They asked in the usual way, and learned that even among men and women who had been to a university 33 per cent had never heard of the metric system.
Then a Sunday newspaper conduced a poll of its own and announced that 98 per cent of its readers knew about the metric system. This, the newspaper boasted, showed "how much more knowledgeable" its readers were than people generally.
How can two polls differ so remarkably?
Galiup interviewers had chosen, and talked to a carefully Selected cross-Section-of the public. The newspaper had naively, and economically, relied upon coupons clipped, filled in, and mailed in by readers. It isn’t hard to guess that most of those readers who were unaware of the metric system had little interest in it or the coupon; and they selected themselves out of the poll by not bothering to clip and participate. This self-selection produced, in statistical terms, a biased or unrepresentative sample of just the sort that has led, over the years, to an enormous number of misleading conclusions.
A few winters ago a dozen investigators independently reported figures on antihistamine pills. Each showed that a considerable percentage of colds cleared up after treatment. A great fuss ensued, at least in the advertisements, and 'a medical-product boom was on. It was-based on an eternally springing hope and also on a curious refusal to look past the statistics to a fact that has been known for a long time. As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week. So it is with much that you read and hear. Averages and relationships arid trends arid graphs are not always what they seem. There may be bore in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less.
The secret, language of statistics, so appealing in a face-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical methods and statistical terms are necessary in reporting the mass data of social arid economic trends, business conditions, "opinion" polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the .result can only, be semantic nonsense.
In popular writing on scientific matters the abused statistic is almost crowding out the picture of the white-jacketed hero laboring overtime without time-and-a-half in an ill-lit laboratory. Like the "little dash of powder, little pot of paint", statistics are making many an important fact "look like what she ain't", A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler’s "big lie"; it misleads, yet cannot be pinned on.
()8. The passage
A. is about the Gallup poll
B. is about a poll conducted by a Sunday newspaper
C. suggests that statistics can be misleading
D. generalizes that all polls are prejudiced
()9. Judging from the one single ease described in the passage, it can be inferred that-----
A. the Galiup poll is more objective than the one conducted by the Sunday newspaper
B. the Gallup poll is less objective than the one conducted by the Sunday newspaper
C. the Galiup poll is as objective , as , the one conducted by the .Sunday newspaper
D. the Galiup poll is as prejudiced as the one conducted by the Sunday newspaper
()10. "ensue" in the passage perhaps means
A. make sure
B. follow
C. ask for help
D. bring a legal help
()11. By "cross-section" the author most probably refers to ______.
A. people in different neighborhood
B. people of different social groups
C. the middle class
D. people of different age groups
()12. In a fact-minded culture the public believe that statistical data are ___ in making judgements.
A. important
B. misleading
C. unimportant
D. unnecessary
()13. The last sentence in this passage can be paraphrased as_____.
A. "Hitler is a great liar. "
B, "Statistics are misleading."
C. "A well-disguised statistic is misleading yet you: cannot find out why it is so. "
D. "A well-disguised statistic is more misleading than .Hitler’s big lie. "
PARTTHREE (Questions 14-28)
? Read this reference about an employee.
? Choose the best word to fill each gap.
? For each Question (14~ 28) write one letter (A, B, C or D).I am Very happy to be invited to write this reference on behalf of Mr. John Smith. Mr. Smith has worked in my company for ten years and I have much example in recommending him highly for the 14of Sales Manager in your company. He is15qualified and he has a great deal of experience which should be very16 ￡or the post for which he has applied. Generally17 , I have long been impressed by Mr. Smith general attitude to his work. Whenever a problem 18, he always seeks a positive solution. Furthermore, his 19 to find such a 'solution 20is success as he simply refuses to recognize the21 that there is no answer.
Mr. Smith is also able to 22what appears to be a disadvantage into a chance to benefit himself and the company. For instance, if he receives a letter of23 from a customer, he seems able to reply in such a way that not only24 the customer buy increases his25in the company. Three years ago, when we met some difficulties in 26 a new product,
Mr. Smith took the 27 o use his creativity to produce a nice model. As a 28 , the new product soon became popular in the market.
Example
A. joy B. pleasure C. delight D. enjoyment
Answer A
()14. A. duty B. task C. work D. post
()15. A. very B. highly C. greatly D. remarkably
()16. A. desirable B. fitting C. relevant D. convenient
()17. A. talking B. speaking C, saying D. mentioning
()18. A. arrives B. arises C. comes D. springs
()19. A. determination B. resolution C. endurance D. will power
()20. A. conducts B. brings C. results D. ensures
()21. A. possibility B. chance C. certainty D. assurance
()22. A. make , ; B. turn C. get D. bring
()23. A. accusation B. charge C. complaint D. injury
()24. A. fulfills B. satisfies C. contents D. settles
()25. A. hope B. credit C. face D. desire
()26. A. designing B. producing C. making D. manufacturing
()27. A; chance B. opportunity C. possibility D. means
()28. A. consequence B. result C. effect D. fact
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Ⅲ WRITING
You are going to spend holidays in Italy in July. Suddenly you received a letter from an important customer, Mr. Adam Jones who will arrive on 17th July and discuss the claim. You have to delay the trip till August.
? Write a short letter of 80 words to Ms. Mary Lane, your secretary.
? Explaining why you postpone your trip.
? Mentioning the date when Mr. Adam Jones will arrive.
? Asking her to arrange your meeting.
? Asking her to rearrange your holiday issues such as flights and hotel
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