篇一：自主学习1--答案
Part I Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to
select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank
following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making
your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please
write the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use
any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.
If you?re struggling to drop pounds, finding out your personality traits may help you make it easier. Whether you?re the life of the party, a bookworm, or a night owl, your personality plays a 1)___ large role in your ability to slim down. Follow this guide to discover your personality type and use your own characteristics to lose weight.
Being a little stuck on yourself may not be such a bad thing when trying to lose weight. “Self-centered people 2)__to consider their own interests, which could lead them to better conserve their energy and have more willpower to make 3)___choices,” says Heidi Hanna, PhD, a performance coach. People-pleasers, on the other hand, may get overly stressed about helping everyone else and find themselves depleted(筋疲力尽的) at the end of the day. This often triggers 4)___ food choices, says Hanna. Instead, practice being more “selfish” in asking for what you want and sticking to it without feeling 5)___. Meet friends after your workout instead of 6)___ your exercise plans, or ask them to join you.
Outgoing people incline to allow stress to accumulate to the point that?s known as “amygdala hijack(突发过激反应),” says Hanna. This is where we 7)___ the more basic, primitive part of our brain versus our more human pre-frontal cortex(前额皮层). “The latter allows us to consider our long-term 8)____ and make healthier choices,” says Hanna. This pleasure-based eating has been shown to trigger an addictive response that often 9)____ to overeating high-calorie, high-fat comfort foods. “If you enjoy being the center of 10)____, try putting yourself in social
situations that don?t involve food,” suggests Art Markman, PhD. Professor of psychology at the University of Texas.
1—5 MOILH 6---10 CNGJB
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by writing the corresponding letter in the blank.
Your Password or Your Privacy
A) Matthew Breuer has shared the passwords to his computer, e-mail and social media accounts with every girlfriend he?s ever had. It?s a matter of convenience—she can check his e-mail when he can?t access it or get into his phone to change the song playing on the speakers. But it?s also symbolic.
B) “I feel like it?s so much easier to live in a relationship where you know you have nothing to hide and are entirely honest about who you are and what you?re doing,” he says. “Times in my life when I?ve realized that something wasn?t working in my relationship coincided with(与…同时发生) times when I would be worried, ?Oh, do I really want to say this on Face-book to somebody else?? It?s such a red
flag if there?s something you?re concerned about your partner seeing. That means there?s some fundamental issue with your relationship beyond privacy.” Breuer has most American couples on his side. According to a recent Pew study, 67% of Internet users in marriages or relationships have shared passwords to one or more of their accounts with their partner.
C) Though we don?t feel comfortable exchanging passwords with perhaps more trustworthy family members and long-term friends, we do feel comfortable exchanging access to our personal information with boyfriends and girlfriends. It?s an exercise in trust, the logic goes. If you have nothing to hide, why would you want to hide your password? And, as Breuer points out, knowing someone may look over your shoulder can keep you honest.
D) For Jasmine Tobie, seeing someone else?s transgressions (越轨)via e-mail has saved her from a toxic relationship. After finding some receipts that proved her boyfriend was lying to her about being on a business trip one weekend, she decided to look at his e-mail to be sure before she pulled the plug on the relationship. “Once I found that I just had to have more evidence.” She didn?t know his password, but was able to guess correctly using clues on his desktop. “He was still ?communicating? with his exes. He had taken a trip to visit an ex and told me it was a work trip. He was still signed up with dating sites and other ?hookup? sites and actively communicating with those people… I found some pictures of him and people he swore were ?friends? in the act.” The two had dated for a year and lived together for about nine months. “:I was trying to find some way to give him the benefit of the doubt. In the end, it did clarify for me that he was not it for me at all and that there were issues I couldn?t fix.” Tobie adds that those were extraordinary circumstances, and she wouldn?t read someone else?s e-mails again. She doesn?t share passwords with her current boyfriend.
E) In most circumstances, psychologists suggest keeping passwords private. “In relationships, we depend on each other for a lot of things, but it?s good and healthy to have some independence too,” says Kelly Campbell, PhD of Psychology. “The more you self-disclose, the happier you are. But the happiest
couples have some degree of secrecy and privacy.” Unsurprisingly, sharing passwords can cause some serious problems during a relationship or after it ends. F) Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Vannabes, advises the teens she talks to for her research to not share passwords because “the relationships can change so quickly, and the emotions behind the breakups can be so strong.” She says that one high scholar she worked with was blind-sided when his ex-girlfriend found his phone. “She knew where he charged his phone during class and knew his password, so she went in and sent all sorts of texts to friends, to another girl he was talking to—it really created a lot of problems for him.”
G) Though one might assume that teens and 20-somethings are the ones foolishly sharing passwords—and suffering from the resulting drama—the survey found that the practice of password-sharing is pretty equal across age groups, and that 18-29-year-olds were actually the least likely to share passwords. 64% of 18-29-year-olds share passwords, compared with 70% of 30-49-year-olds, 66% of 50-64-year-olds, and 69% of those over 65.
H) And you don?t have to be a teenager to have password problems with your significant other. Suzy, a 46-year-old mother, got into a dangerous situation years ago when her then-boyfriend started reading her e-mails. She hadn?t given him her password, but one day she forgot to log out and he checked her e-mail. The couple had been on-again-off-again, and she hadn?t told him that she had created an online dating profile while they were apart. She had since deleted the profile and deleted most of the e-mail exchanges with the man she met through the site. “But he went through all my e-mails, including ones that I had thrown away. He went into every folder. He got really mad and basically attacked me,” she says. “I ended up having to call an ambulance.”
I) Since, she says she?s never even considered sharing passwords with a significant other. “I now have this paranoia(偏执) where I wouldn?t even share it even if I trusted someone. You never know what?s going to upset someone,” she says. “I don?t know if that makes me less trusting or just wiser.”
J) Still, optimists like Breuer are undeterred (未受阻的)by such horror stories. Breure says he has always developed friendship with the girls he has dated before dating, and therefore felt they could be honest with one another. “I think sharing passwords honestly ends up affording you the privacy you want,” Breure says, pointing to a password etiquette that has developed between him and his partners in recent years. “Just because you tell somebody your password to things doesn?t mean they actually end up looking through your stuff.” Breuer says he?s never changed his password after a breakup since he?s always trusted and respected those he has dated.
K) Campbell says the best way to determine if you?re ready to share passwords with your significant other is to check and see if you?re on the same page. “If you have any question in your mind, the answer is no,” says Campbell. “I would say that it should be reciprocal. You shouldn?t be sharing something if your partner also didn?t share it…People are happiest when they have a match. You and your partner should be a match in that respect too.”
11. We feel at ease sharing passwords with our partner, but not with our family members.
12. Although couples are happier when they share more, the happiest couples don?t
share everything.
13. Jasmine Tobie ended an unhealthy relationship after she found evidence of her boyfriend?s cheating.
14. A middle-aged mother was ever beaten by her then-boyfriend years ago after he read her e-mails.
15. Teenagers are advised to keep their passwords private because the relationships
are unstable and they may not have a good control over their emotions after breakups.
16. Most American couples think that if there is something they don't want their partner to see on their social media, their relationship probably isn?t working.
17. Campbell holds that before you are determined to share your passwords, you?d
篇二：自主学习6-答案
自主学习 6
Part I Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to
select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank
following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making
your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please
write the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use
any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.
If you've lived for long in New York City, chances are you've lived in several different places. On the map of where we live now is also where we used to live, just across the park, a few subway stops 1)___north or south. That is one of the characteristics of this city---we are 2) ___near to our past. Some people move from Ohio to Oregon. We move from 93rd to 13th, from Alphabet City to Carroll Gardens, all over town.
And what 3)__ of the old neighborhood? In one 4)___, nothing. You were only a minor molecule in its chemistry. Go back a week after you've 5)___, and the same dogs are pulling their owners to the park, the same people sitting out. Let enough time pass, and things become a little ghostly. It begins to feel as though the 6)__has forgotten you, instead of the other way around. When you lived there, nothing changed without your noticing it. Now the changes accumulate unperceived(未被察觉的), and you begin to realize that a part of you has 7)____ into the past.
New York is a 8)__ and public city. You can walk past the shops and admire the brownstones. You can hear about the diner that used to be on that corner and what happened that one night. Try as you might to be a tourist in someone else's past, you end up seeing only the present. That's how the new neighborhood looks at first--- the one you've just moved to. You 9)___ into the present, and it ages around you until one day you 10)___up with a new old neighborhood.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by writing the corresponding letter in the blank.
Why Teenagers Really Do Need an Extra Hour in Bed?
A) "Making teens start school in the morning is 'cruel' ," brain doctor claims. So declared a British newspaper headline in 2007 after a talk I gave at an academic conference. One disbelieving reader responded: " This man sounds brain-dead. "
B) That was a typical reaction to work I was reporting at the time on teenage sleep patterns and their effect on performance at school. Six years on there is growing acceptance that the structure of the academic day needs to take account of adolescent sleep patterns. The latest school to adopt a later start time is the UCL Academy in London; others are considering following suit.
C) So what are the facts about teenage sleep, and how should society adjust to these needs? The biology of human sleep timing, like that of other mammals, changes as we age. This has been shown in many studies. As adolescence begins, bedtimes and waking times get later. This trend continues until 19.5 years in women and 21 in men. Then it reverses. At 55 we wake at about the time we woke prior to adolescence. On average this is two hours earlier than adolescents. This means that for a teenager, a 7 a.m. alarm call is the equivalent of a 5 a.m. start for a person in their 50s.
D) Precisely why this is so is unclear but the shifts related with changes in hormones
(荷尔蒙) at adolescence and the decline in those hormones as we age. However, biology is only part of the problem. Additional factors include a more relaxed attitude to bedtimes by parents, a general disregard for the importance of sleep, and access to TVs, DVDs, PCs, gaming devices, cell phones and so on, all of which promote alertness and eat into time available for sleep.
E) The amount of sleep teenagers get varies between countries, geographic region and social class, but all studies show they are going to bed later and not getting as much sleep as they need because of early school starts.
F) Mary Carskadon at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who is a pioneer in the area of adolescent sleep, has shown that teenagers need about 9 hours a night to maintain full alertness and academic performance. My own recent observations at a UK school in Liverpool suggested many were getting just 5 hours on a school night. Unsurprisingly, teachers reported students dozing in class. G) Evidence that sleep is important is overwhelming. Elegant research has demonstrated its critical role in memory improvement and our ability to generate wise solutions to complex problems. Sleep disruption may increase the level of the stress. Excited behaviors, lack of empathy, sense of humor and mood are similarly affected. All in all, a tired adolescent is a moody, insensitive, angry and stressed one. Perhaps less obviously, sleep loss is associated with metabolic (新陈
代谢的) changes. Long-term lack of sleep might be an important factor for negative conditions such as diabetes (糖尿病), overweight and high blood pressure.
H) Adolescents are increasingly using stimulants to compensate for sleep loss, and caffeinated (含咖啡咽的) and/or sugary drinks are the usual choice. So a caffeinated drink late in the day delays sleep at night. Tiredness also increases the likelihood of taking up smoking.
I) In the US, the observation that teenagers have biologically delayed sleep patterns compared to adults prompted several schools to put back the start of the school day. An analysis of the impact by Kyla Wahlstrom at the University of Minnesota found that academic performance was enhanced, as was attendance. Sleeping in class declined, as did self-reported depression. In the UK, Monkseaton High School near Newcastle instituted a 10 am start in 2009 and saw a progress in academic performance.
J) However, a later start by itself is not enough. Society in general, and teenagers in particular, must start to take sleep seriously. Sleep is not a luxury but a fundamental biological need, enhancing creativity, productivity, mood and the ability to interact with others.
K) If you are dependent upon an alarm clock, or parent, to get you out of bed ; if you take a long time to wake up; if you feel sleepy and impatient during the day; ff your behavior is overly impulsive, it means you are probably not getting enough sleep. Take control. Ensure the bedroom is a place that promotes sleep-dark and not too warm-don't text, use a computer or watch TV for at least half an hour before trying to sleep avoid bright lights. Try not to nap during the day, and seek out natural light in the morning to adjust the body clock and sleep patterns to an earlier time. Avoid caffeinated drinks after lunch.
L) It is my strongly held View, based upon the evidence, that the efforts of dedicated
(专注的，投入的) teachers and the money spent on school facilities will have a greater impact and education will be more rewarding when, collectively, teenagers, parents, teachers and school governors start to take sleep seriously. In the universal language of school reports: we must do better.
11. In the US and UK, several schools that have delayed the start of the school day witnessed a progress in academic performance.
12. Nap is not favored as it may prohibit teens from adjusting the body clock to an earlier time.
13. The hormones in human body decrease step by step as people get older.
14. The author has found in his recent observations that teens need to sleep for longer hours on a school night.
15. Education can be more rewarding when the students' sleep is taken seriously.
16. A tiring "adolescent usually takes caffeinated drinks as a compensation for sleep loss.
17. Geographic region together with social class and nationality may lead to sleep differences among teenagers.
18. The general public didn't believe fire teens' sleep patterns illustrated by a brain doctor.
19. Sleep loss not only will do harm to teenagers' mental and emotional state but also potentially threaten their physical fitness.
20. The sleeping patterns of human and those of other mammals vary with age.
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Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages 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), D). You should decide on the best choice and
write the corresponding letter in the blank.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
With the unemployment rate topping 8% and the government $16 trillion in debt, it's easy to question why taxpayers are spending $ 2.5 billion on an SUV- sized Mars rover (探测车) named Curiosity, which landed successfully on the red planet in the early hours of Monday. Couldn't this money go toward something closer to home, such as providing shelter for the homeless or building roads? Yes, it could. But this kind of thinking is shortsighted.
The Mars project is the latest manifestation of America's restless desire to answer previously unanswerable questions and take on new challenges. To paraphrase President John F. Kennedy, America does things like this not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Getting the probe down safely on Mars, after a 350 million mile journey, was certainly no easy feat. Virtually all the technology used in the approach and landing was new, or used in new ways. Once settled in, Curiosity should be a particularly awe-inspiring project. It is designed to shed light on big questions: Could life forms have ever existed on Mars? Might they still exist? And are we alone in the universe ?
When budgets are tight, space projects such as Curiosity come in for particular abuse. They are often portrayed as complicated flights of odd ideas. They are not. They are both inspirational and immensely practical. Technology is, after all, an engine of economic growth. If that is a goal, as well it should be, why not support a program that makes science exciting and showcases some of the most interesting things that technology can do? One of the main benefits of projects like this one is to promote a confident America. Throughout history, nations that explore, and engage in science, lead the world. Beginning in the 15th century, for example, European nations sent sailors around the globe and provided the impetus for thinkers such as Copernicus, Galileo and Newton to invent modern physics and astronomy. Not coincidentally, Europe came to dominate the world until the dawn of the 20th century.
Those who would slash space program budgets apparently haven't learned history's lessons and don't see the great possibilities that the future presents--possibilities reflected in every image transmitted back from the rover.
21. Why is it easy to question why taxpayers' money is spent on Curiosity?
A) Because Curiosity costs too much money.
B) Because the economic situation is depressed.
C) Because the money should be spent on the people.
D) Because Curiosity is meaningless and impractical.
22. According to the first paragraph, the author believes that ________.
A) people should view Curiosity in the long term
B) Curiosity will generate more benefits than other things
C) people should not focus too much on economic situation
D) Curiosity is more important than economic development
23. Although the probe on Mars is not easy, America still insists it because ________.
A) new technology and new ways are found to solve the problems
B) the probe can shed light on many big questions
C) the nation's confidence can be strengthened through the probe
D) the nation has a restless desire to take on new challenges
24. Why does the author say space projects are practical?
A) Because they make science exciting.
B) Because they promote economic growth.
C) Because they increase America's national power.
D) Because they show what technology can bring.
25. The author uses Europe from 15th century to 20th century as an example to suggest that_______ .
A) nations which send sailors around the globe will be stronger
B) nations which develop physics and astronomy will be stronger
C) nations which support science exploration will be stronger
D) nations which dominate the world will be stronger
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
The argument that global warming is causing more extreme weather is problematic because it presumes the globe is warming. In fact, the global temperature trend line has been stable for more than a dozen years, while carbon dioxide has increased 7%. If carbon dioxide was the driver, then why have global temperatures stopped increasing?
Keep in mind that carbon dioxide represents 0.0395% of the Earth's atmosphere. Arguing that carbon dioxide is driving the small temperature variations in our climate as opposed to the oceans, which cover70% of the planet and have 1,000 times the heat capacity of air, or the output of our sun, is scientifically disturbing.
Weather is more publicized nowadays because of its impact on society and the constant push of the global warming agenda. Increases in population result in more people being in the path of Mother Nature's great anger. Global warming activists attribute every major weather event to man because they are either uninformed about history, or choose to ignore it. The latest claims resulting from this series of hot and dry summers ignore the fact that more state heat records were set in the 1930s than all
篇三：新视野大学英语自主学习题目及答案
T1-U9-RW2-HJW
Part 1 Understanding Long Conversations
(每小题： 分)
Directions: In this section you'll hear a long conversation or conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage or dialog.
1. C. Three times a day after meals.
A. He has a cold.D. Four times a day after meals.
B. He has the flu.4. A. Take herbal medicine.
C. He has a stomachache.B. See another doctor.
D. He has a fever.C. Eat chicken soup.
2.A. Since Friday.D. Take herbal soup.
B. Since Saturday.5.A. Talk to another friend.
C. Since Sunday.B. Listen to the woman's suggestion.
D. Since Monday.C. See the same doctor again.
3.A. Three times a day with meals.D. Take a rest for some days.
B. Four times a day before meals.
Part 1 Understanding Long Conversations (每小题: 1 分; 满分：5 分)
小题 得分 对错 我的答案 客观
1. 1A A 2. 1C C 3. 1C C 4. 1A A 5. 1B B Click ONCE on the speaker icon to start listening!
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Part 2 Understanding Passages
(每小题： 分)
Directions: In this section you'll hear a passage or passages. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage or dialog.
1.
A. They were very brilliant and achieved much.
B. They had no uncles and aunts and parents to live with them.
C. They were very poor and had few food schools to attend.
D. They were never willing to depend on others.
2.
A. I can make you a great man.
B. I can help you become a great man
C. I can make others the same as you.
D. You can't make yourself a great man without my help.
3.
A. They have no ambition to succeed.
B. They are not willing to succeed.
C. They are not able to succeed.
D. They can't make yourself a great man without my help.
4.
A. They should ask for the advice from parents and rely on them.
B. They should do everything by themselves.
C. They should change their course and depend on themselves.
D. They should ask for teachers' advice to change themselves.
5.
A. Ambition is something people cannot be without.
B. Help from parents, teachers and others is most important.
C. Relying on yourself is more important than relying on others.
D. Depending on yourself is as important as depending on others.
Part 2 Understanding Passages (每小题: 1 分; 满分：5 分)
小题 得分 对错 我的答案 客观
1. 1C C 2. 0A B 3. 1A A 4. 0D C 5. 0B C
Part 3 Vocabulary and Structure
(每小题： 分)
Directions: Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
1. I listened to Dr. Smith's lecture about the history of Britain, but I failed to understand its key ____________.
A. wordsB. pointsC. notesD. message
2. ― Whom would you like to have __________ the pictures here?
― Only those who have approval can have pictures __________ here.
A. taken; takenB. to take; takenC. taken; takeD. take; taken
3. We __________ the shops and the post office as soon as we moved into the town.
A. locatedB. assignedC. deliveredD. placed
4. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ________ left untreated.
A. afterB. ifC. sinceD. unless
5. ― Why did you go to the wrong office?
― Well, I forgot which room I was _______ to go to.
A. demandedB. hopedC. supposedD. suggested
6. I'm very sorry to have __________ you with so many questions on such an occasion.
A. benefitedB. offendedC. impressedD. bothered
7. He will agree to do what you require __________ him.
A. ofB. fromC. toD. for
8. We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield ________ any military pressure.
A. upB. toC. inD. at
9. There are many tall trees on _________ side of the street.
A. bothB. eitherC. allD. each
10. This research has attracted wide _________ reportage and has been shown on BBC television's Tomorrow's World.
A. messageB. informationC. mediaD. data Part 3 Vocabulary and Structure (每小题: 1 分; 满分：10 分)
小题 得分 对错 我的答案 客观
1. 1B B 3. 0C A 5. 1C C 7. 1A A 9. 0D B
2. 0A D 4. 1B B 6. 1D D 8. 0D B 10. 0A C
Part 4 Cloze (with Options)
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Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the choices. Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage.
One of the most famous stories of government corruption is about the Watergate inquiry. It is famous because it 1. went tomade forled toput out President Nixon stepping down from 2. officepublicdutyjob.
President Nixon's government committee 3. motivatedinstructedencouragedtortured some people to break into and search the office of a psychologist for 4. damagesdamagingdamageddamage information on some of his opponents who were 5. assetsscholarsclientscriminals of the psychologist. This was an 6. civilobviousdominantgloomy crime, but the only way anyone found out that the president was 7. revolvedcompelledinvolvedprevailed was when a man told the two reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, about it. These 8. scholarsjournaliststypistseconomists then wrote the story and it was 9. utteredprovidedpromisedpublished in the Washington Post. President Nixon at first claimed that the two were 10. concealingconstructingdeceivinginferring the public and that, in fact, this source did not 11. recurexistoccurappear, but because there were actually recordings of the president talking about this and other crimes, he was 12. obligingforcedsuperviseddeserving to step down.
Interestingly enough, President Nixon's 13. equalityvisionstandpointforecast had always been that reporters were 14. nuisancesrefugeesvariationsexpansion. Many other presidents have believed it is 15. evidentexclusiveessentialenormous to be very careful when dealing with the press 16. althoughas wellaltogetheras much.
Until recently, despite 17. economicalimplicitprincipalenormous pressure to give up the man's identity, the journalists kept his name a 18. assetsecretaccountprospect. 19. VariationPreferenceAbsenceIdentification of the source of a story has always been 20. aboutaroundafteragainst a reporter's rules of conduct. The brave example of Woodward and Bernstein reinforced this standard.
Part 4 Cloze (with Options) (每小题: 0.5 分; 满分：10 分)
小题 得分 对错 我的答案 客观
1. 0made for led to 5. 0.5clients clients
2. 0.5office office 6. 0civil obvious
3. 0encouraged instructed 7. 0revolved involved
4. 0.5damaging damaging 8. 0scholars journalists
9. 0promised published 15. 0exclusive essential
10. 0constructing deceiving 16. 0.5as well as well
11. 0recur exist 17. 0implicit enormous
12. 0.5forced forced 18. 0asset secret
13. 0equality standpoint 19. 0Preference Identification
14. 0refugees nuisances 20. 0about against
Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)
(每小题： 分)
Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage or dialog.
For most mere mortals (凡人)，publishing 466 books would be impossible even in dozens of lifetimes. But the remarkable Isaac Asimov had produced such an output during his 41-year book career and showed no signs of slowing down even at his old age.
Many of Asimov's science and science fiction (科幻小说) works deal with space travel-such as his well-known Foundation Trilogy (三部曲)-yet despite this, Asimov would be perfectly happy never leaving his Manhattan apartment, where he lived with his wife, psychiatrist(精神病医生)-author Janet Jeppson. "I travel in my writing to the far ends of space," he would say, "so I don't have to travel in real life." Even if invited, he wouldn't want to go.
But he happily supported the space movement, serving on the NSS Board of Governors (理事会).
Asimov, a workaholic who said he wanted to end his days "face down on my typewriter (打字机)," spent eight hours a day, seven days a week typing.
The Russian-born son of American immigrants, Asimov (1920―1992) began writing science fiction at age 11. His first story appeared in print when he was 18. As he continued writing, he completed college, earning a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Known mainly as a science fiction writer, Asimov was also an essayist (随笔作家), editor, journalist, biographer (传记作家) and humorist (幽默作家). Over the years, he'd owned dozens of awards, including the title Grandmaster of Science Fiction.
1. How could Isaac Asimov be such a prolific (多产的) writer during his lifetime?
A. He began writing science fiction at age 11.
B. He published his first work at age 18.
C. He seldom left his Manhattan apartment.
D. He spent almost all the time writing.
2. Which of the following words best describes Isaac Asimov's personality?
A. Quiet.
B. Funny.
C. Work-centered.
D. Strange.
3. How do you understand Isaac Asimov's home life?
A. He was a hermit (隐士).
B. He was a family man.
C. He hated social life.
D. He didn't care about his family.
4. What was the major topic in most of his books?
A. Space exploration.
B. Star wars.
C. Computers.
D. Mysteries of the sea world.
5. What do the achievements made by Isaac Asimov teach us?
A. In order to be successful, you have to be a workaholic.
B. Imagination plays an important role in creative writing.
C. Passion and hard work lead to success.
D. It is important to publish at a young age.
Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice) (每小题: 2 分; 满分：10 分) 小题 得分 对错 我的答案 客观
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Part 1 Short dialogs and multiple choice questions
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Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.
Questions 1 to 1 are based on the following passage or dialog.
1.
A. She is all for it.
B. She is completely against it.
C. She is willing to accept a dog, but on certain conditions.
D. She needs only a dog that can do a lot of hard work.
Questions 2 to 2 are based on the following passage or dialog.
2.
A. The man is in favor of it while the woman is against it.
B. The woman is in favor of it while the man is against it.
C. Both the man and woman are in favor of it.
D. Both the man and woman are against it.
Questions 3 to 3 are based on the following passage or dialog.
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