2023年广东大学英语考试真题卷（3）.docx

2023年广东大学英语考试真题卷（3）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.One of the founding principles of the Webnot only the technology but the culture that has grown up with itis that, as the New Yorker cartoon once put it, "On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog." The policy that people are free to interact online anonymouslyor at least using pseudonymsis now under attack from social networking companies. Both Faceboook and Google, which in June launched a competing service called Google Plus, have cracked down on people trying to use pseudonyms rather than full identities. "The Internet would be better if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer," Eric Schmidt, Googles chairman, said at the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week. He was echoing Randi Zuckerberg, Facebooks former marketing director, who declared earlier this year that, "anonymity on the internet has to go away." These arguments are half right. Anonymity should not be banned in every corner of the Internet any more than it is in the physical world in democracies-it would breach civil liberties. But there are good reasons to discourage it. Most users would gain if anonymity were the exception rather than the rule. Mr. Schmidt and Ms. Zuckerberg (whose brother Mark, Facebooks founder, has attacked the use of multiple identities as displaying "a lack of ethics") have been criticized for their remarks. "The desire to clean up the Web, civilize it, and sterilize it, pisses me off. I hate it," Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist, wrote earlier this month.According to the passage, Google Plus would_.Asupport people trying to use pseudonyms rather than full identitiesBsupport people using full identitiesCsupport Web anonymityDsupport the use of multiple identities 2.Chinese audiences watching Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon will recognize more than just the alien robot stars from the previous movies. In the latest blockbuster sequel, which opens on Thursday, household Chinese brand names loom large as part of an unprecedented product placement push. Sam, the protagonist played by Shia LaBeouf, appears in a T-shirt from Meters/bonwea mid-level clothing retailer well known to many young Chinese and one of the four Chinese brands to appear in the film. The Chinese branding campaign is the largest so far in any single Hollywood movie, highlighting Chinese companies determination to go global and also use global marketing techniques to raise their domestic profiles. "The main motivation is to expand their brand recognition in foreign markets, but for others the focus is on the domestic market because the effect with foreign movies is better," says Didi Zhang at advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather Beijing, which worked with Lenovo on Transformers 3. The robots have also been given the Made-in-China touch. Brains, a spiky-haired robot with bulging fluorescent blue eyes, transforms itself out of a Lenovo Edge computer, sold by Chinas largest PC maker. A TCL flatscreen television also makes a brief appearance. One Chinese brand even makes it into the script when a scientist tells Sam that he has to finish his Shuhua Low Lactose Milka product of Yili, one of the Chinas largest dairy companies. Chinese marketing experts believe that their nations products will quickly become more visible in global media. Meters/bonwe is pushing large-scale product placement in Plants & Zombies, a computer game. "Transformers 3 will quickly speed up the trend," said Ms. Zhang.According to the passage, Chinese branding campaign is_.Ato expand their brand recognition in foreign marketsBto focus on the domestic marketCraise their domestic profilesDall the above 3.California is a land of variety and contrast. Almost every type of physical land feature, sort of arctic ice fields and tropical jungles can be found within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of land often lie very close to one another. People living in Bakersfield, for instance, can visit the Pacific Ocean and the coastal plain, the fertile San Joaquin Valley, the arid Mojave Desert, and the high Sierra Nevada, all within a radius of about 100 miles. In other areas it is possible to go snow skiing in the morning and surfing in the evening of the same day, without having to travel long distance. Contrast abounds in California. The highest point in the United States (outside Alaska) is in California, and so is the lowest point (including Alaska). Mount Whitney, 14,494 feet above sea level, is separated from Death Valley, 282 feet below sea level, by a distance of only 100 miles. The two areas have a difference in altitude of almost three miles. California has deep, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe, the deepest in the country, but it also has shallow, salty desert lakes. It has Lake Tulainyo, 12,020 feet above sea level, and the lowest lake in the country, the Salton Sea, 236 feet below sea level. Some of its lakes, like Owens Lake in Death Valley, are not lakes at all: they are dried-up lake beds. In addition to mountains, lakes, valleys, deserts, and plateaus, California has its Pacific coastline, stretching longer than the coastlines of Oregon and Washington combined.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as being within a radius of about 100 miles of BakersfieldAThe Pacific Ocean.BSan Joaquin Valley.CMojave Desert.DOregon and Washington. 4.Steven Paul Jobs was born in Los Altos, California, in 1955, the (31) child of a Syrian professor of political science and a US speech therapist. He was (32) by Paul and Clara Jobs, a hard-working couple of moderate means. Though devoted to them, he always retained a sense of baffled anger that he had been rejected by his (33) parents, according to friends. He was (34) among people who worked closely with him as an inspiring but difficult leader who could deflate subordinates who did not live (35) his demanding standards with withering anger. Jobs, a perfectionist (36) it came to his companys products, insisted on having the final (37) over the technology, design and marketing of everything that was stamped with the Apples name. His journey to the (38) of the computing industry began when he was in high school, working for the summer at Hewlett-Packard. There he met Steve Wozniak, an HP engineer who would be Apples other (39) . Jobs later (40) out of Reed College, Oregon, and in 1974 went to India in search of (41) enlightenment. He once said that his rival, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, would have (42) from similar experiences. Jobs retained the 1960s bohemian spirit throughout his life, usually dressing in the "artists" (43) of black turtleneck sweater and jeans. Back home, he and Wozniak (44) a simple computer, the Apple I, in Jobs bedroom. They sold the machine for $666 and took in $774,000 in sales. That was followed, in 1977, by the Apple II, which was aimed at ordinary consumers rather than just hobbyists and featured circuitry for connections to a colour (45) , a dramatic (46) at the time. The success of the Apple II made Jobs a rich man. When Apple went (47) in 1980, its market (48) hit more than $1 billion. In 1983. however, IBM, at the time the worlds largest computer (49) , introduced its own personal computer. The IBM brand legitimized the PC in the business marketplace and (50) the Microsoft operating system as the industry standard.AwithBtoCup toDup 5.One of the founding principles of the Webnot only the technology but the culture that has grown up with itis that, as the New Yorker cartoon once put it, "On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog." The policy that people are free to interact online anonymouslyor at least using pseudonymsis now under attack from social networking companies. Both Faceboook and Google, which in June launched a competing service called Google Plus, have cracked down on people trying to use pseudonyms rather than full identities. "The Internet would be better if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer," Eric Schmidt, Googles chairman, said at the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week. He was echoing Randi Zuckerberg, Facebooks former marketing director, who declared earlier this year that, "anonymity on the internet has to go away." These arguments are half right. Anonymity should not be banned in every corner of the Internet any more than it is in the physical world in democracies-it would breach civil liberties. But there are good reasons to discourage it. Most users would gain if anonymity were the exception rather than the rule. Mr. Schmidt and Ms. Zuckerberg (whose brother Mark, Facebooks founder, has attacked the use of multiple identities as displaying "a lack of ethics") have been criticized for their remarks. "The desire to clean up the Web, civilize it, and sterilize it, pisses me off. I hate it," Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist, wrote earlier this month.Fred Wilson believes that_.AWeb should be cleaned upBthere is a lack of ethics in Web anonymityCMr. Schmidt and Ms. Zuckerberg are rightDthere is nothing wrong with Web anonymity 6.At the end of last week, Bodega Aurrerá, a Mexican subsidiary of the worlds biggest retailer, Wal-Mart, opened a new store in the village of San Juan Teotihuacán, just north of Mexico City. Normally, such an event would cause little stir. Wal-Mart is already Mexicos biggest retailer, too. And its shops seem to go down very well with its millions of bargain-hungry customers. But this particular opening was, in fact, the culmination of months of protests, legal actions, hunger strikes and hyperbole by those determined to stop it. The reason is the location. Just 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away is the ancient city of Teotihuacán, probably Mexicos most famous archaeological site. Amongst other attractions, it boasts the third- largest (by volume) pyramid in the world. For many Mexicans, the ancient site, abandoned by its mysterious inhabitants centuries before the Spanish conquerors arrived, remains the ultimate symbol of Mexican identity and nationhood. Thousands troop up to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun to celebrate the summer solstice. To them, the idea of having a Wal-Mart next door is abhorrent. In the words of Homero Aridjis, a writer and one of the leading opponents, "it is like driving the stake of globalization into the heart of old Mexico." The controversy is only the latest in a string of protesters attempts to save Mexican culture from what they see as a creeping menace. They won a famous victory by blocking a McDonalds restaurant from opening in the main square of the pretty southern colonial town of Oaxaca. But this time they were on much thinner ground. For a start, Wal-Mart went through all the appropriate regulatory hoops, even getting permission from the Paris-based International Council on Monuments and Sites, which judged that the store would cause no harm to the nearby ruins. A small stone platform was indeed found during construction of the new car park, but was preserved. Just as importantly, the claim that the new store spoils the famous view from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun is clearly bogus, as anyone who cares to get to the top can testify. The problem is not so much that you can see the Wal-Mart, but one of trying to distinguish it from the 30-odd other ugly, squat buildings that litter the surrounding countrysideto say nothing of the car parks, the electricity pylons and the large power station. Sadly, unrestricted building long ago ruined this particular view, as well as many others in Mexico.It can be learned from ParA5 that_.A. the famous view is not as good as it used to beB. the city lacks planning in buildingC. the ancient site is littered with ugly buildingsD. Wal-Mart shouldnt be fully responsible for the ruined view7.Chinese audiences watching Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon will recognize more than just the alien robot stars from the previous movies. In the latest blockbuster sequel, which opens on Thursday, household Chinese brand names loom large as part of an unprecedented product placement push. Sam, the protagonist played by Shia LaBeouf, appears in a T-shirt from Meters/bonwea mid-level clothing retailer well known to many young Chinese and one of the four Chinese brands to appear in the film. The Chinese branding campaign is the largest so far in any single Hollywood movie, highlighting Chinese companies determination to go global and also use global marketing techniques to raise their domestic profiles. "The main motivation is to expand their brand recognition in foreign markets, but for others the focus is on the domestic market because the effect with foreign movies is better," says Didi Zhang at advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather Beijing, which worked with Lenovo on Transformers 3. The robots have also been given the Made-in-China touch. Brains, a spiky-haired robot with bulging fluorescent blue eyes, transforms itself out of a Lenovo Edge computer, sold by Chinas largest PC maker. A TCL flatscreen television also makes a brief appearance. One Chinese brand even makes it into the script when a scientist tells Sam that he has to finish his Shuhua Low Lactose Milka product of Yili, one of the Chinas largest dairy companies. Chinese marketing experts believe that their nations products will quickly become more visible in global media. Meters/bonwe is pushing large-scale product placement in Plants & Zombies, a computer game. "Transformers 3 will quickly speed up the trend," said Ms. Zhang.The Chinese brand that makes it into the script of Transformers 3 is_.AMeters/bonweBLenovoCYiliDTCL 8.California is a land of variety and contrast. Almost every type of physical land feature, sort of arctic ice fields and tropical jungles can be found within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of land often lie very close to one another. People living in Bakersfield, for instance, can visit the Pacific Ocean and the coastal plain, the fertile San Joaquin Valley, the arid Mojave Desert, and the high Sierra Nevada, all within a radius of about 100 miles. In other areas it is possible to go snow skiing in the morning and surfing in the evening of the same day, without having to travel long distance. Contrast abounds in California. The highest point in the United States (outside Alaska) is in California, and so is the lowest point (including Alaska). Mount Whitney, 14,494 feet above sea level, is separated from Death Valley, 282 feet below sea level, by a distance of only 100 miles. The two areas have a difference in altitude of almost three miles. California has deep, clear moun