新视野大学英语网络考试阅读与完形填空.pdf

I understand culture shock,Ive been 1.|through勺 it myself.However,someforeigners living in China are just too 2.(negative)1 effective二 1 about the culturaldifferences,and it is causing them to lose a 3.(superb)|reasonable I opportunity toputtinglearn the Chinese culture.Most of them seem to be simply 4.1 their timeI w n e r e for the terms of their employment,5.(whereas)l they dont care to enjoy what isspecial about their new surroundings.Communicating successfully with people from other cultures can be a real(challlenge)6.I contrast I consider I I.We 7.(bear)l the responsibility for learning their culture.Adjusting to another culture requires a great deal of personal awareness and 8.I patience(patience)l _ 1.1 know several foreigners living with a fork in their pocket.I couldcommunicate understand if they said they were unwilling to 9.(commit)I their time tolearning the languageChinese is very difficult.If you are working full-time,you may not havegrowth enough time to make much 10.(progress)J-Hn Chinese,but what aboutCome on chopsticks?11().I J!Learning how to use chopsticks is the easiest part of theIimprovement、，l.Learning how to conduct yourself in a 13.productive(competent)l-Jw ay during social interactions is what should have been done.Only by that time will you be able to 14(appreciate).conf1ict the culturaldifferences and not to 15().Iet downour Chinese friends.Igive up 一,I my argument for chopsticks,if theyIcommitting.、,iso much.They are wasting a goodfurthermore opportunity to have a truly unique experience and 18().I-l,they arenot to mention making a bad name for the rest of us,1()9.一 driving me crazy.EachIrepresents,lall of the timetheyve wasted here.When it comes to the construction(建 造)of a building,few people would argue about theimportance of establishing a strong foundation.Its not different in building a business,a family,or a life.(abcdabc the entire structure careful planning supports your efforts)Charlie Chaplin has broken all records in making people laugh.No one has so set a whole worldlaughing as the little man with the walking stick and the oversized shoes.(adcdb)Although Beethoven could sit down and compose easily,his really great compositions did notcome easily at all.They cost him a great deal of hard work and he always found it hard tosatisfy himself.()dabcdPolygamy is a funny thingfunny ha ha,as well as peculiar.One thinks of the 19th-centuryMormon leader Brigham Young,with his 55 wives(in those days,they said,women marriedYoung),Devout(虔 敬 的)Mormons hold that a message from God told Young to go ahead andstart collecting wives.Skeptics(怀 疑 者)，of course,say that there was something else to this.In any case,it proved to be an efficient means of enabling Mormons to outnumber skeptics.And in fairness,some of his wives were elderly women whom he(cdbba)For such a promising amateur athlete,the boy seemed to have no passion.I knew if he 1.persisted he could someday win.But he seemed 2(indifferent).unusualpreservedmy encouragement.I dont really know why he 3.(kept)l3 coming to practice.I massive|nYou see that 4.(massive)I I stadium over there?I asked him.In 2008,theOlympics will be 5.(h e ld)3 there,and you could be running there in those games.The boy looked at me without any 6.(gratitude)acceptance 三 Ifor what I said.He just7.(lowered)fell 7|his head.So he didnt have to look at the 8(frown).powder ion my face.I swear that 9(if).when勺 I had been a different kind of coach,I 10.wou1d have beaten Ithe damn kid right there.Still I didnt want to be 11.(unfair)lunseen二 I;maybe I was simply missing something.Maybe his less thanacceptable behavior was a 12(sympton).signal-3 of fatigue.13.I Though(moreover)who was I to care if he won or not?The purpose of my 14.introduction(presence)1!was to help him make the most out of his own dreams,not toDespite of dream for him.(in spite)15.of all this,though,I could not 16.()(helpI help not but)I feeling like it was a terrible waste of a 17(m arvelous).I massive I fault l gift.So what if I was making too much of a 1 8.(fuss)I?IIhostile 一、5 1.1 had to look 20.furthermore“(further)l I into what was going on with him.The next day I found out that he had lost someone very close to him and was very depressed.How is it possible to read much faster and understand better?The only way you are going toread faster and understand your reading better is to learn to first tap into this amazing brainpower you are gifted with and then second,to build a sharper focus.Once you focus better,your comprehension improves,your recall and memory improve,and your love and enjoymentof the reading process are more likely to improve.And the reality is you were probably nevertaught to focus in school,at work,or in college(aabcbab 5%of them daydreamingclear away the distractions).English food is thought of poorly in other countries.This is most probably because foreigners inEngland are often obliged(不 得 不)to eat in the more fast-food type of restaurant.Here it isnecessary to prepare food rapidly in large amounts,and the taste of the food inevitably suffers,though its quality,from the point of view of nourishment(营 养)，is quite satisfactory.Still,it israther dull and not always pleasantly presented.Moreover;the Englishman eating in a cheap ormedium price restaurant is usually in a hurry(at least at lunch),and a meal eaten in a leisurelyway in pleasant(dadbc)Do high divorce rates in countries like England and the United States indicate that marriage isI compromise no longer a life-long 1.(commitment)!P Have we lowered our 2.(expectations)!reservations I for marriage?Some suspect that it is the temporary natureof things in our life that has(led)3.causes Ito high rates of divorce.We change jobs4.(as often as)as we11 as二 I we change our socks,and make new friends each timewe move,5.(which)that-I is often.Divorce is a(subsequent)6.necessary result in such a social environment.7.(moreover),divorce is becoming the norm for the next 8.I guidance(genetation)l L Now there is much less 9.(resistance)!re a c tio n二 I fromchildren for their parents to divorce than before.It seems that the idea of marriagecommitment of staying together until death is quietly 10.(passing away)I p a ssin g o ff I Did v Il 1.11.(do)l khe children of divorced parents learn toa p p re c ia te 12(accept).divorce more readily?Or is it a matter of learning from theirparents how to make a marriage 1(work)3.臼？Most people still have14.(reservation)lim ita tio n s i about divorce when children are involved.Many waituntil their children have grown and have 15(l e f t).3 the home to get a divorce.Nowadays,people across the globe see 16(staying).keepingin an unhappymarriage as 17(worse).b e tt e r than getting a divorce.One 18(factor).is some women,who would have previously 19.(suffered)hardship while married,now have enough education and money to be able to20.(survive)outside of marriage.There is a real formula for change.Would you like to hear a story?Today Ill tell you a story that I heard about a cave in which areligious man was walled up.The cave was at the bottom of a rock wall.It had neither windownor door.Inside there was a stream which came out of a small opening under the wall whichclosed the cave,(cbcadba normal food wide open window the happy cave)Coffee is one of the most popular(流 行 的)drinks throughout the world today.In fact,according to some estimates,over 30%of all adults in the world drink coffee at least once aday on the average.(cabcc)Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday,September 2nd,1666.Theservants(女 仆)were up very late on the Saturday evening,getting everything ready for thenext day,and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky.By 3 oclock onthe Sunday morning,the glow had become so bright that one of the servants,Jane,woke hermaster to see it.Pepys went to the window to watch it.It seemed fairly far away,so after a timehe went back to bed.When he got up in the morning,it looked as though the fire was dyingdown,though he could still see it.So he set to work to tidy(整 理)his room and put his(cccbc)My wife was once my girlfriend.She is fantastic and she has long hair that 1.(lies)lays J back in curls from her small ears.I still remembered how I 2.performed l l(celibrated)her birthday with her.That was my chance!I planned to take herIe n te rta in、，一 her like the absolute princessthat she is.Months before we went,I 4.(asked)二 I her a question:If you could have anythingin the world on your birthday,what 5.(would)need it be?p resen tly She replied(jokingly)6.I.But she left a 7.(trace)I oono seriousness in her voice.I want you to ask me to 8(m arry).I you/she said.Thensqueezed she 9.(embraced)I me.Straight away I answered with my voice 10.(trembling)sharpening I.No,no,no,notthat,I said.Thats 11.()much more“than I can do right now.Besides,Id be afraid ofyou 12(declining).defy i n g|Jmy request!After I explained my 13.(objection)r e f le c tio n I,we didn t talk about the subject.When it came to 12 oclock on the eve of her birthday,1 14.(sat)reste d勺 her downin the middle of our queen size bed in our hotel.I asked her to(close)15.close I hereyes.I could not(contain)1 press myself any longer.Love 17.()(sprangstanding upup)l-3 from my heart when I got some cards.I then sat in front of her andtold her to open her eyes.Showing her one card after another,I told her how much I loved herand how 18.(amazing)affecting Ishe is.The last card said 19.(w ill)COULD I lYOU MARRY ME?I never took my eyes from hers when I was speaking from myheart.She was completely 2(speechless)0.think about it.hopeless 二 I.Up to today I still smile when IWhen my husband and I were thinking about getting married,we got lots of advice and morethan a few warnings about the major changes in our lives which would follow.Strangely,noone mentioned children to us and the effects of having them.As it turned out,getting marriedwas a natural progress in our relationship,with no major unpleasant experience attached to it,but children?Well,that was an entirely different matter.(acbdbcd a few years a fulfillinglife previous marriage)The University of London is one of Britains largest centers for higher education,with a namefor international education.Located in one of the worlds most dynamic(有 活 力 有 生 气 的)cities,we can offer international students a wide and exciting cultural life,as well as the very bestcourse choice and teaching.We offer our international students the ability to study and improvetheir command of English,to ensure they get the best from the course of their choice(bdcac)Mommy,do you love me?asked Cleo during dinner that evening.Of course I do,Her mother replied 1.I、I what was next.Mommy do you loveme usually 2(m eant).I-Ih e r daughter wanted something.Then why dont you ever want to play with me?Mrs.Nelson was a single mother trying to 3.(raise)devise I her daughter by herself.She worked fifty hours a week at a job and 4.(managed)challengedcover thecosts of their home.This didnt 5.(include)I J the two hours of drivingbetween the office and home.She was gone by 7 a.m.and back around 7 pm,just 6.I at time“l l(in time)to cook a late dinner for her and her daughter and 7.(put)observe I-Ih e r daughter to bed.On the weekends,the house was usually so unclean thatshe spent most of her time(straightening)8.t i gh ten in g二 I it up,doing the wash and9.c le a n in g up in the kitchen.When she was finished with that,she hardly had any 10.v i t a l i t y l(energy)for anything else.Mrs.Nelson understood that she had not been giving her daughter the 11.(amount)I span l of time that she needed,but she didnt know 12.(what else)what fo rJ t o do.She felt so guilty and so 13.(helpless)h o p e le ss Ito changeher situation.She was also greatly angry with Cleos father for 14.(haringhave been l e f t left)l ithem in this situation.She tried to smile at her daughter and giveher some type of 15.(promise)prom ise Ifor the following weekend,but 16.(instead)o th erw ise二 I she started to cry.She got up from the table and went to the bathroom to17.(splash)wash-3 water on her face and then returned to the table where herdaughter was still eating.Cleo looked 18.(confused)compromised二 I;19.(after all)a f t e r whatS,she hadnt said anything that she thought was hurtful.Im sorry,Cleo/*her mother said without further explanation.How would you like to go to thezoo next Sunday?Cleos face 20.(brightened)lig h te n e d I up.Mrs.Nelson knewthat her situation wasnt going to improve anytime soon,but feeling depressed in front of herdaughter wasnt going to do anything to improve the situation.Questions 1 to 10 are based on the follow ing passage.Are You Reading as Many Books as You Would Like?Do you read as much as youd like,or as many as youd like of thebooks youre interested in?Are you aware that the time spent ontodays reading prevents you from reading something else?Life isone of choices?make sure your choices take you in the direction youwish to go.(bcadbac a conscious convincer have visited theinformation for enjoyment)Time spent in a bookshop can be most pleasant,whether you are a book-lover or merely thereto buy a book as a present.You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from asudden shower;Whatever the reason,you can soon become totally unaware of yoursurroundings.You soon focus on some book or other;and usually it is only much later that yourealize you have spent too much time there and must hurry off to keep some forgottenappointment(cacba)How does one save face or lose face?This concept is in fact for different peoplesthroughout the world and is not 1.(entirely)e v e n tu a lly勺 Chinese.It could also beconsidered a Western(convention)2.conference.However,it carries much weight forAsian people and its(significance)3.consciencein Asian countries is greater.Some Asian people believe that the 4.p rin c ip le sof face and other rituals and5.(customs)lc u r io s ity Hike honoring your parents do not 6.(exist)extend Hnthe West,but it would be too 7.(absolute)a c c u ra te I Ito put it in this way.When we 8.(assess)lassume the values held by families in the West,we find that many have similarbeliefs to 9(those).them“J that guide Asian culture,and they 10.(practice)p a r tic i p a te them in their daily lives.So,some ideas are becoming 11.Isp ontaneously、一，一 similar between the east and west.For example,Americanstudents are having a stronger 12(consciousness).co n scien ce勺 of studying hardfor the honor of their families than before.And American people are more concerned about thedisadvantages of happy education for primary education than they 13.(used to be)wou1d beI d i f f e r e n c eOne major 14.(difference)1 I is how each weighs an 15.(individuals)in s tru c to r*s“rights against the rights of the community.There are people,16.(communties)com m unities l,and even leaders in the West who believe that thefreedom of an individual carries much more 17.(weight)power than needs for theorder in the community.18.(some)One.mer