新理念外语网络教学平台第二版综合答案B2U8C.docx

1、新理念外语网络教学平台第二版综合答案B2U8C 全新版第二版综合B2U8-C Part I Listening Comprehension ( 10 minutes ) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether

2、each statement is true or false. 1. A) T B) F Script: People came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. 正确答案： A 2. A) T B) F Script: The doctors were not puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. 正确答案： B 3.

3、 A) T B) F Script: There was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. 正确答案： A 4. A) T B) F Script: There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths among adults and children. 正确答案： A 5. A) T B) F Script: Though the litters were small, the young survived, thus the farme

4、rs were still able to raise pigs. 正确答案： B 6. A) T B) F Script: The people silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world themselves. 正确答案： A 7. A) T B) F Script: The most alarming of all mans assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous an

5、d even lethal materials. 正确答案： A 8. A) T B) F Script: Such a barrage of poisons called insecticides is possible to lay down on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life. 正确答案： B 9. A) T B) F Script: Chemicals sprayed on croplands lie short in the soil without entering into living

6、 organisms. 正确答案： B 10. A) T B) F Script: One in six countries in the world face food shortages because of severe droughts. 正确答案： A Section B 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 ide

7、a. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Most people have (11)_ environmental pollution in the form of an open garbag

8、e dump. However, pollution can also be (12)_ . Some kinds of pollution do not actually dirty the land, air, or water, but they reduce the quality of life for people and (13)_ . For example, noise from (14)_ and machinery can be considered forms of pollution. Environmental pollution is one of the mos

9、t (15)_ problems facing humanity. Badly polluted air can cause (16)_ illnesses. Some air pollutants have reduced the capacity of the atmosphere to (17)_ the suns harmful ultraviolet (18)_ . Many scientists believe that these and other air pollutants have begun to change (19)_ around the world. Ocean

10、 pollution (20)_ many marine organisms. Script: Most people have witnessed environmental pollution in the form of an open garbage dump. However, pollution can also be invisible. Some kinds of pollution do not actually dirty the land, air, or water, but they reduce the quality of life for people and

11、other living things. For example, noise from traffic and machinery can be considered forms of pollution. Environmental pollution is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Badly polluted air can cause life-threatening illnesses. Some air pollutants have reduced the capacity of the atmosphe

12、re to filter out the suns harmful ultraviolet radiation. Many scientists believe that these and other air pollutants have begun to change climates around the world. Ocean pollution endangers many marine organisms. 正确答案： witnessed 正确答案： invisible 正确答案： other living things 正确答案： traffic 正确答案： serious

13、正确答案： life-threatening 正确答案： filter out 正确答案： radiation 正确答案： climates 正确答案： endangers Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes ) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word

14、 bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Then a strange blight 21 the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had 22 the com

15、munity: mysterious maladies 23 the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a 24 of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more 25 by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had

16、been several sudden and 26 deaths not only among adults but even among children, who would be 27 suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. There was a strange 28 . The birds, for example where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backy

17、ards were 29 . The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they 30 violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. A) sweeping B) unexplainable C) swept D) unexplained E) stricken F) shadow G) stillness H) trembled I) deserted J) settled down K) shook L) threw M) crept over N) settled on

18、 O) puzzled 21. _ 正确答案： M 22. _ 正确答案： N 23. _ 正确答案： C 24. _ 正确答案： F 25. _ 正确答案： O 26. _ 正确答案： D 27. _ 正确答案： E 28. _ 正确答案： G 29. _ 正确答案： I 30. _ 正确答案： H Section B Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of t

19、hem there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice. Passage One Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. When school was out, I hurried to find my sister and get out of the schoolyard before seeing anybody in my class. But Barbara and her friends

20、had beaten us to the playground entrance and they seemed to be waiting for us. Barbara said, So now youre in the A class. She sounded impressed. Whats the A class? I asked. Everybody made superior yet faintly envious giggling sounds. Well, why did you think the teacher moved you to the front of the

21、room, dopey? Didnt you know you were in the C class before, way in the back of the room? Of course I hadnt known. The Wenatchee fifth grade was bigger than my whole school which had been in North Dakota, and the idea of subdivisions within a grade had never occurred to me. The subdividing for the fi

22、rst marking period had been done before I came to the school, and l had never, in the six weeks when Id been there, talked to anyone long enough to find out about the A, B, and C classes. I still could not understand why that had made such a difference to Barbara and her friends. I didnt yet know th

23、at it was shameful and dirty to be a transient laborer and ridiculous to be from North Dakota. I thought living in a tent was more fun than living in a house. I didnt know that we were gypsies, really (how that thought would have excited me then! ). It didnt occur to me that we were all looked upon

24、as one more of the untrustworthy natural phenomena, drifting here and there like mists or winds, I didnt know that I was the only child who had camped on the Baumanns land ever to get out of the C class. I only knew that for two happy days I walked to school with Barbara and her friends, played hops

25、cotch and jumped rope with them at class intervals, and was even invited into the house for some ginger ale a strange drink I had never tasted before. 31. The tone of this passage as a whole is _. A) reflective B) enthusiastic C) impersonal D) defensive 正确答案： A 32. The narrator had most probably bee

26、n placed in the C class because _. A) she was a poor reader B) she had come from a small school C) the marking system confused her D) all children of transient laborers were placed in the C class 正确答案： D 33. The basic reason why people in the community distrusted the transient workers was that the t

27、ransient workers _. A) tended to be lawbreakers B) had little schooling C) were afraid of strangers D) were temporary residents 正确答案： D 34. Which of the following is NOT the characteristic of Gypsies? A) Wandering around the world. B) Making ginger ale in their house. C) Never planting something. D)

28、 Being foreigners wherever they go. 正确答案： B 35. Immediately after the narrator was moved to the A class, what was the attitude of Barbara and Barbaras friends towards her? A) Dislike. B) Acceptance. C) Apology. D) Jealousy. 正确答案： B Passage Two Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. M

29、ore and more, the operations of our business, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists only inside computer memories. Anyone clever enough to modify this information for his own purposes can reap substantial rewards. Even worse, a number of people who have do

30、ne this and been caught at it have managed to get away without punishment. Its easy for computer crimes to go undetected if no one checks up on what the computer is doing, but even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing recommendation from his former employers. Of course, we have no statistics on crimes that go undetected. But its disturbing to note how many of the crimes we