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1、大学英语修订本College English Achievement Testfor College English (Revised Edition)大学英语（修订本）一级学业测试Band 1（2007年 11月）Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press上海外语教育出版社Part I Listening Comprehension (25%)Section ADirections: In this section, youll hear five short conversations. After each conversation, a ques

2、tion will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. 1. A) He hadnt been there. B) He liked the restaurant. C) He didnt like it. D) He never heard of it. 2. A) 60 dollars. B) 30 dollars. C) 20 doll

3、ars. D) 40 dollars. 3. A) He wants to eat immediately. B) He wants to know when the game will be over. C) He wants to know what time it is. D) He wants the woman to give up watching the game. 4. A) He should improve his Italian. B) He should move to another place. C) He should give up his present jo

4、b. D) He should take up a second job. 5. A) She wants to know who needs the car. B) She doesnt think the traffic will be a problem. C) They may go to the concert by subway. D) Theyll miss the concert if he doesnt drive the car.Section BDirections: In this section, youll hear a long conversation and

5、a passage. The conversation and passage will be read twice. At the end of them, youll hear some questions. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.Long conversationQuestions 6 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard: 6. A) To buy a house from a friend and his wife

6、.B) To sell their house to a friend and his wife.C) To buy a house together with a friend and his wife.D) To look for a house for their friend and his wife. 7. A) Its a good idea. B) Its not quite workable.C) Itll cost a lot of money. D) Its a way of saving money. 8. A) They want to share the house

7、with their friends.B) They and their friends are interested in the same house.C) Their friends dont have enough money to buy the hours.D) They dont have enough money at the moment.Passage OneQuestions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard: 9. A) From strangers. B) From their close fri

8、ends.C) From the family members. D) From their relatives.10. A) They usually live all alone by themselves.B) They want to keep their problems secret.C) They prefer not to get advice from people they know.D) They believe in people with special training.11. A) Social workers. B) Scientists.C) Elderly

9、people. D) People with special knowledge.12. A) Their special knowledge. B) Their rich experience.C) Accepted facts. D) Common sense.Passage TwoQuestions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard:13. A) When the food is too hot.B) When there is no one waiting to be served.C) When they en

10、joy their food.D) When they eat with families or friends.14. A) They dont care very much about what they eat.B) They dont have much time for meals at noon.C) American foods are simple and not tasty enough.D) Its a habit of Americans to eat quickly.15. A) There are not enough restaurants to meet peop

11、les needs.B) People want to make room for those waiting to be served.C) People dont feel comfortable eating in a crowded restaurant.D) Americans dont like eating in restaurants very much.Section CDirections: There is a passage with ten blanks in this section. Youll hear the passage read twice. Liste

12、n carefully and fill in the blanks with what you have heard. A queue is a line of people waiting for something. These people wait one behind the other and it is considered very (16) _ to “jump the queue”, that is, to push in (17) _ of someone else. Queues are a characteristic (18) _ of English life.

13、 They are formed at bus stops, at the (19) _ of a railway station, in and in front of shops. Sometimes queues of several hundred people are formed. They (20) _ quite a problem and must often form circles so as not to (21) _ with the traffic. When an Englishman comes to the continent, he is surprised

14、 at the (22) _ of rushing and pushing in public (23) _ and elsewhere. He fails to understand why the queuing system, which to his mind seems the simplest (24) _ to a problem, has not been (25) _ abroad, too.Part II Reading Comprehension (25%)Section ADirections: There is a passage with 10 blanks in

15、this section. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given below. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. In every school there is a “top” crowd that sets the pace, while the others (1) _ their example. Lets say the top crowd decides that it is

16、 smart to wear bright red sweaters（运动衫）. Pretty soon everybody is wearing bright red sweaters. There is (2) _ wrong with that, except the fact that for some people bright red is rather (3) _. The situation can even become (4) _, if the top crowd decides that it is smart to drink or to drive cars at

17、seventy miles an hour. Then the people who follow the example are (5) _ their very lives. They are like sheep being led to the slaughter（屠宰）. Now, it is likely that you have come across (6) _ like these more than once in your life. In fact, it is likely that at one time or (7) _ you probably did som

18、ething you knew to be wrong. You may have (8) _ yourself by saying, “Gee, the crowd does it.” Well, let the crowd do it, but dont do it yourself. Learn to say “No.” Develop your own standards and your own (9) _. If you know the crowd is planning something of which you disapprove, have the courage to

19、 bow out gracefully. Youll have the satisfaction of (10) _ on your own two feet.A) unsuitableB) anotherC) possibleD) nothingE) accusedF) endangeringG) somethingH) judgmentsI) factsJ) followK) learningL) excusedM) dangerousN) situationsO) standingSection BDirections: There are 2 reading passages in t

20、his section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the best answer to each question.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: The United States is full of automobiles. There

21、 are still many families without cars, but some families have two or even more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life. Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen

22、are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies. Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are provided only when children live more than a mile from the sc

23、hool. When the children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Monday, taking her own children and the neighbors children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesday, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men

24、also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work. More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the road and to use less gasoline. Parking is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being d

25、riven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.11. Which is NOT true according to the passage? A) Each American family has got at least one car. B) Some American families have got more than one car. C) Cars are very common in the United States. D) Americans do not use cars for pleasure

26、only.12. According to the passage, children must be taken to school by car when _. A) their homes are over one mile away from their school B) there are no school buses available and the school is too far away for them C) there are a number of children in the neighborhood whose families have cars D)

27、the children are too young to walk to school every morning13. Which people are forming a car pool? A) Three or four people who drive in turns to the office or the factory where they all work. B) A woman who takes her own children and her neighbors children to school by car. C) Children who drive to

28、school in turns. D) Parents who drive their own children to school in turns. 14. What does the author think of forming car pools? A) It is a good practice. B) It is good just for mothers taking children to school. C) It will solve parking problems. D) It helps cut down the number of cars put out eac

29、h year.15. What does the author think is the problem about cars in the United States? A) There is a shortage of gasoline for cars. B) There are too many cars in the streets and on the roads. C) There are not enough cars to go around. D) Some families still do not have their own cars.Questions 16 to

30、20 are based on the following passage: How much living space does a person need? What happens when his space requirements are not adequately met? Sociologists and psychologist are conducting experiments on rats to try to determine the effect of overcrowded conditions on man. Recent studies have show

31、n that the behavior of rats is greatly affected by space. If rats have adequate living space, they eat well, sleep well, and reproduce well. However, if their living conditions become too crowded, their behavior patterns and even their health perceptibly change. They cannot sleep and eat well, and signs of fear and tension become obvious. The more crowded they are, the more they tend to bite each other and even kill each other. Thus for rats, population and violence are directly related. Is this