Module 4 Great Scientists
2013-04-12
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Who gave Lucy the cell phone？
A. Her mother.B. Her father.C. Her brother.
2. Where will the woman go first？
A. To the school.B. To a friend’s house.C. To the post office.
3. What can we infer from the conversation？
A. John was sure that he did better in the next exam.B. John probably failed in the exam.
C. The spoken exam is easier than the written part.
4. What is Mr Wilson？
A. A doctor.B. A teacher.C. A professor.
5. Where does the conversation take place？
A. At a hospital.B. At the woman’s.C. In an office.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A，B，C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. Why can’t the girl go to the movie？
A. She has to review her lessons.B. She has seen the movie before.
C. She doesn’t want to go with the boy.
7. What does the boy think about the girl？
A. She never studies hard.B. She studies very well.C. She won’t pass the exam.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is Mike’s wife？
A. A nurse.B. An artist.C. A teacher.
9. What will the man and the woman in the dialogue do on Saturday？
A. Go to a friend’s house B. Go to the theatre.C. Go shopping.
10. What does Mike call the man and woman to do？
A. To see a film with them. B. To buy tickets for him and his wife.
C. Go to his parents’ house for dinner.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What do you think the man probably is？
A. A warm-hearted bus driver.B. A manager in a taxi company.C. A kind-hearted policeman.
12. What is in the woman’s handbag？
A. Some money and an ID card.B. Some money and a postcard.C. Some money and an IC card.
13. What do you think happened to the woman from the conversation？
A. The woman left her handbag in a taxi.B. The woman had an accident.
C. The woman has been stolen in the morning.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Who is Larry？
A. Jane’s new neighbour.B. A postman.C. Jane’s boy friend.
15. Where is Jane’s house exactly？
A. Next to Larry’s. B. Near the post office.C. Across the street.
16. When did Larry move in？
A. Two days ago.B. Twelve days ago.C. Twenty days ago.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How many Americans are now studying in colleges and universities？
A. 700，000.B. 7，000，000.C. 1，700，000.
18. What do American college students today have strong opinions about？
A. What is good and bad.B. What is old and new.C. What is right and wrong.
19. What do American young people know much about？
A. Their parents.B. Their lifestyle.C. Their childhood.
20. What do American young people find it difficult to know much about？
A. The truth of their own lives.B. The beliefs in American families.
C. The formation of American families.
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21. In ____ growing world， the Chinese scientist， Yuan Longping， is ____ leading figure.
A. a； aB. a； theC. the； aD. the； the
22. Albert Einstein ____ the most brilliant scientist of the twentieth century.
A. is consideredB. was consideredC. had been consideredD. will be considered
23. You are lucky enough to escape ____ .
A. being punishedB. to be punishedC. having punishedD. punished
24. His idea of having weekly family meals together has ____ many good changes in their lives.
A. brought inB. brought outC. brought aboutD. brought up
25. The construction of the two new railway lines ____ by now.
A. has completedB. have completedC. have been completedD. has been completed
26. We Chinese have great technologies； we ____ the compass and gunpowder.
A. foundB. inventedC. discoveredD. created
27. Well， not ____ likes new things， and some people still have old habits.
A. anybodyB. everybodyC. somebodyD. nobody
28. This behavior of rockets can be explained by ____ a simple experiment.
A. carry outB. to carry outC. carrying outD. carried out
29. — Your job ____ open for your return.
— Thanks.
A. will be keptB. will keepC. has keptD. had been kept
30. Hangzhou is ____ its beautiful scenery.
A. known byB. known asC. known toD. known for
31. ____ their hats into the air， the fans of the winning team let out loud shouts of victory.
A. To throwB. ThrownC. ThrowingD. Being thrown
32. Scientists say they are beginning to ____ in the fight against cancer.
A. break downB. break inC. break outD. break through
33. ____ was discovered that her death had not been an accident.
A. AsB. ItC. WhichD. What
34. All around the world， people use fireworks to celebrate great ____ ， such as the coming of the New Year.
A. eventsB. accidentsC. businessesD. incidents
35. — I came first in the math competition！
— ____ ！
A. Come onB. Good luckC. Well doneD. Good idea
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
When I was growing up， I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctors I’d ever known. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t 36 lives， he was planting trees. His house was very big， and his life’s 37 was to make it a forest.
The good doctor came from “No pains， no gains” school of gardening. He had some interesting 38 about plant management. He 39 watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled （宠坏） them， and that if you 40 them， they would grow 41 . So you had to make things 42 for them and got rid of the weak trees early.
He talked about how watering trees made for 43 roots， and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in 44 of water. He planted an oak and， 45 watering it every morning， he would 46 it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that， and he said it was to get the tree’s 47 .
Dr. Gibbs 48 a couple of years after I left home. But the trees he planted are 49 now.
I planted some trees a few years ago， and I carried water to them for a whole summer， and prayed （祈祷） over them. Two years of 50 care has 5l in trees that grow weaker and weaker. Whenever a cold wind blows， they 52 .
So I’m 53 my view to life， because life is hard. Too many times we want to live a comfortable life. In fact， what we need to do is to pray for 54 that reach deep into the earth， so when the rains fall and the winds blow， we won’t be 55 .
36. A. losingB. seeingC. saving D. spending
37. A. goalB. careerC. time D. money
38. A. activitiesB. theoriesC. instructions D. education
39. A. alwaysB. sometimesC. never D. often
40. A. watchedB. spoiledC. planted D. watered
41. A. tallerB. weakerC. stronger D. faster
42. A. hardB. comfortableC. easy D. different
43. A. deepB. highC. shallowD. low
44. A. honorB. timeC. face D. search
45. A. instead ofB. because ofC. as a result of D. except for
46. A. treatB. destroyC. cover D. beat
47. A. recognizationB. attentionC. spirit D. judgement
48. A. passed byB. passed awayC. passed out D. passed over
49. A. straightB. impressiveC. strong D. dead
50. A. carefulB. physicalC. careless D. formal
51. A. broughtB. ledC. experienced D. resulted
52. A. reactB. dieC. shakeD. escape
53. A. experimentingB. changingC. keeping D. exploring
54. A. rootsB. bodiesC. branches D. feet
55. A. put downB. given awayC. brought up D. swept away
第三部分 阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
A
MUNICH—Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci were in the club； Bill Clinton and Bill Gates are also among its most famous members.
Left-handed people， however， are considered less intelligent or unskillful with their hands.
Schools in many countries may allow children to write with their left hand， but in the meantime “the idea that children should be re-educated to write with the right hand has not yet been removed from the heads of many parents and grand-parents，” says Elizabeth Werthmueller of the Left-handers’ Initiative in Fulda in central Germany.
International Left-handed Day was held on August 13，1976， and it was a public holiday in the US.
Nowadays interest is steadily growing and there are several advice centers to provide advice and actively campaign against the opinion that left-handers are unskillful.
Psychologist and psychotherapist （精神病医生） Johanna Barbara Sattler， who founded the first advice center for left-handers in Munich in 1985， can only shake her head over some of the conclusions she’s heard. “Left-handed people die nine years earlier than right-handers” is just a rumor.
Sattler says that the process of changing writing hands means a sudden attack on the brain. Memory and speech weaknesses are the results， she says， because left or right-handedness， which scientists say is in any case inherited （遗传）， is controlled by the hemispheres （大脑半球） of the brain. These are connected to the opposite body-half by crossed nerves.
In left-handers， the right hemisphere is functionally leading. It is primarily responsible for determining space preferences and thought. This explains why left-handed people are often described as particularly creative.
But in the workplace， they often have problems in using technical machines. However， it is always better to choose another job than to retrain to use the right hand， says expert Sattler.
In contrast to 30 years ago， left-handers are no longer forced to switch to their right hand in German schools， yet many teachers still have no idea how they can help left-handers with practical advice. Instead， these children often have to hear that they have to get along with “the problem” themselves.
56. The Paragraph 1 tells us that ____ .
A. scientists in the world are all left-handersB. artists in the world are all left-handers
C. famous people all over the world are members in this special clubD. some famous people may be left-handers
57. From the Paragraph 3 we learn that ____ .
A. students in many schools must write with their left handB. students in many schools sometimes write with their left hand
C. many parents insist that students write with their right handD. many parents insist that students write with both hands
58. According to Sattler’s opinion， changing writing hands is ____ .
A. reasonableB. interesting C. scientificD. unnecessary
59. It shows in this passage that left-handers are ____ .
A. unskillful in the workshopB. often full of imagination in their work
C. always trying to defeat right-handers D. often simple-minded and foolish
60. From the last two paragraphs we find that ____ .
A. people’s opinion about left-handers has changedB. German students seldom get help from their teachers
C. left-handers at German schools feel disappointedD. left-handers at German schools find no trouble using anything
B
Much of today’s science of physics is based on Newton’s discovery of the three laws of motion and his theory of gravity. Newton also developed calculus （微积分）.
Isaac Newton was born in Wools Thorpe， England， on December 25， 1642. In fact， he was not interested in his lessons. Yet he liked to make things， such as kites， clocks and simple machines. Newton also enjoyed finding new ways to answer questions or solve problems. Then Newton left school to help on the family farm. It soon became clear， however， that the boy was not a good farmer. He spent his time solving mathematical problems instead of taking care of the crops. He spent hours visiting a bookstore in town， instead of selling his vegetables in the market. An uncle thought that Newton would do better as a student than as a farmer. So his uncle decided to help the young man enter Cambridge University to study mathematics. Newton completed his university study in 1665.
Newton used his great skill in mathematics to form a better understanding of the world and the universe. He experimented. Then he studied the results and used what he had learned to design new experiments. Newton’s work led him to create a new method in mathematics. The method he created became known as integral calculus.
One day， sitting in the garden， Newton watched an apple fall from a tree. He began to wonder if the same force that pulled the apple down also kept the moon circling the earth. Newton believed it was. And he believed it could be measured. He called the force “gravity”.
Newton published a book in 1687， in which he explained the three natural laws of motion. From these three laws， Newton was able to show how the universe worked.
The leading English poet of Newton’s time， Alexander Pope， honored him with these words： “Nature and nature’s laws lay hidden in night. God said， ‘Let Newton be！’， and all was light.”
61. Newton’s great achievement to math is ____ .
A. the laws of motionB. integral calculusC. the theory of gravityD. his book about motion
62. The second paragraph seems to mainly tell us that ____ .
A. Newton was not a good student at school B. Newton was not good at farming
C. Newton liked to make things and solve problemsD. Newton showed his great talent in calculus
63. Why do you think an apple will fall from the tree to the ground according to Newton？
A. Because the apple becomes lighter before it falls down.
B. Because the gravity possibly pulls it to the ground.
C. Because there is some relationship between distance and gravity.
D. Because of a force that keeps the moon circling the earth.
64. In which order did Newton do the following things according to the passage？
a. developed calculus. b. discovered gravity. c. left school. d. went to university. e. did farm work.
A. c-e-d-a-bB. a-b-c-e-dC. c-b-a-d-eD. a-b-e-c-d
65. By saying “all was light” at the end of the passage， the poet probably meant that ____ .
A. the day broke earlier after Newton’s birth
B. Newton was a faithful follower of God
C. because of Newton there was no dark at night any more
D. because of Newton people began to understand nature and nature’s laws better
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（满分10分）
Lin Qiaozhi， the specialist in men’s diseases， lived from 1901 to 1983. She devoted her whole life to help women of China， especially those in countryside. To cut the death rate of having and caring for baby in the country， she gave some simple rules in her book for women to follow for keeping their babies clean， healthy but free from sickness. She was so busy in her career that about 50，000 babies are safely delivered by her own. Devoted to her patients， she chose not to have a family of her own and often worked lately at night to deliver a baby for a poor family after a day’s tired work.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
许多同学在学习英语时，都遇到了一些困难，你校校报在全校征集题为“How I Overcame Difficulties in Learning English”的文章，请你根据以下要点写一篇120词左右的文章。
1. 在英语学习中所遇到的具体困难；
2. 对待困难的态度；
3. 你是如何克服的；
4. 效果。
