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1、汇编选集福建师范大学2021年2月课程考试大学英语(2)作业考核试题(参考)大学英语(2)期末考试A卷 姓名:学号:专业:学习中心: 答卷 (本试卷所有客观题答案必须填入如下答卷表格中,否则不得分)一、阅读:20%(更多答案下载:2分)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 二、交际用语20%(更多答案下载:2分)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 三、语法与词汇:30%(更多答案下载:2分)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 四英译汉:30% (答题请不要超出边框)Do some brainstorming about your expenses
2、and how you could possibly cut back on them.It is wise to write them down on paper because it is less easy to dismiss them that way.For example, can you cut down on the amount of gas you use by taking public transportation?If you eat out often, consider making more meals at home.Examine your buying
3、habits.(翻译题请在此空白处答题,否则不得分)一、阅读:20% (所有答案必须填在答卷表格里,否则不得分) ( 1 ) In the United States many have been told that anyone can become rich and successful if he works hard and has some good luck.Yet, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people
4、 to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tries to look as rich and as successful as his neighbors.The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American by the name of Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earnin
5、g $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. But just moving there was not enough. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went h
6、orse riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. Momand and his wife could not do that.The race en
7、ded for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They left their wealthy neighborhood and moved back to an apartment in New York City.Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to
8、write a series of short stories. He called it “keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momands series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 ye
9、ars.Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.1. The write
10、r of the selection believes _.A. anyone in the United States can become richB. anyone in the United Sates can become rich if he works hard and has some good luckC. he can become rich in the futureD. many people in the United States think anyone can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck
11、2. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because _.A. they want to be as rich as their neighborsB. they want to be happyC. they dont want others to know they are richD. they want others to know or to think that they are rich3. It can be inferred from the story that rich people _.A. like to li
12、ve in apartmentsB. like to live in New York CityC. like to live outside New York CityD. like to have many neighbors4. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because Jones is _.A,. an important nameB. his neighbors nameC. a popular name in the United StatesD. not a good na
13、me5. According to the writer, it is _.A. correct to keep up with the JonesesB. interesting to keep up with the JonesesC. impossible to keep up with the JonesesD. good to keep up with the Joneses( 2 )A certain hunter had found a piece of forest where there were plenty of animals to hunt. The only tro
14、uble was that the place was very difficult to get to.He returned from his first visit to the place in late autumn, and could not get back until the snow melted in the following spring. Then he went to the pilot of a small plane, who earned his living by carrying hunters over parts of the country whe
15、re there were no roads and no railways. He asked the pilot to take him back to the piece of forest.The pilot did not know the place, so the hunter showed it to him on the map. “But there is nowhere to land there,” said the pilot. “I have flown over that we cant land anywhere between this river and these mountains.”“I thought you were a wonderful pilot,” said the hunter, “some of my friends said you could land a plane on a postage stamp.”“Thats