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福师答案《大学英语（1）》福建师范大学2022年8月课程考试期末考试A卷3（奥鹏）
It is implied in the last paragraph that_________ .
A． people who possess information will have more material advantage and be more wealth
B． the ability to read and write will not be as the knowledge of computers
C． information or knowledge will be more important in manufacturing than in services
D． people with information or knowledge will be the potential creator of wealth in the new era
逻辑推理题。根据文章最后一段的内容，我们可知，这段暗含的意思是：拥有知识和信息的人在新的时代将会创造出很多财富。因此，正确答案是D。
参考译文：
新的时代已经到来。我们可以将它称为服务经济型社会．信息时代或者知识社会。因为这些都体现了人们工作方式上的一种根本性改变。我们已经步入了这样的时代。在西方，通过制造业而谋生的人越来越少了。现今，美国，欧洲和日本能大多数工作都来源于服务行业，而且这样的工作将越来越多。
相比以往而言，已有更多的女性投入到了工作当中。兼职工作也相当多。许多人都开始自主创业。但是经济转型的广度并不仅仅只能由数字来衡量，因为对工作性质本身的思考已经产生了一种新的方式。传统的关于工作与职业生涯，获得成功所需要的技巧，甚至雇主与雇员之间的关系都受到了挑战。
我们仅仅只需回顾过去来获得对未来的认识。多亏了硅片在计算机数字交流和机器人中的应用，否则就算能够预测未来20年的人也不可能预见它为这个世界所带来的转变。在不远的将来，生物科技、人工智能乃至现在人们无法想象的一些科技成果同样也会带来巨大的改变。
可是有一点是肯定的：信息与知识的重要性将进一步凸显出来。掌握它们的人，无论其从事的是制造业还是服务业，都会从中获益并创造财富。对计算机知识的掌握将会像掌握书写能力一样成为基本的需要。通过信息知识而非循规蹈距地去解决问题将会非常重要。
The author believes that______.
A. women should lay more emphasis on their own qualities
B. beautiful clothes can make women more attractive
C. women have to show their beauty through their looks
D. women are more curious about new things than men
50．答案为A 从短文后三段可知作者认为内在美更重要，因此选A。
From the last paragraph we can learn that __
A. some pipes have to be re-arranged in winter
B. the system can do more than warming up the building
C. the exchangers will pick up heat from the street surface
D. less heat may be collected in winter than in summer
Animals other than humans have not developed communications comparable to human language. But is it possible that other animals have the capacity to learn a language if they are adequately taught? Obviously, this is a fascination notion. The idea of communicating directly with another species has long been a part of human folklore and children’s fantasies. But on a scientific level, the question of whether animals can learn a language is important primarily because it relates to the controversy()between the cognitive and the learning approaches to language. If language is dependent on and is actually an outgrowth of the intellectual structure of the human mind, there is the strong supposition that only humans are capable of using language. Therefore, Noam Chomsky and other psycholinguists have argued that only humans can learn a language, while most behaviorists feel that with sufficient patience it should be possible to teach an animal some sort of language. Although the two schools of thought clearly differ on this point, it is not really a crucial test of the two theories. If a chimpanzee can master a simple language all it would mean is that the chimp’s intellectual capacity and brain structure are more similar to ours than we thought. It would not necessarily imply that our intellectual structure is unimportant in our own mastery of language. Thus, teaching an animal language is an impressive demonstration of the power of learning techniques, but it is not evidence that language is developed entirely through learning.On the other hand, the question of whether other animals can learn a language is fascination in its own right, aside from its value as a test of the two theories of language development. Accordingly, whatever one’s position on the theoretical dispute, we must consider training an animal to use language a dramatic accomplishment.
36.Which of the following statements is the view of psycholinguists?
A. The cognitive view of language learning says that only human beings can learn language because it is an outgrowth of the structure of the human mind.
B. Other animals simply could master a language.
C. The animals intellectual capacity is much better than human beings.
D. Language is developed by learning.
37.The behaviorists’ view is that __________.
A. language is actually an outgrowth of intellectual structure of the animal’s mind
B. animals have not developed communications system
C. given enough patience, a man should be able to teach an animal some sort of language
D. only human beings can learn language
38.That an animal can master a simple language means that __________.
A. human’s intellectual structure is not important
B. animals’ intellectual capacity and brain structure are more similar to the humans’
C. the learning techniques are much more important
D. language is developed completely by learning
39.The main idea of paragraph two is ___________.
A. teaching a chimp language is not crucial test of the two theories
B. their brain structure is not similar to human
C. using various methods to let the chimp master a language
D. training a nonhuman to use language is an amazing accomplishment
40.The best title for this passage would be _________.
A. Animals’ language
B. Human’s language
C. Teaching Animals’ Language
D. Can Other Animals Acquire Language?
36.B37.A38.D39.C40.C
(阅读理解题)How do you acquire confidence? Speak English with friends first because with them you can speak freely without feeling shy.Then try your ability with your teachers and with foreigners if you have an opportunity to meet them.Don’t be afraid of mistakes.Nobody is above mistakes; and don’t be afraid to ask questions about things you don’t know.This is the way to acquire knowledge.Not until you begin to think in English rather than Chinese can you be said to know the language.This is not a superhuman achievement—only a question of practice.Thinking in English will help you to truly understand how the language is spoken.Read novels to build vocabulary, thus gaining confidence.Start with small volumes of 30 to 40 pages.Write down any new word you discover and look it up in your dictionary.Learn how to use the new word by making sentences with it.Bring the word to your teacher to have it explained more fully.Don’t be angry when you learn a new word today and forget it tomorrow.To forget is a natural process; to remember is unnatural and requires effort.Of 10 new words learnt in a day, only two or three will remain in the memory.The others you will forget and have to relearn.When learning them for the second time, they will come more easily, and this time you probably will remember nearly all of them.A small minority, however, may elude you again, and have to be learnt for a third time.Constant repetition is necessary.
(1).You can gain confidence by speaking English with the following people but ______?
A、 foreigners
B、 teachers
C、 family members
D、 friends
(2).When can you be said to know English?
A、 When you have confidence with English.
B、 When you have built vocabulary.
C、 When you can think in English.
D、 When you are not afraid to ask questions.
(3).We can build vocabulary in the following ways except ______.
A、 reading novels
B、 often speaking with foreigners
C、 constant repetition of new words
D、 looking up the new words in a dictionary, making sentences with them, etc.
(4).What are suggested to do if you always forget the new words?
A、 To relearn constantly.
B、 To practice more.
C、 To read novels.
D、 To be angry.
(5).What's the best title for the passage?
A、 Thinking in English
B、 Learning New Words
C、 Ways to Gain Confidence with English
D、 Communicating in English
大学英语（1）期末考试A卷完整答案附后姓名： 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% （每小题2分）12345678910二、交际用语20%（每小题2分）12345678910三、语法与词汇：30%（每小题2分）123456789101112131415四英译汉：30% （答题请不要超出边框）Some people seem to have their own ability in learning language. They can pick up new vocabularies, master rules of grammar, and learn to write in new language more quickly than others. They do not seem to be any more intelligent than others, so what makes language learning so much easier for them?（翻译题请在此空白处答题，否则不得分）蝴蝶（butterfly）是昆虫纲（Insecta），类脉总目（Amphiesmenoptera），鳞翅目（Lepidoptera）中一类昆虫的统称，全世界已记载近2万种，中国的蝴蝶资源较为丰富，已记录2000多种。大部分蝴蝶触角为棒状或锤状，细长，底部略有加粗白天活动，两翅连锁器为翅抱，身体相对纤细。蝴蝶被誉为“会飞的花朵”，是一类非常美丽的昆虫。蝴蝶大多数体型属于中型至大型，翅展在15260毫米之间，有2对膜质的翅。体躯长圆柱形，分为头、胸、腹三部分。体及翅膜上覆有鳞片及毛，形成各种色彩斑纹。蝴蝶的分类和所有动物一样，以“种”作为基本单元。同一种的蝴蝶必然形态相似，具有相同的血缘，相似的生活习性，并能互相产生正常的后代。关于蝴蝶的分类，早在 1735年瑞典博物学家林奈（Linnaeus，1707一1778）就进行了研究，他把各种蝴蝶统统归于一属，称“凤蝶属 papilio”1758年，林奈创立了“二名法”的生物学名，即一个物种的学名由两部分组成，前一个词为该生物的属名（名词式），后一个词为该生物的种名（形容词式），合而成一学名。再在学名之后，加上定名人的姓和年号，即表示最初给该物种命名的人及命名的时间。至于亚种和变种，则列在种名之后。学名规定用拉丁语书写，名词在前，形容词在后，这和英语不同。印刷时字体：属名、种名、亚种、变种和异常型用斜体，命名者、年号、属以上的分类名称用印刷正体，从而使包括蝴蝶在内的生物命名方法确立起来。但林奈当时没有设科，其分类方法也不完善。因此，以后许多学者对蝴蝶进行了更为细致的分类。不但将近似的种集合为“属”，再将近似的属集合为“科”，由科集合成“目”。还在科的上而设“总科”，科的下面设“亚科”，亚科下面设“族”，更有在种的下面设“亚种”“变种”或“型”的。根据文献记录。1875年之前，相维创设的蝶类属名约1105个（包括同物异名在内），其中大多数是在 1850年之前创设的，而现今记载的蝶类属名约1855 个。世界蝴蝶分类系统是随着新种不断发现、人们记载的蝴蝶数量不断增多以及研究工作不断深化而逐步完善起来的。J.C.Fabricius（1794）时代记载的蝴蝶种类仅为1147种，到了W.F.Kirby（1871）的目录中记载的蝴蝶总数为7695种，而现在记载的蝴蝶种类已超过17000种。其间，科（亚科）、属发生分化、归并，新的科（亚科）、属确立，旧的被新的科（亚科）、属所取代，一些亚科或属提升为科，一些种提升为属，一些亚种提升为种。分歧虽然存在，但总体上深化了对蝴蝶分类系统的认识。世界蝴蝶分类系统研究最为全面的文献当属德国昆虫学家A.Seitz主编的世界大鳞翅目巨著，书中把世界蝴蝶按古北区、印澳区、美洲区和非洲区分卷出版，每册均有蝴蝶原色图版，为进一步研究打下了基础。20世纪70年代之后，澳大利亚蝴蝶专家B.DAbrera对世界蝴蝶进行了广泛研究，1981一1997年出版了全北区蝴蝶3卷、东洋区蝴蝶3卷、新热带区蝴蝶7卷、澳洲区蝴蝶1卷，非洲热带区糊媛1卷，共15卷。2001年，他又出版了世界蝴蝶简名图谱，对世界蝴蝶资源的调查研究和蝶类知识的普及做出了突出贡献。目前蝶类研究已进入种下分类。采用了细胞学、分子生物学等手段，使蝴蝶分类工作更为细致、深入。中国蝴蝶分类研究起步较晚，1958年，著名蝴蝶专家李传隆教授出版了蝴蝶一书，该书把中国蝴蝶分为11科，244属，1277种。这11科是：弄蝶科 Hesperiidae、凤蝶科 Papilionidae、绢蝶科 Parnassiidae、粉蝶科Pieridae、眼蝶科 Satyridae、环蝶科Amathusiidae、斑蝶科 Danaidae、蛱蝶科Nymphalidae、喙蝶科Libytheida、蚬蝶科 Riodinidae、灰蝶科 Lycaenidae。此后，李传隆教授出版了万里扑蝶（1980）及其6篇报告中国蝶类小志（19551985），蝴蝶在蛹期间表面上看似保持静止状态，其实体内各个组织及器官在重组并发育。发育的过程或多或少会显现在蛹通体表面，特别到了蛹发育末期、蝴蝶复眼的颜色以及翅区上的斑纹就能显现出来，这就告诉我们、蝴蝶即将破蛹而出。蝴蝶从蛹中破壳而出的过程称为羽化蝴蝶在蛹期间表，面上看似保持静止状态，其实体内各个体大型至甚大型。头部在背观，两眼互相接触呈一条很长直线。下唇端缘纵裂；翅的中室有或无横脉；前后翅三角室形状相似，距离弓脉也一样远；在翅痣内端常有1条支持脉，有条径增脉。体蓝色、绿色或褐色，飞行很快。有的种类单眼很大，多在黄昏飞出，捕吃蚊子；有的种类趋光颇强。本科在中国有30余种。春蜓科（箭蜓科）体中等大小至大型，体黑色，具黄色花纹；两眼距离甚远，下唇中叶完整，不纵裂；前后翅三角室形状相同，并且距离弓脉一样远；后翅臀角呈一个角度（甚少数圆形）；基中室无横脉；臀圈缺如，甚少具少数翅室。无产器。幼虫触角只有4节，第3节最大，第4节细小，前足和中足的跗节只有2节。常见于溪边及池塘边。早春最为常见。一个甚大的科，广布全世界。我国有春蜓亚科Gomphinae、钩尾春蜓亚科Onychogomphinae、林春蜓亚科Lindeniinae等亚科。蜓总科大蜓科（勾蜓科） Cordulegastridae巨圆臀大蜓（无霸勾蜓）Anotogaster sieboldii巨圆臀大蜓（无霸勾蜓体大型至甚大型。头部在背观，两眼互相接触呈一条很长直线。下唇端缘纵裂；产器粗大。翅的中室有或无横脉；前后翅三角室形状相似，距离弓脉也一样远；在翅痣内端常有1条支持脉，有1条径增脉。体蓝色、绿色或褐色，飞行很快。有的种类单眼很大，多在黄昏飞出，捕吃蚊子；有的种类趋光颇强。本科在中国有30余种。裂唇蜓科（臀套大蜓科）Chlorogomphidae原隶属于大蜓科。我国分布有华裂唇蜓属Sinorogomphus等。蜻总科身体中等大小至大型，常具金属蓝色或绿色，头部在背面观两眼互相接触一段较长的距离；眼的后缘中央常有一个小型波状突起；臀圈明显，四边形或六边形，或稍为长形；足常较长。我国不及10种。体大型，褐色，合胸在前翅与后翅之间有一圈黄带。后翅三角室比前翅三角室距弓脉稍为更近；臀圈不呈足状，它的长度差不多比宽度稍长，无中肋。足特别长。我中国有十几种。国外的研究学者将大蜻科Macromiidae的全部种类放至伪蜻科中，并作为蜻科Corduliidae的一亚种。体型中等大小。侏红小蜻Nannophya pygmea是差翅亚目中身体最小者，后翅长约13-15mm。前缘室与亚缘室的横脉常联成直线；翅痣无支持脉；前后翅三角室所朝方向不同，前翅三角室与翅的长轴垂直，距离弓脉甚远；后翅三角室与翅的长轴同向，通常它的基边与弓脉联成直线。臀圈足形，趾突出，具中肋。 稚虫多在静水下爬行觅食，它具有匙形下唇，其上有侧刚毛和颏刚毛，这是取食的利器。所谓“蜻蜓点水”，在本科甚为常见。本科是一个大科，我国有70余种，不少的种类是人们习见蜻蜓。经常栖息于旷野、池塘、河流等处。形态结构编辑前后翅形状及脉序不同；翅基部不成柄状，不显著狭长；中室被斜脉分 为三角室及上三角室在前后翅又通常呈不同形状；两复眼多接触或以细缝分离；1个内附器；停息时四 翅向两侧平伸。对于蜻蜓翅膀的研究主要集中于力学原理及仿生学方面。由于蜻蜓翅膀有翅结和翅痣两个特殊结构，使得其成为自然界中优秀的飞行者。力学研究方面发现，蜻蜓在空中的拍翅飞行和转弯飞行时翅膀会受到水平力、垂直力、扭矩、弯曲,作用的影响，发现蜻蜓慢速飞行和飞行器飞行很相似。蜻蜓翅膀飞行力学的研究方法也在不断地改进，从用绳子系到利用高速摄影机拍摄，再到风洞内观测，越来越先进的方法，对于蜻蜓飞行力学研究更加的透彻。蜻蜓的触角很短，刚毛状，上面分布了许多感受器。感受器的种类主要有锥状感受器、腔锥感受器、板状感受器及坛状感受器。有研究表明不同种蜻蜓所具有的感受器种类不一，数量及分布形式也不同。对于蜻蜓其感受器也是有差异的，蜻蜓的感受器在同一科、同一属及同种内是稳定的，而在不同科、不同属间就有明显的差别，同一属内不同种间差别虽然微小，但个别种的区别还是是很明显的，因此蜻蜓的感受器在分类中也具有一定意义。蜻蜓是无脊椎动物，昆虫纲，蜻蜓目差翅亚目昆虫的通称。后翅基部比前翅基部稍大，翅脉，也稍有不同。休翅脉也稍有不同。息时四翅展开展休翅脉，也稍翅脉，也稍有不同。发现蜻蜓慢速飞行和飞差翅体大大一、阅读：20% (答案必须填在答卷表格里,否则不得分)( 1 )We are all called upon to make a speech sometime in life, but most of us dont do a very good job. We may get nervous, forget what we want to say, or talk too long and bore our audience. Later we may think, “Thank goodness, its over. Im not good at public speaking. I hope I never have to do that again.”It doesnt have to be that bad. Here are some simple steps to take the pain out of speech-making. First of all, it is important to plan. Find out everything you can about your subject. And, at the same time, find out as much as you can about your audience. Who are they? Why are they coming to hear you speak? Put yourself in their shoes as you prepare your speech.Ask yourself th
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But linguists who have compared languages systematically are struck by the opposite conclusion.
This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary,Consider Berik, spoken in a few villages in eastern Papua. It may not have a word for“supernova”, but it drips with complex rules: a mandatory verb ending tells what time of day the action occurred, and another indicates the size of the direet object. Of
course these things can be said in English, but Berik requires them. Remote socictics may be materially simplc;“primitive”", their languages are not.
Systematically so: a study in 2010 of thousands of tongucs found that smaller languages have more Berik-style grammatical bits and pieces attached to words. By contrast, bigger ones tend to be like English or Mandarin, in which words change their form lttle ifat all. No one knows why, but a likely culprit is the very scale and ubiquity of such widely travelled languages.
As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those adult learners will- Stalin-style- ignore some of the niceties where they can. If those newcomers have children, the children will often learn a slightly simpler version of the language from their parents.
But a new study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen in the Netherlands, has found that it is not entirely foreigners and their sloppy ways that are to blame for languages becoming simpler. Merely being bigger was enough. The researchers, Limor Raviv, Antje Meyer and Shiri Lev-Ari, asked 12 groups of four strangers and 12 groups of eight to invent languages to describe a group of moving shapes on the screen. They were told that the goal was to rack up points for communicating successfully over 16 rounds. (They“talked" by keyboard and were forbidden to use their native language, Dutch.)
Over time both big and small groups got better at making themselves understood,but the bigger ones did so by crcating more systematic languages as they interacted,with fewer idiosyncrasies. The rescarchers suppose that this is because the members of the larger groups had fewer interactions with each other member, this put pressureon them to come up with clear patterns. Smaller groups could afford quirkierlanguages, because their members got to“know”cach other better.
Ncither the more systematic nor the more idiosyncratic languages were“better",given group size: the small and large groups communicated equally well. But the work provides evidence that an idiosyncratic language is best suited to a small group with rich shared history, As the language spreads, it nceds to become more
predictablc.
Taken with previous studies, the new research offers a two-part answer to why grammar rules are built- and lost. As groups grow, the need for systematic rules becomes greater, unlearnable in-group-speak with random variation won't do. But languages develop more rules than they need; as they are learned by foreign speakers joining the group. some of these get stripped away. This can explain why pairs of closely related languages - Tajik and Persian, Icelandic and Swedish, Frisian and English- differ in grammatical complexity. In each couple, the former language is both smaller and more isolated. Systematicity is required for growth. Lost complexity is the cost of foreigners learming your language. It is the price of success.
What is the main finding of the study conducted by Max Plank Institute?
B. It is the foreign people learning that language makes it become simpler.
C. The small groups got better at communicating with each other at the end.
D. Members in bigger groups have more chances to interact with each other.
But linguists who have compared languages systematically are struck by the opposite conclusion.
This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary,Consider Berik, spoken in a few villages in eastern Papua. It may not have a word for“supernova”, but it drips with complex rules: a mandatory verb ending tells what time of day the action occurred, and another indicates the size of the direet object. Of
course these things can be said in English, but Berik requires them. Remote socictics may be materially simplc;“primitive”", their languages are not.
Systematically so: a study in 2010 of thousands of tongucs found that smaller languages have more Berik-style grammatical bits and pieces attached to words. By contrast, bigger ones tend to be like English or Mandarin, in which words change their form lttle ifat all. No one knows why, but a likely culprit is the very scale and ubiquity of such widely travelled languages.
As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those adult learners will- Stalin-style- ignore some of the niceties where they can. If those newcomers have children, the children will often learn a slightly simpler version of the language from their parents.
But a new study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen in the Netherlands, has found that it is not entirely foreigners and their sloppy ways that are to blame for languages becoming simpler. Merely being bigger was enough. The researchers, Limor Raviv, Antje Meyer and Shiri Lev-Ari, asked 12 groups of four strangers and 12 groups of eight to invent languages to describe a group of moving shapes on the screen. They were told that the goal was to rack up points for communicating successfully over 16 rounds. (They“talked" by keyboard and were forbidden to use their native language, Dutch.)
Over time both big and small groups got better at making themselves understood,but the bigger ones did so by crcating more systematic languages as they interacted,with fewer idiosyncrasies. The rescarchers suppose that this is because the members of the larger groups had fewer interactions with each other member, this put pressureon them to come up with clear patterns. Smaller groups could afford quirkierlanguages, because their members got to“know”cach other better.
Ncither the more systematic nor the more idiosyncratic languages were“better",given group size: the small and large groups communicated equally well. But the work provides evidence that an idiosyncratic language is best suited to a small group with rich shared history, As the language spreads, it nceds to become more
predictablc.
Taken with previous studies, the new research offers a two-part answer to why grammar rules are built- and lost. As groups grow, the need for systematic rules becomes greater, unlearnable in-group-speak with random variation won't do. But languages develop more rules than they need; as they are learned by foreign speakers joining the group. some of these get stripped away. This can explain why pairs of closely related languages - Tajik and Persian, Icelandic and Swedish, Frisian and English- differ in grammatical complexity. In each couple, the former language is both smaller and more isolated. Systematicity is required for growth. Lost complexity is the cost of foreigners learming your language. It is the price of success.
Which of the following statements about the more systematic. and more idiosyncratic language is correct?
B. A more systematic language works better than a more idiosyncratic language.
C. A more systematic language facilitates communication a large population.
D. People develop more rules than it is needed when learning a new language.
It probably sounds great, because if you’re like most you would love to be able to speak a second language. But then, you recall your experience in high school foreign language-boring tote memorization and long hours with little progress-and perhaps it doesn’t sound so good any more.
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But now, the collective evidence from a number of recent studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function-a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems, and performing various other mentally demanding tasks.
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According to the passage, which of the following may help you heighten your intelligence?
B.Improve your basic conversations.
C.Begin to learn a foreign language.
D.Talk with others as often as possible.
【关键词】heighten; intelligence
【主题句】第1自然段What if you were told there was a way you may strengthen your cognitive skills and heighten your intelligence, and all you had to do was to learn to strike up basic conversations in another language? 如果你被告知有一种方法可以增强你的认知能力和提高你的智力，而你所要做的就是学会用另一种语言进行基本的对话?
【解析】本题的问题是“根据本文，以下哪一项可以帮助你提高智力？”。选项A意为“加强你的认知技能”，选项B意为“提高你基本的谈话技巧”，选项C意为“开始学习一门外语”，选项D意为“尽可能经常与其他人交谈”。根据主题句可知，学习一门外语可以帮助我们提高智力，故选C。