北京航空航天大学12年12月课程考试《大学英语3》考核要

北航12年12月课程考试《大学英语3》考核要求
试卷总分：100
单选题 阅读理解


一、单选题（共 20 道试题，共 40 分。）
1.Practice is essential____learning to play the piano well.
A. in
B. about
C. to
D. with

2.He’s determined to finish the job（ ）long it takes.
A. no matter
B. however
C. wherever
D. whatever

3.Edward is the boy ____ I think scored the winning point for the basketball team.
A. that
B. what
C. whom
D. who
此题选: D
4.Do you have a preference_____ a particular food?
A. with
B. at
C. for
D. in

5.They prepared for the travel in ____ .
A. secrecy
B. secret
C. secrets
D. the secret

6.Tom spent the summer holidays in college, during_____ time he took a part-time job and read many literary works as well.
A. that
B. which
C. this
D. the

7.All our attempts to（ ）the child from drowning were in vain.
A. regain
B. recover
C. reserve
D. rescue
此题选: D
8.Alone in a desert house, he was so busy with his research work that he felt（ ）lonely.
A. nothing but
B. anything but
C. all but
D. everything but

9.I had to pick my children up from school, so I was（ ）to leave the meeting early.
A. forced
B. compelled
C. obliged
D. having

10.How did you _____ our product? Was it through our advertisement?
A. understand
B. learn of
C. think of
D. think about

11.He （ ）the 9:20 train because he didn''t leave home till 9:25.
A. can reach
B. could catch
C. may not catch
D. couldn''t have caught
此题选: D
12.（ ）that some guests were coming ,they got the rooms ready.
A. Having told
B. Telling
C. Having been told
D. To tell

13.His friend was injured in an airplane （ ）.
A. break
B. crash
C. fail
D. falling

14.He studied hard in his youth,（ ）contributed to his great success in later life.
A. that
B. it
C. what
D. which
此题选: D
15.“Here we are at the theater now.” “You’d better（ ）the tickets since the reservation is in your name.”
A. get
B. to get
C. getting
D. got

16.The plane____,its bombs exploding as it hit the ground.
A. rushed
B. crushed
C. crashed
D. washed

17.________ breaks the law should receive severe punishment.
A. who
B. whoever
C. whatever
D. what

18.The warming of the earth’s surface might（ ）the melting of the polar ice caps.
A. result from
B. result in
C. result from that
D. result in that

19.Nothing in the world（ ）for one who sets his mind to it .
A. are difficult
B. is difficulty
C. is difficult
D. has difficulty

20.Every member of society has to make a ______ to struggle for the freedom of the country.
A. pledge
B. guarantee
C. contract
D. sure




北航12年12月课程考试《大学英语3》考核要求
试卷总分：100
单选题 阅读理解


二、阅读理解（共 3 道试题，共 60 分。）
1. “I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my daddy back. “Lucien Lawrence''s letter to Father Christmas written after his schoolteacher father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched every heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn''t see the stars in the sky. When those who we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart. I find that my parents, long dead now, still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I''m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself, that I couldn''t wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all Mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors(挑衅者),and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, one to give me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword(剑)，and my darling from the power of the dog” Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.?

1). According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph――
A. puts forward the subject of the text
B. shows the author''s pity on the kid
C. acts as an introduction to the discussion
D. makes a clear statement of the author''’s views

2). In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us ――――
A. how much he misses his parents now
B. why his parents often appear in his dream
C. when Lucien will get over all his sadness
D. how proud he was when he succeeded in life

3). What feeling did the author’s mother express in her reply?
A. Proud
B. Happy
C. Disappointed
D. Worried.
此题选: D
4). In the author’s opinion, the value of a person''s life is
A. to leave behind a precious memory to the people related
B. to have a high sense of duty to the whole society
C. to care what others will remember and treasure
D. to share happiness and sadness with his family

5). What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?
A. Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.
B. Advise parents stay with their children safely at home.
C. Spend every day meaningfully in memory of the death.
D. Try to keep violence and murder far away from society.
此题选: D
2. Viruses cause disease by going into the body and taking over cells. But they have different taste. Each virus likes to take over only one type of cells. The rabies(狂犬病) virus, for example, only takes over brain cells. The virus that causes warts takes over skin cells.
Cold virus about 200 types in all, only takes over cells in your nose and throat(咽喉). Once a cold virus has taken over a cell, that cell is sure to die. But as it’s dying, it does something to save the cells around it, telling all the neighboring cells that a virus is coming and that they had better get ready for the attack. It also gives white blood cells time to come to the rescue. White blood cells live in your blood. When a cold comes, they leave the blood and go to your throat and nose where they kill and eat the viruses. The battle is hard and it can go on for several days. Luckily, the white blood cells always win.
After the battle, the white blood cells leave behind a special group of guards, called antibodies. The antibodies go through the bloodstream and make sure that the defeated cold virus never attacks again. And you can never get the same cold twice.
For the white blood cells to come in charge of the rescue, your body has to send extra blood to the cold’s battle site --- your nose and throat. The extra blood makes the inside of your nose and throat swell (肿) and turn red. That’s why you get a sore(疼痛的) throat. That’s also why you get a runny nose. When you are feeling well, the mucus(黏液) that lines and protects the inside of your nose usually moves backwards toward your throat. Then it slides into your stomach, where it is destroyed. But when you have a cold, your nose gets too swollen for the mucus to move backwards. So it comes out the front of your nose.

1). During the battle against cold viruses, white blood cells .
A. leave the blood and kill the viruses
B. stay on guards in the blood
C. eat the viruses that live in your blood
D. go into the viruses

2). What is the duty of the antibodies?
A. To prevent the defeated cold virus away from attacking you again.
B. To fight against the white blood.
C. To have no colds any more.
D. To leave behind the bloodstream.

3). You get a sore throat because .
A. your throat needs to take part in the battle
B. there is some blood in your throat
C. your throat is sticky
D. extra blood is sent to fight against the virus
此题选: D
4). Which of the following is true?
A. Viruses cause disease by going into the skin and taking over cells.
B. Each virus likes to take over lots type of cells.
C. the white blood cells always lost in the battle.
D. The antibodies go through the bloodstream and make sure that the defeated cold virus never attacks again.
此题选: D
5). Which of the following is the best title for this text?
A. Colds
B. After a Cold
C. Antibodies
D. Viruses
此题选: D
3. My mother knew how to knit (编织), but she never taught me. She thought that knitting was no longer a skill worth passing down. My grandmother still knitted, though, and every Christmas she made a pair of socks for my brother and me , of red wool (羊毛) . They were the ones we wore under our ice skates, when it was really important to have warm feet.
Knitting is a nervous habit that happens to be productive. It helped me give up smoking by giving my hands something else to do. It is wonderful when you feel sad because no matter what else happens, you are making something beautiful.
I love breathing life into the patterns. It’s true magic finding a good design, buying beautiful wool in the exact blue to match my daughter’s eyes, taking it on the train with me every day for two months, working happily to get it done by Christmas, and staying up late after stockings are filled to sew in the sleeves and weave in the end.
Knitting has taught me patience (耐性). I know that if I just keep going, even if it takes months, there will be a reward (报酬). When I make a mistake, I know that becoming angry will not fix it, that I just have to go back and take out the knitting bag and start over again.
People ask if I would do it for money, and the answer is no. First, you could not pay me enough for the hours I put into a sweater. But more importantly, this is an activity I keep separating from such considerations. I knit to cover my children and other people I love in warmth and color. I knit to give them something earthly that money could never buy.
By day I can write about Northern Ireland or the New York City Police Department and get paid for it , but on the train home , surrounded by people with laptops (便携式电脑), I take out my old knitting bag and join the centuries of women who have knitted for love.

1). The writer wore the socks her grandmother had knitted for her .
A. in winter
B. when she went skiing
C. during the Christmas holidays
D. when she needed to keep her feet warm for skating
此题选: D
2). Which of the following is NOT true about knitting according to the writer?
A. It helps her giving up her habit.
B. It helps her get rid of her sadness or anger.
C. It requires patience.
D. It is a money--making business.
此题选: D
3). When made a mistake in knitting, we should .
A. become angry
B. pay for the mistake
C. go back and knit again
D. start smoking

4). Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The writer learned to knit from her mother.
B. The writer often does her knit on the train.
C. The writer never does her knit at home.
D. The writer knits for two months every year.

5). We can infer from the text that .
A. many other women knit with the writer
B. the writer makes money by writing articles
C. the writer gets paid after months of knitting
D.the writer often gets nervous at work