[外语类试卷]托福模拟试卷23及答案与解析.doc

1、托福模拟试卷 23及答案与解析 0 Narrator Listen to part of a lecture in a history class. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. 1 What is the talk mainly about? （ A） How America got the Texas territory. （ B） How America got the Louisiana territory. （ C） How America got t

2、he Oklahoma territory. （ D） How America got the Ohio territory. 2 In the lecture, the professor talks about the benefits of the Louisiana Purchase. Indicate whether each of the following is a benefit in the purchase. Click in the correct box for each benefit. 3 Why does the professor mention Spain?

3、（ A） Because Spain helped America to get Louisiana Territory. （ B） Because Spain once ruled Louisiana territory. （ C） Because Spain prevented America from getting Louisiana. （ D） Because America purchased Louisiana from Spain. 4 Which of the following statements best expresses the benefit the U.S. g

4、ained from the Louisiana Purchase? （ A） The U.S. paid France only $15000000 for the Louisiana Territory. （ B） The U.S. greatly increased its size and natural resources. （ C） The U.S. gained control of New Orleans, which was important for its shipping trade. （ D） The U.S. acquired the Mississippi Riv

5、er and as a result enhanced its exploration and transportation. 5 What does the professor mean when he says this? （ A） Lets review the material we just covered. （ B） Lets slow down because were going again in a while. （ C） Lets take a break and start the class again in a while. （ D） Lets move on to

6、the next topic. 6 Why does the professor say this? （ A） The students are late to class. （ B） The students are quite clam. （ C） The students must stay after class. （ D） The students are too noisy. 6 Narrator Listen to part of a conversation between a student and a professor. Now get ready to answer t

7、he questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. 7 Why does the woman go to see her professor? （ A） She wants to get materials for a class she missed. （ B） She wants to discuss an assignment she is working on. （ C） The professor wants to tell her about her scholarship. （ D） She wants to info

8、rm the professor of changes in her schedule. 8 What is the professors concern about the student? （ A） Her senior project. （ B） Her safety. （ C） Her health. （ D） Her graduation. 9 What will the woman do about her senior project? （ A） Add more focuses to her project. （ B） Put off her project. （ C） Nar

9、row down the topic. （ D） Change the subject. 10 What does the professor imply when he says this? （ A） He is concerned about the topic of her project. （ B） He assures the student that she has plenty of time to finish the project. （ C） He indicates that the student should focus only on a few tribes. （

10、 D） He encourages the student to write all the tribes and peoples. 11 What does the student mean when she says this? （ A） She was asking whether she should delay the scholarship. （ B） She was asking about how much she could get from this scholarship. （ C） She was asking whether she succeeded in gett

11、ing the scholarship or not. （ D） She was asking whether her friend got the scholarship or not. 11 Narrator Listen to part of a talk in a music class. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. 12 What is the talk mainly about? （ A） Jazz musicians. （ B） The orig

12、ins of jazz. （ C） The music style of jazz. （ D） The features of jazz. 13 Why does the professor mention the tango of Argentina? （ A） To emphasize the importance of the tango in Argentina. （ B） To explain the music of different countries, （ C） To provide background information for jazz. （ D） To illus

13、trate that every country has its original music. 14 What does the professor NOT mention as an influence of jazz? （ A） Spiritual songs. （ B） Work songs. （ C） Polkas. （ D） The blues. 15 Why does the student mention the African Student Association? （ A） Because some jazz lovers are from the African Stu

14、dent Association. （ B） Because African music has influenced jazz. （ C） Because the African Student Association once held a jazz concert. （ D） Because the African Student Association plays jazz very well. 16 According to the passage, what quality should a good jazz musician have? （ A） The musician sh

15、ould have a solid background in African music and play the drums very well. （ B） The musician should have a systematic knowledge of African music and be good at playing trumpet, （ C） The musician should be knowledgeable about all kinds of music and be good at playing drums. （ D） The musician should

16、be capable of creating new variations of music without preparation. 17 Why does the professor say this? （ A） The students are supposed to know something about the answer. （ B） She is preparing to review something from the previous lesson. （ C） There is no need to discuss this topic at the moment. （

17、D） She wants to finish the lecture as soon as possible. 17 Narrator Listen to part of a lecture in an archaeology class. Now get ready to answer questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. 18 What does the professor mainly discuss in the lecture? （ A） How fossils are discovered and examine

18、d. （ B） The importance and preservation of fossils. （ C） How fossils are studied and investigated. （ D） How fossils are used to locate oil and other resources. 19 Which of the following does the professor mention as the benefits of the study of fossils? Clink on 2 answers. （ A） It provides informati

19、on on how dinosaurs become extinct. （ B） It helps petroleum engineers with the finding of oil. （ C） It helps petroleum engineers to purify oil. （ D） It gives clues to how life originated and evolved. 20 What are the ways of preserving fossils mentioned in the discussion? Clink on 3 answers. （ A） Fos

20、sils can be preserved as moulds. （ B） Fossils can be preserved through cauterization. （ C） Fossils can be preserved through dehydration. （ D） Fossils can be preserved as frozen dead bodies. （ E） Fossils can be preserved in some chemical liquid. 21 What does the professor imply when she says this? （

21、A） Because she wants the students to have different opinions from hers. （ B） Because she wants to draw the students attention to the answer. （ C） Because she is trying to confuse the students. （ D） Because she thinks that the students do not know the answer. 22 Why does the professor say this? （ A）

22、To correct something she said earlier. （ B） To explain what she just introduced. （ C） To explain what is wrong with a particular theory. （ D） To remind the students of something discussed earlier. 23 How does the professor introduce fossilization through dehydration? （ A） She provides a detailed exp

23、lanation of how fossilization is formed through dehydration. （ B） She compares the dehydration in fossilization to that in the preservation of mummies. （ C） She gives a very detailed description about the process of dehydration in fossilization. （ D） She explains how fossilization takes place throug

24、h dehydration with many examples. 23 Narrator Listen to part of a discussion in a linguistics class. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. 24 What is the discussion mainly about? （ A） How bees communicate with each other through dancing. （ B） How monkeys u

25、se sign language to communicate. （ C） Whether other animals besides humans have language. （ D） How human communication differs from animal communication. 25 What two dances are mentioned in the discussion about the bees communication? Clink on 2 answers. （ A） A head-wagging dance. （ B） A tail-waggin

26、g dance. （ C） A triangle dance. （ D） A round dance. 26 Which animal can be said to have language if language is defined as a system for exchanging information by making new combinations of symbols? （ A） Dolphins. （ B） Bees. （ C） Lions. （ D） Monkeys. 27 According to the discussion, what can be conclu

27、ded about animal language? （ A） Animals do have language. （ B） No conclusion has been made at present. （ C） Animals do not have language. （ D） Some animals have language and others do not. 28 Why does the professor say this? （ A） To confirm that the answer the students believe is really correct. （ B

28、） To trick the students into thinking that it is a really easy question. （ C） To encourage the students to answer quickly. （ D） To show that the answer the students take for granted may not be correct. 29 What can be inferred about the students? （ A） They both disagree with the professors conclusion

29、. （ B） Jennifer has not yet reached a conclusion about whether animals have language or not. （ C） Mike easily convinced Jennifer to change her mind. （ D） They disagree with each other over whether animals have language or not. 29 Narrator Listen to part of a conversation between a student and an adv

30、isor. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer. 30 What is the talk mainly about? （ A） The students tuition fee. （ B） The students plan of study. （ C） The students assistantship. （ D） The students insurance. 31 According to the talk, what are core courses? （ A

31、） They are the important courses students must take. （ B） They are the basic courses students need to take. （ C） They are elective courses students do not have to take for graduation. （ D） They are required courses students have to take so as to graduate. 32 According to the talk, what is the studen

32、ts problem? （ A） He does not understand the courses he is taking. （ B） He does not know anything about core courses. （ C） He does not have the assistantship. （ D） He has no idea what courses to take. 33 According to the talk, what will happen to the student if he has no assistantship? （ A） His famil

33、y will pay for his study. （ B） He will not be able to afford his study. （ C） He can get some scholarship. （ D） He can get some fellowship. 34 What does the advisor mean when he says this? （ A） Its not a very big problem if students dont know anything about core courses. （ B） The student should find

34、out the information about core courses by himself. （ C） The student should know core courses well when the conversation occurs. （ D） Nobody is responsible for telling the student any information about core courses. 一、 Sections Three： Reading Comprehension 34 DADA AND POP ART 1 Dada was a subversive

35、movement in the arts that flourished mainly in France, Switzerland, and Germany from 1916 to 1923. Dada was based on the principles of deliberate irrationality and anarchy. It rejected laws of beauty and social organization and attempted to discover authentic reality through the destruction of tradi

36、tional culture and aesthetic forms. The movements founders included the French artist Jean Arp and the writers Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball. At a meeting of young artists in 1916 in Zurich, one of them inserted a paper knife into a French-German dictionary. The knife pointed to the word dada, a Frenc

37、h baby-talk word for a hobby-horse, which the group saw as an appropriate term for their anti-art. 2 Dada emerged from despair over the First World War and disgust for the conservative values of society. Dada was the first expression of protest against the war. Dadaists used absurdity to create artw

38、orks that mocked society yet defied intellectual analysis, such as the use of “found“ objects in sculptures and installations. The forerunner of the Dadaists, and ultimately their leading member, was Marcel Duchamp, who in 1913 created his first “ready-made,“ the Bicycle Wheel, consisting of a wheel

39、 mounted on the seat of a stool. In his effort to discourage aesthetics, Duchamp shocked the art establishment with these ready- mades-manufactured objects that he selected and exhibited-including a bottle rack and a comb. The Dada movement extended to literature and music and became international a

40、fter the war. In the United States the movement was centered in New York City. Dadaists on both sides of the Atlantic had one goal in common: to demolish current aesthetic standards. 3 Fifty years after the Dadaists, another generation of artists reacted to the standards and values of society. Howev

41、er, instead of rejecting ordinary things, the young artists of the Pop movement of the 1960s embraced them. Pop artists were curious about the commercial media of ads, billboards, newsprint, television, and all aspects of popular culture. Thus, the barrier between “high“ and “low“ art collapsed, whi

42、ch the Dadaists had aimed for and the Pop artists attained with an energy not seen before. 4 Pop art received its name from critic Lawrence Alloway, who considered Pop to be the culture of the mass media, photographs, and posters-a style that must be popular, transitory, and witty. The subject matte

43、r of Pop art was derivative, depicting something that had already been published or produced, such as comic strips, soft-drink bottles, and photographs of movie stars. Pop art caught on quickly; it was art about mass consumption that was eagerly consumed by the masses. 5 The most popular of the Pop

44、artists was the painter Roy Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein painted enlarged copies.of the least “arty“ things he could find: romance and adventure comic strips. He was the first American artist to react to comic strips, finding beauty in these crude designs, along with a distinct sense of style. Lichten

45、stein also painted other pictorial styles, including blowups of other artists brushstrokes and parodies of Cubism and Art Deco. 6 Andy Warhol, more than any other Pop artist, took on the mind-numbing overload of American mass culture. Warhol began his career as a commercial illustrator, and in 1962

46、he had his first exhibition in an art gallery, where he showed his 32 Campbells Soup Cans. The thirty-two soup cans are about sameness: same brand, same size, same paint surface, and same fame. They mimic the condition of mass advertising. All of Warhols work flowed from one central insight: mass cu

47、lture is filled with images that become meaningless by being repeated again and again, and in this glut of information is a role for art. Warhol felt this and embodied it. He conveyed a collective state of mind in which celebrity-a famous brand name or the image of a famous person-had completely rep

48、laced sacredness in art. Glossary: anarchy: absence of any form of authority; disorder; confusion aesthetic: relating to beauty; artistic 35 According to the passage, the main goal of the Dada movement was to （ A） stimulate public interest in art （ B） change the goals of art education （ C） destroy t

49、raditional standards of art （ D） make mass media the subject of art 36 The author mentions a hobby-horse in paragraph 1 in order to （ A） explain the origin of the name “Dada“ （ B） illustrate how Dadaists created art （ C） compare art to a childrens game （ D） give an example of a “ready-made“ 37 According to the passage, one way in which the Dadaists mocked society was by （ A） refusing to fight in the First World War （ B） writing plays about social class （ C） using “found“ objects in works of art （ D） criticizing the commercial media 38 The