[外语类试卷]托福模拟试卷2及答案与解析.doc

1、托福模拟试卷 2及答案与解析 0 Narrator Listen to a part of a conversation about Lecture Arrangements between a student and a teacher. 1 What is the student looking for? （ A） The School of Fine Arts. （ B） The School of Economic History. （ C） The School of Economics. （ D） The School of Accountancy. 2 What is the t

2、ime for the two lectures? （ A） 4 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. （ B） 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. （ C） 9 a.m. on Wednesday and Friday. （ D） 9 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday. 3 When did/will the orientation meeting take place? （ A） Next week. （ B） Last term. （ C） Tomorrow. （ D） Recently. 4 Why doe

3、s the teacher say this? （ A） To indicate that the university is very strict with students. （ B） To suggest that the student should attend the lectures. （ C） To encourage the student to do his part-time job. （ D） To indicate that she is not concerned about the students attendance. 5 What can be infer

4、red from the teachers words? （ A） The student cannot choose the time. （ B） Dr. Roberts may tell the student the answer. （ C） Dr. Roberts is the dean of the School of Economics. （ D） She does not want to answer the students question. 5 Narrator Listen to a part of a lecture from the Sports Studies de

5、partment. 6 What is the purpose of the mini-lecture? （ A） To introduce the Sports Studies program. （ B） To give the students some taste of university lecture. （ C） To talk about the latest development of sports science. （ D） To discuss the study areas of sports science. 7 What do sports psychologist

6、s want to discover? （ A） The common characteristics of different types of athletes. （ B） What kinds of training programs are the most successful. （ C） How to make people win the sports competition. （ D） The mental factors contributing to top athletes winning. 8 According to the professor, what is th

7、e latest change of sport? （ A） It no longer attracts spectators because they have more ways of entertainment. （ B） It competes with other leisure activities rather than itself. （ C） More and more people are willing to spend their money on sports. （ D） Athletes are becoming more difficult to manage.

8、9 What does the professor mean when he says this. （ A） The spectators have more free time to enjoy themselves than before. （ B） The spectators need more comfortable ways of entertaining themselves. （ C） It is becoming more and more difficult to make the spectators satisfied. （ D） The spectator have

9、lost their interest in sport. 10 Why does the professor say this? （ A） To express uncertainty about his statements. （ B） To indicate the importance of his opinion. （ C） To check out whether the students agree. （ D） To emphasize his interest in sports physiology. 10 Narrator Listen to a part of a lec

10、ture in a business class. 11 What is the talk mainly about? （ A） The differences of the ways of hand shaking between men and women. （ B） The importance of behaving appropriately during hand shaking. （ C） The cultural differences of hand shaking among countries. （ D） The different meanings conveyed b

11、y different ways of hand shaking. 12 What does the professor say about a weak handshake for men? （ A） It is a polite way since it avoids the risk of making others hurt. （ B） It tells that one of the hand shakers is not interested in the other. （ C） It shows that one of the hand shakers is very aggre

12、ssive. （ D） It is better than no handshake at all. 13 What does the professor say about the half handshake for men? （ A） The hand shaker only offer half of his hand to the other. （ B） It conveys the message of lack of interest. （ C） It shows the hand shaker behaves like a woman. （ D） It may convey a

13、 wrong message to the other. 14 According to the professor, what is the cause for womens change in handshakes? （ A） A increasing number of women become employed. （ B） They have more sense of equality with men. （ C） They dont want to feel hurt during handshaking. （ D） They are more knowledgeable abou

14、t handshaking. 15 What does the professor say about the length of handshaking? （ A） It doesnt matter how long it will be. （ B） One should not release the others hand too quickly. （ C） The longer the handshake is, the better impression you will leave. （ D） It should be dependent on the relationship b

15、etween the hand shakers. 16 Why does the professor say this?. （ A） To express uncertainty about the statement. （ B） To criticize some cultures. （ C） To arouse students attention. （ D） To check the students understanding. 16 Narrator Listen to a part of a conversation in library. 17 Why is the studen

16、t in the library? （ A） To fill in a form. （ B） To join the video library. （ C） To do a survey. （ D） To help the librarian. 18 What is the students home telephone number? （ A） 9456 1309. （ B） 9835 1309. （ C） 9835 6712. （ D） 9456 6712. 19 Why does the librarian ask the student about her favorite video

17、s? （ A） To show her interest in him. （ B） To do a survey. （ C） To complete the procedure. （ D） To help him find a video. 20 What types of films does the student like? （ A） Action. （ B） Musicals. （ C） Westerns. （ D） Wildlife. 21 What does the woman mean when says this? （ A） The student has finished h

18、is registration. （ B） The student cannot borrow films until next week. （ C） The student must return vides in a week. （ D） The student must come back to pick up his card next week. 21 Narrator Listen to a part of a talk reporting a study project. 22 Why was the professor first interested in the subje

19、ct? （ A） Because he had witnessed some road rage. （ B） Because he had read about some road rage. （ C） Because he had experienced some road rage. （ D） Because he was once a victim of road rage. 23 What is the main research method? （ A） Interviews. （ B） Questionnaires. （ C） Observation. （ D） Experimen

20、ts. 24 Which of the following statements is tree about the respondents? （ A） Women are more willing to cooperate than men. （ B） The number of male respondents is a little larger than that of the female. （ C） The respondents are not willing to cooperate for the sake of privacy. （ D） The number of fem

21、ale respondents is larger than that of the male. 25 What is the most common type of road rage incidents? （ A） Damage to property. （ B） Personal violence. （ C） Verbal abuse. （ D） Road robbery. 26 What does the professor mean by saying this? （ A） Male and female respondents have obvious different stra

22、tegies. （ B） Men and women tend to answer the question in the same way. （ C） Women are more concerned about their own safety than men. （ D） The professor was shocked by the figures he got in the study. 27 Who are more likely to inform someone of their expected arrival time? （ A） Men. （ B） Women. （ C

23、） Both men and women. （ D） Neither men nor women. 27 Narrator Listen to a part of a discussion in a business class. The professor is discussing what was taught in the last class. 28 What is the talk mainly about? （ A） Marketing new products. （ B） Pricing strategies. （ C） Managing large companies. （

24、D） Setting sales targets. 29 What is revenue management? （ A） Its about how to manage pricing policies. （ B） It deals with how to make the best use of your property. （ C） Its about how to make the business most profitable. （ D） It deals with how to make the managers more qualified. 30 According to t

25、he female students, when are air fares the lowest? （ A） When they include weekend travel. （ B） When they are booked well in advance. （ C） When they are non-refundable. （ D） When they are for business travel only. 31 What are the two reasons for the new approach to pricing? Click on two answers. （ A）

26、 The law has been changed. （ B） The companies want to provide better services. （ C） There are powerful computer programs. （ D） The companies want to attract more customers. 32 How does the male student think about the revenue management? （ A） Interesting. （ B） Complicated. （ C） Time-consuming. （ D）

27、Reasonable. 33 What do the airline companies want to do? （ A） They want to increase profits. （ B） They want to benefit the passengers. （ C） They want to sell cheap seats. （ D） They want to beat their competitors. 一、 Sections Three： Reading Comprehension 33 Overcoming the Language Barrier The discove

28、ry that language can be a barrier to communication is quickly made by all who travel, study, govern or sell. Whether the activity is tourism, research, government, policing, business, or data dissemination, the lack of a common language can severely impede progress or can halt it altogether. “Common

29、 language“ here usually means a foreign language, but the same point applies in principle to any encounter with unfamiliar dialects or styles within a single language. “They dont talk the same language“ has a major metaphorrical meaning alongside its literal one. Although communication problems of t

30、his kind must happen thousands of times each day, very few become public knowledge. Publicity comes only when a failure to communicate has major consequences, such as strike, lost orders, legal problems, or fatal accidents- even, at times, war. One reported instance of communication failure took pla

31、ce in 1970, when several Americans ate a species of poisonous mushroom. No remedy was known, and two of the people died within days. A radio report of the case was heard by a chemist who knew of a treatment that had been successfully used in 1959 and published in 1963. Why had the American doctors n

32、ot heard of it seven years later? Presumably because the report of the treatment had been published only in journals written in European languages other than English. A But isolated examples do not give an impression of the size of the problem something that can come only from studies of the use or

33、avoidance of foreign-language materials and contacts in different communicative situations. B In the English-scientific world, for example, surveys of books and documents consulted in libraries and other information agencies have shown that very little foreign-language material is ever consulted. C

34、Library requests in the field of science and technology showed that only 13 per cent were for foreign language periodicals. D Studies of the sources cited in publications lead to a similar conclusion: the use of foreign-language sources is often found to be as low as 10 per cent. The language barrie

35、r presents itself in stark form to form who wish to market their products in other countries. British industry, in particular, has in recent decades often been criticized for its linguistic insularity- for its assumption that foreign buyers will be happy to communicate in English, and that awareness

36、 of other languages is not therefore a priority. In the 1960s, over two-thirds of British firms dealing with non-English-speaking customers were using English for outgoing corresponddence; many had their sales literature only in English; and as many as 70 per cent of employees cannot communicate in

37、the customers languages. A similar problem was identified in other English-speaking countries, notably the USA, Australia and New Zealand. And non-English- speaking countries were by no means exempt- although the widespread use of English as an alternative language made them less open to the charge

38、of insularity. The criticism and publicity given to this problem since the 1960s seems to have greatly improved the situation. Industrial training schemes have promoted an increase in linguistic and cultural awareness. Many firms now have their own translation services; to take just one example in B

39、ritain, Rowntree Mackintosh now publish their documents in six languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Xhosa). Some firms run part-time language courses in the languages of the countries with which they are most involved; some produce their own technical glossaries, to ensure consiste

40、ncy when material is being translated. It is now much more readily appreciated that marketing efforts can be delayed, damaged, or disrupted by a failure to take account of the linguistic needs of the customer. The changes in awareness have been most marked in English-speaking countries, where the re

41、alization has gradually dawned that by no means everyone in the world knows English well enough to negotiate in it. This is especially a problem when English is not an official language of public administration, as in most parts of the Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Arab world, Latin America

42、and French-speaking Africa. Even in cases where foreign customers can speak English quite well, it is often forgotten that they may not be able to understand it to the required level - bearing in mind the regional and social variation which permeates speech and which can cause major problems of list

43、ening comprehension. In securing understanding, how “we“ speak to “them“ is just as important, it appears, as how “they“ speak to “us“. 34 The word impede in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to （ A） improve. （ B） hinder. （ C） stop. （ D） speed. 35 In stating “They dont talk the same language“ in par

44、agraph 1, the author pints out the problems in （ A） understanding metaphor. （ B） learning foreign languages. （ C） understanding dialects or styles. （ D） dealing with technological change. 36 Why does the author describe the case of poisonous mushroom? （ A） To support the position that communication

45、problems may lead to fatal accidents. （ B） To give an example of fatal accidents caused by poisonous mushrooms. （ C） To criticize the American doctors for their ignorance about the treatment. （ D） To introduce a famous chemist who knew the treatment. 37 Which of the following can be inferred from pa

46、ragraph 2 about American doctors? （ A） They should pay more attention to radio reports. （ B） They only read medical articles if they are in English. （ C） They are sometimes unwilling to try foreign treatments. （ D） They do not always communicate effectively with their patients. 38 The word it in par

47、graph 2 refers to the （ A） radio report. （ B） poisonous mushroom. （ C） chemist. （ D） treatment. 39 According to the passage, the linguistic insularity of British businesses （ A） later spread to other countries. （ B） had a negative effect on their business. （ C） is not as bad as it used to be. （ D） m

48、ade non-English speaking companies to other markets. 40 Look at the four squares that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage. Several comparable cases have been reported. Where would the sentence best fit? （ A） Square . （ B） Square . （ C） Square . （ D） Square . 41 The pa

49、ssage discusses all of the following as examples of linguistic insularity in the 1960s EXCEPT the fact that （ A） most British firms used English to correspond with non-English- speaking customers. （ B） many companies only had English sales literature. （ C） the majority of employees could speak the customers languages. （ D） foreign customers were happy to communicate in English. 42 The word exempt in paragraph 4 is closets in meaning to （ A） expected. （ B） excluded. （ C） expired. （ D） accepted. 43 According to paragraph 4, English- speaking people ne