2007年4月统考大学英语A正式试题.doc

2007年4月统考“大学英语A”正式试题 注 意 事 项 一、将你的姓名、考号填写在答题卡的规定栏内，将考号和考试科目在规定的栏内用2B铅笔涂满涂黑。考试结束后，把试卷和答题卡放在桌上。试卷和答题卡均不得带出考场。 二、仔细读懂题目的说明，并按题目要求答题。答案一定要写在答题卡的指定位置上，写在试卷上的答案无效。 三、选择题用2B铅笔将选中项涂满涂黑，主观题用蓝、黑圆珠笔或钢笔答题，使用铅笔答题无效。 Information for the Examinees: This examination consists of THREE parts. They are: Part Ⅰ: Reading Comprehension (50 points, 60 minutes) Part Ⅱ: Vocabulary and Structure (30 points, 30 minutes) Part Ⅲ: Writing (20 points, 30 minutes) The total score for this examination is 100. The time allowed for this examination is 2 hours (120 minutes). ? Part Ⅰ: Reading Comprehension (50 points) Instructions: ????????? This part will take 60 minutes. ????????? There are FIVE sections in this part. Mark ALL your answers by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet, e.g. [A]. Section A Questions 1—5 are based on this section. (10 points) Directions: Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C and D. Blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Manhattan Island is the oldest and most important of the five boroughs that make up New York City. It is 21.7 kilometers long and 3.8 kilometers wide at its widest point. It contains New York’s tallest buildings as well as some of the largest schools and colleges, and the most famous financial and theater districts in the United States. It has skyscrapers and Central Park, the old and the new, the best and the worst. It is like no other big city. It is unique. To understand Manhattan, we must know something of its early history: its early days of Dutch colonists and English settlers; the waves of nineteenth-century European immigrants who arrived at its shores; the African-Americans who moved north after the Civil War; recent immigrants from China and other parts of Asia; and young people who go to New York from all over America. It is a mix of ethnic groups and cultures, successes and failures, hope