《大学英语（2）》期末考试A卷 答案在最后 一、阅读：20% (所有答案必须填在答卷表格里,否则不得分) ( 1 ) In the United States many have been told that anyone can become rich and successful if he works hard and has some good luck. Yet, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tries to look as rich and as successful as his neighbors. The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American by the name of Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. But just moving there was not enough. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horse riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors. It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. Momand and his wife could not do that. The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They left their wealthy neighborhood and moved back to an apartment in New York City. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years. Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead. 1. The writer of the selection believes _____. A. anyone in the United States can become rich B. anyone in the United Sates can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck C. he can become rich in the future D. many people in the United States think anyone can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck 2. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because ______. A. they want to be as rich as their neighbors B. they want to be happy C. they don’t want others to know they are rich D. they want others to know or to think that they are rich 3. It can be inferred from the story that rich people _____. A. like to live in apartments B. like to live in New York City C. like to live outside New York City D. like to have many neighbors 4. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because Jones is _____. A,. an important name B. his neighbor’s name C. a popular name in the United States D. not a good name 5. According to the writer, it is _____. A. correct to keep up with the Joneses B. interesting to keep up with the Joneses C. impossible to keep up with the Joneses D. good to keep up with the Joneses ( 2 ) A certain hunter had found a piece of forest where there were plenty of animals to hunt. The only trouble was that the place was very difficult to get to. He returned from his first visit to the place in late autumn, and could not get back until the snow melted in the following spring. Then he went to the pilot of a small plane, who earned his living by carrying hunters over parts of the country where there were no roads and no railways. He asked the pilot to take him back to the piece of forest. The pilot did not know the place, so the hunter showed it to him on the map. “But there is nowhere to land there,” said the pilot. “I have flown over that we can’t land anywhere between this river and these mountains.”
福建师范大学2024年2月课程考试《大学英语(2)》作业考核试题630
