08试卷A

现代传媒学院2007 ~2008第二学期期末考试(闭卷)

A. intelligent B. comfortable C. strange D. unlucky

2. Judging from the context, the world “guru” in the first paragraph means a 2007级英语考试题A

person_____.

A. who acts as a teacher and answers big questions B. who gives wrong answers to big questions

C. who does not h Physicists ave answers to real big questions D. who is eager to supply answers to big questions

一、 阅读题（ 20分）

3. Which of the following is true according to what author says about the physicists?

A. Physicists do not like their jobs.

B. Physicists live in two different worlds.

C. Physicists are coming up with new answers to old questions.

D. Physicists don’t have to tell people what they are doing.

A

4. Which of the following statements is true of theoretical physicists?

A. They only have to answer the basic questions about the world.

B. They have contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work,

C. They have disappointed the expectations of many people.

they can give a simple, direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I fix sick people” D. They have found it hard to make friends with ordinary people.

or “I teach primary school”. As a theoretical physical, I never had this luck. 5. Which of the following is true about the job of today’s physicists? Society has come to expect many things from the physicists. It used to be that A. It is getting easier and easier with the help of modern technology. we only had to discovered the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques B. It is not related to any practical use.

that would power the next Silicon Valley. With these expectations we were fairly C. It cannot be done by a person with average intelligence. comfortable; they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes D. It is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. us uncomfortable—and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to—is that in this century we have become, though unwillingly, gurus on questions

such as “ What is the nature of Reality?”.

B

We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began There are two things I can count on my dead asking every time he calls me: “ Is and what is the nature of matter. The answers we are coming up with are just not there anything I can do for you?” and “How’s the car?” I guess he asks what easy to comprehend for the average person.

he can do for me because his dad (an air force officer) was never really there So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee for him, and he’s determined to provide me with the support he lacked. During and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter my youth he never missed a school play or softball game. In fact, he was so a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people supportive that I sometimes longed for one of those dads who dress shoes and black to understand.

socks, cheering me on, expecting greatness. 1. According to the passage, in a way physicists are______.

His other standard question—“How is the car?”—used to strike me as a waste

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