高职高专 实用英语 第一学期 期中考试试卷 A卷

高职高专实用英语第一学期期中考试试卷A卷

Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension （每题两分，共十题，共二十分）

Only Child versus Siblings

Read the text and fill in as many words as you can.

Although I wasn’t an （1）______ child, my sister was 14 years （2）______ than me and had left home when I turned （3）_____ years old, so I left like an only child.

I had no one to play with and my (4) ______ were older --- my mother was 40 when I was

(5)_____ .

So now I have 4 children at age 3,5,14 and 16. My boys are the two older ones. My girls are the younger ones and they always (6)______ over the toys, but the older two often manage to find a way that they can play together peacefully.

There are a lot of good things to have (7)_____ than one child. You can always say, “Go and play with your brother or sister, I must (8)______ dinner.” Siblings teach us to live with others more easily. While an only child never has to (9)_____ with anyone in her home, a child with siblings (10)______ to share.

Part Ⅱ Vocabulary & Structure（每题一分，共四十题，共四十分）

Section A: Choose the best answer.

1. We would like to ____ you to our barbeque tomorrow.

A．invitation B. information C. invite

2. I felt rather ______ when I left home for the first time to go on an exchange visit to America.

A. happy

B. informal

C. nervous

3. The party is very _____ so you can wear what you like.

A. informal

B. formal

C. friendly

4. I___ what my family is doing at this moment back home.

A. suggest

B. wonder

C. ask

5. There is no reason to continue this discussion. You are not going to the party and ____.

A. that's that

B. so on

C. ever after

6. You ____ think that all Americans can speak English and you would be right.

A. daily

B. probably

C. wrongly

7. My best friend, ____, can speak English and Spanish.

A. new

B. school

C. for example

8. But ____ if I lived on the border to Mexico I could speak English and Spanish, too.

A. maybe

B. always

C. never

9. I can hear my ______ neighbor through the wall. He is so loud. It is awful!

A. another

B. next-door

C. nice

10. A ____ handshake is much better than a limp one.

A. firm

B. serious

C. unfriendly

11.I took the wrong ___ at the last road junction, can you tell me how I get back on the motorway?

A. turn

B. turner

C. turning

12. Am I going in the right _____ for the post office?

A. route

B. direction

C. sign

13. Can you tell me please how I ___ to the cinema from here?

A. come

B. get

C. take

14. Could you please ___ me in the direction of the motorway?

A. deliver

B. show

C. point

15. I'm making for the M25 motorway. Is this road the most ____ route?

A. direct

B. obvious

C. straight

16. Can you help me please? I've lost my way and _____ to get to the shops before closing time.

A. require

B. need

C. request

17. Could you tell me how ___ I am from the town centre, please?

A. near

B. far

C. close

18. ____ to this map I should be near the church. I s that correct?

A. Considering

B. After

C. According

19. I'm ___ for the town hall - am I anywhere near?

A. making

B. seeking

C. seeing

20. Is this the ___ way for the railway station?

A. correct

B. clear

C. fine

21.If you ______ your money every week, you will soon have enough for a new bicycle.

A.spent

B. save

C. earn

22.It is ______ to spend your money DVDs. You can borrow them from the shop.

A.necessary

B. good

C. unnecessary

23.Siblings often have _____ about silly things.

A.agreement

B. arguments

C. friends

24.A good ______ with your parents is very important.

A.birth

B. dinner

C. relationship

25.My brother got a job as a _____ bus driver when he left school.

A.trainee

B. clever

C. friendly

26.Chu ______ in China and then moved to the USA when he was 25.

A. enjoyed

B. visited

C. grew up

27.I think we should _____ uniforms at our school. I hate them!

A.do away with

B. sell

C. take

28.A healthy river is ______ fish.

A.empty

B. full of

C. nice

29.I was very ____ of my sister for having such beautiful black hair.

A.frustrating

B. happy

C. jealous

30.There are no appointments _____ at the dentist this afternoon. You will have to wait until tomorrow.

A.attractive

B. available

C. able

Section B: Complete the sentences with the right form of the words in brackets

1. I had going shopping with my mother and the ______ (bad) moment always comes when she announces loudly in the shop how wonderful I look in the dress she has chosen for me.

2. She once chose an ugly pullover for me and went on to choose the ________ (awful) pair of trousers that I had ever seen.

3. Online shopping is the ________ (good) way of shopping for clothes, as my mother can no

longer embarrass me in shops!

4. Buying online is ______ (easy) than fighting the crowds in town.

5. I don’t want to be known as the person who has the ________ (fashionable) clothes at school, I just want to be one of the ordinary people, like my friends are.

6. There is one boy at our school who always wears the _______ (expensive) brands of shoes but they look no different to other shoes.

7. His parents are not _______ (rich) than mine but they give him so much money for clothes.

8. He thinks he is the ______ (cool) boy in our school.

9. Unfortunately, we think he is the _______ (nasty)!

10. And he gets _______ (aggressive) than he usually is if we just ignore him and his cool clothes.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension（每题两分，共十题，共二十分）

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions . For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Task 1

Our Neighbor

Jimmy has been a postman for the last ten year. He loves to talk to his wife in the evenings about the people he delivers to. He tells her about Mrs. Mannes, the little old lady at number 24, who is always very unfriendly when he delivers her post. She has a son in Australia and a daughter in France so she often gets post.

But one day when jimmy rings the bell with a parcel for Mrs. Mannes from her daughter, there is no answer. Jimmy know that the old lady never goes out (she even gets her food delivered from the local supermarket) so he starts to fell worried. He looks through the letterbox but sees nothing, and then he looks through the living room window and sees Mrs. Mannes lying on the floor. He goes around the house to check if the back door is open. It is, so he runs in and immediately rings for an ambulance. Mrs. Mannes gets to hospital in time. The doctor says that she had had a heart attack and if she had come to hospital any later she would not have survived. From that day on, Mrs. Mannes is very friendly and always gives jimmy a bar of chocolate when he delivers a parcel.

Complete the sentences with the best choice

1.Jimmy has been a postman______.

A. for ten years

B. four ten years

C. through ten years

D. over ten years

2.Mrs. Mannes has a ______.

A. son in France

B. daughter in Australia

C. son in Australia

D. daughter in Austria

3.Mrs. Mannes ______.

A. gets her food delivered

B. goes to the local supermarket by bus

C. gets her food from the little shop at the corner

D. doesn’t get her shopping from the local supermarket

4.When Mrs. Mannes didn’t answer the door, Jimmy ______.

A. saw her through the front door

B. went through the window

C. went through the living room window

D. saw her though the living room window

5.Mrs. Mannes got to the hospital ______.

A. before the ambulance

B. nearly too late

C. too late

D. for Jimmy

Task 2

Shopping online

My father and I were on holiday in America. My mother had stayed at home and on the 2nd day she fell and broke her leg. She could have asked the neighbors to do the shopping but she is a very independent lady.

Anyway, on our return after three weeks to the USA, she was surrounded by boxes and wrapping paper. She told us about her fall and how it was nearly mended.

“What about the shopping? Did you ask the neighbors for help?” I asked as the doorbell rang. “There’s your answer,” said my mother.

I opened the door and there was a man with a big box of groceries.

“Delivery for Mrs. Patterson,” he said.

“That is amazing,” I said. “Did you just Phone in your order? How did you know what was on offer?”

“I ordered online. Look here, this is the supermarket’s homepage with all their offers. I just click on the articles I want, pay by credit card and my groceries are delivered the same day. Great, eh?”

“That is amazing. I didn’t know any of our supermarkets offered that service. But Mun, what do all these empty boxes come from?”

“While I was surfing the net I found out how easy it is to order things at Amazon and I spent hours buying stuff on eBay. That is so much fun!”

Complete the sentences with the best choice.

1.The mother broke her leg _______ .

A. in America

B. on the 2nd day of her holiday

C. at the neighbor’s house

D. on the 2nd day of the writer’s holiday

2.The mother ________ .

A. asked the neighbor to do the shopping but they were too independent

B. didn’t ask the neighbor to do the shopping because she was too independent

C. didn’t ask the neighbor to do the shopping because they were too independent

D. asked the neighbor to do the shopping but they were on holiday

3.The bell rang and it was ______ .

A. a man with a box of groceries

B. the neighbor with a box of groceries

C. Mrs. Patterson with a box of groceries

D. the father with a box of groceries

4.The mother had ordered the groceries _______ .

A. by telephone

B. was cheap

C. was boring

D. was the delivery man

5.The mother thought shopping at Amazon and eBay _______ .

A. was expensive

B. was cheap

C. was boring

D. was enjoyable

Part IV Translation（每题五分，共两题，共十分）

Directions: Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1.Go straight down Station Road past the cinema. Then you will come to a crossing with traffic

lights. Turn left at the traffic lights and straight on at the roundabout. The youth hostel is in front of you. You really can’t miss it.

2.You go into the store and first you pass beautiful flowers and plants. Ahead, you see the fresh,

natural colors of fruit and vegetables. Vegetables aren’t on your shopping list but those red, green and yellow peppers look so delicious. They’re sorted, washed and pre-packed --- so convenient. And they’re on special offer, too!

Part Ⅴ Writing（每空一分，共十题，共十分）

按照说明写一份简历，请书写于答题卡上：

王晓华，男，生于1992年6月15日。家住北京市大兴区黄村镇清源路56号，联系电话为186********，电子邮箱wangxiaohua@https://www.wendangku.net/doc/7416891818.html,

从2006年9月至2009年7月就读北京市大兴第二中学。自2009年9月至2012年7月在北京交通运输职业学院学习，专业为民航服务。曾获得2010年、2011年度奖学金，并于2011年通过计算机考试，获得证书。2012年1月至4月在国航实习。个人的兴趣爱好是阅读和旅游。

Part ⅠListening Comprehension 每题2分，共10题，共20分。Part II Vocabulary & Structure每题1分，共40题，共40分。

Task 1 Task2

Part IV Translation—English into Chinese 每题5分，共2题，共10分。

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