05-06大学英语精读期末试题双
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基础英语精读 考试卷 A 卷 第 1 页 共 4 页 2014-04-30
南 京 信 息 职 业 技 术 学 院 试 卷
2005 /2006学年第_1_学期 期终考试A 卷
课程名称： 基础英语精读 考试时间：100分钟
命题人 戴相朝 2005 年 12 月 15 日
审批人 年 月 日
使用班级： 20533S 、40544S 、40545S 、30512S 、30532S 等
考试成绩： 。
Part Ⅰ Fill in the gaps with words or phrases chosen from the following box. Change the form
where necessary.
（8 minutes; 15 x 1’ = 15’）
1. The second part of the book describes the strange _______________ of events that lead to the king’s fall from power.
2. The President came under attack from all sides for his inability to ______________ the
country’s severe social prob lems.
3. You’ll probably find Dave at the pool hall—he often ______________there.
4. It’s ______________ impossible to get home in less than an hour when the traffic is heavy.
5. The job is great ______________ advancement but the starting salary is rather low.
6. I s houldn’t always have to tell you what to do, use your own ______________.
7. People who ______________ litter in the streets should be fined heavily.
8. We’ll go out as soon as I’ve ______________ the kitchen.
9. From the radar screen air controllers ______________ each plane by their different call sign,
speed and altitude.
10. Helen is pretty, of ______________ build, with blue eyes.
11. Hard as competition is, Microsoft is still ______________ its position as market leader in
software.
12. ______________ world peace, we must promote mutual understanding among nations with
different social system.
13. John ______________ his work as soon as he was out of the hospital.
14. The boxer ______________ his opponent repeatedly in the nose.
15. Average students who work hard usually do better than clever students who are ______________. Part Ⅱ
Choose the best answer for each of the following:(7 minutes; 15 x 1’ = 15’ ) 16. The city government promises to _____ the problem of unemployment in real earnest. A. postpone B. tackle C. compose D. anticipate
17. Many people are still unwilling to buy on credit. The idea of spending money before one earns
it _____ among the Chinese.
A. has not yet taken hold
B. has not yet put across
C. has passed away
D. has not yet fitted into
18. I have searched all the book stores in this town. The book you asked for is not___.
A. tedious
B. vivid
C. available
D. sufficient
19. During the war there was a severe food shortage. It was not unusual that even the well-to-do
families had to _____ meat for days. A. do with
B. do without
C. turn away
D. turn in
20. Thirty miles away from the town, the robbers _______ the car and disappeared into the woods.
A. approached
B. ground
C. abandoned
D. removed
21. To postpone ______ the debt will ruin our business reputation.
A. paying
B. to pay
C. pay
D. paid
22. The cost of this building_______ to be over a million.
A. is estimated
B. estimates
C. has estimated
D. having been estimated
23. Because of rising cost, we spend ______________ money on the project as had been planned.
A. twice much
B. twice as much
C. twice
D. twice as more
24. The rainstorm has damaged the crops. The loss has not yet been ______ accurately, but it is
believed to be well beyond a million dollars. A. considered B. assessed C. explored D. calculated
25. It won’t take long to _______ the situation. But I need some more time before I come up with a
plan to solve the problem. A. sum up
B. size up
C. figure out
D. wipe out
26. The Democratic Party must reach out to the people and ______________ its message if it is to
win the election.
A. figure out
B. take over
C. drive home
D. throw up
27. It is ______________ of you to shelter the kids from bad movies that are likely to affect their
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healthy growth. A. sensible
B. humble
C. tedious
D. reasonable
28. Because my TV set ______________ I could not watch the football game broadcast live last
night. A.
broke up
B. broke off
C. broke down
D. broke out
29. Looking through the telescope, the captain ______________ a whale slowly emerging from
the water. A. revealed
B. searched
C. scanned
D. spotted
30. ______________ the ground covered with ice, the road has become very slippery.
A. With
B. On
C. Along
D. At
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension:
(35 minutes; 20 X 2’ = 40’ )
Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the center. Passage 1
Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They
contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign lan guage is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, “As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives.” A culture and its language are as
necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
31. The best title for this passage is
A. Organs of Culture
B. Brain and Body
C. Looking into his eyes
D. Language and Culture 32. According to this passage, the best way to learn a foreign language is__________ A. to read the works of poets and philosophers
B. to find a native speaker and look directly into his eyes
C. to begin by learning its body language
D. to visit a country where you can study
33. According to this passage, gestures are__________
A. spoken words
B. a non-language element
C. pictures in a language
D. written language 34. "As many languages as one speaks, so many lives..." means__________
A. if one learns many foreign languages, one will have a better understanding of his own language
B. life is richer and more interesting if one knows several languages
C. no matter how many languages one knows, one can never know more than one's own culture
D. if a person speaks only one language, he will live a very happy life 35. Which of the following doesn't share the same meaning with the others? A. signs B. gestures C. efficient D. body language Passage 2
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts (干旱) and floods.
Unfortunately, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire(帝国). It gained the empire, but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced by flood and starvation. (Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade villagers to see this.) The villagers want wood to cook their food with; and they can earn money by selling wood. They are usually too lazy to plant and look after the trees. (So, unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.)
This does not only mean that the villagers' children and grandchildren will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious, for where there are trees their roots break the soil up allowing the rain to sink in - and also bind the soil, thus preventing its being washed away easily but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away from the surface, causing flood. 36. What is the most important function of trees?
A. Providing fuel.
B. Offering shade.
C. Preventing natural disaster.
D. Providing wood. 37. What eventually happened to the empire in the paragraph? A. Its people died of hunger. B. It fell to pieces.
C. It became a giant empire.
D. It built many ships with wood. 38. It is implied in the passage that the villagers__________ A. want a plentiful supply of trees. B. want firewood badly.
C. just want to get money.
D. don't realize the importance of trees. 39. The role of trees is to__________
A. loosen soil
B. keep soil in position
C. harden soil
D. both A and B 40. What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A. The benefits of trees.
B. Trees and soil protection
C. The various uses of trees.
D. Different attitudes toward trees.
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Passage 3
“Keep an eye on Esther. I’ll be back in a second,” Joy Warren said to her three -year-old son Stephen, who was sitting in the back of the Buick. She didn’t like leaving the children alone in the car, but the baby was sleeping soundly. And it would only be a moment.
She had hardly walked 40 yards when she saw the car moving. It headed straight towards the river. Unable to swim, Joy shouted, “My babies are in that car!”
Daniel Whitehead, a 17-ear-old student, was walking by the river when the Buick crashed into the water just yards ahead. Without thinking, Daniel jumped in. Though a competitive swimmer, he
was shocked by the icy chill.
Two minutes earlier, Skip Womack had pulled to a halt as the Buick ran in front of him. Now seeing it hit the water and hearing Joy’s cries, Skip got out of his truck and jumped into the water.
He had only one thought: If I don’t get them out, they’ll drown.
Daniel reached the car and grabbed the door handle. But the water was only four inches beneath the window, and the door wouldn’t open. With one power punch, Daniel and Skip broke a
window. Daniel reached inside and lifted Stephen out. He placed him on his back and set out for shore. At the same time, Skip squeezed himself through the window. He managed to free Esther from beneath her seat belt. After he got out of the car with the baby, he held her over the water and
swam toward the shore. All this took place just seconds before the Buick disappeared beneath the water.
Later, diving home, Skip thought of his wife and children---how close he’d come to leaving
them behind. He thought of the miracle he’d lived through, and how two children were still alive because he and Daniel happened to be in the right place at the right time. 41. Why did Joy leave her children in the car?
A. She didn’t like shopping with a child in hand.
B. She didn’t like waking the baby.
C. Stephen was big enough to take care of his sister.
D. It was icy cold outside. 42. Daniel and Skip, who saved the lives of the two kids,________.
A. had been good friends
B. were two good friends of Joy Warren’s
C. were Joy Warren’s neighbors
D. were strangers before the accident 43. How did Daniel get Stephen out of danger?
A. He squeezed into the car and carried him out.
B. he pulled him out through the broken window.
C. He freed him from his seatbelt before he got him out.
D. He held him over the water and swam back to shore. 44. What happened to Joy Warren’s Buick?
A. It had four inches of water in it.
B. One of its window could not be opened.
C. It was pulled out of water and set on the shore.
D. It sank to the bottom of the river.
45. How did Skip feel on his way home?
A. He felt lucky to be still alive after having saved the lives of the two kids.
B. He missed his wife and children, whom he had left behind in the morning.
C. He felt very thankful to Daniel, without whom he would not have made it.
D. He wondered how he and Daniel could be in the right place at the right time. Passage 4
Who coined the term personal computer ? The Oxford English Dictionary says Byte magazine used it first, in its May 1976 issue. But Yale Law school librarian Fred Shapiro decided to do some digging on his own ---with help from JSTOR, an online electronic database for academic (学术) journals. JSTOR ’s arts and sciences archive (档案) offers scans of 5 million pages from 117 journals, some dating back 150 years. Using character- recognition software, JSTOR creates searchable files for each document (文件), allowing full-text search across 15 academic fields. (S3) While searching for the origin of personal computer , Shapiro uncovered several competing claims. Stewart Brand, founder of whole Earth Catalog, says on his Web site that he first referred to a “personal computer ” in a 1974 book; and GUI pioneer Alan Kay is said to have used the term in a paper published in 1972.
But a search on JSTOR ’s general science archive turned up what Shapiro says is the earliest recorded use of personal computer , in the October 4, 1968, issue of Science. The issue contains a Hewlett-Packard advertisement for its new HP 9100A. “The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer,” the advertisement says, is “ready, willing and able …to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer.” The $ 4,900 device----a desktop scientific calculator equipped with magnetic cards---doesn ’t seem like much of a computer nowadays. And at 40 pounds, it wasn ’t very personal, either. But according to Shapiro, it was the first device to be called a personal computer. 46. The term “personal computer ” first appeared________.
A. in Byte magazine.
B. in a Hewlett-Packard ad in Science
C. in a 1974 book
D. in a paper published by Alan Kay 47. What is JSTOR?
A. It is an online database.
B. It is an academic journal.
C. It is a kind of computer software.
D. It is a research organization.
48. Shapiro succeeded in his search for the origin of the term personal computer by______. A. looking into the Oxford English Dictionary. B. digging into magazines that are more than 150 years old. C. scanning JSTOR ’s general science archive on line. D. focusing on academic journals such as Science .
49. With a HP 9100A, according to the Hewlett-Packard advertisement, you_______. A. can easily get on the big computer. B. don ’t have to get on a big computer.
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C. can save a lot of money
D. will be willing and ready to do scientific work. 50. What do we learn from the passage about the first device that was called a personal computer ? A. It looked very different from the PC we know today. B. It was small, light and easy to carry around. C. It was as efficient as a big computer.
D. It relieved people of a great deal of tedious work. Part Ⅳ Cloze ( 15 minutes; 0.5’ x 20 = 10’)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices
marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on tire: Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
In every cultivated language there are two great classes of words, which makes up the whole vocabulary. First, there are those words 51 which we become familiar in daily conversation, which we 52, that is to say, from the 53 of our own family and from our friends,
and 54 we should know and use 55 we could not read or write. They 56 the common things of life with all the people who 57 the language. Such words may be called "popular", since they belong to the people 58 and are not excluded 59 a limited class.
On the other hand, our language 60 a large number of words which are comparatively 61 used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings are known to every educated person, but there is little 62 to use them at home or in the market-place. Our 63 acquaintance (熟悉) with them
comes not from our mother's 64 or from the talk of our schoolmates, 65 from books that we read, lectures that we 66 , or the more 67 conversation of highly educated speakers who are discussing some particular 68 in a style properly higher above the habitual 69 of everyday life.
Such words are called "learned", and the 70 between them and the "popular" words is of great importance to a right understanding of language study process.
51. A. at B. with C. by D. through
52. A. study B. imitate C. stimulate D. learn 53. A. mates B. relatives C. members D. fellows 54. A. which B. that C. those D. ones
55. A. even B. despite C. even if D. in spite of 56. A. mind B. concern C. care D. relate 57. A. hire B. apply C. adopt D. use 58. A. in public B. at most C. at large D. at best 59. A. in B. from C. with D. on 60. A. consists B. consists of C. makes D. composes 61. A. seldom B. much C. greatly D. often
62. A. possibility B. way C. reason D. necessity 63. A. primary B. first C. principal D. prior 64. A. tips B. mouth C. ears D. tongue 65. A. besides B. and C. yet D. but 66. A. hear of B. attend C. hear from D. listen 67. A. former B. formula C. formal D. forward 68. A. theme B. topic C. idea D. point 69. A. border B. link C. degree D. extent 70. A. relation B. distinction C. connection D. similarity
Part Ⅴ Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given
below:
(7 minutes; 0.5’ x 5 + 0.5’ = 3’ )
71. 科技的发展令我们深受鼓舞，信息技术已经延伸到人们生活的各个领域，现在人们之间
的通信由电子邮件来进行，我们要敢于和其他国家竞争，因为谁也不能阻挡时代的步伐。 Part Ⅵ Translate the following sentences into Chinese:(3 minutes; 1’ x 2 = 2’) 72. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
73. When you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making
fun of you. Part Ⅶ
Writing
(25 minutes; 1 x 15’ = 15’)
Directions: For this part, you are given the first sentence of each paragraph and are required to
develop its idea in completing the paragraph. Write no less than 120 words, not including the words given. Be sure to write clearly .
Learning
1. There was just so much to learn about when we were children.
2. As young adults, we must keep learning many new things.
3. Even when we reach old age learning remains important to us.