大学英语1期末复习参考样卷

⼤学英语1期末复习参考样卷
学长提⽰：这两年来英语期末考试仿照四六级的模式进⾏，但题量⽐四六级少，难度也低于四六级，这是⼀份参考试卷（⽆答案），上⾯的题⽬已经考过⾃然不会再出，只是让各位同学看看试卷的样式。

请⼤家务必注意英语⽼师在开学时让⼤家订的《练习册》，真正考试⼀般会有20分左右上⾯的题。

Part I. Writing (10 points)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed to write a composition based on the following requirements, entitled My study and Life at College. You should write 100-120 words. Write down your composition on Answer Sheet 2.
1.My biggest gain in the first half semester.
2.My greatest difficulty at present.
My Study and Life at College
Part II. Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
(1 point each, 10 points)
Directions:In this part, you have to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions. Then mark the corresponding letter (A—Y; B—N; C—NG) on Answer Sheet 1
Y(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage.
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage.
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
Broken Wing
Maybe you‘ve heard the saying, ―A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.‖ I am sure that Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.
By high school, Ware was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. He wasn‘t very talkative, didn‘t answer questions and got into lots of fights. He had failed in almost every class. I met Ware for the first time at a weekend training program, which was designed to have students become more involved in their communities. Ware was one of 405 students who signed up for the program. When I showed up to lead them, the communities leaders gave me this overview(概况) of the attending students: ―We have different kinds of students today, from the student body president to T. J. Ware, the boy with the longest arrest record in the history of town.‖ Somehow, I knew that I wasn‘t the first to hear about Ware‘s dark side as the first words of introduction.
At the start of the program, Ware was literally standing outside the circle of students, against the back wall. He didn‘t readily join the discussion groups and seemed to have little to say. But slowly, the interactive（互动式的）games drew him in. The ice really melted when the groups started building a list of positive and negative things that had occurred at school that year. Ware had some definite thoughts on those situations. The other students in Ware‘s group welcomed his comments. All of a sudden Ware felt like a part of the group, and before long he was being treated like a leader. He was saying things that made a lot of sense, and everyone was listening. Ware was a smart guy and had some great ideas. The next day, Ware was very active in all the sessions. By the end of the program, he had joined the Homeless Project team. He knew something about poverty, hunger and hopelessness. Impressed with his passionate(热情的)concern and ideas, the other students on the team elected Ware chairman of the team.
Two weeks later, Ware led the team to collect food for needy families. In just two hours they collected 2,854 cans of food, which could support the poor family in the area for 75 days. The local newspaper covered the event with a full-page article the next day. That newspaper story and Ware‘s picture were posted on the main bulletin board at school. Every day he was reminded about what he did. He was being acknowledged as leadership material. Then Ware started showing up at school every day and answered questions from teachers for the first time.
Ware‘s story reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. But once it has healed(痊愈), it can fly higher than the rest.
( ) 1. By high school, T. J. Ware wasn‘t very talkative, didn‘t answer questions and got into lots of fights. ( ) 2. T. J. Ware was one of 408 students who signed up for the program.
( ) 3.The author was the first to hear about Ware‘s dark side as the first words of introduction.
( ) 4. At the beginning of the training program, T. J. Ware was reluctant to join the students in their activities. ( ) 5. Through the program, T. J. Ware demonstrated potential as a leader.
( ) 6. It was getting warmer when the students carried out their program.
( ) 7. T. J. Ware had joined the Homeless Project team by the end of the program.
( ) 8. T. J. Ware was always devoted to aiding those in need.
( ) 9. Encouragement from the teacher helped T. J. Ware to reform himself.
( ) 10. The weekend training program lasted for two weeks.
Part III. Listening Comprehension (20 points)
Section A (0.5 point each, 5 points)
Directions: In this section, you‘ll hear ten short conversations. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and questions will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
11. A. What do you do? B. Fine thanks.
C. I‘ m a college student.
D. I do well in my studies.
12. A. She is very kind. B. She is very well.
C. She is still very young.
D. She is doing her homework now.
13. A. By taking a course. B. V ery well.
C. In the library.
D. In the morning.
14. A. She looks very well. B. She likes parties a lot.
C. She likes her father.
D. She is like a model, tall and pretty.
15. A. I bought it at a sale. B. It‘s very nice.
C. It‘s my sister‘s.
D. My sister likes it.
16. A. At 9:00 B. At 9:15.
C. At 9:30.
D. At 9:50.
17. A. 5 dollars. B. 10 dollars.
C. 20 dollars.
D. 15 dollars.
18. A. One. B. Two
C: Three D. Four
19. A. It‘s beside a hotel. B. It‘s beside a busy road.
C. It‘s next to a hotel.
D. It‘s opposite a hotel on a busy road.
20. A. He often teaches English in his free time. B. He‘s an English teacher.
C. He often teaches English for nothing.
D. He gives three English lessons each week.
Section B (1 points each, 10 points)
Directions: In this section you will hear two long conversations and a passage. The conversations and passage will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
Conversation One
21. A. The differences between languages.
B. The importance of foreign language learning.
C. What languages they speak.
D. The major difficulties in foreign language learning.
22. A. Both Mrs. Brown and Mr. Green are foreign language teachers.
B. Both Mrs. Brown and Mr. Green speak several languages.
C. Neither Mrs. Brown nor Mr. Green is a native speaker of English.
D. Neither Mrs. Brown nor Mr. Green speaks Japanese.
23. A. Mr. Brown speaks Japanese better than Mrs. Brown.
B. Spelling is the most difficult part in foreign language learning.
C. French is often spoken by English-speaking people.
D. Mr. Green often makes business trips to the Middle East.
Conversation Two
24. A. In the morning.
B. In the afternoon.
C. In the evening.
D. At night.
25. A. The mother.
B. The father.
C Keith.
D. Everybody shares.
26. A. Happy.
B. Sad.
C. Angry
D. Surprised.
Passage
27. A. He is a bus driver.
B. He is a repairman.
C. He is an engineer.
D. He is a mechanic.
28. A. He came back home very late and very angry.
B. He came back home very early and very angry.
C. He came back home very early and very happy.
D. He came back home very late and very happy.
29. A. He takes a bus.
B. He walks to his factory but takes a bus to get home after work.
C. He always walks.
D. He takes a bus to get to his factory and walks home after work.
30. A. Bill prefers walking to taking a bus.
B. Bill tries to save money when he can.
C. Bill thinks of nothing but monkey.
D. Bill has saved a lot of money.
Section C (0.5 point each, 5 points)
Directions: In this section you will hear a passage three times. You are required to fill in the blanks. Then write down your answers on Answer Sheet 2.
Our words –spoken or written—can become deeds of kindness that build hope, ease pains even change lives. Here is a story of how kind words helped an old lady on her life __31___.
When Mrs. Law learned that her 25-year-old daughter, Julia, was killed in a car accident, she was ___32____. Following the ___33____, Mrs. Law went to her daughter?s office to clean out her desk. ____34____, several of Julia‘s fellow workers came by to express their sympathy. All ___35____ ended with, ―If there is anything I can do…..‖ Mrs. Law responded by asking them to write down their __36_____ about her daughter and mail them to her. ―I told them that receiving their notes would ___37____ me with a glimpse of Julia‘s life that I didn‘t know about.‖
Over the next few weeks, Mrs. Law received ___38____ of letters from Julia‘s fellow workers. ―When I begin to feel blue, I read those letters ___39____ and am comforted,‖ Mrs. Law says. ―There are no words to express how much those letters have ___40____ to me.‖
Part IV. Reading Comprehension (reading in depth) (30 points)
Section A (1 point each, 10 points)
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Do not treat all new words in exactly the same way. Have you ever complaine d___41___your memory because you find it simply __42_____to memorize all the new words you are learning? But in fact, it is not your___43___that is at fault. If you cram your head with too many new words at a time, some of them are ___44____ to be crowded out. What you need to do is to deal with new words in different ways according to ___45___frequently they occur in every use. ___46____ active words demand ___47___practice and useful words must be ___48____to memory, words that do not often occur in everyday situations require just a nodding acquaintance. You will find concentrating ___49___ active and useful words the most
___50___route to enlarging
Section B (2 points each, 20 points)
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions. 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
When Berenice Belizaire arrived in New York from Haiti with her mother and sister in 1987, she wasn‘t very happy. She spoke no English. The family had to live in a small and crowded Brooklyn apartment, a far cry from the comfortable house they‘d had in Haiti. Her mother, a nurse, worked long hours. School was torture(折磨). Berenice had always been a good student, but now she was learning a new language while enduring constant taunts(嘲笑)from the Americans. They cursed(咒骂)her in the cafeteria and threw food at her. Someone hit her sister in the head with a book. ―Why can‘t we go home?‖Berenice asked her mother.
Because home was dangerous. The schools weren‘t always open anymore, and education---her mother insisted---was the most important thing. Her mother had always pushed her: memorize everything, she ordered. ―I have a pretty good memory,‖ Berenice admitted last week. Indeed, the other kids at school began to notice that Berenice always, somehow, knew the answers.‖ They started coming to me for help,‖ she says. ―They never called me a nerd(书呆⼦).‖
Within two years Berenice was speaking English, though not well enough to get into one of New York‘s elite(精英)public high school. She had to settle for a neighborhood school, James Madison, a school with a history of unlikely success stories. ―I didn‘t realize what we had in Berenice at first,‖ says math teacher Judith Khan. ―She was good at math, but she was quiet. And the things she didn‘t know. She applied for a summer program in Buffalo and asked me how to get there on the subway. But she always seemed to ask the right questions. She understood the big ideas. She could think on her feet. She could explain difficult problems so the other kids could understand them. Eventually I realized she wasn‘t just pushing for grades, she was hungry for knowledge… And you know it never occurred to me that she also was doing well in English and history, all these subjects that had to be much tougher for her than math.‖
51. Berenice and her family came to the United States so that_________________________.
A.She could get a good education
B.They could live a comfortable life
C.They could learn to speak perfect English
D. she would enjoy school together with her sister
52. How did the American students treat Berenice and her sister when they first came to New York?
A.They tried to help them.
B.They looked down upon them.
C.They tried to make friends with them.
D. They kept a distance from them.
53. How was it that the American children never called Berenice a nerd?
A.They came to know she had a pretty good memory.
B.She spoke English as if she were a native American,
C.She could help them with their schoolwork.
D.They knew she had always been a good student.
54. Why didn‘t Berenice get into an elite public school?
A.Her family couldn‘t afford the cost.
B.Her English wasn‘t good enough.
C.It was too far away from where her family lived.
D.The neighborhood school she went to had a history of unlikely success stories.
55. Why did Berenice make such rapid progress in her studies after she came to America according to her math teacher?
A.There were so many things she didn‘t know.
B.The summer program she went to helped her a lot.
C.Her mother pressed her for good grades.
D.She had a thirst for knowledge.
Passage Two
One of the greatest mysteries in biology—how the monarch butterfly(帝王蝶)travels thousands of kilometers on its yearly migration(迁移) –has just been solved.
Monarch butterflies use the sun to set their body clocks and make their journeys, according to US scientists. No other butterfly in the world migrates like the orange and black monarchs of North America. They cannot live for long periods in cold weather. Each autumn, thousands travel up to 3,000 km to spend the winter in the mountains of Mexico. There are so many, they almost block out the sky, and you can hear their wings beating.
It usually takes the butterflies two months to reach Mexico. After staying five months, they head back up north in the spring. But not one butterfly finishes the whole round-trip. They lay eggs along the way and die.
Three generations of butterflies will live and die during the spring journey alone. The fourth and final generation of the year is born in early autumn and will reach the north. But it hardly gets to rest before starting the long journey south to Mexico.
The most amazing thing about these butterflies is that they return to the very same tree in Mexico that their great-great-grandparents used the winter before. Past studies have shown that the insects use the sun as a compass to show them the way. But experts are unsure how the butterflies change their directions as the sun moves in the sky.
This new study now shows that the insects use a ―circadian(⽣理节奏的)‖clock in their bodies as part of their sun compass. In laboratory tests, monarch butterflies were found to fly in the right direction under normal daylight hours. But those flying in 24-hour light headed straight towards the sun. That is, they no longer had any sense of time.
Scientist Steven Reppert, who led the research, said: ―We have shown the need for the circadian clock for monarch butterfly migration. When the clock is interrupted, monarchs are unable to fly towards Mexico.‖
56. What is the focus of the passage?
A. Monarch butterflies‘ yearly migration.
B. The unique living style of monarch butterflies.
C. The guidance of the sun in monarch butterflies‘ navigation.
D. Monarch butterflies use body clocks as part of their sun compass.
57. Which of the following statements is true about monarch butterflies?
A. Each autumn they fly north to North America.
B. In spring they fly south to Mexico.
C. Only a few of them can finish the round trip.
D. Their color is orange and black.
58. The most surprising finding about the butterflies is that_______________________.
A. not one butterfly finishes the whole-round trip
B. they can find the same tree in Mexico that their great-great-grandparents used the winter before
C. it takes as long as two months for the butterflies to fly to Mexico
D. they use the sun as a compass
59. What can be learned from the passage about past studies and the new discovery?
A. Past studies discovered the new function of a body clock.
B. The new study discovers the use of the sun as a compass.
C. The new discovery throws light on an old mystery.
D. Past studies showed how the butterflies could change direction.
60. What was found in the laboratory?
A. Monarch butterflies lost their sense of time.
B. The sun was not important in their migration.
C. Butterflies flying in 24-hour light lost their sense of time.
D. Their body clocks were interrupted by the sun.
Part V. Cloze (0.5 point each, 10 points)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
What actually happens when we read? Some people think that we read one word __61____, understand it and then go on to the next. Other people think that our eyes smoothly ___62___ over each line from left to right, then back to the beginning of the ___63___ line, and so on. In fact, the physical action of reading usually doesn‘t work in __64____ of those ways.
___65___ you do this experiment with a friend. Get hold of a book with a large page ___66___ and with lines that go right
___67___ the page. __68____ your friend to ___69___ the book up and to read it with the top of the book just __70____ his eye level. This ___71___ that you can watch the movement of his eyes as he reads the page. ___72___ you do this, you will see that your friend‘s eyes do not make a continuous forward sweep. ___73___ they progress by little ―jumps‖ moving, then stopping, as they progress along the line.
___74___ to be this starting and stopping movement ___75___ the eye can see only when it is not moving. Every time the eye ___76___ it sees a phrase or even a sentence, then jumps to the next part of the line, and so on.
There is another interesting fact about eye movement. You will notice that, ___77___, the reader goes back and looks again at something he ___78___ before, in other words, he returns to an earlier part of the text probably because he __79____ he is not understanding it properly. Then he comes back ___80___ he stopped and continues reading.
61. A. at a time B. at one time C. at time D. at times
62. A. turn B. fly C. move D. sway
63. A above B. next C same D. second
64. A. either B. neither C. all D. both
65. A. Think B. Guess C. Suppose D. Suggest
66. A. number B. quantity C. space D. size
67. A. off B. across C. up D. down
68. A. Have B. To have C. Get D. To get
69. A. hold B. pick C. put D. set
70. A. below B. in C. beside D. on
71. A. shows B. means C. expresses D. proves
72. A. Unless B. If C. Because D. Although
73. A. However B. Altogether C. Therefore D. Instead
74. A. It has B. It is C. There has D. There is
75. A. if B. unless C. although D. because
76. A. jumps B. moves C. pauses D. turns
77.A.from time to time B. at the same time C. on time D. in no time
78. A. read B. has read C. was reading D. had read
79. A. wonders B. knows C. realizes D. fears
80. A. what B. which C. that D. where
Part VI. Translation (1points each, 20 points)
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答，只需写出译⽂部分。

81. _______________________(经常看英语电影)will not only improve your ear, but will also help you build
your speaking skills.
82. I firmly believe that ______________________(阅读简写的英⽂⼩说)is an easy and enjoyable way of
enlarging our vocabulary.
83. Mary thought it difficult to ________________________(单靠⾃⼰的⼒量执⾏她的计划).
84. _________________(国庆节要到了). Let‘s give our bedroom a thorough clean.
85. Having been operated on twice for the disease, _____________________(她⾝体⼗分虚弱，⼏乎站不起来).
86. With this letter I enclose__________________________(这篇故事的⼏张插图).
87. He doesn‘t seem to be an old man in his eighties,___________________(看外表).
88. _________________(他忙于写那篇故事)all the morning, only breaking off occasionally to have a cup of tea.
89. Sometime after midnight,______________________(敌⼈被迫撤退了).
90. The elderly woman angrily exclaimed that ___________________(那个⼥店员欺骗了她).。