大学英语期末考试

大学英语期末考试
一、单选题（共20 道试题，共60 分。

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1. Thad: Gee, Susan. I'd love a cup of coffee.
Susan: ______. Is instant OK?
A. Sure thing
B. No problem
C. I'm sure
D. No kidding
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2. Guest: Have you a single room for tonight and tomorrow night with a telephone and
shower?
Clerk: We haven't any rooms with a shower free just now, but there's a bathroom available on each floor.
Guest: ______.
A. All right. That'll do
B. Oh, sorry. Forget it
C. How regretful! I give it up
D. All right. It does
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3. A: East Bouren 54655.
B: Hello. Terresa here. Can I speak to Jack, please?
A: ________
B: OK.
A. Who's that speaking?
B. Could you take a message?
C. I think she's gone shopping.
D. Hold the line, please.
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4. Richard：You've given us a wonderful Chinese dinner，Mrs. Liu.
Mrs. Liu：______
A. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
B. Oh，I'm afraid I didn't cook very well.
C. Come again when you are free.
D. It's not necessary for you to say so.
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5. Student A：I feel sick. Student B：______ Student A：I'm not sure，but I have got a
bad headache.
A. I'm sorry to hear that.
B. How are you feeling now？
C. How long have you been sick？
D. Do you have a temperature？
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6. According ______ travel agents, the growth trend in travel is the half-week
sneak-away built around a weekend.
A. at
B. on
C. to
D. in
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7. Maria: Morley, where are the cookies. Don't tell me you ate them all!
Morley: Yes, I did. _________ .
A. I couldn't bear it.
B. They were too good to eat
C. I couldn't help it.
D. They were good to eat
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8. My watch is not working. ________? It's ten past eleven.
A. What time is it
B. What's the time
C. What time is it by your watch
D. What is time by your watch
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9. Operator: ______, May I help you?
Bill: I'd like to set up a telephone service, please.
A. Speaking
B. Hey
C. I'm John Smith
D. Pacific Bell
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10. Speaker A: Sorry about all the inconvenience.
Speaker B: ________ .
A. Don't worry about it
B. OK. With great pleasure
C. Oh, really? That's OK
D. I?m sorry to hear that
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11. I can't remember her name. It's on the ______ of my tongue.
A. end
B. point
C. top
D. tip
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12. Newman: I have an appointment with Mr. Brown. Receptionist: Mr. Brown is
expecting you now. ____________
A. Come this way, please.
B. Go this road,please.
C. Follow this direction, please.
D. Move here, please.
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13. The little boy put the bird in a cage to ______ it from flying away.
A. avoid
B. prevent
C. hinder
D. resist
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14. Speaker A: Want to come over Thursday for supper? Speaker B: _______ .
A. I really can't. You'll not mind, I think
B. Let's put it off till later
C. Thanks, but I have to work that evening
D. No, I don't want to
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15. When you go abroad, do you ______ take your passport?
A. have to
B. ought to
C. need
D. must
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16. White: How are you?
Harrison: I'm fine. Thank you. And you?
White: _______
A. Me, too.
B. I, too.
C. Fine.
D. Thanks.
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17. Tom is going to a concert tomorrow evening. So ______.
A. I am
B. am I
C. I will
D. will I
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18. Niu Lang ______ his lonely and poor life with an old cow, his only friend.
A. resided
B. inhabited
C. lived
D. dwelt
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19. How's your brother these days? He hasn't been too well just recently. ________.
What's the matter? I think he's been overworking.
A. It'll be pleased to hear you ask after him
B. That's not too bad
C. I'm sorry to hear that
D. I'll tell him what you said
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20. Never ______ , we'll see the film next week.
A. mind
B. to mind
C. mind you
D. in mind
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二、阅读理解（共 2 道试题，共30 分。

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1. In the years after the Civil War most American painters received their training in
Europe, the majority studying in the French schools at Paris or Barbizon, and a smaller
number in Germany at Munich(慕尼黑) and Dusseldorf(杜塞尔多夫). The teaching of the Barbizon school, which stressed the use of color and the creation of an impression or a mood, influenced many American artists. One group of American painters, led by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent, expatriated(移居国外) themselves from the American scene and settled in Europe. Whistler, who is often ranked as the greatest genius(天才) in the history of American art, was a versatile(多才多艺的) and industrious(勤奋的) artist who was equally proficient(熟练的) in several media-oil, watercolor, etching(铜版画)-and with several themes-portraits and his so-called "nocturnes(夜景画)", impressionistic sketches(印象画) of moonlight on water and other scenes. He was one of the first to appreciate the beauty of
Japanese color prints and to introduce Oriental concepts into Western art.
1). For a period after the Civil War, the majority of American painters ____.
A. studied art in Europe
B. used striking color in their work
C. painted in the impressionist style
D. was influenced by the Barbizon school
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2). According to the passage, one group of American painters ____.
A. copied the style of Whistler and Sargent
B. were unaffected by the European style of painting
C. turned their back on the American art tradition
D. left America never to return
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3). From the passage we are led to believe that Whistler ____.
A. combined several media and themes in his paintings
B. did much of his painting at night
C. was most proficient in impressionistic sketches
D. produced a large number of pictures
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4). According to the passage, Whistler was one of the first Western painters to ____.
A. start producing Japanese sketches
B. admire Japanese oil paintings
C. use Japanese ideas in his own work
D. become interested in Japanese printing
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5). The main theme of this passage is ____.
A. The influence of European art on American painters
B. Whistler's influence on Western art
C. The American painters' influence in Europe
D. The influence of Oriental art on Whistler
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2. Although stage plays have been set to music since the era(年代) of the ancient
Greeks when the dramas of Sophocles and Aeschylus were accompanied by lyres(里拉琴) and flutes, the usually accepted date for the beginning of opera as we know it is 1600. As part of the celebration of the marriage of King Henry IV of France to the Italian aristocrat(贵族) Maria de Medici, the Florentine composer Jacopo Peri produced his famous Euridice,
generally considered to be the first opera. Following his example, a group of Italian musicians called the Camerata began to revive(复兴) the style of musical story that had been used in
Greek tragedy.
1). This passage is a summary of ____.
A. the Camerata
B. opera in Italy
C. Euridice
D. the development of opera
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2). According to the author, Jacopo Peri wrote ____.
A. the opera Maria de Medici
B. the opera The Camerata
C. the first opera
D. Greek tragedy
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3). We can infer that the Camerata ____.
A. developed a new musical drama based upon Greek drama
B. was a group of Greek musicians
C. was the name given to the court of King Henry IV
D. was not known in Italy
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4). The author suggests that Euridice was produced ____.
A. in France
B. for the wedding of King Henry IV
C. originally by Sophocles and Aeschylus
D. without much success
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5). According to this passage, modern opera began in the ____.
A. fifteenth century
B. time of the ancient Greeks
C. seventeenth century
D. sixteenth century
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三、完型填空（共 1 道试题，共10 分。

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1. Music is part of every culture on Earth. Many people feel that music makes life
worth___1___. We can make music ourselves if we play an instrument or sing. We can hear music on CDs and on radio or television. Music gives us pleasure. It can cheer us up, excite us, or___2__us. Music can be happy, sad, romantic, sleepy-all kinds of things. But what is it?
Some people define it___3___an artful arrangement of sounds across time. Our
ears___4___these sounds as loud or soft, high or low, rapid and short. The sounds need to
continue for a time in some sort of pattern to become music. Music,___5___language, is a
uniquely human form of communication. As with language, there are many different kinds. In North America, people listen to jazz, rock, classical, folk, country, and many other kinds of
music. Each kind of music has its own rules and "speaks" to us___6___its own way. What we think of music depends on___7___we live. What Americans are used to listening to might
sound___8___to someone from another culture, and vice versa. It might not even sound like music. In Indonesia, gamelan orchestras play music on gongs, drums, and xylophones. These aren't the instruments you'd find in a___9___orchestra in North America. Today, modern
communications make it___10___for us to listen to music from all over the world. Music from one part of the world influences music from another part. For example, gamelan music from
Indonesia influenced 20th-century American composers such as John Cage.
1).
A. live
B.
lived
C. to live
D. living
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2).
A. plump
B. send
C. soothe
D. plunge
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3).
A. with
B. to
C. at
D. as
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4).
A. interfere
B. interpret
C. intervene
D. interface
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5).
A. like
B. love
C. dislike
D. unlike
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6).
A. in
B. to
C. at
D. on
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7).
A. when
B. where
C. which
D. what
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8).
A. comfortable
B. familiar
C. good
D. strange
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9).
A. economical
B. typical
C. chemical
D. physical
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10).
A. possible
B. unlikely
C. impossible
D. like
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