基础英语试题A卷

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湖北第二师范学院2010年下半年期末考试
《基础英语》课程考试试卷(A 卷)
教学部门: 专业班级: 学生姓名: 学 号: 考试方式 : 闭卷 (开卷、闭卷)
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Part I. Vocabulary and Structure :(每题1分,共15分)
Directions : In this section, there are 15 incomplete sentences. You should choose from the four choices marked A, B, C and D to complete each
sentence. Then mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. You ________ fail the exam if you do not do any revision(复习).
A. bound to
B. are bound to
C. are bound
D. are bound for
2. Tom has tried many things with no particular success, but he is _______ an incapable person.
A. by no mean
B. not by means
C. by no means
D. no means
3. The worker ________ told Mary where to find the books she wanted.
A. helpful
B. is helpful
C. help
D. helpfully
4. I can ’t help __________ that it was a mistake to let him go.
A. thinking
B. to think
C. for thinking
D. 不填
5. ______ all the efforts they did not succeed.
A. In spite
B. In spite to
C. In spite of
D. Spite of
6. She is young and ______, but she is good at learning.
A. experienced
B. inexperienced
C. inexperience
D. unexperienced
7. If you ________ the word, look it up in the dictionary.
A. are not sure of
B. are sure of
C. are not sure to
D. are not sure for
8. I think we would let Mary go camping with her classmates. _____, she is a big girl now.
A. So
B. But all
C. After all
D. After that
9. He bought a ______ of roses to his girlfriend.
A. pair
B. bunch
C. piece
D. packet
10. This was given us as a present ________our silver wedding.
A. on the occasion
B. at the occasion of
C. in the occasion
D. on the occasion of
11.The houses in our ______ are very expensive.
A. neighborhood
B. neighbor
C. neighbor-hood
D. neighbors
12.I hear young people under 18 are prohibited ______ cigarettes in that country.
A. to buy
B. from buy
C. to buying
D. from buying
13.Jim decided to _______ to the seaside for the weekend.
A. take a car
B. take a bike
C. take a ride
D. take ride
14.Without ______, you will accomplish nothing.
A. working hardly
B. to work hard
C. work hardly
D. working hard
15.I choose a book _______ from the bookshelf.
A. at random
B. random
C. in random
D. by random
Directions: There are three reading passages in this part. Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements. You should choose
from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D, and mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Remembering new vocabulary involves storing it in your long-term memory. This is best
achieved by doing things with the words, organizing the words and by making links to other
words. Here are some ideas, which may help you take hold of these words in your memory.
Make connections between new words. Do they have similar sounds? Do they belong to the
same topic word family such as jobs, emotions, etc.?
Establish personal relationship with the words, that is, write personalized sentences using
the new words, something that is relevant to your life.
Make vocabulary cards, each holding a word or phrase, with a definition and something to
help you remember the word -- a picture,or a color. However, a simple word list is not enough.
You should think of more ways to organize your vocabulary. I suggest using a loose leaf file to
create a flexible system. This allows you to organize the vocabulary in different ways -- by topic,
by sound, by book unit, etc. In this way, you can have the flexibility to review the words in cycle.
Last but most important of all, make sure that you keep revisiting the vocabulary you have
spent time learning. If you don’t use it, you will lose it! I always advise my students to look at
their word notes again that evening, do some work to lock them up in their long-term memory and
then look at the notes a week later, use the vocabulary in some ways and finally look again at the
notes a month later.
16. Which of the following is most important in remembering new words according to the author?
A. Making links to other words.
B. Organizing the new words in more ways.
C. Making sentences using the new words.
D. Reviewing the words learnt frequently.
17. The phrase “a flexible system”(Para.4) means __________.
A. a system which can be put into practice
B. a system that can be changed to suit different needs
C. a system that can be used for a long time
D. a system which can be reviewed over and over
18. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Remembering new words can be best achieved by reading aloud the words.
B. Remembering new words can be best achieved by making a simple word list.
C. Remembering new words can be best achieved by doing activities with the words.
D. Remembering new words can be best achieved by looking at the words a month later.
19. This passage is, in the main, about _________.
A. how to best keep a record of new vocabulary
B. how to best remember new vocabulary
C. how to best fight memory decay
D. how to best learn new vocabulary
20. Which of the following groups of words belongs to the same topic word family?
A. A vocabulary card, a word list, a word note, a page.
B. Look at, lock up, belong to, in cycle.
C. Establish relationship with the words, make links to other words, do things with the words, write personalized sentences with the words.
D. None of the above.
Passage Two
Ever since I was very small, I’ve had the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. I remember watching trains flash by and wishing I was on board. I remember going to the airport with my parents when I was 13 and reading the destinations board, seeing all the places that I could go to: Los Angeles, Chicago, London.
But the trains passed by and the planes took off without me, so I wandered the world through books. I went to Victorian England in the pages of Middlemarch and A Little Princes, and to St. Petersburg before the fall of the tsar with Anna Karenina.
My home was in a pleasant place outside Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books. In books I traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might achieve, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
I travel today in the way I once dreamed of traveling as a child——on airplanes and in trains. And the irony is that I don’t care for it very much. I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, books. The only thing I do like about traveling is the time on airplanes spent reading.
It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the planes, and the train, and the road. They are the real destinations, and the journey too. They are home.
21. What did the writer do as a curious child?
A. She visited Victorian England and Tsarist Russia.
B. She flew t Los Angeles, Chicago and London with her parents.
C. She read all kinds of books.
D. She spent lots of time traveling on trains.
22. How does the author feel about travel today?
A. She doesn’t like it very much.
B. She takes great pleasure in it.
C. She feels tired of it.
D. She feels as excited as when she was young.
23. What did the author learn from books as a child?
A. About many foreign places.
B. About many historical figures.
C. About the outside world as well as her own self.
D. About the ironies of life.
24. We can infer form the passage that when traveling by air, the author spends most of her time on the way_______.
A. reading books
B. resting herself
C. imagining things
D. letting her spirit soars
25. In this passage the author mainly talks about_______.
A. the wonders of travel
B. her growth from an innocent child to a learned woman
C. the benefits of reading
D. the difference between childhood dreams and life’s realities
Passage Three
The famous director of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean so that the audiences (or people who watch the film) could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other for ever. He sent his camera crew (摄制组)out one evening to film the sunset for him .
The next morning he sai d to the men, “Have you provided me with that sunset?”
“No, sir.” the men answered.
The director was angry. “Why not?”, he asked.
“Well, sir,” one of the men answered. “W e’re on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get yo u a sunrise over the sea if necessary, but not a sunset.”
“But I want a sunset!” the director shouted. “Go to the airport, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one.”
But then a young secretary had an idea. “Why don’t you photograph a sunrise,” she suggested, “and then play it backwards? Then it’ll look like a sunset.”
The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful bay. Then at nine o’clock they took it to the director. “Here it is, sir!” they said, and gave it to him. He was very pleased.
They all went into the studio. “All right,” the director explained. “Now our hero and heroine are going to say good-bye. Run the film backwards so that we c an see the ‘sunset behind them.”
The “sunset” began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the camera crew to stop.
The birds in the film were flying backwards and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach.
26. One evening, the director sent his camera crew out ________.
A. to watch a beautiful sunset
B. to find an actor and an actress
C. to film a scene on the sea
D. to meet the audience
27. Why did the director want to send his crew to the west coast?
A. Because he changed his mind about getting a sunset.
B. Because he was angry with his crew.
C. Because it was his secretary’s suggestion.
D. Because he wanted to get a scene of sunset.
28. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The crew had to follow the secretary’s advice.
B. If you want to see a sunrise, the east coast is the place to go to.
C. The camera crew wasn’t able to film the scene the first day.
D. The director ordered his crew to stop filming the “sunset”.
29. The director wanted to film a sunset over the ocean because_______-.
A. it went well with the separation of the hero and the heroine
B. when they arrived at the beach it was already in the evening
C. it was more moving than a sunrise
D. the ocean looked more beautiful at sunset
30. After the “sunset” began, the directo r suddenly put his face in his hands ______.
A. because he was moved to tears.
B. as he saw everything in the film moving backwards.
C. as the sunrise did not look as beautiful as he had imagined
D. because he was disappointed with the performance of the hero and heroine
Directions: Read the passage carefully and choose the best one
from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D to fill in each blank
on the Answer Sheet.
Mrs. Black was having a lot of trouble 31 her skin, __32__ she went to her doctor about it. He could not find anything 33 with her, and 34 her to the local hospital for some tests. The local hospital, 35 , sent the results of the tests 36 to Mrs. Black’s doctor, and the next morning he 37 her to give her a 38 of the things that he thought she could not eat, as 39 of them might be the 40 of her skin trouble.
Mrs. Black 41 wrote down all the things on a piece of paper, 42 she then left beside the telephone w hile she went out to a ladies’ meeting.
When she got back home two hours later, she found her husband 43 her. He had a big 44 full of packages beside him, and when he saw her, he said:
“Hell o, dear. I’ve done all shopping for you.”
“Done all my shopping?” she asked 45 surprise. “46 how did you know what I wanted?”
“Well, when I got home, I found your shopping list beside the telephone, so I went 47 to the shops and bought everything you had written down.”
Of course, Mrs. Black 48 tell him that he had bought all the things the doctor did not 49 her to 50.
31. A. in B. on C. with D. of
32. A. then B. because C. so D. anyway
33. A. wrong B. painful C. bad D. unusual
34. A. asked B. put C. sent D. assigned
35. A. therefore B. of course C. however D. so
36. A. diversely B. wrongly C. late D. directly
37. A. phoned B. call C. met D. caught
38. A. series B. list C. number D. variety
39. A. one B. some C. several D. any
40. A. source B. reason C. starter D. cause
41. A. casually B. quickly C. carefully D. nervously
42. A. what B. that C. which D. one
43. A. waving B. smiling at C. cooking for D. waiting for
44. A. handbag B. briefcase C. basket D. box
45. A. in B. to C. for D. under
46. A. But B. So C. And D. Or
47. A. away B. over C. down D. up
48. A. was able to B. must C. should D. had to
49. A. ask B. allow C. tell D. mention
50. A. buy B. eat C. choose D. touch
Directions: Translate the following sentences into Chinese or English
accordingly. Then write down your answers on the Answer Sheet.
51. I don’t think we are doing enough to protect our environment from pollution.
52. Mary thought it difficult to carry out her plan all by herself.
53. She agreed, very reluctantly, to be operated on by a young doctor.
54. With this letter I enclose some illustrations for the story.
55. The ancient building was enclosed by a high wall.
56. 经常看电影不仅会提高你的听力,而且还会帮助你培养说的技能。

57. 国庆节要到了,咱们把寝室彻底(thorough)打扫一下吧。

58. 老人读完信后失望之极,竟用颤抖的手指把它死得粉碎。

59. 众所周知,肺癌至少部分的是由于吸烟过多而引起的。

60. 我真希望你能拿出一个比这更好的解决办法(solution)来。

Part V. Writing. (15 points)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a
composition on the topic My Views on Television. You should write no less than 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:
1. 电视给人们带来了好处(如丰富了人们的生活等);
2. 电视也给人们带来了坏处;
3. 我的看法。

My Views on Television。

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