Module 1综合技能测试

Module 1综合技能测试
时间90分钟满分100分
Ⅰ.单项填空(每小题1分，共15分)
从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

1．It was ________ your timely help that we finished the task on time.
A．thank to B．thanks to
C．thanks for D．thank for
答案：B题意：多亏你及时帮忙，我们才按时完成了任务。

thanks to“由于，多亏”，为固定搭配。

2．All my classmates were ________ my idea that we should go on an outing next week.
A．in honor of B．in memory of
C．in favor of D．in case of
答案：C题意：我的同学都支持我的主意：即下周去郊游。

in favor of“同意；支持”，符合题意。

in honor of“向……表示敬意，向……祝贺”；in memory of“纪念，追念”；in case of“假设，万一”。

3．He was ________ by the committee for failing to report the accident.
A．settled B．complained
C．informed D．criticized
答案：D题意：他因为没有报道这次事故而受到委员会的批评。

criticize“批评”，符合题意。

settle“解决，驻扎”；complain“埋怨”；inform“通知”。

4．The instructions on the bottle are really ________. I can't understand them at all.
A．encouraged B．various
C．confusing D．standard
答案：C题意：瓶子上的说明非常难懂，我根本不理解。

confusing“令人困惑的”，符合题意。

encouraged“受到鼓励的”；various“各种各样的”；standard“标准的”。

5．Modern Chinese magic ________ good progress in the last decade, but still falls behind developed countries.
A．made B．had made
C．makes D．has made
答案：D题意：近十年来中国现代魔术已经取得了很大进步，但仍然落后于发达国家。

由时间状语in the last decade可以判断，此处用现在完成时。

6．Many people have great difficulty ________ any decision, which can be because they were blamed and criticized for choice they made as children.
A．to make B．make
C．making D．made
答案：C题意：许多人总是难以下定决心，这是因为他们小时候在做出选择时总是受到责备和批评。

have difficulty(in) doing sth.“做某事有困难”为固定用法。

7．The engine of the ship suddenly failed and then came a big storm, which ________ the helplessness of the crew at sea.
A．resulted from B．added to
C．turned out D．brought about
答案：B题意：船的引擎突然失控，而此时一场暴风雨席卷而来，这使海上的船员们更加无助了。

add to“增加，增添”，符合题意。

8．________ other good students, in my opinion, Tom is _____ ___ student.
A．Comparing with; a most satisfied
B．Compared to; the most satisfied
C．Comparing to; the most satisfying
D．Compared with; a more satisfying
答案：D题意：与其他学生相比，汤姆是一个令人比较满意的学生。

compared to/with“与……相比较”，置于句首作状语；根据题意第二空应用比较意义的词，而非最高级。

satisfied“感到满意的”；satisfying“令人满意的”。

9．In preparing scientific reports of laboratory experiments，a student should ________ his findings in logical order and clear language.
A．furnish B．propose
C．raise D．present
答案：D题意：在准备所做实验的科学报告时，学生应该按照一定的逻辑顺序，使用清楚的语言来陈述自己的实验发现。

present“陈述；提出”，符合题意。

10．Don't worry, Teddy. In this way you'll be able to ________ the technical skill, too.
A．dress up B．make up
C．turn up D．pick up
答案：D题意：不要担心，泰德。

这样你也能够掌握这项技术。

pick up此处表示“(偶然、无意间)学会技能、语言”，符合题意。

dress up“打扮”；make up“编造”；turn up“开大”。

11．—Let's go to the seaside and enjoy fresh air, OK?
—________. I'll wait for you at the gate.
A．I don't get it
B．You made a fuss of me
C．I get used to it
D．That's a good point
答案：D题意：“——我们去海边享受新鲜空气，好吗？”“——好主意，我在门口等你。

”That's a good point.“那是个好主意”，指同意对方的建议和计划等。

12．—Have you ever seen two leaves that are exactly the same?
—Never. Leaves differ ________ each other ________ size and shape.
A．from; in B．in; in
C．in; from D．from; from
答案：A题意：“——你曾经看到过两片一模一样的树叶吗？”“——从来没有。

叶在大小和形状上是彼此不同的。

”differ from“与……不同”；differ in“在某方面不同”，均为固定搭配。

13．Some environmentalists believe that the greenhouse effect could ________ unexpected results in the next century.
A．get around B．lead to
C．wear off D．get on
答案：B题意：一些环保人士认为，在下个世纪温室效应可能导致不可预知的结果。

lead to “导致”，符合题意。

get around“四处走动”；wear off“疲惫”；get on“相处，进展”。

14．It is ________ that even if we can save much energy, we can only delay the energy crisis.
A．similar B．steady
C．distinctive D．obvious
答案：D题意：很明显，即使我们能够节约能源，我们也只能推迟能源危机。

obvious “显然的；显而易见的”，符合题意。

similar“相似的”；steady“稳定的”；distinctive“与众不同的”
15．They seem to be good friends although they have nothing ________ common.
A．on B．for
C．in D．with
答案：C题意：他们看起来是好朋友，尽管他们几乎没有相似之处。

have...in common“有相同的特点”，为固定搭配。

Ⅱ.完形填空(每小题1分，共20分)
阅读下面短文，理解大意，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

The British Isles is made up of two large islands: One is called Ireland and the other __16__. Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands, and it is __17__ into three parts：Scotland, Wales and England.
The United Kingdom is that __18__ of the British Isles ruled over by the Queen. It is made up of Scotland, Wales and England, that is, the __19__ of Britain, and also about one sixth of Ireland, the Northern part. The __20__ of Ireland is self-governing. The __21__ name of the Untied Kingdom is __22__ “The United Kingdom of Great Britai n and Northern Ireland.”
__23__ is larger and richer than Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland, and has the largest __24__ of the United Kingdom, so people often use the __25__ “England” and “English” when they __26__ “Britain” and “British”. This sometime s makes the Scots and the Welsh a little __27__. The Scots in particular are very __28__ of their separate nationality. The Welsh too do not regard __29__ as English, and have a culture and even a __30__ of their own.
Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, but for forty years the “Irish __31__ ”was the greatest headache of the United Kingdom. __32__，Ireland is divided into two：Northern Ireland still __33__ to the United Kingdom, and in 1922 the rest of Ireland __34__ to found an Irish Free State, later called Eire and now the Republic of Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland does not regard itself as part of Britain, and is not now even a supporter of the Commonwealth of Nations (英联邦). Unlike the major Commonwealth countries it did not lift a finger to __35__ British in the Second World War and now wants the whole of Ireland to be a republic.
本文从政治、历史、地理、文化几个方面详尽介绍了大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国的一些情况，突出介绍了英国与爱尔兰共和国之间的关系，使我们对这个国家有更详尽的了解。

16．A.Wales B．Britain
C．England D．Scotland
答案：B从下文“Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands”可知B项正确。

17．A.divided B．cut
C．broken D．separated
答案：A divide into意思是“分为”：cut into意思是“插进来”；break into意思是“闯入”，这里指英国被分为三部分。

18．A.piece B．island
C．country D．part
答案：D名词词义辨析。

联合王国是由女王统治的大不列颠的一部分。

19．A.south B．north
C．part D．whole
答案：D结合整个句子，英国由Scotland, Wales和England 组成，也就是整个不列颠。

20．A.smaller B．larger
C．rest D．island
答案：C从上文“and also about one sixth of Ireland”和本句可知，Ireland其他部分是自治的。

21．A.correct B．true
C．full D．complete
答案：C这里指英国的全称。

full name “全名”，故C项正确。

22．A.also B．therefore
C．likely D．perhaps
答案：B副词词义考查。

第二段讲述了英国的构成，从而得出了它的全称，前后文为因果关系。

23．A.The UK B．The British isles
C．Great Britain D．England
答案：D从上文“It is made up of Scotland, Wales and England”
可知D项符合文意。

24．A.colleges B．officials
C．cities D．population
答案：D结合本段内容可知，England与其他地方相比，面积大，经济发达，人口最多。

25．A.words B．names
C．spellings D．pronunciations 答案：A名词辨析。

A项“(某人所说的)话”；B项“名字”；C项“拼写”；D项“发音”。

从语境可知A项正确。

26．A.call B．forget
C．speak D．write
答案：A句意是：当他们说到“Britain” and “British”就用“England” and “English”来表示。

speak着重指讲某种语言。

27．A.angry B．difficult
C．tired D．lonely
答案：A从常识可知，他们的语言习惯让“the Scots and th e Welsh”有点生气。

28．A.proud B．fond
C．full D．kind
答案：A be proud of意思是“自豪”；be fond of意思是“喜欢”；be full of意思是“充满”。

苏格兰人尤其以自己独立的民族感而自豪，故A项正确。

29．A.it B．Wales
C．them D．themselves
答案：D句意是：威尔士人不愿意把他们自己当成是英国人，
故用反身代词themselves。

30．A.capital B．language
C．history D．programs
答案：B名词词义辨析。

这一段重点讲了有关语言的问题，故B项符合题意。

31．A.Country B．Question
C．Disease D．Republic
答案：B结合整段内容可知，“爱尔兰问题”是英国最头痛的事。

32．A.At last B．So
C．Meanwhile D．Also
答案：A A项“最后”；B项“因此”；C项“同时”；D项“也”。

联系上下文可知，爱尔兰最终分成了两部分。

33．A.returns B．belongs
C．gets D．speaks
答案：B return to意思是“回到”；belong to意思是“属于”；get to意思是“到达”；speak to意思是“向……说”。

从still可知B项符合题意。

34．A.hoped B．refused
C．broke away D．used
答案：C句意是：在1922年，爱尔兰其他部分脱离英国统治，成立了后来的北爱尔兰共和国。

35．A.feel B．touch
C．fight D．help
答案：D从历史常识可知，爱尔兰共和国在二战中没对英国人
给予帮助。

lift a finger意思是“做出努力(帮忙)”。

Ⅲ.阅读理解(每小题2分，共40分)
阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。

A
Language experts say that spoken English was almost the same in the American colonies and Britain two hundred years ago. Americans began to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War in seventeen-seventy-six. They wanted to make it different to separate themselves from the British in language, in the same way they separated themselves from the British government.
Some American leaders proposed major changes in the language. Benjamin Franklin wanted a whole new system of spelling. His reforms were not accepted. But his ideas did influence others. One was Noah Webster.
Webster wrote language books for schools. He believed the United States should have a system of its own language as well as government. Webster published a dictionary of the American language in eighteen-twenty-eight. It established rules for speaking and spelling the words used in American English.
Webster wrote that all words should be said in the order of the letters that spell them. This is why Americans use the letters “e-r”to end many words instead of the British “r-e.”He spelled the word “center，” for example, “c-e-n-t-e-r，” instead of the British “c-e-n-t-r-e.”
Webster's rule for saying every part of a word made American English easier for foreign settlers to learn. They learned to say “waist-coat，”for example, the way it is spelled instead of the
British “wes-kit.”
The different languages of many people who came to the United States also helped make American and British English different. Many of their foreign words and expressions became part of English As Americans speak them.
Sometimes Americans and British people do not understand each other because of different word meanings. For example, the word “jumper” in Britain means a sweater. In the United States, it is a dress. The British word “brolly” is an “umbrella” in America. And the British call potato chips “crisps”. All of these differences led British writer George Bernard Shaw to joke that Britain and America are two countries separated by the same language!
36．What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?
A．Separating themselves from the British in language.
B．Written English in America.
C．Spoken English in America.
D．Spoken English in Britain.
答案：C词义猜测题。

根据文章第一段第二句可知，美国人想把美国英语的发音与英国英语区分开来，因此可以判断it指代spoken English in America。

37．Why did American want their language to differ from British English?
A．Because they found British English hard to speak.
B．Because they found British English hard to spell.
C．Because they wanted to have their own language and government.
D．Because foreign settlers wanted them to change their language.
答案：C细节理解题。

由第一段中的“...in the same way they separated themselves from the British government.”可知，美国人想如同摆脱英国的控制那样，使美国英语与英国英语不同。

38．Why do Americans use the word “meter” instead of the word “metre”？
A．Because Benjamin Franklin didn't like the word “metre”．B．Because the word “meter”was absorbed from other languages.
C．Because Webster thought the word should be said in order of the letters that are spelt.
D．Because Webster thought American English should be made easier for foreign settlers to learn.
答案：C细节理解题。

由第四段中的第一句“Webster wrote that all words should be said in the order of the letters that spell them.”可以看出，美国人想让这个单词按照字母的拼写顺序说。

39．Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why English began to change in America?
A．The government leaders.
B．Noah Webster.
C．Immigration to America.
D．The difficulty Americans had in understanding the British.
答案：D细节理解题。

A、B、C三项都促使了美国英语的改变。

B
You may know the English letters A, B and C, but do you know there are people called ABCs? Y ou may like eating bananas, but do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”？How strange! Are these people from another earth? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means America-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the US. Sometimes, people call an ABC“a banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside—thinking like a westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them can not speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.
But if ABCs can't speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore, but they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even greatgrandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the
People's Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous
scientist C．N. Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
40．“ABC” in the passage stands for ________.
A．3 English letters
B．a kind of banana
C．Chinese born in America
D．Americans born in China
答案：C细节理解题。

由文章第二段第一、二句可知C项正确。

41．Chinese in western countries are called “banana persons” because ________.
A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside
B．they think like westerners but look like Chinese
C．they were born in China but go to study in America
D．they like to eat bananas
答案：B细节理解题。

由文章第二段可知海外华人被称为“香蕉人”是因为他们貌似中国人但思维像西方人。

42．This passage mainly talks about ________.
A．different kinds of bananas
B．overseas Chinese
C．the Nobel Prize
D．the life story of C．N. Yang
答案：B主旨大意题。

本文主要谈论了被称为“香蕉人”的海外华人。

C
Proverbs (谚语) are quite common in spoken English. We do not normally put them in a composition or letter. Sometimes it is helpful
if you know what common proverbs mean. Here are a few examples：Once bitten, twice shy. If a dog bites me, I shall be twice as careful in future when I see it. This proverb is also used to apply to (运用) many things and not only to dogs. If you have been cheated at a shop, you will not go to the same shop again.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If I am a hunter, trying to catch birds, it is better to catch one bird than to see two birds in a bush but not be able to catch them. Thus this means that what you have already got is better than the chance of being able to get something bigger in future.
Too many cooks spoil the broth (soup). When too many people do something together, they get in each other's way and cannot do a good job.
To pour oil on troubled waters is to try to calm things down. Oil is lighter than water. If a ship is in trouble at sea, another ship may come to help it. The second ship can send small boats to rescue people. However, it may first pour oil on the sea to make the sea less rough.
“Don't be a dog in a manger(槽)”means “Don't be selfish.” In a stable (马房)，the manger is the place where the horse's food is put. Sometimes a dog will sleep in the manger and bark when a horse comes to get its food. The dog does not want to eat the hay in the manger but it will not let the horse eat it.
“He is sitting on the fence” means that somebody will not say whether he is in favour of a plan or against it. He is sitting on a fence between two opposing sides, perhaps waiting to see which side will win.
“He who pays the piper calls the tune.” A piper is a musician. The man who employs or pays a musician can say what tunes the
man will play. Thus this means that if a man provides the money for a plan, he can say how it will be carried out.
“You cannot get blood out of a stone” means that you cannot get anything from a person who has not got any of the things you want. For example, you cannot get a million dollars from a poor man.
43．Peter had a bicycle which was much too small for him but he did not want to let his younger brother ride on it. His mother was angry and said to him：“________.”
A．You cannot get blood out of a stone
B．Don't be a dog in a manger
C．Once bitten, twice shy
D．Don't be a dog in the manger
答案：B自行车对Peter来说太小了不能骑，而Peter又不让他的弟弟骑，根据文章中的解释与第(4)个谚语情况类似。

44．Mr and Mrs Smith had a quarrel. Their friend, Mr Brown, went to talk to them. When he came back, he told his wife that he had been trying to help the Smiths by ________.
A．pouring oil on troubled waters
B．getting blood out of a stone
C．being a dog in a manger
D．not to pour oil on waters
答案：A劝架当然是平息事态，与(3)的情况类似。

45．Mr Wang paid for a new school. Some people did not like the design of the school but they did not argue with Mr Wang because ________.
A．he was sitting on the fence
B．once bitten, twice shy
C．he who pays the piper calls the tune
D．a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
答案：C既然王先生出资办学，学校的设计当然由他说了算。

46．Mrs Chen wanted to buy a new dress. Her husband suggested that she buy it from a shop near their home. Mrs Chen disagreed because she had been cheated by that shop. Then she said：“I won't go there again because ________.”
A．a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
B．I am sitting on the fence
C．once bitten, twice shy
D．too many cooks spoil the broth
答案：C陈太太在那家商店受了骗，当然不肯再到那儿去了。

正所谓“一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳”。

D
English as a Foreign Language
Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at school? Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language.
It is now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. It is rsaid to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English.
Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures (文化)？Or should we worry
about the dangers of ‘mono-culturalism’，a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music?
Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same language? On the contrary (相反), I would have thought——although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India (when many of them speak at least some English) and Pakistan (the same situation with India)．..
If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonald's burgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant (占主导地位的), will it kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can related languages, as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well.
When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we received a wonderfully poetic e-mail from a listener in Ireland. “The English language is a beautiful language. Maybe it's like a rose，” he said. “But who would ever want their garden just full of roses？”Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any gadren. But the way I see it just by planting a few roses, you don't necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that's fine by me.
现在，说英语的国家和人越来越多了，英语正成为一种世界通用语言。

这究竟是好还是坏呢？
47．By saying “Ask the people of India...and Pakistan” (in Paragraph 4), the author is trying to show that ________.
A．speaking the same language doesn't necessarily bring peace B．wars can destroy the relationship between two countries
C．English doesn't kill other languages
D．English is widely used in the world
答案：A细节理解题。

本句承接上文“although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars”而来，作者以印度和巴基斯坦为例说明彼此间的了解并不能减少战争。

48．What does “garden” in the la st paragraph stand for?
A．Language. B．Family.
C．The world. D．The earth.
答案：C词义理解题。

在最后一段作者提出没有人会让他们的花园仅仅种植玫瑰，他想表达的意思是世界上不能所有的国家都使用同一种语言，在这里roses指“英语这一单一语言”，因此garden 指“世界”。

49．The author would probably agree that________.
A．it's very hard to plant many kinds of flowers in a garden
B．it's good for people from other countries to learn English
C．more and more people like to plant roses in their gardens
D．English is easier to learn than other languages
答案：B意图推断题。

在最后一段，作者说“But the way I see it, just by planting a few roses, you don't necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that's fine by me.”，作者用花来比喻语言，由此我们看出，作者认为别的国家的人学英语(to plant English roses)是好的。

50．This passage is mainly about ________.
A．why English has become a global language
B．how many people in the world learn English as a foreign language
C．how many people in the world learn English as a foreign language
D．whether we need to worry about English being a world language
答案：D主旨大意题。

全文在讲了英语的重要性后，作者提出，有些人担心英语会成为世界单一语言，对此以花园作比喻，提出了多种语言共存的必要性，鼓励人们多学英语。

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Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same root “port”，which comes from the Latin word, meaning “to carry” or “to move” from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning—which we call the prefix (前缀)—the meaning changes. “Import”，“im”means“in”，so this word means “to carry in” or “ to bring into a country”；“export，”“ex-”means “out of”，so this word means “to carry out of a country”；“re” means “back”，so this word “report” means “to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody”；“transport”，“trans-”means “to carry across one plac e to another”．
Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who completes the verb. So a supporter means somebody who
supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. An importer is somebody who imports and an exporter is somebody who exports and so on.
51．“Some English words are made up of the same part” in the sentence “part” means ________.
A．different beginnings and different endings
B．the same part which has several meanings
C．the root of a word
D．the same root which has different meanings
答案：C由第一段第二句话可知。

52．Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Apart from “port”，most English words have the same root which comes from the Latin word.
B．“Port” is the root forming some English words.
C．The root “port” means “to carry”．
D．“Port” is a root meaning “to move” from one place to another.
答案：A由第二段可知。

53．By adding a prefix to a root, we can get a word which has ________.
A．the meaning of a Latin word
B．a different meaning
C．the meanings of “in” or “out of”
D．a lot of meanings
答案：B由第一段第三句话可知。

54．According to the passage, if we talk about a repairman, you
may guess/know that he must be ________.
A．somebody who has regained (恢复) health
B．a person who can repair something
C．somebody who has good health
D．a person who can do only simple things
答案：B由第二段可推知。

55．We can get a noun ________.
A．just by adding “-er” to a verb
B．by changing a prefix
C．only by adding “-er” to a root
D．by adding a suffix to a verb
答案：D由第二段第二句话可知。

Ⅳ.书面表达(满分25分)
以下表格展示的是英式英语和美式英语的不同之处，请结合所学课文以及该图表，谈谈英式英语和美式英语的差异，并简要分析造成这种现象的原因。

题目自拟。

词数：120～150。

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The Differences Between British English and American English From the chart, we can see that there are many differences between British English and American English. They are different in many ways. The most obvious part is the vocabulary. Sometimes different words are used for the same thing. For example, in America, people used automobile, freeway and gas while in Britain people use car, motorway and petrol.
There are a few differences in grammar, too. For example, Americans say “Do you have a book？”while the British say “Have you got a book？”. The other two areas on which the two varieties differ are spelling and pronunciation. American spelling seems simpler. The words centre, colour and programme in British English are spelt as center, color and program in American English.
I think what caused the differences is that the economy, politics and culture of these two countries develop differently. Of course, it is
also related to the characters of the people. America is a new country while the Britain is an old one.。