大二英语试题

I.Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)

Directions:There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.

1. ______ his outstanding performance, he was promoted to be department manager

one year later.

A)Because B)Because of C)Since D)Now that

2. She did not want to stay for a drink, ______ a dinner with us.

A)no matter of B)much less C) and D)even

3. Nobody likes being ______ when making a speech.

A)interrupted B)ceasing

C)opposed D)inquired

4. Lucy began to feel ______ when she noticed there were so many students who spoke

much better than her.

A) embarrassed B) embarrassing C)to embarrasses D) embarrasses

5. we thought she was rather proud, ______ she was very shy.

A)whereas B)where C)which D)then

6. After a long discussion, they came up with a ________ to this problem.

A)result B)response C)settlement D)solution

7. The manager lost his ________ just because his secretary was ten minutes late.

A)mood B)temper C)mind D)passion

8. The son was so sorry to have brought his mother so much______ those days.

A)concern B)concerns C)concerning D)concerned

9. Everybody believes Tinny will have a ______ future without fail.

A)promising B)promised C)promise D) been promised

10. My brother is so tall that he has to _______ his head every time the goes through the

kitchen door.

A)low B)lower C)lowing D)lowed

11. In summer ________ exposure to the sun is bad for the skin.

A)continuous B)continuing C)continue D)continues

12.Should it be a failure, as many experts predict, it would ______ as one of the worst

man-made disasters.

A)is B)mean C)stands D)rank

13.Tim won the competition, ______ was out of everyone’s expectations.

A)where B)which C)when D)therefore

14. Children should be taught to reach a(an) ______ between what they want and what

they can get.

A)compromise B)agreement C)company D)companion

15. The march ____ completely _________ control and more policemen had to be sent.

A)got…off B)got…out of C)got…at D)got…in 16. I’ll never forget _______ you the book you want next Monday.

A)to bring B)to have brought C)bringing D)having to be bringing

17. In 2009, farmers of this area ______ bad luck: their crops were destroyed by a severe storm.

A)met with B) meet C)came up with D) agreed with

18. Once they were in trouble they would _______us.

A)lean to B)lean on C)stand for D) turn on

19. He gave them his honest opinion, _____ of the result.

A)feared B)fearless C)fears D)fearness

20. Were you ______ in persuading him to change his idea?

A)successful B)success C)successed D)successing

Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (40 points)

Directions:There are 4 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.

Passage One

Adam Smith was the first person to see the importance of the division of the labor. He gave us an example of the process by which pins were made in England.

"One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and a fifth gives it a head. Just to make the head requires two or three different operations. The work of making pins is divided into about eighteen different operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.

Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4800 pins a worker. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not have made twenty pins in a day and not even one.

There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this, but he also took it for granted that division of labor is itself responsible for economic growth and development and it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labor adds nothing new, it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.

21. According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to__________

A) take advantage of the physical labor

B) introduce the division of labor into England

C) understand the effects of the division of labor