大一精读期末考(含答案)

外国语言文化学院2016-2017学年第（一）学期期末考试试卷

英语系《精读(1)》试卷（A）

I. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. (10%)

1.Professor Wang’s lecture was hard to follow because she kept jumping from one subject to

_______.

A. another

B. other

C. the other

D. the other one

2.Let’s go to the movies, ______?

A. shall you

B. shall we

C. will you

D. would we

3._______ our long-standing business relations, we can consider a price reduction.

A. In terms of

B. In view of

C. With respect to

D. In regard to

4.___A___ all the world were against me, I should still hold to my opinion.

A. Though

B. In spite of

C. However

D. Despite

5.Coco, don’t forget to take an umbrella with you; it ______ rain.

A. will

B. would

C. is going to

D. should

6.They offered me this expensive wine, but frankly I’d rather they ______ me some beer.

A. would offer

B. could offer

C. offer

D. had offered

7.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence “I am reasonably sure that the

police knew the informant’s address”? ______

A.The police may know the informant’s address.

B.The police must know the informant’s address.

C.The police may have known the informant’s address.

D.The police must have known the informant’s address.

8.“If I ______ so hard when I was young,” the pianist says, “I would not be able to play so well

now.”

A. hadn’t practiced

B. didn’t practiced

C. wouldn’t practiced

D. shoul dn’t practiced

9.We should rationally determine the criteria for _B_____ recipients and the exact level of each

recipient, so that all the urban poor will receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

A. legal

B. eligible

C. liable

D. legible

10.The team had a narrow escape from being _______ to the second division last season. It is high

time that the club took some effective measures to improve the management and boost morale amongst the players.

A. delegated

B. regulated

C. renovated

D. relegated

II. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions or adverbs. (10%)

1.Spaghetti is a simple yummy dish, consisting mainly_______ noodles and tomatoes.

2.Who is responsible _______ the terrorist attack recently occurred in Turkey?

3.The two parties have agreed to the proposal __IN____ principle but they still have to negotiate

the concrete terms.

4.After several hours’ negotiations, they finally backed __down______on their unreasonable

demands.

5.If you can’t afford t o pay cash, buy them ________ credit.

6.I’m ________ a dilemma about whether or not to accept this job offer.