综合英语期末考卷

2009级商务英语/应用英语专业《综合英语》2009-2010学年第一学期期末考卷Class_______ No.________ Name___________ Mark_______I. Vocabulary and structure (25 points)A. Complete the sentences with the proper forms of the words given in parentheses (10 points, one point each)1. The (major)______________ of doctors believe smoking does harm to health.2. Every year the Great Wall (attractive) __________ a large number of tourists.3. The big fire (destruction) ___________ most of the buildings in the factory last year.4. We should try to improve the moral (conscious) ____________ of young students.5. The party has become deeply (nerve) ______________ about the possibility of losing the next election.6. When facing unexpected challenges, she (behaviour) __________ with great coura ge.7. I (preference) ________ to stay at home rather than go to the cinema with you.8. Mr. Robinson is a very (experience)____________ physics teacher.9. A famous old name on a firm is not necessarily a (guarantee) _________ of quality.10. This IT company is badly in need of a large number of computer (talented)__________.B. Fill in the blanks with words or phrases from the Vocabulary Snapshot. Change the forms if necessary (5 points, 0.5 point each)1. ________________ public libraries, many art centers having reading rooms.2. Not only school education but also social experience is good preparation for a college student’s future ________________.3. George _______________ a very good idea to solve this problem.4. The factory has installed those new machines, which _______________ its production by 50%.5. Francis has ______________ a lot since he had a heart attack last year.6. After working ten hours continuously, she was _____________ and wanted to sleep.7. Frank is good at sports, but __________________ study, he is far below the average.8. Y ou’ll solve this problem if you _______________ upon it.9. Y our support and help were very important for us at that ______________ moment.10. Our garden can be _______________ from the next-door neighbour’s window.C. Choose the best answers (10 points, one point each)1. The three men tried many times to sneak across the border into the neighbouring country, _______ by the police each time.A) had been captured B) being always capturedC) only to be captured D) unfortunately captured2. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used _______ late for his lecture.A) to have students B) for students’ beingC) for students to be D) to students’ being3._______ the help of their group, we would not have succeeded in the investigation.A) Besides B) Regardless of C) But for D) In spite of4. The advertising campaign didn’t have much_______ on sales.A) affect B) effective C) stress D. effect5. Pollution poses a threat to the continued existence of this _______.A) specie B) species C) piece D) kind6. Plants can _______ carbon dioxide and release oxygen.A) trap B) introduce C) absorb D) attract7.Our club_______ seven new members at the last meeting.A) entitled B) ensured C) enrolled D) joined8. These apples _______ in size from small to medium.A) vary B) change C) remain D) realize9. Y ou would be ______ a risk to let your child go to school by himself.A) omitting B) attaching C) affording D) running10.Our latest model should______ your requirements exactly.A) meet B) request C) alter D) stayII. Cloze test (10 points, one point each)For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In __1__ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend ___2___ can mean the difference between success and failure. Y et the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ___3___ readers. Most of us develop poor reading ____4___ at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency ____5___ in the actual stuff of language itself——words. Taken individually, words have___6____ meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs.___7____, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing (退回) to ___8___ words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over ___9__ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which ____10___ down the speed of reading is vocalization——sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.1.A) applying B) doing C) offering D) getting2.A) quickly B) easily C) roughly D) decidedly3.A) good B) curious C) poor D) urgent4.A) training B) habits C) situations D) custom5.A) lies B) combines C) touches D) involves6.A) some B) a lot C) little D) dull7.A) Fortunately B) In fact C) Logically D) Unfortunately8.A) reuse B) reread C) rewrite D) recite9.A) what B) which C) that D) if10.A) scales B) cuts C) slows D) measuresIII. Reading (30 points)A. Practical reading (12 points, two points each)Use the information to answer the questions.1. When was the Atlantic Avenue Bed and Breakfast built?____________________________________________________________________ 2. Where will you stay if you want to play golf?____________________________________________________________________ 3. What number will you call to find out the prices of the Ocean Inn?____________________________________________________________________ 4. Where can you have a romantic and unique hotel?____________________________________________________________________ 5. Which hotel has an indoor swimming pool?____________________________________________________________________6. What is the room rate of the Cranberry Inn?_______________________________________________________________________________B. Reading comprehension (18 points, 1.5 points each)Passage 1Students enrolled at least half time may borrow up to $3,000 form the government over a two-year period. Repayment of the loan begins six months after the student leaves school. These loans carry on interest until this time. The current interest rate is 5 percent. Students may borrow up to $4,500 annually from a bank, credit union, savings and loan association or other eligible lender. Repayment on these loans usually begins six months after the student leaves school. These loans carry no interest until this time. This current interest rate is 9 percent. Parents may borrow up to $300 annually for each dependent college. Repayment begins forty-five days after receiving the loan, and the interest rate is 12 percent.1. Which of the following is the main purpose?A) To remind students and their families to repay their loan.B) To compare interest rates.C) To inform students and parents of the various loans available.D) To show that government loans charge the least interest.2. The highest interest rate is charged to _______.A) full-time studentsB) parentsC) students borrowing from a credit unionD) half-time students3. If parents had three children in college how much could they borrow annually?A) 900 B) 3,000 C) 300 D) 9, 0004. According to the passage which of the following is true.A) The government lends students enrolled at least half time up to 3,000 annually.B) Students may borrow up to $4,500 annually from four sources.C) Students enrolled less than half time may borrow money.D) The current interest rate from banks is 5 percent.5. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.A) the student's school determines who is an eligible lenderB) money is available for student loansC) students need not be enrolled half time to borrow moneyD) the interest rate on student loans is increasingPassage 2Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is for life.In some modern countries, it has been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees, they refuse to do whatthey think “low” work. In fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we would die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and moved the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns.In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.6. The author of this passage thinks that _________.A) education can settle all of the world’s problemsB) free education won't help to solve social problemsC) free education for all probably leads to a perfect worldD) all the social problems can't be solved by education7. The author wants to prove that_________.A) our society needs all kinds of jobsB) our society needs free education for allC) a farmer is more important than a professorD) p eople with university degrees refuse to do what they think “low” work8. One can learn from the passage ______A) work with hands is dirty and shamefulB) work with hands is low workC) work with hands is the most importantD) we can't regard work with hands as low work9. The purpose of education is_________.A) to choose the system of educationB) to prepare children mainly for their future workC) to build a perfect worldD) to let everyone receive education fit for him10. The passage mainly tells us about _______ of education.A) the meansB) the systemC) the valueD) the typePassage 3When I was about six years old, my mother came home one day and found that I had collected half a dozen babies of the neighborhood ---- all of them too young to walk ---- and had them sitting before me on the floor while I was teaching them to wave their arms. When she asked the explanation of this, I informed her that it was my school of dance. She was amused, and placing herself at the piano, she began to play for me. This school continued and became very popular. Later on, little girls of the neighborhood came and their parents paid me a small sum to teach them. This was the beginning of what afterwards proved a very lucrativeoccupation.My mother took me to a famous ballet teacher, but his lesson did not please me. When the teacher told me to stand on my toes, I asked him why, and when he replied “Because it is beautiful,” I said that it was ugly and against nature and after the third lesson I left his class, never to return. This stiff and commonplace gymnastics which he called dancing only disturbed my dream. I dreamed of a different dance. I did not know just what it would be, but I was feeling out towards an invisible world into which I guessed I might enter if I found the key.My art was already in me when I was a little girl, and it was owing to the heroic and adventurous spirit of my mother that it was not stifled. I believed that whatever the child is going to do in life should be begun when it is very young. I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.11. According to the narrator, she owed her success in art to ___________.A) the good education her parents gave herB) the support of her understanding and adventurous motherC) her inborn talentD) her ballet teacher12. The central idea of the passage is that __________.A) parents should try to discover the natural gift in their children and help to develop it while they are youngB) the so-called good education parents give their children only drives them into the commonplace and deprives them of any chance of doing anything originalC) mothers should be heroic and adventurousD) ballet is no good as a form of danceIV. Translation (20 points, two points each)A. English into Chinese1. He was arrested by the police, and we couldn’t believe the fact that he was involved in the murder.2. Because his family couldn’t afford his fee, Tom had to drop out of school.3. Y ou have grown up, so don’t always rely on your parents for good advice.4. When the World War Two was over, Britain set free most of war prisoners.5. In the U.S.A., a college education is not viewed as a privilege reserved for the wealthy or the academically talented.B. Chinese into English1、政府应该采取措施保护环境。