2008级综合英语考试题型

2008级综合英语期末考试

1. 考试范围：Unit1, Unit2, Unit5, Unit6（时间为120分钟）

2. 期末考试题目类型如下：

I.Word Spelling (20%, 40题)

II.Word Transformation （15%，15题）

III.Multiple Choice （15%，30题）

IV.Proofreading (10%, 2篇文段，每篇10处错误，每行一处错误) V.Reading Comprehension (20%, 4篇，每篇5题)

VI.Translation (20%, 10句)

（注：word spelling; word transformation; multiple choice; 和translation 中可以有50%左右的题目是书本或quiz中出现过的；word spelling, word transformation等题目涉及到每个单元的三篇课文，并不是只考第一篇。.最后的composition是专门为老外学生准备的，中国学生不用做）

I. Word Spelling:

Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different s_ _ _ _ _ _ _.

(a sign that something exists, especially something bad)

II. Word Transformation:

In business, __________ consists of the performance or management of transactions and other matters, and the making and implementing of major decisions. (administrative)

III. Multiple Choice

That pile of rubbish has been a fire _________ for years, but people never pay attention.

A. danger

B. hazard

C. risk

D. peril

IV. Proofreading

In the morning of November 18th, 1755，an earthquake shook Boston, 1．＿＿＿＿

the Massachusetts. John Winthrop, a professor at Harvard College, felt a quake 2．＿＿＿＿

and awoke up．“I rose and found it to be fifteen minutes past 3．＿＿＿＿

four.”John Winthrop hurried to downstairs to the clock．It had stopped 4．＿＿＿＿

three minutes ago, at 4:11．Except for stopping the clock, the quake 5．＿＿＿＿

only threw a key from the mantel on the floor．

6．＿＿＿＿

The clock stopped because Winthrop put some long 7．＿＿＿＿

glass tube he was using for an experiment into the case

8．＿＿＿＿

for safekeeping．The tubes were knocked by the quake and 9．＿＿＿＿

blocked the pendulum（钟摆）. Winthrop, therefore, had the exactly

10. ＿＿＿＿

time that the earthquake hit Boston.

V. Reading Comprehension

To call someone bird-brained in English means you think that person is silly or stupid. But will this description soon disappear from use in the light of recent research? It seems the English may have been unfair in associating birds’ brains with stupidity.

In an attempt to find out how different creatures see the world, psychologists at Brown University in the USA have been comparing the behavior of birds and humans. One experiment has involved teaching pigeons to recognize letters of the English alphabet. The birds study in “classrooms”, which are boxes equipped with a computer. After about four days of studying a particular letter, the pigeon has to pick out that letter from several displayed on the computer screen. Three male pigeons have learnt to distinguish all twenty-six letters of the alphabet in this way.

A computer record of the birds’ four-month study period has shown surprising similarities between the pigeons’and human performance.