《开放英语3》期末考试模拟试题1

《开放英语3》期末考试模拟试题1

第一部分：英语知识运用（共10小题：每题2分，满20分）

此部分共有10个没完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有四个选择，请你从A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出正确答案。

1. --Would you like to have dinner with us this evening?

--______C__________.

A. OK, but I have to go to a meeting now

B. No, I can't

C. Sorry, but this evening I have to go to the airport to meet my parents

D. I don't know

2. -- Hi, is Mary there, please?

--________A________.

A. Hold on. I'll get her

B. No, she isn't here

C. Yes. she lives here

D. Yes, what do you want

3. -- Please help yourself to the fish.

-_______A_________.

A. Thanks, but I don't like fish

B. Sorry, I can't help

C. Well, fish don't suit me

D. No, I can't

4. -- Hurry up please, or I'll be late.

--______B__________.

A. Sorry sir, but the traffic is thick now'

B. Well, it's alright, sir

C. How can you say that, sir?

D. Oh, we are going the right way

5. -- Excuse me, but can you tell me the way to the airport?

A. Don't ask that

B. Sorry, I'm a stranger here

C. No, I can't say that

D. No, you're driving too fast

6. --How about a date to the movies tonight, Jane?

--______B__________.

A. I don't think so

B. I'm sorry. I have to drive my mother home tonight

C. Never mind

D. Take it easy

7. -- Are you ready to order desert, please?

--_______D_________.

A. Yes, please

B. Please don't order it

C. No, don't mention it

D. Yes, I'd like to have some chocolate cake

8. -- Did Tom tell you to water the flowers?

-- _______C________.

A. No. And so did I

B. No. And neither did I

C. He did. And so I did

D. He did. And so do I

9. -- Shall we sit up here on the grass or down there near the water?

--_______A________.

A. I'd rather stay here if you don't mind

B. Sorry, I don't like neither

C. Certainly, why not?

D. Yes, we like these two places

10. --Would you mind changing seats with me?

A. Yes. you can

B. Of course, I like to

C. No. I don't mind

D. Certainly. please do

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

此部分共有4篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题，每个问题后有四个选项，请你从A，B，C，D 四个选项中，选出正确答案。

Passage 1

For any Englishman, there can never be any discussion as to who is the world's greatest dramatist(剧作家). Only one name can possibly suggest itself to him' that of William Shakespeare. Every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of our greatest writer. All of us use words, phrases and quotations from Shakespeare's writings that have become part of the common property of the English-speaking people, Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we used, rather like the old lady who was taken to see a performance of Hamlet and complained that it was full of well-known proverbs and quotations.

Shakespeare, more perhaps than any other writer, makes full use of the great resources

of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal use of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand.

There is probably no better way for a foreigner to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth tile effort ( it is not, of course, recommended to beginners) even though some aspects of English usage, and tile meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare's clay.

11. English people____C____.

A. have never discussed who is the world's greatest dramatist

B. never discuss any discuss concerning the world's greatest dramatist

C. are sure who is the world's greatest dramatist

D. do not care who is the world's greatest poet and dramatist

12. Every Englishman knows_____A_____.

A. more or less about Shakespeare

B. Shakespeare. but only slightly