基础英语期末试题

基础英语期末试题FINAL EXAMINATIONAn Integrated English for English MajorsI. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in the proper1.2.There was a lot of ______at the time about the royal marriage3.It is required that the speakers should provide ________evidence to support theirargument4.Several _______ for global warming have been suggested5.The Worle Health Organization has _______the cause of the illness to anunknown virus.6.Over 8,000 pages of evidence were _______ from hundreds and hundreds ofinterviews.7.Given the promises of enormous profit ,the risks seem ________.8.Do you agree with the critics that the characters in the play are just ______with noindividuality?9.We often ___________ Jessica’s likeness to Peter’s mother.10.I’ll need to __________ my Shakespeare before the course stars.II. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.(10%)1.Who can _________ (assurance) me that I’m mistaken?2.We detected a note of __________ (urgent)in the policeman’s voice.3.The two presidents signed the union treaty ________ (ceremony) this afternoon.4.The movie is rated PG, so children under 15 who want to see it had better be________(company) by their parents.5.If I _______ (be) you, I ________ (go) to night school.6.She felt _________ from too much accustomed exercise.7.The audiences were ________ (thrill) with his stunts.8.Mrs. Peterson was considered a mad woman partly because of her _______(eccentric) and partly because of her violent temper.9.I think it would be _____(appropriate) for you to invite her to a party so soonafter her husband’s death.10.The foundations was established to help those _______(visualize)handicappedmen and women in the developing coutries.III. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate.(15%)“She said that she would dance with me (1) ________ I brought her red roses,” cried the young student; “but in all my garden there is (2) ________ red rose.”From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out (3) ________ her leaves, and wondered.“No red rose in all my garden!” he cried, and his beautiful eyes filled (4) ________ tears. “Ah, on what little things (5) _________ happiness depend! I have read all (6) ________ the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are min, yet for (7) ________ of a red rose is my life made wretched.”“(8) _______ at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale. “Night after night have I (9) ＿＿＿of him, though I knew him not; night after night have told his story to the stars, (10) _______ now I see him. His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his desire; (11) _______ passion has made his face like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal (12) _______ his brow. Surely love is a wonderful thing. It is more (13) _______ than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. It may not be purchased of the merchants, (14) _______ can it be weighed out in the balance for (15) ________.”IV. Explain the underlined parts briefly in English (10%)1.If I had to shoot at such close quarters, I wouldn’t miss.2.They call us “late bloomers,” they call us “returnees”3.The times could be counted upon for lengthy discussion of cricket and RugbyUnion.4.The secret is not to brood over you failures, but to accept them as inevitable.5.I’ll need to brush up my Shakespeare before the course starts.6.“Children enter school as questions marks and leave as periods,”observeseducator Neil Postman.7.The god of mirth is paying us back for all those years of thinking fun waseverywhere by refusing to come to our party.8.Medical experts no longer approve of this method of dieting.9.To descend to less heroic matters, consider the case of two men, Mr. A and Mr. B,who hate each other and, through mutual hatred, bring each other to destruction.10.At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told me forty-eight-year-oldwidow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace.V.Translation(20%)A.From English to Chinese. (10%)①In fact, in order to understand the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization, a man must be deep, broad and simple, for the three characteristics of the Chinese character and the Chinese civilization are: depth, broadness and simplicity.②The American people, I may be permitted to say here, find it difficult to understand the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization, because the American people, as a rule, are broad, simple, but not deep. ③The English cannot understand the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization because the English, as a rule, are deep, simple, but not broad.④The Germans again cannot understand the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization because the Germans, especially the educated Germans, as a rule, are deep, broad, but not simple. ⑤The French,--well the French are the people, it seems to me, who can understand and has understood the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization best. ⑤The French, it is true, have not the depth of nature of the German not the broadness of mind of the Americans nor the simplicity of mind of the English, -- but the French, the French people have to a preeminent degree a quality of mind such as all the people I have mentioned above as a rule, have not,--a quality of mind which, above all things, is necessary in order to understand the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization; a quality of mind viz: delicacy. For, in addition to the three characteristics of the real Chinaman and the Chinese civilization which I have already mentioned, I must here add on more, and that the chief characteristic, namely delicacy; delicacy to a preeminent degree such as you will find nowhere else except perhaps among the ancient Greeks and their civilization.①②③④⑤B.From Chinese to English.(10%)1.听到他屡次失败的消息，我感到很难过。