综合英语1期末考试试题及答案

期末考试试题及答案2008年1月

ⅠVocabulary and Structure (20%)

1. Have they achieved the American dream _ are they on _____ street?

A good

B easy

C rich

D simple

2.The room is in a terrible mess; it ___ cleaned.

A would have been

B mustn’t have been

C shouldn’t have been

D can’t have been

3. _____, the chances of winning the lottery are very small.

A On purpose

B In turn

C In reality

D With pleasure

4. Charlie ___ his trip to London because he couldn’t get a passport in time.

A have canceled

B has to cancel

C must cancel

D had to cancel

5. We were ____ for half an hour in the traffic and so we arrived late.

A kept off

B broken down

C put back

D held up

6. She _____ waited until they had finished , and then she began to speak calmly but firmly.

A peculiarly

B pathetically

C perfectly

D patiently

7.It is better to _____ schoolchildren by feeding them good food.

A notice

B neglect

C witness

D nourish

8. ___ the traffic jam, I wouldn’t have been late for the dinner party.

A Were it not for

B But

C Only if

D If not

9. the first place ____ in the factory was the tool room.

A where we visited

B we visited in

C we visited

D which we visited

10. ____, I will learn it well.

A No matter how English is difficult

B However English is difficult

C However difficult English is

D No matter how difficult is English

ⅡCloze (20%)

When a German couple noticed a man’s head and shoulder sticking out of a glacier in the Austrian Alps recently, they made history. The frozen corpse was about five feet 11 and scientists who helicoptered to the site determined that it was 4,000 years old – the first 12 body ever found from the Bronze Age. Mummified by the wind and snow, he came 13 with sikn, bones, internal organs, and fingernails. He was 14 in leather shoes and finely stitched leather suit, insulted with hay. An array of weapons and equipment was found alongside him_ 15 a leather quiver with fourteen arrows, a stone necklace, a fire flint, a knife, and an ax with a crude bronze head.

“The find is of 16 scientific meaning,”said Lonrad Spindler, professor of early and Primeval History at the University of Innsbruck, who is investigating the 17 . Skeletal remains of buried corpses have been excavated before in Bronze Age graves. But “the iceman,”as Austrian newspapers dubbed him, was going about the normal course of life when he died 18 the ages of 20 and 40, which means he should yield a reassure-trove of information about conditions 4,000 years ago. Scientists plans to 19 the contents of his stomach and intestine for clues to the Bronze Age diet, illnesses, and parasites. They also hoped to 20 the glacier site further for companions.

11. A tall B height C long D length

12. A steady B great C alive D intact