基础英语试题A卷

湖北第二师范学院2010年下半年期末考试《基础英语》课程考试试卷(A 卷)教学部门： 专业班级： 学生姓名： 学 号： 考试方式 ： 闭卷 （开卷、闭卷）………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Part I. Vocabulary and Structure :(每题1分，共15分)Directions : In this section, there are 15 incomplete sentences. You should choose from the four choices marked A, B, C and D to complete eachsentence. Then mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. You ________ fail the exam if you do not do any revision(复习).A. bound toB. are bound toC. are boundD. are bound for2. Tom has tried many things with no particular success, but he is _______ an incapable person.A. by no meanB. not by meansC. by no meansD. no means3. The worker ________ told Mary where to find the books she wanted.A. helpfulB. is helpfulC. helpD. helpfully4. I can ’t help __________ that it was a mistake to let him go.A. thinkingB. to thinkC. for thinkingD. 不填5. ______ all the efforts they did not succeed.A. In spiteB. In spite toC. In spite ofD. Spite of6. She is young and ______, but she is good at learning.A. experiencedB. inexperiencedC. inexperienceD. unexperienced7. If you ________ the word, look it up in the dictionary.A. are not sure ofB. are sure ofC. are not sure toD. are not sure for8. I think we would let Mary go camping with her classmates. _____, she is a big girl now.A. SoB. But allC. After allD. After that9. He bought a ______ of roses to his girlfriend.A. pairB. bunchC. pieceD. packet10. This was given us as a present ________our silver wedding.A. on the occasionB. at the occasion ofC. in the occasionD. on the occasion of11.The houses in our ______ are very expensive.A. neighborhoodB. neighborC. neighbor-hoodD. neighbors12.I hear young people under 18 are prohibited ______ cigarettes in that country.A. to buyB. from buyC. to buyingD. from buying13.Jim decided to _______ to the seaside for the weekend.A. take a carB. take a bikeC. take a rideD. take ride14.Without ______, you will accomplish nothing.A. working hardlyB. to work hardC. work hardlyD. working hard15.I choose a book _______ from the bookshelf.A. at randomB. randomC. in randomD. by randomDirections: There are three reading passages in this part. Each passage isfollowed by some questions or unfinished statements. You should choosefrom the four choices marked A, B, C, and D, and mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage OneRemembering new vocabulary involves storing it in your long-term memory. This is bestachieved by doing things with the words, organizing the words and by making links to otherwords. Here are some ideas, which may help you take hold of these words in your memory.Make connections between new words. Do they have similar sounds? Do they belong to thesame topic word family such as jobs, emotions, etc.?Establish personal relationship with the words, that is, write personalized sentences usingthe new words, something that is relevant to your life.Make vocabulary cards, each holding a word or phrase, with a definition and something tohelp you remember the word -- a picture，or a color. However, a simple word list is not enough.You should think of more ways to organize your vocabulary. I suggest using a loose leaf file tocreate a flexible system. This allows you to organize the vocabulary in different ways -- by topic,by sound, by book unit, etc. In this way, you can have the flexibility to review the words in cycle.Last but most important of all, make sure that you keep revisiting the vocabulary you havespent time learning. If you don’t use it, you will lose it! I always advise my students to look attheir word notes again that evening, do some work to lock them up in their long-term memory andthen look at the notes a week later, use the vocabulary in some ways and finally look again at thenotes a month later.16. Which of the following is most important in remembering new words according to the author?A. Making links to other words.B. Organizing the new words in more ways.C. Making sentences using the new words.D. Reviewing the words learnt frequently.17. The phrase “a flexible system”(Para.4) means __________.A. a system which can be put into practiceB. a system that can be changed to suit different needsC. a system that can be used for a long timeD. a system which can be reviewed over and over18. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Remembering new words can be best achieved by reading aloud the words.B. Remembering new words can be best achieved by making a simple word list.C. Remembering new words can be best achieved by doing activities with the words.D. Remembering new words can be best achieved by looking at the words a month later.19. This passage is, in the main, about _________.A. how to best keep a record of new vocabularyB. how to best remember new vocabularyC. how to best fight memory decayD. how to best learn new vocabulary20. Which of the following groups of words belongs to the same topic word family?A. A vocabulary card, a word list, a word note, a page.B. Look at, lock up, belong to, in cycle.C. Establish relationship with the words, make links to other words, do things with the words, write personalized sentences with the words.D. None of the above.Passage TwoEver since I was very small, I’ve had the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. I remember watching trains flash by and wishing I was on board. I remember going to the airport with my parents when I was 13 and reading the destinations board, seeing all the places that I could go to: Los Angeles, Chicago, London.But the trains passed by and the planes took off without me, so I wandered the world through books. I went to Victorian England in the pages of Middlemarch and A Little Princes, and to St. Petersburg before the fall of the tsar with Anna Karenina.My home was in a pleasant place outside Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books. In books I traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might achieve, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.I travel today in the way I once dreamed of traveling as a child——on airplanes and in trains. And the irony is that I don’t care for it very much. I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, books. The only thing I do like about traveling is the time on airplanes spent reading.It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the planes, and the train, and the road. They are the real destinations, and the journey too. They are home.21. What did the writer do as a curious child?A. She visited Victorian England and Tsarist Russia.B. She flew t Los Angeles, Chicago and London with her parents.C. She read all kinds of books.D. She spent lots of time traveling on trains.22. How does the author feel about travel today?A. She doesn’t like it very much.B. She takes great pleasure in it.C. She feels tired of it.D. She feels as excited as when she was young.23. What did the author learn from books as a child?A. About many foreign places.B. About many historical figures.C. About the outside world as well as her own self.D. About the ironies of life.24. We can infer form the passage that when traveling by air, the author spends most of her time on the way_______.A. reading booksB. resting herselfC. imagining thingsD. letting her spirit soars25. In this passage the author mainly talks about_______.A. the wonders of travelB. her growth from an innocent child to a learned womanC. the benefits of readingD. the difference between childhood dreams and life’s realitiesPassage ThreeThe famous director of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean so that the audiences (or people who watch the film) could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other for ever. He sent his camera crew (摄制组)out one evening to film the sunset for him .The next morning he sai d to the men, “Have you provided me with that sunset?”“No, sir.” the men answered.The director was angry. “Why not?”, he asked.“Well, sir,” one of the men answered. “W e’re on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get yo u a sunrise over the sea if necessary, but not a sunset.”“But I want a sunset!” the director shouted. “Go to the airport, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one.”But then a young secretary had an idea. “Why don’t you photograph a sunrise,” she suggested, “and then play it backwards? Then it’ll look like a sunset.”The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful bay. Then at nine o’clock they took it to the director. “Here it is, sir!” they said, and gave it to him. He was very pleased.They all went into the studio. “All right,” the director explained. “Now our hero and heroine are going to say good-bye. Run the film backwards so that we c an see the ‘sunset behind them.”The “sunset” began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the camera crew to stop.The birds in the film were flying backwards and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach.26. One evening, the director sent his camera crew out ________.A. to watch a beautiful sunsetB. to find an actor and an actressC. to film a scene on the seaD. to meet the audience27. Why did the director want to send his crew to the west coast?A. Because he changed his mind about getting a sunset.B. Because he was angry with his crew.C. Because it was his secretary’s suggestion.D. Because he wanted to get a scene of sunset.28. Which of the following is NOT true?A. The crew had to follow the secretary’s advice.B. If you want to see a sunrise, the east coast is the place to go to.C. The camera crew wasn’t able to film the scene the first day.D. The director ordered his crew to stop filming the “sunset”.29. The director wanted to film a sunset over the ocean because_______-.A. it went well with the separation of the hero and the heroineB. when they arrived at the beach it was already in the eveningC. it was more moving than a sunriseD. the ocean looked more beautiful at sunset30. After the “sunset” began, the directo r suddenly put his face in his hands ______.A. because he was moved to tears.B. as he saw everything in the film moving backwards.C. as the sunrise did not look as beautiful as he had imaginedD. because he was disappointed with the performance of the hero and heroineDirections: Read the passage carefully and choose the best onefrom the four choices marked A, B, C, and D to fill in each blankon the Answer Sheet.Mrs. Black was having a lot of trouble 31 her skin, __32__ she went to her doctor about it. He could not find anything 33 with her, and 34 her to the local hospital for some tests. The local hospital, 35 , sent the results of the tests 36 to Mrs. Black’s doctor, and the next morning he 37 her to give her a 38 of the things that he thought she could not eat, as 39 of them might be the 40 of her skin trouble.Mrs. Black 41 wrote down all the things on a piece of paper, 42 she then left beside the telephone w hile she went out to a ladies’ meeting.When she got back home two hours later, she found her husband 43 her. He had a big 44 full of packages beside him, and when he saw her, he said:“Hell o, dear. I’ve done all shopping for you.”“Done all my shopping?” she asked 45 surprise. “46 how did you know what I wanted?”“Well, when I got home, I found your shopping list beside the telephone, so I went 47 to the shops and bought everything you had written down.”Of course, Mrs. Black 48 tell him that he had bought all the things the doctor did not 49 her to 50.31. A. in B. on C. with D. of32. A. then B. because C. so D. anyway33. A. wrong B. painful C. bad D. unusual34. A. asked B. put C. sent D. assigned35. A. therefore B. of course C. however D. so36. A. diversely B. wrongly C. late D. directly37. A. phoned B. call C. met D. caught38. A. series B. list C. number D. variety39. A. one B. some C. several D. any40. A. source B. reason C. starter D. cause41. A. casually B. quickly C. carefully D. nervously42. A. what B. that C. which D. one43. A. waving B. smiling at C. cooking for D. waiting for44. A. handbag B. briefcase C. basket D. box45. A. in B. to C. for D. under46. A. But B. So C. And D. Or47. A. away B. over C. down D. up48. A. was able to B. must C. should D. had to49. A. ask B. allow C. tell D. mention50. A. buy B. eat C. choose D. touchDirections: Translate the following sentences into Chinese or Englishaccordingly. Then write down your answers on the Answer Sheet.51. I don’t think we are doing enough to protect our environment from pollution.52. Mary thought it difficult to carry out her plan all by herself.53. She agreed, very reluctantly, to be operated on by a young doctor.54. With this letter I enclose some illustrations for the story.55. The ancient building was enclosed by a high wall.56. 经常看电影不仅会提高你的听力，而且还会帮助你培养说的技能。