大学二年级第二学期期末英语泛读结业试题A卷

大学二年级第二学期期末英语泛读结业试题A卷二年级第二学期期末英语泛读结业试题A卷(2005级)
一. Vocabulary (30%)
Direction: For each italicized word, choose the best meaning below 1. You may deposit your valuables in the hotel safe
A. get
B. change
C. place
2. The old general has started to write his memoirs
A. autobiography
B. letters
C. books 3. Tom confessed that he had eaten all the sweets
A. guaranteed
B. kept the secret
C. admitted 4. The car accident obstructed the road for five hours
A. constructed
B. blocked
C. objected 5. He lit his pipe and exhaled clouds of smoke
A. breathed in
B. breathed out
C. breathed in and out 6. The child cracked the nuts with a hammer
A. injured
B. broke
C. blew
7. People fled in fear when the bull got loose
A. ran away
B. stayed
C. flew
8. Oh, do be ca reful, don’t tread on the flowers
A. jump
B. treat
C. step
9. When the doors were flung open, a crowd surged in
A. entered in a mass
B. entered in a single line
C. entered one by one
10. He has been occupied with collecting stamps for many years
A. successful in
B. absorbed in
C. productive in 11. Christians believe that the mountains and the oceans are among the mighty works of God
A. usual
B. powerful
C. weak 12. What a nuisance! I’ve forgotten my ticket
A. sth that causes annoyance or inconvenience
B. sth that brings joy or comfort
C. sth that brings destruction or disaster
13. I interpreted his silence as a refusal
A. understood
B. examined
C. remembered 14. In our fast paced world, nothing seems constant
A. changing
B. Valuable
C. unchanging 15. When my father pumped air into the ball, it expanded quickly
A. becomes greater
B. becomes smaller
C. becomes heavier 16. We substituted red balls for blue, to see if the baby would notice
A. kept
B. held
C. changed 17. The dead man has been identified as Mr. John Smith
A. mistaken
B. recognized
C. thought of 18. He always holds the notion that his son will become a great man
A. fact
B. term
C. idea 19. The match tonight is China vs. Japan
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A. for
B. of
C. against
20. Their sympathy was well-meaning but ineffective
A well-spoken B. well-thought C. well-intentioned
21.Some anti-smokers want to ban the sale of cigarettes completely.
A. forbid
B. reduce
C. discourage
22.The total havoc created by the hurricane brought tears to his eyes.
A. beauty
B. damage
C. interest
23.The group was arrested because they were plotting to assassinate the president.
A. criticize
B. murder
C. capture
24.The doctor found the increase in patients stricken by the fatal disease appalling.
A. disgusting
B. informing
C. frightening
25.The withdrawal of all the soldiers from the town left the inhabitants vulnerable to their
enemies.
A. open to attack
B. ready for defence
C. free from fear
26.They pretended to be loyal to the government, but in reality they were engaged in activities that were subversive.
A. participating in cruelty and violence
B. attempting to overthrow an established institution
C. directed toward inferior and inefficient quality
27.the proponents of the law suggested an open debate o increase its support before the election. A. those in favor B. those against C. those who were indifferent
28.The girl understood death for the first time when she saw her dog converted into an inanimate
object after being struck by a car.
A. angry
B. wounded
C. lifeless
29.After drinking a whole bottle of whiskey, the intoxicated man
fell down the stairs.
A. nervous
B. insane
C. drunk
30.As self-acceptance grows, shyness naturally diminishes
A. to become or seem bigger
B. to become smaller
C. to grow larger
二(Reading Comprehension(60%)
Passage One
Young women are wearing the new high platform shoes that came into style not long ago. Young women enjoy wearing stylish clothes. They also enjoy being taller while they are wearing these shoes.
But doctors are not very happy with the platform shoes. Foot specialists report that many women hurt their feet by wearing them. These specialists say that if you turn your ankle when wearing a normal shoe, the foot can easily return to its regular position. However, if you fall while walking on a high platform shoes, your foot may turn so far that you will break a bone in the foot or ankle. There is also a possibility that these shoes cause backaches. Many platform shoes have high heels, and women who wear them say that these shoes sometimes make them feel tired. (It has been found that people use more energy when walking on high-heeled shoes.)
Because the platforms are very thick and stiff, these shoes could cause into accidents. The driver might not be able to feel the
difference between the brake and the accelerator (加速器). Also, if the platforms are very high, and if the driver has to stop the car quickly, she might not be able to move her foot to the brake in time.
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Women are not alone in wearing platform shoes. Many U. S. shoe
stores sell platform shoes designed for men. Doctors continue to warn people about the dangers of wearing them. A high style is not always a safe style.
1. Why do young women enjoy wearing the new high platform shoes?
A. High platform shoes are stylish.
B. Young women look taller when wearing them.
C. Neither A) or B).
D. Both A) and B).
2. You will break a bone in your foot or ankle if _______.
A. you fall
B. you wear high platform shoes
C. You wear normal shoes
D. You fall while wearing high platform shoes 3. Why do high platform shoes make women who wear them feel tired?
A. Women use more energy when walking on them.
B. Women have to walk longer roads.
C. Women have to walk slowly.
D. Women are not used to walking on them.
4. Doctors are not very happy with the platform shoes, for ________.
A. they think the popular style changes too quickly
B. they worry a lot about the health of those who wear this kind of shoes
C. they don’t expect more car accidents
D. they are afraid that before long men will wear this kind of shoes as well 5. The main purpose of this passage is ____________.
A. to introduce a new style
B. to forbid people to wear high platform shoes
C. to warn people about the dangers of wearing high platform shoes
D. to call a new reform on style
Passage two The High Cost of Living
Many families in the United States have a larger income now than
ever before, but people are finding it difficult to make ends meet anyway. Almost everyone is wondering, “ what happens to all my money? I never seem to have anything left to put away.”
Why isn’t a dollar worth as much as it used to be? One dollar is always worth the same amount, that is, 100 cents. But the value of a dollar is how much it can buy. The value of money depends on the cost of living. Economists say that the cost of living is the money that a
family must pay for the necessities of life such as food, housing or rent, clothes, and medical expenses. For many years now, the cost of living has increased greatly, so the value of the dollar has decreased. When a dollar has a low value, you cannot buy as many things with it.
No one fully understands why the cost of living keeps increasing but economists believe that workers and producers can make prices go up. As
workers earn more money, they have more money to spend, so they demand more good. If there is a great demand for certain goods, the prices of these goods go up. At the same time, if there’s a shortage of goods, the prices also go up.
For example, if everyone wants to buy more and more gas, the price of gas goes up. When companies withhold gas from buyers, they can also make the price of gas go up.
Families need to know what happens to their money. They need to make their income meet cost
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of living, so many people plan a family budget. A budget is a list of monthly expenses. If your expenses add up to more than your income, you must find ways to save money. Maybe you’re spending too much on entertainment. Or if you’re spending too much on clothes, you may w ant to sew your own clothes. Budgeting helps you spend your money wisely as the cost of living increases.
6. What has troubled many families in the United States?
A. a not-large-enough income
B. nothing is left over to put away
C. the increasing cost of living
D. a shortage of certain goods
7. _______ determines the value of the dollar?
A. The government
B. The cost of living
C. The economist
D. The bank
8. Why does the cost of living keep increasing?
A. There are always shortages of goods
B. The workers are getting lower and lower pay
C. The government makes no interference
D. People demand more and better goods
9. Which of the following is true?
A. Housewives needn’t know anything happening to the market.
B. People are most concerned about the value of money
C. There seems no need for everyone to know about the rising cost of living
D. The prices will go up if more goods are produced
10. Budgeting helps _______.
A. one to make his income meet the cost of living
B. the government to battle the rising cost of living
C. merchants to produce more goods
D. the workers to earn more money
Passage three Teachers and Actors
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor: you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher and you will see that he does not sit
motionless before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important diffe rences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. the actor has to speak words which he has learnt by hear; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways
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in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem
natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage play because their brains wouldn’t keep discipline: they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
11. What is the text about?
A. how to become a good teacher
B. what a good teacher should do outside the classroom
C what teachers and actors could learn from each other
D .the similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s
12. In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?
A. The teacher must learn everything by heart.
B. The teacher knows how to control his voice better than an actor.
C. The teacher has to deal with unexpected situations.
D. The teacher has to use more facial expressions.
13. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that____. A. students can move around in the classroom
B. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t
C. no memory work is needed for the students
D. the students must take part in their teachers’ plays
14. A go od teacher’s voice ______.
A. should be clear and fully under his control
B. should not be too loud or too low
C. should be fixed before he goes to class
D. all of the above
15. Which of the following is true?
A. A teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to say in class.
B. A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to say in class.
C. A teacher must speak louder than an actor.
D. A teacher must have a better memory than an actor.
Passage four Will It Matter if I Skip Breakfast?
If you have to miss one meal a day ( or if you want to do so), which meal will cause you fewest health problems if you don’t eat it? If they have to make a decision of this type, most people
(especially dieters or very busy people) will choose to skip breakfast.
However, many experts in the field of health consider breakfast
( the meal which “ breaks” your “fast” which started the night before) to be the most important meal of the day. If we eat a good breakfast, they say, we will have the energy and nutrients we need to begin our working day with vigor and hopefully with good humor. Nevertheless, many people skip breakfast or substitute a donut and a cup of coffee for a well-balanced meal. What happens if we ignore the importance of
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breakfast?
One recent study conducted in the United States tested a large number of people. Participants included both males and females who ranged in age from 12 to 83. during the experiment, these people were
given a variety of breakfasts, and sometimes, they had to skip breakfast completely. Special tests, including blood tests and endurance tests, were set up to analyze how well the participants’ bodies functioned when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast.
The results showed that if a person eats an adequate breakfast, he
or she will work more efficiently and more productively than if he or she skips breakfast or eats a very poor breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person’s work involves mental activity. The study showed that if schoolchildren eat fruit, eggs, bread, and milk before going to school, they will learn more quickly and will be able to concentrate on their lessons for a longer period of time than if their breakfast diet is inadequate.
The study also showed that, contrary to what many people believe, if you skip breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry if they skip breakfast that they eat too much for lunch and end up gaining weight instead of losing. So remember, if you are on a diet, skipping breakfast will not help you. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.
16. In the word “breakfast”, “fast” probably means_______.
A. “ moving quickly”
B. “going without food”
C. “unlikely to go fast”
D. “fast food”
17. Many experts in the field of health think _________.
A. that one must miss one meal a day
B. that most people should skip breakfast
C. that to skip one meal a day is no good for one’s health
D. that breakfast is most important in a working day
18. According to the passage those participation in the experiment___________. A. were all adults
B. were males of different ages
C. were both teenagers and grown-ups
D. were mostly young people under 20
19. Special tests were set up to analyze how the partic ipants’ bodies functioned when
____________.
A. they had skipped breakfast
B. they had had breakfast
C. they had eaten particular breakfasts
D. they had had all three meals
20. We can safely say ___________.
A. if you skip breakfast, you will not lose weight at all
B. if you skip breakfast, you won’t eat much for lunch either
C. skipping breakfast does a lot of harm
D. skipping breakfast will help one lose weight
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Passage Five
The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk. It uses
its trunk in many ways. It pulls leaves off trees with its trunk and
then put them into its mouth. It can even use its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through the jungle. It also uses its trunk to get water. The trunk can hold a lot of water, as an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints of water every day.
When an elephant is angry, its trunk can be very dangerous. The
trunk of an elephant is really its front teeth. People pay a lot of money for the ivory of an elephant’s trunk. In Africa, men have hunted elephants for their trunks. The ivory from the trunk is made into many beautiful things. It has been easy for men to train elephants
in Asia. They use elephants to carry heavy things for long distances.
Many people say that the kings of Siam used to give white elephants
to people they did not like. These white elephants were scattered and they could not be made to work. They could not be killed or given away.
A person who owned a white elephant had to pay a lot of money to keep it
properly. After a certain time, he usually became very poor. Nowadays people in England call a useless thing “a white elephant”.
21. Which of the following is NOT true about the usage of an elephant’s trunk?
A. It uses its trunk to pull leaves off trees to eat.
B. It uses its trunk to make a path through the jungle.
C. It uses its trunk to fight.
D. It uses its trunk to get water to drink.
22. Which of the following is true about the trunks of elephants?
A. They are very precious.
B. They are made into many beautiful things.
C. They are the decorations of elephant.
D. Both A) and B).
23. What could one do when he owned a white elephant?
A. He could keep it for carrying heavy things.
B. He could make it work.
C. He could train it easily.
D. He had to pay a lot of money to keep it.
24. What can NOT be inferred from the passage?
A. An elephant can be dangerous.
B. An elephant can do heavy work for people.
C. Beautiful things are always made from the trunk of an elephant.
D. People in Siam with a white elephant could be very poor.
25. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The elephant
B. How people treat elephant.
C. How precious an elephant is.
D. How poor one will be if he has a white elephant.
26(Translate the following sentences from the passages into Chinese
(1). Many families in the United States have a larger income now than ever before, but people
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are finding it difficult to make ends meet anyway.(from passage two, para 1)
(2). The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. (from passage three, para 3)
(3). If you have to miss one meal a day ( or if you want to do so), which meal will cause you fewest health problems if you don’t eat it? (from passage four, para 1)
27. what does a white elephant(in passage five) refer to? Both in English and Chinese
28. In what aspects should a teacher act like an actor? (from
passage three)
三(Sentence Rewriting (10%) Direction: rewrite the following sentences with the provided verb phrases so that they mean the same.
1. His shop has now stopped trading after making heavy losses. (go
out of business)
2. The trade has deteriorated and staffs are being laid off. (go
from bad to worse)
3. The situation has reached crisis point now that the government
has to face a vote of
confidence. (come to the boil)
4. I can’t specify exactly what it was that I disliked abou t the performance.(put my fingers
on)
5(The opening of his one-man show has been postponed until he recovers from his illness.
(put off)
Anawer Sheet
一( Vocabulary (30%)
1-10 11-20 21-30
二.Reading Comprehension(60%)
1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25
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