基础英语期末试题
FINAL EXAMINATION诸圣节
An Integrated English for English Majors
I. Fill in the bland in each ntence with a word or phra taken from the box in the
1.
______.
2.The truth _____ to be stranger than we had expected.
3.Putting up some new wallpaper ________ to he place.
4.Doesn’t it _______you as rather odd that he never talks about his family?
5.________ his injury ,Ricardo will play in Saturday’s match.
6.Margot came to stay for a week as ______ for my mother while I was away.
7.Derek has really come ____ since he started working here.
8.He’s one of the kindest and most intelligent, _______handsome, men I know.
9.Shall we _________ the concert in the park this evening?
10.We _________ our way out of the airport and joined the flow of cars.
II. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.(10%)
1.French is esntial in this job. All the telephonists speak it. If they _________
(not know) French they ____________ (not understand) half the callers.
2.I suppo that I would find it difficult to get it published but if I _________ (have)
sufficient funds, I could pay for its publication mylf.
3.The president ro from _________ (obscurely) to fame.
4.Every hou in this area is _________ (insurance) against fire and theft.
5.He failed to give _____(substance)reasons for his being abnt from the meeting.
6.The medicine has a most _______ (soothe) effect on the nerves.
7.The ________ (triumph) arch commemorates Caesar’s victory over Pompey.
8.Regardless of the prence of the President, Professor Truman frankly pointed out
the ________ (deficient) in the urban plan of the capital city.
9.Measures have been taken to protect the world’s _____(deplete) elephant
population.
10.There’s a/an ____(speak) assumption in the department that Sue will take over昨天今天明天
the post when Ian leaves.
III. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate.(15%)
Jonesborough, Tenne. They’ve been telling tales in this east Tenne hamlet (1) _________the last 30 years.
The National Storytelling Festival ,held every October,(2)________no lar lights, no loud music ,no dancers ,no loudspeakers (3)________people absorbed in tall tales ,ghost stories and a patchwork(4)________anecdotes.
Jonesborough’s festival marking its 30th(5)________this month ,launched the revival of storytelling(6)________a global art form once it caught hold in the early 1980s ,and there are now (7)________300 such gatherings held each year across the United States.
A tradition (8)________in both rural and (9)______environments ,storytelling is about finding one’s true voice ,Jimmy Neil Smith who(10)_______ the festival and continues to promote it in this town of 3,000 said .
“I ud to tell people(11)_______ telling a story from the (12)______,not the head ,made you a goo
d storyteller, Now I would (13) _____ to authenticity---(14)_______authentic about who you are ,what you are ,and how you live you live your life , We are (15)________we are and we celebrate that and we honor that.”
IV. Explain the underlined parts briefly in English (10)
1.I have stolen into our room alone.
2.I took you to task for not cleaning you shoes.
3.Among other thins ,he discuss how religion can give people a n of purpo
and meaning in their lives ,help them to accept their tbacks gracefully ,connect them to a caring ,supportive community ,and comfort them by putting their ultimate mortality in perspective.
4.There is nothing, short of terminal illness, —no tback, shortcoming ,difficulty,
or inadequacy—that makes happiness impossible.
5.As a man I did n’t count any more.
6.I saw him begin to ri, a calculating look in his eyes.
7.If you persist in this reckless behavior you’ll risk losing everything.
8.I predict that the experiment will result in complete disaster for us all.
手工怎么做简单又漂亮9.He didn’t realize how hard his maxim hit.
10.The momentary appeal of the tasks ems irresistible and important, and they
devour our energy.
V.Translation(20%)
A.From English to Chine. (10%)
①A university education shows him how to accommodate himlf to others, how to throw himlf into their state of mind, how to bring before them his own, how to influence them, how to come to an understanding with them, how to bear with them.
②He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak a
nd when to be silent; he is able to conver, he is able to listen; he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson asonably, when he has nothing to import himlf; he is ever ready, yet never in the way; he is a pleasant companion, and a comrade you can depend upon; he knows when to be rious and when to trifle, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be rious with effect. ③He has the repo(宁静) of a mind which lives in itlf, while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad.
④He has a gift which rves him in public, and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar, and with which failure and disappointment have a charm. ⑤The art which tends to make a man all this, is in the object which it pursues as uful as the art of wealth or the art of health, though it is less susceptible of method, and less tangible, less certain, less complete in its result.
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B.From Chine to English. (10%)
1. 我们都被他坦率的观点、幽默的语言和亲切的态度所深深吸引。(draw)
2. 等到雷鸣般的掌声平息下来，那位诺贝尔奖获得者开始演讲。(die down)
3. 那次火灾烧毁了森林。(devour)
4.这份报纸不接受任何欺骗性的广告。(deceptive)
5.他过分宠爱他的孙辈。(lavish)
6.各种新技术产业已经兴起。(spring up)
7.我从未想到他会做这种事情。( it occurs to someone that )
古诗黄鹤楼8.在必要时，我会尽力去说服他的。(if need be)
9. 星期一早上，他总是快速冲个澡，胡乱吃个三明治，接着赶搭出租车去上班。(grab)
10. 既然你要离开公司了，你要在本周内清算账目。(straighten out)
VI. Reading (20%)
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are bad on the following passage.
In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japane preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japane preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one investigation, 300 Japane and 210 Americans preschools teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japane respondents（答问卷者）listed “to give children a good start academically” as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the Americans respondents cho this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japane schools do not teach reading, writhing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as persistence, concentration, and the ability to function as a member of a group. The vast maj
ority of young Japane children are taught to read at home by their parents.
In recent comparison of Japane and American preschool education, 91 percent of Japane respondents cho providing children with a group experience as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. Sixty-two percent of the more individually oriented（强调个体发展的）Americans listed group experience as one of their top three reasons. An emphasis on school education.
Like in America, there is diversity in Japane early childhood education. Some Japane kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and condary schools. Some Japane parents believe that if their young children attend a university-bad program, it will increa the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing in some Japane kindergartens.
1.We learnt from the first paragraph that many Americans believe ___.
A) Japane parents are more involved in preschools education than American
parents
B) Japan’s economic success is a result of its scientific achievements
C) Japane preschools education emphasizes academic instruction
D) Japan’s higher education in superior to theirs
2. Most Americans surveyed believe that preschools should also attach importance to
___.
A) problem solving C) parental guidance
B) group experience D) individually-oriented development
3. In Japan’s preschool education, the focus is on ___.
A) preparing children academically B) developing children’s artistic interests
C) tapping children’s potential D) shaping children’s character
4. Free play has been introduced in some Japane kindergartens in order to ___.
A) broaden children’s horizon C) lighten ch ildren’s study load
B) cultivate children’s creativity D) enrich children’s knowledge
5. Why do some Japane parents nd their children to university-bad kindergartens? They can ___.
A) do better in their future studies
B) accumulate more group experience there
信不信由你英语C) be individually oriented when they grow up
D) have better chances of getting a first-rate education染色体异常的原因
Passage Two
意向书范本Questions 6 to 10 are bad on the following passage.
A rectal study, published in last week’s Journal of the American Med ical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver, Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more pasngers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone, By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreas with each additional pasnger.
The autobus also found that the death rates for teenage drivers incread dramatically after , and especially after midnight. With pasngers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident.
万花筒作文Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Rearch Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue.” Be says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licens fail to recognize how complex and skilled a task driving is.”
Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使……缓解)the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated licensing systems, in which getting a licen is a multistage process. A graduated licen requires that a leenager first prove himlf capable of driving in the prence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with night of passcager restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges.
Graduated licensing systems have reduced lineage driver crashes, according to recent studies, About half of the states now have some sort of graduated Hcensing system in place, but only 10 of tho states have restrictions on pasngers, California is the strictest, with a novice(新手)driver prohibited from carrying any pasnger under 20(without the prence of an adult over 25)for the first six months.
