A) mark B) feature
C) trace
D) appearance
44. I hope that you’ll be more careful in typing the letter. Don’t _______ anything.
A) omit C) lack B) leak D) withdraw
45. Our new house is very _______ for me as I can get to the office in five minutes.
A) adaptable C) available B) convenient D) comfortable
46. Those gifts of rare books that were given to us were deeply _______.
A) appreciated C) appealed B) approved D) applied
47. The sale usually takes place outside the house, with the audience _______ on benches, chairs
or boxes.
A) having seated C) seated B) seating D) having been seated
48. He is _______ about his chances of winning a gold medal in the Olympics next year.
A) optimistic C) outstanding B) optional D) obvious
49. The clothes a person wears may express his _______or social position.
A) curiosity C) determination B) status D) significance
50. I don’t know the word. I had to _______ a dictionary. A) throw up C) refer to B) make out D) take over
51. Look at these beautiful Japanese stamps. Roger gave them to me in _____ for two sets of 1988
British special issue.
A) exchange B) change
C) shift D) switch
52. It is rather _____ that the research team as a whole still has little idea about the cause of that fatal disease.
A) rewarding C) embarrassing B) demanding D) requiring
53. The people of African interior began to _____ gold in exchange for the goods they needed
from abroad.
A) desire
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B) afford
C) offer
D) receive
54. We should not blame her for what happened yesterday, because that was outside her _____of
responsibility.
A) field C) extent B) limit D) range
55. The students put forward some suggestions _____ consideration.
A) worthless C) worth B) worthy D) worthy of
56. The author of the report is well _____ with the problem in the hospital because he has been
working there for many years. A) acquainted C) enlightened B) informed D) advised
57. After years of hard work, he finally gained ______ to the university which he longed for many
years.
A) access
B) commitment
C) opportunity D) reward
58. _____ you have passed the driving test successfully, you can drive on your own.
A) By now C) Now then B) Now and again D) Now that
59. Within first seven seconds of meeting, people will form their opinion about others through unspoken communication like _____, postures and attitudes.
A) signs C) symptoms B) gestures D) symbols
60. It had never _____ to me that our football team won the game.
A) struck C) hit B) occurred D) meant
61. The students ______ in cleaning the classroom according to the arrangement.
A) alternate C) adopt B) adapt D) admit
62. Have you any ______plans about how to deal with these difficulties? We need to be
practical-minded.
A) abstract C) concrete B) consistent D) contrary
63. The professor was afraid that unless the train speeded up he would miss his _______ to New
York.
A) junction B) connection
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C) seat
D) carriage
64. When writing about controversial topics, some authors try to be _______ without favoring
either side.
A) reflective C) impressive B) persuasive D) objective
65. Many factors such as too much stress, bad living habits can lead to poor ______ and ill health. A) experience C) performance B) appearance D) competence
Part IV Cloze
(10 %)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Language is a signaling system which operates with symbolic vocal sounds (语声), and which is used by a group of people for the purpose of communication.
Let’s look at this 66______ in more detail, because it
66. A) recognition
B) function
C) classification D) definition C) as D) what C) human D) physical
C) means D) approaches C) warning D) boring C) similar D) unfamiliar C) Afterwards D) Furthermore C) with D) in
C) interpret D) express
is language, more than anything else, 67_____ 67. A) it distinguishes man from the rest of the 68_____ world.
Other animals, it is true, communicate with one another by 69_____ of cries: for example, many birds utter (发声) 70_____calls at the approach of danger; monkeys utter 71_____ cries, such as expressions of anger, fear and pleasure. 72_____ these various means of communication differ in important ways 73_____ human language. For instance, animals’ cries do not 74_____ thought and feelings clearly. This means, basically, that
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B) that 68. A) native B) animal
69. A) ways
B) methods 70. A) dating
B) exciting 71. A) identical
B) different 72. A) But
B) Therefore 73. A) from
B) about 74. A) infer
B) explain
they lack structure. They lack the kind of structure that 75_____ us to divide a human utterance (发声) into 76_____.
We can change an utterance by 77_____ one word in it with 78_____: a good illustration of this is a soldier who can say, e.g., “tanks approaching from the north”, 79_____ who can change one word and say “aircraft approaching from the north” or “tanks approaching from the west”; but a bird has a single alarm cry, 80_____ means “danger!”
This is why the number of 81_____ that an animal can make is very limited: the great tit (山雀) is a case 82_____ point; it has about twenty different calls, 83_____ in human language the number of possible utterances is 84_____. It also explains why animal cries are very 85_____ in meaning.
75. A) encourages C) enables B) enforces 76. A) sounds
B) words 77. A) spelling
B) saying 78. A) ours
B) another 79. A) so
B) but
80. A) this
B) that
81. A) signs
B) signals 82. A) in
B) at 83. A) since
B) while 84. A) limitless
B) boundless 85. A) ordinary
B) alike
D) ensures C) voices D) speeches C) replacing D) pronouncing C) theirs D) others
C) or D) and
C) which D) it
C) gestures D) marks
C) of D) for C) anyhow D) somehow C) changeable D) ceaseless C) common D) general
Part V
Writing
(15%)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic My
View on Online Self-access Learning. You should write at least 120 words. And you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1. 一些人认为上机自主学习方式好； 2. 也有一些人认为传统的授课方式好；
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3. 我的看法。
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大一英语上学期期末考试试卷
