大学英语第一学期期末考试(A卷)
Part I Listening Comprehension ( 30% )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Example: You will hear:
You will read: A) At the office.
C) At the airport.
D) In a restaurant.
B) In the waiting room.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A)\the office\is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre. 1. 2. 3. 4.
A) Place another order. B) Call to check on it. C) Wait patiently.
D) Go and find the furniture. A) She doesn’t need the job. B) She hasn’t got a job yet. C) She has got a good job.
D) She is going to start work soon. A) She got home before 9 o’clock. B) She had a bad cold. C) She had a car accident. D) She was delayed.
A) She hasn’t gone camping for several weeks. B) She likes to take long camping trips.
C) She prefers not to go camping on weekends.
D) She often spends a lot of time planning her camping trips.
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5. A) A writer. B) A teacher. C) A reporter. D) A student.
6. A) She has not heard of Prof. Johnson.
B) She has not heard of Prof. Johnson’s brother. C) She is a good friend of Prof. Johnson’s. D) She does not know Prof. Johnson’s brother.
7. A) Coming back for a later show. B) Waiting in a queue.
C) Coming back in five minutes. D) Not going to the movie today.
8. A) He has got a heart attack. B) He was unharmed. C) He was badly hurt.
D) He has fully recovered from the shock.
9. A) The man went to Australia during Christmas.
B) The man visited Australia during the summer vacation.
C) The man didn’t have a good time because of the different weather. D) The man remained home while his parents went to see his uncle.
10. A) To attend a party at a classmate’s home. B) To do homework with her classmate. C) To attend an evening class.
D) To have supper out with her classmate.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) In 1969 in America.
B) In 1969 in France. C) In 1981 in America.
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D) In 1981 in South Africa.
12. A) In Africa.
B) In America. C) In France. D) In Europe.
13. A) Because they benefit from damage to the immune system.
B) Because they infect and destroy white cells. C) Because they do not normally occur. D) Because they spread to other cells.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A) Because some drivers overtake on the left.
B) Because people like driving in the fast lane. C) Because roads are often wet in London.
D) Because pedestrians do not follow traffic rules.
15. A) The fast lanes in Britain are on the left.
B) Drivers in London do not obey traffic police.
C) Traffic accidents where Mark Hill works are frequent. D) On average Mark Hill is on duty four hours a day.
16. A) He likes to work on busy motorways.
B) He likes to help the injured and needy. C) He finds his work interesting and varied. D) He likes driving in the fast lane.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 17. A) His personal interests and activities.
B) His score in entrance exams.
C) His performance in high school. D) His character and personality.
18. A) $22
B) $41.50 C) $63.50 D) $85
19. A) The ACT takes more time than the SAT.
B) The ACT is more expensive than the SAT.
C) Test takers are required to write an essay in the ACT.
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D) Test takers’ academic achievement is focused in the ACT.
20. A) History.
B) Foreign language. C) Mathematics. D) Literature.
Section C Spot Dictation
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Remember to write your answer on Answer Sheet Two. A barn is where farmers keep animals and equipment. Over time, as fewer and fewer people worked the land, more and more barns were (S1)____ down to make way for developers. Others that remained might have fallen into poor condition. Or perhaps they just no longer satisfy the needs of a (S2)____ farmer. Keeping an old barn in good condition might not be seen as worth the cost if it does not (S3)____ much purpose. But Americans with historic barns are being (S4)____ to save them.
The magazine Successful Farming and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are working together on a program called Barn Again! The National Trust is a (S5)____ organization that works to protect places of historic importance in America.
The Barn Again! program advises hundreds of barn owners every year. (S6)____ are given for the projects that best succeed at restoring a barn for continued farm use. (S7)____ buildings are used to demonstrate methods of preservation.
The organization suggests how problems with things like stone and concrete block foundations can be fixed. With many old barns, the foundation they are built on is falling (S8)____. Barn Again! also offers advice for other repairs, like how to (S9)____ siding and how to use a power washer to remove loose paint. And farmers are given suggestions about how to (S10)____ costs. 注意：此部分请在主观答题纸（Answer Sheet Two）上作答。
Part II Reading Comprehension (30 %)
Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One
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Science is not a set of unquestionable results but a way of understanding the world around us. Its real work is slow. The scientific method , as many of us learned in school, is a gradual process that begins with a purpose or problem or question to be answered. It includes a list of materials, a procedure to follow, a set of observations to make and, finally, conclusions to reach. In medicine, when a new drug is proposed that might cure or control a disease, it is first tested on a large random group of people, and their reactions are then compared with those of another random group not given the drug. All reactions in both groups are carefully recorded and compared, and the drug is evaluated. All of this takes time and patience. It’s the result of course, that makes the best news—not the years of quiet work that characterize the bulk of scientific inquiry. After an experiment is concluded or an observation is made, the result continues to be examined critically. When it is submitted for publication, it goes to a group of the scientist’s colleagues, who review the work. Einstein was right when he said: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right, a single experiment can at any time prove me wrong.”
In August 1996, NASA announced the discovery in Antarctica of a meteorite（流星） from Mars that might contain evidence of ancient life on another world. As President Clinton said that day, the possibility that life existed on Mars billions of years ago was potentially one of the great discoveries of our time.
After the excitement wore down and initial papers were published, other researchers began looking at samples from the same meteorite. Some concluded that the “evidence of life” was mostly contamination from Antarctic ice or that there was nothing organic at all in the rock.
Was this a failure of science, as some news reports trumpeted? No! It was a good example of the scientific method working the way it is supposed to. Scientists spend years on research, announce their findings, and these findings are examined by other scientists. That’s how we learn. Like climbing a mountain, we struggle up three feet and fall back two. It’s a process filled with disappointments and reverses, but somehow we keep moving ahead. 21. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to state that ____________. A) most scientific discoveries are not reliable
B) mass media is misleading because it looks at the research results only C) scientific research is a process filled with reverses and requires slow and patient
work
D) repeated experiments are necessary before medicine can be used in patients
22. Publication of a scientific finding signifies __________. A) a challenge to fellow scientists to prove it wrong B) the end of a process
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大一英语上学期期末试卷及答案
