一、词汇题（20分） I．选择题：（每题1分，共5分）
1. Ford ________ it would make a big profit from this deal, but it did not. A. thinks B. was thinking C. has thought D. thought 2. This the deal __________ Geely. A. was made with B. made with
C. makes with D. have made with
3. It promised to change Volvo from a company _____was making a loss to a company _____would make a profit. A. which, how B. that, that C. how, that D. what, what 4. Thirdly, __________ costs and _________ the standards will not be easy. A. reduce, keep B. reduces, keeps
C. reducing, keeping D. reduced, kept
5. Steve Jobs ______________ on 24th February, 1955. A. born B. was born C. bore D. was bore II. 填空题（每题1分，共15分）
1. The （ ）普通，平均American family uses up 6 trees’ worth
of paper per year.
2. We paid a high （ ）生态的 price for our packaging.
3. The（ ）塑料material is non-degradable.
4. In short, office etiquette is about being ( ) 尊重的， and polite
in the office.
5. It also helps you make sure that you do not ( ) 惹恼people with
bad ( ) 评论or habits.
6. You should （ ）降低your voice in public. 7. Some have been ( ) 归因于union pressure.
8. 41. It helps employees create a good life-work ( ) 平衡. 9. It does nothing but （ ）有害to complain about anyone.
10. He found the work （ ）枯燥的，沉闷的, for he had to do the
same task for eight hours a day, five days a week.
11. Mark’s position in the company was also（ ）处于危险中.
12. I was afraid that my parents would be extremely （ ）失望的. 13. Gossip usually gets passed around quickly and can ( ) 影响，反
映poorly on you.
14. Mark’s boss thought the （ ）计件pay method was good.
二、翻译题（30分）
I. 句子翻译（每题2分，共20分）
1. The raw materials is taken by a forklift to the different areas. 2. Shanghai’s streets are always packed with vehicles of all kinds. 3. Apple and Amazon are very successful global players.
4. China is the world’s largest automobile market.
5. Last year, Geely only had a turnover of $2.4 billion, whereas Volvo’s turnover was $12.4 billion.
6. 这是约翰曾经住的地方。 7. 这是我阅读过的最有趣的书。 8. 问题是我们应该去还是留下？
9. 杂志和糖果放在收银台，因为购物者会在那里等待。 10.如果电梯还不来，我们就要开会迟到了。 II. 短文翻译（共10分）
We pay a high ecological price for our packaging. The United States produces about 180 million metric tons of domestic waste per year. 70% of this is packaging material, including expensive aluminum foil and non-degradable plastics. The average American family uses up six trees’ worth of paper every year. If you placed all the cans used in the United States in one year end to end, they would reach to the moon and back twelve times.
三、阅读理解（每题2分，共30分）
Text 1
I went straight from school to a job in a small IT firm. My job was to get the post ready for collection and to make sure the printer had enough paper in it. I liked dealing with customers and learning how to advise them. My boss was a good employer and the pay and conditions were very fair. He also sent me to college part-time where I learnt a lot about computers.
A few months later, a new company opened down the street. They started having special deals that we couldn’t match. After Christmas last year, I was unemployed. I then joined the job center, and I was out of work for three months. After writing a lot of letters of application I got this job at a warehouse. But I’m on a temporary contract, so it’s not very secure. And I’m on the night shift, so the hours are hard. And the people I work with aren’t very friendly. The wages aren’t bad, but it’s a really boring, dead-end job. I want to get another job in the computer business. Qs:
1. What are the two jobs of the author? 2. Why did the author lose his first job? 3. Did the author like the second job? Why? 4. Where does the author want to work next?
Text 2
Yesterday, 10th January, 2060, the United Nations Environment Programme announced that the world has again held its CO2 at 450 parts per million parts of air for the tenth year in a row.
There are many reasons for this success, and here are just a few. First, we have reduced our use of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal by nearly 80% over the last 50 years. This has reduced the production of CO2 emissions. We now use alternative forms of energy, such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power. Today, the world’s three billion vehicles run on new fuel that produces no CO2. And the
safe, cheap nuclear technology that started to be developed 80 years ago has helped, too.
These and other changes have happened thanks to our grandparents’ government. They understood the need to fight global warming. If they had not acted then, our world would have fallen into chaos. Today, we owe them a big thank-you as we come out of human history’s greatest crisis. Qs:
1. How many fossil fuels have we reduced? 2. What kind of fuel are vehicles running on?
3. Who should we thank for changes in the environment? 4. What did they do?
Text 3
In 1973, when I was 22, three friends and I got into a Ford van in my hometown of Chicago and started out across America. We ended up in Yuba, California, where I got a job cutting down trees with a chain saw for $3.50 an hour.
My first real permanent job was at a local restaurant called the Buttercup Bakery. I worked there for seven years and learned so many lessons, especially from one of the other waitresses called Helen.
Helen was in her 60s and had red hair and a lot of self-respect, something I did not have. I admired Helen because she was doing what she loved — serving people and nobody did it better. She made all the customers and her co-workers smile and feel good.
I also learned how important it is to take pride in life’s little accomplishments. When I helped out in the kitchen, nothing made me feel better than cooking and serving two eggs just the way the customer wanted.
Being a waitress changed my life. One of my regular customers was Fred Harrow, an electronics salesman. He always ate a ham omelette, and when I saw him walking toward the restaurant, I tried to have it on his table as soon as he sat down.
Thanks to this newfound confidence I learnt from Helen, I dreamed of having my own restaurant. But when I called my parents to ask for a loan, they said, “We just don’t have the money.”
The next day, Fred saw me and asked, “What’s wrong, sunshine? You’re not smiling today.” I shared my dream with him and said, “Fred, I know I can do more if somebody just believed in me.”
He walked over to some of the other regular customers and the next day handed me checks totalling $50,000 — along with a note that I have to this day. It read, “The only guarantee on this loan is my trust in your honesty as a person. Good people with a dream should have the opportunity to make that dream come true.”
I took the checks to Merrill Lynch — the first time I had ever entered an investment firm — where the money was invested for me. I continued working at the Buttercup Bakery, making plans for the restaurant I would open. But my investments were not good ones and I lost the money.
I found myself thinking about what it would be like to be an investment agent.
高职国际进阶英语综合教程2期末考试B
