C. they were too difficult D. he had to build a church 14. The church is unusual because _______D_______.
A. it’s unfinished B. it’s strange C. it’s modern D. all of the above 15. According to the passage, Gaudi _____D_______.
A. suffered a lot in his life B. was full of sympathy to the poor C. always created unusual works D. both B and C
Passage 7
It has been reported that in colleges across the United States, the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera has suddenly become “in”. Between the hours of 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., college television lounges are filled with soap opera fans who can’t wait to see the next episode in the lives of their favorite characters.
Actually, soaps are more than a college favorite; they’re a youth favorite. When school is out, high-school students are in front of their TV sets. One young working woman admitted that she turned down a higher paying job rather than give up watching her favorite serials. During the 1960's, it was uncommon for young people to watch soap operas. The mood of the sixties was very different from now. It was a time of seriousness, and talk was about social issues of great importance.
Now, seriousness has been replaced by fun. Young people want to be happy. It may seem strange that they should turn to soap opera, which is known for showing trouble in people’s lives. But soap opera is enjoyment. Young people can identify with the soap opera character, who, like the college-age viewer, is looking for happy love, and probably not finding it. And soap opera gives young people a chance to feel close to people without having to bear any responsibility for their problems.
Laws have been written to govern the use of American National Flag，and to ensure proper respect for the flag．Custom has also governed the common practice in regard to its use．All the armed services have precise regulations on how to display the national flag．This may vary somewhat from the general rules．The national flag should be raised and lowered by hand．Do not raise the flag while it is folded．Unfold the flag first，and then hoist it quickly to the top of the flagpole．Lower it slowly and with dignity．Place no objects on or over the flag．Do not use the flag as part of a costume or athletic uniform．Do not print it upon cushions，handkerchiefs，paper napkins or boxes．A federal law provides that the trademark cannot be registered if it comprises the flag，or badgers of the US．When the flag is used to unveil a statue or monument, it shouldn’t serve as a covering of the object to be unveiled．If it is displayed on such occasions, do not allow the flag to fall to the ground，but let it be carried high up in the air to form a feature of the ceremony．Take every precaution to prevent the flag from soiled．It should not be allowed to touch the ground or floor，nor to brush against objects．
1．How do Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag? C A．By making laws． B．By enforcing discipline． C．By educating the public． D．By holding ceremonies．
2．What is the regulation regarding the raising of the American National Flag? C A．It should be raised by soldiers．
B．It should be raised quickly by hand． C．It should be raised only by Americans． D．It should be raised by mechanical means．
3．How should the American National Flag be displayed at an unveiling ceremony? D
A．It should be attached to the status．
B．It should be hung from the top of the monument． C．It should be spread over the object to be unveiled． D．It should be carried high up in the air．
4．What do we learn about the use of the American National Flag? C A．There has been a lot of controversy over the use of flag．
B．The best athletes can wear uniforms with the design of the flag． C．There are precise regulations and customs to be followed．
D．Americans can print the flag on their cushions or handkerchiefs． 5．What is Americans’ attitude towards their National Flag? B
A．Arbitrary． B．Respect． C．Happy． D．Brave．
Passage 8
Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it，and to go in to their offices or schools every day by train，car or bus，even though this means they have to get up early in the morning and reach home late in the evening．
One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper．Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent．With the same money，one can get a little house in the country with a garden of one’s own． Then，in the country one can really get away from the noise and hurry of busy working lives．Even though one has to get up earlier and spend．more time in trains or buses，one can sleep better at night and during weekends and on summer evenings，one can enjoy the fresh，clean air of the country．If one likes gardens，one can spend one’s free time digging，planting，watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden．Then，when the flowers and vegetables come up，one has got the reward together with those who have shared the secret of Nature． Some people，however，take no interest in country things：for them，happiness lies in the town．with its cinemas and theatres，beautiful shops and busy streets，dance–halls and restaurants．Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live it outside London．An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s(two weeks)visit to the sea every summer is all the country they want：the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get away from London every night． 6．Which of the following statements is NOT true? B A．People who love Nature prefer to live outside the city．
B．All the people who work in London prefer to live in the country．
C．Some people enjoying city life prefer to work and live inside London．
D．Many nature lovers，though working in London，prefer to live outside the city．
7．With the same money needed for C ，one can buy a little house with a garden in the country． A．getting a small flat with a garden B．having a small flat with a garden C．renting a small flat without a garden D．buying a small flat without a garden 8．When the garden is in blossom，the one B has been rewarded． A．1iving in the country
B．having spent time working in the garden C．having a garden of his own
D．having been digging，planting and watering
9．People who think happiness lies in the city life would feel that A if they had to live outside London．
A．their life was meaningless B．their life was invaluable C．they didn’t deserve a happy life D．they were not worthy of their happy life 10．The underlined phrase get away from in the 3rd paragraph refers to C ． A．deal with B．do away with
C．escape from D．prevent from
Passage 9
By definition，heroes and heroines are men and women distinguished by uncommon courage，achievements，and self-sacrifice made most for the benefits of others—they are people against whom we measure others．They are men and women recognized for shaping our nation’s consciousness and development as well as the lives of those who admire them．Yet， some people say that ours is an age where true heroes and heroines are hard to come by， where the very idea of heroism is something beyond us–an artifact of the past. Some maintain，that because the Cold War is over and because America is at peace，our age is essentially an un-heroic one．Furthermore，the overall crime rate is down，poverty has been eased by a strong and growing economy，and advances continue to be made in medical science．
Cultural icons are hard to define，but we know them when we see them．They are people who manage to go beyond celebrity (明星)，who are legendary，who somehow manage to become mythic．But what makes some figures icons and 0therS mere celebrities？That’s hard to answer．In part，their lives have the quality of a story to tell．For instance，the beautiful young Diana Spencer who at 19 married a prince，renounced marriage and the throne，and died at the moment she found true love．Good looks certainly help．So does a special indefinable charm，with the help of the
media．But nothing confirms an icon more than a tragic death—such as Martin Luther King，Jr. John F．Kennedy，and Princess Diana． 11．The passage mainly deals with C ．
A．1ife and death B．heroes and heroines C．heroes and icons D．icons and celebrities 12．Heroes and heroines are usually D ．
A．courageous B．good examples to follow C．self-sacrificing D．all of the above 13．Which of the following statements is wrong? D
A．Poverty in America has been eased with the economic growth． B．Superstars are famous for being famous． C．One’s look can contribute to being famous．
D．Heroes and heroines can only emerge in war times．
14．Beautiful young Diana Spencer found her genuine love C ． A．when she was 19 B．when she became a princess C．just before her death D．after she gave birth to a prince 15．What is more likely to set an icon’s status? B
A．Good looks． B．Tragic and early death．
C．Personal attraction． D．The quality of one’s story．
IV. Translate the following sentences into English .（每小题3分，共15分）
1.这里的苹果喜欢水和阳光。 1. Apples here like water and sunshine.
2.汤姆是一个学习十分用功的学生，以至于不久他就成了班里学习最好的学生。 2. Tom was such a hardworking student that he soon came out first in the class.
3.泰德和威廉已经在同一个屋檐下生活了五年了。 3. Ted and William have lived under the same roof for five years. 4.你不必去了，他已经知道那件事了。 4. You needn't go there anymore. He already knows about it. 5.众所周知，中国是一个发展中国家。 5. As is known to all, China is a developing country. V. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. （每小题3分，共15分）
1. A lot of natural resources in the mountain area are to be exploited and used. 1.那个山区有许多自然资源有待于开发利用。
2. In Foreign Languages Department, a checking machine is used to correct the students' est papers. 1.那个山区有许多自然资源有待于开发利用。 3. The students are encouraged by their teacher to do more listening, reading and writing. 1.那个山区有许多自然资源有待于开发利用。 3.老师鼓励学生多听，多读，多写。
4. The plan has been over fulfilled by now. 4.目前，已经超额完成计划。
5. The most common samples of inorganic materials are the gases of the atmosphere, water, rocks, etc. 5.大气中的气体、水、岩石都是无机物中最普通的实例。
6.我一直打算打电话给你。6.I've been meaning to call you. 7. 你一定是吓坏了。7. You must have been terrified.
8.我们的儿子是在香港出生长大的。8. Our son was born and brought up in Hongkong.
9.对不起，我不经意地听到你们的谈话。9. Excuse me, I couldn't help overhearing your conversation.
10.还有一个可能的解释是，那些报道看到这些东西的人也许是在凭空想象，或者是编造故事以引人注意。 (make up) 10. Another possible explanation is that the people who report the sightings could be imagining what they saw or making up stories to get attention.
请您删除一下内容，O(∩_∩)O谢谢！！！2015年中央电大期末复习考试小抄大全，电大期末考试必备小抄，电大考试必过小抄Many people have the same mixed feelings when planning a trip during Golden Week. With heaps of time, the seven-day Chinese请您删除一下内容，O(∩_∩)O谢谢！！！National Day holiday could be the best occasion to enjoy a destination. However, it can also be the easiest way to ruin how you feel about a place and you may become more fatigued after the holiday, due to battling the large crowds. During peak season, a dream about a place can turn to nightmare without careful planning, especially if you travel with children and older people. As most Chinese people will take the holiday to visit domestic tourist destinations, crowds and busy traffic are inevitable at most places. Also to be expected are increasing transport and accommodation prices, with the possibility that there will be no rooms available. It is also common that you' ll wait in the line for one hour to get a ticket, and another two hours at the site, to only see a tiny bit of the place due to the crowds. Last year, 428 million tourists traveled in China over the week-long holiday in October. Traveling during this period is a matter that needs thorough preparation. If you are short on time to plan the upcoming \a bad idea to avoid some of the most crowded places for now. There is always a place so fascinating that everyone yearns for. Arxan is a place like this. The beauty of Arxan is everlasting regardless of the changing of four seasons. Bestowed by nature, its spectacular seasonal landscape and mountains are just beyond word. Arxan is a crucial destination for the recommended travelling route, \— Hailar — Manzhouli\also the joint of the four prairies across the Sino-Mongolian border, where people gravitate towards the exotic atmosphere mixed with Chinese, Russian, and Mongolia elements. As a historic site for the Yitian Battle, Arxan still embodies the spirit of Genghis Khan. Walking into Arxan, you will be amazed by a kaleidoscope of gorgeous colors all the year round -- the Spring azaleas blooming red in the snow, the Summer sea wavering blue in the breeze, the Autumn leaves painted in yellow covering volcanic traces, and the Winter woods shining white on the vast alpine snowscape. Hinggan League Arxan city is situated in the far eastern area of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Its full name \frontier with a blend of large forest, grand prairies, vast snowfield, heaven lake cluster, thermium, as well as volcanic cluster. It is a rare and unique ecotourism base filled with healthy sunshine, clean air and unspoiled green. Nestled close to the country's largest virgin forest, and known for its spring and ecological environment, Arxan is marveled at by many tourists as the purest land on earth. You cannot miss out the Autumn of Arxan. It is definitely the best with brightly-colored scenery full of emotions. Autumn in the northern part of the country comes earlier than the South. A September rain followed by the footprints of Autumn brings more colors to the once emerald green mountain and blooming grassland. Shutterbugs flock to see for themselves the marvel of splendid colors around the mountains and waters, many of whom have travel a long distance and even camp here only to capture a moment of the nature wonder. The silver birch turns golden, while the larch is still proudly green. You will find yourself drowned in the intoxicating red of the wild fruits as well as the glamour of flowers in full blown. And your heart will be lingering on the woods as it's time for the wild fruits to ripe. The picturesque Arxan in Autumn is indeed a fairyland only exists in a dream that satisfies all your fantasies. If it rains heavily on Saturday night, some elderly Chinese will say it is because Zhinu, or the Weaving Maid, is crying on the day she met her husband Niulang, or the Cowherd, on the Milky Way. Most Chinese remember being told this romantic tragedy when they were children on Qixi, or the Seventh Night Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is usually in early August. This year it falls on Saturday, August 2. Folklore Story As the story goes, once there was a cowherd, Niulang, who lived with his elder brother and sister-in-law. But she disliked and abused him, and the boy was forced to leave home with only an old cow for company. The cow, however, was a former god who had violated imperial rules and was sent to earth in bovine form. One day the cow led Niulang to a lake where fairies took a bath on earth. Among them was Zhinu, the most beautiful fairy and a skilled seamstress. The two fell in love at first sight and were soon married. They had a son and daughter and their happy life was held up as an example for hundreds of years in China. Yet in the eyes of the Jade Emperor, the Supreme Deity in Taoism, marriage between a mortal and fairy was strictly forbidden. He ordered the heaven troop to catch Zhinu back. Niulang grew desperate when he discovered Zhinu had been taken back to heaven. Driven by Niulang's misery, the cow told him to turn its hide into a pair of shoes after it died. The magic shoes whisked Niulang, who carried his two children in baskets strung from a shoulder pole, off on a chase after the empress. The pursuit enraged the empress, who took her hairpin and slashed it across the sky creating the Milky Way which separated husband from wife. But all was not lost as magpies, moved by their love and devotion, formed a bridge across the Milky Way to reunite the family. Even the Jade Emperor was touched, and allowed Niulang and Zhinu to meet once a year on the seventh night of the seventh month. This is how Qixi came to be. The festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Traditionally, people would look up at the sky and find a bright star in the constellation Aquila as well as the star Vega, which are identified as Niulang and Zhinu. The two stars shine on opposite sides of the Milky Way. Customs In bygone days, Qixi was not only a special day for lovers, but also for girls. It is also known as the \Festival.\the water instead of sinking, it proves the girl is a skilled embroiders. Single women also pray for finding a good husband in the future. And the newly married women pray to become pregnant quickly. Tradition transformed The love story of Niulang and Zhinu, and the Qixi Festival have been handed down for generations. Yet these ancient traditions and customs are slowly dying out. Many modern Chinese, particularly youngsters, seem to know more about St Valentine's Day on February 14, characterized by bouquets of roses, chocolates and romantic candlelight dinners, than they do about their home-grown day for lovers. Even Qixi is nowadays referred to as the \day in a very similar way as that in western countries. Fewer people than ever will gaze at the heavens on Saturday to pick out the two stars shining bright on either side of the Milky Way, that is, if people even know on which day Qixi falls. There are ready reminders dotted about, in the form of big ads saying \on Chinese Valentine's Day!\activities to pray for cleverness. A large-scale of exhibition on the Silk Road opened to the public in the National Museum on Thursday. The exhibition displays more than 400 treasures from Shaanxi province, Gansu province and 14 other regions. It is largest scale exhibition that shows the history of the Silk Road in recent years. As APEC is going on in Beijing, the exhibit aims to show the world this brilliant section of history. The Silk Road is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent. It connected the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time. I met my dear hubby in 2009 the second year I was in my school and it was the first year when he came here. We became colleagues. And there was nothing special happening during that year. He was just a kind and humble brother graduated from the same college as me. But we did not know each other till he became my colleague and his office desk was just in front of me. There was only a glass between us. So actually we could see each other when we both look up. But it is not the main reason that really draws us close. How we become close to each other was something seems quite natural. We went out to play badminton with other colleagues and we sometimes chatted for a while. He is a man of few words but somehow sometimes will say something really humorous. Then one day, to my great surprise, I found a pot of beautiful flower on my desk. It was just the flower I had talked about with my colleague the other day, and I thought it was her who put the flower there. But the truth is not. It was the humble guy sitting in front of me. He just simply said ,”well, I caught sight of this flower and thought that it’s beautiful and you may like it”. I wonder why I was moved because of these simple words and present. Maybe it is the sincerity and the true self that impress me. I thanked him and some colleagues walked past my desk would appreciate the beautiful flower and they noticed that something romance happened there. Then later on, there were some little surprises once in a while. Once, there was something wrong with my drawer and I had complained about it unconsciously. And he fixed it for me. Then the other day, he placed several pink diamond roses beside the flower with a piece of paper saying” I love you more than I can say! Diamond stands for marriage, rose stand for love. I hope you are mine, become my wife. You are the only girl who I really want to spend the rest of my life to stand by.” Although there were some grammar errors but I got what he meant. He meant so clear and so direct. And actually, I accepted him some days earlier. I was just waiting for him to break the ice. So finally, the common interests and the common understanding brought us together. Some people say the relationship and the feeling will change after getting hitched. You will find that love is no longer strong and there is always lack of passion and what’s worse you may find out many bad habits of your partner, which never appear when you are first in love before the marriage. It seems that many faults turn up after you truly living together and see each other’s face the moment you open your eyes in the early morning. But after almost 4 years from now, I do not feel any negative change in our relationship. During all these years, we know each other better and we become more tolerant about each other and I realize that if you really love a person you will accept his imperfect. And what is the qualification of a good husband? Once I was chatting with my colleague about this issue. And one of the qualifications I thought was that he must be a good cook. But to my surprise, my colleague said that a good husband must be someone who makes big money. What made her think so was quite beyond me. Maybe I am not sophisticated enough and what I want is just simple life style. The most enjoyable thing is that we go to the market to buy vegetables and other daily stuffs if we both have time. Maybe he is a housebound husband and I love housebound man. And there is another reason why We love going to the market. That is because we sometimes will get some surprises. The surprise is saving little fish which are disserted by the fish mongers. Because these fish are swellfish. Then we will collect them and set them free into the river. Swellfish are lovely creature. When they look like a little submarine when they are swimming in the water and look like a meat ball when you hold them in your hand. And if they are scared, they will swell and look like a little ball. Every time we see them swim away and we feel their happiness of returning home and this also make us cherish life. Maybe some will consider these behavior as something childish. Well, that is fine with us. We love doing these together and feel happy that is what it is all about. My dear hubby is a kind hearted man and he love animals just as I do. I am lucky to have someone who can be both my intimated soul mate and my forever friend.
电大专科综合英语2期末复习试题及参考答案资料小抄
