2013-2014学年第二学期期末
英语精读试卷
使用对象：英语13401、13402、13403 模块名称：A卷 考试形式：闭卷
题 号 出题学院：外语学院
-二-一- 二 三 四 五 总分 得 分 I. Choose the best answer (25%)
1. The movie star ________ with your sister , did n't he?
A. was used to dance C. used to dance
B. used to dancing D. was used to dancing
2. The girl in the sn apshot was smili ng sweetly, _______________ .
A. her long hair flowed in the breeze. B. her long hair was flow ing in the breeze. C. her long hair flow in the breeze. D. her long hair flow ing in the breeze. 3. Mother in sisted that ___________ .
A. they are to be back before nine in the evening. B. they ought to be back before nine in the evening. C. they be back before nine in the evening. D. they had to be back before nine in the evening.
4. The professor paused as if ____ his stude nts to ask questi ons on the point he had just made.
A. expect ing
B. to expect C. expected D. to have expected
5. I could n't un dersta nd why he prete nded ____ in the bookstore.
A. to see me not B. not to see me C. not see me D. to see not me 6. The classroom was almost empty ___________ a desk or two.
A. besides
B. except for C. except D. In additi on to
7. It was in that small room ______ they worked hard and dreamed of better days to come.
A. what
B. in which
C. which
D. that
8. _________ , you must show your ticket to go into the cin ema.
A. No matter whoever you are C. Whomever you are A. It gen erally is believed C. It is gen erally believed A. before long C. l ong before A) pure A) call at
B) clear B) call on
B. Whoever you are D. No matter who are you B. It is believed gen erally D. Gen erally it is believed B. un til recen tly D. i n the past few years
C) innocent
D) guilty
9. _______ that the left side of the huma n brain is resp on sible for logic.
10. Scien tists did n't know much about lung can cer ________ .
11. Nobody would believe his words though he said he was __________ of the crime. 12. The university are having to _________ the government for more money.
C) appeal for D) appeal to
13. The basic reason for a protective tariff is to ____________ goods that will undersell products made in the home coun try.
A) keep off A) add up to A) assure A) con sideri ng to buy for him.
A) let off A) concerned
B) let away B) conn ected
C) let go of C) related
D) let alo ne D) un ited
18. The fall in price is directly _____________ to the in crease in output.
19. Do you have any idea what he meant? I really can ' ______________ what he said at this morning ' meeting. A) figure on happe ning aga in. A) steps put them. A). purpose
B). impulse
C). display
D). cue
B) means
C) measure
D) ways
21. If you love pla nts, the cha nces are you buy them on _____ and the n won der where to
B) figure out
C) find out D) find
20. We should really take some effective _________ to prevent such terrible things from
B) keep out B) added up to B) en sure B) con siderate
C) keep up
D) deep dow n
14. A lawyer' in come is usually high, ________ more tha n 200 000 dollars a year.
C) amoun ted to D) amoun ti ng to C) sure
D) in sure
15. Most offices are having to __________ themselves against computer theft. 16. It was very ________ of you to let us know you were going to be late.
C) con siderable D) con sidered
17. The little boy cried and would not ___________ the boy which he wan ted his mother
22. We should see ourselves as part of nature rather than in ______ with it.
A). argument B). connection C). conflict D). crash
23. During the nine months before her baby is born, he face is one ___ smile.
A). humble B0. exclusive C). perpetual D). modest
24. His bedroom _____ a single bed with a small television at its foot.
A). makes up B). consist of C). lays out D). serves as 25. Andrew was determined to ___ a computer career after graduation.
A). apply B). shave C). purse D). select
II. Cloze (20%)
When my wife, who is Spanish, spent her first winter in London a few years ago, she used to ask me time and again: “Where 'sthe fog?”Almost all foreigners __ 26 ___ to find the city wreathed(萦绕)in yellow-grey mist for most of the year. Dicke ns, who was __ 27 ____ responsible for painting this ____ 28 ____ in people 'sminds, certainly wasn 'texaggerating in those days. People __29 __ in the nineteenth century that when someone __30 ____ suicide by jumping into the Thames he was choked by the fog and poisoned by the terrible __31 _____ of the river before he had time to drown himself. In fact, the situation ___32 ____ in recent years. When I was a boy in London thirty years ago I was often unable to see ___ 33___ of the road when I left home on winter mornings.
The decisive steps that have turned London into one of the ___34 ____ cities in the world __35 taken at the end of the 1950s. But Londoners still ___36___ that fog ___37___ returns. The change took place as a result of two main improvements. Factories were compelled to install clean air equipment __38 close down, and private householders were not allowed to ___39 ___ coal unless it was smoke-free. But the ___40 ____ ecological miracle in London occurred __41 ____ 1964 onwards when the Thames Water Authority began to pump vast ___42___ of dissolved oxygen into the river. _ gradually disappeared from the Thames __44 fishermen ___45___ the House Of Parliament.
26. A. look forward B. manage B. above all 27. A. first of all
43 , all the species of fish that had
1800 have returned. Some are even caught by
C. wish C. after all C. photo B. used to saying D. used to say C. did C. smoke the other side C. cleanest C. have been
D. expect D. all the more D. portrait
28. A. picture
29. A. were used to saying C. were used to say 30. A. made 31. A. fume 33. A. other side 34. A. clean 35. A. was
B. image
B. committed B. smell B. another side B. cleaner
D. was committed D. gas
D. another side D. more clean D. had been
32. A. only has changed B. only changed
C. has only changed D. changed only C.
B. were
B. find out 36. A. find it strange
strange 37. A. hardly
B. barely 38. A. and
B. but 39. A. use
B. make 40. A. true
B. truly 41. A. in
B. from 42. A. numbers
B. number 43. A. Therefore
B. Nevertheless 44. A. before
B. since 45. outside
B. in the front of
D. find out it strange
C. find strange C. scarcely C. to
C. produce C. real C. on
C. amount C. However C. after C. inside
D. seldom D. or D. burn D. really D. through D. quantities D. As a result D. in
D. beside
III. Reading Comprehension (30%)
Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage .
If you want to teach your children how to say sorry, you must be good at saying it yourself, especially to your own children. But how you say it can be quite tricky.
If you say to your children \I ' m sorry I got angry with you, but …” what folio’ can render the apology ineffective: “Ihad a bad day”or “yournoise was giving me a headache ” leaves the person who has been injured feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology.
Another method by which people appear to apologize without actually doing so is to say
“I 'm sorry you 're upset ”; this suggests that you are somehow at fault for allowing yourself to get upset by what the other person has done.
Then there is the general, all covering apology, which avoids the necessity of identifying a specific act that was particularly hurtful or insulting, and which the person who is apologizing should promise never to do again. Saying “I 'umseless as a parent ”does not commit a person to any specific improvement.
These pseudo-apologies are used by people who believe saying sorry shows weakness.
Parents who wish to teach their children to apologize should see it as a sign of strength, and therefore not resort to these pseudo-apologies.
But even when presented with examples of genuine contrition, children still need help to become aware
of the complexities of saying sorry. A three-year-old might need help in understanding that other children feel pain just as he does, and that hitting a playmate over the head with a heavy toy requires an apology. A six-year-old might need reminding that spoiling other children 's expectations can require an apology.-yAea1r2-old might need to be shown that raiding the biscuit tin without asking permission is acceptable, but that borrowing a parent clothes without permission is not.
46. If a mother adds “ but ” to an apology, ______ . A) she doesn ' t feel that she should have apologized B) she does not realize that the child has been hurt C) the child may find the apology easier to accept D) the child may feel that he owes her an apology 47. According to the author, saying A) You have good reason to get upset B) I ' m aware you ' re upset, but I C) I apologize for hurting your feelings D) I ' m at fault for making youpset
48. It is not advisable to use the general, all-covering apology because _____ . A) it gets one into the habit of making empty promises B) it may make the other person feel guilty C) it is vague and ineffective D) it is hurtful and insulting
49. We learn from the last paragraph that in teaching children to say sorry _____ . A) the complexities involved should be ignored B) their ages should be taken into account C) parents need to set them a good example D) parents should be patient and tolerant
50. It can be inferred from the passage that apologizing properly is _____ . A) a social issue calling for immediate attention B) not necessary among family members C) a sign of social progress
D) not as simple as it seems Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage .
Keiko loved London --------- the shops, the entertainment and the low prices. English
weather though was one thing that trouble her. Every time she went out she felt under the weather.
In one hour the weather could change from cloud and rain to warm sunshine and back again. She
never knew what to wear. In Japan there are typically four seasons and she always knew what weather to expect. When winter came she would carefully put away her husband
st
“ I ' m sorry you ' re upset ” most probably means
' m not to blame
's
summer suits and she would never let him wear them again until June 1 , no matter how hot it became. But in England she had to have all the clothes at hand all the time in case the weather changed.
She was always annoyed when she went to her English conversation lessons with Mr. Boyd because
she was either over-dressed or underdressed. Mr. Boyd was an elderly teacher who didn 't encourage students to call him by his first name and Keiko liked that. She asked him about the weather problem. Mr. Boyd said, “The weather is a good topic to use in conversation and can help to break the ice. If you don 't what to say next, you can always say something about the weather.”
This was true because Keiko had noticed the many times Mr. Boyd had talked about the weather to
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