机工英语练习题库

1.Let me ________ the engineers and other motormen. (B)

A. introduce to yourself

B. introduce you to

C. introduce to you

D. introduce yourself to

2.When people are introduced for the first time, they usually greet each other with “________”. (B)

A. How are you

B. How do you do

C. Nice to see you again

D. Good morning

3.People usually greet each other with all the following except ________. (D)

A. Good morning

B. I’m glad to meet you

C. How are you

D. Good night

4.We usually reply to “How do you do” with ________.(C)

A. Hello

B. How are you

C. How do you do

D. I’m fine, thank you

5.When we talk with native speakers of English, we shouldn’t ask them the question “________”. (D)

A. How are you

B. What do you think of the football match

C. Do you like the weather here

D. Are you married

6.Newly acquainted people usually ________ besides the greeting of “How do you do”.(A)

A. shake hands D. shake hand C. kiss each other D. smile at each other

7.Help ________ to some dishes, engineers and motormen.(B)

A. yourself

B. yourselves

C. himself

D. themselves

8. A passport is a small official book. It provides the personal particulars ________ such as his/her name, age, sex, nationality and so on.(D)

A. about the official book

B. about the passport

C. about the special government

D. about the holder

9.Nowadays the telephone is ________ our daily life. (C)

A. main means of communication

B. main means of communicate

C. a main means of communication

D. a main means of communicate

10.There are ________of cooling water ________ at the scavenging ports.(B)

A. sign/ leaking

B. signs/ leaking

C. sign/ leak

D. signs/ leak

11.If you want to introduce your chief engineer to all the crew, you should say ________.(C)

A. He is our chief engineer

B. Our chief engineer wants to meet you

C. This is our chief engineer

D. It’s nice to meet you, chief engineer

12.________, is it possible to finish all the work within three days? (A)

A. By the way

B. By a way

C. On the way

D. On a way

13.Would you please ________ a brief description of the Engine Department. (B)

A. speak

B. give

C. tell

D. take

14.The chief engineer is ________ the port.(A)

A. on his way to

B. in his way to

C. in this way to

D. on this way to

15.What’s ________you? (A)

A. the matter with

B. the matter to

C. wrong to

D. the wrong with

16.I just want to ________ for the welding machine before use.(C)

A. look at the note book

B. read the note book

C. read the instruction book

D. look at the instruction book

17.Would you mind ________the windows, please?(C)

A. close

B. to close

C. closing

D. closed

18.John often ________ books ________his teachers.(B)

A. lends/ from

B. borrows/ from

C. borrows/ to

D. lend/ to

19.Have you finished________ the novel I gave you last week? (A)

A. reading

B. read

C. to read

D. red

20.I wonder ________you have read this book or not.(D)

A. if

B. that

C. why

D. whether

21.I can’t help ________that the boy is still alive.(B)

A. think

B. thinking

C. to think

D. thought

22.We have some excellent computer ________this week for 595$.(A)

A. on sale

B. on sell

C. with sell

D. with sale

23.I’m ________ the repair list with the other engineers. (B)

A. make out

B. making out

C. doing out

D. do out

24.You’d better ________to your health. (A)

A. pay more attention

B. paying more attention

C. to pay more attention

D. paid more attention

25.I’m looking forward ________from yo u.(A)

A. to hearing

B. to hear

C. with hearing

D. with hear

26.________ the bus when we get there.(A)

A. Get off

B. Get up

C. Get out

D. By

27.John ________ a cold yesterday. (A)

A. caught

B. catch

C. has caught

D. has

28.You won’t ________ move around on wee kends.(C)

A. be able

B. be capable

C. be able to

D. capable to

29.May I ________ Mr. Smith? (A)

A. speak to

B. speak

C. speak at

D. ask to

30.Excuse me, ________ you tell me where I can find a telephone booth? (B)

A. may

B. could

C. should

D. must

31.I ________ the city if I have time tomorrow.(B)

A. will show you to

B. will show you around

C. show you to

D. show you around

32.Would you mind drawing me a little map ________?(A)

A. on this piece of paper

B. on a paper

C. on a piece paper

D. on piece of paper

33.I enjoy ________in the summer.(A)

A. swimming

B. swim

C. to swim

D. swims

34.It’s known to us that John Smith is ________.(B)

A. a honest man

B. one of the honest men

C. an honest men

D. one of an honest man

35.I saw________ in the meeting –room.(A)

A. many people

B. much people

C. many peoples

D. a lot of peoples

36.Yesterday our chief engineer told both of us, 2nd engineer and ________, about the repair work. (B)

A. I

B. me

C. my

D. mine

37.Neither your spanner ________ is suitable for the work. (C)

A. or his

B. nor him

C. nor his

D. or him

38.I had a bad cold, ________ is why I didn’t attend the meeting.(D)

A. these

B. this

C. those

D. that

39.________ do you think of your main engine? It works well.(B)

A. How

B. What

C. Why

D. When

40.________ hammer do you prefer, this one or that one?(C)

A. What

B. How

C. Which

D. whose

41.Did you see our chief engineer and our 2nd engineer this morning? No, I saw ________ of them. (A)

A. neither

B. both

C. each

D. either

42.There is a drain cock on ________ of the machine. (A)

A. either side

B. neither side

C. both side

D. any side

43.In the engine room ________to be used in place of the exhaust gas boiler while in port.(C)

A. there is no boiler

B. there are three boilers

C. there is another boiler

D. there are a lot of boilers