大学英语期末考试卷(体育艺术)

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云南师范大学统一考试

大学英语（1）期末考试卷（体育艺术）

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考试方式: 闭卷考试时量：120分钟试卷编号: A卷

PartⅠ Listening Comprehension ( 20%)

Section A

Directions:Listen to the statements twice and choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the statements you have heard.

1. A. He is from Italy. B. They come from Italy.

C. She goes to Italy.

2. A. They don’t drink juice. B. They always drink juice.

C. They seldom drink juice.

3. A. She is studying now. B. She studied yesterday.

C. She studies everyday.

4. A. Maybe they didn’t go there. B. They are going to there.

C. They went there.

5. A. She ran to the supermarket． B. She walked to the supermarket.

C. She drove to the supermarket.

6. A. I always eat it. B. I seldom eat it.

C. I don’t eat it.

7. A. It’s not the time to go to school. B. It’s time to go to school.

C. It was the time to go to school.

8. A. I’d like to have a cup of tea. B. I’d like to have something to eat.

C. I’d like to have a cup of coffee.

9. A. Sam gets it. B. Tom gets it.

C. Tom sends it.

10. A. He wants to play football. B. He is holding a football.

C. We can’t find his football.

11. A. Some of them went. B. None of them went.

C. Not all of them went.

12. A. It’s nine o’clock now. B. The students are in the language lab now.

C. The students are going to go to the language lab.

13. A. Her answers were correct. B. Her questions were correct.

C. She corrected the answers.

14. A. The cup is plastic. B. The handle is plastic.

C. The box is plastic.

15. A. He went to class by taxi. B. She may go to class.

C. He called a taxi.

Section B

Directions:In this section, you will hear 2 short passages read twice. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. After you hear a question, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

Passage 1

16. A. It will be advertised and will be sold.

B. It will be advertised but will not be sold.

C. It will be made beautiful.

D. The real estate agent will buy it.

17. A. He bought the house himself.

B. He rebuilt the house.

C. He advertised the house.

D. He pulled down the house.

Passage 2

18. A. Italy. B. Spain. C. Japan. D. All of the above.

19. A. Dull. B. Noisy. C. Interesting D. Quiet.

20. A. Eat a special food. B. Throw things away.

C. Climb a mountain.

D. Eat noodles.

PartⅡ Reading Comprehension (30%)

Directions: In this section, there are three passages followed by some questions. Choose the best one from the four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage 1

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage

Why do people smoke? One reason is that people become addicted to cigarettes. To be addicted means that your body comes to need them. The addictive substance in cigarettes is nicotine. When people smoke, the nicotine goes right into the blood and makes people feel relaxed. A smoker’s body gets used to the nicotine and if he stops smoking, he feels nervous.

Another reason is that people simply enjoy smoking. Having a cigarette for many people means taking a rest. Some people, for example, enjoy a cigarette after dinner. Many people enjoy smoking because it gives you something to do with your hands.

Many people also like the taste of tar in cigarettes. However, it’s the tar that causes cancer. While governments and health experts have tried to get people to give up smoking entirely, cigarette manufacturers have tried to keep catching them by producing cigarettes with less tar. Many people have welcomed the cigarettes since they find it hard to stop smoking but want to reduce the danger to their health.

21. One of the reasons for smoking is that .

A. people become addicted to cigarettes.

B. smoking isn’t as harmful as we used to think.

C. many people prefer the smell of nicotine.

D. our bodies need nicotine in cigarettes.

22. Once an addicted smoker stops smoking, he feels .

A. cheerful

B. pleased

C. nervous

D. disappointed

23. “Tar” is a kind of substance in cigarettes which can cause .

A. flu

B. cancer

C. hepatitis

D. SARS

24. The word “catching” in the last paragraph means .

A. sniffing

B. detecting

C. attracting

D. preserving

25. Since it is difficult for many people to stop smoking, the probable solution may lie

in .

A. producing cigarettes without nicotine

B. producing cigarettes without tar

C. producing cigarettes without nicotine and tar

D. producing cigarettes with less tar

Passage 2

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage

There was once a man in South America who had a parrot, a pet bird that could imitate human speech. The parrot was unique. There was no other bird like him in the whole world. He could learn to say any word except one. He could not say the name of his native town—Katano. The man did everything he could to teach the parrot to say “Katano”, but he never succeeded. At first he was very gentle with the bird, but gradually he lost his temper. “You stupid bird! Why can’t you learn to say the word?

Say ‘Katano’ or I’ll kill you!” But the bird would never repeat the name. Finally the man gave up. He picked up the parrot and threw him into the chicken house. “You are even more stupid than the chickens.” In the chicken house, there are four old chickens, waiting to be killed for Sunday’s dinner.

The next morning, when he went out to the chicken house, the man opened the door. He was shocked by what he saw. He could not believe his eyes and ears. On the floor lay three dead chickens! The parrot was screaming at the fourth, “Say ‘Katano’, or I’ll kill you!”

26. Why was the parrot unique?

A. Because it was a pet.

B. Because it could imitate human speech.

C. Because it could learn to say most of human’s vocabulary.

D. Because it had a very gentle and clever owner.

27. What was the owner angry at?

A. The bird refused to imitate what it had learned before.

B. The bird could not say the name of his native town.

C. the bird wanted to kill him.

D. the bird liked to live in the chicken house.

28. What did the owner do to the bird when it could n’t say the word?

A. He was as gentle as he used to be.

B. He killed it.

C. He threw it into the chicken house.

D. He just left it alone.

29. Why was the man shocked at the scene the next morning?

A. The parrot disappeared.

B. Chickens killed the parrot.

C. Three chickens died.

D. All of the chickens disappeared.

30. What is the best title of this story?

A. Teaching a Parrot to Talk

B. Feeding a Parrot

C. Killing a Parrot

D. A Talking Parrot

Passage 3

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage

Last week when I was watching TV news, the announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my attention. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.” Being a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. The next day I spent several hours in the public library looking up ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.

But why don’t best years come after thirty? After thirty, I guess, most people don’t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the age of fifty, while the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was ninety! Perhaps there is still hope for me.

31. What drew the author’s attention?

A. The announcer.

B. The name “Ralph Story”.

C. The news that was broadcast.

D. The discoveries people had made.

32. What was the news about?

A. People had made many great discoveries.

B. The age range of the people who made great discoveries.

C. The younger people are, the more discoveries they will be able to make.

D. The older people are, the more discoveries they will be able to make.

33. Why did the author disagree with the announcer?

A. Because he knew a lot about the topic.

B. Because he was in his early 30s.

C. Because the announcer always misled his audience.

D. Because he would not want to believe the news until he could confirm.

34. What did the author do to make sure of the news?

A. He consulted some books in library.

B. He spent several hours in thinking.

C. He inquired of some famous people.

D. He made an investigation himself.

35. The author felt hopeful after consultation because .

A. he could give up his dreams without any disappointment

B. he still had the possibility of achieving something

C. he could still take risks and try new things

D. he could enjoy Shakespeare and Picasso

Part Ⅲ Vocabulary and Structure (15%)

Directions: In this part, there are 15 incomplete sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence.

36. This was the chance I had been waiting for—a chance to learn a ____ and make

something of myself.

A. trace

B. track

C. trade

D. traffic

37. We did not finish the work on time ____ my mistake.

A. as a result of

B. result in

C. result from

D. because

38. We wrote down the direction (方向) of travel and sent the ____ back to the base.

A. inform

B. information

C. informal

D. informed

39. Let them take care of their children ____ the children taking care of them!

A. rather

B. instead

C. instead to

D. instead of

40. People in our village respected him because he was a doctor with a ____ position

in society.

A. respect

B. respectable

C. respecting

D. respective

41. These mistakes could have been ____ with a good planning.

A. avoided

B. avoiding

C. avoid

D. avoidance

42. We must often ask ourselves how the parts we are working on ____ the whole

program.

A. fit on

B. fit into

C. fit up

D. fit down

43. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has recently suggested some strong ____ on

the use of medicine materials to improve food production.

A. reduce

B. repeat

C. respect

D. restrictions

44. People ____ should have their attention on what they are doing.

A. on work

B. over work

C. at work

D. to work

45. Besides reading and writing, speaking is also ____ important as a basic skill.

A. consider

B. considering

C. considered

D. consideration

46. It was good to sit with a family for dinner ____ I did not understand everything the

Frenchman and his wife were talking about.

A. even though

B. if though

C. as though

D. as if

47. We can ____ your surprise when they told you that you had won the prize.

A. image

B. imagine

C. imagination

D. imaginary

48. He was ____ excited ____ he could not go to sleep.

A. such…that

B. such…what

C. so…that

D. so…what

49. The firm was unable to ____ all the demands of customers for its new car this year.

A. sell

B. sale

C. satisfaction

D. satisfy

50. He was tired ____ reading these long articles for he had spent a lot of time on

them.

A. at

B. in

C. to

D. of

Part Ⅳ Cloze(10%)

Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Having too many choices when shopping is considered by many people to be a big problem today. Some experts 51 beginning to wonder if many varieties of one thing may be too 52 of a good thing.

Some shoppers, of course, don’t mind this at all. Anatoly, Rosinsky, a Russian who now 53 in Los Angeles, recalls, “In Russia, if you want to buy a tin of beer, you stand in line for half an hour. Then you have one choice if they have beer that day. Here, you spend 30 minutes 54 which beer to buy. In the end, you lose about the same amount of time. But this way it’s much more pleasant.”

Some people, however, think there is a 55 problem than losing time: stress.

“You can go into a major shopping area and after one hour it feels like your mind is dead. The reason is that there are too many things to 56 ,” says an expert. He adds that people nowadays feel they have to consider environmental problems. They 57 have to consider health problems. “It’s a very big job,” he says, “well beyond the level of stress that our parents knew 20 years ago.”

A recent study also shows that 58 too many choices is one of the reasons 59 some people buy too many things. One woman in New York has 187 belts in her house, and most of 60 have never been used or even looked at. A man thinks that only the most expensive exercise bicycle will help improve his body, even though he already owns a lot of body-building equipment that he doesn’t use.

51. A. is B. be C. am D. are

52. A. many B. much C. few D. little

53. A. live B. living C. lives D. lived

54. A. deciding B. decide C. decided D. decides

55. A. biggest B. bigger C. big D. more big

56. A. pick up B. pick C. pick from D. picking

57. A. also B. too C. either D. neither

58. A. has B. have C. had D. having

59. A. when B. why C. how D. where

60. A. themselves B. their C. they D. them

Part Ⅴ Translation (10%)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English. Write your translation on the Answer Sheet.

61. 据报道，他非常富有，是做武器交易的。(trade in)

62. 因为他对各种文化和习俗感兴趣，他访问过20个国家。(all sorts of)

63. 这个男人喜欢看报，也喜欢照料小孩。(look after)

64. 伦敦(London)和纽约(New York)是无法相比的，它们很不相同。(compare)

65. 一些顾客认为同样的东西品种繁多是件令人愉快的事。(consider)

Part Ⅵ Writing (15%)

Directions:In this part, you are required to write a composition of 80 words on the title “My Dream”. Remember to write your composition clearly on the Answer Sheet.