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广西师范大学成人高等教育 2012年第 二 （暑）学期期末考试 《英语阅读一》本科试卷 （ A 卷 ） 闭卷
（本试卷共有 四 大题，满分 100 分，考试时间 120 分钟）
I. Choose the most appropriate word or phrase to complete each of the following sentences. (50%)
1. He insisted on in a cheaper hotel.
A.stay
B. staying
C. to stay
D. being stayed
2. My aunt never married because her father didn ’t to her marriage to a man she loved.
A. consent
B. confirm
C. contend
D. conceive
3. He hasn ’t got enough clothes on —look, he ’s with cold. A. roaring
B. trembling
C. murmuring
D. spitting 4. Our was delayed because of bad weather. A. famine B. capture C. grief D. departure 5. The employer is to ask for references.
A. conceited
B. condemned
C. entitled
D. refrained
6. The semi-final will be a chance for the losing team to get their on the winning team for their earlier defeat.
A. revenge
B. temptation
C. certainty
D. despair
7. Do you think the president will be able to his promise not to raise taxes? A. obtain B. find C. capture D. fulfill
8. The new furniture does not to the design of the new room. A. conform B. condemn C. confine D. confirm 9. I know I had to get on the plane my fear.
A. unless
B. despite
C. because of
D. rather than 10. I am very of all the support you gave me.
A. eloquent
B. appreciative
C. jealousy
D. spoiled
11. Would you please help me the vegetable and salad? It ’s half past six and our guests will arrive soon.
A. dish out
B. dish up
C. eat up
D. seek out
12. Our pet dog, poor Darkley, was by a bus yesterday. A. run over B. run through C. run out D. run on 13. It ’s the end of September and the National Day is . A. in hand B. on hand C. at hand D. by hand
14. After the harvest, the peasants began to and enjoy the result of hard work. A. set back B. settle down C load down D. sit back
15. May I that if we don ’t leave now we shall miss the bus? A. point out B. point to C. speak out D. refer to
16. John ’s girlfriend is coming tonight and he is going to her at the airport at 6:00. A. pick …on B. pick …out C. pick …over D pick …up 17. He is unwilling to in favor of young man. A. step in B. step up C. step aside D. step back
18. The book has been well reviewed, but actual sales it hasn ’t been very successful. A. in terms of B. in need of C. in contrast to D in place of 19. Summers in the south France are dry and sunny.
A. in the most part
B. in part
C. in good part
D. for the most part 20. I’ll be late home —something ’s just at work.
A. come along
B. come up
C. come in
D. come off 21. The 92-degree water warm.
A. was fell
B. felt
C. felt to be
D. was to feel 22. The children at the end of the song.
A. congratulated
B. persisted
C. snapped
D. applauded 23. Happy marriage may be more common in in real life. A. fiction B. opera C. drama D. script
24. You don't have to have this telephone in your new car; it ’s a(n) extra. A. alternative B. radical C. optional D. abnormal 25. The guides the tourists together at the hotel gate.
A. accumulated
B. collected
C. assembled
D. resembled 26.The little boy ’s crying his parents.
A. thrilled
B. shattered
C. broke
D. embarrassed
27. Redolfi ’s interest in messages from the ocean floor comes from _________ by the Mediterranean.
A. being growing up
B. he grew up
C. he growing up
D. his growing up 28. I think the __________ thing to do is phone before you go and ask for directions. A. sensible B. sensitive C. sensory D. sensational
29. Some people think going to an underwater concert is a great alternative __________ to a
movie or dinner.
A. to go
B. to going
C. of going
D. but to go
30. Why do you _________ interrupting me when I have repeatedly asked you to stop?
A. take on
B. subject to
C. persist in
D. submit to
31.A package holiday is a holiday where a travel__________ books your travel and
accommodation for you.
A. agency
B. organization
C. foundation
D. company
32. People all over the world _________ Mother Teresa in high regard.
A. pay
B. hold
C.take
D. give
33. Children everywhere love to have stories _______ to them.
A. to be read
B. being read
C. read
D. to read
34. There is a ________ to the amount of time I’m prepared to spend on this.
A. restriction
B. extent
C.limit
D. limitation
35. Such is his confidence in his daughter ________ he believes she will be a great pianist one day.
A. as
B. that
C. so that
D. in that
36. The book will be published by Cambridge University Press in __________ with the
British Museum.
A. relation
B. association
C. correlation
D.collaboration
37. Our lives have changed a considerable degree.
A. at
B. within
C. to
D. by
38. The idea that the earth is flat was centuries ago.
A. contradicted
B. refuted
C. denied D rejected
39. Many people believe that our species threatened with extinction.
A. is
B. are
C. are to be
D. used to be
40. A customer claimed the old lady stealing a Christmas card.
A. seeing
B. to see
C. to have seen
D. having seen
41. Watch- making and tourism are the chief of that country.
A. projects
B. campaigns
C. enterprises
D. investments
42. The newspaper devoted a to the discussion of the development of the suburbs.
A. column
B. corner
C. queue
D. row
43. He wanted her to believed that he was in what he had told to her.
A.generous
B. sincere
C. real
D. actual
44. The major read the order and then passed it to the commander.
A. away
B. off
C. along
D. apart
45. I caught my shirt on a nail and nearly had it torn .
A. off
B. up
C. away
D. down
46. The policeman his shoulder as if to say there was nothing he could do about the
matter.
A. lowered
B. shrugged
C. lifted
D. folded
47. Our club seven new members at the last meeting.
A. enrolled
B. ensured
C. enriched
D. entitled
48. Her humorous remarks seemed , but were in fact carefully prepared beforehand.
A. precise
B. blank
C. spontaneous
D. bold
49. Jane’s for gardening is evident by all of these beautiful flowers.
A. acquaintance
B. familiarity
C. achievement
D. enthusiasm
50. My wool sweater when I washed it.
A. decreased
B. withdrew
C. shrank
D. flooded
II.Cloze (15%)
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence _51_ by our environment and our experiences? _52__ enough, the answer to both these question is _53__ . In a way our intelligence is given us _54__, and special education cannot make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a poor environment will develop his intelligence _55_ one who lives in rich environment. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but _56__or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now _57__ by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show __58__ intelligence is something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are __59__ to be _60___ intelligence. Thus if we take two people from the population, it is _61__ that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we _62___ two twins, they will very likely be __63__ intelligent as each other. Relations __64__ brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly _65__ that intelligence depends on birth.
51. A. kept B. developed C. produced D. provided
52. A. Truly B. Strangely C. Likely D. Really
53. A. never B. no C. none D. yes
54. A. at first B. by chance C. at birth D. by nature
55. A. better B. more than C. worse D. less than
56. A. if B. whether C. true D. believe
57. A. held B. explained C. spoken D. learned
58. A. that B. how C. why D. whether
59. A. glad B. able C. happy D. likely
60. A. on B. with C. in D. to
61. A. probably B. likely C. impossible D. useful
62. A. take B. judge C. consider D. look at
63. A. of B. such C. as D. for
64. A. as B. like C. unlike D. among
65. A. says B. supports C. tells D. suggests
III. Reading comprehension (15%)
(1)
The Indian medicine man might have been more appropriately called a plant doctor. To the Indian, medicine was not so much a science as it was an art. Indian herb doctors would sometimes go to their graves without revealing their secrets of the healing powers of plants.
Medicine men often journeyed several days from their camps to search for soothing herbs and roots such as prickly ash, ginseng, pine gum and wintergreen. Care was always taken to make the proper sacrifices to the plant spirits.
Plants were never gathered carelessly or with haste. Ceremony preceded each harvest. Fires were built and tobacco was burned as sacrificial incense. A song was sung as each plant was gently pulled from the ground.
The herbs were prepared and stored with as much care as was taken when they were harvested. They were dried, cut and placed in special leather bags. Only certain Indians were allowed to handle the sacred medicines.
Unfortunately, some of the herbs had more magic in them than medicine. But many plants were effective in curing all kinds of ills. For example, boneset tea and prickly ash bark were prescribed for colds and fevers. Stomach troubles were often treated with wintergreen and slippery elm. Sassafras roots soothed the discomfort of mosquito bites. Fortunately for the early Indians, contagious diseases were almost nonexistent until the Europeans came to North America. 66．Another good title for the passage would be ____
A .Indian Superstitions B. The Indian Art of Medicine.
C.Plants and Their Uses
D. An Apple a Day Keeps the Plant Doctor Away.
67．Plants were picked only after a brief ____
A. rest
B. meal
C. journey
D. ceremony
68．This passage suggests that Indians believed in _____
A. the magical powers of plants
B. taking care of old folks
C. powerful tree gods
D. the laws of medicine
69．The author discusses the positive effects of Indian herbal medicines by ____
A. telling a story
B. offering sound arguments
C. giving examples
D. narration
70．Another word for spirit might be ____
A. alcohol
B. enthusiasm
C. god
D. ghost
(2)
In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider-story” is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times to span the gap. On the seventh time he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English… Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundre ds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Once he was asked why he kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so often. He replied, “ Failure? I have no failures. Now I know 50,000 ways it won’t work.”
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top form yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?
Second, is the goal you’re trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking abo ut what your real goal may be. Think about this question, “ If I do succeed in this, where will is get me?”
This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.
The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s a part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win’em all”.
71. This passage deals with ____
A. failure and success
B. two sides of failure
C. the “spider story”.
D. the invention of light bulb.
72. In the first paragraph the author talks mainly about ____
A.the value of failure
B. how people fail
C. famous failures
D. how not to fail.
73. Robert Bruce was put in the passage to show that ____
A. failure must come before success
B. failure isn’t all bad
C. nature will help us if we let it.
D. people who fail have plenty of company
74. One thing the writer does not tell you to do to cope with failure is ____
A.check out your goals to see if they are right for you
B.think about failure as part of life.
C.Think about failure to find out what went wrong
D.Avoid things that are beyond you.
75. Even if we have failed, we should ____
A. not think about it any more.
B. take it easy
C. learn to live with others in the same house
D. learn to accept it
(3)
Why would an animal commit suicide? It seems a strange question, and yet it is one that has intrigued some people for a long time. For there is a kind of rodent, called the lemming, which periodically commits mass suicide, and no one knows just why!
These small creatures, which inhabit the Scandinavian mountains, sustain themselves on a diet of roots and moss, and live in nests they burrow underground. When their food supply is sufficiently large, the lemmings live a normal, undisturbed rodent life.
However, when the lemmings’ food supply becomes too low to support the population, a singular migration commences一一the lemmings leave their burrows on mass, forming huge hordes. Great numbers of the rodents begin a trek across the Scandinavian plains. The journey may last weeks. The lemmings devour everything in their path, continuing their destructive march until they reach the sea.
The reason for what follows remains an enigma for zoologists and naturalists. Upon reaching the coast, the lemmings do not stop. They swim by the thousands into the surf. They stay afloat for only a short time before they tire, sink and drown. Thousands upon thousands of the little animals die in this rush to the sea.
A common theory for this mass suicide is that the lemmings do not realize that the ocean in such a huge body of water. In their cross-country journey, the animals must traverse many small lakes. They may assume that the sea is just another such swimmable obstacle. But no final answer has been found to the mystery.
76. This passage is about ____
A.how lemmings find food.
B. the concept of animal suicide
C.the phenomenon of the lemming “suicide”
D.the food supply in the Scandinavian mountains
77. A reason for the lemmings self-destruction might be that they ____
A.go mad from a lack of food.
B. hope to find fish for food.
C. decide to thin out the population
D. think they can cross the sea
78. Scientists are intrigued by the lemmings’ behavior because ____
A.they are the only rodents that live in Scandinavia.
B.it is very unusual for animals to commit suicide.
C.if the amount of food they can eat on their march to the sea.
D.they can gather together in such huge numbers
79. The word however, in the first sentence of the third paragraph, signals that the
information that follows is ____
A. merely a detail
B. in contract to preceding information
C. similar to preceding information
D. an example related to preceding information
80.In this passage singular means ____
A.unusual
B. solitary
C. temporary
D. individual
IV. Tanslation (20%)
81. They painted their bodies deep red and drew beautiful patterns on them with dye.
82. There was a famine in those days and Tortoise had not eaten a good meal for two moons.
83. Manners are a tool to remind us of others around us. Our actions affect each other; there is
always give and take.
84.It is certain that technology, especially computer technology, will rule our lives to a
greater and greater degree.
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