英语考试题

190-192英语期末考试题一．Choose the best answer .(20points)( )1.The purpose of the law is to protect the rights of the .A.personB.singleC.individualD.group( )2.If you don’t clear away the rubbish regularly,it will just .A.accumulateB.addC.put togetherD.grow up( )3.I my thanks to you .A.ownB.oweC.haveD. keep( )4.He was pale with after his sleepless nigh.A.tireB.tiredC.fatigueD. good rest( )5.The of a good education great.A.cost, toB.expense,isC.money, areD.expense,are( )6. I walk to work take the bus.A.would rather,thanB.would like,thanC.would rather,toD.would like, to( )7.Nature had her beauty and intelligence.A.given,toB.endowed, withC.endowed, toD.provided,for( )8.The beautiful house everyone saw it.A.EncouragesB.interestsC.happyD.enchanted( )9.Books are to mankind memory is to theindividual.A.whichB. whatC.thatD.as( )10.Telling lies will not you any .A.give,goodB.do ,goodC.help,goodnessD.do,goodness ( )11.If reading is to accomplishment anything more than ,it must be active.A.pass timeB.past timeC. passing timeD.spending time ( )12.when the teacher asked me to answer the question,I wished I the answer.A.knowB.knewC. would knowD.had known ( )13.It is time we the job.A.should finishB.finishingC.to finishD. finished ( )14.I agree with most of what you said, but I don’t agree with .A.everythingB.anythingC.somethingD.nothing ( )15.-----Why don’t we take a little break?---------------Didn’t we just have ?A.itB.thatC.one .this( )16.Canada and Australia help to England food.A.give,withB.offer,byC.supply,withD.supply on ( )17. An epidemic in the same village forty years ago. A.broke out B.happen C.occur D.was taken place( )18.The city was destroyed in the earthquake.A.past-prosperousB.once-prosperouseD.one time prosperouse D.in the past prosperous( )19.His careless mistake his career.A.helpedB.destroyedC.improvedD.damage ( )20.Polluted water supply is a public health.A.danger withB.risk fromC.risk toD.dangerous to二Complete each sentence with one of them in the right form(20points)1)In the world there is a for certain types of cancer.2)The city government has decided to pull down all the old housesin the downtown area and build buildings in the same place for the residents3)Many poeple in Africa are now hungerand diseases.4)Take the medicine and it will your pain.5)All the objects recycled paper.6)The Power station the cityElectricity every day.7).In class, we tried to every word the teacher said .8).The speaker used pictures and diagrams to his point9) the fog all the flights were cancelled.10).Many outstanding scientists were invited to this conference .三．Match the word in column A with its explanation in column B.(10points)四．Choose the best answer for each blank to complete the following passage. (10points)Marie curie(1869-1943) was a great polish 1 scientist.From her early childhood Marie loved to study .She graduated from a middle school in 1883.At that time women were not 2 to enter colleges on Poland. So she decided to attend college in France.She did all kinds of jobs and 3 enough money to continue her study. So in 1891,she 4 Paris and entered the Sornonne Science College of Paris University.She studied very hard and lived 5 life. In 1893,she got a master degree of physics. The following year she recerved a master degree of mathematics.In 1985, she 6 a French physicist called Pierre Curie .They worked together on a research of radioactive elements. They worked day and night. And at last ,on December 26,1898,they 7 radium. In 1903,because of their great achievements n science, the couple received the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1906,Pierre was 8 in a car accident. Marie was very sad9 she continued her research work. In 1911,she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry .She was the first scientist to receive 10 Nobel awards in the world.( )1. A.man B. Woman C.men D.women ( )2.A.permit B.promised C.allowed D.let( )3.A.saved B.spent C.wasted D.found ( )4.A.went B.went for C.left D.left for ( )5.A.simple B.simply C.a simple D. a simply ( )6.A.married B.divorced withC.married withD. separated with( )7.A.invented B.remembered C.discovered D.recognized( )8.A.died B.dead C.die D.killed( )9.A.and B.or C.but D.if( )10.A.two B.the first C.the last D.best 五．Read the following passages and choose the best answer to each of the questions.(20points)( 一)One of the things to be learnt in a foreign language is guessing all the time what kind of thing to come when listening to someone talking. People do this all the time in their own language, so it is necessary (必要的) to do this in a foreign language, too. Here are some examples.1. "What's the matter？" "I went to a party last night, so I…"2. "I feel so tired these days."" I think you'd better…"3."Of course, she never stops talking. She is one of the most…"You can see from the above three examples that the context (上下文) helps a lot in understanding what is being talked about. So "guessing "is very important in understanding English, especially (尤其)spoken English.( )1.This passage tells us mainly about ____.A. the importance of "guessing " in learning a foreign languageB. how to guess what one is going to talk aboutC. some examples of right guessingD. how important it is to guess all the time（）2.from the context, we can see maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE I is _________.A. "… so I didn't have a good time."B. "…so I went to bed very late."C. "…. So I felt unhappy."D. "… so I got up very early."（）3. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 2 is ________.A. "I think you'd better have a good rest and take good care of yourself."B. "I think you'd better have something to drink."C. "I think you'd better get some help from your friends."D. "I think you'd better be more careful."（）4. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE 3 is ______.A. "… she is one of the most famous film stars."B. "…she is one of the most beautiful women."C. "… she is one of the most famous speakers."D. " .. she is one of the most talkative women."（）5. From the passage we can infer (推断) that guessing is _______in learning a foreign language.A. the only wayB. more important in spoken English than in written EnglishC. more important than any other wayD. more important in written English than in spoken English（二）Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。