大学英语期末测验样卷

大学英语期末测验样卷

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大学英语期末考试考试样卷

（1-4级各教材通用）

Part I Listening (20%)

Section A (10%)

Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and

the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause.

During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and

decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer

Sheet with a single line through the center.(请在答题卡上填涂作答)

1. A) Pay the three bills together. C) Stop paying the bills.

B) Phone the electric company. D) Make fewer telephone calls.

2. A) He is not willing to go to see the play.C) He thinks the theater will be too crowded.

B) He’s sorry he can’t go with the woman. D) He rarely goes to see an outdoor movie.

3. A) Both she and Bob will go there for dinner. C) She won’t go there for dinner.

B) She will go there for dinner without Bob. D) She will tell the man their decision later.

4. A) The man should buy a new car. C) The man should fly to Florida.

B) The car looks better than before. D) The man should get his car checked.

5. A) She also needs a new tennis racket.

B) Brian has just bought a tennis racket.

C) Brian didn’t pay back the money she lent him.

D) She can’t get Brian to play tennis.

6. A) They are tired of the trip. C) They want to take more trips.

B) The expense of the trip went up. D) The trip may be too expensive for them.

7. A) The exam was easier than the previous one.

B) Jane is sure that she will do better in the next exam.

C) Jane probably failed in the exam.

D) The oral part of the exam was easier than the written part.

8. A) He is tired of driving in heavy traffic.

B) H e doesn’t mind it as the road conditions are good.

C) He is unhappy to have to drive such a long way every day.

D) H e enjoys it because he’s good at driving.

9. A) The exam was easier than the previous one.

B) Jane is sure that she will do better in the next exam.

C) Jane probably failed in the exam.

D) The oral part of the exam was easier than the written part.

10. A) He is tired of driving in heavy traffic.

B) H e doesn’t mind it as the road conditions are good.

C) He is unhappy to have to drive such a long way every day.

D) H e enjoys it because he’s good at driving.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you

hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)

and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line

through the center. (请在答题卡上填涂作答)

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

11. A) The British. B) The Indians.C) Peter Minuit.D) The Dutch.

12. A) Because of its people.C) Because of its location.

B) Because it is an old city.D) Because it has a great culture.

13. A) Its cultural attractions.C) Its Empire State Building.

B) Its tourist attractions.D) Its large population.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

14. A) His father caught a serious disease.

B) His mother passed away.

C) His mother left him to marry a rich businessman.

D) His father took to drinking.

15. A) He disliked being disciplined. C) He was expelled by the university.

B) He couldn’t pay his gambling debts. D) He enjoyed working for a magazine.

16. A) His poems are heavily influenced by French writers.

B) His stories are mainly set in the State of Virginia.

C) His work is difficult to read.

D) His language is not refined.

17. A) He grieved to death over the loss of his wife.

B) He committed suicide for unknown reasons.

C) He was shot dead at the age of 40.

D) He died of heavy drinking.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

18. A) Women. C) Prisoners.

B) Manual workers. D) School age children.

19. A) He taught his students how to pronounce the letters first.

B) He matched the letters with the sounds familiar to the learners.

C) He showed the learners how to combine the letters into simple words.

D) He divided the letters into groups according to the way they are written.

20. A) It can help people to become literate within a short time.

B) It was originally designed for teaching the English language.

C) It enables the learners to master a language within three months.

D) It is effective in teaching any alphabetical language to Brazilians.

Part II Blank Filling (15%)

Directions: In this section, there are 15 sentences with 15 blanks which are divided into 5 groups. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank. Read the sentences through carefully before making your choices. Y ou may not use any of the

words in the bank more than once. (请在答题卡上填涂作答)

注：所有句子从教材中选取，每三个不完整的句子构成一个Group，选择合适的词完成句子，其中有一个为多余选项。请提醒学生，一定在答题卡上填涂作答。

Group 1

A. martial

B. withdraw

C. reluctantly

D. issue

21. I will cherish these days forever as I _____________ close the doors on my college life.

22. I want to take ____________ arts for my elective course.

23. There are so many choices of courses and subjects or time frames that completing a program is not a(n) ____________ for students anymore.

Group 2

A. register

B. commencement

C. triumph

D. approach

24.This was their last exam before they went on to ______________ and jobs.

25. “Distance Education has changed my life from tragedy to ____________,” she said.

26. Stu dents don’t have to struggle in order to ___________ for the classes they like.

Group 3

A. surrounded

B. gadget

C. abounded

D. certificate

27. Kelley McKee of Steelton, Pennsylvania, never had any intentions of taking Distance Education courses. She had already obtained a _____________ at a business school.

28. Maybe you can come up with an electronic ____________.

29. For the past four years I have been ____________ with a safety net.

Group 4

A. recapture

B. impress

C. contemplated

D. surveyed

30. I just want to ____________ upon you that, even though you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the subject you don’t know.

31. She ____________ the worried faces before her, then asked: “How many completed all five questions?” Not a hand was raised.

32. I find myself wanting to start all over again and _____ the fun and excitement of my college days.

Group 5

A. circumstance

B. momentum

C. physical

D. vocational

33. The Internet classes and courses are also very convenient because there are no _________ restrictions as in conventional education like space and time limitations.

34. Can you handle delayed responses? Y ou may find that your _________ suffers without an immediate response to a question.

35. Kelley is thankful to her outstanding instructors and a number of student support services, including financial aid, disability services and ______________ rehabilitation.

Part III Error Correcting (10%)

Directions: The following sentences test your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. Each sentence contains a single error. No sentence contains more than ONE error. The error is underlined and lettered. Select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence

correct. (请在答题卡上填涂作答)

注：绝大部分句子从教材中选取，每个句子含一个错误，有可能是语法错误或搭配错误，挑出错误的选项即可，无需改正。请提醒学生，一定在答题卡上填涂作答。

36. The professor said they can bring any books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they

A B C

did not talk to each other during the test.

D

37. I was amused and almost laughed at the question, I gave an honest answer.

A B C D

38. The typical classroom used to be the place which teachers and students were working

A B

and exploring the wonderful world of knowledge together, but now everything has changed.

C D

39. The team members work on the project meet every day to exchange their views.

A B C D

40. The editor gave me a definite insurance that my article would be published next month.

A B C D

41. As you know, that all the students are eager to learn English well.

A B C D

42. Students should have the courages to face the problem in their studies.

A B C D

43. The country found that its economy was growing more stronger with an improved outlook

A B C

and more opportunities for training and employment.

D

44. Ongoing research by several scientists suggest that regular periods of mediation reduce

A B C

blood pressure and are likely to contribute to other improvements in health.

D

45. The student didn’t quite understand the teacher’s point; however, he asked him to explain it.

A B C D

Part IV Reading Comprehension (20%)

Directions:There are 2 passages in this part. 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 write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. (请在答题

卡上填涂作答)

Passage 1

In the primary school, a child is in a comparatively simple setting and most of the time forms a relationship with one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school, a new world opens up and frequently it is a much more difficult world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils. He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways of the primary school, for he senses the need for a more cautious approach in the secondary school where there are older pupils. Secondary staff and pupils suffer from the pressures of academic work and seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers with specialist roles may see hundreds of children in a week, and a pupil may be able to form relationships with very few of the staff. He has to decide which adults are approachable; good schools will make clear to every young person from

the first year what guidance and personal help is available but whether the reality of life in the institution actually encourages requests for help is another matter.

Adults often forget what a confusing picture school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal of movement, a great number of people ― often rather frightening-looking people ― and realizes that an increasing number of choices and decisions have to be made. As he progresses through the school the confusion may become less but the choices and decisions required will increase. The school will rightly expect the pupil to take the first steps to obtain the help he needs, for this is the pattern of adult life for which he has to be prepared, but all the time the opportunities for personal and group advice must be presented in a way which makes them easy to understand and within easy reach of pupils.

46. According to the passage one of the problems for pupils entering secondary schools is that ____.

A. they are taught by many different teachers

B. they do not attend lessons in every subject

C. the teachers do not want to be friendly

D. the teachers give most attention to the more academic pupils

47. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Pupils will form relationships with old pupils rather than teachers.

B. The setting of the primary school is comparatively simpler than that of the secondary school.

C. All the teachers in the secondary school are rather frightening-looking.

D. Pupils have opportunities to get help from any teacher in the secondary school.

48. In secondary schools every pupil having problems should ____.

A. know how to ask for help

B. be free from any pressure of academic work

C. be able to discuss his problems in class

D. be able to discuss his problems with any teacher

49. In this passage about secondary schools, the author is mainly concerned about ____.

A. academic standards

B. the role of specialist teachers

C. the training of the individual teachers

D. the personal development of pupils

50. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. The difference between the primary school and the secondary school.

B. The method that pupils get help from the teachers.

C. The personal development of the pupils in the secondary school.

D. The function of the secondary school.

Passage 2

If U.S. software companies don’t pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business

good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top U. S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.

Already, of the world’s 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That’s largely because they have used new methodologies rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U. S. software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U.S —but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming’s and Juran’s ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In U. S. factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, it still is.

Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance. But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%.

Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India. Let’s hope that U. S. lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.

51. What country has more highest-rating companies in the world than any other country has?

A. Germany.

B. The US.

C. Brazil.

D. India.

52. By what means did Japan grab its large market share by the 1970s and the 1980s?

A. Its products were cheaper in price and better in quality.

B. Its advertising was most successful.

C. The US hardware industry was lagging behind.

D. Japan hired a lot of Indian software specialists.

53. Which of the following statements about Humphrey is true?

A. He is now still an IBM employer.

B. He has worked for IBM for 37 years.

C. The US pays much attention to his quality advice.

D. India honors him highly.

54. What does the founding of the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute symbolize?

A. It symbolizes the US determination to move ahead with its software.

B. It symbolizes the Indian ambition to take the lead in software.

C. It symbolizes the Japanese efforts to solve the software quality problem.

D. It symbolizes the Chinese policy on importing software.

55. What is the writer worrying about?

A. Many US software specialists are working for Japan.

B. The quality problem has become a worldwide problem.

C. The US will no longer be the first software player in the world.

D. India and Japan are joining hands to compete with the US.

Part V Passage Completion (10%)

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with 5 blanks. You are required to select one sentence for each blank from a list of choices following. Read the passage through carefully before making

your choices. Y ou may not use any of the sentences in the bank more than once. (请在主观

答题纸上作答)

注：把一篇文章抽掉5句话，需要学生根据逻辑关系，把5句话反填回原文。由于超过四个选项，不适合在答题卡上填涂，所以请提醒学生，一定在主观答题纸上作答。

Y our interaction with other people is an integral part of your college life in the United States. To make the most of it, get ready to introduce yourself in a positive way to fellow students, professors, and other people both on- and off-campus.

(56) ______________________________________________________. Orientation varies greatly from school to school, though the objectives are similar: to introduce the new non-U.S. students to each other, and to prepare you for campus life.

Many times, topics include immigration, academic advisors, computer and library resources, telephone services, public safety, medical services, banking options and department store shuttles so students can purchase items they need. During orientation, students often learn of upcoming activities such as trips to local points of attraction.

(57) ______________________________________________________. Many schools designate

a “Student Activities Center” where you may learn of different options, such as stu dent government, the newspaper staff, outdoor club, chorus, dance, and a number of athletic teams. Explore which ones may suit you best!

(58) ____________________________________: “I’ve made some great American friends on- and off-campus, as well as friends from all over the world; (59) _______________________. For example, last December, some American friends invited me out into the woods to help cut down their Christmas tree -- I had never done anything like that before!”

“When I meet new people, they’re always interested to know what it’s really like in Jamaica. That has made me think about my own country, so I could share more information with them. (60) _________________________________________________. So in many ways, a U.S. education means much m ore than sitting in a classroom and studying for a degree.”

A. U.S. College and university campuses abound with activities designed to foster friendships

B. If I never left home, I would not need to consider these things

C. they have taught me a lot

D.One of your first introductions to social life on a U.S. campus will most likely be “The International Student Orientation Program,” traditionally coordinated by the Admissions Office or the Office of International Programs

E. One international student describes his experiences

Part VI Translation (25%) (请在主观答题纸上作答)

Section A Translate the passage from English to Chinese. (10%)

My sophomore year of college was perhaps the most remarkable year of my life. This was the year that I made some lifelong friends, and through many triumphs and failures I came to know more about myself. My sophomore year involved experimenting with new things, such as camping in mountains, attempting to present some lousy poems to newspapers and drawing cartoons of my teachers in class.

Section B Translate the passage from Chinese to English. (15%)

T1. 讲到期末考试，学生们一点都不紧张，他们满脸都是自信。

T2. 岁月已经模糊了那位医生的面貌，但冲淡不了她对病人的关爱。

T3. 我简直不敢相信他这么快就学会了操作电脑。

T4. 他的生活经历在的学术生涯中一直扮演着一个重要角色。

T5. 学校将延长图书馆和教室的开放时间尽量满足学生的需要。

大学英语一级期中考试答题纸(主观题)

班级_____________ 姓名_____________ 学号

主观题总得分_____________ Part V Passage Completion(10%) 得分___________

56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

Part VI Translation from English to Chinese (15%) 阅卷教师________ 得分______

Part VII Translation from Chinese to English (20%) 得分______ T1. 阅卷老师

T2. 阅卷老师T3. 阅卷老师T4. 阅卷老师T5. 阅卷老师