基础英语II期末练习卷(一).doc

系部： 班级： 学号： 姓名： 淮安信息职业技术学院20122013学年度第二学期基础英语期末练习卷（一）题号一二三四五总分得分Part I Listening Comprehension (10%)Section A. Listen to the four dialogs, and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear. (4%)1. A. The man will go shopping with the woman. B. The man likes shopping with the woman. C. The woman usually does window-shopping.2. A. Jim will be a good nurse. B. Jim is going to be a nurse. C. Jim shouldnt choose to work as a nurse.3. A. The womans job has something to do with bread. B. The man thinks women should work as a housewife and mother. C. The man wants the woman to go back to work.4. A. Tina has to interrupt her career and start again. B. Tina is the marketing manager. C. Tina doesnt like to be the marketing manager.Section B. Listen to the short passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear. (6%)Some of the Differences Between Men and WomenIt is a fact of life that men and women are fundamentally different. A woman think that a man wouldnt be so bad if he 5 her better. A man thinks a woman would be 6 if she had an “on/off” switch, and if that were the case he wouldnt need toys.When a relationship between a man and a woman ends she will cry and pour her heart out to all her girlfriends for a while and then get on to her life. While the man has 7 letting go, hell cry 8 and tell his friends that he wouldnt go near her if she were the only woman on earth. But it doesnt work for him. For six months shell hear nothing from him, then one Sunday at three in the morning hell call and say, “I just wanted you to know that you have 9 my life and Ill never forgive you, I hate you. But I want you to know that I think theres always a 10 for us. ”Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20%)There are 20 incomplete statements here, each with a blank. You are required to complete each statement by choosing the appropriate answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 1. She dozed off over her work. She _ very late last night.A. can work B. must have workedC. should have worked D. would work2. Gary _ to see a doctor. He is running a high fever.A. needs B. does need C. need D. needed3. I seldom play computer games; _.A. neither does my brother B. so does my brother C. none does my brother D. nor my brother does4. If I had taken my raincoat with me this morning, I _ wet now.A. would not have been B. would have beenC. would not be D. would be 5. To be frank, Id rather you _ in the case.A. will not be involved B. not to be involved C. not involved D. were not involved6. The statistics suggest that the crime rate _ on the rise recently. A. was B. be C. have been D. has been7. I have heard both teachers and students _ well of him. A. spoken B. to speak C. speak D. to have spoken8. Im terribly sorry that I forgot _ the samples you want. A. to have brought B. to bring C. having brought D. bringing9. This years number of students in this school _ last years by fifteen percent. A. breaks B. produces C. exceeds D. passes10. Many college students hold _ expectations for their future jobs. A. fake B. false C. unreal D. unrealistic11. According to the latest report, the storm is showing a _ to move eastward. A. tendency B. temptation C. promotion D. accomplishment12. Our school library _ 1 million books.A. houses B. household C. filters D. recreates 13. Some colleges have _ to employing more teachers from overseas.A. relieved B. resorted C. come D. added14. Similar laws have been _ in many countries to prevent such a crime.A. in terms of B. in place C. in contact with D. in sight15. Mary is thinking of _to that famous company for a post.A. asking B. applying C. assessing D. requesting16. Dont expect me to _ you hand and foot; you should make your own lunch. A. wait for B. wait at C. wait on D. wait to17. They were _ to help, but they had no choice. A. willing B. reluctance C. reluctant D. will18. The local government attaches great importance to the _ development of the city. A. sustained B. sustaining C. sustain D. sustainable19. Unexpectedly, the chance of meeting with her _ new possibilities for me.A. put up with B. opened up C. idle away D. go out of their way20. It is reported that that young man was put into prison for _ a crime.A. committing B. doing C. having D. makingPart III Reading Comprehension (40%)Task 1. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer for each question.Art, said Picasso, is a lie that makes us realize the truth. So is a map. We do not usually associate the precise work of the map maker with a fanciful object of art. Yet a map has many qualities that a painting or a poem has. It is truth realized in a symbolic way, holding meanings it does not express on the surface. And like work of art, it requires imaginative reading. Thus, map and reality are not, and cannot be, identical. No aspect of map use is so obvious yet so often overlooked. Most map reading mistakes occur because the user forgets this vital fact and expects a one-to-one correspondence between map and reality. A map, like a painting, is just one special version of reality. To understand a painting, you must have some idea of the medium which was used by the artist. You wouldnt expect a water color to look anything like an oil painting or a charcoal（木碳）drawing, even if the subject matter of all three were identical. In the same way, the techniques used to create maps will greatly influence the final representation. As a map reader, you should always be aware of the invisible hand of the map maker. Never use a map without asking yourself how it has been biased by the methods used to make it. If the entire map making process operates at its full potential, communication takes place between the map maker and the user. The map maker translates reality into the clearest possible picture under the circumstances, and the map reader converts this picture back into an impression of the environment. For such communication to take place, the map reader and the map maker must know something about how maps are created. 1. Map is a lie _. A. that has little truth in it B. that few of us believe C. that we use to express the truth D. that cheats people in a tricky way 2. Map resembles art in that _ .A. they are both absolute lies B. they are both precise as well as fanciful C. they must be read with imagination D. they both express meanings in a superficial way 3. Most map reading mistakes occur because _ .A. the map is not made according to reality B. there are obvious differences between the map and realityC. the user forgets the one-to-one correspondence between the map and reality D. the user overlooks the gap between the map and reality4. “the invisible hand of the map maker”（in Paragraph 3）refers to _ .A. the techniques used to create maps B. the subject matter of the map C. the symbols used in the map D. the final representation of the map 5. The last paragraph describes mainly _ .A. how maps are created B. what the communication between the map maker and the reader is C. how the map maker translates reality into a picture D. how the reader converts the picture back into reality Task 2. Fill in the blanks according to the material given to you.Hard Work, Good MoneyWe need:Staff (员工) to work in a busy operations center.You to be working in Hangzhou.We are:A rapidly expanding international IT company.Based in the UK and USA, with 500 employees worldwide.We want to:Recruit (招聘) staff for our office in Hangzhou.Recruit 30 staff members in the first year.You should be:Chinese;A college graduate, majoring in Computer Science;Flexible, efficient, active;Willing to work in Hangzhou;Able to work unusual hours, e.g. 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.You should have:Good basic English language skills, holding Level-A Certificate of Practical English Test for Colleges (PRETCO). Keyboard skills. Way to contact us:For more details about the job, please visit our website: .A Job AdvertisementRecruitment: staff to work in an operations center Work place: 6 Qualifications (资格): Education: college graduate majoring in 7 Foreign language: English, with Level-A Certificate of PRETCO Personal qualities: flexible, 8 , active Working hours: 9 , e.g. 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Way to get details about the job: visit the website: 10 Task 3. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer for each question.Music which is original is individual and personal. That is to say, it can be identified as belonging to a particular composer. It has particular qualities, or a style, which are not copied from another. If you can recognize the style of a composer, you will probably be able to tell that a certain composition belongs to him or her even though you have never heard it before. A basket-maker has the skill of weaving and interweaving his materials to create colorful patterns, and an expert carpenter（木匠）has the skill of joining together different shapes and sizes of wood to make a beautiful piece of furniture. These skills may be referred to as “workmanship”（技艺）.Similarly, in music a composer organizes his melodies（旋律）and rhythms and combines sounds to create harmony. A composer may be capable of thinking up very good, original tunes, yet if tunes are poorly organized, that is, if the workmanship is poor, the final result will not be to standard.Good music expresses feelings in a way that is suitable to those feelings. There maybe joy, sorrow, fear, love, anger, or whatever. Bad music, on the other hand, may confuse unrelated feelings, it may not express any important feeling at all, or it may exaggerate some feelings and make them vulgar, that is, cheap and ugly.Good music will stand the test of time. It will not go out of fashion but will continue to be enjoyed and respected long after it is first introduced. It will gain a kind of permanent status while bad music will disappear and be forgotten quickly. In pop music, where the general rule seems to be “the newer the better”, the test of time is the hardest test of all to pass. 11. A piece of original music _.A. has a personal styleB. sounds very familiar to our ears C. is one whose style you cannot recognize D. can not be recognized as belonging to any composer 12. We can see good workmanship in _. A. different shapes and size of furniture B. materials for creating colourful patterns C. a piece of music with its melodies and rhythms organized in harmony D. a piece of music with very good, original tunes mixed together 13. A piece of music can be said to be good if _. A. it helps to while away the hours B. it combines different rhythms and sounds C. it makes people forget their sorrows and worries quickly D. it expresses a certain feeling in a proper way 14. According to the last paragraph, “the test of time is the hardest of all to pass” suggests that _.A. the newer the music is, the harder it can pass the test of time B. it is most difficult for music to gain a kind of permanent status C. pop music will cease to be enjoyed soon after it is introduced D. good music neednt pass the test of time 15. This passage is concerned with _. A. how to compose music B. how to enjoy music C. how to judge music D. how to perform musicTask 4. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer for each question.To be “historically-minded” is to see things in relation and in perspective, and to judge tolerantly. We must remember how differently men have thought and acted in different times. We must always keep an open mind, ready to receive and weigh new evidence. If we grasp this idea, we will never think that a historian（历史学家）is someone who can remember dates. That childish idea is like calling a man a statesman（政治家）because he can remember the names of voters in his district. A waiter could remember more names and a telephone operator more numbers than the greatest historian. The true historian is not content to take all his facts from other historians. Today he makes sure that his statements are based on sound “documents” or “sources” which go back to the time of the facts themselves. But the historian needs always to be in his guard not to be misled by his sources. A document may not be a real one. Its author may be lying on purpose for some reason. He may be so greatly influenced by national, religious, party, or personal backgrounds as to be totally unfair to the other side. If honest, he may be misinformed as to the facts and mistaken in his inferences. Anyone who reads the accounts published in the different countries concerning the causes and results of wars will realize that the historian needs caution and training in handling these sources. The trained historian asks first:” Did this writer mean to tell the truth?” and second: “Was he in a position or frame of mind to tell the truth even if he wants to?” Every statement must be patiently weighed and tested and combined with all other available information in order to get at the truth. 16. A “historically-minded” researcher _. A. always keeps an open mind to history B. looks at one historical event without relating it to another C. sees things from a single point of view D. refuses to accept new evidence 17. In Paragraph 1 the author means to illustrate that _. A. different men think and act differently B. the study of history is not merely a matter of remembering dates C. a statesman can remember the names of voters in his district D. a waiter can remember more names than the great historians 18. The true historian should base his statements on _. A. findings of other historians B. documents created at the present time C. his own inferences