《开放英语II(1)》期中试卷

1、开放英语II(1)期中试卷开放英语II(1)期中试卷一、选择填空阅读下面的句子和对话，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入空白处的最佳选项，并标在答题纸的相应位置。（每题2分，共30分）1. Improved health brings population growth, _ people to move out of rural areas.A) causes B) causing C) caused D) cause2. _the families, _ the standard of living.A) Smallhigh B) SmallerhigherC) Smallesthi

2、ghest D) The smallerthe higher3. All CFC coolants must _ from fridges.A) remove B) been removed C) be removing D) be removed4. _I buy a bike, I?ll have to use the car.A) if B) when C) unless D) because5. They agreed _ him 100.A) to pay B) paying C) pay D) paid6. _ average women live longer than men.

3、A) On B) In C) By D) At7. A lot of food _ nowadays is convenience food.A) buy B) buys C) buying D) bought8. That smells lovely. _ delicious food!A) Which B) What C) What a D) How9. New regulations _ last year to control airline safety.A) introduced B) was introduced C) introducing D) were introduced

4、10. Could you tell me _?A) how long you live here B) how long have you lived hereC) how long you have lived here D)how long did you live here11. You _ a pass to enter that building.A) need getting B) need get C) need to get D) need got12. If they hadn?t gone on vacation, their house _ broken into.A)

5、 won?t have been B) hadn?t been C) wouldn?t have been D) haven?t had been13. “What are you doing?” “I?m listening a programme energysaving.”A) from for B) from on C) to for D) to on14. There are two new assistants in the office, but _ them is any good.A) neither of B) none of C) both of D) either of

6、15. It was _ hot that we had to open all the office windows.A）much B）t oo C）s o D) such二、完型填空（20分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并标在答题纸的相应位置。(每题2分，共20分)China has large desert areas and much of its agricultural land (1) _ by desertification, which is getting worse. In addition, soil erosi

7、on has led to a huge loss of farmland and also the drying out of rivers. Consequently, the livelihoods of 35 million people are being threatened. (2) _, it is even affecting cities. The nearest sand dune is less than 100 miles from Beijing, so, when northwest winds blow, unpleasant sandstorms are be

8、coming more frequent, (3) _ major difficulties. The situation is becoming worse, therefore the government has to take action.The reasons for the changes are complex. In some places the environment is suffering (4)_ the growth in factories. As a result, trees and other vegetation die, and so soil is

9、eroded. (5) _ trees that die, (6) _water is held in the earth. Moreover the need for wood for fuel and buildings leads to further deforestation, which causes further soil erosion. (7)_ local farmers find it more and more difficult to make a living and they end up using inefficient farming methods, w

10、hich again (8) _ soil erosion.And the Government is carrying out anti-desertification projects, including the building of a forest belt around deserts. So a tree-planting campaign is being started. (9) _ as the Great Green Wall, it is meant to protect Beijing from sandstorms. Moreover trees will be

11、planted around the deserts themselves. Moreover China hopes to control the (10) _ of desert land by the year 2021. As a result plans to establish a protected ecosystem in desert areas by 2050.(1) A) is threat B) is being threatened C) threats D) threatened(2) A) As a result B) However C) Furthermore

12、 D) Beside(3) A) resulting in B) resulted in C) caused in D) causing in(4) A) and B) also C) because of D) because(5) A) More B) Less C) The less D) The more(6) A) more B) less C) the less D) the more(7) A) But B) Consequently C) Also D) In addition(8) A) leads B) results C) leads to D) results from

13、(9) A) Known B) Know C) Knowing D) Knows(10) A) extend B) extension C) expand D) expansion第二部分：阅读理解三、阅读下列短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个正确答案。（每题3分，共30分）1Mum, can we go to McDonald?s, please? Some people might ask, Where would we be today if we did not have fast food? and Where would parents take their children

14、 out to eat? It has been reported that approximately 30% of meals consumed by families in the USA are eaten at one of the big chains like Burger King and Taco Bell, though probably none is more famous than McDonald?s. The distinctive golden arch? can now be seen in most major cities in the world. In

15、 2021, McDonald?s had approximately 25,000 restaurants in over 120 countries and served 29 million people a day.Apparently, the secret of their success is a marketing strategy o f think global, act local. McDonald?s learnt that if they adapted their Mac? meals to different cultures, it was more succ

16、essful than having a standardised set of products that taste the same everywhere. So now, around 80% of McDonald?s restaurants are franchised to local people who serve food with a local? flavour. For example, in Hong Kong, food called Shake Shake Fries? and Red Bean Sunday? can be found on the menu,

17、 while in Switzerland, Vegi Macs? are served.However, fast food is not popular wi th everyone. It is often called junk? food because it is said to be unhealthy and full of fat. Furthermore, many people claim that fast food chains produce enormous amounts of waste, while millions of people in develop

18、ing countries go hungry. At the same time, more and more people no longer cook fresh food at home. Convenience? food is just too convenient! It is so easy for people with busy working lives to call into their local branch of Marks and Spencer, or some other supermarket chain, to buy ready-made meals

19、 on their way home from work. It is even easier to buy a take-away? from a local restaurant or pick up the phone and order a pizza to be delivered to your home.1. The golden arch? in the second paragraph refers to _.A) Burger King B) Taco Bell C) McDonald?s D) all the fast food restaurants2. Accordi

20、ng to the passage, McDonald?s is successful mainly because _.A) It has a standardized set of products all over the worldB) It is not junk? f ood C) Its? food is convenientD) It adapted its meals to different cultures.3. In the passage, which of the following terms has/ have the same meaning with fas

21、t food.A) junk? food B) convenience? food C) take-away? D) al l of the above4. Fast food is often called junk food? because _.A) some people think it is unhealthy and full of fatB) fast food chains produce enormous amounts of wasteC) it is no longer fresh food D) Both A and B.5. The main idea of thi

22、s passage is _.A) fast food today B) the successful secret of McDonald?s.C) why fast food is thought as junk? food D)different opinions toward fast food2Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles（困扰）old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitt

23、ing on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they?re still sitting on the sofa? Talking? What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?Betty shrugs. Talk? We?re friends.Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubi

24、n spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable.”More than t

25、wo-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/ husband as a best frien

26、d, most trusted person, or the one identified（认定）at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women?s friendships with each othe

27、r rest on shared emotions and support, but men?s relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions（交往）between men are emotionally controlled a good fit with the social requirements of “manly behavior.”“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rubin writ

28、es, “the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman?s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn?t unusual to hear a man say he didn?t know his friend?s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared on night asking if he could

29、sleep on the sofa.”6. What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that _.A) he is treated as an outsider rather than a husbandB) women have so much to shareC) women show little interest in ballgamesD) he finds his wife difficult to talk to7. Rubin?s study shows that for emotional support a mar