综合英语(4-6)4 课程编码： 21112037-38 试卷编号： A卷20121206

1、 拟卷人： 杨运鑫教务科填写： 年 月 日考 试 用 广州大学继续教育学院 课程考试试卷 试卷（闭卷） 层次（专科）课程名称：综合英语（4-6）4 课程编码： 21112037/38试卷编号： A卷 考试时间：120分钟专业班级： 2011专科商务英语（1）（2）学号： 姓名： 题号一二三四五六七八九总分阅卷人题分101055128202010100杨运鑫 得分提示：考生答题时，专用答题纸左侧留出3厘米的试卷装订区，多余的空白纸为草稿纸！装 订 线I. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each

2、sentence，without changing its original meaning. (10%)l. Saunas merely remove a little body water, and health farms, says the report, serve as expensive holidays.A. look like B. play the role of C. are regarded as D. are wonderful for2. To their great dismay, they found that their wage increases had

3、been offset by the soaring prices as a result of inflation.Aset loose B. leveled off C. caused to happen D. reduced in degree3. The historian claims to possess a transcript of a filmed interview with one of the Soviet security service officers who conducted the negotiations with the British lieutena

4、nt colonel.A. translation B. manuscript C. written text D. cassette tape4. Slowly, the focus of public attention began to shift away from knowing what such people did to knowing what they looked like.A. centre B. distraction C. force D. direction5. The baby mice are at their weakest shortly after bi

5、rth, when they are frequently attacked by birds of prey.A. most sensitive B. best protected C. most defensive D. most vulnerable6. She confined herself to using the phone only once a day because the telephone bill had been so high.A. restricted B. allowed C. controlled D. restrained7. Someone shoute

6、d“Fire!” and in the ensuing panic several people were injured.A. previous B. terrible C. sudden D. following8. They plan to walk to the South Pole, using sledges to haul their supplies as Scott had done.A. carry B. pull C. load D. send9. This cream is used for healing minor cuts and bruises.A. fixin

7、g B. curing C. treating D. dressing10. His proposals have been greeted with rage by his opponents.A. silence B. welcome C. cheers D. angerII. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.(10%)1. The essence of success is that theres never enough of it to go round in a zero-sum game

8、 where one persons winning must be offset by anothers losing, one persons joy offset by anothers disappointment.2. To lose, to fail, to go under, to go broke these are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in the present is seen as a sure sign of salvation in the future.3. Rather, I hope to show y

9、ou that your grade, taken at face value, is apt to be dangerously misleading, both to you and to others.4. With the possible exception of another world war, global warming may be the single largest threat to our planet.5. To reduce the emission of heat-trapping gases , use technologies that reduce t

10、he amount of emissions wherever possible, and protect the forests in the world.6. Word got around about“those pants of Leviss”, and Strauss was in business.7. They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes: they are merely American.8. For two years he was a lowly peddler, hauling some 180 pounds

11、 of sundries door to door to eke out a marginal living.9. We must acknowledge what has happened, face up to the other person and say: “You did me wrong.”10. Let go of the past.III. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.(5%)irrelevant go a

12、round make a point of doing with the resultcorrespond to rather be apt to flunk define shiftl. We may therefore an extrovert personality as one whose interests are mainly directed outwards to the external environment rather than inwards to the thoughts and feelings of the self.2. To recognize them i

13、s to recognize that social labels are basically _ and misleading.3. Your performance is generally assumed to the knowledge you have acquired and will retain.4. Oddly enough, the men whom he did not resent it.5. Carnegie considered that the distribution of wealth for the benefit of society must never

14、 be in the form of free charity but must be as a support to the communitys responsibility for its own people.IV. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.(5%)favor chop off get around break up seek after be engaged inconvert into stand up to

15、 confine to run out ofl. In the 1930s the Bauhaus school tended to : the scientific and technological approach to art.2. He was much on account of his wide reading and brilliant conversational powers3. The police were instructed to the demonstration against the government.4. It is a robust little ca

16、r that will a lot of rough handling.5. We had to eat instant noodles for supper because we _ rice.V. Write in each space cone word that has the same prefix as underlined in each given word or Provide in each space the full form for each shortened form.(12%)l. interfere 2. transcend 3. circumstances

17、4. misuse 5. control 6. antibiotic 7. permit 8. parallel 9. company 1. WTO 2. WHO 3. UNESCO VI. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.(8%)l. Her natural good sense was improved by the (peruse) of the best books.2. Efforts to reach the injured men have been (intense) becaus

18、e of a sudden deterioration of weather conditions.3. I knew he deserved to be punished but making him stay in every night for a year is a little (excess) .4. Scottish names are common in America because of the (emigrate) of many people from Scotland in the 19th century.5.Some wildly (exaggerate) cla

19、ims have been made about this so-called” wonder-drug”.6. Freuds approach to the analysis of dreams is highly (compel).7. We have yet to hear any (acknowledge) from them that a problem actually exists.8. The survey showed that women were paid at lower rates than men and had less chance of (promote) .

20、VII. Translate the following into English, using the words or phrases given in the blanks.(20%)1 损失是由于他疏忽大意造成的，为此他必须受到惩罚。(pay for)2这幢房子隐藏在一排高大的树木之中。 ( hide from)3投票结果公布以后，首相承认了失败。 ( acknowledge)4把领导人的政策与他们支持者的想法区分开是很重要的。 (draw a distinction)5在欧洲白色象征纯洁，但在亚洲却常常是悲悼的象征。 (symbolize)6孩子们觉得很难适应住在公寓里他们想要在院子

21、里玩。 adapt to）7全球性的气候变化也许是造成恐龙灭绝的原因。 ( global)8患有不治之症的病人经常会寻求不同的疗法，诸如顺势疗法。(incurable)9经济理论预言，商品降价会引起消费上升。 (lead to)10前来听讲座的人数远远超出原来的估计，分发给大家的讲义不够了。(go round)VIII. Comprehension (20%)（A） The fiddler crab (蟹) is a living clock. It tells the time of day by the color of its skin, which is dark by day and

22、 pale by night. The crabs changing skin color follows a regular twenty-four hour cycle that exactly matches the daily rhythm of the sun. Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply respond to the suns rays, changing color according to the amount of light that strikes it? To find out, b

23、iologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight the crabs skin color continued to change exactly on schedule. Perhaps this feature developed gradually in response to the rhythm of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it had be

24、come completely fixed inside the living body of the crab. The biologists noticed that once each day the color of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this occurs fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the

25、sun but also that of the tides. The crabs period of greatest darkening is the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!1.The crabs changing skin color follows _.A) the daily rhythm of the sun B) the suns raysC) the rhythm of the tides D) both A and C2.The experiment carried out by the biolo

26、gists shows that _.A) its color-changing ability has nothing to do with daylightB) only in a dark room it changes colorC) its changing skin color follows a regular cycleD) it changes color every fifty minutes3. Whats the function of crabs color-changing ability?A) Keep time. B) Protect himself from

27、enemies and sunlight.C) Keep warm. D) Respond to the suns rays.4.The sentence “The crabs skin color continued to change exactly on schedule.” in the second paragraph means that _A) it didnt change color at allB) it changed color more slowlyC) it still changed in a regular twenty-four hour cycleD) it

28、 changed color more quickly5. The passage is probably taken from a book of _.A) biology B) geography C) science D) physiology（B）If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius (天才), they will cause a big problem. According to several leading educational psychologists

29、, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious (雄心勃勃的) parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what the parent expects, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect t

30、heir children to do, but are ambitious in a reasonable way, the child may succeed in doing very well - especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.Michael Lee Chao Tin is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging priv

31、ate piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers a week for violin lessons. Although Michaels mother knows very little about music, Michaels father is a good trumpet (小号) player. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling. Michaels friend, Wins

32、ton Chiu Fang Weng, however, is not so lucky. Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “When I

33、was your age, I used to win every competition I entered,” Winstons father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.1. Which of the following mistakes are parents likely to make according to the passage?A) To neglect their child

34、s education.B) To expect too much of their child.C) To make their child become a musician.D) To help their child to be a genius.2. What should parents do in order to help their children succeed?A) They should push the children into achieving a lot.B) They should understand and help their children in

35、 different times.C) They should try to have their own successful careers.D) They should arrange private lessons for their children.3. Which of the following statements about Michael Lees parents is true?A) His father is a very poor player of trumpet.B) His parents are quite rich and have a car.C) Hi

36、s mother knows much about music.D) His parents help him in a proper way.4. Winstons parents push their son so much that _.A) he is unhappy because he is not self-confidentB) he has succeeded in a lot of competitionsC) he feels he cannot learn anything about music from themD) he has already become a

37、better musician than his father5. The two examples illustrate the principle that _.A) it is important to let children develop in the way they wantB) successful parents often have unsuccessful childrenC) parents who want their child to be musical should also be good musiciansD) the more money spent o

38、n a childs education, the better the child will do（C） . George Willig loves to climb. He has climbed mountains for many years. In 1977, Willig decided to climb the second tallest building in the world the World Trade Center in New York City. It is 110 floors high. Willig planned his climb carefully.

39、 He made a special claw to fit on the outside of the building. He found a strong rope to wrap around his body. Willig tested the equipment on the building five times late in the evening. Only his close friends knew about his plan. Willig began his climb at 6:30 a.m. on May 26. Soon a crowd of people

40、 gathered on the street. They watched the 27-year-old man make his way up slowly. Willig was 20 feet high before police found out what he was doing. They ordered him to come down, but he refused. The crowd got bigger as Willig climbed higher. Soon thousands of people were cheering. The police waited

41、 on the roof of the building. At 10:05 a.m., Willig finally reached the top. The police asked for his autograph and then arrested him. At first, Willig was fined $250,000. But later the mayor of New York change the fine to $1.10, or one penny for every floor of the building. Why did George Willig cl

42、imb the World Trade Center? Many people said he wanted to be famous. But Willig said that is not true. He said he did it for the joy and challenge of climbing.1. How long did George Willig take to climb the Building? A) One hour. B) About 3 1/2 hours. C) About 5 hours. D) About 2 hours.2. Willig tes

43、ted his equipment five times _. A) to make sure it was safe B) to show that he could count C) to see how heavy it was D) to see how it looks3. Willig probably did not tell police about his plan because _. A) he did not know how to find them B) he thought they would stop him C) he thought it would ra

44、in D) he was not sure whether he could climb to the top4. What reason did Willig give for climbing the building? A) For money. B) For autographs. C) For the challenge. D) For becoming famous. 5. The police probably arrested Willig because he was _. A) scaring people B) climbing too slowly C) breakin

45、g the law D) putting the police in trouble（D）The diner is only a humble restaurant, but it has a special place in American life. Diners appear in our novels, plays, poems, and movies. Many artists have used diners as scenes for their paintings. Why are diners so fascinating to us? The diner attracts

46、 many different kinds of people. It is a haven for lonely truck drivers far away from home. Construction workers learn about new jobs in distant cities. Traveling salesmen exchange gossip with one another. Teenagers sit in their booths, eating hamburgers. The people who work in diners are also interesting. Where did the new waitress come