剑桥国际英语Interchange2Unit1-Unit2试卷

1、iss1 foundation english monthly test (period: 100 mins) part 1: listening (1 *20) part 2: grammar and vocabularysection 1: fill in the gaps with verbs from the box in the past simple. (1 *13) the pace of change in the world of technology is amazing. it 1. wasn t (not) long ago that the postal servic

2、e 2. _ our only way to communicate over any distance. it 3. _ days and sometimes weeks to receive letters from within the same country. as a result, the news in the letters 4. _ already out of date when people 5. _ them. in the workplace, this 6. _ that business was mostly conducted locally, over re

3、latively short distances. when alexander graham bell 7. _ the telephone in 1876 it 8. _ the foundation for the communication systems we have today. the telephone 9. _ two people to communicate instantly across a great distance. eventually computers 10. _ typewriters and dramatically 11. _ the speed

4、of our daily work life. nowadays the internet is an essential part of every business. however, it is not just communications that have changed. only 50 years ago most people 12. _ (not) a car. people 13. _ to work or 14. _ bicycles. changes in travel as well as the increased speed of communications

5、have led to the global business world that we have today. section 2: fill in the gaps with amount, number, few, little, many, much. (1 *10)how much sleep do we need the 1. amount of sleep each person needs depends on 2. _ factors, including age. infants generally require about 16 hours a day. for mo

6、st adults, seven to eight hours a night appears to be the ideal 3. _ of sleep, although a 4. _ people may need as 5. _ as five hours sleep or as 6. _ as ten hours sleep each day. getting too 7. _ sleep creates a sleep debt, and eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid. allow be be b

7、e invent increase lay mean own receive replace ride take walk a large 8. _ of people over 65 have frequent sleeping problems, such as insomnia, and deep sleep stages in 9. _ elderly people often become very short or stop completely. microsleeps, or very brief episodes of sleep in an otherwise awake

8、person, are another mark of sleep deprivation. in 10. _ cases, people are not aware that they are experiencing microsleeps. the widespread practice of burning the candle at both ends in western industrialized societies has created so 11. _ sleep deprivation that what is really abnormal sleepiness is

9、 now almost the norm. section 3: vocabulary (1 *13) 1. 个人背景(n.) _ 2. 童年 (n.) _ 3. 学位 (n.) _ 4. 比赛 (n.) _ 5. 移民 (n.) _ 6. 证书 (n.)_ 7. 财产；所有物(n.) _ 8. 宴会 (n.) _ 9. 报刊亭(n.) _ 10. 行人 (n.) _ 11. 标 语 (n.) _ 12. 观光 (v.) _ 13. 乐园；乐土 (n.) _ section 4: translation (2 *2) 1. 你知道最近的中餐馆在哪里吗？2. 你能告诉我cx525 航班是什么时候

10、达到香港的吗？part 3: reading (1 *20) section 1 questions 1-5 look at the information on the following page about the use of vehicles in the university grounds. in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet write. true if the statement is true false if the statement is false not given if the information is not given i

11、n the passage example answer the campus roads are not open to general members of the public. true1. university employees do not need to pay for their parking permits. 2. parking in halls of residence is handled by the wardens of the halls. 3. having a university permit does not allow staff to park a

12、t halls. 4. parking permits cost 20 a year. 5. students living in hall do not need permission to park in hall car parks. use of university grounds by vehicular traffic the university grounds are private. the university authorities only allow authorised members of the university, visitors and drivers

13、 of vehicles servicing the university to enter the grounds. members of staff who have paid the requisite fee and display the appropriate permit may bring a vehicle into the grounds. a university permits does not entitle them to park in hall car parks however, unless authorised by the warden of the h

14、all concerned. students may not bring vehicles into the grounds during the working day unless they have been given special permission by the security officer and have paid for and are displaying an appropriate entry permit. students living in hall of residence must obtain permission from the warden

15、to keep a motor vehicle at their residence. students are reminded that if they park a motor vehicle on university premises without a valid permit, they will be fined 20.questions 6-13 look at the patient information leaflet on the following page. match each of the following sentences with two possib

16、le endings a-m from the box below. write the appropriate letters a-m in boxes 6-13 on your answer sheet. example answer borodine tablets should not be given to . a and mquestions 6 and 7 borodine tablets might be used to treat . questions 8 and 9 you must ask your doctor before taking borodine table

17、ts if you are already being treated for . questions 10 and 11 you do not need to consult your doctor immediately if borodine tablets give you. questions 12 and 13 you must consult your doctor at once if you find borodine tablets cause. possible endings (a) children under 12 years of age. (b) a heada

18、che (c) an uncomfortable feeling in your stomach. (d) symptoms similar to a cold. (e) a change in your skin colour. (f) anything treated by a prescription medicine. (g) a kidney complaint. (h) a whitening of the eyes (i) sore or broken skin (j) a fungal infection (k) a feeling of sadness (l) shortne

19、ss of breath (m) a woman expecting a child section 2 questions 14-20 look at the introduction to west thames college on the following page and at the statements below. true if the statement is true false if the statement is false not given if the information is not given in the passage 14. chiswick polytechnic was closed at the same time west thames college was opened. 15. most of the students at the college come from outside the local area. 16. the college changed its name to west t