英语期末考试(仅供参考)

1、5单元选词填空：1. He was startled by the sound of the back door opening in the dead of night.2. There is nothing serious about the damage; it is a mere scratch (划痕) on the door of the car.3. Mom was singing a lullaby to my baby sister while rocking the cradle with a gentle backwards and forwards motion.4.

2、Tense and hot, we were really sweating as we waited for them 5. He sat leaning against the back of the seat with his legs stretched out straight in front of him.6. She's one of those habitually vain people who keep glancing at themselves in the mirror when they think no one's looking.7. Mike

3、 is an extremely careless man. On one occasion, it was not until he got to an ATM that it occurred to him he had left his card at home.8. Young children often feel a lot of anxiety about their first day at school.9. Stan tends to be driven by his emotions he rarely considers the consequences of his

4、actions.10. She ought to be thoroughly ashamed of herself for talking to her guests in such a rude way.11. In my mind's eye, she remains a little girl of six although she's actually a grown woman now.12. He had tried to put the unpleasant scene out of his mind, but it kept on recurring to hi

5、m, especially in dreams.汉翻英：1. 是工人和主管人员的创造力和敬业精神将这个公司变成了一个盈利的企业。(it is . that, dedication)It is the creativity and dedication of the workers that turned the company into a profitable business. 2. 食品和医药的价格在过去三个月里急剧增长。(soar)The prices of food and medicine have soared in the past three months. 3. 我们打算重

6、新粉刷这幢办公大楼的上面几层楼。(upper)We plan to repaint the upper floors of the office building. 4. 他的成功表明流行与艺术价值有时候是一致的。(coincide)His success shows that popularity and artistic merit sometimes coincide. 5. 我不愿意看见我所敬爱的祖母躺在医院床上痛苦地呻吟。(groan)I don't want to see my beloved grandmother lying in a hospital bed and

7、groaning painfully.英翻汉：课文第13段：With all the media attention and sponsorship possibilities, Michael's life would never be the same again. It wasn't just because he won the National Junior Olympics and set a new world record. And it wasn't because he had just increased his personal best by

8、9? inches. It was simply because Michael Stone is blind. 随着媒体的关注以及可能随之而来的各种赞助，迈克尔的生活肯定会不同以往。这不仅仅是因为他获得了全国少年奥林匹克冠军并刷新了一项世界纪录,也不是因为他将自己的最高纪录提高了9英寸半,而是因为迈克尔·斯通是个盲人。6单元选词填空：1. Students from countries such as China, which has a drastically different culture and language from the US, have to absorb a

9、 great deal of cultural/culture shock when they first arrive.2. Persistent (持续的) headache can be a(n) indication of a serious problem, so do not hesitate to contact your doctor.3. A miniature garden takes little space but adds much beauty to the landscape.4. It is more than a little ironic that some

10、 insurance companies can't even ensure their own survival.5. This former chemistry student stumble into the baking business when he took a part-time job at a bakery and learned the art of bread making in the summer time.6. I'll buy whichever decent car model that comes first for a good price

11、.7. Help! A bee is buzzing in my ear!8. Some experts say the abnormal weather recently experiencedby China was caused by El Nino.9. The spokesperson read the statement by the White House in a dry mechanical tone.10. Shuddering in the cold darkness I hoped my husband would come for me soon.11. Mary d

12、id not actually say that she was going abroad, but she certainly implied that she was.12. Bob knows little about European art and he is a prudent (谨慎的) guy. I don't think he is going to take a leap in the dark.完形填空：The words "first black woman" have been used to describe Shirley Ann Ja

13、ckson for so long that her name seems incomplete without them. She was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT, the first black woman in the country to earn a physics doctorate, and she was both the first African American and the first woman to chair (1) the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

14、.Growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the race for space was in full force (2), a young Jackson came to see the world around her as "full of secrets (3) ". For years, she collected bees and kept them under her family's back porch, making painstaking (4) records of their b

15、ehaviors as she adjusted arivables like heat, light, and diet. "It was like reading a great mystery novel," she recalls.Her parents encouraged her to pursue her passions, and her siblings, two sisters and a brother, all recognized (5) her natural talents for leadership. But it was the assi

16、stant principal at Washington D.C.'s Roosevelt High School who steered (6) her toward MIT. Today, even at such lofty posts as heading the NRC, Jackson says she is essentially (7) doing the same thing she did way back with the bees: studying interactions in the environment around her, making keen

17、 observations (8), and taking constructive action based on what she learned.Jackson strongly believes that women (9) must be "true friends" to one another and assist and encourage one another in their efforts. From her youngest days, she took time to tutor (10) fellow women and minority st

18、udents in their studies. That's because, says Jackson, being a trailblazer (开路先锋) is only a good thing if one does not allow "high weeds" to grow back because no one was inspired (11) to follow. Jackson won't be satisfied to go down in history as the "first black woman" o

19、f anything unless (12) the familiar phrase is followed by two more words: "of many."汉翻英：1. 他这人话不多，但要说玩电脑那他就太机灵了，同学们都不是他的对手。(when it comes to)He is a man of few words, but when it comes to playing computer games, he is far too clever for his classmates. 2. 无知的孩子们可能认为这些动物很可爱并开始跟他们玩起来。(not kn

20、ow any better)Children who don't know any better may think these animals are pretty cute and start playing with them. 3. 没有办法获得贷款，所以，要购买新设备，我只得咬紧牙关，卖掉我的混合型动力汽车。(grit one's teeth, hybrid)There is no way to obtain a loan, so to buy the new equipment, I'll just have to grit my teeth and sel

21、l my hybrid car. 4. 如果猎人没有看到一群象朝他的营地（campsite）走来，他就不会开枪。(a herd of)The hunter would not have fired the shots if he had not seen a herd of elephants coming towards his campsite. 5. 我觉得具有讽刺意味的是汤姆的记忆是有选择性的，他好像不记得过去痛苦的经历，特别是那些由他自己造成的痛苦经历。(selective, ironic)I find it ironic that Tom has a selective memor

22、y-he does not seem to remember painful experiences in the past, particularly those of his owing doing.英翻汉：课文第11段：Heres a secret: math and science dont come easily to most people. No one was ever born knowing calculus. A woman can learn anything a man can, but first she needs to know that she can do

23、it, and that takes a leap of faith. It also helps to have selective hearing. 秘密在于：数学和自然科学都不是大多数人轻而易举就能学会的。没有人生来就懂微积分。男人学得会的女人也能学会。但是女人首先需要知道她能学会，而这需要有敢冒风险而为的精神。有选择性的听别人的话也是有帮助的。7单元选词填空：1) Strictly speaking he is not a southerner. His biography reveals that, though born in the south, he spent a good

24、part of his childhood years in New England.2) Right after the Spring Festival, millions of young people drifted from the countryside to the cities to look for work and explore the world.3) It is obvious that Tom resembles his father both in appearance and in character.4) There is clear evidence that

25、 Japan committed many serious crimes against the Chinese people when it invaded China during the Second World War.5) Medical scientists expect it will be many years before cancer is conquered.6) The novel has a fascinating plot. This explains why it has remained number one on the best-seller list fo

26、r so long.7) He must have been very busy these days. He does not go out for lunch but eats a snack in the office.8) To settle the controversy, we have to put all these different theories into practice to see which one works better.9) The information is supposed to have come from a reliable source.10

27、) We rarely have such terrible weather. The climate here is usually very mild and everything thrives in this region.11) People felt relieved when the invaders finally put down their arms and surrendered.12) Our suspicions were first aroused when the two other parties made a deal behind our backs.完形填

28、空：People have long speculated that their languages came from a single source. As early (1) as 1767, physician James Parsons collected numbers from many European languages as well as those of Iran and India, and found them to be quite similar (2). He concluded that they must have all come from one so

29、urce (3). But Sir William Jones, Chief Justice of India, took this observation (4) a step further. As an educated man, he was trained in the classical languages, so that when he went to India and began to examine (5) Sanskrit, he saw right away how similar it was to Greek andnot only in vocabulary,

30、but even in grammatical features (6). In a speech delivered before Bengal Asiatic Society in 1786, he declared (7) that the Sanskrit language bears to both Latin and Greek a stronger (8) resemblance both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar than could possibly have been produced by acci

31、dent (9). Indeed, the resemblance is so strong, he said, that no scholar could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung (10) from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.汉翻英：1. 自从新政策生效之后，很多小企业在这个城市涌现出来。(spring up)Many small businesses have sprung up in the city since

32、 the new policy went into effect. 2. 听到这一消息后，她略微一笑，然后便又习惯性地皱起眉头。(habitual)On hearing the news, she smiled briefly, and then returned to her habitual frown. 3. 他稍微停顿了一下以加强讲话的效果，然后说，“我们可以通过新的渠道进入这些市场。”(for effect, channel)He paused for effect, then said: We can reach/enter these markets through new ch

33、annels. 4. 学校新添的音乐厅可以帮助它培养年轻的音乐人才。(addition, nourish)The addition of a concert hall to the school will help it nourish young musical talents. 5. 我们必须首先建立一个主权国家，否则就无法保护我们的人身自由。(liberty, establish)We have no way to protect our personal liberties until we have established a sovereign state. / We can't protect our personal liberties unless we, first of all, establish a sovereign state.英翻汉：课文第18、19段：18 、I like that idea. Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. The first shoots sp