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THE FINAL EXAM OF COLLEGE ENGLISH FORTHE FRESHMEN OF PRE-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT(Paper A, 1st Term, 2011)Name_ No. _ Grade_. Vocabulary and Structure （30 points, 1 point each）Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. 1. There is a(n) _ lack of water in the northern part of the country, because there has been almost no rain since last February.A. accurateB. cuteC. intenseD. acute2. He cannot go without wine even for one day; he is a complete slave _ drink.A. forB. toC. inD. on3. Have you read a newspaper report probing _ the activities of drug dealers?A. into B. fromC. byD. with4. She invented a _ that automatically closes windows when it rains. A. adviceB. deriveC. superviseD. device5. From then on, I was committed _ losing the weight and getting into shape.A. toB. inC. onD. at6. He ran _ twice from his boarding school because he couldnt put up with being limited in an institution.A. inB. overC. awayD. down7. Bicycling is a good exercise; _, it doesnt pollute the air.A. howeverB. thereforeC. moreoverD. though8. Recent events will make a significant impact _ government policy.A. toB. inC. withD. on9. The editor told them that if they could cut the story _ more than one third, he would take it. A. inB. offC. downD. across10. The river was so _ with waste from the chemical plant that people can not swim in it.A. containedB. terminatedC. intimidatedD. contaminated11. Upon arriving in New York he converted all his pounds _ dollars.A. forB. intoC. withD. from12. We hoped to be able to move into our new house at the end of the month, but things did not work _ as we had expected.A. forB. outC. inD. on13. Why didnt you give your mind to it and manage to cure her _? A. somewhatB. somewhereC. somehowD. someway14. _ your letter, I am very pleased to inform you that your plans are quite acceptable to us. A. ConcerningB. ConcernC. RegardedD. Regard15. The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted _ a good answer. A. put up with B. came up withC. kept up withD. went up with16. Children should be encouraged to reach a _ between what they want and what others want.A. promiseB. compromiseC. composeD. consist17. The man and his friend were supportive _ one another at that critical moment.A. inB. onC. atD. of18. The news soon spread _ that the examination results were ready. A. abroadB. aboardC. boardD. broad19. In the evenings we smoked and talked and never dreamt _ going out except for exercises. A. withB. toC. ofD. at20. Jean felt unable to cope _ driving in heavy traffic after her accident. A. upB. atC. ofD. with21. Since Bob fell ill, the family has had to live _ what his wife earns.A. inB. awayC. onD. out22. If no one has any _, Ill declare the meeting closed.A. objectB. subjectC. objectionD. subjection23. The girl found it difficult to _ to new customs when she first came to Shanghai.A. adaptB. adoptC. changeD. shift24. She called her parents just to tell them that she had become _ to life at the university.A. accumulatedB. accustomedC. absorbedD. changed25. He has picked _ some bad habits at that club.A. atB. outC. onD. up26. He was a cruel and _ person; that was why all of them were afraid of him.A. insensitiveB. sensitiveC. sentimentalD. sensible27. He showed _ in dealing with a defeated enemy.A. generousB. generosityC. generateD. generation28. His training _ him as a teacher of English.A. qualifyB. qualityC. qualifiesD. quantity29. John and James are brothers. The former is a teacher, the _ is an engineer.A. laterB. lateC. latterD. latest30. The new project is expected to start early next year; it has won the _ of the board.A. approvalB. approveC. disapproveD. proveII. Reading Comprehension （20 points, 1 point each）Directions: In this part, please go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Passage 1Within about 50 million years, one of the mammals (哺乳动物) that lives in a marine environment, the whale(鲸), has developed into the largest of all animal forms. However, at least for the last 150 years, trouble has closed in on whales from humans.Whales have been hunted since about the eleventh century. Certain types of whales have been hunted too much. Recently, their number has been reduced so greatly that they are in danger of becoming extinct(灭绝的). People are worried about the fact that the number of whales is getting smaller and smaller. They are working to save them.There are reasons why people want to protect the whales. One reason is that whales help to keep a balance between plants and animals. People have been throwing their wastes into the oceans and seas, and these wastes increase the amount of salt in ocean and seawater. The increased salt helps some plants and some very small creatures to grow but these plants and small creatures are harmful to fish. However, whales are eating large numbers of plants and animals that grow in very salty water. In this way, whales are dong a good job as they keep the ocean water clean enough for the fish. In addition, because fish supply necessary food for many people, whales become our good friends which we want to save.Some people are now working to save whales by using the law. They hold meetings to ask fishermen to reduce the number of whales which can be killed in a year. They also work within countries to persuade law makers to make whaling against the law and to make the use of whale products against the law too.Now this struggle to save whales is going on in many places in the world. Some governments will not let people sell whale products in their countries. Other governments have changed the law about whaling. Many people believe that since the number of whales is regarded as a serious world problem, the remaining whales will be saved.1. The passage mainly discussed _.A. the protection of whalesB. the strange behaviors of whalesC. the mysterious life of whalesD. the advantages of too many whales2. From the passage we know that during the last 140 years humans have _.A. returned to natureB. learned how to swimC. threatened the existence of some marine mammalsD. begun to harvest certain plants from the ocean as food3. According to the passage, certain kinds of whales will soon _.A. kill most of the plants and small creaturesB. find some other places to live inC. die outD. die form pollution4. Salt in the oceans usually _.A. decreases the plants which are harmful to fishB. gets rid of harmful plants and creaturesC. removes the wastes thrown into themD. increases the plants and small creatures that do harm to fish5. Whales are helpful to humans because _.A. they eat a large quantity of plants and creature harmful to fishB. they make the oceans more and more saltyC. they often save sailors lost in a stormD. they can communicate with humansPassage 2We have saved as a final set of emotions the two most important emotions connected with other people: love and its opposite, hate. Love can be seen everywhere. Yet surprisingly, love has been the subject of less scientific research than other emotions, such as anger and fear. The reason for this may be two fold. First, love is a very complex(复杂) emotion, difficult to describe and measure. Secondly unlike many radial emotions, radical love is generally not a problem; thus less medical attention has been paid to it.What is love? This is a complex question and requires a complex answer. Love is a strong, positive attraction and feeling for another person or thing. But it is more than this. It also involves feeling of caring, protection, excitement, and tenderness. When two people are in love, they feel drawn to one another; they greatly enjoy each others company; and they may be sexually attracted to one another.Sometimes it is easier to think in terms of different kinds of love: romantic love, brotherly love, and so forth. Though they are different in some respects, they share one important characteristic; a strong positive feeling toward another.Our feelings toward other people are often complex. We may love someone and, at the same time, be angry with him. Or we may love someone, even though we are jealous of him. We might even love someone and, at the same time, hate for some precise reason.Hate is a strong negative emotion toward someone, and is due to anger, jealousy, or some other factor. Like love, hate can be a very strong emotion. It can also be very dangerous. The question is often asked, “Is it bad to hate?” The best answer is probably “sometimes yes and sometimes no.” Usually hate does not help us; it makes us feel unhappy and makes us do things that may hurt others. However, sometimes it may be necessary to hate and hurt someone in order to protect loved ones.6. The word “saved” in the first sentence of this passage means _.A. leftB. relaxedC. set freeD. kept up7. Love is a lasting, strong, positive attraction and feeling for another person or thing, the very opposite emotion of which is _.A. angerB. fearC. jealousyD. hate8. Which characteristic is shared by different kinds of love?A. A strong negative emotion toward someone.B. A strong positive feeling toward another.C. Unhappy feeling toward someone.D. Jealous feeling toward someone.9. According to the passage, hate is caused by _.A. anger, jealousy or some other factorsB. anger, danger and hurtC. caring, protection, excitement and tendernessD. complex, strong positive emotion10. Which of the following is true?A. Love has been the subject of less scientific research because it is too simple an emotion.B. Radical love is so difficult to describe and measure that less medical attention has been paid to it.C. To hate is always too bad.D. We can have at the same time two opposite feelings for another.Passage 3Mrs. Wilson, a Cree Indian in her sixties, was looking for a home to rent. She heard that one was available in an ideal location, close to the Calgary core.Mrs. Wilson and her daughters went to look at the house. Sure enough, there was a “For Rent” sign in the window. A woman next door told them that the owner was Antonio Pompei, who owned a bakery (面包房) farther up the street.Mrs. Wilson has great difficulty walking for she is almost blind, so she waited in the car while her daughters went along to the bakery. The daughters met Mr. Pompei, who agreed to rent the house. However, the daughters wanted to see the inside of the house before they agreed to rent it. One of the bakery employees went with them to the house, where he met Mrs. Wilson. All three women liked the house and returned to the bakery to tell Mr. Pompei that they would rent it.When Mr. Pompei saw Mrs. Wilson, he quickly walked out of the bakery. He had not realized Mrs. Wilson was Indian. Her daughters look more like their father, who is of a different ethnic origin (种族根源). The next day, Mrs. Wilson and her daughters returned to the bakery in an attempt to rent the house. Because of her blindness, Mr. Wilson was helped out of the car and guided into the bakery by one of her daughters. Mr. Pompei told the women that the house was already rented.The Wilsons suspected discrimination (歧视). As soon as they got home, Mrs. Wilson phoned Mr. Pompei, without identifying herself, and asked about the house. He said it was still available. When Mrs. Wilson identified herself, Mr. Pompei lost his temper.Mrs. Wilson complained to the Human Rights Commission. Their examination discovered that the tenants (房客) who did rent the house had not even seen it at the time when Mrs. Wilson visited it. They applied to rent it a full week after Mrs. Wilson had applied.11. We know from the passage that Mrs. Wilson was _.A. to rent the house for her daughtersB. to rent the house for someone elseC. to rent the house for her familyD. to sublet (转出租) the house12. From the passage we are certain that Mr. Wilson was _.A. an Indian B. not an IndianC. an Asian D. from India13. Mrs. Wilson found there was some discrimination on the part of Mr. Pompei by _.A. complaining to the Human Rights CommissionB. making the bakery owner angryC. making an unidentifiable phone callD. pretending to be a woman of wealth14. In the en Mrs. Wilson couldnt rent the house simply because _.A. she was of Indian originB. she needed assistance while walkingC. the owner of the house asked for more moneyD. she was almost blind15. Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?A. Mr. Wilson had at least two daughters.B. The house had been rented to someone else a week before.C. Mrs. Wilson was almost blind.D. Mr. Pompei was practicing racial discrimination.Passage 4Here are six questions about your approach to life. Try to answer them as honestly as you can.Are you hard driving and competitive?Are you usually pressed for time?Do you want to control others?Do you have a strong need to do better than others in most things?Do you eat too quickly?Do you get upset when you have to wait for anything?If you have answered “yes” to most of these questions, then I can make a few predictions about you, based on a recent eight-year study of nearly two thousand people who live the way that you do.You likely find that life is full of challenges and you often need to keep two or more projects moving at the sometime. The chances are that you have been to college, that you have a management job and that you bring work home at night. You think that you put more effort into your job than many of the people you work with, and you certainly take your work more seriously than most of them. You get angry easily, and if someone is being long-winded(拐弯抹角的), you help them get to the point. You also have trouble finding the time to get your hair cut.And theres one other thing. You are about twice as likely to have a heart attack as someone who takes a more easygoing(心平气和的) approach to life.The beginnings of our hard-driving behavior go right back to childhood. In school you got recognition and perhaps prizes for being quick and bright, for being an achiever, for competing with others and for winning. You likely went on from school to get a series of increasingly better jobs against pretty stiff competition. They were jobs where you had to care about the results, where you constantly had to push things forward and get things done. In your present job you also feel some conflict, either with time or with other people. Some of those you work with dont seem able to understand the simplest ideas, and they often put a brake (约束) on what youre trying to achieve. The conflict may not take place every day. You pride yourself on being able to keep the lid on. But its always there, under the surface.16. If your answers to above question are “yes”, you are likely to_.A. enjoy your food at dinnerB. be good listenersC. wait a few seconds before answering a questionD. have more chances to suffer from a heart attack17. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that this hard-driving character _.A. has been developed since childhoodB. may be changed by your experiencesC. will place no influence on your workD. enables you to be a successful person18. Which of the following words is not appropriate to describe this type of people?A. Competitive.B. Nervous.C. Easygoing.D. Ambitious.19. What is implied in the last sentence?A. The lid will always remain in place.B. The conflict may occur any moment.C. The situation is always under your control.D. You are able to solve the problem.20. The main idea of the passage is _.A. why competitive people are more likely to succeed in their careerB. how people can relax themselvesC. why hard-driving people are likely to have a heart attackD. how personality affects your attitude toward lifeIII. Cloze （20 points, 1 point each）Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. You should learn to take charge of your life and recognize many things are beyond your control. For those who are “_1_ reactors”, being tense may _2_ tremendous and rapid increases _3_ blood pressure. Studies show _4_ alarm or stress chemicals _5_ literally burst heart muscle fibers, _6_ many short circuits _7_ causing crazy heart rhythms. _8_ main factors causing harmful _9_ of stress are fear, _10_ and doubt, together with the lace of control. For _11_ women and people who _12_ direction in life, _13_ authorities believe anger is _14_ root of their stress. The NICE factorsnew, interesting, _15_ experiencesare recommended _16_ calm yourself down. _17_ Ben Franklin, you have _18_ set your priorities. In order to face all the pr