电大开放英语4复习题答案.doc

第一部分交际用语1. Sam, this is my friend, Jane. _.B. Glad to meet you, Jane 2. Whats the matter with you? _.C. I feel a bit sick3. Could I talk to Prof. Lee? _.A. Yes, speaking4. Ive got a bad cold today. _.B. Oh, dear! I hope you get better soon5. Can you tell me where I can park the car? _.C. Well, just over there6. Whats the best way to get to the Empire Hotel from here? _.B. Walking through the wood7. You neednt do the work till after the New Year. _.B. Oh, good! Thank you.8. Have a nice holiday, Ted. _. C. Thank you, and you too9. How was the journey to London? _.A. It went very well10. Can you help me clear up the mess? _.D. No problem11. Are you on holiday here? _.C. No, we arent. We live here 12. Whats the fare to the museum? _.D. Five dollars13. Is it going to be warm next week? _.A. Yes, it is14. What do you usually do in your spare time? _.B. Reading15. Do you mind if I read the newspaper on the table? _.B. Go ahead, please16. May I speak to Prof Li please? _.D. Im afraid youve got the wrong number 17. Here you are, Sir. _.D. Thank you very much18. So sorry to trouble you. _.A. Its a pleasure19. Would you like a tea? _.A. Yes, please20. What does your English teacher look like? _.D. She looks much like her mother21. How long will you be away from Italy? _.B. About a month22. Whats the weather like in this area? _.B. Its rainy23. How are you feeling now? _.A. Much better24. What time does the train leave? _. C. At half past five25. Have you ever been to Tokyo? _.B. No, but I hope to go there next year第二部分：词汇与语法结构1. My watch has been losing time for the past week. It probably needs .A. cleaning2. We are going to have our office _ to make room for a new engineer.C. rearranged 3. Mary said to me, “If I had seen your bag, I _ it to you.”B. would have returned4. We shall have an opportunity to exchange _ tomorrow. C. views5. Since this road is wet and slippery this morning, it _ last night. C. must have rained6. You will get used to _ here when you have settled down.A. living7. She is very careful. She _ very few mistakes in her work. C. makes8. Unfortunately the poor girl cant do anything but _ all her belongings at a low price. B. sell9. Do you think Tommy is _ the truth? C.telling10. _ she couldnt understand was why fewer and fewer went to him for help. B.What11. They were asked to avoid _ any water which had not been boiled.A. drinking12. John fell asleep _ he was listening to the music.C. while13. 1 have taken many photos. Im going to get the film _ B. developed14. If the weather had been good, the children _ out for a walk. C. could have gone15. The car wont start because the battery has_.A. run out16. The hall was almost empty. There were _ people in it. C. few17. Before joining the army, he spent a lot of time in the village _ he belonged. B. to which18. The doctor advised her _ enough rest before going back to work. B. to get19. _ of them has a bedroom and a study.C. Each20. The workers are busy _ models for the exhibition. D. making 21. My boss is _ holding pointless meetings. It really annoys me. B. always 22. That dinner was the most expensive meal we _.D. had ever had 23. Robert is said _ abroad, but I dont know what country he studied in.A. to have been studying24 If he _, he _ that food. - Luckily he was sent to the hospital immediately. B. had been warned; would not have taken25. I was sick, but I _ it at the weekend. B. got over 26. John was bored, _ he left his life in England. B. so 27. These new processes _.A. should be controlled28. This is very important. You _ remember to shut down your computer every evening. B. must29. John Walters claimed that this lack of information _ in negative feelings towards the media. B. had resulted 30. _ you change your mind, I wont be able to help you. B. Unless 31. It is one of the best concerts I _. C.have ever been to32. He _ his father for both of them love walking in the countryside.B. is like 33. Then she cheered _ a lot when they got _ the taxi. D. up into34. Does this patients record need _ now? No, you can finish it later.C. completing 35. Could you tell me _?Chow long you have lived here36. There are many cities _ very fast. D. expanding37.Last year _ of new books were published on environmental protection. A. hundreds38. Waste electrical goods _ safely. B. must be disposed of 39. There is a lot of crime on television. _ other issues are pushed out.A. Therefore 40. China is no longer what it _.A. used to be 41. I _ reading the novel by the end of this week. D. shall have finished42. He didnt want anything to eat because he _ already eaten.C. had43. The best thing _ to sleep.A. to do is44. You had better _ a coat with you.C. take45. The food was _ good, but not good enough for me to eat there again. B. quite46.He has three companies _.A. employing 50 people each47.She was _ late that she missed the last train. C. so 48. Could you tell me _?A. where I can find a toilet 49. The new computer allows me _ work more efficiently.A. to50. The trip to the countryside was great _.C. fun第三部分：完形填空Passage 1The biggest adventure Ive ever had was trekking in Thailand. We hired a guide (1)_ to take _us to a village in the jungle. We didnt know that he (2)_ had never been _ there before. (3)_ Unless _ we reached the village, we wouldnt be able to find somewhere to sleep, (4)_ so _ we wanted to get there in about 8 hours. After two hours we all realised we were lost. The (5)_ further _ we walked, the more confused we became. Luckily after a further 4 hours we met some hunters. They didnt speak the same language as our guide, but we were able to (6)_ get across _ that we were lost. They (7)_ redirected_ us towards the village. It was after dark when we arrived there. We had been walking (8)_ for _ over 14 hours and we were (9)_ absolutely _ exhausted. We had been very lucky; if we (10)_ hadnt met _ the hunters, we would have had to sleep in the jungle.Passage 2Scientists are working hard to develop better aerials for mobile phones, a spokesman for Phikia Phones said today. It really (11) _ irritates _ users when they lose the signal in the middle of a call, so we are developing new aerials that will enable users (12) _ to receive _ stronger signals. Many users reported that when they (13) _ were travelling _, the signal was often lost, said the spokesman. The new aerials are designed to avoid (14) _ losing _ the signal by receiving the message on a wider range of radio frequencies. We (15) _ have learnt _ that this is a major concern for phone users said the spokesman. The new phones have a flexible external aerial, which users will have (16) _ to get used to _ touching their ear or head. The aerials (17) _-_ make the phones able to pick up a wider range of signals. The company spokesman insisted (18) _ that _ this was not a potential danger “(19) _ Every _ safety regulation has been followed”, he told our reporter. “If (20) _ Id had _ one of these phones this morning, I wouldnt have missed my train coming here”, joked the spokesman.Passage 3Ian and Shiree are a very unusual couple. Although they (21) _ live _ in the heart of London, they try to grow as much of their own food as possible. At the moment they (22) _ are renting _ an allotment from the local council to grow food on, but they plan (23) _ to buy _ more land soon. We (24) _ started _ growing our own food five years ago, said Ian, Since then we (25)_ have grown _ about half of the vegetables we need and a quarter of the fruit. We (26)_ have been working _ on the allotment for three years. We (27)_ had only used _ our own garden before that. They do not plan to stop there though, By this time next year we (28)_ will have bought _ enough land to grow about 75% of our food, said Ian. Why do they do this? We (29)_ worry _ about the chemicals used to grow our food, said Shiree. More and more people (30)_ are going to do _ the same in the future, predicted Shiree. Passage 42 Patten CloseDerbyDJ5 6XX16 April 2003Dear Sir or Madam,I am writing (31)_ to complain _ about a recent stay at your hotel, The Grand. My wife and I arrived on 21st March and stayed for two nights. Firstly we waited twenty minutes at reception because there was nobody (32)_at_ the desk. Then we waited a further twenty minutes because the receptionist could not find our booking. (33)_ Moreover _our luggage was left unattended in reception for three hours until we finally took it to our room ourselves.Our room was not available immediately when we arrived. Therefore we had to wait another hour (34)_ before _ we could go to the room. When we saw the room, it had two single beds and we (35)_ had asked for _ a double bed, so we had to change it. Unfortunately the second room was on the top floor and the lift was (36)_ A. out of order _. And although we had asked for a room with a sea view, it was facing the road.Although the food in the restaurant was quite good, we were unhappy with the (37)_ service _ we received. We had booked an evening meal inclusive in the price of the room. Consequently we did not take money to the dining room and then discovered (38)_ that _ we had to pay for the wine immediately. Unfortunately, the waiters were rude and (39)_ unhelpful_. However the manager did agree that we could pay the wine bill in the morning.To sum up I was most dissatisfied with the entire experience and I expect full compensation for the inconvenience caused. I look forward (40)_ to hearing_ from you.Yours faithfully,Arthur MullardPassage 5I was travelling alone in Western Australia last year, and one day I set 41 off to climb a high peak in that area. Although in the summer there are many tourists, I was there out of season 42_so_ there werent any tour groups. Soon after I reached the top, it began to drizzle and the fog came 43 down . Very soon, it was so thick 44 that I couldnt even make out the path. I take my phone with me everywhere 45 because you never know when you will need it. Eventually I called my dad, 46 that was 9,000 miles away in the UK. He told me to phone the local emergency services, but I felt 47 so stupid that I didnt want to. 48 Unluckily , my dad realised this and made up his mind to call them himself. The rescuers called me 49 at my mobile to find out exactly where I was, but unfortunately the battery ran out after five seconds. I lay down under a rock and waited it was nearly night-time and I was cold and wet. Just as they were about to call off the search for the night, they found me. Fortunately one rescuer had said Lets try for just five more minutes. 50 Unless they had given up, I would have died.Passage 6Dealing with waste is a huge global problem. Unfortunately, many people dont usually think much about what happens 51 at their old fridge when they update to the latest model. A few just dump it 52 in the street without another thought.53 As a result , Britain currently has over a million old fridges rotting in dumps in fields and in warehouses because the country does not have enough equipment to dispose 54_of_ them. New European Union regulations say that from 1 January 2002, all material 55 that depletes the ozone layer, such as CFC coolants, must 56_ be removed from _ fridges before they are put in landfill sites. It is 57 likely to take quite a while to solve the problem. But it is not only fridges 58 that are difficult to get rid of. What about old computers, TVs and other hi-tech junk? For example, Guangdong Province, in the southeast of China, has been suffering 59 from problems caused by imported waste electrical goods like computers. Workers there have been breaking up old computers to extract the recyclable parts like chips, and precious metals 60 like gold and platinum.第四部分：阅读理解（单项选择）短文理解1Blocks of “high-rise” flats have been built in large numbers in London and in many other big cities. Just after the Second World War these big, twenty-to-thirty storey buildings, hundreds of feet in height, were thought to be the ideal solution to the housing problem. For on the one hand, there was severe housing shortage, but on the other hand, there was lack of space to build houses in urban areas. Blocks of 1. There was a big housing problem after the Second World War _.A. in many big cities2. Blocks of “high-rise” flats were thought to be the ideal solution to the housing problem, because _.D.they were built on less land and were able to house a lot more people3. The sentence “Hundreds of the vast blocks had been built before anyone began to doubt about whether they were good solutions or not.” means _.A. it was not until hundreds of the vast blocks had been built, people began to doubt about whether they were good solutions or not4. The author takes a well-known British architect as an example to show us that _.B.even a well-known designer of the high-rises believes they are no good for people5. What is the greatest danger for people living in a high-rise according to some experts? C.Developing criminal tendencies.短文理解2Sura Elmer came to Shanghai last July from the Netherlands, and will remain here for the next couple of years. He worked at the Holiday Inn Hotel as a sales manager, “One important part of my job consists in staying in contact with consultant-generals here. With a white face, it is easier for me to persuade people,” he said. Before working in Shanghai, he worked for a Holiday Inn Hotel in Amsterdam. He was transferred here by an arrangement between the hotels in Shanghai and Amsterdam. 。6. From the passage, we know that Sura Elmer is _. A.a Dutch 7.Sura Elmer came to Shanghai, _.D.according to an agreement between the hotels in Shanghai and Amsterdam8.Sura Elmers impression on his Chinese colleagues is that they _ than his colleagues in the Netherlands. B.are more serious9.In the second paragraph, the sentence, “accommodation and meals are freely available” means _.B. Sura Elmer eats and sleeps in the hotel free of charge10. The thing that Sura Elmer dislikes in China is _.C.people spit on the ground短文理解3Passage 3I used to think education was the most important thing in my life. Recently my attitude has begun to change, although I still hold that it is essential for everyone in the world today.。11.From this passage, we know that the author _.C.realizes that it is more important to really develop oneself than just to store knowledge12. By saying that she is “a junior student” in her college, the author means that she is _.A. a student in her third year in college13. The author thinks the awards she has received _.D. dont necessarily reflect her real self14. The author fears that she will be of no use to society, mainly because _.B.she does not know how to communicate with others15.Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage, when the author says that she wants to find a part time job? D. She wants to get some shelter from the real world.短文理解435 Forest AvenueDews ParkerAdelaide 12, Nov. Dear Bob, Im just writing to let you know our new address and to invite you to our house-warming party next Saturday. Im sorry about the lack of warning, but weve been busy moving house and Ive had little time for anything else. In any case, we only decided to hold the party last week when we found out that cost of moving was not as high as we thought and we had a little cash to spare. 。All the bestCharlesP.S. We can fix you up with a place to sleep I guess you can put up with a mattress on the floor!16.This passage is a letter of _.A.an informal invitation17.When Charles writes, “Im sorry about the lack of warning”, he means that he is sorry that _.D. he is not able to write this letter to Bob earlier18.Cha