2011外研版级初中英语结业考试.doc

社科院研究生院继续教育学院2011级在职研究生课程班英语结业考试题Part One PartDialogue Communication Section A Dialogue CompletionDirections: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1. A: Do you mind if I sit down here? B: _ A. Not at all. There is plenty of room. B. Of course. Do sit down, please. C. Never mind. Id like to have some companion. D. Sure. Id like to have somebody to talk to.2. A: Would you do me a favor? B: _ A. I would. B. With pleasure. C. I dont know if I can. D. What is the favor?3. A: Its a beautiful day today! How about a little trip out into the country? B: _ A. That sounds great. What should I do for the preparation? B. I dont know. I really havent thought about what wed do. C. Well, would you like me to pack picnic or to buy something? D. Its all right. That sounds like a good idea.4. A: How do you do? Im very pleased to meet you. B: _ A. How do you do? Have a good day. B. Im fine. Its nice to meet you. C. How do you do? The pleasure is mine. D. Im fine. Im delighted to know you.5. A: The experiment has been completed, hasnt it? B: _ A. Yes. We need another week to complete it. B. Yes. It has been completed beautifully. C. No. It was completed last week. D. No. I have no idea about it.Section B Dialogue ComprehensionDirections: In this section, you will read 5 short conversations between a man and a woman. At the end of each conversation there is a question followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the four choices given and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.6. M: Its almost midnight, why dont we leave those dishes until tomorrow?W: A good idea, Im beat.Q: How does the woman feel?(A) Angry./(B) Tired.(C) Hungry.(D) Disappointed.7. W: I dont think you can build your model in less than a week.M: Catherine made hes in three days.Q: What does the man say about Catherine?(A) She built a model a week ago.(B) She completed her model quickly.(C) She will help him on Thursday.(D) She thinks she can reduce the size.8. M: These oranges are good.W: Good? They are the best Ive ever had.Q: What does the woman mean?(A) She has never eaten such delicious oranges before.(B) She bets there are better oranges available.(C) She doesnt understand why the man likes the oranges.(D) She has had the same kind of oranges before.9. M: Are mens suits on the seventh floor?W: No, they are here on the sixth. Seventh is house-wares.Q: Where does this conversation take place?(A) In a courthouse.(B) In a warehouse.(C) In a department store.(D) In a fashion designers studio.10. W: Have you made any plans yet for summer vacation, Brad?M: Not really. What Id like to be able to do is to find a decent job.Q: What does Brad mean?(A) He doesnt have any idea about what he wants to do.(B) Hed like to work this summer.(C) He wonders whether the woman has a job.(D) He cant decide where to go on vacation.Part Vocabulary Section A Directions: In this section there are 10 sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentences Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.11.The poetry of Ezra Pound is sometimes difficult to understand because it contains so many unclear references.A) obscure B) acute C) notable D) objective（A）12.The mayor was asked to cut his speech in order to allow his audience to raise questions.A) constrain B) conduct C) condense D) converge（C）13.The morning news says a school bus crashed with a train at the junction and a group of policemen were sent there immediately.A) bumped B) collided C) crashed D) struck（B）14.By approximate computation, he estimated that the repairs on the house would cost him a thousand dollars.A) coarse B) rude C) crude D) rough15.We are writing to the manager about the repairs recently carried out at the above address.A) with the exception of B) with the purpose of C) with reference to D) with a view to（C）16.When I said goodbye to her, she showed me to the door.A) saw me at B) set me off C) sent me to D) say Good Bye to me（D）17.In the meantime, the question facing business is whether such research deserves the costs.A) is worth B) is worth of C) is worthy D) is worthwhile（A）18.During the nineteen years of his career, France Batiste has won the admiration of a wide audience outside Italy.A) enjoyment B) appreciation C) evaluation D) reputation（B）19.Although most dreams apparently happen spontaneously, dream activity may be provoked by external influences.A) in a spontaneous manner B) simultaneously C) homogeneously D) instantaneously（A）20.He is holding a low- level position in the company and expects to be promoted soon.A) subordinate B) succeeding C) successive D) subsequent（A）Section BDirections: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.21 Your story about the frog turning into a prince is _ nonsense.A) sheer B) shear C) shield D) sheet（A）22 I could see that my wife was _ having that fur coat, whether I approved of it or not.A) adequate for B) intent on C) short of D) deficient in（B）23 The _ runner can run 2 miles in fifteen minutes.A) common B) usual C) average D) general（C）24 One of his eyes was injured in an accident, but after a operation, he quickly recovered his sight.A) delicate B) considerate C) precise D) sensitive（A）25 As an excellent shooter, Peter practised aiming at both _ targets and moving targets.A) standing B) stationary C) still D) stable（C）26 In American universities, classes are often arranged in more flexible _ and many jobs on campus are reserved for students.A) scales B) patterns C) grades D) ranks（B）27 The insurance company paid him $10,000 in _ after his accident.A) compensation B) installment C) substitution D) commission（A）28 The political future of the president is now hanging by a _.A) thread B) cord C) string D) rope（A）29 The statue would be perfect but for a few small _ in its be.A) mistakes B) weaknesses C) flaws D) errors（C）30 Why should anyone want to read _ of books by great authors when the real pleasure comes from reading the originals.A) themes B) insights C) digests D) leaflets（C）Part Reading Comprehension Passage One Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out of every five Americans at work was employed, i.e., worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago “being employed” meant working as a factory labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characterized American society during these fifty years: middle-class and upper-class employees have been the fastest-growing groups in our working population-growing so fast that the industrial worker, that oldest child of the Industrial Revolution, has been losing in numerical importance despite the expansion of industrial production.Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion. You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanists trade or bookkeeping (簿记). Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets different standards, and requires a different preparation. Yet they all have employeeship in common. And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government, employeeship is more important to success than the special professional knowledge or skill. Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of being an employee than because they do not adequately possess the skills of their trade; the higher you climb the ladder, the more you get into administrative or executive work, the greater the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical abilities or professional knowledge.31.It is implied that fifty years ago _D_.A) eighty per cent of American working people were employed in factoriesB) twenty per cent of American intellectuals were employeesC) the percentage of intellectuals in the total work force was almost the same as that of industrial workersD) the percentage of intellectuals working as employees was not so large as that of industrial workers（D）32.According to the passage, with the development of modern industry, _D_.A) factory labourers will overtake intellectual employees in numberB) there are as many middle-class employees as factory labourersC) employers have attached great importance to factory labourersD) the proportion of factory labourers in the total employee population has decreased（D）33.The word “dubious” (L. 2, Para. 2) most probably means _C_.A) valuableB) usefulC) doubtfulD) helpful（C）34.According to the writer, professional knowledge or skill is _A_.A) less importance than awareness of being a good employeeB) as important as the ability to deal with public relationsC) more important than employer-employee relationsD) more important as the ability to co-operate with others in the organization（A）35.From the passage it can be seen that employeeship helps one _A_.A) to be more successful in his careerB) to be more specialized in his fieldC) to solve technical problemsD) to develop his professional skill（A）Passage Two We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours sleep alternation with some 16-17 hours wakefulness and that, broadly speaking, the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.The question is no mere academic one. The ease, for example, with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is a question of growing importance in industry where automation calls for round-the-clock working of machines. It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to reversed routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. one week, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the next, and 4 p.m. to 12 midnight the third and so on. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently.The only real solution appears to be to hand over the night shift to a number of permanent night workers. An interesting study of the domestic life and health of night-shift workers was carried out by Brown in 1957. She found a high incidence (发生率) of disturbed sleep and other disorders among those on alternating day and night shifts, but no abnormal occurrence of these phenomena among those on permanent night work.This latter system then appears to be the best long-term policy, but meanwhile something may be done to relieve the strains of alternate day and night work by selecting those people who can adapt most quickly to the changes of routine. One way of knowing when a person has adapted is by measuring his body temperature. People engaged in normal daytime work will have a high temperature during the hours of wakefulness and a low one at night; when they change to night work the pattern will only gradually go back to match the new routine and the speed with which it does so parallels, broadly speaking, the adaptation of the body as a whole, particularly in terms of performance. Therefore, by taking body temperature at intervals of two hours throughout the period of wakefulness it can be seen how quickly a person can adapt to a reversed routine, and this could be used as a basis for selection. So far, however, such a form of selection does not seem to have been applied in practice.36.Why is the question of “how easily people can get used to working at night” not a mere academic question? DA) Because few people like to reverse the cycle of sleep and wakefulness.B) Because sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness.C) Because people are required to work at night in some fields of industry.D) Because shift work in industry requires people to change their sleeping habits.（D）37.The main problem of the round-the-clock working system lies in _B_.A) the inconveniences brought about to the workers by the introduction of automationB) the disturbance of the daily life cycle of workers who have to change shifts too frequentlyC) the fact that people working at night are often less effectiveD) the fact that it is difficult to find a number of good night workers（B）38.The best solution for implementing the 24-hour working system seems to be _C_.A) to change shifts at longer intervalsB) to have longer shiftsC) to arrange for some people to work on night shifts onlyD) to create better living conditions for night workers（C）39.It is possible to find out if a person has adapted to the changes of routine by measuring his body temperature because _D_.A) body temperature changes when the cycle of sleep and wakefulness alternatesB) body temperature changes when he changes to night shift or backC) the temperature reverses when the routine is changedD) people have higher temperatures when they are working efficiently（D）40.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? BA) Body temperature may serve as an indication of a workers performance.B) The selection of a number of permanent night shift workers has proved to be the best solution to problems of the round-the-clock working system.C) Taking body temperature at regular intervals can show how a person adapts to the changes of routine.D) Disturbed sleep occurs less frequently among those on permanent night or day shifts.Passage ThreeMerchant and passenger ships are generally required to have a life preserver for every person aboard and, in many cases, a certain percentage of smaller sizes for children. According to United States Coast Guard requirements, life preservers must be simple in design, reversible, capable of being quickly adjusted to fit the uninitiated individual, and must be so designed as to support the wearer in the water in an upright or slightly backward position.Sufficient buoyancy (浮力) to support the wearer should be retained by the life preserver after 48 hour in the water, and it should be reliable even after long period of storage. Thus it should be made of materials resistant to sunlight, gasoline, and oils, and it should be not easily set on fire.The position in which the life preserver will support a person who jumps or falls into the water is most important, as is its tendency to turn the wearer in the water from a face-down position to an upright or slightly backward position, with his face clear of the water, even when the wearer is exhausted or unconscious.The method of adjustment to the body should be simple, and self-evident to uninitiated persons even in the dark under the confused conditions which follow a disaster. Thus, the life preserver should be reversible, so that it is nearly impossible to set it on wrong. Catches, straps, and ties should be kept to a minimum. In addition, the life preserver must be adjustable to the wide variety of shapes and sizes of wearers, since this greatly affects the position of floating and the self-righting qualities. A suitable life preserver should also be comfortable to wear at all times, in and out of the water, not so heavy as to encourage to take it off on shipboard while the ship is in danger, nor so burdensome that it hinders a person in the water while trying to swim.41.The passage is mainly about _D_.A) the uses of life preserversB) the design of life preserversC) the materials for life preserversD) the buoyancy of life preservers（D）42.According to the passage, a life preserver should be first of all, _A_.A) adjustableB) comfortableC) self-evidentD) self-righting（A）43.United States Coast Guard does NOT require the life preserver to the made _A_.A) with as few strings as possibleB) capable of being worn on both sidesC) according to each wearers sizeD) comfortable and light to wear（A）24.By “the uninitiated individual” (Para. 1, line 6) the author refers to the person _D_.A) who has not been instructed how to use a life preserverB) who has a little experience in using a life preserverC) who uses a life preserver without permissionD) who becomes nervous before a disaster（D）45.What would happen if a person were supported by the life preserver in a wrong position? CA) The waves would move him backwards.B) The water would choke him.C) He would immediately sink to the bottom.D) He would be exhausted or unconscious.（C）Passage FourA hundred years ago it