XX教育学院期中、期末英语试卷-B.doc

_系_级_班姓名_学号_装订线XX教育学院（脱产）期末考试试卷(B卷) 级 系 （科） 英语精读 （课程）PART VocabularySection AFill in the blanks with the words or expressions given below. Change the form where necessary. （2分/小题） Swallow decent drip relief in charge of break in resolve appreciation institute doom1. Owing to 1ack of funds，the project seems to be from the outset (开始).2. Mr. Greene is going on vacation next week. Miss Bonnet will be the Personnel (人事) Department while he is away.3. Many people suggest that the government a consumer protection agency.4. It is his firm never to lose his temper (发脾气).5. She was so scared by what had just happened that she could not her food.6.“What a young man，”said the old woman，when he gave her his seat on the bus.7. Obviously，Peter was in acute pain.As he came into the clinic，sweat from his forehead.8. The police had to to save the child before the fire got out of control.9. Much to the students ，the mid-term exam was cancelled.10. To show his for their efforts to help solve the problem，he gave each a gift check of $500.Section BDirections：Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the ONE that is closest in meaning to the underlined part Of the sentence. （1分/小题）11. The search was called off when the fog got thicker. a. started b. canceled c. postponed d. continued12. Lets pool our resources and get the job done quickly. a. use up b. put together c. conserve d. store up13. Mrs. Jones identified the suspect by the scar on his face. a. recognized b. found out c. discovered d. coincided14. The 1andlady could not accommodate us because a11 her rooms were booked. a. adapt us b. put up with us c. put us up d. help us15. If you associate with such people，Im afraid you are heading for serious trouble. 编号：命题时间：使用记录：a. are making b. are going to have c. are avoiding d. are creating16. The economic crisis has seriously affected French exports. a. stimulated b. simulated c. reduced d. increased17. It was here that the scattered forces of the revolution assembled in the autumn of 1928. a. resembled b. huddled c. concentrated d. gathered together18. What he is after is neither money nor fame，but the satisfaction of seeing his students grow up into useful builders of socialism. a. in pursuit of b. looking after c. trying to do d. advocating19. From then on，a sound system of Party committee meetings was instituted in a11 leading bodies. a. constructed b. established c. confirmed d. given up20. What it amounts to is simply that he is not willing to give us his support. a. means b. matters c. reaches d. signals21. The train will depart from P1atform 2 at 3:45 on Tuesday morning.a. arrive b. stop c. 1eave d. derail22. The heat causes the reaction to be accelerated. a. to be facilitated b. to become quicker and quicker c. to slow down d. to be stopped23. Of the many plans submitted，the committee selected the plan that seemed most feasible. a. possible b. practicable c. probable d. permissible24. The young girl took the cheese and commenced to eat. a. started b. commended c. renounced d. commented25. A judge must be detached when weighing evidence.a. interested b. disinterested c. separated d. disconnectedSection CChoose from Column B an appropriate object for each of the transitive verbs in Column A: （1分/小题） A B26. cut a. electricity 27. breed b. a machine 28. mine c. a goal命题人：教研室主任：系主任：_系_级_班姓名_学号_装订线 29. operate d. a fire 30. attain e. gold 31. complete f. a limit 32. generate g. cattle 33. exceed h. a skirt 34. shorten i. costs 35. light j. a cyclePART ClozeDirections: Fill in each of the numbered blanks with an appropriate word: （1分/小题）One day a police officer manager to get some fresh mushrooms. He was so 1 what he had bought that he offered to 2 the mushrooms with his brother officers. When their breakfast arrived the next day, each officer found some mushrooms on his plate.“Let the dog 3 a piece first,” suggested one 4 officer who was afraid that the mushrooms might be poisonous. The dog seemed to 5 his mushrooms, and the officers then began to eat their meal saying that the mushrooms had a very strange 6 quite pleasant taste.An hour 7, however, they were all astonished when the gardener rushed on and said 8 the dog was dead. 9, the officers jumped sintos their cars and rushedsintosthe nearest hospital. Pumps (泵) were used and the officers had a very 10 time getting rid of the mushrooms that 11 in their stomachs. When they 12 to the police station, they sat down and started to 13 the mushroom poisoning. Each man explained the pains that he had felt and they agreed that 14 had grown worse on their 15 to the hospital. The gardener was called to tell the way 16 the poor dog had died.” Did it 17 much before death?” asked one of the officers, 18 very pleased that he had escaped a 19 death himself. “No,” answered the gardener looker rather 20. “It was killed the moment a car hit it.”1. A. sure of B. careless about C. pleased withD. disappointed at2. A. share B. grow C. wash D. cook3. A. check B. smell C. try D. examine4. A. frightened B. shy C. cheerful D. careful5. A. refuse B. hate C. want D. enjoy6. A. besides B. but C. and D. or7. A. later B. after C. past D. over8. A. cruelly B. curiously C. seriously D. finally9. A. Immediately B. Carefully C. Suddenly D. Slowly10. A. hard B. busy C. exciting D. unforgettable11. A. stopped B. dropped C. settled D. remained12. A. hurried B. drove C. went D. returned13. A. study B. discuss C. record D. remember14. A. this B. these C. it D. they15. A. road B. street C. way D. direction16. A. how B. in that C. which D. in which17. A. suffer B. eat C. harm D. spit18. A. to feel B. feeling C. felt D. having felt19. A. strange B. painful C. peaceful D. natural20. A. happy B. interested C. surprised D. ExcitedPART Reading ComprehensionDirections： Read the passages and then do the exercises that follow：（2分/小题）(1) On November 19，1863，Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the National Soldiers CemeteryThe Civil War was still going onThere was much criticism of President Lincoln at the timeHe was not at a11 popularHe had been invented to speak at Gettysburg only out of courtesyThe principal speaker was to be Edward Everett，a famous statesman and speaker of the dayEverett was a handsome man and very popular everywhere It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to GettysburgLate that night，alone in his hotel room and tired out，he again worked briefly on the speechThe next day Everett spoke firstHe spoke for an hour and 57 minutesHis speech was a perfect example Of the rich oratory Of the dayThen Lincoln roseThe crowd Of 15,000 people at first paid little attention to himHe spoke for only nine minutesAt the end there was 1ittle applauseLincoln turned to a friend and remarked，“I have failed againon the train back to Washington he commented sadly，“That speech was a flat failure，and the people are disappointed” Some newspapers at first criticized the speechBut little by little，as people read the speech，they began to understand betterThey began to appreciate its simplicity and its deep meaningIt was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made Today，every American sch001 child learns Lincolns Gettysburg Address by heartNow everyone thinks Of it as one Of the greatest orations ever given in American history1In 1863，Abraham Lincoln was avery critical bunpopular cvery popular dvery courteous2Lincoln was invited to speak at the National soldiers Cemetery because he was .aa famous orator bvery handsome cPresident Of the United States at the time da popular statesman3It can be inferred from the text that aLincoln prepared his speech very carefully before he went to Gettysburg bLincoln was very busy at the time and didnt have much time to prepare his speech cLincolns speech was full Of rich oratory dLinco1ns speech was very long4Lincolns speech was . aan immediate success bwarmly applauded ca total failure dnot wellreceived at first5Which of the following 2 statements is Not true? aLincolns Gettysburg Address has deep meaning bLincolns Gettysburg Address is simple in style cLincolns Gettysburg Address is memorized by every American school child dLinco1ns Gettysburg Address is the greatest speech ever delivered in the United States(2)The economy of the United states after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people. Despite occasional alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom. An economic survey of the year 1955, a typical year of the 1950s, may be typical as illustrating the rapid economic growth of the decade. The national output was value at 10 percent above that of 1954 (1955 output was estimated at 392 billion dollars). The production of manufacturers was about 40 percent more than it had averaged in the years immediately following World War 2. The countrys business spent about 30billion dollars for new factories and machinery. National income available for spending was almost a third greater than it had been it had been in 1950. Consumers spent about 256 billion dollars; that is about 700 million dollars a day or about twenty-five million dollars every hour, all round the clock. Sixty-five million people held jobs and only a little more than two million wanted jobs but could not find them. Only agriculture complained that it was not sharing in the room. To some observers this was an ominous echo of the mid-1920s . As farmers shred of their products declined, marketing costs rose. But there were, among the observers of the national economy, a few who were not as confident as the majority. Those few seemed to fear that the boom could not last and would eventually lead to the opposite-depression.6. What is