南财实用英语1期末试卷B(答案)

1、Part Two Reading Comprehension (40%)Passage 2Are the following statements true or false according to the passage? Write T/F accordingly.When I Was in AmericaFor most people, the holiday season is a time of joy and family reunion. For me, it is a time of mixed emotions for I have been away from my fa

2、mily and friends in Iran while studying in the United States. Rather than lock myself in my loneliness, I have tried each Christmas to learn a little more about the culture of the country and know more about my American friends.A tie-clasp I still wear reminds me repeatedly of the Christmas of 1989,

3、 which was quite memorable. All my classmates had eagerly looked forward to the holiday time. I had no vacation because I was short of money. My check from home had not arrived on schedule because of the crush of holiday mail.One day I walked to the campus to pick up my mail at the International Stu

4、dents Office. But the all important check still had not arrived. Maria, Mexican-American student, who worked as a temporary secretary in the department when others left for their holidays, must have seen me as I left the mailbox with disappointment showing on my face. She invited me to spend Christm

5、as Eve with her family. I accepted all too gladly.Marias family was not rich. They lived in a modest small house. Maria introduced me to her parents, her aunt and her sister, who welcomed me warmly. Marias father could only speak Spanish, so he talked to me while Marias sister acted as an interprete

6、r. The kind look in his eyes and his relaxed behavior made me feel right at home.The dinner was very elaborate. Each dish had a special feature, sauce and a blend of seasonings. Marias aunt ate while standing at a corner of the small, old table. I felt a little uncomfortable, knowing that I was occu

7、pying her place, but her gesture expressed the sincere hospitality with which Marias whole family received me. After dinner, Maria chose a small package from under the Christmas tree and handed it to me. Inside I found the tie-clasp I still use to this day.Looking at the tie-clasp, I know I would al

8、ways regard it as a memento of an unforgettable evening of good friendship during a hard and lonely period of my life. 1. The author of the passage was an overseas student in America. ( T ) 2. Unlike most other people the author had a miserable Christmas. ( F ) 3. The author tried his best not to be

9、 overwhelmed by his loneliness. ( T ) 4. The Christmas of 1989 was an unforgettable event for the author. ( T ) 5. The author didnt look forward to the holiday since he didnt have much money to enjoy it, ( T ) 6. His check was probably delayed because of the crush of holiday mail. ( T ) 7. Maria was

10、 a secretary at the university when the author studied there. ( F ) 8. There was only enough room for five seats at the table in Marias home. ( T ) 9. Marias father did not talk because he couldnt speak English. ( F ) 10. The author appreciated the tie-clasp because it conveyed the kindness of Maria

11、s family. ( T )Passage 2Make the best choice to answer the following questions。The Triathlons Great AttractionThe triathlon promises to be one of the most popular Olympic sports. Recently it has drawn huge crowds attracted (and worried) by athletes swimming 1500m, cycling 40km, and then running 10km

12、 without stopping. Great for those watching, maybe, but what makes the triathletes want to punish their bodies so much? And what makes an attractive 17-year-old, with excellent academic results, give up everything for the strange pleasures it offers?Melanie Sears has not yet learnt those often-repea

13、ted phrases about personal satisfaction, mental challenge and higher objectives that most athletes always use when asked similar questions. “You swim for 1500m, and then get out of the water and jump on your bike, still wet. Of course, then you freeze. When the 40km cycle ride is over, you have to r

14、un 10km, which is a long way when youre feeling very tired. But its great fun, and all worth it in the end,” she says. Melanie entered her first triathlon at 14. “I won the junior section but then I was the only junior taking part. It seemed so easy that I was waving at my teammates as I went round.

15、”Confidently, Melanie Sears entered the National? Championships, and although she had the second fastest swim and the fastest run, she got nowhere. “I was following this man and suddenly we came to the sea. We realized then that we had gotten lost. I ended up cycling 20 kilometers too far. I cried a

16、ll the way through the running.”But she did not give up and is determined that she never will. “Sometimes I wish I could stop, because then the pain would be over, but I am afraid that if I stop just once, I would be tempted to do it again. Its doggedness that does it.”Melanie was top junior in this

17、 years European Triathlon Championship, finishing 13th. “I was almost as good as the top three in swimming and running, but much slower at cycling. Thats why Im working very hard at it. The big trouble is, I have no one of my age to train with,” she says. Funny, that.Melanie is truly a teenager with

18、 a taste for endurance. With her devotion to the triathlon, she will succeed sooner or later. 1 What kind of sports is the triathlon? D a Distance running。 b Distance swimming c Distance cycling。 d All the above put together 2 Why does the author use “want to punish their bodies so much to describe

19、the triathletes? Ba To show his doubt in the triathlon b To describe how difficult the triathlon isc To explain why the triathlon is so popular. d To criticize people who do the triathlon 3 What does Melanie Sears think of the challenges brought about by the triathlon? D a It gives personal satisfac

20、tion b It offers great mental challenge c It sets higher life goals d It is great fun an d worth the efforts 4 What upset Melanie during the National Championships? B a She was tricked by another athlete。 b She made a mistake during the part of the cycling。 C She realized she couldnt cycle as fast a

21、s she thought。 d She felt she had let her teammates down 5 What did Melanie mean by saying doggedness in the 4th paragraph? B a Shed persist despite all the difficulties b She doesnt feel the pain as most people do c She doesnt know her own weak points d She never accepts other peoples opinions Pass

22、age 3 Choose the best choice according the passage.Johnny Owen, 24 of Wales, was beaten unconscious the night of Sept. 19 in Los Angeles. Owen was taken to California Hospital Medical Center, where he remained unconscious for 45 days before dying last Monday. Owen and the man who killed him, Lupe Pi

23、ntor, were professional boxers, and the fatal beating of Owen was something our society calls a sporting event. I was lucky enough not to witness the match between Pintor and Owen, but 18 years ago, I saw a man get killed in the ring, live, on nationwide television. The memory is still vivid. The oc

24、casion was the March 1962 welterweight title fight between the champion, Benny Kid Paret, and Emile Griffith. The killing took only 20 to 25 seconds at most. In the 12th round, Griffith tapped Paret against the ropes and began hammering him with fast punches to the head. Parets eyes went glassy and

25、his hands dropped, all power of self-defense gone. Griffith kept throwing punches. Finally the referee pulled Griffith away. Paret was taken out on a stretcher. He died a few days later without regaining consciousness.Johnny Owen was the latest of approximately 330 men who have died since 1945. If r

26、eason and humanity prevailed, he would be the last. The sport of boxing is a barbaric, anachronism that has no place in modem civilized society. There are, arguably, other sports more dangerous than boxing. Men are maimed(使残疾) and killed in auto racing, in football, in soccer, in baseball, in mounta

27、in climbing. But injury is ancillary to these sports. The unique barbarism of boxing is that injury is the central object of the contest.Boxings defenders will tell you the fight game has provided a route out of poverty for blacks and other disadvantaged people. Indeed it has. A handful of professio

28、nal fighters have ended up rich. Hundreds simply have ended up dead. The defenders also will point out that boxers are fighting voluntarily, that no one makes them get into the ring. Thats true, but it doesnt eliminate the barbarity. Does that mean any civilized nation could or would permit such a h

29、orror? After Owens death, the president of the World Boxing Council pledged that they would provide maximum protection for boxers.However, it seems to me that the only real way to provide maximum protection for boxers is to end boxing. The only real way to reform his “sport” is to kill it.1. The aut

30、hor gains the readers attention by beginning his article with A A. anecdotes B. statistics C. quotations D. questions2. We can conclude from paragraph 4 that D A. Paret and Griffith were friends. B. The referee pulled Griffith away in time. C. The referee was on Griffiths side. D. Griffith wanted to

31、 hurt Paret as well, as win the fight. 3. According to the author, boxing is worse than other dangerous sports because C A. Boxers are paid less than other athletes. B. Boxers are trying to hurt each other. C. People dont get killed in other sports D. Many boxers are from poor neighborhoods. 4. Whic

32、h sentence best expresses the main idea of paragraph 8? C A. No one forces professional boxes to go in the ring. B. To make good money, men would be willing to fight. C. Even though boxers agree to fight, boxing is still wrong. D. Cruel people will always try to watch violent contests. 5. The centra

33、l point of the selection is that B A. Johnny Owen died from boxing injuries. B. boxing should be banned. C. some people are trying to make boxing safer. D. boxing has an ancient and bloody history.Passage 4Choose the best choice according to the passage.Many years ago in a village in Africa, there l

34、ived a girl with large eyes. She had the most beautiful eyes of any girl in the village. One summer, a drought came upon the region. No rain had fallen for months, and the wells and rivers turned to mud holes. Every day, the girl had to go and find water for her family. That was not easy. One mornin

35、g, she walked back and forth along the river bank for a long while, but could find no water. Suddenly, a fish surfaced from the mud and said to her, “Give me your bucket and I will fill it with water.” She was surprised to hear the fish talk, and a little frightened. But she had found no water that

36、morning, so she handed him the bucket, and he filled it with cold, clear water. The next day she returned to the same place, called the fish, and again he filled her bucket with cold, clear water. Each day thereafter she returned, and soon she found herself becoming fond of the fish. His skin was th

37、e colors of the rainbow and as smooth as the sky on a clear day. His voice was soft and gentle like the cool, clear water in her bucket. And on the seventh day, she let the fish embrace her, and she became his wife.Her family was quite happy to get the water each day, but they were still very curiou

38、s to know from where she was getting it. Each day they asked her many questions, but she only smiled at them with her large eyes and said nothing. When the parents eventually learned that she had married a fish, they felt greatly ashamed. So one day, the father went to the river bank and called to t

39、he fish, and when the fish came up, he killed him and took him home. He flung the fish at the girls feet and said, “Ive brought your husband to you.” The girl looked at the fish at her feet, with tears in her eyes. She picked up the fish and walked to the river, wondering what was to become of the c

40、hild she was carrying inside her. If her parents had killed her husband, would they not kill her child when it was born? She knew that suffering could only be cured by medicine or patience. If neither of those relieved it, suffering would always yield to death. Calling her husbands name, she waded i

41、nto the water until it flowed above her head. But as she died, she gave birth to many children, and they still float on the rivers to this day as water lilies.1. This is a folk tale which is a story handed down orally among the common people. The purpose of this story is to DA. teach the history of

42、an African tribe B. warn people not to trust fish. C. explain the effects of a drought. D. illustrate the destructive power of prejudice.2. The girl did not tell her family about the fish because she B A. knew the fish did not want her to say anything. B. knew they would not approve. C. was saving t

43、he news for a surprise. D. was ashamed that she loved a fish.3. Which of the following statements is true? D A. The girl grieved over the brutal murder of the fish. B. The girls parents were not curious about her marrying the fish. C. The summer the girl was to marry the fish, a drought came upon th

44、e region. D. The fish gave the girl cold. clear water in order to please the most beautiful girl.4. If the word flung in paragraph 5 were replaced by the word “placed,” what feeling would be missing? C A. Love and concern B. Shame and fear C. Anger and triumph D. Tenderness and disappointment5. The

45、creation of the water lilies at the end of the story implies that A. water lilies are part human and part fish. B. the deaths of the girl and the fish had a purpose. C. people should feel sad when they see water liliesD. the result of true love is beauty.Part Three Translation from Chinese into Engl

46、ish (15%)1对不起，让你久等了。(keep sbwaiting)Sorry that I keep you waiting so long.2我想约见史密斯大夫。(make an appointment)I want to make an appointment with doctor Smith.3不敲门就进屋是不礼貌的。(impolite，knock at the door)It is impolite to get in without knocking at the door.4如果发生什么特别情况，要尽快通知我们。(inform)If there is any special

47、 situation happening, please to inform us as soon as possible5由于你没有遵守诺言，他们很生气。(keep ones promise)They was very angry as you did not keep your promise.Part Four Translation from English into Chinese (15%) 1 The most important thing to remember about China is that it is a huge country with a large population.记得中国最重要的事情就是地大物博，人口众多。 2 Similarly, you can download the kind of software you like.同样的，你可以下载你喜欢的软件。 3 Chinas National Football Teams success in the World Cup Qualifiers depended more on their excellent performance than on luck.中国