同济大学《大学英语》2019-2020第一学期期末试卷

1、同济大学大学英语2019-2020第一学期期末试卷课程名称 专业班级 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八九备注：学生不得在试题纸上答题（含填空题、选择题等客观题）Partl.From the four choices given,choose the one that best completes the sentence. (30%)1.Will this new oil recovery technique be financiallyA.representationB.feasibleC.characteristicsD.diffusion2.Today,getting a new hear

2、t is no longer sily.It is now a A curiosityB.novelyC.realityD.application3.He picked up hisand put it in his pocket.A.resolutionB.resolveC.determinationD.revolver4.The mosquitoes that pass on malaria are becoming resistant to thenow used against them.A. poisonsB.capsulesC.chemicalD.pills5.she saw th

3、e senous concem on Li Gongs face that she agreed to let him try again.A.t was not untilB.UntilC.It was untilD.Not until6._whether I am going to China.A.t is not atready settledB.It is yet settledC.It is not yet settedD.It is still settled7.There remained nothing but to get the canoe into the water.H

4、owever,all myto get it Into the water failed.A.equipmentB.toolsC.InstrumentD.devices8. It Iswant to leave you,I have to.A not that indause ofB.becausebutC.not thatbutD.not becausabecause9. Tom style of travel was interesting-he mustthe land as much as possible.A live offB.be fed up withC.be lived on

5、D.be fed on10.The name of Chaplinthe Image of a itte tramp with a brush mustache.A.conjures upB.occurs toC.comes uponD.runs through11.With night,We started for home.A.moving alongB.went byC.coming onD.dragged on12.As the fire was nearty out and It was getting late,they prepared tofor the night.13.Te

6、nsion within a family_or eliminated when the tamily,as a whole,is threatened by an extemal force.A. is offen relivedB.often relaxedC.is often rellevedD.ofen released14.Obviously.the white bird in the story has a_meaning of freedom.A.symbolicB.symbolC.symbolizeD.symbolism15.The search was called off

7、when the log got thicker.A.startedB.canceledC.postponedD.continued16.Letsour resources and get the job done quickly.A.use upB.put togetherC.conserveD.store up17.Mrs.Jonesthe suspect by the scar on his face.A.IdentifiedB.found outC.discoveredD.coincided18.The landlady could notbecause all her rooms w

8、ere bookedA.adapt usB.put up with usC.put us upD.help us19.The economiccrisis has seriouslyFrench exports.A.stimulatedB.simulatedC.reducedD.increased20.What itis simply that he is not wiling to give us his support.A amounts toB.mattersC.teachesD.signals21.The train willtrom Platform 2 at 3:45 on Tue

9、sday moming.A.arriveB.stopC.departD.derail22.The young giri took the cheese andto eat.A.commencedB.commendedC.renouncedD.commented23.A judge must be disinterested.when weighing evidence.A. InterestedB.detachedC.separatedD.disconnected24.These courses,f property conducted,willthe minds of the student

10、s.A.refreshB.renewC.stimulateD.encourage25.That way of speaking ispeople in this part of the country.A.strange toB.odd toC.peculiar toD.particular about26.Heas though he had never in his ife seen me before.A.went pass meB.avoided meC.ignored meD.went away from me27.He had been forced to give up much

11、 of his time to housework.A.orderedB.compelledC.persuadedD.frightened28.Hethat he could create live fish out of chemicals.A.assertedB.demandedC.arguedD.announced29.The best students are special scholarships.A.rewardedB.awardedC.compensatedD.refused30.Living on an isolaled farm,they do not see anybod

12、y for weeksA.in the endB.on endC.of and onD.endlesslyPart ll. Reading Comprehension(40%)Passage OneIf you are like most people,your intelligence varies from season to season. Your are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of year.A noted scientist,Ellsworth Huntington,c

13、onduded from other men svork and his own among peoples in different climates and temperature have a definite eflect on our mental ablities.He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less Intelligent in summer th

14、an they are during the rest of the year.It does mean,however,that the mental abilties of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in summer.Spring appears to be the beat period of the year for thinking.One reason may be that in the spring man s mentasbilities are affected by the same factors that b

15、ring about great changes in all nature.Fall is the next-best season,then winter.As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation trom thinking31.According to the passage,man intelligenceA Vanes from day to dayB.Stays the same throughout the yearC.Changes with the seasonsD. Changes f

16、rom year to year32.Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature haveA. some effect on a few people intelligenceB.a great effect on everyone intelligenceC. some effect on most people intelligenceD. no effect on most people Intelligence33.Ellsworth Huntingtons condusidroses onA. variation

17、s of his own mental abllities from season to seasonB.the resufts of research done by him and other scientists among peoples in different climatesC. detailed records of temperature changes in different placesD. detailed records of different ways of thinking among peoples on different climates 34.Why

18、does the author say summer is a good time to take a long vacation from thinking?A Because a long vacation in summer helps to Improve people power. s mentalB. Because people tend to be less creative during summer.C. Because summer is a good time for outdoor activitiesD.Because mental exertion in the

19、summer heat taxes too much of peopleenergy.35.The central idea of this passage isA. man s mental abilities change from season toseasonB. man s inetligence varles from place to placeC. man should take a long vacation in summerD.if you want to do creative thinking.go to a cool placePassage TwoOn Novem

20、ber 19,1863,Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery The Civil War was still going on.There was much criticism of President Lincoln at the time He was not at al popular.He had been invited to speak at Gettysburg only out of courtesy.The principal

21、speaker was to be Edward Everett,a famous statesman and speaker of the day.Everett was a handsome man and very popular everywhere.It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to Gettysburg.Late thatnight,alone in his hotel room and tire out,he again worked brieffty on the spe

22、ech.The nextday Everett spoke first.He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes.His speech was a perfectexample of the rich oratory of the day.Then Lincoln rose.The crowd of 15,000 people atfirst paid litle attention to him.He spoke for only nine minutes.At the end there was lttleapplause.Lincoln tumed to a

23、 friend and remarked,“I have failed again.to Washington he commented sadly.“Thaspeech was a fat failure, and the people areOndisappolnted.Some newspapers at first criticized the speech.But little by ittle,as people read the speech. they began to understand better.They began to appreciate its simplic

24、ity and its deep meaning. It was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made.Today,every American school child leams Lincolnurg AdderGettysoart.Noweveryone thinks of k as one of the greatest orations ever given in American history.36.In 1863,Abraham Lincoln was-A.very poputarB.unpoputarC.ver

25、y criticalD.very courteous37.Lincoln was invited to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery Because he wasA.very handsomeB.a famous oratorC.President of the United States at the timeD.a popular statesman38.It can be Inferred from the text thatA.Lincoln prepared his speech very carefully before he we

26、nt to GettysburgB.Lincoin was very busy at the time and didnt have much time speprebare hisC.Lincoln s speech was full of ridhatoryD.Lincohs speech was veoyg39.Lincoln s speectsA. An immediate successB. Warmly applaudedC. A total falureD.Not well-received at first40.Which of the lollowing statements

27、 is NOT true?A LincotnsGettysburg Address has deopaning.B.Lincoin sGettysburg Address is simple tyleC.Lincolns Gettysburg Address is memorized by evefymerican school child.D.Linco inGettysburg Address is the grealest speech ever delivered in the United States. Passage ThreeThe word horsepower was fi

28、rst used two hundred years ago.James Watt had made the worldfirst widely used steam engine.He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was,for at that time there were no units for measuring power.Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute.He called tha

29、t unit one horsepower.With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.He discovered that a horse could lit a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could ift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.Because his engine did ten times as much work as the h

30、orse,Watt called it a ten horsepower engine.41.The selection says that Watt made the firstA.engine B.steam engine C.widely used steam engine D.usefui engine42.watt wanted to find a way toA measure the work his engine could doB. tel people how powerful his engine wasC.ift a 3300-pound weightD. bothA&

31、 B43.He made up a unit of measurement based on the strength ofA.amanB.ten horsesC.his englneD.a horse44.One horsepower would equal theA. work a horse could do in a minuteB. weight a horse could intC.work a horse could do in ten minutesD. weight of one horse45.The best tide for this selection isA Wat

32、tEngineB.The Onigin of the Term HorsepowerC.Units of MeasurementD.II Happened 200 Years AgoPassage FourWhen I was about six years old,my mother came home one day and found that I had collectedhalf a dozen babies of the neighborhoodall of them too young to walk and had them sitting before me on the f

33、loor while I was teaching them to wave their arms.When she asked the explanation of this,I informed her that it was my school of dance.She was amused, and placing herself at the piano,she began to play for me.This school continued and became very popular.Later on,Iittle giris of the neighborhood cam

34、e and their parents paid me a small sum to teach them.This was the beginning of what afterwards proved a very lucrative occupation.My mother took me to a famous ballet teacher,but his lessons did not please me.When theteacher told me to stand on my toes I asked him why. and when he repliedBecause it

35、 isbeautiful,I said that it was ugly and against nature and after the third lesson I left his class,never to retum.This stiff and commonplace gymnastics which he called dancing onlydisturbed my dream.I dreamed of a different dance.I did not know just what t would be.but I was feeling out towards an

36、invisible world into which I guessed I might enter if I loundthe key.My art was already in me when I was a little girt,and it was owing to the heroic andadventurous spirit of my mother that it was not stifled.I beteve that whatever the child isgoing to do in life should be begun when it is very youn

37、g. I wonder how many parents realizethat by the so-called education they are giving their children,they are only driving them intothe commonplace,and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.46.When her mother came home one day,the narrator of the storyAwas teaching half

38、a dozen bables to danceB.was teaching half a dozen babies to walkC.was collecting babies of the neighborhoodD.was making babies of the neighborhood sit before her on the foor47.The attitude of the narrator hother toward her school of dance was one oLA.despiseB.contemptC.supportD.indiflerence48.The n

39、arrator thought that ballet wasA.the most graceful danceB.stiff.ugly and unnaturalC.a dance that she had dreamed ofD.an invisible world into which she gussed shemight enter49.According to the narrator,she owed her success in art toA.the good education her parent gave herB.the support of her understa

40、nding and adventurous motherC.her inbom talentD.her ballet teacher50.The ce3ntral idea of the passage is thatA parents should try to discover the natural gift in their children and help to develop it while they are youngB.the so-called good education parents give their children only drives them into

41、 the英美正式群7G（4条新消息）谢鸿伟重庆交通大学：后面再减一下本金浮窗回复commonplace and deprives them of any chance of doing anything oniginalC.mothers should be heroic and adventurousD.ballet is no good as a form of dance Part Ill.Cloze(10%)Directions:There are 10 blanks in the following passage.For each blank there are fourchoic

42、es marked A.B.C and D.You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.After years of study.I have determined there are only two types of people in this world:thosewho get to the airport earty and those who stroll in as the plane is about to takethere were any justice in this world,the earty-airport people would be rewarded2doing the right thing.And the late-ai