英语补考试卷Part I Reading ComprehensionPassage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, “As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives. A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.1. The best title for this passage is__________A. Organs of CultureB. Brain and BodyC. Looking into his eyesD. Language and Culture2. According to this passage, the best way to learn a foreign language is__________A. to read the works of poets and philosophersB. to find a native speaker and look directly into his eyesC. to begin by learning its body languageD. to visit a country where you can study3. According to this passage, gestures are__________A. spoken wordsB. a non-language elementC. pictures in a languageD. written language4. "As many languages as one speaks, so many lives..." means__________A. if one learns many foreign languages, one will have a better understanding of his own languageB. life is richer and more interesting if one knows several languagesC. no matter how many languages one knows, one can never know more than one's own cultureD. if a person speaks only one language, he will live a very happy life5. Which of the following doesn't share the same meaning with the others?A. signsB. gesturesC. efficientD. body languagePassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts (干旱) and floods. Unfortunately, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire(帝国). It gained the empire, but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced by flood and starvation. Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade villagers to see this. )The villagers want wood to cook their food with; and they can earn money by selling wood. They are usually too lazy to plant and look after the trees. So, unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests willslowly disappear.This does not only mean that the villagers' children and grandchildren will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious, for where there are trees their roots break the soil up allowing the rain to sink in - and also bind the soil, thus preventing its being washed away easily but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away from the surface, causing flood.6. What is the most important function of trees?A. Providing fuel.B. Offering shade.C. Preventing natural disaster.D. Providing wood.7. What eventually happened to the empire in the paragraph?A. Its people died of hunger.B. It fell to pieces.C. It became a giant empire.D. It built many ships with wood.8. It is implied in the passage that the villagers__________A. want a plentiful supply of trees.B. want firewood badly.C. just want to get money.D. don't realize the importance of trees.9. The role of trees is to__________A. loosen soilB. keep soil in positionC. harden soilD. both A and B10. What is the passage mainly concerned with?A. The benefits of trees.B. Trees and soil protectionC. The various uses of trees.D. Different attitudes toward trees.Passage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:Adam Smith was the first person to see the importance of the division of the labor. He gave us an example of the process by which pins were made in England."One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and a fifth gives it a head. Just to make the head requires two or three different operations. The work of making pins is divided into about eighteen different operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4800 pins a worker. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not have made twenty pins in a day and not even one.There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this, (80) (but he also took it for granted that division of labor is itself responsible for economic growth and development and it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. )But division of labor adds nothing new, it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.11. According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to__________A. take advantage of the physical laborB. introduce the division of labor into EnglandC. understand the effects of the division of laborD. explain the bad causes of the division of labor12. Adam Smith saw that the division of labor__________A. enabled each worker to design pins more quicklyB.increased the possible output per workerC. increased the number of people employed in factoriesD.improved the quality of pins produced13. Adam Smith mentioned the number 4800 in order to__________A. show the advantages of the old labor systemB.stress how powerful the individual worker wasC. show the advantages of the division of laborD. stress the importance of increased production14. According to the writer, Adam Smith's mistake was in believingthat the division of labor__________A. was an efficient way of organizing workB. was an important development in methods of productionC. finally led to economic developmentD. increased the production of existing goods15. According to the writer, which one of the following is NOT tree?A. Division of labor can enable fewer people to make more pins.B. Division of labor helps people to produce more of what they already have.C. Division of labor is by no means responsible for economic growth.D. Division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work.Passage 4.The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the manager of the local supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steelworker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas station, and restaurants. Still you are buying from the markets. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.The market may seem to be something abstract. But for each person or business who is making and selling something, it’s very real. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.16.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. What is the market?B. Everything you do is producing for the market.C. Selling and Buying.D. What can the market do for you?17.All of the following acts are producing for the market EXCEPT _________.A. buying a book in the bookstoreB. printing a dictionaryC. giving classes to the studentsD. growing beans for sale18.You are buying from the market when you __________.A. borrow a book from the libraryB. look after the child of your neighbor’sC. shopping on lineD. drive to the seaside for a holiday19.The word “real” in the last paragraph may most probably mean __________.A. importantB. concreteC. trueD. serious20.In what way is the market very real for each person or business who is making and selling something?A.It tells you what to produce.B.It tells you how to grow tomatoes.C.It gives you a place to sell tomatoes.D.It helps you make money.Part II Vocabulary and Structure21. He spent__________collecting materials for his article.A. a half yearB. half yearC. half a yearD. half of a year22. To succeed in a scientific experiment,__________A. one needs being patient personB. patience is to needC. one needs to be patientD. patience is what needed23. English is used by more people than is__________language except Chinese.A. anyB. any OtherC. otherD. all other24. The dish__________terrible! I don't like it at all.A. tastesB. tastedC. will tasteD. is tasted25. She__________ be ill because I saw her playing tennis just now.A'. can't B. couldn't C. mustn't D. may not26. Sorry, officer. I__________ at 80 miles but I didn't see any sign in thearea telling people how fast they can drive.A. should not driveB. shouldn't have drivenC. mustn't driveD. can't drive27.“It’s high time the doctor ________ a man on.” thought one of the men.A. gotB. getsC. to gettingD. was getting28. It is not easy__________ the answer to the difficult math problem.A. to figure outB. figuring outC. figure outD. being figured out29.Now I can manage to make myself _______.A. to be understoodB. understoodC. to understand C. being understood30. Take the medicine now. I believe it will__________ your pain.A. releaseB. reliveC. rejectD. relieve31. How can you__________her offer? I'm afraid she will feel hurt.A. turn outB. turn upC. turn downD. turn away32. She apologized for__________ to attend the meeting.A. her being not ableB. her to be not ableC. her not to be ableD. her not being able to I went to the USA _______ way of Japan.A. forB. inC. byD. through33. Each term our professors would__________a list of books for us to read.A. hand inB. give awayC. pass outD. write out34. I__________ my wallet when I was shopping in the store.A. must have droppedB. should have droppedC. could dropD. ought to have dropped35.One important way to have fresh water is _______ it from sea water.A. to makeB. makingC. madeD. makePart IV. 翻译36. The boy soon became accustomed to hard work and poor food37. It is beyond our imagination that what exits in that distant star.38. Whether he is prepared to work hard is still a question39. His composition is good except for some grammatical mistakes40. He has arranged for his secretary to meet you at the airport41. Sweet music filled the room.42. Wal-Mart is one of the biggest shopping centers in the world.43. He insisted on buying another car, which he actually didn’t need.44. 他似乎没抓住我的意思，这使我心烦。