《大学英语》期末试卷1. Mary never asks other for help in doing her homework. She is far too for that.2. Tom his father both in appearance and in character.3. There is now no unemployment in this part of the country.4. Medical scientists expect it will be many years before cancer is .5. The novel has a plot. This explains why it has remained number one on the best-seller list.6. Many of the Rolling Stone’s records have become rock .7. Believe me! I’ve got the information from a reliable .8. The invaders finally put down their arms and .9. Until this unfortunate incident they had lived in with their neighbors.10. The interview continued, with Smith breaking off at to consult this notes.11. A warm smile is the language of kindness.12. We rarely have such terrible weather. The here is usually very mild.13. Fifteen students in the class are girls and the are boys.14. This kind of glasses by experienced craftsmen wears comfortably.15. The sight of the animal’s suffering me.16. Mao Zedoing was a great strategist skilled in strategy.17. The corporate success was not due to one single person but to effort.18. Medical techniques are becoming more all the time19. Here is the latest about the President’s health20. She him for forgetting their anniversary.II．Reading Comprehension 40Passage OneI don’t often lose things and I’m especially careful with money, so I was quite surprised when I reached for my wallet and it wasn’t there. At first, I thought it was possible that I could have left i t at home. Then I remembered taking it out to pay for the taxi, so I knew I had it with me just before I walked into the restaurant. I wondered if it was possible that it could have slipped out of my pocket while I was eating dinner. Thinking about that possibility, I turned and walked back to the table where I had been sitting. Unfortunately, there were several people sitting at the table at the time, so I called a waiter and explained to him that my wallet had fallen out of my pocket while I was sitting at the table a few minutes earlier. I had the waiter go over to the table to see if my wallet was on the floor. While the waiter was looking for it, the manager of the restaurant came up to me and asked me if anything was wrong. I didn’t want to get a lot of people involved in the problem, but I knew I had to get the wallet back. I told the manager what had happened. He had me describe the wallet to him, and then he insisted that I report the missing wallet to the police. I told him that I didn’t particularl y want to get the police involved in it; besides, I was in a hurry because I had an appointment with my doctor in just a few minutes. I explained to him that my biggest worry at the moment was how I was going to pay the check. He told me not to worry about that. He had me write down my name and address, and he said he would send me a bill.21. Why was the writer so sure he had brought his wallet with him?A. He remembered that he didn’t leave it at home.B. He always felt his pocket for the wallet before he left home.C. He believed his own memory.D. He had taken it out to pay the taxi-driver.22. According to the passage, the writer most probably lost his wallet when _____.A. he took it out to pay for the taxiB. he walked into the restaurantC. he was eating dinnerD. he was ordering his dish23. Why did the writer walk back to the table where he had been sitting?A. He was sure his wallet was still there.B. It was possible that he could find his wallet there.C. He could ask someone there about his wallet.D. He saw the wallet lying on the floor near the table.24. As the writer didn’t want to get a lot of people involved in the problem, _____.A. he only told the manager what had happenedB. he didn’t tell the manage anythingC. he reported to the police immediatelyD. he only told the story to the manager and the waiter25. Why did the manager tell the writer not to worry about paying the check?A. He was going to report the incident to the police.B. He could pay the doctor for the writer.C. He would send the writer a bill later for his meal.D. He was sure the missing wallet would soon be recovered.Passage T woWe were late as usual. My husband had insisted on watering the flowers in the garden by himself, and when he discovered that he c ouldn’t manage he had asked me for help at the last moment. So now we had an hour to get to the airport. Luckily, there were not many cars or buses on the road and we were able to get there just in time. We checked in and went straight to a big hall to wait for our flight to be called. We waited and waited but no announcement was made. We asked for information and the girl there told us that the plane hadn’t even arrived yet. In the end there was another announcement telling us that passengers waiting for Flight LJ108 could get a free meal voucher (凭单) and that the plane hadn’t left Spain for technical problems. We thought that meant that it wasn’t safe for the plane to fly. We waited again for a long time until late evening when we were asked to report again. This time we were given free vouchers to spend the night in a nearby hotel.The next morning after a bad night because of all the planes taking off and landing, we reported back to the airport. Guess what had happened while we were asleep! Our plane had arrived and taken off again.All the other passengers had been woken up in the night to catch the plane, but for some reason or other we had been forgotten. Y ou can imagine how we felt!26. The plane the writer and her husband would take _____.A. came from SpainB. passed by SpainC. was not to leave till the next morningD. was waiting for the passengers27. The plane was delayed _____.A. by the bad weatherB. by the passengersC. because of many cars on the roadD. because something was wrong with the machine28. The passengers were given a free meal because _____.A. they arrived at the airport earlyB. they hadn’t had a meal yetC. they had no money with themD. the plane was delayed29. They were in a big hall, waiting for _____.A. the girl to give them informationB. their flight to be announcedC. the free meal voucherD. other passengers to arrive30. The plane took off again _____.A. as soon as it had arrivedB. after all the passengers were woken upC. while the couple were asleepD. early the next morningPassage Three40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwing Guttmann, the situation began to change.Sir Ludwing Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with other Olympics.The Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can’t enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at the Olympic Games for the able-bodied.Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.31. The first games for the disabled were held _______ after Sir Ludwing Guttmann arrived in England. A. 40 years B. 21 years C. 10 years D. 9 years32. Besides Stoke Mandeville, surely the games for the disabled were once held in _______.A. New Y orkB. LondonC. RomeD. Los Angeles33. In Paragraph 3, the word “athletes” means _______.A. people who support the gamesB. people who watch the gamesC. people who organize the gamesD. people who compete in the games34. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Sir Ludwing Guttmann is an early organizer of the games for the disabled.B. Sir ludwing Guttmann is an injured soldier.C. Sir Ludwing Guttmann is from Germany.D. Sir Ludwing Guttmann is welcomed by the British government.35. From the passage, we may conclude that the writer is _______.A. one of the organizers of the games for the disabledB. a disabled person who once took part in the gamesC. against holding the games for the disabledD. in favor of holding the games for the disabledPassage FourBooks are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages. They picture for us the marvels and beauties of nature, help us in our difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas, fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves.Many of those who have had, as we say, all that this world can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest happiness to books. Aseham, in “The Schoolmaster,” tells a touching story of his last visit to Lady Jane Grey. He found her sitting in an oriel window reading Plato’s beautiful account of the death of Socrates. Her father and mother were hunting in the park. The hounds were in full cry and their voices came in through the open window. He expressed his surprise that she had not joined them. But, said she, “I wish that all their pleasure in the park is but a shadow to the pleasure I find in Plato.”Macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and yet he tells us in his biography that he owed the happiest hours of his life to books. In a charming letter to a little girl, he says: “Thank you for your very pretty letter. I am al ways glad to make my little girl happy, and nothing pleases me so much as to see that she likes books, for when she is as old as I am, she will find that they are better than all the tarts and cakes, toys and plays, and sights in the world. If any one would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”Books, indeed, endow us with a whole enchanted palace of thoughts. “There is a wider prospect,” says Jean Paul Richter, “from Parnassus than from a throne.” In one way they give us an even more vivid idea than the actual reality, just as reflections are often more beautiful than real nature. “All are mirrors,”says George Macdonald. “The commonest room is a room in a poem when I look in the glass.”Precious and priceless are the blessings which the books scatter around our daily paths. We walk, in imagination, with the noblest spirits, through the most sublime and enchanting regions.36. This passage argues that _______.A. books are the memory of an individualB. books can tell us what kind of memory an individual hasC. human beings need books just as an individual needs memoryD.an individual needs books to help him memorize what has happened37. According to the passage, books can _______.A. change our moodB. change the time-schedule of our activityC. improve our social positionD. keep us in sadness38. Lady Jane Grey _______.A. saw her parents hunting in the shadow in the parkB. knew that her parents enjoyed hunting in the shadowC. believed that her parents’ pleasure in hunting was inferior to hers in reading PlatoD. enjoyed sitting in the shadow near window opening to a park while reading Plato’s works39. It can be inferred from this passage that Macaulay _______.A. used to be a kingB. is very poor now because he likes books more than wealth and powerC. likes his little girl because she always wears a smile on her faceD. finds real happiness in reading books40. What is the major topic of this passage?A. Books and human beings.B. The delight of books.C. Books and memory.D. The blessings in the books.III．Vocabulary and Structure 15’41. He was hit by a bullet but luckily he was only _______ wounded.A. barelyB. hardlyC. merelyD. slightly42. Trying to ________ wildlife is a job that concerns all of us.A. retainB. advanceC. provideD. preserve43. What you have done is ________ the doctor’s orders.A. resistant toB. attached toC. responsible toD. contract to44. Don’t run so much. Y ou’ll ________ yourself before the game begins.A. exhaustB. exaggerateC. consumeD. constrain45. American women were _________ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.A. ignoredB. neglectedC. deniedD. refused46. The new tourist hotel will have ________ for more than one thousand people.A. convenienceB. accommodationsC. capabilityD. capacities47. The smaller and newer universities do not _______the staff or equipment to carry out the vast research projects possible in larger institutions.A. occupyB. involveC. possessD. spare48. The speech which he made________ the project has bothered me greatly.A. being concernedB. concernedC. be concernedD. concerning49. JAMA________ a further sales decline of 1.2 percent this year.A. concludesB. predictsC. reckonsD. prescribes50. In Britain people________ four million tons of potatoes every year.A. swallowB. consumeC. disposeD. exhaust51. San Francisco is usually cool in the summer, but Los Angeles ________.A. is rarelyB. rarely isC. hardly isD. is scarcely52. ________ the terrible weather, we enjoyed our holiday.A. As forB. BesidesC. ExceptD. Despite53. The continuous rain ________ the harvesting of the wheat crop by two weeks.A. set backB. set offC. set outD. set aside54. Children are very curious .A. at heartB. in personC. on purposeD. by nature55. Some fish have a greater ________ for acid water than others.A. toleranceB. resistanceC. dependenceD. persistence56. Everybody ________in the hall where they were welcomed by the secretary.A. assembledB. accumulatedC. piledD. joined57. We managed to reach the top of the mountain, and half an hour later we began to ________ .A. ascendB. descendC. declineD. plunge58. The persons that have the greatest influence_________ children are their teachersA. inB. forC. toD. on59. The British constitutions is ________ a large extent a product of the historical events described above.A. withinB. toC. byD. at60. I’ve _________ the whole weekend for house-hunting.A. set aboutB. set outC. set asideD. set off61. I advised them to withdraw ________.A. so as to get not involvedB. so as not to get involvedC. so as to not get involvedD. so not as to get involved62. Our hopes ________ and fell in the same instant.A. arousedB. aroseC. raisedD. rose63. The machine was very large and heavy; in fact it was so ________ that it could not be moved.A. exceptionalB. massiveC. plentifulD. excessive64. She wanted me to ________ on my own and buy a new business.A. strike downB. strike offC. strike outD. strike up65. We’re going _______from the university and setting up our own group.A. dependenceB. dependentC. independenceD. independent66. The committee are unable to agree on whom they should elect to ________ Johnson.A. resignB. retireC. replaceD. release67. It is important to________ between the rules of grammar and the conventions of written language.A. determineB. identifyC. exploreD. distinguish68. Research universities have to keep up with the latest computer and science hardware ________ price.A. on account ofB. regardless ofC. in addition toD. not to mention69. They had a fierce ________ as to whether their company should restore the trade relationship which was broken years ago.A. debateB. clashC. disagreementD. contest70. Since the matter was extremely ________, we dealt with it immediately.A. toughB. tenseC. urgentD. instant IV．Cloze 10Directions: The following passage is taken from one of the texts you have learned. Read the passage and fill in each of the numbered blanks with the exact word that appears in your textbook.①Racing the clock every day is such an exhausting effort that when I actually have a few free moments, I tend to 71 . Mostly I 72 into a chair and stare into 73 while I imagine how lovely life would be if only I 74 the organizational skills and the energy of my 75 . In fact, I waste a good deal of my 76 time just worrying about what other women are 77in theirs. Sometimes I think that these modern fairy 78 create as many problems for women as the old stories that has us 79 our time for the day our prince would 80 .②I like that idea. 81 that the same cultural soil 82 the English language also 83 the great 84 of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. The first shoots 85 up in England, and they grew stronger in America. The English-speaking peoples have 86 all efforts to build 87 around their language.Indeed, the English language is not the special 88 of grammarians, language police, teachers, writers or the intellectual 89 . English is, and always has been, the 90 of common man.V．Translation 10Directions: Translate the following passage into English, using the words and phrases given below.金钱是有趣的，而且几乎完全是不讲自明的。