北京第二外国语学院：基础英语试题
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北京第二外国语学院英语系
基础英语 期末考试
试卷
Final-Term Examination in Comprehensive English Course
English Department, Beijing International Studies University
学期：第四学期
PART I Text-Based Blank
Filling (16 points / 1 point each)
Directions:
Fill in the missing words in the following
sentences with the help of the initial letters. Make sure that the
words are in the form as they appear in the texts you have learned
in A New English Course, Student’s Book 4. Please write down your
answers on the Answer Sheet in their complete
forms.
1.
I found
the boys whittling on my best salad spoon, and then they had the
n to say you sugges
ted it.
2. To use
an expression like “bags of fun,” we should need to know Lady Jones
well enough to be a
her by her first name.
3. When
things quieted down, in a hushed silence, p
by a few ecstatic
“Amens”, all the new young lambs were blessed in the name of
God.
4. Why is
marking up a book i
to reading? First, it keeps you awake.
5. In 1991
the World Wide Web d
, instantly bringing order and clarity to the chaos
that was cyberspace.
6. Man has
tried to use this ecological knowledge by d
bringing parasites or
predators into an area where they might control the numbers of some
pests.
7. It was a
s feeling of
rage and misery and protest that expressed itself in the thought:
if I had not come it would have died like this, so why should I
interfere?
8. It is
worth remembering that wind is as i
to human health as cold; for by
disrupting the cushion of warmth which is trapped by pores and
hairs of the skin, each knot of wind has in effect on life equal to
a drop of one degree in temperature.
9. For
there were not many buyers really – there was only one, and he kept
these agents in separate offices to give a s
of competition.
10. He gives us, without relation to
exterior “events”, the quintessential part of himself—that part
which e
the fullest and deepest expression of himself as a man and
of his experience as a fellow being.
11. His voice was gentle; you could not
imagine that he could raise it in anger; his smile was b
.
12. I finally took a d
pass, as they called it, and
waited a year and tried again.
13. The i
of death among fetuses and offspring
produced by cloning is much higher than it is through natural
reproduction.
14. Each time they grew louder he cheered
under his breath and s
his eyes in the direction of the noise.
15. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to
add or d
.
16. Surely I would do no i
to the other
noble achievements of the war.
PART II SENTENCE PARAPHRASING (14 points
/ 2 points each)
Directions: Put the following sentences
into more explicit expressions on the basis of your understanding
of the texts from which they are taken. Pay special attention to
the parts underlined. Please write down your answers on the
Answer Sheet.
1. I
struck up a conversation with Kit, trying to establish
some kind of rapport.
2. “Bags of
fun” is no more a lazy substitute for thought in its
appropriate setting than is “extremely gracious” in the
setting that is appropriate for this expression.
3. People
usually believe that predators have an easy time of it,
killing defenseless prey.
4. In a
spirit of bravado he reached for the comb in his breast-pocket,
but a jab of pain reminded him that he probably had a broken
rib.
5. What
of the child who does not live up to the hope and dream
of the parent…?
6. The
combined efforts of composer and interpreter have meaning only
in so far as they got out to an intelligent body of
hearers.
7. We
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain.
PART III CLOZE (10
points / 1 point each)
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following
passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C),
and D) below the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits
into the passage and then write your answer A, B, C, or D in the
corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of
laboratories and buildings, and, most curious of all, a circular
mound of (1) ______ more than 650 feet in diameter. This cluster
has unique importance. It is Europe’s one and only atomic city
dedicated to (2) ______ the atom for peaceful purposes.
The strange buildings belong to the European Council for Nuclear
Research, more popularly known, from (3) ______ French initials, as
CERN. The council was born when a handful of statesmen and
scientific experts (4) ______ in Paris in 1950. Their aim
was to “establish an organization providing for cooperation among
European states (5) ______ nuclear research of a pure scientific
and fundamental character.”
The CERN agreement was signed in 1953, and work on the atomic city
began in 1954. Today CERN’s (6) ______ are among the most modern
and the most diversified in the world. Impressive as the scientific
aspect may be, the real significance of CERN may lie (7) ______ the
thousand people—the scientists, lab workers, and administrative
crew drawn from the fourteen member nations – (8) ______ populate
it. British engineers work side by side with Swiss
electricians and Yugoslav nuclear physicists. The (9) ______
languages are French and English, with German an unofficial third.
But CERN is no tower of Babel—the language of science is (10)
______ and all-embracing.
1. A. earth
B. dirt
C. mud
D.
soil
2. A. investigation
B. being investigated
C. investigate
D. investigating
3. A. his
B. their
C. its
D. those
4. A. joined
B. developed
C. met
D. met with
5. A. in
B.
on
C. for
D. about
6. A. resources
B. accommodations
C. facilities
D. funds
7. A. in
B.
with
C. on
D. at
8. A. whoever
B. who
C. which
D. whatever
9. A. living
B. authentic
C. official
D. real
10. A. worldwide B.
infinite
C. universal
D. comprehensive
PART IV ERROR
IDENTIFICATION (10 points / 1 point each)
Directions: Each of the following sentences has
four underlined words or phrases, marked A, B, C, and D. Just
identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be
changed in order for the sentence to be correct by writing A, B, C,
or D in the corresponding space on the Answer
Sheet.
1. I read in the paper
that (A) the killer and his accomplices are
(B) to be hung at noon
by order of (D) the governor.
2. After Suzanne
past (A) the examination, she realized that
(B) she had been unnecessarily
(D) worried about it.
3. The adult mosquito
usually lives for about (A) thirty days,
although the life span aried (B)
widely with temperature, humidity, and other
(D) factors of the environment.
4. He confessed that for
months (A) he was scarcely being able
to (B) look at the lawyer without
(C) becoming (D) angry.
5. Because
(A) radio communication had failed (B) once
before， I was afraid the men in the plane might be lost
(C) touch with (D) the crew on
the platform.
6. The servant returned
with a message for which (A) I was not in
the least (B) preparing (C)
my host would be unable to receive me
because of (D) his ill health.
7. The news of the loss
suffered (A) by our troops were(B)
much worse (C)
than we had expected (D) .
8. Members of the party
were (A) surprised by
Jackson winning (B) the election so
easily. purpose is to (C) help mentally
retarded children (D) .
10. It (A) was
a rather shock (B) to look into (C)
these matters and discover that the fault was solely
mine. (D)
PART V READING COMPREHENSION (25 points)
SECTION A
Passage Reading (10 points / 1 point each)
Directions: Complete the table on your Answer
Sheet using information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 1-10
on your Answer Sheet.
ARCHITECTURE-Reaching for the sky
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and
structures. A building reflects the scientific and technological
achievements of the age as well as the ideas and aspirations of the
designer and client. The appearance of individual buildings,
however, is often controversial.
The use of an architectural style cannot be said to start or finish
on a specific date. Neither is it possible to say exactly what
characterises a particular movement. But the origins of what is now
generally known as modern architecture can be traced back to the
social and technological changes of the 18th and 19th
centuries.
Instead of using timber, stone and traditional building techniques,
architects began to explore ways of creating buildings by using the
latest technology and materials such as steel, glass and concrete
strengthened steel bars, known as reinforced concrete.
Technological advances also helped bring about the decline of rural
industries and an increase in urban populations as people moved to
the towns to work in the new factories. Such rapid and uncontrolled
growth helped to turn parts of cities into slums.
By the 1920s architects throughout Europe were reacting against the
conditions created by industrialisation. A new style of
architecture emerged to reflect more idealistic notions for the
future. It was made possible by new materials and construction
techniques and was known as Modernism.
By the 1930s many buildings emerging from this movement were
designed in the International Style. This was largely characterised
by the bold use of new materials and simple, geometric forms, often
with white walls supported by stilt-like pillars. These were
stripped of unnecessary decoration that would detract from their
primary purpose—to be used or lived in.
Water Gropius, Charles Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were among the most influential of the
many architects who contributed to the development of Modernism in
the first half of the century. But the economic depression of the
1930s and the second world war (1939-45) prevented their ideas from
being widely realized until the economic conditions improved and
wartorn cities had to be rebuilt. By the 1950s, the International
Style had developed into a universal approach to building, which
standardized the appearance of new buildings in cities across the
world.
Unfortunately, this Modernist interest in geometric simplicity and
function became exploited for profit. The rediscovery of
quick-and-easy-to-handle reinforced concrete and an improved
ability to prefabricate building sections meant that builders could
meet the budgets of commissioning authorities and handle a renewed
demand for development quickly and cheaply. But this led to many
badly designed buildings, which discredited the original aims of
Modernism.
Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ideas on town planning, every large
British city built multi-storey housing estates in the 1960s.
Mass-produced, low-cost high-rises seemed to offer a solution to
the problem of housing a growing inner-city population. But far
from meeting human needs, the new estates often proved to be
windswept deserts lacking essential social facilities and services.
Many of these buildings were poorly designed and constructed and
have since been demolished.
