台州科技职业学院《基础英语一》2023-2024学年第一学期期末试卷.doc

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台州科技职业学院
《基础英语一》2023-2024学年第一学期期末试卷

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第一部分 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1、Peter has previous experience, ______ I think he’s the right person for the job.
A．or B．but
C．for D．so

2、I have no doubt that he will make it, but I wonder_____ he is really ready enough.
A．what B．why
C．whether D．That

3、_______ those past years, we couldn’t help feeling sorry for our parents who never had a rest all the year round.
A．Looking back upon B．Looking around C．Looking out D．Looking up

4、The police officers decided to conduct a thorough and ______ review of the case.
A．comprehensive B．complicated
C．conscious D．constant

5、—What did he do in return for free ________ and food offered by the kind couple?
—He helped their son with his lessons.
A．conservation B．admission
C．accommodation D．immigration

6、The reds and golds _____ into each other as the sun sank. What a beautiful sight!
A．bumped B．pressed
C．melted D．turned

7、Along with the email was my brother’s promise ______ I came first in the competition, he would buy me an MP4.
A．what B．that C．that if D．whether

8、All color fades, ________ under the impact of direct sunlight.
A．especially B．eventually
C．appropriately D．merely

9、In many homes in the UK, the first person _______ has to make tea for the family.
A．waking up B．to wake up
C．woke up D．woken up

10、—Pity you missed George's wedding.
—Well, I ________.
A．haven't been invited B．wouldn't be invited
C．hadn't been invited D．am not invited

第二部分 阅读理解（满分20分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
The air we breathe is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet without it we could not survive more than a few minutes. For the most part, the same air is available to everyone, and everyone needs it Some people use the air to live on while they sit around and fed sorry for themselves. Others breathe in the air and use the energy it provides to make a magnificent Jife for themselves.
Opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. Opportunity is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success. Opportunity must be seized and acted upon in order to have value. So many people are so anxious to “get in” on a “ground floor opportunity”, as if the opportunity will do all the work. That is impossible.
Just as you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to make it. It takes more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity, however. You must make use of that opportunity. That is not up to the opportunity. That is up to you. It doesn’t matter what “floor” the opportunity is on. What matters is what you do with it.
1、What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
A．Introduce the topic of the passage.
B．Compare air to opportunity.
C．Present the relationship between human and air.
D．To show the importance of air.
2、Which of the following may be used as the tittle of the passage?
A．Air and Opportunity B．Seize the Opportunity
C．How to Succeed D．Breathe the Fresh Air
3、The author wants to advise us to______.
A．breathe in the air
B．sit around and feel sorry
C．be up to the opportunity
D．make use of the opportunity and act on immediately

B
October 31, 2009, California
Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD’39, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died on October 31, He was 98.
Tsien, bom in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, graduated from the National Qinghua University in 1934 and in August of 1935 he left China to study at the Massachusetts Institute Technology. In 1936 he went to the California Institute of Technology to commence graduate studies. Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939 and would remain at Caltech for 20 years, becoming the Goddard Professor and establishing a reputation as one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States.
In 1943, Tsien and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the Second World War, he was amongst the other scientists participated the "Manhattan Project". After World War II he served as a consultant to the United States Army Air Force. During this time, Conlonel Tsien worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X—20Dyna-Soar which would later be the inspiration for the Space Shuttle. In 1945 Tsien Hsue-shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili——one of the Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai—shen’s leading military strategists. But in 1950, the Chinese-born scientist was accused of harboring Communist sympathies and stripped of his security clearance.
In September 1955 he was permitted to leave for China, where Tsien resumed his research, founded the Institute of Mechanics, and went on to become the father of China’s missile program, a trusted member of the government and Party’s inner circle, and the nation’s most honored scientist, Tsien retired in 1991 and has maintained a low public profile in Beijing, China. The PRC government launched its manned space program in 1992 and used Tsien’s research as the basis for the Long March rocket which successfully launched the Shenzhou V mission in October of 2003. The elderly Tsien was able to watch China’s first manned space mission on television from his hospital bed.
In his late years, since the 1980s, Tsien devoted himself to spirituality research, and advocated scientific investigation of traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong and ""special human body functions".
1、The underlined word "commence" in this passage probably means ________.
A．make up B．get
C．begin D．promise
2、Tsien Hsue-shen got married at the age of ________.
A．45 B．28
C．24 D．34
3、What is the right order of the events related to Tsien Hsue-shen?
a. his later life
b. return to China
c. career in the U. S. A
d. his early life and education
A．a-b-c-d B．d-c-b-a
C．d-b-c-a D．c-b-d-a
4、Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．Tsien Hsue-shen got a doctor’s degree in 1939.
B．Tsien Hsue-shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shen.
C．Tsien Hsue-shen has made a contribution to the Space Shuttle.
D．Tsien Hsue-shen was interested in traditional Chinese medicine, qigong and "special human body funcitions" in his later life.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．
There was a businessman who was deep in debt and could see no way out. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, 1 if anything could save his company from bankruptcy (破产).
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is 2 you,” he said. After listening to the businessman’s troubles, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a 3 , and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as 4 as he had come.
The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, 5 by John D．Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! “I can 6 my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But 7 , he decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the 8 to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed 9 , he negotiated better deals. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the 10 with the uncashed check. At the 11 time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to 12 the check and share his success story, a 13 came running up and grabbed the old man. “I’m so delighted I 14 him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s 15 escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D．Rockefeller.” And she led the old man away 16 the arm.
The businessman just stood there, 17 . All year long he’d been buying and selling, 18 he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or 19 , that had turned his life around. It was his 20 self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
1、A．wondering B．suspecting C．estimating D．hesitating
2、A．attacking B．disturbing C．interrupting D．amusing
3、A．number B．note C．letter D．check
4、A．calmly B．quietly C．quickly D．proudly
5、A．signed B．handed C．drawn D．deposited
6、A．lose B．remove C．face D．ignore
7、A．instead B．therefore C．rather D．meanwhile
8、A．weakness B．belief C．urge D．strength
9、A．creativity B．permission C．optimism D．curiosity
10、A．hospital B．company C．street D．park
11、A．advanced B．appointed C．announced D．delayed
12、A．hand back B．give out C．put out D．turn over
13、A．policeman B．banker C．nurse D．guard
14、A．beat B．cheated C．pushed D．caught
15、A．never B．seldom C．always D．occasionally
16、A．on B．in C．by D．at
17、A．exhausted B．astonished C．disappointed D．excited
18、A．convinced B．informed C．reminded D．warned
19、A．created B．imagined C．discovered D．donated
20、A．long-lost B．non-existent C．ever-lasting D．newly-found

第二节（每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
On arriving in the United States，I felt everything was different There were many new things I had to adapt toOne thing that really1．(take) me a long time to adapt to was speaking the language
I remember 2．(clear) that I had to struggle to learn English because I couldn't even write a short paragraph to introduce myself at the first day of my English classThe teacher asked me 3．it was difficult for meIf it was，I could change to level one!
However，I was stubborn and swore that I was going to succeedI started to spend many 4．(hour)per day，even though it was stressful，because I wanted to take advantage 5．this special chance to study English in the USA．
I felt depressed because I couldn't understand 6．people were saying even though I made great effortsHowever，I still kept 7．(try) and never gave up
Now， I can tell you that I have improved a lot， but sometimes it is still easy for me to get8．(confuse) if I don't know what topic people 9．(talk) aboutTo adapt to this new language， I had to tell 10．( I ) that I could do itI really believe I can!

第四部分 写作（共两节）第一节 短文改错（满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文．文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处．每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改．
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词．
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉．
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词．
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分．
My mum is a volunteer in a hospital． She brought dinner every Sunday to the people attending their relatives who are in hospital．
One Sunday， Mum asked me to help her with dinner． At the first， I didn't want to， so in the end she persuaded me to go． Half an hour late， we arrived． We quickly set up a table and started giving people food． The people serving there were deeply moved and showed our gratefulness． It was amazed to look at people's face， especially those of children． It made me feel gladly for being there．
That day I realized that the value of life is not only about receiving， but giving as well．

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华。你市博物院将举行中国传统民俗文化展，请给你校交换生Peter写一封电子邮件。要点如下：
1. 展览时间；
2. 展览内容；
3. 邀请参加。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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