电大英语复习题.doc

第一部分 交际用语
1.－Hello, may I talk to the headmaster now?
－C. sorry, he is busy at the moment
2. –What kind of TV program do you like best?
 A. It’s hard to say, actually           
3．－Oh, sorry to bother you.
C. That’s okay
4．－Can you turn down the radio, please?
A. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize it was that loud
5. --Would you mind if I open the window for a better view?
C. Of course not
6. – Hello, could I speak to Don please? B. Who’s speaking
 7. --May I know your address?
 A. Sure. Here you are    
8. — How’s the movie? Interesting?
 B. Far from. I should have stayed home watching TV
9. — What if my computer doesn’t work?
B. Ask Anne for help
10. --Let’s take a walk.    
C. Yes,please           
11. – What’s the problem, Harry?
 A. I can’t remember where I left my glasses    
12. — Is this the motel you mentioned?
 A. Yes, it’s as quiet as we expected    
13. －Would you like to have dinner with us this evening?
B. Sorry, but this evening I have to go to the airport to meet my parents
14. – Well, Mary, how are you?
   C. I’m fine       
15. — Would you like to see the menu?
  A. No, thanks. I already know what to order 
16. -- I think the Internet is very helpful.
 A. Yes, so do I    
第二部分  词汇与结构
1. The difinition leaves __ for disagreement.
B. much room    
2. I prefer classic music __ pop music. B. to       
3. Ancient Greece is the __ of western civilization.
       C. origin        
4. It is very convenient ___ here.
A. living    
5. All the team members tried their best. We lost the game, ___        C. however
6. The sun heats the earth, _______ is very important to living things.      C. which   
7. When we were having a meeting, the director _____ the bad news by telephone.
B. was told      
8. More and more people in China now _______ to work regularly.
A. drive     
9. Let me _
__
_ the case carefully before I draw a conclusion.
      B. look into    
10. The patient acted on the doctor’s _____ and finally recovered.      C. advice 
11. Silk ____ by Chinese for thousands of years now.
A. has been used       
12. You __ to lock the door at night.      B. ought       
13. You must explain ___ how they succeeded ____ the experiment.   C. to us, in
14. Before I got to the cinema, the film __.A. had begun   
15. I have lived here ___ 1997.
B. since       
16. A lecture hall is ___ where students attend lectures.
     B. one           
17. I’m tired. I __ working very hard.    B. have been           
18. He keeps ____ at himself in the mirror.      Blooking              
19. The bedroom needs _____.
   C. decorating     
20. Before she left on the trip, she ___ hard.
A. had trained     d
21. He is the man ___ dog bit me         C. whose
22. Mary forgot ___ a letter to her mother, so she wrote to her just now.    B. to write     
23. – What’s happened to Tom?
   -- ___ to hospital.
   B. He’ll be taken      
24. He was ____ about his new job. C. over the moon     
25. Everything ___ if Albert hadn’t called the fire brigade.
B. would have been destroyed
 26. On his first sea _ he was still quite young but showed great courage to face the storm.
   B.voyage      
27. I broke my leg when I __ skiing in America. A. was    
 28. She was convicted __
murder.   C. of         
29. He, as well as I, ___ a student.
A. is             
30．Mother was busy. Although she was not watching the basketball on TV, she __ it on the radio. A. was listening to      
31. Hardly ___ home when it began to rain. A. had I got    
32. It happen ___ a winter night.
    C. on
第三部分 完型填空
Passage 1
There are advantages and disadvantages to  1    Asian and Western educational methods. For example, one advantage  2  the education in Japan is that students there learn much more math and science  3  American students. They also study more hours each day than Americans  4   . The study is difficult, but it  5  students for a society that values discipline and self-control. There is, however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools,  6  many students say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorized.
The advantage to the education in North America,  7  the other hand, is that students learn to think by themselves. The system prepares them for a society that values  8  ideas. There is, however, a disadvantage. When students graduate from high school, they haven’t memorized  9  many basic rules and facts as students in other countries  10   .
1.  C. all      2.  C. to
3.   C. than             4. A. do     
5.    C. prepares     6.  B. yet     
7.  B. on    8.  C. new     
9. C. as 10. A. have       
Passage 2
A study has shown that fitness is the key (1) _____ long life, irrespective of body shape (2) _____ even smoking habits. Researchers discovered that people who exercise live longer than (3)______, even if they are overweight and smoke.
The study found that (4) ______ fit of the 6,000 middle-aged men in the study were five times more likely to die within six years of the start of the research than the fittest. This was true (5)_______the men had heart problems, smoked or were overweight. Scientists concluded that it was better (6)_______and active than skinny and sedentary. Dr Ken cooper, a fitness expert, said, “ You are better off smoking a packet of cigarettes a day and exercising regularly than (7)_______ a non –smoker and sedentary.” Although he adds, “But don’t misunderstand me. I am not endorsing (8)_____, I am trying to tell you how dangerous it is to be sedentary.”
The British Government is putting pressure (9)_____ manufacturers to reduce high levels of sugar in food and to restrict the hard-sell of junk food to children in order to improve the nation’s health. But the new study suggests the Government should encourage more people (10)_____.
1.   C. to       2.  A. or    3.  C. those who do not    4.   C. the least 5.    B. whether or not      6.  A. to be fat     7.  A. being        8.   C. smoking      
9 B. on      10.    C. to exercise     
Passage 3
More and more people (1) ____ to install burglar alarms in their houses if they want to get insurance. Insurance companies (2) ____ people in certain areas to install the alarms before they will give them insurance for the fast year. This is (3) ____ to increasing crime in some parts of the country. This can be a problem for people (4) ____ are struggling to make (5) ____ ends meet. The alarms, (6) ____ can be very expensive, need to be installed by an electrician. It is (7) _____ that 20% of homes have alarms installed, and that another 20% of people plan (8) _____ but have not installed them (9) _____. The insurance companies told people (10) _____ the alarms on all doors and windows.
1.   C. have 2.   B. have been asking   3.  A. due       4.   B. who      5.  C. – ( 不填)    6.  A. which   7.  C. estimated 8.    B. to have them installed    9.  C. yet       10.  A. to install          
Passage 4
Peter Blake is a successful businessman, but he (1)____________ to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and (2) ____________ working in a pub when he (3) ____________ to start his own business. Peter had always (4) ____________ interested in plants and flowers, (5) ____________he decided to set up a company (6) ____________ cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his (7) ____________, but soon he took (8) ____________ two people to help him. The company has been growing (9) ____________ for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich, (10) ____________ he complains that now he doesn’t work with plants but with a computer every day!
1.   B.used    2.  B.was    
   3.  C. decided 4.   C. been
5.    A.  so     6.   B.which  
  7.    C.own     8.  B.on   
 9.    A.--     10.   C. but              
第四部分 阅读理解
短文理解1
There have been changes in all sorts of different areas of British society. In recent years in the UK we have had a very large increase in the number of couples who get divorced.
After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces. The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly. But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married. At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years. Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who aren't married or are born to lone parents. There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a woman rather than a man.
The average family size now in the UK is 1.8 children per couple, which means that there's been quite a decline in the birth rate in the UK along with other European countries.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss? C. The increasing divorce rate in the UK.
2. During the last ten years, __
A. the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK
3. According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to __.A. soar (急剧上升)
4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
B. The highest divorce rate was around 1969.
5. The last paragraph tells us __.
B. the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now
短文理解2
People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollution is caused either by man’s release of completely new and often artificial (人造的) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质)，such as oil from oil tankers into the sea.
Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three of four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which can’t be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metal and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess use and careless disposal (处理) of the products we use in our daily lives.
1. The main cause of pollution is ____.A.   the release of artificial or natural substances into the environment
2. Much of the pollution could be controlled if only __.
C.    all sides concerned would make more efforts
3. Food packages, bottles and tins for drinks can cause __________.
B. both a litter problem and a waster of resources
4. Which of the following can not help solving the problem of pollution?C. Eating.
5. What does the underlined word “litter” mean in paragraph 2?
C.     industrial pollution
短文理解3
A funny thing happened on the way to the communication revolution: we stopped talking to each other.
       I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his mobile phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and – poof! – I was cut off as if I had become absent from the conversation.
       The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones. They were passing people without looking at them, saying hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pat their dogs. It seems that the limitless electronic voice is preferred to human contact.
       The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people feel absent. Recently I was in a car with three friends. The driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone. There we were, four friends driving down the highway, unable to talk to each other because of the small thing designed to make communication easier.
       Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a setback (退步) to the closeness of human interaction. With e-mail and instant message over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
       As almost every contact between human beings gets automatic, the emotional distance index goes up. Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the assistant when you can swipe you credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to the clerk who lives in the neighborhood when you can put your card into the ATM?
       More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn’t really have time to talk. The technology devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
       I own a mobile phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail telephone, and an e-mail account. Giving them up isn’t a choice. They are great for what they are intended to do. It’s their unintended results that make me upset. What good is all this gee-whiz technology if there is no one in the room to hear you crying out “Gee whiz”?
1. The author’s experience of walking in a park with a friend recently made him feel ___.
A. unhappy     
 2. According to the author, human contact in a park means __.
C. both A and B
3. According to the author, the more connected we get in communications technology, the ___ we are.
B. more disconnected        
4. What are the examples the author gives to explain his idea that every advance in communications technology is a setback to the closeness of human interaction? C. All of the above.
5. What is the unintended result of communication technology, according to the author?
B. It actually creates a distance between people instead of bringing them together.
短文理解4
Some people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. Their answer is the bicycle, or “bike”.
In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work every day. In New York City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They claim that if more people rode bicycles to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city and therefore less dirty air from car engines.
For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For exa