国家开放大学电大专科《英语阅读1》2020-期末试题.docx

国家开放大学电大专科《英语阅读（1）》2021-2021期末试题及答案（试卷号：2155）
Part I
Questions 1一10 are based on the following two tables. (30 pointsy 3 points each) If s David Hill's first day at his new school. Here is his timetable.
Timetable

9. 00-
9.45
9.45-
10. 30
B
R
E
A
K
10. 45-
11. 30
11. 30-
12. 15
B R E A
K
13.30-
14.15
14.15-
15.00
15.00-
15.45
Monday
English
Science
Geography
History
Maths
Music
French
Tuesday
Maths
English
Science
Art
Computing
Wednesday
Science
English
Maths
Gym
Geography
Thursday
Spanish
Maths
Science
History
English
French
Gym
Friday
Computing
French
Gym
English
Spanish
Geography
Maths

Rooms For First Year Students
Art
4
Computing
16
English
21
French
25
Geography
7
Gym
Gymnasium
History
11
Maths
15
Music
9
Science
Science Lab 2
Spanish
23
Question 1—10: Complete the following sentences based on the information you get from the two

tables above.
1. David has an lesson on Monday morning.
2. There is a fifteen minutes' break in the morning between 10. 30 and
3. David has Geography lesson(s) every week.
4. David has a lesson on Thursday afternoon between 14. 15 and 15. 00.
5. The first lesson begins at o'clock.
6- The last lesson finishes at in the afternoon,
7. David has lesson(s) in Room 11 every week.
8. David needs to go to to have Gym lessons.
9.is the first lesson after lunch break on Friday.
10. David has French lessons in Room .
Part H
Read passages 1 and 2 then choose an answer from the choices given to complete statements 11—20 based on your understanding of the passage. (30 points9 3 points each)
Passage 1
Changes in livelihood
UTHORITATIVE SCHOLARS place China's social development at the 4 lower 'medium level' compared to the rest of the world. China has gone through several twists and turns since 1949, and many people's lives have changed for better or worse as a result. However, today a general improvement is evident. Since 1978 in particular^ many people's life-styles have improved at a greater pace than in the previous 30 years.
Chinese have not only improved on their diet, clothing, housing and the products they use every day, but their disposable income has also grown as well. By the end of june 1995, rural and urban bank savings mounted to 3,545. 8 billion yuan.
Figures show that since the 1990s communications equipment, housest apartments and cars have begun to replace TV sets, refrigerators and washing machines (which in turn replaced bikes, watches and seving machines at the beginning of the 1980s) as the largest individual consumption items.
According to a conservative estimate, China has about 100, 000 private cars today. Seven percent of urban residents have installed home phones. The Chinese Post and Telecommunications Ministry plans 120 million new phone lines for the year 2000, or a phone for every urban household. Today fax machines, computers and mobile phones are very common and face a booming market.
Questions 11—15 are based on Passage 1.
11. The passage is mostly taken from•
A. a newspaper B. a magazine
C. a novel
12. The sentence " China has gone through several twists and turns since 1949" may mean that.
A. China has changed for better since 1949
B- China has changed for worse since 1949
C. China has gone through many ups and downs
13. Which of the following is NOT among the list of things that Chinese have improved on?
A. Diet. B・ Schooling.
C. Money for saving.
14. According to the passage, which of the following appeared the latest as the result of replacement?
a a B. Washing machines.
A. Apartments. °
C. Watches.
15. urban residents have installed home phones.
A.100,000
C. Seven percent of
B. 120 million
Passage 2
Test-tube baby born in Chongqing
Chongqing,China's newest municipality, with a population of 30 million, has welcomed ts first test-tube baby； three more are expected to be born this year.
The boy, weighing three kilograms, was born on 9 April, 1997 at the Chongqing Maternity Hospital. The mother had been unable to conceive because of blocked fallopian tubes.
The hospital pioneered the research of assisted reproductive technology in southwest China by launching a study in 1994. The hospital has technology on 67 women 27 percent of whom became pregnant. The said three more test-tube babies, including a set of triplets, will be born this year.
Chongqing is the seventh Chinese city to report the birth of test-tube babies following Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Haikou and other cities. More than 250 test-tube babies have been born in these cities since the Beijing in 1988・
Questions 16—20 arc based on Passage 2.
16. Which of the following statements is NOT true about Chongqing?
A・ It has a population of 40 million.
B. It's China's newest municipality.
C. It has just welcomed its first test-tube baby.
17. The first test-tube baby in Chongqing .
A. weighs four kilogrammes when born
B. was a boy
C・ was born at the chongqing children's Hospital
18. There are supposed to be altogether test-tube babies bom in Chongqing this year.
A. 4 B. 3
C. 6
19. Among the 6’ women, on whom the assisted reproductive technology has been used, about became pregnant.
A.17 B. 18
C. 19
20. Which of the following cities has not reported the birth of test-tube babies?
A. Beijing. B. Shanghai.
C. Suzhou.
Part ID
Questions 21—30 are based on Passage 3. (20 points9 2 points each)
Passage 3
How to Use London Telephones
1 Telephone calls in Britain are in two classes： local calls, and trunk calls. Short distance calls of up to about twenty miles are classed as local calls, and all calls over longer distances are classed as trunk calls.
2 In London, telephones now have all-figure numbers which do not include an exchange name； for example, 071—222—2870. If you make a local telephone call in London to a subscriber in London, you leave out the 0?l and dial only the last seven figures of the number of the person whom you are calling. To make a trunk call lo or from London, you dial all the figures of the subscriber's number.
3 The names, addresses and telephone numbers of subscribers in inner London are at present printed in four directories. There are separate directories for people whose names begin with the letters A tc D, E to K, L to R and S to Z. When you look up a person's number in the telephone directory, you will find his name on the left side of the column and his telephone number on the right side.
4 All call-boxes in London are on the STD system, which has now been extended to all parts of Britain. The letters STD stand for Subscriber Trunk Dialing, and on this type of telephone you can dial many long-distance numbers direct as well as local numbers. An STD telephone is usually free, and the coin-box has slots for coins. To make a call, you pick up the receiver and dial the number before putting any money into the coin-box. When the person whose number you are ringing answers, there will be a special rapid tone called the paytone. As soon as you hear this, you put your money in the box. The paytone then stops, and you can start to speak. To make a trunk call by STD, you dial first the STD code number for the town that you are calling and then the number of the subscriber. For example, the STD code number for trunk calls from London to Bristol is 0272； if you telephone a person living in Bristol whose number is Bristol 294020, you would dial 0272—294020. When your time is up the paytone is repeated； if you wish to continue your talk, you must then put more money into the slot. The length of time allowed is doubled between 6 p. m. and 8 a. m. Now pay phones work slightly differently, however.
5 Besides the STD system, there is also an International Subscriber Dialing service for making telephone calls to most of the countries of Europe, but some calls can only be made from telephones without a coin-box. You can dial direct to many places in France, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
6 A special recorded telephone information service is provided every day for visitors to London. This service gives visitors details of the main events of the day in and around London. The information is recorded in four languages： English, French, German and Spanish. When you wake up in the morning and you want to know what the weather will be like in London, dial 246—8901 ； and, if you want to know time, dial 123.
Directions：
Read passage 3 and then decide which of the statements after it are TRUE and which are False. On your answer sheet, indicate T for TRUE or F for FALSE against the number for each of items 21—30 for the answers you choose.
21. Telephone calls in Britain can be classified into two types： local calls and international calls.
22. If you call from London to a subscriber in London, you need to dial 071 first.
23. If you want to know the telephone number of Mr Williams, you need to look it up in
4
the directory for people whose name begins with the letters S to Z.
24. You can usually find a person's name on the left side of the column in a telephone directory.
25. Only the call-boxes in London are now on the STD system.
26. To make a call, you need to put money into the coin-box first and then dial the number after hearing the pay tone.
27. To make a trunk call by STD, you need to dial STD code number first.
28. All calls can be made from telephones with a coin-box.
29. If you go to London, you can even get information over telephone in Chinese.
30. You can even get information about weather in London by dialing 246—8901.
Part IV
Questions 31—35 are based on Passage 4. （20 points, 4 points each）
Passage 4
If you smoke - particularly cigarettes, you are far more likely than a non-smoker to suffer or die from several major diseases - notably lung cancer.
One smoker in four dies prematurely（过早地）because of his smoking. The risk of dying for a heavy smoker （ between the ages of 35 and 55） is roughly equal to the risk run by a non-smoker, 10 years older.
Cigarette smoking - and to a lesser degree pipe and cigar smoking - may aggravate （使恶 化）or be partly responsible for the development of a wide variety of other diseasest which include cancers of the mouth and throat, peptic ulcers （胃溃疡），and loss of teeth.
Women who smoke during pregnancy produce babies on average about 5 to 8 ounces lighter than those who don't.
Take lung cancer for example：
Britain's lung cancer figures are the highest in the world, and rising. Ninety people die every day, 33,000 in 1969. Almost all these deaths can be attributed directly to tobacco smoking. The prospects of a cure for lung cancer are, at present, remote, and it is impossible to estimate when, if ever, someone will find one. You would be foolish to rely on someone finding a cure before you needed it. One man in eight who dies between the age of 35 and 64 is killed by lung cancer. The figures for women in this age group are lower，about 1 in 20. This is partly because women smoke less, and have not smoked as long. But the figures are still very high.
Directions：
Read passage 4 and then give a short answer to each of the questions 31—35 on your answer sheet. (20 points, 4 points each)
31. At what rate do smokers die prematurely because of their smoking?
32. What kind of babies will be produced by women who smoke during pregnancy?
33. Which country has the highest lung cancer figures in the world?
34. Which might be a more possible cause for loss of teeth, cigarette smoking or pipe smoking?
35. What's the figure of women killed by lung cancer between the age of 35 and 64?
试题答案及评分标准
(仅供参考)
Part I (30 points, 3 points each)
1. English
2. 10.45
3. three/3
4. French
5. 9. 00
6.15.45 、
7. two/2
i
8. Gymnasium
9. Spanish
10. 25
Part n (30 points9 3 points each)
11. A
12. C
13. B
14. A
15. C
16. A
17. B
18. C
19. B
20. C
Part [JI (20 pointsr 2 points each)

21. F
22. F
23. T
24. T
25. F
26. F
27. T
28. F
29. F
30. T

Part IV (20 points, 4 points each)
31. One smoker in four/25%.
32. Babies on average about 5 to 8 ounces lighter.
33. Britain.
34. Cigarette smoking.
35. About 1 in 20.