电大外语考试模拟试题2.doc

电大外语考试模拟试题2.doc
2004.12
一、语音题（每空1分，共10分）
1、essay A. holiday B. says C. away D. mayor
2、singer A. anger B. tongue C. eager D. single
3、splendid A. watched B. refused C. wretched D. impressed
4、owner A. powerful B. brown C. narrow D. power
5、latent A. squirrel B. centigrade C. level D. mend
6、flood A. loose B. blood C. moon D. noon
7、mud A. music B. human C. huge D. lung
8、creature A. effect B. energy C. reduce D. belief
9、mountain A. explain B. remain C. campaign D. captain
10、cookie A. frog B. oxygen C. wolf D. obvious
二、单选题（每空1.5分，共30分）
11、I'd like to ______the lessons once more before we take the exam tomorrow.
A. go for B. go over C. go round D. go about
12、He used to have a ____of stamp-collection, but he has given it up.
A. habit B. hobby C. custom D. like
13、Depending on____, Mary led us through an unknown part of the forest.
A. intuition B. sense C. vision D. image
14、It was difficult to guess what her ______ to the news would be.
A. impression B. reaction C. comment D. opinion
15、The hunter ______ on his back with his eyes half closed.
A. laid B. lied C. lay D. lain
16、The leaves are ____ down to the ground when autumn comes.
A. dropping B. following C. putting D. falling
17、I didn't ask him, but he ___ to help me with my homework.
A. gave B. offered C. took D. got
18、Do you think she has any ____ to refuse John's invitation?
A. reason B. cause C motive D. point
19、He just couldn't ___what in the world she had been talking about all the time.
A. figure out B. catch on C. set out D. work on
20、His parents _____, the orphan is now taken care of by her uncle.
A. have died B. dying C. dead D. having died
21、______ to the moon some day, I should see the surface of the moon with my own eyes.
A. Would I go B. Were I to go C. If I go D. If I had gone
22、The old lady felt very ____when her daughter forgot her birthday.
A. deceived B. deserted C. unfortunate D. disappointed
23、Neither Larry's father nor his mother _____at home.
A. are B. were C. was D. am
24、The famous Yong Le Bell is three times_____.
A. as tall as a man B. taller as a man
C. tallest than a man D. more tall than a man
25、In spite of your living so far away, we both hope very much _____.
A. your coming B. that you come
C. you to come D. that you have come
26、Excuse me, sir. I've lost my watch. Do you have ___ time?
A. the B. a C. an D. bland
27、It is because he is too young ____ he does not understand what has happened.
A. that B. so C. so that D. therefore
28、He had difficulties making himself understood, but we didn't ____impatience.
A. show no sign of B. make an exhibition of
C. show any sign of D. make any exhibition of
29、Two old friends meet ____chance in the street.
A. by B. on C. at D. for
30、He is one of the students who____ always on time.
A. is B. are C. was D. be
三、词形变换（每空1分，共5分）
31、(lie) No one would like to make friends with him, for he has been found a _liar___.
32、(purity)It's hard to find any totally _pure____water because of the water pollution.
33、(boy) He was born in China, spent his _boyhood___in England, and now he is an American citizen.
34、(surprised) To our great _surprise__, Mrs. White won't be able to join us in the party this weekend.
35、(able)Airplanes _enable____ people to travel great distances rapidly.
四、完形填空（每空1分，共20分）
Don't Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports
When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach said that I had lots of potential, and I became captain of my 36 . That was before all the fun was taken out of 37 .
At first, everyone on the team got 38 playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the 39 started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra money so their daughters could have 40 one-on-one training, got angry when she didn't give them more playing time in our 41 . The coach was replaced.
The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: All we did during practice was 42 . I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the 43 . Of course, all teams run drills; they are 44 . But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble 45 . Younger people shouldn't be doing exercises 46 for 18year-olds.
I was very thin 47 I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn't eat much, because I was afraid of being too 48 to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual 49 .
Is all this pressure necessary ? I 50 up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That's 51 , because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they 52 from the coach or their parents.
I continued playing football at school and 53 my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing 54 him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I 55 down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it's a lot easier to do it well.
36 A. class B. club C. team D. board
37 A. playing B. living C. learning D. working
38 A. great B. equal C. right D. extra
39 A. business B. struggle C. attempt D. pressure
40 A. free B. private C. good D. basic
41 A. matches B. courses C. lessons D. programs
42 A. jump B. play C. run D. shoot
43 A. duty B. meeting C. operation D. training
44 A. necessary B. boring C. scientific D. practical
45 A. speaking B. moving C. sleeping D. breathing
46 A. used B. intended C. made D. described
47 A. till B. since C. before D. because
48 A. full B. tired C. lazy D. big
49 A. size B. share C. space D. state
50 A. gave B. kept C. ended D. picked
51 A. sad B. shameful C. silly D. serious
52 A. received B. suffered C. brought D. felt
53 A. reconsider B. rediscovered C. re-formed D. replaced
54 A. at B. by C. for D. around
55 A. fell B. stepped C. slowed D. calmed
五、阅读理解（每题1分，共20分）
（一）
Television ,the modern wonder of electronics, brings the world into your own home in sight and sound,1. And the word "television" means "seeing far".
Television works in much the same way as radio. In radio, sound is changed into electromagnetic (invisible light) waves which are sent through the air. Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago. By the 1920s inventors and researchers had turned the early theories into working models.Yet it took another thirty years for TV to become an industry.
The influence of TV on the life of people is incalculable: it can influence their thoughts and their way of life. It can also add to their store of knowledge. Educational TV stations offer teaching in various subjects. Some hospitals use TV for medical students to get close-up views of operations. At first television programs were broadcast in black-and -white. With the development of science and technology, the problem of how to telecast them in full color was solved and by the middle 1960s the national networks were broadcasting most of their programs in color.
The programs that people watch are not only local and national ones. Since the launching of the first communications satellite, more and more programs are telecast "live" from all over the world. People in San Francisco were able to watch the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. And live telecasts now come from outer space. In 1969, the first astronauts to land on the moon televised their historic "moon walk" to viewers on the earth. Since then, astronauts have regularly sent telecast to the earth.
56. Television is said to be the modern wonder of electronics, because _______.
A. it is an industry
B. it broadcasts most of the programs in color
C. it brings the world into people's own home in sight and sound
D. it influences people's thoughts
57. Television became an industry in _______.
A. 1920 B. 1969 C. the l920s D. the 1950s
58. The word "incalculable" means______.
A. very great B. uncertain C. hard to tell D. very small
59. The development of science and technology made it possible for television programs to
A. be telecast again B. be kept for later use
C. be put on video tape D. be telecast in full color
60. The launching of communications satellites made it possible for people to _______.
A. get close up views of operations
B. learn various subjects
C. watch the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
D. watch local programs
（二）
The seriously depressed person sees himself in a very negative way. He is sure that he is alone and hopeless. He often blames himself for ordinary faults and shortcomings which he exaggerates. He is very discouraged about himself, the world, and his future. He becomes less interested in what is going on around him and doesn't get satisfaction from things he used to enjoy. Fatigue and early morning sleeplessness are quite common. The depressed person may want to sleep more than usual. He may lose his appetite and lose weight, or eat more than normally and gain weight. Another particular sign, seen in women, is crying spells. Many of these spells are short and common.
Depressives share the feeling that they have lost something very important to them, though often this is not really the case. From a feeling of loss, the depressed person progresses to false ideas that he is a loser and will always be a loser, that he must be worthless and perhaps not fit to live. He may even attempt suicide.
So many very depressed people attempt suicide that depressive illness may be considered the only fatal mental illness. Not all those suffering from depressive illness do attempt suicide. But the relationship is striking. It is estimated that as many as 75 percent of those who attempt suicide are seriously depressed. Other studies show that the person hospitalized for depression is about 36 times more likely to commit suicide than is the non-depressed person. The greatest risk occurs during or immediately after hospitalization. After age 40, the possibility of suicide increases in very depressed person. Almost twice as many women as men suffer from depressive illness. Almost twice as many women as men attempt suicide, but three times more men than women succeed.
61. Depressives share the feeling that they______.
A. have been unloved B. have grown old
C. have lost something D. have got something
62. Depressive illness may be considered the only mental illness_____.
A. which is fatal B. Which is puzzling
C. Which is incurable D. Which is sad
63. Of the people who attempt suicide, _____.
A. only a fraction suffer from depression
B. nearly half suffer from depression
C. most suffer from depression
D. none suffer from depression
64. The greatest risk of suicide occurs ____.
A. just after Christmas B. during financial crises
C. just after hospitalization D. before hospitalization
65. Statistics show that______.
A. more men than women commit suicide
B. children who are loved are never depressed
C. no men and women commit suicide
D. depressive illness is most obvious in men
（三）
It was not yet eleven o'clock when a boat crossed the river with a single passenger who had obtained his transportation at that unusual hour by promising an extra fare. While the youth stood on the landing-place searching in his pocket for money, the ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, together with the newly risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger's figure. He was a young man of barely eighteen years, evidently country bred, and now, as it seemed, on his first visit to town. He was wearing a tough gray coat, which was in good shape, but which had seen many winters before this. The garments under his coat were well constructed of leather, and fitted tightly to a pair of muscular legs; his stockings of blue yarn must have been the work of a mother or sister, and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the grayer head of the lad's father. In his left hand was a walking stick, and his equipment was completed by a leather bag not so abundantly stocked as to inconvenience the strong shoulders on which it hung. Brown, curly hair, well-shaped features, bright, cheerful eyes were nature's gifts, and worth all that art could have done for his adornment. The youth, whose name was Robin, paid the boatman, and then walked forward into the town with a light step, as if he had not already traveled more than thirty miles that day. As he walked, he surveyed his surroundings as eagerly as if he were entering London or Madrid, instead of the little metropolis of a New England colony.
66.The story took place in ____.
A. spring B. summer C. fall D. winter
67. The boatman was willing to take Robin across the river because___.
A. he wanted to make extra money.
B. he saw that Robin was young and rich.
C. he was going to row across the river anyway.
D. he felt sorry for him because Robin looked poor.
68. The stockings that Robin wore were obviously _____.
A. worn-out B. very expensive C. handmade D. much too big
69. From the way he looked, it was evident that Robin was ____.
A. a wealthy merchant's son B. a country boy
C. a soldier D. a foreigner
70.How did Robin appear as he walked into the town?
A. He was cheerful and excited. B. He was tired.
C. He seemed very sad.
D. He seemed frightened by the strange surroundings.
（四）
It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That's more or less what happened the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.
"I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens　going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder. "
But Hyde couldn't go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop