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Final Test Paper
New Horizon English (Band I) B级
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Part I Listening Comprehension (20%)
Section A:
Directions: Now you will hear ten short conversations. A question will follow each conversation. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.
B. By not staying so long.
C. By really liking the class.
D. By paying attention.
B. Make a good impression.
C. Get some rest.
D. Get a new attitude.
3. A. Because she is becoming mature.
B. Because she is wearing nice clothes.
C. Because she is growing up.
D. Because she is acting like a child.
4. A. Smile during her meeting.
B. Calm down and look relaxed.
C. Meet her new boss.
D. Go to a meeting.
5. A. Notice from her boss.
B. A better job at the company.
C. Confidence in herself.
D. The skills to get a better job.
6. A. Being surer of himself.
B. Wearing better clothing.
C. Buying expensive clothes.
D. Being right more often.
7. A. By improving the tone of his voice.
B. By making others believe in him.
C. By increasing his status.
D. By believing in other people.
8. A. she should do very well.
B. she should go to the interview.
C. she should get the job.
D. she should be positive.
9. A. Because she met him for the first time.
B. Because she was so bad.
C. Because she took a liking him.
D. Because she had little time.
10.A. By changing his feelings.
B. By knowing more things.
C. By not looking so nervous.
D. By not changing his ways.
SectionB:
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage about 150 words three times. Please fill in the following blanks with the exact words you hear from the tape.
Traditionally the heart is the part of the body where emotions come from. If you are a warm-hearted person, for example, you are 1)_______ and thoughtful towards others. If you have a heart of 2)______ ,you are a very generous person. But if you are 3)__________, you are cruel and unfeeling.
Of all the emotions, it is 4)________ that is most associated with the heart. In love 5)________, all over the world, love almost always goes together with the heart. As the song from Titanic 6)________: “ You are here in my heart and my heart will go on and on. Love can 7)________ us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we’re 8)________.”
Perhaps the role of the heart in love comes from what happens to it when you feel really attracted to someone. The strong 9)________ of attraction making your breathing 10)________ up and your heart beat faster.
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (10%)
Directions: Read the text quickly and answer the following questions. For questions 1-7, mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the text;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the text;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the text.
For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the text.
My Moving Experience
Moving is bad—in the sense of carrying furniture, equipment and hundreds of boxes out of one place and into another. This is why you hardly ever meet nomads (游牧人) anymore, even though "nomad" is a great job name. Suppose you're at a party, someone asks what you do, and you announce "nomad". Immediately you're talking about camels (骆驼). And you can leave anytime. "Excuse me," you say, "but I must go now and seek water."
I prefer to stay put. Sometimes, like weekends, it takes huge control just to get out of a chair.
Regardless, last Thursday we moved into a new house. Since I worked at home, this also required moving my office; the buyers of our old house wouldn't like seeing me everyday in one of their bedrooms.
My wife and I moved because as the kids kept getting bigger and bigger, the house kept getting smaller and smaller. It seemed the kids were eating the house. Moving seemed the wise thing to do even though, in the end, we decided to take the kids with us.
In my 20s, moving was done by my friend, but everyone secretly hated it. After six or seven hours of lifting chairs and chests, we'd take our resentment on the furniture. Once we dropped a new refrigerator down a flight of stairs.
Now I'm 47, so we hired movers. The idea of "movers" makes me nervous. A group of strong, muscular men come into your house, carry out all your possessions and drive off in a truck. This can't be good.
I chose "Low Cost Movers", checking to make sure they had a permit and were insured (保险). The customer service person, Julie, was helpful with this. "I'm not going to say we never have accidents or even that we rarely have accidents. What I am going to say is if you have a computer, now it would be a good time to back up your files (档案)."
The week before moving, Julie called twice to confirm (确定) our
Moving has taught me I need a better filing system (系统). I plan to have a better filing system in the new office. The old system was more of a piling system , meaning piling everything on my desk—a very good way of organization.
I'm impressed. "President" is a great job name, although, let's face it, not as great as "nomad".
I have no idea how big this moving company is. Maybe it's just a Mom and Pop operation. Maybe it's just Julie. Maybe Julie is the customer service department, the movers and now the president. It could be a long day.
11:
I sympathize with the moving company. "Look," I say, "these things happen. Trucks break. Refrigerators fall down stairs. Workers develop several personalities."
3 p.m. Movers still haven't arrived. I call Max, who's more enraged than before. "This is unheard-of," he says. "I'm taking another ＄10 off the hourly charge."
If this keeps up, I'll be moving for free and going nowhere.
6 p.m. The movers finally arrive. I call Max. He's fit to be tied. I point out that they're only 10 hours late. Max is not humored.
End of the story: The move is finally over. Everything's in boxes. My office is completely without organization. I feel at home.
For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the text.
1. The sentence "I prefer to stay put" (Paragraph 2) means "I prefer to remain in one place".
2. The family moves to a bigger house because they don't like the old one.
3. Once the speaker's friends dropped a new refrigerator down a flight of stairs because they knew they hated lifting it.
4. The speaker thinks it's a good idea to hire strong movers.
5. The speaker is in doubt about Julie's confirming.
6. The moving company mentioned in the story is a big one.
7. One word to describe the tone of the story is funny.
8. Each time the president of the moving company learns that the movers are late, he offers to _______________________.
9. Julie, the customer service person, suggests that the speaker should ________ if he has a computer.
10. The movers are ten hours late and they finally arrive at __________________.
Part III Reading comprehension (Reading in Depth) (30%)
Section A (10%)
Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. You need to put the answers A, B, C …or O on the answer sheet instead of the words. The words will not be scored. (答题纸上只填写单词前的字母)
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A)complaints B)curiosity C)attitude D)trend E)occasion F)regret G)envy H)bother I)extra J)amazed K)engaged L)aid M) acceptance N)guidance O)community |
Some people just can't keep from giving. That was the way it was with my neighbor. Despite being crippled, she was very active. In fact, she seemed to do more for the__1__every day than I ever do in a year's time. I was always__2__at the pace she kept. On Mondays and Fridays, she worked at a college giving students__3__on what career to choose. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she helped out at a church that gave__4__to people without homes. And on the weekends, she taught local kids who needed__5__help with their schoolwork. And most importantly, she always had a positive__6__. I don't remember once hearing her complain about her troubles. The stresses of everyday life never seemed to__7__her. Instead, she looked for every__8__she could find to spread her good humor around. I remember when I had just lost my job. She took a day off from work to spend time with me and listen to my trifles. She never once became impatient with my__9__. She never acted like there was anything in this world more important than what I had to say. What I__10__now is not having ever really done anything for her. I suppose she never needed it.
Section B (20%)
Directions: There are two reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question.
Passage one
Of all the family members, grandparents are probably the least valued. They are just the people who have always been around. They make a fuss over (对……关心备至) the children in the family, show off to their friends the achievements (成就) of this child or that child, and show countless pictures of new babies. Grandfathers can fix anything, and grandmothers always have homemade biscuits around.
When you are small, it’s fun to stay with your grandparents because they always let you do things you can’t do at home, and of cause, they buy you things. They are always able to baby-sit (临时照看婴儿) because they don’t go out much and actually prefer to see their grandchildren. They are usually good for a small loan (借款) now and then that doesn’t need to be paid back because they turn it into a gift. You respectfully listen to their advice but don’t follow it because they are old and don’t understand how things are in this day and age. You thank them politely for what they do for you, and then don’t call or visit them until you need something else. And, of cause, you never tell them how dear they are to you because they know how you feel about them anyway. Then all of sudden, they are no longer there to do the things that only grandparents can do, and you find yourself wishing that you had told them what they meant to you as people and not just as grandparents.
1. What is the position of grandparents in the family according to the writer?
A) They are the ones whom their children or grandchildren respect most.
B) They are the ones at whom their children or grandchildren usually laugh.
C) They are the most important people among family members.
D) They are the least important people among family members.
2. Grandparents usually do many things except________________.
A) look after their grandchildren
B) buy their grandchildren things
C) let their grandchildren do things they can’t do at home
D) tell their grandchildren how dear they are to them
3. What don’t children need to pay back the loan from their grandparents?
A) Their parents pay back the loan for them.
B) Their grandparents will forget the loan.
C) Grandparents turn the loan into a gift.
D) Their grandparents die before they have enough money to pay it back.
4. Children don’t take their grandparents’ advice because________________.
A) they don’t like the advice itself
B) they want to make decisions of their own
C) their advice is not of any help in the present situation
D) following their advice will make them act like old people
5. How do children feel after their grandparents die?
A) They feel sorry that grandparents are the least valued in the family.
B) They regret they didn’t express their true feelings to them.
C) They wish they had visited and called them more often.
D) They miss them very much because no one does the things that only grandparents do.
Passage two
No matter how large or notable the
That travel and tourism creates good jobs is indisputable. In the
There are many important differences between building an industrial based economy and one that relies largely on tourism. One of the historical barriers to industrialization has been a shortage of capital to build an industrial infrastructure or a lack of industrial-specific facilities such as deep-water ports. But we don’t need to build factories for tourism. Nor do we need the traditional resources of the Industrial Age to build new tourism economies. The essential raw materials for our industry include rich cultures, unique natural environments and willing hosts, and those raw materials exist already in abundance in every nation.
Only travel brings us face to face with people from different cities, different nations, and different outlooks. CNN can take us on a virtual world tour. We can be touched by images we see in the media but it is only when we shake hands with people from other nations and other cultures that we learn how things really are. And despite the many wonders of technology, we only truly touch one another when we travel and embrace one another’s culture, stature, and dreams.
6. From the first paragraph we learn that the travel industry_________________.
A) is going to give money to aid poverty
B) has improved its revenue
C) is better able to help reduce poverty than ever
D) is financially healthier than ever
7. The reason tourism benefits a country even more than traditional industries is that it ____________________.
A) has more potential to lead to other industries
B) uses less resources which harm the environment
C) requires much less capital
D) has more of a cultural benefit
8. By saying “… those raw materials exist already in abundance in every nation” the author is referring to ____________________.
A) hosts and staff to welcome visitors
B) people, the environment and culture
C) the capital used to build the tourism industry
D) the environmental resources to build up tourism
9. Why does the author assert that through travel we only “truly touch one another”?
A) He wants to emphasize tourism’s powerful effect on combating social problems.
B) He thinks that sincere learning of a culture is only possible by travel.
C) He believes travel is the only way cultures can learn about each other.
D) He believes tourism makes it possible for people to help one another.
10. From the text we can infer that the author writes this text to _________________.
A) point out that the travel industry has social, cultural as well as economic value
B) encourage people in the tourism industry to do more for poverty
C) show travel industry’s important role in nation building
D) argue that travel is an important industry
Part IV Cloze (10%)
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
Let’s face it; young people entering the workforce today are lazy. I have heard just about as much complaint about today’s workforce as I can take. __1__ to the view young people seem to have that things were better for __2__ generations, the fact is that there have never been so many great jobs for people wanting to enter the workforce. There are educational opportunities that have never existed before, and the standard of living is getting better all the time. Frankly, people who __3__ courage and commitment shouldn’t blame anyone but themselves for not taking the opportunities that are there for them.
My first job was working as a trashman. I hauled trash for six years before I got promoted to the position of manager. I wasn’t __4__ of hard work. __5__ the day was finished, my shoulder would hurt, but I never complained. I even assisted others and worked extra hours when I was needed. Unfortunately, young people today seem to be lacking the same desire I had to work hard.
I can boast that I never quit a job without being offered a better one. We can’t all __6__ at the top. Most of us need to pay our dues and work from the __7__. After managing the small company for which I hauled garbage, I found a job with the city public works office managing a small department. Now, after 25 years of working in the garbage business, I manage all of the city’s trash removal. Along the way I learned that a job well done is never __8__, and the person who does it will always triumph.
Where is the “can do” attitude that makes our country great? It doesn’t matte what you do, as long as you work hard and do your best. Young people need to __9__ with finding a line of employment that needs them, and quit looking for perfection in their __10__ position. If work were supposed to be enjoyable, it wouldn’t be called “work”.
- A) Rather B) Instead C) According D) Contrary
- A) last B) before C) prior D) next
- A) lack in B) lack C) lack of D) lack off
- A) scared B) feared C) threatened D) hatred
- A) At the time B) In the time C)Through the time D) By the time
- A) start from B) start with C) start out D) start off
- A) down up B) bottom up C) bottom top D) down top
- A) looked down on B) looked bad on C) looked out on D) looked upon
- A) commit B) communicate C) commence D) contact
- A) prior B) old C) initial D) next
Part V Translation (10%)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English.
1.There is an important meeting____________________ (请务必不要迟到).
2._____________________（既然我们已经学完这门课程），we shall start doing more revision work.
3._____________(与他的希望相反), his girlfriend’s parents are not as approachable as his parents.
4.___________________(她如此专心地读那本书)that she was not conscious of someone coming in.
5.You’d better learn something about the course _______________(在报名参加这门课程前).
Part VI Writing (20%)
Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a composition on the topic: To Compete, or to Cooperate? You should write at least 100 words following the outline given below in Chinese.
1. 有人认为大学应提倡同学间的竞争；
2. 也有人认为学生在大学里应学会合作；
3. 你的看法。