新编实用英语1 期末试题

《大学英语》第二学期期末考试

班级 专业 姓名 学号

一．写出下列的单词的意思（15分）

1. prized

2. storage

3. spray

4. lotion

5. Runny nose

6. reunion

7. buffet

8. cozy

二．句子翻译（40分）

1. A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already。

2. The television repairman who wears a uniform tends to get more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes.

3. To be what we are, and to be what we can capable of becoming , is the only end of life.

4. We’re obsessed with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖). 5. Nobody ever gets to see him in their homes, though, because he only comes when everybody is sound asleep..

6. Rather than lock myself in my loneliness, I have tried each Christmas to learn a little more about the culture of the country and know more about my American friends.

7. I felt a little uncomfortable, knowing that I was occupying her place, but her gesture conveyed to me the sincere hospitality with which I was treated by Maria's whole family.

9. potluck 10. highlight 11. leading 12. National Day 13. assume 14. elaborate 15.prescription

8. Looking at the tie-clasp, I know I would always regard it as a memento of an unforgettable evening of good friendship during a hard and lonely period of my life

三 改正下列句子中的语法错误。（15分）

Tim thinks far, and his father thinks farther, and his grandfather thinks the

most farthest of all.

The Yellow River is the second long river in China.

This is a very poor excuse I have ever heard.

Christmas is the more important celebration than Thanksgiving Day.

This material is the most light in weight.

This flower is more beautiful and smells nice of all the flowers in the garden.

四 阅读理解（30分）

How can we read efficiently？ When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short,

jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span. The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which

trains a person to read isolated words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

1. The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________ .

A. one’s familiarity with the text B. one’s purpose in reading

C. the length of a group of words D. lighting and tiredness

2. The author may believe that reading ______.

A. requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

B. requires a reader to see words more quickly

C. demands an deeply-participating mind

D. demands more mind than eyes

3 What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second parapraph?

A. The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.

B. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see and to comprehend words.

C. The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading.

D. The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words.

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.

B. Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.

C. The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.

D.The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.

5. The tune of the author in writing this article is ________

A critical B neutral C pessimistic D optimistic

Disraeli was as wonderful a letter-writer as he was a novelist. His letters show that his capability to observe was matched only by his ability to describe, and they are made more lively by his overdeveloped sense of self-dramatization（戏剧化的自我表现）as well as by his permanent sense of the greatness of his own fate. He goes through these pages like some beautiful bird of paradise, spreading his multicolored feathers and never passing long enough to become boring.

As early as 1830, when only 26, he is found advising Benjamin Austin to carefully keep his letters for his descendents（后代）. Fortunately Austin and others followed his advice. As a result over 10,000 letters in his own hand have survived, quite apart from dictated letters. Disraeli rarely kept a diary, and poured his thoughts, desires and reflections into his correspondence.

What treasures there lie in store! We leave him in 1837 with his longed-for election to Parliament, but ahead seemingly appear the high peaks of his career with the twin mountains of his two premierships （首相职位）and his friendship with the Queen. Lord Escher maintained that the letters between Disraeli and Queen Victoria had largely been destroyed, but this was not so. A new, bright and searching light will eventually shine on that extraordinary political and romantic relationship.

6. This passage appears to be written by_________ .

A a friend of Disraeli's B a neighbor of Disraeli's

C a literary critic D an autobiographer（自传作者）

7．" … his capacity to observe was matched only by his ability to describe …" means _________ .

A he was as accomplished an observer as he was a descriptive writer

B his capacity to observe could not be compared with his ability to describe

C his capacity to observe is greater than his ability to describe

D his ability to observe is greater than his capacity to describe

8．During his lifetime Disraeli pursued the career of _______ .

A a letter-writer B a politician C a novelist D a correspondent

9． Even as a young man Disraeli realized that one day his letters would be _______ .

A out-dated B well-connected C destroyed D widely read

10． Disraeli's two premierships and his friendship with the Queen are described as being ________ .

A difficult to conquer B unconquerable obstacles

C peaks of success D impossible challenges