江西水利职业学院2014---2015学期期末考试《大学英语》课程试卷A题号 总分 分数说明：1.本试卷适用对象为2014年级所有专业。
2.本试卷考试形式为闭卷。
一、词汇与结构题（本大题共10题，每小题1分，共计10分）得分 评卷人Part I Vocabulary & StructureDirections: This part is to test your ability to construct grammatically correct sentences. It consists of 2 sections. Section ADirections: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete each one by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.1. Most of the retired people are happy ________ their quiet life in the country- side. A) to B) of C) with D) on2. My brother reference books, but ________ of them was of any use for my report. A) neither B) none C) eitherD) all3. I don’t regret ________ her wh at I thought about her proposal, even if it upset her. A) tell B) to tellC) told D) telling4. ________ that I wasn’t going to get much chance for promotion, I soon became bored with my work. A) To realize B) Realizing C) Being realized D) Realized5. Please note that Boston next week, ________ you want to call me and discuss things. A) in case B) unless C) untilD) so that6. I tried to get out of the business ________ I found impossible to carry on. A) why B) which C) what D) where7. Jack would rather spend time complaining than ________ the problem by himself. A) solve B) solved C) solves D) to solve8. They will not start the project until the board chairman ________ back from South Africa.A) will come B) is coming C) came班级姓名学号………………………密…………………封………………………线………………D) comes9. Scientists should be kept ________ of the latest developments in their research areas.A) informB) informingC) informedD) to inform10. Only when we had finished all the work ________ that it was too late to take a bus home.A) did we realizeB will we realizeC) we did realizeD) we will realize二、词形变换题（本大题共10题，每小题1分，共计10分）得分评卷人Section BDirections: There are 10 incomplete statements here. You should fill in each blank with the proper form of the word given in brackets. Write the word or words in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.11. Obviously, nuclear power can never be the only (solve) ________ to energy crisis.12. It was in his childhood that he read most of the books (write) ________ by Mark Twain.13. Nobody at the meeting would (belief) ________ that the new proposal could be carried out smoothly.14.If the rent is as much as $750 a month, water, gas and electricity should (include) ________.15. The lecture was so (bore)________ that many classroom fell asleep.16. Mr. Smith considered (sell) ________ his car and his house before moving to Beijing.17. My mother (enjoy) ________ a better health since we came to live in this beautiful seaside city.18. The government is trying to find a way to deal with the problem of pollution (effective) ________.19. The young man did not have enough money; otherwise he (buy) ________ a more expensive watch.20. With the help of the police, the woman finally found her (lose) ________ child aftera sleepless night.三、阅读理解题（本大题共25题，每小题2分，共计50分）得分评卷人Part III Reading ComprehensionDirections: This part is to test your reading ability. There are 5 tasks for you to fulfill. You should read the reading materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed.Task 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40.For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D).You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.College is a place to explore many possibilities；you really can’t do it all-unless you manage your time wisely. Here are some tips I have found very helpful for managing my time and maximizing my study efforts：1.Determine your goals. What do you want to get out of a college education? Academic(学术的) knowledge? Leadership experience within a club? Decide what is most important to you. Then devote proportionate(成比例的) amounts of time to those efforts.2.Plan ahead)You may think you Call keep everything in your head, but as the activities on your schedule start piling up, making a schedule can really help organize even little tasks.3.Study at strategic(关键的) times. Don’t wait until you’re falling asleep to study. Study first. Save those e—mails to check later, because t asks that don’t require much energy and attention can still be done when you’re tired.4.Motivate(激励) yourself! You know that TV show you’ve been dying to see, or that game of chess you’ve been waiting all week to challenge your friend to. special activ ities can be used for motivation. Promise yourself that you’ll force yourself to work efficiently.(Don’t rush through the assignment, though.)5. Take a nap. Sometimes even a 20-minute nap in the afternoon will give you the extra energy you need to get through the day.21.We need to play ahead in order to ________ .A)keep a record of all the eventsB) better organize our activitiesC)store everything in our headD) pile up little tasks neatly22.Strategic times are best for us to ________ .A)save energyB)check e-mailsC)study efficientlyD)organize activities23.Which of the following could be used as a motivation to do our assignments?A)Remembering our urgent tasks.B)Any activities we’re eager to do.C)Taking a break in the afternoon.D)The promise to study efficiently.24.What can help us to keep refreshed throughout the day?A)Doing some physical exercise.B)Taking a short nap in the afternoon.C)Rushing through some assignments.D)Playing a game of chess with a friend.25.Which of the following could be the best title for this article?A)Study Habits and Time ManagementB)Business Management and LeadershipC)University Education and Campus LifeD)Life Goals and Academic DevelopmentTask 2Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 21 to 25.The White House is the most visited residence in the world. Tours may be scheduled through our Washington DC office. Due to security and scheduling procedures, there are a few things you should know before requesting a tour:• Only groups of 10 or more may request a tour.• Requests must be submitted with a minimum of one month’s advance notice from the date of the tour. Notice of whether your application is accepted will be given 10 days prior to the date requested. All tours, even after they have been confirmed, are subject to cancellation due to security interests.• Tours are only conducted Tuesday through Saturday from 7:30 am to 11:30 am.To process your request for a tour, please contact our Washington office at (202) 224-5521 and provide the following information:• Date(s) requesting.• Security information for each person in your party, including: name as it appears on I.D. (I.D. required for ages 14 and up), date of birth, social security number, country of origin, and citizenship (公民的身份).• A home address and daytime and evening phone numbers for the designated (指派的)leader of the group.• A contact number while in DC for the designated leader of the group.After your request is , our office will contact you with further instructions.26. This notice is to provide information about ________.A) scheduling of Washington DC toursB) the security system of the White HouseC) application for a tour of the White HouseD) duties of a tour group leader27. The White House is open to the public ________.A) on weekdays onlyB) five days a weekC) every other dayD) on weekends only28. Application for a group tour of the White House must be submitted ________.A) exactly on the date of applicationB) at least 30 days in advanceC) any day between Tuesday and SaturdayD) 10 days before the date of the tour29. After your tour request has been confirmed, ________.A) it is still possible that your tour may be cancelledB) you are still allowed to change your visiting dateC) you can surely visit the White House that dayD) it is necessary for you to start your tour immediately30. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.A) teenagers under 14 are not allowed to visit the White HouseB) foreigners are less likely to be permitted to tour the White HouseC) separate tours can also be scheduled for individual visitorsD) security is the chief concern in scheduling White House toursTask ThreeDirections: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 21 to 25.On November 18th, 1908, three men went up in a balloon. They started early in London. The headman was Auguste Gaudron, and the other two men were Tannar and Maitland. They had a big balloon, and they were ready for a long way.Soon they heard the sea below them. They were carrying the usual rope , and it was hanging down from the basket of the balloon. At the end of the rope they had tied a metal box. This could hold water. Or it could be empty. So they were able to change its weight. They were also carrying some bags of sand.After the sun rose, the balloon went higher. It went up to 3,000 meters, and the air was very cold. The water in the balloon became ice. Snow fell past the men’s basket, and they could see more snow on the ground. There was also some snow on the balloon, and that made it very heavy. It began to go down towards the ground. The men tried to throw out some more sand; but it was hard. They tried to break the icy sand with their knives, but it was not easy. The work was slow and they were still falling; so they had to drop some whole bags of sand. One of them fell on an icy lake below and made a black hole in the ice.At last they pulled the box into the basket. It was still snowing; so they climbed to get away from the snow. They rose to 5,100 meters! Everything became icy. They were so cold that they decided to land. They came down in Poland heavily but safely. They had traveled 1,797 kilometers from London!31.Three men flew in a balloon _________.A. more than a century agoB. to visit PolandC. for nearly 1,800 kilometersD. to another city32.The metal box was used for _______.A. changing weightB. carrying ropes of the basketC. keeping drinking waterD. carrying the bags of sand33.When the balloon went up higher, ________.A.they saw the sun go downB. the temperature of the balloon began to fallC. they could see a black hole on the groundD. they made a hole in the basket with their knives34.The balloon landed __________.A. in a foreign countryB. on a lakeC. in LondonD. on the sea35.The three men had to land because _______.A.they were very hungryB. they had not enough sandC. they pulled the box into the basketD. they felt too coldTask FourDirections: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 21 to 25.If you get into the forest with your friends, stay with them always. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you really get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you by staying in one place.There is another way to help your friends or other nearby people to find you. Give them a signal (信号) by shouting or whistling (吹口哨) three times. Any signal given three times is a call for help.Keep up shouting or whistling always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They give you two shouts, two whistles, or two gun-shots (枪声). When someone gives you a signal, it is an answer to a call for help.If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house---cover up to the holes with branches (树枝) with lots of leaves. Make yourself a soft bed with leaves and grass.What should you do if you get hungry or need drinking water? You would have to leave your little house to look for a river. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back. The most important thing to do when you are lost is—stay in one place.36.If you lost in the forest, you should _______.A.stay where you are and give signals three timesB.walk around the forest and shout so that your friends could hear youC.try to find your friends as soon as possibleD.try to get out of the forest and shout for help37.If you want to let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun, you should _______.A. tell people that you are lostB. keep up shouting or whistlingC. shout at the top of your voiceD. shout or whistle three times38.When you hear two shouts, or whistles, or gunshots, __________.A. you should shout more loudlyB. you can whistle three timesC. it is an answer to your call for helpD. you should try to run to them39.When you want to leave your place to get drinking water, you should ________.A.just go to the riverB. find some glasses or bottles before you goC. make a fire so that you can have some teaD. leave marks so that you can find your way back40.This passage mainly tells you __________.A.when you hear a signal always three times, it is a call for helpB.What you should do if you get lost in a forestC.any signal given twice means an answer to a call for helpD.how you can live longer in a forestTask FiveDirections: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 21 to 25.If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are.There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets b ecause the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.41.A comet is like ________.A. sunB. moonC. sunlightD. the earth42.A large part of a comet is ______.A. water and rockB. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with ironC. ice, iron and rock dustD. only a few big pieces of rock43.Maybe many people _______.A. haven’t seen any cometsB. have seen all cometsC. have seen a comet at daytimeD. have seen a comet44.Some comets keep coming back ________.A. at any timeB. at noonC. at regular timesD. at daytime45.Halley’s Comets came back _____.A. in 1990B. in 1980C. in 1986D. in 1989四、翻译题（本大题共5题，46-49每小题2分，共计8分,第50题7分）得分评卷人Part IV Translation -- English into Chinese ( 25 minutes)Directions: This part, numbered 61 through 65, is to test your ability to translate English into Chinese.After each of the sentences numbered 61 to 64, you will read four choices of suggested translation.You should choose the best translation and mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.And for the paragraph numbered 65, write your translation in the corresponding space on the Translation/ Composition Sheet.46、It must have rained in the night for when l woke up the next morning I saw the grass wet．A．昨晚本应该下雨的，因为我早晨被叫醒时看到草地是湿的。
