期末考试模拟测试题1
期末考试模拟测试题1
一、单项选择题
1. I can guess you were in a hurry. You ____ your sweater inside out.
A. had worn
B. wore
C. were wearing
D. are wearing
2.John helped me write a letter ____ English.
A. with
B. of
C. in
D. by
3. He will stop showing off, if no notice ____ of him.
A. is taken
B. will be taken
C. takes
D. has taken
4. It’s believed that if a book is ____, it will surely ____ the reader.
A. interested; interest
B. interesting; be interested
C. interested; be interesting
D. interesting; interest
5. No one can possibly recall any detail about the meeting．It is at least five years since it____.
A．had taken place B．was taken place
C．took place D．was taking place
6. Helen had to shout ________ above the sound of the music.
A. making herself hear
B. to make herself hear
C. making herself hear
D. to make herself heard
7. They won't buy new clothes because they ____ money to buy a color TV set.
A. save
B. are saving
C. has saved
D. were saving
8. The case ______ a lot of things, ______ a second-hand watch.
A. contained; including
B. included; containing
C. included; contained
D. contained; included
9. I've finally finished my paper and it ____ me an entire month.
A. takes
B. took
C. was taken
D. had taken
10. The traffic in our city is already good and it ____ even better.
A. gets
B. got
C. has got
D. is getting
11.—Has Jack finished his homework yet?
—I have no idea; he ____ it this morning.
A. was doing
B. had been doing
C. has done
D. did
12. Though ___ is a long way from here, we’ll do our best to reach there in time.
A. there
B. it
C. its
D. itself
13. The volleyball match will be put off if it ____.
A. will rain
B. rains
C. rained
D. is raining
14. Being a teacher ____ patience and love.
A.calls on
B.calls at
C.calls for
D.calls up
15. In order to strengthen his muscles, Mike goes to the gym _____ to do exercises.
A. increasingly
B. often
C. regularly
D. lively
16. As soon as he comes back, I’ll tell him wh en _______ and see him.
A. will you come
B. you will come
C. you come
D. do you come
17. He asked who I voted for and I said it was my own _______.
A. thing
B. matter
C. duty
D. business
18. Mr. Smith was determined to _______ the experiment after so many years' interruption.
A. carry on
B. carry out
C. carry away
D. carry forth
19. Drunken driving is often the major _____ of traffic accidents.
A. reason
B. cause
C. excuse
D. way
20. — Our holiday cost a lot of money.
— Did it? Well, that doesn`t matter you enjoyed yourselves.
A. as long as
B. unless
C. as soon as
D. though
21. His article concerning population control was published in the _____ issue of China Daily.
A. latest
B. lately
C. late
D. later
22. Although many young people are eager to go abroad, he prefers _________ in his
own country. （prefer to do something）
A. stay and work
B. stayed and worked
C. to stay and work
D. to be stayed and worked
23. The good service at the hotel made up for the poor food to some ______.
A. way
B. grade
C. sort
D. extent
24. Scientists think that the continents _______ always where they ________ today.
A. aren’t; are
B. aren’t; were
C. weren’t; are
D. weren’t; were
25. I ____ ping-pong quite well, but I haven't had time to play since the new year.
A. will play
B. have played
C. played
D. play
答案：1-5 DCADC 6-10DBABD 11-15ABBCC 16-20 BDBBA 21-25ACDCD
二、英语应用
1. — Guess what? I passed the English exam!
— ________________
A. That’s fine.
B. It’s OK.
C. Congratulations!
D. Believe it or not.
2. －Must we hand in our homework now?
－——————.
A．Yes，you will B．Yes，you mustn’t
C．No，you needn’t D．No，you can’t
3. —Hello, may I talk to the director now?
— _________
A. Sorry, he is busy at the moment.
B. No, you can't.
C. Sorry, you can't.
D. I don't know.
4. —Tom, this is Hack, Fred is ill in hospital.
— Oh, _________
A. it’s sad.
B. it’s bad.
C. I’m sorry to hear that.
D. that’s not good.
5. —Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get to the railway station?
—____________
A. No, I couldn’t.
B. Sorry, I don’t know. I’m new here.
C. I couldn’t tell you.
D. You can’t ask me.
答案：1-5CCACB
三、阅读理解
Passage 1
You are unique（独一无二的）. There are 6.5 billion people in the world but no other person is exactly like you. Besides people, there are millions of other living things. Every living thing is different from each other. Every living thing is a unique combination （结合，联合）of characteristics.
Why is each living thing unique? Where do its characteristics come from? Do people receive characteristics from their mothers and fathers? How? The work of Gregor Mendel was especially important to help us to answer these questions.
Mendel studied plants, especially pea plants. In some way they were all the same. For example, they all had flowers. But some had red flowers, and others had white flowers. Some were tall, others were short. Mendel was especially interested in the differences. He wondered why each plant was of certain color, shape, size（尺寸）. He experimented with thousands of pea plants, with a careful record. And he discovered some interesting things. He mated（使……配对）different pea plants. First, he mated a red flower plant with a white flower plant. All of the offspring plants had red flowers. Mendel was curious about（对……好奇）what happened to the white. Then he mated two of the offspring plants. Every time he did this, they produced three red plants and one white plant. There was the white again. So Mendel knew that even red plants
somehow passed on whiteness. Mendel decided that pea plants carried factors, and the parents passed these factors onto their offspring.
Today we call these factors genes. Genes are tiny pieces of matter. They carry information from parents to offspring. Now we know that every person is unique and one reason for this is that every person is a unique combination of genes.
1. In the first paragraph, the author mainly tells us that______.
A. no other person is exactly like you
B. the total population of the world is 6.5 billion
C. every living thing is unique
D. different people have different characters
2. The work of Gregor Mendel was especially important because_____.
A. he had first set great value on pea plants
B. he was the first person to study pea plants
C. he had done a lot of experiments with thousands of pea plants
D. he had first discovered what we call genes today
3. Gregor Mendel made a special study of plant because_______.
A. few biologists were interested in studying pea plants at that time
B. he wanted to find out why pea plants differed in shape, color and size
C. he liked pea plant flowers
D. pea plants were all the same in some ways
4. By experiments Gregor Mendel proved_________.
A. pea plants of different colors could not mate
B. only redness could be passed onto the offspring if a red pea plant mated with a white one
C. pea plants possessed factors which could be passed onto the young
D. pea plants had only two colors — red and white
5. Which of the following statements is true? _________.
A. Genes only exist in plants, not in animals
B. Every person is unique because he is a unique combination of genes
C. Although there are a large number of different people in the world, there are some who look exactly alike
D. Some biologists after Gregor Mendel discovered that genes can not determine the color of one’s eyes
Passage2
Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal(偷) the bell on his neighbor’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of(抓住) the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, “I must do something about the noise,” he said. He
thought and thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the doo r of his neighbor, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor came running out.
“Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson(教训),”the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell. “Why did he come out just then?”he wondered (感到疑惑).
6. The thief was trying to get______________.
A. his neighbor
B. his neighbor’s doorbell
C. some cotton
D. a door
7. The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be ________for him to steal the doorbell.
A. safe
B. difficult
C. dangerous
D. easy
8.The neighbor ran out probably(很可能) because_________.
A. he knew his doorbell was being stolen
B. he thought someone was eager (渴望的) to visit him
C. he realized (意识到) something strange happened
D. Both B and C
9. The neighbor hit the thief to___________.
A. give him lessons
B. punish (惩罚) him for stealing
C. help him with the bell
D. be his teacher
10. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The thief understood why he was hit on the nose.
B. The thief knew why the neighbor came out.
C.The thief thought the neighbor couldn’t hear the noise the bell made.
D. The thief didn’t want to know why the neighbor ran out.
答案：1-5 CDBCB 6-10BADBC
Passage3
There was once an ant that was very thirsty（口渴）.
It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any.
Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.
The ant drank the water, which saved its life.
The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her
sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.
The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds. "Why are you sad?" asked the ant.
"I'm the prisoner（囚犯）of a giant." the girl told the ant. "He won't let me go until I've made three separate heaps of grain, barley（大麦）and rye（黑麦）out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together."
"That will take you a month!" the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.
"I know," the girl cried, "and if I haven't finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!"
"Don't cry," the ant said, "my friends and I will help you."
Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.
The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go. Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.
11. What is an ant? _______
A. A small animal.
B. An insect.
C. A bird.
D. A giant.
12. When did the drop of water fall on the ant? _______
A. When it was looking for food.
B. When it saved the ant's life.
C. When it was nearly dying.
D. When it looked up.
13. Why was the young girl crying? _______
A. Because of her sadness.
B. Because she saw the ant.
C. Because the giant would let her go.
D. Because the giant had given her an impossible job to do.
14. What would the giant do if the girl failed to do the work? _____
A. He would let her go.
B. He would eat her.
C. He would take her away.
D. He would send her to prison.
15. Who or what saved the girl's life? _______
A. The giant
B. The ant
C. The ant's friends
D. Her tears
Passage4
Pat O’Burke was a poor Irishman with a large family, and one morning, waking up very early from cold and hunger, he decided to go shooting in a wood near his cottage （小屋，村舍）. The wood belonged to Lord Northwood, a rich gentleman, and Pat had no right to go there, but in it there were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds that were good to eat, and Pat determined to take the risk. Suddenly he saw the owner, with a group of friends, coming towards him in the wood. There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood’s face as he caught sight of the gun in Pat’s hands. Pat’s heart sank with（充满）fear, but he saw there was no hope of escape, so he walked boldly（大着胆子）up to the company and said to Lord Northwood, “Good morning, sir, and what has brought
you out so early this morning?” Lord Northwood, rather surprised, said he and his friends were taking a little exercise to get an appetite for their breakfast. Then, looking at Pat with suspicion（怀疑，疑问）, he said, “But why are you out so early in the morning?” “Well, sir,” said Pat, “I just came out to see if I could get a breakfast for my appetite.” The whole crowd burst into laughter at Pat’s ready wit, and with a smile Lord Northwood walked on, leaving Pat to try his luck with the rabbits.
16. This is a story about ________.
A. a clever man who tried to get something to eat for his breakfast
B. a rich man who owned a big wood
C. a poor Irishman who lived all by himself
D. an Irish hunter with a large family
17. There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood’s face. Why?
A. He was not expecting Pat at this early hour.
B. He knew Pat was coming for shooting.
C. He didn’t like the poor Irishman at all.
D. Pat had not told him he would come.
18. Why was Lord Northwood surprised?
A. He wondered why Pat didn’t run away.
B. Pat wasn’t afraid of him.
C. He had not expected such a bold question from Pat.
D. Pat had a gun in his hands.
19. Pat’s _______ made the whole crowd burst into laughter.
A. funny looks
B. quick and witty response
C. interesting remarks
D. promise to leave right away
20. It was because of his _________ that Pat was left to try his luck.
A. boldness
B. calmness
C. quickness of mind
D. obedience (服从, 顺从)
答案：11-15BCDBD 16-20ABCBC
四、翻译题
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
把下列句子翻译成汉语。
1.It can provide different learners with more flexible and versatile ways of learning, and at the same time allows some learners stick to their present jobs while studying the latest knowledge online.
2. On the other hand, if your language learning has been less than successful, you
might do well to try some of the techniques outlined above.
3. With the working hours becoming shorter and shorter and holidays becoming longer
and longer.
4. You shouldn’t wait until the night before you leave to start packing.
5. You should arrive at the time you were invited for, or within five or ten minutes after
that time.
Translate the following sentences into English.
把下列句子翻译成汉语。
1. 在过去的一年里，我学会了许多新单词。
2. 在一定程度上，我同意你的意见。
3. 当你上班的时候，别忘记锁门。
4. 无论你做什么，我都不喜欢你。
5. 我们应该认识到语言的重要性。