山大网络教育英语期末考试模拟题三

模拟题三

第一部分：交际用语

此部分共有5个未完成的对话，针对每个对话有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。

1. –Hello! I want to make a person-to-person call to Toronto, Canada. The number is 932-0806.

--________.

C. What’s the address of the person you’re calling?

D. What’s the extension number you’re calling?

2. ---Have you ever been to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing?

-- _____.

C. Yes. I was too busy then.

D. Yes. I couldn’t do it right now.

3. –Is everyone always so helpful to you in your office?

--- _____.

A. Yes. What can I do for you now?

B. Yes, there is a hotel nearby.

4. ---It’s a beautiful day today! How about a little trip out into the country?

B. I don’t know. I really haven’t thought about what we’d do.

C. Well, would you like me to pack picnic or to buy something?

D. It’s all right. Thank you.

5. –Excuse me. Could you show me the way to the nearest subway station?

--- _______.

A. Any time. It’s next to the post office.

D. Of course not. Go down this street and turn right.

第二部分：阅读理解

此部分共有2篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。

Passage 1

The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century world probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would

have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenience foods.

The important change in women’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.

6. For women at the beginning of the twentieth century, the amount of time spent taking care of

children ________.

A) was shorter than in previous centuries

B) was longer than in previous centuries

7. According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ________.

C) as soon as possible after they were fifteen

D) at any age from fifteen to forty-five

8. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth-century mother ________.

A) would be healthy enough to take up paid employment

D) was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one

9. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________.

A) is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves

D) can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty

10. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.

A) stay at home after leaving school

D) marry while still at school

Passage 2

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

Why don’t birds get lost on their long flights from one place to another? Scientists have puzzled over this question for man y years. Now they’re beginning to fill in the blanks.

Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely on the sun to guide them during daylight hours. But what about birds that fly by night? Tests with artificial stars have proved that certain night-flying birds are able to follow the stars in their long-distance flights.

A dove had spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown under a natural sky. Yet it showed an inborn ability to use the stars for guidance. The bird’s cage was placed under an artificial star-filled sky. The bird tried to fly in the same direction as that taken by his outdoor cousins. Any change in the position of the artificial stars caused a change in the direction of his flight.

But the stars are apparently their principal means of navigation. When the stars are hidden by clouds, they apparently find their way by such landmarks as mountain ranges, coast lines, and river courses. But when it’s too dark to see these, the doves circle helplessly, unable to find their way.

B) have only recently been discovered

C) are known by everyone

D) will probably remain a mystery

12. During daylight hours, birds _______.

A) fly aimlessly

B) rely on landmarks

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B) the other doves of the same brood

C) doves under the natural sky

D) other birds in general

14. The experiment with the dove indicated that _________.

C) some birds cannot fly at night

D) some birds seem to follow the stars when they fly at night

15. In total darkness, doves _______.

C) fly back home

D) wait for the stars to appear

第三部分：

A. 词汇与结构

此部分共有5个未完成的句子，针对每个句子中未完成的部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。

B. that

C. which

D. what

17. Although most of the continent ________ extensive plains and nothing hills, there are also

spectacular forests.

A. consists of

B. is consisted of D. are consisted of

A. know C. have not known D. has not known

A. efficiency

B. inefficient D. efficient

A. to try

B. tried

C. trying

B. 完型填空

以下短文中共包含10个未完成的句子，针对每个句子中空缺部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并用铅笔将答题卡上的相应字母涂黑。

As she walked round the large shop, Edith realized how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas gift for her father.

She wished that he were as easy to please as her mother, who was __21__satisfied with perfume(香水). __22__, shopping at this time of the year was a most __23__job. People stood on your feet, pushed you with their shoulders and almost __24__ you over in their hurry in order to grasp something cheap ahead of you.

Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter, where some beautiful ties were on __25__. "They are real silk," the shop assistant told her with a smile trying to __26__her to buy one. But Edith knew from past __27__that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.

She moved on slowly and then, quite by chance, stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered round a counter. She found some fine pipes on sale and the __28__were very beautiful. Edith did not hesitate for long, although her father only smoked a pipe once in a while, she believed this was __29__ to please him.

When she got home, with her small but well-chosen present hidden in her handbag, it was time for supper and her parents were already at table. Her mother was in great excitement. "Your father has at last decided to stop smoking," she told her daughter happily. Edith was so __20__that she could not say a single word.

21. A. never B. seldom D. scarcely

B. Fortunately D. Finally

B. careful

C. exciting

24. A. turned C. brought

25. A. time C. board

B. ask

C. force

B. things

C. books

D. school

28. A. money B. cigarette

29. A. hardly B. impossibly

30. A. glad B. happy D. excited

第四部分：英译汉

请在15分钟内把下列3句英文翻译成中文，把答案写在答题纸上。

第五部分：写作

要求在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和中文提纲用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

Continuing Education

1．当今时代，很多人都会选择继续深造来提升自己的知识水平以跟上时代的发展

2．作为年轻人，我应该怎么办

With the rapid development of the modern society, especially with the deep influence of recent global financial crisis, more and more people have realized the importance of keeping learning expertise knowledge and skills to enhance their competence for better life and career. Enterprise management, computer and information technology, law, economics, accounting and foreign language may be deemed as most popular subjects of continuing education. “White-collars” walk back to school from office buildings for further improvement. As young people in this modern time, I should keep learning and make myself most updated with the quickly refreshing information and technologies. I should be prepared for the future and serving the society with my own strength.