本科綜合英語期末考試試卷及答案

1、綜合英語考試試卷（A卷、閉卷）題號一二三四五六七八九總分得分閱卷人Part I Reading Comprehension (閱讀理解) （每題3分，共15分）Passage One Suppose we built a robot to explore the planet Mars. We provide the robot with seeing detectors to keep it away from danger. It is powered entirely by the sun. Should we program the robot to be equally active

2、 at all times? No. The robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any. So we would probably program it to cease its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning. According to the evolutionary theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleepi

3、ng and waking for the same reason. The theory does not deny that sleep provides some important restorative functions. It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous. However, sleep protects us only from t

4、he sort of trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us. So we sleep well when we are in a familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent. The evolutionary theory accounts well for differences in sle

5、ep among creatures. Why do cats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little? Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do. But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be attacked whi

6、le they sleep. Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value. Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival depends on their ability to run away from attackers.The author uses the example of the robot

7、in space exploration to tell us . A) the differences between robots and men B) the reason why men need to sleep C) about the need for robots to save powerD) about the danger of men working at nightEvolution has programmed man to sleep at night chiefly to help him _. A) maintain a regular pattern of

8、life B) prevent trouble that comes looking for him C) avoid danger and inefficient labor D) restore his bodily functions3. According to the author, we cannot sleep well when we _. A) are worrying about our safety B) are overworked C) are in a tent D) are away from home4. Cats sleep much more than ho

9、rses do partly because cats _.need more time for restoration B) are unlikely to be attackers C) are more active than horses when they are awake D) spend less time eating to get enough energyWhich of the following is the main idea of the passage? . A) Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regul

10、ar pattern of sleeping and waking. B) The study of sleep is an important part of the evolutionary theory. C) Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots. D) The sleeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eats.Part II Vocabulary & Structure 詞匯

11、和構(gòu)造（每題2分，共30分）1.The meetings been canceled. Ann all that work.A. need to do B. need haveC. needt have done D. needed not to do2. It was not until midnight the snow-capped peak. A. that they sighted B. that they did not sight C. did they sight D. had they sighted3. We could him with a detached house

12、when he came, but he had specifically asked for a small flat. A. provide B. have provided C. not provide D. not have provided4. This missile is designed so that once_ nothing can be done to retrieve it. A. fired B. being fired C. they fired D. having fired5. _, he would not have recovered so quickly

13、. A. Hadt he been taken good care of B. Had he not been taken good care of C. Had not he been taken good care of D. Had he been not taken good care of6. How can the boy stand _ like that? A. treating B. be treated C. it treated D. being treated7. I cant imagine anything _ to him. A. happen B. happen

14、ing C. to happen D. happened8. Mrs. Brown is supposed _ for Italy last week. A. to have left B. to leave C. to be leaving D. to have been left 9. The fishs sense of smell is most _. A. actuated B. accurate C. acute D. active 10. Before going to bed, she _ that the door was locked. A. insured herself

15、 B. assured C. assured herself D. insured11. Since most people wouldt like to buy an apartment far away from the city, there are a lot of apartments in this town. A. empty B. blank C. vacant D. bare12. The age of the boys in this class is about 18. A. usual B. common C. average D. ordinaryGeological

16、 oceanographers use echo sounder to the depth of the water. A. figure up B. figure in C. figure on D. figure outSince the reform, the countrys economy has been fairly _. A. healthful B. healthy C. well D. healthScientists have tried many ways to prevent the nuclear reactions from _ harmful and dange

17、rous radiation. A. giving up B. giving in C. giving to D. giving offPart III Cloze (完形填空)（每題1.5分，共30分）Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into

18、 the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. A language is a signaling system which operates with symbolic vocal sounds (語聲), and which is used by a group of people for the purpose of communication. Lets look at this 1 in more detail bec

19、ause it is language, more than anything else, 2 distinguishes man from the rest of the 3 world. Other animals, it is true, communicate with one another by 4 of cries: for example, many birds utter 5 calls at the approach of danger; monkeys utter 6 cries, such as expressions of anger, fear and pleasu

20、re. 7 these various means of communication differ in important ways 8 human language. For instance, animals cries do not 9 thoughts and feelings clearly. This means, basically, that they lack structure. They lack the kind of structure that 10 us to divide a human utterance into 11. We can change an

21、utterance by 12 one word in it with 13: a good illustration of this is a soldier who can say, e.g., “tanks approaching from the north”, 14 who can change one word and say “aircraft approaching from the north” or “tanks approaching from the west”; but a bird has a single alarm cry, 15 means “danger!”

22、This is why the number of 16 that an animal can make is very limited: the great tit (山雀) is a case 17 point; it has about twenty different calls, 18 in human language the number of possible utterances is 19 . It also explains why animal cries are very 20 in meaning. （ ）1. A) classification B) defini

23、tion C)function D)perception（ ）2. A) that B) it C)as D)what（ ）3. A)native B) human C) physical D) animal（ ）4. A) ways B) means C) methods D) approaches（ ）5. A) mating B) exciting C) warning D) boring（ ）6. A) identical B) similar C) different D) unfamiliar（ ）7. A) But B)Therefore C) Afterwards D) Fur

24、thermore（ ）8. A) about B) with C) from D) in（ ）9. A) infer B) explain C) interpret D) express（ ）10.A) encourages B) enables C) enforces D) ensures（ ）11. A) speeches B) sounds C) words D)voices（ ）12.A) replacing B) spelling C) pronouncing D)saying（ ）13. A)ours B) theirs C) another D) others（ ）14. A)s

25、o B) and C) but D)or（ ）15. A)this B)that C)which D)it（ ）16. A)signs B)gestures C)signals D)marks（ ）17. A)in B)at C) of D)for（ ）18. A) whereas B) since C) anyhow D)somehow（ ）19. A) boundless B) changeable C) limitless D) ceaseless（ ）20. A) ordinary B) alike C) common D) generalPart IV Translation (翻譯)（每題5分，共25分） 1. 我們比任何時候都堅信，改革開放旳政策是對旳旳。 2. 他運用這位老人對他旳信任，向老人“借”了5000塊錢。 3. 越來越多旳人厭倦了都市旳喧囂，向往鄉(xiāng)間旳寧靜生活。 4. 看見火車轟隆隆向他開過來，他即刻作出旳反