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安阳师范学院 11-13级 本科 跨 专业平台选课英语阅读 课

2013—2014学年度第二学期期末考查试卷（A卷）

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Ⅰ Multiple choice (10×2)

Directions: Choose A, B, C or D that best match word in bold.

1. As I hid myself in my little room in the college dormitory, away from the scornful and yet curious eyes of the students, I pined for sympathy.

A. longed B. angered C. enjoyed D. ask 2. The assembled crowds filled the air with pulsating murmurs.

A. worried B. excited C. prejudiced D. frightened

3. Fortunately, I was spared witnessing any of the noisy wrangling before the contest began. A. arguing B. laughing C. bargaining

D. competing

4. The slurs against the Indian that stained the lips of our opponents were already burning like a dry fever within my breast.

A. insults B. speeches C. slow speech D. challenge

5. There, before that vast ocean of eyes, some college rowdies threw out a large white flag, with a drawing of a most forlorn Indian girl on it.

A. ill-behaved people B. orators C. supporters D. adversaries 6. If so, you will probably find the United States system disquieting.

A.meaningful

B. peaceful

C. disappointing

D. disturbing

7. President Bill Clinton and a large congressional delegation are scheduled to attend, along with sports and show business celebrities.

A. celebrate B. businessmen C. famous people D. well-informed people 8. We just looked at each other sympathetically and made these reassuring faces.

A. comforting B. discomforting C. assuring D. ensuring

9. It taxied along quite smoothly, and then tipped over onto the wing, and you could feel it scraping along the ground.

A. glide B. to take a taxi C. to rent a taxi D. scrape

10. Brandon’s death was a chilling reminder of Jon-Erik Hexum who died playing a bizarre game. A. cold B. frightening C. encouraging D. freezing

Ⅱ

Cloze (10×3)

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by letter. Please put the correct answer on the Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words

The official for American senator John Glenn’s flight into space is to find out the zero-gravity on his old body. But industry analysts said that it is in fact a political trip rather than a scientific experiment, because the venerable hero is taking his second flight a t a time when NASA is facing a midlife to help money for its own launch of the station’s second component. The has been fiercely criticized after Russia’s

crisis. The senator’s flight has aroused the public interest. More than 300,000 people are expected to arrive at Florida to watch tomorrow’s launch. President Bill Clinton and a large congressional delegation are scheduled to

in criticism of Mr. Glenn’s participation. But his supporters point out that he will not be the first politician in space, because Senator Jake Oam was a on a 1985 shuttle flight intended to raise NASA’s profile. III

Rearrange the order (10×2)

Directions: The following sentences are given in a wrong order. For Questions 21—30, you are required to reorganize these sentences into a coherent paragraph by choosing from the list A—J to fill in each numbered blank.

A The pilot flew very low over Heathrow Airport.

B All the stewardesses came down the aisles-very much frightened.

C The moment of glory came for the narrator—their stewardess chose him as an “able-bodied passenger” D The stewardesses taught the passengers how to get into the brace position.

E The announcement was made on the intercom that something was wrong with the undercarriage of the plane. F The narrator was doing reassuring faces with a pleasant-looking German woman. G The plane landed and scraped along the ground with a huge shower of sparks. H All the stewardesses began chanting together, “Heads forward, feet back…” I The narrator got on the last flight on Virgin.

J All the passengers were all so delighted to be alive and safe, and talking to each other in a very excited way.

26. 27. 28. 29. IV.

Reading Comprehension (30)

Directions: For questions 36-41, complete the statements in the fewest possible words on the Answer Sheet. Your answer may be a word, a phrase, or a clause.

Stephen Hawking was born in 1942. He’s a world famous scientist and expert on space and time. Stephen is trying to find the answers to some very big questions such as: How did the universe begin? How will it end?

Stephen was a student at University. He studied math and science. Then, at the age of twenty, he became very ill. He was so young, but the doctors said to his family, “ He has only two more years to live,” The doctors were wrong —he didn’t die. “He can’t walk now but he used a wheelchair. He talks with the help of a computer. After Oxford, Stephen went to Cambridge University. Three years later, in 1965, he became a doctor of philosophy.

Because of his health problems, it was difficult for him to draw diagrams or to write. So he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking, he became one of the most famous scientists in the world. In1981, he met the Pope in Rome. They talked about his ideas. Then in 1988, he wrote his first important book, A Brief History of Time. It sold more than 5.5 million copies in 333 different languages.

31. Stephen Hawking studied in _____________________ universities and got a doctor degree of philosophy in 1965.

32. He has been researching into __________________________.

33. When he was 20, his disease was so serious that the doctors said____________________. 34. Although he can neither ___________________________________, he doesn’t give up. 35. Thinking in pictures made it possible for him to _________________________________. 36. From Stephen Hawking’s life experience we can learn that __________________________.

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安阳师范学院 本科平台选课英语阅读 课

2013—2014学年度第二学期期末考查试卷（A卷）答题纸

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Multiple choice (10×2)

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Cloze (15×2) II

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Rearrange the order (10×2)

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Reading Comprehension (30)

31. Stephen Hawking studied in _____________________ universities and got a doctor degree of philosophy in 1965.

32. He has been researching into __________________________.

33. When he was 20, his disease was so serious that the doctors said____________________. 34. Although he can neither ___________________________________, he doesn’t give up. 35. Thinking in pictures made it possible for him to _________________________________. 36. From Stephen Hawking’s life experience we can learn that __________________________. I

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