安徽电大芜湖分校2013-2014学年度第二学期开放教育期中考试

英语 开放英语4 试题

姓名 学号 得分 题号 分数

得 分 评卷人

一、交际用语（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）

一 二 三 四 五 六 总分 此部分共有5个未完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有4个选项，

请从A.B.C.D四个选项中选出正确选项。

1. –Oh, dear! I’ve just broken a window.

--_______. It can’t be helped.

A. Don’t worry B. All right C. That’s fine D. Not at all 2. –Would you like to see a film? --______________.

A. Yes, I’d love to.. B. Do it, please. C. No, you like it ? D. How do you do? 3. —David injured his leg playing football yesterday. --Really? _________

A. Who did that? B. What’s wrong with him? C. How did that happen? D. Why was he so careless? 4.—I wonder if I could use your computer tonight? --_______I’m not using it right now.

A. Sure, go ahead. B. I don’t know. C. It doesn’t matter D. Who cares? 5. –Madam, do all the buses go downtown? --__________.

A. Wow, you got the idea. B. No, never mind. C. Pretty well, I uses. D. Sorry, I’m new here.

得 分 评卷人 二、阅读理解（共10小题；每小题3分，满分30 分）

此部分共有2篇短文，在第一篇短文后有5个正误判断题，从每题后的两个选项中选出正确答案；在第二篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A.B.C.D四个选项中选出正确选项。

Passage One:

No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon(外科医生) and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn’t worry about feeling of pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have an operation felt all his pain.

Long ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.

Soon after 1770 , Joseph Priestley discovered a gas which is now called “ laughing gas”. Laughing gas became know in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn’t seem to feel pain when they were using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself. He asked a friend to help him.

Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Well’s teeth. Wells felt no pain at all.

As he didn’t know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.

Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this terrible event.

6. It is a few more years since a man being operated felt all the pain A. T B. F

7. Long ago, when the sick man was operated on , he could feel all the pain. A. T B. F

8. Using the laughing gas, the people did not seem to feel pain. A. T B. F

9. If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on , he still felt pain.

A. T B. F

10. One who took too much of the laughing gas would laugh all the time. A. T B. F Passage Two:

When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America's fastest growing businesses.

What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples --- people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.

One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don't like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think, (248words)

11. Which of the following has become one of America's fastest growing businesses?

A. Selling home furnishings. B. Renting furnished apartments. C. Selling used furniture. D. Renting home furnishings. 12. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? ___________

A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new. B. Because it saves them a lot of money.

C. Because it saves them much trouble and money.

D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way. 13. What can you infer from the passage? ___________

A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.

B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple's home town. C. Only those who don't have enough money to rent furniture. D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented. 14. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? _

A. Rent or Buy? B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings. C. Furnished Apartments. D. A New Idea.

15. Young people liked renting home furniture in that ___________

A. They have less money.

B. They don't want to buy old furniture. C. The new furniture is of good quality.

D. They don't have much money and don't want to buy the cheap furniture. 得 分 评卷人 三、词汇与结构（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10 分）

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四个选项中选出正确选项。

16. The construction of the new bridge has been _______for two weeks because of the bad

weather.

A. devoted B. developed C. depended D. delayed 17. A computer can only do _______ you have instructed it to do. A. how B. after C. what D. when

18.Had you come five minutes earlier, you _______ the train to Birmingham. But you missed it. A. would catch B would have caught C. could catch D . should catch 19. The red flower goes from one to________ in the class.\\ A. the other B. others C. another D other

20. You shouldn’t ______your time like that, Bob; you have to finish your school work tonight. A. cut B. do C. kill D. kick 得 分 评卷人

四、完型填空（共5个空；每个空2分，满分10分）

以下短文中共包含5个未完成的句子，针对每个句子中空缺部分，请从

A.B.C.D.E五个选项中选出正确选项。

Last Tuesday I took my two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain

hard, so I decided I would leave the children in the car__21___ I rushed into a shop. I warned the girls not to touch anything and told them I would be ___22___ within a few minutes. Then I locked all the doors and left them happily looking out of the window.

I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had disappeared! I could hardly believe my ___23__. The car doors were still licked, the windows tightly shut and on the back seat__24__ only two coats. Being frightened, I ran to the corner of the street where there was no sign of them. I __25__ up to an old lady nearby and asked whether she had seen tow small girls, but she said “NO”

21. A. back B. before C. were D. eyes E. rushed 22. A. back B. before C. were D. eyes E. rushed 23. A. back B. before C. were D. eyes E. rushed 24. A. back B. before C. were D. eyes E. rushed 25. A. back B. before C. were D. eyes E. rushed

得 分 评卷人 五、英译汉 （每小题5分，满分20分）

请把下列4句英文翻译成中文。

26. I’ve never heard such good music in a computer game.

27.People all over the world are trying to help the people in Sichuan

28. Please ring me up tomorrow morning.

29. Transistors are small in size and light in weight. 得 分 评卷人 六、写作（满分15分）

要求在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目用英语写出一篇不少于80词的短文。

A Day to Remember

1. 回忆值得记忆的一天。 2. 说明为什么值得记忆