电大高级英语2试题期末试题.doc

中央广播电视大学 2012-2013 学年度第二学期“开放本科”期末考试高级英语（2)试题1,Vocabujary and Gramma: Choose the best answer fur each bnank from the four choices given.Write your answer on the Answer Shect.(2 points each,30 points)1 .A: speak to the recruitment manager, please. B: Im sorry, Im afraid hes not in the office at the moment A. I wonder if I could B. Im afraid I cant C. Do you think you could D. Thank you for 2. This time tomorrow well have handed in our assignments and in the park. A. well be relaxing B. were relaxing C. we11 relax D. we relax3. Just dirty dishes in the sink. I11 wash them.A. talk B. take C. leave D. lose4. Why are you your lunch? Arent you hungry? A. pigging out B. parting with C. picking at D. pointing out5. After they dinner, they went out. A. finish B. are finishing C. have finished D. had finished6. A:I really should go home now, or my namell be mud. B: A: oh, I mean Ill be very u flpopu1ar-Im late! A. What I meant was B. Are you with me? C. I am listening. D. Sorry, Im not with you.7. Im glad I saw that film, it really A. cheered up B. cheered me up C. cheered up me D. me cheered up8 admit that most people are not interested in being informed. A. You decide to B. You have to C. The other hand to D. As far as I9 it, its all about money-its pure greed. A. The way I see B.You have to say C. Talk about D. As far as I see1o. If Tony me a lift on his bike, I always say noA offer B. would offer C. offered D. offers11. I sometimes feel as if Toby Snt even aware of my A. exist B. existence C. existing D. existed12. Do we really have to fill in all these forms? Its so A. simple B. appealing C. modern D. tiresome 13. You look a bit _.Maybe you should take some extra vitamins. A. worried B. run-down C. confident D. outraged14. Once the press find out his secret,he11 never live it A. up B. on C. down D. off 15. There are mistakes in this TV guide: Ive found one on every page so far. A. quite a few B. not too many C. almost no D. very fewII .Reading comprehensionPassage One Read the article and then match 16-20 to A-E. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(4 points each,20 points)Do you realise that your body language is telling people a whole range of things that you may not be conscious of? In this introduction to her series on nonverbal communication, Rebecca Cripps gives us some tips for interpreting and using the unspoken code. 16 . We lean towards people we find attractive and interesting and away from those we dont, Its that simple! 17 Holding your palms slightly up and outwards is seen as open and friendly. Gestures with the palms down are generally seen as dominant and possibly aggressive. Thispalm up,palm down distinction is very important when it comes to shaking hands and wesuggest you always offer a handshake upright and vertical, to convey equality. 18 Stand too close and you11 be seen as pushy. Stand too far away and youllappear unfriendly. Neither are what we want, so observe in a group Situation how close the other people are to each other. If you move closer to someone and they back away, youve probably overstepped the mark and are just a bit too much in their personal space.19 even though most people cant move them much, if at all. However, youve got two ears and only one mouth, so try to use them in that order, If you listen twice as much as you talk, you come across as a good communicator who knows how to strike up a balanced conversation without being me me me or the wallflower. 20 We purse our lips and sometimes twist them to the side when were thinking. We might also use this movement to hold hack an angry comment. Then of course we smile: people smile for all sorts of reasons, only one of which is to signal happiness. But more of that next week.A. Mouth movements can give away all sorts of clues B. Hand gestures are so numerous its hard to give a brief guide but here goes C. Distance from others is crucial if you want to give the right signals D. Angle of the body in relation to others gives an indication of our attitude towards themE. Ears play a vital role in communication with othersPassage Two Read the article and then judge the statements are true T),false F)or not informed(NI). Write your answer on the Answer Sheet(2 points each,10 points). Amazing PeopleIn this weeks edition of Amazing People, we have decided to include some less well-known celebrities. They may not be world famous or household names, but as we often say, theres more than one way to be special!Disabled sailor crosses Channel On August 23rd 2005,a British woman who can only move her head, eyes and mouth, sailed across the English Channel and into the record books. Completing her journey in just over six hours, Hilary Lister set a record for the worlds longest solo sail by a disabled person. Using only her breathing to navigate her boat, she reached Calais to a hero5 welcome. Having arrived in France, Mrs Lister said, Im just thrilled ,and attributed her success to the people whod helped her. When she made her crossing, shed been paralysed for four years. And shed been sailing for only two. Having lived an active life before her illness, she took up sailing to boost her confidence.Lightning never strikes twice? Roy Sullivan, a forest ranger from Virginia, was struck by lightning seven times in his Thirty-six-year career. The first strike was in 1942. He wasnt hit again until twenty-seven years later, driving his truck. The following year, another bolt of lightning burnt his shoulder, while his hair caught fire in a fourth strike in 1972. A year later, Sullivan was driving around the park when a bolt came out of a small cloud, knocking off his shoe. l actually saw the lightning coming straight for me, he said. Lightning struck for the sixth time in 1976. But it was the final strike in 1977,while he was fishing, that put him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Two of his Ranger hats, burnt by lightning, are now in Guinness Exhibit Halls-proof that lightning does strike in the same place twice.Child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed musical gifts at a very early age, and was already composing his first works when he was four. Born in Salzburg in 1756,he was one of the greatest musical geniuses in history. By the age of six, hed played before the Austrian empress and had begun to write his earliest symphonies. A year later, he was playing to audiences in London and Paris, astonishing them with his brilliance. He worked all over Europe during the next seventeen years, finally settling in Vienna. He lived just a little overhalf of Beethovens life span but was amazingly prolific. He died in 1791,aged only thirty-five, having composed over 600 works ,including great operas like The Magic Flute. Just before his death, hed been composing the Requiem, one of his most famous works. 21.Hilary Lister was the first disabled woman to sail from England to France. 22.Hiary Lister had never done any sailing until two years before the crossing. 23. Lightning struck Roy Sullivan for the third time in 1970. 24. By 1973,Roy Sullivan had survived five lightning strikes. 25. Mozart wrote his earliest symphonies when he was four.lll .Cloze Choose the correct word to fill in the blank. Each word must be used once and only once. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(2 pints each,10 points)In December 1915,Lake Morena was nearly empty and everybody in San Diego was praying for rain. In desperation, the city council 26 Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker. Hatfield 27 to fill the lake for$10,000. On January 1 1916,he started work, 28 his secret rain-making chemicals. By January 5,the rain had started. By January 20 it had been raining non-stop for two weeks. On January 26 the level of the lake 29 by two feet per hour when suddenly it stopped-just five inches from the top. Having kept his promise Hatfield wanted his money. But the city council 30 to pay,saying that the rain wsa an act of God. Hatfield had only made a verbal agreement, and hadntsigned a contract. Henever received a penny.A. was rising B. using C. contacted D. refused E. agreed .Writing 3l.Write your essay on the Answer Sheet in 200-250 words.(30 points) An English person recently came to your school to give a talk (what was the talk about?).He/She left a personal possession(what is it?)at the school (where exactly?). You want to return the possession(how will you return it?)but you have had difficulty contacting the person ( how have you tried to contact him/her?).You have a possible address for the person, hut youre not sure if its correct (why?). Write a letter to the person. .Thank them for coming to give the talk. . Explain the situation. .Ask them to contact you.高级英语（2)试题答案及评分标准（供参考）I .Vocabulary and Grammar( 2 points each,30 points) 1.A 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. D6.D 7. B 8. B 9. A 10. D 11. B 12. D 13. B 14. C 15.A II .Reading comprehension(30 points) Passage One(4 points each,20 points in total)16. D 17. B 18.C 19. E 20. APassage Two( 2 points each,10 points in total)21 .NI 22. T 23. T 24.T 25. FIII .Cloze (2 points each,10 points in total)26. C 27. E 28. B 29.A 30. DIv .Writing(30 points)Dear Mr Collins, I am writing to thank you for attending our school careers day last week and giving such an inspirational and interesting speech on career prospects in the financial services industry. I am also writing to inform you that you left a CD-ROM in the computer which you used during your speech. I would like to return it to you as soon as possible but I was unsure whether to send it to your company or adifferent address.I contacted your office but, unfortunately, you were away on business and I spoke to a secretary. She said that the disc belonged to your own private consultancy business and that I should send it there. She provided me with an address but I am afraid that I may have written it down incorrectly. The address I have is as follows: Collins Consultancies, Box 283 A, Bristol. Could you please confirm that this is the correct address to which I should send the disc? Thank you once again for your generosity in giving up your valuable time for the students at our school and lam sorry I have been unable to return your CD-ROM morepromptly. Yours sincerely, John Smith John Smith Student Committee Chairperson