芜湖电大09-10学年第二学期开放英语1期中试卷

Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.

Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the dirt away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become a desert much more easily.

11. Deserts ______________.
A. get very little rain
B. never have any plants or animals in them
C. can all be turned into good land in the future
D. both A and C

12. Small green plants are very important to day places because ______________.
A. they don’t let the sun make the earth even drier
B. they don’t let the wind blow the earth away
C. they hold the water
D. A, B and C

13. Land is becoming desert little by little because ______________.
A. plants can’t grow there
B. there’s not enough rain
C. people are doing bad things to the earth.
D. scientists know little about desert

14. Which is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. Scientists know how to change land into good land.
B. Land is becoming desert faster than scientists can change it back into good land.
C. If scientists can bring water to the desert, people can live there.
D. More and more places are becoming deserts all the time.

15. After reading this, we learn that ______________.
A. plant can keep dry land from becoming desert.
B. it is good to get rid of (清除) the grass in the desert
C. all places without much rain will become deserts
D. it is better to grow crops on dry land than to grow grass

Passage 2

A 50-year-old American officer (官员) came back to his school. The teacher asked him  to give a talk to the small boys and girls there. The talk was about the love of their great country. All the little ones were sitting in a large meeting-room. The old officer went up and began speaking. He said, “boys and girls, I studied in this school forty years ago. When I was your age, we were not as happy as you are today. Think about it and answer me, why are you so happy now?”

No sound came from the children. The old man waited for a long time. Then a short boy in front put up his small dirty hand. “Good boy! Please answer me, dear.” Said the officer.

With a big smile on his face, the boy stood up and said, “if you speak long enough, we

won’t have maths and biology (生物学) lessons this morning.”

16. The old man came back to school ______________.
A. to listen to a talk
B. to have lessons
C. to give a talk
D. to see his children

17. The officer studied in this school when he was ______________.

A. fifty

B. ten

C. twenty

D. children

18.The children were ____________ before.

A. as good as

B. as well as

C. as happy as

D. much happier than

19.The short boy in the front ______________.
A. didn’t understand the question and answer it
B. told the truth
C. wanted to make others laugh
D. wanted to make the officer angry

20.After reading the last part of the story, we know that ______________.
A. the short boy liked the talk very much
B. all the children likee the talk
C. the short boy didn’t studying his lessons
D. some of the children  liked to listen to a funny story

Passage 3

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases they are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”

The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. Only a few writers were kissed by fortune, however there are thousands more whose work is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no proposals at all. What I did have was a friend who found me in my room in a New York department building. I didn’t even care that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used typewriter and felt like a good writer.

After a year I still hadn’t got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I hardly made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who did wondering “What if”. I would keep putting my dream to the test, even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

21. The passage is meant to         .

A. warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience

B. advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer

C. show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame

D. encourage young people to pursue a writing career

22. What can be concluded from the passage?           .

A. Good writers often find their work interesting and rewarding

B. Writer’s success depends on luck rather than on effort

C. Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation

D. The chances for a writer to become successful are small

23. Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?

         .

A. Because he wasn’t able to produce a single book

B. Because he hadn’t seen a change for the better

C. Because he wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year

D. Because he found his dream would never come true

24. The word “people” in the sentence “…people who did wondering…” in Paragraph 3 refers to those         .

A. who think a lot without making a decision

B. who regret giving up their career halfway

C. who think too much of the positive side of life

D. who are full of imagination even upon death

25. “Shadowland” in the last sentence refers to         .

A. the wonderful land one often dreams about

B. the bright future that one is looking forward to

C. the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached

D. a word that exists only in one’s imagination

Passage 4

If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question. 

It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people then did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4, 000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write. 

Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been

made about the most important happenings. And these have been sung and acted and told for many generations for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call ‘remembered history’. Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.

26. Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?            .

A. Where there are no written records, there is no history

B. “Remembered history”, compared with written history, is less reliable

C. A written account of our daily activities helps us to be able to answer many questions

D. Written records of the past play an important role in our learning of the human history

27. We know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because         .

A. there was nothing worth being written down at that time

B. the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record

C. the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire

D. the people there did not know how to write

28.  “Remembered history” refers to         .

A. history based on a person’s imagination

B. stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth

C. songs and dances about the most important events

D. both B and C

29.  “Remembered history” is considered valuable only when         .

A. it is written down         B. no written account is available

C. it proves to be true        D. people are interested in it

30. The passage suggests that we could have learned much more about human history than we do now if the ancient people had         .

A. made more songs and dances 

B. not burnt their written records in wars

C. kept a written record of every past event

D. told exact stories of the most important happenings

第三部分：词汇和结构 （共25小题；每小题1分，满分25分）

第一节：此小节共有15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，请你从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。    示例[A]〔B〕〔C〕〔D〕

31. I think dog is ____________ animal in the world.

A. very kind

B. very clever

C. the kindiest

D. cleverer

----I feel very ____________. I heard a ____________ noise just now.

A. frightening, frightened

B. frightening, frightening

C. frightened, frightening

D. frightened, frightened

33.The room is big enough for ten people ____________.

A. to live

B. live

C. living

D. to live in

34.One of the boys suggested ____________ and we were happy about this.

A. go camping

B. going camping

C. to go camping

D. go for camping

35.____________ exciting news it is!

A. How an

B. What an

C. How

D. what

36.What house ____________ he ____________?

A. do, live

B. does, live in

C. do live in

D. does, live

37.She ____­­­________her tortoises, it moves_____________.

A. like, slow

B. love, slowly

C. likes, slower

D. loves, slowly

38.Please ____________ your name _____________ you finish _____________ it.

A. sign, before, saying

B. sign, after, reading

C. write, before, reading

D. write down, after, having a look

39.We know it ____________. It enjoys the music____________.

A. very well, very well

B. very much, very much

C. very well, very much

D. very much, very well

40.There______in that room.

A  twenty two students             B  twenty—two students 

C  is twenty—two student          D  are twenty-two students

41. Before he came to Japan, he had never heard a single Japanese word         .

A. speaking            B. speak         C. to speak            D. spoken

42. Knowledge          only from practice.

A. has come    B. came         C. comes              D. is coming

43. It is required that all the teachers in the department          on a picnic next Saturday.

A. to go              B. went                     C. go                  D. might go

44. We will succeed          learning English well if we don’t lose heart when we failed.

A. to              B. in                    C. with                 D. for

45. It is often more difficult to find trained men than          for scientific research.

A. getting financial support                  B. to getting financial support

I have a good friend. His name is Tom. He is a nice boy, but he eats too 46 and doesn't like sports.

He has a big 47 every morning. He has four eggs, 48 of bread and butter and  49  big glass of milk for it. 50 lunch, he eats two hamburgers, a lot of French fries 51 chicken. He drinks a lot of cola or soda, too. For dinner, he likes beef and salad.

He 52 eats beef, chicken, hamburgers, and eggs. He likes ice cream, cola and soda, 53 .

Too much food is not 54 for health. So Tom is very 55 .

46、A、many      B、much     C、some    D、any

47、A、breakfast   B、lunch    C、dinner    D、supper

48、A、much      B、many    C、lots      D、lot

49、A、a          B、an       C、some     D、any

50、A、For        B、On       C、For       D、Of

51、A、for        B、and      C、of        D、but

52、A、often      B、never     C、seldom    D、not

53、A、and        B、but      C、too        D、also

54、A、bad        B、good     C、important   D、hungry

55、A、healthy    B、fit        C、thin      D、fat

第四部分：写作 （满分15分）

要求你在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。

My Family

（提示：短文中可以介绍家庭成员及他们的生活、工作等方面相关的信息）