I. For each of the following blanks, four questions are given. Choose the
most appropriate one. (20%)
1. Vickie had most probably ____her for another sort of girl. a. regarded b. viewed c. mistaken d. looked
2. The police investigation discovered that three young men were___in the robbery.
a. caught b. involved c. connected d. tightened
3. Only guests of the hotel enjoy the____of using the private beach. a. privilege b. possibility c. favor d. advantage
4. He felt rather __as he was the only person who wore sportswear at the dinner party.
a. in place b .in the way c. by the way d. out of place
5. The ___power of the people in this town has been decreasing because most young people have left for the big cities. a. shopping b. purchasing c. enduring d. spending
6. I received a____ parcel yesterday and I am still wondering who may have sent it.
a. sincere b. dull c. complicated d. mysterious 7. The school bus was ____by a thick fog. a .held up b .broken off c. kept up d. put off 8. How we ____a chance to visit your great country.
a. looked for b. longed for c. waited for d. went for
9. We ’ll do what we can to get the goods___on time,” said the manager of the company.
a. reached b. delivered c. returned d. come 10. It is the boy’s laziness that___ his failure in the exam. a. resulted from b. brought c. resulted in d. led to
II. Fill in the blanks with words or phrases you have learned from the texts. (15%)
1. We will have to leave before sunrise. Please _arrange__for a taxi to pick us up.
2. The reading __assignment___for this week is Hemingway’s THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA .Next week we will discuss its __content__as well as its style.
3. When he starts talking, he is never __aware__of how time passes.
4. Twenty years ago, a family with _average___income in china could not afford a color TV set.
5. Don’t think that you can depend on your father for money to buy the house. He has __committed__ every cent he has to helping homeless children. 6. Knowing that he was selling the only thing of value in his house, the old man signed the agreement with a ___trembling_hand. 7. To his _disappointment___, his son failed to enter college. 8. I__folded___ my coat and used it as a pillow on the boat.
9. He is ___by far_ _____the most intelligent pupil in the class. 10. The doctor decided to __operate____on her as soon as possible. III. Reading comprehension(15’)
Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work, they can give a simple, direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I fix sick people” or “I teach primary school.” As a theoretical physicist, I never had this luck. Society has come to expect many things from the physicists, It used to be that we only had to discover the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques that would power the Silicon Valley(硅谷). With these expectations we were fairly comfortable: they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes us uncomfortable—and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to—is that in this century we have become , though unwillingly, gurus on questions such as “ what is the nature of Reality?”
We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began and what the nature of matter is. The answers are coming up with are just not easy to comprehend for the average person.
So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people to understand.
1. According to the passage, in a way physicists are a. intelligent b. comfortable c. strange d. unlucky
2. Judging from the context, the word “guru” in the first paragraph most probably means a person
a. who acts as a teacher and answers gig questions.
b. Who gives wrong answers to big questions. c. Who does not like to answer big questions.
d. Who is eager to supply answers to big questions.
3. which of the following is true according to what the author says about physicists?
a. Physicists do not like their jobs. b. Physicists live in two different worlds.
c. Physicists are coming up with new answers to old questions. d. Physicists don’t have to tell people what they are doing. 4. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Theoretical physicists only have to answer the basic questions.
b. Theoretical physicists contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley.
c. Theoretical physicists have disappointed the expectations of many people. d. Theoretical physicists have found it hard to make friends with ordinary people.
5. Which of the following is true about the job of physicists? a. It is getting more and more difficult.
b. It is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
c. A person with average intelligence can not do it. d. Both A and B.
IV. Translation
1. The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing.
支票像一只折断了翅膀旳鸟同样飘落在地上
2. I don’t remember whether I cried at that moment, but my sister did.
我不记得当时我究竟哭没哭,但我妹妹旳确哭了。
3. There was one especially absent-minded young man in the assembly line who sewed on buttons.
有一种特别心不在焉旳年轻人在生产线上缝钮扣。
4. He jumped back as if he had been stung, and the blood rushed into his wrinkled face.
她跳了回来,仿佛被蛰了一下,血冲涌上她那张布满皱纹旳脸。
5. Now suddenly she began to sob, hold herself as if weeping were a disgrace.
们她忽然间开始抽泣，但却克制着自己，仿佛哭泣是一件令人羞耻旳事同样。
6.罢工成果，资方接受了工人旳规定.
The strike resulted in the management's accepting the workers' demands. 7.那位外国专家但愿在三年内达到所有目旳。
The foreign expert hopes to achieve all his aims in three years.
8.我怎么能为她讲旳话负责呢？
How can I be responsibile for what he said? 9.人旳学习能力似乎是无限旳。
It seems that man’ s learning capacity is unlimited 10.一辆卡车驶进了学校积雪覆盖操场。
A truck ran into the snow- covered school ground .
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