江苏开放大学开放教育专科2018年秋学期期末考试 大学英语A(专）试题

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江苏开放大学开放教育专科2018年秋学期期末考试
大学英语A(专）试题
2018年12月
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I. Choose the choice that best fits into the blank。单项选择（每小题1分，共20 分)1. In many private schools, a dentist__ （B）_ the students’ teeth twice a month.
A. injures
B. examines
C. instructs
D. informs
2.A good writing _ （B）__clear organization and choice of words.
A. calls on
B. calls for
C.calls up
D.calls off
3.Though Han Xiaolin was born and brought up in China, he can speak__ （ D ）__English.
A. smooth
B. flowing
C. fluid
D.fluent
4. When you drive home, you can’t be____ （A）__careful.
A. too
B. very
C.so
D. only
5.You look very well after your holiday; you have__ （ C ）___weight.
A. put up with
B. put away
C. put on
D.put out
6.There ___ （ D ）__ only a few eggs and there ____not much milk left in the refrigerator.
A. is, are
B. is, is
C.are, are
D. are, is
7.Xiao Li_ （A）_in this school since 2008.
A.has been teaching
B. has teaching
C. taught
D. teaches
8. The road is so slippery. It__ （ C ）___.
A. might snow soon
B. must snow soon
C. must have snowed
D. may be snowing now
9.Li Ping got a new job and she__ （B）__
A. doesn’t work here no longer
B. doesn’t work here any longer
C. works here no longer
D. works here any longer
10.- Do you know who he is?
-He_ （ D ）_familiar, but I’m not sure who he is.
A. tastes
B. feels
C. smells
D.looks
11.We understand you need easy access_ （B）_up-to-date information about your accounts in many cities.
A. in
B. to
C. for
D. with
12.It is common practice__ （A）__ a battery when it still has some life in it.
A. to charge
B.charge
C.charged
D. having charged
13.Chinese people celebrate__ （ C ）__ birth of_____child by giving away red eggs.
A./ ; a
B./ ; the
C. the; a
D. the; the
14.It was so noisy that we found it hard to __ （A）___the conversation.
A. cary on
B. set for
C. turn on
D. go about
15.You cannot cancel your order_ （ D ）_ you change your mind within three days.
A. as if
B. while
C. so that
D. unless
16.Allan is looking forward to _ （B）__his American partner at the trade fair.
A. meet
B. meeting
C. be meeting
D. having met
17.The sales manager had his secretary__ （A）_a press conference for their new products.
A. arrange
B.to arrange
C.have arranged
D. arranged
18.The message__ （ C ）_Mr. Black was elected chairman of the committee arrived just in time.
A. which
B. what
C. that
D.how
19.They had talked for a few minutes ___ （ C ）____ they found they were of different opinions.
A. unless
B. while
C. Before
D.once
20.By the time you come to see me next month, I ____ （ D ）___my term paper.
A. have completed
B.complete
C.am completing
D.will have completed
Il.Complete the dialogue with the expressions given in the box.选词填空（每小题2分，共20 分)
Dialogue 1

A.What is
B.How long
C.At what time
D.On what day
E.On what airline
Hans:Hello. This is Hans speaking.
Mother:Hi, dear, this is mom.
Hans:Hi, mom. How are you?
Mother:I’m fine. I am calling just because I want to know if you have booked your ticket to China.
Hans:Yes, I have.
Mother:____ （ D ）___？
Hans:Feb.3.
Mother:____ （ C ）___?
Hans:The flight leaves at 8:32.
Mother:_______（E）_?
Hans:Air American.
Mother:____ （A）___the flight number?
Hans:AA1005.
Mother:____ （B）___ does it take to fly from Boston to New York?
Hans:About one hour.
Mother:OK, your father and I will drive you to the airport.
Hans:Thank you, mom.
Dialogue 2
A. Why don’t you
B.What about
C. planning to
D.I’m going to
E.I will
Hans:What are you___ （ C ）____do after class?
Mark: I’m going to play basketbal1l.____ （B）____you?
Hans:Well,___ （ D ）____stay in the classroom and do the homework.
Mark:___ （A）____take a break first?
Hans: Maybe____（E）___， you know, go out for a walk.
Mark: That’s better.
III.Reading Comprehension.阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分)
Passage 1
Nancy’s hobby is collecting sharpeners. She spends a lot of time on it after school. She has collectedmore than one hundred sharpeners from different countries. They are all different in color and size.
Nancy likes sharpeners with animals and birds on them. in this way, she learns the names of manyanimals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals andbirds from her school library. She learns a lot about them from those books.
Sometimes Naney has many sharpeners of the same kind. She gives them to her friends. Then theygive her other different sharpeners in return.
Nancy has many pen pals in many countries. She sends them sharpeners of her country. In return, theysend her sharpeners of their countries. Nancy’s father also gives her sharpeners.He brings them home fromhis friends for her.
Many of Nancy’s friends collect other things. Some collect coins and others collect matchboxes(火柴盒)or stamps. But, all of them say that Nancy’s collection is the most interesting of all.
1.How many sharpeners has Nancy collected from different countries? （ C ）
A.One hundred.
B.Less than one hundred.
C.Over one hundred.
D.About one hundred.
2.______ （A）____Nancy’s sharpeners are different in color and size.
A.All of
B.Most of
C.Some of
D.A few of
3.Sometimes Nancy has many sharpeners of the same kind. She then （ D ）
A. keeps them for a period of time
B. throws them away
C. sells them and buy new ones
D.exchanges different sharpeners with her friends
4.Which of the following is NOT the way in which Nancy gets sharpeners? （ D ）
A.Her friends give her some.
B.Her pen pals send her some.C.Her father buys her some.
D. her father’s friends give her some.
5.Nancy’s friends collect the following items EXCEPT_ （ D ）
A.Coins.
B.Matchboxes.
C.Stamps
D.Books
Passage 2
lt is often difficult for a man to be quite sure how much tax he ought to pay to the government becauseit depends on so many different things: whether the man is married;how many children he has; whether hesupports any relations,how much interest he receives, how much he has spent on his house during the year,and so on.All this makes it difficult to decide exactly how much the tax is.
There was an artist who was always very careful to pay the proper amount.
One year, after posting his check as usual, he began to wonder if he had paid enough, and after a lot ofwork,with a pencil and paper,he found that he had not.He thought that he owed the governmentsomething.
He was just writing another check to send it to the tax collector when the postman dropped a letter intothe box at the front door. Opening it, the artist was surprised to find inside it a check for five pounds fromthe tax collector. The official explained that too much had been paid, and that therefore the difference wasnow returned to the taxpayer.
6.According to the passage, to decide the exact amount of tax to be paid is （ C ）
A. simple
B. easy
C.difficult
D. interesting
7.It is mentioned in the passage that one has to pay tax according to （B）
A. how much education one has received
B. whether one is single or married
C. how old one’s children are
D. where one lives
8.The word “proper in the second paragraph means （ C ）
A. small
B. big
C.right
D. wrong
9.After a lot of work, the artist thought that he had paid the government （A）
A. less tax than he should have
B. more tax than he should have
C. as much tax as usual
D. just enough tax
10. Why did the tax collector send a letter to the artist? （B）
A.To send him a new tax form.
B.To return the money overpaid.
C.To remind him of paying the tax.
D.To explain the rules of tax paying.
Passage 3
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in hisbed for all hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s onlywindow. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked about their wives,families and their jobs.And every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up, he would pass thetime by describing to his room-mate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the otherbed began to live for those one-hour periods when his world would be broadened and enlivened(使活泼)by all the activities and colours of the world outside.
Days and weeks passed.One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. The other man wasmoved next to the window. Slowly and painfully, he propped(支撑) himself up on one elbow to take hisfirst look at the world outside.He slowly turned to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank.wall.
The man asked the nurse what had made his deceased room-mate describe such wonderful thingsoutside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said,”Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.””
11.What did the two men often talk about? （ D ）
A.Their wives.
B.Their families.
C. Their jobs.
D.All of the above.
12.How did the man feel when his room-mate described the things outside the window? （A）
A.He felt his world became colourful.
B.He felt sad because he couldn’t see the world outside.
C.He felt lonely.
D.He was angry because he couldn’t sit up.
13.Which of the following statements is true? （B）
A. The scenery outside the window was beautiful.
B.Outside the window is nothing but a blank wall.
C. The room-mate has moved to another room.
D.There was a lovely lake outside the window.
14.Why did the blind man describe such wonderful things outside? （ C ）
A. Because he wanted to cheat the other man.
B.Because he wanted to share what he saw with his room-mate.
C. Because he hoped to encourage his room-mate by doing so.
D.Because he was a novelist.
15.What can you learn from this passage? （A）
A. We should learn to share happiness with others and bring hope to this world.
B. We should learn to describe everything we see.
C.You’d better stay in the bed by the window in hospital.
D.Cheating others is fun.
Passage 4
Mobile phones are the items that a lot of people are having today.However, do we really need to havea mobile phone by our side?
We could start with the advantages of mobile phones. There are many things that we could do withmobile phones. With the advancement of technology, more and more features are being added to the mobilephones which make them more useful. In addition to making calls，mobile phones also support a widevariety of other services such as text messaging, email, Internet access, business applications, gaming andphotography. We can bring them everywhere, and can be reached by others anytime. They make the world smaller, bringing people together no matter where they are.
But we could have some risks when using our mobile phones. We may have accidents when we usethem while driving. Some studies show that mobile phones can do harm to our bodies; and materials inmobile phones could damage our environment.
Since there are so many risks,why do we still have mobile phones? This is because these risks ordisadvantages can be overcome. For example,while we are driving we can easily pull up our car if wereally need to use the phone. Mobile phone manufacturers are reducing the radiation of mobile phones toavoid health risks.
Though there are both pros and cons of using mobile phones,we could easily see that there are moreadvantages than disadvantages.Moreover, mobile phones are becoming cheaper, which might be anotherreason why mobile phones are increasingly used today.
16. Which of the following functions is NOT mentioned in the passage? （ C ）
A. Text messaging.
B.Camera.
C.GPS.
17.What risks might mobile phones cause? （ C ）
A. Traffic accidents and health problems.
B.Environmental damage.
C.Both A and B.
18.What are mobile phone manufacturers doing to prevent mobile phone users from health risks? （A）
A. They are reducing the radiation of mobile phones.
B.They are trying to persuade people to use mobile phones less.
C. They are developing new models of mobile phones.
19. Why do people still use mobile phones despite their disadvantages? （B）
A.Because people don’t believe that mobile phones have any disadvantages.
B.Because the disadvantages of mobile phones can be avoided.
C.Because people cannot live without mobile phones.
20.According to the last paragraph, why are mobile phones increasingly being used today? （ C ）
A.They are safer.
B.They have more functions.
C. They are becoming cheaper.
IV.Complete the sentences with the words from the bracket and you should put them in proper order.正确排序并完成句子（每小题4分，共20分)
1.The team’s success was_____largely due to her efforts____(主要是由于她的努力）.(largely, efforts, to, due, her)
2. I would be very grateful if__you can arrange an interview__(你能安排一次面试).(can, you, arrange, interview, an)
3.But, on the bright side, people are trying hard to_____deal with the problem_____(解决这个问题〉.(problem, deal, the, with)
4.It is____important for you to pass the exam_____(通过这个考试对你来说很重要）.( for, important, you, pass, to, the exam)
5.This film_____is well worth seeing____(很值得一看)if you are interested in history.
(is, well, seeing, worth)

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