英语试卷A卷

2009－2010学年第⼆学期

英语系《英语阅读》期末考试试卷（A卷）年级专业 ___班级______ 学号姓名注：1、共90分钟，总分100分。

2、此试卷适⽤年级、专业：2008级中专幼⼉英语教育专业

Part I. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 2 passages. After reading each passage, please choose the best answer（单项选择。读完下⾯的2篇短⽂后，请选出最佳答案。本部分共12题，每题3

A library is a collection of books, and the person who looks after it is called a librarian. A library may be quite small or it maybe large, like the library of the British Museum in London. It has about 7,000,000 books , both big and small ones, are therefor us to use.

You may be lucky enough to have a class library. If so, your teacher will tell you how to use it. Be sure that you do. A persondoes not read books is losing a lot.

Today more and more towns have public libraries. There are large collections of books that anyone living in the town mayborrow, if he joins the library. Sometimes you may have to pay some money to join it. Sometimes it is free.1. A librarian’s work is __________.A. to collect booksB. to borrow booksC. to sell books

D. to take care of the library

2. The library of British Museum in London has _______.A. more than 7 billion booksB. less than 7 billion booksC. 7 billion books

D. more than 6 billion and less than 8 billion books3. A person who doesn’t read books is _________A. cleverB. a great man

C. a man with poor knowledge

D. always free

4. “Sometimes it’s free” means “_______”.A. It’ not busy.

B. You needn’t pay any money to join the library.C. You have to pay a little money to join it.D. You are free, you may borrow books from it.

5. Today more an more towns have _________ libraries.A. their ownB. its ownC. pubicD. private

6. From the story, we know _______ can borrow books from the public libraries.A. Anyone living in the townB. Anyone working in the townC. Anyone studying in the town

D. Anyone in the town who has joined the libraryPassage 2

It is easier to go downhill than to climb uphill, so it is easier to fall into bad habits than into good ones.

Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little while people do not notice their danger. Schoolboys first pick uplittle bad habits in schools and on the streets. When they cannot finish their lessons , they copy from their classmates. If theysee bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. When they get bigger, the habits become so strong that they canno longer get rid of them.. form copying, they fall behind, then they learn to steal, and smoking is bad for their bodies. At lastthey become worse and worse,

How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits at the beginning!7. Bad habits come __________A. quickly

B. quietly and slowlyC. suddenlyD. immediately

8. Schoolboys first pick up little bad habits _______A. when they were bornB. at home

C. in schools and on the streetsD. only in class

9. “get rid of” means “________”.A. get awayB. give up

C. put onD. get to

10. When they grow up, bad habits _________

A. become no dangerB. can be gotten rid of

C. become too strong to get rid ofD. can be known by their parents11. It is more difficult to _________.

A. go downhill than to climb uphillB. climb downhill than to go uphill

中专《英语阅读》期末考试试卷（A卷）第 1 页共 2 页(2010/05)C. go uphill than to climb downhillD. climb uphill than to go downhill12. Smoking is __________A. a good habitB. a bad habitC. usefulD. useless

Part II. Read the following 2 passages. After reading it, decide whether the statements are true (T) or

A big fire happened to the newly-built restaurant. It was destroyed completely. About 100 people died and over 300 peopleinjured. Among them were the manager and his wife. The fire started on the night of Christmas when hundreds of peoplewere singing and dancing in the hall. People could not find the way out. They shouted and screamed and most of them werekilled by smoke. Ten fire engines arrived at the scene soon after the fire started. But the firemen found there was no waternearby and there were no fire-hose reels(灭⽕⽤的软管或⽔龙带卷盘) or fire extinguishers (灭⽕器). They used ladder andrescued many people

from the top of the building. Later an evening newspaper reporter said a burning cigarette end caused the fire.( )1. The newly-built restaurant was destroyed completely in a big fire.( )2. The fire started at Chinese New Year.

( )3. The manager and his wife were in the restaurant when the fire happened.( )4. There was much fire-fighting equipment in the newly-built restaurant.( )5. Barbecue (烤⾁架，烧烤野餐) fire caused the fire.( )6. Most of people were killed by the smoke from the fire.Passage 2

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday in the U.S.A. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November. Usually, familymembers and friends get together for a turkey (⽕鸡) dinner. People sometimes drive their cars to distant places for a familyreunion (团圆). Many people also take Friday off and make it a long weekend vacation, because most Americans do not workon Saturday and Sundays.

The tradition began in 1621, when the first English settlers reached the New World. They did not have enough food. But henative American Indians helped the White and taught them to grow corn and vegetables.

The autumn after the English settlers came to America, they had a good harvest. They decided to have a celebration andinvited their Indian neighbors to a banquet (宴会) in order to give thanks tothem for their help and to the God.

( ) 7. On Thanksgiving Day, people sometimes go out in their cars for a family reunion.

( ) 8. Many people do not have to go to work on Friday and they will have a three-day holiday. ( ) 9. Thanksgiving Day wascelebrated by the native American Indians first.

( ) 10. In the autumn, of 1621, the English settlers had a good harvest and they thanked both the Indian neighbors and theGod.

( ) 11. Nowadays Thanksgiving Day isn’t celebrated by Americans.( ) 12. The main idea of this passage is how Thanksgiving Day started.

Part III. After reading the passage, please answer the following questions (阅读下⾯的短⽂，然后回答问题。本部分共7题，每题4分，本部分共28分)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their children were going to begin their holiday one day. And thy had to be at the airport at elevenforty a.m. It’ll take us half an hour to get there in the taxi,” Mr. Smith said. “ So we all have to be ready by eleven o’ clock.Nobody should be late.”

At ten minutes to eleven they were still running around doing things, except Mrs. Smith, who was sitting quietly on a chair inthe garden enjoying the sun.

Her husband and children were very surprised that she wasn’t in a hurry until the taxi arrived and Mrs. Smith said to them, “Well, I knew that this was going to happen , so before I went to bed last night, moved all our clocks and watches aheadtwenty minutes. So now we can go to the airport quietly without worrying about being late.1. Who were going to begin their holiday one day?

______________________________________________________2. How did they go to the airport?

______________________________________________________3. How long would it take them to reach the airport by taxi?

______________________________________________________4. Who was not very busy doing things before they started?

______________________________________________________5. Why wasn’t Mrs. Smith in a hurry?

______________________________________________________6. Whey did the smiths actually start by taxi?

______________________________________________________

7. Do you think it is necessary to leave home earlier when you go to the airport to take a plane? Why?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.中专《英语阅读》期末考试试卷（A卷）第 2 页共 2 页(2010/05)