对外经贸大学本科英语第一学期试题与答案

III. Word building：Put the appropriate word form into each blank. (20%)

1. How can anybody be so ______ as to leave all his work to a junior clerk?

A. responsible B. irresponsible C. response D. respond

2. If you want to _____ your ideas, there are several ways of doing it.

A. popular B. popularity C. popularize D. population

3. If you lend him the money, I doubt if he will be able to ______ it at all.

A. repay B. payment C. paying D. pay

4. The Chinese government has promised to maintain ______ and stability in Hong Kong after 1997.

A. prosperous B. prosper C. prosperity D. prospered 5. Einstein was able to describe his brilliant ideas with great ______. A. simple B. simplify C. simplicity D. simply

6. Although most of the rooms are small, the hall is ______. A. space B. spacing C. spacious D. spaced

7. The tailor took his ______ before making the suit. A. measurements B. measures C. immeasurably D. measurable

8. He made a few ______ remarks, introducing the speaker to the audience.

A. prepare B. preparatory C. preparation D. unprepar

9. All entries in the dictionary are listed in ______ order. A. alphabet B. alphabetical C. alphabetically D. unalphabetical 10. The basic goal of the project is to ______ passengers to travel between London and Paris in about three hours. A. able B. disable C. enable D. ability

11 How can anybody be so ______ as to leave all his work to a junior clerk?

A. responsible B. irresponsible C. response D. respond

12 If you want to _____ your ideas, there are several ways of doing it.

A. popular B. popularity C. popularize D. population

13 If you lend him the money, I doubt if he will be able to ______ it at all.

A. repay B. payment C. paying D. pay

14 The Chinese government has promised to maintain ______ and stability in Hong Kong after 1997.

A. prosperous B. prosper C. prosperity D. prospered 15 Einstein was able to describe his brilliant ideas with great ______. A. simple B. simplify C. simplicity D. simply

16Although most of the rooms are small, the hall is ______. A. space B. spacing C. spacious D. spaced

17The tailor took his ______ before making the suit. A. measurements B. measures C. immeasurably D. measurable

18 He made a few ______ remarks, introducing the speaker to the audience.

A. prepare B. preparatory C. preparation D. unprepar

19All entries in the dictionary are listed in ______ order. A. alphabet B. alphabetical C. alphabetically D. unalphabetical 20The basic goal of the project is to ______ passengers to travel between London and Paris in about three hours. A. able B. disable C. enable D. ability

21．We must ________ our working arrangements or nothing will ever get done.

A. system B. systemize C. D

22. By his trained _________ the doctor knew that the man was really dead.

A. observe B. observance C. observation D.observed

23.The organization seeks to insure _______ of pay for men and women. A. equal B. equally C equality D. unequal 24.I should like to hear a _________ opinions on this matter, not just one.

A. variety of B. vary C. various D. varied

25.She is a very _______ person, and she always knows exactly what she wants to do.

A. decide B. decision C. decisive D. deciding 26.He gets ________ piles of homework.

A. engaged in B. engaged to C. engaged on D. engaging in

27. You need to decide how much time to _______ each examination question.

A. allocation B. allocate C. allocate to D. allocation to 28. His behavior was so _______ that he had to be sent out of the room. A. graceful B. disgraceful C. gracefully D.ungraceful

29. The sound of happy ______ showed how much they were enjoyed the party.

A. laugh B. laughing C. laugher D. laughter

30. He showed much ______ in giving help to those in need. A. generous B. generosity C. generously D. general

IV. Cloze. (10%)

Men usually want to have their own way. They want to think and act 1 they like. No one, however, can have his own way all the time. “Society” means a group of people with the same laws and the same 2 of life. People in society may make their own decisions, but these decisions ought not

to be unjust or 3 to others. One man’s decisions may so easily harm another person. For example, a motorist may be in a hurry to get to a friend’s house. He sets out, driving at full speed like a competitor in a motor 4 . There are other 5 and also pedestrians (行人) on the road. Suddenly there is a crash. 6 are screams and confusion. One careless motorist has 7 another car. The collision has injured two of the passengers and 8 the third. 9 many road accidents happen 10 the thoughtlessness of selfish drivers.

1. a. as b. like c. though d. as if 2. a. approach b. route c. way d. road

3. a. harmful b. harmless c. harm d. harmful 4. a. run b. race c. racing d. running

5. a. tools b. trucks c. bicycles d. vehicles 6. a. There b. They c. Where d. Which 7. a. beat b. hitted c. struck d. punch

8. a. murdered b. killed c. assassinated d. executed 9. a. A great deal of b. Much c. So d. Too 10. a. through b. by c. by means of d. with

The world, however, has not changed the medium. The essential

characteristics of television are the same in every part of the world. TV is a one-way conduct for entertainment, sports and 1 , broadcast in real time to a/an 2 , mass audience. It plays and you 3 . If what is on does not appeal, you change the channels; 4 nothing appeals, you are out of luck. Satellites do nothing to 5 this model of television. They just transmit it 6 more people in more places. People 7 think television is an idiot 8 . “Today’s TV set”, says Mr. Negoponte, director of 9 MIT’s Media Laboratory, “is the 10 appliance in your home.”

1. a. news b. newses c. information d. informations 2. a. active b. interesting c. worried d. passive 3. a. see b. watch c. hear d. listen 4. a. as b. if c. unless d. while

5. a. alternating b. alternative c. alter d. alternation 6. a. to b. into c. onto d. towards 7. a. still b. already c. too d. yet 8. a. case b. box c. person d. thing 9. a. a b. an c. the d. another

10. a. dumb b. dumber c. dumbly d. dumbest

Teenage Americans are friendly and uninhabited with visitors. There seems to be no generation _____. This is, in part, due to the way they have been ____2__ up at school and in the home. Discipline,____3____ important at schools and ____4____ of some countries, is given ___5____

less emphasis than self-discipline in American schools and homes.

Americans ____6_____ all ages tend to question orders, It is not in their ___7___ to obey blindly.

Americans are encouraged to be ___8___ at school. It is a tradition ___9__ back to the 18th century when American pioneers pushed the frontier further and further. Young Americans are __10___ to discuss and even argue in the home.

1. A. distant B. length C. difference D. gap 2. A. fed B. brought C. built D. shaped 3. A. such B. very C. so D. more

4. A. homes B. families C. relatives D. neighbors 5. A. more B. much C. event D. as 6. A. at B. with C. by D. of

7. A. mind B. body C. nature D. brain

8. A. independent B. dependent C. reliable D. trustful 9. A. coming B. going C. dating D. working

10. A. espected B. expected C. watched D. ordered

One evening last week, Mr. Fuller did ___1___ very silly. He went to the pub, but he ____2___ meet anyone he knew. It seemed everyone was ____3____ Holiday. So he decided to have something to eat in a nice ___4__ and ___5___ go to the cinema. He drove into he town and ___6___ his car in a small street near the city center. But when he came ___7__ the cinema a few hours __8___, something ___9___ happened ----- he couldn’t remember ___10___ about the street.

1. A. nothing B. some thing C. something D. anything 2. A. did B. didn’t C, doesn’t D. was 3. A. on B. at C. for D. in

4. A. restroom B. restaurant C. pub D. inn 5. A. then B. now C. after D. before 6. A. put B. take C. parked D. drive 7. A. out from B. out of C. in D. out 8. A. after B. before C. late D. later

9. A. terrible B. terribly C. suddenly D. danger

10. A. somewhere B. everywhere C. anywhere D. nowhere

Brazil has cut the price of its coffee almost in half.

The Brazilian Coffee Institute says it’s 1 the minimum export price of its 2 coffee beans from two dollars a pound 3 one dollar and seven cents a pound.

The new prices go into 4 next Monday.

The Brazilian action reflects 5 low prices on international coffee markets and the 6 of a near-record coffee 7 this year.

Brazil is 8 largest coffee exporter and 9 and the United States is