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高职高专 实用英语 第一学期 期中考试试卷 A卷

Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension （每题两分，共十题，共二十分）

Only Child versus Siblings Read the text and fill in as many words as you can.

Although I wasn’t an （1）______ child, my sister was 14 years （2）______ than me and had left home when I turned （3）_____ years old, so I left like an only child.

I had no one to play with and my (4) ______ were older --- my mother was 40 when I was (5)_____ .

So now I have 4 children at age 3,5,14 and 16. My boys are the two older ones. My girls are the younger ones and they always (6)______ over the toys, but the older two often manage to find a way that they can play together peacefully.

There are a lot of good things to have (7)_____ than one child. You can always say, “Go and play with your brother or sister, I must (8)______ dinner.” Siblings teach us to live with others more easily. While an only child never has to (9)_____ with anyone in her home, a child with siblings (10)______ to share.

Part Ⅱ Vocabulary & Structure（每题一分，共四十题，共四十分） Section A: Choose the best answer.

1. We would like to ____ you to our barbeque tomorrow.

A．invitation B. information C. invite

2. I felt rather ______ when I left home for the first time to go on an exchange visit to America. A. happy B. informal C. nervous 3. The party is very _____ so you can wear what you like.

A. informal B. formal C. friendly 4. I___ what my family is doing at this moment back home.

A. suggest B. wonder C. ask

5. There is no reason to continue this discussion. You are not going to the party and ____. A. that's that B. so on C. ever after 6. You ____ think that all Americans can speak English and you would be right. A. daily B. probably C. wrongly 7. My best friend, ____, can speak English and Spanish.

A. new B. school C. for example 8. But ____ if I lived on the border to Mexico I could speak English and Spanish, too. A. maybe B. always C. never 9. I can hear my ______ neighbor through the wall. He is so loud. It is awful! A. another B. next-door C. nice 10. A ____ handshake is much better than a limp one.

A. firm B. serious C. unfriendly

11.I took the wrong ___ at the last road junction, can you tell me how I get back on the motorway? A. turn B. turner C. turning 12. Am I going in the right _____ for the post office?

A. route B. direction C. sign

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13. Can you tell me please how I ___ to the cinema from here?

A. come B. get C. take 14. Could you please ___ me in the direction of the motorway?

A. deliver B. show C. point 15. I'm making for the M25 motorway. Is this road the most ____ route?

A. direct B. obvious C. straight

16. Can you help me please? I've lost my way and _____ to get to the shops before closing time. A. require B. need C. request 17. Could you tell me how ___ I am from the town centre, please?

A. near B. far C. close 18. ____ to this map I should be near the church. I s that correct?

A. Considering B. After C. According 19. I'm ___ for the town hall - am I anywhere near?

A. making B. seeking C. seeing 20. Is this the ___ way for the railway station?

A. correct B. clear C. fine

21.If you ______ your money every week, you will soon have enough for a new bicycle. A. spent B. save C. earn 22.It is ______ to spend your money DVDs. You can borrow them from the shop. A. necessary B. good C. unnecessary 23.Siblings often have _____ about silly things.

A. agreement B. arguments C. friends 24.A good ______ with your parents is very important.

A. birth B. dinner C. relationship 25.My brother got a job as a _____ bus driver when he left school.

A. trainee B. clever C. friendly 26.Chu ______ in China and then moved to the USA when he was 25. A. enjoyed B. visited C. grew up 27.I think we should _____ uniforms at our school. I hate them!

A. do away with B. sell C. take 28.A healthy river is ______ fish.

A. empty B. full of C. nice 29.I was very ____ of my sister for having such beautiful black hair. A. frustrating B. happy C. jealous

30.There are no appointments _____ at the dentist this afternoon. You will have to wait until tomorrow.

A. attractive B. available C. able

Section B: Complete the sentences with the right form of the words in brackets

1. I had going shopping with my mother and the ______ (bad) moment always comes when she announces loudly in the shop how wonderful I look in the dress she has chosen for me.

2. She once chose an ugly pullover for me and went on to choose the ________ (awful) pair of trousers that I had ever seen.

3. Online shopping is the ________ (good) way of shopping for clothes, as my mother can no

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longer embarrass me in shops!

4. Buying online is ______ (easy) than fighting the crowds in town.

5. I don’t want to be known as the person who has the ________ (fashionable) clothes at school, I just want to be one of the ordinary people, like my friends are.

6. There is one boy at our school who always wears the _______ (expensive) brands of shoes but they look no different to other shoes.

7. His parents are not _______ (rich) than mine but they give him so much money for clothes. 8. He thinks he is the ______ (cool) boy in our school. 9. Unfortunately, we think he is the _______ (nasty)!

10. And he gets _______ (aggressive) than he usually is if we just ignore him and his cool clothes.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension（每题两分，共十题，共二十分）

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions . For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Task 1

Our Neighbor Jimmy has been a postman for the last ten year. He loves to talk to his wife in the evenings about the people he delivers to. He tells her about Mrs. Mannes, the little old lady at number 24, who is always very unfriendly when he delivers her post. She has a son in Australia and a daughter in France so she often gets post.

But one day when jimmy rings the bell with a parcel for Mrs. Mannes from her daughter, there is no answer. Jimmy know that the old lady never goes out (she even gets her food delivered from the local supermarket) so he starts to fell worried. He looks through the letterbox but sees nothing, and then he looks through the living room window and sees Mrs. Mannes lying on the floor. He goes around the house to check if the back door is open. It is, so he runs in and immediately rings for an ambulance. Mrs. Mannes gets to hospital in time. The doctor says that she had had a heart attack and if she had come to hospital any later she would not have survived. From that day on, Mrs. Mannes is very friendly and always gives jimmy a bar of chocolate when he delivers a parcel.

Complete the sentences with the best choice

1.Jimmy has been a postman______.

A. for ten years B. four ten years C. through ten years D. over ten years 2.Mrs. Mannes has a ______.

A. son in France B. daughter in Australia C. son in Australia D. daughter in Austria 3.Mrs. Mannes ______. A. gets her food delivered

B. goes to the local supermarket by bus

C. gets her food from the little shop at the corner

D. doesn’t get her shopping from the local supermarket

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