4208新编实用英语2试题

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湖北广播电视大学2008年秋季学期期末考试

《新编实用英语2》试题

I. Find the choice that best completes each of the following sentences: （每

小题2分，共20分） 1. The Forbidden City is a great tourist ______, drawing millions of visitors every year

A. attention

B. appointment

C. attraction

D. arrangement 2. This software _______ manufactures to advertise their products online. A. enable B. makes C. lets D. causes 3. The Red Cross was responsible for the ______ of medical supplies. A. contribution B. operation C. distribution D. cooperation 4. The high cost of labor is an important ______ in the rising price of steel. A. result B. factor C. item D. growth 5. She has written thirty letters home ____ she left

A. for

B. as

C. when

D. since 6. ____ the news , my father immediately set off for Changsha.

A. Hear

B. To hear

C. Being heard

D. Hearing 7. The film is based on a short story ____ is familiar to those villagers. A. such B. which C. what D. when 8. That village is made up of 246 families _____ to four nationalities.

A. belonged

B. Belong

C. belonging

D. belongs 9. The teacher asked Tom to state the reason _____ he had done it.

A. why

B. where

C. when

D. how 10. John didn ?t go home for Christmas and _________. A. Jane didn ?t neither B. neither did Jane C. neither Jane did D. nor Jane did II. Fill in the blanks according to the passage (One Minute Manager).

（每空1分，共10分） When the young man came to the manager ?s office, the manager was standing and

___1__ the window. He knew that the manager was __2__ for him. Having been invited to sit down, the young man began to _3_ the manager questions. One of the questions was,“ How do you _4_ your people?” The manager told him he held regularly _5_ meetings every week with his subordinates to review and _6_ what they had accomplished the week before, discuss the _7_ they had, and develop plans and _8_ for the next week. By doing so, the _9_ of the company was guaranteed and his people became _10_ productive. III. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions.（每小题2分，共20分） Passage 1

China could be the largest basketball market

As some 650 million people worldwide watched the Chicago Bulls overcome the Utah Jazz

in the NBA finals, NBA Commissioner David Stern looked beyond the Pacific to the future. Stern thinks China?s 1.2 billion people, its rapidly developing economy and its improved living standards are three reasons why China should start its own basketball pro-market.

China has dominated Asian basketball for the past two decades. The Chinese men?s team made its best showing ever, eighth place, in the Atlanta Olympic Games, and the Chinese women?s team won silver medals at both the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and the 1994 World Championship.

China has started two professional men?s basketball leagues in the past two years. Stern believes that …the CBA and NBA can work with each other to arrange visits? by teams from both sides.

( China Today )

1. According to Stern, there are three reasons why China could be the largest basketball market,

which of the following is not among the reasons?

A)a large population

B)practice of opening-up policy

C)rapidly developing economy

D)improved living standards

2. The title of the passage suggests that China the largest basketball market in the world.

A) will definitely become

B) will have to become

C) is very likely to become

D) should have become

3. Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz are the names of two in America.

A) basketball players

B) basketball leagues

C) basketball matches

D) basketball teams

4. The Chinese men?s and women?s basketball teams have been playing in Asia.

A) actively B) brilliantly

C) luckily D) casually

5. Davis Stern thinks that .

A) CBA can learn a lot from NBA

B) NBA can learn a lot from CBA

C) CBA and NBA can work closely together and become one single league

D) CBA and NBA can invite each other?s teams to play in order to learn from each other Passage 2

Smoking hurts health severely

EDITOR

The 10th World Conference on Tobacco of Health was held recently in Beijing, and will bring about a great advance in antismoking acts.

Statistics indicate that, besides the 300 million cigarette – puffing population, there are about 400 million passive smokers in China. The figure is estimated to rise by 2 per cent each year.

To prevent the situation from getting worse every day, a nationwide campaign against smoking has been waged by the government. For example, municipal authorities of 72 cities have announced prohibitions on smoking in public places.

With the damage caused by smoking widely acknowledged, and the nonsmoking campaign further deepened, more people will abandon smoking.

( China Daily ) 6. The passage is .

A) a news report

B) a diary entry

C) a letter to the editor

D) a speech

7. In China there are .

A) more passive smokers than active smokers

B) fewer passive smokers than active smokers

C) as many passive smokers as active smokers

D) active smokers but no passive smokers

8. To prevent the number of people, who smoke either directly or indirectly, increasing, .

A) the government has launched a nationwide campaign against smoking

B) smoking is not allowed in public places

C) centers have been founded to help people give up smoking

D) people will be fined if they smoke in public places

9. The writer believes that .

A) smoking can easily be given up

B) the antismoking campaign is a difficult job

C) there will be fewer and fewer smokers as time goes on

D) only the government can prohibit smoking

10. Which of the following words can be used

to replace …acknowledged? in sentence …With the damage caused by smoking widely acknowledged, and the non smoking campaign furthe r deepened, more people will abandon smoking.?

A) permitted

B) promised

C) accepted

D) rejected

IV. Translation（每小题3分，共30分）

lodging experience possible.

2.

information, or conduct business.

3.

4.

our conversation.

5. The waiter handed me a menu which offered a choice of five soups, eleven egg or fish

dishes, seven meat courses and six desserts, but of the twenty-nine dishes thus available , twenty-six carried a surcharge if ordered on the tourist menu. 6. 若员工的服务有任何怠慢之处，请向旅馆管理部门报告。 7.

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