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昌吉学院《公共英语》
2023-2024学年第一学期期末试卷

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第一部分 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
1、—I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been so rude to you.
—You ________ something not very nice to me, but that's OK.
A．have said B．had said C．were saying D．did say

2、They are smiling. There ______ much trouble solving the problem.
A．couldn’t be B．mustn’t be
C．can’t have been D．mustn’t have been

3、––Cathy is not coming to your birthday party tonight.
––But she ______!
A．promised B．promises
C．will promise D．had promised

4、_________ his conclusion on the evidence he collected on the scene, he proved that the murderer was guilty.
A．Based B．Basing
C．To base D．Being based

5、Ted couldn’t remember the exact date of the storm, but he knew it was Sunday because everybody was at church.
A．/, the B．a, /
C．/, a D．the, /

6、I ____ about what you’ve said and I’ve decided to take your advice．
A．thought B．have been thinking
C．was thinking D．was thinking

7、Mike was usually so careful, this time he made a small mistake.
A．yet B．still C．even D．thus

8、—Did you have difficulty finding Ann'house?
—Not really.She___us clear directions and we were able to find it.easily?
A．was to give B．had given
C．was giving D．would give

9、The 90’s people seem to have enjoyed the great benefits ________ about by the great level of cultural and
economic development.
A．brought B．bringing
C．to be brought D．having brought

10、The police officers decided to conduct a thorough and ______ review of the case.
A．comprehensive B．complicated
C．conscious D．constant

第二部分 阅读理解（满分20分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A

1、Which of the following people should apply for Job A?
A．An energetic American girl with 6 years of experience in marketing．
B．A shy Chinese girl who is interested in marketing and willing to learn．
C．An outgoing Shandong boy with interest and experience in marketing．
D．A aggressive Australian marketing manager who wants to work in Shanghai．
2、Which of the following is a must for an applicant for Job B?
A．An international background． B．A degree in electronics．
C．An interest in medical equipment． D．Willingness for an immediate interview．
3、Which job is suitable for a college dropout with a good command of English and Chinese?
A．Job A． B．Job B． C．Job C． D．Job D．

B
20 years ago, a couple of ecologists, Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs, convinced Del Oro, a large orange juice producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park in exchange for the right to dump (倾倒) massive amounts of orange peels on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park, at no cost. Dealing with tons of waste peels usually involved burning them or paying to have them dumped at a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive.
A year after the contract was signed, Del Oro dumped around 12,000 tons of sticky orange waste in the land. However, another juice company and rival of Del Oro challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was “polluting the national park”. They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through. The 3-hectare piece of land virtually covered with fruit waste was completely forgotten.
Then, in 2013, Timothy Treuer, a scientist at Princeton University visited that piece of land 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him. “It was completely overgrown with trees and vines,” Timothy Treuer recently said, “the difference between fertilized and unfertilized areas was visually surprised us a lot! We needed to come up with some really good standards to evaluate exactly what was happening there.”
To confirm that the fruit waste was responsible for the revival of plant life, Treuer and his team spent months picking up samples, analyzing and comparing them. They found “dramatic differences between the areas covered in orange peels and those that were not. The area fertilized by orange waste had richer soil, greater tree-species richness and greater forest coverage. In a sense, it’s not just a win-win between the company and the local park—it’s a win for everyone.”
The effect the orange peels had on the land is probably not that surprising to people familiar with composting (堆肥), but what is shocking is that a judge actually called this particular example polluting the national park and stopped it from going forward. Now that Timothy Treuer’s study has received worldwide attention, this type of polluting is being seriously considered as a way of bringing tropical forests back to life.
1、Why was the deal proposed by the ecologists attractive to Del Oro?
A．It would make farmers produce more oranges.
B．It would help deal with the orange peel waste for free.
C．It would increase the production of orange juice.
D．It would save much space for the orange juice producer.
2、What does the underlined phrase ‘‘fell through” in the second paragraph?
A．became unbelievable B．failed to happen
C．made something possible D．changed the course of an event
3、What did Treuer find when he visited the land covered with orange waste?
A．The peel waste was hard to break down there.
B．Del Oro continued dumping peel waste there.
C．The peel waste enriched the soil of the land.
D．The whole national park was polluted.
4、What’s the best title of the passage?
A．Orange peel waste found its way to reshape the national park.
B．A couple of ecologists devoted themselves to restoring the forest.
C．A casual attempt led to a series of expected magic results.
D．Orange peel waste brought a forest back to life.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．
Recently I met a guy named Leonard Gilbert on a trip. Leonard is the kind of people you could pass on the street and never 1 but he is, in my view, a very special person who 2 recognition.
Leo lives in a 3 rural area, so when his wife had cancer several years ago, Leo was faced with a four-and-a-half-hour drive to where she could be treated. That 4 lots of expense for meals, fuel, hotels and so on. But in the end the cancer took his wife 5 .
Evidently Leo was very 6 by his wife’s passing, but he was also very angry, for he realized other people were facing the same sorts of 7 . Rather than giving money to charities, what he did was start to throw 8 .
Every other Saturday evening, there is a party in Leo’s garage. Neighbours, friends and relatives come and bring snacks and drinks; many bring 9 , there is music and dancing, and at some point during the evening Leo 10 a family he has found who are having difficulties 11 the cost of supporting a cancer patient undergoing 12 far from home. Then a honey-jar is passed around and the money 13 , every cent of it, goes 14 to that family. The people at the party have a good time. The family 15 that someone, probably someone they have never met knows what they are going through and 16 enough to help.
Leo’s 17 to help the families of other cancer patients was born out of his grief but, from the perspective of those who have received the money, it is an act of love. His personal 18 has resulted in an act of kindness that honours the 19 of the wife he has lost. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had more people in the world like Leonard Gilbert? I’m glad I met Leo. He makes the world a 20 place.
1、A．know B．notice C．forget D．love
2、A．requires B．needs C．deserves D．avoids
3、A．convenient B．peaceful C．remote D．nearby
4、A．meant B．spent C．showed D．reduced
5、A．otherwise B．instead C．somehow D．anyway
6、A．stricken B．shocked C．pleased D．mourned
7、A．happiness B．hardships C．cancers D．expenses
8、A．coins B．honey C．medicine D．parties
9、A．jars B．cards C．instruments D．flowers
10、A．tells about B．argues about C．comments on D．chats about
11、A．cutting B．meeting C．increasing D．calculating
12、A．charities B．depression C．treatment D．support
13、A．saved B．paid C．owed D．collected
14、A．partly B．exactly C．properly D．directly
15、A．understands B．pretends C．ignores D．confirms
16、A．earns B．cares C．struggles D．plans
17、A．demand B．motivation C．expectation D．consideration
18、A．donation B．opinion C．loss D．belief
19、A．cancer B．memory C．wish D．recovery
20、A．better B．worse C．more peaceful D．more terrible

第二节（每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English Many people believe the English spoken on TV 1． the radio is standard English This is because in the early days of radio, those who 2．(report) the news were expected to speak excellent English However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people speak
When people use words and 3．(expression) different from the “standard language”, it is 4．(call) a dialect American English5．(have) many dialects, especially the Midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish dialects Even in some parts6． the USA, two people from neighboring towns speak a little 7．(different) American English has so many dialects because people have come from all over the world Geography also plays a part in 8． (make) dialects Some people 9．live in the mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of English dialect When Americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with 10．(they)

第四部分 写作（共两节）第一节 短文改错（满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)，并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
This morning, our school held a fire drill、 We were listening to the teacher attentively in the math class while we heard the fire alarm from the speaker on the wall、 The teachers stopped teaching immediately and instructing us to exit the classroom in order、 When it got into the passageway, we found we were surrounded by heavy smoke somewhere、 It was choking and our tears ran down、 We bent down, covered our mouths with handkerchiefs, and ran downstairs rapid into the open on the playground, just as we had taught before、
When we come back to our classroom, we gave a summary of this fire drill、 I think the fire disasters often happen、 So we should know the tips to escape from a fire for case of emergency、

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
你校校门口在放学时间经常出现交通拥堵，给师生和路人带来很多不便。假如你是李华，请用英文给你校英文报写一封信，提出解决拥堵的建议。内容包括：
1. 写信的目的；
2. 分析学校门口拥堵的原因；
3. 提出2~3点建议。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Editor,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua

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