大学英语（1）期末考试A卷姓名： 学号： 专业：学习中心：一、阅读：20% （每小题2分）12345678910二、交际用语20%（每小题2分）12345678910三、语法与词汇：30%（每小题2分）123456789101112131415四英译汉：30% （答题请不要超出边框）（翻译题请在此空白处答题，否则不得分）First of all, successful language learners are independent learners. They do not depend on the book or the teacher; they discover their own way to learn the language. Instead of waiting for the teacher to explain, they try to find the patterns and the rules for themselves. They are good guessers who look for clues and form their own conclusion.一、阅读：20% (答案必须填在答卷表格里,否则不得分)( 1 )Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people dont need to carry any coins for currency at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small plastic credit card. We will use it to buy all the things we now buy with money. We will not need money to pay for things.Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards that we now have with money. Sometimes we lose money. Maybe will lose the cards. People steal money. Maybe someone will take the card. Someone may even make a card that looks like our card. Since we cant buy anything without our cards, the credit card may be no better than currency.Is there something even easier to use than credit cards? All of us have a thumbprint. No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep peoples thumbprints with a number. No person will have the same thumbprint or number. When you want to buy something you will put your t thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will have one. Everyones thumbprint will be in the computers. It will be very difficult to lose our thumbprint. It will be difficult for someone to steal it or to make one like it.1. The word “currency” (Para. 1) most probably means _.A. plastic cards B. money C. coins D. goods2. According to the passage, we all need _.A. coins B. some kind of money C. credit cards D. currency3. Our thumbprints may be used in the future because _.A. every thumbprint is difficult to lose or make B. each store will have a computerC. they will help each storeD. computers need them4. Which of the following statements gives the main idea of the second paragraph?A. Credit cards are worse than currency.B. Currency may not be more of a problem than credit cards.C. We use credit cards because people steal money.D. We have many problems with money.5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. There is something easier to use than credit cards.B. There are no problems with currency.C. Every person will have a different thumbprint number.D. There are some problems with the use of credit cards. ( 2 )The angry woman stood by the station. “ The railway owes me 12,”she said to Harry Jenks, the booking clerk (订票员). “My ticket was for May 22nd, and there was no ship from Jersey that night. My daughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me 12.”Harry was worried. He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office, madam,” he said, “Ill just check the Jersey timetable for May 22nd.”The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Harry soon discovered. There was no sailing on May 22nd. How ever had he made such a big mistake? Wondering what to do, he smiled at the child. “You look healthy,” he said to her. “Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”“Yes,” she answered. “The beach was beautiful. And I can swim too!”“Thats fine,” said Harry. “My little girl cant swim a bit yet. Of course, shes only three-”“Im four,” the child said proudly. “Ill soon be four and a half.”Harry turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket, madam,” he said. “But you didnt get one for your daughter, did you?”“Er, well-” The woman looked at the child. “I mean-she hasnt started school yet. Shes only four.”“A four-year-old child must have a ticket, madam. A childs return to Jersey costs-let me see-13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel bill, you will owe 1.50. The law is the law, but since we have made a mistake-”The woman stood up, took the childs hand and left the office.6. The angry woman went to the station _.A. to buy a ticket for her daughterB. to ask the railway to pay her hotel billC. to have a friendly talk with the booking clerkD. to buy the Jersey timetable7. Harry had a talk with the girl in order to _.A. please the girl and her motherB. find out how old the girl was and whether the girl had been to JerseyC. get some infor