湖南广播电视大学外语教研室试卷代号：6819湖南广播电视大学 2014 年 1 月开放教育期末考试综合英语（4） 试题2013 年 12月注 意 事 项一、 将你的准考证号、学生证号、姓名及分校（工作站）的名称填写在答题纸的规定栏内。考试结束后，把试卷和答题纸放在桌上。试卷和答题纸均不得带出考场；二、 仔细读懂题目的说明，并按题目的要求答题。答案一定要写在答题纸的指定位置上，写在试卷上的答案无效；三、 用蓝、黑圆珠笔或钢笔答题，使用铅笔无效。综合英语（4）试题 第 1 页 （共 5 页）I. Vocabulary & Structure (20 points, 2 points to each) Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER Sheet. Example: The homeless couple _ at last in finding a flat to rent. A. managed B. did C. finished D. succeeded The sentence should read, “The homeless couple succeeded at last in finding a flat to rent.” Therefore you should choose D. 1. Jane has several tests this semester, but she may have passed the last one. A. denied B. done C. failed D. succeeded2. _ her age, she really had done a good job in such a short period of time. A. Giving B. Gives C. Given D. Been Given 3. In the space stations rooms, scientists will _ important experiments. A. conduct B. include C. produce D. progress 4. Some teachers say a twelve-month school year makes more sense than the _academic year. A. appropriate B. probable C. extensive D. traditional 5. The city became a scene of last weekend as a parent group try to ban the sale of violent video games. A. disruption B. controversy C. disrespect D. contrary 6. If you _ back toward Earth on the Moon, you _with the naked eye only one structure: the Great Wall of China. A. look, could see B. had looked, could see C. looked, could see D. looked, could see 7. He wished his teacher _ there when he was sneaking out of the classroom. A. is not B. had not been C. were D. be not 8. I went to business school _ I could study marketing. A. for that B. in that C. so that D. in order 9. Weather _ well go climbing the mountain this afternoon. 综合英语（4）试题 第 2 页 （共 5 页）A. permits B. permitting C. is permitted D. permitted 10. _ you go out every night you cant see all of it. A. No matter B. Suppose C. Even if D. WhetherII. Cloze Procedure (20points, 2 points to each) Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. Students will need to use all of their language skills in order to understand the reading selections in Readers Choice. The book contains many types of selections on 11) _ topics. These selections provide practice 12) _ using different strategies to extract the message of the writer. They also give students practice in four basic reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for thorough comprehension, and critical reading. Skimming is quick reading for the general ideas of a passage. This kind of rapid reading is 13) _ when you are trying to decide if careful reading 14) _ desirable or when there is not time to read something carefully. Like skimming, scanning is also quick reading. However, in this 15) _ the search is more focused. To scan is to read 16) _ in order to locate specific information. When you read to find a particular date, or number, you care scanning. Reading for thorough comprehension is 17) _reading in order to understand the total meaning of the passage. At this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the authors ideas but has not yet made a 18) _evaluation of those ideas. Critical reading demands that a reader 19) _ judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of reading requires posting and 20) _questions such as “Does my own experience support that of the author?”, “Do I share the authors point of view?” etc. 11. A. the wide variance of B. a wide variance of C. the wide variety of D. a wide variety of 12. A. on B. in C. with D. for 13. A. appreciate B. appropriate C. approved D. appointed 14. A. is B. would be C. was D. will be 15. A. sense B. part C. case D. way 16. A. carefully B. casually C. slowly D. quickly 17. A. slow B. fast C. careful D. proper 18. A. right B. critical C. determined D. important 19. A. makes B. to make C. make D. making 20. A. answering B. answered C. answer D. answers 综合英语（4）试题 第 3 页 （共 5 页）III. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 2 points to each) Directions: Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. Questions 2125 are based on the following passage. Beverly Schnell is a middle-aged woman who lives alone in a nice old house near Milwaukee. The house needs work. It has a vacant living space on the second floor. So Schnell decided to rent the space to someone who could do repairs. In exchange, she would cut the rent. She placed an ad in a local paler that read: “Apartment for rent, one bedroom, and electric included,