121 世纪大学英语基础教程期末考试试卷世纪大学英语基础教程期末考试试卷（A 卷卷90 分钟）分钟）Part I Listening comprehension (20%) (20 minutes)Section A Short ConversationDirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. Each conversation and question will be read only once. Then there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B),C), and D), and decide which one is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.1.A) They are his best friends. B) He dislikes them. C) Theyre a necessary evil. D) He prefers large dogs. 2. A) To class. B) To the movie. C) To the library. D) To the doctors office. 3. A) To buy a dress. B) To buy a book. C) To buy some clothes. D) To go home and think about it. 4. A) $ 20. B) $ 15. C) $ 10. D) $18. 5. A) Close friends. B) Strangers. C) Friends who havent seen each other for a long while. D) Father and daughter. 6. A) A college teacher. B) A student.C) A historian. D) A night school teacher. 7. A) 7:55. B) 7:45. C) 7:50. D) 8:00. 8. A) She baked the cake herself. B) She wants the man to bake the cake. C) The bakery made the cake for her. D) The cake requires no baking. 9. A) At lunch. B) In the afternoon.C) After dinner. D) In the early morning. 10. A) A teacher. B) A doctor. C) A patient. D) A scientist.Section B Compound DictationDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. Then listen to the 2passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are requires to fill in the blanks numbered from 11 to 17 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks 18 to 20 you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Who 11._ math? We all do! We use it every day. Not only that, but the problem 12._ we learned during the days of “if one train leaves Springfield at 6:00 pm traveling east at 75mph”, can now help us with a 13._ of “adult” crisis. Do I have enough gas to get to work and back without filling the tank? Which bills do I pay and when in order to have enough money in the bank? How much grass seed do I need to 14._ that 1010 bare 15._ in the front yard? For those still teaching, it is using these examples, and 16._ activities for students that bring the reality o math into their worlds. For parents, the same 17._ true. When your child 18._. Take your child to the grocery store. Give your child $10. Tell your child to 19._, for that $10. 20._. It will do your child some good - - who knows, you might learn something too!Part II Reading Comprehension (30%) (25 minutes)Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:Speech, the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning, is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally unconscious and apparently automatic process. As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to speak; most babies seem to possess a sort of instinctive drive to produce speech like noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter altogether. These actions are learned from the particular society into which the baby is born; so that, like all conduct that is learned from a society, from the people around us, speech is a patterned activity. The meandering babble and chatter of a young child are eventually channeled by imitation into a few orderly grooves that represent the pattern accepted as meaningful by the people around him. Similarly, a childs indiscriminate practice of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to putting food into his mouth in a certain way. The sounds that a child can make are more varied and numerous than the sounds that any particular language utilizes. However, a child born into a society with a pattern of language is 3encouraged to make a small selection of sounds and to make these few sounds over and over until it is natural for him to make these sounds and no others.21. What is the subject of the passage? A) How to make sounds. B) The origin of lan