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1、英语末考试卷：quiz 1Part 1 Word Dictation 1. justice 2. beneath 3. faithful 4. restrain 5. reconcile 6. disguise 7. weekday 8. merry 9. index 10. whistle 11. pledge 12. terror 13. pray 14. unload 15. delivery 16. disbelief 17. agreeable18. penetrate 19. vacant 20. comparable 21. acknowledge 22. grasp 23. s

2、oar 24. parallel 25. stretchPart 2 Understanding Passages1. A. Discovering bad habits B. People not being alone. C. Couples parting. D. Finding Mr. Right.2. A. Exactly 38 percent of people. B. Exactly 35 percent of people. C. Exactly 29 percent of people. D. Exactly 28 percent of people.3. A. People

3、 under 35 years old. B. People between 35 and 54. C. People over 55 years old. D. Women of all ages.4. A. They found their Mr. Right. B. They suffered a broken heart. C. They left their partner. D. They agreed upon the breakup.5. A. They decided on the breakup. B. They had a broken heart. C. They we

4、re left by a partner. D. They agreed upon a mutual breakup. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage or dialog. 6. A. Few children believed their parents were loving enough. B. Few parents supported their children in entering Harvard. C. Children who felt unloved werent as healthy later

5、in life. D. Parents arent warm enough for children to be healthy. 7. A. He hardly ever lived past his 50th birthday. B. He became sick almost all of the time during mid-life. C. He developed heart, blood, or drinking problems in mid-life. D. He found relationships that he couldnt enjoy. 8. A. Resear

6、chers believe it is meaningful. B. It involves biological, psychological, and social factors. C. This report claimed that this was the case. D. Healthy people arent diagnosed with many health problems. 9. A. Parents. B. Mothers. C. Society. D. Psychology. 10. A. Acting warmly toward children will ma

7、ke them healthier. B. Getting sick is common for people as they enter mid-life. C. Participating in surveys is helpful for understanding health. D. Being loving can help us lead happier lives.Part 2 Understanding Passages (每小题: 1 分; 满分：10 分) 1. C 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. C 8. B 9. A 10.APart 3 Cl

8、oze Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices given for each blank. Questions 1 to 20 are based on the following passage. Parents are the most influential people in childrens lives and all parents love their children and want what is best for t

9、hem, but they often lack the information and skills necessary. To help parents 1.( 1. reckon) with the sheer weight of their special responsibility, many organizations have done something to help. They have 2. (2. set up )classes to provide them with information, techniques, and support raising thei

10、r children.Classes 3.( 3. revolve)around the importance of love, communication and a close relationship between parents and their children. 4.( 4. Much of )the shaping of a childs behavior and character can be done in a way that will make the child happy. It can be 5.( 5. accomplished ) through posi

11、tive and fun activities. The classes also teach the parents respectful discipline methods. These methods will 6. (6. preserve)the parent-child relationship. They will also 7. (7. build ) on a childs ability to take on responsibility.One man who took parenting classes had longed to be able to 8.(8. r

12、econcile )differences with his teenage son. We just couldnt talk without fighting, he 9.( 9. admitted ) . Our relationship was a 10. (10. wreck ). He found that after making just 11. 11. a few a fewa lota littlemany simple changes things changed. His son became quite 12. (12. agreeable)to his reques

13、ts. I changed the way I 13.( 13. communicated) with my son. Then I watched our relationship 14. (14. blossom ) into something very special.Most parents think that they should 15.( 15. naturally) be a good caretaker for their child. However, this is not always 16.( 16. realistic ). Parenting can be v

14、ery difficult, especially when youre physically and emotionally 17.( 17. drained) from work or worries. Raising a child right takes skill and patience, yet most parents do it without any training. Parents should not be ashamed to 18. (18. acknowledge) that they dont have all the answers. Taking clas

15、ses, 19. (19. pledging)to become a better parent and truly working at it, should be the way things are done. It should be 20. (20. customary ), not the exception. Remember, success means having what all parents desire-a healthy and happy childQuestions 21 to 40 are based on the following passage. Lo

16、ve is super? Love doesnt always last. The 21.( 21. ceremony) for marriage is merry and festive. 22. (. 22. However), there is no celebration for divorce. 23. (23. Sometimes)two people just arent meant to spend a lifetime together.When love ends, the emotional and financial stress can 24.( 24. wreck)

17、 a persons life. I can no longer 25. (25. disguise ) my sadness as anything else. In truth, my divorce was caused by small 26.( 26. provocations). Our love ended with an emotional 27. (27. toll ) that is quite costly. I cant even remember 28. (28. being ) in love anymore. 29. (29. Instead of) the cu

18、stomary kiss we used to use to greet one another, we enter and leave without any greeting at all.When I first realized that we couldnt 30. (30. reconcile ) our differences, I tried not to think about it. I pledged to simply stay together for the 31.( 31. sake ) of our child. I wanted to 32.( 32. bea

19、r )the pain so that our daughter would always have her parents together. I also understood that by 33.( 33. separating), I would be the one left without my child. But after a while it became apparent how unfair it was to everyone 34.( 34. involved ). It wasnt right that we had to 35.( 35. remain ) t

20、ogether. The 36. (36. sheer) weight of my unhappiness finally became too much to bear. I could 37.( 37. restrain ) myself no longer and asked for a divorce.Now we are separated and waiting for divorce. This has changed my life 38. (38. overnight ); the world weve known was gone. My child is having a

21、 hard time 39.( 39. grasping) why I am not there all the time. At night when I am not with her, I have bad dreams that something bad has happened to my child and I wake up in terror, my body 40. (40. quivering). I only get to see her on the weekends. I pray for her every night.Part 4 My fourteenth b

22、irthday was the best I ever spent. Instead of having a big party with lots of presents and kids, I spent the day with my mother and father. This was their idea and as a teenager I was not very 1.( 1. keen) on it at first. The sheer simplicity of the idea seemed 2. (2. boring). Shouldnt there be some

23、 kind of 3. (3. festival) or something? I asked.My father just laughed and said, Lets start off at the bakery with some cake. I smiled to 4. (4. disguise) how disappointed I was. I tried to understand because I knew that we had 5. (5.financially ) fallen on hard times. We walked down the slope from

24、our home to a small cafe. There my father tried to 6. (6. convince) the shopkeeper to give us one big piece of cake instead of a whole one. My father was 7. (7. skilled) in the art of getting what he wanted. The shopkeeper was a(n) 8. (8. agreeable) man and brought out one big piece with a couple of

25、 candles on top. As we sat with three forks eating that cake I 9. (9. reckoned) that it was quite a luxury to be able to spend time with my parents. How many other parents could spend a weekday with their child? We spent the entire day talking, and together we had a party as 10. (10.merry) as any ha

26、s ever been. Ive never forgotten that special day.Part 5 Reading Comprehension (Multiple Choice)Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage or dialog. Language is a way to

27、 communicate with each other. We started to learn language when we were born. However, people are used to speaking their native language, so immigrants are having many problems between the first generation and the second generation because they dont have the same native language. Also, the second ge

28、neration is losing their identity. Especially in America, there are many immigrants that came from different countries to succeed in the States. Because they suffer in lots of areas such as getting a job and trying to speak English, they want their children to speak English, not only at school, but

29、also at home in order to be more successful. Because of this situation, their children are losing their ethnic identity and, even more, they are ignoring their parents whose English is not very good.I think most immigrants are trying to preserve their native language in their new country, but this d

30、oesnt help very much in getting a good job. My aunt didnt teach Korean to her children in order to help them succeed in the US; she did so, hopefully, to help them establish a Korean identity. Though the second generation is born in the new country, they often get confused about their identity. My c

31、ousins told me that when they visited Korea a few years ago, they felt different from other Koreans. They could even feel it just strolling around the street because they wore different clothes.We must realize that language is important and valuable for many reasons. Immigrants should make an effort

32、 not to be ignored by their children and to make their children understand their heritage by teaching them the parents language. This is important in helping the second generation establish their identity.1. Which people are having trouble with language? A. Natives. B. People of the 2nd generation. C. People when born. D. Immigrants. 2. Why are children ignoring their parents? A. Children have lost their identity. B. Parents cause children to suffer. C. They speak different languages. D. They