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浙江旅游职业学院2003~2004 学年第一学期 03 英语（1） 班《综合英语》期终考试试卷A 卷班级 学号__________姓名_________ 成绩_______题 号 一 二 三 四 五 六 总 分得 分I. Reading comprehension（3x10=30scores）Directions: In this part there are three passages followed by questions, each with four suggested answers, Choose the ONE you think is the best answer.Passage 1The word horsepower （马力） was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world's first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power.Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horsepower engine.1. The selection says that Watt made the firstA. engine.B. steam engine.C. widely used steam engine. D. useful engine.2. Watt wanted to find a way toA. measure the work his engine could do.B. tell people how powerful his engine was.C. lift a 3300-pound weight.D. Both A and B3. He made up a unit of measurement based on the strength ofA. a man.B. ten horses.C. his engine.D. a horse.4. One horsepower would equal theA. work a horse could do in a minute.B. weight a horse could lift.C. work a horse could do in ten minutes.D. weight of one horse.5. The best title for this selection isA. Watt's Engine.B. The Origin of the Term Horsepower.C. Units of Measurement.D. It Happened 200 Years Ago.Passage 2Humans are social animals. They depend on groups for survival. An individual human beings lost in a wilderness is capable of doing many things. But he or she will probably be thinking constantly about how much better it would be if there were other people around to talk to and to help. Because humans like to live and work in groups, they form couples and families; villages and cities; work groups, teams, and other organizations. Language is “cement”(水泥) that holds these social groups together. Through language we can share ideas and experiences. The human mouth and throat are so constructed that we can utter a variety of sounds. Language is the device for matching certain combinations of sounds with the symbols for things, ideas, and emotions. Our brains think in symbols – words and sentences – as well as in the images that we receive from our senses. Thus we can turn experiences into symbols and communicate to other people through the use of language. Any one individual, therefore, can learn much more from others than he or she can discover alone. Language enables people to pass ideas from group to group and from generation to generation. Language is part of culture. Culture, in this case, means all those customs, skills, and attitudes that are part of the behavior of a particular group. The way you live, what you think, and what you want in life are all affected by the culture of the group in which you are raised. Groups or people live in different ways. They may have different skills, organizations, and art forms. Their family life may be completely different form yours.Human beings are inventive animals. They can even decide to change their cultures in order to meet new situations. They can choose to live in many environments and in a wide variety of ways. Of all living things, only human beings can choose where and how they want to live and then modify the physical environment to help themselves realize these choices. Acquiring the wisdom to make wise choices is the enduring challenge of being human.6. An individual human being lost in a wildernessA. longs for a life among other people. B. B. can do many things.C. keeps talking all the time. D. Both A and B7. What is the most important thing that helps humans to form social groups?A. marriage B. constructionC. language D. good behavior8. Language is the device forA. uttering a variety of sounds. B. using a set of symbols.C. receiving a group of images. D. matching sounds with symbols. 9. With language, we can do all the following butA. produce good health. B. communicate to other people.B. pass ideas from group to group. D. turn experiences into symbols.10. Culture directly affects all the following butA. your way of life. B. your thinking.C. your senses. D. your needs.11. Family life varies because of the difference inA. working skills. B. culture.C. language. D. art forms.12. In what sense are humans wise and different from other living things?A. Humans have a living place. B. Humans can make wise choices.B. Humans move from place to place. D. Humans live in groups.13. Which is the topic sentence in the 。