剑桥国际英语Interchange2 Unit1-Unit2 试卷

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ISS1 Foundation English Monthly Test

羀(Period: 100 mins)

螄Part 1: Listening (1’*20) Part 2: Grammar and Vocabulary

Section 1: Fill in the gaps with verbs from the box in the

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膂past simple. (1’*13)

莁allow be be be invent increase lay mean own receive

replace ride take walk The pace of change in the world of technology is amazing. It 1. wasn’t (not) long ago that the postal service 2. ______ our only way to communicate over any distance. It 3. _______ days and sometimes weeks to receive letters from within the same country. As a result, the news in the letters 4. ______ already out of date when people 5. ______ them. In the workplace, this 6. _____ that business was mostly conducted locally, over relatively short distances.

莆When Alexander Graham Bell 7. ______ the telephone in 1876 it 8. _____ the foundation for the communication systems we have today. The telephone 9. ______ two people to communicate instantly across a great distance. Eventually computers 10. ____ typewriters and dramatically 11. ____ the speed of our daily work life. Nowadays the Internet is an essential part of every business.

膂However, it is not just communications that have changed. Only 50 years ago

蒆most people 12. ______ (not) a car. People 13. _____ to work or 14. _____ bicycles. Changes in travel as well as the increased speed of communications have led to the global business world that we have today.

蒇Section 2: Fill in the gaps with amount, number, few, little,

many, much. (1’*10)

芈How much sleep do we need?

The 1. amount of sleep each person needs depends on 2. _____ factors, including age. Infants generally require about 16 hours a day. For most adults, seven to eight hours a night appears to be the ideal 3. ______ of sleep, although a 4. _____ people may need as 5. ______ as five hours’ sleep or as 6. ______ as ten hours’ sleep each day. Getting too 7. ______ sleep creates a sleep debt, and eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid.

节A large 8. ______ of people over 65 have frequent sleeping problems, such as insomnia, and deep sleep stages in 9. ______ elderly people often become very short or stop completely. Microsleeps, or very brief episodes of sleep in an otherwise awake person, are another mark of sleep deprivation. In 10. _____ cases, people are not aware that they are experiencing microsleeps. The widespread practice of burning the candle at both ends in western industrialized societies has created so 11. _____ sleep deprivation that what is really abnormal sleepiness is now almost the norm.

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袈Section 3: Vocabulary (1’*13)

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2. 蚆个人背景 (n.) _______ 2. 童年 (n.) ________ 3. 学位 (n.) _______ 4.

5. 羃比赛 (n.) _______ 5. 移民 (n.) ______ 6. 证书 (n.)________ 7.

8. 莂财产；所有物 (n.) _______

艿8. 宴会 (n.) ________

9. 报刊亭 (n.) _______ 10. 行人 (n.) _______ 11. 标语(n.) _______

12. 观光 (v.) ______ 13. 乐园；乐土(n.) _________

莈Section 4: Translation (2’*2)

1. 你知道最近的中餐馆在哪里吗？

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蒁2. 你能告诉我CX525航班是什么时候达到香港的吗？

蚀Part 3: Reading (1’*20)

Section 1

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螅Questions 1-5

薁Look at the information on the following page about the use of vehicles

in the University grounds. In boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet write.

袇TRUE FALSE

if the statement is true if the statement is false

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薄NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage Example Answer 蚁 The campus roads are not open to general members of the public. TRUE 1. 2. 羆University employees do not need to pay for their parking permits. 3.

4. 芃Parking in Halls of Residence is handled by the Wardens of the Halls.

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6. 蚁Having a University permit does not allow staff to park at Halls. 7.

8. 虿Parking permits cost ￡20 a year.

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10. 螈Students living in Hall do not need permission to park in Hall car parks. 莆USE OF UNIVERSITY GROUNDS BY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC 螁The University grounds are private. 肀The University authorities only allow authorised members of the University, visitors and drivers of vehicles servicing the University to enter the grounds. 膅Members of staff who have paid the requisite fee and display the appropriate permit may bring a vehicle into the grounds. A University permits does not entitle them to park in Hall car parks however, unless authorised by the Warden of the Hall concerned. 肅Students may not bring vehicles into the grounds during the working day unless they have been given special permission by the Security Officer and have paid for and are displaying an appropriate entry permit. Students living in Hall of Residence must obtain permission from the Warden to keep a motor vehicle at their residence. 袁Students are reminded that if they park a motor vehicle on University premises without a valid permit, they will be fined ￡20.

蒀Questions 6-13

袇Look at the patient information leaflet on the following page.

袃Match each of the following sentences with TWO possible endings A-M

from the box below.

羁Write the appropriate letters A-M in boxes 6-13 on your answer sheet.

Example Answer Borodine tablets should not be given to ... A and M 螅 薃

袀Questions 6 and 7

Borodine tablets might be used to treat ...

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膆Questions 8 and 9

You must ask your doctor before taking Borodine tablets if you are already