剑桥国际英语Interchange2 Unit1-Unit2 试卷.doc

ISS1 Foundation English Monthly Test (Period: 100 mins) Part 1: Listening (1’*20) Part 2: Grammar and Vocabulary Section 1: Fill in the gaps with verbs from the box in the past simple. (1’*13) 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 ______ already out of date when people 5.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. 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. However, it is not just communications that have changed. Only 50 years ago 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. Section 2: Fill in the gaps with amount, number, few, little, many, much. (1’*10) 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. A large 8. ______ of