專升本（英語）模擬試卷110

一、1.Phonetics

0.(1)

A．jobs
B．eggs
C．drives
D．cups

1.(2)

A．could
B．would
C．should
D．found

2.(3)

A．new
B．few
C．sew
D．dew

3.(4)

A．life
B．line
C．like
D．live

4.(5)

A．hotel
B．host
C．hour
D．hope

二、2.Vocabulary and Structure

Part I  Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

0. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used ______ late for his lecture.

A．to have students
B．for students" being
C．for students to be
D．to students" being

1. You should have been more patient ______ that customer; I" m sure that selling him the watch was a possibility.

A．of
B．with
C．for
D．at

2. Neither of the young men who had applied for a position in the university ______.

A．has been accepted
B．have been accepted
C．was accepted
D．were accepted

3. This box is too heavy, ______ give me a hand?

A．would you mind
B．would you please
C．will you like to
D．will you please to

4. ______ he works hard, I don"t mind when he finishes the experiment.

A．As soon as
B．As well as
C．So far as
D．So long as

5. As early as 1647 Ohio made a decision that free, tax-supported schools must be established in every town ______ 50 households or more.

A．having
B．to have
C．to have had
D．having had

6. People appreciate ______ with him because he has a good sense of humour.

A．to work
B．to have worked
C．working
D．having worked

7. The mad man was put in the soft-padded cell lest he ______ himself.

A．injure
B．had injured
C．injured
D．would injure

8. We love peace, yet we are aot the kind of people to yield ______ any military threat.

A．up
B．to
C．in
D．at

9. Although he knew little about the large amount of work done in the field, he succeeded ______ other more well-informed experimenters failed.

A．which
B．that
C．what
D．where

10. If tap water were as dangerous as some people think, ______ would be getting sick.

A．a lot of more us
B．most a lot of us
C．a lot of us more
D．a lot more of us

11. Living in the central Australian desert has its problems, ______ obtaining water is not the least.

A．for which
B．to which
C．of which
D．in which

12. Which sport has the most expenses ______ training equipment, players" personal equipment and uniforms?

A．in place of
B．in terms of
C．by means of
D．by way of

13. For a whole night she ______ buried in the snow.

A．lay
B．laid
C．lain
D．lied

14. I" m sure he is up to the job ______ he would give his mind to it.

A．if only
B．in case
C．until
D．unless

三、3.Reading Comprehension

Part III  Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1.America is a country on the move. In unheard of numbers, people of all ages are exercising their way to better health. According to the latest figures, 59 percent of American adults exercise regularly-up 12 percent from just two years ago and more than double the figure of 25 years ago. Even non-exercisers believe they would be more attractive and confident if they were more active.
  It is hard not to get the message. The virtues of physical fitness are shown on magazine covers, postage stamps, and television ads for everything from beauty soaps to travel books. Exercise as a part of daily life did not catch on until the late 1960s when research by military doctors began to show the health benefits of doing regular physical exercises. Growing publicity (宣專) for races held in American cities helped fuel a strong interest in the ancient sport of running. Although running has leveled off in recent years as Americans have discovered equally rewarding and sometimes safer forms of exercise, such as walking and swimming, running remain the most popular forms of exercise.
  As the popularity of exercise continues to mount, so does scientific evidence of its health benefits. The key to fitness is exercising the major muscle groups vigorously (強有力地) enough to approximately double the heart rate and keep it doubled for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Doing such physical exercises three times of more a week will produce considerable improvements in physical health in about three months.

According to the passage, what was the percentage of American adults doing regular physical exercises two years ago? ( )

A．About 70%.
B．Nearly 60%.
C．Almost 50%.
D．More than 12%.

2.
A growing interest in sports developed utter ______. ( )

A．research showed their health benefits
B．people got the message from magazine covers and postage stamps
C．scientific evidence of health benefits was shown on TV ads
D．an increasing number of races were held in American cities

3.
Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase" leveled off" ( Para. 2, Line 6) ? ( )

A．become very popular
B．stopped being popular
C．reached its lowest level in popularity
D．stopped increasing in popularity

4.
It can be learnt from the passage that the health benefits of exercise ______. ( )

A．are yet to be proved
B．are to be further studied
C．are supported by scientific evidence
D．are self-evident

5.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? ( )

A．Different Forms of Exercise
B．Exercise--The Road to Health
C．Scientific Evidence of Health Benefits
D．Running--A Popular Form. of Sport

7.In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastest growing the U. S. minority. As their children began moving up through the nation"s schools, it became clear that a new class of academic achievers was emerging. Their achievements are reflected in the nation"s best universities, where mathematics, science and engineering departments have taken on a decidedly Asian character. This special liking for mathematics and science is partly explained by the fact that Asian-American students who began their educations abroad arrived in the U. S. with a solid grounding in mathematics but little or no knowledge of English. They are also influenced by the promise of a good job after college. Asians feel they will be judged more objectively. And the return on the investment in education is more immediate in something like engineering than with an arts degree.
  Most Asian-American students owe their success to the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer. An effective measure of parental attention is homework. Asian parents spend more time with their children than American parents do, and it helps. Many researchers also believe there is something in Asian culture that breeds success, such as ideals that stress family values and emphasize education.
  Both explanations for academic success worry Asian Americans because of fears that they feed a typical racial image. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants were the victims of social isolation. Indeed, it was not until 1952 that laws were laid down giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship.

While making tremendous achievements at college, Asian-American students ______. ( )

A．feel they are mistreated because of limited knowledge of English
B．are afraid that their academic successes bear a strong Asian character
C．still worry about unfair treatment in society
D．generally feel it a shame to have to depend on their parents

8.
What are the major factors that determine the success of Asian Americans? ( )

A．A solid foundation in basic mathematics and Asian culture
B．Hard work and intelligence
C．Hard help and a limited knowledge of English
D．Asian culture and the American educational system

9.
Few Asian-American students major in human sciences mainly because ______. ( )

A．their English is not good enough
B．they are afraid they might meet with unfair judgment in these areas
C．there is a wide difference between Asian and Western cultures
D．they know little about American culture and society

10.
Why do the two "explanations" (Line 1, Para. 3 )worry Asian Americans? ( )

A．They are afraid that they would again be isolated from American society in general
B．People would think that Asian students rely on their parents for success
C．Asian Americans would be a threat to other minorities
D．American academic achievements have taken on too strong an Asian character

11.
The author"s tone in this passage is ______. ( )

A．sympathetic
B．doubtful
C．critical
D．objective

13.Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
  Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called "rem". Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 ream without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage--a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed (畸形的) children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and, during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated a large amount of reams. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.

According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that ______. ( )

A．it protects him against the harmful rays from space
B．it provides sufficient light for plant growth
C．it supplies the heat necessary for human survival
D．it screens off the falling meteors

14.
We know from the passage that ______. ( )

A．exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal
B．the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
C．radiation is avoidable in space exploration
D．astronauts in spacesuits needn"t worry about radiation damage

15.
The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members ______. ( )

A．is insignificant
B．is enormous
C．seems overestimated
D．remains unknown

16.
It can be inferred from the passage that ______. ( )

A．the Apollo mission was very successful
B．protection from space radiation is no easy job
C．astronauts will have deformed children of grandchildren
D．radiation is not a threat to well protection space explorers

17.
The best title for this passage would be ______. ( )

A．The Atmosphere and Our Environment
B．Research on Radiation
C．Effects of Space Radiation
D．Importance of Protection Against Radiation

19.When I began reading Catch -22, I thought it was a farcical satire on life in the United States Army Air Force. Later I believed that Mr. Heller"s target was modern war and all those who are responsible for waging it. Still later it seemed that he was attacking social organization and anyone who derives power from it. But by the end of the book it had become plain to me that it is——no other phrase will do——the human condition itself which is the object of Mr. Heller"s outraged fury and disgust.
  A reviewer must always keep an anxious eye on the state of his currency. If he announces too many masterpieces he risks inflation (though it is sometimes forgotten by some of us that the cowardice of perpetual crabbing (挑剔) receives its own kind of punishment). It does not seem many weeks since I was proclaiming that Malcolm Lowry"s Under the Volcano is one of the great English novels of the century; and not long before that I was urging that attention should be paid to the magnificent and neglected talent of William Gerhardi.
  But at the risk of inflation I cannot help writing that Catch - 22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon. For the fact is that all my successive interpretations of this book now seem to have been accurate, even if the earlier ones were also incomplete. The book has an immense and devastating (諷刺的) theme, but this theme is illustrated, as it should be, by means of an observed reality.
  I am not suggesting that Catch - 22 is a realistic account of life in the war  time Air Force of America or any other country. The method of satire is to inflate (放大) reality so that all its partially concealed blemishes (缺點) turn into monstrous and apparent deformations. The effect of good satire is to make us laugh with horror. And this means that social and personal evils which are being satirized must have been there, and must be felt by the reader to be there even while be is laughing at the results of the satirist"s inflating imagination.

The passage seems to be from ______. ( )

A．a review of a film
B．a book about the U. S. Air Force
C．an essay on satire
D．a review of a book

20.
The writer suggests that Catch -22 is ______. ( )

A．a very great English novel
B．an accurate portrayal of life in wartime
C．an excellent piece of satire
D．the work of a neglected author

21.
The underlined part "keep an anxious eye on the state of his currency" means ______. ( )

A．take care not to be over-critical in his writing
B．watch carefully to see that nobody else takes his job
C．be careful to ensure that his comments retain their value
D．be sure that his salary keeps pace with inflation

22.
Why does the writer say" at the risk of inflation" ? ( )

A．Because he feels that he might be exaggerating
B．Because he has recently praised more works than usual
C．Because he finds it hard to be objective
D．Because he feels he may not praise the work sufficiently

23.
The writer suggests that good satire ______. ( )

A．focuses on the horrors at the human condition
B．has little or no connection with reality
C．distorts reality so that it becomes unrecognizable
D．must be seen to be rooted in reality

25.Auctions (拍賣) are public sales of goods ,conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction room to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of goods. This is called" knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he stands, This is often set on a raised platform. called a rostrum.
  The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called" subusta", meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were often sold by the candle", a short candle was lit by the auctioneer; and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
  An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by possible buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with lot 1 and continue in numerical order; he may wait until he registers the fact that certain dealers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneer"s services are paid for in the form. of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible.
  Practicaly all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, hider, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, spices, fruit and vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, antique, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china, and similar works of art. The auction-rooms at Christie"s and Sotheby"s in London and New York are world famous.

Auctioned goods are sold ______. ( )

A．for the highest price offered
B．only at fixed prices
C．at a price less than their true value
D．very cheaply

26.
The end of the bidding is called" knocking down" because ______. ( )

A．the auctioneer knocks the buyer down
B．the auctioneer knocks the rostrum down
C．the goods are knocked down on to the table
D．the auctioneer bangs the table with a hammer

27.
The Romans used to sell by auction ______. ( )

A．spoilt goods
B．property taken from the enemy
C．old worn-out weapons
D．spears

28.
A candle used to burn at auction sales ______. ( )

A．because they took place at night
B．as a signal for the crowd together
C．to limit the time when offers could be made
D．to keep the auctioneer warm

29.
The auctioneer may decide to sell the "Lots" out of order because ______. ( )

A．he sometimes wants to confuse the buyers
B．he knows from experience that certain people will want to buy certain items
C．he wants to keep certain people waiting
D．he wants to reduce the number

四、4.Cloze

Part IV  Cloze
Directions: There are some blanks in the following passages. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passages. Then, mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1.American people have always been moving from one place to another throughout the history of their development: The history of the American people is,【21】, the history of the movement of the American people. They moved from the colonies of the East Coast to the open space of the【22】. They moved from the country and the farm to the city.【23】, Americans have been moving from the cities to the suburbs.
  Pioneer Americans began【24】from the East Coast to the West 250 years ago. They moved west for many reasons.【25】reason was that they could obtain【26】open space and land【27】farming. Americans liked large open spaces, and they liked the freedom and independence to【28】the land in their own way. Some of the land became farms. Important minerals were discovered in some areas, so some of the land became【29】. Other large areas became farms and cattle ranches. There seemed to be enough land for everybody. But it was a difficult life--【30】of endless work and hardship.
(46)

A．with part
B．of part
C．in part
D．on part

2.(47)

A．West
B．South
C．North
D．East

3.(48)

A．Long ago
B．Not long ago
C．More recently
D．Later

4.(49)

A．moving
B．travelling
C．coming
D．going

5.(50)

A．Mainly
B．Much
C．Most
D．One

6.(51)

A．unlimited
B．limited
C．disconnected
D．separated

7.(52)

A．of
B．for
C．on
D．in

8.(53)

A．make
B．plant
C．build
D．develop

9.(54)

A．towns
B．factories
C．mines
D．farms

10.(55)

A．a task
B．a job
C．a life
D．a career

五、5.Translation from Chinese to English

Part V  Translation from Chinese to English
Directions: This part is to test your ability to translate Chinese into English.

0. 在當今時代，人們越來越多地依靠計算機來解決各種各樣的難題。

1. 這次考試失敗使他意識到定期復習功課有多么重要。

2. 令我感到驚訝的是一部小說竟然具有這么大的力量。

3. 在開始做一項新工作之前，我們應該先完成手頭的工作。

4. 工廠和汽車排出的一氧化碳(carbon monoxide)一類的氣體嚴重污染了大氣。

六、6.Translation from English to Chinese

Part VI  Translation from English to Chinese
Directions: This part is to test your ability to translate English into Chinese.

0. Electronic computers, which make it possible to free man from the labor of complex measurements and computations, have found wide applications in engineering.

1. However, the way in which they take care of these needs depends on the culture in which they grow up.

2. It is difficult to say exactly how the music we call "rock" or "rock and roll" began. Its roots go back to many different countries and many different kinds of music and musicians.

3. Such networks as have been designed specially to enable people to send messages to each other via computers are known as E-mail.

4. Personal relations are the keys to doing business in Arab countries.

七、7.Writing

Part VII  Writing

0.   Write a composition on the topic "Getting to Know the World Outside the Campus." Start writing your composition with the topic sentence: "I think it is necessary for college students to know the world outside the campus." You are supposed to write at least 100 words in your composition using the words and expressions given below.
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