專升本（英語）模擬試卷137

一、1.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. I can"t ______ to have a holiday abroad on my salary.

A．a(chǎn)fford
B．consider
C．spend
D．spare

1. He has been ______ of murdering his wife.

A．blamed
B．a(chǎn)rrested
C．charged
D．a(chǎn)ccused

2. As soon as his party came into ______ they changed the law.

A．force
B．power
C．strength
D．position

3. He doesn"t work but he gets a good ______ from his investment.

A．wage
B．income
C．earning
D．salary

4. I didn"t know what to do but then an idea suddenly ______ to me.

A．occurred
B．entered
C．happened
D．rushed

5. Somehow she felt that she herself had to some ______ been the cause of all this trouble.

A．extent
B．respect
C．manner
D．effect

6. I was so ______ in my book that I didn"t hear the door bell ring.

A．concentrated
B．a(chǎn)bsorbed
C．engaged
D．occupied

7. The main road through Littlebury was blocked for three hours today after an accident ______ two lorries.

A．containing
B．connection
C．involving
D．combining

8. A ______ from every person, no matter how small, will help the Red Cross reach the goal of $ 100,000.

A．contract
B．contribution
C．concentration
D．construction

9. The best student in each class will ______ a prize at the end of term.

A．a(chǎn)ward
B．possess
C．reward
D．receive

10. We decided to ______ roses in the front garden.

A．grow
B．raise
C．breed
D．bloom

11. He does not ______ his workmates and there are often disagreements between them.

A．put up with
B．keep up with
C．go with
D．get well along with

12. The teacher asked him to ______ his lateness for school.

A．a(chǎn)ccount of
B．a(chǎn)ccount on
C．a(chǎn)ccount about
D．a(chǎn)ccount for

13. It is said that the transport company will soon run ______ petroleum.

A．over
B．down
C．off
D．out of

14. The question was so unexpected that, for a moment, Arthur was ______ a loss how to reply to it.

A．a(chǎn)t
B．in
C．on
D．of

15. People always greet each other warmly, ______ their different origins and briefs.

A．in regard to
B．in contrast with
C．with respect to
D．regardless of

16. When Edison died, it was proposed that the Americans ______ all power in their homes, streets and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man.

A．turn off
B．turned off
C．must turned off
D．would have turned off

17. Most environmental problems exist because adequate measures for preventing them ______ taken in the past.

A．was not
B．were not being
C．were not
D．being not

18. ______ experiments on the laboratory, it started to rain heavily.

A．While performing
B．Performing
C．While I was performing
D．To perform

19. In the eighteenth century writers ______ hours in coffee houses, discussing the news of the day.

A．used to spending
B．used to spend
C．would be spending
D．were used to spend

20. They lost their way, ______ delayed them considerably.

A．which
B．that
C．it
D．so

21. I advised them to withdraw ______.

A．so as not get not involved
B．so as not to get involved
C．so as to not get involved
D．so not as to get involved

22. The selling price of that house and ______ $25,000.

A．many furniture are
B．some furniture is
C．the furniture is
D．many pieces of furniture are

23. ______ absurd was his manner that everyone stared at him.

A．Too
B．Such
C．So
D．Much

24. The question arises as to ______ should go out this morning in this below-zero weather to clean the snow from the entrance.

A．which
B．who
C．whom
D．those who

25. We have learnt a lot from the ______.

A．three month"s training course
B．three-month training course
C．three-month-training course
D．three months training course

26. With all this work on hand, she ______ to the dance party last night.

A．oughtn"t to go
B．hadn"t gone
C．shouldn"t have gone
D．mustn"t have gone.

27. No sooner had Mrs. Tyler entered the kitchen ______ a knock at the gate door.

A．did she hear
B．then she heard
C．when she heard
D．than she heard

28. I don"t think you judged your ability objectively when you applied for it, ______ you?

A．do
B．don"t
C．didn"t
D．did

29. It is high time that such a practice ______ an end to.

A．is put
B．be put
C．was put
D．must be put

30. I have two boys but ______ of them likes sweets.

A．both
B．either
C．none
D．neither

31. There is no point ______ the piano, unless you practice every day.

A．to learn to play
B．by learning to play
C．of learning to play
D．in learning to play

32. Great efforts to increase wheat production must be made if bread shortages ______ avoided.

A．will be
B．a(chǎn)re to be
C．can be
D．were to be

33. Because of air pollution being greatly reduced, this city is still ______.

A．a(chǎn) good place in which to live
B．a(chǎn) good place to live in
C．lived as a good place
D．living in as a good place

34. He is one of our customers who ______ shirts starched.

A．like their
B．likes his
C．like his
D．likes their

二、2.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.What we don"t know or refuse to recognize is that modern man has been altering his total environment so swiftly and suddenly that the whole "great chain of life" on this planet is in danger.
  All of us live on a tiny spaceship carrying with it its own limited resources for survival.What we have now is all we will ever have to keep us alive.
  But man has been harming this system. He cannot help it. Everything we do alters our environment: the ways we grow food and build shelter and create what we call "culture" and "civilization".
  World population is growing at such a rate that by the year 2050 nearly seven billion people will live on the earth.Industrialization has added its own burden to the population pressure. The more we produce and consume, the more waste products we discharge into the air and water and land around us, where they do not disappear, but last forever in one form. or another. Great progress is being made in the productivity of our soil, yet agriculture is now taking more nutrients (營養(yǎng)) from it than are being replaced each year.
  "Ecology", the study of the relationship between life systems and their environment, is what everybody on this planet must now start thinking about quickly if we are to avoid destructive changes within the closed system of our spaceship.

It seems to the writer that ______.

A．it is easy to do harm to our environment
B．the planet on which man lives is too small for man to survive
C．man should not create his culture and civilization too rapidly
D．man does not want to admit the danger of what he has done to the environment

2.
The sentence "He cannot help it" (Para. 3, Line l) most probably means " ______".

A．man cannot avoid destroying the environment
B．man cannot obtain resources he needs from other planets
C．man cannot survive for a long time
D．man cannot help to create a new environment

3.
According to the passage, the development of industry and agriculture seems ______.

A．only a burden to the human society
B．the result of the rapid growth of population
C．more harmful than beneficial
D．not likely to slow down

4.
The word "it" (Para. 4, the last sentence) refers to ______.

A．great progress
B．a(chǎn)griculture
C．our soil
D．productivity

5.
The writer advises us to think about ecology, because ______.

A．it enables us to survive in the closed system of a spaceship
B．it is a modern science that everybody has to learn
C．it can be learned quickly if we study it hard
D．it helps us to understand the relationship between living beings and the environment

7.What does a scientist do when he or she "explains" something? Scientific explanation comes in two forms: generalization and reduction. Most psychologists deal with generalization. They explain particular instances of behavior. as examples of general laws. For instance most psychologists would explain a pathologically strong fear of dogs as an example of classical conditioning. Presumably, the person was frightened earlier in life by a dog. An unpleasant stimulus was paired with the sight of the animal (perhaps the person was knocked down by an exuberant dog) and the subsequent sight of dogs evokes the earlier response--fear.
  Most physiologists deal with reduction. Phenomena are explained in terms of simpler phenomena. For example, the movement of a muscle is explained in terms of changes in the membrane of muscle cells, entry of particular chemicals, and interactions between protein molecules within these cells. A molecular biologist would "explain" these events in terms of forces that bind various molecules together and cause various parts of these molecules to be attracted to one another.
  Like other scientists, physiological psychologists believe that all natural phenomena--including human behavior---are subject to the laws of physics. Thus, the laws of behavior. can be reduced to descriptions of physiological processes.
  How does one study the physiology of behavior? Physiological psychologists cannot simply be reductionists. It is not enough to observe behaviors and correlate them with physiological events that occur at the same time. Identical behaviors, under different conditions, may occur for different reasons, and thus be initiated by different physiological mechanisms. This means that we must understand "psychologically" why a particular behavior. occurs before we can understand what physiological events made it occur.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A．The difference between "scientific" and "unscientific" explanations.
B．The difference between human and animal behavior.
C．How fear would be explained by the psychologist, physiologist, and molecular biologist.
D．How scientists differ in their approaches to explaining natural phenomena.

8.
In the first paragraph the word "deal" could best be replaced by " ______".

A．barter
B．bargain
C．a(chǎn)re playing
D．a(chǎn)re concerned

9.
Which of the following is most clearly analogous to the example in the passage of the person who fears dogs?

A．A child chokes on a fishbone and as an adolescent is reluctant to eat fish.
B．A person feels lonely and after a while buys a dog for companionship.
C．A child studies science in school and later grows up to become a teacher.
D．A person hears that a snowstorm is predicted and that evening is afraid to drive home.

10.
According to the passage, which of the following is important in explaining a muscle movement?

A．The flow of blood to the muscles.
B．Classical conditioning.
C．Protein interactions.
D．The entry of unpleasant stimuli through the cell membrane.

11.
The author implies that which of the following is the type of scientific explanation most likely used by a molecular biologist?

A．Experimentation.
B．Reduction.
C．Interaction.
D．Generalization.

13.In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastest-growing U. S. minority (少數(shù)民族). 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 there will be less unfair treatment in areas like mathematics and science because 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 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 (種族的) image. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants (移民) were the victims of social isolation. Indeed, it was not until l952 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．a(chǎn)re 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

14.
What are the major factors that determine the success of Asian Americans?

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

15.
Few Asian-American students major in human sciences mainly because ______.

A．they don"t like human sciences
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 cultures and Western cultures

16.
Why do the two "explanations" (Para. 3, Line l)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 American would be a threat to other minorities.
D．American academic achievements have taken on too strong an Asian character.

17.
The author"s tone in this passage is ______.

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

19.You"re alone, driving on a deserted stretch of highway. Suddenly you are enclosed by clouds of smoke and steam as the engine-temperature light flashes its red warning. You pull over to the slow lane and switch on the four-way emergency flashers. Then what? Should you keep on rolling or get off the road as fast as you can safely do so?Knowing what is happening and what to do in a car emergency can save time, money, worry--even your life.So learning how to check your car will help you handle some common car emergencies.
  The engine"s bearings must constantly be lubricated (使?jié)櫥? by oil that circulates under pressure. When the oil pressure drops too low, the engine begins to self-destruct. The red oil-pressure warning light flashes on. Listen for any knocking, and sign of serious trouble. If the warning light flashes only at highway speeds and goes out at low speeds or while the engine idles, chances are" the engine is just slightly low on oil. If the light goes on at idle, but goes out when you accelerate, drive slowly to the repair shop. It is a matter of minutes after oil pressure drops that serious engine damage occurs. You could destroy the engine.
  The engine temperature warning light signals that the engine is running hotter than normal. Switching on your heater at the first sign of overheating may help delay a boilover--by drawing off some of the excess heat. Reducing speed may also help. If the light goes out, proceed to the nearest service station for help. If too much coolant has been lost, the engine will boil over, surrounding the engine with steam. If this happens, pull completely off the road, stop and wait. Don"t rush out and open the hood (發(fā)動機翼) in the steam. Wait until the vapor goes away and the engine metal cools. But remember that this can take a few hours on a hot summer day.

From the situation described in the first paragraph, we know that ______.

A．drivers should learn how to repair their own cars
B．driving alone on the highway can be very dangerous
C．one has to be very careful in handling a car emergency
D．this passage is intended for drivers facing an emergency

20.
How do you know that the oil pressure is a bit low?

A．The warning light flashes only when the car runs at fast speed.
B．The warning light flashes only when the car is slowing down.
C．The warning light flashes continuously.
D．The warning light flashes when the engine idles.

21.
What will happen to the engine when oil pressure drops?

A．It will be damaged when the engine stops working.
B．Very soon it will be severely damaged.
C．Serious damage to it is not likely to occur within the first few minutes.
D．Damage may occur to the engine when you drive the car at high speed.

22.
When you find the engine is hotter than normal, you should ______.

A．drive to a service station to get a cool engine
B．turn off your heater so as to cool down the engine
C．switch on the heater as soon as possible
D．try to make the engine boil over ______.

23.
The last sentence in the last paragraph implies that ______.

A．it is difficult to cool the engine
B．the driver can only open the hood on a hot summer day
C．the driver has to be very patient
D．it takes a long time to open the hood in summer

三、3.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.A young man hurried into his town library. He went up to one of the old librarians and said to her eagerly ,"Do you remember that you persuaded me to borrow a book about Greek history a week【21】?"
  "Yes, that" s【22】. "answered the librarian.
  "Do you remember the name of the【23】. me young man asked. The librarian【24】very proud, because she was always【25】to get young people to take out books about Greek history, and she【26】found one who was willing to accept her suggestions.
  "Yes, "she answered. "Do you want to take it【27】again? Did you think that it was so interesting?"
  "No, of course not." Said the young man, "but when I was taking it【28】. I met a girl on the bus. and I【29】her telephone number in the book. I want to【30】her, so may I look at the book again?"
(56)

A．a(chǎn)go
B．before
C．later
D．yesterday

2.(57)

A．a(chǎn)ll
B．it
C．right
D．rightly

3.(58)

A．boy
B．librarian
C．history
D．book

4.(59)

A．fell
B．felt
C．were
D．be

5.(60)

A．doing
B．trying
C．wanting
D．finding

6.(61)

A．rarely
B．often
C．truly
D．really

7.(62)

A．a(chǎn)way
B．up
C．out
D．down

8.(63)

A．to home
B．in home
C．a(chǎn)t home
D．home

9.(64)

A．wrote
B．remembered
C．lay
D．got

10.(65)

A．see
B．help
C．telephone
D．write

四、4.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. Rainbows are formed when sunlight passes through small drops of water in the sky.

1. This incident provoked an awakening of conscience and resulted in decisions which have proven effective.

2. The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States of America in the nineteenth century by the people of France.

3. Although religions have long been a part of Chinese culture, religious believers in China have always constituted a small percentage of the population.

4. Most attempt to pay fees directly out of their income, others mm to grandparents for help and some arrange for school fees to be paid out of loans secured on their property.

五、5.Writing

Part VII  Writing

0.   For this part, you are supposed to write a short composition in 100 - 120 words according to the following topic. Remember to write it clearly.
  體育運動的好處(Benefits of Sports)