專升本（英語）模擬試卷116

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. Not only ______ very well, but also ______ well.

A．she cooks; does she dance
B．she cooks; she dances
C．does she cook; she dances
D．does she cook; does she dance

1. I" d like to live somewhere ______ the sun shines all year long.

A．which
B．of which
C．where
D．a(chǎn)t where

2. The facilities of the older hospital ______.

A．is as good or better than the new hospital
B．a(chǎn)re as good or better than the new hospital
C．is as good as or better than that of the new hospital
D．a(chǎn)re as good as or better than those of the new hospital

3. His courage and confidence were based ______ knowledge.

A．of
B．to
C．on
D．for

4. He promised that he would ______ to get us two tickets of the soccer game.

A．manage
B．fulfil
C．a(chǎn)ccomplish
D．succeed

5. He got a job with the corporation in 1991 and has worked there ______.

A．since
B．ever since
C．ever before
D．till then

6. The river, which is ______ the Yangtze River, is the longest river in China.

A．named after
B．known for
C．known as
D．called for

7. There is no specific rule ______ what we should wear to a dinner party.

A．because of
B．a(chǎn)s to
C．a(chǎn)s of
D．but for

8. The two parties have ______ an agreement on the date of talk.

A．come across
B．come into
C．come up
D．come to

9. It is known to every one that the film is ______ a real event.

A．based on
B．built on
C．looked on
D．carried on

10. Last year, some poor people had hardly ______ the severe winter.

A．remained
B．lived
C．endured
D．survived

11. The university ______ four colleges and five academies.

A．is made of
B．is composed of
C．is consisted of
D．composed of

12. ______, he is not a very bright pupil.

A．As far as his intelligence is concerned
B．As far his intelligence is concerned
C．So his intelligence is concerned
D．As far as his intelligence are concerned

13. He is ______ nervous ______ he moved about the room all the time.

A．such; that
B．that; that
C．so; that
D．so; as

14. Mr. Verder never thought that he would become a member of the board of directors because of his ______ origin.

A．humble
B．previous
C．critical
D．假

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.The humorous story may be told to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic (滑稽的) story and the witty (詼諧的) story must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story continues gently along, the other two burst.
  The humorous story is strictly a work of art--high and delicate (精美的) art--and only an artist can tell it; But no art is necessary in telling the comic and witty stories; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous story--I mean by word of mouth, not print--was created in America, and has remained at home.
  The humorous story is told seriously; the teller does his best to hide the fact that he himself even suspects that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh.
  When he gets through, and sometimes, if he has had good success, he is so glad and happy that he will repeat the point of it and glance around from face to face, collecting applause (喝彩), and then repeat it again.

Which story takes the longest to tell? ( )

A．The humorous story.
B．The witty story.
C．The comic story.
D．All three take the same amount of time.

2.
Which story has no particular point? ( )

A．The humorous story.
B．The witty story.
C．The comic story.
D．All three.

3.
Which of the following statements is true? ( )

A．The humorous story was created abroad.
B．The humorous story is basically American.
C．The humorous story is also loved in other countries.
D．The humorous story is the least popular in the U. S.

4.
The teller of a humorous story ______. ( )

A．laughs at his own joke
B．repeats it several times
C．is very serious when he tells it
D．is concerned about the reaction of his listeners

5.
The teller of a comic story ______. ( )

A．tells it only once
B．tells the listener in advance that his story is funny
C．doesn"t care whether his listeners enjoy it or not
D．is very serious when telling it

7.The flying fox is not a fox at all. It is an extra large bat that has got a fox"s head, and that feeds on fruit instead of insects. Like all bats, flying foxes hang themselves by their toes when it rest, and travel in great crowds when out flying. A group will live in one spot for years. Sometimes several hundreds of them occupy (占據(jù)) a single tree. As they return to the tree toward sunrise, they quarrel among themselves and fight for the best places until long after daylight.
  Flying foxes have babies once a year, giving birth to only one at a time. At first the mother has to carry the baby on her breast wherever she goes. Later she leaves it hanging up, and brings back food for it to eat. Sometimes a baby falls down to the ground and squeaks(尖叫) for help. Then the older ones swoop (俯沖) down and try to pick it up. If they fail to do so, it will die, Often hundreds of dead baby bats can be found lying on the ground at the foot of a tree.

The passage tells us that there is no difference between, the flying fox and the ordinary hat in ______. ( )

A．their size
B．their appearance
C．the way they rest
D．the kind of food they eat

8.
Flying foxes tend to ______. ( )

A．double their number every year
B．lose a lot of their babies
C．move from place to place constantly
D．fight and kill a lot of themselves

9.
At daybreak every day flying foxes begin to ______. ( )

A．fly out toward the sun
B．look for a new resting place
C．come back to their home
D．go out and look for food

10.
Flying foxes have fights ______. ( )

A．to occupy the best resting places
B．only when it is dark
C．to protect their homes from outsiders
D．when there is not enough food

11.
How do flying foxes care for the young ones? ( )

A．They only care for their own babies.
B．They share the feeding of their young.
C．They help when a baby bat is in danger.
D．They often leave home and forget their young.

13.A man and his wife had a small bar near a station. The bar often stayed open until after midnight, because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains.
  At two o"clock one morning, one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar. He was asleep. The barman"s wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar several times, and each time the man was still there. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, "You"ve waken that man six times now, George, but he isn"t drinking anything. Why haven"t you sent him away? It is very late."
  "Oh, no, I don"t want to send him away, "answered her husband with a smile: "You see, whenever I wake him up, he asks for his bill, and when I bring it to him. He pays it. Then he goes to sleep again."

The bar often stayed open ______. ( )

A．until after 12 o"clock in the evening
B．until early next morning
C．a(chǎn)ll day and all night
D．until 12 o"clock in the evening

14.
People who came to the bar were ______. ( )

A．mostly salesmen
B．mostly passengers
C．only conductors
D．only visitors

15.
The barman"s wife didn"t go to bed ______. ( )

A．until two o"clock in the morning
B．because she wasn"t sleepy at all
C．because she was busy with her children
D．because her husband hadn"t finished working

16.
The barman didn"t want to send the man away because ______. ( )

A．the man was too tired to leave
B．the man paid the bill every time he brought it to him
C．he lidded his job very much
D．he was kind-hearted

17.
The man was ______. ( )

A．dead drunk
B．lazy
C．too sleep
D．too tired

19.For some time past it has been widely accepted that babies and other creatures learn to do things because certain acts lead to" rewards"; and there is no reason to doubt that this is true. But it used also to be widely believed that effective rewards, at least in the early stages, had to be directly related to such basic physiological "drives" as thirst or hunger. In other words, a baby would learn if he got food or drink or some sort of physical comfort, not otherwise.
  It is now clear that this is not so. Babies will learn to behave in ways that produce results in the world with no reward except the successful outcome.
  Papousek began his studies by using milk in the normal way to "reward" the babies and so teach them to carry out some simple movements, such as turning the head to one side or the other. Then he noticed that a baby who had had enough to drink would refuse the milk but would still go on making the learned response with clear signs of pleasure. So he began to study the children"s responses in situations where no milk was provided. He quickly found that children as young as four months would learn to turn their heads to right or left if the movement "switched on" a display of lights-and indeed that they were capable of learning quite complex turns to bring about this result. For instance, two left or two right, or even to make as many as three turns to one side.
  Papousek"s light display was placed directly in front of the babies and he made the interesting observation that sometimes they would not turn back to watch the lights closely although they would "smile and bubble ""when the display came on. Papousek concluded that it was not primarily the sight of the lights which pleased them, it was the success they were achieving in solving the problem, in mastering the skill, and that there exists a fundamental human urge to make sense of the world and bring it under intentional control.

According to the author, babies learn to do things which ______. ( )

A．a(chǎn)re directly related to pleasure
B．will meet their physical needs
C．will bring them a feeling of success
D．will satisfy their curiosity

20.
Papusek noticed in his studies that baby ______. ( )

A．would make learned responses when it saw the milk
B．would carry out learned movements when it had enough to drink
C．would continue the simple movements without being given milk
D．would turn its head to right or left when it had enough to drink

21.
In Papusek"s experiment babies make learned movements of the head in order to ______. ( )

A．have the lights turned on
B．be rewarded with milk
C．please their parents
D．be praised

22.
The babies would "smile and bubble" at the lights because ______. ( )

A．the lights were directly related to some basic "drives"
B．the sight of the lights was interesting
C．they need not turn back to watch the lights
D．they succeeded in "switching on" the lights

23.
According to Papusek, the pleasure babies get in achieving something is a reflection of ______. ( )

A．a(chǎn) basic human desire to understand and control the world
B．the satisfaction of certain physiological needs
C．their strong desire to solve complex problems
D．a(chǎn) fundamental human urge to display their learned skills

25.The idea of a fish being able to generate electricity strong enough to light lamp bulbs--or even to run a small electric motor--is almost unbelievable, but several kinds of fish are able to do this. Even more strangely, this curious power has been acquired in different ways by fish belonging to very different families.
  Perhaps the best known are the electric rays, or torpedoes (電魚), of which several kinds live in warm seas. They posses on each side of the head, behind the eyes, a large organ consisting of a number of hexagon- al shaped cells rather like a honeycomb. The cells are filled with a jelly-like substance, and contain a series of flat electric plates. One side, the negative side, of each plate, is supplied with very fine nerves, connected with a main nerve coming from a special part of the brain. Current passes from the upper, positive side of the organ downwards to the negative, lower side. Generally it is necessary to touch the fish in two places, completing the circuit, in order to receive a shock.
  The strength of this shock depends on the size of the fish, but newly born ones only about 5 centimeters across can be made to light the bulb of a pocket flashlight for a few moments, while a fully grown torpedo gives a shock capable of knocking a man down, and, if suitable wires are connected, will operate a small electric motor for several minutes.
  Another famous example is the electric eel. This fish gives an even more powerful shock. The system is different from that of the torpedo in that the electric plates run longitudinally (縱向) and are supplied with nerves from the spinal(脊骨)cord. Consequently, the current passes along the fish from head to tail. The electric organs of these fish are really altered muscles and like all muscles are apt (likely) to tire, so they are not able to produce electricity for very long.
  The power of producing electricity may serve these fish both for defence and attack.

It can be seen from the passage that ______. ( )

A．the capacity to generate electricity is the distinctive characteristic of the fish
B．the current travels in an upward direction from the positive side to negative side in torpedo"s electric cells
C．some fish can produce enough electricity to drive a number of electric motors
D．the torpedo"s electric cells have a shape with six sides

26.
Usually you will not get a shock by touching the electric ray in one place only because ______. ( )

A．the current in one place is not strong enough to give a shock
B．the fish"s electric cells are filled with jelly-like substance
C．to complete the circuit, you have to touch the fish in two places
D．a(chǎn) torpedo: s electric cells contain more than one electric plates

27.
The main idea of the third paragraph is that ______. ( )

A．a(chǎn) mature torpedo is capable of producing enough electricity to knock down a man
B．the mass of the fish decides the intensity of electric power it generates
C．the strength of shock given by a young electric ray can only light the bulb of a pocket flashlight
D．to make full use of the energy produced by electric fish, suitable wires should be available

28.
The reason why the electric eel is able to give more powerful shock is that ______. ( )

A．the working system of the electric plates in the eel is the most effective
B．the working system of the electric plates in the eel is far inferior to those in the torpedo
C．compared with those in the torpedo, the working system of electric plates in the eel is more direct and efficient
D．compared with other electric fish, the eel possesses much more electric plates

29.
The ideal title for this passage is ______. ( )

A．The Eel
B．Torpedo
C．Electric Fish
D．Electric Power

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 pet is an animal that【21】in your house. Over half the families in North America own pets. The most popular【22】are dogs, fish and birds. Rabbits, hamsters and turtles are also popular. Even some unpopular animals such as frogs, mice and snakes are pets.
  People first【23】to keep pets about 12,000 years ago. The first pet was a dog. The dog did not become a pet because people【24】it was cute. It became a pet because it was useful. People used the dog for many things. The dog warned people【25】danger so wild animals didn"t attack people. It also ate left-over food. Later, dogs helped people take care【26】cows and sheep on farms.
  Cats did not【27】pets for a long time. When the Egyptians first started to grow grain, mice ate it. The Egyptians were【28】to tame cats.
  Today, people keep many【29】of pets. Animals such as canaries, parrots, mice and hamsters live in cages. They need people to bring them food and water and to keep their cages clean. Other animals, such as dogs and cats, need food and water, but they can take care of themselves【30】.They are good pets for people because they don"t need much care.
(41)

A．lives
B．stays
C．sleeps
D．plays

2.(42)

A．houses
B．dogs
C．pets
D．families

3.(43)

A．begin
B．started
C．know
D．hope

4.(44)

A．studied
B．bought
C．taught
D．thought

5.(45)

A．a(chǎn)bout
B．of
C．on
D．for

6.(46)

A．with
B．for
C．in
D．of

7.(47)

A．become
B．grow
C．turn
D．change

8.(48)

A．first
B．firstly
C．a(chǎn)t the first
D．the first

9.(49)

A．sort
B．type
C．kinds
D．groups

10.(50)

A．many ways
B．in many ways
C．a(chǎn) better way
D．plenty of ways

四、4.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. 史密斯先生所具有的忍耐、智慧和良好的精神對于一個人來說是最寶貴的。

1. 由于制造商的過錯而造成的任何損失，應(yīng)由制造商修理或更換。

2. 應(yīng)該重視人類大腦的研究。

3. 孩子們好像一年到頭都有家庭教師上課一樣，而學(xué)語言的成年學(xué)生每周上課的時間卻很有限。

4. 中國經(jīng)濟(jì)何時躍居世界第一，取決于是否能保持這種高速增長，或者說取決于這種高速增長能維持多久。

五、5.Writing

Part VII  Writing

0.   Write a composition on the topic "Pollution." Start writing your composition with the topic sentence: "To pollute means to contaminate--to spoil something by introducing impurities which make it unfit or unclean to use." You are supposed to write at least 100 words in your composition using the words and expressions given below.
  forms  begin  civilization  earth  environment