专升本（英语）模拟试卷273

一、1.Phonetics

0.（  ）

A.Russian
B.racial
C.special
D.industrial

1.（  ）

A.passage
B.package
C.strange
D.orange

2.（  ）

A.father
B.marathon
C.author
D.strengthen

3.（  ）

A.loud
B.moustache
C.lounge
D.ground

4.（  ）

A.grandma
B.handkerchief
C.handsome
D.grandson

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.He has just taken an examination______chemistry.

A.for
B.about
C.on
D.in

1.Of the two new teachers, one is experienced and______.

A.the others are not
B.another is inexperienced
C.the other is not
D.others are inexperienced

2.It was not until he arrived at the station______he realized he had forgotten his ticket.

A.there
B.then
C.that
D.where

3.Nobody can touch that box without permission because there is______in it.

A.an important information
B.some important information
C.some important informations
D.lots of information important

4.No sooner had Tom seen Jim______he left the room.

A.when
B.before
C.than
D.then

5.It is not polite to______a speaker when he is making a speech.

A.interrupt
B.cease
C.oppose
D.inquire

6.______we will do next is still under discussion.

A.That
B.When
C.Where
D.What

7.Hangzhou,______we spent last spring, is one of the most beautiful cities in China.

A.where
B.which
C.that
D.when

8.Neither Tom nor John______ a bike of______own.

A.have, their
B.has, his
C.have, his
D.has, their

9.All the______of the city went to the meeting last Saturday.

A.mathematic teachers
B.mathematics teacher
C.mathematics teachers
D.mathematic's teacher

10.The Yellow River is the second______river in China.

A.long
B.longer
C.longest
D.most long

11.Mary wishes that she______law instead of history when she was in college.

A.had studied
B.studies
C.has studied
D.studied

12.It's no use______over spilt milk.

A.cry
B.to be crying
C.crying
D.cried

13.For the sake of your health, you should give up smoking______.

A.for sure
B.for all
C.for good
D.for long

14.I apologize______being late but I missed the bus.

A.to
B.by
C.for
D.of

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.  The first true piece of sports equipment that man invented was the ball.
In ancient Egypt, as everywhere, pitching stones was a favorite children's game.But a badly thrown rock could hurt a child.Looking for something less dangerous to throw, the Egyptians made what were probably the first balls.
  At first, balls were made of grass or leaves held together by vines.Later they were made of piece of animal skin sewed together and stuffed with feathers or hay.
  Even though the Egyptians were warlike, they found time for peaceful games.Before long they had developed a number of ball games, each with its own set of rules.Perhaps they played ball more for instruction than for fun.Ball playing was thought of mainly as a way to teach young men the speed and skill they would need for war.The ball was probably invented because______.

A.throwing stones often caused injuries
B.throwing stones was not fun
C.games with stones did not have rules
D.rocks were too heavy to throw

2.This selection says that the Egyptians played______.

A.many different games with balls
B.many different kinds of games
C.only one ball game
D.different games with similar rules

3.The Egyptians thought that ball playing was______.

A.childish
B.difficult
C.not enjoyable
D.worthwhile

4.The best title for this selection is______.

A.The First Ball Games
B.How Egyptian Children Played Games
C.Egyptian Sports
D.The Beginning of Sports

6.  Can animals be made to work for us Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs that are now done by human beings.
  They point out that at a circus, for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing quite skillful things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may notice that the trainer always gives the animal a piece of candy or a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many different animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get a reward for doing them.  
  Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and soldiers in both old and modem times have used geese to give warning by making a lot of noise when a stranger or an enemy comes near. But it may be possible to train animals to work in factories. In Russia, for example, pigeons which are birds with good eyesight, are being used to watch out for faults in small steel balls that are being made in one factory. When the pigeon sees a ball which looks different from others, it touches a steel plate with its beak. This turns on a light to warn people in the factory. At the same time a few seeds are given as a reward. It takes three to five weeks to train a pigeon to do this and one pigeon can inspect 3 000 to 4 000 balls an hour.>
  Apes have been used in America in helping to make cars, and scientists believe that these large monkeys may be one day gather crops and even drive trains.What made scientists think animal can be made to work for us one day?

A.Animals are very skillful at a circus.
B.They are big and strong.
C.Some animals are as clever as human beings.
D.Animals can be trained because they like to get something as a reward.

7.The trainer usually gives the animal a piece of candy or fruit______.

A.when it is hungry
B.before it plays a trick
C.when it starts to play a trick
D.after it has done the trick

8.Many animals may be trained to do simple jobs if they know______.

A.who their trainers are
B.they will be praised by their trainers
C.they will get a reward
D.something dangerous will happen to them

9.Which of the following is not true?

A.Scientists consider apes may drive trains some day.
B.Apes have worked in some factories.
C.Apes may one day be used to gather crops.
D.An ape is not a large monkey.

11.  Some people do not like anything to be out of place; they are never late for work; they return their books on time to the library; they remember people's birthdays; and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive.Mr.Hill is such a man.
  Mr.Hill works in a bank, and lives alone.The only family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Jack.Mr.Hill does not see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Jack's seventeen birthdays.
  Last week Mr.Hill had quite a surprise.He drove home from the bank at the usual time, driving neither too slowly nor too fast; he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal.Just then, there was a knock at the door.He opened the door, to find a policeman standing on the door-step.
  "What have I done wrong?" Mr.Hill asked himself."Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?"
  "Hello, Uncle," said the policeman, "My name is Jack."Mr. Hill______.

A.works in a bank by himself
B.lives in a bank and works by himself
C.lives by himself and works in a bank
D.lives in a bank by himself

12.Mr. Hill______.

A.hardly sees his sister
B.sees his sister only at Christmas time
C.sees his sister on Jack's birthday
D.always sees his sister

13.Mr. Hill______.

A.only remembers one of Jack's seventeenth birthdays
B.always sends Jack something on his birthday
C.has forgotten all of Jack's birthdays
D.has forgotten Jack's seventeenth birthday

14.Last week Mr. Hill______.

A.was pleasant
B.was quite astonished
C.was quite disappointed
D.was unpleasant

16.  Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less.That describes the way many of us live today.We are doing more, but enjoying it less.And when that doesn't work, we get the problem.In our extremely hurried search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.
  The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe.Satisfaction lies with less, not with more.Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek
  Arthur Lindman, in his very effective book, "The Harried Leisure Class," described the uselessness of pursuing more.His research focused on what people did with their leisure time.He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time.But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them.Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety.That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.
  Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this.The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago.It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.
  If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me.How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?
  The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things.The more I give up, the more I seem to gain.But words will never convince you.You must try it for yourself.Arthur Lindman wrote______.

A.a popular novel
B.a research paper
C.Ecclesiastes
D.The Harried Leisure Class

17.Lindman wrote his book______.

A.ten years ago
B.twenty years ago
C.more than twenty years ago
D.thousands of years ago

18.We can make our life happier if we______.

A.get rid of useless things
B.buy more things
C.sell things we do not need
D.give up more

19.The best title for the passage is______.

A.Simplify Your Life
B.Enjoy Your Life
C.Smoking Less
D.Satisfaction

21. First, the spotted owl was threatened by logging in the Pacific Northwest. Now it’s in danger from a new enemy, the barred owl. Barred owls have been moving to the Northwest from the eastern part of the United States. Stan Sovern has studied spotted owls. Now when he calls for spotted owls, barred owls are starting to appear. Sovern threw a mouse on the ground, and a barred owl grabbed it.
  Scientists have learned that spotted owls start to vanish when barred owls come. Some barred and spotted owls have mated and produced hybrid babies. One spotted owl was killed by a barred owl.
  Professor Ned K. Brown of the University of California-Berkeley says, "In some areas of Washington, the barred owls moved into very dense, deep woods. The same kind of woods that are opened up, or destroyed by logging, that adversely influences the spotted owls."
  Ten years have passed since the federal government began protecting the spotted owl. Loggers were forced to limit logging on seven million acres of government land. No one is sure how the arrival of the barred owls will impact laws that protect spotted laws. The barred owls like to live in the deep forests where loggers like to cut down trees. The barred owls will likely keep migrating to the Northwest.
Scientists learned about the barred owl migration by______.

A.decoding spotted owl sounds
B.feeding mice to the owls
C.monitoring spotted owl populations
D.researching the Internet

22.When Stan Sovern calls the spotted owl,______.

A.a mouse appears
B.the spotted owl ignores him
C.no one answers
D.barred owls appear

23.Logging was greatly reduced______.

A.in the northeastern United States
B.on seven million acres of public land
C.two decades ago
D.to save the barred owls

24.Barred owls like to live in______.

A.the northeastern United States
B.Canada
C.deep, dense woods of Washington
D.warm climates

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.  One of the political issues we hear a lot about lately is campaign finance reform. The people who are calling for【21】usually want the government to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates and their supporters can spend.
  One reason that reform. is【22】for is that it costs so much to run for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort【23】money. The incumbents (those already in office) have【24】time to do their jobs since they must attend so many fund raising events.
  Another【25】is the fear that candidates will be owned or controlled by the "special interest groups" that contribute to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the【26】.
  On the【27】side are those who caution that just because you call something "reform," doesn't mean it's really【28】. They【29】that our right to freedom of speech is meaningless if the government can limit anyone's ability to get his or her message out to the people.
  If one person or a group of people want to tell the【30】what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to【31】advertising on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to display billboards along highways and banners on heavily trafficked Web sites. All this【32】a lot of money.
  Opponents of laws that regulate or limit spending say that you don't really have freedom of speech or freedom of the press if you can't get your message out. They say that in a democracy, the government should never be able to regulate political discussion or the means to distribute ideas.
  They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make【33】.
  What do you think about this issue? Listen to what the【34】for national office have to say.
  Which candidates make the most【35】to you?
【21】

A.money
B.reform
C.issue
D.candidate

2.【22】

A.needed
B.called
C.organized
D.grouped

3.【23】

A.collect
B.pile
C.raising
D.increase

4.【24】

A.less
B.more
C.fewer
D.lessen

5.【25】

A.event
B.cost
C.reason
D.office

6.【26】

A.joke
B.money
C.case
D.simple

7.【27】

A.other
B.same
C.average
D.out

8.【28】

A.bad
B.better
C.costly
D.happy

9.【29】

A.argue
B.doubt
C.refuse
D.time

10.【30】

A.reporters
B.wall
C.story
D.public

11.【31】

A.make
B.buy
C.publish
D.limit

12.【32】

A.makes
B.has
C.costs
D.loses

13.【33】

A.money
B.trouble
C.issues
D.decisions

14.【34】

A.records
B.speakers
C.sounds
D.candidates

15.【35】

A.sense
B.dirt
C.money
D.music

五、5.Writing

Part VII  Writing

0. For this part, you are supposed to write a letter in English in about 100 - 120 words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly.
你(Li Yuan)的生曰就要到了，写封信邀请朋友参加你的生日聚会。信的内容包括：
(1)告知对方聚会的具体时间、地点。
(2)到达聚会地点的行车路线及便利的交通工具。
(3)要求对方就是否能参加聚会做出回复。

六、6.Daily Conversation

1.Examinee: Did I do well on my test?
Examiner: 【56】?
Examinee: Why wouldn't I want to know?
Examiner: You had pretty bad scores.
Examinee: Exactly【57】?
Examiner: 【58】.
Examinee: How'd I fail it?
Examiner: There are a couple of reasons why you didn't pass.
Examinee: What did I do wrong?
Examiner: 【59】, you really just don't know how to drive.
Examinee: Will I be able to take a retest?
Examiner: 【60】, in about two and a half weeks.
【56】A. No, not really 
B. what do you mean by bad
C. You failed. 
D. Sure you can
E. To sum it all up&nbsp
F, You can do it yourself
G. You merely passed 
H. Do you want to know the honest answer?

2.【57】A. No, not really 
B. what do you mean by bad
C. You failed.
D. Sure you can
E. To sum it all up&nbsp
F, You can do it yourself
G. You merely passed 
H. Do you want to know the honest answer?

3.【58】A. No, not really 
B. what do you mean by bad
C. You failed. 
D. Sure you can
E. To sum it all up&nbsp
F, You can do it yourself
G. You merely passed 
H. Do you want to know the honest answer?

4.【59】A. No, not really 
B. what do you mean by bad
C. You failed. 
D. Sure you can
E. To sum it all up&nbsp
F, You can do it yourself
G. You merely passed 
H. Do you want to know the honest answer?

5.【60】A. No, not really 
B. what do you mean by bad
C. You failed. 
D. Sure you can
E. To sum it all up&nbsp
F, You can do it yourself
G. You merely passed 
H. Do you want to know the honest answer?