专升本（英语）模拟试卷117

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. It is quite difficult to ______ money because the rate of inflation is so high.

A．spend
B．lay about
C．save
D．share

1. John withdrew from political life and as ______ he was soon forgotten.

A．an end
B．a result
C．an outcome
D．an event

2. Citizen Kane, while always ______ by critics, was never a popular favourite for most American viewers.

A．attracted
B．adapted
C．accepted
D．admired

3. The government wanted to ______ the environmental protection project against school campus litter.

A．sponsor
B．adopt
C．give
D．set up

4. Trains used to stop here to ______ us.

A．get off
B．pick up
C．pull up
D．get past

5. ______ nobody has anything more to say, let"s round off the discussion.

A．When
B．While
C．So that
D．Now that

6. I was persuaded to do the job, ______ I didn"t want to.

A．lest
B．in order that
C．even though
D．in case

7. They agree to rent the house ______ the roof be repaired.

A．on condition that
B．as soon as
C．so that
D．for fear that

8. He is still too young to do the job ______ we want it done.

A．the way
B．the moment
C．the case
D．now that

9. He believed, ______ , that people should start as early as possible to look at the world and at nature and to think about what they saw.

A．as does his mother
B．as his mother does
C．as did his mother
D．his mother as did

10. Greater knowledge of the universe could ______ important changes in the outer space traveling.

A．take back
B．break out
C．bring about
D．keep out

11. Academic teaching hospitals are usually ______ medical schools.

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

12. Advances in food preservation gave us access to ______ all foods grown in distant lands.

A．extensively
B．virtually
C．artificially
D．continually

13. The software ______ and simplifies business procedures such as budgeting.

A．puts on
B．puts forward
C．takes after
D．speeds up

14. Your should first know whether any jobs are ______ before application.

A．opened
B．hired
C．available
D．variable

15. ______ great was the destruction that the South took decades to recover.

A．Very
B．Too
C．So
D．Such

16. ______ was his anger that his face turned red.

A．Such
B．Great
C．It
D．So

17. The number of students in a foreign languages class ______ usually limited to no more than thirty.

A．have
B．are
C．is
D．were

18. Ten minutes ______ an hour when one is waiting for phone call.

A．seemed
B．is seeming
C．seem
D．seems

19. Not only Tom but also his wife ______ fond of watching television.

A．are
B．were
C．be
D．was

20. Maximum benefits range from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 ,though some ______ have no limit.

A．policies
B．bills
C．charges
D．prices

21. Chinese historians tried to ______ a balance between the data of history and their significance.

A．produce
B．upset
C．strike
D．tip

22. Owners of a company may ______ their right to someone else through a contract.

A．imitate
B．document
C．change
D．transfer

23. People of one culture moving to a country of another culture may ______ their old ways.

A．keep up
B．give up
C．look back at
D．clear away

24. New problems are always ______ in the conference of the factory.

A．raising
B．going up
C．appearing
D．coming up

25. The size of the audience, ______ we had expected, was well over twenty thousand.

A．whom
B．which
C．as
D．that

26. Now we can fly to Tokyo. There was a time ______ we had to take a boat.

A．how
B．what
C．why
D．when

27. It was a toy plane ______ John bought for his son yesterday.

A．what
B．who
C．that
D．why

28. I"ll see ______ everything is ready in time.

A．it to that
B．that to it
C．to that it
D．to it that

29. No one thought that John"s suggestion was worth ______.

A．consider
B．considering
C．to be considered
D．consider

30. The ______ stuck on the outside of the envelope says "By Air".

A．label
B．ticket
C．signal
D．advertisement

31. Would you mind telling me the possibilities of my success ______?

A．forward
B．in "advance
C．primarily
D．now and then

32. Don"t leave your bicycle out in the rain. It"ll get ______.

A．rusty
B．crude
C．rough
D．tough

33. As it is very ______, we must decide at once what to do.

A．eager
B．anxious
C．urgent
D．tense

34. The harvest this year is ______ by too much rain.

A．influenced
B．effected
C．affected
D．interfered

35. The music was so ______ that the audience were ______ to death.

A．boring; bored
B．bored; boring
C．bored; bored
D．boring; boring

36. You ______ him that the day before.

A．ought not to have told
B．must not have told
C．should not tell
D．ought not to tell

37. Mary keeps talking about the party. She had a very good time, ______ she?

A．hadn"t
B．had
C．didn"t
D．did

38. We ______ your terms carefully but ______ to say that we cannot accept them.

A．are studying; regret
B．have studied; are regretting
C．have studied; regret
D．have been studying ;have regretted

39. They ______ more enthusiastic about their work since their teacher"s return.

A．are
B．were
C．had been
D．have been

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."A rolling stone gathers no moss (苔藓) ," but there is one living animal that does gather moss, the three-toed sloth (树獭) of South America. This slowest-moving member of the animal kingdom is so inactive that moss actually gathers on its body and turns it green  strange as it seems!
  Most of the sloth"s life is spent motionless, hanging upside down from a limb. And that is the way its hair grows. Long and coarse, the strands (串) from receptacles (花托) for the damp jungle algae (水藻) that turn the brown fur a mossy green. Actually this moss helps the animal survive because it serves as a per- fect camouflage against the leaf trees and hides the sloth from the jungle"s swift-moving hunters. The sloth would have little chance of survival on the ground. With long, curved claws hooked over the limb of a leafy tree, it spends the long hot hours during the day drowsing and eating. Inch by inch, it strips the leafy limbs bare and crawls Slowly down the trunk to find a new dining spot, but only at night.
  In addition to looking rather like a vegetable, the sloth is a strict vegetarian. Running out of its favorite leaf is about the only thing that will make a sloth move. Then its appetite may even force the animal into swimming a stream to reach a juicy succulent(多汁的值物). It will also force it into fighting to keep the tree all to itself. The sloth is lazy and prefers to be alone, but it will tolerate its own relatives!

A suitable title for this passage might be ______. ( )

A．Wild Animals
B．Animal Kingdom
C．Moss Growth
D．The Lazy Animal

2.
The author"s purpose in writing the passage is ______. ( )

A．to help children to gain a better understanding of animal life
B．to prove that the saying "a rolling stone gathers no moss" is wrong
C．to introduce a particular animal to the common reader
D．to discuss with professionals the laziness of animals

3.
Which of the following is NOT true about the sloth? ( )

A．The sloth does not eat any meat
B．For most of its time, the sloth remains motionless on the ground
C．To some extent, the sloth is protected by the moss growing on its body
D．The sloth has a brown fur of its own

4.
According to the passage, the sloth will move about when ______. ( )

A．it senses a coming danger
B．it is forced to swim on a hot day
C．it is short of its favorite food
D．it wants to keep itself to itself

5.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned or implied by the author? ( )

A．The sloth has only three toes
B．The sloth lives in the damp jungle of South America
C．The sloth usually tries to find a new spot for food at night
D．The sloth will never fight with other animals

7.Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that they developed. They did not have to pay much attention to the health and safety of the people who worked for them. Often new products were dangerous for the people who used them; often conditions in the work place had very bad effects on the health of the workers.
  Of course sometimes there were real disasters which attracted the attention of governments and which showed need for changes. Also scientists who were doing research into the health of workers sometimes produced information which governments could not ignore. At such times, there were inquiries into the causes of the disaster or the problems. New safety rules were often introduced as a result of these inquiries; however, the new rule; came too late to protect the people who died or who became seriously ill.
  Today many governments have special departments which protect customers and workers. In the U.S., for example, there is a department which tests new airplanes and gives warnings about possible problems. It also makes the rules that aircraft producers must follow. Another department controls the foods and drugs that companies sell. A third department looks at the places where people work, and then reports any companies that are breaking laws which protect the health and safety of workers. Of course, new government departments and new laws cannot prevent every accident or illness, but they are having some good results. Our work places are safer and cleaner than before. The planes and cars which we use for travel are better. Producers are thinking more about the safety and health of the people who buy and use their products.

The main topic of the passage is ______. ( )

A．conditions in the work place
B．the freedom of industries in the past
C．changes in industrial production
D．the safety and health of workers and customers

8.
It can be inferred from the passage that in the past ______. ( )

A．workers often got iii because of the poor working conditions
B．companies were free to put out any products they wanted to
C．many people were killed by the dangerous products
D．industries were not as careful in management as they are today

9.
It is implied in the passage that ______. ( )

A．governments and companies had different opinions about the safety of products
B．governments paid little attention to the safety of products
C．government officials often did not listen to scientists
D．in the past no safety laws were introduced by governments

10.
Some years ago safety rules ______. ( )

A．were put forward due to scientists" recommendations
B．came into being as a result of the workers" demand
C．were introduced because quite a number of people were killed or seriously injured
D．were effective enough to protect workers and customers

11.
The special departments protect customers and workers in many ways except by ______. ( )

A．testing new products
B．designing new products
C．controlling the sale of product
D．inspecting work places

13.We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep, and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.
  To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles.
  We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that of course would not be efficiency; and we Americans must be efficient.

The phrase that best expresses the main idea of this passage is ______. ( )

A．the modern pace
B．our interest in shortened operas
C．how to make the best use of leisure time
D．planning our time scientifically

14.
The passage tells us that ______. ( )

A．Americans are forced to be efficient against their will
B．Americans should do what they are willing to do
C．people ought not to work so hard for efficiency
D．Americans are at a loss what to do

15.
According to the passage, which of the following is a necessity? ( )

A．Shortened opera performances.
B．Quickened paces of movies.
C．Speeded-up work efficiency.
D．Working on holidays.

16.
The "pleasant day" to which the author refers was the period when we ______. ( )

A．did not feel guilty about wasting time
B．were able to act of our own free will
C．seemed to have better weather
D．did not have so many enemies

17.
The word "sluggard" means ______. ( )

A．a slow-moving person
B．a human being
C．a hard worker
D．an enemy

19.Why is there no risk to the customer when a bank prints the customer"s name to his cheques?
  When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a check in favor of another person. Primarily, the bank-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor  who is which depending on whether the customer"s account is in credit or overdrawn. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.
  The bank must obey its customer"s instructions, and not those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit (把……记入借方) his account only in respect of checks drawn by himself. He gives the bank specimens of his signature, and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer"s money on a check on which its customer"s signature has been forged. It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skillful one: the bank must recognize its customer"s signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice, adopted day banks, of printing the customer"s name on his checks, ff this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer.

When you have a bank account, you ______. ( )

A．must always be in credit
B．can"t draw any money if you"re overdrawn
C．can draw money without notice
D．can"t pay money to anyone else

20.
One of the obligations a bank has to a customer ______. ( )

A．is that it can"t take instructions from other people
B．is that it can avoid complications and problems
C．it must pay money to the customer even if he is seriously overdrawn
D．it must print the customer"s signature

21.
The underlined part "the law is loaded against him" in the second paragraph is most likely to mean ______. ( )

A．the law is not of his interest
B．the law is unfavorable to him
C．the law is not in favor of him
D．the law is not in his honor

22.
If someone forged your signature and drew money from your account ______. ( )

A．the bank would always pay money to the forger
B．the bank wouldn"t lose any money
C．you wouldn"t lose any money
D．you wouldn"t lose your money

23.
Which of these statements is true? ( )

A．Banks always lose money when they print customer"s names on cheques.
B．Banks never print the names of customers on cheques.
C．It"s easy to forge a signature on a cheque which prints a customer"s name.
D．It doesn"t matter to a customer if the bank prints customer"s names on cheques.

25.Although no one is certain why migration occurs, there are several theories. One theory is based upon the premise that prehistoric birds of the northen Hemisphere were forced south during the Ice Age, when glaciers covered large parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. As the glaciers melted, the birds came back to their homelands, spent the summer, and then went south again as the ice advanced in winter. In time, the migration became a habit, and now, although the glaciers have disappeared, the habit continues.
  Another theory proposes that the ancestral home of all modern birds was the tropics. When the region became overpopulated, many species were crowded north. During the summer, there was plenty of food, but during the winter, scarcity forced them to return to the tropics.
  A more recent theory, known as photoperiodism, suggests a relationship between increasing daylight and the stimulation of certain glands in the birds" bodies that may prepare them for migration. One scientist has been able to cause midwinter migrations by exposing birds to artificial periods of daylight. He has concluded that changes occur in the bodies of birds due to seasonal changes in the length of daylight.

According to one theory, when the glaciers disappeared, birds ______. ( )

A．stopped migrating
B．continued migrating
C．began migrating again
D．migrated south and stay there

26.
The author states that birds left the tropics because ______. ( )

A．there was not enough food there in the winter
B．there were too many birds
C．there were too many glaciers
D．there was too much daylight

27.
Why did one scientist expose birds to artificial daylight? ( )

A．To test the relationship between daylight and a disease of the glands common to birds.
B．To test the relationship between daylight and migration.
C．To test the relationship between migration and temperature.
D．To test the relationship between daylight and changes in the season.

28.
According to the theory of photoperiodism, ______. ( )

A．birds should migrate in the middle of the winter
B．longer days cause changes in the bodies of birds
C．seasonal changes in the length of days do not affect migration
D．increasing daylight increases the distance of migration

29.
This passage supports the belief that ______. ( )

A．exact reasons for migration are not known
B．birds migrate because of changes in temperature
C．the ancestral home of all birds was the tropics
D．glaciers caused birds to migrate

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.Nowadays, people work longer hours than they used to, but are they really working harder than ever before? Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends on work,【21】she or he accomplishes. However, the connection between time and【22】is not always【23】. In fact, many studies indicate that after a certain point, anyone"s productivity and creativity begin to【24】. Furthermore, it is not always easy for individuals to【25】that their performance is falling off.
  Part of the problem is understandable. When【26】evaluate employees, they often consider the amount of time spent on the job【27】performance. Employees know this. Consequently, they work longer hours and【28】less vacation time than they did several years ago. Although many working people can do their job effectively during a【29】40-hour-work week, they feel they have to spend more time on the job after normal working hours so that they can let the people who can【30】them see it.
(66)

A．the better
B．the less
C．the more
D．the most

2.(67)

A．production
B．product
C．productivity
D．productive

3.(68)

A．positive
B．position
C．negative
D．possible

4.(69)

A．increase
B．decrease
C．improve
D．disease

5.(70)

A．understand
B．recognize
C．realize
D．think

6.(71)

A．employers
B．employees
C．government
D．others

7.(72)

A．in addition
B．in addition to
C．in add
D．in add to

8.(73)

A．take
B．make
C．get
D．want

9.(74)

A．regard
B．relative
C．regular
D．irregular

10.(75)

A．promote
B．increase
C．improve
D．primary

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. Prices reach a certain level at which quantity demanded is equal to quantity supplied.

1. Hardly had he entered the office when he realized that he had forgotten his wallet.

2. The book that is lying on the table belongs to him.

3. 1 can"t help thinking it would be fun to play such an exciting game with them.

4. Another meeting will be hold to further discuss how to resolve the problem once and for all.

五、5.Writing

Part VII  Writing

0.   Write a composition on the topic "The Importance of Persistence." Start writing your composition with the topic sentence: "Many famous and successful people had faced failure early in their lives." You are supposed to write at least 100 words in your composition using the words and expressions given below.
  persist against  success  important  characteristic  adversity

六、6.Daily Conversation

1.Pick out the appropriate expressions from the eight choices below and complete the following dialogues by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
  A. No, He"s not in now.
  B. Some other time, maybe.
  C. I wanted to.
  D. How did it finish?
  E. It goes very well with my coat.
  F. It was quite good.
  G. What a pity!
  H. Any idea that he will be back?

Mary: Would you like to come for dinner sometime ?Jane: I"d love to. But I am pretty busy at the moment. Mary: Ok.______

2.
Man: Please try this hat on. It"s a very good one.Rose: Yes, I like this one.______

3.
Pan: Could I speak to Jim, please?Dave: ______

4.
Tom: ______ David: Well, he shouldn"t be long. He said he was just going to get some ink.

5.
Frank: Did you watch the football game on TV last night?Charles: No. But______