专升本英语模拟试题八.doc

专升本英语模拟试题（八）

模拟试题（八）
Part I Reading Comprehension (40％35minutes)
Directions: In this part there are four passages．Each passage is followed by a
number of comprehension questions．Read the passage and choose
the best answer to each question．Then，mark your answer by
blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet．

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

The Palace Museum, known as the Forbidden City, was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties，in early 15th century，large scale construction involved 100,000 artisans and 1,000,000 civilians. The construction took 14 years and was finished in 1420. In the following year, the capital of the Ming dynasty was moved from Nanjing to Beijing. Twenty-four emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties ruled from the Forbidden City. The last dynasty fell in 1911, but Emperor Puyi still lived in the inner court. It was
not until 1925 that the complex was changed into a museum. Since then, the palace has been opened to the public．
The Palace Museum is located in the center of Beijing, covering an area of 72 hectares. It is rectangular in shape, 900 meters long from north to south and 750 meters wide from west to east. There is a 1 0-metre-high wall, encircled by a 52-metre-wide moat. In the Ming dynasty, the wood needed for the building was brought mostly from Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou provinces, while in the Qing dynasty, it was cut from northeast China. Most of the stones were put and quarried from the suburban district of Fangshan and other districts. Construction of the Forbidden City brought great hardship to the working people．
The Palace is the largest piece of ancient Chinese architecture still standing. Some of the buildings were damaged by lightning and rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The palace has been expanded several times, but the original layout was preserved. After liberation, some costly renovations were done and the Palace Museum is listed as One Of the important historical monuments under special preservation by the Chinese Government．
1. The Forbidden City was__________ in the past．
A. The Palace Museum
B. the place where people is forbidden to enter
C. the place where the emperor lives
D. The Summer Palace
2. The construction of the Palace Museum was finished in the year _______.
A. 15th century B. 1840
C. 1925 D. 1420
3. ________ emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties ruled from the
Forbidden City.
A. Twenty-four B. Thirty
C. Thirty-four D. Twenty-six
4. What does the underlined word layout in paragraph 3 mean?
A. the outer wall of a building
B. most of the appliance in the palace
C. the basic design of a building
D. the floor of a building
5. The palace is the ______ piece of ancient Chinese architecture still standing．
A. oldest B．1argest C. smallest D．poorest

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one’s life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip．
But for many people, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure. So in spite of all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained(可获得的), the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33％-from 8.8 million to l1.7 million-according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America．
For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years have shown that, for grown. ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting (省略) breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth Co11ege in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve work.”
Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly inadequate (不适当), and most of the recent work involves (涉及) children, not grownups. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr Earnest Pollitt at the University of Texas. “is poor.”
6. The main idea of the passage is ____________.
A. breakfast has nothing to do with people’s health
B. a good breakfast used to be important to us
C. breakfast is not as important to US as gasoline to a car
D. breakfast is not so important as we thought before
7. For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that ________.
A. several studies have been done in the past few years
B. the omission of breakfast does no harm to one’s health
C. grown-ups have especially made studies in this field
D. eating little in the morning is good for health
8. The underlined part “nor does giving people breakfast improve work” means
_________.
A. people without breakfast can improve their work
B. not giving people breakfast improves work
C. having breakfast does not improve work, either
D. people having breakfast do improve their work, too
9. The word “literature” in the last sentence refers to ________.
A. stories, poems, plays, etc
B. written works on a particular subject
C. any printed material
D. the modern literature of America
10. What is implied but not stated by the author is that __________.
A. breakfast does not affect work
B. Dr Pollitt works at an institution of higher learning
C. not eating breakfast might affect the health of children
D. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming (把……按能力分班) pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright children. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual (智力的) abilities. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also ＆#118alue personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups, which gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.
Sometimes the pupils work in pairs. Sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this effectively. And expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.

11. Group work provides pupils with the opportunity _________.
A. to develop academic abilities
B. to learn to teach.
C. to do some experiments
D. to learn to be capable organizers.
12. By “held back” in the first paragraph the author means _________.
A. drawn to their studies
B. prevented from advancing
C. made to remain in the same classes
D. forced to study in the lower classes
13. In the passage the author’s attitude towards “mixed-ability teaching”
is__________.
A. questioning B. approving
C. objective D. critical
14. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to _________.
A. offer advice on the proper use of the library
B. emphasize the importance of appropriate formal classroom teaching
C. argue for teaching bright and not -so-bright pupils in the same class
D. recommend pair work and group-work for classroom activities
15. The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development
of the student’s ________.
A. total personality
B. intellectual ability
C. learning ability and communicative skills
D. personal qualities and social skills

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, cycling or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some kind of football, hockey, golf, or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to suffer cold and hardship, and to take risk on high mountains? This astonishment is caused probably by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to which men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are, of course, rules of a different thing that it would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering attractive to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game”. We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face linked by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.
The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than men. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical qualities. A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not unusual for a man of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less waste of efforts, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment.
16. What’s the meaning of “to take risk” in sentence two, paragraph two?
A. “to play a team game”
B. “to fight the forces of nature”
C. “to face the possible danger”
D. “to fight forces”
17. The difference between a sport and a game has to do with the kind of
_________.
A. activity B. rules
C. uniform D. climbers
18. Mountaineering can be called a team sport because ________.
A. it is an Olympic event
B. teams compete against each other
C. mountaineers depend on each other while climbing
D. there are five climbers on each team
19. Mountaineers compete against __________.
A. nature B. each other
C. other teams D. international standards
20. Choose the best title for the passage: __________.
A. Mountaineering Is Different from Golf and Football
B. Mountaineering Is More Attractive than Other Sports
C. Mountaineering
D. Mountain Climber

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20% 25 minutes)

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.

21. I really appreciate _________ for me.
A. you to work B. your working
C. to work D. your work
22. This hotel ________ $ 60 for a single room with bath.
A. claims B. demands
C. prices D. charges
23. _________ , I hardly think I would have recognized him.
A. Had someone not mentioned his name
B. If some one did not mention his name
C. When his name not to be mentioned
D. If someone not mentioned his name
24. The bridge was named ________ the hero who gave his life for the cause of
the people.
A. after B. with
C. by D. from
25. Evidence came up _________ specific speech sounds are recognized by
babies as young as 6 months old.
A. what B. which
C. that D. whose
26. He stood on one leg, _______ against the wall, while he took off his shoe.
A. lying B. leaning
C. falling D. stopping
27. Jim is sorry _________ so impolite to your guest last Sunday.
A. to be B. having been
C. being D. to have been
28. To be sure, some insects can build complex societies _______different
types of individuals performing different tasks.
A. taken from B. made of
C. composed of D. developed from
29. He demanded that we explain what was happening, __________?
A. hadn’t he B. hadn’t we
C. didn’t we D. didn’t he
30. The average runner can run 2 miles _________ fifteen minutes.
A. with B. in C. on D. at
31. The ability to store knowledge makes computers different from every other
machine _________ invented.
A. ever B. thus C. yet D. as
32. I haven’t seen her for 30 years, but I recognized her ________.
A. the moment I saw her B. for the moment I saw her
C. at the moment I saw her D. the moment when I saw her
33. John often attends public lectures at the University of Oxford, chiefly
_________ his English.
A. improving B. improved
C. to improve D. to have improved
34. The room is in a terrible mess, it ________ cleaned.
A. can’t have been B. wouldn’t have been
C. should have been D. mustn’t have been
35. How close parents are to their children _______ a strong influence on the
Character of the children.
A. have B. has
C. having D. to have
36. Many difficulties have _______ as a result of the change over to a new type
of fuel.
A. risen B. arisen
C. raised D. arrived
37. A man’s worth lies _________ in what he has ________ in what he is.
A. as... as B. more…than
C. not so much…as D. rather…than
38. The old man went into the room, ________ by his wife.
A. supported B. supporting
C. to support D. to be supported
39. In the meantime, the question facing business is whether such research
_______ is the costs.
A. worth B. worth of
C.