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英语模拟试题
Part I Structure and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices
marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on
the ANSWER SHEET. (5 points)
- If ever again _____ happens an accident like this,we will have only ourselves to blame.
A.it
B.so
C.there
D.that
- A light with no more power than _____ by an ordinary electrict light bulb becomes
intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpointsized beam.
A.as is produced
B.that produced
C.which is produced
D.produced
- The play is said to be worth seeing.You must have seen it yesterday evening, _____ you?
A.didn't
B.mustn't
C.did
D.can't
- It is difficult for us to explain phenomena of which we have little or _____ direct
knowledge.
A.not any
B.no
C.none
D.nothing
- A certain scientist had discovered that a metal called uranium gave off a kind of
radiations,which Madame Curie was later _____ radioactivity.
A.calling
B.called
C.to call
D.to be called
- Finally they set off again and cycled slowly along the road.“We are not as good at
this as we _____ ”,complained Mary.
A.should be
B.would be
C.will be
D.have been
- They explained the situation to the steward,who brought over some water.He told them
that he _____ on the route for twentyfive years.
A.works
B.worked
C.has been working
D.had been working
- Many ways have been found _____ small and simple machine to process large and
complicated machine parts.
A.by using
B.to use
C.using
D.used
- Some people may have been daunted by the task because of the difficulties it brings,but
I do not know of _____ .
A.them doing so
B.any having done so
C.their doing like that
D.any doing that way
- It is illegal to use this equipment for _____ firefighting purposes.Unauthorized use is
malicious destruction of property and is punishable by a $50 000 fine.
A.other than
B.none but
C.otherwise
D.rather than
Section B
Directions:Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked
A,B,C and D.Identify the part of the sentence that is incorrect and mark your answer on
the ANSWER SHEET.(5 points)
- The town borrowed (A) money to build the (B) school house, on
the supposition (C) that population and property will (D) increase.
- A mother will arrive at (A) the discovery, either instinctively or by (B)
an unconscious series of trials and errors,that her baby is more at peace (C) if holding
(D) on the left against her heart than on the right.
- When there is a (A) langnage barrier,communication is accomplished (B)
through sign (C) language whose (D) motions stand for letters,words and
ideas.
- He tried (A) not to smoke for sometime (B) during (C) the summer
vacation,but as soon as (D) he came back to work,he was a smoker again.
- Norwegians see in (A) farmers and fishermen many of the qualities (B) that
they regard with (C) pride as essential (D) Norwegian.
- The value of radar lies in not (A) being a substitute for (B) the eye, but
in doing (C) what the eye (D) can not do.
- The greater part of (A) the lowergrade students was (B) unable to
achieve the (C) norm on (D) the reading tests.
- He would (A) always ignore the fact (B) of there to be (C) such a
contradiction in his inner (D) thought.
- Dr. Norman Bethune was prepared (A) to leave with (B) the last wounded
(C) being operated on (D) .
- In some countries,the papers and television feed (A) the young with (B)
fantastic tales of the poor's (C) becoming (D) rich.
Section C
Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices
marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that best completes the sentence.Mark your answer on the
ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
- Historians use the _____ on the walls of ancient temples to guide them in
their studies.
A.description
B.inscription
C.prescription
D.subscription
- With some effective measures adopted in the workshop, the workers are safe _____ getting
injured.
A.in
B.from
C.against
D.without
- Only Type 22 of bicycle is _____ ,but the type you want has been all out.
A.on sale
B.in fashion
C.in stock
D.in bad need
- Having got everything ready,they _____ mapping out a plan for the construction of a new
express way.
A.got down to
B.got round to
C.set about
D.came to
- He was brought to consciousness when the doctor had _____ artificial respiration.
A.employed
B.exploited
C.utilized
D.applied
- They always lay in a large _____ of tinned food in winter in case they are snowed up.
A.provision
B.supply
C.proportion
D.storage
- You have the _____ of working hard and being successful or of not working hard and being
unsuccessful.
A.selection
B.choice
C.alternative
D.option
- Many _____ becoming rich have found _____ wealth not an escape from evil,but a new and
worse form of it.
A.in?out
B.on?in
C.after?out
D.with?in
- She _____ that it was a trick to get her involved in the matter,for she knew them too
well.
A.doubted
B.suspected
C.conceived
D.convinced
- Although most universities in the United States are on a semester system which offers
classes in the fall and spring,some schools _____ a quarter system comprised of
fall,winter,spring and summer quarters.
A.manipulate
B.regulate
C.practise
D.observe
- With the growth of independence between different regions of the world,it is easy to see
that any permanent economic or political instability in one area is _____ to have an
increasingly serious effect upon the rest of the world.
A.bound
B.connected
C.subjected
D.subordinated
- Women have significant advantages over men in space because they need less food and less
oxygen and they _____ radiation better.
A.stand up for
B.face up to
C.stand up to
D.break away from
- Between 1977 and 1981,three groups of American women,numbering 27 _____ ,were given
monthlong tests to determine how they would respond to conditions resembling those
aboard the space shuttle.
A.above all
B.after all
C.in all
D.over all
- In recent years,scientific and technological developments have _____ changed human life
on our planet, as well as our views both of ourselves as individuals in society and of the
universe as a whole.
A.drastically
B.fiercely
C.severely
D.dramatically
- Margaret made a lot of effort to persuade her father into _____ to her going to the
United States to study business administration in Harvard University.
A.contending
B.contesting
C.contenting
D.consenting
- Baroque has been the term used by art historians for almost a century to _____ the
dominant style of the period 16001750.
A.determine
B.designate
C.devise
D.despise
- At opening of the century,with the exception of a crude plow,farmers could have carried
_____ all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs.
A.practically
B.virtuously
C.eventually
D.evenly
- Because he was _____ of the new speed limit,he was stopped and warned for speeding.
A.suspicious
B.ignorant
C.negligible
D.regardless
- Before the committee started its work,the _____ of the last meeting were read out.
A.minutes
B.records
C.copies
D.manuscripts
- The portion of the total income of China's railways which comes from carrying cargo is
_____ 80 percent.
A.consequently
B.roughly
C.comparatively
D.incidentally
Part II Cloze Test
Directions:For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices
labelled A,B,C and D. Choose the best one and put your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.(10
points)
Language is such a pervasive cultural phenomenon that it can truly
be called“second nature”. In the immeasurable 41 of time since this form of
behavior was acquired by the human race, language has always been the best 42 and
most often used medium of cultural expression. The idea of human society and of man
himself as a reasoning 43 cannot be separated from the fact 44 men possess
language.
45 the nature of language in general, volumes have been
written and schools of philosophy 46 ; over specific languages 47 ,
arguments are easily roused and political controversies are often based, and yet a
satisfactory definition of language has never been reached. In the mind of the average
person, it is 48 from other systems of communication. Although every person has the
fantastic 49 of his language at his command, science has yet to perceive, record,
tabulate or render them into a comprehensive 50 .
41.A.amount B.length C.period D.point
42.A.incorporated B.inserted C.insulated D.integrated
43.A.logic B.being C.person D.individual
44.A.because B.those C.all D.that
45.A.On B.In C.With D.Through
46.A.founded B.have founded C.are founded D.were founded
47.A.at length B.in essence C.in particular D.on average
48.A.incompatible B.indispensable C.undistingushed D.unidentified
49.A.complexities B.similarities C.regularity D.uniformity
50.A.chart B.file C.mechanism D.scheme
Part III Reading Comprehension
Directions:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each
question there are four answers marked A,B,C and D.Read the passages carefully and choose
the best anwser to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET I by
blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.(40 points)
Passage 1
During the past four decades the fishery scientist of the West
have studies the dynamics of fish populations with the objective of determining the
relation between the amount of fishing and the sustainable catch. They have developed a
substantial body of theory that has been applied successfully to a large number of animal
populations and has led to a major improvement in the management of some of the major
marine fisheries.
The theory has been developed for singlespecies populations
with man as a predator. Much of it is based on the Darwinian concept of a constant
overpopulation of young that is reduced by densitydependent mortality resulting form
intraspecific competition. The unfished population tends toward a maximum equilibrium size
with a relatively high proportion of large, old individuals. As fishing increased and
natural mortality is reduced, death from fishing eventually takes the place of most
natural mortality. If the amount of fishing is increased too much, the indivduals will
tend to be taken before realizing their potential growth, and total yield will be reduced.
The maximum sustainable yields can be taken at an intermediate population size that in
some populations is about onethird the unfished population size.
G.V.Nikolskii, of Moscow State University, develops his theory
from a different approach. He is nonDarwinian and is(he says)a nonmathematician; rather
he considers himself as ecologist and morphologist. He argues that Darwins's concept of
constant overpopulation has led to the neglect of the problem of protecting spawns and
young fish. He argues also that Darwin's concept of a variety as an incipient species have
led to extensive mathematical analysis of racial characters. Nikolskii considers the main
laws of population dynamics to be concerned with the succession of generations; their
birth, growth, and death. The details are governed by the relative rates of adaptaton and
environmental change. The mass and age structure of a population are the result of
adaptation to the food supply. The mass and age structure of a population are the result
of adaptation to the food supply. The rate of growth of individuals, the time of sexual
maturity, and the accumulation of reserves vary according to the food supply. These
factors in turn influence the success of reproduction in ways that tend to bring the size
of the population into balance with its food supply.
- Nikolskill theorizes that fish population is controlled mainly by the _____ .
A.size of the fish caught within a species
B.racial characteristics of the species
C.amount of food available to the species
D.death rate within a species
- The author indicates the main difference between the theories of Darwin and Nikolskii is
the _____ .
A.effect of food supply on the size of the fish
B.the amount of fish that can be harvested
C.methods used to catch fish
D.cause of population variation in fish
- The theories based on the concepts of Darwin assume that fish population is controlled
mainly by the _____ .
A.size of the fish caught within a species
B.amount of fishing pressure of the species
C.racial characteristics of the species
D.life expectancy within the species
- The researchers discussed in the passage were mainly concerned with _____ .
A.species of fish faced with extinction
B.the ecology of fishing
C.the effects of pollution on fishing
D.commercial fishing
Passage 2
There are people in Italy who can't stand soccer. Not all
Canadians love hockey.A similar situation exists in America, where there are those
individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball.
Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing
around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it's a
game better suited to the 19th century slow,quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people
you may be one of them who love football because there's the sport that glorifies “the
hit”.
By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.
On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays,
closeups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will
contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course,
project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much
space and time for involvement. The TV won't do it for you.
Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third
base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His
arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports
so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher (投手) throws; the
third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front
of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the
field to check his first baseman's position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing
happened,”you say.“I could have had my eyes closed.”
The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this
involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the
third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your
glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood.
If football is a symphony (交响乐) of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber (室内)music,
a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.
- The passage is mainly concerned with _____ .
A.the different tastes of people for sports
B.the different characteristics of sports
C.the attraction of football
D.the attraction of baseball
- Those who don't like baseball may complain that _____ .
A.it is only to the taste of the old
B.it involves fewer players than football
C.it is not exciting enough
D.it is pretentious and looks funny
- The author admits that _____ .
A.baseball is too peaceful for the young
B.baseball may seem boring when watched on TV
C.football is more attracting than baseball
D.baseball is more interesting than football
- We can safely conclude that the author _____ .
A.likes football
B.hates football
C.hates baseball
D.likes baseball
Passage 3
Aleister Growley is probably considered to be the most infamous
Black Magician of the 20th century although, in fact, he was not a Black Magician and
never claimed to be. He practiced his own form of magic which only partly resembled the
rites of devil worshippers, and it was certainly not performed for the same ends.
Rather than worshipping God, the devil, or anything else, Crowley
devised a “religion” with himself as a saviour showing the people the way to freedom
through their own“true will”.In other words, he said, people should throw off all
constraints and conventions and gain control of themselves and others through their own
will power.
In his famous books,“Magic in Theory and Practice”,Crowley
explains what magic is, namely, a technique of making nature obey man's will by capturing
natural power through speaking the appropriate words and performing the correct actions.
All this must be done while in the right state of mind: a state that Crowley often
produced by the use of drugs.
His experiments with various drugs were to have serious
consequences and by the time he was in his thirties he was taking too much heroin. At the
end of his life he was taking a massive daily does of 11 grammes, enough to kill a roomful
of people. It was only his extraordinary physical strength and conditioning through the
years, that stopped it being fatal. Rather ironically, considering his excessive intake of
drugs, Crowley died of natural causes at the age of 72.
Opinion has always been sharply divided about him, for as well as
being a selfconfessed magician, Crowley also painted, wrote plays, stories and poetry.
Some see him as a clever but misguided man, while others ,especially after the scandals
attached to his life at Cefalu in Cicily, view him as truly evil.
- Through the doctrine of “true will”,Crowley encouraged people to _____ .
A.ignore the normal morality
B.find freedom through selfworship
C.control everything by will power
D.invent a new unconventional religion
- How is magic defined in“Magic in Theory and Practice”?
A.As a means of acquiring a certain state of mind.
B.As a technique of speaking and acting in a certain way.
C.As a form of natural power gained through using drugs.
D.As a way of subduing natural laws by will power.
- What kind of person was Crowley?
A.Selfseeking and violent.
B.Strongwilled and dissatisfied.
C.Rash and weakwilled.
D.Strongwilled and determined.
- Why didn't the large amounts of heroin taken by Growley prove fatal?
A.He took too large a dose for it to be fatal.
B.He did not take enough to kill a man of his size.
C.He had conditioned his body not to die.
D.He had accustomed his body to large dosage.
Passage 4
I have yet to witness one example just one of compliance on the
part of those people who have the power to move those little thermostat buttons.Don't they
know about the fuel shortage?
The subways are too hot.Heat pours out of the vents.People stand
bumper to bumper breathing hotly down each other's necks with their heavy winter coats
on-and sweating.The subways could probably be heated by body heat alone.Why is it still
August down there?
Department stores are too hot.The customers are wearing those same
heavy winter coats.Even if you take your coat off,it's still too hot,and then you've
got to lug your coat around as well as all the holiday packages.
My apartment is too hot.Even with the radiators turned off steam
pours out of every nook and cranny.It's a bit ludicrous that I go running around turning
off lights to save electricity while I'm wearing shorts and my windows are wide open.
Museums are too hot.Movies are too hot.Buses are too hot.This
morning the Fifth Avenue bus was so hot that everybody was opening the windows.And it was
raining out.Better wet than hot.
And now I sit sweating in my office.The heat is on,and so is the
airconditioning,but even that doesn't help.
I think ordinary people are willing to make sacrifices.All the
ordinary people I know are cutting down on electricity and gas.I am sure the ordinary
people would be willing to conserve sweat,too.
But the ordinary people,unfortunately,don't have power over
the thermostat.
- In this passage,the author _____ .
A.is calling for the saving of energy
B.is talking about the earth's greenhouse effect
C.is complaining about the crowdedness of public places
D.expresses dissatisfaction with urban life
- The author lists so many places in order to make clear the idea that _____ .
A.some public places are too hot to work in
B.energy used for heating can be saved in some places
C.life in big cities is rather unpleasant
D.public places should be better airconditioned
- By saying that“? ordinary people would be willing to conserve sweat,too”(the
third sentence in paragraph 7),the author really means that ordinary people _____ .
A.would agree to turn off power where possible
B.prefer winter to summer
C.don't like hot places
D.are willing to give up a comfortable life
- The tone of the passage is one of _____ .
A.complaint
B.despair
C.persuasion
D.criticism
Passage 5
Increasingly, the development of tourism is seen to have an effect
on the environment. Erosion is one problem. The steps and stones of major popular sites
like Shakespeare's birthplace or Stonehenge are literally being worn away by millions of
foreign feet. The remedy in the case of Britain's best known prehistoric monument has been
to use railings to keep visitors at a distance. Such measures can hardly be adopted in the
house of the Bard, however, where tourists want to enter the actual building.
Overcrowding in cities, towns and villages is another problem.
Traffic jams are an outcome. In narrow roads, tourist vehicles cause congestion. Local
traders and residents cannot get around to do their work. Car parks fill up, so strangers
park their cars where they can;in streets, across gateways, in laybys, or even in
private driveways. This causes obstruction. The sheer weights of incomers can be a
hazard.Thus Venice, a city built for half a million inhabitants, is swollen by another
half million who populate the city daily in the tourist season eight million visits each
year.The mayor recently decided to limit visitors to 90 000 a day: the only way to save
the city from inundation.
Pollution is a further consequence. The Lakes are popular for
people who enjoy watersports, such as waterskiing , power boat racing and swimming, but
boats pump sewage directly into the water. Facilities can be provided to prevent this
happening, but this is costly. There are also problems with litter.
The threat to wildlife habitats is yet another result. Tourists
around the Lakes destroy vegetation. This is harmful to animals which build their nests
along the shores. Wildlife refuges have been created which have helped protect these
natural sites. On the Greek island of Zakinthos, the breeding beaches of the rare
loggerhead turtle are being threatened by tourist disturbance. Local conservationists try
to monitor and protect the turtles but they have been attacked by the angry owners of
taverns and hotels who make lucrative profits from bars or renting sunbeds and umbrellas.
Government compensation payments for the loss of business might be the anwser,but this
would be costly.
- Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the
passage?
A.The development of tourism has brought about environmental problems.
B.Tourism should not develop at the cost of the environmental destruction.
C.Measures taken to protect the environment prove to be ineffective.
D.Tourism is developing for the sole purpose of making money.
- As a result of overdevelopment of tourism, Venice _____ .
A.is overcrowded with cars
B.is overloaded
C.is worn away
D.is badly polluted
- Paragraph 3 points out that the Lakes _____ .
A.have too many boats on them
B.are overcrowded on the beaches
C.are polluted by wastes
D.are no longer attractive
- On the island of Zakinthos, measures to protect the turtles meet resistance chiefly for
_____ .
A.political reasons
B.economic reasons
C.environmental reasons
D.developmental reasons
Part IV English-Chinese Translation
Directions:Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined
sentences into Chinese(15 points)
The sudden upthrust of warm,moist air into the terrible cold of
the frozen heights is what creates thunder.The sudden stronger rubbing together or two
unlike forces(very warm air against very cold air)develops a kind of electricity
called“static electricity”.Its charges produce lightning and thunder.(71) Thus
the violence of the thunderstorm is an almost direct result of millions of warm water
drops being thrown into compatable masses of ice crystals-hitting them,rolling over them,melting
them,or being frozen by them into snow or hail.
Exactly how the electric charge is developed by the many and
complex forces of this battle of heat and cold is still a matter of opinion.Some
scientists think the action of wind against the rain is the principal factor.(72) These
scientists believe the wind tears off the outer surface of each falling drops,like
pulling a sweater over a child's head,making a fine nagative charge while leaving the
main part of the raindrop positive. Other scientists believe that the friction of snow
crystals breaking in the wind sets up the electrical charge.In reality it may well be all
these factors-and more-that combine to do the work.
(73) In any case,huge masses of electricallycharged
raindrops and hailstones become sorted into positive and negative reserves of electrical
energy at different parts of the thundercloud,creating between them fields of very great
extremes. When the resistance between these fields breaks down,the energy that is
suddenly discharged is lightning.
I do not know of any case of lightning directly causing an
airplane accident,Cattle and sheep are more likely to be struck by lightning than are
airplanes or houses.There is a recorded case that occurred on a mountainside in the
western part of the United States in which one bolt of lightning killed 835 sheep.(74)
Evidently the hard,dry earth offered more resistance to the lightning than the route
of traveling from the ground,up one leg of an animal,through its moist body,and down
another leg.
A person's chances of being killed by a thunderstorm are not very
great.In the United States an average of one person in 265000 dies as a result of a
thunderstorm.Today's houses,ships,airplanes,and electric power lines are well
protected against lightning,and the risk is decreasing.Even a man whose work exposes him
almost daily to lightning can do something about it.(75) Despite the saying that
one never knows if lightning strikes him,a person can sometimes feel the bolt coming and,if
quick enough,take protective action in time.
Part V Writing (15 points)
Directions:
Look at the following table and analyze what types of library materials are needed by
different people.
Materials used at public library
|
Academic
Books
% |
Research
Materials
% |
Magzines
% |
Newspapers
% |
Novels
% |
Video
Tapes
% |
Audio
Tapes
% |
Number of
Users
Interviewed |
Total |
80 |
61 |
59 |
50 |
48 |
8 |
7 |
(770) |
Sex |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Male |
78 |
63 |
61 |
56 |
40 |
9 |
8 |
(384) |
Female |
83 |
59 |
57 |
44 |
55 |
7 |
6 |
(386) |
Age |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18-24 years |
79 |
70 |
73 |
57 |
58 |
12 |
9 |
(158) |
25-34 years |
87 |
66 |
65 |
57 |
46 |
10 |
8 |
(207) |
35-49 years |
84 |
65 |
56 |
47 |
42 |
5 |
8 |
(207) |
50 years and older |
71 |
46 |
48 |
41 |
47 |
5 |
5 |
(194) |
Education |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
College |
88 |
75 |
71 |
58 |
49 |
10 |
11 |
(397) |
High School |
77 |
51 |
49 |
44 |
46 |
5 |
4 |
(305) |
Graduate |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less than high |
64 |
41 |
51 |
41 |
46 |
8 |
6 |
(68) |
school graduate |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Based on library visitors aged 18 and older.