成教本科专业大学英语考试模拟试题3

嘉应学院成人教育本科专业大学英语考试模拟试题3

Part I Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C), D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 1. Shopping around is time __________.

A. consuming B. costing C. having D. taking 2. Grandpa once ______a family of ten on several dollars a week. A. raised B. arose C. rose D. risen 3. I got involved a quarrel about the price. A. in B. with C. by D. at 4. It _____her three hours to repair her bike.

A. spent B. took C. cost D. made 5. Let’s _____this question for a moment.

A. put away B. put off C. put aside D. put out

6. When he was in the middle school, Mr. Wang ____ a room ___ his foreign friend, Tom. A. rented …with B. shared … with C. lived … with D. stayed …with 7. In her class, Mary is the only girl _________ is under the age of 18. A. that B. which C. whose D. whom 8. I’m fed up with waiting. I won’t wait ______.

A. no longer B. some longer C. more longer D. any longer 9. Can you_______ a good hotel near here?

A. recommend B. command C. amend D. accommodate 10. There was a noise outside, and Bill his flashlight.

A. got around B. moved on C. made up D. reached for 11. If it ____ fine tomorrow, we will go to the park.

A. be B. was C. were D. is

12. I saw my father the building; so I went downstairs to meet him. A. enters B. entered C. to enter D. entering 13. If it hadn’t been ____ Christine, I would never have met Michael. A. to B. on C. for D. with

14. No matter what we said, he that he had done right.

A. persisted B. insisted C. remained D. assisted 15. ______ people watched the 1884 Summer Olympics.

A. Millions of B. Millions C. A million of D. Million of 16. He tried very hard to the excited woman down. A. keep B. calm C. silent D. peace

17. The government has promised to more money on education. A. cost B. spend C. save D. pay 18. _____ keep looking until you find her.

A. By all methods B. By all means C. By all efforts D. By all ways 19. No one has _____ a convincing explanation of why dinosaur (恐龙) died out.

A. caught up with B. kept up with C. come up with D. made up with 20. Don’t they know how my schedule is?

A. tight B. close C. strict D. nervous 21. You must be alert (警觉的) to the danger.

A. hiding B. closed C. hidden D. covered 22. All the necessary steps had been taken to _______ their safety.

A. be sure of B. insure of C. sure D. ensure

23. A large number of students will benefit the new teaching method. A. from B. about C. of D. over 24. The accident _______ early on Tuesday morning.

A. has happened B. was happened C. happened D. was happening 25. During the trip, I was deeply by the local people’s hospitality (好客). A. stressed B. expressed C. pressed D. impressed 26. A large number of students will benefit _____ the new teaching method. A. from B. about C. of D. over

27. The tourist _____ about the accommodation and the guide’s poor service. A. complained B. claimed C. explained D. displayed

28. Here are some tips that might make your air travel safer and tiring. A. fewer B. less C. much D. more 29. He was famous both at home and______.

A. board B. aboard C. broad D. abroad

30. Linda likes being in red to _____ herself apart from the other girls. A. differ B. set C. make D. put

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them are four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Question 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

Why do some birds flock when they feed? Many researchers say birds forage(搜寻食物) in groups to protect themselves from being attacked. Since there are a greater number of eyes on the lookout, individual birds can spend more time eating and less time worrying about being eaten.

Thomas Caraco, a biologist at the University of Rochester, recently studied yellow-eyed juncos(北美雀科小鸟) over a three-day period to see how they altered their feeding habits in the presence of a trained Harris hawk. When Caraco released the bird, it swooped(飞扑) over the juncos, appearing to attack. The birds reacted by huddling together in a flock. And , despite the threat from above, they spent less time scanning and more time eating the food Caraco provided than they did when foraging individually.

To see how the juncos would react if they had some where to hide, Caraco placed a Christmas tree in the feeding area. The birds became even freer.

One negative note; when the number of birds in the flock increased beyond a certain point, they began to fight. The dominant juncos hogged the food and the meek birds lost out.

31. The passage says that . A) many birds don’t like to forage in groups

B) juncos are always ready to attack when they are together C) juncos foraging individually will spend more time scanning D) juncos like the food provided by Caraco best

32. Caraco’s Christmas-tree experiment shows that . A) birds are not afraid of trees

B) birds become holder if there is a hiding-place nearby C) birds often hide themselves in trees

D) birds are free whether there are trees around or not 33. Juncos are probably . A) mild in disposition

B) stronger and more fierce than hawks

C) spending a lot of time worrying about being eaten D) very nice to look at

34. What’s the best title for this passage?

A) Flocking for Safety. B) The Story of Juncos. C) Feeding Habits. D) The Research on Juncos.

35. According to the passage, when birds eat in groups , they . A) are less worried B) eat less

C) are more worried D) alter their feeding habits

Questions 36 to40 are based on the following passage:

In sport the sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called ‘the weaker sex’, or , if men want to please them, ‘the fair sex’. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker?

The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women’s times are always slower than men’s, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first ‘Tarzan’ in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!

36．In this passage the author implies that . A) women are weaker than men, but faster B) women are slower than men ,but stronger

C) men are not always stronger and faster than women D) men are faster and stronger than women

37．“That at least is what people say.” Means people . A) say other things too B) don’t say this much C) say this but may not think so D）only think this 38．Which of the following is true?

A) Boys and girls study separately everywhere. B) Women do not run or swim in races with men. C) Famous Prime Ministers are women.

D) Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe. 39．Women are called ‘the weaker sex’ because .

A) women do as much work as men

B) people think women are weaker than men C) sport is easier for men than for women D）in sport the two sexes are always together 40．What problems does sport have?

A) Some women athletes are actually men.

B) Some women athletes are given hormone injections. C) Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.

D）It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women.

Question 41 to 45are based on the following passage:

Distance learning has moved far away from the traditional correspondence course aimed at the individual student working alone. The global reach of the Internet makes it possible to unite geographically scattered students in a virtual classroom. Methods such as multimedia,

video-conferencing(视频会议) and the Internet increasingly allow students both to proceed at their own pace, and to interact with one another and their teachers.

Even without taking technology to its limits, the idea of education as a lifelong process is catching on throughout the industrialized world. Already, working adults who pursue their studies part-time make up roughly half of the students taking college courses in the United States.

However, there is debate in scholarly circles about how far the new technology should be used for teaching academic subjects in which personal contacts between teacher and student are still vital. Britain’s Open University, a world leader in distance education, for example, has

embraced information technology cuatiously(谨慎地), believing it to be no shubtitute(替代物) for books and the exchange of ideas at live tutorials and summer schools.

But the Open University is also moving with the times. It has set up a “knowledge media institute” to explore ways of adopting information technology. Some teachers are concerned about this trend, arguing that the heavy investment that students are expected to make in computer and communications equipment contradicts(与……矛盾) the concept of “Open”. Cost, of course, is an important factor in many developing countries, where few people have computers or even phones. Rather than uniting the world, the new technologies could lead to societies of information haves and have-nots.

41. Scholarly circles’ attitude toward distance learning can best be decribed as ____________. A. disapproving B. cautious C. sarcastic D. indifferent 42. We can infer from the passage that __________________. A. students accept new concepts more easily than teachers.

B. students are reluctant to invest in equipment for distance learning

C. distance learning is sure to take the place of traditional higher education D. there is still room for distance learning to develop

43. Distance learning is different from the traditional correspondence course in that _____________.

A. it requires the individual student to work alone B. it enables all the students to work at the same pace

C. it allows students to discuss with one another and their teachers

D. it enalbes geographically scattered students to study in the same physical classroom

44. In Paragraph 2, “catching on” means _______________. A. become practical B. become popular C. become acceptable D. become creative

45. Some teachers are concerned about distance learning because ______________. A. it may lead to an information gap between the rich and the poor B. it contradicts the traditional concept of education C. it will take the place of books and teachers

D. it requires universities to make a heavy investment

Part Ⅲ Close

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C), D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Australians are very direct people and usually __46__ what they say. When they issue an invitation to somebody they are __47__ polite and if that person accepts the invitation, he is expected to __48__. In some cultures it is not polite to say no. This is not the case in Australia. __49__ if a person is invited to do something and is unable to do it, a “no” answer __50__ be given; otherwise the person who has issued the invitation will be greatly __51__.

Punctuality is also __52__ when an invitation is accepted. If a person is invited __53__ at a particular place at a specified time, __54__ if there is a meal __55__, that person is expected to arrive on time. One of the __56__ for this is that type Australian food, such as a roast dinner, must be __57__ and eaten as soon as it is cooked, and if a person arrives late the food will be __58__.

Australians __59__ issue informal invitations. They will give a person their name, address and telephone number and __60__, “why don’t you come and see me __61__ when you are free?” This is not just a polite gesture, it is a __62__ invitation and the Australian who has issued the invitation will be disappointed and even offended if that person does not __63__ them. However, because Australians live in a __64__ society, they are not always at home and it is always best to telephone them to make sure they will be at home __65__ making a visit. 46. A) express B) show C) imply D) mean

47. A) not just B) not just being C) not just to be D) not just going to be 48. A) turn up B) turn down C) come up D) come along 49. A) Therefore B) However C) And D) Furthermore 50. A) must B) have to C) should D) had better 51. A) bored B) offended C) doubted D) suspected 52. A) wished B) supposed C) insisted D) expected 53. A) to be B) to go C) to come D) to reach 54. A) even B) as C) especially D) surely 55. A) concerned B) involved C) proposed D) invited 56. A) causes B) purposes C) reasons D) aims 57. A) offered B) served C) prepared D) given 58. A) spoiled B) ruined C) decayed D) damaged 59. A) hardly B) always C) seldom D) often 60. A) speak B) ask C) say D) express 61. A) some time B) some times C) sometime D) sometimes 62. A) genuine B) typical C) convenient D) frequent

63. A) accept B) receive C) contact D) confirm 64. A) industrialized B) commercial C) competitive D) mobile 65. A) until B) before C) if D) once

Part IV Translation from English into Chinese.

When we arrived at the China Resources Building, Han turned to face me, his face suddenly serious, “Of course it will be good for Beijing and good for China. The whole world will be

watching. Something like this can change the way people think. It can change the whole country.” I weighed his words as I fished out a 20-yuan note. His playful smile returned as he handed me my change and asked, in that hard-earned English, “Would you like a receipt?”

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