1、大学生英语竞赛（ NECCS） B类模拟试卷 10及答案与解析 Section A 1 He will have to give up his research work, because he suffers from_vision. （ A） blocked （ B） blurred （ C） weakened （ D） damaged 2 When reading a magazine, most people skim it first, reading a paragraph or two. If the first few paragraphs hold their interes
2、t, they_. （ A） read down （ B） read on （ C） read up （ D） read along 3 Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the_of the business world favourite academic title, the MBA (Master of Business Administration). （
3、 A） worth （ B） price （ C） prize （ D） advantage 4 The police suspected that the man had some connections with the robbery, and they kept a _eye on his activities. （ A） close （ B） bright （ C） clear （ D） careful 5 Dont drink the milk; it smells_sour. （ A） as if it was （ B） like it is （ C） as if it is （
4、 D） like it was 6 Both Alice s parents are very interested in their daughter s attempt_the channel. （ A） to swim （ B） swim （ C） swimming （ D） swam 7 The_talks between China and the United States were the base of the later agreement. （ A） original （ B） primary （ C） initial （ D） primitive 8 In interna
5、tional matches, prestige is so important that the only thing that matters is to avoid （ A） from being beaten （ B） being beaten （ C） beating （ D） to be beaten 9 The doctor ordered that the wounded soldiers_to the hospital without any delay. （ A） be sent （ B） have been sent （ C） will be sent （ D） must
6、 be sent 10 W: And_?M: That would be, let me see. 245 including labor. （ A） how much has that cost （ B） how much does that spend （ C） how much money it costs （ D） how much would that cost Section B 11 _is the capital city of New Zealand. （ A） Wellington （ B） Vancouver （ C） Auckland （ D） Canberra 12
7、According to the theory of semantic triangle, a word is not directly related to the thing it refers to. They are connected by_. （ A） meaning （ B） reference （ C） concept （ D） sense 13 The largest river in England is_. （ A） the Severn River （ B） the Thames River （ C） Ben Nevis （ D） the Laugh Neigh 14
8、The official name of the United Kingdom is_. （ A） the United Kingdom of Great Britain （ B） the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland （ C） the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland （ D） the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 15 The House of Commons consists of_Members
9、 of Parliament. （ A） 551 （ B） 651 （ C） 751 （ D） 851 一、 Part Cloze 15 Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of active【 46】o_such as the heart, kidneys and the brain. Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar for nine days surely went【 47】 some of this trauma. This i
10、ncident occurred when a vessel carrying a【 48】 ca_of sugar was shipwrecked in 1793. The five【 49】 _(survive) sailors were finally rescued nine days after the accident. They were in a wasted condition due to starvation, having consumed nothing but【 50】 _. French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired
11、by that incident to【 51】 co_a series ofexperiments with【 52】 an_. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet of sugar and water. All the dogs wasted and died. The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist s experimental dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than nothing. Pla
12、in water can keep you【 53】 a_for quite some time. Sugar and water can kill you. Humans and animals are “unable to subsist【 54】 _a diet of sugar“. The dead dogs in Professor Magendie s【 55】 la_alerted the sugar industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to this, the sugar indus
13、try has invested millions of dollars in behind-the-scenes, subsidized science. The best scientific names that money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come up with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings about sugar. Section A 25 The major part of m
14、y childhood was spent in fighting off terror of things which didnt exist, and I dont think my father ever understood that kind of fear. The overriding and most terrifying bogeyman of my life, which has been with me since my earliest memories, and remains faithfully with me though now it seldom puts
15、me out of commission, has been a fear of vomiting. It has used up and wasted and blackened many hours of my life. But my father never had a notion of what I was talking about when I cried and shook and said. “You know It s that thing again . “ While I was in junior high school and even high school,
16、I was still going to my parents bedroom, sometimes five nights a week, and climbing in their bed, all hot and cold and shaking, pleading for Mother to say the key sentences which would begin to send the fear away. Always I felt dreadfully ill. Always I wanted to hear only one thing; “ You wont be si
17、ck. “ Always I kept my food down, though the nauseas was so extreme that anyone in his right mind would have stuck his finger down his throat and been done with it. My father would follow my mother and me to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and as I sat on the toilet clutching their hands, h
18、e would pat my head and say things to Mother like, “Did she eat something funny?“ or, “Suppose shes got a little bug?“ and Mother would shake her head and signal him that he was saying the wrong thing again. Once, as I was crawling into bed crying, and Mother was moving over to give me room mumbling
19、 to me that everything would be all right, my father half woke up and said to Mother in a soft voice which had shades of annoyance, “What s the matter with her? Is it her stomach?“ I think I said, “No, it s my head. “ and the degree to which my anger rose equaled the degree to which the nausea sank.
20、 One time my mother was out of the house, and I had a bad attack of whatever you would call that terror, and I had no one to call but my father. I was crying, and I told him what to say. “Just tell me I wont throw up. You know I wont, so just tell me I dont have to. “ “What s so bad about throwing u
21、p?“ he said. Those perfectly reasonable words threw me into a flesh panic and I let go of his arm and covered my ears and sobbed and said. “ No, no, dont say that, you cant say that. “ 26 The organizational pattern of this passage is one of_. （ A） generalization-evidences （ B） evidences-generalizati
22、on （ C） generalization-evidences-generalization （ D） evidences-generalization-evidences 27 We can conclude that the author_. （ A） is still haunted today by this fear though not frequently （ B） believes that her mother understood her fear （ C） her father never understood her fear （ D） felt angry when
23、 her father seemed annoyed by her fear one night 28 The author was so fearful about vomiting that she even_. （ A） couldnt go to sleep （ B） had to sleep on her parents bed （ C） couldnt stand hearing the words “throw up“ （ D） felt that something had gong wrong with her head 29 We can conclude from the
24、 passage that the author_. （ A） was really physically sick （ B） was physically sick, but not serious （ C） was not really physically sick （ D） needed her mother s comfort 30 The best title for this passage is_. （ A） Mother （ B） Father （ C） Fears （ D） Childhood Section B 30 As every schoolboy knows, i
25、nsects pollinate flowers, while birds and mammals disperse seeds by eating fruits or transporting burs on their feathers and fur. These are examples of co-evolution, a phenomenon first described by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, published in 1871. Co-evolutio
26、n, in which two species have evolved together in response to adaptations that each has imposed on the other, can be extremely subtle. For instance, some animals may help to transfer pollen from one plant to another without acting directly as the carrier themselves. Instead, they make it easier for t
27、he pollen to be dispersed by other creatures. Mats Olsson and Richard Shine, of the University of Sydney, and Elisabeth Bak-Olsson, of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, have discovered, apparently for the first time, such a mutually beneficial arrangement between a reptile and a plant. For mos
28、t of the year the Tasmanian snow skink lizard confined to mountain tops in that island is catholic in what it eats. But when the honey-bush is in bloom, the skinks make a point of tearing off the tough, red petals that enclose the rest of the flower. They chew them to extract the nectar and spit out
29、 what is left. At first sight, this skink-savaging may not seem all that helpful to the honey-bush. But it is. It exposes the reproductive parts of the flowers, thereby allowing pollinating insects to get at them. Dr. Olsson and his colleagues found that flowers with the petals left intact never pro
30、duced seed. But, according to their paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 87 % of flowers with the petals torn off did so. To check that it was the skinks alone that were the plants little helpers, the researchers placed cages around some honey-bushes. Virtually all of the petals w
31、ere removed from the flowers on bushes without cages. Only 16% of the caged bushes had their petals ripped off, possibly by high winds battering them. Dr Olsson found no evidence of pollen being carried on a skink and so concluded that the lizards play no role in transporting honey-bush pollen from
32、one flower to another. But he did see a range of insects: wasps, flies, bumble-bees and others feeding from honey-bush flowers that had no petals covering them. Without the petals removed, it was impossible for insects to do any pollinating. SUMMARY： Co-evolution is【 61】 described by Charles Darwin
33、in The Descent of Man. In the process of co-evolution, two species may have to respond to adaptations they have imposed on each other. For example, some animals may not carry【 62】 from one plant to another. They may help by making it easier for other creatures to disperse the pollen from one plant t
34、o another. Such an arrangement seems【 63】 to both species. In Tasmania, the skink lizards chew the red petals of【 64】 and spit out what is left. In doing so, they expose the reproductive parts of the flower and enable pollinating insects to reach them. It was discovered that 87% of these flowers pro
35、duced seeds. Conversely, flowers with petals remaining【 65】 never did. Section C 35 Hillary Clinton was in her element. On stage at Belfast s Grand Opera House last week, flanked by volunteers and politicians wives, Clinton celebrated the role of women in the Northern Ireland peace process. In a con
36、fident speech reminiscent of another Clinton, she urged her audience to keep pushing for a common-sense end to the ages-old conflict. On her last official overseas trip as First Lady, Clinton fondly recalled not only earlier visits to Belfast, but her travel around the globe. Now she d come to say f
37、arewell and, as she put it, to “ end one chapter in my life. “ But traveling with the president on his victory lap around the British Isles last week, Hillary was opening a whole new book. As the Clintons prepare to leave the White House, Bill isnt the only one thinking about a legacy. Hillary has r
38、acked up a long list of First Lady “firsts“ : first baby boomer, first professional woman, first to head a major government task force, first to testify before a grand jury. “ Hillary Clinton is, in my estimation, the single most accomplished First Lady in American history,“ say Carl Anthony, a form
39、er Nancy Reagan aide and author of “ American First Families. “ But it s been a bumpy ride. “ She might say surviving is her greatest triumph,“ says a friend. Now her election to the U. S. Senate and a staggering new book deal prove that Clinton has not only survivedshe s thriving. So much so that s
40、he s already topping the whispering list of contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. Despite all her years on the national stage, much about Hillary Clinton remains a mystery which may explain why Simon With one motion, the parrot s stimulating surroundings vanish and its squaw
41、king instantly subsides. Hit the “play“ button and the same thing happens. Children might be wrestling or running around, but let that mesmerizing box light up and they 11 stop to stare at the screen. Nearby, the adults smile as the caterwauling ceases: “ Phew! That s better. The video has become a
42、member of every family I know. Need to finish a project on a Sunday afternoon? Popping a video buys you an hour or two. Often my children go to play in someone s basement room and a video is on from the time they arrive until they leave. Guilty as I am myself. I find promiscuous use of this sedative
43、 disquieting. Children dont stand a chance against videos. (78) No matter how imaginative or independent they may be or how much they may like playing with visiting friends, they cannot escape the stupefying effects of the box. (79) Child-development expert Paul Smith attributes this to the brain s
44、“ orienting response, “ a reaction discovered by Parlor early in the last century. “We humans are programmed to look at abrupt changes in our Visual field. “ she writes. “ It s part of our survival mechanism. The colorful, quick images on TV are difficult to resist. (80) Years ago. I read in a newsp
45、aper about a study that found if people can choose between watching a lecturer behind a podium and a video projection of that same lecturer, they 11 gaze at the screen. The TV trumps real life every time. Section B 50 现在是一个极具变革的年代，你们为迎接新的挑战已经做好了准备。 (81)是你们使我们的社会更加强大，我们的家庭更加健康和安全，我们的人民更加富裕。 同胞们，我们已经进
46、入了全球信息化时代，这是美国复兴的伟大时代。 (82)作为总统，我所做的一切 每一个决定，每一个行政命令，提议和签署的每一项法令，都是在努力为美国人民提供工具和创造条件，来实现美国的梦想，建设美国的未来 一个美好的社会，繁荣的经济，清洁的环境，进而实现一个更自由、更安全、更繁荣的世界。 借助我 们永恒的价值，我驾驭了我的航程。机会属于每一个美国公民； (我的 )责任来自全体美国人民；所有美国人民组成了一个大家庭。 (83)我一直在努力为美国创造一个新型的政府：更小、更现代化、更有效率、面对新时代的挑战充满创意和思想、永远把人民的利益放在第一位、永远面向未来。 我们的家庭、我们的社会变得更加强大
47、。 3500万美国人曾经享受联邦休假， 800万人重新获得社会保障，犯罪率是 25年来最低的， 1000多万美国人享受更多的入学贷款，更多的人接受大学教育。我们的学校也在改善。 (84)更高的办学 水平、更大的责任感和更多的投资使得我们的学生取得更高的考试分数和毕业成绩。(85)目前，已有 300多万美国儿童在享受着医疗保险， 700多万美国人已经脱离了贫困线。 全国人民的收入在大幅度提高。我们的空气和水资源更加洁净，食品和饮用水更加安全。我们珍贵的土地资源也得到了近百年来前所未有的保护。 二、 Part IQ Test 56 What letter comes next in this se
48、ries of letters? BACBDCEDF? 57 Peter, David and Paul said following sentences: Peter: David is a liar, Paul always tells the truth. David: Peter is truthful. Paul: David is a liar, Peter is truthful. Two of these men always tell the truth, one of them sometimes tells the truth and sometimes lies. Wh
49、ich of these men is a liar? 58 You are given a series of numbers. Your task is to see how they form a relationship with each other. You have to choose the number that would go next in the series. 1, 3, 6, 10 59 You are trying to fill a bath with both taps on, but have accidentally left out the plug. Normally the hot water tap takes 8 minutes to fill the hath and the cold water tap takes 10 minute
