1、成人本科学位英语模拟试卷 38及答案与解析 一、 Dialogue Communication 1 Tom: I see in the paper theyre sending more equipment to space. And we might have to live there someday.John: _! Im staying right here. （ A） Never I （ B） Not me （ C） No me （ D） None me 2 Jack: Hey, how are you, Susie? Gee, we havent seen each other i
2、nit must be close to three years!Susie: _ （ A） How do you do? （ B） Nice to meet you. （ C） Fancy meeting you here. （ D） Well,French fries. 3 A: Ive just heard that the tickets for Swan Lake have been sold out! B: Oh, no! _ （ A） It doesnt matter. （ B） Its not at all interesting. （ C） I was looking for
3、ward to it. （ D） I knew it already. 4 Smith: Oh, its ten oclock. Id better go now. Host: _ （ A） Ok. Please walk slowly. （ B） Why do you want to go now? Dont you want to stay? （ C） Wont you stay for another cup of coffee? （ D） Yeah, its really late. Why not immediately? 5 Greg:Hi,Karen. I have ticket
4、s to a concert at Carnegie Hall. It starts at 8 :00. Karen: Hmmm. . ._ （ A） Sure,but I have to prepare for the exam. （ B） Thank you all the same. （ C） Leave it to me,I assure you. （ D） Im afraid I cant make it by then. 6 Speaker A:Beach Motel. May I help you? Speaker B:_ （ A） Thank you. Id like to m
5、ake a long distance call to New York. （ B） Yes. We need a double room for this weekend. （ C） Sorry,I dont think you can help us. Thank you anyway. （ D） All right. My name is David Jones and my room number is 30 7 Speaker A:Hello,Jane. How lucky to run into you! Can you and Tom come to dinner tomorro
6、w evening?Speaker B:_. I dont think were going out. （ A） I suppose I cant （ B） Im afraid not （ C） Its my pleasure （ D） I think so 8 Speaker A:Id like to buy the refrigerator,but Im one hundred dollars short. Speaker B:_if you promise to give it back before this weekend. （ A） Ill borrow you the money
7、 （ B） Ill lend you the money （ C） Id lend you the money （ D） I will have lent you the money 9 Speaker A:Could you give me a ride to the conference center? My presentation is in about half an hour.Speaker B;_Have you checked with Bob? He seems to be on his way there about this time. （ A） Im sorry. Pe
8、rhaps next time. （ B） Im glad to. But its too late. （ C） Im afraid I am going to the opposite direction. （ D） Excuse me,but Im going to the conference center. 10 Speaker A: Are you feeling better now? Speaker B: _. （ A） Well, not too better yet, thank you （ B） Well, not too good yet. Better than I w
9、as thought （ C） Well, it doesnt matter. I am all right now （ D） Well, never mind, Im much better now 11 Waiter: Welcome, sir. May I help you? Customer: _ （ A） Thank you. Ill have fried tofu and stir-fried cauliflower. （ B） Yes, please. Id like a hamburger and a chocolate shake. （ C） Sorry. I dont ne
10、ed your help, thank you. （ D） If you want to help me, Ill be glad to accept it. 12 Johnny: Dear Tommy, why dont you come on holiday with us? Tommy: _. （ A） Thats very kind of you! Id love to （ B） How dare you invite me? I wont go （ C） Yeah, thanks anyway （ D） Whether Ill go or not is not your busine
11、ss, ok? 13 Anna: Hi, Keith. Hows it going? Keith:_. I lost my wallet,and it had all my ID and credit cards in it. （ A） Not too bad （ B） Not too good （ C） Not very well （ D） Not at all 14 Speaker A:Youd better take the umbrella with you. It looks like its going to rain. Speaker B:Thank you_. （ A） for
12、 minding me （ B） for reminding me （ C） for remembering me （ D） for caring about me 15 Speaker A:Id love to come to your barbecue on Saturday but my cousin is arriving from California that day. Speaker B:Thats no problem. The more the merrier. Im glad_. （ A） I can hold such a barbecue for you （ B） yo
13、ur cousin will be arriving from California then （ C） we finally have a chance to get together （ D） that youre too busy to my barbecue 二、 Part I Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each
14、 of them there 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. 15 Archaeology, like many academic words, comes from Greek and means, more or less, “ the study of old things“. So,
15、it is really a part of the study of history. However, most historians use paper evidence, such as letters, paintings and photographs,but archaeologists (考古学家 ) learn from the objects left behind by the humans of long ago. Normally, these are the hard materials that dont break down or disappear very
16、quicklythings like human bones and objects made from stone and metal. It is very unusual to find anything more than the hard evidence of historynormally, the bacteria (细菌 ) in the air eat away at soft materials, like bodies, clothes and things made of wood. Occasionally, things are different. In 198
17、4, two men made an amazing discovery while working in a bog called Lindow Moss, in the north of England. A bog is a very wet area of earth, with a lot of plants growing in it. It can be like a very big and very thick vegetable soupwalk in the wrong place and you can sink and disappear forever. The m
18、en were working when one of them saw something sticking outa human foot! Naturally, the men called the police ,who then found the rest of the body. Was it a case of murder? Possiblybut it was a death nearly two thousand years old. The two men had found a body from the time of the Roman invasion of B
19、ritain. Despite being so old, this body had skin, muscles, hair and internal organsthe scientists who examined him were able to look inside the mans stomach and find the food that he had eaten for his last meal! Why was this man so well preserved? (76) It was because he was in a very watery environm
20、ent, safe from the bacteria that need oxygen to live.Also, the water in the bog was very acidic. The acid preserved the mans skin in the way that animal skin is preserved for leather coat and shoes. How did he die? Understandably, archaeologists and other scientists wanted to know more about the per
21、son that they called, “Lindow Man“. (77)His hands and fingernails suggested that he hadnt done heavy manual work in his lifehe could have been a rich man. They found that he hadnt died by accident. The archaeologists believe that he was sacrificed to three different gods. 16 Which language does the
22、word “ archaeology“ come from? （ A） French. （ B） Greek. （ C） Roman. （ D） German. 17 The word “these“ in the first paragraph refers to_. （ A） letters （ B） photographs （ C） paintings （ D） objects 18 Which of the following helped to preserve “Lindow Man“? （ A） Ice and low temperature. （ B） Bacteria and
23、 oxygen. （ C） Soil and energy. （ D） Acid and water. 19 According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? （ A） Lindow Man was named after the person who first found him. （ B） Historians usually use paper evidence, while archaeologists use hard evidence. （ C） Lindow Man was found by
24、 two archaeologists in the south of England. （ D） Lindow Man was good at manual work. 20 Which is the best tide for the passage? （ A） What Is Archaeology? （ B） Archaeology and History. （ C） An Amazing Archaeological Discovery. （ D） The Death of “Lindow Man“. 20 Trees are useful to man in three impor
25、tant ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts and floods. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. (78)In his eagerness to make money from trees,he has cu
26、t them down in large numbers , only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear. This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious: for
27、 where there are trees, their roots break up soilallowing the rain to sink inand also bind the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil
28、 is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert. Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It set up the empire but, without its trees, its soil became poor and it grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces; the home c
29、ountry found itself faced with floods and starvation. 21 What is the most important service of trees to man according to the passage? （ A） They help him make money. （ B） They give him wood and other products. （ C） They help him prevent droughts and floods. （ D） They give him shade. 22 Why do forests
30、 in many parts of the world slowly disappear? （ A） New trees are not looked after properly. （ B） Many trees have been cut down by man. （ C） Man has not paid enough attention to planting trees. （ D） All of the above. 23 Why did the country mentioned in the passage suffer from floods and starvation? （
31、 A） Because an empire was set up. （ B） Because the empire fell to pieces. （ C） Because it lost its trees. （ D） Because too much had been spent on wars. 24 Why does land become desert after all trees are cut down? （ A） Because nothing remains on land except floods. （ B） Because there are no longer tr
32、ees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil. （ C） Because too much rain sinks in and washes away the top-soil. （ D） Because roots of the trees break up the soil. 25 What does the author tell us in this passage? （ A） How trees help prevent droughts and floods. （ B） The relationship between trees an
33、d man. （ C） How an empire fell to pieces in ancient times. （ D） A story of trees. 25 It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. (79)The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found i
34、n our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory. Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only “remembering“ things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involving any change in the way an animal typically behaves
35、. (80)Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile.Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat. Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Compu
36、ters, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 “words“ready for instant use. An average U. S. teenager probably
37、recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the basis of the advanced pr
38、oblem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a persons memory is in terms of words and combinations of words. 26 According to the passage, memory is considered to be_. （ A） the basis for decision making and problem solving （ B） an ability to store experiences for future use （ C） an in
39、telligence typically possessed by human beings （ D） the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words 27 The comparison made between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of a human being shows that_. （ A） the computers memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenagers （ B）
40、 the computers memory capacity is much smaller that an adult human beings （ C） the computers memory capacity is much smaller even than a teenagers （ D） both A and B 28 The whole passage implies that_. （ A） only human beings have problem-solving intelligence （ B） a persons memory is different from a
41、computers in every respect （ C） animals are able to solve only very simple problems （ D） animals solve problems by instincts rather than intelligence 29 The phrase “in terms of“in the last sentence can best be replaced by_. （ A） in connection with （ B） expressed by （ C） consisting （ D） by means of 3
42、0 The topic of the passage is: _. （ A） What would life be like without memory? （ B） Memory is of vital importance to life. （ C） How is a persons memory different from an animals or a computers? （ D） What is contained in memory? 三、 Part II Vocabulary and Structure (30%) Directions: In this part, ther
43、e are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 31 The train will_from Platform 2 at 3:45 on Tuesday mor
44、ning. （ A） depart （ B） arrive （ C） stop （ D） derail 32 A judge must be_when weighing evidence. （ A） interested （ B） disinterested （ C） separated （ D） disconnected 33 As early as 1647 Ohio made a decision that free, tax-supported schools must be established in every town_50 households or more. （ A） h
45、aving （ B） to have （ C） to have had （ D） having had 34 We love peace, yet we are not the kind of people to yield_any military threat. （ A） up （ B） to （ C） in （ D） at 35 If tap water were as dangerous as some people think, _would be getting sick. （ A） a lot of more us （ B） more a lot of us （ C） a lot
46、 of us more （ D） a lot more of us 36 _anything about the accident, he went to work as well. （ A） Not know （ B） Know not （ C） Knowing not （ D） Not knowing 37 He studied hard at school when he was young,_contributes to his success in later life. （ A） which （ B） that （ C） what （ D） each of which 38 The
47、 measure you proposed_what is expected. （ A） loses track of （ B） falls far short of （ C） keeps step with （ D） leaves behind 39 You should not_going to the doctor because your illness might be serious. （ A） take up （ B） put off （ C） lay down （ D） put aside 40 He spends money like water. In fact, his
48、expenses on food and clothes are rather high _his income. （ A） in respect of （ B） in contrast to （ C） in response （ D） in proportion to 41 Last week I bought an ancient vase,_price is quite reasonable. （ A） which （ B） whose （ C） that （ D） what 42 The teacher had the naughty boy_for about an hour at
49、the back of the classroom. （ A） standing （ B） to stand （ C） stand （ D） stood 43 Had I studied hard in high school,I_to university to study. （ A） went （ B） would go （ C） could have gone （ D） had gone 44 _from a distance,the mountain looks like an old man. （ A） Seeing （ B） Having （ C） Seen （ D） Being seen 45 _could not arouse the s
