1、专升本（英语）模拟试卷 96 及答案与解析一、Phonetics（A）pie（B） fill（C） lie（D）tie （A）care（B） fare（C） hare（D）are （A）towards（B） farmer（C） large（D）cart （A）fast（B） cast（C） last（D）capital （A）fountain（B） obtain（C） contain（D）maintain 二、Part I Vocabulary and StructureDirections: Each of the following sentences is provided with f
2、our choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.6 In his speech, he gave us _ on how to learn a foreign language.（A）some advice（B） some advices（C） several advices（D）an advice 7 There are many _ in this hospital.（A）woman workers（B） woman worker
3、s（C） women doctor（D）women doctors 8 The town is about _ ride from here. You ought to start right away.（A）two hour（B） two hours（C） two hours（D）two-hours 9 We have worked out the plan and now we must put it into _.（A）face（B） reality（C） practice（D）deed 10 Where are _ rest rooms? They are on the second
4、floor.（A）womens（B） womans（C） women（D）womens 11 I am afraid that there isnt _ left for you two in my car. There are already five people in it.（A）many room（B） any rooms（C） any room（D）many rooms 12 We are quite hopeful about _ development in industry and agriculture.（A）next year（B） next years（C） next y
5、ears（D）next yearss 13 The children cooked some _ by burning _ and branches.（A）potatos; leaves（B） potatoes; leafs（C） potatos; leafs（D）potatoes; leaves 14 She has to clean all the _ in all the _ in two hours.（A）furniture; bedroom（B） furnitures; bedrooms（C） furniture; bedrooms（D）furnitures; bedsrooms 1
6、5 They raised fifty _ and a hundred _ on their farm last year.（A）deers; sheeps（B） deers; sheep（C） deer; sheeps（D）deer; sheep 16 The beautiful _ are made of a special kind of _ in these factories.（A）glass; glass（B） glass; glasses（C） glasses; glass（D）glasses; glasses 17 The young students like _ and M
7、ark _ novels very much.（A）Dickens; Twains（B） Dickens; Twain（C） Dickenss; Twain（D）Dickens; Twains 18 I came across a _ on the street yesterday morning.（A）friend of my fathers（B） friend of my father（C） my fathers friend（D）fathers friend 19 He read in _ paper that _ industry is developing at a high spe
8、ed.（A）today; Chinas（B） todays; China（C） todays; Chinas（D）today; China 20 He often goes to _ school by _ bike.（A）the; 不填（B）不填 ; 不填（C）不填 ; a（D）the; the 三、Part III Reading ComprehensionDirections: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Rea
9、d the passages and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.20 There was a nasty (肮脏的，卑鄙的) accident in our town not long ago, and I saw it happen. I was standing near a road which was under repair, not doing anything s
10、pecial-just watching the men at work. It was not far from the new motorway (高速公路) that runs past the town. It was an old road that used to be very busy-and dangerous-before the motorway was built. Today, most cars use the new “superhighway“ and the old road is pretty quiet, although cars do often co
11、me off the motorway into the town faster than they should.Anyway, the men were repairing part of the road and there were signs up for at least 200 meters, telling everybody that the road was narrower than .usual. Most of the drivers in both directions saw the signs and slowed down.Then three cars ca
12、me along close together, the third one moving at a very high speed. The first one passed the workmen and wanted to turn left. Meanwhile the third car came flying past the second one. The second car stopped. I think the driver knew something was going to happen. It did. The third car had no chance of
13、 stopping. Its driver braked (刹车) and pulled over to miss the first car-and went right off the road.There were four people in that car: a man, two women and a child. The child was a boy of nine. I read later that they were going shopping-just shopping, nothing more important than that. The driver wa
14、s badly hurt. The little boy was hart too. Both the women were killed immediately. One of them was the drivers wife and the other was the mother of the little boy. They never got to the shops.21 The old road _.（A）was very busy though there was a new motorway（B） was never very busy（C） was always very
15、 busy and dangerous（D）was very busy and dangerous before the construction of the new motorway 22 On the day of the accident, part of the old road _.（A）was damaged（B） was broadened to make traffic easier（C） was under repair（D）was closed to cars 23 The accident was caused by _.（A）the driver of the fir
16、st car（B） the driver of the second car（C） the driver of the third car（D）both B and C 24 The driver who caused the accident _.（A）drove very, very fast（B） killed another driver（C） killed himself（D）both A and C 25 The four people in the car were going to do _.（A）something not very important（B） somethin
17、g very important（C） nothing at all（D）anything they liked 25 “Yes, Ill be ready at nine in the morning. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again. “It had not been an easy telephone call for Mrs. Robson to make. Her daughter had been very kind, of course, and had immediately agreed to pick her up and drive her
18、 to the station, but Mrs. Robson hated to admit (承认). that she needed help. Since her husband had died ten years before, she had prided herself on her independence (独立生活). She had continued to live in their little house, alone.On this evening, however, she was standing at her living-room window, sta
19、ring out at the SOLD notice in the small front garden. Her feelings were mixed. Naturally she was sad at the thought of leaving the house, as it was full of so many memories. But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last years near the sea, back in the little seaside town where s
20、he had been born. With the money from the sale (出售) of the house, she had bought a little flat there.She turned from the living room window, and looked round at the room. One or two pieces of furniture remained, covered with sheets (被单). The floor was bare boards, and all her pictures had been taken
21、 from the walls. There was a small fish-tank, with two goldfish circling in it. When asked why, her husband used to say, “Its nice to have something alive in the room.“ Since he had passed away, she had always kept some goldfish, had always had “something alive in the room“.The next morning, as her
22、train was pulling out of the station, Mrs. Robson called to her daughter, “Kate, you wont forget to collect the goldfish, will you? The children will love them. Its.“ “! know,“ Kate interrupted (打断) gently. “Its nice to have something alive in the room.But in the little house, the two goldfish had s
23、topped their circling. They were floating (漂浮) on the water, in the room with its bare boards and silent walls.26 Mrs. Robson _.（A）was a very proud person（B） was helpless（C） did not like asking people for favors（D）wanted to live without her husband 27 On her last night in the house, Mrs. Robson was
24、feeling _.（A）very depressed and dismayed（B） very cheerful but completely helpless（C） proud and sad（D）a bit sad but not entirely unhappy 28 Mrs. Robson had lived in the house _.（A）since she had sold her flat（B） for less than a decade（C） since she had been born（D）for more than ten years 29 The little
25、house was “full of so many. memories“ (Para. 3 ) means _.（A）that the house remembers many, many things（B） that an important part of Mrs. Robsons life was spent there（C） that it was full of furniture（D）that it was not empty 30 The cause of the death of the goldfish was most probably _.（A）lack of care
26、（B） old age（C） the small fish tank（D）lack of water 30 The war had begun, and George had joined the air force. He wanted to be a pilot and after some months he managed to get to the air force training school, where they taught pilots to fly.There, the first thing that new students had to do was to be
27、 taken up in a plane by an experienced pi lot, to give them some ideas what it felt like. Even those who had traveled as passengers in commercial (商业的) airline planes before found it strange to be in the cockpit (驾驶舱)of a small fighter plane, and most of the students felt nervous.The officer who had
28、 to take the students up for their first flight allowed them to fly the plane for a few seconds if they wanted to and if they were not too frightened to try, but he was always ready to take over as soon as the plane started to do dangerous things.George was one of those who took over the controls of
29、 the plane when he went up in it for the first time, and after the officer had taken them from him again. George thought that he had better ask a few questions to show how interested he was and how much he wanted to learn to fly. There were a number of instruments (仪表) in front of him, so he chose o
30、ne and asked the officer what it was. The officer looked at him strangely for a moment and then answered, “That is the clock.“31 George went to the air force training school because he wanted _.（A）to fight the war（B） to fly（C） to he a pilot（D）to be a passenger 32 The first thing George did at the tr
31、aining school was _.（A）to take an experienced pilot in a plane（B） to be taken up into the air in a plane by an officer（C） to fly a commercial plane（D）to talk about his ideas 33 Which of tile following is TRUE?（A）All students had traveled in commercial planes before.（B） All students were nervous.（C）
32、Most students felt nervous traveling in commercial planes.（D）Most students felt nervous when they were taken up in a fighter plane. 34 The officer allowed _.（A）the students to fly the plane all the time（B） all students to fly the plane（C） the students who were not frightened to fly on their own（D）so
33、me students to fly a little while 35 George asked the question because he wanted to show that he was _.（A）interesting（B） not nervous（C） different（D）eager to learn 35 Every culture and every country in the world celebrates New Year, but not everyone does it the same way. The countries in North Americ
34、a and Europe wecome New Year on January the first. This practice began with the Romans in the Middle East, New Year is when spring begins. People in China and Vietnam celebrate it on the first day of the Spring Festival, which is the first day of their calendar based on the moon. Rosh Hashana, which
35、 is the Jewish (犹太人的)New Year, comes at the end of summer. The Hindus (印度教教徒) in India celebrate the first day of each season, so they have four New Years.In all these cultures, there is a practice of making noise. People made noise in ancient times to drive away the evil spirits (妖精) from their hom
36、es. Today making noise is more of a custom than a religious ritual(宗教仪式).In the United States, many people stay up until midnight on New Years Eve to watch the clock pass from one year to the next. Friends often gather together at a party on New Years Eve, and when the new year comes, all ring bells
37、, blow whistles, sing songs, and kiss each other. A favorite Scottish song which everyone sings together is Auld Lang Syne. The words tell of old friends and good times.In all cultures, New Years Day is a time when people think of new beginnings. They want to make the coming year better than the las
38、t one Many people in the United States make New Year resolutions. These are specific promises that they make to improve their behavior, change their habits, and become better people. There are many jokes about how a person keeps his or her New Year resolutions.36 Is it true, according to the passage
39、, that people all over the world celebrate New Year on January 1st?（A）Yes.（B） No, only the Europeans and North Americans do so.（C） It isnt mentioned.（D）No, only the Romans did so. 37 In ancient times, the practice of making noise was meant _.（A）to keep the evil spirits away（B） to have fun（C） to cele
40、brate the coming of the new year（D）to keep to a custom 38 Auld Lang Syne is _.（A）a Scottish song which says good-bye to old friends（B） a Scottish song that welcomes the coming of the new year（C） a song sung by the Scottish people only（D）a Scottish song remembering old friends and good times 39 A New
41、 Year resolution is _.（A）made to begin a new year（B） a promise to make a joke（C） a decision to improve oneself and make one a better person（D）to be kept for the New Years Day only 40 The Jewish New Year most probably comes between _.（A）July and September（B） October and December（C） January and March（
42、D）April and June 40 In order to learn a foreign language well, it is necessary to overcome the fear of making mistakes. If the primary goal (目标) of language use is communication (交际) , then mistakes are secondary considerations that may be dealt with gradually. On the other hand, students should not
43、 ignore their mistakes. The language learner may observe how native speakers express themselves, and how native expressions differ from the way the learner might say them. For example, a Spanish speaker who has been saying “I do it“ to ex press willingness to do something in the immediate future, co
44、uld, by communicating with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say “Ill do it“. The result can serve as a basis for the student to change his way of using the present tense in English. But a student who is unwilling to communicate in the first place would lose this oppo
45、rtunity to, learn by trial and error.41 The main idea that passage wants to tell us is that at the very beginning, _.（A）we should not be afraid of making mistakes when speaking a foreign language（B） we must learn a foreign language well as it is very useful（C） we can learn a foreign language without
46、 making any mistakes（D）English is an international language 42 According to the passage, the present tense in English is _.（A）not used to express ones readiness to do something in the immediate future（B） used with some verbs but not with others to express future intention（C） basically the same in En
47、glish as it is in Spanish（D）not the most difficult problem for foreign students 43 According to the passage, language learners can reduce the number of their mistakes by _.（A）asking native speakers for explanations（B） reading good books in the foreign language（C） comparing their speech with that of
48、native speakers（D）paying no attention to them while speaking 44 According to the passage foreign language students should not worry too much about making mistakes because _.（A）native speakers, like foreign students, also try hard to learn their language（B） communication is the primary goal of langua
49、ge learning（C） native speakers will ignore their mistakes（D）everyone makes mistakes in speaking a strange language 45 The authors major conclusion about mistakes in foreign language learning is that _.（A）mistakes are not important in the process of learning a language（B） learners are often very afraid of making mista
