高起专《英语》模拟题

武汉大学2007年网络教育秋季招生入学考试

高起专《英语》模拟题

第I卷

一、语音知识（共5小题；每题1.5分，共7.5分。）

在下列每组单词中，有一个单词的划线部分与其它单词的划线部分读音不同，找出这个词。

1 A. measure B. message C. treasure D. pleasure 2 A. noise B. wise C. fascination D. lose 3 A. virtue B. success C. supply D. subjective 4 A. border B. north C. world D. force 5 A. eager B. campaign C. vinegar D. organize

二、词汇与语法知识（共15小题；每题1.5分，共22.5分。） 6. He is bad _____ remembering faces.

A. at B. in C. with D. on 7 He did not know _____ or go home.

A. to wait B. if that he should wait C. if to wait D. whether to wait 8 The students _____ their hands every time when I ask a question.

A. get out B. get up C. rise D. put up 9 He never goes swimming. _____

A. Tom doesn’t that either B. Tom doesn’t too C. Neither does Tom D. Tom does neither 10. If you have read my book, please _____ to me.

A. give it again B. give again it C. give it back D. give back it 11 _____ it is mining, we will stay at home.

A. As B. Like C. How D. Because of 12. I want to leave my ear. Can you tell me _____ ?

A. if there is a car park B. is there a car park C. there is a car park D. is there a parking 13. I cannot stop. I _____

A. am going running B. am at a run C. am in a hurry D. have a hurry 14 I am going to the hairdresser’s to _____

A. cut my hair B. have my hair cut C. have cut my hair D. cut me my hair 15. He has spent a large ____ of money on his clothes.

A. deal B. amount C. number D. piece 16. The question is _____ difficult for me to answer.

A. so much B. too much C. too D. enough 17. He finally _____ the driving test after failing three times.

A. succeeded in passing B. succeeded to pass C. could pass D. managed passing 18. If you don’t _____ smoking, you will never get better.

A. give off B. give out C. give from D. give up 19. I know it is not important for me, but I still cannot help _____ about it.

A. except think B. thinking C. think D. to think 20. That is the hotel _____ last year.

A. which we stayed B. at which we stayed at C. where we stayed at D. where we stayed

三、完形填空（共15小题；每题2分，共30分。）

通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后从每小题的四个选项中选出可填入空白处的最佳选项。

Like almost anything else, television has its good and its bad sides. One should surely thank its inventions for the joy and 21 that they have brought into the lives of the old, the sick and the 22 In truth, television 23 windows in everybody’s life. No newspaper has ever reached so many people and shown so clearly what 24 right now in their own country and 25 . TV not only gives the news instantly, it also shows it in pictures -- more powerful than newspapers. It can be said that TV has brought reality to public.

26 , television's influence (影响)has been 27 harmful to the young. Children who do not have 28 to realize that TV shows present an unreal world and 29 advertisements lie in order to sell products. They believe and begin to learn what they see. They do believe that they will make 30 if they use a certain soap or 31 products. They do believe what they see is normal and acceptable. By the time they are 32 high school, most young people 33 about 15,000 34 of television, and have seen about 18,000 killings or other acts of violence(暴力). How could they be 35 to see the same in real life?

21. A. interesting B. interested C. interestingly D. interest 22. A. lone B. along C. loneliness D. lonely 23. A. have opened B. had opened C. has opened D. will open 24. A. was happening B. had happened C. would happen D. happened 25. A. everywhere else B. somewhere else C. nowhere else D. anywhere else 26. A. Pity B. Pitifully C. Unfortunately D. Fortunately 27. A. extremely B. / C. extreme D. serious 28. A. enough experience B. experiences enough C. experienced enough D. experiencing enough

29. A. / B. which C. that D. whose

30. A. friends with B. friends with them C. more friends D. much friends 31. A. any other B. some other C. any else D. much else 32. A. out of the B. out of C. from the D. from 33. A. have watched B. has watched C. had watched D. watched

34. A. hour B. hour’s C. hours D. an hour 35. A. shocked B. moved C. touched D. impressed

四、阅读理解（共15小题；每题3分，共45分。）

阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选项中选出最佳的一项。

A

Finding enough meat was a problem for primitive man, keeping it for times when it was scarce was just as hard. Three ways were found to keep meat from spoiling: salting, drying and freezing.

People near salty waters salted their meat. At first they probably rubbed dry salt on it, but this only preserved(保存) the outside. Later they may have pickled(腌制) their meat by laying it in salty water. In hot, dry lands, men found that they could eat meat that had dried while it was still on the bones. They later learned to cut meat into thin strips and hang it up to dry in the hot air. Men in cold climates found that frozen meat did not spoil. They could leave their meat outside and eat it when they pleased. 36. Which of the following is needed while pickling meat?

A. Salt. B. Sunlight. C. Temperature. D. Hot air. 37. People in the desert learned to keep meat by ____ A. leaving it outside the house to get it frozen B. laying it in salty water C. hanging it up in the air

D. robbing salt outside the meat

38. The methods used to keep meat from spoiling depended on ____

A. the weather B. how large the meat was C. where people live D. both B and C 39. It seems true that ____

A. freezing was one of the earliest ways to keep meat B. pickling was the best way to keep meat C. dried meat stayed fresh the longest

D. none of these statements was a good way to keep meat 40. The best title of this passage is ____

A. How to Preserve Meat B. Finding Enough Meat

C. Primitive Man D. Man learns to Preserve Meat

B

If you have chosen the right, fairly easy sort of book for your speed reading practice, you will not need to use a dictionary for such an exercise. If you really must know the dictionary meaning of all the words you meet, write them down on a piece of paper to look up later. Actually, the meanings of many words will be clear from the sentences around them---what we called the “context”. Here is an example. Do you know the word “sou’wester”? It has two meanings in English as the following sentences indicate:

A. In spite of the fact that the fishermen were wearing sou’wester, the storm was so heavy that they were wet through.

B. An east or north-east wind brings cold, dry weather to England, but a sou’wester usually brings rain.

You should have guessed very easily that in sentence A, the word refers to some kind of waterproof clothing, presumably quite thick and heavy since it is worn by fishermen in storms. In sentence B, it is clearly a kind of wind, coming from a south-westerly direction. Incidentally, you would have had the greatest difficulty in finding this word in most dictionaries since it often appears a long way down among the secondary meanings of “south”. If you did not know that “sou” meant “south”, you could only have found the word by the merest chance.

41. The use of a dictionary is ____

A. advisable for speed reading practice B. unnecessary for speed reading practice C. essential for speed reading practice

D. of no help in improving general reading ability

42. If you really want to know what all the words mean, ____

A. make a note and check later B. use a bigger dictionary C. ask your teacher D. read more slowly

43. To understand a general reading book, a knowledge of the meaning of every word in the passage is ____

A. doubtfully necessary B. absolutely unnecessary C. absolutely necessary D. most advisable

44. Even if you do not know a word you can often get the meaning by ____ A. wild guessing B. working it out mathematically C. working it out from the context D. comparing it with similar words

45. Words like “sou’wester” are often difficult even to find in a dictionary. They may be ____ A. spelled wrongly B. listed under another word C. only put in by chance D. taken from another language

C

All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun. The sun heats and feeds mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood.

Coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored up energy from the sun. Some was collected by this season’s plants as carbon compounds(碳水化合物). Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. Even water-power derives (得来) from the sun. Water turned into vapor(蒸汽) by the sun falls as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power.

Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun’s outer layers(外层), and much of this energy that is directed toward the earth never arrives. About nineteenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact, the earth itself gets only one half - billionth of the sun’s entire output of radiant energy.

46. All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes ____

A. directly from the sun B. from the sun’s activity C. from energy stored by the sun D. from radiation of the sun