2024年1月24日发(作者：)

山西省专升本综合英语模拟8

(总分150,考试时间90分钟)

Ⅰ．Vocabulary & Structure

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four

choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that **pletes the sentence.

1. Bacon and scrambled eggs ______ the standard American breakfast.

A. were B. are

C. have been D. is

2. ______ we all know, it is impossible to speak or write English or any other language without

using the verb.

A. For B. Since

C. As D. Which

3. I"m going to have my letters ______ tomorrow.

A. type B. typing

C. typed D. to be typed

4. I"m considering ______ your offer.

A. accept B. accepting

C. to accept D. accepted

5. If I ______ the exam, he would be astonished.

A. did pass B. pass

C. were to pass D. had passed

6. No sooner ______ stepped out of the hall than it began to rain.

A. had we B. have we

C. did we D. do we

7. Some students ran back to the dormitory, magazines ______ under their arms.

A. to be held B. was held

C. held D. holding

8. I like to get up early so that I can get plenty of work ______ before lunch.

A. to do B. doing

C. done D. being done

9. ______ finished his work, he had to stay at home on the weekend.

A. Having not been B. Being not

C. Not having D. Having not

10. ______ experiments on the laboratory, it started to rain heavily.

A. While performing B. Performing

C. While I was performing D. To perform

11. ______ on time according to the instruction, these pills will be quite effective.

A. Taking B. Being taken

C. Taken D. Having taken

12. The meeting was put off until next week, which was exactly ______ we wanted.

A. what B. which

C. that D. it

13. Mr. Smith left for London this morning. I had thought he ______ until next Monday.

A. isn"t going B. wasn"t going

C. won"t going D. hasn"t gone

14. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true

______it comes to classroom tests.

A. when B. while

C. as D. after

15. What they said ______ us much to think about.

A. have left B. has left

C. to leave D. leaving

16. The clothes a person wears may express his ______ or social position.

A. significance B. determination

C. curiosity D. status

17. In some countries, traffic police can ______ instant fines on speeding motorists.

A. compel B. impose

C. charge D. force

18. He is not such a person and he ______ such a thing.

A. cannot have done

B. must not have done

C. should not have done

D. could not have done

19. I have to ______ my visit as I"ll be very busy next week.

A. call for B. call on

C. call off D. call in

20. The educator and scholar ______ from Shanghai.

A. come B. comes

C. **e D. **e

Ⅱ．Cloze

Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and

marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage.

Most people retire from work between the ages of 60 and 65. This has 1 consequences, one

economic and 2 psychological.

Economically: 3 retired people receive a pension (养老金)from the government or from their

past 4 , it is often much less than they earned when they were working. Unless people 5 to

save money during their years 6 work, their standard of living may fall greatly when they

retire.

Psychologically: Old people in Western countries are generally considered 7 , and they are

even thought of as a 8 on their families and on the public purse. They are 9 held in respect.

On the other hand, most of them, so used to 10 work, simply do not know how to relax or 11

other interests though they have time to do so now. They feel they "should" be working and

12 , because work was 13 they were respected and their skills recognized. 14 retired

people, their self-confidence is diminished (减弱). The longer they are away from the work place,

15 grows a sense of being worthless.

1.

A. two B. there

C. many D. some

2.

A. another B. the other

C. others D. other

3.

A. Unless B. For

C. Before D. Although

4.

A. employees B. employers

C. employee D. employer

5.

A. had managed B. have managed

C. are managing D. will manage

6.

A. on B. with

C. for D. at

7.

A. useful B. usefully

C. useless D. uselessly

8.

A. burden B. trouble

C. difficulty D. problem

9.

A. most B. mostly

C. hard D. hardly

10.

A. focusing on B. focus on

C. focusing at D. focus at

11.

A. produce B. push

C. pursue D. purchase

12.

A. contributing B. contributed

C. to contribute D. contribute

13.

A. where B. that

C. when D. what

14.

A. Like B. As

C. With D. By

15.

A. keener B. more keen

C. the more keen D. the keener

Ⅲ．Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five

questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the

best answer.

Passage 1

In the United States, elementary education begins at the age of six. At this stage nearly all the

teachers are women, mostly married. The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and the teachers

have now accepted the idea that the important thing is to make the children happy and interested.

The old authoritarian (要绝对服从的) methods of education were discredited (不被认可) rather a

long time ago—so much so that many people now think that they have gone too far in the

direction of trying to make children happy and interested rather than giving them actual

instruction.

The social education of young children tries to make them accept the idea that human beings in a

society need to work together for **mon good. So the emphasis is on cooperation rather **petition

throughout most of this process. This may seem curious, in view of the fact that American society

is **petitive; however, the need for making people sociable in this sense **e to be regarded as one

of the functions of education. Most Americans do grow up **petitive ideas, and obviously quite a

few as criminals, but it is not fair to say that the educational system fails. It probably does succeed

in making most people sociable and ready to help one another both in material ways and through

kindness and friendliness.

1. According to the passage, the U. S. elementary education is supposed to make children ______.

A. sensible and sensitive

B. competitive and interested

C. curious and friendly

D. happy and cooperative

2. Some **plain about elementary schools because they think ______.

A. children are reluctant to help each other

B. schools lay too much emphasis on cooperation

C. children should grow up **petitive ideas

D. schools give little actual instruction to children

3. The author"s attitude towards American education can be best described as ______.

A. favorable B. negative

C. tolerant D. unfriendly

4. The American educational system emphasizes ______.

A. material wealth B. competition

C. cooperation D. personal benefit

5. The word "sociable" most probably means ______.

A. fond of talking freely

B. friendly with other people

C. concerned about social welfare

D. happy at school

Passage 2

While the cities of China have undergone modernization evident in the rising towers and bright

lights that have awakened the sleeping country, the countryside remains largely the same.

Rectangular (长方形的) rows of rice fields litter the landscape separated by long lanes of water

designed to provide the constant supply of water that is vital to producing the crop. The

experience is not unlike driving through the American Midwest, only rice not corn dominates the

landscape.

Four years ago, when I last took this trip, the roads were dusted and telephone wires did not run

parallel to the highway. Bare roads had been replaced by sleek, newly paved highways running

from Shanghai to Nanking, to my smaller home city, Wuhu. Unlike the changes I had heard of and

expected in Shanghai, Wuhu was much more of a surprise. The small city where I was born had

grown up as I have. There are large high-rise buildings, each ringed with smaller buildings around

it, many of these **plexes. Little seemed familiar and I wonder what my grandparents" Flat built

of brick and mortar(灰泥) had become.

Perhaps I shouldn"t have been surprised to find out that their home had been demolished(拆除)

and rebuilt as a six-story **plex as well. Walking up to the second floor I saw my grandfather"s

face peering out of the screen door. He began to smile as he saw me, and so did I. Their home is

now no different from a western apartment. Equipped with the modern amenities(便利设施) of a

gas stove, a toilet, a shower—this was indeed different from four years ago.

1. According to the author, dramatic changes took place in ______.

A. cities but not countryside of China

B. countryside but not in large cities

C. both cities and countryside of China

D. everywhere

2. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ______.

A. peasants lead similar life all over the world

B. Chinese irrigating system is more impressing than that in America

C. peasants in Midwest America raise more corns while Chinese peasants raise more rice

D. peasants in Midwest America raise more rice while Chinese peasants raise more corns

3. The author was traveling to Wuhu ______.

A. in order to take a stop during the trip from Shanghai to Nanking

B. in order to find some place similar to his hometown

C. in order to visit his grandparents

D. in order to find out changes in small cities

4. The author"s grandparents ______.

A. live in their house of brick and mortar

B. live in an apartment similar to westerners"

C. led a totally westernized life

D. was poor as they always were

5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. Flash back to China

B. Back with My Grandparents

C. Wuhu Today

D. From Shanghai to Nanking

Passage 3

The pleasures which a movie offers to our eyes have been paid for with the loss of sight of a man

whose name is hardly known outside the annals of science—Joseph Plateau, a Belgian professor,

born in Brussels in 1801.

He studied the mechanism of sight, beginning a series of most dangerous experiments at the age of

28 by staring into the sun for 25 seconds to see what the effect on his eyes would be. He was blind

for nearly a month. But he went on experimenting, increasing the length of time during which he

looked into the sun, knowing that in the end this would cost him his sight. At the age of 42 he

**pletely and incurably blind; the sun had destroyed the retina (视网膜) of his eye. But he

continued to work as well as he could until he died at the age of 82.

Science profited enormously from his research. He studied the so-called "inertia of the eye" (视觉暂留) which makes a picture remain on the retina for about one-sixth of a second after it has

disappeared from our vision. This means that, if we see a succession of individual pictures each of

which appears only for a fraction of a second, they "overlap" in our brain; and if they show

consecutive phases of movement, that movement will appear to us to be continuous.

1. Plateau"s experiments were the first step leading to the invention of ______.

A. eyeglasses B. telescopes

C. bifocals D. motion pictures

2. The result of Plateau"s first experiment was that ______.

A. he went permanently blind

B. he stopped staring into the sun

C. he went blind for a month

D. he found what he was looking for

3. A picture remains on the retina for ______.

A. 6 seconds B. 1 second

C. 16 seconds D. 1/6 of a second

4. The images that we see are recorded in ______.

A. the brain B. the eye

C. the retina of eye D. the pupil

5. Motion pictures ______.

A. cause inertia of the eye

B. show a succession of unrelated movement

C. show consecutive phases of movement which appear continuous

D. show each phase of movement for one-half of a second

Passage 4

Although each baby has an individual schedule of development, general patterns of growth have

been observed. Three periods of development have been identified (确定), including early infancy

(幼儿期), which extends from the first to the sixth month; middle infancy, from the sixth to the

ninth month; and late infancy, from the ninth to the fifteenth month. Whereas the newborn is

concerned with his or her inner world and reacts primarily to hunger and pain in early infancy, the

baby is already aware of the surrounding world. During the second month, many infants are awake

more and can raise their heads to look at things. They also begin to smile at people. By four

months, the baby is searching for things but not yet grasping them with its hands. It is also

beginning to be wary(谨慎的) of strangers and may scream when a visiting relative tries to pick it

up. By five months, the baby is grabbing objects and putting them into its mouth. Some babies are

trying to feed themselves with their hands.

In middle infancy, the baby concentrates on practicing a great many speech sounds. It loves to

imitate actions and examine interesting objects. At about seven months, it begins to crawl, a skill

that it masters at the end of middle infancy.

In late infancy, the baby takes an interest in games, songs, and even books. Progress toward

walking moves through standing, balancing, bouncing in place, and walking with others. As soon

as the baby walks well alone, it has passed from infancy into the active toddler (蹒跚学步) stage.

1. What is the main subject of this reading passage?

A. Growth in early infancy.

B. The active toddler.

C. How a baby learns to walk.

D. The developmental stages of infancy.

2. When does a baby take an interest in books?

A. After nine months.

B. At two months.

C. After five months.

D. In middle infancy.

3. What would a six-month-old baby love to do?

A. Smile at people.

B. Crawl on the floor.

C. Imitate actions.

D. Play simple games.

4. The meaning of the word "grasp" (paragraph 1) is ______.

A. watch B. like

C. hold D. fear

5. When does a baby became frightened of unfamiliar people?

A. In early infancy.

B. In middle infancy.

C. In late infancy.

D. In the toddler stage.

Ⅳ．Writing

1. Directions: According to the given information, you are required to write A Letter for

Complaint in about 100 words. The letter is required to be written on the Answer Sheet.

假设你叫黄琦，上月去广州出差时，在一家商店买了一架照相机，并在广州拍了一些照片。回家后将胶卷冲洗出来，却发现什么也没照上，因此非常恼火。今天(7月15日)给商店写封投诉信，并寄回相机，坚决要求退款。