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Network Education College, BLCU
《大学英语（二）》模拟试卷三
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1.Multiple Choice . (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. The company has ___its hold on the market.
A. intensified B. enforced
C. forced D. consolidated
2. The current political ___ of our country is favorable for foreign investments.
A. climate B. weather
C. temperature D. state
3. He decided not to attend the funeral___ there was a security problem.
A. because B. because of
C. due to D. owing to
4. When people are physically ___a drug, they suffer ill physical effects if they stop taking the drug.
A. absorbed in B. accepted by
C. addicted to D. attracted to
5. Several horses escaped from the farm last night. It was a long time ___ the owner discovered what had happened.
A. before B. Since
C. After D. soon
6. The top of the hill was ___，but there were trees growing on its slopes.
A. empty B. bare
C. vacant D. blank
7. He ___remembered anything she had said that day.
A. nearly B. almost
C. hard D. barely
8. Cubism, Abstractionism and Pop Art have all been ___in the post-realistic___.
A. eras…generation B. epochs…era
C. periods…age D. cycles…age
9. He ___to the waiter.
A. demanded B. motioned
C. directed D. require
10. Car rental is ___to thrive in the near future.
A. certain B. likely
C. possible D. maybe
11. The sun___ from behind the clouds.
A. emerged B. image
C. imagined D. merged
12. Parliamentary systems___ slowly from the old order of absolute monarchy.
A. arise B. emerge
C. originate D. result
13. The stairs were very ___.
A. slip B. steep
C. step D. slope
14. She ___the tea in boiling water.
A. moisten B. soak
C. steeped D. drench
15. Legal English is in sharp ___with conversational English.
A. distinction B. distribution
C. disturbance D. diversion
16. I finally ___the reference in a dictionary of quotations.
A. tracked out B. tracked down
C. tracked up D. traced down
17. Doubts have begun to ___in my mind.
A. stick up B. bring up
C. spring up D. make up
18. Since you won’t take advice, there is no ___ in asking for it.
A. place B. point
C. reason D. way
19. To be a good musician, one must ___the people and create the songs they really need.
A. feel like B. feel about
C. feel with D. feel for
20. I never expected those few items to ___so much.
A. come out B. come by
C. come to D. come at
21. When he realized the police had spotted him, the man ___the exit as quickly as possible.
A. made off B. made out
C. made for D. made up
22. He thought he could talk Mr.Robinson ___ buying some expensive equipment.
A. on B. of
C. round D. into
23. I was so angry that I ___shouting at him.
A. felt like B. set aside
C. made for D. took after
24. He walked in ___feet.
A. bare B. empty
C. bald D. bore
25. I have five free-lance writers under ___.
A. contact B. contract
C. concrete D. contrast
26. He made several unfavorable ___ on their candidate.
A. opinion B. comment
C. response D. reaction
27. It is because he is kind and modest _______he wins the respect of others.
A. that B. what C. why D. which
28. Those of us who are fifty years old should get ___blood pressure checked regularly.
A. one's B. our
C. their D. your
29. Tom ___ being criticized in class.
A. felt B. got
C. resented D. became
30. The teacher turned down his request. That means the teacher ___.
A. adopted his request B. approved his request
C. refused his request D. was reluctant his request
II. Cloze . (0.5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
Directions: Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
It’s an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that __1__ evening you’re burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race to improve educational standards, __2__ are throwing the books at kids. __3__ elementary school students are complaining of homework __4__. What’s a well-meaning parent to do?
As hard as __5__ may be, sit back and chill experts advise. Though you’ve got to get them to do it, __6__ helping too much, or even examining __7__ too carefully, you may keep them __8__ doing it by themselves. “I wouldn’t advise a parent to check every __9__ assignment,” says psychologist John Rosemond, author of Ending the Tough Homework. There’s a __10__ of appreciation for trial and error. Let your children __11__ the grade they deserve.
Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their __12__. But “you don’t want them to feel it has to be __13__,” she says.
That’s not to say parents should __14__ homework -- first, they should monitor how much homework their kids __15__. Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and an hour in __16__ four, five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be “__17__ more than a hour and a half,” and two for high school students. If your child __18__ has more homework than this, you may want to check __19__ other parents and then talk to the teacher about __20__ assignments.
31. _
A. very B. exact
C. right D. usual
32. _
A. officials B. parents
C. experts D. schools
33. _
A. Also B. Even
C. Then D. However
34. _
A. fatigue B. confusion
C. duty D. puzzle
35. _
A. there B. we
C. they D. it
36. _
A. via B. under
C. by D. for
37. _
A. questions B. answers
C. standards D. rules
38. _
A. off B. without
C. beyond D. from
39. _
A. single B. piece
C. page D. other
40. _
A. drop B. short
C. cut D. lack
41. _
A. acquire B. earn
C. gather D. reach
42. _
A. exercises B. defects
C. mistakes D. tests
43. _
A. perfect B. better
C. unusual D. complete
44. _
A. forget B. refuse
C. miss D. ignore
45. _
A. have B. prepare
C. make D. perform
46. _
A. classes B. groups
C. grades D. terms
47. _
A. about B. no
C. much D. few
48. _
A. previously B. rarely
C. merely D. consistently
49. _
A. with B. in
C. out D. up
50. _
A. finishing B. lowering
C. reducing D. declining
III. Reading Comprehension. (2 points for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions: There are three passages followed by questions. Beneath each question there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the right answer for each question. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. ‘Football, tennis Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless.’ he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits. Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. ‘John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, “You are completely crazy.”’ Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
51. The turning point in Saunders’ life came when _____.
A. he started to play ball games
B. he got a mountain bike at age 15
C. he ran his first marathon at age 18
D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training
52. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.
A. dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy
B. built up his body together with Saunders
C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience
D. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic
53. What do we know about Saunders?
A. He once worked at a school in Scotland.
B. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.
C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.
D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.
54. The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means _____.
A. Excited
B. Convinced
C. Delighted
D. Fascinated
55. It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.
A. was accompanied by his old playmates
B. set a record in the North Pole expedition
C. was supported by other Arctic explorers
D. made him well-known in the 1960s
Birds that are literally half-asleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake, according to a new study of sleeping ducks.
Earlier studies have documented half-brain sleep in a wide range of birds. The brain hemispheres take turns sinking into the sleep stage characterized by slow brain waves. The eye controlled by the sleeping hemisphere keeps shut, while the wakeful hemisphere’s eye stays open and alert. Birds also can sleep with both hemispheres resting at once.
Decades of studies of bird flocks led researchers to predict extra alertness in the more vulnerable, end-of-the-row sleepers, Sure enough, the end birds tended to watch carefully on the side away from their companions. Ducks in the inner spots showed no preference for gaze direction.
Also, birds dozing（打盹）at the end of the line resorted to single-hemisphere sleep, rather than total relaxation, more often than inner ducks did. Rotating 16 birds through the positions in a four-duck row, the researchers found outer birds half-asleep during some 32 percent of dozing time versus about 12 percent for birds in internal spots.
“We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally controlling sleep and wakefulness simultaneously in different regions of the brain,” the researchers say.
The results provide the best evidence for a long-standing supposition that single-hemisphere sleep evolved as creatures scanned for enemies. The preference for opening an eye on the lookout side could be widespread, he predicts. He’s seen it in a pair of birds dozing side-by-side in the zoo and in a single pet bird sleeping by mirror. The mirror-side eye closed as if the reflection were a companion and the other eye stayed open.
Useful as half-sleeping might be, it’s only been found in birds and such water mammals（哺乳动物）as dolphins, whales, and seals. Perhaps keeping one side of the brain awake allows a sleeping animal to surface occasionally to avoid drowning.
Studies of birds may offer unique insights into sleep. Jerome M. Siegel of the UGLA says he wonders if birds’ half-brain sleep “is just the tip of the iceberg（冰山）”. He speculates that more examples may turn up when we take a closer look at other species.
56. A new study on birds’ sleep has revealed that ____________.
A. birds can control their half-brain sleep consciously B. birds seldom sleep with the whole of their brain at rest
C. half-brain sleep is found in a wide variety of birds D. half-brain sleep is characterized by slow brain waves
57. According to the passage, birds often half sleep because ______________.
A. they have to constantly keep an eye on their companions B. the two halves of their brain are differently structured
C. they have to watch out for possible attacks D. their brain hemisphere take turns to rest
58. The example of a bird sleeping in front of a mirror indicates that _____________.
A. birds prefer to sleep in pairs for the sake of security B. the phenomenon of birds dozing in pairs is widespread
C. a single pet bird enjoys seeing its own reflection in the mirror D. even an imagined companion gives the bird a sense of security
59. While sleeping, some water mammals tend to keep half awake in order to __________.
A. avoid being swept away by rapid currents B. emerge from water now and then to breathe
C. alert themselves to the approaching enemy D. be sensitive to the ever-changing environment
60. By “just the tip of the iceberg” (Line 2, Para.8), Siegel suggests that ____________.
A. half-brain sleep is a phenomenon that could exist among other species B. most birds living in cold regions tend to be half sleepers
C. the mystery of half-brain sleep is close to being solved D. half-brain sleep has something to do with icy weather
A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking（揭穿．．．的真相）a widely practiced medical treatment. Emily Rosa’s target was a practice known as therapeutic（治疗）touch (TT for short), whose advocates manipulate patients’ “energy field” to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily’s test shows that these energy fields can’t be detected, even by trained TT practitioners（行医者）. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, “Age doesn’t matter. It’s good science that matters, and this is good science.”
Emily’s mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the late ’80s, when she learned it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado. Its 100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U.S.) don’t even touch their patients. Instead, they waved their hands a few inches from the patient’s body, pushing energy fields around until they’re in “balance.” TT advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds, relieve pain and reduce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals, at up to $70 an hour, the smooth patients’ energy, sometimes during surgery.
Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing—something they haven’t been eager to do, even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (He’s had one taker so far. She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader? Says Emily: “I think they didn’t take me very seriously because I’m a kid.”
The experiment was straightforward: 21 TT therapists stuck their hands, palms up, through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one of theirs—left or right—and the practitioners had to say which hand it was. When the results were recorded, they’d done no better than they would have by simply guessing. if there was an energy field, they couldn’t feel it.
61. Which of the following is evidence that TT is widely practiced?
A. TT has been in existence for decades. B. Many patients were cured by therapeutic touch.
C. TT therapists are often employed by leading hospitals. D. More than 100,000 people are undergoing TT treatment.
62. Very few TT practitioners responded to the $1 million offer because ____________.
A. they didn’t take the offer seriously B. they didn’t want to risk their career
C. they were unwilling to reveal their secret D. they thought it was not in line with their practice
63. The purpose of Emily Rosa’s experiment was ____________.
A. to see why TT could work the way it did B. to find out how TT cured patient’s illness
C. to test whether she could sense the human energy field D. to test whether a human energy field really existed
64. Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emily’s experiment?
A. It involved nothing more than mere guessing. B. They thought it was going to be a lot of fun.
C. It was more straightforward than other experiments. D. They sensed no harm in a little girl’s experiment.
65. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Some widely accepted beliefs can be deceiving. B. Solid evidence weighs more than pure theories.
C. Little children can be as clever as trained TT practitioners. D. The principle of TT is too profound to understand.
IV. Translation. (2 points for each, altogether 20 points)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English or chinese, using the words or phrases in the brackets. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
66. 你可曾预见到你现在遇到的困难？(anticipate, encounter)
67. 根据最近的研究，人类对这种疾病有免疫力。(be immune to )
68. 如果他们不听我们的话，他们必定失败。(be bound to)
69. 经过多次失败后，他终于成功地发明了一种比已有的任何一种都好的自行车。 (superior to, in existence)
70. 彼得的数学不好，但要说到体育，他却是班上最好的。(come to sth)
71. 有迹象表明，不少工厂正面临着十分困难的局面。(be faced with a difficult situation)
72. 这对我们来说是个很小的损失，不要大惊小怪。(make a fuss over sth)
73. 我们常常发现运用一个规律比懂得它要难得多。(apply a rule)
74. 我已经了解清楚，她的结论是以事实为根据的。（be based on)
75. 亨利不能参加运动会因为他的腿摔断了。 (because of)
V. Writing: write down your composition on the ANSWER SHEET (altogether 10 points)
76. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Credit Cards. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
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2. 信用卡的弊端
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