英语模拟考试
本试卷为英语模拟考试,题目包括:单项选择题。
本卷包括如下题型:
英语模拟考试
一、单项选择题 (共50题,每题2分,共计100分)
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1、__illness,he went to the seaside for vacation.
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2、--How did Bob do in the exams this time? --Well,his father seems__with his results.
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3、请在第_____处填上正确答案。
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4、请在第_____处填上正确答案。
( D )
5、请在第_____处填上正确答案。
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6、Passage Two The thought of not sleeping for twenty-four hours or more is not a pleasant one for most people.The amount of sleep that each person needs varies.In general,each of us needs about eight hours of sleep each day to keep our bodies healthy and happy.Some people,however,can get by just a few hours of sleep at night. It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps.But everyone needs some rest to stay alive.Few doctors would have thought that there might be an exception on this.Sleep is,after all,a very basic need.But a man named AI Herpin turned out to be a real exception,for supposedly,he never slept! A1 Herpin was 90 years old when doctors came to his home in New Jersey.They hoped to negate the claims that he never slept.But they were surprised.Though they watched him every hour of the day,they never saw Herpin sleeping.He did not even own a bed.He never needed one. The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair and read a half dozen news-papers.His doctors were baffled by this strange case of permanent insomnia.Herpin offered the only clue to his condition.He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days be-fore he had been born.Herpin died at the age of 94,never having slept a wink. The most likely reason on Herpion's insomnia was______
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7、Passage Four How can we get rid of garbage?Do we have enough energy sources to meet our future energy needs? These are two important questions that many people are asking today.Some people think that man might be able to solve both problems at the same time,They suggest using garbage as an energy source,and at the same time it can save the land to hold garbage. For a long time,people buried garbage or dumped it on empty land.Now,empty land is scarce.But more and more garbage is produced each year.However,garbage can be a good fuel to use.The things in garbage do not look like coal,petroleum,or natural gas;but they are chemically similar to these fossil fuels.As we use up our fossil-fuel supplies,we might be able to use garbage as an energy source.Burning garbage is not a new idea.Some cities in Europe and the United States have been burning garbage for years.The heat that is produced by burning garbage is used to boil water.The steam that is produced is used to make electricity or to heat nearby,buildings.In Paris,France,some power plants burn almost 2 million metric tons of the cities garbage each year.The amount of energy produced is about the same as would be produced by burning almost a half million barrels of oil. Our fossil fuel supplies are limited.Burning garbage might be one kind of energy source that we can use to help meet our energy needs.This method could also reduce the amount if garbage piling up on the earth. The best title for the passage may be______
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8、Scotland provides superb opportunities to enjoy wild and grand scenery which is even more impressive than the postcards suggest.It also offers towns and cities with a rich cultural life,a good mix of accommodation and places to eat and drink.Friendly and welcoming,it is an interesting and colorful all-season destination,where landscapes and the environment,sport and leisure pursuits,heritage and history,culture and cuisine are all part of a rewarding experience. The best reason for choosing to go on holiday to Scotland is:one of the last places inside the crowded and frenetic European Union where it is possible to be alone isolated countryside.This is not to say that Scotland,like everywhere else,does not have its tourist traps,its crowded roads or its popular beauty spots.But it is relatively easy to escape from them. It would be a mistake to think that Scotland is merely an extension of England. Indeed,no attitude is capable of causing greater offence to the Scots.They successfully resisted English attempts at domination for seven hundred years,and many differences between the two countries persist. Scotland's history,embodied in its castles,battlefields,and ancient links with France,Flanders and Scandinavia,is special. Scotland is__.
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9、There Pictures from outer space now show us how much land has changed on earth.These images are taken by Landsat 7,a government satellite.The satellites have been used for 27 years.They reveal the clear-cutting of forests in the northwestern part of the United States.Pictures show the loss of rain forests in South America. NASA's Darrel Williams speaks about the Landsat 7 Project.He said that an eruption caused trees to burn up in a large forest.Fifteen years later,pinkish images from space show that the trees and plant life are growing again.Williams says that clear-cut areas easily show up in the pictures.He wants Americans to look at how much land is being cleared of forests in our country. Satellites have provided other information about changes on earth.In the past ten years,more than four miles have shrunk from glaciers in Alaska.Landsat 7 received these computer images of Glacier Bay in Alaska. Hurricanes Floyd and Irene have damaged the coastline in North Carolina.Runoff from farms and silt have gone into the.ocean according to satellite images.Loss of trees and forests have caused hotter summers in southern cities such as Atlanta,Georgia. The Landsat 7 images are like pictures in a photo album.Instead of pictures of the family,the album shows changes around the globe in the past 25 years. A new satellite,Terra,is going to be launched by NASA soon.It will be more advanced than Landsat 7 and will take important global pictures.Ocean temperatures and energy loss will be provided by Terra daily. Landsat 7 knows that Alaskan glaciers have shrunk because__.
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10、The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change,Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday.Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water,contributing to a rise in sea levels that is covering small island nations and threatening to destroy the low-lying,densely-populated low regions around the globe. The study,published in the British journal Nature,adds to a growing scientific chorus of warnings about the pace and consequences rising oceans.It also serves as a corrective to a massive report issued last year by the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPC C),according to the authors. Rising sea levels are driven by two things:the thermal expansion of sea water,and additional water from melting sources of ice.Both processes are caused by global warming.The ice sheet that sits atop Greenland,for example,contains enough water to raise world ocean levels by seven meters,which would bury sea-level cities from Dhaka to Shanghai. Trying to figure out how much each of these factors contributes to rising sea levels is critically important to understanding climate change,and forecasting future temperature rises,scientists say.But up to now,there has been a puzzling gap between the projections of computer-based climate models,and the observations of scientists gathering data from the oceans. The new study,led by Catia Domingues of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research,is the first to reunite the models with observed data.Using new techniques to assess ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 meters from 1961 to 2003,it shows that thermal warming contributed to a 0.53 millimeter-per-year rise in sea levels rather than the 0.32 mm rise reported by the IPC C. What was the main finding of the study?
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11、If you are like most people,your intelligence varies from season to season.You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year.A noted scientist,Ellsworth Huntington(1876-1947),concluded from other men's work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities. He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat.This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year.It does mean,however,that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer. Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking.One reason may be that in the spring man's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature. Fall is the next-best season,then winter.As for summer,it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking! According to the passage,any vacations from thinking should be taken__.
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12、Many people use wood stoves and fireplaces to heat their homes.Scientists have become worried about the smoke that they give off.Harmful chemicals are in the smoke.The smoke is causing air pollution.The pieces of pollution,called soot,are floating in the air.They are too tiny to see.Scientists must use a microscope to see them. Small amounts of soot are safe,but large amounts can be dangerous.The govenment wants to limit this kind of pollution.It may stop people from using their fireplaces. The air is tested every day.When soot levels are high,more than 65 micrograms of soot per cubic meter,factories must stop making smoke.The government thinks that limit should be much lower. Factories produce the most smoke and soot.But the government thinks that all types of burning should be limited.The soot levels from factories and homes could be limited.Home owners may have to install new wood stoves that they comply with the new law.Or,they may not be able to bum on days when the air quality is bad. Residents of some towns are fined if they violate the burning ban.Scientists hope these new regulations will make the air cleaner and less harmful to breathe. What could home owners do to comply with the new regulation?
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13、请在第_____处填上正确答案。
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14、Every morning,kids from a local high school are working hard.They are making and selling special coffee at a coffee cafe.They are also making a lot of money. These students can make up to twelve hundred dollars a day.They are selling their special coffee to airplane passengers.After the students get paid,the rest of the money goes to helping a local youth project. These high school students use a space in the Oakland airport.It is usually very crowded. Many people who fly on the planes like to drink the special coffee. One customer thinks that the coffee costs a lot but it is good and worth it.Most customers are pleasant but some are unhappy.They do not like it if the coffee care is not open for business. The students earn$6.10 an hour plus tips.They also get school credit while they learn how to run a business.Many of the students enjoy the work although it took some time to learn how to do it. They have to learn how to steam milk,load the pots,and add flavor.It takes some skill and sometimes mistakes are made.The most common mistake is forgetting to add the coffee. All of the money that the students make goes to helping a local__project
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15、―――I feel sick,doctor.――____. ―――I'm not sure,but I have got a bad headache.
( B )
16、请选出读音不同的选项。( )
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17、下列的划线部分ou与其他单词的划线部分的读音不同。找出这个词。
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18、In the race to the moon, who came in first?You might say the answer is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the crew of Apollo 11. Or you could represent for the crew of Apollo 10 , which reached the moon in May 1969 and then headed back to Earth without landing.But there is a much stranger answer to this question, depending on how much you care about humans and what your definition(定义)of reaching the moon might be. Before any people arrived at the moon, other animals had got there first. And unlike the dogs and monkeys that were made famous in early space shots and Earth orbits, the first creatures to reach the moon were a pair of tortoises , Discovery’s Amy Shira Teitel reminded us.The Soviet spacecraft (航天器) sent the animals around the moon—although not into its orbit—during a mission in the middle of September, 1968. The unmanned(无人驾驶的)craft then returned to Earth and dashed into the Indian Ocean, after which the Russians recovered the craft.A month later, Soviet scientists revealed that the spacecraft had been a tiny ship, carrying the tortoises, wine flies, meal worms, plants, seeds, bacteria, and other living matter.The tortoises, as history records, lost about 10 percent of their body weight, but had a healthy appetite when they returned to Earth. In the following checkups comparing the animals to “stay-at-home turtles used as a test control,” most things seemed normal, aside from some vaguely explained minor problems with the liver.What this all means is that, as Teitel explained, “The first living beings to see an Earthrise from the Moon were Russian tortoises. However, as far as I can tell, the animals were not named.”According to the passage, which of the following reached the moon first?
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19、The doctors tried their best to save the patient's life,()failed.
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20、He suddenly returned()a Sunday morning.
( A )
21、Tigers and bears are very dangerous.That's() they have to stay in cages in the zoo.
( D )
22、-- Hello, is that Mrs.Black speaking?-- Yes, ()who's that?-- Mary.
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23、My new glasses cost me()the last pair that I bought.
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24、It is difficult to distinguish one twin()the other.
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25、If we can ________ our present difficulties, then everything should be all right.
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26、It is not uncommon for ________ problems of communication between old and young.
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27、Her determination to ________ her goal of life motivated her to greater effort.
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28、Of the two houses the family prefers _________.
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29、Grace advised us to withdraw ________.
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30、I'd like to explain the proposals _______ we have received many objections.
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31、Under the _______ of the University, doctor's thesis must be printed.
( B )
32、A large number of people ______ present at the meeting, which was out of our expectation.
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33、When the girls saw the funny man, they couldn't ____ laughing.
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34、With a good command of reading skills, most students can manage to read _______as they could the year before.
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35、Mike is _______than Jack.
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36、- Thank God.It's Friday again.A nice weekend!- ______.
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37、- Have a cup of tea, _________?- Thanks a lot.
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38、- Congratulations! You won the first prize in today's speech contest.- ________
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39、- We are going to have a singing party tonight. Would you like to join us?- ________
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40、Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? _________
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41、The twins are ______ each other in character.
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42、Reading in bed isn’t _____ your eyes.
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43、My mother was ill in hospital . I ______.
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44、Who became friendly with the donkey. _____
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45、It is _____ to travel on the moon.
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46、Please be ______ !
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47、Mr. Smith spent the weekend in the country _____ he didn’t have to go office on Sunday.
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48、The system in Chicago ___.
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49、Dogs bark, donkeys _____.
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50、In Mount Berry there are now ____.
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