《大学英语一》成人高考

大学英语 一一 单选题1What he has done can be praised as a real _A_. Aadventure2Mid-autumn Festival is round the _D_ and everyone looks excited. Dcorner3If I hadnt practiced when I was younger, the musician says, I _A_ able to play so well now. Awouldnt be4As soon as he succeeded in stealing, the thief ran into the crowd and _D_. Dvanished5Homer sat _C_ the dry candy while the Mexican woman talked. Cchewing6The flock of geese was flying through the sky in perfect formation following _A_ leader. Aits7Everything _D_ if Albert hadnt called the fire brigade. Dwould have been destroyed8My hand was hurt. Could you do _A_ typing for me? Asome9_D_ a half hour at lunchtime, there were no breaks in the day to relieve the boring work. DExcept10Vingo and his family _A_ in Brunswick, just before Jacksonville. Aused to live11I slept through her _D_ speech. Ddull12He is very _A_ to call on me this afternoon. Alikely13He was caught parking his car in a wrong place and was fined $ 10 on the _B_. Bspot14Sam set out to improve _A_ at the shirt factory, but he failed at last. Aefficiency15Once you _B_ the knack of it, you will have no further difficulty. Bhad had16The young man is swift _A_ anger. Ato17Jane had never married again, but had seemed _D_ to live with her daughter. Dcontent18That so many advances have been made in _C_ is the most valid argument for retaining the research unit. Csuch a short time19He could see that she _C_ patient all her life. Chad been20With _A_ fingers she tore the letter from her husband into little bits. Atrembling21I should say I come at the _B_ time; I really didnt know you were so busy. Bwrong22A compass _A_ the captain of a ship to find his direction and keep in the right direction. Aenables23He got gradually _D_ in the case, though he didnt intend to originally. Dinvolved24We must keep away from some _D_, for they will do harm to our health. Dchemicals25The woman began to sob when Homer was sitting there. He really wanted to get _D_ and run. Dup26There is a deep love between the young couple _C_ in understanding and support. Crooted27He scarcely knew a word of French, _B_? Bdid he28The rocket will weigh about 200 tons when _B_. Bcompleted29No one can prove that the earth _C_ not round. Cis30I shall tell you what he _C_ at three oclock yesterday afternoon. Cwas doing31When I got there, the train had already _C_ out of the station. Cpulled32He was just about to jump up when he felt something _C_ near his feet. Cmoving33Now that you _D_, what are you going to do? Dhave returned34At sixty-five Chichester decided to sail _C_ round the world. Csingle-handed35The _ mother beat her son black and blue, for the boy had said so many _B_ words. Bannoyed annoying36You should not be so angry. Anyway, I have only made a _C_ mistake. Cminor （二）挑错题1Enough have been said about it. B A B C D2I found strange that she had not come yet. A A B C D3The pen is missing, for we cannot find it everywhere. D A B C D4Do you mind getting me some water? Certainly dont. D A B C D5The little girl hurried home with the remained money. D A B C D6He seems to be a bright student, isnt he? D A B C D7Help yourselves with the fish. Its very delicious.，mother said to the guests. B A B C D 8She had done nothing but cried all day. C A B C D9He thinks he needs not do it in a hurry. B A B C D10After mixing the three together, he dipped one of his finger into the cup. D A B C D11I lent him the book I bought the day before. C A B C D12Speak slowly and try to make yourself understand. D A B C D13Being Sunday today, we dont have to work. A A B C D（三）完型填空Passage 1The rocket engine, with its steady roar like that of a waterfall or a thunderstorm, is an impressive symbol of the new space age. Rocket engines have 1 D powerful enough to shoot astronauts 2 C the earths gravitational pull and 3 B them on the moon. We have now become 4 A in space.Impressive and complex 5 C it may appear , the rocket , which was 6 D in China over 800 years 7 D is a relatively simple device. Fuel that is 8 D in the rocket engine changes 9 B gas. The hot and rapidly 10 C gas must escape, but it can do so only 11 D an opening that 12 D backward. As the gas is 13 D with great force, it 14 D the rocket in the 15 C direction. Like the kick of a gun 16 B it is fired, it 17 C the laws of nature 18 A by Sir Isaac Newton when he discovered that 19 D every action , there is 20 B equal and opposite reaction.1. D. proved 2. C. beyond 3. B. land 4. A. travelers 5.C. as 6.D. invented 7. D. ago 8. D. burned 9. B. into 10. C. expanding11. D. through 12. D. directs 13. D. radiated 14. D. pushes 15. C. opposite16. B. when 17. C. follows 18. A. described 19. D. for 20.B. an Passage 2For the past two years, I have been working on students evaluation of classroom teaching. I have kept a record of informal conversations 1 A some 300 students from at 2 B twenty-one colleges and universities. The students were generally 3 D and direct in their comments 4 C how course work could be better 5 A . Most of their remarks were kindly 6 C with tolerance rather than bitterness and frequently were softened by the 7 C that the students were speaking 8 D some, not all, instructors. Nevertheless, 9 B the following suggestions and comments indicate, students feel 10 A with things-as-they-are in the classroom. Professors should be 11 C from reading lecture notes. It makes their 12 A monotonous（单调的）. If they are going to read, why not 13 D out copies of the lecture. Then we 14 D need to go to class. Professors should 15 D repeating in lectures material that is in the textbook. 16 A weve read the material, we want to 17 C it or hear it elaborated on, 18 B repeated. A lot of students hate to buy a 19C text that the professor has written 20 D to have his lectures repeated. 1. A. involving 2. B. least 3. D. frank 4. C. on 5. A. presented 6. C. made 7. C. case 8. D. with 9. B. as 10. A. dissatisfied11. C. discouraged 12. A. voices 13. D. give 14. D. shouldnt 15. D. avoid16. A. Once 17. C. discuss 18. B. not 19. C. required 20. D. onlyPassage 3Rumor is the most 1 A way of spreading stories by passing them on from mouth 2 B mouth. But civilized countries in normal times have better 3 C of news than rumor. They have radio, television, and newspapers. In times of stress and 4 A , 5 B , rumor 6 A and becomes widespread. At such 7 C the different kinds of news are in 8 B , the press, television, and radio versus the grapevine. Especially 9 A rumors spread when war requires censorship（审查，检查）on many important matters. The customary news sources no longer 10 C enough information. Since the people cannot learn 11 A legitimate（合法的，正规的）channels all 12 D they are anxious to learn, they pick up news 13 A they can and when this 14 C , rumor thrives.Rumors are often repeated 15 B by those who do not believe the tales. There is a fascination about them. The reason is 16 A the cleverly designed rumor gives expression to something deep in the hearts of the victims-the fears, suspicions, forbidden hopes, or daydreams which they hesitate to 17 B directly. Pessimistic（悲观的）rumors about defeat and disasters show that the people who repeat them are 18 D and anxious. 19 C rumors about record production or peace soon coming point to complacency（满足，自得）or confidence and often to 20 A .1. A. primitive 2. B. to 3. C. sources 4. A. confusion 5. B. however 6. A. emerges 7. C. times 8. B. competition 9. A. do 10. C. give out 11. A. through 12. D. that 13. A. wherever 14. C. happens 15. B. even 16. A. that 17. B. voice 18. D. worried 19. C. Optimistic 20. A. overconfidence（四）阅读理解Passage 1In many parts of the world，a young persons husband or wife is chosen by the persons parentsIn the United States，the choice is usually made by the young people themselvesA few people now employ private companies to help them in their search for the right husband or wifeSuch a company collects a great deal of information about each man and woman who is interested in marrying and puts the information on a card，which is called an IBM（国际商用机器公司）card All the cards are then classified（分类）by a computer，a machine which organizes the cards into groupsThe theory is that such a machine can make the best decision about matching the right man with the right woman because machines are not influenced by emotions（情感）Mr. Walker and Miss Brown are such a coupleWhen they first met，they did not have much to talk of since everything was written on their cardsThey are so perfectly matched that they seem to have everything in commonFor instance，they have the same interests，future plans and even living styles1. This passage is mainly about _C_. C. a new way that some people choose the right husband or wife in America2. Young people in the United States usually become husband and wife _C_. C. out of their own choices3. In this passage the word influence means _A_. A. affect strongly 4. After all the cards are sent into a computer, the computer _B_. B. makes the best decision about matching the right man with the right woman5. Mr. Walker and Miss Brown didnt have much to talk of because _C_. C. their information had been written on their cardsPassage 2The journey two divers（潜水员）made some time ago to the very deepest point on the earth make us realize how much of the world still remains to be studied. The two men went down seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean inside a small ball to find out if there are any ocean currents（水流）or signs of life. It was necessary to set out early, so that the ball would come to the surface in daylight, and so be easily found by the mother ship which would be waiting for it. The divers began preparations（准备）early in the morning and soon afterwards, when all was ready, the steel ball disappeared under the surface of the water. The divers felt as if they were going down steps as they passed through warm and cold layers（层）of water. In time, the temperature dropped to freezing point. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone telling how they felt. Then, at a depth（深度）of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut off from the outside world. All went well until some four hours later at 30,000 feet, the men were frightened by a loud, cracking（爆裂）noise: even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant death. Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer（外部的）windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the ball touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of dust made up of small dead sea-creatures. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled by the great water pressure（压力）. But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long , as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the faint（微弱的）but clear voices of the divers were heard on the mother ship seven miles away. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience. 1. The purpose of the divers journey to the deepest point on the earth was to find _B_. A. if there are water currents and life in the great depthsB. if people can stand the severe cold in the great depths C. if there are steps in the great depths D. if the telephone works well in the great depths2. The divers set out early in the morning so that _A_. A. they could return to the surface during the day B. they could see at the bottom of the ocean C. they could avoid the cold at night D. they could stay long at the bottom 3. Which of the following statements is true? AA. The ocean water temperature decreases steadily with the depth B. There are steps on the way to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean C. There are steps between the water layers of different temperature D. The water layers of different temperatures made the divers feel as if they were going down steps 4. As the divers went down to the ocean floor, the telephone _C_. A. kept working all the time B. stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again after they reached the bottom C. stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working at 30,000 feet D. stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again when they returned to the same depth 5. On the ocean floor, the divers found that _A_. A. there was no life but some small dead sea-creatures B. fish were swimming as freely as they do near the surface C. fish were not swimming freely in the dark water D. fish were not swimming freely under the high water pressurePassage 3Suppose we built a robot（机器人）to explore the planet Mars. We provide the robot with seeing detectors（探测器）to keep it away from danger. It is powered entirely by the sun. Should we program the robot to be equally active at all times? No. The robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any. So we would probably program it to stop its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning. According to the evolutionary（进化的）theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason. The theory does not deny（否认）that sleep provides some important restorative functions（恢复功能）. It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous. However, sleep protects us only from the sort of trouble we might walk into；it does not protect us form trouble that comes looking for us. So we sleep well when we are in a familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent. The evolutionary theory explains the differences in sleep among creatures. Why do cats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little? Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do. But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be attacked while they sleep. Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value. Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival（生存）depends on their ability to run away from attackers. 1. The author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us _B_. B. the reason why men need to sleep2. Evolution has programmed man to sleep at night chiefly to help him _C_. C. avoid danger and inefficient labour3. According to the author, we cannot sleep well when we _A_. A. are worrying about our safety4. Cats sleep much more than horses do partly because cats _D_. D. spend less time eating to get enough energy5. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage? _A_A. Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking. （一）汉译英1到那座房子步行约半个多小时。 The house was within the reach of half an hours walk.2工作时间必须全力以赴。 Nothing but work during the working hours.3大部分孩子几乎是给他们什么都吃。 Most children are ready to eat almost anything that is offered to them.4好环境会给人好心情。 Good environment keeps people in good mood.5森林已经变成一排排的房屋。 The forest has been replaced by rows and rows of houses and buildings.6该镇的10万居民中，有一半不是在本地出生的。Among the 0.1 million residents of this town, half of them are non-natives.7一部小说的深度不