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大学英语（二）（第二版）2016年3月考试考前练习题一 完型填空 Passage 1In the next 40 years，the percentage of people in the United States over the age of 65 is expected to double 1 the needs of this part of the populations is a 2 to the ingenuity of AmericaTo a 3 degree，a society is judged by 4 it cares for those who can no longer care 5 themselvesHigh technology 6 the most startling advances in helping the elderlyIn 7 to the well-known artificial heart implantation，there are efforts underway to 8 artificial lungs，livers，and bonesAn electric ear is 9 seventy-five percent effectiveThe implants will 10 better medical care by 11 minute does of drugs into the body continuouslyFor the older people，even the simplest tasks can be difficult， 12 impossible to performAmerican business have responded 13 their needs with a 14 of inexpensive but useful 15 Companies have designed extra-efficient can openers that 16 people whose hands have become 17 weak to open cans easilyThere are devices that allow people to pull on a pair of socks 18 straining their backsCombs with long handles and U-shaped back brushes are 19 for those who can not reach as 20 as they could when they were young1ASeeing BMeeting CFacing DMatching2Achance Bchallenge Ccall Dchange3Avaluable Bcomprehensive Cconsiderate Dconsiderable4Ahow Bwhy Cwho Dwhom5Awith Bto Cupon Dfor6Aprotects Bprofits Cproclaims Dpromises7Arelation Bcontrast Caddition Dproportion8Adiscover Bpromote Cassemble Ddevelop9Athus Bstill Calready Dyet10Apermit Bpersist Cserve Dpursue11Aremoving Breleasing Crelieving Dreplacing12Aalways Busually Ceventually Dsometimes13Ato Bat Cwith Don14Aset Bvariety Cseries Dgroup15Aproduction Bproduce Cproducts Dsales16Aenable Bmake Ccause Dencourage17Aso Bvery Ctoo Drather18Aby Bwithout Cin Dthrough19Avaluable Bready Cnear Davailable20Along Bgood Cfar Dmuch 附参考答案：Passage1题号12345678910答案BBDADDCDCA题号11121314151617181920答案BDABCACBDCPassage 2Do the old people in the United States like to live alone？No doubt some of them do 1 at least some of them 2 living alone to the changes and 3 that living with others needsIndependence is， 4 ，the chief and most honored 5 in this countryThe ideal，deeply rooted in us early， 6 even when we can，quite 7 ，no longer “stand on our own feet”When our 8 parents need for help grows too obvious to 9 ，we say they are beginning to “fail” Losing ones independence is，for Americans，a 10 thingAnd needing help，we know， 11 in our potential helpers pity， 12 and fearWe are all，through our lives，a 13 to othersFrom the moment of 14 ，we are nourished and nurtured by othersAs adults we learn to pay for or negotiate our 15 needs，but the fact 16 that it takes an 17 army of other people to grow our food，clean our clothes，maintain our roads，fuel our furnacesWhen we marry，we accept anothers 18 to stick with us in sickness and health， 19 and povertyThe load we lay on others only becomes visible，less 20 ，as we age1ABut BOr CSo DBesides2Afavor Bappreciate Clike Dprefer3Afailures Bcompromises Cfashions Dbalances4Aafter all Babove all Cat all Din all5Amanner Bcustom Chabit Dvirtue6Amaintains Bpersists Cinsists Dretains7Avirtually Busually Cbasically Dliterally8Alate Baging Cmaturing Dyounger 9Aemphasize Bmeet Ccater Dignore10Ashameful Bpity Cashamed Dshame11Abuild Bact Ctransform Devoke12Afrustration Binterest Cpassion Dpleasure13Aburden Bresponsibility Crelief Drequirement14Aperception Bdeception Cconception Dreception15Acommon Bindependent Cactual Dmutual16Astays Bremains Cmanifests Dreveals17Avariety Binvisible Cabundant Dforceful18Apledge Bassertion Cproclaim Dannouncement19Abooming Bhospitality Cproperty Dprosperity20Adeniable Bconsiderable Cunbearable Dfeasible附：参考答案Passage 2题号12345678910答案BDBADBDBDA题号11121314151617181920答案DAACDBBADA二 阅读理解Passage 1The problem of leisure is newUntil very recent times people worked each day to the limit of their strengthOf course there were always a privileged（有特权的）few who had leisure；but most men had to work 12，14，or even 16 hours a day，six days a weekAs late as 1840 the average factory worker labored 72 hours a week“Sunup to sundown” was the farmers day，or as another phrase puts it，“from can to cant”Today，working less than a 40-hour week，people enjoy more leisure timeHence，the wise use of leisure time has become an important problem for everyone，young or oldIt is a particularly difficult problem for the sick，the aged，and those who have retired from earning a livingThose people have so much leisure that it is hard for them to find interesting and worthwhile ways to use itHowever short the work week becomes，work is still the most important part of lifeWe do not work to get leisure and the pleasures leisure brings us；rather，we use leisure wisely so that work itself can become awarding and enjoyableThe feeling of success at doing ones daily work-whether it is a job，maintaining a home，or going to school-depends largely on coming to it each day with fresh energy and active interestLeisure and recreation（消遣）go together，though they are not necessarily the same thing“Recreation” has an obvious meaningIt is the kind of leisure activity that brings “re-creation” of strength and spiritWhen one speaks of making good use of leisure，he means choosing recreational activities which contribute to health，growth，and spirit1The phrase from can to cant in Paragraph 1 means _ Afrom beginning to end Bfrom birth to death Cfrom morning to night Dfrom time to time2How to spend leisure time wisely is not a particularly difficult problem for people _ Awho are very busy every day Bwho are sick in bed Cwho are aged and in good health Dwho have retired from work3How does the author look at work and leisure？_ AWe work hard so that we can enjoy more leisure BWe enjoy leisure so that we can come back to work with fresh energy CLeisure can bring us a lot of pleasures that work can not DThe success of work has little to do with how we spend our leisure time4What is the relationship between leisure and recreation，according to the author？_ ALeisure and recreation are closely related BLeisure and recreation are identical CRecreation covers all kinds of leisure activities DRecreation does not belong to any leisure activity5From the passage we know that _ Aleisure has been an old problem since ancient times Bleisure can not be replaced as the most important part of life Cour success in work is mostly determined by whether we use leisure wisely Dgood recreational activities contribute greatly to health，growth and spirit附：参考答案Passage 1题号12345答案BABADPassage 2In old days，when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office，secretaries were menThen came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by womenA mans secretary became his personal servant，charged with remembering his wifes birthday and buying her presents；taking his suits to the dry-cleaners；telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay；and，of course，typing and filling and taking shorthandNow all this may be changing againThe microchip and high technology is sweeping the British office，taking with it much of the routine clerical work that secretaries did“Once office technology takes over generally，the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work and then men will want to do it again”That was said by one of the executives（male）of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this countryWhat he has predicted is already under way in the USOnce high technology has made the job of secretary less routine，will there be a male takeover？Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobsThere are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they not just because they can buy negligees（妇女长睡衣）for the bosss wife，but because they are as efficient and well-trained to cope with word processors and computers，as men1Before 1914 female secretaries were rare because they _ Awere less efficient than men Bwere not as serious as men Cwore stockings Dwould have disturbed the other office workers2A female secretary has been expected，besides other duties，to _ Abe her bosss memory Bclean her bosss clothes Cdo everything her boss asked her to Dtelephone her bosss wife3Secretaries，until recently，had to do a lot of work now done by _ Amachines Bother staff Cservants Dwives4A secretary in the future will _ Abe better paid Bhave higher status Chave less work to do Dhave more work to do5The writer believes that before long _ Amen and women will be secretaries Bmen are better than machines Cmen will take over womens jobs as secretaries Dwomen will operate most office machines附：参考答案Passage 2题号12345答案DCABAPassage 3More attention was paid to the quality of production in France at the time of Ren CotyCharles Deschanel was then the financial ministerHe stressed that workmanship and quality were more important than quantity for industrial productionIt would be necessary to produce quality goods for the international market to compete with those produced in other countriesThe French economy needed a larger share of the international market to balance its import and export tradeFrench industrial and agricultural production was still inadequate to meet the immediate needs of the people，let alone long-ranged developmentsEssential imports had stretched the national credit to the breaking pointRents were tightly controlled，but the extreme inflation affected general population most severely through the cost of foodFood costs took as much as 80 percent of the workers incomeWages，it is true，had risenExtensive family allowances and benefits were paid by the state，and there was full-time and overtime employmentTaken together，these factors enabled the working class to exist but allowed them no sense of securityIn this precarious（不安定的）and discouraging situation，workmen were willing to work overseas for higher wagesThe government was reluctant to let workers leave the countryIt was feared that this migration of workers would deplete the labor forceThe lack of qualified workers might hinder the improvement in the quality of industrial products producedQualified workers employed abroad would only increase the quantity of quality goods produced in foreign countriesAlso the quantity of quality goods produced in France would not be able to increase as part of its qualified labor force moved to other countries1According to the passage，the French workers were _ Awilling to work overseas Bable to save more money with the increase in his wages Canxious to work abroad Doften unable to find work in France2The French government was reluctant to let the workers leave the country，because _ Ait would enlarge the working force Bit would hinder the improvement of quality in industrial production Cit would hinder the increase in quantity of exports Dit would damage the imports3Rents in France _ Awere extremely high Bwere tightly controlled Ctook as much as 80 percent of the workers income Dhad doubled in two years4According to the passage，French production _ Awas inadequate to meet the needs of the French people Bwas flooding the international market with inferior products Cemphasized industrial production at the expense of agricultural production Dwas enough for the local market5According to the passage the French government _ Aprohibited the French workers to work