2014河北专接本英语模拟试题二.doc

2014年唯美专接本考前冲刺模拟试卷二I. Phonetics (5 points)( )1. A. contain B. bargain C. explain D. remain ( )2. A. forbid B. double C. describe D. doubt ( )3. A. probably B. pronounce C. professor D. provide ( )4. A. ashamed B. asleep C. average D. attract ( )5. A. circle B. cattle C. coast D. curtainII. Situational dialogues(15 points)Section A（5 points）6. Thank you for picking me up in this remote area! _.Im just going in the same direction. A. With pleasure B. None of you business C. Think nothing of it D. Theres nothing in it 7.How do you find the new book by J.K.Rowling?_. I guess she is out of her talent.A. Very interesting B. By accident C. Very boring D. In the library8. Hello, Im calling to complain about one of your sales staff. Oh, _ A. you must be kidding!B. what a shock! C. why not?D. what happened?9.Excuse me，dad, but Im going to the club to meet my friends in the football team. OK. _.A. Good luck B. Congratulations C. With pleasure D. Have fun10.A second, please. I have another call coming through. _ .Im not in a hurry.A. Enjoy yourself B. Leave me alone C. Do as you like D. Take your timeSection B(10 points) Mary, do you want to see the pictures of my holiday in Italy? 11 Ah, it was great I the food was great the wine was great! But the traffic was terrible!A. And whats this?B. Why was it so bad?C. Yes, it was wonderful.D. What was Florence like?E. Lets return to the good parts.F. Sure, what was your holiday like?G. Well, did you like your hotel there? 12 Those Italians are crazy drivers! I dont want to think about it! OK. 13 Yes, so heres a picture of the Tower of Pisa. How nice! It was raining that day, but it was still wonderful. We climbed to the top! 14 Thats a photo of the Amo River. That s the Ponte Vecchio, the old bridge. 15 It was very interesting. There were beautiful old buildings in the city, and lots of wonderful museums. Thats nice.II. Reading comprehension(45 points)Section APassage 1The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive todays young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “Theyre expected to be rebellious (叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. Theres more negotiation (商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They dont want to rock the boat.”So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall, “I always tell them when Im going out clubbing. As long as they know what Im doing, theyre fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as Id done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.” 16. What is the popular image of teenagers today?A. They worry about school.B. They dislike living with their parents.C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.D. They quarrel a lot with other family members.17. The study shows that teenagers dont want to_.A. share family responsibility B. cause trouble in their familiesC. go boating with their family D. make family decisions18. Compared with parents of 30 years ago, todays parents_.A. go to clubs more often with their childrenB. are much stricter with their childrenC. care less about their childrens life D. give their children more freedom19. According to the author, teenage rebellion _.A. may be a false belief B. is common nowadaysC. existed only in the 1960sD. resulted from changes in families20. What is the passage mainly about?A. Negotiation in family.B. Education in family. C. Harmony in family.D. Teenage trouble in family.Passage 2The easy way out isnt always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cookbook and chose a menu which included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time, I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I ddoubled everything. As Doug loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticky dough (面团) covered with ugly yellowish marks . Realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldnt have to face Doug laughing at my work. I went on preparing the rest of the meal and, when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the windows to see what he was doing. Looking out, I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in our rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast (酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. I had to admit what the living thing was and why it was there. I dont know who was more embarrassed by the whole thingDoug or me.21. The writers purpose in writing this story is _. A. to tell an interesting experience B. to show the easiest way out of a difficulty C. to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman D. to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books22. Why did the womans attempt at making the bread turn out to be unsuccessful?A. The canned orange had gone bad. B. She didnt use the right kind of flour.C. The cookbook was hard to understand. D. She did not follow the directions closely.23. Why did the woman put the dough in the rubbish bin? A. She didnt see the use of keeping it B. She meant to joke with her husband. C. She didnt want her husband to see it. D. She hoped it would soon dry in the sun.24. What made the dough in the bin look frightening? A. The rising and falling movement. B. The strange-looking marks. C. Its shape. D. Its size.25. When Doug went out the third time, the woman looked out of the window because she was_.A. surprised at his being interested in the bin B. afraid that he would discover her secretC. unhappy that he didnt enjoy the meal D. curious to know what disturbed himPassage 3A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill and as she grew she would play in the small garden. There, she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill. This house had golden windows, so golden and shining that the little girl would dream of how magic it would be to grow up and live in a house with golden windows instead of an ordinary house like hers. Although she loved her parents and her family, she yearned to live in such a golden house and dreamed all day about how wonderful and exciting it must feel to live there.When she got to an age when she gained enough skill and sensibility to go outside her garden fence, she asked her mother if she could go for a bike ride outside the gate and down the lane. After pleading with her, her mother finally allowed her to go, insisting that she should keep close to the house and not wander too far. The day was beautiful and the little girl knew exactly where she was heading! Down the lane and across the valley, she rode her bike until she got to the gate of the golden house across on the other hill.As she dismounted her bike and leaned it against the gate post, she focused on the path that led to the house and then on the house itself. She was so disappointed as she realized all the windows were plain and rather dirty, reflecting nothing other than the sad neglect of the house that was derelict.So sad she didnt go any further and turned, and heart broken as she remounted her bike. As she glanced up she saw a sight to amaze her. There across the way on her side of the valley was a little house and its windows glistened golden as the sun shone on her little home.She realized that she had been living in her golden house and all the love and care she found there was what made her home the golden house. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!26.Why did the girl long for the house on the hill?A.Because there was a small garden. B. Because its magic.C.Because its ordinary.D. Because its windows looked golden.27.Which statement is True according to Paragraph 2 and 3?A.Thegirls mother finally allowed her to go to the golden house alone.B.Thegolden house was on the hill where the girl lived.C What disappointed the little girl was that the house was locked.D. Actually , the windows of the golden house were common and covered with dirt.28.What amazed the girl was that_A.Her home was another golden houseB.There was no golden house indeedC.She could see the golden house only when she looked upD.The golden house disappeared when the sun shone on it29.What can be inferred from the passage? A.The mother thought that she neednt keep an eye on her daughter.B.The girl was determined to go to the golden house at the beginning.来源:Z.xx.k.ComC.The girl had no idea where she was heading after leaving home.D.The girl didnt love or care for her parents .30. The passage is intended to tell us that_.A.girls often have amazing imagination B. not all dreams will come trueC.what we dream of may be just around us D. nothing is impossible to a willing heartSection BIn families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a childs language development than mothers, a new study suggests.Researchers 31 92 families form 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-class families, with married parents both living in the home.When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents, 32 all of their speech. The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.The scientists measured the 33 number of utterance (话语) of the parents, the number of different words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other 34 of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions asked.Finally, the researchers 35 the childrens speech at age 3, using a standardized language test. The only predictors of high scores on the test were the mothers level of education, the 36 of child care and the number of different words the father used. The researchers are 37 why the fathers speech, and not the mothers, had an effect.“Its well 38 that the mothers language does have an impact,” said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. It could be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had 39 had a strong influence on their childrens speech development, Ms. Pancsofar said, “or it may be that mothers are 40 in a way we didnt measure in the study.”A) already B) analyzed C) aspects D) characters E) contributing F) describing G) establishedH) quality I) quoted J) recording K) recruited L) total M) unconscious N) unsure O) yet IV. Cloze(30 points)The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can 41 from a different kind of povertyof the spirit. 42, one Western country alone now sees 14, 000 attempted suicides (自杀)every year by children under 15, and one child 43 five needs psychiatric(心理)advice.There are many good things about 44 in the Third World. Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents, relatives and neighbours for example. In the West, the very nature of work puts distance between 45 and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices. 46, the child sees mother and father, relations and neighbours working 47 and often shares in that work.A child 48 in this way learns his or her role through joining in the communitys 49: helping to dig or build, look after animals or babies-rather than 50 playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets 51 playing with dolls.These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the 52 children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world, 53, are provided with a watch as one of the 54 signs of growing up, so that they