大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)C类模拟试卷1

大学生英语竞赛 NECCS C 类模拟试卷 27 Part Vocabulary and Structure 31 I want to put some money into my bank account so I m going to bank this afternoon It s in Midland Street A a the B the the C a a D the 32 Ms Smith is very She has changed the director s mind about many issues A Prompt B Tidy C Influential D vital 33 The board of the opinion that the news shouldn t be carried in the newspaper A Is B will be C Were D are 34 Production is to be from big cities to the mountainous areas in case of war A Transferred B Transmitted C Translated D transformed 35 The crew worked so hard they finished the entire project three days schedule A forward of B ahead of C onward of D above of 36 We went to a restaurant that night food was lovely but I didn t like the soup or the dessert A Some of B Some of the C None of the D All the 37 The receptionist we handed the forms pointed out that they had not been properly filled in A Who B That C to whom D to who 38 It seems oil from this pipe for some time We ll have to take the machine apart to put it right A had leaked B Leaked C is leaking D has been leaking 39 The game was cancelled because most of the team members a match without a standard court A objected to have B objected to having C were objected to have D were objected that 40 He was out when I called but the secretary kindly offered a message for me A Taking B to take C Took D taken 41 the note you left I would have forgotten to close the door A With B In case of C Because of D But for 42 The spokesman admitted that the government s thoughtless policy had caused a crisis that A could never have happened B might have happened C should never have happened D would never have happened 43 We doubted if it was worth about 40 miles to see the football match A of riding B Riding C Ride D being ridden 44 Excuse me Can I park my car here No I m afraid not Oh do you know of anywhere around here I can park Sorry I m afraid I don t A Maybe you will park here B This is a no parking zone C Thanks for the offer D Would you mind parking here 45 Tom What s that There are two girls behind you You ve just noticed I don t get why anybody does that anymore It s so annoying A They ve been smoking like chimneys B I can t stand smoking here C Many people around here are smoking D The secondhand smoke is going to kill us Part Cloze In the early 1950s the researchers who produced the first clad glass optical fibers were not thinking of using them for communications C1 H fiber optics was already a well established commercial technology when the famous paper by Kao and Hockham C2 claim the use of low loss optical fibers for communication appeared in 1966 The first low loss silica fiber was described in C3 which appeared in October of 1970 The date of this publication is sometimes C4 cite as the beginning of the era of fiber communication Although this development did receive C5 consider attention in the research community at the time it was far from inevitable that a major industry would evolve The technological barriers appeared formidable because there were serious doubts as to C6 wh these fiber components could ever be produced economically enough but the market potential was very significant C7 consequence research and development activity expanded rapidly and a number of important issues were C8 re during the early 1970s During the middle and late 1970s the rate of progress towards marketable products accelerated as the emphasis C9 shift from research to engineering Fibers with losses C10 app the Rayleigh limit of 2 dB km at a wavelength of 0 8 m were produced By 1980 improvement in component performance cost and reliability led to major commitments on the part of telephone companies Part Reading Comperhension Section A A collision between an aircraft and one or more birds is termed a bird strike Pilots sometimes record a birdstrike while at cruising altitudes but most of them happen when an aircraft is relatively close to the ground usually in proximity to an airport and during the circling descent to land or take off phases of a flight Birdstrikes may cause significant damage to an aircraft and or if the birds are ingested into a jet engine a significant and sudden loss of power If this were to happen during take off or initial climb of a fully loaded passenger aircraft the results could be catastrophic loss of the aircraft and the lives of those on board Any bird is a potential hazard to aircraft and this is especially true as bird numbers and bird size increase Unfortunately airports themselves can be attractive to birds rodents insects and other small animals are a food source often found in flat grassed areas such as the runway strips Even so this problem can be reduced by careful habitat management or bird harassment techniques practised by airport maintenance and safety personnel Care needs to be taken by local authorities in deciding the location of rubbish tips or when permitting other land uses that may be attractive to birds in this way Of course these effects cannot always be anticipated with certainty since birds such as gulls have been recorded as travelling 50 kilometres or more from their roosting area to an attractive food source Local authority planning schemes often apply strict controls on developments such as abattoirs cattle feed lots grain handling piggeries canals and marina developments fish farms and suchlike In most cases these uses will not be permitted without a full environmental study That study should be required to deal with the question of likely bird hazards if the proposed location is in proximity to an airport In some instances it may be necessary to consider ways of managing a particular land use in order to reduce its attractiveness to birds for example the adoption of land fill measures at garbage tips or enclosed rather than open air activity Specialist ornithological opinion may be necessary In such cases it may not be possible to implement immediate changes in land use but this should not inhibit the adoption of long term measures which are designed to achieve this Summary A collision between an aircraft and one or more birds is known as a bird strike It usually happens when an aircraft is close A1 and may result in significant damage of the aircraft or loss of the aircraft and A2 of passengers and crew if they occur during take off or initial climb Because birds can find plenty food in flat grassed areas airports are especially attractive to birds However the danger can be minimized by A3 Local authorities need to take care when deciding on A4 It is suggested that a full environmental study should be made before making plans of developments on the land in proximity to an airport Local authorities should get advice from specialists and take A5 in order to bring about changes in land use Section B Resources can be said to be scarce in both an absolute and relative sense the surface of the Earth is finite imposing absolute scarcity but the scarcity that concerns economists is the relative scarcity of resources for different uses Materials used for one purpose can not at the same time be used for other purposes if the quantity of an input is limited the increased use of it in one manufacturing process must cause it to become less available for other uses The cost of a product in terms of money may not measure its true cost to society The true cost of say the construction of a supersonic jet is the value of the schools and refrigerators that will never be built as a result Every act of production uses up some of society s available resources it means the foregoing of an opportunity to produce something else In deciding how to use resources most effectively to satisfy the wants of the community this opportunity cost must ultimately be taken into account In a market economy the price of a good and the quantity supplied depend on the cost of making it and that cost ultimately is the cost of not making other goods The market mechanism enforces this relationship The cost of say a pair of shoes is the price of the leather the labor the fuel and other elements used in producing them However the price of these inputs in turn depends on what they can produce elsewhere if the leather can be used to produce handbags that are valued highly by consumers the prices of leather would be correspondingly higher 61 This passage mainly discusses the finiteness and value of materials A TURE B FALSE 62 The cost of a product in terms of money measures its true cost to society A TURE B FALSE 63 The relationship between production and resources is that production reduces the amount of available resources A TURE B FALSE 64 What determines the price of goods in a market economy 65 Using land for a house and for a park which one best reflects a cost to society as defined in the passage Section C Few words are more commonly used in our modern world than the word modern itself The modernity of manufactured articles of institutions of attitudes of works of art is constantly brought to our attention We ourselves may well be judged by whether we are modern or not indeed many people go to considerable lengths to make quite certain that they will be accepted as modern modern in their dress their behavior their beliefs And yet we may ask must earlier generations not have felt precisely the same Surely men throughout history must have recognized themselves as modern Surely innovators like Julius Caesar Peter the Great or Oliver Cromwell saw themselves as breaking with the past as establishing a new order Must they not also have shared our awareness of the significance of what is modern What is modern is distinct from what belongs to the past and men in earlier times must have experienced this sense of distinctiveness People cannot escape and never have been able to escape an awareness of change Reflection will tell us that our awareness of change our sense of distinctiveness is very different from that of our predecessors Change for us is more much more than the change brought about by the passing of time by important events or by the actions of outstanding individuals or groups of people We make use of change and are ourselves a part of a process of change Change for us has become modernization and modernization implies both direction and consciousness Change is something we seek something we attempt to control and something that has no end Our modern consciousness of change and this desire to direct change began with the Industrial Revolution The term revolution is usually applied to a historical event that causes a major change in thought life styles and identity We can normally speak of a time before the revolution and a time after the revolution But the Industrial Revolution although it had a beginning has never come to an end It is a process not yet stopped It is a process which affects more and more people in more and more ways We may argue that it is a process directed by humans The whole process is as yet beyond control of any particular individual or group We can decide the direction of modernization to some extent but we cannot decide to halt it This has led to a disturbing situation What we boast of as modern or up to date today will be old fashioned or out of date tomorrow The noisy insistence that something is modern often conceals fear of the knowledge that it will inevitably soon be superseded Again the very fact that modernization has one direction only and involves every member of society permits only two attitudes acceptance or rejection The desire to change or modify the world we live in implies acceptance since the world is a world of change Rejection of modernization may therefore lead to a sense of the world as unreal and meaningless and this in turn to a breakdown either individual or social 66 The author believes that today people are often assessed by their 67 People cannot escape and never have been able to escape 68 According to the author modernization is a process that 69 What does the passage say about the Industrial Revolution A Unlike other revolutions it was an event without a fairly clear end B Unlike other revolutions it did not bring about major social changes C It was not a revolution in the true sense of the word D Its influence was limited to industry and economy 70 With little change of meaning the phrase as yet in Line 7 Paragraph 2 could be replaced by A Therefore B However C Already D Still Section D Although few would deny that it s better to be rich than poor for some people the quest for money is so all consuming that it extinguishes all other aspects of life The cause of the compulsion to make enormous sums of money varies with the individual but often money is a substitute for something a person s life lacks 74 To some money means security To some it means power To others it means they are going to be able to buy love and to a fourth group it means competition and winning the game The belief that money can produce these things often leads to insomnia heart attacks and problems with a spouse or children A tremendous need for power is invariably the bottom line for those driven to make a lot of money The bigger the pile the more powerful they think they will feel Parents and family background also influence a person s pursuit of money Many people who grew up poor and then made a fortune live in fear that they will lose it Others strive for money to compete with their wealthy successful parents They want to be successful at any price They do not feel they should enjoy what they have earned 75 Making money for its own sake can be addicting like high stakes gambling Some very wealthy people work so many hours so hard and at such an intense pace that they totally neglect themselves They don t eat right They don t sleep right They just act as if they were poor as if they were struggling to make a dime Many wealthy people are driven by the need for approval But they may go out of their ways not to appear wealthy out of fear that they may receive less support from others Obsession with money is a man s problem but with the ranks of female executives growing the feverish quest for money is becoming more of equal opportunity problem In some ways women may have the greatest conflict with making money In society s eyes financial achievement is not fully satisfying for women They must also be successful as nurturers 71 What is money in the author s point of view 72 What are the probable results of the wrong belief about money 73 What is the bottom line for those driven to make a lot of money 74 75 Error Correction Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar period were more eager than ever to establish families They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height M1 after more than a hundred years of a steady decline producing the baby boom M2 These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary M3 reversal of longterm demographic patterns From the 1940s through the early 1960s Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their M4 Europen counterparts M5 Less noted but equally more significant the men and women who formed M6 families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a M7 postwar peak their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of M8 couples who married in earlier as well as later decades Since the United States M9 maintained its dubio