高级英语模拟试卷.doc

考试形式闭卷开卷开卷物品：教师班级学号姓名密封线上海电力学院20 /20 学年第 学期 正考 补缓考 期中考试卷 一 A卷 B卷 校区 南汇 平凉 共 7页，第 1 页课号： 课程名称：高级英语（模拟） 开课院系： 外语学院 类型 模拟班 重修班 免听题号一二三四五六总分得分PART I Multiple Choices (20%)1. First of all, we ought to put our temporary advantage in some kind of _.A. inspective B. respective C. aspect D. perspective2. Obviously, the chairmans remarks at the conference were _ and not planned.A. instantaneous B. spontaneous C. simultaneous D. synthetic3. In buying a suit, a difference of ten cents in prices is_.A. ignorant B. negative C. negligible D. negligent4. After the children put up Christmas decorations, the classroom _ a holiday appearance.A. took on B. took up C. took off D. took down5.The climber was _from the top of the cliff on a rope held by his friends.A. exhausted B. relieved C. suspended D. isolated6. The plans for the new office and apartment building were _ a few weeks ago.A. drawn to B. drawn out C. drawn up D. drawn in7. Jim was completely _ by most of the essay questions, so he must have failed.A. baffled B. enchanted C. stunned D. stultified8He tries to _ his lessons by telling an interesting anecdote about the president.A. cheer up B. inspire C. stimulate D. liven up9. There has been an _ change in the country of late.A. appreciated B. appreciable C. appreciative D. appreciating10. The _ of the lake is covered with reeds and rushes.A. strand B. coast C. shore D. bank11. His irresponsible behavior put the lives of all the workers in _.A. risk B. alarm C. hazard D. jeopardy12. Susan is a devoted daughter, always very _ to the needs of her old parents.A. attentive B. observant C. recurrent D. earnest13. The purpose of the survey was to _ the parents with the changes television has made in family life.A. acquaint B. inform C. tell D. notify14. We are of the opinion that standards of craftsmanship have been _ over the past ten years.A. lifted B. heightened C. raised D. uplifted15. TV, if properly used, can _ a childs imagination.A. stimulate B. arouse C. incite D. arise16.When the pipe broke, the water _out violently.A. trickled B. gushed C. stirred D. flitted17.You must remember not to _from the point when you write an essay.A. go astray B. wander C. diverge D. go off18.I am sure her decision will be fair and just, for she has had a reputation for being_.A. impartial B. imperative C. impervious D. impertinent19A good scientist _ into all aspects of a problem in order to find solutions.A. pricks B. pokes C. probes D. peers20. Have you any proof that a headless ghost _ that house?A. hunted B. examined C. haunted D. wandered考试形式闭卷开卷开卷物品：教师班级学号姓名密封线上海电力学院20 /20 学年第 学期期 考试试卷 一 共 7 页，第 2 页课号： 1608022 课程名称： 高级英语（1） 开课学院（系）： 直属外语系 PART II Reading Comprehension (40%)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers.Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. Ever since Darwins theory of evolution, biologists have assumed that environments teeming with complex forms of life served as the nurseries of evolution. But two recent papers in Science magazine have turned that notion on its head. Last month some biologists reported that in the ocean it is the relatively barren areas that serve as evolutionary crucibles , not regions with great diversity of species. Other researchers announced this summer that the Arctic, not the rain forest, spawned many plants and animals that later migrated to North America. Says John Sepkoski of the University of Chicago, Harsh environments may be producing the major changes in the history of life.These changes do not result merely in a longer tail or a bigger claw for an existing species but, rather, in dramatic leaps up the evolutionary ladder-a rare innovation that comes along once in a million years. In the Arctic, reports Leo Hickey of Yale University, the innovations ran to forms never before seen on earth. By dating fossils from many geologic layers, he concluded that large grazing animals first appeared in the Arctic and migrated to temperate places a couple of million years or so later. Among plants, species of redwood and birch originated in polar regions some 18 millions years before they showed up in the south. Examining fossils as old as 570 million years, Chicagos Sepkoski found that shell-less, soft-bodied creatures were suddenly replaced by trilobites, then by the more advanced clam-like animals. These changes, he notes, first become common near shore. That surprised him-an environment with asfew species as exist in the near shore, and with such a poor record of producing new species, seems an unlikely place for biological innovation. But when Jablonski dated fossils of 100 million years ago, he found that during this era, too, the near shore spawned biological breakthroughs-more sophisticated sea creatures that move and find food in ocean sediments instead of passively filtering whatever floats by. The findings are too new to apply to human evolution, but at first glance they seem to fit the facts. Anthropologists believe that our ancestors became fully human only after they left their secure life in the trees for the harsh world of savanna ( plain without trees). There, the demanding conditions triggered that most human of traits, the large brain, and the most profound evolutionary step of all was taken.21. Two recent papers in Science magazine claim to have found evidence which contradicts the traditional notion that _.A) relatively harsh environments are the nurseries of evolutionB) evolution occurred in regions with biological diversityC) new forms of life come into being in near-shore areasD) species of birch and redwood originated in the south22. According to Leo Hickey of Yale University, which of the following may have spawned more advanced species of land animals?A) The barren ocean floor.B) The Arctic.C) The rain forest.D) Temperate Zones.23. The word innovations in the second paragraph means _.A) new theory 考试形式闭卷开卷开卷物品：教师班级学号姓名密封线上海电力学院20 /20 学年第 学期期 考试试卷 一 共 7 页，第 3 页课号： 1608022 课程名称： 高级英语（1） 开课学院（系）： 直属外语系 B) new phenomenon C) changes D) new inventions24. How would anthropologists take the new findings?A) They would look at them dubiously.B) They would eagerly apply them to the study of human evolution.C) They would challenge them, though at first glance they tend to look at them favorably.D) They would most probably think the new findings fit well into their theory.25. Which of the following may be an appropriate title of the passage?A) Darwins Theory Modified.B) How Animals Evolve.C) Evolution in Hard Places.D) Where Did Large Sea Animals Originate.Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Most publishing is now electronic in the sense that books, magazines, and newspapers are prepared on computers, and exist as computer files before they are printed on paper. Often there are advantages to giving readers access to the electronic versions of publications as well asor even instead ofthe printed versions. Print publications have lots of advantages. Paper is pleasant to handle, ready to read, and very portable: you can read it almost anywhere. On the other hand, print has its weaknesses. Paper is expensive, and articles are often cut to fit the space available. Printing and distributing paper is expensive and takes time. Printed materials are expensive to store and almost impossible to search. Electronic publishing offers solutions to all these problems. Suppose a publisher makes the electronic copy of a newspaper or magazine available from the net, perhaps on the Internets World Wide Web. No paper is used and disc space is cheap, so Internet publishing costs very little. Articles don t have to be cut. Internet publishing is fast, and readers can access material as soon as it becomes available: within minutes, instead of the next day, next week or next month. Internet publishing goes beyond geographical boundaries: the humblest local paper can be read everywhere from New York to London to Delhi to Tokyo. Delivery costs are low because there are no newsagents to pay, and no postal charges: readers pick up the bills for their on-line sessions. Also, computer- based publications are simple to store and every word can be searched electronically. At the moment, newspapers and magazines, TV and radio stations, news agencies and book publishers are making content freely available on the Web because they are competing for mindshare. Perhaps they want to find out if they can attract and hold an audience on line, or perhaps theyre afraid of missing out because everyone else is doing it. But dont count on things staying that way. Publishers are not in business to lose money. 26. What does the author probably foresee?A) Readers will have more accesses. B) Books and newspapers will be kept as computer files. C) It will not make any sense to keep the printed versions. D) Electronic publications will replace printed ones. 27. Which of the following situations is among the troubles print has? A) It is dear to find printed materials.B) Frequent editing is needed for better layout. C) Paper is passed around quickly. 考试形式闭卷开卷开卷物品：教师班级学号姓名密封线上海电力学院20 /20 学年第 学期期 考试试卷 一 共 7 页，第 4 页课号： 1608022 课程名称： 高级英语（1） 开课学院（系）： 直属外语系 D) The space to restore articles is not enough. 28. The electronic version of newspapers has all the following advantages except that_. A) it can be carried aroundB) it can be read beyond geographical boundariesC) it can be immediately accessedD) it requires little delivery cost29. Why are publishers making their books freely available?A) They want to make money. B) They dont like to lose their audience. C) They are competing for fun.D) They try to win more freedom. 30. What method does the author mainly use in the passage to achieve better effects?A) Examples.B) Listing. C) Comparisons and listing.D) Analysis and examples.Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Television is one of todays most powerful and widespread means of mass communication. It directly influences our lives on both a short and long-term basis; it brings worldwide situations into our homes; it affords extensive opportunities for acquiring higher education; and it performs these tasks in a convenient yet effective manner. We are all aware of the popularly accepted applications of television, particularly those relative to entertainment and news broadcasting. Television, however, has also been a vital link in unmanned deep space exploration (such as the Voyager I and missions), in providing visions from hazardous areas (such as proximity to radio-active materials or environments) in underwater research, in viewing storms moving across a metropolitan area (the camera being placed in a weather-protective enclosure near the top of a tower), etc. The earths weather satellites also use television cameras for viewing cloud cover and movements from 20,000 miles in space. Infrared filters are used for night views, and several systems include a spinning mirror arrangement to permit wide-area views from the camera. Realizing the unlimited applications for todays television, one may thus logically ponder the true benefits of confining most of our video activities to the mass-entertainment field.Conventional television broadcasting within the United States centres around free enterprise and public ownership. This requires funding by commercial sponsors, and thus functions in a revenue-producing business manner. Television in USSR-subjected areas, conversely, is a government-owned and maintained arrangement. While such arrangements eliminate the need for commercial sponsorship, it also has the possibility of limiting the type of programs available to viewers (a number of purely entertainment programs similar to the classic “Bewitched”, however, have been seen on these government-controlled networks. All isnt as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize). A highly modified form of television called Slow-Scan TV is presently being used by many Amateur Radio operators to provide direct visual communications with almost any area of the world .This unique visual mode recently allowed people on the tiny South Pacific country of Pitcairn Island to view, for the first time in their lives, distant areas and people of the world. The chief radio Amateur and communications officer of Pitcairn, incidentally, is the legendary Tom Christian-great, great grandson of Tom Christian of “Mutiny on the Bounty” fame. Radio Amateurs in many lands worked together for考试形式闭卷开卷开卷物品：教师班级学号姓名密封线上海电力学院20 /20 学年第 学期期 考试试卷 一 共 7 页，第 5 页课号： 1608022 课程名称： 高级英语（1） 开课学院（系）： 直属外语系 several months establishing visual capabilities for Pitcairners. The results have proven spectacular, yet the visual capabilities have only been used for health education, or welfare purposes. Commercial TV is still unknown to natives of that tiny country.Numerous other forms of television and visual communication have also been used on a semi-restricted basis. This indicates the many untapped areas of video and television which may soon be exploited on a more widespread basis. The old clich of a picture being worth a thousand words truly has merit.31. According to the passage, applications of television are easily accepted in _.A) metropolitan areaB) deep space explorationC) programs about entertainment and newsD) remote areas32. Which of the following statements is true in the eyes of the writer ?A) Applications of television are beneficial to big cities.B) Applications of television are believed to be good activities.C) Applications of television are restricted to television systems.D) Applications of television do benefit to the mass entertainment field.33. According to the passage television in USSR _.A) is limited to a revenue-producing business mannerB) requires funding by commercial sponsors C) puts away the need of commercial aid D) is badly in need of commercial help34. In the passage, the author tries to tell us purely entertainment programs similar to the classic “Bewitched” _.A) are as good as those in the U.S.B) have been seen on many government-controlled networksC) are as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize D) are not as gloomy as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize35. The authors attitude toward television programs is _.A) positive B) indifferent C) critical D) dangerousPassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.The key element to successful interviewing is not your experience, your grades, what classes you took, your extracurricular activities, or any of the other basic necessities. Those skills are what got you the interview. The key element to successful interviewing can be summed up in one word: attitude. If you want to rise above others with better experience, better grades, or better anything, you will need to work on developing a highly positive work attitude.Your attitude determines whether you will “make the cut” or be discarded. Remember, there are plenty of competitors with the ability to do almost any given job- especially at the entry level. The way most employers differentiate at the entry level is by candidates attitudes toward the job. Your attitude is often what recruiters will remember when the dust has settled after reviewing ten, twenty, or even one hundred candidates-the one who was sincerely willing to put forth his very best effort. If you have the attitude of wanting to do your very best for the company, of being focused on the companys needs, of putting yourself forth as the person who will be committed and dedicated to fulfilling their needs, you will likely be the one chosen. Why is attitude so important? Because most companies already 考试形式闭卷开卷开卷物品：教师班级学号姓名密封线上海电力学院20 /20 学年第 学期期 考试试卷 一 共 7 页，第 6 页课号： 1608022 课程名称： 高级英语（1） 开课学院（系）： 直属外语系 have their full share of multi-talented superstars who care about no one but themselves. Ask any manager who the most valuable member of his team is, and he will point not to the overrated superstar, but to the person who