宁波广播电视大学

1、宁波广播电视大学开放教育专科英语专业综合英语4模拟试题三(90分钟)一、 词汇（每小题计1.5分，共15分）从A、B、C、D四选项中，选出最佳选项。1. For many buyers, the _of bargaining at a flea market is as much fun as the bargain itself. A. ritual B. route C. act D. rites2. It is “cash and _”the dealer pockets your money, and you go home with your purchase. Thats that

2、.A. buy B. pay C. bargain D. carry3. If the older sibling takes that role to a(n) _, he or she can become an overbearing and tyrannical adult. A. limit B. end C. extreme D. excess4. Despite criticism and budget _, the space program is struggling to continue.A. cutaways B. cutbacks C. cutoffs D. cuto

3、uts5. The scene _with thousands of people who have come to bargain and browse at this mad carnival called a flea market. A. crowded B. crammed C. overflows D. spills6. An international partnership _ the U.S, Japan, Canada, and ten European nations has been working on plans for a space station. A. ma

4、ke up of B. make up C. made up of D. made up7. The space program has brought all sorts of advances in other areas. Not to _ all the new jobs the space program has created.A. say B. mention C. point to D. point out8. _ to cook, children usually make a mess and waste food.A. Taught B. To teach C. Teac

5、hing D. When teaching9. Less well known _ the road-building activities of South Americas Incas, who flourished during the fifteenth century. A. is B. was C. are D. have10. The dancer said that her work came from her experience and she had never been able to _ the dancing from life.A. divorce B. tell

6、 C. distinguish D. leave二、语法与结构单项选择题（每小题1.5分, 共15分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。1. The famous dancer always remained true _ a basic belief that dance expresses emotion we often try to hide and cannot express in words.A. of B. for C. to D. at 2. The heroine was perfect for her role, _ the hero was completely

7、 miscast. A. in spite of B. besides C. where D. whereas3. I tried calling Jack up this morning, but the phone was always busy. _he _that whole time? A. Could; have been talking B. Could; talk C. Must; have talked D. Should; have been talking4. The teacher suggested the student _ English with native

8、speakers. A. practised B. practise C. practises D. to practise5. The naughty kids made the teacher _his patience. A. to lose B. should lose C. losing D. lose6. Ive got two tickets for two different movies for you. You can go to see _one you prefer. A. whatever B. wherever C. whichever D. however7. I

9、 am tired of _me. A. my sister to criticize B. my sisters criticizing C. my sister criticize D. my sisters being criticizing8. He was wronged in this incident. _the director apologizes or hes going to quit. A. Either B. Neither C. Nor D. Whether9. Music sounds good, but _I really like to see sometim

10、e is an opera. A. that B. what C. which D. it 10. The teacher said, “Please feel free to come to me if you _any difficulty in learning this unit.” A. run over B. run around C. run into D. run across三、 完形填空（共10个小题，每小题计1.5分，共计15分）阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D中选出可以填入空格的一个最佳答案For those 1 have enough psychological ima

11、gination, it is a good plan to imagine an argument with a person having a different bias. This has one advantage, and only one, as compared 2 actual conversation with opponents; this one advantage is that the method is not subject 3 the same limitations of time and space. Manhatma Gandhi deplored ra

12、ilways and steamboats and machinery; he would have liked to undo the whole 4 the industrial revolution. You may never have an opportunity of actually meeting any one who 5 this opinion, because in western countries most people take the advantages of modern technique for 6 . But if you want to make s

13、ure that you are right in agreeing 7 the prevailing opinion, you will find it a good plan to test the arguments that occur 8 you by considering what Gandhi might have said in refutation of them. I have sometimes been led actually 9 change my mind 10 a result of this kind of imaginary dialogue, and,

14、short of this, I have frequently found myself growing less dogmatic and cocksure through realizing the possible reasonableness of a hypothetical opponent. 1. A. who B. that C. which D. whom2. A. in B. for C. of D. with3. A. of B. at C. for D. to 4. A. for B. of C. with D. on5. A. hold B. holds C. ha

15、ve D. get6. A. granted B. certain C. sure D. good7. A. to B. on C. at D. in8. A. at B. for C. to D. on9. A. to B. in C. on D. of10. A. as B. with C. of D. for四、 阅读理解（本题分两节，共计30分）第一节：阅读下面A、B两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题，从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案（共有10个小题，每小题计2分，共计20分）Passage APeople appear to be born to compute. The numeri

16、cal skills of children develop so early and so inexorably(冷酷地) that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracyone plate, one knife, one spoon, and forks on the table

17、and a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were seclude(封闭) on a desert island at birth and retrieved(取回来) seven years

18、later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment. Of course, the truth is not so simple this century. The work of cognitive psychologist(认知心理学家) has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depe

19、nds. Children were observed as they slowly graspedor, as the case might be, bumped intoconcepts that adults take for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that

20、young children, asked to count the pencils, on a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments(器官) of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concep

21、t of abstract numbersthe idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table is itself far from innate(天生的).1. What does the passage mainly discuss?A. Trends in teaching mathematics

22、 to children.B. The use of mathematics in child psychology.C. The development of mathematical ability in children.D. The fundamental concepts of mathematics that children must learn.2. It can be inferred from the passage that children normally learn simple counting _.A. soon after they learn to talk

23、B. by looking at the clockC. when they begin to be mathematically matureD. after they reach school grade in school3. The word “illuminated” in the first sentence of the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “_” A. illustrated B. accepted C. clarified D. bright4. Which of the following will serve

24、 as the best title for this passage? A. Nature Nurture in Math B. Child Math C. New Horizon Math D. Discovery of Numbers5. According to the passage, childrens capacity to develop the conception of abstract numbers_.A. is derived from their schoolingB. grow out of their definite counting the Cardinal

25、 numbersC. is obtained after their birth from the strict training and learningD. is a prerequisite actually derived from training rather than gifted with their birthPassage B“Time cannot be added to a persons life, but it can be made more valuable by avoiding waste.” This was the philosophy of a man

26、 who devoted most of his time to the creation of new plants: Luther Burbank, the plant magician.Burbank has been called the plant magician because he could do things with plants which were as amazing as the tricks of a magician. He truly astonished the world with his achievements in the development

27、of many kinds of plants, such as giant fruits with new flavors and trees which grew faster than their ancestors. These, and many more achievements, were of great economic value and benefit to people all over the world.In this lifetime of seventy-seven years Burbank became an American legend. He bega

28、n life in 1849 on a farm in the state of Massachusetts. It was the same year that men across the continent in California discovered gold, that precious metal so eagerly sought after in the earth. Eventually Burbank would follow them. But he would spend his life drawing a different treasure from the

29、same California earth: a wealth of new plants and fruits.The Massachusetts countryside may have provided young Burbank with a feeling for the mysteries of nature, but his scientific training came during the visit of an uncle who was a scientist. Through his uncle, Luther met the famous naturalist, L

30、ouis Agassiz. Agassiz introduced him to the complicated process by which plants grow, such as the steps in the making of seeds from pollen (花粉) carried by insects, by birds, by the very winds of the fields. Attracted by the ways of nature, Burbank took his first step into the work that was to occupy

31、 his whole life.1. Luther Burbank was _.A. a magician B. a farmer C. a philosophy D. a scientist7. Luther Burbank died in _.A. 1849 B. 1877 C. 1926 D. 18668. In his life, Luther Burbank _.A. created many kinds of new plants B. discovered gold in CaliforniaC. planted fruit trees D. made a lot of mone

32、y9. Luther Burbank became interested in nature _.A. after meeting his uncleB. under the influence of Louis AgassizC. because of the mysteries of the Massachusetts countrysideD. when he received training in school10. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Burbanks work was of great economi

33、c value. B. Burbank could play amazing tricks with plants. C. Men discovered gold in California in 1849. D. Burbank achieved great fame in America.第二节：阅读下面内容，根据内容回答11-15五个小题（每小题计2，共计10分）Passage C What motivates you to strive and succeed? In the United States, we consider motivation to reside interna

34、lly, rooted in the individual need to achieve and even in the need to surpass others. In interdependent cultures, however, motivation is experienced in receptivity to others, in the desire to adjust to their needs and demands, and in the ability to restrain ones own inner needs or desires. While the

35、re is striving to excel and accomplish tasks, it is not in the service of self-promotion, but in the service of demonstrating and furthering ones interdependence with others. Consider what happened in an American plant located in Japan when Japanese women, hired to wire electronic products, were pai

36、d on a piece-rate system that rewarded those who produced more over those who produced less: About two months after opening, the head foreladies approached the plant manager. “Honorable plant manager,” they said humbly as they bowed, “we are embarrassed to be so forward, but we must speak to you, be

37、cause all of the girls have threatened to quit work this Friday.” “Why,” they wanted to know, “cant our plant have the same compensation system as other Japanese companies? When you hire a new girl, her starting wage should be fixed by her age. An 18-year-old should be paid more than a 16-year-old. Every year on her birthday, she shoul