模拟试题七(附答案版)

1、模拟试题七PART V READING COMPREHENSIONIn this section there are several reading passages followed by twenty questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A、B、C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET. 题 82&

2、#160;- 85 Maoritanga is Maori culture: the Maori way of life and view of the worlD. Maoritanga is a growing and changing part of life in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Maori have adopted many aspects of western culture as their own, and more and more New Zealanders now share in the riches of Maori her

3、itage. Most Maori people can trace descent for the chiefs of Hawaiki who sailed to Aotearoa in ocean-going sailing canoes. Aotearoa had been discovered by the great explorer Kupe who passed on sailing directions when he returned to Hawaiki. Archaeological evidence supports Maori oral traditions and

4、genealogical records which suggest Kupe lived about 1200 years ago. The colonists from Hawaiki-probably situated in the area now known as French Polynesia-found other Polynesian people already living in AotearoA. The voyagers inter-married with them and established a tribal society in which kinship

5、and links with land are key elements. The marae-the meeting house and land around it-is the focus of Maori community life. The land and buildings are the venue for major social, political and ceremonial occasions. The meeting house synthesizes many aspects of Maori design and craft: the structure it

6、self has a human form and is named after an ancestor, and it signifies the unity of the tribal group. The open ground in front of the house is symbolic of the tribal land holding from which tribal identity and mana (prestige) are deriveD. The whole marae operates according to democratic principles w

7、hich have evolved from the strict codes of behaviour that governed every aspect of traditional life. Today, the majority of Maori people live away from the marae. Many live and work in cities and must make special efforts to maintain social and cultural links with their Maori heritage. It is especia

8、lly difficult for younger people who are two or three generations removed from tribal lands and lifestyle. The decline of Maori language especially since the Second World War, is an indicator of the stress affecting the Maori community. Nevertheless, Maori have succeeded in maintaining their distinc

9、tive identity, their Maoritanga, and these traditional values and institutions are the springboard for the current resurgence of Maori culture.82.We learn from the passage that the first settlers of New Zealand were _. AKupe and his family Bthe descendants of Kupe Cpeople from the tri

10、be of Hawaiki Dthe Polynesian people参考答案 D  您的答案   得分 0详细解答文章第二段说Kupe发现了Aotearoa但他并未在那儿定居下来；当来自Kupe所属的Hawaiki的人来到Aotearoa准备定居时，发现已有来自波利尼西亚其他地方的人居住在那里，因此选D。83.By "the voyagers" in Paragraph 2, the writer means _. AKupe and his followers Bthe

11、 Hawaikian colonists Cthe Polynesian people Dthe European explorers参考答案 B  您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据上下文可知第二段最后一句话中的the voyagers指的是到Aotearoa定居的 Hawaiki人，因此选B。84.Which of the following statements about marae is true? AIt means a meeting house in Maoritanga.

12、60;BThe meeting house is built in the shape of an ancestor. CDifferent maraes bear different names. DIt follows the democratic principles copied from the European settlers.参考答案 C  您的答案   得分 0详细解答第三段说marae是毛利人社会生活的中心，指一个集会场所及其周围的土地，这个集会场所呈人形，并以该部落祖先之名命名，整个

13、marae作为一个社会组织；按照由控制传统生活各个方面的严格的行为规范演变而来的民主原则来运行，因此此题选 C。85.According to the passage, which of the following statements about modern Maori-people is NOT true? AThey assimilate aspects of western culture into their own. BMost of them live an urban life. CYounger people have no interest

14、in maintaining their Maori heritage. DThey are trying to revive Maoritanga.参考答案 C  您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据最后两段可知A、B、D是正确的，倒数第二段说对于离开故土和传统的生活方式已有两三代之久的年轻人来说，保持与传统文化的联系尤为困难，这不等于说年轻人对保护文化遗产没有任何兴趣。 题 86 - 90 Why do you teach? My friend asked the ques

15、tion when I told him that I didn't want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was an obvious "step-up" towards what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power. Certainly I don't teach because teaching is ea

16、sy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, writer, carpenter. For me teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing. Sweaty-palm, beca

17、use run always nervous before I enter the classroom, sure that I will be found out for the fool I am. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual. Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I fell compe

18、lled to share. Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class! Why then do I teach? I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research, writing. I teach because teaching is a profession buil

19、t on change. When the material is the same, I change-and, more importantly, my students change. I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I'm my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by crea

20、ting their own textbook, who is to say I can't? such course may be huge failures, but we can learn from failures. I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions. I

21、 teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called "Self-Reliance in a Technological Society". My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau and Huxley. They kept diaries. They wrote term papers. But we

22、 also set up a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it. At the end of the semester, we sold the house, repaid the loan, paid our taxes and distributed the profits among the group. So, teaching gives me pace and variety, and challenge, and

23、the opportunity to keep on learning.86.The writer teaches because _. Ateaching is easy for him Bhe likes to share his knowledge with students Che likes to see his students taking notes on what he says in class Dhe likes the pace of a teacher's life参考答案 D  您的答案&

24、#160;  得分 0详细解答根据文章第二、三段可知A、B、C不正确，作者在第五段中说他喜欢教师这个行当的原因是他喜欢学校生活的节奏，因此选D。87.We learn from the passage that as a teacher the writer does all of the following EXCEPT that _. Ahe often stays up late Bhe often feels nervous Che often suffers from stomachache Dhe is ofte

25、n worried about the effect of his teaching参考答案 C  您的答案   得分 0详细解答作者在第二段描写了他当教师的种种苦处，sinking-stomach 一词根据上下文可以判断是“沮丧、失望”的意思。88.Which of the following statements about the course of "Self-Reliance in a Technological Society" is true? AIt included readi

26、ng and writing assignments only. BIt was sponsored by a corporation. CIt was given in a run-down house. DBoth the students and the teacher got some money from it.参考答案 D  您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据文章倒数第二、三段可以判断Self-Reliance in a Technological Society这门课不仅有阅读和写

27、作作业，还有实践的环节。师生成立了一个公司，买下了一所破旧的房子并翻修出售，最后在课程结束的时候共同分享了利润。89.From Paragraph 7 we can infer that the writer enjoys freedom to choose _. Awhich lessons to teach Ba boss Cteaching methods Dtextbooks参考答案 C  您的答案   得分 0详细解答作者在第七段举例说明在教学方法上教师享有较大自由，因此选C

28、。90.Which of the following is a fact rather than an opinion? AOne cannot get money and power through teaching. BTeaching is more difficult than being a mechanic, a writer or a carpenter. CThe world is full of fight answers to bad questions. DTeachers enjoy great freedom in some a

29、spects.参考答案 D  您的答案   得分 0详细解答文章第一段隐含着作者和他的朋友以及许多美国人认为当老师没法升官发财，这是一种观点；作者在第二段中认为在他做过的所有工作(包括技术工人、作家、木匠)中当老师是最难的，这是个人观点；作者在第八段中说这个世界充斥着对一些很糟糕的问题的正确答案，这也是个人观点。从作者陈述的一些事实来判断，教师在某些方面享有很大的自由。 题 91 - 93 Venus, one of the four inner planets of our sola

30、r system, is the closest body in the sky apart from the Moon, sometimes coming only 40 million km from the Earth. Thus, in the not- so-distant future, when man has colonized the Moon, he will start looking at Venus as his next step into space. As it is now, Venus's environment is totally unfavou

31、rable to human life. Its surface temperature is almost 480. Its face is almost completely hidden from view by poisonous clouds of 90% carbon dioxide. But scientists have a simple plan which, they predict, could make Venus habitable. With the help of rockets, they plan to bombard the carbon dioxide c

32、louds with colonies of blue-green algae. Experiments carried out on Earth have proved that blue-green algae can survive and reproduce normally in such an environment. The algae will consume the carbon and liberate the oxygen. They reproduce so quickly that the carbon dioxide could be broken down wit

33、hin one year. After that, the surface of Venus will be partly visible to telescopes on Earth. The increase in oxygen will have spectacular effects on the desert planet. As oxygen re- places the carbon dioxide, the sun's infra-red radiation, which up to that moment was trapped under the clouds of

34、 carbon dioxide, will escape into space and the temperature of the lower atmosphere will decrease. Soon, water will collect from the atmospheric vapor and rain will start falling for the first time. That first rain will never reach the surface. It will vaporize into steam high up in he Venusian atmo

35、sphere, but it will have a very important effect. It will lower the ground temperature, perhaps by 35. Soon the rain will fall again and again, until the ground temperature is about 70. Then the "Big Rain" will strike the soil of Venus for the first time and the clouds will partly clear aw

36、ay, leaving an oxygen-rich atmosphere and a temperature cool enough to sustain hardy plants and animals from Earth.91.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? AVenus is the closest body to the Earth in the sky. BVenus will be man's first colony in the space.

37、 CThe Moon will first be made habitable to man. DThe surface of Venus can be seen clearly through a telescope.参考答案 C  您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据第一段可以判断此题选C。92.According to the passage, the first rain on Venus will _. Afall on its ground Breduce the groun

38、d temperature to 35 Creduce the ground temperature to 70 Dturn into steam in the atmosphere参考答案 D  您的答案   得分 0详细解答最后一段说金星上的第一场雨未到地面就会蒸发成蒸汽，它将使金星表面温度降低35，此后不断下雨直到地面温度达到70。93.Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage? AVenus-

39、Man's Colony in the Space BCan Venus be Made Habitable? CBlue-Green Algae-the Only Survivor on Venus DA Plan to Make Venus Cooler参考答案 B  您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据全文综合判断可知此题选B。 题 94 - 96 No matter how much you flatten the hierarchies a

40、t your company, communication can't improve if people's desks are stuck ten floors away from the folks they ought to be chatting with regularly. To fix this problem, more and more companies are moving into shorter, wider buildings-abandoning skyscrapers that forced them to inhabit 20 differe

41、nt floors in order to fit everyone in one place. The idea is to create more spontaneous face-to-face contacts. "If you only have to walk down the hallway to talk to people, not only will you talk to them in person but you'll probably bump into other interesting people along the way," s

42、ays James Nixon, who manages real estates for Andersen Worldwide. The people you bump into tend to get more interesting as the building gets flatter as well. Like layer cakes, with flavors separated by creamy floors of frosting, tall buildings segregate people into functional ghettos. If you work in

43、 finance, you'll see nothing but number crunchers every day. Take those accountants and toss them into the mix in a flatter building, however, and they'll run into the marketing and operations folks whose money they manage. The trend to horizontal building is most noticeable on the edges of

44、metropolitan areas, where space is not so constrained. In Silicon Valley, 3Com and Silicon Graphics have chosen to build flat. But old-line companies in urban areas, like Owens Coming and Alcoa, have found ways to flatten themselves physically too. Along with improving communication, these companies

45、 are looking to enhance their corporate Cultures. The boss who signs off on such structures can gain a lot from flat buildings as well. "In a three-storey building, you can put yourself at the center, surrounded on every side by the people you want to influence," says Gene Kohn, an archite

46、ct at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York City. "Lower buildings are much more appropriate for strong leaders who want to be seen by and communicate with the largest number of people."94.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as one of the advantages of lower buildings? AThe

47、y may improve communication between different departments. BThey may create more spontaneous face-to-face contacts. CPeople working in them may get more interesting. DThey are most appropriate for financial departments.参考答案 D  您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据文章第一、二

48、段可知前三个选项是正确的，其中第二段只是拿一个单位的财务部门为例说明低层办公大楼的好处，因此选D。95.The phrase "signs off on" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _. A"signs a contract to build" B"accepts the idea of" C"agrees to buy" D"has got used to"参考答案 B

49、0; 您的答案   得分 0详细解答根据最后一段上下文判断此题应选B。96.Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage? AWays to Flatten Hierarchies in a Company BSkyscrapers-Today and Yesterday CBirth of the Groundscraper DThe Perfect office Building参考答案 C 

50、; 您的答案   得分 0详细解答本文主要谈低层办公大楼的种种优点，groundscraper仿照skyscraper一词造出，出现在题目中可以达到引起阅读兴趣的效果。并且，作者并未说低层办公大楼就是最完美的办公建筑。 题 97 - 101 At dusk, a sparrow flies through the dark woods in search of a meal. Spotting a plump hawkmoth clinging to a large tree trunk, the bir

51、d lands on a nearby branch. Moving in for the attack, the sparrow suddenly spies a pair of round, menacing eyes. The eyes seem to move up and down like those of an owl. Within a second, the sparrow is all tail feathers as it makes its retreat. But what about the moth? In order to avoid being eaten,

52、the moth practised a bit of natural "tom foolery" by exposing its secret weapon-eyespots on its wings. Eyespots are round markings or colorations on animals which look like real eyes. Many in- sects, as well as fish and frogs, use them-in a variety of ways-as a defense against predators. E

53、yespots can scare an attacker away-as in the case of the moth above-by making the attacker think it is facing one of its predators. Or they can simply fool predators into thinking they are being watched. Even when the false eyes don't stop an attack, they may enable the one who wears them to sur

54、vive. You see, eyespots are often located "far" from vital organs, on wings, for instance. They lure predators into attacking the "wrong end" of their prey. The tropical butterfly fish, for example, has an eyespot at the base of its tail. Predatory fish will often try to attack t

55、his spot, confusing the dark circle for a real eye-only to find the fish escaping in a completely unexpected direction. The eyespots on a peacock butterfly's wings work in a similar way. By luring the predator to the wings instead of the body, the eyespots protect the peacock butterfly's hea

56、d from attack. Although the insect may lose a claw or suffer a clipped wing, at least it hasn't lost its head! Eyespots work because they take advantage of a weakness in predators, known as "innocence of the eye." Basically, this means that animals believe what they see. Unlike humans, some animals cannot reason bey