2016蚌埠经济技术职业学院单招英语模拟试题及答案

1、2016蚌埠经济技术职业学院单招英语模拟试题及答案第一节：单项选择（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。1In 1778, Joseph Banks was elected _ president of the Royal Society , _ position he held for 42 yearsAthe; the Ba; a C不填；a Da; 不填2Sometimes advertisements make _ possible for companies to sell the custo

2、mers _ money cannot buyA/; that Bit; what Cthat; which D/; whose3This new method of mining for opals is very popular in Australia because it calls for _ equipment than the _ one Aless; elder Bfewer; older Cfewer; elder Dless; older4- Is Bob still working in Scrooges office?-Im afraid notHe is said _

3、 his position already as he has been firedAto have left Bto leave Cto have been left Dto be left5We _ in this modern school for many years, but we have never regretted our final decision to go to the western part of China to help the poor children thereAworked Bwas working Chave worked Dhad worked6I

4、f you want to get help from others, you should try to get your idea _Aclearly Bcrossed Cacross Dunderstand7-Wed like you to start work tomorrow if possible-Im sorry , but I cant possibly start until Monday _ ?AWill that be all right BDo you agree with meCIs that a good idea DDo you think Im right8_

5、through the desert, they came out into the Salt Lake Valley, _ looked beautifulAPass; which BPassed; that CTo pass; in which DPassing; which9-Your job _ open for your return - ThanksAwill be kept Bwill keep Chad kept Dhad been kept10- How are you managing to do your work with an assistant?- Well, I

6、_ somehow Aget along Bcome on Cwatch out Dset off11In May l999, the Backstreet Boys, sold l, l33, 505 copies of their latest album in its first week in release, _ it the most albums sold in a week, ever since Sound-Scan began recording sales figuresAto make Bmaking Cthat makes Dmade12Whats really ne

7、eded, according to most researchers in this field, _ a killer application particularly suited for the way DNA computing solves problemsAbeing Bare Cis Dwas13- What time do we have to be at the gate?- _ passengers are already boardingAHurriedly BSoon CImmediately DSince14Microsofts next major operati

8、ng system, Windows Vista, looks _from todays WindowsAdifferent Bdifferently Cdifference Ddifferences15The flowers _ sweet in the botanical garden attract the visitors to the beauty of natureAsmellBsmellingCsmelt Dto be smelt16- I think Ill give Bob a ring- You _You havent been in touch with him for

9、agesAwillBMayChave toDshould17- This store has such high prices- I agreeNever again _ here AI will shopBI do shopCwill I shop Dshop I do18_ no need to worry about his safety, because he is always careful AWhats BIts CTheres DWhichs19On the contrary, I think it is John, _ you, _ to blameAmore than; a

10、re Bless than; who are Crather than; that is Drather than; is20I will appreciate it very much _ you could change your plan a little bit to make it more workableAif Bthat CwhetherDunless第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题15分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Two friends visited the zoo

11、togetherThe zoo was very large and it was 21 to go everywhereThey had to decide where to go and which animals to visit as their time was 22 So both of them agreed not to 23 after choosing a 24 at every fork（岔路口）A road sign at the first fork 25 one way to the lion area and the other to the tiger hill

12、They decided on the former after a 26 discussion because lions were “the king of the grassland”The second showed a division going separately to the panda and peacockThey 27 panda as it was the nations treasure and went its way 28 they made choices all along the way and each choice meant 29 what they

13、 couldnt help regrettingBut they had to make it, and 30 , for it brooked（容忍）no delayIf they hesitated（犹豫不决） they would miss 31 Only 32 decision could offer more chances for sightseeing and 33 possible regretLife is 34 like this- choices often occur that one has to make, for example, between two 35 j

14、obs, two fascinating wooers（追求者）To get one you 36 give up the other-you can get half of itIf you 37 weighing the pros and cons and calculating gains and losses, you will most likely 38 empty-handednessDont be sad about it 39 you have got half of the desirable things in life -something that is 40 to

15、come by21Aeasy Bdifficult Cimpossible Dpossible22AenoughBlimitedCtightDplentiful23Areturn Bcontinue Cgo Dstop24Asign Bbranch Ccrossing Dhighway25Ashowed Bpointed Cintended Dmade26Abrief Blong Cno Dheated27Ahoped Bwanted CfavoredDgot28AHappily BThus CThen DFinally29Awinning Btaking Cpicking up Dgivin

16、g up30Aslowly Bimmediately Ctimely Deasily31Aless Bmore Cmost Dleast32Ahigh Bslow Cshort Drapid33Aincrease Bcause Creduce Draise34Ajust exactly Bmore or less Chardly Dmost35Aunwanted Bdifferent Cbad Ddesirable36Aought to Bmay Cmust Dhave to37Aspend time Bkill time Chave a hard time Dhope for38Astart

17、 with Bget up Csucceed in Dend up in39ABy no means BNot in the least CAt most DAt least40Astupid Bdelighted Chard Dsupported第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe market investigation is indispensable to sales promotionThey are closely rela

18、ted as the lips and teeth, so to speakWhat you produce is for sale on the marketIt would be impossible to succeed in selling a product without first investigating the marketIn the international market, goods on sale coming from different countries and suppliers are always facing keen competitionUnde

19、r such circumstances, they will try everything possible to familiarize themselves with the market conditionsIn making investigations, we ought to get information about what similar items the competitors are offering on the market, what prices they are quoting （报价）, what features their products have,

20、 who are their regular customers, etcThen, how can we obtain such information? There are many channels that we can make use of in doing this sort of workThe commercial counselors（顾问） offices of our embassies stationed abroad can help us in making market investigationsNowadays, our import and export

21、corporations send their trade groups abroad every now and thenOne of their purposes is to make market surveys on the spotCertainly, face-to-face talks with foreign businessmen are also important channels to get market informationThe Chinese Export Commodities（货物） Fairs and some other fairs of simila

22、r nature as well as visits of foreign businessmen provide us with such opportunitiesOf course , there are some other ways of making market investigations41In making market investigation , one should_Aget enough information concernedBadvertise his productsCproduce high quality goodsDnone of the above

23、 42The underlined word “indispensable” in the first paragraph means_AimpossibleBnecessaryCadvisableDavailable 43Which of the following statements is not true?AThe relationship between market investigation and sales promotion is just as that of the lips and teethBIt is impossible to succeed in sellin

24、g a product without market investigationCThere are various ways of making market investigationDProduction goes before market investigation44All the following are channels to get market information except _Ato have commercial counselors office of our embassies stationed abroadBto promote the quality

25、of our own productsCto send trade groups abroad every now and thenDto have face-to-face talks with foreign businessmenBAnimals seem to have the sense to eat when they are hungry and they do not eat more than their bodies needIt has been demonstrated that rats will, when given a choice over a period

26、of time, prefer water with vitamins to water without vitamins even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water bottlesWhen a fragrant（香的） flavor was added to the vitamin-enriched water, the rats did seem to prefer it and kept drinking it ,even after the vitamins were switch

27、ed to the clear waterIn time, however, they broke the habit and went back to where the necessary vitamins wereIn a classic experiment, babies of 6 to 12 months old were placed in a cafeteria（自助） feeding arrangement, with a wide selection of baby food before themThey were given whatever food they poi

28、nted to or appeared interested inWe are told that at first they showed some unusual eating patterns, but that over a period of time they managed to select well-balanced dietSo, in selecting food, rats and babies do seem to know and act on whats best for themApparently, there is a kind of “body wisdo

29、m”, which humans soon loseMost of us do not eat as wisely as we couldMany of our food preferences are culturally determined and influenced by long-established habitsSome people eat fox, dog and blackbirds, while we eat cows and pigsSo what people eat and how much they eat seems to be greatly influen

30、ced by what is going on around them45The expression “the habit” （para1, sentence 4） refers to drinking water which_Ahas no smellBis tastelessChas vitaminsDis flavored 46According to the passage ,adults eating habits differ from those of babies because_Aadults know better than babies what kind of foo

31、d are good for their healthBadults usually cannot resist the temptation of various delicious foodsCadults eating habits are closely related to the social and cultural customsDadults have more choices of food than babies in eating patterns47The author implied in the passage that most of us_Aeat a bal

32、anced dietBchoose the food that is of nutritionChave the habits influenced by the surroundingsD like to eat the food with a fragrant flavor48As far as their eating habits are concerned, babies and rats are similar in that_Aboth have the wisdom to choose a balanced dietBboth prefer flavored food and

33、drinkCboth have the same eating patternsDboth develop a taste for the same kinds of flavors CYears ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers said, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience” How right they were!“Nothing great was ever

34、achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets toughIt is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you cant!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won t

35、he 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally acceptedYet she didnt let up on her experimentsWork was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stoppingWe are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air

36、, whatever their ageAt 90, cellist（大提琴家） Pablo Casals would start his day by playing BachAs the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyesAs author and poet Samuel once wrote, “Years make the skin old, but to give up enthusiasm makes the

37、soul old”Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or powerPatricia Mcllrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasmShe replied, “ My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I

38、stopped working for money”If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career, we can do it as a hobbyElizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to drawThis activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “I a

39、m persuaded to call Layton a genius”We cant afford to waste tears on “might-have-beens”We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our sensesfinding pleasure in the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a si

40、x-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow49The passage mainly shows us_Aenthusiasm is the basic element of everythingBenthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degreeCenthusiasm makes us experience more lifeDwe can do nothing without enthusiasm50From the example of the Nobel Prize winner Barbara McC

41、lintock, we may find_Aenthusiasm can encourage us in difficult timesBenthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from workCyou cant make any achievement if you have no enthusiasmDenthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end51The unlined sentence “ I never made a penny until I stoppe

42、d working for money” in Paragraph Four refers to “_”AI wouldnt work unless I could make moneyBI believe that my work will be rewardedCWorking for money is what I love to doDWorking for money makes no money at all52The main idea of the last paragraph is _Awe should try heart and soul to win what we w

43、antBenthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweatCwe have not enough money to buy what we needDenthusiasm with sweat is what we needDHow men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mysteryAll we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow

44、 invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written downThose sounds, whether spoken

45、, or written in letters we call wordsThe power of words, then, lies in their combinations the things they bring up before our mindsWords become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we r

46、ead and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increasesGreat writers are those who not only have great thoughts, but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and feelingsThis charming and telling use of words is what we call literary （文字的） sty

47、leAbove all, the real poet is a master of wordsHe can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men to tearsWe should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and rude53The

48、origin of language _Ais reflected in sounds and letters Bis handed down from generation to generation Cdates back to the prehistoric periodDis a problem not yet solved54According to the passage, words are _Avisual letters Brepresented by soundsCrepresented either by sounds or letters Dsigns called l

49、etters55The secret of a writers success is the use of words that _Arecall to us the glad and sad events of our pastBare arranged in a creative wayCare as beautiful as musicDagree with certain literary style56The author of the passage advises us _Ato use words carefully and accurately Bnot to use sil

50、ly and rude wordsCto become a slave of words Dto use emotional wordsEIf you want to stay young，sit down and have a good thinkThis is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise, and as a result，we are ageing unnecessarily soonPr

51、ofessor Taijiu Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could be slowed downWith a team of partners at Tokyo National University，he set about studying

52、the brain volumes（体积） of a thousand people of different ages and various jobsComputer technology enabled the researchers to get exact measurement of the volume （容量）of the front and side sections of the brain，which relate to intellect（智能）and feelings，and determine the human characterThe back section

53、of the brain，which controls functions like eating or breathing，does not connect with ageOne can continue living without intellectual or feeling abilitiesContraction（收缩）of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not obvious in some sixty

54、 and seventy year oldsMatsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple cure for the contraction normally connected with age using the brainThe findings show in general conditions that contraction of the brain begins soon among people in the country than in the townThose are at least at risk，says Matsuzawa，who are lawyers，followed by university professors and doctorsWhite collar workers doing regular work in government offices are, however，as likely to have shrink （收缩） as the farm workers，bus drivers and shop assistantsMatsuzawas findings sho