troubles and may be called “aunt” or “granny” can still maintain her beauty if she has such excellent qualities as knowledge, ability, a kind heart, great courage and concern for others.
In addition, old and young, beautiful and ugly are relative concepts（概念）. People who keep a young mind will never feel old. Curious about new things and eager to learn more, they keep up with the tide. Plainly dressed women may have a type of beauty, which is pure and real.
Reading and learning is the best way to keep one youthful. Good books are fertile（肥沃的）soil which can feed the flower of one’s heart and looks.
206. Why does the author say that beauty and women are twins?
A. Women are born to be beauties. B. Women like to show off their beauty.
C. Women try to maintain their beauty by dressing up. D. Women are proud of their beauty.
207. According to the author, in order to stay young and attractive, women should ______.
A. follow the fashion C. do more exercises
B. dress up in beautiful clothes D. enrich their mind
208. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. As a woman grows old, her beauty will gradually disappear.
B. However old she is, a woman with some excellent qualities can still maintain her beauty. C. Even a plainly dressed woman may have pure and real beauty. D. A woman with a young mind never feels old.
209. The word “relative” (line 1, paragraph 3) most probably means _______.
A. similar
B. comparative
C. related
D. independent
210. The author believes that ________.
A. women should lay more emphasis on their own qualities B. beautiful clothes can make women more attractive C. women have to show their beauty through their looks D. women are more curious about new things than men
Passage Eleven
Some psychologists maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performed in the brain alone, but that one's muscles also participate. It may be said that we think with our muscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.
You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their bodies or, more
specifically, some parts of their bodies. Often when one listens to a concert on the radio, he is tempted to direct the band even though he knows there is a competent conductor on the job.
Strange as this behavior may be, there is a very good reason for it. One cannot get all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener “feels” himself into the music with more or less pronounced motions of his body.
The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way, but this participation is less obvious because it is less pronounced. 211. Some psychologists maintain that thinking is______.
A. not a mental process
B. more of a physical process than a mental action
C. a process that involves the muscles as well as the whole body D. a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain
212. The process of thinking and that of listening are similar in that ______. A. both are mental acts
B. muscles participate in both processes
C. both processes are performed by the entire body D. we obtain equal enjoyment from them 213. The pronounced body motions are a listener’s way of ______. A. “feeling” the music
B. participating in the performance D. all of the above
C. deriving enjoyment from the music
214. Body movements are necessary in order for the listener to ______. A. hear the music C. train the muscle
B. appreciate the music
D. figure out the real meaning of a piece of music
215. The best title for this selection is _______. A. An Ear for Music
B. Music Appreciation
C. How Muscles Participates in Mental Acts
D. A Psychological Definition of the Thinking Process
Passage Twelve
The Red Cross is an international organization which cares for people who are in need of help. A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured in an earthquake, and a family in India that lost their home in a storm may all be aided by the Red Cross. The Red Cross exists in almost every country around the globe. The world Red Cross organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent, the Red Mogen David, the Sun, and the Red Lion. All of these agencies share a common goal of trying to help people in need.
The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and wounded during a war started with Jean Henri Dunant. In 1859, he observed how people were suffering on a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people regardless of which side they were fighting for. The most important result of his work was an international treaty called the Geneva Convention. It protects prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and other citizens during a war.
The American Red Cross was set up by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of services for the public, such as helping people in need, teaching first aid, demonstrating water safety and artificial respiration, and providing blood. 216. A good title for this selection is ____. A. The International Red Cross C. Clara Barton and the Sun
B. Safety at Home and School D. The American Red Cross
217. The word “aided” in paragraph 1 means ______. A. reported
B. understood
C. caught
D. helped
218. The author really tries to make the reader see that this organization ______. A. costs very little money
B. helps any people in need
D. gets into trouble
C. teaches first aid if necessary
219. The person who started the idea of this organization was ______. A. Cross
B. Barton C. Dunant
D. a prisoner of war
220. The American Red Cross aimed at ______. A. helping people in need
B. teaching first aid, demonstrating water safety and artificial respiration C. providing blood for the sick and wounded D. all of the above III. Cloze
Directions: There are 6 passages in this part. Each passage has 10 blanks. For each blank there are 4 choices
marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE answer that best completes the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Dr. William C Stokoe, Jr., was the chairman of the English Department at Gallaudet University. He saw the way deaf people communicated and was extremely 221 . He was a hearing person, and signs of the deaf were totally new to him.
Dr. Stokoe decided to propose a study of sign language. Many other teachers were not interested, and though Dr. Stokoe was 222 to think about studying sign language. Even deaf teachers were not very interested in the
project. However, Dr. Stokoe did not give up. 223 , he started the Linguistics Research Program in 1957. Stokoe and his two deaf assistants, worked on this project during the summer and after school. The three researchers made films of deaf people signing. The deaf people in the film did not understand 224 the research about and were just trying to be nice to Dr. Stokoe. Many people thought the whole project was silly, but 225 agreed with Dr. Stokoe in order to please him.
Stokoe and his team studied the films of signing. They 226 the films and try to see patterns in the signs. The results of the research were 227 : the signs used by all of the signers followed certain linguistic rules. Dr. Stokoe was the first linguist to test American Sign Language as a real language. He published the 228 in 1960, but not many people paid attention to the study. Dr. Stokoe was still 229 —he was the only linguist who 230 that sign language was more than gestures. He knew it was a language of its own and not just another form of English.
221. A. ashamed 222. A. idealistic 223. A. Otherwise 224. A. what 225. A. strongly 226. A. made
B. bored B. crazy
C. interested C. smart
D. involved D. normal
B. Instead B. why B. hardly
C. Additionally C. that
D. Afterwards
D. which
D. merely D. analyzed D. disappointing
D. resolutions
C. willingly
B. advertised
C. released
227. A. dissatisfying 228. A. results 229. A. anxious 230. A. wished
Passage Two
B. alarming C. surprising
B. consequences C. endings
C. alert
B. afraid
D. alone D. decided
B. reasoned C. believed
Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man. Widespread 231 of written language would not have been 232 without some cheap and practical material to write 233 . The invention of paper meant that more people could be educated because more books could be printed and 234 . Together with the printing press, paper 235 an important way to spread knowledge.
Paper was first made in China. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very 236 used before the year 1400. The Egyptians wrote on a type of paper 237 from a glasslike water plant; Europeans used a writing material made from the skin of a sheep or goat 238 many hundreds of years. We have learnt some of the most important facts of European history from records or documents still 239 in good condition. The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still 240 pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. It was made from the hair-like parts of certain plants. 231. A. use 232. A. active
B. account B. positive
C. access C. possible
D. application D. possibility
233. A. by 234. A. divided 235. A. offered 236. A. always 237. A. made 238. A. at 239. A. protected 240. A. has
Passage Three
B. on B. spread
C. in C. scattered C. supplied C. commonly C. consisted
D. with
D. distributed
B. granted B. usually B. making B. for B. preserved B. holds
D. provided
D. generally
D. consisting D. during D. looked after
C. in C. cared for C. prefers
D. favors
When I was a boy, children always objected 241 wearing school uniform but teachers were 242 on it because they said all of us looked 243 . Otherwise, they said children could compete with 244 and the poorer children would be unhappy because people would see how poor they were. In recent years, however, many schools have 245 the idea of making children wear uniform but funnily enough, now that children can wear 246 they like, they have adopted a uniform of their own. When some journalists visited a London school, they found that all the boys and girls were dressed in jeans. One girl said she would rather die than wear a coat instead of a jersey because 247 wants to look different 248 the other children in the class. Parents may not be as happy about this as children, but they 249 to be, because this new kind of uniform is one that the children like, not something they have forced to wear, and it is also 250 cheaper than school uniform used to be.
241. A. against 242. A. warm 243. A. same 244. A. each other 245. A. waited for 246. A. that 247. A. anyone 248. A. than 249. A. ought 250. A. a lot
Passage Four
When the guests sit down at a dinner table, it is customary for the men to help the ladies by pushing their chairs under them. Some Americans no longer do this, so the visitor must notice 251 do and do 252 . Until the meal is 253 , if the dinner is in a private home, a guest may avoid embarrassment by leaving the talking 254
B. to B. eager B. like B. another B. taken off B. which B. no one B. that B. should B. very
C. for C. keen C. as C. themselves C. put out C. what C. none C. from C. would
D. on
D. interested D. alike
D. others D. given up D. as D. someone D. to D. had
D. a lot of
C. more
2015年湖北专升本英语复习试题(含答案)
