while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in
your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or
a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets.
Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this
source of revenue. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many
broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a
newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn?t forget is the “small ads.” which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance,
you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to
be called the ?hatch, match and dispatch? column but by far the most fascinating section is
the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining
reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It?s the best advertisement for advertising there is!
72. What is the main idea of this passage? A. Advertisement.
B. The benefits of advertisement.
C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities. D. The costs of advertisement.
73. The attitude of the author toward advertisers is_______. A. appreciative B. trustworthy C. critical
D. dissatisfactory
74. Why do the critics criticize advertisers? A. Because advertisers often brag.
B. Because critics think advertisement is a “waste of money”. C. Because customers are encouraged to buy more than necessary. D. Because customers pay more.
75. Which of the following is NOTtrue?
A. Advertisement makes contribution to our pockets and we may know everything. B. We can buy what we want.
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C. Good quality products don?t need to be advertised. D. Advertisement makes our life colorful. 76. The passage is_______. A. Narration B. Description C. Criticism D. Argumentation (E)
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse. Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. “This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law,” he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read “No Nukes is Good Nukes,” “Sunpower, Not Nuclear Power,” and “Stop Private Profits from Public Peril.” They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the protestors who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace. 77. What were the demonstrators protesting about? A. Private profits.
B. Nuclear Power Station.
C. The project of nuclear power construction. D. Public peril.
78. Who had gas-masks? A. Everybody.
B. A part of the protestors. C. Policemen. D. Both B and C.
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79. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason for the demonstration? A. Public transportation. B. Public peril. C. Pollution.
D. Disposal of wastes.
80. With whom were the jails and courts overloaded? A. With prisoners.
B. With arrested demonstrators. C. With criminals. D. With protestors.
81. What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward the power project and the
demonstration? A. Stubborn. B. Insistent.
C. Insolvable. D. Remissible. (F)
We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person?s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person?s true ability and aptitude.
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success or failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn?t matter that you weren?t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don?t count: the exam goes on. No one can give
off his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what
the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a
world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured.
Can we wonder at the increasing number of ?drop-outs?: young people who are written off
as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the
suicide rate among students?
A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a
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syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and
more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they
deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination
results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in
exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the
best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective
assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and
hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And
their word carries weight. After a judge?s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after
an examiner?s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a
person?s true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable
business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis.
The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: ?I
were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire. ? 82. The main idea of this passage is______.
A. examinations exert a pernicious influence on education B. examinations are ineffective
C. examinations are profitable for institutions D. examinations are a burden on students.
83. The author?s attitude toward examinations is_______. A. detest B. approval C. critical D. indifferent
84. The fate of students is decided by_______. A. education B. institutions C. examinations
D. studentshemselves
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85. According to the author, the most important of a good education is_______. A. to encourage students to read widely B. to train students to think on their own C. to teach students how to tackle exams D. to master his fate
VI. 短文改错(共 10 小题，每小题 0. 5 分，满分 5 分)
Our lunch break from 11:50 AM to 1:40 PM. We are 86._______________ like bird that are set free from our cage. The first thing 87. _______________ we do is rush to the field to have the lunch. Students bring 88. _______________ out what they prepare in the morning for lunch, things 89. _______________ such as bread, carrots, drinks, etc. At lunch students who get 90. ______________ into three groups according to their liking, every doing their 91. ______________ own things. The first group of students like to sit in the field, 92. _____________ having lunch and talking. They eat very slow and talk about 93. _____________ the news, homework, etc. I don?t find it excited at all. 94. _______________ That is because I don?t usually eat lunch with them. 95. _____________ VII. 书面表达(5 分)
在刚刚过去的“两会”期间，教育是代表们讨论得最多的热点。很多代表就教育公平和教
育收费等问题发表了意见，在社会上引起了很大的反响。请谈谈你的看法。 I.& II.单项与多项选择题（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，计 10 分） 1—5 CBDAD 6.ABCD 7. ACD 8. ABD 9. ABC 10. BCD
III. 语法和词汇知识 (共 30 小题，每小题 0.5 分，计 15 分) 11—15 ABABB 16—20 ACBAC 21—25 BBCAD 26—30 DCAAB 31—35 AABBD 36—40 CDDAC
IV. 完形填空 (共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，计 20 分) 41—45 ABADA 46—50 BCCAB 51—55 ADDAB 56—60 CABAB
V. 阅读理解（共 25 小题，每小题 1 分，计 25 分） 61—65 BCDAD 66—70AABAC 71—75 DCAAC 76—80 CCDAB 81—85 AACCB
VI. 短文改错（共 10 小题，计 5 分）
86. from 前加 is 87. bird?birds 88. 去掉 lunch 前的 the 89. prepare? prepared 90. 去掉 who 91. every? each 92. right 93. slow? slowly 94. excited? exciting 95. because? why
VII. （略） （计 5 分）
2010年湖北省武汉市招教考试模拟题
一、 选择题
1．提出“泛智”教育思想，探讨“把一切事物教给一切人类的全部艺术”的教育家是（ A．培根 B．夸美纽斯C．赫尔巴特 D．赞可夫
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英语教师招聘真题，不看后悔版
