大学英语二（下）模拟题4
一、交际与对话
1. ---- I’ve been trying to call my Mom and Dad for almost an hour, but _______________.
---- They must have hung up the phone improperly. A. the phone is always busy B. the phone is always used C. the line is always taken D. the line is always busy
2. ----Why do the schools require their students to wear uniforms? Everyone looks alike. It doesn’t make any sense!
----Well, _______________. A. you need to look all B. you are not seeing the whole picture C. you should think around D. you don’t take all sides into consideration 3. ----Steve spends almost all his spare time playing basketball. He is _______________.
A. hot about it B. mad with it C. crazy about it D. insane with it 4. ----What subject do you go in for?
----_______________.
A. Geography interests me a lot B. Math is very difficult for me C. Chemistry is beyond me D. Physics is too much for me 5. ----I am very forgettable recently, and always looking for my keys. ----You should keep a diary. That will help you _______________.
A. remember where your keys are B. trace the whereabouts of your keys C. keep things on track and relieve stress D. keep records of your thoughts
二、阅读理解 Passage 1
In the old days, fresh flood had to be eaten in the city no more than one or two days after it left the farm. If kept longer, it would spoil. One of the reasons behind it is that the air contains many liv-ing things that can harm our food. Some things, such as insects, can be seen by us.
Others, like bacteria, can be seen only with a microscope.
All living things need water and man discovered that if this wa-ter is removed, the activity of
the bacteria, which causes food to go bad is prevented. In other words, we can protect some of our food by drying it. Besides, living things can grow only at certain temper-ature, so we can also
protect our food by heating or cooling it.
A New York man had an idea. He filled a wooden railroad car with tons of butter. The car pulled the butter from New York to Boston.
How could this be done? The butter was packed in ice, and twice during the trip, more ice was added. This was the first refrig-erator car. As a matter of fact, people also used Wooden boxes
to keep their food.
Now we have mechanical refrigerator cars and mechanical re-frigerators at homes and stores
and other places that need them.
1. In order to avoid eating spoiled food _________.
A. fresh food had to be eaten in only one or two days in the city B. food had to be kept in the ice box
C. the delivery of food from the farm to the city should be no longer than one or two days
D. people must be aware of the fact that fresh food after being shipped from the farm will
remain eatable within one or two days
2. To prevent food from turning bad, we must ________.
A. not let insects and bacteria in the air get into food B. not let living things in general get into food
C. use a microscope to detect if there are bacteria in the food before we eat it
D. take various measures to prevent the activity of the bacteria that cause food to go bad 3. The purpose of the various measures to protect food mentioned in the passage is to ______.
A. remove the water in the food
B. make the outside conditions unfit for bacteria to remain alive or to grow C. maintain a certain temperature range D. kill the bacteria altogether
4. The New York man’s car was hooked to a train, because __________.
A. the car had ice in it
B. the car had no wheels of its own
C. he wanted to ship butter to Boston in a quick and safe way D. he wanted add ice on its way
5. The passage mainly deals with _________.
A. ways of keeping food eatable for a longer time B. the killing of bacteria
C. the invention of the refrigerator D. the role bacteria play
Passage 2
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only “remembering” things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (闻到) something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.
Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access (即时调用) memory of a large computer may hold up to 100, 000 “words” ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 1,004,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the
teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.
The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person’s memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.
1. According to the passage, memory is considered to be ______. A. the basis for decision making and problem solving B. an ability to store experiences for future use
C. An intelligence typically possessed by human beings
D. the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words
2. The comparison made between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of a human
being shows that ______.
A. the computer’s memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenager’s
B. the computer’s memory capacity is much smaller than an adult human being’s C. the computer’s memory capacity is much smaller even than a teenager’s D. both A and B
3. The whole passage implies that ______.
A. only human beings have problem-solving intelligence
B. a person’s memory is different from a computer’s in every respect C. animals are able to solve only very simple problems
D. animals solve problems by instincts rather than intelligence
4. The phrase “in terms of” in the last sentence can best be replaced by _______. A. “in connection with” B. “expressed by” C. “consisting” D. “by means of” 5. The topic of the passage is__________.
A. What would life be like without memory? B. Memory is of vital importance to life.
C. How is a person’s memory different from an animal’s or a computer’s? D. What is contained in memory?
Passage 3
A well-made film offers a whole world of things to watch. First there are the story aspects—the plot, characters, dialogue and themes. Then there are the technical aspects—the camera work, cutting and special effects. And there are many other things, like the credits and musical score and the acting. A well-made film offers much more than you see in one viewing.
Films are a means of communication. They can tell you things, just as newspapers do, or television, or any other means of communication. Sometimes they communicate important things to you, like ideas or lifestyles or ways of looking at the world. Sometimes people are aware of this, and sometimes not. The more aware you are, the better.
Notice, for example, the way films sometimes affect fashion. A star dresses or wears her hair in a certain way, and suddenly everyone is imitating her. Boys in the 1950s could sometimes be seen wearing black leather jackets, lounging on street corners and smoking cigarettes. They were imitating Marlon Brando. His films taught them a certain way to behave.
Films can also teach politics. In Star Wars, the heroes were a bunch of lovable incompetents
fighting with guts and not much else. They were, in fact, rather like the British in the early days of WWII. Their enemies, like the Nazis, had a big advantage in equipment and numbers of troops, and they were like the Nazis in discipline and heartlessness too. The whole film, in fact, was a re-run of WWII，and taught values like faith and love of liberty. This is all to the good, but the point is, did you notice it?
1. All of the following are mentioned as noticeable aspects of a film EXCEPT____. A. list of names of actors and directors etc. B. the cost of a film C. the music for a film D. language used in a film
2. The last sentence in paragraph 1 probably means ____.
A. a high quality film can be appreciated repeatedly from different angles B. a good film always attracts a lot of viewers
C. a well-made film usually has more than one theme
D. one can never find out how many characters in a good film
3. According to the passage, films can affect all the things below EXCEPT____. A. fashions B. lifestyles C. politics D. truths
4. It can be inferred from the passage that in his film, Marion Brando was____. A. a motorist who always wore a black leather jacket B. a homeless man who died of excessive smoking C. a rebellious young man during the WWII
D. an idler who didn’t have any serious things to do 5. The Star Wars is a film____.
A. about WWII B. for polities
C. reflecting WWII D. for peace lovers
三、词汇与结构
1. This test _______ a number of multiple choice questions.
A. consists of B. consists in C. composes of D. composes in 2. The young lady had her handbag lost with a _______ sum of money in it.
A. valuable B. countless C. considerable D. worthwhile 3. People often say that knowledge changes _______.
A. destination B. destiny C. termination D. determination 4. He decided to _______ graduate study in this area in an oversea university.
A. start B. begin C. chase D. pursue 5. Some people like to own a big car as a symbol of _______.
A. status B. statue C. state D. stature 6. Evelyn was interested in a wide range of _______ subjects when she was in college.
A. leisure B. academic C. entertaining D. amusing
7. The tourist was prevented from entering the country because he didn’t have a(n)_______ passport.
A. operative B. valid C. efficient D. effective 8. The painter’s best work was said to be _______ by his memory of childhood.
A. reminded B. invented C. inspired D. created 9. Many people agree that it’s important to leave a good first _______ to others.
A. image B. picture C. portrait D. impression 10. In other words, all mammals _______ their size, breathe once for every four heartbreaks.
A. whatever B. however C. regardless D. no matter
四、完形填空
It was a normal Monday morning at a meeting, and the old headmaster was addressing the students on important things in life and about ___1___ ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went.
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the ___2___ He would get the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street comer and ___3___. He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street comer and begged for almost 20 years.
His house was dirty, and a stench (臭气) came out of the house and it smelled ___4___. The neighbors could not ___5___ the smell anymore, so they called the police officers to ___6___ the place. The officers ___7___ down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of ___8___ all over the house that he had ___9___ over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a ___10___. They waited outside his house in anticipation (预料) to ___11___ the good news with him. When he arrived home that evening, he was met by one of the officers who told him that there was no ___12___ for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.
He said ___13___ at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the street and continued to beg.
___14___, this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything ___15___ for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying ___16___ the things we enjoy doing: commitment (信奉).
We should remain true to our course, which may mean devoting yourselves to things that people around you would ___17___ disapprove of. Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but ___18___.
What makes us happy is ___19___ matters in the end…not what we acquire (获得).
This particular story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I don’t concentrate on course, I get reminded ___20___ this story. 1 ．A．attracting B．agreeing C．believing D．devoting 2 ．A．street B．factory C．subway D．airport 3 ．A．beg B．wait C．attempt D．evaluate 4 ．A．pleasant B．horrible C．endless D．serious 5 ．A．explain B．forget C．judge D．tolerate 6 ．A．clear B．remove C．control D．inspect
西电、大学英语二(下)模拟题及答案4
