2024年浙江普通“专升本”《英语》
冲刺模拟试卷（三）
Part I Reading Comprehension(共60分)
Section A(共20小题，每小题2分，共40分)
Directions： In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a
number of comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
In 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most unusual way. The author was Agatha Christie, a gentle married lady and one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world．
In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Qatar, near Saudi Arabia. Doctors were unable to decide the cause of her illness with confidence, so she was flown to London and admitted to Hammersmith Hospital, where specialist help was available (可得到的). She was then only semiconscious (半清醒状态) and on the “Dangerously ill” list. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to discover that they, too, were puzzled by the very unusual symptoms. While they were discussing the baby’s case, a nurse asked to speak to them．
“Excuse me.” said Nurse Marsha Maitland, “but I think the baby is suffering from thallium poisoning.”
“What makes you think that?” Dr Brown asked. “Thallium poisoning is extremely rare.”
“A few days ago, 1 was reading a novel called A Pale Horse by Agatha Christie,” Nurse Maitland explained. “In the book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are described. They’re exactly the same as the baby’s.”
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“You’re very observant and you may be right,” another doctor said. “We’11 carry out some tests and find out whether it’s thallium or not.”
The tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance used in making optical glass. Once they knew the cause of illness, the doctors were able to give the baby the correct treatment. She soon recovered and was sent back to Qatar. Enquiries made people know that the poison might have come from an insecticide used in Qatar.
1. Who first suggested the correct cause of the baby’s illness?
A. A doctor in Qatar. C. Nurse Maitland
B . Dr Brown．
D. Agatha Christie
2. Why was the baby sent to London?
A . Because she was a British girl whose parents were working in Qatar. B . Because the hospitals in Qatar were full at that time.
C. Because she was the daughter of a doctor in one of the hospitals in London．
D. Because the Qatar doctors were not sure they could cure her. 3. According to the passage, what caused the baby’s illness? A .Contact with a pair of infected spectacles．
B. Contact with a harmful substance used to kill insects. C. Contact with machinery used in manufacturing optical glasses. D. Contact with her mother who carried thallium germs in her body. 4. When the baby was first admitted to hospital in the U. K. what did
the doctors think of her case?
A. They thought it was a case needing immediate treatment. B. They thought it was a usual one． C. They thought it was quite a simple one．
D. They thought it was the result of thallium poisoning. 5. Nurse Maitland spoke to the doctors ___________.
A . when she heard them discussing the possibility of thallium poisoning． B. because she could see that the doctors had made a mistake.
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C. to suggest a possible cause of the patient’s illness. D. after she had read about a horse which had been poisoned.
CDBAC Passage Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage
I watched from a distance as the homeless man quarreled with those who did not leave money for him – the majority.
I walked up to him and right on queue he asked me for a quarter. “I’ll give you a quarter if you tell me your story.” He laughed, “You’ll give me a quarter for my story?” I lay the quarter in front of him and corrected myself – “Nah, here’s the quarter but it would be nice to hear your story.” I followed his eyes to the quarter and for a brief moment I saw a glimmer of reflection. I sat down next to him and waited. “I was in the army,” he said. “I was a sniper(狙击手)and was supposed to shoot down the enemy from the distance.” I listened carefully to his grizzly voice as he went deeper into the story. He wore dirty old torn clothes and smelled like a dead rat left in a mouse trap. He told me how he used to hunt with his family and was really good at it. He had his own way of respecting animals by not wasting what he killed for food and not killing more than he needed. When the army came knocking on his door, he felt pride and joined up. All those years of polishing his hunting skills could now serve a larger purpose—to defend us from the bad guys. He set out to fight in Iraq. It wasn’t long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth. He became disillusioned with the killings, which he felt were of innocent people. “I was a sniper but I never really killed anyone,” he said. “One day I had to do it. They asked me to shoot this lady from the distance. I saw kids near that lady and my hands were on the trigger (扳机). Man, I was tearing up……I couldn’t do it. She wasn’t doing anything to anyone and she was with the kids—I couldn’t see through my tears. It just didn’t make any sense to me.”
The story goes on as he describes eventually being put into prison for 180 days for refusing to follow orders. He told me how he was black listed so that he couldn’t get a job. All the rights we take for granted were taken away from him. Why? Here
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was a man who was being punished—and for what? For refusing to kill the lady? For being a hero? “I have no regrets,” the homeless man said. “I may be homeless now, but I never killed that lady. I never killed anyone in the army. It didn’t feel right. I didn’t go there to do that. I went there to save people.” He continued, “I can live with being homeless—that’s okay. But I wouldn’t be able to live with killing innocent people.”
On that lonely Friday night, I met a hero. It just never occurred to me that a hero could be a smelly old man left on streets.
6. It can be learned from the passage that the homeless man_______. A. never killed animals B. had a strong respect for life C. deserved the punishment he received D. felt guilty about disobeying the order
7. The underlined word “disillusioned” (Paragraph 4) is closest in meaning to _______.
A. disappointed B. frightened
C. delighted
D. admired
8. The most disappointing for the man was probably that _________. A. he couldn’t get a job to support himself B. he couldn’t go back to fight for his country C. he received orders to kill an innocent person D. he got little money from the people in the street
9. How did the man feel when he was reduced to a beggar?沦为 A. hopeless B. regretless
C. greedy D. sympathetic
10. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. A beggar who often came into conflict with others
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B. A poor man who earned money by telling stories C. A true hero who begged for a living on streets D. A homeless man who helped the poor men
答案及剖析：
语篇解读：本文介绍了一位曾经在伊拉克服役的狙击手的故事。狙击手在伊拉克因为拒绝执行枪杀一位带着孩子的妇女的命令，被判处180天监禁，出狱后被列入黑名单，找不到工作，被剥夺了一切权利，沦为街头乞丐。但是他却一直不后悔自己的行为。他是一位真正的英雄。 1.B 推理判断题。根据文章内容可知，狙击手在做猎人时从不滥杀动物，在伊拉克战场上又拒绝执行枪杀平民妇女，这些行为都说明他尊重生命。
2.A 词义猜测题。根据第三段第一句It wasn’t long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth.以及…which he felt were of innocent people.一句可知，战场上的事实与理想相去甚远，是“令人失望的”，故选A。
3.C 推理判断题。根据文章内容可知，他对自己的流落街头行乞毫不后悔，可知A、B、D三项均与这相悖，所以令他感到最失望事情应该是他收到命令枪杀无辜。
4.B 细节理解题。根据第四段“I have no regrets,” the homeless man said.一句可知，他对自己沦为乞丐毫不后悔。故选B。
5.C．主旨大意题。本文主要讲述一个在伊拉克战场上因拒绝执行命，枪杀无辜平民妇女而先被判监禁，后流落街头的狙击手的故事。他因尊重生命而遭受不公正的对待，所以他才是真正的英雄。 BACBC
Passage Three
Questions 11 to15 are based on the following passage.
E-mail systems at thousands of companies and government offices around the world were attacked by a virus (病毒) called“Melissa”梅丽莎that disguises itself as all “important message”from a friend.
Even though there was a weekend warning, more than 50,000 companies at about 100 places around the world have been attacked by the virus, computer experts said on Monday.
The virus began to show up last Friday and spread rapidly the next first work day by making computers send off dozens of e-mails containing the virus. Although the
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浙江省专升本英语模拟卷2及参考答案
