模拟试题（10）

I．Vocabulary（以A、B字母为首的词汇）

A．For each of the following incomplete sentences there are four choices marked A）、B）、C）and D）．Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence．

1．It was Abraham Lincoln who_________ slavery in the United States．

A）abolished B）wasted C）destroyed D）damaged

2．In fact，it is_________ to believe that the number 13brings bad luck．

A）reasonable B）sensible C）absurd D）creative

3．To their astonishment，there was food in _________ at the dinner party．

A）variety B）abundance C）peculiarity D）nourishment

4．They were told that the jumbo jet could _________ 400 passengers．

A）accommodate B）transfer C）provide D）equip

5．In the past a Chinese teacher's salary was not _________ to support his family．

A）sufficiently B）adequately C）adequate D）numerous

6．Mrs Black is a dressmaker and frequently _________ her clothes according to the latest fashion．

A）revolutionizes B）alters C）promotes D）multiplies

7．What is worse，the president of the company gave a（n）_________ answer to that question．

A）discouraging B）tremendous C）ambiguous D）anonymous

8．Generally speaking，busy people are _________ to forget unimportant things．

A）unlikely B）apt C）undoubtedly D）occasional

9．It was up to the guard to _________ whether there was somebody in the secret room．

A）ascertain B）entertain C）request D）inquire

10．We are happy to know that the nurse is in constant _________ on the patient from a remote town．

A）attendance B）consideration C）treatment D）assistance

11．If you are coming to my wedding ceremony，be sure to let me know _________ ．

A）previous B）beforehand C）prompt D）accidentally

12．Pasteur's discovery about the nature of germs was an important _________ in the treatment of diseases．

A）miracle B）clarification C）breakthrough D）manufacture

13．As a university student，Peter has the habit of _________ around the secondhand bookshops．

A）browsing B）wandering C）bullying D）hanging

14．You have no choice but face the _________ fact that it's impossible for you to walk again．

A）unthinkable B）challenging C）brutal D）discouraging

15．I _________ with shame when she called out to me in the crowd．

A）burst B）thrilled C）broadcast D）blushed

B．Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word from the box．Change the form if necessary．

addict afflict bless barren abnormal

abruptly alternate betray blunder breach

1．In my opinion，his wild behavior that day was apparently _________ ．

2．It was impolite of Lucy to interrupt them _________ over and over again．

3．Unfortunately，more and more young people nowadays are _________ to drugs，constituting a serious social problem．

4．It's obvious that famine and war still _________ mankind a GREat deal．

5．His feelings about his rich uncle's death _________ between sadness and happiness．

6．Believe it or not，the brilliant scholar committed an inexcusable _________ ．

7．After ten years of hard work fortune _________ the postgraduate with success and victory．

8．Although he has taught advanced mathematics　for quite a few years，Philip is _________ of　intelligence．

9．There is no doubt that the expression on his　face _________ his anger at being forbidden to　smoke in the meeting room．

10．You are in _________ of contract if you don't　leave the house you have sold by the end of　the month．

C．Translate the underlined word into Chinese in each sentence．

1．His ambiguous directions confused us；we did　not know which of the two roads to take．

2．My sister is quite ambitious and plans to get　an M．A．deGREe within one year．

3．The suspect alleged that he had not been in　the neighbor at the time of the crime．

4．The manager gave me his assurance that he　would double my pay if I did my job well．

5．When the farmers visited the city for the first　time，they were bewildered by its complicated traffic system．

6．The ball bounced two or three times before　rolling down the slope．

7．The author of the report is well acquainted　with the situation in the hospital because he　has been working there for many years．

8．To help students understand how we see，teachers often draw an analogy between an eye　and a camera．

9．The Prime Minister was followed by five or six　attendants when he got off the plane．

10．The medicine alleviated his pain but did not　cure his illness．

II．Grammar（名词、冠词、代词）

A．Choose the best one in the brackets．

1．The Australian engineer was all_________（smile，smiles）at the exciting news．

2．The prisoner was put in_________（iron，irons）in the cell of the condemned．

3．It's a pity that she puts on such_________（air，airs）all the time．

4．We must take_________（note，notes）of their defects as well as their qualities．

5．The secretary said angrily that she had had_________（words，a word）with her boss．

6．Dick never pays much attention to table_________（manner，manners）while visiting a foreign country．

7．His colleagues are sparing no_________（pain，pains）to fulfil the targets．

8．The report sounded strange to me in view of the_________（circumstance，circumstances）

B．Complete the passage with appropriate articles if necessary．

Old age has always been thought of as 1 worst age to be，but it is not necessary for 2 old to be unhappy．With 3 age should come 4 wisdom and 5 ability to help 6 others with 7 advice wisely given． 8 old can have 9 joy of seeing their children making 10 proGREss in 11 life，they can watch their grandchildren growing up around them；and perhaps best of all，they can，if their life has been 12 useful one，feel 13 happiness of having come through 14 battle of life safely and of having reached 15 time when they can lie back and rest，leaving 16 others to continue 17 fight．Thus it can be seen that 18 old person has every reason to live joyfully．

C．Fill in each blank with pronoun which is needed．

（a）

The same amount of time may seem very short to one person and very long to 1 ．A man's sense of time changes as 2 feelings change．Some days go by much more quickly than 3 ．Some hours seem as if 4 would never end． 5 are past before 6 seem to have begun．

（b）

Once we understand that risk can never be totally eliminated from any situation and that， therefore， 7 is completely safe，we will then see that the issue is not 8 of avoiding risks altogether but rather 9 ．

（c）

In order to make 10 understood，Mr Zhang spoke both Chinese and English．

III．Comprehensive Exercises

A．Reading Comprehension

Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism． Their critics seem to resent them because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around．“It's iniquitous，”they say，“that this entirely unproductive industry（if we can call it that）should absorb millions of pounds each year．It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making．Why don't they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods？After all，it's the consumer who pays”

The poor old consumer！He'd have to pay a GREat deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products．It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap．But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods．Another equally important function is to inform．A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read．Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about．Supposing you wanted to buy a washing-machine，it is more than likely that you would obtain details regarding performance，price，etc．，from an advertisement．

Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements，but this claim may be seriously doubted．It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days．And what fun they often are，too！Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements． Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway bye-laws 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 of 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 newspaperprovides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature．It's the best advertisement for advertising there is！

1．What's the best summary of this passage？

A）Advertising．

B）The benefits of advertising．

C）Advertising is a service．

D）The costs of advertising．

2．The attitude of the author toward advertisers is ．

A）appreciative B）trustworthy

C）critical D）dissatisfactory

3．Why do the critics resent advertisers？

A）Because advertisers often brag．

B）Because critics think advertising is a“waste of money”．

C）Because customers are encouraged to buy more than is necessary．

D）Because customers pay more．

4．Which of the following is Not True？

A）Advertising makes a contribution to our pockets and adds to what we know．

B）We can buy what we want．

C）Good quality products don't need to be advertised．

D）Advertising makes our life colorful．

5．The passage is a（n）．

A）narration B）description

C）criticism D）argumentation

B．（I）Translate the underlined parts into Chinese．

For most of us，work is the central，dominating fact of life．We spend more than half our conscious hours at work，preparing for work， traveling to and from work．What we do there largely determines our standard of living and to aconsiderable extent the status we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well．It is sometimes said that because leisure has become more important the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a corner，that because most work is pretty intolerable，the people who do it should be compensated for its boredom， frustrations and humiliations，concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives．I reject that as a counsel of despair．For the foreseeable future the material and psychological rewards which work can provide，and the conditions in which work is done，will continue to play a vital part in determining the satisfaction that life can offer．Yet only a small minority can control the pace at which their work offers scope for creativity，imagination，or initiative．

Inequality at work and in work is still one of cruelest and most glaring forms of inequality in our society．We cannot hope to solve the more obvious problems of industrial life，may of which arise directly or indirectly from the frustrations created by inequality at work，unless we tackle it head －on．Still less can we hope to create a decent and humane society．

（II）Give the Chinese equivalent of each sentence．

1．As a matter of fact，his knowledge of Russian is fair，but ought to be better．

2．We must achieve widespread robot literacy；just as there has been a computer literacy program，there must be a robot literacy campaign．

3．A person who is filled with ambition usually makes the best use of his precious time，seldom wasting a single minute．

4．The statement completely laid bare their ambition for world conquest．

C．Cloze

Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language．It is also the variety which is normally 1 by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other 2 situations．The difference between standard and nonstandard，it should be noted， has 3 in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial 4 ；standard English has well as formal variants．

5 ，the standard variety of English is based on the London 6 of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London．This dialect became the one 7 by the educated，and it was developed and promoted 8 a model，or norm，for wider and wider segments of society ．It was also the 9 that was carried overseas，but not one unaffected by such export．Today， 10 English is arranged to the extent that the grammar and vocabulary of English are 11 the same everywhere in the world where English is used； 12 among local standards is really quite minor， 13 the Singapore，South Africa，and Irish varieties are really very 14 different from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are 15 ．Indeed，standard English is so powerful that it exerts a tremendous 16 on all local varieties，to the extent that many of long-established dialects of England have 17 much of their vigor and there isconsiderable pressure on them to be 18 ． This latter situation is not unique 19 English：it is also true in other countries where processes of standardization are 20 ．But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise between local norms and national，even supranational（跨国的）ones．

1．A）said B）told C）talked D）spoken

2．A）same B）similar C）equal D）identical

3．A）anything B）something C）nothing D）everything

4．A）language B）vocabulary C）idioms D）words

5．A）Surprisingly B）Historically C）Interestingly D）Generally

6．A）accent B）pronunciation C）spelling D）dialect

7．A）preferred B）learned C）praised D）created

8．A）to B）in C）as D）for

9．A）basis B）norm C）rule D）proposal

10．A）formal B）colloquial C）non-standard D）standard

11．A）not B）very C）much D）hardly

12．A）variation B）standardization C）unification D）transformation

13．A）therefore B）but C）so that D）nevertheless

14．A）GREat B）much C）no D）little

15．A）talked B）concerned C）mentioned D）involved

16．A）press B）pressure C）power D）force

17．A）lost B）gained C）missed D）got

18．A）abandoned B）changed C）standardized D）reformed

19．A）in B）of C）for D）to

20．A）in the way B）under way C）out of the way D）all the way

D．Rewrite the following statements．

1．The reporter wrote the accident up for the newspaper．（改为被动语态）

2．Every time I see the attractive village girl，I think of my charming sister．（改为否定句）

3．Creativity is not something one is just born with，and it is not necessarily a characteristic of high intelligence．（改为倒装句）

4．Most metals are good conductors，and silver is the best．（改为简单句）

5．The garishly red building didn't find a buyer for a number of years．（改为复合句）

6．Mechanical energy can be changed into electrical energy，which in turn can be changed into mechanical energy．（改为简单句）

7．Mary's parents borrowed large quantities of money so that she could study at college．（改为不定式结构）

8．SARS prevents most people in China from travelling wherever they hope to go．（强调主语）

9．John is said to have made quite a few close friends in the army．（改为形式主语句）

10．Numerous doctors and nurses fight against SARS．They work heart and soul．（改用现在分词）