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1、大学英语考试复习资料专升本英语模拟227大学英语考试复习资料专升本英语模拟227专升本英语模拟227 PhoneticsDirections: In each of the following groups of words, there are four underlined letters or letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Mark

2、your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.问题:1.A.forgetB.forestC.foreignD.foreleg答案:A问题:2.A.breadB.dreamC.leadD.team答案:A解析 本题属字母组合的考查题，可利用排除法。B、C、D三项当中的发音均为，只有 A项中发音为e。故选A。问题:3.A.elseB.riseC.loseD.rose答案:A画线部分读s，其他选项的画线部分读z。问题:4.A.messageB.fountainC.orangeD.classmate答案:D

3、画线部分读ei，其他选项的画线部分读i。问题:5.A.carryB.happyC.matterD.any答案:D Vocabulary and StructureDirections: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on th

4、e Answer Sheet.问题:1. Summer in _ south of France are dry and sunny.A.theB.aC.anD./答案:A问题:2. Is Prof. Tate very sick? Im afraid_. A.soB.thisC.thatD.to答案:A解题指要 该题测试用so做代替语，以避免重复的用法。选项A = I am afraid that Prof. Tate is very sick.问题:3. About 85 percent of the students_ good, and part of them_ interested

5、 in biology.A.is; areB.are; areC.are; isD.is; is答案:B解题指要 20 percent, the rest, two thirds, half, all等词修饰的名词如果为单数，则动词用单数，如果名词为复数，则动词也与其保持一致，用复数。问题:4. None of us called the police when the two cars collided,_?A.didnt weB.dont weC.did weD.do we答案:C反问疑问句。根据前肯定后否定，前否定后肯定的原则，前陈述句部分已有了否定词none，后面反问部分应为肯定式。原

6、句为过去式，应选过去式的选项：did we。问题:5. We are using up our natural resources too quickly and at the same time we are _our environment with dangerous chemicals.A.protectingB.savingC.pollutingD.fighting答案:Cpollute意为“污染”。问题:6. With the guide _ the way, we set out on foot into the dark night.A.leadB.leadingC.ledD.

7、to lead答案:B解析 此题属于“with+分词”的结构，在句中作伴随状语。因为guide(向导)与动词lead之间为主动的关系，因此选leading，即现在分词。问题:7. To travel from England to Scotland you _a passport.A.mustnt haveB.havent gotC.dont needD.neednt答案:C句中need是行为动词，其后接名词做宾语。问题:8. Playing table tennis is her_.A.hobbyB.careC.sportD.habit答案:Ahobby指“业余爱好”。问题:9. They

8、_ going to see my mother this Sunday.A.bothB.both areC.are both ofD.are both答案:D问题:10. Susan wants to know whether the measures have been agreedA.toB.withC.overD.on答案:D问题:11. The bread and butter _ served for breakfast.A.areB.isC.haveD.had been答案:B当由and连接的两个名词做主语，若是指同一个人、同一件事或同一概念，而且and后面的名词前没有冠词时，谓

9、语要用单数。问题:12. Would you like some more chicken? Yes, please, I like chicken very much. Well, Im glad you like it. How about some more rice? A.How nice. Id like some more breadB.Thanks for your helpC.No. Im already too fullD.Many thanks, but I cant have any more答案:D问题:13. - Id met her many times befor

10、e yesterday. - So _. A.did IB.had IC.I didD.I had答案:D本句是对上句的重复，尽管用so开头，语序也不倒装。问题:14. They appear _ their last tour to the island.A.enjoyB.enjoyingC.to have been enjoyedD.to have enjoyed答案:D问题:15. I prefer this game _that one.A.thanB.more thanC.rather thanD.to答案:Dprefer.to表示“比起更喜欢”。 ClozeDirections:

11、For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Los Angeles has planted 2,000 rubber trees down the middle of one of its main streets. These tre

12、es do not 1 rubber. They are, 2 , made of rubber. Mr Joe Dynamo, a spokesman for Los Angeles 3 council, explained the reasons. He said: These 4 are representative of our virtual society. We have polystyrene grass on our golf 5 . We have non-milk powder 6 our coffee. We 7 copies in plastic of old woo

13、den furniture. We have fiberglass tombstones. 8 shouldnt we have trees made of rubber? At 50 miles an hour, 9 motorist will see any difference. And our preservation 10 will be lower. You give the trees an annual rinse with detergent, and 11 them off twice a year. We 12 a lot of money because transpl

14、anting, pruning, weeding and leaf-collection are all 13 And we have a 60-year 14 guarantee on each plant. This is rationalization at 15 best. 1.A.inventB.doC.produceD.create答案:CInvent发明，create创造，produce生产。根据前面所说，种植的是橡胶树，因此应是“生产”橡胶。选项C是正确的。2.A.in factB.eventuallyC.practicallyD.as a matter答案:A种的是橡胶树却不

15、能生产橡胶，这里是解释原因。用“事实上in fact”解释，所种的不是真的橡胶树。选项A是正确的。3.A.countryB.stateC.cityD.county答案:C洛杉矶是一个城市的名字，council是政府机构。所以，这里应指的是市政府，而不是国家、州或县政府。选项c是正确的。4.A.plantsB.treesC.rubberD.streets答案:BThese肯定指的是前面所说的橡胶做的橡胶树。这段是用其他的例子说明，其他的很多东西我们都用的是代用品，橡胶树当然也同样可以。选项B是正确的。5.A.coursesB.placesC.courtsD.playground答案:A高尔夫场地

16、用course，golf course。选项A是正确的。6.A.onB.ofC.atD.in答案:D在咖啡里，用in。选项D是正确的。7.A.makeB.introduceC.buildD.set答案:A根据上下文，这里指的是用不同的材料做家具。制作家具用make。选项A是正确的。8.A.WhatB.HowC.WhenD.Why答案:D前面举了几个例子说明很多东西都可用替代品来做，这里是用问句表示肯定。应用表示询问原因的词。选项D是正确的。9.A.someB.noC.manyD.a few答案:B这里是说假树在某种条件下是看不出来的。所以，应当选择表示否定的词。选项B是正确的。10.A.cos

17、tsB.priceC.moneyD.award答案:A下面讲了对真树要做很多的维护性工作，要有一定的支出。根据这个含义，比较四个选项，选项A是正确的。用假树花费会低一些。11.A.sweepB.washC.tidyD.dust答案:D根据上下文，可以看出这里讲的是对假树的清洁工作：清洗和除尘。Sweep them off把树扫掉，wash them off把树洗掉，tidy整理。都不符合文章含义。选项D是正确的。12.A.wasteB.keepC.saveD.store答案:C根据上下文，清洗工作简单，也不用下面提到的修枝、移植等，当然就省钱。选项c是正确的。13.A.essentialB.a

18、ccidentalC.unnecessaryD.necessary答案:C因为是假树，除草、扫落叶当然就没有必要了。选项C是正确的。14.A.fadeB.non-fadeC.die awayD.everlasting答案:B因为是假树，所以可以保持在一定时间内不变色、枯萎。Everlasting表示永久的，文章中已经给出具体的时间了，所以排除。选项B是正确的。15.A.onesB.itsC.theirD.the答案:BAt ones best强有力的、全盛的。Ones表示它所代表的事物，所有格。应为its，这里it指的是rationalization(强辩、说明)。选项B是正确的。 Readi

19、ng ComprehensionDirections: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Uncle Sam is a tall, thin ma

20、n. Hes an older man with white hair and a white beard. He often wears a tall hat, a bow tie, and the stars and stripes of the American flag. Who is this strange-looking man? Would you believe that Uncle Sam is the US government? But why do you call the US government Uncle Sam? During the War of 1812

21、, the US government hired meat packers to provide meat to the army. One of these meat packers was a man named Samuel Wilson. Samuel was a friendly and fair man. Everyone liked him and called him Uncle Sam. Sam Wilson stamped the boxes of meat for the army with a large US for United States. Some gove

22、rnment inspectors came to look over Sams company. They asked a worker what the US on the boxes stood for. As a joke, the worker answered that these letter stood for the name of his boss, Uncle Sam. The joke spread, and soldiers began saying that their food came from Uncle Sam. Before long, people ca

23、lled all things that came from the government Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam became a nickname for the US government. Soon there were drawings and cartoons of Uncle Sam in newspapers. In these early pictures, Uncle Sam was a young man. He wore stars and stripes, but his hair was dark and he had no beard. The

24、beard was added when Abraham Lincoln was President. President Lincoln had a beard. The most famous picture of Uncle Sam is on a poster from World War I. The government needed men to fight in the war. In the poster, a very serious Uncle Sam points his finger and says I want YOU for the US Army. 1. Un

25、cle Sam often wears a tall hat, _, and the stars and stripes of the American flag.A.dark hairB.a bow tieC.a boxD.a shirt答案:B参见第一段。2. Government inspectors came to _Sams meat-packing company.A.askB.stand forC.look overD.see答案:C由“inspector” 可知，这些人是来视察、检查的，所以选C。3. In the drawing and cartoons of Uncle S

26、am_.A.he wore the stars and stripesB.be never had a beardC.he had no hairD.he wore a bow tie答案:A参见倒数第二段。4. Sam Wilson stamped the boxes of meat for the army with a large US for_.A.Uncle SamB.United StatesC.SoldiersD.America答案:B参见第四段。 One of the most popular persons in Hong Kong and Taiwan is Li Ming

27、, a star of singing, films and TV plays. He is best known for the songs Meeting You in the Rain, Close to You, Will You Come Tonight and My Feeling. The TV series On the Edge, in which he plays the hero, turned his name into a house-hold one in China not long ago. Li Ming was born in Beijing in 1966

28、 and settled down in Hong Kong with his family in 1970. He once studied in England. Soon after he came back to Hong Kong, he began his singing career(生涯). Li Ming has been successful in the field of singing. He won the prize of the Best New Singers in Hong Kong and has toured Asia and America includ

29、ing Singapore, Malaysia, USA, and Canada. He is called one of the four God Appointed Stars in Hong Kong. Apart from singing, he has played in films and TV plays. 1. Which of the following made Li Ming become a house-hold star in China? _.A.Meeting You in the RainB.On the EdgeC.Will You Come TonightD

30、.Close to You答案:B2. From the passage we know that Li Ming is the most successful in _.A.singingB.writing songsC.TV playsD.films答案:A3. Li Ming is regard as one of the most popular persons in _.A.Beijing and EnglandB.Asia and AmericanC.Hong Kong and TaiwanD.mainland China and Hong Kong答案:C4. Which of

31、the following is true?A.Li Ming settled in Hong Kong after his return from Britain.B.Li Ming ever won a lot of prizes in the world.C.Li Ming is the best new singer in Hong Kong.D.Li Ming was born in China.答案:D A group of people who share the same interests and way of life is called a society. Sociol

32、ogy is the science that examines human society. The term sociology is derived from the Lation word socius, which means companion, union of people. Sociologists are interested in how a society began and how it grew. They also study the levels within a society. For example, the child is part of the fa

33、mily, the family is part of the neighborhood, and the neighborhood is part of the community. There are many different groups, and sociologists are interested in the effect that these groups have on people. A Frenchman named Auguste Comte made sociology a separate science in the 1830s. He suggested t

34、hat a new science was necessary to study a society of people. A famous book, Principles of Sociology, was published by and Englishman, Herbert pencer, in 1882. This book had an unprecedented effect on the science of sociology. In this book, Spencer theorized that a societys customs evolved, or grew

35、from very simple to more complicated and advanced. This theory shows the influence that Charles Darwin(who believed that man had evolved from very simple forms to the present human) had on Spencer. 1. A good title for this selection is _.A.SociologyB.Peoples interestsC.Society in Different NationsD.

36、Sociologist答案:A解析 本题属主旨题。文章第二句已明确点明本文的主旨。整篇文章主要介绍：社会学的相关知识，社会学家以及一些社会学著作。2. The word levels in line 5 means _.A.standardB.groups, classesC.beginning, startD.music, art答案:B解析 本题属词汇测试题。文章第二段最后一句中的“many different groups”已提示：在一个社会里，有许多不同的团体。3. We may conclude that in sociology the neighborhood is larger

37、 than _.A.the areaB.the communityC.the familyD.society答案:C解析 本题属推理分析题。文章第二段第三句中的“the family is part of the neighbor- hood”可知：neighborhood(邻区)比family(家庭)大。4. The book which had a great effect on sociology was written _.A.by SpencerB.in 1830C.by ComteD.both A and B答案:A解析 本题属细节题。文章第三段第三、四句已明确点明。 Of all

38、 the problems facing modern astronomers, perhaps the most fascinating one is can intelligent life exist elsewhere? Since the earth is a unimportant planet moving round an unimportant star, it would be a pride on our part to suppose that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe. But to obta

39、in proof is difficult. The main trouble is that our neighbor worlds, the bodies in the Solar System appear to be unsuitable for advanced life forms. The Moon may be ruled out at once; it has hardly any atmosphere. Venus is little better; the surface temperature is extremely high and the atmosphere i

40、s mostly carbon dioxide. Mars with a very thin atmosphere and a severe shortage of water, may well support simple that life seems no hope of finding animals, while the alternative Martians of the story-tellers have since been given up. Of course this has not stopped the flow of bright ideas of commu

41、nicating with the supposed people on Mars. In the early nineteenth century the great mathematician Gauss suggested planting tree-patterns in patterns, so that the Martians would see them and replay suitably. Following up this idea, the Austrian scientist Karl Littrow proposed, digging very wide ditc

42、hes in the Sahara, triangular in patterns, and then filling them with petrol or some substance so that, when lit, the ditches would present Martian observers with a flaming triangular which would show the existence of intelligent minds. Even better were the plans of Charles Cross, a French writer of

43、 the 1870s ,who wanted to build a large mirror to reflect the suns rays and concentrate, them on the surface of Mars, thereby making a vast burning-glass. By swinging the mirror round, Cross explained it would be practicable to write words in the Martion deserts simply by burning the sand. For many

44、years, he bombarded the French government with literature about his plan and was very disappointed when no official interest was shown. 1. The opinion of the writer is that _ .A.there may be other intelligent beings in the universeB.there are other intelligent beings in the universeC.people living o

45、n the earth are almost certainly the only intelligent beings in the universeD.people living on the earth are definitely the only intelligent beings in the universe答案:A2. There is unlikely any life on Venus because _ .A.the surface temperature is too hotB.it is too cold thereC.it is severely short of

46、 waterD.it has a very thin atmosphere答案:A3. It seems that Mars _ .A.may be inhabited by attractive MartiansB.may have some vegetable lifeC.can have no life at allD.may have both vegetable and animal life答案:B4. Charles Cross felt _ .A.angry when the government paid little attention to his ideasB.plea

47、sed when the government did take notice of his planC.surprised that the official were interested in his suggestionD.disappointed at the lack of interest shown in his plan答案:D Californian Michael Schwabe said goodbye to the gas pump two years ago. He leased an electric car. Schwabe says he gets more

48、out of driving an electric car than just a charge. With the price of gasoline and with the problems with clean air, its important we get electric vehicles out on the road. On California roads there are about two thousand electric cars. By 2003, ten percent of all new cars may be required to have zer

49、o emissions. This is a mandate automakers say it is way ahead of its time. Gloria Bergquist of the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers says, The technology (for zero emissions) isnt here yet; it still needs advancement in driving range to make it more appealing to a wider consumer audience . Automakers b

50、lame it on the batteries. Power runs out on most cars after about 70 miles. However, some cars can now go more than 100 miles on a charge. Batteries are expensive. Carmakers say there is nothing they can do about it. Tim Carmichael of the Clean Air Coalition says, The automakers have not built a veh

51、icle unless required to do so, so its very important for the state to stay committed to this program requiring automakers to build small amounts in beginning years and then the market will take off. 1. When did Michael Schwabe say goodbye to the gas pump?A.Two days ago.B.Two months ago.C.Two years a

52、go.D.Ten years ago.答案:C参见第一段的第一句。2. What do automakers blame for there being few electric cars now on the road?A.The price of gas.B.The mandate.C.The conditions of the roads:D.The batteries.答案:D参见倒数第二段：汽车制造商抱怨电池消耗得很快，而电池很贵。3. Right now the California Air Resources Board requires that a percentage of new cars sold should be flee of emissions. What is that percentage?A.1%.B.5%.C.10%.D.100%.答案:C参见第三段：加利福尼亚州要求到2003年，加州的道路上应有10%的新车是不排放污染气体的。4. How did Californian Michael Schwabe feel about dri