e2英语考试试题

1、本文档为精品文档，如对你有帮助请下载支持，如有问题请及时沟通，谢谢支持!8大学英语二级模拟试卷（二）Part I VocabularyDirections: In each of the following sentences there is a blank space, for which fourthat is the mostD. motionedD. countsD. bound tochoices are provided. You are required to choose the ONE appropriate to be placed in the blank space.

2、1. He opened the door and me to come in.A. marveled B. movedC. maintained2. It is not what you say but what you do that.A. concludesB. conservesC. compels3. Vaccination makes people smallpox.A. immune toB. attached toC. left to4. He's stopped taking drugs now, but he may to taking themagain.A. r

3、esumeB. revertC. resolveD. resent5. They were all to blame; why him for punishment?A. track downB. set backC. single- outD. light up6. Profits for the first three months are 50% higher than in the period oflast year.A. commandingB. compromisingC. conflictingD. corresponding7. Nearly all major cities

4、 in the U.S. are crime-ridden. A in point is Chicago.A. factB. caseC. incidentD. problem8. The investigation has some serious faults in the system.A. revealedB. reinforcedC. releasedD. revised9. After two hours'delay, our train at last arrived.A. frustratingB. impressingC. appallingD. horrifying

5、10. They held a special party to the new book.A. introduceB. displayC. launchD. memorizePart n StructureDirections: Each of the following sentences is incomplete and is followed by four choices. You are required to choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.1. It's hard John, having to work

6、 when the rest of us are vacationing.A. withB. forC. toD. on2. I first heard this tale in India, where it is told as if true -any naturalist would know it couldn't be.A. becauseB. thoughC. butD. except3. I don ' t feel like now.A. danceB. to danceC. dancing D. having danced4. Towns had sprun

7、g in what had been a dry desert.A. outB. upC. overD. around5. My father was close friend of Albert Einstein.A. aB. oneC. theD. one of the6. As a boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality was Einstein.A. whoB. whichC. thatD. whom7. The town had changed recognition.A. without

8、B. out ofC. overD. beyond8. Mrs. Smith admits to.A. be easily annoyedB. being easily annoyedC. have easily annoyedD. having been easily annoyed9. The sales volume of the new computers has been the rise since themanager advertised them on TV.A. inB. onC. atD. of10. Paul was speeding along on his bicy

9、cle when an unexpected bump threw him balance and he fell over.A. offB. outC. awayD. fromPart m Error CorrectionDirections: Each of the following sentences has four parts underlined and marked A, B, C and D. You are to identify the one that needs correction.1. Colleges and universities across the na

10、tion have decided to do more ABthan talking about the riseJn student cheating.CD2. He knew what he wanted and he wanted only this: to understand withinAhis limits as a human being the nature of the universe and theJogicBCand simplicity in its function.D3. I want to know just which control everyone a

11、t this table has. I willAcount three hundred - that's five minutes - and not one of you is toBCmove a muscle. D4. Seen through the eyes of a young friend Einstein was a simple,ABmodesty and ordinary man. CD5. A heat discussion about whether men are braver than women is settled in a rather ABCDun

12、expected way.6. They seated with their guests - officers and their wives, and a visiting ABAmerican naturalist - in their spacious dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda.C D7. His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others, but he

13、knows the ABcommotion would frighten the cobra into strike. CD8. His E=mc2 is probably the most famous equation in history-yet Einstein Acouldn't walk down the street to see a reactor create atomic energy. BCD9. My brother once gave the Professorajoy, a bird that balanced on the edge of a ABCbow

14、l of water and repeated dunked its head in the water. D10. Jeremy is such a careless person that he has five wallets stolen by pickpockets this ABCDyear. Part IV . Translation Directions: Put the following English sentences into Chinese.1. A frustrated parent frequently has great ambitions for the c

15、hild.2. It could be argued that sending men to the moon is a waste of money.3. The application laser technology in medicine reduces pain in operation.4. There are some indications that interest rates will soon fall.5. He has been arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody.6. Candidates w

16、ho fail to meet these requirements will not be admitted to the University.7. The moral of this story is that one should judge for oneself.8. The Devil tempted Christ by offering him power over all the world.9. At the sight of the police officer the thief took to his heels.10. The present housing cri

17、sis is the result of years of neglect.Part V Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 4 passagesin this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A. B. C. and D. You should decide on the best.Passage 1.Ever since human

18、 beings have inhabited the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral speech. When there is a language barrier, communication is accomplished through sign language in which motions stand for letters, w

19、ords, and ideas. Tourists, the deaf, and the mute have had to resort to this form of expression. Many of these symbols of whole words are very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally, spelling, however, cannot.Body language transmits ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intenti

20、onally or unintentionally. A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only joking. A nod signifies approval, while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction.Other forms nonlinguistic language can be found in Braille (a system of raised dots read with the fingertips), signal

21、 flags, Morse code, and smoke signals. Road maps and picture signs also guide, warn, and instruct people.While verbalization is the most common form of language, other systems and techniques also express human thoughts and feelings.1. Which of the following best summarizes this passage?A. When langu

22、age is a barrier, people will find other forms of communication.B. Everybody uses only one form of communication.C. Nonlinguistic language is invaluable to foreigners.D. Although other forms of communication exist, verbalization is the fastest.2. Which of the following statements is not true?A. Ther

23、e are many forms of communication in existence today.B. Verbalization is the most common form of communication.C. The deaf and mute use an oral form of communication.D. Ideas and thoughts can be transmitted by body language.3. Which form other than oral speech would be most commonly used among blind

24、 people?A. picture signsB. BrailleC. body languageD. signal flags4. How many different forms of communication are mentioned in the passage?A. 5B. 7 C. 9 D. 115. Sign language is said to be very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally except for.A. spellingC. whole wordsB. ideasD. expre

25、ssionsPassage 2Some psychologists maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performed in the brain alone, but that one ' s muscles also participate. It may be said that we think with our muscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.You surely are not surprise

26、d to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their body or, more specifically, some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphony concert on the radio, he is temp

27、ted to direct the orchestra 位口 向乐）even though he knows that there is a competent conductor on the job.Strange as this behavior may be, there is a very good reason for it. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment form music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance. The listener “feels

28、“ himself into the music with more or less pronounced motions of his body.The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way but this participation is less obvious because it is less pronounced.6. The process of thinking and that of listening are similar i

29、n thatA. both are mental actsB. muscles participate in both processesC. both processes are performed by the entire bodyD. we derive equal enjoyment form them7. The pronounced body motions are a listener' s way ofA. “feeling " the musicB. participating in the performanceC. deriving enjoyment

30、 from the musicD. all of the above8. Body movements are necessary in order for the listener to.A. hear the musicB. appreciate the musicC. enjoy the music fullyD. completely understand the music9. According to the passage, muscle participation in the process of thinking isA. deliberateB. obviousC. no

31、t really apparentD. very pronounced10. The best title for this passage is.A. an Ear for MusicB. Music AppreciationC. How Muscles Participate in Mental ActsD. A Psychological Definition of the Thinking ProcessPassage 3A computer is a machine designed to perform work mathematically and to store and se

32、lect information that has been fed into it. It is run by either mechanical or electronic means. These machines can do a great deal of complicated work in a very short time. A large computer, for example, can add or subtract nine thousand times a second, multiply a thousand times a second, or divide

33、five hundred times a second. Its percentage of error is about one in a billion digits. It has been estimated that human beings making calculations average about one mistake per two hundred digits.The heart of an electronic computer lies in its vacuum tubes, or transistors. Its electronic circuits wo

34、rk a thousand times faster than the nerve cells in the human brain. A problem that might take a human being two years to solve can be solved by a computer in one minute, but in order to work properly, a computer must be given instructions it must be programmedComputers can be designed for many speci

35、alized purposesthey can be used to prepare payrolls （X 资单），guide airplane flights, direct traffic, even to play chess. Computers play an essential role in modern automation in many plants and factories throughout the world.11. Computers are valuable to industry because they.A. perform rapidlyB. dete

36、ct errors in human calculations quicklyC. can solve all mathematical problemsD. eliminate mathematical errors from calculations12. The speed with which an electronic computer works depends on its.A. electronic circuitsB. vacuum tubes, or transistorsC. programmerD. instructions13. The passage says th

37、at computers play an essential role in.A. automation processesB. mathematical computationsC. traffic controlD. the development of mathematical theory14. The use of computers for specialized purposes depends on theA. design of the computerB. power used to operate the computerC. difficulty of the math

38、ematical calculations involvedD. the ability of the programmer15. The passage implies that human beings differ from computers in that theyA. make fewer errorsB. do not have to be programmedC. work more quicklyD. understand their instructionsPassage 4In the earliest stages of man ' s development

39、he had no more need of money than animals have. He was content with very simple forms of shelter, made his own rough tools and weapons and provided food and clothing for him and his family from natural materials around him. As he became more civilized, however, he began to want better shelter, more

40、efficient tools and weapons, and more comfortable and lasting clothing than could be provided by his own neighborhood or by the work of his own unskilled hands. For these things he had to turn to the skilled people such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters who were springing up everywhere. It wa

41、s then that the questions of payment arose.At first he got what he wanted by a simple process of exchange. The smith who had not the time to look after land or cattle was glad to take meat or grain from the farmer in exchange for an ax or a plough. But as more and more goods which had not fixed exch

42、ange value came on the market, exchange became too complicated to be satisfactory. Another problem arose when those who made things wanted to get stocks of wood or leather, or iron, but had nothing to offer in exchange until their finished goods were ready.Thus the difficulties of exchange led by degrees to the invention of money. In some countries, easily handled things like seeds or shells were given a certain value and the farmer, instead of