云南专升本《公共英语》期中测试试题与答案

1、云南专升本公共英语期中测试试题与答案第一题、单项选择题（请选出正确的选项，共30题，每题1分，共30 分）You d better make everything under before you take further actions. （）mercyassistancecontrol （正确答案）guidanceThe woman in a hat is aunt. （）Jack and JohnJack s and JohnJack s and John sJack and John s （正确答案） prize for the winner of the competition is

2、 two-week holiday in Paris. （）A; theThe; a（正确答案）The; an/; aWe planned to get to London Monday, but we didn t arriveFriday. （）on; until （正确答案）in; ontill; onon; inA moments drilling（钻孔）by the dentists may make us nervous and upset. Many of us cam stand pain. To avoid the pain of a drilling that may la

3、st perhaps a minute or two. we demand t “needle“ that deadens（使减弱）the nerves around the tooth.Now its true that human body has developed milli）ons of nerves to be highly aware of wt goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the world. Without our nerves - a our brain, which is a

4、 bundle（束）of nerves - we wouldnt know whals happening. But we pay 1 our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. T history of torture（折 磨）is based on the human body being open to pain.But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian Fakir who si

5、ts on a bed of nails（钉亍 Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans ha developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.The big thing in withslanding pain is our attitude towards it. If the dentist says, This will h

6、urt a little： it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation, we can handle the pain without falling apart. After alk although pain is an unpleasant sensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stufi1 东西）of life.1、The purpose of

7、 this passage is mainly to tell us .（）that pain is good for usto stop taking the needle” at the dentistshow to handle pain（正确答案）how to avoid torture2、The sense of pain can .（）let us know what s going on in any part of our body （正确答案）make us open to torturemake us pay for our sensitivityhelp us get m

8、ore sensations3、The best way to ease pain is to .()do what the Indian Fakirs dowelcome itknow about it in advancetreat it as an interesting sensation(正确答案)In the first sentence of the last paragraph the word “withstanding“ probably means.()acceptingavoidinghandling (正确答案)curing“We pay for our sensit

9、ivityv (paragraph 2) means .()it was fortunate for humans to have developed this sensitivitywe suffer because of this sensitivity(正确答案)we know very well how to cope with sensations of painwe have to pay the dentist for his treatment of our teeth第四题、阅读理解(请选出正确的选项，单项选择题共5小题，每题2分，共10分）Six years ago, I

10、walked into a local animal shelter on a cold, rainy day. Although my house was already full of cats and dogs, I still couldnt resist an occasional visit to the shelter. This time as I was walking down the row of pens full of barking dogs I noticed a small boy looking into one of them.He had a malnou

11、rished （营养不良的）looking body and a bony lace with a big nose sticking out of the middle of it. He was looking at a small, golden dog. Its bony ribs were showing and its thin tail was folded between its legs. It wasnt begging for attention like the other puppies but was hiding in the comer instead. The

12、 boy looked up at me with sad eyes and asked what was wrong with it. It was probably abused and abandoned, I said. That is why it is so scared/The boy immediately turned to an older lady and said, Grandma. I want this one. The old woman smiled and walked to the front desk to fill out the adoption fo

13、rms. I followed and asked about the boy. I found out that hed had a rough start in life too. She had just gotten custody（监护 权）of him after the state had taken him from his parents. She had hoped getting a dog would make it easier on him. I looked back at him, holding his scared puppy, and said a pra

14、yer for them both.It was yesterday. I was driving down the road enjoying a gloriously sunny, spring day. Then in a green front yard I saw the boy. His teenage body was tall and strong. His nose no longer seemed big but fit well into his smiling face. He was throwing a ball to a healthy, happy dog wi

15、th shining golden hair. His little act of love and kindness had indeed gone a long way. It had saved a dogs life, healed his own heart, and given this middle-aged man fresh hope for us all.1、The author entered the animal shelter because.（）he loves dogs and pets （正确答案）it was too cold outsidehe wanted

16、 to buy a doghe wanted to see the boy2、The reason why the dog was so scared is that .（）it was afraid of the coldit had been ill-treated（正确答案）it was frightened by the boyit was frightened by the authorWhy did the boy want to adopt the golden dog? （）Because the dog looked attractive.Because his grandm

17、a also liked the dog.Because they had something in common.（正确答案）Because the author advised him to adopt it.The Grandma wanted the boy to adopt a dog so that.（）his life could be easier（正确答案）he could play balls with ithe could forget about his parentsthe dog could be taken good care ofWhat can we lear

18、n from the last paragraph ? （）The author is a kind-hearted old man.The boy s nose has become smaller than before.The author enjoys watching people playing with dogs.Both the boy and the dog are growing healthily and happily.（正确 答案）第五题、阅读理解（请选出正确的选项，单项选择题共5小题，每题2分，共10 分）Chimps（黑猩猩）will cooperate in c

19、ertain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct （本i help one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regi decline to share food with their children. Who are able from a y

20、oung age to gather their own iIn the laboratory, chimps dont naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage win can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no great effort, a plate that also provides fbc a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull at random -he just doesnt care whethe

21、r his neighbo fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.Human children, on the other hand are extremely cooperative. From the earliest ages, they decide to help others, to share information and to participate an achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness i

22、n a series of experiments with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months see a worried adult with hands ftill tiying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally p

23、ossessed in young children. One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that social intelligence. Develops in child

24、ren before their general cognilive（认知 1Kj）skills. at least when compared with chimps. In tests conducted by Tomtaselh the children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests, but were considerably better at understanding the social world.The cure of what childrens minds have and chimp

25、s dont in what Tomasello calls what. Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking. But that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a we”, a group that intends to work toward a shared goal.According to this passa

26、ge, which of the following is true? ()Chimps are always like to cooperationThe chimp mothers regularly refused to share food with their children (正确答案)Only after learning do the children know how to help othersThe wild chimpanzees more selfish than chimps in a laboratoryWhat can we learn from the ex

27、periment with chimps? ()Chimps seldom care about others interests(正确答案)Chimps tend to provide food for their childrenChimps like to take in their neighbors foodChimps naturally share food with each otherIf children see others have difficulty, what will they do? ()they will ignore itthey rarely offer

28、 helpthey will hesitate for a long time and then to offer helpalmost all will immediately try to help (正确答案)Michael Tomasello? s tests on young children indicate that they .()have the instinct to help othersknow how to offer help to adultsknow the world better than chimps (正确答案)trust adults with the

29、ir hands full5、The passage is mainly about .()the helping behaviors of young childrenways to train children s shared intentionalitycooperation as a distinctive human nature(正确答案)the development of intelligence in children第六题、阅读理解（请选出正确的选项，单项选择题共5小题，每题2分，共10分）Would you eat a bacon, lettuce and love a

30、pple sandwich? You probably have eaten many（ them. Love apple was the name used many years ago for the tomato.The tomato is originally an American plant. It was found in South America by early Spanij explorers. The word tomato comes from the native Nahuatl word tomato. But when it moved nort： the pl

31、ant earned a different name. Remarkably, the settlers in North America thought it wj poisonous. They believed that to eat it was surely to die. It was said that deserted suitors wou threaten to eat a tomato to cause their coldhearted lovers regret. Because of this legend, the settle called the tomat

32、o a “love apple”. While people enjoyed other native plants such as corn and swe potatoes, everyone avoided the tomato.No one knows who first dared to eat a tomato. Perhaps someone was brave enough, or lovesic enough, to try out the truth of the rumors. Of course, whoever ate this fruit was perfectly

33、 safe.、 one died from eating a love apple. Still, it was many years before the people fully believed that tl tomato was a safe, and even good food. But its use did become common, and the plant was sei across the ocean to become part of many traditional European dishes.1、The language from which we de

34、rived the word tomato is.（）PortugueseSpanishNahuatl （正确答案）EuropeanNorth American people didn，t eat tomatoes at first because .（）they had too much other foodthey mistakenly thought they were poisonous（正确答案）settlers ate only traditional European foodsno one liked the tasteThe underlined word suitor in

35、 the second paragraph means .boyfriend（正确答案）launderertailorexplorerA good title for this passage would be .（）Life in Early AmericaWhat Happens to the BrokenheartedThe History of the Tomato（正确答案）Vegetables in Our Diet5 The following statements are true EXCEPT ? （）The settlers in North America believe

36、d that to eat love apple was surely to die.It would be many years before the people totally believed that the tomato was a good food.The tomato was widely used in Europe after it had been accepted.A very brave or lovesick person first dared to eat a tomato.（正 确答案）第七题、阅读理解（请选出正确的选项，单项选择题共5小题，每题2分，共10

37、 分）A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holdin up a 100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this 100 bill? Th students began to put up their hands at once.I hen he said, “1 am going to give this 100 to one of you. but first

38、, let me do this. He the made the bill into a ball. 1 hen he said, “Who wants it now? 1 he hands went back into the air.“Well, he said,44 What if I do this? and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it He picke up the dirty, crumpled bill and said. “Who still wants il?” Hands went back into the

39、air.“My friends/* he said, “you have learned a valuable lesson today. No matter （无论）what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value （价值）. It was still worth 100!”Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things t

40、hat happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesnt come from what you do or wliom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.You are special and valuable. Dont

41、ever forget it!Even though it was dirty, the money .（）still went up in valuewas worth nothingdidn t go down in value（正确答案）was still ours TOC o 1-5 h z We are always valuable to the people .（）whopay uswhocalluswhohateuswholoveus （正确答案）Your value doesn, t come from what you do but .（）who you knowwho m

42、ade youwho you rememberwho you are （正确答案）The sentence “Hands went back into the air“ meansA.thestudents put up their hands again（正确答案）B. the students put down their handsC.the students put their hands behind their backs againD.the students put their hands in front of them5. Why did the famous teache

43、r use a 100 bill at his lesson? （）A.Because he wanted to make the bill into a ballBecause he used to drop a bill on the floor and stepped on itBecause he was going to give the bill to one of his studentsBecause he wanted to make the students know what value was （正确答案）第八题、翻译判断正误。（共10小题，每题3分，共30分。）1、

44、Where there is a will, there is a way. （） 有志者，事竟成。A.正确（正确答案）B.错误He is too fat to be an athlete. （） 他太胖了成为一个运发动。A.正确B.错误（正确答案）You are not taller than me. （） 你没我高。A.正确（正确答案） visitors came to take photos during the holiday. ()ThousandThousands of (正确答案)Thousand ofThousandsI always play basketball to re

45、lax myself Saturday. ()on (正确答案)inatbyTony is of the three boys, but he is the tallest. ()youngyoungerthe youngest (正确答案)youngestLin Daiyu is so that she even cries for the fallingflowers in spring. ()impressivesensitive(正确答案)sensibleattractiveWhy don t you get yourself a job? That s said thandone.

46、()easyeasier (正确答案)the easiestmore easierI go now, or I will miss my train. ()B.错误This picture of Beijing is beautiful. （）这张图片上的北京很漂亮。A.正确B.错误（正确答案）Jack does not run as fast as Mark. （）杰克没有马克跑得快。A.正确（正确答案）B.错误6、上网聊天和网上冲浪是很多年轻人的习惯.（）For many teenagers, chatting online and surfing the internet are hob

47、bies.A.正确（正确答案）B.错误7、列车即将在十点到站.（）The train is arriving at 10.A.正确B.错误（正确答案）8、我住在昆明已经3年了.（）I have lived in Kunming since 3 years.A.正确B.错误（正确答案）9、众所周知，中国是一个开展中国家.（）As is known to all, China is a developing country.A.正确（正确答案）B.错误10、如果我早到五分钟的话，我就能赶上火车了.（）If I had been there five minutes earlier, I would

48、 catch the train.A.正确B.错误（正确答案）第九题、写作判断题（找出以下句子中错误的一项，共15题，每题2分, 共30分）It s very kind for you to give us so much help.（）kindfor （正确答案）to giveso muchHe took the name down for fear that he forgets it. （）tookdownfor fear thatforgets （正确答案）It is so a difficult problem that I can t solve it. （）so （正确答案）at

49、hatcan tThe picture when we are looking at was drawn by a fifteen-year- old student. （）Thewhen （正确答案）drawnfifteen-year-oldSmart as is he, he can t find the answer to this question. （）Smartis he（正确答案）thetoThe reality is that there is not enough money paying for this project. ()realityispaying (正确答案)f

50、orNo one can avoid be influenced by advertisements. ()No onebe (正确答案)influencedadvertisementsViewing from the top of the mountain, the building looks like a bird. ()Viewing(正确答案)fromoflooksHad he seen you yesterday, he would asked you about it. ()Hadseenasked (正确答案)aboutHardly had she heard the exci

51、ting news than she burst into laughter. ()hadexcitingthan (正确答案)laughterNow air in our town is even badder than it used to be. Something must be done to it. ()in our townbadder (正确答案)beto12. The city assigned a policeman12. The city assigned a policemanto the school crossing because aviewed nearly 9

52、 million times ()1918 he was able to get happilytraffic there was so heavy. ()assignedcrossinga (正确答案)heavyThe singer s music video has since it was posted on the Internet.has viewed(正确答案)9 million timeswas postedonOnly when the war was over in back to work. ()whenwas overhe was (正确答案)happilyWe are

53、all proud of the Great Wall, that is one of the man-made wonders of the world. ()thethat （正确答案）thewondersA. canmightmust （正确答案）couldToday, every citizen aged eighteen or over the right tovote. （）ishaveis havinghas （正确答案）-Paul, what were you doing at nine last night? I amovie in the cinema with my fr

54、iends （）was watching （正确答案）watchhas watchedwill watchIf the whole of our society trying, we will make our skies blue again. （）keepkeeps （正确答案）will keepkeptMy uncle is a teacher, who history for nearly 20 years.（）teacheshas taught （正确答案）have taughtwill teachTony and I to the new Italian restaurant to

55、night. Come with us!()wentgogoeswill go(正确答案)China great achievements in science and technology since 1978.()makesmadehas made (正确答案)have madeA new international airport in the city next year. ()completesis completedwill completewill be completed(正确答案)Look at the trees on both sides of the streets.

56、They lastspring. ()plantedwere planted (正确答案)were plantingare plantedWhat a mess! Your room needs .()cleancleanedbe cleanedcleaning(正确答案)Your idea great. I will think of it. ()soundis soundedsounds (正确答案)soundedNot only Tom but also his wife fond of watching television. ()arewerebeis(正确答案)This pair

57、of shoes made in Nanjing. ()is(正确答案)arehave beenhad beenNo one except my parents anything about it. ()knowknows (正确答案)is knowinghave knownThe police the murderer everywhere when he suddenly appeared in a theatre. ()is searching forwere searching for(正确答案)are searching forsearchedThree-fourths of the homework .()has finishedhas been finished （正确答案）have finishedhave been finishe