2021安徽考研英语考试考前冲刺卷

1、第 页2021安徽考研英语考试考前冲刺卷本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.Text 1The long year of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应 ) is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers

2、have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness arid confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay Does it mean that we need to think less now about pro

3、ducing more food at home No one knows what to expect.The recent growth of export-surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britains overseas s

4、uppliers of meat, too, are offering more this and home production has also risen.But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shop are overstocke

5、d with food not only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is ofte

6、n cheaper than the home -produced variety. And now grain prices, too are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend.The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the p

7、resent price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated ministerial ad

8、vice is carrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very well.The future for Britains food production at that time looked like that()Athe fall in world food prices would benefit British food producersBan expansion of food production was at handCBritish food producers would receiv

9、e more government financial supportDit looks depressing despite government guarantees2.Text 1The long year of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应 ) is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been

10、 asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness arid confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing mo

11、re food at home No one knows what to expect.The recent growth of export-surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britains overseas suppliers

12、of meat, too, are offering more this and home production has also risen.But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shop are overstocked with fo

13、od not only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper

14、 than the home -produced variety. And now grain prices, too are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend.The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the present pr

15、ice and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated ministerial advice is c

16、arrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very well.It is clear that the main reason for the rise in food prices is that()Apeople are buying less foodBthe government is providing less financial support for agricultureCdomestic food production has decreasedDimported food is drivi

17、ng prices higher3.Text 1The long year of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应 ) is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespr

18、ead uneasiness arid confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home No one knows what to expect.The recent growth of expo

19、rt-surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britains overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this and home production has also ris

20、en.But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shop are overstocked with food not only because there is more food available, but also because pe

21、ople, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home -produced variety. And now grain prices, too are falli

22、ng. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend.The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed

23、 between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated ministerial advice is carrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very w

24、ell.Why does the author mention there is wide-spread uneasiness and confusion (Line 4, ParA1 ) （）A. The abundant food supply is not expected to lastB. Britain is importing less foodC. Despite the abundance, food prices keep risingD. Britain will cut back on its production of food4.Text 1The long yea

25、r of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应 ) is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness arid confusion. Why d

26、o food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home No one knows what to expect.The recent growth of export-surpluses on the world food marke

27、t has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britains overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this and home production has also risen.But the effect of all this on the

28、 food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shop are overstocked with food not only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are

29、 buying less of it.Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home -produced variety. And now grain prices, too are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask w

30、hy they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend.The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a sh

31、rinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated ministerial advice is carrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very well.The drop of the world food price

32、s was a result of（）Aa sharp fall in the purchasing power of the consumersBa sharp fait in the cost of food productionCthe overproduction of food in the food-importing countriesDthe overproduction on the part of the main food-exporting countries5.Text 2An English schoolboy would only ask his friend:W

33、assa time, thenTo his teacher he would be much more likely to speak in a more standardised accent and ask: Excuse me, sir may I have the correct time please People are generally aware that the phrases and expressions they use are different from those of earlier generations; but they concede less tha

34、t their own behaviour also varies according to the situation in which they find themselves; People have characteristic ways of talking, which are relatively stable across varying situations. Nevertheless, distinct contexts, and different listeners, demand different patterns of speech from one and th

35、e same speaker.Not only this, but, in many cases, the way someone speaks affects the response of the person to whom he is speaking in such a way that modelling is seen to occur. This is what Michael Argyle has called response matching. Several studies have shown that, the more one reveals about ones

36、elf in ordinary conversation, and the more intimate these details are, the more personal secrets the other person will divulge.Response matching, has, in fact, been noted between two speakers in a number of ways,including how long someone speaks, the length of pauses, speech rate and voice loudness.

37、 The correspondence between the length of reporters questions when interviewing President Kennedy, and the length of his replies has been shown to have increased over the duration of his 1961-1963 news onferences. Argyle says this process may be one of imitation . Two American researchers, Jaffe and

38、 Feldstein, prefer to think of it as the speakers need for equilibrium. Neither of these explanations seems particularly convincing. It may be that response matching can be more profitably considered as an unconscious reflection of speakers needs for social integration with one another.This process

39、of modelling the other persons speech in a conversation could also be termed speech convergence. It may only be one aspect of a much wider speech change. In other situations, speech divergence may occur when certain factors encourage a person to modify his speech away from the individual he isdealin

40、g with. For example, a retired brigadiers wife, renowned for her incessant snobbishness, may return her vehicle to the local garage because of inadequate servicing, voicing her complaint in elaborately phrased, yet mechanically unsophisticated( 不老练的 ) language, with a high soft-pitched voice. These

41、superior airs and graces may simply make the mechanic reply with a flourish of almost incomprehensible technicalities, and in a louder, more deeply-pitched voice than he would have used with a less irritating customer.The mechanic address from the retired brigadiers wife is an example of（）Aresponse

42、matchingBspeech convergenceCspeech divergenceDneed for equilibrium6.Text 2An English schoolboy would only ask his friend:Wassa time, thenTo his teacher he would be much more likely to speak in a more standardised accent and ask: Excuse me, sir may I have the correct time please People are generally

43、aware that the phrases and expressions they use are different from those of earlier generations; but they concede less that their own behaviour also varies according to the situation in which they find themselves; People have characteristic ways of talking, which are relatively stable across varying

44、 situations. Nevertheless, distinct contexts, and different listeners, demand different patterns of speech from one and the same speaker.Not only this, but, in many cases, the way someone speaks affects the response of the person to whom he is speaking in such a way that modelling is seen to occur.

45、This is what Michael Argyle has called response matching. Several studies have shown that, the more one reveals about oneself in ordinary conversation, and the more intimate these details are, the more personal secrets the other person will divulge.Response matching, has, in fact, been noted between

46、 two speakers in a number of ways,including how long someone speaks, the length of pauses, speech rate and voice loudness. The correspondence between the length of reporters questions when interviewing President Kennedy, and the length of his replies has been shown to have increased over the duratio

47、n of his 1961-1963 news onferences. Argyle says this process may be one of imitation . Two American researchers, Jaffe and Feldstein, prefer to think of it as the speakers need for equilibrium. Neither of these explanations seems particularly convincing. It may be that response matching can be more

48、profitably considered as an unconscious reflection of speakers needs for social integration with one another.This process of modelling the other persons speech in a conversation could also be termed speech convergence. It may only be one aspect of a much wider speech change. In other situations, spe

49、ech divergence may occur when certain factors encourage a person to modify his speech away from the individual he isdealing with. For example, a retired brigadiers wife, renowned for her incessant snobbishness, may return her vehicle to the local garage because of inadequate servicing, voicing her c

50、omplaint in elaborately phrased, yet mechanically unsophisticated( 不老练的 ) language, with a high soft-pitched voice. These superior airs and graces may simply make the mechanic reply with a flourish of almost incomprehensible technicalities, and in a louder, more deeply-pitched voice than he would ha

51、ve used with a less irritating customer.Which of the following can be an appropriate heading for the passage（）ADifferent Patterns of Speech in Different SituationsBResponse Matching and Speech DivergenceCSocial Integration or ImitationDWays of Speaking Present and Past7.Text 2An English schoolboy wo

52、uld only ask his friend:Wassa time, thenTo his teacher he would be much more likely to speak in a more standardised accent and ask: Excuse me, sir may I have the correct time please People are generally aware that the phrases and expressions they use are different from those of earlier generations;

53、but they concede less that their own behaviour also varies according to the situation in which they find themselves; People have characteristic ways of talking, which are relatively stable across varying situations. Nevertheless, distinct contexts, and different listeners, demand different patterns

54、of speech from one and the same speaker.Not only this, but, in many cases, the way someone speaks affects the response of the person to whom he is speaking in such a way that modelling is seen to occur. This is what Michael Argyle has called response matching. Several studies have shown that, the mo

55、re one reveals about oneself in ordinary conversation, and the more intimate these details are, the more personal secrets the other person will divulge.Response matching, has, in fact, been noted between two speakers in a number of ways,including how long someone speaks, the length of pauses, speech

56、 rate and voice loudness. The correspondence between the length of reporters questions when interviewing President Kennedy, and the length of his replies has been shown to have increased over the duration of his 1961-1963 news onferences. Argyle says this process may be one of imitation . Two Americ

57、an researchers, Jaffe and Feldstein, prefer to think of it as the speakers need for equilibrium. Neither of these explanations seems particularly convincing. It may be that response matching can be more profitably considered as an unconscious reflection of speakers needs for social integration with

58、one another.This process of modelling the other persons speech in a conversation could also be termed speech convergence. It may only be one aspect of a much wider speech change. In other situations, speech divergence may occur when certain factors encourage a person to modify his speech away from t

59、he individual he isdealing with. For example, a retired brigadiers wife, renowned for her incessant snobbishness, may return her vehicle to the local garage because of inadequate servicing, voicing her complaint in elaborately phrased, yet mechanically unsophisticated( 不老练的 ) language, with a high s

60、oft-pitched voice. These superior airs and graces may simply make the mechanic reply with a flourish of almost incomprehensible technicalities, and in a louder, more deeply-pitched voice than he would have used with a less irritating customer.In Paragraph 2, several studies have shown that the more（