大学英语3(专升本)综合测试

大学英语3(专升本)综合测试3

总分：100分得分：0分

一、单选题

1. People at the party worried about him, ___________because no one was aware he had gone.(1分)

(A) of where

(B) of the place where

(C) where

(D) the place

参考答案：A

2. A police officer claimed that the young man had attempted to______ paying his fare.(1分)

(A) avoid

(B) reject

(C) refuse

(D) neglect

参考答案：A

3. It's high time we___________ the lecture because everybody has arrived.(1分)

(A) will start

(B) shall start

(C) start

(D) started

参考答案：D

4. This kind of material expands ___________the temperature increasing.(1分)

(A) to

(B) for

(C) with

(D) at

参考答案：C

5. __________these honors he received a sum of money.(1分)

(A) Except

(B) But

(C) Besides

(D) Outside

参考答案：C

6. A sudden noise of a fire-engine made him ___________ to the door.(1分)

(A) hurrying

(B) hurried

(C) hurry

(D) to hurry

参考答案：C

7. Would you let ___________to the park with my classmate, Mum?(1分)

(A) me go

(B) me going

(C) I go

(D) I going

参考答案：A

8. I have been looking forward to ___________ from my parents.(1分)

(A) hear

(B) being heard

(C) be heard

(D) hearing

参考答案：D

9. The policeman gave the thief a blow in___________ stomach.(1分)

(A) his

(B) /

(C) the

(D) that

参考答案：C

10. While I was in the university, I learned taking a photo, ___________ is very useful now for me.(1分)

(A) it

(B) which

(C) that

(D) what

参考答案：B

二、阅读理解

If you have ever had an operation, you were first put to sleep with a gas you breathed or by a chemical injected into your body. Medical workers in the United States of America and Europe have used these methods in operations since 1842. They have been valuable in preventing great pain which would have occurred if the patient had not been put to sleep. The Chinese, however, have been able to perform operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. They use a method called acupuncture. This involves sticking flexible needles into certain parts of the body.

The person who performs the acupuncture must know how to insert the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. The needles are not necessarily inserted near the region where the pain is to be prevented.

Today, the Chinese are learning to be more efficient and skilled in their use of acupuncture: but more research should be done before the Chinese

can explain more convincingly how it works.

A surgical patient is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients chose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation, whereas the chemicals may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.

If the person has chosen acupuncture, the needles are inserted in the proper places. After several minutes, the patient is examined to see if he or she can feel pain in the region where the operation will be performed. If no pain is felt, the operation is performed. The patient is fully awake and can feel the surgeon working.

Some doctors in the United States have been skeptical about acupuncture. However, it is already being used to a very limited extent in this country. It will be interesting to see if the method becomes adopted here.(10分)

11). From the passage we know acupuncture used in operation

means___________ .(2分)

(A) pushing flexible needles into the body to inject certain medicine

(B) inserting needles into the head to make the surgical patient fall asleep

(C) inserting needles in proper places to prevent great pain while the operation is being performed

(D) using different ways to make the patient feel no pain during the surgical operation

参考答案：C

12). If an operation is to be performed with acupuncture to kill the pain the needles should be inserted___________(2分)

(A) near the surgical area

(B) in the very place of the operation

(C) in the areas where the patient feels no pain

(D) in some special places on the body

参考答案：D

13). According to the writer, which of the following statements is TRUE?(2分)

(A) The Chinese are still not able to give an adequate theory of acupuncture.

(B) Medical workers in the U.S.A. began to use acupuncture during the 1840’s.

(C) We have to put the patient to sleep before we use acupuncture in an operation.

(D) As soon as the acupuncture needles are inserted, the operation can start.

参考答案：A

14). The last word in the last paragraph “here” means ___________ (2分)

(A) in China

(B) in Europe

(C) in the United States of America

(D) in a certain hospital

参考答案：C

15). The passage is mainly about ___________(2分)

(A) why acupuncture can prevent pain during the operation

(B) how acupuncture, a wonderful invention of the Chinese people, is being used now

(C) the advantages acupuncture has over other methods used by surgeons today

(D) so me American doctors’ attitude toward acupuncture

参考答案：B

Shoe manufacture today is based upon a remarkable invention developed by a young black genius in 1883.

Matzeliger was born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, on September 15, 1852. His father was a Dutch engineer who had been sent to the colony to take charge of the government machine shops. When young Matzeliger was ten years old, he joined his father at the machine shops as an apprentice. At the age of nineteen he became a sailor on an East Indian merchant ship. In 1876 Matzeliger went to Boston, Massachusetts. After working there for a year, he moved to Lynn, where he remained for the rest of his life. Because of his knowledge of mechanics and shoemaking, Matzeliger was able to get a job in a shoe factory, operating a sole-sewing machine. While working there, he noticed that there was no machine that could last shoes. He began his plans for inventing a shoe-lasting machine by closely watching hand-lasters at their work. In his experiments he used old pieces of wood and metal. He even made his own tools. Patiently he tested one idea after another.

For years he lived in poverty, saving his money for his project. Fortunately, he succeeded in getting financial help from two businessmen in exchange for a two-thirds interest in his invention. With this extra money, Matzeliger finally achieved what he was after: A lasting machine that could turn out a complete shoe. His machine indeed changed the shoe industry. It not only greatly increased production but cut the cost of shoes by half. By 1889 the demand for the new lasting machine became worldwide.

What was Matzeliger’s reward? Because of his long and hard work and the lack of proper food and warmth during his years of poverty, his health had suffered. In the summer of 1886 he caught a cold which developed into tuberculosis. For three tears he was so sick that he had to remain in bed. Finally, on August 24, 1889, he died at the age of thirty-seven.(10分)

16). According to the passage, shoe industry would not have developed if it had not been for ___________.(2分)

(A) the Dutch engineer in the colony in the 1850s

(B) the shoemaking center in Lynn in the 1870s

(C) the East Indian merchant ship in 1871

(D) the great invention made by Matzeliger in 1883

参考答案：D

17). While he was working in the shoe factory, Matzeliger noticed that shoe production was restricted by the lack of___________.(2分)

(A) shoe factories

(B) lasting machines

(C) financial support

(D) skilled hand-lasters

参考答案：B

18). What Matzeliger wanted to build was___________(2分)

(A) a large shop selling shoes

(B) the largest shoe manufacturing company

(C) a machine that could make the sole of a shoe

(D) a machine that could produce a complete shoe

参考答案：D

19). Matzeliger’s machine not only increased the shoe prod uction but it also cut the cost of shoes___________ .(2分)

(A) by 15%

(B) by 20%

(C) 25%

(D) by 50%

参考答案：D

20). Before he developed his invention, Matzeliger had been ___________(2分)

(A) a rich businessman

(B) a skilled hand-laster

(C) a poor worker

(D) an engineer

参考答案：C

A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as English. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a physics or economics textbook----but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gain will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with.

Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, U.S.A. have shown that students without special