2018年广东专插本英语启航押题班

广东省2018 年普通高等学校本科插班生招生考试

《英语》（公共课）模拟试题

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (30%)

Direction: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence, and then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1.It’s very to let the old have seats on the bus.

A.thoughtful

B. useful

C. careful

D. funny

2. all the animals I’ve ever had, these two dogs are the most sensitive to the spoken word.

A.From

B. Of

C. For

D. With

about my future and about what I 3.My good performance in the job interview left me

can do here.

A.puzzled

B. sensitive

C. optimistic

D. embarrassed

4.He had no sooner finished his speech the students started c heering.

A.since

B. as

C. when

D. than

5.If the manager had to choose between the two, he would say John was

choice.

A.good

B. the best

C. better

D. the better

6.I often the words I don’t know in the dictionary or on the I nternet.

A.look up

B. look at

C. look for

D. look into

7.—Can he take charge of the computer company?

—I’m afraid it’s his ability.

A.beyond

B. within

C. of

D. to

8.—Why not stay here a little longer?

—, but I really have to go.

A.Never mind

B. I’d love to

C. Pleased to meet you

D. I can’t find any reason

9.There are birds in that big tree.

A.hundreds of

B. five hundreds of

C. five hundred of

D. hundred of

10.Great changes in my hometown in the past few years.

A.were taken place

B. have been taken place

C. took place

D. have taken place

11.Sorry, we don’t allow in the lecture room.

A.to smoke

B. smoke

C. smoking

D. to smoking

12.Follow your doctor’s advice, your cough will get worse.

A.or

B. and

C. then

D. so

13.My sister was against my suggestion while my brother was it.

A.in favor of

B. in memory of

C. in honor of

D. in search of

14.He lived in .

A.the Room 105

B. the 105 Room

C. the 105 of the Room

D. Room 105

15.With no one to in such a frightening situation, she felt very helpless.

A.turn to

B. turn on

C. turn off

D. turn over

16.Bill suggested a meeting on what to do for the Shanghai Expo during the vacation.

A.having held

B. to hold

C. holding

D. hold

17.He will pass two milestones , that is, he will receive his master’s degree and find a

challenging job.

A.long ago

B. not long ago

C. before long

D. long before

18.At school, some students are active some are shy, yet they can be good friends with one another.

A.while

B. although

C. so

D. as

rising steadily since 1990.

19.The number of foreign students attending Chinese universities

A.is

B. are

C. has been

D. have been

20.It’s no use without taking action.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/3213493687.html,plain

B. complaining

C. being complained

D. to be complained

21.Father made a promise I passed t he exam he would buy me a bike.

A.that

B. that if

C. if

D. whether

22.I have lost one of my gloves. I it somewhere.

A.must drop

B. must have dropped

C. must be dropping

D. must have been dropped

23.Why didn’t you tell me about your trouble last week? If you me, I could have helped.

A.told

B. had told

C. were to tell

D. would tell

24.As a child, Jack studied in a village school,

is named after his grandfather.

A.which

B. where

C. what

D. that

25.to hospital in time, the wounded soldiers were saved at last.

A.Taken

B. Taking

C. Having taken

D. Being taken

26.The teacher demanded that the work before 4 o’clock.

A.finished

B. be finished

C. should finish

D. finish

27.Only by practicing a few hours every day be able to master the language.

A.you can

B. can you

C. you will

D. will you

28.He said that he for Shanghai the next time.

A.will leave

B. has left

C. would leave

D. had left

29.It be the postman at the door. It’s only six o’clock.

A.mustn’t

B. can’t

C. won’t

D. needn’t

30.No matter hard it may be, I will carry it out.

A.what

B. whatever

C. how

D. however

Part II Reading Comprehension(40%)

Direction: In this section, there are four passages, each of which is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. Choose the best and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer S heet. Passage 1

Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.

While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.

The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks.

The robot doesn’t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.

Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.

Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company’s “Oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product’s location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.

31.How are social robots different from household robots ?

A.They can control their emotions.

B. They are more like humans.

C. They do the normal housework.

D. They respond to users more slowly.

32.What can a Jibo robot do according to Paragraph 3 ?

https://www.360docs.net/doc/3213493687.html,municate with you and perform operations.

B.Answer your questions and make r equests.

C.Take your family pictures and deliver milk.

D.Obey your orders and remind you to take p ills.

33.What can Oshbot work as ?

A.A language teacher.

B. A tour guide.

C. A shop assistant.

D. A private nurse.

34.We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will .

A.train employees

B. be our workmates

C. improve technologies

D. take the place of workers

35.What does the passage mainly present ?

A.A new design idea of household robots.

B. Marketing strategies for social robots.

C. Information on household robots.

D. An introduction to social robots.

Passage 2

Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Light house Project.

I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.

Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me

to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.

After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me.

Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.

36.What do we know about the author?

A.His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge.

B.His dream at university was to become a volunteer.

C.He took pride in having c ontributed to the world.

D.He felt honored to study English literature.

37.According to the Paragraph 2, it is most likely that the author .

A.discussed his decision with his family

B.asked previous volunteers about voluntary w ork

C.attended special training to perform difficult tasks

D.felt sad about having to leave his family and friends

38.In his application for the volunteer job, t he author .

A.participated in many d iscussions

B.went through challenging survival tests

C.wrote quite a few papers on voluntary w ork

D.faced strong competition from other candidates

39.On arrival at the village, the author was .

A.asked to lead a farming team

B. sent to teach in a schoolhouse

C. received warmly by local villagers

D. arranged to live in a separate house

40.What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?

A.He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture.

B.He had learned to communicate in the local language.

C.He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.

D.He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.

Passage 3

When asked about happiness, we usually think of someth.ng extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.

For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).

In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated(复杂的).

My definition of happiness is "the capacity for enjoyment". The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It's easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.

I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which 1 love. When the kids and my husband came home, 1 enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.

Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don't think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.

We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we've got to have. We're so self-conscious about our "right" to it that it's making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren't necessarily h appier.

Happine ss isn't about what happens to us―it's about how we see what happens to us. It's the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It's not wishing for what we don't have, but enjoying what we do possess.

41.As people grow older, they .

A.feel it harder to experience happiness

B.associate their happiness less with others

C.will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness

D.tend to believe responsibility means happiness

42.What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and

6 ?

A.She cans little about ha own health.

B.She enjoys the freedom of trawling.

C.She is easily pleased by things in daily life.

D.She prefers getting pleasure from housework.

43.What can be inferred from Paragraph 7 ?

A.Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness.

B.Psychologists’ opinion is well proved by Grandma's case.

C.Grandma often found time for social gatherings.

D.Grandma’s happiness came from modest expectations of life.

44.People who equal happiness with wealth and success .

A.consider pressure something blocking their way

B.stress their right to happiness too much

C.arc at a loss to make correct choices

D.arc more likely to be happy

45.What can be concluded from the passage ?

A.Happiness lies between the positive and the negative.

B.Each nun is the master of his own fate.

C.Success leads to happiness.

D.Hippy is he who is content.

Passage 4

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with you eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.

With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the world’s 42 million blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries posses most of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.

ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world’s only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.

ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs is China so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care service to Shanxi Province. ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.

For just US $38, you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training program for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again. Your money can open their eyes to the world. Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.

46.The first paragraph is intended to .

A.introduce a new way of reading

B. advise the public to lead a simple life

C. direct the public’s attention to the blind

D. encourage the public to use imagination

47.What do we learn about existing medical knowledge and skills in the world?

A.They are adequate

B. They have not been updated.

C. They are not equally distributed

D. They have benefited most of the blind

48.ORBIS aims to help the blind by .

A.teaching medical students

B. training doctors and nurses

C. running flying hospitals globally

D. setting up non-profit organization

49.What does the author try to do in the last p aragraph?

A.Appeal for donations

B. Make an advertisement

C. Promote training programs

D. Show sympathy for the blind

50.What can be the best title for the passage?

A.ORBIS in China

B. Fighting Blindness

C. ORBIS Flying Hospital

D. Sight-saving Techniques

Part III Cloze (15%)

Direction: There are 15 blanks in the following passage. For each blank, there are four choices. Choose the one best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, and I at once apologized to him. We were both very

51 , the stranger and I. Then we went on our way after saying goodbye.

But at home a 52 story was told. Later that day, when I prepared supper in the kitchen, my daughter suddenly stood behind me very 53 . When I turned back, I 54 knocked her down. “Don’t be in my 55 !” I shouted angrily. She walked away with her little heart

56 . On the kitchen floor, later, I found some flowers by the door.

That night, while I lay 57 in bed, a voice in my deep heart said, “While dealing with a stranger, you are so polite, but with the child you love, you are so easily 58 . Why are there some flowers by the door? Those are the flowers she brought for you. She 59 them herself, pink, yellow and your favourite blue. She stood quietly in order to give you a 60 , and you never saw the 61 in her eyes.”

By this time, I felt very 62 and now my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt by her bed. “Wake up, little girl, wake up,” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “Yes, because I knew you’d like them, especially the 63 .” I said, “Daughter, I’m sorry for the way I acted today; I 64 have shouted at you that way.” She said, “Oh, Mom, that’s okay. I love you anyway.” I hugged her and said, “Daughter, I love you too, and I do like the flowers.”

Through this 65 , I realize what FAMILY means:

FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER, (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU.

51. A. rude B. polite C. educated D. happy

52. A. different B. funny C. moving D. terrible

53. A. quickly B. quietly C. noisily D. seriously

54. A. nearly B. hardly C. already D. even

55. A. kitchen B. room C. place D. way

56. A. beaten B. missing C. broken D. hit

57. A. alive B. asleep C. awake D. afraid

58. A. worried B. nervous C. excited D. disappointed

59. A. grew B. picked C. bought D. planted

60. A. gift B. flower C. kiss D. surprise

61. A. expression B. tears C. happiness D. joy

62. A. ashamed B. proud C. weak D. hurt

63. A. pink B. blue C. yellow D. green

64. A. couldn’t B. mustn’t C. shouldn’t D. needn’t

65. A. accident B. experience C. sentence D. problem

Part IV Writing(15 points)

Directions: Write a letter of complaint in at least 100 words according to the following requirements.

66. 外籍教师Lynne 任教期满准备回国，学校答应派车送她去机场。她在临行前一天写了

张便条提醒办公室李老师。便条内容包括：

1. 请检查明天的车是否落实，提醒司机；

2. 她之所以要确定一下，是因为太早不好叫出租车；

3. 感谢费心，并感谢一年来的关心；

4. 在学校一年来，生活愉快、难忘，很可能再来；

5. 留下一些英语书给贵校图书馆，希望对学生有用。