专升本英语模拟试题四

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, Dr Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During hours when you labor through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. Time of you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No ore has

why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (独白) as: “Get up, John! You’11 be work again!” Much family quarreling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better Habit can Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. ounteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour won’t change your cycle, but you’11 get up steam and work better at your low point. Get off

start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of

minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes

them out the night before for your sharper hours.

a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _________.

he is a lazy person

he refuses to follow his own energy cycle

Make very sure, before you fill the form, that everything is where and how you want it.

There are numerous rules regarding the proper mixing, handling, and finishing of concrete, but essential one concerns the amount of water to use. The less water in the mix, the less the finished shrink. The less water used, the harder and more enduring the job after it has set.

The amateur concrete worker is annoyed with two desires. One is to use enough water to have concrete nice and soft and easy to push around. You have been warned against that. The second off the wooden forms too early, to see what the job 1ooks like. That is really fatal. If the forms stripped off too soon, while the concrete is still “green”, two things are likely to cause a major defect in the body of the work. An excellent rule is to wait until you are sure the concrete is hardened, and then wait another day before removing the forms.

The best title for this passage would be ________.

A. Rules for Working with Concrete

B. Concrete and Its Uses children

Concrete, the Homeowner’s Joy D. Concrete, a Test of Charaeter

Two of the main thoughts in this passage are (1) preparation of forms for

concrete must be thorough, and (2) forms must be allowed to remain

long enough. The third main idea is _________.

A. taking off forms beforehand will probably cause a crack in the body of

the work

trying to make changes after concrete has been poured is not

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