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 haswhy 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 offstart which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge ofminute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothesthem out the night before for your sharper hours.a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _________.he is a lazy personhe refuses to follow his own energy cycleMake 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 ConcreteB. Concrete and Its Uses childrenConcrete, the Homeowner’s Joy D. Concrete, a Test of CharaeterTwo of the main thoughts in this passage are (1) preparation of forms forconcrete must be thorough, and (2) forms must be allowed to remainlong enough. The third main idea is _________.A. taking off forms beforehand will probably cause a crack in the body ofthe worktrying to make changes after concrete has been poured is notrecommendeddesigners are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability (耐用). They are interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or delicately her way through deep snow 1i1 high heeled shoes.When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obviou the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities ofand instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their changing styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That Is for you to decide.Designers and big stores always make money ________.A. by mercilessly exploiting women workers in the clothing industrybecause they are capable of predicting new fashionsby constantly changing the fashions in women’s clothingD. because they attach great importance to quality in women’s clothingTo the writer, the fact that women alter their old-fashioned dresses is seenas _________.A. a waste of moneyB. a waste of timean expression of taste D. an expression of creativityThe writer would be less critical if fashion designers placed more stress oncess-and died out. In the long, long future there will he many new and different forms of life. Those eatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time. Those fail to meet the challenges will disappear early. That is Nature’s proven method of operation.The rule of selection-“survival of the fittest” is the one by which man has himself arrived on Life seems to have grown too tough for black robinsThe black robin is dying out mainly because _________.A. people have been very careless about its survivalits only food is becoming exhausted on Little Mangerethe other birds on the island have destroyed itD. the appeal for money has come at the wrong timeThe success of other small birds on Little Mangere shows thatA. the island cannot have very much food 1efsomething has to die out, they can’t all be winnersthe big birds have all been attacking the black robinD. the robin has failed to meet the challenges of lifeAs regards selection and survival, the decisive factor seems to be _______.A. the ability to adapt to changed or changing conditionsthe number of wild life reserves that are availableImportant ________ his discovery was it was regarded as a matter of no account in his time.A. even ifB. foras D. althoughdon’t swim now, but I _______ when I was a kid.A. used to itB. used to doing itused to D. used to do________ his great wealth, he always remained a man of simple tastes.A. Except forB. With regard toDespite D. AlthoughDo very few experts have _______ with complete new answers tothe world’s economic problems?A. come offB. come aroundcome up D. come throughThe success or failure of a football team depends on ___________ its standing position is correct or not.A. whetherB. ifif or not D. whether or notThe wings of the plane, which stretched out for 80 feet, were _____of its body.Many famous buildings in London were seriously ________ during the Second World War.A. harmedB. damagedspoiled D. destroyed________ come yesterday, but I couldn’t.A. was to haveB. mustought D. have toOld photographs give one a brief ________ of the past our being in the countryside in 1970s’.A. lookB. sightstare D. glimpse________ Mike is willing to join us, we’11 go out for a picnic.A. No matterB. Whether or notAlthough D. BecauseThe new power plant is reported _________ within three years.A. having been completedB. to have been completedto have completed D. to completedHe always broke his _________, so I would never believe him.A. lawB. absencesilence D. promiseMany people want to buy it because, _______, the price is low, ______ , it’s rather durable.A. on one side; on the other sideB. for one thing; for anotheron the one hand; on the other hand D. in one part; on the other part You ______ your home work before you watch TV.A. are doingB. are to be doingare to do D. dois _________ building that everyone wants to have a look at it.A. a so unusualB. such an unusualso unusual D. such unusual“Is it ______ that he will arrive here late?” “No, I don’t think so.”A. probablyB. likelypossibly D. perhapsHe finally ________ in reaching the top of the mountain.A. achievedB. managedenabled D. succeeded_______ nobody was willing to vote for her, she decided to dropout of the election.A. WhenB. ThatSeeing that D. So thatA. LittleB. muchC. fewD. manyA. allowB. agreeC. forceD. persuadeA. lestB. untilC. soD. althoughA. neitherB. norC. butD. orPassage 2Water is very important to 71 things. Without water there can be 72 life on the earth. animals and plants need water. Man also needs water. We need water to drink, to cook our food clean ourselves. Water 73 in offices, factories and schools. Where 74 is waterWater covers 75 part of the earth. There is water in seas, rivers and lakes. Water 7677 . Even in the driest part of the world there 78 some water in the air. Youit or feel it when it is the part of air. The water in seas, rivers and lakes is a liquid. The water air is with liquid or gas.C1ouds are made of water. They may be made of little drops of water. They may also be made crystals (晶体). Snow crystals are little crystals of ice. Ice is frozen water that has become .Water, you have found out, may be a solid，or a liquid, or a gas. When it is a solid, it may hard as stone. When it is liquid, you can pour it 80 of a cup. When it is a gas, you cannotWe feel certain that he is capable, that he will succeed, and that you will be ________ (pride) of him.We wish that he had been a bit more _________ (adventure).V Sentence Completion (20％30minutes)Directions:Put the underlined part m each sentence into EnglishMost people believe that 饮食习惯与文化有关。