2010年辽宁专升本考试真题-英语

一、选择

1 I’ll write down your name and address lest you ___ as a witness.

A. are needed

B. will be needed

C. need

D. be needed

2 I want ___ by the president, but it was impossible.

A. to see

B. to be seen

C. seeing

D. being to see

3 ___ you’ve fo und, you must give it back to the librarian.

A. That

B. Because

C. Whatever

D. However

4 ___ he realized it was time to go back home.

A. No sooner it grew dark when

B. Hardly it grew dark than

C. Scarcely it grew dark than

D. It was not until dark that

5 To ___ wages and salaries means to increase purchasing power.

A. raise

B. rise

C. life

D. improve

6 I’ll be going to the park on foot while my car ___.

A. is repairing

B. is being repaired

C. will be repaired

D. is to repaired

7 She was given ___ pay for her hard work.

A. additional

B. adding

C. active

D. financial

8 We are celebrating for having found the solution ___ the problem.

A. for

B. about

C. as for

D. to

9 You ___ caught by the rain just now for you are all wet.

A. can’t be

B. must being

C. must have been

D. can’t have

10 ___ is easier than to do.

A. To say

B. Saying

C. To be saying

D. Being said

二、阅读（一）

The picnics, speeches and parades of today’s Labor Day were all part of the first celebration held in New York City in 1882. Its promoter was an Irish-American labor leader named Peter J. McGuire. A carpenter by trade. McGuire had worked since the age of 11, and in 1882 was president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join (UBCJ).

Approaching the City’s Central Labor Union that summer, he proposed a holiday that would applaud(赞许)“the industrial spirit-the great vital force of every nation“. On September 5 hi suggestion bore fruit as estimated 10.00 workers, many of them ignoring their bosses warnings, left work to march from Union square up Fifth Avenue to 42nd Street .The event gained national attention and by ’93 thirty states had mad e Labor Day an annual holiday.

The quick adoption of the scheme may have indicated less about the state lawmakers’ respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger. In the 1880s the United States was a land sharply divided between the immensely weans and the very poor. Henry George was accurate in describing the era as one of “progress and poverty”. In a society in which factory owners ride in private Pullmans while ten-year-olds slaved in the mines strong capitalists feeling ran high. Demands for fundamental change were common throughout the labor press. With socialists demanding an end to “wage slavery”and anarchists(无政府主义) singing the praises of the virtues of dynamite (炸药)middle-of-the-roaders like Samuel Gompers and McGuire seemed attractively mild by comparison. One can imagine practical seeing Labor Day as a bargain: A one-day party certainly cost them less than paying their workers decent wages.