专升本模拟题(一)

专升本模拟题（一）

I.Phonetics. (10 points with each of 1 point)

Directions: In each of the following groups of words, there are four underlined letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation.

1. A. quality B. quote C. queue D. question

2. A. towel B. bestow C. clown D. frown

3. A. threw B. drew C. blew D. sew

4. A. personify B. person C. prison D. diction

5. A. purse B. nurse C. purify D. curse

6. A. ceiling B. receive C. seize D. veil

7. A. salt B. talk C. chalk D. hall

8. A. sail B. tailor C. nail D. dairy

9. A. piece B. diet C. belief D. niece

10. A. champion B. choice C. challenge D. champagne

II.Vocabulary and Structure (30 points with each of 1 point) Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence.

11. Because of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, scientists never again regarded

the world _________.

A. as before they did

B. as they regarded before

C. as they did before

D. as they had before

12. You never told me you had seen the film, _________?

A. had you

B. hadn’t you

C. did you

D. didn’t you

13. What do you think of Tom’s proposal that _________ on a play at the

English evening.

A. we put

B. we must put

C. we shall put

D. we would put

14. _________ should come first was not clear to every member at the outset.

A. This quality

B. That quality

C. What quality

D. It’s quality

15. The equipment _________ out of order, the experiment has to be put off.

A. is

B. has been

C. is to be

D. being

16. _________ has been mentioned above, the size of a canal depends on the

kind of boats going through it.

A. What

B. It

C. That

D. As

17. I wonder whether he will go and help _________.

A. to let to fall the heavy box

B. let fall the heavy box

C. the heavy box let fall

D. let the heavy box to fall

18. They were believed _________ the problem beforehand.

A. to have discussed

B. to discuss

C. in discussing

D. to have been discussed

19. When he was in Japan, he was considering _________ a trip to China.

A. to make

B. making

C. going

D. to go on

20. “Can I have some chocolate, Mom? I’m hungry.”

“You ________ be hungry. You’ve just had dinner.”

A. can’t

B. mustn’t

C. needn’t

D. won’t

21. Wood furniture does not fall in value _________ properly handled and

protected.

A. though

B. unless

C. if

D. since

22. He sold the vegetables at half price _________ allowed them to go bad.

A. more than

B. rather than

C. other than

D. instead of

23. Without the computer, we _________ the tremendous advances in medical

science in the last few decades.

A. could not make

B. should not make

C. can’t have made

D. would not have made

24. Flying demands a much greater supply of energy _________ other forms of

transportation.

A. than do most

B. than most do

C. more than most

D. more than most do

25. Not until 1959 _________ in obtaining this compound.

A. had chemists succeeded

B. did chemists succeed

C. that chemists succeeded

D. chemists succeeded

26. To such straits _________ by his extravagance _________ he took to

begging.

A. was he reduced…which

B. he was reduced…with

C. did he reduce…that

D. was he reduced…that

27. _________ you work hard, the prospects of promotion are good.

A. Unless

B. Provided that

C. For

D. Once

28. She never really get _________ the shock of hearing that her son had been

killed in a mining accident.

A. on

B. over

C. through

D. off

29. Ships are _________ than planes that people take them mainly for pleasure.

A. much more slower

B. too much slower