英语一级模拟题 1

大学英语一级模拟题 1Part I. Listening Comprehension (25%)Section ADirections: In this section, you’ll hear five short conversations. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question willbe read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.1. A. On foot. B. By bus.C. By bike.D. By car.2. A. To make tea at home. B. To finish her homework.C. To do the housework.D. To have tea at home.3. A. Sometime this month. B. Sometime next month.D. Sometime this year. D. Sometime next year.4. A. His bike. B. Jane‟s bike.C. The key to his room.D. His bike key.5. A. Mike. B. John.C. Lily and John.D. Lily and Mike.Section BDirections: In this section, you’ll hear a long conversation and a passage. The conversation and passage will be read twice. At the end of them, you’ll hear some questions.Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following conversation:6. A. Driver and passenger. B. Policeman and witness.C. Lawyer and client.D. Judge and defendant.7. A. At the crossroads of Bridge Street and Churchill Avenue.B. Outside Brown‟s toyshop.C. Just where the woman was standing.D. Where the policeman and the woman are talking.8. A. At 10. B. At 10:40.C. At 2:30.D. At 2:40.9. A. 10 miles per hour. B. 40 miles per hour.C. 30 miles per hour.D. 20 miles per hour.10. A. To write down what she had said. B. To identify the drivers.C. To sign her name.D. To go to the court.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:11. A. Noise. B. Newspapers.C. Advertisements.D. Electronic equipment.12. A. It gives too much music.B. It has too many programs for advertising.C. Its noise does harm to our ears.D. It changes our daily live.13. A. They spend too much time on sports.B. They are always watching TV programs.C. They like to play games on TV.D. They take little interest in their wives.14. A. Electronic equipment may invade our private life.B. Electronic equipment may harm our health.C. Electronic equipment may affect children‟s study.D. Electronic equipment may affect family relationship.15. A. There are too many programs for grown ups on TV.B. Reading advertisements is a waste of time.C. Watching TV may hurt children‟s eyes.D. Some electronic equipment may cause social problems.Section CDirections: There is a passage with t en blanks in this section. You’ll hear the passage read twice. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with what you have heard.At midnight the telephone ___16_____ and Detective Jensen was called from his bed to go to the police station. A sixty-nine-year-old woman was attacked at home on a ____17____ night. She had serious head____18____. Since the light was not on, the woman simply had not seen her attacker, so she could give no description. What could the police do? Jensen went to the___19_____ of the crime. He found footprints in the ____20____ snow at the back of the house leading up to the back door. He found some very small ___21_____ from clothes on the back wall. The wall was very high. A window in the door at the back of the house had been broken. Inside the door hung a green curtain. Jensen cut a small piece of the bottom of this and gave it to the ___22_____ at the laboratory. Six months later Jensen interviewed a young man who was___23_____ of attacking two young girls. He sent clothes and snow boots from this man‟s house to the laboratory. Little tiny bits of green curtain were found ____24____ to the boots, and also spots of blood were found on a jacket. The laboratory had proved that this young man, who had attacked the schoolgirls, was the very same man who had attacked the _____25___ woman six months before.Part II. Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions:There are three reading passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggestedanswers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question.Passage 1Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Is teaching important? Well, of course it is. There was a time when the necessary knowledge could be taught to the young by family members. But as societies became more complex and division of labor more common, it was impossible for family members to teach the information and skills young people needed to become useful members of the society. As the need for specialists appeared, the job of teaching came into being in our country, and teaching as a job has been of increasing importance over the past hundred years. Today, we have strict rules for teachers.We hope all children can attend schools. Many things tell us teaching is indeed an “important” job.In recent years, there has been an increasing need for teachers to be “responsible”. This means that the public expect teachers to succeed in teaching important information to the young. Teachers‟ salaries today, while not much, certainly are much higher than they were in years past. These increases have come about because people have realized that without enough salaries, people who have abilities will not become teachers. Today almost no one says that “anybody will do” for a teacher. The public expect “quality people” to teach the young, and progress is being made to give salaries that will make people who have abilities become teachers.26. Before the job of teaching came into being, ______.A. family members had been responsible for the education of the youngB. specialists had been in charge of teaching young peopleC. young people had had to be self-educatedD. the society had played an important role in educating young people27. The job of teaching came into being mainly because of______.A. the development of the societyB. the explosion of informationC. The need for specialistsD. the civilization of human beings28. Teachers‟ salaries are raised today in order to______.A. show the importance of teaching as a jobB. attract more qualified people to become teachersC. make teachers “responsible” in their teachingD. improve the quality of public teaching29. “Anybody will do” for a teacher means that______.A. almost all people want to become a teacherB. a teacher is so highly respected that people all want to help himC. a teacher will do whatever he can for his studentsD. the job of teaching is so easy that everybody can do it30. We know from the passage that______.A. it is important to be successful in teaching the youngB. enough salaries are necessary in making quality people become teachersC. greater progress has to be made in teachingD. teaching is a product of the society's division of laborPassage 2Questions 31 to 36 are based on the following passage.Where do pesticides (杀虫剂) fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now pollute soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major problem. The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad andshould not occur. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world.Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative(积累的)over long periods of time, and that the danger to the individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a threat of future disaster. “Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs,” says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, “yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed.” 31. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence “Man,...is part of nature.” (Para.1)?A. Man appears indifferent to what happens in nature.B. Man acts as if he does not belong to nature.C. Man can avoid the effects of environmental pollution.D. Man can escape his responsibilities for environmental protection.32. What is the author‟s attitude towards the environmental effects of pesticides?A. Pessimistic.B. Indifferent.C. Defensive.D. Concerned.33. In the author‟s view, the sudden death caused by exposure to large amounts of pesticides____.A. is not the worst of the negative consequences resulting from the use of pesticidesB. now occurs most frequently among all accidental deathsC. has sharply increased so as to become the center of public attentionD. is unavoidable because people can't do without pesticides in farming34. People tend to ignore the delayed effects of exposure to chemicals because ______.A. limited exposure to them does little harm to people‟s healthB. the present is more important for them than the futureC. the danger does not become apparent immediatelyD. humans are capable of withstanding small amounts of poisoning35. It can be concluded from Dr Dubos‟ remarks that ______.A. people find invisible diseases difficult to deal withB. attacks by hidden enemies tend to be fatalC. diseases with obvious signs are easy to cureD. people tend to overlook hidden dangers caused by pesticidesPassage 3Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.The estimates of the numbers of home-schooled children vary widely. The U. S. Department of Education estimates there are 250,000 to 350,000 home-schooled children in the country. Home-school advocates put the number much higher—at about a million. Many public school advocates take a harsh attitude toward home schoolers, perceiving their actions as the ultimate slap in the face for public education and a damaging move for the children. Home schoolers harbor few kind words for public schools, charging shortcomings that range from lack of religious perspective in the curriculum to a herdlike approach to teaching children. Yet, as public school officials realize they stand little to gain by remaining hostile to the home-school population and as home schoolers realize they can reap benefits from public schools, these hard lines seem to be softening a bit. Public schools and home shoolers have moved closer to tolerance and, in somecases, even cooperation.Says John Marshall, an education official,” We are becoming relatively tolerant of home schoolers.” The idea is,” Let‟s give the kids access to public school so they‟ll see it‟s not as terrible as they‟ve been told, and they‟ll want to come back.”Perhaps, but don‟t count on it, say home-school advocates. Home schoolers oppose the system because they have strong convictions that their approach to education -- whether fueled by religious enthusiasm or the individual child‟s interests and natural pace -- is best.“The bulk of home schoolers just want to be left alone,” says Enge Cannon, associate director of the National Center for Home Education. She says home schoolers choose that path for a variety of reasons, but religion plays a role 85 percent of the time.Professor Van Galen breaks home schoolers into two groups. Some home schoolers want their children to learn not only traditional subject matter but also “strict religious doctrine and a conservative political and social perspective. Not incidentally, they also want their children to learn -- both intellectually and emotionally -- that the family is the most important institution in society.”Other home schoolers contend “not so much that the schools teach heresy (异端邪说), but that schools teach whatever they teach inappropriately,” Van Galen writes,” These parents are highly independent and strive to …take responsibility‟ for their own lives within a society that they define as bureaucratic (官僚政治的) and inefficient.36. According to the passage, home schoolers are.A. those who engage private teachers to provide additional education for their childrenB. those who educate their children at home instead of sending them to schoolC. those who advocate combining public education with home schoolingD. those who don't go to school but are educated at home by their parents37. Public schools are softening their position on home schooling because.A. there isn't much they can go to change the present situationB. they want to show their tolerance for different teaching systemsC. home schooling provides a new variety of education for childrenD. public schools have so many problems that they cannot offer proper education for all children38. Home-school advocates are of the opinion that.A. things in public schools are not so bad as has often been saidB. their tolerance of public education will attract more kids to public schoolsC. home schooling is superior and, therefore, they will not easily give inD. their increased cooperation with public school will lead to better public education39. Most home schoolers‟ opposition to pu blic education stems from their.A. respect for the interests of individualsB. worry about the inefficiency of public schoolsC. concern with the cost involvedD. devotion to religion40. According to Van Galen some home schoolers believe that .A. public schools take up a herdlike approach to teaching childrenB. teachers in public school are not as responsible as they should beC. public schools cannot provide an education that is good enough for their childrenD. public schools are the source of bureaucracy and inefficiency in modern societyPart III. Cloze (10%)Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper You shouldPaper TwoPart IV. Word Building (15%)Directions:Complete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in brackets. Write the answer on the Answer Sheet.1.(sympathy) I find it difficult to __________ with him when he complains so much.2. (create) The child is so ________ that he always comes up with some unusual ides.3. (envy) The other girls in the class are ______ of her beauty.4. (add) We need some ______help; we cannot finish the task alone anyway.5. (efficient) These machines have increased our work ________ many times.6. (occasion) T he parents only see their children very ________.7. (reason) What you said is rather _____ , so I can not give you that leave.8. (commit) What people are looking forward to in the newly-elected governor is his total ____to the interests of the people.9. (fortunate) I‟d like to help but _________ I can‟t.10. (disappoint) To the old lady‟s great _______, her daughter didn‟t send her a real present forher eightieth birthday.11. (profit) The business was once quite ____, but now it is another story.12. (confuse) If you try to learn too many things at a time, you may get _____.13. (wake) The girl is still ________, waiting for her mother to come back.14. (clear) The teacher try to _________ the difference between the two cases.15. (regard) He says what he likes, ________ of other people's feelings.V. Directions: Complete the following sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. （10%）1. (由于害怕警察认出他来), he never went out in daylight.2. We have to face that possibility (不管它听起来有多么的不可能).3. The earlier you get started, _______________ ( 你就能越快完成这个项目).4. If you don‟t like to swim, ______________ ( 还是呆在家里的好).5. （由于缺乏资金和必要设备）, it took so long to implement the program.Part VI. Writing （10%）Directions: Write ONE paragraph of a general point supported by examples in about 80 words with the first sentence: My teachers have benefited me a lot in many aspects.。