专升本英语模拟试题一

模拟试题（一）

Part I Reading Comprehension (40% 35minutes)

Directions; In this part there are four passages. Each pas sage is followed by a number of comprehension questio ns. Read the passage and choose the best answer to ea ch question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

Two traveling angels (天使) stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refu sed to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they ma de their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and filled it up. When the younger angel aske d why, the older angel replied: "Things aren't always what they seem."

The next night the pair came to rest at a farmer's house.

The farmer was very poor, but he and his wife were very ho spitable（好客的）. After sharing a little food they had, t he couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they cou ld have a good rest that night. When the sun came up the n ext morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in t ears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only incom e, lay dead in the field.

The younger angel was very angry and asked the old angel, "How could this happen? Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over hi s house." she accused. "The second family had little but w as willing to share everything, and you did not help." "Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel rep lied. "When we stayed in the basement, from the hole I not iced there was gold stored in the wall. Since the owner wa s so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I ask ed God if I could seal (封口) the wall so he wouldn't find the gold. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's be d. Death (死神) came for his wife. I asked God if Death co uld take the cow instead. Things aren't always what they s eem."

1. Why did the older angel fill up the hole in the wall

of the rich family's basement?

A. Because she didn't like the greedy owner.

B. Because she wanted to save the gold for the poor.

C. Because the basement was too cold to stay in.

D. Because she believed that one should always be ready to offer help.

1. The underlined words in Paragraph Two "the pair" ref

er to_____.

A. the poor couple

B. the rich c ouple

C. the poor man and the rich man

D. the two angels

2. The younger angel was very angry because_____.

A. the older angel killed the farmer's cow

B. she thought the older angel treated the farmer's f

amily unfairly

C. the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live

D. Death took the cow away

4. Why did the older angel let the farmer's cow die? A．Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow.

A. Because she wanted to teach the younger angel a les