专升本英语模拟试题三

模拟试题（三）

Part I Reading Comprehension(40％35minutes)

Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehensio n questions. Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark you

r answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet．

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

In 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most unus ual way. The author was Agatha Christie, a gentle married lady and one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world．

In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Qatar, near Saudi Arabia. Doctors were unable t o decide the cause of her illness with confidence, so she was flown to London and admitted to Hamme rsmith Hospital, where specialist help was available (可得到的). She was then only semiconscious (半清醒状态) and on the “Dangerously ill” list. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to disc over t hat they, too, were puzzled by the very unusual symptoms. While they were discussing the baby’s case, a nurse asked to speak to them．

“Excuse me.” said Nurse Marsha Maitland, “but I think the baby is suffering from thallium poiso ning.”

“What makes you think that?” Dr Brown asked. “Thallium poisoning is extremely rare.”

“A few days ago, 1 was reading a novel called A Pale Horse by Agatha Christie,” Nurse Maitlan d explained. “In the book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are described. They’re exactly the same as the baby’s.”

“You’re very observant and you may be right,” another doctor said. “We’11 carry out some tests and find out whether it’s thallium or not.”

The tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance u sed in making optical glass. Once they knew the cause of illness, the doctors were able to give the ba by the correct treatment. She soon recovered and was sent back to Qatar. Enquiries made people know that the poison might have come from an insecticide used in Qatar.

1. Who first suggested the correct cause of the baby’s illness?

A. A doctor in Qatar. B . Dr Brown．

C. Nurse Maitland

D. Agatha Christie

2. Why was the baby sent to London?

A . Because she was a British girl whose parents were working in Qatar.

B . Because the hospitals in Qatar were full at that time.

C. Because she was the daughter of a doctor in one of the hospitals

in London．

D. Because the Qatar doctors were not sure they could cure her.

3. According to the passage, what caused the baby’s illness?

A .Contact with a pair of infected spectacles．

B. Contact with a harmful substance used to kill insects.

C. Contact with machinery used in manufacturing optical glasses.

D. Contact with her mother who carried thallium germs in her body.

4. When the baby was first admitted to hospital in the U. K. what did

the doctors think of her case?

A. They thought it was a case needing immediate treatment.

B. They thought it was a usual one．

C. They thought it was quite a simple one．

D. They thought it was the result of thallium poisoning.

5. Nurse Maitland spoke to the doctors ___________.

A . when she heard them discussing the possibility of thallium poisoning．

B. because she could see that the doctors had made a mistake.

C. to suggest a possible cause of the patient’s illness.

D. after she had read about a horse which had been poisoned.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

E-mail systems at thousands of companies and government offices around the world were attacke d by a virus (病毒) called “Melissa” that disguises itself as all “important message” from a friend.

Even though there was a weekend warning, more than 50,000 companies at about 100 places aroun d the world have been attacked by the virus, computer experts said on Monday.

The virus began to show up last Friday and spread rapidly the next first work day by making com puters send off dozens of e-mails containing the virus. Although the virus had no long-lasting damage t o a computer, its effects were far-reaching.

Michael Vatic, a senior US official, said military (军事的) and government computers were damage d, along with thousands of the other institutions’ systems.

The body of e-mail message says, “Here is what you ask for . . .” once the user opens it, the vir us digs into the user’s address book and sends out mes sages to the first 50 ad-dresses. The reason the virus spread so rapidly is that you’re getting it from people you know and trust. So any one who gets an unexpected e-mail with the “Important Message” subject line is advised not to open it and to delete (删除) it immediately.

6. From the passage we know that the virus attacked thousands of computers on _________.

A . Monday B. Saturday

C. Friday

D. the first day of a month

7. The virus spread rapidly because ____________.

A. it makes computers work without stop

B. it carries a word “Important Message’’

C. it sends out messages to dozens of computers at one time

D. it attacks military and government offices

8. The underlined word ‘‘disguise” most probably means __________.

A. dress

B. cover up