2019年GCT英语模拟试题(三)及答案解析20页word

Simulating Test Three

（本试题共50题，每题2分，满分100分，考试时间45分钟）

Part One Vocabulary and Structure

Directions:

In this part there are ten incomplete sentences, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

1. We obey him, ____ we are afraid of him, ____ we honor and love him.

A. not for, but for

B. not as, but as

C. not that, but that

D. not since, but since

2. With the map of the city to help them, they had no ____ the place.

A. difficulties in finding

B. difficulty in finding

C. difficulty to find

D. trouble to find

3. This is a____ young writer. He has published quite a few good stories in recent years.

A. promised

B. looking forward

C. promising

D. clever

4. What is the____ language in India?

A. office

B. official

C. officially

D. officer

5. ____, it is quite easy to drill a hole in it with a eraser.

A. Hard a diamond is

B. Hard as a diamond is

C. As a diamond is hard

D. How hard is a diamond

6. I desired nothing but ____ home.

A. go

B. to go

C. going

D. went

7. Nuclear science should be developed to benefit the people ____ harm them.

A. more than

B. better than

C. other than

D. rather than

8. I would appreciate ____ it a secret.

A. your keeping

B. that you keep

C. you to keep

D. that you will keep

9. I found myself completely ____ by his vivid performance.

A. carried out

B. carried off

C. carried away

D. carried on

10. It’s high time that something, ____ to prohibit selling fake commodities.

A. must be done

B. was done

C. be done

D. were done

Part Two Reading Comprehension

Directions:

In this part there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:

Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the seasons and crime patterns.

The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do rape and other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more