大学英语1级模拟试题(二)

《大学英语》1级模拟试题（二）
Part I Vocabulary and Structure
1. The palm tree is an essential source of food and ____for people living in the tropics.
A) built materials B) to build materials
C) material buildings D) building materials
2. He ____ all his holiday doing part-time jobs at the restaurant.
A) spent B) gave C) took D) served
3. The name of the novel is on the ____of my tongue.
A) tip B) top C) edge D) bottom
4. Unlike automobiles, ____use a four-stroke engine, motorcyclists use a two-stroke engine.
A) those B) that C) this D) which
5. During the bleak winter, food became ___scarce that starvation and the famine were widespread.
A) such B) as C) too D) so
6. Physicians from all parts of the world meet yearly in Hiroshima to ___a conference on atomic war threats.
A) present B) attend C) participate D) go
7. His speech was so interesting that it was constantly ____ by applause.
A) interfered B) interrupted C) troubled D) disturbed
8. It is only through practice ____ one will be able to swim skillfully.
A) what B) that C) who D) which
9. To be honest, I don't like ____.
A) making fun of B) being made fun of
C) to make fun of D) having made fun of
10. Don't worry, I have already ____them ____ the decision.
A) informed...with B) informed...of
C) informed...for D) informed...that
11. People who pride themselves on needing little sleep requirements may imagine themselves more efficient than others, but in fact they often prove to be ____.
A) low efficiency B) low efficient C) efficient D) less
12. The brain is capable of ignoring pain messages if ____ to concentrate on other activities.
A) it allowed B) allowed C) is it allowed D) allowed it
13. The child was sorry ____ his mother when he arrived at the station.
A) to miss B) having missed C) missing D) to have missed
14. The answer is not, as ____ happens, very precise.
A) that B) which C) this D) it
15. Much to my surprise, they went away without telling us their ____address.
A) forever B) everlasting C) permanent D) eternal
16. Until then, his family __ from him for six months.
A) didn't hear B) hasn't been hearing
C) hasn't heard D) hadn't heard
17. The conference __ a full week by the time it ends.
A) must have lasted B) will have lasted C) would last D) has lasted
18. Students or teachers can participate in excursions to lovely beaches around the island at regular__.
A) gaps B) rate C) length D) intervals
19. There's a msn at the reception desk who seems very angry and I think he means __ trouble.
A) making B) to make C) to have made D) having made
20. After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys__ to go to school.
A) to be encouraged B) been encouraged
C) being encouraged D) be encouraged
Part II Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are 15 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Passage one
Rites of Passage
Suddenly there come times when everything is different —you’re somehow
another person
Several years ago my parents, my wife, my son, and I ate at one of those restaurants where the menu is written on a blackboard. After a wonderful dinner, the waiter set the bill in the middle of the table. That’s when it happened: my father did not reach for the bill.
Conversation continued. Finally it dawned on me. I was supposed to pick up the bill! After hundreds of restaurant meal with my parents, after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one who had the money, it had all changed. I reached for the check, and my view of myself was suddenly altered. I was an adult.
Some people mark off their lives in years; I measure mine in small events —in rites of passage. I did not become a young man at a particular age, like 13, but rather when a kid walked into the store where I worked and called me “mister”. He repeated it several times, looking straight at me. The realization hit like a punch: Me! I was suddenly a mister.
There have been other milestones. The cops of my youth always seemed big, even huge, and of course they were older than I was. Then one day they were suddenly neither. In fact, some were kids —short kids at that. The day came when I suddenly realized that all the football player in the game I was watching were younger than I was. They were just big kids. With that milestone went the dream that someday, maybe, I too could be a football player. Without ever having reached the hill, I was over it.
I never thought that I would fall asleep in front of the television set as my father did. Now it’s what I do best. I never thought that I would go to t he beach and not
swim. Yet I spent all of August at the seaside and never once went into the ocean. I never thought that I would like opera, but now the sadness and combination of voice and orchestra appeal to me. I never thought that I would prefer to stay home evenings, but now I find myself passing up parties. I used to think that people who watched birds were strange, but this summer I found myself watching them, and maybe I’ll get a book on the subject. I long for a religious conviction that I never th ought I’d want, and in arguments with my son, I repeat what my father used to say to me. I still lose.
One day I bought a house. One day —what a day! — I became a father, and not too long after that I picked up the bill for my own father. I thought then it was a rite of passage for me. But one day, when I was a little older, I realized it was one for him too. Another milestone.
1.When the young man picked up the bill and paid it, ____.
A)he felt that his father should have paid it
B)he was glad to have the chance pay the bill for once
C)he realized he was now an adult
D)his father said he would pay it as he usually did so
2.The man marked off his life not by the passing years but by _____.
A)comparing himself with other people
B)certain meaningful events
C)counting the milestones of his life
D)recalling events of the past
3.When the writer was young, _____.
A) he looked forward to the day when he would be like his father
B)it seemed to him that the policeman were big and tall
C)he felt bird watching was an interesting hobby
D)he couldn’t understand why his father fell asleep while watching TV
4.Why didn’t the writer go swimming while he was at the beach in August?
A)Because he liked going to the opera.
B)Because he preferred to watch birds.
C)Because he was not young anymore.
D)Because he did not know how to swim.
5.When the writer argued with his son, ____.
A)he used the same reasons as his father did
B)he always succeeded in winning the arguments
C)he sometimes managed to persuade his son to agree with him
D)he seldom succeeded in winning
Passage two
The verb procrastinate comes from the Latin procrastinate, which means to postpone until tomorrow. To procrastinate, then, is to delay doing something until some future time, and a procrastinator is someone who is always putting off what he or she should be doing right now.
Those of us who have a tendency toward procrastination know that it is a terrible habit. Every day we tell ourselves that we must start doing things immediately, and
each day we postpone our work, are late for deadlines, and put off keeping our promises to other people. Because we are always in the process of procrastinating, we are also always trying to catch up. We are always doing yesterday's jobs today, and tomorrow we will be doing today's unfinished work.
Maybe the way to overcome procrastination is to change our habits gradually. We can start with a daily schedule of the things we want or need to accomplish. But let's be reasonable. We shouldn't crowd the list with too many tasks, and we should be realistic about what we can do. Especially in the beginning we should be lenient(宽大的, 仁慈的) with ourselves. After all, if we get discouraged at the start, we will go right back to our old habits.
Finally, if we begin to follow our own schedule for each day, we will stop postponing the chores that face us. Life will become far less complicated and each day will be easier to face. We will undoubtedly feel better about ourselves, too, because we will know that we can overcome our weaknesses and improve ourselves.
1. The first paragraph tells us _____ of the word procrastinate.
A) the origin
B) the meaning
C) the history
D) both A and B
2. A procrastinator is a person who always postpones ___work.
A) important
B) unimportant
C) important or unimportant
D) uninteresting
3. The first step suggested by the author to change the habit of procrastinating is ___.
A) not to fill our plans with too many tasks
B) to make a plan for everyday activities
C) to list as many tasks as possible
D) not to be reasonable with our plan
4. Procrastinators do not live a happy life, because___.
A) life is complicated and uneasy for them to face
B) they can't choose what to do
C) things often become more difficult the next day
D) they will lose interest in doing things
5. The author of the passage tries to tell us ___.
A) that to be a procrastinator is not easy
B) to be procrastinators
C) that to be a procrastinator is bad for oneself
D) that being a procrastinator is good for others
Passage three
A good reader is one who can read beyond the lines, seeing ideas implied through the words, and one who can bridge the gap between the obvious and the suggested, thus obtaining much more information. Let's look at the following sentence:
JOHN HENDERSON WAS DRIVING HOME LATE LAST NIGHT FROM AN EXHAUSTING BUSINESS TRIP.
As you might have realized, this is the opening sentence of a story. It tells the reader whom the story is about -- John Henderson, and when the event takes place -- late one night, if we read carefully and thoughtfully we can also infer from this sentence that
1. John Henderson may be a businessman because he has just finished a "business trip"
2. John Henderson must be very tired because the trip is "exhausting"
3. John Henderson must be very eager to get home because he is driving "late" at night right after this exhausting trip.
Making inferences while reading will always help us achieve a better comprehension. But we should keep in mind that inferences must be made with care and supported by evidence. In order to make reasonable inferences we should
1. read and think beyond the primed words;
2. analyze the information given in the text;
3. determine the author's reason for his choice of words.
1. According to the author, a good reader___.
A) can read between the lines
B) should have a large vocabulary
C) knows enough grammar rules
D) must have a good knowledge of the author
2. From the quoted sentence, you know John Henderson was most likely___.
A) a seller
B) a man on business
C) a driver
D) a traveler
3. From the quoted sentence, you know John Henderson had a ___.
A) tired trip
B) bored trip
C) boring trip
D) tiring trip
4. When the author asks us to make inferences while reading, he intends to say___.
A) make guesses
B) have imaginations
C) do translations
D) reach conclusions
5. The best topic of the passage is ____.
A) Reading Skills
B) Try to Be a Good Reader
C) Reading Is Important
D) Reading Is Thinking
Passage four
Man's first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it.
(The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature — no living thing was ever created with wheels.) How, then, did man come to invent the wheel?
Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the dead body of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected at their centers by a strong stick. This would roll along just as the logs did yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being, and with them the first carts.
1. The wheel is important because _______.
A. it was man's first real invention
B. all transportation depends on it
C. every machine depends on it
D. both B and C
2. The wheel is described as _______.
A. simple
B. complicated
C. strange
D. light
3. It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because ______.
A. it led to many other inventions
B. man had no use for it then
C. there were no wheels in nature
D. it was very complicated
4. This passage says that the first wheel might have been a _______.
A. round piece of stone
B. heavy log
C. piece of metal
D. slice of log
5. The idea of making wheels might have come from ______.
A. chasing an animal
B. watching a rolling trunk
C. watching running animals
D. rolling the dead body of an animal on logs
Part III Cloze
Have you 1)_____ asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably say that they go 2)_____ their own language and other languages, arithmetic, history, science and 3)_____ subjects. That is quite true; but why do they learn these things?
And are these things 4)_____ that they learn at school?
We 5)____ our children to school to 6)_____ them for the time 7)_____ they will be big and will have to work 8)_____ themselves. Nearly all they study at school has some 9)_____ use in their life, but is that the only reason 10)_____ they go to school?
There is 11)_____ in education than just learning facts. We go to school 12)____ all to learn how to learn, 13)_____ when we have 14)_____ school we can continue to learn. A man who really knows 15)_____ will always be successful, because 16)_____ he has to do something new which he has never had to do 17)_____, he will rapidly teach himself how to do it in the best 18)_____ The uneducated person, 19)______, is probably unable to do something new, or does it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is not just to teach languages, arithmetic, etc., 20)____ to teach pupils the way to learn.
1）A. either B. whether C. ever D. as well
2）A. learn B. to learn C. and learning D. and to learn
3）A. all another B. the other all C. all the other D. the all other
4）A. those B. ones C. every D. all
5）A. send B. present C. appoint D. select
6）A. rely B. prepare C. make D. get
7）A. that B. when C. while D. as
8）A. for B. on C. with D. to
9）A. true B. fortunate C. lucky D. practical
10） A. why B. which C. because D. what
11） A. much B. most C. a lot D. more
12） A. above B. over C. on D. in
13） A. so as B. and that C. so that D. such that
14） A. remained B. left C. got out D. sent
15） A. how learned B. how to learn C. to how learn D. how learning
16） A. whenever B. whichever C. whatever D. however
17） A. ago B. later C. before D. after
18） A. path B. course C. road D. way
19） A. on another hand B. on other hand C. on the other hands D. on the other hand
20） A. and B. that C. but D. so
Part IV Translation
1.These qualities gave me a good foundation for a career in industrial
engineering.
2.Workers beyond him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do.
3.In a certain store where they sell puddings, a number of these delicious
things are laid out in a row during the Christmas season.
4.Amidst the crowd of happy, prosperous looking Christmas shoppers, the little
black figure of the old man seemed pitiful and out of place.
5.Now suddenly she began to sob, holding herself in as if weeping were a
disgrace.
6.据报道, 那条铁路曾因洪水而停止修建.
7.我很想买这本英文词典,遗憾的是我身上带的钱不够.
8.整个上午他都在忙于写那篇故事, 只是偶尔停下来喝杯茶.
9.他常利用她缺乏生意头脑而欺骗她.
10.他那句话的含意是他想在政府部门找个工作.。