电子科技大学网络教育学院招生入学考试

大学英语模拟试卷（三）

Ⅰ.phonetics (10 points)

  Directions; In each of the following groups of words ,there are four underlined letters or combinations marked A,B,C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEETⅠ.

Ⅱ.Vocabulary and Structure( 40 points )

 Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this section, For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B,C, and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ.

11. After watching            TV, she played             violin for an hour.

    A. /  ;  /        B. the ; the      C. the ;  /       D. / ; the

12. Canada is larger than              country in Asia.

    A. any           B. any other     C. other         D. another 

13.              food you’ve cooked !

    A. How a nice     B. What a nice   C. How nice     D. What nice

14.I invited Tom and Ann to dinner , but        of them came.

    A. neither         B. both         C. either        D. none

15. Does          matter if he can’t finish the job on time?

    A. this       B. that      C. he     D. it

16.The experiment was              easier than we had expected.

    A. more        B. much more       C. much       D. more much

17. The volleyball match will be put off if it                 .

    A. will rain      B. rains          C. rained       D. is raining  

18. The library needs            , but it’ll have to wait until Sunday.

    A. cleaning      B. be cleaned      C. clean      D. being cleaned

19. Mary          a dress when she cut her finger.

    A. made         B. is making      C. was making    D. makes

20. I learned to            a bicycle as a small boy .

    A. drive        B. run       C. operate      D. ride 

21. These oranges taste              .

    A. good        B. well       C. to be good      D. to be well

22. A new school was           in the village last year.

    A. held up       B. set up      C. sent up     D. brought up

23. She’s upstairs             letters.

    A. writes        B. is writing     C. write     D. writing

24. It was so cold that they kept the fire            all night.

   A. to burn         B. burn       C. burning      D. burned

25. Will you            me a favor please?

    A. do           B. make       C. give       D. bring

26. He still didn’t know what           while he was away from home.

    A. happened      B. was happened     C. had happened   D. would happen

27. The children would play happily while their mother         .

    A. had left       B. was leaving     C. was out     D. had been out

28. L         for her since two hours ago.

    A. have waited    B. waited     C. had waited    D. was waiting

29. Lt         when we had breakfast.

   A. has rained    B. is raining      C. rains     D. was raining

30.         you         to the 6:30 news?

   A. Did, listen    B. Have, listened    C. Had, listened     D. Were, listened

31. They        for five years.

    A. have been married    B. got married     C. have got married    D. are married

32. No one can be sure       in a million years.

A. what man will look like          B. what will man look like

C. man will like look what                  D. what look will man like

33. Jenny       have kept her word. I wonder why she changed her mind.

A. must                  B. should              C. need                D. would

34. The speaker raised his voice but still couldn’t make himself      .

A. hear        B. to hear      C. hearing      D. heard

35. Alice received an invitation from her boss,        came as a surprise.

A. it          B. that         C. which        D. he

36. The hero of the story is an artist in his          .

A. thirties      B. thirty       C. thirty’s        D. thirtieth

37----Do you know Jim quarreled with his brother?

  ----I don’t know, _______.

A. nor don’t I care                        B. nor do I

C. I don’t care neither                     D. I don’t care also

38. If it_______ for the snow, we ______the mountain yesterday.

A. were not; could have climbed             B. were not; could climb

C. had not been; could have climbed          D. had not been; could climb

39. The boy promised _______ mother never to lie to ________ again.

A. his; him       B. her; her        C. her; him        D. his; her

40. ______she is young, she knows quite a lot.

A. When         B. However       C. Although       D. Unless

41. I have a baby _______.

A. to be taken care of                B. for you to help me

C. take care of                      D. to take care of

42. The soldier had him_______ with his back to his father.

A. stood          B. stands         C. stand          D. to stand

43. It is very kind ______.

A. of you to help me                  B. for you to help me

C. to you to help me                  D. you to help me

44. It is impossible _______ before lunch.

A. of us to get there                   B. for us to get there

C. to you to get there                  D. you to get there

45. Will you permit an old pupil _______ you?

A. shake hands with                   B. shaking hands with

C. shaken hands with                  D. to shake hands with

46. The duties of the secretary are to receive visitors, ________ .

A. opening the mail, she types letters

B. to open the mail and typing letters

C. to open the mail and to type letters

D. to open the mail and they type the letters

47. It is impossible for so _______ workers to do so _______ work in a single day.

A. few; much        B. few; many        C. little; much        D. little; many

48. Hello! I ______ you ______ in London. How long have you been here?

A. don’t know, were                     B. hadn’t known, are

C. haven’t known, are                    D. didn’t know, were

49. I asked him to _______ me a few minutes so that we could go over all the problems.

A. spend            B. save          C. spare           D. share

50. John has there sisters. Mary is the ______ of the three.

A. most cleverest     B. more clever      C. cleverest      D. cleverer

Ⅲ. Cloze (20 points)

Directions: For each bland in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Parents and teenagers often disagree about the amount of freedom and responsibility that young

people are to have. The teenager often wants to be  51   to choose his own friends, select his own courses in school, plan for his own vocational  52   , and earn and spend his own money, and generally  53  his own life in a more independent fashion than many parents are able to 54  .

        Most problems between teenagers and their parents yield best to (导致) joint planning and decision making. Within any particular family 55 are avoided and problems are solved when all of the persons take 56 in the situation, 57  in working it out. 58 parents and young people learn how to get 59  well with each other and develop skills in understanding and 60  understood, even the most difficult problems are relieved.

Passage One

    In Japan's capital city of Tokyo, earthquake danger limits the height of buildings, The city has spread out so far and the traffic has become so heavy that it is very difficult to get from one place to another, The price of land, too, has become very high. All this explains why a group of Japanese land developers came to the conclusion that there was nowhere to go but down, So far they have dug out space underground for fifteen major shopping centers, and the underground construction (建筑)has only begun.

   What are some of the advantages of shopping and eating underground? Clean, filtered(过滤的)air is one of them. The city of Tokyo has one of the most serious smog(烟雾)problem in the world. Another advantage is that there won’t be traffic accidents as that on the city’s busy streets. Still another is the convenience(方便) of moving from place to place. You’re usually right next to, or even in, a subway station. And you can even spend the night underground if you like. The Kyobashi Station, for example, in down town Tokyo, has a hotel with a bar, restaurant and barbershop.

61. It is very difficult to get from one place to another in Tokyo because       .

A. the city is so large and so high              B. there is no traffic

C. we don’t know the road                   D. the city is so large and the traffic is so heavy

62. All are the reasons for Tokyo to develop underground except          .

A. the high buildings                        B. the high price of land

C. the far spreading of the city                 D. the heavy traffic

63. Shopping underground is clean        .

A. without air pollution              B. of water

C. and tidy                        D. and beautiful

64. The first paragraph is tells us          .

A. earthquake is dangerous in Japan             B. why Tokyo goes to underground

C. underground shopping centers in Tokyo        D. Tokyo is so large

65. The second paragraph tells us           .

A. underground is convenient               B. the advantages of underground

C. we can have good food underground         D. you can spend the night underground

 Passage Two

Women’s fashions tend to change more rapidly than men’s. In the early 1900’s all women wore their skirts down to the ankle. Today, skirt length varies from floor-length to ten inches above the knee. Women’s shoes have also gone through all sorts of changes in the last seventy years. For example, boots for women were very common at the beginning of this century. Then, for years, they were not considered fashionable. Today, they are back in style again in all colors, length and materials. In fact, today’s women can wear all types of clothes----even T-shirt and shorts on almost any occasion. While there are some rapid changes in women’s clothing which remained pretty much the same until a couple of years ago, most men still wear the traditional suit, jacket, shirt and tie although there have been more changes about their clothing in color, pattern and variety than in the past.

66. Nowadays women wear        .

A. longer skirts than those women used to wear at the beginning of this century

B. both longer skirts and short skirts

C. shorter skirts

D. the same as in the early 1900’s

67. Today, women think that long boots are         

A. fashionable

B. unfashionable

C. more fit than short ones

D. acceptable

68.when today’s women attend the party , they wear              .

A. formal dress

B. skirts and boots

C. anything they like to

D. long skirts and short boots

69. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Great changes have taken place in men’s clothing recently.

B. Men’s clothing has not changed much.

C. Men’s fashion changed as rapidly as women’s.

D. Men never wear jackets and ties at all.

70. Men’s clothes are more colorful than        

A. women’s         B. they used to be      C. traditional shirts      D. ties

 Passage Three

A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maliyuwa nearby village. They lived with the man’s big family---- his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

Three months later the woman went back to her parents’ home, having quarreled with her husband. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart-broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband’s home.

71. The writer wrote the story in order to          

A. show that elephants are very clever

B. tell how a woman trained a wild animal

C. show that women care more for a animals than men do

D. tell how an animal reunited a husband and wife

72. The woman left her new home          

A. to visit her own parents in Maliyuwa

B. to see if the elephant would follow her

C. because she was angry with her husband

D. because she was tired of the large family

73. After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant       

A. returned to the forest

B was sad because it missed her

C. went to look for a new home.

D. was sick because nobody fed it

74. The young wife went back to her husband because        

A. she knew he had sent the animal to her

B. the elephant had came to took for her

C. her parents persuaded her to

D. she missed her new home

75. The best tile for the passage is        

A. The Elephant and the Wife

B. Elephant and Men

C. An Elephant

D. The Elephant and A young Women

Passage Four

    The computer is a wonderful machine. It is the most important invention since the type of engine used in cars. Today it has the greatest effect on science, industry and business, but it is being used more in education and medicine. By the end of this century it will touch the lives of everyone, even people in distant villages. It is a revolutionary invention.

The oldest kind of computer is the abacus, used in China since the sixth century. In the seventeenth century an adding machine was invented, but the first large, modern computer was built in 1973. A few years later a computer could do 5000 additions per second. Now the computations are so fast that they are measured in nanoseconds.

Today most computers are stored-program computers, that is, they have a memory. They are getting smaller and smaller, and computing faster and faster. Even in a large computer, the part that does the actual computing is about the size of the end of a finger.

Computers can do all kinds of work. When someone buys something in a department store, information about the sale goes into a computer. A scientist can talk to the computer about the rocks, and the computer answers the questions. A doctor can talk to the computer and explains what is wrong with a patient. If the doctor asks why, the computer goes through its stored information and explains exactly why.

When early humans began fanning, it was a revolutionary change in human life. It was hundreds of thousands of years later that people developed a writing system. In less than fifty years people have developed computers that can do most of the things humans can do. This could be a frightening development.

76. The oldest kind of computer, the abacus, has been used since        

A. 600         B.700          C.800          D.500

77. A stored-program computer has         

A. an adding machine                  B. a brain

C. a finger                           D. a memory

78. The part of a computer that      is the size of the end of a finger.

A. prints the information                  B. stores the information

C. does the computing                    D. memorizes computing

79. The computations of the computer are measured in        

A. seconds                        B. microseconds

C. milliseconds                    D. nanoseconds

80. The computer will soon affect          

A. people in large cities              B. people in developed countries

C. all humanity                     D. the Western world

Writing (20 points)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 20 minutes to write a letter of about 80 words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly on ANSWER SHEET II.

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