The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well.
Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is complete, the rubbish will be processed like this: first, it will pass through sharp metal bars which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed; then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that grounders and rollers break up everything that can be broken. Finally the rubbish will pass under magnets, which will remove the bits of iron and steel; the rubber and plastic will then be sorted out in the final stage.
The first full scale giant recycling plants are, perhaps, fifteen years away. Indeed, with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps, some big cities will be forced to build their own recycling plants before long.
53. The main purpose of the passage is __. A. to show us a future way of recycling wastes B. to tell the importance of recycling wastes C. to warn people the danger of some wastes D. to introduce a new recycling plant
54. How many stages are there in the recycling process? A. 3. B. 4. C. 5. D. 6.
55. What is the main reason for big cities to build their own recycling plants? A. To deal with wastes in a better way. B. It's a good way to gain profits.
C. It's more economical than to dump wastes in some distant places. D. Energy can be got at a lower price. 56. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The word \ B. Dangerous wastes can be recycled into nothing but energy.
C. To recycle paper and rubber will still be impossible even with the new recycling methods. D. Big cities will soon have their own recycling plants. Questions 57 to 60 are based on the following passage:
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses--all of which led to modem descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modem inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grand level--variables that are characterized by an underlying continuum--or the data may represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarization or reduction before they are comprehensible. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible from the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.
Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make prediction using 'a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes to determine of the proportion of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary and inefficient to question each child; the proportion for the entire district could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children. Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of the population. 57. With what is the passage mainly concerned?
A. The drawbacks of descriptive and inferential statistics. B. Applications of inferential statistics. C. The development and use of statistics. D. How to use descriptive statistics.
58. Which of the following is NOT given as an example of qualitative variable? A. Gender. B. Height. C. College major. D. Type of personality.
59. Which of the following statements about descriptive statistics is best supported by the passage? A. It simplifies unwieldy masses of data. B. R leads to increased variability. C. It solves all numerical problems.
D. It changes qualitative variables to quantitative variables.
60. According to the passage which is the purpose of examining a sample of a population? A. To compare different groups.
B. To predict characteristics of the entire population. C. To consider all the quantitative variables. D. To tabulate collections of data. Section B
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or 61 in your work would depend, to a great extent, 62 your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. Of the utmost importance is your attitude. A person 63 begins a job convinced that lie isn't going to like it or is sure that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure 64 his belief that he is probably as capable of doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt by it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well.
65 the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A book keeper who can't add or a carpenter who can't cut a straight line with a saw is hopeless cases.
This book has been designed to help you capitalize 66 the strength and overcome the 67 that you bring to the job of learning. But in group to measure your development, you must first take stock of where you stand now. 68 we get further along in the book, we'll be dealing in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening 69 skills. However, to begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to your success or failure in school: your 70 , your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.
61. A. improvement B. victory C. failure D. achievement
62. A. in B. on C. of D. to 63. A. who B. what C. that D. which 64. A. onto B. on C. off D. in 65. A. Have B. Had C. Having D. Had been 66. A. except B. but C. for D. on 67. A. idea B. weakness C. strength D. advantage 68. A. as B. till C. over D. out 69. A. learnt B. learned C. learning D. learn 70. A. intelligence B. work C. attitude D. weakness IV. Translation
Directions: There is 1 passage in this part of the test. You are to translate the passages into Chinese on your Answer Sheet. 71.
The existence of oil wells has been known for a long time. Some of the Indians of North America used to collect and sell the oil from the wells of Pennsylvania. No one, however, seems to have realized the importance of this oil until it was found that paraffin-oil could be made from it; this led to the development of the wells and to the making of enormous profits. When the internal combustion engine was invented, oil became of worldwide importance.
There are four main areas of the world where deposits of oil appear. The first is that of the Middle East, and includes the regions near the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, another is the area between North and South America, and the third, between Asia and Australia, includes the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java.
The forth area is the part near the North Pole. When all the present oilfields are exhausted, it is possible that this cold region may become the scene of oil activity. Due to general working conditions and the environment, the costs may be so high that no company will undertake the work. And if they do, the cost of the oil will eventually be passed on to consumers. If progress in alternative power sources to drive machines is fast enough, it is possible that oil-driven engines may give place to the new kind of engine. In that case the demand for oil will fall, and the oilfields will gradually disappear, and the deposits at the North Pole may rest where they are for ever.
模拟试题一参考答案及部分试题答案解析 一、答案
I. Vocabulary
1-20 ACBBD BBAAC DCCDB DCBCD II. Grammatical Structure 21-40 ABCCB DDCCB DBACD ADACD III. Reading Comprehension 41-60 DDCBD ACDDD DDABC DCBAB 61-70 CBADC DBACC
IV. Translation翻译答案略，请参考2004年版通用英语选读相关课文。
二、解析
I. Vocabulary 1.
【答案】A?
【译文】我只能看到远处一辆汽车，可是分辨不出汽车的颜色。 【试题分析】词组辨析题。
【详细解答】make out意为“辩认出，理解”，符合句意。look to“照顾，负责”；look out“当心，提防”；take in“容纳，理解，欺骗（多用于被动态）”，均不符合句意。 2.
【答案】C
【参考译文】新的科学发现应用于工业生产方法上常使工作更容易做。 【试题分析】此题为形近词辨析题。
【词义辨析】application应用、运用：the application of theory 理论的运用。A. addition增加，一般用于in addition to”除??之外”结构中，此处不符合句意，科学发现不是“增加到”工业生产方法上，而是“应用到”工业生产技术中。B. association联系，联想；协会；结交：I’m working in association with another person. 我与另外一个人合伙工作。D. affection爱情；爱；影响。 3.
【答案】B
【参考译文】他咕噜地说了些什么，仿佛泄露了一个秘密，脸一下红了。
【试题分析】此题为形近词辨析题，题干中“secret”和“blush”为关键词，“mumble”并不影响答案的选择。
【词义辨析】expose暴露；泄露：be exposed to the sun暴露在阳光之下。A. impose常与介词on搭配，表示“把??强加于??上”。如：impose one’s idea on others把某人的思想强加给别人。C. compose组成：be composed of由??组成。D. oppose反对：be opposed to this plan反对这一计划。
4.
【答案】B
【参考译文】虽然摩根先生在公开场合显得十分高兴，私下里却很忧伤。 【试题分析】此题为词组辨析题，题干中“in public”为提示语。
【详细解答】in private私下地，指不被众人所注意：Cecil can be very rude in private, though in public he’s usually polite. 塞西尔在大庭广众中通常很有礼貌，但私下里却很粗鲁。用在此处，正符合句意。A. in person 亲自：He brought me the book in person. 他亲自给我送来这本书。C. by himself独自一人，独自地；强调不需要他人帮助，如He cooked the meal by himself. 他自己做了这顿饭。D. as individual作为个人而言，此词组并非固定搭配，类似的有as a student作为学生；as a physicist作为一名物理学家。 5.
【答案】D
【参考译文】你应该把这些桌子扔了，买些新的。 【试题分析】此题考有关throw的短语辨析。
【词组辨析】throw away扔掉：Don’t throw this book away. It may be used later。别把这本书给扔了，以后可能有用。A. throw off摆脱掉；匆匆脱下（衣服）：throw off the bad habit摆脱坏的习惯。此处题意是说去旧换新，而非摆脱桌子。B. throw down朝下扔。C. throw up（接名词）放弃：throw up one’s job放弃工作。 6.
【答案】B
【参考译文】关于他们的建议，我们将在下次会议充分讨论。 【试题分析】此题为词组辨析，以及固定搭配辨析题。 【详细解答】in regard to/of 关于??，为固定搭配，所以A在形式上就不成立。with regard to 也可以表示“关于??”，但不能用介词“of”来代替“to”，因此可以排除C。regardless of 不注意，不关心；不顾：regardless of wind or rain风雨无阻。所以D项在搭配上也不正确。 7.
【答案】B
【参考译文】医生给她的药只能暂时减轻她的病痛。 【试题分析】此题为形近词辨析题。
【词义辨析】relieve减轻（病痛、紧张情绪等）：relieve sb. from anxiety消除某人的忧虑。A. relax放松；使不紧张：relax the muscles放松肌肉。C. relay转达，转播：relay a program转播一个节目。D. release释放：release sb. from the prison把某人从监狱中释放出来。 8.
【答案】A?
【译文】在多云的夜晚，不可能用肉眼观察到星星。 【试题分析】词语搭配题。
【详细解答】肉眼是固定搭配，必须用naked。 9.
【答案】A?
【译文】将来更多的机会将会对受过大学教育的人开放。