专升本英语模拟试题（二）
模拟试题 （二）
Part I Reading Comprehension (40% 35mmutes)
Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of
comprehension questions. Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
Students must apply for a place before attending any class. Applications (申请), either by post or in person, are dealt with strictly in the order they are received at the Adult Education Office. You can apply:
BY POST — use the card provided with the exact fee. You will be accepted for the course unless it is full, in which case we will inform you. An acknowledgement （承认） will not be made nor a receipt (收据) sent unless you provide a stamped addressed envelope. Receipts will normally be given out at the first class. IN PERSON — call at the Adult Education Office (ground floor. C Block) between approximately 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p. m. (2:30 p. m. on Friday), or at the College Reception Desk (at the main entrance) at the other times (in the evenings until about 7:30 p. m. — not Fridays).
Students should note that popular classes may be full well before the course is to start, so that early application is strongly advised to avoid disappointment.
For the AUTUMN TERM, applications will be accepted by post (preferably) or in person from 1st August.
For the SPRING TERM, applications will be accepted from 1st December. For the SUMMER TERM, applications will be accepted from 1st April.
1. The underlined word \means _____. A. Applications
B. students D. receipts
C. teachers
2. Students who apply to the college by post will _____. A. avoid disappointment B. be sent a bill
C. have an advantage over people applying in person D. be informed if they cannot get a place
3. What must students applying by post do? They must_____. A. provide stamped addressed envelopes B. pay at the first class
C. bring the receipts to the first class D. send payment with their applications
4. Which of the following words has the closest meaning with the underlined word \in this notice? A. Closely.
B. About. C. Mostly. D. Probably. 5. Where can students apply in person? A. At the College Reception Desk after about 3:30 p.m. B. At the Adult Education Office after about 3:30 p.m. C. At the Adult Education Office at 9:30 p. m.
D. At the College Reception Desk at 2:00 p. m. on Fridays. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.
For most of the time this \goes on below the level of consciousness (意识). At tim
es, however, we have knowledge of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.
Different people talk with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing (分析) and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension (理解), which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.
There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a \conversation as opposed to a \conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies (策略) we employ in reading. If we are advanced readers not only our ability to hold a content conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed, but also our ability to hold a process conversation. It is exactly this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.
6. Reading as a kind of conversation between the reader and the text becomes conscious only when _____.
A. the reader's expectations agree with what is said in the text B. the reader has trouble understanding what the author says C. the reader asks questions and gets answers D. the reader understands a text very well
7. At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to_____. A. read a text slowly B. read without thinking hard C. interpret a text in their own way
D. pay more attention to the meaning of words only 8. A \conversation has to do with _____. A. the proper use of reading strategies
B. matching our expectations with the meaning of a text C. the development of our ability to check the details D. determining the main idea of a text
9. According to the passage, it is of great importance for readers at a higher level to keep up a balance between _____.
A. conscious and unconscious levels of comprehension B. the reader's expectations and the meaning of a text C. lower and higher levels of comprehension D. interpreting and criticizing a text
10. If we want to develop our reading ability at an advanced level, we should________.
A. learn to use different ways in reading different texts B. make our reading process more conscious C. pay more attention to the content of a text
D. take a critical attitude（态度) towards the author's ideas
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
When your parents advise you to \an education\in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully dropout in grade school. Get a college degree, if possible. With a B.A. you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes. If you go for a master's degree, make sure it is an M. B. A. and is famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect.
Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24000, while the full professors managed to earn just $ 23030. A Ph. D. is the highest degree you can get. Except for a few specialized fields such
as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, if you pursue such a degree in any other field, you will face a dim future. There are more Ph. D. s unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.
If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or-worst of all-in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands. Thousands of Ph. D. s are selling shoes, driving cars, waiting on table, and endlessly filling out applications month after month. They may also take a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns.
You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.
11. According to the writer, what the society expects of education is to turn out people who _____ . A. will not be a disgrace to society B. will become loyal citizens C. can take care of themselves
D. can meet the nation's demands as a source of manpower 12. Many Ph. D. s are out of job because _____.
A. they are improperly educated
B. they are of little commercial ＆#118alue to their society C. there are fewer jobs in high schools D. they prefer easier jobs that make more money 13. The nation is only interested in people _____. A. with diplomas
B. who specialize in physics and chemistry C. who are valuable to the gross national product D. both A and C
14. Which of the following is not true?