大学英语二模拟试卷二

Multiple Choice.

1. The newspaper _B__ the rain will last for another three days.

A. is being said

B. says

C. is said

D. is saying

2. A __C_ of red arrows on the wall point the way to the meeting room.

A. set

B. picture

C. series

D. group

3. When presented with the first price, she _A__ with delight.

A. beamed

B. laughed

C. cried

D. smiled

4. There are some people who show great _D__ about others' affairs.

A. lives

B. expects

C. interests

D. curiosity

5. He considered it his good _B__ to have won her love.

A. prospect

B. fortune

C. opportunity

D. chance

6. It was essential that the application forms __C_ back before the deadline.

A. must be sent

B. would be sent

C. be sent

D. were sent

7. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _A__ when judging my exams.

A. account

B. counting

C. regard

D. observation

8. There is an undesirable _D__ nowadays to make films showing violence.

A. direction

B. tradition

C. phenomenon

D. trend

9. The _C__ runner can run 2 miles in 15 minutes.

A. common

B. usual

C. average

D. general

10. It is not that we are more eager, _B__ we have invented all sorts of social devices to hasten the process.

A. so

B. but that

C. or

D. only because

11. Human beings ___B____a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects.

A. oblige

B. owe

C. thank

D. gratitude

12. The villages wanted very much to have a cinema__C___ in this area.

A. to be built

B. build

C. built

D. be build

13. I wish I ___B____my research paper yesterday. But I was too late.

A] had finished to write

B] could have finished writing

C] could have finished to write

D] might finish writing

14. No sooner __C_____his room when the telephone rang.

A] did he enter

B] he had entered

C] had he entered

D] he has entered

15. Should she come tomorrow, I ___C______ take her to the museum.

A] can

B] will

C] would

D] must

16. His name will be crossed out from the list ____A____ he makes the same mistakes again.

A] if

B] unless

C] because

D] through

17. The students would not have made so much progress under less ___C_____ conditions.

A] popular

B] welcome

C] favorable

D] prosperous

18. ____D_____ it was raining, many international tourists were having picnics in the woods.

A] In spite

B] In spite of

C] In spite of that

D] In spite of the fact that

19. Lots of empty beer bottles were found under the young man's bed; he ____A___ heavily.

A] must have drunk

B] must drink

C] should drink

D] had to drink

20. ____D_____ home, she found that she had left the key at the office.

A] To have arrived

B] To arrive

C] While arriving

D] Arriving

I.

Cloze

(1 point for each, altogether 10 points)

Directions

:

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in

the corresponding blanks.

Write your answers on the answer sheet.

When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be

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all

over the world on the BBC. If the House of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have

been erected. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Ben Gamin Hall who was responsible

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the making of the clock

when

the

new

House

of Parliament

was

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.

It

is

not only

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, but

is

extremely

accurate

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.

Officials

（

格林威治天文台）

from

Greenwich Observatory

have the clock

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twice a day. On the BBC you can hear the clock

when it is actually

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because microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has

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gone wrong.

Once, however, it failed to give the correct time, a painter who had been

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the tower bung a pot of paint on one

of the hands and the clock was

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!

21.

C

A] seen

B] felt

C] heard

D] touched

22.

D

A] at

B] to

C] in

D] for

23.

B

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A] having built

C] having been built

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C

A] immensely sized

C] of immense size

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B

A] also

26.

A

A] opened

27.

A

A] striking

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C

A] rarely

B] being built

D] building

B] having immense size

D] being immense size

B] too

B] checked

B] pounding

B] always

C] either

C] halted

C] beating

C] occasionally

D] as well

D] started

D] knocking

D] sometimes

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C

A] working off

30.

D

A] slowed down

B] working with

B] speeded up

C] working on

C] postponed

D] working out

D] delayed

Reading Comprehension.

One night when Mr. Robinson was asleep

，

he was woken up by some strange noise outside his house.

he thought. Jumping out of bed

，

he took his gun and hurried to the bedroom window. The night was rather dark. But he

could see a white shape. It looked like a man in the garden. He pointed his gun at it

，

fired and went back to bed. Early

in the morning

，

he went down to the garden. His shirt was hanging from a tree. He had washed it the day before and

hung it on the tree to dry. It had a hole right through the middle. Mr. Robinson was really frightened out of his life

when he saw it and began to tremble (

颤抖

). His neighbor arrived at that moment.

，

Mr. Robinson?

he asked in an anxious voice.

，

thank you

，

，

，

31. When Mr. Robinson jumped out of his bed and went to the window

，

he saw _B____ in the garden.

A] a thief

B] something like a man

C] a white shirt on a tree

D] nothing

32. Who had hung the shirt on the tree the day before? __B___

A] A thief.

B] Mr.

．

Robinson himself.

C] Mr.

．

Robinson's neighbor.

D] Mr.

．

Robinson's wife.

33. After firing the gun

，

Mr. Robinson __A___.

A] went back to bed

B] went to the garden to see what it was

C] felt no longer afraid

D] looked for the shirt he had washed the day before

34. The next morning Mr. Robinson's neighbor came and saw him looking __C___.

A] surprised

B] unhappy

C] sick

D] angry

35. The title

A] succeeded in escaping

B] failed to escape

C] run away

D] only just avoided death

Billy is 14 years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part- time job which gets him up every morning at 5 o'clock.

He is a newspaper boy. Each morning

，

Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the corner

，

where the newspapers are. The

newspapers are delivered to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to carry them.

In the winter, it is still dark when he gets up

，

but during the rest of the year it is light. Billy must deliver the

newspapers to the houses of people on his route in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch (

门廊

)

where it will be protected from wind and rain or snow. His customers think he does a good job. Sometimes they give

him tips (

小费

).

Billy earns about $$ 70 per month

，

and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest on

records and clothes. Once a month

，

he has to collect money from his customers. Since many of them work during the

day

，

Billy has to collect the money at night. Sometimes

，

when Billy is sick

，

his brother has to deliver the newspapers.

Once

，

Billy's father had to help. Billy has seventy customers now

，

but he hopes to get more soon. Someday

，

if he gets

more customers

，

Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding (

突出的

) newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to

Europe

，

but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.

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