高等学校英语应用能力考试A级模拟试卷(附答案).docx

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高等学校英语应用能力考试

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Part I

Listening Comprehension

(15minutes)

Directions

: This part is to test your listening ability. It consists of 3 sections.

Section A

Directions

: This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded

dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. The dialogues and

questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decide on

the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D) given in your test paper.

Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line

through the center .

1.

A. She met with traffic jam.

B. The road was wet.

D. She forgot the time.

B. Before dinner.

D. Tomorrow.

B. Hot coffee.

D. Tea.

D. They

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ll have to rent a car as early as possible.

B. Yes, with her mother.

D. Only if she is introduced.

C. Her car was broken.

C. Right after dinner.

2.

A. During dinner.

3.

A. Nothing.

C. Ice cream.

4.

A. They don

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t have to go to the concert. B. His brother will let them use the car.

C. The subway is fine with her.

C. Yes, after she goes home.

5.

A. No, not at all.

Section B

Directions:

This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations. There are 2

recorded conversations in it. After each conversation, there are some questions. The

conversations and questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you

should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D) given

in your test paper.

Conversation 1

Questions 6 and 7 are based on the following conversation.

6.

A. One kilo.

B. Two kilos.

D. Four kilos.

B. Two.

D. Four.

C. Three kilos.

C. Three.

7.

A. One.

Conversation 2

Questions 8-10 are based on the following conversation.

8.

A. She is too much worried about her business.

B. She is short of money.

D. She is always having a headache.

B. To take the madicine regularly.

C. She has no time to take a vacation.

9.

A. To sleep more and not think about her job.

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C. To do more exercise every day.

D. To take a vacation or change her job.

10.

A. Kill herself.

C. Make herself happy.

Section C

B. Relax herself.

D. Make herself strong.

Directions

: This section is to test your ability to comprehend short passages. You will hear a

recorded passage. After that you will hear 5 questions. The passage will be spoken two

times. When you hear a question, you should complete the answer to it with a word or a

short phrase

(in no more than 3 words)

.The incomplete answers are printed on your

test paper. You should write your answers on the Answer Sheet correspondingly. Now

the passage will begin.

11.

The Asian families are becoming_________________________.

12.

_________________________.

13.

About____________________.

14.

____________________.

15.

_________________________.

Part II

consists of 2 sections.

Section A

Structure

(15 minutes)

correct sentences. It

Directions:

This part is to test your ability to construct grammatically

Directions:

In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete each

one by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked A),

B), C) and D). Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet

with a single line through the center.

16.

The story

. Will you tell it again?

B. listens strange

A. sounds strange

C. hears strange

D. is sounded

strange

17.

The girls aren

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t happy because they

.

B. look down upon

D. looked down them

A. were looked down

C. were looked down upon

A. translated

A. As much as

A. in future

A. it, to play

B. being translated

B. Scores of

B. in that case

B. this, played

18.

His works have already

into many other languages.

C. been translated

D. had translated

19.

careless mistakes can be found in that article.

C. As many as

D. The number of

D. at present

20.

She didn

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t feel well but she is all right________.

C. at the most

C. that, playing

21.

We found _______fun ________with these children.

D. what, play

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22.

At least 80 people were injured, ________five policemen.

A. included

A. were discussing

C. were being discussed

A. worth

A. agreed with

B. to include

C. including

B. had being discussed

D. were included

23.

When I came in, the matters ________heatedly.

D. were being discussing

24.

All of these improvements have _______much.

B. paid

C. spent

C. called on

D. cost

25.

He asked what I ____that poor animal.

B. did with

D. took care

Section B

Directions:

There are 10 incomplete statements here. You should fill in each blank with the proper

form of the word given in the brackets. Write the word or words in the corresponding

space on the Answer Sheet.

26.

The farmers (build)

27.

It

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s very (danger)

their homes after the flood was gone.

to repair the TV set like that.

of 186 meters.

28.

The Three Gorges Dam has a (high)

29.

Chairman Mao compared young people to the (rise)_________sun.

30.

The (electricity)_________light went out suddenly.

31.

It

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s very (thought)_________and very kind of you to offer me a job in your company.

32.

The purpose of training (quality)_________teachers for those mountain areas is worthy of

praise.

33.

That was (apparent)___________a careless mistake caused by the operator.

34.

Weather (permit)_________, the spaceship will be launched tomorrow evening.

35.

But for your help, I (not be)__________able to find the right solution to the problem so soon.

Part

Ⅲ

minutes)

read

Reading Comprehension

(40

Directions

: This part is to test your reading ability. There are 5 tasks for you to fulfil. You should

the reading materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed.

Task 1

Directions

: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements,

numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A),

B), C), and D). You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on

the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

I am writing to thank you for the interesting reports which appeared in the July/August '94 edition

of the Saturday Evening Post. I am interested in your reports since B12 deficiency(

缺乏症

) is an

inherited disorder in my family. In the late 1950s /early 1960s, a research project was carried out on it

by a London medical school.

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My grandmother was 49 when she started vitamin B12 injections in 1949. She was admitted

to the hospital with a blood disease. My mother was 63 when she began vitamin B12 injections.

After reading your article, I believe her treatment was started too late. At the time, she almost lost

her eyesight and was told that she had other diseases.

Earlier this year, I visited my doctor and explained that I felt very tired and asked for a blood

test to establish whether I was suffering from B12 deficiency. I was told I was much too young

and that only people in their 80s suffered B12 deficiency. I told him he was wrong and that research

was carried out on my family 30 years ago.

I have always believed that prevention is better than cure. I now know why I love Kellogg's

Honey Nut Cornflakes(

玉米片

). They contain vitamins, including B12! If foods contain added

vitamins, as you suggest in your article, then B12 deficiency and diseases associated with it should

be left to the past.

36.

The passage you have just read is most probably ________.

A)

a thank-you letter to a medical doctor

B)

an advertisement for vitamin B12

C)

a letter to the editor of a magazine

D)

a preface to a book on Vitamins

37.

Why is the author interested in the reports in the Saturday Evening Post?

A)

He was seriously ill with vitamin B12 deficiency.

B)

He wanted to prevent himself from suffering from vitamin B12 deficiency.

C)

He wanted to cure his family members of an inherited disorder.

D)

He was curious about the latest medical developments.

38.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A)

Doctors are not always reliable.

B)

Most foods contain vitamins, including B12.

C)

The author was determined to get rid of the inherited disorder in his family.

D)

Vitamin B12 deficiency can be prevented if measures are taken early.

39.

The reports the author had read probably told him ________.

A)

to have his blood tested early

B)

to take food rich in vitamins

C)

to have regular vitamin injections

D)

not to believe his doctor

40.

Doctors think that the usual case of B12 deficiency occurs when ________.

A)

a patient is at an old age

B)

a person is very young

C)

a person doesn't take foods containing vitamins

D)

a patient stops vitamin injections

Task 2

Directions

: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are

numbered 41 through 45.

University of Arizona researcher Dr. William Rathji says that after a study based on looking

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into garbage cans, the average family wastes at least $$150 per year in food.

“

Homemakers go out of their way to save pennies at the store and then don

of edible(

可食用的

) foods adds up much more at home,

food experts who met in Boise for a conference on food waste and ways to prevent it.

American families throw out between 8% and 20% of edible food at a cost of $$4.5 billion per

year. That

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almost as much as the federal government spends every year for food stamps and

child nutrition programs.

He found that food items which are costly and in short supply tend to be wasted more. During

the 1973 meat shortage, meat waste increased to 9%, compared with 3% in 1974 and 1975.

Sugar and sugar products waste jumped to 19% in 1975, when sugar prices doubled from the

previous year.

Dr. Rathji theorizes that high prices force consumers to experiment, sometimes buy in large

quantities. In the case of meat, sometimes low-priced cuts for unappetizing varieties are purchased,

consumers then tend to waste more.

His theory is that the more variety in food bought, the more wasted. Regular bread is wasted at

about a 10% rate, but specialty breads and rolls are wasted at a 20% rate.

If people are eating the same thing every day, they learn how to manage it. But if you

to pull something out of the cookbook every night, That

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s bound to be some waste.

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t realize that w

”

said Dr. Rathji. He was one of about 100

Another

finding

is

that

lower

income

families

waste

less

food

than

middle

and

upper

income families. And the study found that dog food, which accounts for 8% of a shopping cart,

is rarely wasted. Fresh produce and frozen items are more likely to be wasted.

The study also showed people with the most knowledge of safe, edible food waste the least.

Much food is tossed out because a homemaker suspects it is spoiled when it is not.

41.

Large quantities of food are thrown out because a homemaker__________.

A.

thinks they are not delicious

B.

says they taste bitter and hot

C.

thinks they smell bad

D.

suspects they are spoiled when they are not

42.

American families throw out between___________of edible food every year.

A. 5% ~ 8%

A. went down

B. 8% ~ 10%

B. went up

C. 20% ~ 28%

C. stayed the same

D. 8% ~ 20%

D. was cut in half

43. When sugar prices doubled, waste of sugar____________.

44.

Which of the following statements is true?

A.

American housewives are not good homemakers.

B.

Upper-income families are more wasteful than lower-income ones.

C.

American families throw away almost as much food as they consume.

D.

Americans waste a great deal of dog food.

45.

When do American families waste more food?

A.

When prices are high.

B.

When food is scarce.

C.

When they think it is spoiled.

D.

All of the above.

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Task 3

Directions:

The following

is a news article. After reading it, you are required to complete the outline

below

it

(No.46

through

No.

50).

You

should

write

your

answers

briefly

(in

no

more

than 4 words)

on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.

YOUR BUSINESS NAME CAN BE ONE OF YOUR

MOST EFFECTIVE AND LEAST EXPENSIVE

MARKETING TOOLS

Too often, however, we choose a name without giving thought to its marketing value. Some

people opt for

（选择）

using their own names; others may create a clever but obscure(

模糊的

)

name, or one that has sentimental

（感情上的）

value. As a result, the names might end up costing

them business, instead of attracting it. A common mistake in choosing a name is selecting a

misleading name; for example, calling a firm

“

Writing Services

”

while it actually produces medical

equipment. Another mistake is choosing a name that is hard to spell or pronounce. It is also a

mistake to select a name that is too general, such as ABC Company. Your main goal should be to

choose a name which your customers can easily remember whenever they want your product or

service.

A business name can be an effective and inexpensive

a company. Some people opt for creating either a

46

48

for

.

47

end up

_ name, or

a sentimental one. As a result, the names might

The article mentions

by

50

.

49

in choosing a business name. A good

business name should be easily pronounced, spelled, and remembered

Task 4

Directions:

The following is a list of terms of tendering. After reading it, you are required to find

the Chinese equivalents in the table below. Then you should put the corresponding

letters on the Answer Sheet.

A. highest tender

B. lowest tender

C. closed bidding

D. competitive bidding

E. international bid

F. advertised bidding

G. win a tender

H. call for tenders

I. participate in a tender

.