2018成人高考高起点《英语》考前练习及答案(14)

2018成人高考高起点《英语》考前练习及答案(14)

一、语音知识

在下列每组单词中,有一个单词的划线部分与其他单词的划线部分的读音不同。找出这个词。

1. A. curtain B. paint C. sail D. straight

2. A. popular B. large C. remarkble D. dark

3. A. simply B. fairly C. reply D. peacefully

4. A. already B. each C. league D. weak

5. A. country B. courage C. pronounce D. double

6. A. machine B. chip C. sick D. fulfill

7. A. popular B. large C. remarkable D. dark

8. A. church B. character C. chalk D. cheat

9. A. cheat B. weak C. increase D. area

10. A. detective B. decide C. nephew D. desire

11. A. dear B. hear C. near D. bear

12. A. coast B. float C. soap D. broad

13. A. flow B. plow C. slow D. yellow

14. A. customer B. republic C. university D. umbrella

15. A. hour B. four C. flour D. our

16. A. nurse B. thirsty C. universe D. surprise

17. A. victory B. second C. uncle D. special

18. A. drunk B. dusty C. duty D. drug

19. A. weather B. method C. gather D. northern

20. A. prove B. rose C. wrote D. broke

二、词汇与语法知识

从每小题的四个选择项中,选出最佳的一项。

21. The nurse held a small child face I didn’t see clearly.

A. which B. that

C. whose D. who

22. The manager had Ms. Brunell the new assistant around yesterday.

A. to show B. showed

C. showing D. show

23. —Hello, this is Linda speaking. May I speak to Jim?

—Yes, .

A. it is B. speaking

C. I am Jim D. that’s me

24. It was reported that people in this area were asved in the flood.

A. hundreds of B. hundred

C. some hundreds D. hundred of

25. The weather is awful. I wish it raining.

A. stopped B. would stop

C. had stopped D. stops

26. —Mary doesn’t like skating, does she?

— , but she used to.

A. Yes, she does B. Yes, she doesn’t

C. No, she does D. No, she doesn’t

27. The faster anything goes up into the sky, .

A. it reaches the highest B. it reaches the higher

C. the highest it reaches D. the higher it reaches

28. My friends and I would like to go to the concert, but of us has got a ticket.

A. both B. none

C. neither D. all

29. Our customer’s money if they’re not satisfied with the product.

A. will refund B. will have refunded

C. will be refunded D. will have been refunded

30. Young he is, he knows what is a right thing to do.

A. that B. as

C. although D. however

31. If by any chance someone comes to see me, ask them to leave a .

A. message B. letter

C. sentence D. notice

32. George avoided questions about his drug use.

A. to answer B. answered

C. answer D. answering

33. He’s that nobody likes him.

A. so stubborn man B. such stubborn man

C. so stubborn a man D. such stubborn a man

34. My husband and I both go out to work, we share housework at home.

A. for B. so

C. yet D. or

35. of them knew about the plan because it was secret.

A. Some B. Any

C. No one D. None

36. —Have you got a camera?

—No. I should buy .

A. it B. one

C. that D. this

37.Everyone was home for the holidays. What could make for Christmas than that?

A. the merriest B. a merrier

C. merry D. the merry

38. In need of money，Bob had to take job that was offered to him

A. whatever B. no matter what

C. whichever D. no matter which

39.After working for two hours，I found impossible to complete the paper in time.

A. me B. this

C. that D. it

40. has taken my bike by mistake.

A. Someone B. Anyone

C. Everyone D. None

41. It is recorded that in 1892 the weather became so cold that the river over

A. freezes B. was freezing

C. has frozen D. froze

42. Mandela was first President elected in South Africa.

A. a, the B. the, /

C. a, / D. the, the

43. First draw a line the middle of the page. Then write a word in the space above the line.

A. between B. within

C. across D. over

44. He might do it, and so .

A. might his best friend B. his best friend may

C. will his best friend D. his best friend should

45. When the train got in, it was midnight.

A. almost B. hardly

C. completely D. pretty

三、完形填空

通读下面的短文,掌握其大意。然后,从每小题的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

During the Olympic Games, people from all over the world come together in peace and friendship. The first Olympic Games that we have 46 of were in Greece in 776 B. C. The

games lasted on day. The only 47 in the first thirteen Olympic Games was a race. Men ran the length of the stadium. In 1896 the games were 48 . again in Athens, Greece. The Greeks 49 a new stadium for the competition. 311 50 from thirteen countries 51 in many events. The 52 became national heroes. In 1908，the games were held every four years during the summer in different cities around the 53 In 1908，in London, England, the first gold 54 were given to winning athletes.

The Olympic Winter Games 55 in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Athletes competed in

56 events such as skiing, ice skating and ice hockey. Today, the Winter Games take place

57 four years. Until recently, Olympic competitors could not be 58 athletes. All of the athletes in Olympic Games were amateurs. Today， 59 , many of the Olympic athletes are professionals who play their sport 60 money during the year. Some people disagree with this idea.

46. A. history B. books C. records D. publications

47. A. activities B. event C. play D. sport

48. A. held B. planed C. set D. took

49. A. did B. built C. started D. made

50. A. persons B. teams C. people D. athletes

51. A. competed B. fought C. lasted D. against

52. A. players B. winners C. failures D. athletes

53. A. area B. country C. world D. universe

54. A. prices B. title C. money D. medals

55. A. took B. began C. held D. joined

56. A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter

57. A. any B. other C. between D. every

58. A. professional B. ordinary C. amateur D. special

59. A. whereas B. however C. whenever D. whoever

60. A. by B. with C. for D. out of

B

It was the late spring of 1979, a hot Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of us sat 61 ，side by side, in rows of wooden chairs on the main campus lawn (草坪). We 62 blue robes (毕业生长袍).We listened carefully to long 63 . When the ceremony (典礼)was 64 ,we threw our caps in the air, and we were officially graduated from college.

After that, I found Marne Schwartz, my 65 professor, and introduced him to my 66 He was a small man who took small steps, as if a 67 wind could, at any time, 68 him up into the clouds! His teeth were in good shape. When he smiled it was as if you had just 69 him the funniest joke on earth.

He told my parents how I 70 every class he taught. He told them, “You have a 71 boy here. He helped me a lot. ” Shy but 72 ，I looked at my feet. Before we left, I 73 Mr. Schwartz a present，a briefcase with his name on the front. I didn’t want to forget him. 74 I didn’t want him to forget me. He asked if I would keep in 75 ，and without hesitation (犹豫)I said,“Of course. ”When he turned around, I saw tears in his eyes.

61. A. along B. around C. beside D. together

62. A. took B. wore C. put on D. got in

63. A. lectures B. dialogues C. speeches D. reports

64. A. on B. up C. over D. away

65. A. lovely B. precious C. happy D. favorite

66. A. parents B. elder brother C. girl friend D. friends

67. A. strong B. north C. warm D. cold

68. A. beat B. pull C. blow D. wipe

69. A. made B. told C. played D. given

70. A. left B. reached C. missed D. took

71. A. special B. brave C. busy D. serious

72. A. astonished B. pleased C. disappointed D. nervous

73. A. handed B. sent C. delivered D. brought

74. A. While B. But C. And D. For

75. A. conversation B. mind C. company D. touch

C

Everyone likes things that are来源环球网校 free，and businesses often give things for free to customers as a way of getting more people to pay attention to their products.

Ariely, a scientist from MIT, did an experiment on what people would do when 21 things that were free. He 22 a group of students two kinds of chocolates: the good one for 15 cents each and the poor one for 1 cent each. The good chocolate was worth $ 1. 00，so 15 cents was very cheap, 23 the poor quality chocolate was worth 5 cents，so 24 it for 1 cent wasn’t very cheap.

Most people chose the high quality chocolate for 15 cents. That’s not a 25 But then Ariely lowered the 26 of both pieces of chocolate by 1 cent. If people were 27 correctly, then they should 28 choose the good quality chocolate. But that 29 what happened. Most people chose the free chocolate. This doesn’t make sense in our 30 way of understanding economic behavior(经济行为).

What is happening here? Ariely 31 that people want to get a good bargain . But they also want to reduce risk (风险).That is, they want to 32 the chance of making a 33 If you pay 14 cents for a piece of chocolate，and then you don’t 34 like it when you eat it, you have lost 14 cents. But when something is free and you don’t like it, you haven’t lost anything. People would 35 not to take a risk over getting a better bargain.

76. A. facing B. buying C. giving D. treating

77. A. posted B. produced C. offered D. told

78. A. if B. as C. for D. but

79. A. getting B. holding C. eating D. making

80. A. dream B. reason C. reply D. surprise

81. A. weight B. size C. price D. quality

82. A. working B. thinking C. planning D. looking

83. A. still B. once C. almost D. even

84. A. should be B. shouldn’t be C. is D. isn’t

85. A. easy B. old C. normal D. modem

86. A. questioned B. explained C. agreed D. added

87. A. find B. leam C. lower D. take

88. A. decision B. mistake C. promise D. warning

89. A. usually B. gradually C. certainly D. actually

90. A. start B. prefer C. manage D. afford

四、阅读理解

阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。

A

A woman heads into a popular New York City coffee shop on a cold winter morning. Just ahead of her, a man drops a few papers. The woman pauses to help gather them. A clerk at a busy store thanks a customer who has just bought something. “Enjoy”the young woman says, smiling widely. “ Have a nice day. ”She sounds like she really means it. These are the common situations we may see every day.

However, in her best-selling book Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss argues that common good manners such as saying “Excuse me” almost no longer exist. There are certainly plenty who would agree with her. According to one recent study, 70 percent of the US adults said people are ruder now than they were 20 years ago.

Is it really true? We decided to find out if good manners are really hard to see. In this politeness study, reporters were sent to many cities in the world. They performed three experiments ：“door tests” ( would anyone hold the door open for them?) ; “paper drops” (who would help them gather a pile of “accidentally” dropped papers?) ; and “service tests” ( which salesclerks would thank them for a purchase?)

In New York, 60 tests (20 of each type) were done. Along the way, the reporters met all types of people： men and women of different races, ages, professions (职业)，and income levels. And guess what? In the end, four out of every five people they met passed their politeness test making New York the most polite city in the study.

91. What does Lynne Truss argue in Talk to the Hand?

A. “Excuse me”is not welcome nowadays.

B. Of all the adults in the US 70% are rude.

C. People are not as polite as they used to.

D. People don’t care about manners any more.

92. What is TRUE about the politeness study discussed in the passage?

A. New York was the most suitable city for the experiment.

B. Sixty tests were designed to see if people are polite to each other.

C. The study was reported in many cities of the world.

D. Experiments were performed to see if common good manners exist.

93. What is found in the study?

A. More people passed the tests in New York than in any other cities.

B. Different kinds of people acted differently in the New York tests.

C. Four out of five people passed the politeness test in the study.

D. Many people in the experiment passed the tests by guessing.

B

Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States，yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies. As she once said of herself ：“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair，waiting for someone to help me. ”

She was born on a farm in New York State. At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven, she married Thomas Moses, the tenant of hers. They farmed most of their lives. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1928.

Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become top stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition，and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modem Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930，s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures: careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known, with a wonderful sense of color and form.

94. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Grandma Moses

B. The Children of Grandma Moses

C. Grandma Moses: Her Best Pictures

D. Grandma Moses and Her First Exhibition

95. From Grandma Moses’ s words of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she

Was .

A. alone B. pretty

C. rich D. independent

96. Grandma Moses spent most of her life .

A. nursing B. painting

C. farming D. embroidering

97. Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to .

A. make her home beautiful B. keep active

C. improve her salary D. gain an international fame

C

Uncle Sam is a tall, thin man. He，s an elder man with white hair and a white beard. He often wears a tall hat，a bow tie，and the stars and stripes of the American flag.

Who is this strange-looking man? Would you believe that Uncle Sam is the US government? But why do you call the US government Uncle Sam?

During the War of 1812，the US government hired meat packers to provide meat to the army. One of these meat packers was a man named Samuel Wilson. Samuel was a friendly and fair man. Everyone liked him and called him Uncle Sam.

Sam Wilson stamped the boxes of meat for the army with a large US for United States. Some government inspectors came to look over Sam’s company. They asked a worker what the US on the boxes stood for. As a joke，the worker answered that these letters stood for the name of his boss，Uncle Sam.

The joke spread，and soldiers began saying that their food came from Uncle Sam. Before long, people called all things that came from the government “Uncle Sam，s”，“Uncle Sam” became a nickname for the US government.

Soon there were drawings and cartoons of Uncle Sam in newspapers. In these early pictures, Uncle Sam was a young man. He wore stars and stripes, but his hair was dark and he had not a beard. The beard was added when Abraham Lincoln was President. President Lincoln had a beard.

The most famous picture of Uncle Sam is on a poster from World War I. The government needed men to fight in the war. In the poster，a very serious Uncle Sam points his finger and says “I want YOU for the US Army. ”

98. “Uncle Sam” became a for the US government.

A. boss B. nickname

C. picture D. businessmen

99. Uncle Sam often wears tall hat, and the stars and stripes of the American flag.

A. dark hair B. a shirt

C. a box D. a bow tie

100. Government inspectors came to Sam’s meat-packing company.

A. ask B. stand for

C. look over D. see

101. In the drawing and cartoons of Uncle Sam .

A. he wore the stars and stripes

B. they never had a beard

C. he had no hair

D. he wore a bow tie

D

Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs that are now done by human beings.

They point out that at a circus，for example，we may see elephants，monkeys，dogs and other animals doing quite skillful things. Perhaps you have seen them on television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may notice that the trainer always gives the animals a piece of candy or a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many different animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get a reward for doing them.

Of course，as we know，dogs can be used to guard a house，and soldiers in both old and modem times have used geese to give warning by making a lot of noise when a stranger or an enemy comes near. But it may be possible to train animals to work in factories. In Russia, for example，pigeons，which are birds with good eyesight，are being used to watch out for faults in small steel ball that are being made in one factory. When the pigeon sees a ball which looks different from others，it touches a steel plate with its beak. This turns on a light to warn people in the factory. At the same time a few seeds are given as a reward. It takes three to five weeks to train a pigeon to do this and one pigeon can inspect 3 ,000 to 4,000 balls an hour.

Apes have been used in America in helping to make cars，and scientists believe that these large monkeys may one day gather crops and even drive trains.

102. What made scientists think animal can be made to work for us one day?

A. Animals are very skillful at a circus.

B. They are big and strong.

C. Some animals are as clever as human beings.

D. Animals can be trained because they like to get something as a reward.

103. The trainer usually gives the animals a piece of candy or fruit.

A. when it is hungry

B. before it plays a trick

C. when it starts to play a trick

D. after it has done the trick

104. Many animals may be trained to do simple jobs if they know .

A. who their trainers are

B. they will be praised by their trainers

C. they will get a reward

D. something dangerous will happen to them

105. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Scientists consider apes may drive trains some day.

B. An ape is not a large monkey.

C. Apes have worked in some factories.

D. Apes may one day be used to gather crops.

E

In the old days，divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunk，because they hoped to find gold and jewels. Now divers still search for valuable things in sunken ships，but they also try to bring to the surface the ships themselves, or parts of them. The value of different kinds of metals has increased greatly over the last twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea for many years，it may be worth a great deal.

One famous sunken ship is the “Lusitania” , which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 with a loss of nearly, 1,500 lives. It has four huge propellers made of an expensive metal. Today each of those propellers is worth $ 300,000 or more. The ship lying on the seabed has been brought by a man called John Light. He paid about $ 1,200,000 for the whole ship. He hopes to bring up those propellers and sell them. He also hopes to sell other parts of the ship, when he has brought them to the surface, for about $ 600,000.

106. Divers today try to bring to the surface .

A. gold and jewels B. parts of ships

C. whole ships D. all of the above

107. Divers try to bring up metals because .

A. they have been in the sea for a long time

B. some kinds of metals are worth a lot of money

C. it is easy to bring up metals

D. gold and jewels are not valuable things

108. The word “surface” in the passage means the .

A. market B. air

C. top of a liquid D. sea

109. John Light hopes that he may be able to sell all the parts of the “Lusitania” for about .

A. $12,000 B. $300,000

C. $1,200,000 D. $1,800,000

五、补全对话

根据中文提示,把对话中缺少的内容写在线上。这些句子必须符合英语表达习惯。 打句号的地方,用陈述句;打问号的地方,用疑问句。

A

提示: Danie (D)去火车站迷了路。他问一个女孩(G), 她也不熟悉这个地方。询问 警察(P)后得知，可以乘坐12路公共汽车。去最近的12路车站只需沿街直行，然后在第二个红绿灯(traffic lights)处右转。

D： Excuse me, 110 Tm completely lost.

G： Oh, I，m sorry. I’m a stranger here myself. Why don’t you ask the policeman over there?

D： Excuse me, officer. I’m asking about the way to the train station.

P: 111 Just get off at the last stop and there it is.

D： Yes, Bus No. 12, 112 .

P: Go ahead this way. 113 You’ll see the bus stop there.

D： Thanks a lot.

P： 114 .

B

提示:Jason和Andrea在谈论他们的工作。Andrea在Thomas Cook Travel做导游工作， 经常陪人们去南美洲，如秘鲁。他很喜欢这份工作。Jason是位学生，在一家快餐店兼职。

Jason ： Where do you work, Andrea?

Andrea ：I 115 Thomas Cook Travel.

Jason ： Oh, really? What do you do there?来源环球网校

Andrea： I’m a guide. I take people 116 to countries in South America, like Peru.

Jason： That sounds interesting!

Andrea;Yes, 117 . I love it. And what do you do?

Jason ： I am a student, and I 118 ，too.

Andrea： Oh? Where do you work?

Jason ： 119 .

Andrea: Which restaurant?

Jason ： Hamburger Heaven.

六、书面表达

请根据提示写一份关于举行隔周一次的英语晚会(every-other-week English Evening) 的书面通知。

时间:10月23日，周六，晚上7点;

地点:2号教学楼的报告厅(lecture room);

内容:歌曲、朗诵(recitation)、舞蹈、英语剧等，还有美籍教师讲演;

目的:提高学生英语听说能力;

报名地点:办公楼，203室，学生会(Students’ Union).

注意：1.不要遗漏要点;

2. 符合书面通知的格式;

3. 词数为100左右。

参考答案

一、1、A 2、C 3、 C 4、A 5、C

6、D 7、A 8、 B 9、D 10、C

11、A 12、D 13、 B 14、C 15、B

16、A 17、D 18、 C 19、B 20、A

二、21、22 7、D 23、B 24、A 25、B 26、D

27、D 283、B 29、C 30、B 31、A

32、C 33、C 34、B 35、D 36、B 37、B 38、A 39、D 40、A 41、D

42、B 43、C 44、A 45、A

三、46、C 47、B 48、A 49、B 50、D 51、A

52、B 53、C 54、D 55、B 56、D 57、D

58、A 59、B 60、C 61、D 62、B 63、C 64、C 65、D 66、A

67、A 68、C 69、B 70、D 71、A 72、B

73、A 74、C 75、D

76、A 77、C 78、D 79、A 80、D 81、C

82、B 83、A 84、D 85、C 86、B 87、C

88、B 89、D 90、B

四、91、C 92、D 93、A 94、A 95、D

96、C 97、B

98、B 99、D 100、C来源环球网校

101、A 102、A 103、D 104、C 105、B

106、D 107、B 108、C 109、D

五、110、can you tell me where the train station is?

111、You may take Bus No.12

112、but where is the nearest bus stop

113、Turn right at the second traffic lights

114、You’re welcome.

115、work for

116、on tours

117、it’s a great job

118、have a part-time job

119、In a fast-food restaurant.