| 内容试读 | 山东省普通高等教育专升本考试 英语考前押密试卷（十） 第I卷 Part Ⅰ Cloze (15 points) Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in the box. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the box is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the box more than once. A. circumstance B. confidence C. covers D. current E. different F. fast G. honoring H. hope I. rare J. realistic K. site L. virtually To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the 1 of some of the most important discoveries in modem science — starting with Ermest Lawrence’s invention of the cyclotron (回旋加速器) in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were 2 and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 3 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 4 all of them white males.lt;p-> 山东省普通高等教育专升本考试lt;br /-> 英语考前押密试卷（十）lt;br /-> 第I卷lt;br /-> Part Ⅰ Cloze (15 points)lt;br /-> Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in the box. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the box is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the box more than once.lt;br /-> A. circumstance B. confidence C. covers D. currentlt;br /-> E. different F. fast G. honoring H. hopelt;br /-> I. rare J. realistic K. site L. virtuallylt;br /-> To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, thelt;br /-> 1 of some of the most important discoveries in modem science — starting with Ermest Lawrence’s invention of the cyclotron (回旋加速器) in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were 2 and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 3 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 4 all of them white males.lt;br /-> But climb up to the third floor and you’ll see a(an) 5 display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the 6 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research 7 everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of mater. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they’re still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 8 may be in the smaller photos to the right: graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country’s top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also 9. “I believe things are getting better,” she says, “but they’re not getting better as 10 as I would like.”lt;br /-> Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (45 points)lt;br /-> Section A (30 points)lt;br /-> Directions: In this section, there are three passages. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.lt;br /-> Passage Onelt;br /-> Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.lt;br /-> Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between the ticket office and us. This family made a big impression on me.lt;br /-> There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn’t have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children talked excitedly about the clowns. It was clearly a very important day out for them. The father and mother seemed happy as they could be.lt;br /-> The ticket lady asked how many tickets the father wanted, he proudly answered, “Please let me buy eight children’s tickets and two adults’ tickets, so I can take my family to the circus.”lt;br /-> The ticket lady told him the price. lt;br /-> The man’s wife lowered her head. There was no longer a smile on the man’s face. He quietly asked, “How much did you say”lt;br /-> The ticket lady again told him the price.lt;br /-> The man obviously didn’t have enough money. But how could he tell his kids the bad newslt;br /-> Seeing what was happening, my dad took a $20 note from his pocket and dropped it on the ground. (We were not rich ourselves at all!) He then tapped the man on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, sir, you dropped this.”lt;br /-> The man understood my father was helping him. He picked up the money, looked straight into my dad’s eyes, and in tears replied. “Thank you. This really means a lot to me and my family.”lt;br /-> Although we did not go to the circus that night, we didn’t go without.lt;br /-> 11. What was the family’s financial status in the passagelt;br /-> A. It was rich. B. It was the middle class.lt;br /-> C. It was relatively poor. D. It was unknown.lt;br /-> 12. Why did the man’s wife lower her headlt;br /-> A. The man can’t find his money. B. The ticket lady was impolite.lt;br /-> C. The tickets were sold out. D. The man can’t afford the tickets.lt;br /-> 13. Who was the owner of the $20 notelt;br /-> A. The poor man. B. The writer’s father.lt;br /-> C. The poor man’s wife. D. The ticket lady.lt;br /-> 14. Why was the poor man in tears at the end of the storylt;br /-> A. He found the money he lost.lt;br /-> B. He wanted to ask for help.lt;br /-> C. He felt very sad for his inability to afford the tickets.lt;br /-> D. He was touched by the kindness.lt;br /-> 15. Which of the following statements is probably true according to the passagelt;br /-> A. The poor man and his family saw the circus that night.lt;br /-> B. The two families saw the circus together that night.lt;br /-> C. The writer’s father lost some money.lt;br /-> D. The writer saw the circus that night.lt;br /-> Passage Twolt;br /-> Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.lt;br /-> A new study shows that plants are creating frequencies in responses to their surroundings, or in other words, they are reacting. These “reactions” in plants, which we could see as analogical to human senses, is actually nothing new. We have learned over the past few years that plants are capable of, seeing, hearing, and smelling.lt;br /-> And with this newest finding we are just one sense away from completing the five human senses in some plants. For the first time, plants have been recorded making airborne sounds when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water starved crops.lt;br /-> The researchers found that tomato and tobacco plants made sounds at frequencies humans cannot hear when facing situations such as lack of water or when being cut.lt;br /-> On average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds per hour, while tobacco plants made 11 and unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour.lt;br /-> The researchers trained a machine-learning model to tell difference between the plant’s sounds and the wind, rain, and other surrounding noises of the greenhouse, in order to correctly identify the source of stress. Results showed that drought-stressed plants make significantly more sounds than control plants.lt;br /-> Humans cannot hear the whole range of frequencies around us. If we could, we would likely become absent-minded and anxious by always hearing the frequencies around us including radio frequencies from cell towers near us or even cooking a frozen meal in the microwave. Thankfully, the range of human hearing is typically considered to be only 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. That is why humans are not sensitive to the sounds that plants are making.lt;br /-> 16. What is the newest finding about plantslt;br /-> A. Plants can see. B. Plants can hear. C. Plants can smell. D. Plants can speak.lt;br /-> 17. The underlined word “analogical” (Para. 1) is closest in meaning to .lt;br /-> A. similar B. available C. practical D. beneficiallt;br /-> 18. What do we learn about tomato and tobacco plantslt;br /-> A. They will produce sounds when stressed out.lt;br /-> B. They make more sounds when drought-stressed.lt;br /-> C. They produce annoying sound in different situations.lt;br /-> D. They have different sound frequencies over time.lt;br /-> 19. What is the best title of this passagelt;br /-> A. Stress of Plants B. Five Senses of Plantslt;br /-> C. Noises in Greenhouse D. Sound Frequencies of Plantslt;br /-> 20. We can learn from the last paragraph that .lt;br /-> A. we feel strange if we can hear all soundslt;br /-> B. we cannot focus if we can hear all soundslt;br /-> C. we are less sensitive to sounds than plantslt;br /-> D. we cannot figure out plant sound frequencieslt;br /-> Passage Threelt;br /-> Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.lt;br /-> I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At young age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet.lt;br /-> But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, mostlt;/p->显示全部信息 |