2021年秋季北京交通大学网络教育专升本英语入学测试模拟题及答案32

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Passage 5

When an art museum wants a new exhibit,it buys things in finished form and hangs them on its walls.When a natural history museum wants an exhibit,it often must build it realistically—from a mass of material and evidence brought together by careful research.

An animal,for example,must first be skinned.Photographs and measurements are used to determine the animal’s structure in a natural position—fighting,resting,or feeding.Then muscles forms are built and a plaster shell is made.Finally the skin is pulled over the shell like a wet glove.This completes the animal subject.

Displaying such things as stone heads,giant trees and meteorites(陨石)is basically mechanical.Most other natural history exhibits present more difficult problems.For instance,how can a creature be exhibited when it is too small to be seen clearly?In these cases,larger-than-life models are built.The American Museum of Natural History has models of fleas,houseflies,and numberous other insects enlarged up to seventy-four times.The models show the stages of the insects’development and the working of their bodies.

1.Natural history exhibits differ from art exhibits in that they __________.

A.are never borrowed

B.are not displayed to the public

C.often must be constructed

D.do not require research

2.The last step in constructing and animal exhibit is _________.

A.building muscle forms

B.making a plaster shell

C.taking measurements of the animal

D.pulling the skin over the shell

3.The items that are most difficult to display are _________.

A.objects such as meteorites

B.large animals

C.creatures too small to be seen clearly

D.creatures of the sea

4.Models are built larger than life to _________.

A.display animals of many different sizes

B.show details that would be hidden in true scale

C.seem more realistic

D.both A and B.

5.The best title for this selection is ________.

A.Constructing an Animal Subject

B.Problems of Exhibiting Natural History

C.Natural History

D.Building a Museum Exhibit

Passage 6

What is exactly a lie?Is it anything we say which we know is untrue?Or is it something more than that?For example,suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you,you say:‘I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself.’In fact,you are not short of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don’t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this.Is this really a lie?

A scientific study of lying shows women are better liars than men,particularly when telling a‘white lie’,such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks terrible.However,this is only one side of the story.Other researches show that men are more likely to tell more serious lies,such as making a promise which they have no intention of fulfilling.This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at:the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.

Research has also been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a number of small,apparently unimportant ways when they lie.It has been found that if they are sitting down at the same time,they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual.To the trained observer they are saying‘I wish I were somewhere else now.’

1.This passage tells us that _________.

A.telling lies is often necessary in order to avoid being defeated

B.telling lies is often bad because people ought not to be dishonest

C.telling lies is sometimes necessary in order not to hurt someone else’s feelings

D.telling lies is not bad at all in most cases

2.In Paragraph 2,the sentence“Women are better liars than men do.”Probably means“__________”.

A.women are better at telling lies than men

B.women liars are better accepted than men

C.women have a better intention when telling lies

D.women tell fewer lies than men do

3.A‘white lie’means __________.

A.a lie that is completely unbelievable

B.a lie that is told with a good will

C.a lie that is always believable

D.a lie that often has an evil purpose

4.Politicians and businessmen are supposed to be skilled at telling the kind of lies _________.

A.from which they may gain some advantages

B.that seems to be believable

C.that women are most likely to believe

D.with which they can have better relationship with others

5.It can be concluded from the passage that _________.

A.there is a simple way of finding out if someone is lying

B.from some ways people behave we can know they are lying

C.certain emotions are proof of lying

D.in some situations women are most likely to think

Passage 7

A little girl was given so many picture books on her seventh birthday that her father thought his daughter should give one or two of her new books to a little neighbor boy named Robert.

Now,taking books,or anything else,from a little girl is like taking candy from a baby,but the father of the little girl had his way and Robert got two of her books.“After all,that leaves you with nine,”said the father,who thought he was a philosopher and a child psychologist(心理学家),and couldn’t shut his big stupid mouth on the subject.

A few weeks later,the father went to his library to look up“father”in the Oxford English Dictionary,to feast his eyes on(一饱眼福)the praise of fatherhood through the centuries,but he couldn’t find volume F-G,and then he discovered that three others were missing,too–A-B,L-M,V-Z.He began to search his household,and learned what had happened to the four missing volumes.

“A man came to the door this morning,”said his little daughter,“and he didn’t know how to get from here to Torrington,or from Torrington to Winsted,and he was a nice man,much nicer than Robert,and so I gave him four of your books.After all,there are thirteen volumes in the Oxford English Dictionary,and that leaves you with nine.”

1.How does the writer feel about taking picture books from a little girl?

A.This sort of thing is quite common.

B.It makes no difference to a child.

C.It’s nothing to be surprised at.

D.It may hurt the girl’s feelings.

2.In the second paragraph“the father…had his way”means“______”.

A.the father went out to work.

B.The father made his own decision.

C.The father left his daughter alone.

D.The father did what he wanted.

3.Which of the following sentences may best reflect the girl’s attitude toward her father?

A.“A man came to the door this morning.”

B.“He was a nice man,much nicer than Robert.”

C.“After all,that leaves you with nine.”

D.“I gave him four of your books.”

4.What does the writer think of the father?

A.He was very strict with his daughter.

B.He was too proud to listen to his daughter.

C.As a child psychologist,he didn’t understand his daughter’s psychology very well.

D.As a father,he showed little care for his daughter.

5.This short story tells us that __________.

A.failure is the mother of success.

B.What you do not wish done to yourself,do not do to others.

C.We should put others first and ourselves last.

D.Everything is hard in the beginning.

Passage 8

I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.

I wasted a lot of time looking for the‘typical’village.Yet no such thing exists.Conditions vary too widely.But the villages I stayed in had much in common—poverty,dirt,ignorance.Often the villagers themselves were puzzled,suspicious.Why had I come?I had put aside my work as a political journalist becaue my ideas had changed.I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else.But to understand how three-quarters of the world’s people live,and how their future might affect ours,I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.

In the end I chose a mountain village becaue it was a little cooler than those in the plains.I took the bus from town along a bumpy road.Then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river.After this I began the climb into the hills.Whenever I stopped to catch my breath,there was a magnificent view.After several hours’walk the village came into view.

1.After the writer had arrived in India _____________.

A.he spent a year writing about the place he lived in

B.he took quite a long time finding a suitable place to live

C.he spent years looking for a certain village

D.he lived in a Himalayan community for many months

2.While looking for a‘typical’village the writer found __________.

A.he was searching for the impossible

B.all the villages were exactly the same

C.the villagers made him feel confused

D.the villagers asked him a lot of questions

3.Before coming to India the writer ___________.

A.had been a successful politician

B.had made a decision to do no more work

C.had been dismissed from his job

D.had written articles for publication

4.The writer decided to change his way of life because ________.

A.he no longer found his work interesting

B.he wanted to live a peaceful life in the countryside

C.he wanted to find out more about the Third World

D.he thought living in a small community would be rewarding

5.The village the writer finally chose to live in __________.

A.was situated at the end of a bumpy road

B.had a better climate than those in the plains

C.was a short walk from the river

D.had a magnificent view of the river

参考答案：

Passage 5 1c 2d 3c 4b 5b

Passage 6 1c 2a 3b 4a 5b

Passage 7 1d 2d 3c 4a 5b

Passage 8 1b 2a 3d 4c 5b

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