2021年秋季中国石油大学（华东）网络教育大学英语入学测试模拟题及答案11

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Passage Seven

I found my father a very hard man to understand when I was young. He was very short and thin andhad large blue eyes. I could have loved him as I did my mother, but he seemed to hold us off so that wecould not approach him or sit on his knee as love to do. I believe he had a hard life as a child, and I knowthat he left school at the age of ten and started to work. This made him an unsociable man, unfriendlyeven to the people closest to him. I never knew him to have a close friend as the other men did.

Everything he did had to be precise. If he chopped the sticks for the fire, each stick would be thesame length and thickness as all the others, and they would all be stacked without one out of place. Hismotto was "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well". In our household his word was law andnobody dared dispute it.

He worked hard when in a job and saw to it that we children learned the meaning of work. Mymother did not have much pleasure but I do not remember her ever complaining ---except on Sundayafternoons when father would take off his clothes and get into bed, leaving her to mend his workingclothes while he had his rest. This she disliked very much, for the clothes were dirty from the work hehad been doing and she hated handling anything that was not clean.

191. The writer found it difficult to understand her father because he _____.

A. looked distant

B. rejected affection

C. ill-treated the family

D. hated keeping company with children

192. What did the writer think made her father unsociable?

A. An unhappy childhood. B. A lack of friends. 49

C. No interest in hobbies. D. Not smoking or drinking.

193. What was particular about the sticks for the fire?

A. They were arranged in a pattern.

B. They were chopped in only one place.

C. They were similar in length.

D. They all weighed the same.

194. The writer's father believed that ______.

A. you should only do things for which you have the ability

B. only important jobs are worth doing well

C. you should only attempt worthwhile jobs

D. anything you do should be done to your best ability

195. What did the writer's mother dislike about Sunday afternoons?

A. Working while her husband rested.

B. Repairing her husband's clothes.

C. Not being able to derive any pleasure from what she herself found delightful.

D. Touching unclean clothes.

Passage Eight

Have you ever wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colors? Colors in themseem to be used mainly to protect themselves.

Birds, especially seagulls, are very fond of locusts, but birds cannot easily catch locusts becauselocusts change their colors together with the change of the color of crops. When crops are green, locustslook green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown color as crops have. Someother pests with different colors from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So theyhave to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at night.

If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of coloring is toprotect themselves. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usuallyinvisible to the eyes of hunters, because they have the color much like the barks of trees.50

An even stranger act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of veryblack liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over, its enemies cannot find it, and itimmediately swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all.

196. This passage mainly talks about ______.

A. the change of color in locusts

B. the protective coloration of animals and pests

C. how a certain sea fish protects itself

D. animals or pests can dye themselves different colors

197. Locusts are not easily wiped out by their enemies because ______.

A. they are powerful enough

B. they are dangerous to their enemies

C. they take on the same colors as crops

D. they fly extraordinary fast

198. The pests that have different colors from plants usually appear at night because ______.

A. birds take their rest when night comes

B. their enemies can easily find them and eat them

C. they have the habit of coming out in darkness

D. it’s easy for them to destroy plants in darkness

199. Bears and wolves have the same colors as barks of trees because ______.

A. they fear other beasts

B. they prefer brown or grey colors

C. they enjoy walking through forests quietly

D. the colors help prevent themselves from being noticed

200. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of tears because ______.

A. it is the most powerful in the sea

B. it can swim much faster than any other fish

C. it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it

D. it can send out a kind of liquid which can kill its enemies51

Passage Nine

Advertising has become a very specialized activity in modern times. In the business world of today,supply is usually greater than demand. There is great competition between different manufacturers of thesame kind of product to persuade customers to buy their own particular brand. They always have toremind the consumer of the name and the qualities of their product. They do this by advertising. Themanufacturer advertises in the newspapers and on posters. He sometimes pays for songs about hisproduct in commercial radio programs. He employs attractive salesgirls to distribute samples of it. Heorganizes competitions, with prizes for the winners. He often advertises on the screens of local cinemas.

Most important of all, in countries that have television he has advertisements put into programs that willaccept them. Manufacturers often spend large sums of money on advertisements. We buy a particularproduct because we think that it is the best. We usually think so because of the advertisements that say so.Some people never pause to ask themselves if the advertisements are telling the truth.

201. How many kinds of advertisements are mentioned in the passage?

A. 7. B. 5. C. 4. D. 8.

202. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Some people never have any doubts about what advertisements tell them.

B. Great competition exists between different manufacturers of the same products.

C. The customer usually demands more than the manufacturer can supply.

D. The manufacturer wants to persuade customers to buy his own brand.

203. Which of the following advertisements is the most important one?

A. Advertising in the newspapers.

B. Putting advertisements into TV programs.

C. Distributing samples by attractive salesgirls.

D. Organizing competitions with prizes for the winners.

204. The passage tells us that the customer usually buys a particular brand because he thinks that 52______.

A. he can get a prize

B. it is the cheapest

C. there is great competition between customers for the same brand

D. it is the best

205. Which of the following can best be used as the title of the passage?

A. Different Approaches to Advertising

B. Supply and Demand

C. The Manufacturer and the Customer

D. The Negative Sides of Advertising

参考答案：

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