出自:西电--大学英语专升本
This is an old story. People tell it to children all over the world. Cinderella.s father and mother (1)______. She lived with her aunt. Her aunt had two daughters. All of them hated Cinderella because she was beautiful. They made her (2)______ , in the house all day long.
One day, the Prince was (3)______. The king asked all the Ladies in the land to come to a great dance. (4)______ the dance the Prince would choose his wife.
When Cinderella heard about the dance, she wanted to go. Her aunt and the ugly sisters laughed and said, "You can.t go." Then they went off to the dance. Poor Cinderella sat by the fire (5)______.
(6)______ she heard a gentle voice saying, "Don. t cry, Cinderella, you shall go to the dance. I will help you. "Cinderella (7)______ and saw a little old lady. She waved her stick at Cinderella. Suddenly she was wearing a wonderful dress. "Now go to the dance." said the little lady.
Cinderella enjoyed the dance very much. The Prince danced with her (8)______. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve. She hurried back home. She lost one of her glass shoes. (9)_____ . The next day, the Prince sent men to all parts of the country with the glass shoe.
"If anyone can wear this small shoe," he said, "She must be the beautiful lady, and I will marry her."
When the men brought the shoe to the ugly sisters, they both pretended (10)______ the shoe, but their feet were big and the shoe was small. The men laughed, "Let Cinderella try." said one of the men. Cinderella put the shoe on easily. Then the Prince married her, and they lived happily ever after.
1. A. both were dead B. were both death
C. were both died D. were both dead
2. A. to do all the work B. did all the work
C. do all the work D. doing all the work
3. A. old enough to be married with
B. old enough to marry
C. old enough to marry with
D. old enough to be married
4. A. During the night of B At the night of
C. On the night of D. In the night of
5. A. to cry B. crying
C. to be crying D. to be cried
6. A. Sudden B. All on sudden
C. On sudden D. All of a sudden
7. A. looked upB. looked at
C. looked forD. looked down
8. A. at that time B. at times
C. all the time D. at one time
9. A. on the steps B. within the steps
C. in the steps D. under the steps
10. A. to put on B. putting on
C. to wear D. to have on
What.s the best way to protect, a tender, green seedling from the hungry stomach of deer? Give the seedling bad breath!
The same chemical that gives people bad breath after they have eaten garlic can save small trees from being eaten by animals.
A kind of chemical selenium (硒), which is also found in garlic, is planted in the soil near a young tree. The tree.s roots absorb the selenium, which is then carried to the leaves,
From there the selenium is used to form a chemical called dimethyselenide (乙烷硒化物)---the same chemical made in the human mouth after eating garlic. As deer wander around looking for food, they smell the seedlings. leaves and leave the plants alone.
The selenium is important. Why? Because each year deer eat millions of dollars. worth of trees farm seedlings.
So far, selenium has been tested only on Douglas fir (枞树) seedlings, but researchers think they could protect fruit trees and garden plants, too.
1. When people eat garlic, ______.
A. they send out a horrible smell
B. they are out of breath
C. they will feel sick
D. it is hard for them to. breathe
2. According to this passage the bad smell given off from those leaves is that of ______.
A. seleniumB. dimethy selenide
C. deerD. a young tree
3. The deer don.t touch those young trees because ______.
A the young trees absorb garlic
B. the roots of the young trees smell like garlic
C. the young tree aren.t fit for the deer to eat
D. the leaves of the young trees smell like garlic
4. Up till the time the news was announced, this kind of chemical was used ______.
A. all over the world
B. all over the United States
C. on fruit trees and garden trees
D. on Douglas fir young trees
5. The best title of this passage is ______.
A. Hungry Deer and Young Trees
B. Why Don.t Deer Eat young Fruit Trees
C. Plants Saved by "Bad Breath"
D. How to Protect Young Trees
The next great land area that man hopes to colonize is the moon. In size it is nearly equal to the area of North and South Americas. However, it presents a hostile environment. Temperatures range from + 120 to - 150 degrees Centigrade. There is no air, no water.
Today there is considerable scientific speculation about living on the moon. When man will begin life on the lunar surface is still not determined. But experts believe that colonization will take place in three steps. First, there will be increasing periods of exploration with temporary shelters. These periods will be followed by longer stays with housing under the surface of the moon and daily necessities brought by the colonizers themselves. Finally, colonies that are self-supporting will be established.
The principal job of the early settlers will be to stay alive. They will have to plant crops under huge domes to produce food and oxygen and find water sources. After this is done, the settlers will have time to explore the possibilities of commercial development and to make discoveries important to science.
The characteristics of the moon that make it bad for human survival may make it ideal for certain kinds of manufacturing. Operations requiring a vacuum, extreme cold or sterility are examples. Precision ball bearings, industrial diamonds or pharmaceuticals might be produced on the moon.
1. The area of the moon is______.
A. about the same as that of North and South Americas
B. larger than that of North and South Americas
C. equal to that of North and South Americas
D. far smaller than that of North and South Americas
2. The temperature on the moon can be as high as______.
A. - 150°CB. + 270°C
C. + 120°CD. - 30°C
3. According to this passage, the colonization of the moon______.
A. will soon be realized
B. can be done under the lunar surface
C. is being speculated by many scientists
D. sounds entirely impossible
4. To stay alive on the moon, the early settlers must first of all be able to ______.
A. develop commerce
B. get enough food, oxygen and water
C. make discoveries important to science
D. explore the possibilities of industrial development
5. Though the environment on the moon is bad for human survival, it is very good for _____.
A. making such things as industrial diamonds
B. all kinds of manufactured goods
C. medical operations
D. commercial development
In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of laboratories and buildings, and most curious of all, a circular mound of earth more than 650 feet in diameter. This cluster has unique importance. It is Europe.s one and only atomic city dedicated to investigation of the atom for peaceful purposes.
The strange buildings belong to the European Council for Nuclear Research, more popularly known, from its French initials, as CERN. The council was born when a handful of statesmen and scientific experts met in Paris in 195{J. Their aim was "to establish an organization providing for collaboration among European states in nuclear research of a pure scientific and fundamental character."
The CERN agreement was signed in 1953, and work on the atomic city began in 1954. Today CERN.s facilities are among the most modern and the most diversified in the world. Impressive as the scientific aspect may be the real significance of CERN may lie with the thousand people--the scientists, lab "workers and administrative crew drawn from the fourteen member nations --- who populate it. British engineers work side by side with Swiss electricians, Yugoslav nuclear physicists, and Dutch mathematicians. The official languages are French and English, with German as an unofficial third. But CERN is no tower of Babel ---the language of science is universal and all-embracing.
1. The European Council for Nuclear Research was evolved by_____.
A. the officers of the United Nations
B. a group of European scientists
C. the statesmen and scientists of Switzerland
D. a handful of statesmen and scientific experts
2. CERN was established with the aim of promoting ______.
A. nuclear research of a fundamental character
B. collaboration among the world.s nuclear scientists
C. pure study in all fields of science
D. both A and B
3. CERN.s facilities for research are ______.
A. limited but effective
B. among the best in the world
C. rapidly expanding
D. both A and C
4. The selection says that CERN is not a tower of Babel, because ______.
A. work is the common denominator of all the staff
B. the language of science is universal
C. CERN has adopted only two official languages
D. all the workers are drawn from one country
5. The real significance of CERN may lie in its staff, because they _____.
A. work in international harmony
B. come from all over the world
C. are investigating all phases of human conduct
D. are eliminating the problems of individual nationalism
You say you want my advice about reading. Perhaps, the following are pieces of advice that I hope you’ll find useful.
If the book is in English, that may mean slow progress for you. But I don’t advise you to read too slowly. When I was living in Tokyo, I used to go to Kanda, where the second-hand bookshops are (just as in London, when you were here last year, you used to spend hours in Charing Cross Road). The shelves were full of English books. The first twenty or thirty pages of many of them had their margins(空白) filled with penciled notes and there were lots of words and phrases underlined. The owners, probably university students, had started out very seriously, determined to master the books. Then, as I turned the pages over, I found clean white margins, with not a single note. It was clear that the reader had given up his attempt.
I suppose that’s a common experience in many countries with books in a foreign language. The reader starts out, full of hope. Then the need to turn to a dictionary, perhaps ten or even twenty times a pages, tires him out.
Therefore, don’t start reading a book unless you see, from the first few pages, that it’s one you can read with ease and understanding. Don’t try to run before you can walk. Don’t stop every time you come to a word or phrase you don’t know. Read the whole chapter quickly. Quite often you’ll find the unknown word comes again, perhaps several times, and by the end of the chapter you’ll have guessed its meaning. That’s how we learn the meaning of words in our own language, isn’t it?
1. You can expect to find_______ in Charing Cross Road.
A. books with a lot of blank space
B. many second-hand book shelves
C. books having twenty or thirty pages
D. many bookshops where the used books are sold
2. The writer says ______.
A. too many new words every page will prevent learners from reading to the end
B. you should choose a book with few new words if you prefer not to read too slowly
C. you should never read a book that has ten or twenty new words per page
D. it’s a good idea for the university students to learn the dictionary meaning seriously
3. You can’t complete your reading of a book, ______.
A. unless the book chosen is right for your level and the first few pages can be read easily
B. unless you read a book with the help of a dictionary
C. if you are not filled with hope at the beginning stage of reading
D. if penciled notes are not made in the margins of a page
4. The writer suggests that_______.
A. you try to guess the meaning of a new word through reading
B. you find out what a new word means by using a dictionary
C. you know its meaning whenever you come across a new word
D. you not read a book unless there are no new words
5. This passage tells you ________.
A. how learners choose their books in a foreign language and learn worde
B. how to look up new words in a dictionary
C. how to solve the problem that many foreign students have in reading
D. how the book owners write the notes in pencil in the margins
The word "television" derived from its Greek (Tel: distant) and Latin (vision: sight) roots. Very simply put, it works (1)______this way: Through a sophisticated, system of electronics, television provides the capability of (2)______ an image into electronic impulses, which can be sent (3)______ a wire or cable. These impulses, when fed into a (4)______, can then be electronically reconstructed (5)______that same image.
Traditionally, television has been a (6)______of the masses. We are most familiar with broadcast television because it has been with us for about thirty-seven years in a form similar (7)______what exists today. During those years, it has been (8)______ by the broadcast net-works---ABC, NBC, and CBS. These giants of broadcasting have actually (9)______ not only television but our perception of it as well. We have come to look upon the picture tube as a (10)______of information, connection and entertainment.
1. A. by B. at C. of D. in
2. A. changing B. converting C. becoming D. returning
3. A. through B. on C. among D. from
4. A. accepter B. adopter C. receiver D. recover
5. A. to B. into C. in D. at
6. A. medium B. media C. medias D. mediums
7. A. with B. fromC. to D. at
8. A. secured B. confirmed C. sured D. controlled
9. A. built B. established C. existed D. shaped
10. A. basement B. home C. source D. index
Trees should only be pruned when there is a good and clear reason for doing so and, fortunately, the number of such reasons is small. Pruning involves the cutting away of overgrown and unwanted branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by the thought that more damage results from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the tree to grow in its own way.
First, pruning may be done to make sure that trees have a desired shape or size.The object may be to get a tree of the right height, and at the same time to help the growth of small side branches, which will thicken its appearance or give it a special shape. Secondly, pruning may be done to make the tree healthier. You may cut out diseased or dead wood, or branches that are rubbing against each other and thus causing wounds. The health of a tree may be encouraged by removing branches that are blocking up the center and so preventing the free movement of air.
One result of pruning is that an open wound is left on the tree and this provides an easy entry for disease, but it is a wound that will heal. Often there is a race between the healing and the disease as to whether the tree will live or die, so that there is a period when the tree is at risk. It should be the aim of every gardener to reduce that risk of death as far as possible. It is essential to make the area, which has been pruned, smooth and clean, for healing will be slowed down by roughness. You should allow the cut surface to dry for a few hours and then paint it with one of the substances available from garden shops produced especially for this purpose. Pruning is usually done in winter, for then you can see the shape of the tree clearly without interference from the leaves and it is, too, very unlikely that the cuts you make will bleed. If this does happen, it is, of course, impossible to paint them properly.
1. Pruning may be done to ______.
A. make the tree grow taller
B. improve the shape of the tree
C. get rid of the small branches
D. make the small branches thicker
2. Trees become unhealthy if a gardener _____.
A. allows too many branches to grow in the middle
B. does not protect them from the wind
C. forces them to grow too quickly
D. damages some of the small side branches
3. A special substance is painted on the tree ______.
A. to make a wound smooth
B. to prevent disease entering a wound
C. to cover a rough surface
D. to help a wound to dry
4. A good gardener prunes a tree ______.
A. at intervals throughout the year
B. as quickly as possible
C. occasionally when necessary
D. regularly every winter
5. What was the writer.s purpose when writing this passage?
A. To give practical instructions for pruning a tree.
B. To give a general description of pruning.
C. To explain how trees develop diseases.
D. To discuss different methods of pruning.
In every society it is necessary to have a general system of laws to ensure justice. Laws are designed to make certain that people.s rights are protected and that people respect each other.s rights. Sometimes, however, laws are passed which are specific to a time or situation. For example, a town in Indiana once passed a law making it illegal to shoot open a can of food. Apparently, some gun-carrying citizens forgot their can openers and naturally enough, used their guns to do the job. This disturbed other citizens, and endangered their lives, so a law was passed to prevent it.
Specific laws sometimes remain in existence long after the problem has disappeared. The laws then seem strange. For example, the Indiana law was no longer necessary when citizens stopped carrying guns and using them as can openers. Since the law was no longer needed, what once made sense now seems like nonsense.
Sometimes laws designed to serve a good purpose were passed but somehow these became mixed up in their wording. As a result, the laws don.t make sense. In one state there is a law which says that it is "illegal to move or to attempt to move a motor vehicle." Obviously, a massive traffic jam would occur if everyone suddenly obeyed that law. But no one does, of course, because the intention of the law was not to prevent owners from moving their own cars. It was to prevent people from moving (stealing) other people.s cars.
It is often harder to repeal (废止)a law than to pass one, so many of these old laws remain in existence. Because they no longer fit the way people live or because the problem no longer exists, these laws are ignored. Everyone understands that and life goes on. Thus, laws that once made very good sense now seem like nonsense.
1. According to the passage, laws are designed for the purpose of ____________.
A. protecting people.s rights
B. making people respect each other
C. preventing gun-carrying
D. punishing criminals
2. The word "job " in paragraph 1 refers to ___________.
A. working
B. shooting
C. preventing gun-carrying
D. disturbing others
3. The author used the Indiana law as an example to explain _________.
A. how some laws are passed and changed
B. how people in Indiana open cans
C. why some laws may seem strange
D. why people in Indiana no longer use their guns
4. What.s the problem with the law concerning motor vehicles?
A. It leads to traffic jams.
B. It is not clearly written.
C. It is not designed to serve a good purpose.
D. It has been out of date.
5. We can conclude from the passage that ___________.
A. a law system is necessary for every society
B. some laws that don.t make sense may also get passed
C. it is more difficult to change the old law than pass a new one
D. some laws may seem strange as time passes
Trees should only be pruned when there is a good and clear reason for doing so and, fortunately, the number of such reasons is small. Pruning involves the cutting away of overgrown and unwanted branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by the thought that more damage results from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the tree to grow in its own way.
First, pruning may be done to make sure that trees have a desired shape or size.The object may be to get a tree of the right height, and at the same time to help the growth of small side branches, which will thicken its appearance or give it a special shape. Secondly, pruning may be done to make the tree healthier. You may cut out diseased or dead wood, or branches that are rubbing against each other and thus causing wounds. The health of a tree may be encouraged by removing branches that are blocking up the center and so preventing the free movement of air.
One result of pruning is that an open wound is left on the tree and this provides an easy entry for disease, but it is a wound that will heal. Often there is a race between the healing and the disease as to whether the tree will live or die, so that there is a period when the tree is at risk. It should be the aim of every gardener to reduce that risk of death as far as possible. It is essential to make the area, which has been pruned, smooth and clean, for healing will be slowed down by roughness. You should allow the cut surface to dry for a few hours and then paint it with one of the substances available from garden shops produced especially for this purpose. Pruning is usually done in winter, for then you can see the shape of the tree clearly without interference from the leaves and it is, too, very unlikely that the cuts you make will bleed. If this does happen, it is, of course, impossible to paint them properly.
1. Pruning may be done to ______.
A. make the tree grow taller
B. improve the shape of the tree
C. get rid of the small branches
D. make the small branches thicker
2. Trees become unhealthy if a gardener _____.
A. allows too many branches to grow in the middle
B. does not protect them from the wind
C. forces them to grow too quickly
D. damages some of the small side branches
3. A special substance is painted on the tree ______.
A. to make a wound smooth
B. to prevent disease entering a wound
C. to cover a rough surface
D. to help a wound to dry
4. A good gardener prunes a tree ______.
A. at intervals throughout the year
B. as quickly as possible
C. occasionally when necessary
D. regularly every winter
5. What was the writer.s purpose when writing this passage?
A. To give practical instructions for pruning a tree.
B. To give a general description of pruning.
C. To explain how trees develop diseases.
D. To discuss different methods of pruning.