公共英语二级考试模拟试题。
41. According to his friend's opinion, the poor relatives would stop going there so often
because ________ .
A. they were shy to borrow money again
B. hey were afraid to be asked to pay off the debts
C. they had been ill-treated
D. it wasn't happy for the poor to meet the rich
42. The best title for this passage is ___________.
A. Such a Clever Friend B. Mr Richards and his Friend
C. Money is Important D. Such Good Usage of Money
43. After reading the passage we can infer _____________.
A. Mr Richards still complains about the coming of his relatives in summer
B. The friend of Mr Richards' hadn't as many relatives as Richards
C. Gradually Mr Richards succeeded in keeping his relatives out in summer
D. sNone of Richards' relatives came to the seaside town for their holidays again
( C )
I wonder why American towns looks so much alike that I sometimes mix them up in my memory. The standard influence(影响)of mass production whose agents(代理商)are the travelling salesman, the mail-order house, the five-and-ten cent stores, the chain stores, the movies can hardly explain it. If you stay two days in Bologna and in Ferrare, or in Arles and in Avignon, you will never mix them up in all your life. But it may well happen that after you spend two days in St.Louis and in Kansas City the appearances of these two cities soon mix up. I think the reason for this is that these towns have not yet had time enough to develop their own characters. Similarly, children are much less different from each other than grown people.
44. Which two of the following towns look so much alike?
A. Bologna and Ferrare B. Arles and Avignon
C. St. Louis and Kansas City D. Bologna and St. Louis
45. In line 4 the word "it" refers to ____________.
A. standard of towns B. similarity of towns C. people's memory D. mass production
46. American towns look very much alike because of ____________.
A. the standard influence of mass production B. their different appearances
C. not being fully developed D. having everything in common
( D )
Millions of stars are travelling about in space. A few form groups which journey together, but most of them travel alone. And they travel through a universe so large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most part each star makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean. The ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbor. From this it is easy to understand why a star seldom finds another anywhere neat it. We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star wandering(漫游) through space, happened to come near our sun, Just as the sun and the moon raise tides(潮汐)on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun .But they were very different from the small tides that are raised in our oceans; a large tidal wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, at last forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the disturbance(动荡) came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher. And before the star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small parts of itself into space.
These small pieces have been going round the sun ever since. They are the planets(行星).
47. Millions of stars are _______________.
A. following a regular path in space B. moving about without a fixed course
C. seldom wandering about in the universe D. always travelling together
48. Some two thousand million years ago, the mountain on the sun was raised probably because
__________.
A. a large tidal wave of a star travelled over the surface of the sun
B. another star happened to come near the sun
C. the sun and the moon raised the tides on the earth
D. the star moved away from the sun
49. The article suggests that _____________ .
A. our earth exists before the sun B. how space formed
C. no one knows where the earth comes from
D. our earth used to be a high mountain on the sun
50. The expression "the cause of the disturbance" refers to _________.
A. the large tidal wave B. the powerful tidal pull
C. the star coming near the sun D. one of the sun's planets
51. In this article, the writer mainly wants to tell the readers __________.
A. that the universe is so large that we cannot imagine it
B. how the high mountains were formed on the sun
C. why the tides over the surface of the sun were so powerful
D. where the planets in the universe came from
( E )
Contacts(交往) between Japan and the rest of the world have grown a great deal in the twentieth century. In the last thirty years, business contacts between Japan and the West have become very important. Many foreign companies now have offices in Japan and Japanese businessmen do business around the world. Differences between Japanese and Western ways of doing business, however, often bewilder the foreign businessman and make doing business in Japan difficult for foreigners.
The American businessman, for example , wants of start talking business mmediately . He wants quick decisions. He does not wait. The Japanese, on the other hand , likes to arrive at decisions gradually after giving them a great deal of thought. Another thing foreign businessmen have difficulty in understanding is when a Japanese means "Yes" or "No". This is because of cultural difference for a Japanese to say "No" directly. In English, it is easy to say "No" to something we do not want to do. But in Japan it is very difficult to say "No". To refuse an invitation or a request with "No", or a similar phrase, is felt to be impolite. It is thought to be selfish(自私) and unfriendly. So instead of saying "No" directly, the Japanese have developed many ways to avoid saying "No". These enable them to avoid hurting other people's feeling. However, this often makes communication with the Japanese difficult for foreigners to understand and follow.
52. Paragraph one tells us that ______________ .
A. It is not always easy for foreigners to do business in Japan
B. Japan is a very important country for businessmen
C. business contacts between Japan and the West are important
D. Japanese businessmen do business all around the world
53. The word "bewilder" in paragraph 2 probably means _________.
A. tire B. interest C. puzzle D. surprise
54. From the passage we can know that _____________.
A. American businessmen do things more quickly than Japanese ones
B. American businessmen like to say "Yes" and "No"
C. Americans usually say what they are thinking
D. Americans do not express themselves clearly
55. The passage tells us that ________.
A. Japanese businessmen are good at business
B. foreign businessmen should first try to understand Japanese
C. foreign businessmen must be more polite
D. if you want to succeed you must learn from Japan
第四部分：写作
第一节：短文改错
此题要求改正所给短文中错误。对标有题号每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
多一个词：把多余词用斜线（\）划掉， 在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。缺一个词： 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加词。
错一个词：在错词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后词。
注意：原行没有错不要改。
After supper Li Hua came and asked for me 56. __________
to go and see a film with him. In our way to 57. __________
the cinema we saw a little girl sit by the 58. __________
roadside cry. We bought her a cake to stop 59. __________
her crying. But when we asked where she 60. __________
had lived she said she didn't know. So we took 61. __________
her to the police station and asked police to take care of her 62. __________
After this we went to the cinema. But when we 63. __________
got there the movie was near at its end. 64. _________
We have missed the movie, but we did a good deed. 65. __________
第二节：书面表达
九月十五日（星期日），天气晴好。你参加了青年志愿者在府南河边清理废弃物、保护环境活动。请你用英语把图中事写成日记。
要求：
1、日记必须包括所有图画内容。
2、词数100左右。
3、格式正确。
提示词：府南河 the Fu and Nan Rivers 志愿者 volunteer 环境 environment
Keys:
1-10 CABCB BADBC
11-20 DABAC BBADC
21-30 BDCBA DDADC
31-40 CBACB ACABB
41-50 BDCCB CBBDC
51-55 DCCCB
56. 删去 for
57. In-On
58. sit-sitting/seated 59. cry-crying 60. √
6l. 删去 had
62. (第二个)police 前加 the 63. this-that 64. near-nearly
65. 删去have
Sunday September 15
Fine
Today I went to the Fu&Nan Rivers as a young volunteer to clean the place. Early in the morning we started by bike. As soon as we got there, we began to work. First we collected the rubbish on the river bank. Then we put up notices to tell people to protect the environment. We kept on telling the visitors the importance of protecting the environment. Having cleaned the river bank we said goodbye to the workers and went home. Though I was tired, I felt happy.
