1、高等院校英语入学分级测试-2 及答案解析(总分：98.00，做题时间：90 分钟)二、BSection A/B(总题数：2，分数：10.00)（分数：5.00）(1). A. its hardly believed that Black passed the exam. B. Both Bill and Black passed the exam. C. What Bill did was a great help for Black to pass the exam. D. Black tried hard to help Bill pass the exam.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.
2、D.(2). A. On Mondays, the shop stays open till 6 p.m. B. On Sundays, it keeps open till 12. C. On Saturdays, it closes at 4 p.m. D. On Fridays, the shop closes at 8.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. She is more successful as a teacher than as a secretary. B. Mary likes teaching better. C. The secretary is no
3、t as good as the teacher. D. The teacher is better than the secretary.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. The problem was solved after several weeks discussion. B. Several problems have arisen and should be discussed. C. The discussion of the problem has lasted several weeks. D. The discussion of the problem w
4、as not over.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. The student talked several times. B. The student continued talking. C. The student stopped talking. D. The student asked to talk.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：5.00）(1). A. The man makes more money than his wife. B. The man spends more money than his wife. C. His wife keep
5、s spending more money. D. The man spends the money his wife makes.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. No other student is better than Bart. B. The class has only three smart students. C. Bart is not as clever as most of the other students in his class. D. Two students are better than Bart in his class.（分数：1.00
6、）A.B.C.D.(3). A. The furniture costs $746 now. B. The furniture costs $476 now. C. The furniture used to cost $674. D. The furniture used to cost $467.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. People are more likely to get cold in winter. B. More people have summer colds than winter colds. C. People seldom have cold
7、 in summer. D. Fewer people get cold in winter.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. The film started at 8. B. It began at 7:30. C. It started at 8:10. D. It began at 7:50.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.三、BSection B/B(总题数：2，分数：8.00)（分数：3.00）(1). A.Fashion designer B.Architect. C.City planner. D.Engineer.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).
8、A.Do some volunteer work. B.Get a well-paid part-time job. C.Work flexible hours. D.Go back to her previous post.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A.Few baby-sitters can be considered trustworthy. B.It will add to the familys financial burden. C.A baby-sitter is no replacement for a mother. D.The children wont
9、get along with a baby-sitter.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.（分数：5.00）(1). A. She asks the direction. B. She wants the police officer to do her a favor. C. She asks where the bus stop is. D. She wants to know who lives around Green wall Street.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. She wants to work right now. B. She asks the m
10、an to go on a picnic with her. C. She wants to go to the park. D. She keeps herself busy with her work.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. One.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. Boss and clerk. B. Partners. C. Friends. D. Customer and salesman.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. In a medical laboratory.
11、B. In the doctors office. C. In the operating room. D. In the workshop.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、B(总题数：5，分数：50.00)Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment of Frederick in the thirteenth century, it
12、may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.All the babies died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first yea
13、r of life especially, the ability to survive is seriously influenced.Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive (不敏感的) to the signals (信号) of the baby, whos
14、e brain is made to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has pa
15、ssed.Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be clever.At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds, at twelve months he can speak simple words and und
16、erstand simple commands, at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four he knows his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.（分数：10.00）(1).What was the purpose of the exper
17、iment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century? A. To discover what language a child would speak without hearing any human speech. B. To prove that a baby couldnt live without his mother. C. To find out what role careful nursing would play in teaching a child to speak. D. To prove that a child woul
18、d be damaged without learning a language.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the passage, the reason that the children of Frederick IIs experiment died is _. A. lack of language B. lack of good mothering C. without mother tongue D. the nurses careless nursing（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Today some children ar
19、e backward in speaking because _. A. they are incapable of learning language rapidly B. they are faced with so much language at once C. their mothers respond improperly to their attempts to speak D. their brain is not made to learn language rapidly（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).If a child starts to speak late
20、r than other normal children, he will _ in the future. A. be more clever than others B. be insensitive to verbal signals C. be less intelligent D. not necessarily be backward（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).A child can say “Mum“ probably at _. A. twelve weeks B. twelve months C. three years D. four years（分数：2.0
21、0）A.B.C.D.“Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather. “ This statement is often made by Englishmen, which is both revealing and true. It is revealing because in it we see the Englishman insisting once again that what happens in England is not the same as what happens elsewhere; its
22、truth can soon be found by any foreigner who stays in the country for longer than a few days.It has been said only in England can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day! Day may break as a balmy spring morning; an hour later black clouds may have appeared from nowhere and the rain
23、 may be pouring down. At midday conditions may be really wintry with the temperature down by about eight degrees or more. And then, in the late afternoon the sky will clear, the sun will begin to shine, and for an hour or two before darkness falls, it will be summer.In England one can experience alm
24、ost every kind of weather except the most extreme. Some foreigners seem to be under the impression that for ten months of the year the country is covered by a dense blanket of fog; this is not true. The problem is that we never can be sure when the different sorts of weather will occur. Not only do
25、we get several different sorts of weather in one day, but we may very well get a period of winter in summer and a period of summer in winter.This uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect upon the Englishmans character; it tends to make him cautious, for example. The foreigner may laug
26、h when he sees the Englishman setting out on a sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his laughter later in the day! The English weather has also helped to make the Englishman adaptable. It has been said that one of the reasons why the English colonized (开拓
27、殖民地) so much of the world was that, whatever the weather conditions they met abroad, they had already experienced something like them at home!And, of course, the weathers variety provides a constant topic of conversation. Even the most unfriendly of Englishmen is always prepared to discuss the weath
28、er. And, though he sometimes complains bitterly of it, he would not exchange it for the more predictable (可以预防的) climate of other lands.（分数：10.00）(1).The word “balmy“ in the second paragraph probaly means A. cloudy B. cold C. pleasant D. wet（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).By giving the example in the fourth pa
29、ragraph, the writer tries to tell the reader that _. A. it is hard for a foreigner to understand Englishmens strange behavior B. in England it is always sunny in the morning and rainy in the afternoon C. Englishmen are good at foretelling weather D. the English weather has made English people very c
30、areful（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).By reading the last sentence, we can see that Englishmens basic attitude towards their weather is _. A. positive B. bitter C. helpless D. indifferent（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following words cant we use to describe the English weather? A. varied B. uncertain C. cha
31、ngeable D. predictable（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is not the writers view? A. Weather is Englishmens favorite topic of conversation. B. For most of the year it is foggy in England. C. The English weather has affected Englishmens character. D. Englishmen could easily make themselves f
32、it for the local weather wherever they went.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.“Time cannot be added to a persons life, but it can be made more valuable by avoiding waste. “ This was the philosophy of a man who devoted most of his time to the creation of new plants: Luther Burbank, the plant magician.Burbank has been
33、 called the plant magician because he could do things with plants which were as amazing as the tricks of a magician. He truly astonished the world with his achievements in the development of many kinds of plants, such as giant fruits with new flavors and trees which grew faster than their ancestors.
34、 These, and many more achievements, were of great economic value and benefit to people all over the world.In his lifetime of seventy-seven years Burbank became an American legend. He began life in 1849 on a farm in the state of Massachusetts. It was the same year that men across the continent in Cal
35、ifornia discovered gold, that precious metal so eagerly sought after in the earth. Eventually Burbank would follow them. But he would spend his life drawing a different treasure from the same California earth: a wealth of new plants and fruits.The Massachusetts countryside may have provided young Bu
36、rbank with a feeling for the mysteries of nature, but his scientific training came during the visits of an uncle who was a scientist. Through his uncle, Luther met the famous naturalist, Louis Agassiz. Agassiz introduced him to the complicated process by which plants grow, such as the steps in the m
37、aking of seeds from pollen (花粉) carried by insects, by birds, by the very winds of the field. Attracted by the ways of nature, Burbank took his first steps into the work that was to occupy his whole life.（分数：10.00）(1).Luther Burbank was _. A. a magician B. a farmer C. a philosopher D. a scientist（分数
38、：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Luther Burbank died in _. A. 1849 B. 1877 C. 1926 D. 1866（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In his life, Luther Burbank _. A. created many kinds of new plants B. discovered gold in California C. planted fruit trees D. made a lot of money（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Luther Burbank became interested in na
39、ture _. A. after meeting his uncle B. under the influence of Louis Agassiz C. because of the mysteries of the Massachusetts countryside D. when he received training in school（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. Burbanks work was of great economic value. B. Burbank c
40、ould play amazing tricks with plants. C. Men discovered gold in California in 1849. D. Burbank achieved great fame in America.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.It is pretty much a one-way street. While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world, there is very little traffic
41、 in the opposite direction. Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job. For some industrial scientists, however, the attractions of academia (学术界) outweigh any financial considerations.Helen Lee
42、took a 70% cut in salary when she moved from a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a medical department at the University of Cambridge. Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions. Some areas of inquiry have few pro
43、spects of a commercial return, and Lees is one of them.The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career. Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for
44、a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher. He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities.Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually more significant, the demand for scientists with a wealth of experi
45、ence in industry is forcing universities to make the transition (转换) to academia more attractive, according to Lee. Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not, such as how to build a multidisciplinary team, manage budgets and negotiate contracts. They are also well placed t
46、o bring something extra to the teaching side of an academic role that will help students get a job when they graduate, says Lee, perhaps experience in manufacturing practice or product development. “Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career. So someone leaving univers
47、ity who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.“（分数：10.00）(1).By “a one-way street“ (Line 1, Para. 1), the author means _. A.university researchers know little about th
48、e commercial world B.there is little exchange between industry and academia C.few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university D.few university professors are willing to do industrial research（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The word “deterrent“ (Line 2, Para. 1) most probably refers to something that _. A.keeps someone from taking action B.helps to move the traffic C.attracts peoples attention D.brings someone a financial burden（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What was Helen Lees major consideration when she changed her job in the middl
