1、山东专升本（英语）模拟试卷 12 及答案与解析一、Vocabulary and Structure1 _at his way, the situation doesnt seem so desperate.（A）Looking（B） Looked（C） Being looked（D）To look2 Agriculture is the countrys chief source of wealth, wheat_by far the biggest cereal crop.（A）is（B） been（C） be（D）being3 _if I had arrived yesterday wit
2、hout letting you know beforehand?（A）Would you be surprised（B） Were you surprised（C） Had you surprised（D）Would you have been surprised4 Thousands of _ at the stadium came to their feet to pay tribute to an outstanding performance.（A）audience（B） participants（C） spectators（D）observers5 During the readi
3、ng lesson, teacher asked students to read a few_from the novel.（A）pieces（B） essays（C） fragments（D）extracts6 This project would _ a huge increase in defense reading.（A）result（B） assure（C） entail（D）accomplish7 Failure to follow the club rules_ him from the volleyball team.（A）disfavored（B） dispelled（C）
4、 disqualified（D）dismissed8 I arrive at the airport so late that I_missed the plane.（A）only（B） quite（C） narrowly（D）confidently9 Language belongs to each member of the society, to the cleaner_ to the professor.（A）as far as（B） the same as（C） as much as（D）as long as10 At no time_ other countries.（A）Chin
5、a will invade（B） will invade China（C） will China invade（D）invade will China11 Beside being expensive, the food tastes_.（A）badly（B） too much bad（C） too badly（D）bad12 Difficulties can_a persons best qualities.（A）bring up（B） bring out（C） bring about（D）bring to13 More than one third of the Chinese in th
6、e US live in California, _in San Francisco.（A）previously（B） predominantly（C） practically（D）permanently14 I am sure your suggestion will _the problem.（A）contribute to solving（B） be contribute to solve（C） contribute to solve（D）be contributed to solving15 America will never again have as a nation the s
7、pirit of adventure as it _ before the West was settled.（A）could（B） did（C） would（D）was15 There are a great many careers in which the increasing emphasis is on specialization. You find these careers in engineering, in production, in statistical work, and in teaching. But there is an increasing demand
8、for people who are able to take in great area at a glance, people who perhaps do not know too much about any one field. There is, in other words, a demand for people who are capable of seeing the forest rather than the trees, of making general judgments. We can call these people “generalists.“ And t
9、hese “ generalists“ are particularly needed for positions in administration, where it is their job to see that other people do the work, where they have to plan for other people, to organize other peoples work, to begin it and judge it.The specialist understands one field, his concern is with techni
10、que and tools. He is a “trained“ man, and his educational background is properly technical or professional. The generalistand especially the administratordeals with people; his concern is with leadership, with planning, and with direction giving. He is an “educated“ man; and the humanities are his s
11、trongest foundation. Very rarely is a specialist capable of being an administrator. And very rarely is a good generalist also a good specialist in particular field. Any organization needs both kinds of people, though different organizations need them in different proportions. It is your task to find
12、 out, during your training period, into which of the two kinds of jobs you fit, and to plan your career accordingly.Your first job may turn out to be the right job for youbut this is pure accident. Certainly you should not change jobs constantly or people will become suspicious of your ability to ho
13、ld any job. At the same time you must not look upon the first job as the final job; it is primarily a training job, an opportunity to understand yourself and your fitness for being an employee.16 There is an increasing demand for_.（A）all round people in their own fields（B） people whose job is to org
14、anize other peoples work（C） generalists whose educational background is either technical or professional（D）specialists whose chief concern is to provide administrative guidance to others17 The specialist is_.（A）a man whose job is to train other people（B） a man who has been trained in more than one f
15、ields（C） a man who can see the forest rather than the trees（D）a man whose concern is mainly with technical or professional matters18 The administrator is_.（A）a “trained“ man who is more a specialist than a generalist（B） a man who sees the trees as well as the forest（C） a man who is very strong in th
16、e humanities（D）a man who is an “educated“ specialist19 During your training period, it is important_（A）to try to be a generalist（B） to choose a profitable job（C） to find an organization which fits you（D）to decide whether you are fit to be a specialist or a generalist20 A mans first job_（A）is never t
17、he right job for him（B） should not be regarded as his final job（C） should not be changed or people will become suspicious of his ability to hold any job（D）is primarily an opportunity to fit himself for his final job20 At the bottom of the world lies a mighty continent still wrapped in the Ice Age an
18、d, until recent times, unknown to man. It is a great land mass with mountain ranges whose extent and elevation are still uncertain. Much of the continent is a complete blank on our maps. Man has explored, on foot, less than one percent of its area. Antarctica differs fundamentally from the Arctic re
19、gions. The Arctic is an ocean, covered with drifting packed ice and hemmed in by the land masses of Europe, Asia, and North America. The Antarctic is a continent almost as large as Europe and Australia combined, centered roughly on the South Pole and surrounded by the most unobstructed water areas o
20、f the world the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.The continental ice sheet is more than two miles high in its centre, thus, the air over the Antarctic is far more refrigerated than it is over the Arctic regions. This cold air current from the land is so forceful that it makes the nearby seas the
21、 stormiest in the world and renders unlivable those regions whose counterparts at the opposite end of the globe are inhabited. Thus, more than a million of persons live within 2,000 miles of the North Pole in an area that includes most of Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinaviaa region rich in forest and m
22、ining industries. Apart from a handful of weather stations, within the same distance of the South Pole there is not a single tree, industry, or settlement.21 The best title for this selection would be_.（A）Iceland（B） Land of Opportunity（C） The Unknown Continent（D）Utopia at Last22 At the time this art
23、icle was written, our knowledge of Antarctica was_（A）very limited（B） vast（C） fairly rich（D）nonexistent23 Antarctica is bordered by the_.（A）Pacific Ocean（B） Indian Ocean（C） Atlantic Ocean（D）All three24 The Antarctic is made uninhabitable primarily by_.（A）cold air（B） calm seas（C） ice（D）lack of knowled
24、ge about the continent 25 According to this article_.（A）2,000 people live on the Antarctic Continent（B） a million people live within 2,000 miles of the South Pole（C） weather conditions within a 2, 000 mile radius of the South Pole make settlements impractical（D）only a handful of natives inhabit Anta
25、rctica25 For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flight. In 400 A. D. Chinese children played with a fan-like toy that spun upwards and fell back to earth as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci conceive the first mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix,“ which could carry man straight up, but w
26、as only a design and was never tested.The ancient-dream was finally realized in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft of steel tubing with a rotating fan on top. It rose awkwardly and vertically into the air from a standing start, hovered a few feet above the ground, went side
27、ways and backwards, and then settled back to earth. The vehicle was called a helicopter.Imaginations were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own personal helicopters. People anticipate that vertical flight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today. Such fan
28、tastic expectations were not fulfilled.The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine. It excels in military missions, carrying troops, guns and strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in police work
29、, construction and logging companies employ them in various advantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use them as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies. Any urgent mission to a hard-to-get-to place is a
30、 likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of uses: deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work, and aid in the search for missing or wanted persons.26 People expect that_.（A）the airliners of today would eventually be replaced by helicopters（B） helicop
31、ters would someday be able to transport large number of people from place to place as airliners are now doing（C） the imaginations fired by the Russian engineers invention would become a reality in the future（D）their fantastic expectations about helicopters could be fulfilled by airliners of today27
32、Helicopters work with the aid of_.（A）a combination of rotating devices in front and on top（B） a rotating device topside（C） one rotating fan in the center of the aircraft and others at each end（D）a rotating fan underneath for lifting28 What is said about the development of the helicopter?（A）Helicopte
33、rs have only been worked on by man since 1940.（B） Chinese children were the first to achieve flight in helicopters.（C） Helicopters were considered more dangerous than the early airplanes.（D）Some people thought they would become widely used by average individuals.29 How has the use of helicopters dev
34、eloped?（A）They have been widely used for various purposes.（B） They are taking the place of high-flying jets.（C） They are used for rescue work.（D）They are now used exclusively for commercial projects.30 Under what conditions are helicopters found to be absolutely essential?（A）For overseas passenger t
35、ransportation.（B） For extremely high altitude flights.（C） For high-speed transportation.（D）For urgent mission to places inaccessible to other kinds of craft.30 In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival was held ever
36、y four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character, became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, But some official records date
37、 from 776 B. C.The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of events uncertain
38、, but events included boys gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modern Olympic Games.On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive leaves placed on their heads. So great was the h
39、onor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.After an unint
40、errupted history of almost 1,200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394 A. D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics: the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games
41、was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over 1, 500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools a
42、nd living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes expenses.The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the suns rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Gre
43、ek athletic ideals, and it burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modern conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.31 In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games_.（A）were merely
44、national athletic festivals（B） were in the nature of a national event with a strong religious colour（C） had rules which put foreign participants in a disadvantageous position（D）were primarily national events with few foreign participants32 In the early days of ancient Olympic Games_.（A）only male Gre
45、ek athletes were allowed to participate in the games（B） all Greeks, irrespective of sex, religion or social status, were allowed to take part（C） all Greeks, with the exception of women, were allowed to compete in Games（D）all male Greeks were qualified to compete in the Games33 The order of athletic
46、events at the ancient Olympics_.（A）has not definitely been established（B） varied according to the number of foreign competitors（C） was decided by Zeus, in whose honor the Games were held（D）was considered unimportant34 Modern athletes results cannot be compared with those of ancient runners because_.
47、（A）the Greeks had no means of recording the results（B） they are much better（C） details such as the time were not recorded in the past（D）they are much worse35 Nowadays, the athletes expenses are paid for_.（A）out of the prize money of the winners（B） out of the funds raised by the competing nations（C）
48、by the athletes themselves（D）by contributions35 Youth unemployment in industrial countries has risen in the past decade despite measures aimed at creating jobs for the young, most of which have failed, the organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD)said on June 24, 1999.“Average you
49、th unemployment in the OECD area has risen form 10 percent in 1979 to 13 percent in 1998, and is in double digits in most member countries,“ the 29 member organization said in its annual Economic Outlook report.Many countries had introduced special plans aimed at creating jobs for under-24s during that period, but the results were “fairly discouraging“, the report said.Few remedial or employment-insertion progra
