英语(二)衔接考试模拟试题一

英语（二）模拟试题一

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本试卷共9页，满分100分；考试时间150分钟。

下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A：如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B：如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。

What are special effects? Do you enjoy movies that use a lot of special effects Dinosaurs from the distant past! Space battles from the distant future! There has been a revolution in special effects, and it has transformed the movies we see. 

　　The revolution began in the mid 1970s with George Lucas’s Star Wars, a film that stunned audiences. That revolution continues to the present, with dramatic changes in special effects technology. The company behind these changes is Lucas’s Industrial Light&-Magic (ILM). And the man behind the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas since Star Wars. 

　　Muren’s interest in special effects began very early. At the age of 6, he was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. At 10, he had an 8 millimeter movie camera and was making these things move through stop-motion. (Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together, the objects appear to move) 

　　Talk to Muren and you will understand what ILM is all about: taking on new challenges. By 19, Muren decided he had pushed the old technology as far as it would go. 

　　He saw computer graphics(图像)(CG) technology as the wave of the future and took a year off to master it. 

　　With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for processing, for example, and many separate shots can be combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel(续集), The Lost World, the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs. 

1. The special-effects revolution began in the mid 1980s with Star Wars. ____ B____

A. True B. False C. Not given

2. Dennis Muren, one good friends of Lucas, worked for ILM. _____C___

A. True B. False C. Not given

3. ILM is the company responsible for many of the changes in special effects technology. ___A_____

A. True B. False C. Not given

4. Muren dedicated himself to the improvement of old technology. ___A_____

A. True B. False C. Not given

5. Dennis Muren started his schooling at a very early age. _____C___ 

A. True B. False C. Not given

6. At the age of 10, Muren was able to use computer graphics technology to make things move. ___B_____

A. True B. False C. Not given

7. By the stop—motion process, many separate shots can be combined into a single image. _____B___

A. True B. False C. Not given

8. Muren feels that with CG technology, special effects can be used to make movies more expressive. ____A____

A. True B. False C. Not given

9. Today’s film makers emphasize special effects at the expense of the story.____C___

A. True B. False C. Not given

10. Computer-generated images have been used in many films.____A____

A. True B. False C. Not given

阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的4个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出一个最佳选项。

I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.

Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed（解散）.As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.

11. The story took place exactly ___b____.

A. in the teacher’s office             B. in an exam room

  C. in the school                         D. in the language lab

12. The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because __c_____.

A. she had not brought a pen with her  

   B. she had lost her own on her way to school

   C. there was something wrong with her own

   D. her own had been taken away by someone

13. The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ___d____.

A. to go on writing his paper          

  B. to stop whispering

   C. to leave the room immediately      

   D. to stay behind after the exam

14. The thing(s) emphasized in her talk was (were) __a_____.

A. honesty       B. sense of duty     C. seriousness      D. all of the above

15. The boy knew everything ____c___.

   A. the moment he was asked to stay behind 

   B. when the teacher started talking about honesty

   C. only some time later 

   D. when he was walking out of the room

阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务：（1）从第16-20题后所给的6个选项中为第 ①-⑤段每段选择1个正确的小标题：（2）从第21-25题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。

__①__ As has been demonstrated repeatedly, a transportation infrastructure based around individuals in automobiles contributes to global warming, pollution, health problems and energy insecurity. Conversely, the idea behind a green transportation infrastructure is one that provides opportunities for people to get around their communities using their own power--such as walking or biking--or by other more environmentally sensitive means, like trains or buses. Sometimes, the best definition of a concept can be found by describing what it is not. 

All one has to do to get across the idea is to highlight the experience virtually all of us have shared at some point in our life (and for millions of Americans it can be literally an everyday experience): sitting in our motionless cars on a jam-packed highway as the vehicles spew emissions and pollution into the air. Even in cases when it’s difficult or impossible to remove the car from the picture entirely, there are ways to green our transportation infrastructure and improve our health and quality of life. Therefore, we have to find out some ways to improve what’s already in place. 

　　__②__ A lot of city dwellers hold that they prefer to drive cars to work. Sure, there are plenty of reasons keeping them in the cars. Convenience is obviously one, but having to wait at a bus stop and then sit or stand on a crowded bus while cars go by is definitely another big trouble. But cities around the world are doing their best to employ the environmental benefits of bus ridership by making them more attractive to ride. 0ne major way is by creating lanes dedicated to buses so that they can zoom past cars and trucks on roadways. 

　　__③__ Fun is just one of the many benefits to cities and towns that commit to making biking easy and safe. “Cleaner, healthier, quieter and safer neighborhoods”, are the results of making bikeways and 1anes a priority, says Zehner, who argues that even though American cities are more spread out than those in Europe, they are still great candidates for bikes. If Americans can embrace the concept it will make us more like the rest of the world; indeed. Zehner says the bike is the predominant mode of transport globally, with around 2 billion people using them.

　　__④__ When it was originally built in l8, the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was all about commerce and transportation, allowing people and goods to flow easily over the Hudson River. For years, the bridge sat unused after a fire nearly destroyed it in 1974 until a group called Walkway over the Hudson began its efforts to transform the bridge into a place for the public to enjoy. The group was finally successful in its efforts when the Walk way over the Hudson State Park opened in 2009--making it the longest pedestrian bridge in the world, which has since attracted more than l million visitors. Pedestrian bridges provide opportunities for alternative, environmentally friendly transportation modes such as biking and walking. 

　　__⑤__ Giving people the opportunity and encouragement to get out and walk sometimes takes a little creativity, especially in hyper-urban areas like New York City. In the city’s old Meatpacking District, a group of committed citizens have transformed what was once a piece of what would now be called green infrastructure--an elevated railway line and transformed it into a nearly 1.5-mile walkway and park on the west side of Manhattan called the High Line. What was a transportation route for meat and other agricultural goods heading into factories and warehouses from 1934 to 1980 is now a popular park with areas for public art and urban gardens. 

Task 1

16. Paragraph①___a___ 

17. Paragraph②___e___ 

18. Paragraph③__d____ 

19. Paragraph④___f___ 

20. Paragraph⑤____a__ 

A. A little creativity is required to encourage people to walk. 

B. People can use more electric vehicles instead of cars. 

C. The green transportation encourages people to use human power or other environmentally friendly means. 

D. Biking will do great good to the environment. 

E. Bus lanes should be made to attract more bus riders.

F. Pedestrian bridges function as alternatives to biking and walking. 

Task 2

21. A transportation infrastructure will lead to___b___. 

22. With the green transportation, people to get around their communities using their own power or__e___.

23. Difficult or impossible as it is to remove the car entirely we have to find ways to improve___a___. 

24. The results of making bikeways and lanes a priority are__d____. 

25. Sometimes can give people the opportunity and encouragement to get out and walk.__c___ .

A. what’s already in place 

B. global warming, pollution, health problems and energy insecurity 

C. a little activity 

D. cleaner, healthier, quieter and safer neighborhoods 

E. by other more environmentally sensitive means 

F. the government’s great support 

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Have you ever been in a doctor’s waiting room and looked around at all the glum faces waiting impatiently to be seen? Dr. Stephen K. Sproul, a veterinarian in Raytown, Missouri, told of a typical spring day when his waiting room was full of clients waiting to have their pets inoculated.__26D__He told one of our classes: There were six or seven clients waiting when a young woman came in with a nine-month-old baby and a kitten.__27_C_ The next thing he knew, the baby just looked up at him with that great big smile that is so characteristic of babies. What did that gentleman do? 

__28B__ Soon he struck up a conversation with the woman about her and his grand children and soon the entire reception room joined in, and the boredom and tension were converted into a pleasant and enjoyable experience. The ancient Chinese were a wise lot wise in the ways of the world and they had a proverb that you and I ought to cut out and paste inside our hats. __29E_. Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill. 30 _F__. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. Especially when that someone is under pressure from his bosses, his customers, his teachers or parents or children, a smile can help him realize that all is not hopeless--that there is joy in the world.  

A. It goes like this, “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”

B. As luck would have it, she sat down next to a gentleman who was more than a little distraught about the long wait for service. 

C. Just what you and I would do, of course; he smiled back at the baby. 

D. No one was talking to anyone else, and all were probably thinking of a dozen other things they would rather be doing than “wasting time” sitting in that office. 

E. Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. 

F. So naturally we are glad to see them. 

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A budget is a foreign concept to kids (and, it should be said, to many adults). Younger children, especially, simply won’t realize that mommy and daddy have a (31) ___L__ amount of money to spend every month. But (32) ___H___ what a budget is, and why it’s a good idea, is one of the central pillars of financial literacy.

The best way to teach kids how a budget works is (33) __I___to show them. That’s not to say that you should open your books up to your children and show them every penny coming in or out (although you may consider (34) ____B____ some details with teenagers about things like your mortgage payment, car payment, and so on). Instead, just give them a broad (35) __C___of how adults have to divide up their money each month.

One easy way to demonstrate this concept is to take a stack of Monopoly money( 游戏钞票), and tell your child that the stack represents how much money you (36)___E____ every month from work. Then divide up the (37) ___D___ one at a time to show how much you spend on the house, how much you spend on food, how much you save, how much you give to charitable (38)____J___, and so forth.. The denominations aren’t important. What’s important is showing your children that you have a (39) ___F____ plan for your money, and that you’re on top of the family finances.

Encourage your child to start a budget of his own: Part of his allowance should go to savings, part to charity, and part of it is just for fun. Help your child indentify what he (40) _____G_____values, and budget his money accordingly.

A. aware B. sharing C. sense D. bills

E. make F. conscious G. truly H. learning

I.

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The structure of a family takes different forms around the world and even in the same society. The family’s form changes as it adapts to __41changing__ (change) social and economic influences. Until recently, the most common form in North America was the nuclear ramie, __42consisting__ (consist) of a married couple with their minor children. The nuclear family is an __43independent__ (depend) unit. It must be prepared to fend for itself. Individuality member __44strongly__ (strong) depend on one another. There is little help from outside family in emergencies. Elderly __45relstives__ (relative) of a nuclear family are cared for only if it is possible for the family to do so. In North America the __46elderly__ (elder)often do not live with the family they live in __47__ (retire）communities and nursing homes. 

There are many parallels between the nuclear family in __48industrial__ (industry) societies, such as North America, and of families in societies such as that of the Inuits, who live in harsh environments. The nuclear family structure is well __49adapted__ (adapt) to a life of mobility. In harsh conditions, mobility allows the family to hunt for food. For North Americans, the hunt for jobs and __50improved__ (improve) social status also requires mobility.

请根据所提供材料中的要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Recently, a few people in China have been confirmed to be infected with the H7N9 bird flu virus. The health authority has taken some measures to control the situation. Can you give some suggestions to keep yourself from being infected?