英語（二） 模擬題

第一部分：閱讀判斷（第1-10題， 每題一分， 共10分）

下面的短文后列出了10個句子，請根據短文的內容對每個句子作出判斷：如果該句提供的是正確信息，選擇A；如果該句提供的是錯誤信息，選擇B；如果該句的信息文中沒有提及，選擇C, 并在答題卡相應位置上將答案選項涂黑。

The Change of Lifestyle

  I worked as a manager in a company for a number of years. I liked my job, and was doing well there, but our company was bought by a larger company and most of the managers at our place lost their jobs. That was when I decided to do something I’d always wanted to do—become a freelance (自由撰稿的) writer. Changing professions has meant that my lifestyle has changed in a number of ways.

  The main difference for me now is that I have a much more flexible schedule. I work about as much as I did before—between 45 and 50 hours a week—but my schedule is much less rigid than it used to be. Before, I worked from 8 to 5 every day, with a few extra hours on weekends. Now, however, I work when I feel like it. For instance, sometimes I work until midnight or 2 A.M., then sleep until noon. I really prefer this kind of schedule. It seems more natural to me.

  I also decided that it was about time I began o pay more attention to my health. While I was working as a manager, I never exercised. I already felt tired after work, so I just came home in the evening and watched TV. However, last year I joined a health club and began to do regular exercise. As a result I have lost over 10 pounds and I feel much better. I’ve also started to eat more healthfully. I used to eat a lot if fast food, but now I do my own shopping. I buy lots of fruits and vegetables and cook them at home.

  Of course, not all the changes have been that easy. For example, I don’t feel as secure financially as I used to. When I was working as a manager, I never worried much about money. I could always count on getting my paycheck every two weeks. Working freelance, I don’t have a regular paycheck. So now I have to make sure there’s enough money until the next check arrives.

  All in all, I really like my current lifestyle. Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ll never want to have a “regular” job. But for now, at least, it suits me.

1. The author decided to become a freelance writer because he wanted to change his lifestyle.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

2. The main difference the job change brought to the author is a flexible schedule he likes.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

3. In order to eat more healthily, the author does his own cooking now.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

4. The author’s chief problem now is to find a publisher to get his books published.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

5. At last, the author say he will soon find out whether writing is a good career for him.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

6. The loss of job made the author change his lifestyle in various ways.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

7. The author doesn’t have to worry about money working as a freelance writer.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

8. To the author, having a paid job to do is actually better than serving as a freelance writer.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

9. The author used to be the manager of the company he worked in and has no money problem.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

10. To be financially secure, the author decides to find another fixed job to do soon.

A. True         B. False       C. Not Given

答案：1-5 BAABC 6-10 ABCAC

第二部分： 閱讀選擇 （第11-15題，每題2分， 共10分）

閱讀下面短文，請從短文后所給各題的4個選項（A、B、C、D）中選出一個最佳選項，并在答題卡相應位置上將答案選項涂黑。

The Advantages of Educating Girls

Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be unusual territory for economists, but enhancing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its emphasis on incentives (激勵), provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education.

Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy (預言) becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (惡性循環) of neglect.

An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.

Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.

11. The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is ________.

A. troublesome      

B. labor-saving

C. rewarding      

D. expensive

12. By saying “... the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling...” (Lines 45, Para. 2). the author means that ________.

A. girls will turn out to be less valuable than boys

B. girls will be capable of realizing their own dreams

C. girls will eventually find their goals in life beyond reach

D. girls will be increasingly discontented with their life at home

13. The author believes that a vicious circle can turn into a virtuous circle when ________.

A. women care more about education

B. girls can gain equal access to education

C. a family has fewer but healthier children

D. parents can afford their daughters’ education

14. What does the author say about women’s education?

A. It deserves greater attention than other social issues.

B. It is now given top priority in many developing countries.

C. It will yield greater returns than other known investments.

D. It has aroused the interest of a growing number of economists.

15. The passage mainly discusses ________.

A. unequal treatment of boys and girls in developing countries

B. the potential earning power of well-educated women

C. the major contributions of educated women to society

D. the economic and social benefits of educating women

第三部分： 概括段落大意和補全句子（第16-25題，每題1分，共10分）

閱讀下面短文，請完成短文后的2項測試任務：（1）從第16-20題后所給的6個選項中為第①--⑤段每段選擇一個正確的小標題；（2）從21-25題后所給的6個選項中選擇5個正確選項，分別完成每個句子，并在答題卡相應位置上將答案選項涂黑。

High Divorce Rate in America

①During the traditional wedding ceremony, the bridal couple promise each other lifelong devotion. Yet, about 50% American marriages will end in divorce. What goes wrong? The fact that divorce is so common in the United States does not mean that Americans consider marriage a casual, unimportant relationship. Just the opposite is true. Americans expect a great deal from marriage. They seek physical, emotional, and intellectual compatibility. They want to be deeply loved and understood. It is because Americans expect so much from marriage that so many get divorced. They prefer no marriage at all to a marriage without love and understanding.

②Which marriages are most likely to end in divorce? Marriages between people with low incomes or limited education and marriages between teenagers are at greatest risk. The number of divorces between couples with children under the age of 18 is declining, and almost 45% of divorcing couples are childless.

③When a couple gets divorced, the court may require the man to pay his former wife a monthly sum of money called alimony (贍養費，生活費). The amount of alimony depends on the husband’s income, the wife’s needs, and the length of the marriage. If the woman is working and earns a good salary, she may receive no alimony at all. Occasionally, the court decides that a woman should pay her husband alimony. About 10% of American women outearn their husbands. If the woman has totally supported her husband during the marriage, the court may decide that she must continue to support him after the divorce. This is a rather new concept in the United States.

④If a divorcing couple has children, the court must determine which parent the children will live with and who will provide for their support. In most cases, the children live with the mother, and the father pays child support and has visitation rights. However, it is not uncommon for a father to get full custody or joint custody of his children when this arrangement seems to be in the children’s best interest.

   ⑤The high risk of divorce doesn’t seem to make Americans afraid to try marriage—again and again. By middle age, about 95% of Americans have been married at least once. About 80% of those who get divorced eventually remarry. Only in Japan is the married proportion of the population as high as it is in the U.S. A. In fact, remarriage and the creation of new families is so common in the United States that one American joke tells of a wife calling to her second husband, “Quick, John! Come here and help me! Your children and my children are beating up our children!”

Task 1

16 Paragraph ①                    

17 Paragraph ②    

18 Paragraph ③    

19 Paragraph ④     

20 Paragraph ⑤  

答案：16-20  DFECB

Task 2

21. There is a high divorce rate in America ________.

22.Some couples most possibly get divorced because ________.

23.If a woman earns more than her husband, ________.

24. A father is also likely to get full custody of his children ________.

25.Divorced people may choose to remarry many times ________.

答案：21-25  BDFAC

第四部分：填句補文（第26-30題，每題2分，共10分）

下面的短文有5處空白，短文后有6個句子，其中5個取自短文，請根據短文內容將其分別放回原有位置，以恢復文章原貌，并在答題卡相應位置上將答案選項涂黑。

What Youngsters Expect in Life

Back in the good old days of stable economic expansion—the 1950s and 1960s—a person could choose to do something new, exciting, and creative in life but could also choose to say, “That’s not for me: I am going to play it safe in life. I am going to stay in my home town and have a nice comfortable career in a salaried job.”__26__. All of us are going to be creators and pioneers over the next 10 years whether we like it or not, and many of us don’t like it.

Just look at what the attitude surveys tell us. In the United States, three-quarters of the adults surveyed by the Harris poll and two-thirds of all high-school seniors surveyed by Scholastic magazine say they believe that the United States will be a worse place 10 years from now than it is today. No wonder young people are disaffected. No wonder they are not motivated to learn. __27__.

Young men, in particular, are not happy with their prospects for the future. When surveyors ask U.S. female high-school students what they are going to do when they graduate, they list all kinds of roles they want to fill, like doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, civil servants, police and firemen, and fighter pilots. ___28__ Moreover, less than 10% of female high-school seniors expect to spend their adult lives solely as mothers and domestic managers,___29__.

By comparison, nearly half of male high-school students express their preference for a traditional, male-headed, one provider, nuclear family,___30___. And when male high-school students are asked what kinds of careers they would like to have, the only two job fields that consistently receive large numbers of responses in open surveys are “professional athlete” and “media personality”. A large proportion of America’s young men—one third or more—simply say they don’t know what they’re going to do as adults.

A. In short, they want to do all the things that men have always done.

B. where the wife stays home as mother and housewife

C. That second choice no longer exists for the vast majority of Americans.

D. while nearly 90% are committed to having both a career and a marriage based on equality.

E. where the wife enjoys equality to her husband at home.

F. They think the world in which they are going to spend their lives won’t be a very satisfactory place.

答案：

26-30  CFADB

第五部分： 填詞補文 （第31-40題，每題1.5分，共15分）

下面的短文有10處短文后列出12個詞，其中10個取自短文，請根據短文內容將其分別放回原有位置，以恢復文章原貌，并在答題卡相應位置上將答案選項涂黑。

Learning English As a Foreign Language

   People in many countries around the world are learning English these days. After 2 or 3 years of study, they can speak and __31___ a little English. However, because they are not living in an English _32___ country, they often start to forget some of their English. They might __33___ the grammar, but they soon forget the vocabulary; they might read an English __34___, but they don't ever speak English. For example, how can a person in Tokyo __35___ English when he does not hear or speak English every day? How can he ___36___to learn English ? There are many things he should do if he __37____ wants to improve.

    Of course, most people should be able to learn to speak English ___38____ But it takes a lot of practice, many years, in fact. If the student can __39____it, he might take a __40____ in an English speaking country.

A. understand    E. vacation    I. remember

B. newspaper    F. local     J. really

C. continue    G. fluently    K. afford

D. speaking    H. conveniently   L. master

答案：

31-35 A D I B L

31-35 understand   speaking  remember  newspaper  master  

36-40 C J G K E

36-40 continue   really     fluently    afford     vacation  

第六部分：完形補文（第41—50題，每題1.5分，共15分）

下面的短文有10處空白，每處空白后的括號內有一個詞，請根據短文內容將其正確的形式填入文中，以恢復文章原貌，并在答題卡相應位置上將答案選項涂黑。

  Marriage Across Nations

Gail and I imagined a quiet wedding. During our two years together we had ___41___ (experience) the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. But through it all we had __42____ (honest) confronted the weaknesses and strengths of each other’s characters.

Our racial and __43____ (culture) differences enhanced our relationship and ___44___ (teach) us a great deal about tolerance, compromise, and ___45___ (be) open with each other. Gail sometimes wondered why I and other blacks were so involved with the racial issue, and I was surprised that she seemed to forget the subtler forms of __46____ (race) hatred in American society.

Gail and I had no illusions about what the future held for us as a __47____ (marry), mixed couple in America. The continual source of our strength was our mutual trust and respect.

We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were __48____ (compatible), that they ___49___ (hard) took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the ___50___ (expect) that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right.   

答案：

 41-45  experienced   honestly    cultural taught  being

 46-50  racial     married  incompatible    hardly    expectation