现代远程教育大学英语A统考模拟试题（2）

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现代远程教育大学英语A统考模拟试题（2）

一、阅读理解
1、Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look at our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attackers.
Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting their food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use--that of controlling and domesticating their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival.
The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets. Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead, the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that were no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten but there were other much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.

(1)、The author believes that sporting activities ______.
A：are forms of biological development
B：have actually developed from hunting
C：are essentially forms of taming the prey
D：have changed the ways of hunting
答案： B
(2)、In a football game what is equal to the prey in hunting is ______.
A：any member of the opposing team
B：the goal
C：The goalmouth
D：the football
答案： C
(3)、For over a million years, our forefathers were basically ______.
A：successful farmers
B：cooperating hunters
C：runners and jumpers
D：skillful sportsmen
答案： B
(4)、The word "operation" (Paragraph 4) refers to ______.
A：sports activities
B：hunting
C：prey killing
D：domesticating animals
答案： B
(5)、Which of the following best summarizes the idea of the passage?
A：It is farming that gives human beings enough leisure time for sporting activities
B：Farming is very important in human civilization because it saves human beings from risks and uncertainties of hunting for survival
C：It is hunting that provides human beings with much simpler ways of obtaining meaty meals
D：Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern man to exercise hunting skills which his forefathers developed for survival
答案： D

2、Since World War II, there has been a clearly discernible trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin dating in the first stages of adolescence, "go steady" through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. However, emotional maturity is no respecter of birthdays; it does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even in three-score years and ten.
Many students are marrying as an escape, not only from an unsatisfying home life, but also from their own personal problems of isolation and loneliness. And it can almost be put down as a dictum that any marriage seldom solves one's problems, more often, it merely makes them worse. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the home is an institution that is capable of carrying all that the young are seeking to put into it. Young people correctly understand that their parents are wrong in believing that "success" is the ultimate good, but they erroneously believe that they themselves have found the true center of life's meaning. Their expectations of marriage are essentially utopian and therefore incapable of fulfillment. They want too much, and disappointments are often bound to follow.
Shall we, then, join the chorus of "Miseries" over early marriage? One cannot generalize: all early marriages are not bad any more than all later ones are good. Satisfactory marriages are determined not by time, but by the emotional maturity of the partners. Therefore, each case must be judged on its own merits. If the early marriage is not an escape, if it is entered into with relatively few illusions or false expectations, and if it is economically feasible, why not? Good marriages can be made from sixteen to sixty, and so are bad ones.

(1)、According to this article the trend toward early marriages __________.
A：was the result of the Great Depression of the 1930's
B：could not be easily determined
C：is one that could be clearly seen
D：is a result of the emotional maturity of the young
答案： C
(2)、The author suggests that many of today's early marriages are a result of __________.
A：escapism
B：theological dictum
C：lack of formal education
D：convenience
答案： A
(3)、More often than not, early marriage will __________.
A：not affect one's problems
B：solve a person's problems
C：intensify one's problems
D：ease one's problems
答案： C
(4)、The author states that the home as an institution is __________.
A：overrated
B：unworthy of worship
C：a god who can grant everything that you wish for
D：probably not capable of being what many young people expect it to be
答案： D
(5)、 Many young people who marry early believe that __________.
A：their parents have found the true meaning of life
B：they have found the true center of life's meaning
C："success"is the ultimate good
D：to succeed is not at all important
答案： B

二、词汇与语法
1、The earrings are not _________ the price that I paid for it.
A：worth
B：worthy
C：value
D：equal
答案： A
2、It is impolite to _______ in others' private affairs.
A：interfere
B：involve
C：interrupt
D：influence
答案： A
3、 My brother was still studying         into the night while I was         asleep.
A：late; sound
B：lately; wide
C：deeply; far
D：far; late
答案： A
4、I'd like to explain the proposals _______ we have received many objections.
A：to which
B：to where
C：to who
D：to what
答案： A
5、I believe you'll get through the tough moment, _____?
A：don't I
B：won't I
C：don't you
D：won't you
答案： D
6、By Saturday, I _______ here for three weeks.
A：will be working
B：will have worked
C：will work
D：work
答案： B
7、You have only 1000 words in which to ______ his speech.
A：amount to
B：sum up
C：lead to
D：take up
答案： B
8、You may get good grades by studying only before examinations, but you will only succeed ________ by studying hard every day.
A：in particular
B：in the long run
C：in season
D：in the end of
答案： B
9、Mrs. Johnson _________ about it before me.
A：would not like speaking
B：would not like to speak
C：had better not speaking
D：had better not to speak
答案： B
10、His brother is very ______ about wines.
A：aware
B：learned
C：knowledgeable
D：skeptical
答案： C

三、完型填空
Indians in the United States are faced with significant problems. First as groups of people with their   1   languages and cultures, each tribe wants to keep   2 its traditional and preserve some of its native customs. The   3 want their children to be proud of being Indians, as well as to survive in the outside world. The young people want to enter the modern world, 4   they see on television and in movies. Like everyone   5 , they are anxious to get a good education and a good job. 6 , the Indians see little prospect   7 success and become frustrated because they usually go to   8 schools and often cannot adjust   9 in the city. In addition, many Indians feel that they are discriminated against, partly because they always see themselves   10   losers in movies and history books. They have lost much of their self-confidence and pride, and they must acknowledge this fact in order to get rid of their problem.

(1)、
A：own
B：self
C：selves
D：owns
答案： A
(2)、
A：on
B：down
C：up
D：from
答案： C
(3)、
A：adult
B：youth
C：adults
D：women
答案： C
(4)、
A：that
B：in that
C：in which
D：which
答案： D
(5)、
A：own
B：else
C：owns
D：body
答案： B
(6)、
A：While
B：Therefore
C：However
D：Although
答案： C
(7)、
A：for
B：with
C：at
D：from
答案： A
(8)、
A：noble
B：senior
C：junior
D：inferior
答案： D
(9)、
A：to live
B：to life
C：to lives
D：to walk
答案： B
(10)、
A：for
B：as
C：and
D：but
答案： B

四、汉译英
(1)、研究表明，成功的语言学习者在许多方面都有共同之处。
(2)、了解如何在日常交际中使用这些词组很有用。
(3)、孩子们常常想为什么鸟能飞而他们不能飞。
(4)、如果昨天我知道这件事, 我就会告诉你的。

五、写作
Instructions:Your essay should be no less than 150 words.
There are different ways of getting information: reading, watching TV, or surfing the Internet（上网）. Write an essay on the topic "Ways of Getting Information". You should base your essay on the outline below.
1.现代社会获取信息方式的多样化。
2.你更喜欢哪种方式，原因是什么。
3.不同的人为不同的目的应选择合适的方式。