试题库在线考试题库-历年真题模拟试题及答案-考博英语在线试题测试中心-希赛网

安徽大学

One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one’s mistakes. It is extremely hard to sometimes to say a simple thing like “I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say “I was wrong, and you were right about that.”I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely the incident he was describing.I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident took place.There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reasons, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work.The manager heard the noise, and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the culprit (罪人). He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.41. How old was the author when he wrote this article?42. Who was to blame for knocking off the stacks of cartons?43. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?44. Which of the following can serve as the best title of the passage?45. The tone of the article expresses the author’s（）.

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Woodcarving began as a necessity in America and developed into an art. Because of the lack of other materials, early settlers were forced to make tools and utensils out of wood. At first, these articles were whittled with a knife, but when pioneer craftsmen set up their primitive shops most of them were fashioned on a lathe—a machine which holds an object and rotates it while it is being shaped by a tool.However, even after Massachusetts-born Thomas Blanchard designed a lathe which could turn irregular shapes—an innovation that, made possible mass production of gunstocks, shoe lasts, oblong and square wood ware—craftsmen who could use knife and chisel skillfully were still in demand. Some found ready employment in shops of cabinet-makers and chair-makers, while others carved decoys (捕兽的圈套). Still others specialized in creating shop signs, ship figureheads, or in decorating interior woodwork. A few even accepted commissions to make busts(半身像) of prominent citizens.36. This passage most likely came from a longer work about early American（）.37. The passage suggests that the early shops for making tools were（）.38. It can be inferred from the passage that, before Thomas Blanchard’s invention, lathes（）.39. Which of the following object was an important wood-working tool used by early American craftsmen?40. According to the passage, when wooden articles began to be mass-produced, what did many individual wood-workers do?

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As protector of her family’s health, the pioneer woman confronted situations she never imagined before crossing the Mississippi. Few women came west prepared to deal with desert sunburn, rattlesnake bites, or arrow wounds. Even when doctors were available, they were often no more knowledgeable than their patients. And most patent medicines were no more reliable than the itinerant merchants who sold them.In certain cases, a woman could draw upon the folk wisdom and remedies she had learned back home; Western mosquitoes, for example, proved to be as repelled by a paste of vinegar and salt as were their Eastern cousins. More often, however, a woman was guided only by her own ingenuity in concocting tonics, powders, poisons, and polishes from whatever she had at hand; salt made a passable toothpaste; gunpowder was applied to warts, and turpentine(松节油) to open cuts; goose grease, skunk oil, and the ever-present lard were basic liniments; medical teas and tonics were brewed from sunflower seeds and roots.31. According to the passage, why were doctors in the west sometimes unable to help their patients?32. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about patent medicines?33. It can be inferred that most of the pioneers referred to in the passage were originally from where in the United States?34. All of the following were mentioned in the passage as being encountered by the pioneers EXCEPT（）.35. It can be inferred from the passage that in order to survive in the West, the pioneers had to be（）.

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Directions: This part consists of ten sentences. Each sentence has four parts underlined and labeled A, B, C and D. Identify the one choice that is not accepted in standard English and mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.21. A few [A] naturally elements exist in such small [B] amounts that they are known [C] mainly from laboratory-made [D] samples.22. [A] To stay warm in cold weather, cold-blooded animals must expose [B] itself to [C] a source of warmth such as [D] direct sunlight.23. A severe illness [A] where she was [B] just nineteen months old [C] deprived Helen Keller [D] of both her sight and hearing.24. In [A] the wild, tea plants become [B] trees of [C] approximately thirty feet in [D]high.25. For many centuries, sailors [A] relied on echoes [B] to warn them of [C]another ships, icebergs, or cliffs in [D] foggy weather.26. [A] It is the [B] interaction between people, rather than the events that occur in their lives, [C] that are the main focus of [D] social psychology.27. It is true that [A] the rotation of the Earth [B] on its axis is responsible [C] with the alternation of periods [D] of light and darkness.28. One of the most difficult [A] questions [B] in defining sleep [C] is “What [D] is the functions of sleep?”29. Seven [A] of planets rotate in the same direction [B] as their orbital motions, [C] while Venus and Uranus rotate in the [D] opposite direction.30. The tongue is [A] capable of many [B] motions and configurations and plays [C] a vital role in chewing, [D] swallowed, and speaking.

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Man is realizing that the oceans are（）controlling factors in the weather.

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