西南交通大学网络教育专升本英语入学考试模拟题及答案(文科3)

西南交通大学网络教育专升本英语入学考试模拟题及答案(文科3)

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184. The human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us aajust to the outside world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a system of nerves, we couldn’t know what’s happening. But we pay for our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture is based on the human body being open to pain. But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain. The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. If the dentist says, “This will hurts a little,” it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation, we can handle the pain without falling apart. After all, although pain is an unpleasant sensation, it is still a sensafion, and sensations are the stuff of life. [共5题]

(1) The human body has developed a system of nerves that enables us to ________.

(A) stay relaxed (B) avoid pain (C) stand torture (D) feel pain

正确答案：D

(2) What does the writer mean by saying “we pay for our sensitivity” in Para.1?

(A) We have to take care of our sense of pain.

(B) We suffer from our sense of feeling.

(C) We should try hard to resist pain.

(D) We are hurt when we feel pain.

正确答案：B

(3) When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he shows that ________.

(A) fakirs possess magic power

(B) Indians are not afraid of pain

(C) people can learn to cope with pain

(D) some people are born without a sense of pain

正确答案：C

(4) What is essential for people to stand pain according to the writer?

(A) Their relaxation. (B) Their interest. (C) Their nerves. (D) Their attitude.

正确答案：D

(5) The author believes that ________.

(A) feeling pain is part of our life

(B) pain should be avoided at all costs

(C) feeling pain can be an interesting thing

(D) magic power is essential for reducing pain

正确答案：A

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185. As she walked round the huge department store, Edith reflected how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wish that he was as easy to please as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume. Besides, shopping at this time of the year was a most disagreeable experience: people trod on your toes, poked you with their elbows and almost knocked you over in their haste to get to a bargain ahead of you. Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter where some attractive ties were on display. “They are real silk,” the assistant assured her, trying to tempt her. “Worth double the price.” But Edith knew from past experience that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father. She moved on reluctantly and then quite by chance, stopped where a small crowd of man had gathered round a counter. She found some good quality pipes on sale—and the prices were very reasonable. Edith did not hesitate for long: although her father only smoked a pipe occasionally, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please him. When she got home, with her small well-chosen present concealed in her handbag, her parents were already at the supper table. Her mother was in an especially cheerful mood, “Your father has at last to decided to stop smoking.” She informed her daughter. [共5题]

(1) Edith’s father ________.

(A) did not like present (B) never got present

(C) preferred ties (D) was difficult to choose a present for

正确答案：D

(2) The assistant spoke to Edith because she seemed ________.

(A) attractive (B) interested in ties (C) tired (D) in need of comfort

正确答案：B

(3) Edith stopped at the next counter ________.

(A) purposely (B) suddenly (C) unwillingly (D) accidentally

正确答案：D

(4) Edith’s father smoked a pipe ________.

(A) when he was obliged (B) on social occasions

(C) from time to time D) (D) when he was delighted

正确答案：C

(5) Shopping was very disagreeable at that time of the year because ________.

(A) customers were doing their shopping in a great hurry

(B) customers poked each other with their elbows

(C) customers knocked each other

(D) customers trod on each other’s toes

正确答案：A

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186. Do you sometimes argue about what seems to you to be simple fact? Do you argue whether it’s cold outdoors or whether the car in front of you is going faster than the speed limit? If you get into such arguments, try to think about the story about the six blind men and the elephant. The first blind man who felt the elephant’s trunk said it was like a snake. The second who felt the elephant’s side said it was like a wall, while the third said it was like a spear as he touched the animal’s tusk. The fourth, who had hold of the elephant’s tail insisted that it was like a rope. The fifth man said it looked like a tree as he put his arms around one of the elephant’s legs. The sixth, who was tall and got hold of the elephant’s ears, said it was like a huge fan. Each man’s idea of the animal came from his own experience. So if someone disagrees with you about a “simple fact”, it’s often because his experience in the matter is different from yours. To see how hard it is for even one person to make up his mind about a “simple fact”, try this simple experiment. Get three large bowls. Put ice water in one. Put hot water in the second. Put lukewarm water in the third. Now put your left hand in the ice water. Put your right hand in the hot water. After thirty seconds, put both hands in the lukewarm water. Your right hand will tell you the water is cold. You left hand will tell you it’s hot! [共5题]

(1) What makes people think about simple facts differently?

(A) The fact that simple facts differ from one another.

(B) The fact that people have different experience in the same simple fact.

(C) The fact that people often disagree with on another.

(D) The fact that it’s hard to make up one’s mind about simple facts.

正确答案：B

(2) Which of the following temperature is the closest to the meaning of the word “lukewarm” in the last paragraph?

(A) Above 0℃. (B) Above 40℃. (C) Above 20℃. (D) Below 0℃.

正确答案：C

(3) The writer’s advice is ________.

(A) we should never think about simple facts

(B) we should never judge something with a one-sided view

(C) we should not agree about simple facts

(D) we must learn from the six blind men

正确答案：B

(4) After reading the last paragraph, we may think of ________.

(A) Newton’s law

(B) Crallilao’s theory of falling objects

(C) Einstein’s theory of relativity

(D) Marx’s On Capital

正确答案：C

(5) The main idea of this passage is ________.

(A) people often judge something according to his own experience

(B) people often agree about simple facts

(C) it’s hard for a person to make up his mind about a simple fact

(D) don’t care too much about simple facts

正确答案：A

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187. It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior. So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans. Tracking whales is but one example of all exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies. Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption for the first time and that they plan similar studies. Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures. The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second, slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (听诊器) does when it carries faint noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles. [共5题]

(1) The passage is chiefly about ________.

(A) an effort to protect an endangered marine species

(B) the exposure of a US Navy top-secret weapon

(C) the civilian use of a military detection system

(D) a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales

正确答案：C

(2) The underwater listening system was originally designed ________.

(A) to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions

(B) to replace the global radio communications network

(C) to study the movement of ocean currents

(D) to trace and locate enemy vessels

正确答案：D

(3) The deep-sea listening system makes use of ________.

(A) the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting sound

(B) the capability of sound to travel at hligh speed

(C) low-frequency sounds travelling across different layers of water

(D) the sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under water

正确答案：A

(4) It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

(A) blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system

(B) new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales

(C) military technology has great potential in civilian use

(D) opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology

正确答案：C

(5) Which of the following is true about the US Navy underwater listening network?

(A) It has been replaced by a more advanced system.

(B) It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.

(C) It became useless to the military after the cold war.

(D) It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.

正确答案：B