2013年11月2日成人本科学位英语统一考试-聚题库

For 20 months the wrecked Costa Concordia has been lying on its side near the coast of Giglio, a small Italian island. But on Tuesday, as part of the largest salvage ( 打捞 ) operation ever conducted, the large ship was finally moved to the upright position. The next step is for the vessel to be removed from the area entirely.
The Costa Concordia is twice the weight of the Titanic. The ship itself didn ' t budge （稍微移动) for the first three hours of the operation, Sergio Girotto told reporters. He and other engineers worked for 19 hours before Concordia was declared completely upright.
The Costa Concordia capsized on January 13, 2012, after its captain, Francesco Schettino, brought the ship too close to the shore. The ship hit coastal rocks, which caused serious damage and allowed water to pour in.Most of the 4200 people on board made it to land safely, but more than 30 people were killed in the disaster. Two people remain missing. The Concordia 's captain is currently on trial for causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship.
The operation to right the ship is called parbuckling. While parbuckling is a standard operation to right capsized ships, it has never before been used on such a large ship. Workers had been waiting for favorable weather condition to undertake the operation. On Monday, authorities gave the final go-ahead.
The process was expected to take no more than 12 hours. But problems with the large system of steel chains caused delays. Engineers worked through the night using cables and metal water tanks to roll the ship onto special platforms.
The Concordia is expected to be pulled away from Giglio in the spring of 2014 and turned into scrap metal (废金属). The ship's owner, Costa Cruises, will pay for the recovery, which has already cost more than $800 million.

1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?（）

AShip Safety Management

BShipwrecks: an Environmental Threat

CThe Costa Concordia Disaster

DThe Costa Concordia Salvage

2. The word " capsized " in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to（）

Aturned over

Bdelayed

Cdeparted

Dset sail

3. According to the passage, the Concordia' s captain has been charged with causing the crashand （）.

Adrug use

Balcohol abuse

Cabandoning his post

Dsetting fire

4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?（）

AThe Costa Concordia is three times the weight of the Titanic.

BEngineers in Italy have successfully righted the wrecked Concordia after an operation that lasted around 12 hours.

CThe salvage operation went ahead despite bad weather conditions.

DAs a common means of righting wrecked ships, parbuckling had never been carried out on a vessel of the Concordia's size.

5. What will happen to the Concordia eventually?（）

AIt will be pulled away to be broken up for scrap metal.

BIt will be repaired and put into use again.

CIt will be turned into a museum for tourists.

DIt will be sunk to the ocean floor.

Would you risk your life for a country that considered you a second class citizen? Would you join a military that asked you to risk sacrificing your life but separated you from other soldiers because of the color of your skin? That is precisely what the Tuskegee Airmen did. They were brave, intelligent, African-American men and women who fought for the United States in World War II.
In 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed to allow African Americans to fly airplanes in the military. Before that, African Americans could only serve in the Armed Forces as part of the ground troops. The first African American airmen reported for duty in 1941. They began their training outside of Tuskegee, Alabama. The soldiers were completely separated by race and the two races could not communicate. About 450 African American pilots finished the training. These men were the original Tuskegee Airmen.
The Tuskegee Airmen had an amazing record. They did not lose any of the bombers they were escorting (护航). When the war was over in 1945, the Tuskegee Airmen were heroes. But when they returned to America, they were appalled to find out that they were still treated like second-class citizens. They faced the same segregation (种族隔离) and discrimination (歧视) as they had before they began their training.
Frederick Henry, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, lives in Detroit, Michigan. Because he was from the North, he would often forget the segregation rules of the South. Once, Henry was on a bus alone with a white bus driver. Soon, after the two had talked for a while, a wave of other passengers came on the bus. A problem arose when some white passengers were still standing, which was against the rules. Henry was put off the bus, even though he was the first person to board the bus and had paid his fare.
One thing did change, however. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order prohibiting segregation in the military. Eventually, the Tuskegee Airmen were officially thanked for their amazing efforts in the war.

6. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?（）

AAmerican Soldiers in World War II

BAmerican Civil Rights Movement

CThe Tuskegee Airmen

DRacial Discrimination in the U.S.

7. What docs the word "appalled " in the third paragraph probably mean?（）

AReluctant.

BPleased.

CShocked.

DRelieved.

8. It can be inferred from the passage that Henry （）.

Arefused to give up his seat to a white passenger

Brefused to pay his bus fare

Chad a fight with the bus driver

Dwas the last person to board the bus.

9. In （）, President Harry S.Truman ordered to end military segregation.

A1940

B1941

C1945

D1948

10. According to the passage, which of the following statements about the Tuskegee Airmen is TRUE?（）

AIn World War II,they never lost a bomber to enemy fire.

BThey were the first group of black soldiers ever trained by the ground troops.

CThey were not subjected to racial discrimination in the army.

DThey were already soldiers in the ground troops before their training at Tuskegee began.

Coffee is a powerful drink. On a personal level, it helps keep us awake and active. On a much general level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.
Coffee plants grow wild in parts of Africa and were probably used by travelling tribes ( 部落) for thousands of years , but it wasn't until the 1400s that people figured out they could roast its seeds.
"Then it really took off,"said historian Mark Pendergrast-author of Uncommon Grounds: the History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. By the 1500s, the drink had spread to coffeehouses across the Arab world Within another 150 years，it took Europe by storm."It actually had a major impact on the rise of business, " Pendergrast says. Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas.
The insurance industry was founded hundreds of years ago in one of London's 2,000 coffeehouses. Literature, newspapers and even the works of great composers like Bach and Beethoven were also inspired in coffeehouses.
It is often said that after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists (殖民者 attacked British tea ships and threw large boxes of tea into the harbor, Americans everywhere switched over to drinking coffee."There's a lot of truth to the story, I found," Pendergrast says. He mentions a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, in which the Founding Father declares his love of tea but says he will have to learn to accept coffee instead, because drinking tea had become unpatriotic (不爱国的)。
For all the upsides coffee has brought the modem world, it also brought its fair share of downsides, too. Europeans carried coffee with them as they colonized various parts of the world, and this frequently meant they made people into slaves in order to grow it.

11. According to the passage, which of the following has nothing to do with coffee?（）

ALiterature.

BNewspapers.

CThe insurance industry.

DThe oil industry.

12. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?（）

AThe Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.

BEuropeans figured out ways to use coffee during the 1670s.

CDuring the 1770s, more and more Americans began to drink coffee

DCoffee is a refreshing drink.

13. The author of the book believes that.（）

Adrinking coffee was unpatriotic

B2000 insurance companies were set up hundreds of years ago

CEuropeans were responsible for the existence of slavery

Dcoffee actually influenced the rise of business

14. The phrase "took off" in the second paragraph means "（） " .

Adropped to the ground

Bbecame very successful

Cremoved its coat

Dwent away suddenly

15. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?（）

AWhen Coffee Became Popular

BCoffee Is a Powerful Drink

CHow Coffee Influenced the Course of History

DWhat Impact Coffee Has on Human Behavior

1. We don't need air conditioning,（）

Anor can we afford it

Bneither can afford it

Cnor we can afford it

Dneither we can afford it

2. Could you find someone （）?

Afor me to play tennis with

Bplay tennis with

Cfor me to play tennis

Dplay tennis

3. “You are too self-centered.It's high time you （）that you are not the most important person in the world,” Edgar said to his boss angrily.

Arealized

Bhave realized

Crealize

Dshould realize

4. The government cannot operate effectively（）it is free from such interference.

Aso long as

Bso that

Cunless

Dbecause

5. If I had remembered （） the window, the thief would not have got in.

Ato close

Bclosing

Cto have closed

Dhaving closed

6. In Britain, the best season of the year is probably（）spring.

Alater

Blatter

Clast

Dlate

7. If it （）tomorrow, the basketball match has to be canceled.

Arain

Brains

Crained

Dwill rain

8. （） Pacific Ocean is（）very large sea to the west of North and South America, and to the east of Asia and Australia.

AThe; a

BA; the

CThe; the

DA; a

9. Neither his fellow workers nor Tod himself（）to the solution put forward by the employer

Aagree

Bagrees

Cagreeing

Dto agree

10. If only I（）hard in the past few months! But I didn't work hard enough and failed the maths examination.

Awork

Bworked

Chave worked

Dhad worked

11. None of us knew how the change had come（）.

Aacross

Babout

Cover

Ddown

12. The price of fish is（）during the Spring Festival.

Aexpensive

Bhigh

Cvaluable

Ddear

13. He offered to（）her a hand as the bag was too heavy for her to carry.

Alend

Bhelp

Cshow

Dborrow

14. Do you mind if I（） the mistakes in your report?

Apick up

Bput up

Ccall out

Dpoint out

15. They told me it would be cheap but it cost me nearly $ 500（）.

Ain general

Bin a word

Cin detail

Din fact

16. Having been found guilty, the man was given a severe（）by the judge.

Aservice

Bsentence

Ccrime

Dcrisis

17. Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the most （） populated regions in Western Europe.

Adensely

Bvastly

Cenormously

Dlargely

18. Jean did not have time to go to the concert last night because she was bus（）for her history examination.

Ato prepare

Bpreparing

Cto be prepared

Dbeing prepared

19. By the end of this month, we surely（） a satisfactory solution to the problem.

Ahave found

Bwill be finding

Cwill have found

Dare finding

20. Helen was much kinder to her youngest child than she was to the others,（）, of course, made the others jealous.

Awhom

Bthat

Cwhat

Dwhich

21. Linda, （） has lived next door to me about 10 years, will move to another city soon.

Awho

Bwhich

Cthat

Dwhat

22. The visitors felt greatly surprised at（）they saw in the museum.

Awho

Bwhose

Chow

Dwhat

23. On no account（）held responsible for the accident.

Athe driver can be

Bcan the driver be

Cthe driver does be

Ddoes the driver be

24. （） by his friend for his mistake, Jim felt very unhappy.

ACriticizing

BTo criticize

CCriticized

DHaving criticized

25. Our sports meet is planned to take place（）Saturday morning.

Ain

Bat

Con

Dof

26. You can't afford to let the situation get worse.You must take（）to put it right.

Adecisions

Bdirections

Csides

Dsteps

27. How these big stones were moved to the mountain tops remains a（）, that is, nobody knows how.

Amystery

Bpossibility

Cresponsibility

Dfaith

28. Michael Jackson traveled and sang all around the world, （） his audience with music, dance and fashion.

Aentertaining

Bawarding

Cgiving

Dproving

29. To improve efficiency the factory（）most of its workers with robots.

Aoperated

Breplaced

Ccontributed

Daccomplished

30. -Fred: Hi, Paul, do you live near here?-Paul: （）.I moved out to the suburbs.

AHi, Fred,how do you do?

BHi, Fred, I'm very well, thanks.

CYes, I do.

DNo,I don't.

1. 请选出句中不正确的一项：She looks forward every spring to walk in the flower-lined garden.

Alooks

Bevery spring

Cwalk in

Dflower-lined

2. 请选出句中不正确的一项：The reason which he was absent from school yesterday is that he was ill.

AThe

Bwhich

Cwas

Dthat

3. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Last week a old friend of mine came to Beijing and paid me a visit.

ALast week

Ba old friend of mine

Ccame to

Dpaid me a visit

4. 请选出句中不正确的一项：In China today, most university students are depend on their parents for fiance aid.

Atoday

Bare depend on

Con

Dfor fiance

5. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Shanghai is the most largest city by population in the People’s Republic of China.

Ais

Bthe most largest

Cin

DPeople’s Republic of China

6. 请选出句中不正确的一项：Now a lot of young people in the village, unlike his parents, choose to make a living in cities.

Aa lot of

Bin

Chis

Dmake a living

7. 请选出句中不正确的一项：I don't feel like to go for a swim in the sea because the wind is blowing hard.

Ato go

Bin the sea

Cbecause

Dblowing hard

8. 请选出句中不正确的一项：That was because of her cruelty that we all hated her.

AThat

Bbecause of

Cthat

Dhated

9. 请选出句中不正确的一项：There will be three hundreds of students taking part in the speech contest.

Awill be

Bhundreds

Ctaking

Din the speech contest

10. 请选出句中不正确的一项：In recent years, tourist companies have succeeded in selling us the idea that the farther we go,our holiday will be the better.

AIn recent years

Bhave succeeded

Cthe farther

Dthe better

The mind-success connection is strong, and many obstacles to our success are also mental. Some people rely more on facts,（56） others rely more on feelings. There is no “right way” to be, but we all have the natural ability to “feel” our way successfully （57） an unlighted path.
I learned this （58） I was standing on a curb (路边) in a city in Vietnam (越南). My objective, a restaurant where my husband Tom was （59） for me, stood on the （60） side of the street, I was （61） and could smell the food. But it seemed as if the restaurant were miles away. The street was （62） with motor cycles, bicycles, cars, trucks and buses. Rather than （63） the traffic into two lanes, the yellow lane markers apparently served only to （64） that you were on a paved (铺设的) road. People passed,stopped, turned around and crossed center lines.
Traffic flowed both ways in the same lane, and more traffic turned onto the street from side ones. Even when the signal tight turned red, traffic （65） to flow as drivers entirely （66） the signal, rushing to me from front, back, sides and all angles.
I was ready to abandon lunch with Tom when a local gentleman （67） my arm. In English, he kindly said, “Crossing the street is not a problem, （68） a dance.” With that we stepped （69） the curb and into the chaos (混乱). My heart （70） faster as we walked slowly across. （71） greeting us with sharp horns and angry shouts, drivers saw and adjusted to us. As long as we made no sudden （72） , we were fine. I felt as if we were gracefully swimming （73） a school of fish. The traffic flowed smoothly around us, in all directions. （74） I knew it, we were across.
Learning to dance through the chaos of traffic is just （75） your feelings. It's a combination of intention, timing and trust.

1. 56（）

Aas

Bwhile

Cwhere

Dwhen

2. 57（）

Aalong

Bwith

Cbeside

Dunder

3. 58（）

Awhere

Bwhat

Cwhen

Dwhich

4. 59（）

Awaiting

Blooking

Cexpecting

Dseeing

5. 60（）

Aopposed

Bnearby

Cdifferent

Dopposite

6. 61（）

Aearnest

Bhungry

Csplendid

Dworried

7. 62（）

Agrouped

Bpressed

Ccrowded

Dprovided

8. 63（）

Adividing

Bcombining

Ccutting

Djoining

9. 64（）

Astrengthen

Bconclude

Cindicate

Dexpress

10. 65（）

Aresponded

Btrans formed

Crecovered

Dcontinued

11. 66（）

Arespected

Bignored

Cremembered

Dmisunderstood

12. 67（）

Ahit

Bled

Ctook

Dstruck

13. 68（）

Abesides

Bbut

Crather

Dexcept

14. 69（）

Aoff

Bon

Cwith

Dfor

15. 70（）

Abeat

Bmoved

Cleapt

Djumped

16. 71（）

ARegardless of

BIn spite of

CFor lack of

DInstead of

17. 72（）

Arecognitions

Bsuspicions

Cmovements

Denjoyments

18. 73（）

Aunder

Bthrough

Cabove

Dbetween

19. 74（）

AAlthough

BAfter

CWhere

DBefore

20. 75（）

Afollowing

Bconsidering

Castonishing

Dappreciating

1. Most of the 4,200 people on board made it to land safely, but more than 30 people were killed in the disaster.

2. Workers had been waiting for favorable weather conditions to undertake the operation.

3. Would you risk your life for a country that considered you a second-class citizen?

4. The soldiers were completely separated by race and the two races could not communicate.

5. On a much general level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.

6. 像往常一样，他们又迟到了。

7. 他们不知道如何应对压力。

8. 在暑期，孩子们参观了一个农场。

9. 我昨天看的那部电影是一个真实的故事。

10. 我们正急忙赶往机场去接史密斯先生。

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