2015上《大学英语预备级》考前辅导答案
一、单选题 (每题2分,共20分)
1. Kate is American school boy.
A. a B. an C. the D. /
2. Please give a cup of tea.
A. me B. my C. I D. mine
3. He came to the meeting than you.
A. early B. earlier C. earlies D. more early
4. Your rain coat is here. But where is ?
A. her B. your C. my D. his
5. Please say it English.
A. in B. with C. for D. at
6. He the army a few years ago.
A. joined B. has been in C. has joined D. had joined
7. I could hardly see any smoke from the top of the mountain.
A. rising B. raise C. rises D. raising
8. English is spoken by people.
A. million B. millions C. millions of D. many millions
9. She asked me if I knew .
A. whose book it is B. whose book is it
C. whose book it was D. whose book was it
10. The foreign friends in Wuxi yesterday.
A. arrived B. got to C. reached D. got
1--5 BABDA 6--10 AACCA
二、填空题 (每题1分,共10分)
You really have to get very old before you realize you’re old. I’m in my middle fifties and I don’t feel old yet. However, sometimes I look back at my childhood and 1 things to the way life is for today’s kids. Some things have 2 changed.
One area of change is television. Some changes have been improvements. Some changes, 3 the other hand, have been setbacks.
When I started school, most people didn’t have a television. TV was just beginning to get 4 . My father decided to go all out and buy a 16 inch black and white Motorola set. I still remember 5 the Lone Ranger save people from the bad guys on that awesome electronic machine. That was exciting!
Now, televisions have larger pictures in full color. The pictures are 6 and the sound is much more realistic. The new high definition sets are made to rival movie 7 . The variety and quantity of programming has increased greatly. There are hundreds of 8 and more shows than one person could ever watch. There are many fine entertainment and 9 shows. There’s also a lot of garbage, stuff that most parents don’t want their kids exposed to. Overall, we have more choices, and that is good.
I wonder what television will be 10 when today’s kids are my age.
1. A. forget B. remember C. compare D. miss
2. A. seldom B. often C. usually D. certainly
3. A. at B. on C. in D. for
4. A. gone B. great C. expensive D. popular
5. A. to watch B. have watched C. watching D. watched
6. A. clearer B. good C. cheaper D. clearly
7. A. theater B. mirror C. shade D. screen
8. A. canals B. chains C. channels D. shifts
9. A. education B. educational C. educate D. educator
10. A. likely B. alike C. like D. dislike
1--5 CDBDC 6--10 ADCBC
三、阅读理解(每题2分,共30分)
Passage 1
Advertising informs consumers about new products available on the market. It gives us information about everything from toothpaste to computers and cars. But the “information” it provides is actually very often “misinformation”. It tells us the products’ benefits but hides their disadvantages. Advertising not only leads us to buy things that we don’t need and can’t afford, but it also confuses our sense of reality.
Advertisers use many methods to get us to buy their products. One of their most successful methods is to make us feel dissatisfied with ourselves and our imperfect lives. Advertisements show us who we are not and what we don’t have. Advertisements make us afraid that people won’t like us if we don’t use the advertised products.
If fear is the negative(消极的) motive(动机) for buying a product, then wanting a good self-image(个人形象) is the positive reason for choosing it. Each of us has a mental picture of the kind of person we would like to be. Advertisers get psychologists to study the way consumers think and their reasons of choosing one brand instead of another. These experts tell advertisers about the motives of fear and self-image. They also inform them about recent studies with colors and words.
Many people believe that advertising does not affect them. They know that there is freedom to choose. Unfortunately, they probably don’t realize the powerful effect of advertising. They may not understand advertisers spend billions of dollars each year in aggressive (过分的) competition for our money, and they are extremely successful.
What’s the purpose of advertising?
A. To introduce people the feature of the goods.
B. To have people to buy new products on the market.
C. To make people know how to use the products.
D. To tell people how to save money while buying goods.
One of the disadvantages of advertising is to .
A lead people to buy bad-quality things
B make people confused about choosing goods
C make people buy more things than needed
D inform people the products’ benefits
Advertisement may make people think that .
A their lives are not good enough
B their behaviors are imperfect
C they don’t have enough money to buy things
D they look poor without buying advertise goods
What can psychologists tell the advertisers?
A. The reasons for bad sale of some goods.
B. What brand is better than others?
C. How to control the qualities of goods.
D. People’s opinions about current colors.
It’s implied in the last paragraph that those who don’t believe advertising .
A should refuse to buy goods advertised
B may also be influenced by advertising
C have more freedom to buy things than others
D can save money without buying the advertised goods
BCADB
Passage 2
When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get good scores on certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behaving, especially in a new or unsetting(使人不安的) situation. If we want to test intelligence, we need to find out how a person acts instead of how much he knows what to do.
For instance, when in a new situation, an intelligent person thinks about the situation, not about himself or what might happen to him. He tries to find out all he can, and then he acts immediately and tries to do something about it. He probably isn’t sure how it will all work out, but at least he tries. And if he cannot make things work out right, he doesn’t feel ashamed that he fails, he just tries to learn from his mistakes. An intelligent person, even if he is very young, has a special outlook on life, a special feeling about life, and how he fits into it.
If you look at children, you’ll see great difference that we call “bright” children and “not bright” children. They are actually two different kinds of people, not just the same kind with different amount of intelligence. For example, the bright child really wants to find out about life—he tries to get in touch with everything around him. But the unintelligent child keeps more to himself and his own dream-world; he seems to have a wall between him and life in general.
1. According to this passage, intelligence is the ability to .
A. get some high scores on some test
B. do well in school
C. deal with life
D. know everything in the world
2. In a new situation, an intelligent person .
A. knows more about what might happen to him
B. is sure of the result he will get
C. cares more about himself
D. concentrates on what to do about the situation
3. If an intelligent person failed, he would .
A. feel ashamed
B. learn from his experiences
C. try to find all he could
D. make sure what result he would get
4. Bright children and not bright children .
A. are two different types of children
B. are different mainly in their degree of cleverness
C. have difference only in their way of thinking
D. have different knowledge about the world
5. The author of this passage will probably continue to talk about .
A. how to determine what intelligence is
B. how education should do about it
C. how to solve intelligent problem
D. how an unintelligent person should be taught
CDBAA
Passage 3
Our eating habits are very important for good health and a strong body. There are times when most of us would have sweets and ice-cream rather than eat meat and rice. Sweets and ice-cream are not bad for the stomach if we eat at the end of a meal. If we have them at meals, they may take away our appetite (胃口). It is important for us to eat our meal at the same time each day. When we feel hungry, it is a sign that our body needs food. When we feel angry or excited, we may not want to eat. A long time ago, in England , some judges used to decide whether a man was telling the truth by giving him some dry bread. If the man could not swallow the bread it was a sign that he was not telling the truth. Although this seems very strange and rather foolish, it is indeed an excellent way of finding out the truth. A man who is worrying about something has difficulty in swallowing anything dry. Because he is worried, he lo