2022陕西公共英语考试真题卷（5）.docx

2022陕西公共英语考试真题卷（5）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.The family reported their son _ the next morning after searching everywhere for a whole night.AmissesBmissedCto missDmissing 2.The company has opened a new factory, _ many skilled workers are hired.AwhichBwhereCthatDwhy 3.My grandparents are both in their _ and they are still living a healthy life.AninetiethBninetiesCninetyDninetys 4.Text 1 Two years ago, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didnt know of each others existence. Then they learned they had been switched (调换) at birth by mistake more than 20 years ago. The discovery didnt bring bitterness. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family. The chain of events started with Dimas, who was always wondering why he did not look like the four sisters he grew up with. He was 14 when his doubts grew after watching a TV news report on babies getting switched at birth because of mistakes at hospitals. He wanted to do a DNA test, but it was too expensive for the family. A decade later, Dimas did it on his own. The DNA test showed that he was not the birth son of the man and woman who had raised him. The news was a shock for his parents. They at first refused to believe the results, but eventually decided to help him look for his biological parents.The search began at the Madre Regina Protmann Hospital where records were checked. The hospital searched its records and found Elton Plaster was bom there on the same day. The records led Dimas to the 35 - acre farm where Plaster lived with his parents, Nilza and Adelson, in the town of Santa Maria de Jetiba, about 30 miles from the Aliprandi home in Joao Neiva. After tests, the Plasters discovered that Elton was the biological son of the man and woman that Dimas had been calling Mom and Dad for 24 years. Meanwhile, the couple Elton had always regarded as tus biological parents were Dimas parents. About a year ago, Aliprandi and the parents who raised him accepted an offer from the Plasters to move to their farm, where they built a home. “This is the way it should be,” Adelson Plaster recently told Globo TV. “We are all together and I now have two sons living and working here.”Who was the first to discover the baby switchAGlobo TV.BThe hospital.CElton Plaster.DDimas Aliprandi. 5.Ann and Billy _ together for 7 years when they decided to get married.Awill beBare beingChad beenDhave been 6.Text 1 Two years ago, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didnt know of each others existence. Then they learned they had been switched (调换) at birth by mistake more than 20 years ago. The discovery didnt bring bitterness. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family. The chain of events started with Dimas, who was always wondering why he did not look like the four sisters he grew up with. He was 14 when his doubts grew after watching a TV news report on babies getting switched at birth because of mistakes at hospitals. He wanted to do a DNA test, but it was too expensive for the family. A decade later, Dimas did it on his own. The DNA test showed that he was not the birth son of the man and woman who had raised him. The news was a shock for his parents. They at first refused to believe the results, but eventually decided to help him look for his biological parents.The search began at the Madre Regina Protmann Hospital where records were checked. The hospital searched its records and found Elton Plaster was bom there on the same day. The records led Dimas to the 35 - acre farm where Plaster lived with his parents, Nilza and Adelson, in the town of Santa Maria de Jetiba, about 30 miles from the Aliprandi home in Joao Neiva. After tests, the Plasters discovered that Elton was the biological son of the man and woman that Dimas had been calling Mom and Dad for 24 years. Meanwhile, the couple Elton had always regarded as tus biological parents were Dimas parents. About a year ago, Aliprandi and the parents who raised him accepted an offer from the Plasters to move to their farm, where they built a home. “This is the way it should be,” Adelson Plaster recently told Globo TV. “We are all together and I now have two sons living and working here.”Where do the Aliprandis now liveAIn Sao Paulo.BIn Joao Neiva.CIn Santa Maria de Jetiba.DIn Madre Regina Protmann. 7.Text 5 Rees HallTwo Star Guesthouse Thank you for choosing to stay at Rees Hall. Please take the time to read the following to enjoy a better stay. BUILDING SECURITY (安全) The white card will gain your entry into the building through the card reader on the inner wall next to the office window. We ask that you report any loss or damage to this card to us immediately.We ask that you do not leave any bags/boxes unattended.Please make sure you lock your room door with the key when leaving your room. FIRE SAFETY Please familiarize yourself with the nearest fire exit (出口).When the fire alarm is on, you must leave the building immediately and go to the gathering point outside the building, opposite Rees Hall on Southsea Common. DO NOT stop to collect personal belongings or re-enter the building until permission is given. Fire drills are carried out every Tuesday between 10:00 and 10:15 am. SMOKING REGULATIONS For the convenience & comfort of all guests, smoking is not allowed within the building and at the front of the building. We are able to offer an area for smoking in the courtyard. CHECKOUT On the day of your leave, you must check out of your room by 10:00 am.Storage of luggage after this time may be arranged through the front desk.Failure to leave your room by 10:00 am will result in one extra days charge. QUESTIONNAIRES (问卷) The management team at Rees Hall is always looking to improve customer service levels, and we would be grateful if you would spend a few moments completing the questionnaire in your room and hand it to the front desk on your leave.For whom is the text writtenAGuestsBFiremenCManagersDAttendants 8.Text 3 The way people in the US travel to and from work has changed a lot in the last fifty years. Before the Second World War, most people lived in the town or the city where they worked. Almost everyone either walked to work or used a good inexpensive transportation system. Many of these systems were electrified and ran on tracks, so they used very little energy. After 1945, the United States government built many new roads and highways. People moved farther and farther from the cities where they worked because they could drive their cars on these new roads from their suburban (郊区的) homes to work in the city. Some of the big car makers also bought the electrified transportation systems so they could destroy them. As people stopped using public transportation, cities spent less money to fix old buses and trains or to buy new ones. Public transportation got worse and worse. In the late 1960s, people found out that the increase in the use of cars led to many problems. There were always too many cars for the highway system, and terrible traffic problems developed. People were spending hours in traffic jams getting to and from work every day. In addition, the air in many cities became dirty because of pollution from millions of cars, and many people died in traffic accidents. As people began to get worried about how the use of cars was hurting the environment, cities began to spend more money on public transportation again so fewer people would have to drive cars. When gas became very expensive in the mid-1970s, the number of people taking public transportation began to increase. Because it is terribly expensive to build new public transportation systems, it is very difficult to make big changes in the way people travel, but an increase in the use of public transportation has begun.Why did some car companies buy and destroy public transportation systemsAThey were slower than cars.BThey were too old to be fixed.CThey were trying to build better ones.DThey wanted to sell more of their products. 9.Text 4 New YorkBy studying blindfolded college students who move through grass to find a chocolate scented (有气味的)path by smelling, researchers say theyve found evidence of a human smelling ability that scientists thought impossible. The study shows the human brain compares information it gets from each nostril (鼻孔) to determine where a smell is coming from. And it suggests dogs and mice and some other mammals (哺乳动物) do the same thing, unlike what most scientists have thought. People compare signals (信号) from each ear to determine the direction of a noise. But most scientists idea has been that mammals cant do it in the same way for smells, because their nostrils are too close together to get different signals. “We debunked that, said Noam Sobel of the University of California, Berkeley, who reported the new results Sunday with graduate student Jess Porter and others on the Website of the magazine Nature Neuroscience. The report isnt the first to suggest the two-nostrii idea. But Sobel and his team have now “opened the doors for full consideration of it,” said a researcher familiar with the work. Most of the paper focuses on what a group of undergraduate psychology students could do in a garden on the Berkeley campus. One outdoor experiment was designed to see if people could use just their noses to follow a 30-foot-long path of chocolate scent through the grass. The path was laid out with scented ropes. But the 32 students were blindfolded and equipped with thick gloves to make sure they couldnt see or feel it. Two-thirds of the students succeeded in following the scent. Another experiment found that the volunteers succeeded only one-third of the time with one nostril taped shut.What human ability does Sobels study focus onASmellingBHearingCTouchingDMoving 10.Text 1 Two years ago, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didnt know of each others existence. Then they learned they had been switched (调换) at birth by mistake more than 20 years ago. The discovery didnt bring bitterness. Rather, it led to the creation of a bigger family. The chain of events started with Dimas, who was always wondering why he did not look like the four sisters he grew up with. He was 14 when his doubts grew after watching a TV news report on babies getting switched at birth because of mistakes at hospitals. He wanted to do a DNA test, but it was too expensive for the family. A decade later, Dimas did it on his own. The DNA test showed that he was not the birth son of the man and woman who had raised him. The news was a shock for his parents. They at first refused to believe the results, but eventually decided to help him look for his biological parents.The search began at the Madre Regina Protmann Hospital where records were checked. The hospital searched its records and found Elton Plaster was bom there on the same day. The records led Dimas to the 35 - acre farm where Plaster lived with his parents, Nilza and Adelson, in the town of Santa Maria de Jetiba, about 30 miles from the Aliprandi home in Joao Neiva. After tests, the Plasters discovered that Elton was the biological son of the man and woman that Dimas had been calling Mom and Dad for 24 years. Meanwhile, the couple Elton had always regarded as tus biological parents were Dimas parents. About a year ago, Aliprandi and the parents who raised him accepted an offer from the Plasters to move to their farm, where they built a home. “This is the way it should be,” Adelson Plaster recently told Globo TV. “We are all together and I now have two sons living and working here.”What did the Aliprandis do when they knew about the baby switchAThey went to Globo TV for more information.BThey helped Dimas find his birth parents.CThey switched the hospital9 s records.DThey took another DNA test. 11.Text 2 Force of habit is a powerful thing. How else can I explain why I spend $ 200 per month for a package of the Internet, TV, and telephone - most of which I dont really need My wife and I make most calls on our cell phones. We dont watch much TV and nearly everything we want we could get online. So why not just pay for the Internet and forget the rest. My answers are totally unreasonable: Im 49 years old; this is how Ive always done things; change is hard. Most of the U. S. population is in this same situation. Nielsen recently reported that although online video (视频) viewing has risen 35 percent in the past year, 99 percent of TV viewing is still done on a traditional TV. But that is not the case for younger people, like my friend Dan Frommer, a 27-year-old writer for a Website. Frommer pulled the plug (插座) on cable (有线的) TV in May 2008 and instead gets shows from the Internet by a Macintosh computer connected to his LCD television. He cannot get everthing hed like to see, but he has saved $ 1,500 on cable-TV bills. The next generationtodays young peoplewill likely never sign up for cable TV at all. This is terrible news for cable companies. For decades they have had a wonderful business model, running the tollbooth (收费站) that stood between you and the shows. Now the Internet provides a way to get around the tollbooth, and cable companies are faced with a problem: do they welcome the Internet and try to make money online, or do they fight the Internet and try to delay the damage The answer is to do both: delaying the trend with one hand while racing to develop workable Internet business models with the other. Problem is, even if the tollbooth stays up, it probably wont make as much money. The rule is that when the Internet hits an industry, wherever you used to make dollars, you now make cents. For cable companies, the good old days may soon be over.Why do most people still watch traditional TVAThey have signed up for it.BThey have no other choices.CThey are in the habit of doing so.DThey fail to see what they really like. 12.Text 4 New YorkBy studying blindfolded college students who move through grass to find a chocolate scented (有气味的)path by smelling, researchers say theyve found evidence of a human smelling ability that scientists thought impossible. The study shows the human brain compares information it gets from each nostril (鼻孔) to determine where a smell is coming from. And it suggests dogs and mice and some other mammals (哺乳动物) do the same thing, unlike what most scientists have thought. People compare signals (信号) from each ear to determine the direction of a noise. But most scientists idea has been that mammals cant do it in the same w