2022湖北公共英语考试模拟卷（9）.docx

2022湖北公共英语考试模拟卷（9）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. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。 BA/B One day two scientists were quarrelling about whose watch was better, the German one or the Japanese one. Since they were scientists, they decided to do an experiment to test the watches. They went into their lab and filled a basin with water, put the watches in, waited for 20 minutes and took them out. They could see there was something wrong with both watches. They observed them for several hours before speaking to each other. They both silently found that the German watch was losing 60 minutes and the Japanese are doubled that. The scientist with the Japanese watch then slowly raised his head and said, "Both watch are out of work, but my watch is right more often than yours, so its better." The scientist with the German watch went home without saying a word.After putting the Japanese watch in water for 20 minutes, two scientists found _. Ait was a good watchBit went forwardCit went faster than the German oneDit went backwards 120 minutes 2. 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 BSuch Accidents Are Rather Common/B We all haveU (36) /Udays when everythingU (37) /Uwrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control It seems as if a single unimportant thing may cause a number of things to happen. Let usU (38) /Uthat you areU (39) /Ua meal and keeping an eyeU (40) /Uthe baby at the same time the telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you areU (41) /Uthe phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table,U (42) /Uyour half-prepared meal. You hang up hurriedly and attendU (43) /Uyour baby. Meanwhile, the meal getsU (44) /U.U (45) /Uif this were not enough to bring you to tears, at the same time, your husband arrives, unexpectedlyU (46) /Uthree guests to dinner. Things can go wrong onU (47) /Upeople on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars hit each other and troth drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly wentU (48) /U panic and stopped her car. This made the driverU (49) /Uher stops suddenly. His wife was sitting beside himU (50) /Ua large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the window and landed on the road.U (51) /Ua cake flying through the air, a truck driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles andU (52) /Uthem slidU (53) /Uthe back of the truck and on to the road. This ledU (54) /Uyet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. ItU (55) /Uthe police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meanwhile, the truck driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days! AsupposeBto supposeCsupposedDsupposing 3.BD/B The relationship between the home and market economies has gone through two distinct stages. Early industrialization began the process of transferring some production processes ( e. g. cloth making, sewing and canning foods) from the home to the marketplace. Though the home economy could still produce these goods, the processes were laborious (费力的) and the market economy was usually more efficient. Soon, the more important second stage was evident-the marketplace began producing goods and services that had never been produced by the home economy, and the home economy was unable to produce them (e. g. electricity and electrical appliances, the automobile, advanced education, sophisticated medical care). In the second stage, the question of whether the home economy was less efficient in producing these new goods and services was irrelevant; if the family were to enjoy these result of industrialization, they would have to be got in the marketplace. The traditional ways of taking care of these needs in the home, such as in nursing the sick, became socially unacceptable (and, in most serious cases, maybe less successful). Just as the appearance of the automobile made the use of horse-drawn carriage illegal and then impractical, and the television changed the radio from a source of entertainment to a source of background music, so most of the fruits of economic growth did not increase the options available to the home economy to either produce the goods or services or purchase them in the market. Growth brought with it increased variety in consumer goods, but not increased flexibility for the home economy in obtaining these goods and services. Instead, economic growth brought with it increased consumer reliance on the marketplace. In order to consume these new goods and services, the family had to enter the marketplace as wage earners and consumers. The neoclassic (新古典主义的) model that views the family as deciding whether to produce goods and services directly or to purchase them in the marketplace is basically a model of the first stage. It cannot accurately be applied to the second (and current) stage.The reason why many production processes were taken over by the marketplace was that _. Ait was a necessary step in the process of industrializationBthey depended on electricity available only to the market economyCit was troublesome to produce such goods in the homeDthe marketplace was more efficient with respect to these processes 4.BE/B One day a man gave an ad. in most of the newspapers in England, saying that he himself was a young man of millions of pounds and of great knowledge. Hes like to choose a girl to be his wife, and the girl must be like the one in the books written by Somerest Maugham. This ad. was at once known by thousands of parents and young girls. Parents went to bookstores to look for the book written by Somerest Maugham. They bought those books for their daughters as presents. Girls tried to get those books to read. They wanted to know what kind of person the rich man wished for. Before long all the books written by Somerest Maugham were sold out and the writer was known all over the country. Who was the richest man It was Somerest Maugham himself. The ad. saved his books, and it also made him famous.What do you think of the writer Somerest Maugham AHe was clever, but he didnt tell the true thing.BHe couldnt have a wife because he wasnt a good writer.CHe couldnt have a wife though he was rich and famous.DHe was well received by the girls. 5. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。 BA/B One day two scientists were quarrelling about whose watch was better, the German one or the Japanese one. Since they were scientists, they decided to do an experiment to test the watches. They went into their lab and filled a basin with water, put the watches in, waited for 20 minutes and took them out. They could see there was something wrong with both watches. They observed them for several hours before speaking to each other. They both silently found that the German watch was losing 60 minutes and the Japanese are doubled that. The scientist with the Japanese watch then slowly raised his head and said, "Both watch are out of work, but my watch is right more often than yours, so its better." The scientist with the German watch went home without saying a word.How about the German watch at last AIt went more correctly than before.BIt stopped working.CIt went as well as the Japanese one.DIt was better than the Japanese one. 6.BE/B One day a man gave an ad. in most of the newspapers in England, saying that he himself was a young man of millions of pounds and of great knowledge. Hes like to choose a girl to be his wife, and the girl must be like the one in the books written by Somerest Maugham. This ad. was at once known by thousands of parents and young girls. Parents went to bookstores to look for the book written by Somerest Maugham. They bought those books for their daughters as presents. Girls tried to get those books to read. They wanted to know what kind of person the rich man wished for. Before long all the books written by Somerest Maugham were sold out and the writer was known all over the country. Who was the richest man It was Somerest Maugham himself. The ad. saved his books, and it also made him famous.Why did Somerest Maugham give the ad. in the newspaper AHe wanted to make himself a great storywriter.BHe wanted to choose the best girl to be his wife.CHe wanted to be the best bookseller and be rich.DHe wanted to write more books. 7.B第一节/B 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 Where is the man probably goingAA To a restaurant.BB To a cafe.CC To a supermarket. 8.BD/B The relationship between the home and market economies has gone through two distinct stages. Early industrialization began the process of transferring some production processes ( e. g. cloth making, sewing and canning foods) from the home to the marketplace. Though the home economy could still produce these goods, the processes were laborious (费力的) and the market economy was usually more efficient. Soon, the more important second stage was evident-the marketplace began producing goods and services that had never been produced by the home economy, and the home economy was unable to produce them (e. g. electricity and electrical appliances, the automobile, advanced education, sophisticated medical care). In the second stage, the question of whether the home economy was less efficient in producing these new goods and services was irrelevant; if the family were to enjoy these result of industrialization, they would have to be got in the marketplace. The traditional ways of taking care of these needs in the home, such as in nursing the sick, became socially unacceptable (and, in most serious cases, maybe less successful). Just as the appearance of the automobile made the use of horse-drawn carriage illegal and then impractical, and the television changed the radio from a source of entertainment to a source of background music, so most of the fruits of economic growth did not increase the options available to the home economy to either produce the goods or services or purchase them in the market. Growth brought with it increased variety in consumer goods, but not increased flexibility for the home economy in obtaining these goods and services. Instead, economic growth brought with it increased consumer reliance on the marketplace. In order to consume these new goods and services, the family had to enter the marketplace as wage earners and consumers. The neoclassic (新古典主义的) model that views the family as deciding whether to produce goods and services directly or to purchase them in the marketplace is basically a model of the first stage. It cannot accurately be applied to the second (and current) stage.It can be seen front the passage that in the second stage _. Asome traditional goods and services were not successful when provided by the home economyBthe market economy provided new goods and services never produced by the home economyCproducing traditional goods at home became socially unacceptableDthe question of whether new goods and services were produced by the home economy became irrelevant 9. 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 BSuch Accidents Are Rather Common/B We all haveU (36) /Udays when everythingU (37) /Uwrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control It seems as if a single unimportant thing may cause a number of things to happen. Let usU (38) /Uthat you areU (39) /Ua meal and keeping an eyeU (40) /Uthe baby at the same time the telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you areU (41) /Uthe phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table,U (42) /Uyour half-prepared meal. You hang up hurriedly and attendU (43) /Uyour baby. Meanwhile, the meal getsU (44) /U.U (45) /Uif this were not enough to bring you to tears, at the same time, your husband arrives, unexpectedlyU (46) /Uthree guests to dinner. Things can go wrong onU (47) /Upeople on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars hit each other and troth drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly wentU (48) /U panic and stopped her car. This made the driverU (49) /Uher stops suddenly. His wife was sitting beside himU (50) /Ua large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the window and landed on the road.U (51) /Ua cake flying through the air, a truck driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles andU (52) /Uthem slidU (53) /Uthe back of the truck and on to the road. This ledU (54) /Uyet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. ItU (55) /Uthe police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meanwhile, the truck driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days! ApreparedBpreparingCprepareDto prepare 10.BE/B One day a man gave an ad. in most of the newspapers in England, saying that he himself was a young man of millions of pounds and of great knowledge. Hes like to choose a girl to be his wife, and the girl must be like the one in the books written by Somerest Maugham. This ad. was at once known by thousands of parents and young girls. Parents went to bookstores to look for the book written by Somerest Maugham. They bought those books for their daughters as presents. Girls tried to get those books to read. They wanted to know what kind of person the rich man wished for. Before long all the books written by Somerest Maugham were sold out and the writer was known all over the country. Who was the richest man It was Somerest Maugham himself. The ad. saved his books, and it also made him famous.Which of the following is NOT true AMany parents bought Maughams books for their daughters.BGir