2022陕西大学英语考试真题卷（3）.docx

2022陕西大学英语考试真题卷（3）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.A persons home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, most have in mind a(n) "(1)_home". But in general, and especially for the student or new wage earners, there are practical (2)_of cash and location on achieving that idea.Cash (3)_, in fact, often means that the only way of (4)_when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things (5)_financially. There are obvious (6)_of living at home - personal laundry is usually (7)_done along with the family wash; meals are provided and there will be a well-established circle of friends to (8)_.And there is (9)_the responsibility for paying bills, rates, etc.On the other hand, (10)_depends on how a family gets on. Do your parents like your friends You may love your family - (11)_do you like them Are you prepared to be (12)_when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back If you find that you cannot manage a(n) (13)_, and that you finally have the money to leave, how do you (14)_finding somewhere else to live If you plan to stay in your home area, the possibilities are (15)_well-known to you already. Friends and the local paper are always (16)_.If you are going to work in a (17)_area, again there are the papers - and the accommodation agencies, (18)_ these should be approached with (19)_.Agencies are allowed to charge a fee, usually the (20)_of the first weeks rent, if you take accommodation they have found for you.AenthusiasmBhesitationCcautionDconcern 2.A persons home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, most have in mind a(n) "(1)_home". But in general, and especially for the student or new wage earners, there are practical (2)_of cash and location on achieving that idea.Cash (3)_, in fact, often means that the only way of (4)_when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things (5)_financially. There are obvious (6)_of living at home - personal laundry is usually (7)_done along with the family wash; meals are provided and there will be a well-established circle of friends to (8)_.And there is (9)_the responsibility for paying bills, rates, etc.On the other hand, (10)_depends on how a family gets on. Do your parents like your friends You may love your family - (11)_do you like them Are you prepared to be (12)_when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back If you find that you cannot manage a(n) (13)_, and that you finally have the money to leave, how do you (14)_finding somewhere else to live If you plan to stay in your home area, the possibilities are (15)_well-known to you already. Friends and the local paper are always (16)_.If you are going to work in a (17)_area, again there are the papers - and the accommodation agencies, (18)_ these should be approached with (19)_.Agencies are allowed to charge a fee, usually the (20)_of the first weeks rent, if you take accommodation they have found for you.AsameBequivalentCequalDsimilarity 3. Questions 9 to 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news.The alleged plotters were said to have _.Abomb-making videosBguns and bombsCpoisonous gas-making equipmentDbomb-making equipment 4. Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news.Athe mine was badly damagedBthe ventilation system was brokenCthe mine was too deepDthe safety facility was destroyed 5. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.What is essential for a good interviewerAProfessional knowledge.BExperience in the area.CCuriosity about interviews.DEnthusiasm about the jo 6. Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news.Where was the report about rebel forces fromAChads government.BCapital NDjamena.CFrench embassy.DCity of Abech 7.It was a little after 5 a.m. in my home when Jerzy Dudek, the Polish goalkeeper of Liverpool Football Club, saved a penalty from Andriy Shevcbenko, a Ukrainian playing for AC Milan. The save ended the most exciting sporting event you will ever see, secured for Liverpool the top European soccer championship for the first time in 21 years, and allowed me to breathe. Within seconds, my wife had called from London, and the e-mails started to flood in - the first from TIMEs Baghdad bureau, others from Sydney, London, Washington and New York. In my fumbled excitement, I misdialed my brothers phone number three times. Then Steven Gerrard, Liverpools captain, lifted the trophy, and behind the Cantonese chatter of the TV commentators I could just make out 40,000 Liverpudlian voices singing their clubs anthem, Youll Never Walk Alone. And thats when I started to cry. Apart from the big, obvious things - love, death, children - most of the really walloping emotional highs and lows of my life have involved watching Liverpool. There was the ecstasy of being in the crowd when the club won the European championship in 1978, and the horror of settling down in my office for a 1985 European championship game - only to watch Juventus fans get crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this - lets admit it - pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men Ive never met and dont really want to so powerful Fandom - the obsessional identification with a sports team - is universal. The greatest book ever on the psychology of being a fan, Nick Hornbys Fever Pitch, was written about a London soccer team but easily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U. S., it seems possible to be a fan of a team thats based far from where you have ever lived, but I suspect the origins of my obsession are more common. I didnt have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row houses a stones throw from Liverpools stadium. My father took me to my first game as a small child, and from the moment I saw what was behind the familiar brick walls - all those people ! That wall of noise! The forbidden, dangerous smells of cigarettes and beer! I was hooked. We fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play are secular cathedrals. Its easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion - or will soon redeem itself. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: wait til next year. But as you get older, it becomes harder to believe. Yes, the Dodgers won the World Series in 1955; but they arent ever coming back from Los Angeles. Loss of faith can set in. That, however, is when you appreciate the deeper benefits of being a fan. For me, following one soccer team has been the connective tissue of my life. I left Liverpool to go to college and have never had the slightest desire to live there again, but wandering around the world, living in seven different cities in three continents, my passion was the thing that gave me a sense of what "home" meant. Being a fan became a fixed point, wherever I lived; it was - it is - one of the two or three things that I think of as making me, well, me. But fandom does more. than defeat distance and geography. It acts as a time machine. There is only one thing that I have done consistently for nearly 50 years, and that is support Liverpool. To be a fan is a blessing, for it connects you as nothing else can to childhood, and to everything and everyone that marked your life between your time as a child and the present. So when I sat in Hong Kong at dawn last week watching the game on TV, I didnt have to try to manufacture the tiny, inconsequential strands that make up a life. They were there all around me. Tea at my Grandmas after a game; a favorite uncle who died too young; bemused girlfriends who didnt get it (I married the one who did); the 21st birthday cake that my mother iced in Liverpools colors; my tiny daughters in their first club shirts; the best friends with whom Ive long lost touch. What does being a fan mean It means youll never walk alone.The passage was probably written in _.A1978B1985C1999D2006 8.It takes a while, as you walk around the streets of Nantes, a city of haft a million people on the banks of the Loire River, to realize just what it is that is odd. Then you get it: there are empty parking slots, which is highly unusual in big French towns. Two decades of effort to make life more livable by dissuading people from driving into town Nas made Nantes a beacon for other European cities seeking to shake dependence on the automobile. The effects were clear recently during Mobility Week, a campaign sponsored by the European Union that prompted more than 1,000 towns across the Continent to test ways of making their streets, if not car free, at least manageable. "That is an awfully difficult problem," acknowledges Joel Crawford, an author and leader of the "car free" movement picking up adherents all over Europe. "You cant take cars out of cities until there is some sort of alternative in place. But there are a lot of forces pointing in the direction of a major reduction in car use, like the rise in fuel prices, and concerns about global warming." Last week, proclaiming the slogan "In Town, Without my Car !" hundreds of cities closed off whole chunks of their centers to all but essential traffic. Nantes closed just a few streets, preferring to focus on alternatives to driving so as to promote "Clever Commuting", the theme of this years EU campaign. Volunteers pedaled rickshaws along the cobbled streets, charging passengers $1.20 an hour; bikes were available for free; and city workers encouraged children to walk to school along routes supervised by adults acting as Pied Pipers and picking up kids at arranged stops. The centerpiece is a state-of-the-art tramway providing service to much of the town, and a network of free, multistory parking lots to encourage commuters to "park. and ride". Rene Vincendo, a retired hospital worker waiting at one such parking lot for his wife to return from the city center, is sold. "To go into town, this is brilliant," he says. "I never take my car in now." It is not cheap, though. Beyond the construction costs, City Hall subsidizes fares to the tune of 60 million euros ( $ 72 million) a year, making passengers pay only 40 percent of operating costs. That is the only way to draw people onto trams and buses, says de Rugy, since Nantes, like many European cities, is expanding, and commuters find themselves with ever-longer distances to travel. The danger, he warns, is that "the further you go down the route Of car dependence, the harder it is to return, because so many shops, schools and other services are built beyond the reach of any financially feasible public-transport network." This, adds de Rugy, means that "transport policy is only half the answer. Urban planners and transport authorities have to work hand in hand to ensure that services are provided close to transport links." The carrot-and-stick approach that Nantes has taken - cutting back on parking in the town center and making it expensive, while improving public transport - has not reduced the number of cars on the road. But. it has "put a brake on the increase we would have seen otherwise" and that other European cities have seen, says Dominique Godineau, head of the citys "mobility department".What can be inferred about the city of NantesANantes is with the best traffic condition in France.BNantes used to be crowded with cars.CThe government of Nantes is the first to dissuade people from driving into town.DThe government of Nantes succeeds in raising peoples living standar 9.Isnt it amazing how one person, sharing one idea, at the right time and place can change the course of your lifes history This is certainly what happened in my life. When I was 14, I was hitchhiking from Houston, Texas, through El Paso on my way to California. I was following my dream, journeying with the sun. I was a high school dropout with learning disabilities and was set on surfing the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in Hawaii, where I would later live. Upon reaching downtown El Paso, I met an old man, a bum, on the street comer. He saw me walking, stopped me and questioned me as I passed by. He asked me if I was running away from home, I suppose because I looked so young. I told him, "Not exactly, sir," since my father had given me a ride to the freeway in Houston and given me his blessings while saying, "It is important to follow your dream and what is in your heart, son." The bum then asked me if he could buy me a cup of coffee. I told him, "No, sir, but a soda would be great." We walked to a comer malt shop and sat down on a couple of swiveling stools while we enjoyed our drinks. After conversing for a few minutes, the friendly bum told me to follow him, He told me that he had something grand to show me and share with me. We walked a couple of blocks until we came upon the downtown El Paso Public Library. We walked up its front steps and stopped at a small information stand. Here the bum spoke to a smiling odl lady, and asked her if she would be kind enough to watch my things for a moment while he and I entered the library. I left my belongings with this grandmotherly figure and entered into this magnificent hall of learning. The bum first led me to a table and asked me to sit down and wait for a