2023年公共英语(Pets)考试考前冲刺卷（5）.docx

2023年公共英语(Pets)考试考前冲刺卷（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.They () with their performances despite the, rain.A.went throughB.went onC.went overD.went for2.() everything means to know nothing.A.To knowB.KnowingC.One knowsD.You know3.It's no use () with him. He won't change his decision.A.arguingB.to argueC.to be arguingD.if you argue4.The teacher gave two books to _ student.A eachB allC any 5.A land free from destruction, plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply all these were important (21) in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution. (22) they were not enough. Something (23) was needed to start the industrial process. That something special was men, (24) individuals who could invent machines, find new (25) of power, and establish business organizations to reshape society.The men who (26) the machines of the Industrial Revolution (27) from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were (28) inventors than scientists. A man who is a (29) scientist is primarily interested in doing his research (30) . He is not necessarily working (31) that his findings can be used.An inventor or one interested in applied science is (32) trying to make something that has a concrete (33) . He may try to solve a problem by using the theories (34) science or by experiencing through trail and error. Regardless of his method, he is working to obtain a (35) result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a tight bulb, or one of (36) other objectives.Most of the people who (37) the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were both scientists and inventors. Even those who had (38) or no training in science might not have made their inventions (39) a groundwork had not been laid by scientists years (40) .36().AnowBandCallDso6.After searching for half an hour, she realized that her glasses（）on the table all the time.Ahad been lainBhave been lyingCwere lainDhad been lying7.I()to catch the 2:00 plane, but no such luck.Ahave hopedBhopeChopedDhad hoped8.I _ had time to have lunchthen I went out again.A alsoB hurriedlyC just 9.There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those (21) seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this Christmas, there were a lot of (22) computers under the tree. (23) that computers are their key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children (24) taught to use them on school as early as possible.The problem for schools is that when it (25) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (26) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without (27) educational planning so they can say,OK, we’vr moved into the computer age. Teachers (28) themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent pressure and (29) educational decisions.Educators do not even agree (30) how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials (31) research has shown can be taught (32) with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should (33) to computer warn of potential (34) to the very young.The temptation remains strong largely because young childrern (35) so well to computers. First graders have been (36) willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. (37) school ,however, can afford to go into computing, and that creates (38) another problem: a division between the have’s and have-not’s. Very few parents ask (39) computer instruction in poor school districts, (40) there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.34().AwiseBcleverCslowDenough10.There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those (21) seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this Christmas, there were a lot of (22) computers under the tree. (23) that computers are their key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children (24) taught to use them on school as early as possible.The problem for schools is that when it (25) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (26) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without (27) educational planning so they can say,OK, we’vr moved into the computer age. Teachers (28) themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent pressure and (29) educational decisions.Educators do not even agree (30) how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials (31) research has shown can be taught (32) with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should (33) to computer warn of potential (34) to the very young.The temptation remains strong largely because young childrern (35) so well to computers. First graders have been (36) willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. (37) school ,however, can afford to go into computing, and that creates (38) another problem: a division between the have’s and have-not’s. Very few parents ask (39) computer instruction in poor school districts, (40) there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.34().AreasonBsoundChardDsome11.Could you tell me what _AA his e-mail address wasBB is his e-mail addressCC his e-mail address is 12.There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those (21) seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this Christmas, there were a lot of (22) computers under the tree. (23) that computers are their key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children (24) taught to use them on school as early as possible.The problem for schools is that when it (25) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (26) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without (27) educational planning so they can say,OK, we’vr moved into the computer age. Teachers (28) themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent pressure and (29) educational decisions.Educators do not even agree (30) how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials (31) research has shown can be taught (32) with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should (33) to computer warn of potential (34) to the very young.The temptation remains strong largely because young childrern (35) so well to computers. First graders have been (36) willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. (37) school ,however, can afford to go into computing, and that creates (38) another problem: a division between the have’s and have-not’s. Very few parents ask (39) computer instruction in poor school districts, (40) there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.39().AhoweverBwhereCwhatDthat13.There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those (21) seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this Christmas, there were a lot of (22) computers under the tree. (23) that computers are their key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children (24) taught to use them on school as early as possible.The problem for schools is that when it (25) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (26) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without (27) educational planning so they can say,OK, we’vr moved into the computer age. Teachers (28) themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent pressure and (29) educational decisions.Educators do not even agree (30) how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials (31) research has shown can be taught (32) with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should (33) to computer warn of potential (34) to the very young.The temptation remains strong largely because young childrern (35) so well to computers. First graders have been (36) willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. (37) school ,however, can afford to go into computing, and that creates (38) another problem: a division between the have’s and have-not’s. Very few parents ask (39) computer instruction in poor school districts, (40) there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.39().AequallyBthe same wayCjust as wellDnot as well14.You're always late. You () late three times this week.A.are beingB.wereC.had beenD.have been15.In 1637 the French philosopher-mathematician Rene Descartes predicted that it would never be possible to make a machine that thinks as humans do. In 1950, the British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing declared that one day there would be a machine that could duplicate human intelligence in every way and prove it by passing a specialized test. In this test, a computer and a human hidden from view would be asked random identical questions. If the computer were successful, the questioner would be unable to distinguish the machine from the person by the answers.Inspired by Turing’s theory, the first conference on AI convened at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 1956. Soon afterwards an Al laboratory was started at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, two of the nation’s leading AI proponents. McCarthy also invented the Al computer language, Lisp; but by the early 1990s Al itself had not been achieved. However, logic programs called expert systems allow computers to make decisions by interpreting data and selecting from among alternatives. Technicians can run programs used in complex medical diagnosis, language translation, mineral exploration, and even computer design.Machinery can outperform humans physically. So, too, can computers outperform mental functions in limited areasnotably in the speed of mathematical calculations. For example, the fastest computers developed are able to perform roughly 10 billion calculations per second. But making more powerful computers will probably not be the way to create a machine capable of passing the Turing test. Computer programs operate according to set procedures, or logic steps, called algorithms. In addition, most computers do serial processing; operations of recognition and computation are performed one at a time. The brain works in a manner called parallel processing, performing operations simultaneously. To achieve simulated parallel processing, some supercomputers have been made with multiple processors to follow several algorithms at the same time.Critics of this approach insist that solving a computation does not indicate understanding, something a person who solved a problem would have. Human reasoning is not based solely on roles of logic. It involves perception, awareness, emotional preferences, values, evaluating experience, the ability to generalize and weigh options, and more. Some proponents of AI have, therefore, suggested that computers should be patterned after the human brain, which essentially consists of a network of nerve cells.By the early 1990s, the closest approximation to Al was a special silicon chip built to behave like a human brain cell. It was modeled after the internal workings of neurons in the human cerebral cortex. Unlike the conventional silicon chip, which works in digital mode, the new silicon chip works in analog mode, much the way a human brain cell works.According to Turing, a computer has human-like intelligence in a special test if().Athe computer gives better answers.Bthe questioner falls to give identical questions.Cthe questioner can't tell between the answers of a person and a computer.Dthe questioner can't find the person hidden by the computer.16.All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply (21) to all of us (22) the covers of books but we must know how to avail ourselves (23) this treasure and how to get (24) from it. The most (25) people all over the world, are (26) who have never discovered how (27) it is to read good books.I am very interested in people, in meeting them and (28) about them. Some of the most (29) people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination, then (30) the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, new words.If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who (31) in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundered centuries in the future all the way back to the first (32) in history; how (33) everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Folmes (34) the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children.Reading can make our minds feel pleased , (35) means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness (36) you a good reader. Reading is (37) , not because the writer is telling you something, (38) because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the (39) or even goes beyond his. Your experience, (40) his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.34().AusefulBnewCreadableDavailable17.All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply (21) to all of us (22) the covers of books but we must know how to avail ourselves (23) this treasure and how to get (24) from it. The most (25) people all over the world, are (26) who have never discovered how (27) it is to read good books.I am very interested in people, in meeting them and (28) about them. Some of the most (29) people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination, then (30) the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new societies, new words.If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who (31) in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundered centuries in the future all the way back to the first (32) in history; how (33) everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Folmes (34) the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners