2023年广西公共英语考试模拟卷.docx

2023年广西公共英语考试模拟卷本卷共分为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.What can we learn about the womanAThe woman doesnt have any hobby for her leisure time.BThe woman has much leisure time,CThe woman has much housework to do.DThe woman enjoys her housework. 2.BPart A/BI You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer - A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE./IWhere is this conversation probably taking placeAIn a post office.BAt an insurance agency.COn an airplane.DIn a moving company. 3.I Questions 2225 are based on the following monologue./IWhat is being done to make T-shirts mom attractiveANew technology is being employed.BAdvertisements are being widely used.CNew designs are being adopted.DMore artificial materials are being introduced. 4.I Questions 1417 are based on the following dialogue./IWhen will the woman make coffeeAAfter they do the washing up.BAfter the man gets his cigarettes.CAfter the man drives the woman to the phone.DAfter they get back from the phone box. 5.I Questions 1821 are based on a monologue./IWhat will the students probably do after the talkALeave the room.BHand in their lab notebooks.CGo to Professor Kaplans office.DWork on an experiment. 6.What can we learn from the conversationAReactions to the new teacher are different.BYou should believe what you are told.CShe thinks the new teacher is good.DShe thinks that the students are fair. 7.BPart A/BI You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer - A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE./IWhere does the conversation most probably take placeAIn a library.BIn a classroom.CIn a bookstore.DIn a hotel. 8.BPart A/B IYou will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE./I What does the woman implyAShe wont be able to go with the man.BShe doesnt think Frank is arriving until tomorrow morning.CShe has to pick up Frank at 2:00.DShe doesnt know when her class will end. 9.IQuestions 11-14 are based on the following dialogue:/IWhat is the womans status at the universityAShes a senior.BShes a junior.CShes transfer student.DShes graduate student. 10.What can be inferred about the labAIts closed on Mondays.BThe man doesnt like working there.CIts supposed to be open now.DThe man locked it at 10:00. 11.BPart A/B IYou will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE./I What does the man meanAHe watched the television program with his mother.BHis mother told him his professor was on television.CAnswering the phone caused him to miss the television program.DHis mother missed the television program. 12.IQuestions 11-14 are based on the following dialogue:/IWhat does the man want to learn from the womanAHow to transfer to a junior college.BHow to find his way around campus.CWhat courses are required for a literature major.DWho won the campus election. 13.IQuestions 19-22 are based on the following dialogue:/IWhat do we learn about the use of solar energy in the U. S.AIt is very well established.BIt is relatively new.CIt is found in one million homes.DIt is being rapidly expanded. 14. It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better at math than girls, that male high school students are more likelyU (26) /Utheir female counterparts to tackle advanced math courses like calculus, thatU (27) /Uall the great mathematicians have been men. Are women born withU (28) /Umathematical ability Or does societys sexismU (29) /Utheir progress In 1980, two Johns Hopkins University researchers tried toU (30) /Uthe eternal nature/nurture debate. Julian Stanley and Camilla Benbow haveU (31) /U10,000 talented seventh and eighthU (32) /Ubetween 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test,U (33) /Umath questions are meant to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discoveredU (34) /Usex differences.U (35) /Uthe verbal abilities of the males and femalesU (36) /Udiffered, twice asU (37) /Uboys as girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) on mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14U (38) /Ul. The conclusion: males haveU (39) /Usuperior mathematical reasoning ability. Benbow and Stanleys findings,U (40) /Uwere published in "Science",U (41) /Usome men and women. Now there is comfort for those people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math is not, after all, a natural maleU (42) /UProf. Zalman Usiskin studied 1,366 high school students. They were selected from geometry classes and testedU (43) /Utheir ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiringU (44) /Uabstract reasoning and spatial ability. The conclusionU (45) /Uby Usiskin: there are no sex differences in math ability. AandBthanCwithDon 15.BText 2/B From her wheelchair, a child raises rounded arms above her head to form a blossoming flower. Nearby, a blind boy gently waves a flowing scarf as his body sways back and forth. Welcome to Infinite Dreams, a southern California program that each year helps more than 1,000 children with disabilities learn ballet, jazz, and other forms of movement. For founder Zina Bethune, a professional dancer and actress who works with a team of six instructors, this is a deeply felt mission. "Ive walked a very fine line between the abled and disabled worlds all my life," says Bethune, a former soloist with the New York City Ballet who starred on Broadway in Tommy Tunes production of Grand Hotel. Born and raised in New York City, Bethune, 47, started formal ballet training at age 6 with legendary choreographer George Balanchine. But during adolescence, a host of medical problems mined her chances of becoming a prima ballerina. But she ignored them and her pain and continued to dance. Faced with all sorts of difficulties, she never gave up. By the time she was 34, Bethune had went gone two hip replacements. Bethune, who has been married for 18 years to a former dancer, started Infinite Dreams in southern California in 1983. "Dance is spiritual," she says. "And these childrens spirits are not disabled." Funded through grants and private donations, the group offers hour-long weekly sessions in schools and performs at arts festivals throughout the year. "Participation, not perfection, is emphasized," notes Bethune, who is currently trying to make her program available nationally. Adjustments to the dance steps are made as needed. Russell Bartel, 14, a star student with spina bifida and little feeling in his lower legs, pirouettes not by turning on his toes but by spinning on his back. "What we try to make clear," Bethune says, "is that their individual version of any step is valid. Thats their dance." From that understanding often springs a newfound sense of confidence. "I can do a lot more than I ever thought I could." Bartel says. "It makes me feel great."What kind of organization is Infinite Dreams AA dancing club in southern California.BA program to realize the art dreams for disabled children.CA proposal to perform arts for disabled children.DA team of professional dancers and actresses. 16.IQuestions 23-25 are based on the following monologue:/IWhen did the woman want the store to deliver the itemsAIn about 20 years.BWithin a week.CIn a couple of weeks.DAs early as possible. 17.BText 1/B The American party system is a two-party system which is unlikely to become anything else. It is not just that the two-party polarization has the weight of tradition behind it but also that the two-party polarization is built into our constitutional and legal system. Our entire electoral arrangements, the absence of proportional representation, the exorbitant cost of political campaigns, the legal difficulties in getting on and staying on the ballot in many states-all these things work against the rise of minor parties. Also the single member legislative district, the division of power between the nation and the states, the method of electing a president with the winner itself, work to keep power in the hands of the two major parties. Major parties (like the Federalists and the Whigs) have broken up and been replaced as new parties have emerged in the past. But no minor party has ever gradually risen to achieve the stature of a major party, and no third party has lasted very long in any prominent capacity. All this is not to say that third parties do not have a function in the American system. However, their function is largely that of pressure groups, and in this respect they are a curious combination of European special-interest parties and American interest groups. They have at various times been useful in bringing to the fore the interests of neglected groups in the public at large. The Populist party of 1890s as was a notable case in point. What happens characteristically, however, is that as soon as third parties begin to make their mark, one or both of the major parties appropriates enough of their principles or program to absorb the discontent on which they were flourishing. For this reason it has been said that third parties are like bees: once they have stung they must die.The word "exorbitant" (Line 4, Para. 1) means "_". Anot expensiveBfairly expensiveCtoo expensiveDtoo cheap 18.IQuestions 15-18 are based on the following dialogue:/IWhere did the woman learn about dolphinsAIn a book.BFrom a television program.CDuring a trip that she took.DFrom a lecture. 19.BPart A/B IYou will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE./I What does the man meanAThe pool will be open all week.BThe weather will cool down soon.CThe woman should go swimming.DHe prefers to stay inside in hot weather. 20.IQuestions 19-22 are based on the following dialogue:/IWhich is not true about solar heat collector panelsAThey look like sandwiches.BThey can heat but not cool homes.CThey cost about 300 each.DThey are placed on rooftops. 21.BText 2/B From her wheelchair, a child raises rounded arms above her head to form a blossoming flower. Nearby, a blind boy gently waves a flowing scarf as his body sways back and forth. Welcome to Infinite Dreams, a southern California program that each year helps more than 1,000 children with disabilities learn ballet, jazz, and other forms of movement. For founder Zina Bethune, a professional dancer and actress who works with a team of six instructors, this is a deeply felt mission. "Ive walked a very fine line between the abled and disabled worlds all my life," says Bethune, a former soloist with the New York City Ballet who starred on Broadway in Tommy Tunes production of Grand Hotel. Born and raised in New York City, Bethune, 47, started formal ballet training at age 6 with legendary choreographer George Balanchine. But during adolescence, a host of medical problems mined her chances of becoming a prima ballerina. But she ignored them and her pain and continued to dance. Faced with all sorts of difficulties, she never gave up. By the time she was 34, Bethune had went gone two hip replacements. Bethune, who has been married for 18 years to a former dancer, started Infinite Dreams in southern California in 1983. "Dance is spiritual," she says. "And these childrens spirits are not disabled." Funded through grants and private donations, the group offers hour-long weekly sessions in schools and performs at arts festivals throughout the year. "Participation, not perfection, is emphasized," notes Bethune, who is currently trying to make her program available nationally. Adjustments to the dance steps are made as needed. Russell Bartel, 14, a star student with spina bifida and little feeling in his lower legs, pirouettes not by turning on his toes but by spinning on his back. "What we try to make clear," Bethune says, "is that their individual version of any step is valid. Thats their dance." From that understanding often springs a newfound sense of confidence. "I can do a lot more than I ever thought I could." Bartel says. "It makes me feel great."What do we know about Bethune from the passage AShe was born and raised in New York City and never left ever since.BShe was 34 when she started the program called Infinite Dreams.CShe was trained at a very early age, and the training and practice last long.DShe went through a host of medical problems at the age 6. 22.IQuestions 11-14 are based on the following dialogue:/IHow many total courses must a student take for a literature majorAThree.BFive.CEight.DTen. 23.IQuestions 15-18 are based on the following dialogue:/IWhy do dolphins use clicksATo communicate with other dolphins.BTo recognize objects in the water.CTo learn human language.DTo express fear. 24.What have the people probably been doingAHaving a picnic.BEnjoying a concert.CWatching a picnic.DEating out. 25.BText 1/B The American party system is a two-party system which is unlikely to become anything else. It is not just that the two-party polarization has the weight of trad