2023年陕西大学英语考试模拟卷（9）.docx

2023年陕西大学英语考试模拟卷（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.听力原文6-7W: Good morning Lin. Are you going back to your hometown Hunan for Spring Festival M: I intend to spend my festival here in Guangzhou.W: Well, you can come to the New Year party for students from other provinces on campus.M: That must be excellent! When and where will the party be given W: January 14th, at the Arts Center.M: Thank you. I think that would be a wonderful night!W: You’re welcome. See you.What kind of students would be invited to the party （）AStudents on campus.BStudents from foreign countries.CStudents from Guangzhou.DStudents from other provinces on campus.2.听力原文8-10W: Hi, Xiao Wang. What are you going to do this weekend M: I’ve no idea. What about you W: How about going out for some exercises M: Good idea!W: Do you like to play tennis M: You’ve just found the right one.W: You must play a lot!M: In fact, I play table tennis more. That’s my favorite sport.W: Well, that’s fantastic! I think we can go to the court for both these sports.M: Really I can’t wait going right now.W: So let’s make it 2 o’clock at the school gate this Saturday afternoon.M: Ok, see you then.When will they go to the court （）AIn the weekend.BOn Saturday.C2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon.DRight now.3.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BACommenting on a picture.BLooking at some paintCPainting a picture.DComparing two paintings. 4.BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard./BAIts near Mexico City.BIts in Guatemala.CIts stretched from the plains of central Mexico to the mountains of Guatemala.DIts in America. 5.BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard./BAIt has become a clumsy giant.BThe city has suffered from lung-time famine.CThere was an epidemic disease that time.DIt has been set on fire. 6.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BAProfessor and student.BShop assistant and customer.CLibrarian and reader.DTwo friends. 7.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BAFuture happiness is attractive,BThe man shouldnt work too hard for the happiness of future.CThe man should retire early.DTodays happiness is less important than tomorrows. 8.BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard./BATeotihuacan, once the home of 200,000 people, was the center of a large empire.BMany archaeologists are fascinated by the ruins of a pre-Columbia city called Teotihuacan.CTeotihuacan, once a major metropolitan area, was destroyed by an invasion.DA still unsolved mystery is why the people of Teotihnacan suddenly abandoned their city. 9.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BAIn a bar.BIn a restaurant.CIn a hotel.DIn a grocers. 10.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BAThe man is handsome.BThe man used to be unhealthy.CThe lecture is not very clearDThe man has become a better person. 11.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BABuy something to eat on the train.BTake the five o clock trainCWait to catch a later train.DTake the train to the airport, 12.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BAShe feels nervous about the test.BShe worries about her competence.CShe thinks she is well prepared.DShe doesnt like the training behind the wheel. 13.BQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard./BATake a break.BGo to work.CDo the other problems.DKeep trying. 14.The Biggest Australian Budget Ever The Australian government is to announce some of the biggest ever spending increases in education, welfare, the foreign office and defence at lunchtime tomorrow. After a decade of strong industrial growth, record low unemployment and a booming economy, the government feels confident enough to reinvest some of the funds it has been hoarding since it came to power four years ago. In accordance with the priorities which were stated when the Liberal party was elected, a very sizeable portion of this bounty will go to education and to schools in particular. Approximately A $1 billion is expected to go on educational building through the Neighbourhood Renewal Scheme. School buildings have suffered shameful neglect for over half a century. The population has grown and education has changed in that time but no new school buildings have been erected for 10 years. But this change should increase expenditure per child from some A $350 to over A $700. A further A $400 million will go on increasing teachers pay. There is national shortage of teachers, especially in areas such as science, mathematics and religion. The target to increase teachers in training to 5, 600 last year was missed by a huge margin; only 2, 533 actually enrolled. Increase both in basic pay and in incentive enrolled. Increases both in basic pay and in incentive schemes, such as rewards for conspicuous achievement and cash payments for trainee teachers, will be made. In contrast to last year, expenditure on health will rise by less than one per cent and changes here will be in research funding. The most notable change is in funding to the Adelaide Epidemiology Center which is nearing its goal of marketing a vaccination against AIDS. The Department of Health will inject A $5. 8 million for the large-scale, double-blind trials it requires. This compares with A $ 575, 000 invested by the government in this programme last year. A government spokesman explains that, "health will be taking a back seat this year because of the huge increases announced in this area over the previous two years." In other areas significant changes are also occurring. In the Department of Pensions and Welfare, state old age pensions, frozen at A $204 per month for the last three years are set to rise to A $225 per month. Unemployment benefit, likewise frozen for three years, is also set to rise but not until next year. Thereafter, rises of 10.5% over each of the remaining three years of this Parliament are schedules. This is not as generous as it may seem, however, as certain categories of expenditure will be phased out. The Work Now Scheme to encourage single mothers back into the labour market will go, as will the infamous YTCs. The Youth Training Councils received a bad press over the Manning scandal which led to the resignation of the Minister, but there is evidence that these schemes placed in work only those people who would have found work anyway. More importantly, the period over which unemployment benefit is paid has been cut from a year to eight months and this might remove 20% of all claimants. In Defence and the Foreign Office, there are increases in the funding of the Voice of Australia radio service. The A $ 128 million may seem a small investment but it checks the reduction in funds from A $ 2 billion to A $ 698 million over the last decade which threatened to end the service entirely. A $ 500 million is being made available for two new warships and a further A $ 250 million for an extension to the Rapid Reaction Force now seen as so much more important given recent political and civil unrest in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.The Australian government has been increasing expenditure for four years.AYBNCNG 15.The Biggest Australian Budget Ever The Australian government is to announce some of the biggest ever spending increases in education, welfare, the foreign office and defence at lunchtime tomorrow. After a decade of strong industrial growth, record low unemployment and a booming economy, the government feels confident enough to reinvest some of the funds it has been hoarding since it came to power four years ago. In accordance with the priorities which were stated when the Liberal party was elected, a very sizeable portion of this bounty will go to education and to schools in particular. Approximately A $1 billion is expected to go on educational building through the Neighbourhood Renewal Scheme. School buildings have suffered shameful neglect for over half a century. The population has grown and education has changed in that time but no new school buildings have been erected for 10 years. But this change should increase expenditure per child from some A $350 to over A $700. A further A $400 million will go on increasing teachers pay. There is national shortage of teachers, especially in areas such as science, mathematics and religion. The target to increase teachers in training to 5, 600 last year was missed by a huge margin; only 2, 533 actually enrolled. Increase both in basic pay and in incentive enrolled. Increases both in basic pay and in incentive schemes, such as rewards for conspicuous achievement and cash payments for trainee teachers, will be made. In contrast to last year, expenditure on health will rise by less than one per cent and changes here will be in research funding. The most notable change is in funding to the Adelaide Epidemiology Center which is nearing its goal of marketing a vaccination against AIDS. The Department of Health will inject A $5. 8 million for the large-scale, double-blind trials it requires. This compares with A $ 575, 000 invested by the government in this programme last year. A government spokesman explains that, "health will be taking a back seat this year because of the huge increases announced in this area over the previous two years." In other areas significant changes are also occurring. In the Department of Pensions and Welfare, state old age pensions, frozen at A $204 per month for the last three years are set to rise to A $225 per month. Unemployment benefit, likewise frozen for three years, is also set to rise but not until next year. Thereafter, rises of 10.5% over each of the remaining three years of this Parliament are schedules. This is not as generous as it may seem, however, as certain categories of expenditure will be phased out. The Work Now Scheme to encourage single mothers back into the labour market will go, as will the infamous YTCs. The Youth Training Councils received a bad press over the Manning scandal which led to the resignation of the Minister, but there is evidence that these schemes placed in work only those people who would have found work anyway. More importantly, the period over which unemployment benefit is paid has been cut from a year to eight months and this might remove 20% of all claimants. In Defence and the Foreign Office, there are increases in the funding of the Voice of Australia radio service. The A $ 128 million may seem a small investment but it checks the reduction in funds from A $ 2 billion to A $ 698 million over the last decade which threatened to end the service entirely. A $ 500 million is being made available for two new warships and a further A $ 250 million for an extension to the Rapid Reaction Force now seen as so much more important given recent political and civil unrest in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.About A $1 billion will be put into educational building through the Neighborhood Renewal Scheme.AYBNCNG 16.The picnics, speeches, and parades of todays Labor Day were all part of the first celebration, held in New York City in 1882. Its promoter was an Irish-American labor leader named Peter J. McGuire. A carpenter by trade, McGuire had worked since the age of eleven, and in 1882 was president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (UBCJ). Approaching the Citys Central Labor Union that summer, he proposed a holiday that would applaud (赞许) "the industrial spirit-the great vital force of every nation." On September 5 his suggestion bore fruit, as an estimated 10,000 workers, many of them ignoring their bosses warnings, left work to march from Union square up Fifth Avenue to 42nd Street. The event gained national attention, and by 1893 thirty states had made Labor Day an annual holiday. The quick adoption of the scheme may have indicated less about the state lawmakers respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger. In the 1880s the United States was a land sharply divided between the immensely wealthy and the very poor. Henry George was accurate in describing the era as one of "progress and poverty." In a society in which factory, owners rode in private Pullmans while ten-year-olds slaved in the mines, strong anti-capitalist feeling ran high. Demands for fundamental change were common throughout the labor press. With socialists demanding an end to "wage slavery " and anarchists (无政府主义者) singing the praises of the virtues of dynamite (炸药), middle-of-roaders like Samuel Gompers and McGuire seemed attractively mild by comparison. One can imagine practical capitalists seeing Labor day as a bargain: A one-day party certainly cost them less than paying their workers decent wages.Judging from the passage, Mcguire was_.Aa moderate labor leaderBan extreme-anarchist in the labor movementCa devoted socialist fighting against exploitation of man by manDa firm anti-capitalist demanding the elimination of wage slavery 17.The Biggest Australian Budget Ever The Australian government is to announce some of the biggest ever spending increases in education, welfare, the foreign office and defence at lunchtime tomorrow. After a decade of strong industrial growth, record low unemployment and a booming economy, the government feels confident enough to reinvest some of the funds it has been hoarding since it came to power four years ago. In accordance with the priorities which were stated when the Liberal party was elected, a very sizeable portion of this bounty will go to education and to schools in particular. Approximately A $1 billion is expected to go on educational building through the Neighbourhood Renewal Scheme. School buildings have suffered shameful neglect for over half a century. The population has grown and education has changed in that time but no new school buildings have been erected for 10 years. But this change should increase expenditure per child from some A $350 to over A $700. A further A $400 million will go on increasing teachers pay. There is national shortage of teachers, especially in areas such as science, mathematics and religion. The target to increas