2021年青海大学英语考试考前冲刺卷_1.docx

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1、2021年青海大学英语考试考前冲刺卷本卷共分为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.Whatever may be said against mass circulation magazines and newspapers, it can hardly be argued that they are out of touch with their readers daydreams, and therefore the inducements they hold out to them m

2、ust be a near accurate reflection of their unfulfilled wants and aspirations. Study these and you will assuredly understand a good deal of what it is that makes society tick. Looking back, for example, to the twenties and thirties, we can see that circulation managers unerringly diagnosed the twin o

3、bsessions which dominated that era of mass unemployment - economic insecurity and a passionate concern for the next generation. Thus it was that readers were recruited with offers of free insurance policies for the one, and free instant education for the other. The family whose breadwinner lost an e

4、ye in a double railway derailment, or an arm in a flood, could confidently expect to collect several hundred pounds from the Daily This or the Evening That. The family who could not afford to send their son to grammar school could find consolation in equipping him with the complete works of Shakespe

5、are in one magnificent, easy-to-read volume.What does the choice of gifts tell us about the circulation managersA. They despised their readers. B. They understood their readers.C. They enjoyed being powerful. D. They were out of touch.After the war the need to fall into step with the new consumer so

6、ciety was soon realized. If you were flanked by neighbors who, unlike you, could afford a holiday abroad, then winning an easy competition could set you up with a fortnight in an exotic sunspot. Dishwashers, washing machines, slow-cookers and deep-fat-friers were - and still are - available by the s

7、ame means.2.The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1920s. In the 1920s, but especially in the Depression of the 1930s, the United States experienced a (31) birth rate. Then with the prosperity (32) by the Secon

8、d World War and the economic boom that followed, young people married and (33) households earlier and began to (34) larger families than had their (35) during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. (36) economics was probably the most important

9、(37) , it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed (38) the idea of the family also helps to (39) this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming (40) the first grade by the mid-1940s and became a (41) by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itsel

10、f (42) The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. (43) , large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paid jobs else where. (44) , in the 1950s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and (45) school system. Consequently, the custodial

11、rhetoric of the 1930s no longer made (46) ; keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high (47) for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators (48) turned towar

12、d the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and (49) . The system no longer had much (50) in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to the older youths.A. dominance B. determinant C. determiner D. premise 3.The giant pandas prospects are better now than in the recent past. New ins

13、ights into behavior, diet and physiology offer hope that we may be able to protect and breed these animals more effectively. Pandas are exceedingly elusive. Pandas are natural vagrants, unsociable and eccentric. There has been considerable debate over the evolution of pandas. Some experts have thoug

14、ht that they descended from raccoons. Others believe they share a common ancestor with the bear, but evolved independently. The animals could once be found in much of southern and eastern China, as well as parts of Southeast Asia. And though the pandas range has steadily shrunk, its habits are unalt

15、ered. The pandas routine is indeed a bums life, spent wandering from one bad meal to another and bedding down in the nearest dark corner. Although pandas can swim and climb trees, they spend most of their time seeking out and chewing bamboo. Pandas have been known to eat chicken and honey when bambo

16、o is in short supply. But in the wild, bamboo is their primary fare. And because it is such a poor source of nutrition and hard for them to digest, pandas must eat prodigious amounts. Pandas consume about 30 pounds of bamboo a day. On this monotonous diet, they attain weights of up to 250 pounds. Th

17、ey make a variety of sounds: bleating, chirping, huffing, snorting and even barking like a dog if startled. At about age five, the female, smaller than the male, will moan, signaling she is receptive. Her call is often answered by as many as three or four males. In late August or September, after a

18、gestation period estimated at 90 to 160 days, the female gives birth. Her litter often consists of two mouse-size newborns covered in sparse white hair, through which their pink skin shows. But she is likely to focus on a single cub-not necessarily the healthier- and let the other die. The baby is c

19、ared for in a cave or hollow tree that the female has lined with bamboo twigs. The mother assumes sole responsibility for the cub, nursing it often during the first six months. She guards her infant closely, earning it in her paw or teeth. Not until it is 18 months old is her offspring, by then almo

20、st 100 pounds heavier, ready to live on its own. A female can conceive only two or three days a year. Because she takes 18 months to rear her offspring, she will reproduce only once every two years. The most promising hope for the pandas future seems to be the increased efforts by the Chinese govern

21、ment. Public concern for the welfare of pandas has been heightened by stiff penalties for poaching. So we can, perhaps, begin to dream again of a future with the pandas, born in the wild or returned there after birth, full-furred giants wandering and occasionally meeting deep in the verdant tangles

22、of bamboo. We may never see them, but it is rewarding to think the pandas will be there, for these captivating creatures clearly hold a special place in our hearts.To some experts, pandas ancestor might come from_.A. a bear B. a puma C. a cat-like animal D. an unknown mammal 4.The generation of Amer

23、icans who are now (in 1989) young adults has been, as odd as it sounds, deprived of the adversity that has been so valuable in shaping the American character. The First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the depression, the civil rights movement, and the assassinations during the 1960s were trau

24、matic experiences that tested the nations mettle and proved that we as a people, joined together, could meet the stiffest of challenges. Those tests, which ultimately gave us such great confidence, have been crucial to shaping every American generation this century. Until now, Americans in their lat

25、e teens to early thirties-a group that accounts for a hefty 25 percent of the American population-are the first of this century to mature in a world where the elusive American ideal of simultaneous peace and prosperity is, for very many of them, at long last a reality. These young men and women were

26、 spared the brunt of the Cold War, of Vietnam, and of the domestic chaos and bitter discord of the 1960s. They have grown up in a world without the megachanges of previous decades such as the womens movement, for example, or the sexual revolution that the Pill brought about. They are the post-Vietna

27、m generation, the 60. 3 million Americans born from 1957 to 1971. The oldest of them, now thirty-two, remember Watergate, but they were preteens during the most turbulent parts of the late sixties. The youngest of them, now eighteen, were not even born when Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Ken

28、nedy were killed. The older ones come from the final years of the baby boom, the younger ones from the years when American birth rates were declining-now called the baby burst. But what makes this group fascinating is their lack of a common, bonding experience and their failure-so far-to challenge a

29、nd push the nation as their predecessors did twenty years ago. In a sense they are a generation caught in the middle-not products of Vietnam, but not Nintendo (日本电子游戏机名) kids, either.In the authors opinion, what is most important in shaping a generation A. Peace and prosperity. B. Unfavorable condit

30、ions. C. A world without megachanges. D. the baby boom. 5.You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, but how about an open subway car that pulls Santa Claus and his sleigh through grimy, dark tunnels at 50 mph The brave Santa is just one feature Of the Holiday Train, which zips through the citys

31、 subway and on top of its elevated tracks, surprising commuters and delighting youngsters. Holiday music booms over the speakers, the hand poles are wrapped in red and white paper to look like giant candy canes, and jolly ol St. Nick - wearing his seat belt, of course - rides on a sleigh placed on a

32、n open flatbed car in the middle of the train. The train, which costs a regular $1.50 fare, alternates trips on six of the citys seven train lines on weekends and some Mondays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Three of the trains cars derailed Saturday evening, but no one was injured. The derailme

33、nt disrupted service on the subways Brown line for about six hours but wasnt expected to change the trains schedule. The Holiday Train began in 1992 with a few modest decorations on the outside. This years version is draped in garland and twinkles with 50,000 lights inside and out. Although a schedu

34、le is posted on the Internet, many riders end up on the train by chance. Along with excited children whose parents planned the trip, plenty of sour-faced commuters break into silly grins and laughs when they find their normally drab, beige train car turned into a winter wonderland. Its beautiful! ex

35、claimed Rochelle Sims as she boarded the train last week after work. Sims looked overhead at the red and green bulbs that had replaced the normal fluorescent glare. This puts me in the Christmas mood. It makes commuting more fun. Dave Kowalski, on board a recent trip as Santas chief elf, admits that

36、 the Holiday Train gets a little extra TLC. This years train took about six weeks to decorate. About a week after Christmas, it will be stripped of its decorations and return to the regular fleet.Which statement is NOT true about the holiday trainsA. Holiday trains charge more fare than usual.B. Tra

37、ins are so decorated because it is Christmas season.C. Decorated trains are not considered more dangerous.D. Decoration of the trains is more complicated than before.6.The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearance

38、s and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of re

39、ality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting. Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such

40、. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselvesanything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved w

41、ith art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art. Photographers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of th

42、e contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were

43、getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenom

44、enon of Pop painting during the i960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist paintingthat is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matissepresupposes highly developed skills

45、of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art. Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic

46、Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activityin short, an art.Why does the author int

47、roduce Abstract Expressionist painter A. He wants to provide an example of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modern art. B. He wants to set forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical Modernist painters. C. H

48、e wants to provide a contrast to Pop artist and others. D. He wants to provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art. 7.It is possible for students to obtain advanced degree in English while knowing little or nothi

49、ng about traditional scholarly methods. The consequences of this neglect of traditional scholarship are particularly unfortunate for the study of women writers. If the canon the list of authors whose works are most widely taughtis ever to include more women, scholars must be well trained in historical scholarship and textual editing. Scholars who do not know