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1、2022广东公共英语考试考前冲刺卷（2）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.Where did the woman think they were supposed to meetAAt the information desk.BOn the platform.COn the train.DNear the stairs. 2.What did the womans son doAHes a reporter,BHes a salesman.CHes a repairman.D

2、Hes a mailman. 3.Where did the woman think they were supposed to meetAShe hasnt gone camping for several weeks.BShe likes to take long camping trips.CShe prefers to go camping on weekends.DShe takes a long time to go. 4.Where did the woman think they were supposed to meetATo follow the committees id

3、eas.BTo make decisions with the committee.CTo run the committee according to his own ideas.DTo elect the committee chairman himself. 5.What did the womans son doABy 9.BBy 12.CBy 2.DBy 3. 6.What did the womans son doAIn a hospital.BIn a 151ant store.CIn a law office.DIn a gift shop. 7.Where did the w

4、oman think they were supposed to meetAYes, because she has a sum of money.BYes, because she wants to help him.CNo, because she has spent most of it.DNo, because she lent it to a friend. 8.Where did the woman think they were supposed to meetAShe has to prepare for the exam.BShe is taking an exam on F

5、riday.CShe doesnt enjoy tours very much.DShe likes staying home better. 9.What did the womans son doAThe bus is less expensive than the train.BThe train is faster than the bus.CThe train is cheaper than the bus.DThe bus is slower than the train. 10.What did the womans son doAAt a cinema.BAt a traini

6、ng center.CAt home.DAt a party. 11.Where are they goingATo a restaurant.BTo a drugstore.CTo a school.DTo a beach. 12.Which car was badly damagedAA car outside the supermarket.BA car at the bottom of the hill.CPauls car.DThe sports car. 13.Why did Peter go to the Union Trust BankATo cash a check.BTo

7、rob the bank.CTo get his prize.DTo withdraw his deposit. 14.Sleep is a funny thing. Were taught that we should get seven or eight hours a night, but a lot of us get by just fine on less, and some of us actually sleep too much. A study out of the University of Buffalo reported that people who routine

8、ly sleep more than eight hours a day and are still tired are nearly three times as likely to die of stroke probably as a result of an underlying disorder that keeps them from sleeping soundly. Doctors have their own special sleep problems. Residents are famously short of sleep. It is not unusual for

9、 them to work 40 hours in a row without rest. They are not in the least worried about it, confident they can still deliver the highest quality of medical care. But an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association points out that in the morning after 24 hours of sleeplessness, a persons

10、motor performance is comparable to that of someone who is drunk. Curiously, surgeons who believe that operating under the influence of alcohol is grounds for sacking often dont think twice about operating without enough sleep. I could tell you horror stories, says Jaya Agrawal, president of the Amer

11、ican Medical Student Association, which runs a website for residents. Some are terrifying. I was operating after being up for over 36 hours, one writes. I literally fell asleep standing up and nearly planted my face into the wound. Practically every surgical resident I know has fallen asleep at the

12、wheel driving home from work, writes another. I know of three who have hit parked cars. Another hit a Jersey gate on the New Jersey Expressway, going 105km/h. Your own patients have become the enemy, writes a third, because they are the one thing that stands between you and a few hours of sleep. The

13、 U. S. controls the hours of pilots and truck drivers. But until such a system is in place for doctors, patients are on their own. If youre worried about the people treating you or a loved one, you should feel free to ask how many hours of sleep they have had and if more rested staffers are availabl

14、e.Sleep is a funny thing because_.Athe longer one sleeps, the less sound sleep he getsBthe more sleep one gets, the more likely a stroke occursCmany people stick to about eight hours of sleep to stay fineDmany people who sleep six hours a night still feel energetic in the day 15.My family and I rece

15、ntly returned from a trip to Alaska, a place that combines supernatural beauty with a breathtaking amount of bear risks. Ill start with some facts at a glance:WHERE ALASKA IS: Way the hell far from you. Beyond Mars.HOW YOU GET THERE: You sit in a variety of airplanes for most of your adult life.WHAT

16、 THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU: Bears.I am quite serious about this. Although Alaska is now an official United States with modem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also contains a large number of admitted bears, striding freely about the landscape, and nobody seems to

17、 be the least bit alarmed about this. In fact, the Alaskans seem to be proud of it. You walk into a hotel or department store, and the first thing you see is a glass case containing a stuffed bear the size of a real one. Our hotel had two of these. It was what we travel writers call a two-bear hotel

18、. Both bears were standing on their hind legs and striking a pose that said: Welcome to Alaska! Im going to tear your arms off!This struck me as an odd concept, greeting visitors with a showcase containing a major local hazard. Its as if an anti-drug organization went around setting up glass display

19、 cases containing stuffed drug smugglers, with little plaques stating how much they weighed and where they were taken.Anyway, we decided the best way to deal with our fear of bears was to become well informed about them, so we bought a book, Alaska Bear Tales. Here are some of the chapter titles, wh

20、ich I am not making up.Theyll Attack Without Warning Theyll Really Attack YouThey Will KillCome Quick ! Im Being Eaten by a Bear !They Can Be FunnyHa ha ! I bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bear and a bundle of hilarity as they fight playfully over the remaining portion of a former tourist plumped u

21、p by airline food. But just the same, I m glad that the only actual, nonstuffed, practicing bears that we saw were in the zoo.What is the tone of the storyASerious.BComplex.CComic.DDisapproving. 16.It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work Her bus

22、 had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. Wh

23、en she finally reached the office marked Smith Enterprises, she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.Although she

24、was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at ail. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. In the front of the room, somebody must have just

25、told a good joke, she thought ,because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of secon

26、ds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Marie. Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr. Smith, who would arr

27、ive at any moment. Then Marie realized that the day s work in the office began just before Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35,so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.

28、Made felt nervous when she knocked at the door because_.Ait was her first day in a new jobBshe was a little bit late for workCshe was afraid that she had gone to the wrong placeDthere was no answer from inside the office 17.When does the woman want to take a leaveAJune 30 to July 1.BMay 1 to May 30.

29、CJune 1 to June 30.DMay 31 to June 4. 18.Where was the driver of the sports car when the accident happenedAInside the car.BAt the foot of the hill.CIn the garage.DIn the supermarket. 19.What are the man and the woman talking aboutAAn engine.BA stereo.CA car.DThe price of a car. 20.What is the woman

30、looking forAA full-time job.BA part-time job.CA well-paid job.DA comfortable job. 21.What was Peters jobAA car mechanic.BA radio announcer.CA movie actor.DA bank employee. 22.Sleep is a funny thing. Were taught that we should get seven or eight hours a night, but a lot of us get by just fine on less

31、, and some of us actually sleep too much. A study out of the University of Buffalo reported that people who routinely sleep more than eight hours a day and are still tired are nearly three times as likely to die of stroke probably as a result of an underlying disorder that keeps them from sleeping s

32、oundly. Doctors have their own special sleep problems. Residents are famously short of sleep. It is not unusual for them to work 40 hours in a row without rest. They are not in the least worried about it, confident they can still deliver the highest quality of medical care. But an article in the Jou

33、rnal of the American Medical Association points out that in the morning after 24 hours of sleeplessness, a persons motor performance is comparable to that of someone who is drunk. Curiously, surgeons who believe that operating under the influence of alcohol is grounds for sacking often dont think tw

34、ice about operating without enough sleep. I could tell you horror stories, says Jaya Agrawal, president of the American Medical Student Association, which runs a website for residents. Some are terrifying. I was operating after being up for over 36 hours, one writes. I literally fell asleep standing

35、 up and nearly planted my face into the wound. Practically every surgical resident I know has fallen asleep at the wheel driving home from work, writes another. I know of three who have hit parked cars. Another hit a Jersey gate on the New Jersey Expressway, going 105km/h. Your own patients have bec

36、ome the enemy, writes a third, because they are the one thing that stands between you and a few hours of sleep. The U. S. controls the hours of pilots and truck drivers. But until such a system is in place for doctors, patients are on their own. If youre worried about the people treating you or a lo

37、ved one, you should feel free to ask how many hours of sleep they have had and if more rested staffers are available.A surgeon who has worked 40 hours in a row without sleep_.Acan still provide quality medical careBwill remain alert because he is used to itCmay ignore the potential risk of insuffici

38、ent sleepDshould be fired if he continues the medical operation 23.My family and I recently returned from a trip to Alaska, a place that combines supernatural beauty with a breathtaking amount of bear risks. Ill start with some facts at a glance:WHERE ALASKA IS: Way the hell far from you. Beyond Mar

39、s.HOW YOU GET THERE: You sit in a variety of airplanes for most of your adult life.WHAT THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU: Bears.I am quite serious about this. Although Alaska is now an official United States with modem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also contains a l

40、arge number of admitted bears, striding freely about the landscape, and nobody seems to be the least bit alarmed about this. In fact, the Alaskans seem to be proud of it. You walk into a hotel or department store, and the first thing you see is a glass case containing a stuffed bear the size of a re

41、al one. Our hotel had two of these. It was what we travel writers call a two-bear hotel. Both bears were standing on their hind legs and striking a pose that said: Welcome to Alaska! Im going to tear your arms off!This struck me as an odd concept, greeting visitors with a showcase containing a major

42、 local hazard. Its as if an anti-drug organization went around setting up glass display cases containing stuffed drug smugglers, with little plaques stating how much they weighed and where they were taken.Anyway, we decided the best way to deal with our fear of bears was to become well informed abou

43、t them, so we bought a book, Alaska Bear Tales. Here are some of the chapter titles, which I am not making up.Theyll Attack Without Warning Theyll Really Attack YouThey Will KillCome Quick ! Im Being Eaten by a Bear !They Can Be FunnyHa ha ! I bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bear and a bundle of hi

44、larity as they fight playfully over the remaining portion of a former tourist plumped up by airline food. But just the same, I m glad that the only actual, nonstuffed, practicing bears that we saw were in the zoo.Which of the following is the author in favour ofAAirline food.BDrag smugglers.CBears.D

45、Bears in zoos. 24.It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.Once inside the lo

46、bby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked Smith Enterprises, she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fact, i