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1、2023年辽宁考研英语考试模拟卷（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.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In one day, a five - acre forest can release 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool

2、. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring devices, science is learning more and more about the far - reaching and

3、often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and poor reception. What happened, said the chief engineer, was that the humi

4、dity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensation on the playing beads and tapes of videocassette recorders produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens

5、the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pianos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park

6、for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performances.Humidity speeds the deterioration of treasured family photos and warps priceless antiques. Your home&rsqu

7、o; s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes blight that attacks potato and green - bean crops-adding to food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which

8、can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over 1700 patients for responses

9、 to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.What can be inferred from this passage（）ANowadays science is learning more and more about the impact humidity has on all of us by using sophisticate

10、d measuring devices.BHumidity could interfere with television signals.CHumidity may warp priceless antiques.DVisual disturbances may decrease in days of low humidity.2.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In one day, a five - acre forest can r

11、elease 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring

12、 devices, science is learning more and more about the far - reaching and often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and

13、poor reception. What happened, said the chief engineer, was that the humidity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensation on the playing beads and tapes

14、of videocassette recorders produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pia

15、nos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performances.Humidity speeds the deterioratio

16、n of treasured family photos and warps priceless antiques. Your home’ s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes blight that attacks potato and gree

17、n - bean crops-adding to food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns

18、Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over 1700 patients for responses to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.Why did the number of complaints drop（）ABecause they got poor reception.BBe

19、cause the humidity was interfering with the signals.CBecause there came a blast of dry air.DBecause humidity increased rapidly in the region.3.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In one day, a five - acre forest can release 20, 000 gallons of

20、 water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring devices, science is lear

21、ning more and more about the far - reaching and often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and poor reception. What happ

22、ened, said the chief engineer, was that the humidity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensation on the playing beads and tapes of videocassette recorder

23、s produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pianos to go out of tune, of

24、ten in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performances.Humidity speeds the deterioration of treasured family pho

25、tos and warps priceless antiques. Your home’ s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes blight that attacks potato and green - bean crops-adding to

26、food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti

27、more has tested over 1700 patients for responses to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.The main idea of the passage is about （）Athe main source of humidityBthe impact of humidity on our w

28、orld and ourselvesChow humidity affect our lifeDthe damage humidity has done to our world4.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In one day, a five - acre forest can release 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool. A

29、dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring devices, science is learning more and more about the far - reaching and ofte

30、n surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and poor reception. What happened, said the chief engineer, was that the humidity

31、 was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensation on the playing beads and tapes of videocassette recorders produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens the

32、life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pianos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park for

33、the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performances.Humidity speeds the deterioration of treasured family photos and warps priceless antiques. Your home’ s

34、 wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes blight that attacks potato and green - bean crops-adding to food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which can

35、affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over 1700 patients for responses to

36、high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.Which of the following is NOT included as source of humidity in this passage（）AOceans.BPlants.CAir.DDryers.5.Text 4Each time you step into those faded o

37、ld Jeans, you put on a piece of history. The world’ s favorite trousers are now over a hundred years old, and here’ s how they started out.The first Jeans were made in 1850, in the California gold rush. A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold - diggers’ normal trousers were

38、n’ t strong enough for the work they had to do and were wearing Out quickly. Strauss had some strong canvas, which he was going to make into tents and wagon covers to sell to the workers. Instead, he made some trousers out of it and these became the first Jeans. They were brown and called the

39、waist -high overall.The trousers sold well, and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even tougher. He found a material that was better than canvas- a durable cotton that was manufactured only in the south of France. In a town called Nimes, the material was denim-the name coming from

40、the French for from Nimes. Strauss ordered boat loads of this material and, to keep the colour consistent, had it all dyed indigo blue. The trousers became known as blue denims or blue jeans ( the Word jean is thought to come from Genoa. Italian’ sailors from the port of Genoa wore trousers si

41、milar to jeans, on the big trading ships).In the early days cowboys, farmers, miners and timber Jacks-all people associated with hard work-wore jeans. But there were a few design problems with the early styles-as cowboys discovered to their cost. When they crouched too close to the camp fire, the ri

42、vet (the metal button strengthening the jeans at the bottom of the fly) got too hot and became very uncomfortable. Levi didn t take much notice of the cowboys complaints until the 1940s, when a company official crouched too close to a camp fire and experienced the problem first - hand. The crotch ri

43、vet was soon removed.In the fifties and sixties, jeans represented rebellion. Film stars like James Dean, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe wore them, as did pop stars like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.Fashions changed in the seventies and jeans became flared-tight at the hip and wide at the bo

44、ttom. They were very, very tight-if you could get the zip up while standing up, they weren’ t tight enough. You had to lie down on the bed to do them up; for a really skin - tight fit, people would lie in a bath in their jeans and wait for them to shrink !As the trousers became more and more s

45、uccessful, other jeans manufacturers started up-such as Wrengler, Pepe and Lee.But jeans have had their opponents, in some countries-such as the old Soviet Union-jeans became a prized status symbol of the West. They suggested that a Soviet citizen had either traveled abroad or had contacts in the We

46、st. So the authorities discouraged the wearing of jeans. And in Japan,’a consumers’ association adamantly refused to sell one manufacturer’ s fashionable ripped jeans because it felt these were interior and defective product!In the seventies, people would lie in a bath to （）Atake a

47、 bath with their jeans onBmake the jeans more comfortableCmake the jeans more fashionableDmake the jeans smaller for a tiny skin tight fit6.Text 4Each time you step into those faded old Jeans, you put on a piece of history. The world’ s favorite trousers are now over a hundred years old, and h

48、ere’ s how they started out.The first Jeans were made in 1850, in the California gold rush. A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold - diggers’ normal trousers weren’ t strong enough for the work they had to do and were wearing Out quickly. Strauss had some strong canvas, wh

49、ich he was going to make into tents and wagon covers to sell to the workers. Instead, he made some trousers out of it and these became the first Jeans. They were brown and called the waist -high overall.The trousers sold well, and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even tougher. He found a material that was better than canvas- a durable cotton that was manufactured only in the south of France. In a town called Nimes, the material was denim-the name coming