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1、2023年广东大学英语考试真题卷（6）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.BTEXT B/B Once found almost entirely in the western United States and ill Asia, dinosaur fossils are now being discovered on all seven continents. A host of new revelations emerged in 1998 that promise to

2、reshape scientists views of dinosaurs, including what they looked like and when and where they lived. It is doubtful that Tyrannosaurus Rex had lips or that Triceratops had cheeks, says Lawrence Witmer, an assistant professor of anatomy at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Witmer was a leading resear

3、cher for a study on dinosaur anatomy that was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, which concluded on October 3 in Snowbird, Utah. Witmers study reached its conclusions by using high-tech computerized axial tomography ( CT or CAT) scans &long with comparative a

4、natomy studies. For example, the theory that Triceratops and similar dinosaur species had cheeks was based on past comparisons with mammals such as sheep. But Witmers careful analysis found the structure of the tricera tops jaw and skull made it more likely that Triceratops had a beak like that of a

5、n eagle. Witmer said that scientists should use birds and crocodiles as models when researching the appearance of dinosaurs. In early October scientists announced that they had confirmed the discovery of a new type of ceratopsian dinosaur. The dinosaurs bones, found in New Mexico in 1996, are forcin

6、g paleontologists to rethink their theories about when ceratopsians migrated to what is now Noah America. Scientists previously thought that ceratopsians, the group that included the well-known Triceratops, arrived in North America from Asia between 70 million and 80 million years ago. During this t

7、ime, the late Cretaceous Period, the cashs two supercontinents m Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south - were in the process of pulling apart, cutting dinosaur populations off from each other and interrupting migratory patterns. The fossilized bones, found by eight-year-old Christopher

8、 Wolfe and his father, paleontologist Doug Wolfe of the Mesa Southwest Museum in Arizona, date to about 90 million years ago. This could mean that ceratopsians originated in Noah America and migrated to Asia rather than the reverse, paleontologists said. Doug Wolfe named the important new species of

9、 dinosaur Zuniceratops christopheri after his son. An expedition from the Universities of Alaska in Anchorage and Fairbanks has discovered a region in remote northern Alaska so rich in fossilized dinosaur tracks that team members dubbed it the dine expressway. The trampled area was found during the

10、summer of 1998 on Alaskas Noah Slope near the Brooks Range. The tom found 13 new track sites and made casts from the prints of five different types of dinosaurs. The rock in which the prints wore found dates to more than 100 million years ago, or about 25 million years older than the previously disc

11、overed signs of dinosaurs in the Arctic region. Paleontologists said that the new findings provide important evidence that dinosaurs migrated between Asia and Noah America during the early and mid-Cretaceous Period, before Asia split off into its own continent. Two rich fossil sites in the hills of

12、Bolivia have been recently discovered, exciting paleontologists and dinosaur buffs. This discovery includes one of the most spectacular dinosaur trackways over found, The discovery of a large site in the mountain region of Kila Kila in southern Bolivia was announced in early October. Here scientists

13、 found the tracks of at least two unknown species of dinosaur. These included a large quadruped ( four-foot ed) dinosaur that wall probably about 20 m ( about 70 ft) long. The other site, located not far from the Bolivian city of Sucre, was uncovered in a cement quarry by workers several years ago b

14、ut was not brought to paleontologists attention until the middle of 1998. The site features a vertical wall covered with thousands of dinosaur prints representing more than 100 different species. The tracks date back to between 65 million and 70 million years ago. Since dinosaurs are believed to hav

15、e died out around 65 million years ago, the prints were likely made by some of the last dinosaurs on cash. Scientists speculated that the tracks were made at the edge of a lake or swamp and were then hardened and preserved, The rock containing the tracks was then pushed into a vertical position over

16、 millions of years of geologic activity. Dinosaur eggs have also been found at the site, which paleontologists are working to preserve before it falls victim to erosion. Paleontologists hope to study the site and learn about the diet and physical characteristics of the dinosaurs that are represented

17、 there, The passage focuses on _.Adinosaurs geographical locationBshifting views of dinosaursCmigration patterns of dinosaursDgeologic activity of Earth 2.BPassage One/BAIt created more job opportunities.BIt offered workers more chances for training.CIt allowed workers to live far from their jobs.DI

18、t helped shorten the working hours. 3.BPassage One/BAThe lack of qualified personnel.BA decline in the number of customers.CDifficulty in finding suitable sites.DIncreases transportation costs. 4.BPassage One/BAPrices are lower in downtown stores.BJob opportunities are better there.CHighway commutin

19、g has become unpleasant.DEnvironmental pollution is no longer a problem. 5.BDirections: /BThere are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and

20、 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.BPassage 1/BBQuestions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage./BUTime spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. /UYou may even have entered the shop just to find shelter

21、 from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become to-tally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become

22、 engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment-without buying a book, of course.This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction

23、 of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your hearts content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with inevitable greeting: Can I help you, sir You neednt buy anything yo

24、u dont want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing, then, and only then, are his services necessary. 0 course you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as

25、 if he is not interested in selling a single book.You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-ru

26、bbing-something that had only vaguely interested you up until then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge acco

27、unt, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.Dust-jacket in the first paragraph probably means _.Aa kind of clothesBprotecting paper cover of a bookCbook cover full of dustDthe title of a book 6.BPassage 3/BBQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage./BOne of

28、the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit ones mistakes. (79) UIt is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like I was wrong about that, and it is even harder to say, I was wrong, and you were right about that. /UI had an experience recently with someone adm

29、itting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a grocery store in the neighbor-hood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely the incident he was describing.I was abo

30、ut eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. On that particular clue, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident took place.(80) UThere must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an

31、 im-pressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. /UThe cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reason, I decided it wa

32、s up to me to put the display back together; so I went to work.The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the culprit (罪犯).

33、He severely scolded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to ex-plain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.How old was the author when he wrote this articleAAbout 8.BAbout 18.CAbout 23.DAbou

34、t 15. 7.BDirections: /BThere are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fit into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.It was a holiday weekend.

35、 The police officers were sitting in a hot roomU (56) /Uin-structions(指示)from their captain. One of these officersU (57) /UEd Williams. He and ten other officers were on specialU (58) /Ubecause they knew that two weeksU (59) /Uover 400 people had died from accidentsU (60) /Uby drivers. Over 4,000 pe

36、ople had received seri-ous injuries, all caused by drunken drivers. TheU (61) /Uwould try their best to preventU (62) /Uaccidents before they happened.Joe Forest wasU (63) /Uhimself at a family party. It was getting late and Joe told his sister that he wasU (64) /U. Joes sister asked him to stay and

37、 wait a few hoursU (65) /Uhe drove. Dont worry. Im going to be fine. Im going to drive slowly. I only had a fewU (66) /U, Joe said.Officer Williams was at his postU (67) /Uthe passing cars. A green car was coming,U (68) /Ufrom left to right. Officer Williams stoppedU (69) /Uand told Joe to get out.

38、He asked Joe to walkU (70) /Uthe white line. Joe couldnt do it. Joe also failed the breath test. Officer Williams told Joe that he must appear in court the next week and heU (71) /Udrive his car home. Joe called his sister to come and drive himU (72) /U.That was Joes first offense(违法). He appeared i

39、n court and received a $400 fine.He was notU (73) /Uto drive for sixty days. Other drivers wereU (74) /U, for Joe hadnt killed them. But what about the future, was Joe going to stopU (75) /UAgivingBreceivingCacceptingDlearning 8.BPassage 2/BBQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage./BHe

40、was a qualified doctor who rarely practiced but instead devoted his life to writing. He once said: Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my lover. Russian writer Anton Pav-lovich Chekhov was a great playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story.(77) UWhen Chekhov entered the Mo

41、scow University Medical School in 1879, he start-ed to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family. /UAfter he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less. Chekhovs medical and science

42、 experience can be seen through the indifference (冷漠)many of his characters show to tragic events. In 1892, he became a full time writer and published some of his most memorable stories.Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia. Tragic events control his characters who ar

43、e filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair.It is often said that nothing happens in Chekhovs stories and plays. He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters. (78) UChekhovs work combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensit

44、ivity(敏感)of an artist. /USome of Chekhovs works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s. One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell (装在套子里的人), about a school teachers ex-traordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov_.Ahad a lawfu

45、l loverBwas an illegal writerCused to be a lawyerDwas a competent doctor 9.BDirections: /BThere are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and

46、 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.BPassage 1/BBQuestions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage./BUTime spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. /UYou may even have entered the shop just to find shelter

47、 from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become to-tally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far