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1、2023年湖南公共英语考试模拟卷（4）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.The celebration of Veterans Day is held on November 11th every year in the United States. This day is set (36) to honor and remember the (37) men and women who have (38) their country, in any war and (39)

2、peacetime. Veterans Day was first (40) Armistice Day. That day (41) the end of World War I. Thirty-five countries (42) in that war. An armistice was (43) on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and this (44) the war was over. Many countries were (45) to hear that the war was

3、over and that their soldiers would be coming home.An (46) American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery (47) a hillside overlooking the Potomac River at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1921. His (48) is called the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The (49) of the tomb is where the U.S. government

4、 (50) its annual Veterans Day (51) . On the same day, a soldier from France and a soldier from England were (52) also buried in their (53) countries, to give special (54) to the end of the war. In 1954, the U.S. Congress changed the name of the day (55) Armistice Day to Veterans Day.37().AmilitaryBo

5、ldCelderlyDcivil2.Jada and Jessie are twins. They were born on August 5, 1992. They are ten now and in the fourth grade. Jada and Jessie do everything together. They are in the same class. They dress alike. They look the same. People always get them confused. This really makes Jada and Jessie laugh.

6、 Teachers always get them mixed up at school. Even their father has trouble telling them apart. Their mother doesn’t, though. She always knows which twin is which. Jada and Jessie often try to confuse her, but it has never happened.Their older brother, Jared, is fifteen. He never knows which o

7、ne is which. He doesn’t even try. Jada and Jessie have the same friends. Their friends always mix them up. It doesn’t matter to Jada and Jessie.One day, their father told their mother to get one of them a different haircut, so that he could tell them apart. Jada and Jessie were horrified

8、. They didn’t want to look different. They liked looking the same. Their mother came to the rescue, and refused to make them cut their hair. The girls were happy just the way they were and didn’t want to change. Their dad just shook his head. He would have to stay confused. Jada and Jess

9、ie didn’t care. They knew which one was which, and that was all that mattered.Who in the family wanted them to look different().ATheir mother.BTheir Father.CTheir brother Jared.3.Jada and Jessie are twins. They were born on August 5, 1992. They are ten now and in the fourth grade. Jada and Jes

10、sie do everything together. They are in the same class. They dress alike. They look the same. People always get them confused. This really makes Jada and Jessie laugh. Teachers always get them mixed up at school. Even their father has trouble telling them apart. Their mother doesn’t, though. S

11、he always knows which twin is which. Jada and Jessie often try to confuse her, but it has never happened.Their older brother, Jared, is fifteen. He never knows which one is which. He doesn’t even try. Jada and Jessie have the same friends. Their friends always mix them up. It doesn’t mat

12、ter to Jada and Jessie.One day, their father told their mother to get one of them a different haircut, so that he could tell them apart. Jada and Jessie were horrified. They didn’t want to look different. They liked looking the same. Their mother came to the rescue, and refused to make them cu

13、t their hair. The girls were happy just the way they were and didn’t want to change. Their dad just shook his head. He would have to stay confused. Jada and Jessie didn’t care. They knew which one was which, and that was all that mattered.Who came to their rescue when they were asked to

14、get different haircuts().ATheir dad.BJared.CTheir mom.4.An elderly woman yesterday made a legal claim against a department store because it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card. Ms. Doss White, 72 years old, is claiming $ 3 000 damages from the store for wrongful arrest and false imp

15、risonment. Ms. White visited the store while doing Christmas shopping, but did not buy anything. She was followed through the town by a store manager. He had been told that a customer saw her take a card and put it in her shopping bag. He stopped her at a bookstore as she was reading a book. Ms. Whi

16、te said. This man, a total stranger, suddenly grasped my bag and asked if he could look in it. She was taken back to the store and shut in a small room in full view of shoppers for 20 minutes until the police arrived. At the police station she was body-searched and nothing was found. Her lawyer said

17、 the department store sent an insincere apology and they insisted that she might have been stealing. The hearing continues today.What happened to Ms. White after she was taken back to the store().AShe was shut in a room for 20 minutes.BThe police came and arrested her.CShe was body-searched by the s

18、tore manager.DThe audience all looked at her.5.Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do-especially in a job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert, notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. It’s amazing how many candidates fail themsel

19、ves, he says.Applications arrive with stains. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate, Crossley concludes. If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a jobCan we pay too much attenti

20、on to detail Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. To keep from losing the forest for the trees, says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re

21、 working on fit into the larger picture. It’ they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. The Apollo moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time, says Garfield, but a successful landi

22、ng was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a luck.

23、 But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.Which of the following is the authors advice to readers().AIt’s never too costly to pay attention to details.BDon’t forget details when drawing pictures.C

24、Beware of the importance of a task before undertaking it.DCareless applicants are not to be trusted.6.Once upon a time, in a solar system there were two planets. Their names were Yee and Lan, and they loved each other very much. But they were a little sad, because it was so long between times that t

25、hey got to be near each other. Most of the time they had to gaze from afar.Centuries went by, and one time as they passed, reaching out through the cold and emptiness, Yee slipped Lan a moon, because Yee had three and Lan had none. Lan looked so perfect with the new moon that all the other planets w

26、ere a little jealous; and Yee didn’t mind giving up that moon at all.So the planets kept on dancing to the music of the universe, and Lan’s moon was admired by all, until one day an evil-minded ice-hearted comet viciously slammed into it, shattering it into a thousand pieces. At that tim

27、e, Yee was all the way on the other side of the sun and couldn’t hear the wails that rocked Lan through and through. After so long they were together again. Lan was almost afraid to look at Yee, but Yee reached out a wisp of atmosphere in comfort. He hesitated a minute, but then went ahead and

28、 smashed the two remaining moons together so that Lan would have no reason to feel bad.So around and around they went, much in love that they thought they would burst, even though they looked a little bare, and felt a little cold without their lovely moons. But then, something beautiful happened-the

29、ir shimmering bits of moon dust started to flatten out, and make two large circles, one for each of them. And before too long, the circles became rings, great big wonderful rings, sparkling in the pure sunlight, the wonder of that solar system. And that is why when two people have so much love that

30、they’ll give each other rings, in memory of the planetary love of Yee and Lan.The article can most probably be found in ().Ascience fictionBchildren booksCnature magazinesDbooks on space science7.The celebration of Veterans Day is held on November 11th every year in the United States. This day

31、 is set (36) to honor and remember the (37) men and women who have (38) their country, in any war and (39) peacetime. Veterans Day was first (40) Armistice Day. That day (41) the end of World War I. Thirty-five countries (42) in that war. An armistice was (43) on the eleventh hour of the eleventh da

32、y of the eleventh month, and this (44) the war was over. Many countries were (45) to hear that the war was over and that their soldiers would be coming home.An (46) American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery (47) a hillside overlooking the Potomac River at 11:00 a.m. on November 11,

33、1921. His (48) is called the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The (49) of the tomb is where the U.S. government (50) its annual Veterans Day (51) . On the same day, a soldier from France and a soldier from England were (52) also buried in their (53) countries, to give special (54) to the end of the war.

34、 In 1954, the U.S. Congress changed the name of the day (55) Armistice Day to Veterans Day.38().AhelpedBfoughtCservedDprotested8.Christopher Columbus was the son of a weaver. He was very interested in the discovery of new lands. His brother Bartholomew was a chart maker in Lisbon, Portugal. Columbus

35、 studied chart making with his brother. He believed that the world was round, and he wanted to travel the seas to prove it. At that time, spice merchants were looking for a new route to Asia. Asia was a large trading area, but it was very difficult to reach by land. Columbus requested support from m

36、any people to help him travel the seas. Finally, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain granted his request, and gave him three ships for his voyage. On August 3, 1492, Columbus and ninety men set sail on the Santa Maria along with two other ships, the Nina and the Pinta. The voyage was hard and

37、 many men were sick and tired. On October 11, at ten oclock at night, Columbus saw a light. The Pinta sailed ahead and reported that they had reached land. Since Columbus thought they had reached India, they expected to see people that were Indians. Even when they found out that they were not in Asi

38、a, they were happy to have found a new place that they could trade with. Columbus named the area where they landed San Salvador, and claimed the area for Spain. Today Columbus Day is celebrated in the United States on the second Monday in October. Banks and government offices are closed to honor the

39、 man who was the first European to have discovered the New World of the Americas.Columbus decided to explore new areas because _.Ahe learnt charting and wanted to practise itBhe wanted to prove the earth was roundChe was encouraged by his Queen and KingDhe hoped to be a famous sailor of his age 9.Fr

40、om the end of the 1700s, Kentucky had a special problem: horseracing. There weren’t many special tracks for horseracing then, so people would take their horses to the main square and race them. This was quite dangerous for the people who were walking around!Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. establis

41、hed the Kentucky Derby. After visiting England and studying England’s racetracks and races, he built a racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, which he named Churchill Downs. On May 17, 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was held. Until 1895, the distance around the track was 1 miles. Since 1895, the D

42、erby track has been 1 miles.Before 1902, the Derby was very popular, but it was not financially successful. It underwent some changes in ownership, and had its first profit in 1903. By 1920, the Derby had become the best-known race in North America.Today, the race attracts the best three-year-old ho

43、rses from all over the country. The Kentucky Derby is held each year on the first Saturday of May. The whole week is full of fun activities. The event attracts over 100 000 visitors, and is watched on television around the world.In which month of a year is the Kentucky Derby held()AMarch.BSeptember.

44、CMay.DDecember.10.Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do-especially in a job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert, notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. It’s amazing how many candidates fail themselves, he says.Applications arr

45、ive with stains. Some candidates don’t bother to spell the company’s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate, Crossley concludes. If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a jobCan we pay too much attention to detail Absolutely. Perf

46、ectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. To keep from losing the forest for the trees, says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larg

47、er picture. It’ they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. The Apollo moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time, says Garfield, but a successful landing was still likely because w

48、e knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a luck. But rarely is success so mys

49、terious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.The example of the Apollo moon launch is given to illustrate that ().Aminor mistakes can be ignoredBfailure is the mother of successCadjustments are key to the success of any workDkeeping one’s goal i