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1、2023年海南公共英语考试模拟卷（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.As long as her parents can remember, 13-year-old Katie Hart has been talking about going to college. Her mother, Tally, a financial-aid officer at a California University, knows all too well the daunting t

2、hing of paying for a college education. Last year the average yearly tuition at a private, four-year school climbed 5.5 percent to more than $17,000. The Harts have started saving, and figure they can afford a public university without a problem. But what if Katie applies to Princeton (she’s t

3、hreatening), where one year’s tuition, room and boardalmost $34,000 in 2007will cost more than some luxury cars Even a number cruncher like Tally admits it’s a little scary, especially since she’ll retire and Katie will go to college at around the same time.Paying for college has a

4、lways been a hard endeavor. The good news: last year students collected $74 billion in financial aid, the most ever. Most families pay less than full freight. Sixty percent of public-university students and three quarters of those at private colleges receive some form of financial aidmostly, these d

5、ays, in the form of loans. But those numbers are not as encouraging as they appear for lower-income families, because schools are changing their formulas for distributing aid. Eager to boost their magazine rankings, which are based in part on the test scores of entering freshmen, they’re throw

6、ing more aid at smarter kidswhether they need it or not.The best way to prepare is to start saving early. A new law passed last year makes that easier for some families. So-called 529 plans allow parents to sock away funds in federal-tax-free-investment accounts, as long as the money is used for qua

7、lified education expenses like tuition, room and board. The plans aren’t for everyone. For tax reasons, some lower and middle income families may be better off choosing other investments. But saving is vital. When’s the best time to start Sometime, says Jack Joyce of the College Board, b

8、etween the maternity ward and middle school.Aid packages usually come in some combination of grants, loans and jobs. These days 60 percent of all aid comes in the form of low-interest loans. All students are eligible for unsubsidized federal Stafford loans, which let them defer interest payments unt

9、il after graduation. Students who can demonstrate need can also qualify for federal Perkins loans or subsidized Staffords, where the government pays the interest during school. Fortunately, this is a borrower’s market. Interest rates are at their lowest level in the history of student loans, s

10、ays Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid. Kantrowitz expects rates to fall even further when they’re reviewed this summer.Traditional scholarships, academic or athletic, are still a part of many families’ planning. Mack Reiter, a 17-year-old national wrestling champion, gets so many recr

11、uiting letters he throws most away. He’ll almost certainly get a free ride. Without it, we would really be in a bind, says his mother, Janet. For everyone else, it’s worth the effort to pick through local and national scholarship offerings, which can be found on Web sites like .The last

12、paragraph suggests that ().A. many recruiting letters failed to provide Mack Reiter with scholarshipsB. Mack Reiter wanted to help his family go out of the troubleC. traditional scholarships are a good solution to the tuition problems in some familiesD. Mack Reiter was very proud of his national wre

13、stling championship2.It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) t

14、he battery out.Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.I opened t

15、he special drawer where I keep CDs, but no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company’s Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don’t know what continent they&rsquo

16、;re standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we’ve been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone So I got right to the point.My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don’t have the Windows Setup CD.So you&

17、rsquo;re having a problem with your Windows Setup CD. She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield

18、for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows’ creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don’t know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I

19、 just didn’t have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.You don’t have the Windows Setup CD, ma&rsquo

20、;am, because you don’t need it, he explained cheerfully.Windows came preinstalled on your computer!But I do need it.Yes, but you don’t have it. We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. Of co

21、urse, you’d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos. It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive. He sounded delighted. And it’s not covered by the warranty (产品保证书)! The safe began to seem like

22、 a good idea, provided it was full.I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I’d heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn’t be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chat

23、ted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache in the last but one paragraph means that().A. the technician’s proposal would make things even worseB. the technician’s proposal could even

24、tually solve the problemC. files stored on her computer were like a safeD. erasing the entire system was like curing a headache3.Farmers usually use plows to prepare their fields for planting crops. Plows cut into the ground, and lift up weeds, and other unwanted plants. However, plowing is blamed f

25、or causing severe damage to top soil by removing the plants that protect soil from being blown or washed away. Many farmers in South Asia are now trying a process called Low Till Farming. Low Till Farming limits the use of plows. In this method of farming, seeds and fertilizer are put into the soil

26、through small cuts made in the surface of the ground. Low Till Agriculture leaves much or all the soil and remains of plants on the ground. They serve as a natural fertilizer and help support the roots of future crops. They take in rain and allow it to flow into the soil instead of running off. It h

27、as been proved that Low Till Farming increases harvests and reduces water use, and this method reduces the need for chemical products because there are fewer unwanted plants. Scientists say Low Till Farming is becoming popular in South Asia, which is facing a severe water shortage. They say the area

28、 will become dependent on imported food unless water is saved through methods like Low Till Farming. Currently, more than 150 million people in South Asia depend on local rice and wheat crops. Farmers grow rice during wet weather. During the dry season they grow wheat in the same fields. Farmers are

29、 using the Low Till Farming method to plant wheat after harvesting rice. Scientists say Low Till Agriculture is one of the best examples in the world of technologies working for both people and the environment.How many people depend on local rice and food in South Asia currently().A. More than 150 m

30、illion people.B. Less than 150 million people.C. About 100 million people.D. About 120 million people.4.Women’s minds work differently from men’s. At least, that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter or frustration or a joke. Now the biologi

31、sts have moved into this minefield, and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women. But being different, they point out hurriedly, is not the same as being better or worse.There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female

32、brain. The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processesthe link between the two halves of the brain.The two halves are linked by a trunkline of between 200 and 300 million nerves, the corpus callosum. Scientists have found quite recently that the corpu

33、s callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibers than it is in men. This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance. The question is What, and, if this difference exists, are there other

34、s Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences. But could we be wrongResearch showed that these two

35、 halves of the brain had different functions, and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people, the left half is used for wordhanding, analytical and logical activities; the right half works on pictures, patterns and forms. We need both halves working together. And the bet

36、ter the connections, the more harmoniously the two halves work. And, according to research findings, women have the better connections.But it isn’t all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis. In schools throughout the world girls tend to be be

37、tter than boys at language subjects and boys better at maths and physics. If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunkline, there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.We shan’t know for a while, partly because we don’t know of any precise relat

38、ionship between abilities in school subject and the functioning of the two halves of the brain, and we cannot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum. But this striking difference must have some effect and, because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intell

39、ect, we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing.At the end of the passage the author proposes more work on ().A. the brain structure as a wholeB. the functioning of part of the brainC. the distinction between the sexesD. the effects of the corpus callosum5.As long as her parents

40、 can remember, 13-year-old Katie Hart has been talking about going to college. Her mother, Tally, a financial-aid officer at a California University, knows all too well the daunting thing of paying for a college education. Last year the average yearly tuition at a private, four-year school climbed 5

41、.5 percent to more than $17,000. The Harts have started saving, and figure they can afford a public university without a problem. But what if Katie applies to Princeton (she’s threatening), where one year’s tuition, room and boardalmost $34,000 in 2007will cost more than some luxury cars

42、 Even a number cruncher like Tally admits it’s a little scary, especially since she’ll retire and Katie will go to college at around the same time.Paying for college has always been a hard endeavor. The good news: last year students collected $74 billion in financial aid, the most ever.

43、Most families pay less than full freight. Sixty percent of public-university students and three quarters of those at private colleges receive some form of financial aidmostly, these days, in the form of loans. But those numbers are not as encouraging as they appear for lower-income families, because

44、 schools are changing their formulas for distributing aid. Eager to boost their magazine rankings, which are based in part on the test scores of entering freshmen, they’re throwing more aid at smarter kidswhether they need it or not.The best way to prepare is to start saving early. A new law p

45、assed last year makes that easier for some families. So-called 529 plans allow parents to sock away funds in federal-tax-free-investment accounts, as long as the money is used for qualified education expenses like tuition, room and board. The plans aren’t for everyone. For tax reasons, some lo

46、wer and middle income families may be better off choosing other investments. But saving is vital. When’s the best time to start Sometime, says Jack Joyce of the College Board, between the maternity ward and middle school.Aid packages usually come in some combination of grants, loans and jobs.

47、These days 60 percent of all aid comes in the form of low-interest loans. All students are eligible for unsubsidized federal Stafford loans, which let them defer interest payments until after graduation. Students who can demonstrate need can also qualify for federal Perkins loans or subsidized Staff

48、ords, where the government pays the interest during school. Fortunately, this is a borrower’s market. Interest rates are at their lowest level in the history of student loans, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid. Kantrowitz expects rates to fall even further when they’re reviewed t

49、his summer.Traditional scholarships, academic or athletic, are still a part of many families’ planning. Mack Reiter, a 17-year-old national wrestling champion, gets so many recruiting letters he throws most away. He’ll almost certainly get a free ride. Without it, we would really be in a bind, says his mother, Janet. For everyone else, it’s worth the effort to pick through local and national scholarship offerings, which can be found on Web sites like .What does the auth