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1、2023年山西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. Questions 2225 are based on the following monologue on psychological space.What does the author think of the American way of training peopleAIts common.BIts realistic.CIts uncommon.DIts inhuman. 2. Questi

2、ons 1821 are based on the following dialogue on a reading list.Who are Doctor Seuss and Theodore GeiselAThey are the same person.BOne is a doctor and the other is a writer.CBoth of them are teachers.DThey are from different departments. 3.My family and I recently returned from a trip to Alaska, a pl

3、ace 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 THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL

4、 YOU: Bears. I am quite serious about this. Although Alaska is now an official state in the United States with modem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also allows a large number of admitted bears to stride freely, and nobody seems to be the least bit alarmed about this. In fact,

5、 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. Both bears were standing on their hind legs

6、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 cases containing stuffed drug smugglers (走私者

7、), with little plaques (胸章) 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, which I am not making up: Theyll At

8、tack Without Warning Theyll Really Attack You They Will Kill Come Quick! Im Being Eaten by a Bear! They Can Be Funny Ha-ha! I bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bear will fight playfully over the remaining portion of a former tourist plumped up by airline food. But just the same, Im glad that the only

9、 actual bears that we saw were in the zoo.What is the tone of the storyASerious.BComplex.CComic.DDisapproving. 4.What does the man implyAHe cant go now.BHe want to call someone.CHe cant wait any longer.DHe wants to drink a cup of coffee very much. 5.Generations of Americans have been brought (26) to

10、 believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the (27) of the day, we have all been (28) ,is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car (29) starting a trip. But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by (30) pleasures. So (31) all the effor

11、ts, they still take no (32) . Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures are (33) , the number of people who didnt have breakfast increased (34) 33 percentfrom 8.8 million to 11.7 million (35) the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America. For those who feel pain of (36) ab

12、out not having breakfast, (37) , there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years (38) that, for adults especially, there may be nothing (39) with omitting breakfast. Going (40) breakfast does not affect (41) Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth Coll

13、ege in London, (42) does giving people breakfast improve performance. (43) evidence relating breakfast to better health or (44) performances is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not (45) The literature, says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University

14、of Texas, is poor.AsaidBbelievedCreportedDtold 6.There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literall

15、y worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be

16、infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil)is creating a greenhouse effectconserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the worlds average temperature. If this view

17、 is correct and the worlds temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water. Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lower

18、ing the earths temperaturea result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will hap

19、pen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the worlds temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profit, peo

20、ple neglect the damage on our environment caused by the advanced civilization. Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile The word offset in the second paragraph could be replaced by_.Aslip intoBmake up forCset upDcatch up wit

21、h 7.When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention. Hundreds

22、of suggestions, ranging from put a clothes pin on her nose to have her stand on her head poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the worlds top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的) problem with great speed. He

23、 used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily. Dr. Kanner simp

24、ly gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly. Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about h

25、er unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer, he reported. Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing

26、 of God when a person sneezesa practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, God bless you or its equivalent. When scientists loo

27、k at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being natures clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which na

28、ture is striving to remove.Dr. Kanner cured the girl by_.Ausing Aristotles methodBgiving her psychological treatmentCpracticing superstitionDtreating her tuberculosis 8.What does the woman meanAThe clerk doesnt like to be bothered.BThe machine was just repaired.CShe can teach the man to operate the

29、machine.DThe man shouldnt make any more copies. 9. Questions 2225 are based on the following monologue on psychological space.Why are the psychological space needs limitedABecause of financial pressures.BBecause of individual liking.CBecause of local customs.DBecause of cultural difference. 10. Ques

30、tions 1417 are based on the following dialogue about a part-time job.How much will the man pay for the woman per monthA$1,500.B$1,350.C$1,250.D$2,250. 11.Whats the womanAAn operator.BA manager.CA student.DA secretary. 12. Questions 1821 are based on the following dialogue on a reading list.What is t

31、rue about The Cat in the HatAIt is a book written only for classroom reading.BIt is a book on education.CIt has a vocabulary of only two hundred words.DIt was written by a child. 13.My family and I recently returned from a trip to Alaska, a place that combines supernatural beauty with a breathtaking

32、 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 THEY HAVE THERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL YOU: Bears. I am quite serious about this. Although Alas

33、ka is now an official state in the United States with modem conveniences such as rental cars and frozen yogurt, it also allows a large number of admitted bears to stride freely, 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 hot

34、el 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. Both bears were standing on their hind legs and striking a pose that said: Welcome to Alaska! Im goin

35、g 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 cases containing stuffed drug smugglers (走私者), with little plaques (胸章) stating how much they weighed

36、 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, which I am not making up: Theyll Attack Without Warning Theyll Really Attack You They Will K

37、ill Come Quick! Im Being Eaten by a Bear! They Can Be Funny Ha-ha! I bet they can. I bet Mr. and Mrs. Bear will fight playfully over the remaining portion of a former tourist plumped up by airline food. But just the same, Im glad that the only actual bears that we saw were in the zoo.Which of the fo

38、llowing is the author in favour ofAAirline food.BDrug smugglers.CBears.DBears in zoos. 14.There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the wor

39、st air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the

40、 very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil)is creating a greenhouse effectconserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the

41、 worlds average temperature. If this view is correct and the worlds temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water. Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the

42、atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earths temperaturea result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure

43、 that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the worlds temperature will stay about the same as

44、it is now. Driven by economic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment caused by the advanced civilization. Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile It can be concluded that_.Araising the worlds temperature only

45、a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earthBlowering the world s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disasterCalmost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decadeDthe worlds temperature will remain constant in the years to come 15.When a 1

46、3-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention. Hundreds of suggestio

47、ns, ranging from put a clothes pin on her nose to have her stand on her head poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the worlds top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的) problem with great speed. He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in