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1、2022年宁夏大学英语考试模拟卷九（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。）单位:姓 名：考 号：题号单选题多项选择判断题综合题总分分值得分一、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 27 and 28 are based on the fol low ing new s.At the end of thenew s item,y ou w i11 be given 10 seconds to answ er the questions.Now,I i sten to the new s.With w

2、 hom did Christopher NOT meetA.The Syrian President.B.The PLO leader.C.The Jordanian President.D.The Israeli Prime Minister.2.Questions 13 to 16 are based on the fol low ing passage.At the end ofthe passage,y ou w iI I be given 20 seconds to answ er the questions.Now,Ii sten to the passage.Why are s

3、harks useful for humansA.For their tasty meat.B.For the principle of their defense system against disease.C.For their solid skin.D.For the principle of their birth modes.3.Questions 29 and 30 are based on the fo l lowing news.At the end o f thenews item,you w iI I be given 10 seconds to answer the q

4、uestions.Now,I i sten to the news.progress has been made in c u ttin g down the mortaI ity rate in China.A.RapidB.SlowC.LittleD.Negative4.what is Jane learning to use()A.A te le v is io n set.B.A washing machine.C.A p u lic telephone.D.A candy mach i ne.5.Did you go shopping yesterday()A.No,I went f

5、or an&rsquo；interview.B.It doesn&rsquo；t keep good time.C.It lasted two hours.D.I&rsquo；d rather not.6.where i s Tom at the moment()A.At schooI.Ba At home.0.At the dentist’s.D.In a restaurant.7.Would you like to join us for lunch()A.Pleased to meet you.B.That would be nice.C.My pleasure.D.I en

6、joy having rice.8.What information does the man want to get()A.Schoo I fee.B.Flower prices.C.Apple pr ices.D.Milk prices.9.When shall we meet again()A.Is seven thirty OK.B.At the same place.C.4 hours.D.Sure.10.what does the woman want to make()A.Sheet.B.Shi rt.C.Scarf.D.Curtain.11.Peter is very good

7、 at learning foreign languages.Do you know how manylanguages does he speak()A.By car.B.Yesterday afternoon.C.In New York.D.For some information about travel.12.Who got a phone cal I first 0A.Rose’s sister.B.The w oman.C.The man.D.Rose.13.What I like about this city is its variety of cultural a

8、ctivities()A.I&rsquo；11 phone you again.B.It&rsquo；s a good story.C.Me,too.D.That OK.14.Questions 7 and 8 are based on the fol low ing new s.At the end ofthe new s item,y ou w iI I be given 20 seconds to answ er the questions.Now Ii sten to the new s.General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Burmese governm

9、ent toA.hold the constitutional referendum.B.allow in foreign search and rescue teams.C.accept international aid right away.D.adopt John Holmes suggestions.15.Which of the follow ing is TRUE about the safety of putting photoson IineA.Do not copy or paste pictures to your website.B.Sanitizing your ph

10、otos online guarantees their safety.C.Compared with emails,websites are Safer to share photos.D.Even your friends may use your photos for a bad purpos16.Is there any thing more bor ing than hear ing about someone else s dreamAnd is there any thing more miraculous than having one of y our ow n Thevol

11、uptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakami9 s enthral I ing f ictions-ful I ofenigmatic imagery,random nonsense,and profundities that may or may nothold up in the I ight of day reminds me of dreaming.Like no other authorI can think of,Murakami captures the j ux tapositions of the trivial andthe momentous t

12、hat characteriz e dream Iife,those craz y incidents thatseem so vivid in the moment and so blurry and preposterous later on.Hischaracters I i ve ordinary lives,boiling pasta for lunch,riding the bus,and blasting Prince w hile w orking out at the gy m.Then suddenly andmatter-of-fact Iy,they do someth

13、 i ng utterly nuts,I ike strike up aconversation w ith a coquettish Siamese cat,or may be mackerel andsardines begin to rain from the sky.In Murakami9 s w orld,these thingsmake comp I ete,cock-ey ed sense.L i ke many of Murakam i s heroes,KafkaTamura in Kafka on the Shore has more rew arding relatio

14、nships w ithIiterature and music than w ith people.(Murakami1 s passion for musicis infectious;nothing made me w ant to rush out and purchase a BrahmsCD unti I I read his Sputnik Sw eetheart.)On his 15th bi rthday,Kafka runsaw ay from his Toky o home for obscure reasons related to his famousscuIptor

15、 father.His choice of a destination is arbitrary.Or is it Shikoku,I decide.That s w here I I I go-The more I look at the mapactuaI Iy every time I study it-the more I feel Shikoku tugging at me.MOn the i sI and of Shikoku,Kafka makes h i mseIf a fix ture at the localI ibrary,w here he setties into a

16、 comfortable sofa and starts reading TheArabian Nights:nLike the genie in the bottIe they have this sort of vitaI,Iiving sense of play,of freedom that common sense can t keep bottIedup.1 1 As in a David Ly nch moviet al I the I ibrary staffers are phi losophicaleccentrics ready to advance the surrea

17、l narrative.Oshima,theandrogy nous clerk,taIks to Kafka about(inevitably)Kafka and the mer itsof driving w hile Iistening to Schubert(a dense,artistic kind ofimperfection stimulates y our consciousness,keeps y ou alert.If I I istento some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece w hil

18、eI m driving,I might w ant to close my ey es and die right there).Thetragically al luring head Iibrar ianr Miss Saeki f once w rote a hit songcal led Kafka ma the Shore-and may or may not be Katkn5 s Iong-1ostmother.Alarmingly,she also stars in his erotic fantasies.Inalternating chapters,Murakami re

19、cords the even odder antics of Nakata,a simpIeminded cat catcher w ho spends his day s chatting w ith tabbies ina vacant Toky o lot.One afternoon,a menacing clog leads him to the homeof a sad i st i c cat killer w ho goes by the name Johnn i e Walker.Walker endsup dead by the end of the encounter;ba

20、ck in Shikoku,Kafka unaccountabIyfinds h i mseIf drenched in blood.Soon,Nakata too begins fee Ii ng aninex p I icable pul I tow ard the island.If this plot sounds totaI Iydemented,trust me,it gets even w eirder than that.Like a dream,y onj ust have to be them.And,I ike a dream,w hat this daz z l ing

21、 novel means or w hether it means any thing at al I-w e may never know.What is Kafka on the Shore1A.It is a fiction written by a head librarian Miss Saeki.B.It is an autobiographica1 novel of Kafka Tamura.C.It is a movie adapted from Haruki MurakamiJ s book.D.It is the name of a hit song in a novel

22、under the same nam17.I know now that the man w ho sat w ith me on the old w ooden stai rs thathot summer night over thi rty-f i ve y ears ago w as not a tai I man.But toa five-y ear-old,he w as a giant.We sat side by side,w atching the sungo dow n behind the old Tex aco service station across the bu

23、sy street,a street that I w as never a 11 ow ed to cross unless accompan i ed by an adult,or at the very least,an older sibling.Cherry-scented smoke fromGrandpa9 s pipe kept the hungry mosqu i toes at bay w hile gray,w i spy sw irlsdanced around our heads.Now and againf he blew a smoke ring and Iaug

24、hedas I frie d to target the hole with ray finger.I,clad in a cool summernight,and Grandpa,his sleeveless T-sh irt,sat watching the tra ffic.We counted cars and tried to guess the color of the next one to turn thecorner.Once again,I was caught in the middle of ci rcumstances.Thefourth born of six ch

25、i Idren,it was not uncommon that I was either tooyoung or too old for something.This night I was both.Whi Ie my two babybrothers slept inside the house,my three older si bIings pIayed withfriends around the comer,where I was not a I I owed to go.I stayed withGrandpa,and that was okay with me.I was w

26、here I wanted to be.Mygrandfather was babysitting whi Ie my mother,father and grandmother wentout.Th i rsty”Grandpa askedr never remov i ng the p i pe from h i s mouth.“Yes,was my reply.How would you I ike to nm over to the gas stationthere and get yourself a bott I e of Coke”I couldn5 t be I ieve m

27、y ears.Had I heard i t r i ght Was he ta I k i ng to me On my fam ily s modest i ncome,Coke was not a part of our budget or diet.A few tantal izing sips wasal I I had ever had,and certain ly never my own bottle.Okay,Irep I i ed shy ly,already wonder ing how I wou I d get across the street.Sure I yGr

28、andpa was going to come with me.Grandpa stretched his long leg outstraight and reached his huge hand deep into the pocket.I could hearthe fami I iar jangl ing of the loose change he a I ways carded.Open i ng hisfis t,he exposed a mound of si Iver coins.There must have been a mi I I iond o llars ther

29、e,He instructed me to pick out a dime.After he depositedthe rest of the change back into his pocket,he stood up.Okay,“hesaid,helping me down the sta irs and to the curb,n 11 m going to stayhere and keep an ear out for the babies.I,II te ll yon when it s safeto cross.You go over to the Coke mach i ne

30、,get your Coke and come backout.Wait for me to teI I you when it s safe to cross back.H My heartpounded.I cIutched my dime tig h tIy in my sweaty palm.Excitement tookmy breath away.Grandpa held my hand tig h tIy.Together we Iooked upthe street and down,and back up again.He stepped o ff the curb and

31、toldme it was safe to cross.He let go of my hand and I ran.I ran fasterthan I had ever run before.The street seemed wide.I wondered if I wouldmake it to the other side.Reaching the other side,I turned to fredGrandpa.There he was,stand i ng exact Iy where I had le ft him,sm ilingproudly.I waved.Go on

32、,hurry up,n he ye I led.My heart poundedwi Idly as I waIked inside the dark garage.I had been inside the garagebefore with my father.My surroundings were fam iIiar.I heard theCoca-CoI a mach i ne motor humming even before I saw it.I waIked d ire ctlyto the big old red-and-white dispenser.I knew wher

33、e to insert my dime.I had seen it done before and had fantasized about th is moment many times.The big old monster greedily accepted my dime,and I heard the bottIessh ift.On tiptoes I reached up and opened the heavy door.There they were:one neat row of thick green bottles,necks staring di rect ly at

34、 me,andice cold from the refrigeration.I held the door open with my shoulderand grabbed one.With a quick yank,I pul led it free from its bondage.Another one i mmed i ate I y took its p I ace.The bott I e was cold in my sweatyhands.I wi 11 never forget the feel ing of the cool glass on my akin Withtw

35、o hands,I positioned the bott I eneck under the heavy brass opener thatwas bolted to the wall.The cap dropped into an old wooden box,and Ireached in to retrieve it.I was cold and bent in the middle,but I knewI needed to have th is souvenir.Coke in hand,I prondly marched back outinto the early evenin

36、g dusk Grandpa was w aiting patiently.He smiled.Stop right there,1 1 he ye I led.One or two cars sped by me,and once again,Grandpa stepped o ff the curb.Come on,now,M he said,Mrun.n I did.Cool brown foam sprayed my hands.Don t ever do that alone,1 1 he warned.I held the Coke bottIe tig h tIy;fearful

37、 he would make me pour it intoa cup,ruining th is dream come true.He didn t,One long swaI Iow of theco I d beverage coo I ed my sweat i ng body.I don t think I ever f e 11 so proud.From the fir s t three paragraphs,we can infer thatA.the author would prefer playing with his three older siblings to s

38、tayingwith his grandpa.B.they were living in the suburbs where there were not too much trafficon the road.C.the grandpa was always the one to baby sit for the author and his siblings.D.the author enjoyed the time that he spent with his grandp18.The road from MiIdura to Merbein,in north-west Victoria

39、,is a sadsight.Many of its farms are covered with wine grapes,dying on the vines.Farmers p I anted the v i nes hop i ng to cash i n on the seem ingly end I ess boomin Australian wine.But in 2007 the boom turned to bust,forcing manyfarmers to walk away from grapes and land they cannot sell.Over thepa

40、st 15 years Austral iaJ s wine industry has been one of its great successstories.Export revenues last year reached A$3 b illio n ($2.4 bi I Iion)tfour times the figure from 1997.B ritain,Amer ica and Canada,among themost competitive markets for wine,are Australia 5 s three biggestcustomers.But the s

41、uffering in pI aces I ike MiIdura and nearby Remarkin South Australia is a sign that the industry fe lI victim to its ownsuccess.Flushed with a growing demand for Austral ian wines,a grapeshortage,and soaring grape prices,growers rushed to plant more vinesin the late 1990s.In 1998 they put in a reco

42、rd 16,000 new hectares,doubIethe new pI ant i ngs two years ear Iier.In 2005 Austral ia produced a I most2 mi I I ion tons of w i ne grapes,a quarter more than ana I ysts say i ts marketscan absorb.Then came Austral ia s worst drought in a century.Mi Idumand Renmark are surrounded by desert,and fru

43、it farms and vineyardssurvive only with i rr igation from the Murray River,the IifebIood ofAustral ia5 s agriculture.Smal Ier firms,wh i ch supp I y the b i g w i nemaker swith some of the ir grapes,faced a doubIe whammy:fa llin g grape pricesand cuts to irrigation w ater.Stephen Strachan,chief ex e

44、cutive of theWinemakers5 Federation of Austral ia,reckons the drought w as a turningpoint,even a tragic one in some cases,in forcing the industry back to“sustainable levels1.The p I ant i ng rush has ended.The 3,600 hectaresof new vines pI anted in 2006 a I most equaIed the 3,400 hectares of vinesri

45、pped out of the ground that y ear.The drought has also led to muchsoul-searching among Australia9 s 2,000 w ine producers about how theindustry can recapture its reputation for qua Iity w ines.There i s nowstiff compet i t i on in the mid-market from other New Worldproducers,.notab I y New Zea I and

46、r w here the w ine industry i s boom i ng.MuchAustral ian w ine during the grape glut found its w ay onto the w orld marketas bulk or Mcommodity 1 w ine,sold at low prices or even at a loss.Thisharmed Austra I i a s reputat i on among consumers.Austra I i an producers nowface the task of earning a r

47、eputation for qua I ity rather than quantity.The appreciation of the Austral ian dollar,w hich makes Austral ian w inesmore ex pens ive overseas,has brought a new urgency to the j ob.Historically,many Australian w inemakers have derided the Frenchapproach to making w ine,especial ly the idea that th

48、e finest w ines comeonly from a terroi r-the un i on of c I imate and soi I characteristic of eachplace.Austral ian producers instead pride themselves on w hat they regardas a less snooty and more democratic approach:blending grapes fromdifferent regions to achieve a consistent w ine.But some are no

49、w askingw hether marketing an Austral ian w ine5 s local ity,as much as its grapevar iety,might w ork better.Some smal I er producers are al ready doingj ust that.In Margaret River in Western Australiar for ex amp Ier smalIw inemakers produce 3%of the country1 s production,mainly at the highend of t

50、he market,and i ndependent I y of the b i g compan i es that predomi natein eastern Australia.Denis Horgan,the ow ner of Leeuw in Estate,ravesabout the region1 s soiI and climate,and prides himself on Leeuw in,s h i gh-qua I i ty wi nes,wh i ch se I I for as much as A$95 a bott I e.Steve Webber,the