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1、2023年广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.How old is Janes brotherASixteen.BFourteen.CEighteen. 2.What is the matter with the manAAt5.BAt6.CAt 6:30. 3.$mediaurl 4.What is true about TomAWife and husband.BMother and son.CFriends. 5.How old is Janes
2、 brotherAWatch TV.BWork.CHay games. 6.What is the matter with the manAClass one.BClass two.CClass three. 7.What is true about TomAA teacher.BA doctor.CA shop-assistant. 8.$mediaurl 9.What is the matter with the manAYes.BNo.CWe dont know. 10.How old is Janes brotherAHe lost his way.BHis mother was il
3、l.CHe forgot it. 11.What is true about TomASunny.BCloudy.CRaining. 12.How old is Janes brotherA1987.B1990.C1984. 13.What is the matter with the manAYes.BNo.CWe dont know. 14.$mediaurl 15.How old is Janes brotherATwo weeks later.BThis week.CNext week. 16.The meaning of language was considered as some
4、thing _ in traditional semantics. A contextual B natural C intrinsic D logical 17.According to the interview, what is the unique feature of magazine The Worm of EnglishA. Its arrangement in the bilingual English-Chinese form and its detailed explanatory notes.B. Its taste for people of all kinds of
5、life.C. Its colorful pictures of the world.D. Its literary works.18.The man Mr. Cheney accidentally shot and injured is A a doctor. B a secretary. C a lawyer. D a leader. 19.What columns doesnt The Worm of English haveA. The literary world, the art circles, social science-economics.B. History and ge
6、ography, science and technology.C. Species and animal knowledgeable sketches.D. Selected readings in newspapers and periodicals, culture and education, words and sentences, translation exercises, etc.20.The Bush Administration has been accused by Harry Reid of A being covert. B shielding Dick. C bei
7、ng dishonest. D attacking the victim. 21.Who are The Worm of Englishs target readersA. People of comparatively higher levels.B. People consisting largely of university students, postgraduates, English workers.C. Those who study English abroad.D. The lovers of English language.22. 23.That summer an a
8、rmy of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didnt care for bugs much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement. Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living, and somethi
9、ng you needed to put up with if you wanted the simple life. He told Mamma: Now that were living out here, you cant be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over whats plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cr
10、icket was just a noisy cockroach, just a dumb horny bug that wouldnt shut up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldnt go
11、 to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my fathers cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the
12、foundation of the house. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it. But what he should have said was: This is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, bec
13、ause for the next fourteen days mamma kept finding dead crickets in the clean laundry. Shed shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad sa
14、id swallowing a few dead crickets wouldnt hurt as long as the cat didnt eat too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that wed be finding a couple of dead ones for a while. Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought
15、 they were the dead crickets come back to haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed th
16、e cellar again, and then he went outside and sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison. For a couple of weeks we went back to finding dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out, He suggested that wed all be better off to hide as many as we could fro
17、m mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didnt like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled news
18、papers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldnt leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldnt leave the fire, and she wouldnt put supper on the table. Both my
19、brothers were crying. Finally she went out and got him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasnt much anyone
20、 could do.The word rustic in the first paragraph probably means A urban. B rural. C metropolitan. D extravagant. 24.I cry easily. I once burst into tears when the curtain came down on the Kirov Ballets Swan Lake. I still choke up every time I see a film of Roger Bannister breaking the impossible fou
21、r-minute mark for the mile. I figure I am moved by witnessing men and women at their best. But they need not be great men and women, doing great things. Take the night, some years ago, when my wife and I were going to dinner at a friends house in New York city. It was sleeting. As we hurried toward
22、the house, with its welcoming light, I noticed a car pulling out from the curb. Just ahead, another car was waiting to back into the parking space - a rare commodity in crowded Manhattan. But before he could do so another car came up from behind, and sneaked into the spot. Thats dirty pool. I though
23、t. While my wife went ahead into our friends house. I stepped into the street to give the guilty driver a piece of my mind. A man in work clothes rolled down the window. Hey, I said, this parking space belongs to that guy, I gestured toward the man ahead, who was looking back angrily. I thought I wa
24、s being a good Samaritan, I guess - and I remember that the moment I was feeling pretty manly in my new trench coat. Mind your own business! the driver told me. No, I said. You dont understand. That fellow was waiting to back into this space. Things quickly heated up, until finally he leaped out of
25、the car. My God, he was colossal. He grabbed me and bent me back over the hood of his car as if I was a rag doll. The sleet stung my face. I glanced at the other driver, looking for help, but he gunned his engine and hightailed it out of there. The huge man shook his rock of a fist of me, brushing m
26、y lip and cutting the inside of my mouth against my teeth. I tasted blood. I was terrified. He snarled and threatened, and then told me to beat it. Almost in a panic, I scrambled to my friends front door. As a former Marine, as a man, I felt utterly humiliated. Seeing that I was shaken, my wife and
27、friends asked me what had happened. All I could bring myself to say was that I had had an argument about a parking space. They had the sensitivity to let it go at that. I sat stunned. Perhaps half an hour later, the doorbell rang. My blood ran cold. For some reason I was sure that the bruiser had re
28、turned for me. My hostess got up to answer it, but I stopped her. I felt morally bound to answer it myself. I walked down the hallway with dread. Yet I knew I had to face up to my fear. I opened the door. There he stood, towering. Behind him, the sleet came down harder than ever. I came back to apol
29、ogize, he said in a low voice. When I got home, I said to myself, what right I have to do that Im ashamed of myself. All I can tell you is that the Brooklyn Navy Yard is closing. Ive worked there for years. And today I got laid off. Im not myself. I hope youll accept my apology. I often remember tha
30、t big man. I think of the effort and courage it took for him to come back to apologize. He was man at last. And I remember that after I closed the door, my eyes blurred, as I stood in the hallway for a few moments alone.From the passage, we can infer that the author is what kind of personA. poorB. s
31、ensitiveC. exciting D. dull 25.Early in the film A Beautiful Mind, the mathematician John Nash is seen sitting in a Princeton courtyard, hunched over a playing board covered with small black and white pieces that look like pebbles. He was playing Go, an ancient Asian game. Frustration at losing that
32、 game inspired the real Nash to pursue the mathematics of game theory, research for which he eventually was awarded a Nobel Prize. In recent years, computer experts, particularly those specializing in artificial intelligence, have felt the same fascination and frustration. Programming other board ga
33、mes has been a relative snap. Even chess has succumbed to the power of the processor. Five years ago, a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue not only beat but thoroughly humbled Garry Kasparov, the world champion at that time. That is because chess, while highly complex, can be reduced to a matte
34、r of brute force computation. Go is different. Deceptively easy to learn, either for a computer or a human, it is a game of such depth and complexity that it can take years for a person to become a strong player. To date, no computer has been able to achieve a skill level beyond that of the casual p
35、layer. The game is played on a board divided into a grid of 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines. Black and white pieces called stones are placed one at a time on the grids intersections. The object is to acquire and defend territory by surrounding it with stones. Programmers working on Go see it as
36、more accurate than chess in reflecting the ways the human mind works. The challenge of programming a computer to mimic that process goes to the core of artificial intelligence, which involves the study of learning and decision-making, strategic thinking, knowledge representation, pattern recognition
37、 and perhaps most intriguingly, intuition. Along with intuition, pattern recognition is a large part of the game. While computers are good at crunching numbers, people are naturally good at matching patterns. Humans can recognize an acquaintance at a glance, even from the back. Daniel Bump, a mathem
38、atics professor at Stanford, works on a program called GNU Go in his spare time. You can very quickly look at a chess game and see if theres some major issue, he said. But to make a decision in Go, he said, players must learn to combine their pattern-matching abilities with the logic and knowledge t
39、hey have accrued in years of playing. Part of the challenge has to do with processing speed. The typical chess program can evaluate about 300,000 positions in a second, and Deep Blue was able to evaluate some 200 million positions in a second. By mid-game, most Go programs can evaluate only a couple
40、 of dozen positions each second, said Anders Kierulf, who wrote a program called SmartGo. In the course of a chess game, a player has an average of 25 to 35 moves available. In Go, on the other hand, a player can choose from an average of 240 moves. A Go-playing computer would need about 30,000 year
41、s to look as far ahead as Deep Blue can with chess in three Seconds, said Michael Reiss, a computer scientist in London. But the obstacles go deeper than processing power. Not only do Go programs have trouble evaluating positions quickly; they have trouble evaluating them correctly. Nonetheless, the
42、 allure of computer Go increases as the difficulties it poses encourage programmers to advance basic work in artificial intelligence. For that reason, Fotland said, writing a strong Go program will teach us more about making computers think like people than writing a strong chess program. What does
43、the sentence Programming other board games has been a relative snap. (Paragraph 2) indicateA. Programming other board games has been relatively easy.B. Programming other board games has been relatively difficult.C. Programming other board games has been relatively complicated.D. Programming other bo
44、ard games has been relatively predictable.26.Some recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth century Progressive historians such a
45、s Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation. The kind of conflict most emphasized by these historians is class conflict. Yet with the Revolutionary War dominating these years, how does one distinguish class conflict within that larger conflict Certa
46、inly not by the side a person supported. Although many of these historians have accepted the earlier assumption that Loyalists represented an upper class, new evidence indicates that Loyalists, like rebels, were drawn from all socioeconomic class. (It is nonetheless probably true that a larger perce
47、ntage of the well-to do joined the Loyalists than joined the rebels.) Looking at the rebels side, we find little evidence for the contention that lower-class rebels were in conflict with upper-class rebels, indeed, the war effort against Britain tended to suppress class conflicts. Where it did not, the disputing rebels of one or another class usually became Loyalists. Loyalism thus operated as a safety valve to remove socioeconomic discontent that e