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1、2023年贵州公共英语考试考前冲刺卷（9）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.BE/B Go for it! The expression Go for it! is a way of encouraging someone to try something. Go for it! means you should not worry about failure or be too careful. You should take a chance, be brave, and
2、act firmly. Go for it! gets its name from football. Not football as it is played in most countries such as England, Egypt or Japan, but the kind of football played in the United States and Canada. One of the most exciting times in football comes when a team has failed, after three attempts, to move
3、the ball forward ten yards. The team must make a critical decision. The conservative (保守) choice is to kick the ball and accept temporary defeat in order to gain a good position for your team the next time it gets the ball. The more exciting choice, however, is to try a fourth and final time to gain
4、 the remaining yards needed. People present are certain to shout their advice. Some will shout: Kick the ball! But others will encourage the team to take a chance. Go for it! they will scream. In the 1980s, people began using this expression in many kinds of situations to encourage someone to act br
5、avely. There is no guarantee (保证) that the action yougo for it will succeed. But that is the chance you take when you decide to go for it. You put your fears behind. You choose courage over safety. You hold your breath and go for it.The expression Go for it! comes from_. AEnglish footballBEgyptian f
6、ootballCJapanese footballDAmerican football 2.阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。BA/B People living on parts of the south coast of England face a serious problem. In 1993, the owners of a large hotel and of several houses discovered, to their horror, that their gardens had disappeared overnight. The
7、sea had eaten into the soft limestone cliffs on which they had been built. While experts were studying the problem, the hotel and several houses disappeared altogether, sliding down the cliff and into the sea. Erosion (侵蚀) of the white cliffs along the south coast of England has always been a proble
8、m but it has become more serious in recent years. Dozens of homes have had to be abandoned as the sea has crept farther and farther inland. Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people, forecasting the year in which their homes will be swallowed up by the hun
9、gry sea. Angry owners have called on the government to erect sea defenses to protect their homes. Government surveyors have pointed out that in most cases, this is impossible. New sea walls would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the waves and currents go further along the co
10、ast, shifting the problem from one area to another. The danger is likely to continue, they say, until the waves reach an inland area of hard rock which will not be eaten as limestone is. Meanwhile, if you want to buy a cheap house with an uncertain future, apply to a house agent in one of the threat
11、ened areas on the south coast of England. You can get a house for a knockdown price but it may turn out to be a knockdown home.It is not feasible to build sea defenses to protect against erosion because Ait is too costly and will endanger neighboring areasBthe government is too slow in taking action
12、Cthey will be easily knocked down by waves and currentsDhouse agents along the coast do not support the idea 3.BC/B It doesnt matter when or how long a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. Thats what all doctors thought, until they heard about Jercy Page. Jercy Page, it was sai
13、d, never slept. Could this be true The doctors decided to see this strange man by themselves. Jercy Page was ninety years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But th
14、ey were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw Jercy Page sleeping. Actually, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one. The only rest that Jercy Page got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this st
15、range continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Page remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was alt. Was this the real reason No one coul
16、d be sure.One reason that might explain Pages sleeplessness was_. Ahis mothers injury before he was bornBthat he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habitChis magnificent physical conditionDthat he hadnt got a bed 4.BD/B Animation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move. Since e
17、arliest times, people have always been astonished by movement. But not until this century have we managed to take control of movement, to record it, and in the case of animation, to retranslate it and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector (放映机). In the world of cartoon a
18、nimation, nothing is impossible. You can make the characters do exactly what you want them to do. A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created by Pat Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a wonderful cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat could do
19、like taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back. Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America, the home of the moving picture industry. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters came to life after 1928. Popeye the Sailor and his girl friend Olive Oyo were bor
20、n at Max Ficischer in 1933. But to be an animator, you dont have to be a professional(专业人士). It is possible for anyone to make a simple animated film without using a camera at all. All you have to do is to draw directly onto an empty film and then run the film through a projector.According to the pa
21、ssage, Felix the Cat Awas created by the American cartoonist Felix_.Bwas designed by Pat Sullivan in the early twentieth centuryCwas unable to do what natural cats could not doDwas created in the United States in the nineteenth century 5.阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。BPlugging into E
22、lectronic Databases/B If you are lookingU (36) /Uinformation, library shelves are a good placeU (37) /U. But if you need up-to-the-minute data or have specialized needs, you mayU (38) /Ua computerized database more useful,U (39) /Uexpensive, and less time consuming. A database, a file ofU (40) /Uon
23、one subject or family of subjects, can beU (41) /Uand maintained in a computers memory. The speed of the computer then enables youU (42) /Uany item in this file almost instantly. The three main types of databases are statistics, bibliographies, and full text. Statistical databases store vastU (43) /
24、Uof numerical data, such as wages and price indexes, census information, foreign exchange rates, and bond prices. Bibliographic databases store references to andU (44) /Uof articlesU (45) /Uperiodicals and newspapers. Full-text databases offer the complete texts of such materialsU (46) /Unewspaper,
25、magazine and journal articles. U (47) /Udatabases exist today, and their numbers areU (48) /UMany companies have theirU (49) /Udatabase,U (50) /Uis accessibleU (51) /Uemployees through computer terminals or microcomputers.U (52) /Uaddition, several hundred commercial data bases are now availableU (5
26、3) /Uthe public,U (54) /Uliterally millions of information readily retrievable. These databases cover specific fields, such as law and financialU (55) /U, or general information, such as sports and weather data. AinformationsBinformCinformingDinformation 6.BE/B Go for it! The expression Go for it! i
27、s a way of encouraging someone to try something. Go for it! means you should not worry about failure or be too careful. You should take a chance, be brave, and act firmly. Go for it! gets its name from football. Not football as it is played in most countries such as England, Egypt or Japan, but the
28、kind of football played in the United States and Canada. One of the most exciting times in football comes when a team has failed, after three attempts, to move the ball forward ten yards. The team must make a critical decision. The conservative (保守) choice is to kick the ball and accept temporary de
29、feat in order to gain a good position for your team the next time it gets the ball. The more exciting choice, however, is to try a fourth and final time to gain the remaining yards needed. People present are certain to shout their advice. Some will shout: Kick the ball! But others will encourage the
30、 team to take a chance. Go for it! they will scream. In the 1980s, people began using this expression in many kinds of situations to encourage someone to act bravely. There is no guarantee (保证) that the action yougo for it will succeed. But that is the chance you take when you decide to go for it. Y
31、ou put your fears behind. You choose courage over safety. You hold your breath and go for it.According to the passage, when we decide to go for it, we only consider_. AsafetyBactionCresultDsituation 7.B第一节/B听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读一遍
32、。Where does the conversation take placeAA A clothes shopBB A bookstoreCC A shoe shop 8.阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。BA/B People living on parts of the south coast of England face a serious problem. In 1993, the owners of a large hotel and of several houses discovered, to their horror, that thei
33、r gardens had disappeared overnight. The sea had eaten into the soft limestone cliffs on which they had been built. While experts were studying the problem, the hotel and several houses disappeared altogether, sliding down the cliff and into the sea. Erosion (侵蚀) of the white cliffs along the south
34、coast of England has always been a problem but it has become more serious in recent years. Dozens of homes have had to be abandoned as the sea has crept farther and farther inland. Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people, forecasting the year in which th
35、eir homes will be swallowed up by the hungry sea. Angry owners have called on the government to erect sea defenses to protect their homes. Government surveyors have pointed out that in most cases, this is impossible. New sea walls would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the w
36、aves and currents go further along the coast, shifting the problem from one area to another. The danger is likely to continue, they say, until the waves reach an inland area of hard rock which will not be eaten as limestone is. Meanwhile, if you want to buy a cheap house with an uncertain future, ap
37、ply to a house agent in one of the threatened areas on the south coast of England. You can get a house for a knockdown price but it may turn out to be a knockdown home.According to the author, when buying a house along the south coast of England, people should Abe aware of the potential danger invol
38、vedBguard against being cheated by the house agentCtake the quality of the house into considerationDexamine the house carefully before making a decision 9.阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。BPlugging into Electronic Databases/B If you are lookingU (36) /Uinformation, library shelves are a
39、 good placeU (37) /U. But if you need up-to-the-minute data or have specialized needs, you mayU (38) /Ua computerized database more useful,U (39) /Uexpensive, and less time consuming. A database, a file ofU (40) /Uon one subject or family of subjects, can beU (41) /Uand maintained in a computers mem
40、ory. The speed of the computer then enables youU (42) /Uany item in this file almost instantly. The three main types of databases are statistics, bibliographies, and full text. Statistical databases store vastU (43) /Uof numerical data, such as wages and price indexes, census information, foreign ex
41、change rates, and bond prices. Bibliographic databases store references to andU (44) /Uof articlesU (45) /Uperiodicals and newspapers. Full-text databases offer the complete texts of such materialsU (46) /Unewspaper, magazine and journal articles. U (47) /Udatabases exist today, and their numbers ar
42、eU (48) /UMany companies have theirU (49) /Udatabase,U (50) /Uis accessibleU (51) /Uemployees through computer terminals or microcomputers.U (52) /Uaddition, several hundred commercial data bases are now availableU (53) /Uthe public,U (54) /Uliterally millions of information readily retrievable. The
43、se databases cover specific fields, such as law and financialU (55) /U, or general information, such as sports and weather data. AstoringBto storeCstoredDstore 10.BD/B Animation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move. Since earliest times, people have always been astonished by mo
44、vement. But not until this century have we managed to take control of movement, to record it, and in the case of animation, to retranslate it and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector (放映机). In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the chara
45、cters do exactly what you want them to do. A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created by Pat Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a wonderful cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat could do like taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then
46、 putting it back. Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America, the home of the moving picture industry. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters came to life after 1928. Popeye the Sailor and his girl friend Olive Oyo were born at Max Ficischer in 1933. But to be an animator, you dont have to be a professional(专业人士). It is possible for anyone to make a simple animated film