《2022年大学英语考试考前冲刺卷二28测.pdf》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《2022年大学英语考试考前冲刺卷二28测.pdf（67页珍藏版）》请在taowenge.com淘文阁网|工程机械CAD图纸|机械工程制图|CAD装配图下载|SolidWorks_CaTia_CAD_UG_PROE_设计图分享下载上搜索。
1、2022年大学英语考试考前冲刺卷二（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5 0题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意）1.I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car ina f re i ght yard in At I ant ic City and I and i ng on my head.Now I am thi rty-two.I can vague I y
2、 remember the br i ghtness of sunshine and what color red is.It would be wonderful to see againr but a disaster can do strange thingsto people.It occurred to me the other day that I might not have cometo love life as I do if I hadnJ t been blind.I be Iieve in Iife now.Iam not so sure that I would ha
3、ve be Ii eved in it so deeply,otherwise.I don t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes.I simply meanthat the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.Life,I be I ieve,asks a cont i nuous series of adjustments to real ity.The morereadi ly a person is able to make these adjustm
4、ents,the more meaningfuIhis own private worId becomes.The adjustment is never easy.I felthelpless and afraid.But I was Iucky.My parents and my teachers sawsomething in me-a potential to I ive,you might cal I it-which I didnt see,and they made me want to fight it out with bl indness.The hardestlesson
5、 I had to learn was to be I ieve in myse I f.That was basic,If I hadnJt been able to do that,I would have col lapsed and become a chai r rockeron the front perch for the rest of my I ife.When I say be I i ef in myse I fI am not talking about simply the kind of seIf-conf idence that helps medown an u
6、nfami I iar staircase alone.That is part of it.But I meansomething bigger than that:an assurance that I am,despite imperfections,a reaIy positive person;that somewhere in the sweeping,intricatepattern of peop I e there i s a spec i a I place where I can make myse I f fit.It took me years to discover
7、 and strengthen this assurance.It had tostart with the most elementary things.Once a man gave me an indoorbasebalI.I thought he was mak i ng fun of me and I was hurt.nI can tuse this,n I said.Take it with you,he urged me,and rol I it around.HThe words stuck i n my head.Rol I it around!”By rolling th
8、e ba I I I cou I dhear where i t went.Th i s gave me an i dea how to ach i eve a goa I I had thoughtimpossible:playing basebalI.At Philadelphia s Overbrook Schoo I forthe Blind I invented a successfuI variation of basebalI.W e called itground ball.Al I my Iife I have set ahead of me a series of goal
9、s andthen tried to reach them,one at a time.I had to learn my I imitations.It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wi Idly outof reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure.I wouldfa iI somet imes anyway but on average I made progress.The writer keeps setting goals
10、for himself and.A.has never tasted the bitterness of failure.B.has reached most of themC.has only achieved some of them.D.has tried to reach them once and for all.2.EmaiI has brought the art of letter writing back to Iife,but someexperts think the resulting spread of bad English does more harm thang
11、ood.Emai I is a form of communication that is changing,for the worse,the way we write and use language,say some communication researchers.It is also dramatical ly changing the way we interact and buildrelationships.These are a few of the recently recognized features ofemaiIf say experts,that shouId
12、cause individuals and organizations torethink the way they use emai I.r,Emai I has increased the spread ofcareless w riting habits,n says Naomi Baron,a professor of I inguisticsat American University.She says the poor spel I ingt grammar,punctuationand sentence structure of emai Is re flect a growin
13、g unconcern to the waywe write.Baron argues that we shouId not forgive and forget the poorw riting often shown in emai Is.The more we use emai I and its tastelessw riting,the more it becomes the normal way of w riting,n the professorsays.Others say that despite its poor prose,emaiI has accompIishedw
14、hat several generations of English teachers couldn t:It has madew riting fashionable again.EmaiI is a c ritic a l new communicationtechnology,n says Ian Lancashi re,a University of Toronto professor ofEngl i sh.n It f i I I s the gap between spoken Ianguage and the forma I methodsof w riting that ex
15、isted before emai I.It is the purest form of w rittenspeech.H Lancashi re says emai I has the myster ious abi I ity to get peoplewho are usually scared by w riting to get thei r thoughts flowing easi lyonto a blank screen.He says th is i s because of e-mail s dose simi lar ityto speech.It s I ike a
16、ci rc Ie of four or five peop I e around a campf ire,“he says.S till,he accepts that th is new-found freedom to expressthemselves often gets peopIe into trouble.Almost every day I get emai Isthat are apo I og i es of prev i ous ema i I s,M he reports.in the US,the numberof emai Is sent in a day exce
17、eds the number of letters mai led in a year.But more peopIe are recognizing the content of a typicaI emaiI messagei s often imprecise.This can cause mild confusion or,in the worse cases,disastrous misunderstandings.Using emaiI effectiveIy is a matter ofrecognizing its strengths and I im itations as
18、a communication to o l,saysDon Cohen,editor of Know I edge Directions,the journal of theMassachusetts-based Institute for Know I edge Management.nEmaiI isextremely usefuI for communicating straightforward s tu ff I ike the timeof a meeting or correct spe11ing of a name,”Cohen notes.It is not angood
19、for bui Iding trust among peop Ie and mak i ng dec i s i ons.r,uEma i I al onecan,t commun icate the subtIety and s ignaIs needed for ma i nta i ni ng arelationship,H he says.Most relationships made through emaiI don tsurvive.Yet,the moot serious consequence of the increasingly casual,speech-1 ike s
20、tyle of writing being promoted by emai I could be a gradualloss of critica l awareness,Barot be Iieves.She has not i ced a dec Ii nein the ab ility of today1 s students to think through an argument.Shealso says that many peopIe are being fooled by emai Is into thinking thatspeI I ing and grammar ore
21、 not important in the eIectronic medium.nThere5s a growing awareness that peopIe who are interested in you eitherprofessionally or personally read your emaiI carefully and formimpressions of your inte11 igence and capabi I ities by what they read,1 1she repol Is.Baron disagrees with I inguists who s
22、ay that emai I ing wi I Iforever change the way we write and speak.111 wouldn9 t be surprised if30 or 40 years from now we get disgusted with how unclear and carelessour writing has become and change our teaching methods and standards.The writer1 s attitude toward emaiI can best be described as.A.cr
23、iticalB.matter-of-factC.approvingD.biting3.In order to work here the foreigner needs a work permit,which mustbe appIied(31)by his prospective employer.The problem here is thatthe Department of the Emp I oyment has the r ight to(32)or refuse thesepermits,and there is I ittIe that can be(33)about it.I
24、t would beextremely unwise(34)a foreign visitor to work without a permit,sinceanyone doing so is(35)to immediate deportation.There are some(36)to this rule,moot notab I y peop I e from the Common Market countries,whoare(37)to work without permits,and who are often given(38)residencepermits of up to
25、five years.Some(39)people,such as doctors,foreignjournal i sts,(40)and others,can work without permits.The problem withthe Act is not just that some of its rules are unfair but(41)it isadministered,and the peopIe who administer it.An immigrationsoff i c i a I has the power to stop a visitor(42)these
26、 shores com i ng intothe country.If this happens the visitor has the(43)to appeaI(44)thei mm i grat i on appea I tr i buna I.While the appea I s are be i ng cons i dered,thevisitor has no(45)but to wait sometimes for quite a Iong time.Criticsof the law say that immigration off i c i a I s treat the(
27、46)visitors badly,and appear to accept or reject them for no(47)reason.Which side ofthe poli t i caI(48)you are on,there seems to be an urgent need for agood look at the(49),for it(50)frequent argument,and in the eyesof many real injustice.A.exemptionsB.exceptionsC.excerptionsD.expositions4.As the e
28、ditor of a science magazine-a fanny one-I was continuallybes i eged by peop I e who wanted ray help in winning a Nobe I Prize.I al waysexp I a i ned that I had no i nfIuence on these matters,but they invariablytold me in great detai I what they,d done and why they deserved a prize.In some cases,they
29、 were correct.They deserved a prize al I r ight,butnot a Nobel Pr ize.And sor with the help of some fr iends and col leagues,I started the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.The first was held inOctober 1991.Now each year the science humor magazine I currently edit,Anna I s of Improbable Research,awards
30、 ten I g Nobe I Pr i zes to peop I e whoseachievements,though not precisely ignoble,cannot or should not bereproduced.r,Genuine Nobel Prize winners present the Ig Nobel Prizes tothe winners at Harvard.A friendly,standing-room-onIy audience of 1,200gives a warm we I come with wi Id applause and paper
31、 ai rp lanes.Here area few especially memorable Ig Nobel Prize winners:In Computer ScienceChr is Ni swander of Tucson,Ar iz.,was honored in 2002 for invent ingPawSense,software that detects when a cat i s wa I k i ng across your computerkeyboard.Cats can enter random commands and data,damage your fi
32、le sand even crash your computer,exp I a i ned N i swander,a computer sc i ent i st.When PawSense detects a cat on the keyboard,it emits a blast of loudharmonica music,or a recording of someone hissing.The inventor saysthat in addition to the sounds,once a cat has been recognized,PawSenseb I acks th
33、e ca ts keyboard i nput.11 puts up a gi ant message on the computerscreen:nCatI ike typing Detected.n To unlock the screen,the programrequests that you type the word human.A cat might beat the system througha lucky combination of paw blows,but its odds of doing so are low.InEnvi ronmental protection
34、 When businessmen come home to thei r wivesafter a hard night of drinking and smoking for professional purposes,they can,though no fa u lt of thei r own,smel I bad.Hyuk-ho Kwon of Ko I onCompany in SeouIy South Korea,was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2003 forinventing the self-perfuming business suit
35、.The fabr ic is soaked inmicro-encapsuIated peppermint scent;even a sIight motion releases theflagrance.Kwon traveled from Seoul at his company1 s expense to attendthe Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.The Ko IonCompany generously madeserf-perfuming business suits for the five Nobel laureates whoparticipated
36、in the event,as we I I as for the master of ceremonies.Which of the fol lowing is NOT trueA.Kwon s invention can solve the problems of some businessmen.B.Kwon was supported financially by his company to attend the Ig NobelPrize ceremony.C.The self-perfuming suit can release a pleasing scent without
37、anymovement.D.Drinking and smoking are not avoidable on some business occasions.5.In order to work here the foreigner needs a work permit,which mustbe applied(31)by his prospective employer.The problem here is thatthe Department of the EmpIoyment has the right to(32)or refuse thesepermits,and there
38、is I ittIe that can be(33)about it.It would beextremely unwise(34)a foreign v is ito r to work without a permit,sinceanyone doing so is(35)to immediate deportation.There are some(36)to th is rule,moot notab I y peop I e from the Common Market countries,whoare(37)to work without permits,and who are o
39、ften given(38)residencepermits of up to five years.Some(39)people,such as doctors,foreignjournal i sts,(40)and others,can work without permits.The problem withthe Act is not just that some of its rules are unfai r but(41)it isadministered,and the peopIe who administer it.An immigrationso ff i c i a
40、I has the power to stop a v is ito r(42)these shores com i ng intothe country.If th is happens the v is ito r has the(43)to appeaI(44)thei m m i grat i on appea I tr i buna I.While the appea I s are be i ng cons i dered,thev is ito r has no(45)but to wait sometimes for quite a Iong time.C riticsof t
41、he law say that immigration o ff i c i a I s tre at the(46)v is ito rs badly,and appear to accept or reject them for no(47)reason.Which side ofthe p o litic a l(48)you are on,there seems to be an urgent need for agood look at the(49),for it(50)frequent argument,and in the eyesof many real injustice.
42、A.proscribedB.qualifiedC.entitledD.certified6.In order to work here the foreigner needs a work permit,which mustbe applied(31)by his prospective employer.The problem here is thatthe Department of the Emp I oyment has the r ight to(32)or refuse thesepermits,and there is I ittIe that can be(33)about i
43、t.It would beextremely unwise(34)a foreign v is ito r to work without a permit,sinceanyone doing so is(35)to immediate deportation.There are some(36)to th is rule,moot notab I y peop I e from the Common Market countries,whoare(37)to work without permits,and who are often given(38)residencepermits of
44、 up to five years.Some(39)people,such as doctors,foreignjournal ists,(40)and others,can work without permits.The problem withthe Act is not just that some of its rules are unfai r but(41)it isadministered,and the peopIe who administer it.An immigrationso ff i c i a I has the power to stop a v is ito
45、 r(42)these shores com i ng intothe country.If th is happens the v is ito r has the(43)to appeaI(44)theimmigration appeal tribunal.While the appeals are being considered,thev is ito r has no(45)but to wait sometimes for quite a Iong time.C riticsof the law say that immigration o ff i c i a I s tre a
46、t the(46)v is ito rs badly,and appear to accept or reject them for no(47)reason.Which side ofthe pol i t i ca I(48)you are on,there seems to be an urgent need for agood look at the(49),for it (50)frequent argument,and in the eyesof many real injustice.A.currentB.temporaryC.conditionalD.transient7.As
47、 the editor of a science magazine-a fanny one-I was continuaI Iybes i eged by peop I e who wanted ray help in winning a Nobe I Prize.I al waysexp I a i ned that I had no i nfIuence on these matters,but they invariablytold me in great detai I what they d done and why they deserved a prize.In some cas
48、es,they were correct.They deserved a pr ize al I r ight,butnot a Nobel Prize.And so,with the help of some fr iends and col leagues,I started the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.The first was held inOctober 1991.Now each year the science humor magazine I currently edit,Anna I s of Improbable Research,
49、awards ten I g Nobe I Pr i zes to peop I e whoseachievements,though not precisely ignoble,Mcannot or should not bereproduced.M Genuine Nobel Prize winners present the Ig Nobel Prizes tothe winners at Harvard.A friendly,standing-room-onIy audience of 1,200gives a warm we I come with wi Id applause an
50、d paper ai rp lanes.Here area few especially memorable Ig Nobel Prize winners:In Computer ScienceChris Niswander of Tucson,Ariz.,was honored in 2002 for inventingPawSense,software that detects when a cat i s wa I ki ng across your computerkeyboard.r,Cats can enter random commands and data,damage you