专插本《公共英语》模拟测试五

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (35%)

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (20 %)
Directions ： In this part，there are four passages, each of which is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Passage1
It is only a shiny, yellow metal，but it is one of the most valuable metals on earth. Since thebeginning of time, men have looked for this extremely valuable item, gold.
Gold is soft and easy to form into different objects. If it gets wet, it does not rust like iron or other metals. Acids do not change it. One important reason that gold is so valuable is that it isscarce.
Due to its softness, gold must be combined with other metals to harden it and give if strength. By hardening gold, people can then make coins and jewelry with it. Metals commonly mixed withgold are nickel, platinum, and copper. Gold jewelry bears a number and the letter K.The K meanskarat( carat) , which is a measure of the amount of pure gold in the jewelry. Pure gold is 24K.Therefore, a necklace which is 14K is fourteen parts gold and ten parts other metal.
Many countries utilize gold for certain coins, but this practice is not as common now as it once was. The United States, for instance, stopped making gold coins in 1933.

Passage 2
It’s common knowledge that today's workplace is more volatile (易变的）than it once was.One has to know how to make the necessary changes to compete in this new，high-tech world.
The Career Coach offers experienced advice and strategies that people are increasingly turning to professional career advisers to get.
Written by Gordon Miller, the book is aimed at job seekers, people reentering the workforce and those farther along their career paths.
It gives advice on how to search for a job or change jobs (or industries) successfully in today’s job market. You’ll learn how to conduct a good interview, and how to free yourself from the constraints of the traditional resume.
It also has advice on how to become a good performer at the job you currently have, and the right way and time to ask for a raise or a promotion.
There are strategies for improving job performance within a company and how to shape your career to secure a future in an ever-changing economy.
The book is filled with countless stories about people who, with a little coaching, were able to steer their careers in a new direction ： a mediocre salesman turns into an excellent performer by learning to use his time more wisely ； a recent college graduate wins a key position in a high-tech company, etc.

Passage 3
I suppose that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention, and especially if it ‘ s given from the heart. When people are talking, there ‘ s no need to do anything but receive them. Listen to what they ’ re saying. Care about it.Most times caring about it is even moreimportant than understanding it. Most of us don ’ t valueourselves or our love enough to know this.It has taken me a long time to believe in the power of simple saying “I’m so sorry. when someone is in pain.
One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted to tell her that they once had something just like that happening to them. Her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care.
I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the handkerchiefs, until I realized that passing a person a handkerchief may be just another way to shut him down, to take them out of their experience of sadness. ,Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. It certainly went against everything had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too shy to speak or did not know the answer. But now I know that a loving silence often has far more power to heal than the kindest words.

Passage 4
Africans see many advantages in uniting the continent into a single nation, or in uniting several small nations of a particular region into a nation. In unity there is strength. Africans often point to the United States, formed by the original 13 states, as an illustration of this principle. Africans now is divided into many weak nations; united they would be much stronger. Africans could then more easily deal with foreign efforts to control them. Also it would be easier and less expensive to plan and carry out big projects like the building of highways and dams.
The considerations for African unity go beyond the practical advantages it would bring. As we have seen, the feeling of belonging to a particular nation is not strong among Africans. If, for example, you were to ask a man from Paris, “What are you?” he would certainly answer, “A Frenchman.” Ask the same question of a man from Ibadan in Nigeria and he might give one of three answers, or all three, depending upon his education and outlook. He might say, “A Yoruba，，(his people) , or “A Nigerian”，or just simply “An African;”.
Another factor that enters into the desire for unity is that educated Africans throughout the continent feel that they all have many things in common. Africa’s leaders, especially, all lived through the experience of colonial rule. Many of them went to school and university with men who now lead other African countries. They all feel resentful about the way in which they were treated in the past. Compared to these strong bonds，which overshadow the borders of nations, the idea of building separate nations does not have so much meaning. Some leaders say they are ready, in fact, to give up their separate nations. Four nations have written into their constitutions a provision that the government may give up its power to a Pan-African government.

Part Ⅲ Cloze(10%)
Directions ： There are20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices.
Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Sometimes, people 56 your life and you realize that they are there 57 some purpose, to 58 you a lesson, or to help you 59 who you are or who you want to become. You ‘ d never know who these people 60 be your friend, your classmate, your neighbor, your co-worker, your teacher, or 61 a stranger, but they will deeply 62 your life in some way.
And sometimes things 63 to you that may seem 64 ，painful and horrible at first, but 65 , you realize that without 66 those difficulties you would never know your strength,67 or potential. Everything happens for a 68 Nothing happens by 69 or by means of good luck. Illness, great achievement, love, injury and failure all come to 70 the limits of your soul. Without these tests, life would be like a straight and flat road, but it goes 71. It would besafe and comfortable, but dull and completely 72.
Those people who affect your life，and the failure and the success you experience can help you to create who you are and who you become. Even the bad experiences can73 from. In fact, they are the most important ones. If someone breaks your heart, or hurts you, please 74 them， for they helped you to learn about the importance of being careful when you open your heart. If someone loves you, love them 75, because they are teaching you to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things.

Part IV Writing( 15%)
Directions ： This part is to test your practical writing ability. You are required to write a note asking for sick leave according to the information given in Chinese. Your writing should contain at least 100 words. Write it on the Answer Sheet.