2017年华南理工大学大学英语B〔二〕模拟试题I. Vocabulary and Structures (20 points)Directions:In each of the following sentences, there are 4 choices marked A), B), C), and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes each sentence.1. — I was worried about my maths, but Mr. Brown gave me an A.— ___B____A. Don’t worry about it.B. Congratulations! That’s a difficult courseC. Mr. Brown is very good.D. Good luck to you!2. —I’ve got two tickets for the match. Shall we go and watchittogether? — __C_____A.he tickets must be expensive.B. The match must be exc iting .C. Why not? Let’s go.D. The place is too far aw ay.3. — Hello, I'm Harry Potter.— Hello, my name is Charles Green, but __A____.A. call me CharlesB.call my CharlesC.call me at CharlesD.call Charlesme4. — Excuse me, could you show me the way to the nearest post office?—____D ______ Oh yes! Two blocks away from here at the Green Avenue. You can’t miss it.A.I beg your pardon?B.What do you mean?C.You're welcome.D.Mm,let methink5. — Oh, sorry to bother you. — ____ A ___A. That's okay.B. No, you can't.C. That's good.D. Oh, I don't know.6. We came finally __C____ the conclusion that she has been telling lies all the time.A. ofB. intoC.to D. at7.It’s time we __C__ the lecture because everybody has arrived.A. will startB. shall startC. startD. started8. Two days is not enough for him to finish the work．He needs __A_day.A. otherB. the otherC. thethird D. a third9. Mrs. Jones _A ______ about her hard housework.A. has been always complainingB. is always complainingC. always complainD.has always complain10.Tom, you __D_____ play with the knife. You _______ hurt you rself.A.won’t;can’tB.mustn’t;mayC.shouldn’t;mustD.can’t;shouldn’t11.The question __D_____next year has something important to dowith our daily life.A. to discussB. discussedC. being discussedD. to be discussed12. ___A ____from space, the earth looks like a blue ball.A. SeenB.See C. Seeing D. To see13. We were glad that she ____D____ a gold medal.A. awardedB. was awardedC. has been awardedD. had been awarded14. Thank you for reminding me of the time, or I __D___ late yesterday.A. should beB. would beC. will have beenD. would have been15. ___B _____ more careful, the mistake would not have been made.A. If he isB. If he had beenC. If he has beenD. If he should be16. It is required that the students ___C _____ mobile phones in their school，so seldom will you see them using one.A. would not useB. not useC. mustn’t useD. might not use17. Let me do it, ___C ____?A.shall I B. shall we C. will you D . will I18. Hans has a new car. I wonder when _A______it.A. he boughtB. did he buyC. buysD. he is buying19.Smoking, ___A__is a bad habit, is nevertheless, still popular .A. thoughB. itC. thatD. which20. It ___D_____ for two hours now.A. rainsB. is rainingC. was rainingD. has been rainingII. Reading Comprehension (45 points)Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 questions. For each question there are 4 choices marked A), B), C), and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes each sentence. Passage 1Writing, as a career, offers a range of personal rewards. It enables people to express themselves, as well as to entertain, inform, and influence others. With only a few tools—paper, a typewriter, a pencil, and often a personal computer—a writer can have an impact on the surrounding world. But most authors spend hundreds of hours perfecting their skills before they can sell any of their works.A person who wants to be a writer should set aside some time to write every day. Learning to express ideas clearly and effectively in writing takes a great deal of practice. Many experienced writers keep a journal. A journal can serve as a storehouse for information, observations, and ideas. It can also be a place to develop new material.Beginning writers should read many kinds of writing encountered every day and pay special attention to what they find most interesting. News items, feature stories, textbooks, cookbooks, repair manuals, poems, essays, short stories, novels, and plays differ in their methods of organizing and presenting material. A beginning writer who reads widely and carefully will develop an appreciation of different writing approaches and styles. In time, the writer can acquire a more flexible approach to his or her own work.Successful authors write about subjects they know and understand. They sometimes take weeks or months revising or refining an article, poem, or story. Beginning writers usually benefit from finding one or more friendlycritics who will read their work and discuss its strengths and weaknesses with them.High schools and colleges offer many learning opportunities for young writers. Composition and literature courses can be helpful. Creative writing and journalism courses may further assist a beginning writer in developing his or her skills. Many students work on literary magazines, newspapers, or yearbooks published by their schools. They may write stories, edit articles, or gain other valuable experience.21. How important is writing according to this passage? CA. People learn a lot from writing.B. We are entertained with different writings.C. Writing can influence the surrounding world.D. Books can be an important part of an industry.22. What does a journal NOT help to provide? AA. Service. B. Ideas. C. Observations. D. Information.23. What should a beginning writer do to enjoy different writing styles? DA. Reading different kinds of news items.B. Studying different writing methods.C. Learning the ways to present materials.D. Carefully reading as much as possible.24. Which of the following should a beginning writer avoid in order to improve his or her writing? A A. Developing newsubjects. B. Finding helpful critics.C. Attending writing courses.D. Doing editing work.25. In developing students’ writing ability, which of the following is not mentioned by the author?DA. They can take composition and literature courses.B. They can take writing and journalism courses.C. They may work on literary magazines, newspapers, or yearbooks published by their schools.D. They may write stories or edit articles for professional journals.Passage 2The first day of university our professor introduced a new student who appears to be very different from the rest of us. That is Rose, an eighty-seven-year-old lady who always wore a big smile on her face.“Why are you in college at this age?〞 I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!〞 she told me.Over the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed being the center of attention from the other students. She was living it up!At the end of the semester, we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. She was introduced and stepped up to the stage.As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her speech cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the speaker and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m a bit nervous. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me!〞As we laughed Rose cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop laughing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we didn’t do. The on ly people who fear death are those with regrets.Finally, there is a huge difference between growing old and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty. This is growing old, by doing nothing to your life. The idea of growing up is to always find opportunity to change.〞At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral. When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful advice to your friends and family:Remember, we cannot avoid growing old, but we can choose our own ways to grow up.26. Why was Rose in college?AA. Because she always wanted to have a college degree.B. Because she thought college was fun and she could make many friends.C. Because she has never gone to a college.D.Because she enjoyed being the center of attention fromthe otherstudents27. According to para. 3, how did Rose live her college life?CA. She always dressed up and never attend any class.B. She was quiet and didn’t want to make any friends.C. She was easygoing and made lots of friends.D. She wasn’t making the best out of her college life.28. How did she react when she dropped her speech note at the football banquet?DA. She got very nervous and stopped speaking.B. She was drunk with too much whiskey.C. She had to give up beer for this mistake.D. She continued her speech with a joke.29. What does Rose mean by “so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it〞? BA. They are killed by them walking around.B. They are “dead〞because they don’t have any dreams.C. They are “dead〞 because are they are not satisfied with their life.D. They are “dead〞because they don’t know anything.30. According to Rose, which one of the following is correct about the difference between “growing old〞and “growing up〞? DA. Both mean the aging process where a child becomes a grown-up.B. Both mean lots of changes.C. “Growing old〞is sad, but “growing up〞 is happy.D.“Growing old〞is natural, but“growing up〞is something wecan controlPassage 3Lovebirds. That’s what all our friends called u s when we first married.I guess Don and I deserved it. Money was tight. Sometimes we’d have to save up days just for an ice cream cone. Still, our tiny apartment seemed like paradise. Love does that, you know.The more we heard the term “lovebirds〞, the more we thought about birds. One day we started saving up for a couple of lovebirds of our own. We knew we couldn’t afford to buy both birds and a nice cage, so in his spare moments, Don made the cage himself.We put our cage in front of a shaded window. Then we waited until our little saving was full of bills and spare change. With that money we “adopted〞a pair of canaries from our local pet store, a male and a female, and named them Sunshine and Snowball.Time passed, and when our young lovebirds finally seemed mature enough to start a family of their own, we went ahead and prepared a nest area and lots of nesting material for them. Snowball was a very exacting wife in designing and decorating their nest just so, while Sunshine, filled with love, bent over backward to put everything just where she ordered.Then one day an egg appeared. How they sang! And a few weeks later when a tiny chick hatched, their happiness seemed to know no bounds. I don’t know how it happened, but that baby bird was bright orange. So right off we named him Punkinhead.The sunny days passed. How proud all of us were when our baby bird ran out of the nest onto a real grown-up perch!Then one day, Punkinhead suddenly fell head down to the bottom of the cage. The tiny orange bird just lay there, both parents and I rushed to his rescue.But he was dead. Just like that. Whether he’d had a heart attack before he fell or broke his neck in the fall, I’ll never know. But Punkinhead was gone.The mother bird refused to let either Sunshine or me get near that little body. Instead of the joyful melodies I usually heard from Snowball, now she gave only the most heartbreaking cries and moans. Her heart, joy and will seemed completely melted by her sorrow.Poor Sunshine didn’t know what to d o. He kept trying to push Snowball away from her sad situation, but she refused to move. Instead, over and over she kept trying to wake up her beloved child.Finally Sunshine seemed to work out a plan. He convinced her to fly up and eat some seeds every so often, while he stood duty in her place. Then each time she left, he’d quietly place one piece of straw over Punkinhead’s body. Just one. But in a few days, piece by piece, it was completely covered over.At first Snowball seemed panic when she looked a round, but she didn’t try to uncover the chick. Instead, she flew up to her normal place and stayed there. Then I was able to quietly reach in and remove the little body.After that, Sunshine spent all his time comforting Snowball. Eventually she started making normal sounds, and then one day, her sorrow finally melted and she sang again. I don’t know if Snowball ever realized the quiet labor of love and healing Sunshine had done for her. But they remained devoted for as long as they both lived. Love does that, you know.31.The title of the passage is “When Snowball Melted〞. What does the title mean? CA. The increasing temperature made the snowball melt.B. The bird called Snowball was too sad for her kid’s death so she became weaker and weaker.C. The grief born by the bird called Snowball for the death of her kid was dissolved by her husband’s love.D. The bird called Snowball was loved by her husband so it seemed like a snowball was melted.32. Why did “our tiny apartment seemed like par adise〞 even though we were poor?BA. Because we love our tiny apartment.B. Because the tiny apartment housed a couple in love.C. Because we kept two birds in love in the tiny apartment.D. Because our tiny apartment was clean and cozy.33. In paragraph 4, why does the author use “‘adopted’ a pair of canaries from our local pet store〞instead of the word “buy〞? BA. “Adopted〞 is used here to show that the birds are deserted by the store so the couple adopted them.B. “Adopted〞 is used h ere to show the couple’s love for the birds, while the word “buy〞 seemed to be cold and emotionless.C. “Adopted〞 is used here to show that nobody wanted the birds so the couple were the only one who bought them.D. there is no special reason why “ad opted〞 is used here.34. What is the cause of Punkinhead’s death?DA. He’d had a heart attack before he fell.B. He broke his neck in the fall.C. He was attacked by a cat.D. the cause of Punkinhead’s death is unknown.35. Which of the following things were NOT what Sunshine did to comfort Snowball after the death of their kid? BA. He kept trying to push Snowball away from her sad situation.B. He flew up to her normal place and stayed there.C. He convinced her to fly up and eat some seeds every so often, while he stood duty in her place.D. each time she left, he’d quietly place one piece of straw over Punkinhead’s body.Passage 4They say there are three apples that changed the world.The first apple belongs to Adam, from the Garden of Eden. Yes, according to Christians, it was Adam’s apple that first changed humankind — the act of man disobeying to higher power that sets us apart by God. Adam’s story teaches us the importance of submission.We are becoming more self-sustained and forget the cores of life —love, joy and peace. Families, friends and our beloved ones are often neglected when we become self-centered in our jobs and responsibilities. We need to be reminded to love and be loved, stand firm in love and cherish the goodness of other people in our lives.The second most influential apple didn’t come until the 15th Century.A man sat under the famous apple tree and the universe-consigned apple fell right on his head, leading him to the famous law of universal gravitation.Sir Isaac Newton’s apple changed the world of science as well as mathematics by stating that “every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force directed along the line of centers for the two objects...〞 and so on.The point her e is, Newton’s apple has not only inspired him to come up with the law of gravitation, but also encouraged human to dream big and to explore the world with imaginations. Many other great people arose from Newton’s great works and findings.Last but bot lea st, it is of course Steve Jobs’ Apple that has put the world on a different pace, in terms of his innovations in consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.Jobs’ success stories took up each corner of Google’s page after he passed away. The highlight is none other than his return to Apple after being kicked out of his own company in 1997. When he tried to lure John Sculley as Apple’s CEO, he asked,〞Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want to change the world?〞That obviously worked out pretty well. Yet, it was the passion towards innovation that Jobs has injected into his career that put him onto thetop of the world. His life has definitely inspired many to contribute to the society through creativity.So here are three apples that changed our lives — three men at three totally different time of the history. How’s your apple coming along?36. What are NOT the cores of life according to the text?CA. faithB. joyC.peace D. love37. Who are the ones we often neglected when we become self-centered in our jobs and responsibilities? AA. Families. B.Friends. C. Our beloved ones. D. A, B and C38. Which of the following statement are NOT one of the influences brought by Newton’s apple?DA. Newton’s apple inspired Newton to come up with the law of gravitation.B. Newton’s apple reminded human to love and be loved, stand firm in love and cherish the goodness of other people in our lives.C. Newton’s apple encoura ged human to dreambig.D.Newton’s apple encouraged human to explore the world with imagination39 Steve Jobs’ innovations are in the following fields but AA. Consumer electronics.B. Computer software.C. Personalcomputer. D. Telecommunication.40 According to the author, what put Steve Jobs onto the top of the world?DA. His great success in the Appleproducts.B. He returned to Apple after being kicked out of his own company in 1997.C. His passion towards innovation in hiscareer.D. He changed the world.III. Translation (20 points)Direction: Translate the following sentences into Chinese.41. You needn’t go there anymore. He already kno ws about it.你不必再去那里了。
