《大学英语（2）》模拟题（补）一．单项选择题1-12 语音辨析：比较4个单词中划线部分的读音，并选择发音不同的单词。

1. A. height B. hopefully C. honest D. housing2. A. doubt B. sound C. famous D. found3. A. climb B. job C. disturb D. club4. A. breathe B. breath C. nothing D. thought5. A. disappear B. fear C. year D. pear6. A. castle B. vast C. waste D. fasten7. A. correct B. discover C. comfort D. come8. A. prove B. rose C. wrote D. broke9. A. drunk B. dusty C. duty D. drug10. A. sweat B. meant C. pleasure D. pleased11. A. museum B. popular C. dustbin D. valuable12. A. coast B. float C. soap D. Broad13. A. dear B. hear C. near D. bear13-25 词汇与语法：从每小题的4个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

14. Send for a doctor quickly. The man _______.A. will dieB. is dyingC. diesD. died15. The bag is very heavy. Come and lend me a hand, _______?A. should youB. do youC. can youD. will you16. Joe took his friends there by a shortcut, _______ reduced the drive from50 minutes to 15.A. whereB. whichC. thatD. what17. After working for two hours, I found _______ impossible to complete thepaper in time.A. meB. thisC. thatD. it18. He took the machine to pieces to find out how it _______.A. progressedB. operatedC. equippedD. managed19. Regular exercise can _______ you against heart disease.A. fightB. protectC. keepD. support20. Over a hundred people expressed their worries, but _______ werewilling to help.A. someB. manyC. fewD. little21. He wondered if he could slip out of the lecture hall without anyone_________.A. noticingB. noticedC. to noticeD. being noticed22. – You realize that you were driving at 100 miles per hour, don’t you?-- No, officer, I _____ have been. This car can’t do more than 70.A. needn’tB. shouldn’tC. couldn’tD. might not23. Class is to begin in a minute, but the teacher still hasn’t _____.A. come onB. turned outC. come alongD. turned up24. By the end of last year we _____ more than 200 students of English all overthe province.A. trainedB. would have trainedC. had trainedD. have trained25. ______ the teacher’s suggestion, Tom finally found a way to settle theproblem.A. FollowingB. To followC. FollowD. He followed26. I asked two people to help me, but ____ of them knew what to do.A. eitherB. noneC. bothD. Neither27. Let’s visit the bookstore on my way back home, __________?A. shan’t weB. won’t youC. shall weD. will you28. Please be sure to telephone me next time you _______ to our city.A. will comeB. comeC. cameD. are coming二、阅读理解：阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。

AFor 30 years, Randy J. Murphy drove without being stopped by the police —and without a driver’s license (驾驶执照).The 46-year-old man’s luck came to an end last May. On his way home from his job as a dishwasher, he turned up the radio in the car.“I just turned the corner, and there was Mark,” Murphy said of the police officer who has since made such a difference in his life.Officer Mark Taylor had stopped the car as he heard the blaring (震耳的) music. When he asked for a driver’s license, Murphy said that he didn’t have one.Murphy told Taylor he couldn’t read well enough to tale the written part of the licensing test. “He said people just don’t help anymore. I told him if he was willing, I’d help him,” said Taylor. He gave Murphy his phone number. That afternoon Murphy called the officer.For the next three months, the men met several times a week to review the questions which might appear in the test. When Murphy took the test, Taylor went with him. Murphy passed on his sixth attempt (尝试). He then sailed through the road test. On September 5, he got his license.Taylor’s act of kindness won him the Officer of the Month award(奖) from the Knoxville Police Department. “People should help each other if they can,” Taylor said. “Randy did all the work. I just guided him along.”Although Murphy has overcome the difficulty that kept him from gettinga driver’s license, he hasn’t stopped there. “We still meet once a week toread,” Taylor said. “We’ve also become friends.”“I’m glad he pulled me over now,” said Murphy.29. Murphy was stopped by Taylor because_________.A. the music hi his car was too loudB. he drove without a driver’s licenseC. he made a wrong turn at a cornerD. he listened to the radio while driving30. After learning Murphy’s situation, Taylor decided ________.A. to put an end to his luckB. to help him learn how to readC. to take away his driver’s licenseD. to stop him from doing silly things31. In “he then sailed through the road test” sailed through is close in meaning to______.A. tried his best inB. nearly failed inC. suffered a lot inD. easily succeeded in32. According to Taylor, he helped Murphy pass the licensing test because_______.A. he felt sorry for the bad situation of the poorB. he wanted to win the Officer of the Month awardC. he hated to see people in need of help were not helpedD. he thought it was a policeman’s duty to help people readBYou start to introduce an old friend to someone, and suddenly you can’t remember that someone’s name even though you sense it is just there in your memory. Or you can’t quite bring back the name of a film you just saw. Such tip-of-the-tongue or TOT incidents happen to almost everyone, notesDeborah Burke, a scientist at Pomona College in Claremont, California.These lapses(失误) have nothing to do with remembering the meaning ofa word, but rather with its sound. “Often, the sound of a word is arbitrary (任意的) and senseless,” says Burke. This arbitrariness sometimes can make it difficult to bring back the word.The best way to prevent the problem is to use the name of a person or object as frequently as possible. “I tell people to do what salespeople often do-repeat people’s name several times just before you plan to see them,” says Liz Zelinski of the University of South California in Los Angeles.A TOT experience can seem worse when a similar-sounding(发音相似的)，but incorrect, word comes into your head unexpectedly and stays there.Burke tells the story of a student who was trying to remember the name of a particular car. The student wanted the word Winnebago, but she could only come up with rutabaga. When this happens, think of something else, suggests Burke. “If you stop feeling worried about it, the correct word sooner or later will come to you.”33. People sometimes find it hard to bring back a word they know well, for__________.A. it is impossible to remember every wordB. the pronunciation seldom matches the spellingC. some words do not have any exact meaningD. its sound is decided for no good reason34. TOT incidents are more likely to happen ________.A. with words similar in pronunciationB. with the name of a strange person or objectC. when a word you don’t like gets into your mindD. when you pay too much attention to certain subjects35. When you cannot come up with the right word you’re trying to remember,you may ______.A. think of more words of similar soundB. stop feeling worried but keep thinking of itC. do something else for a while and then try againD. forget it for the moment and pay attention to something elseCCopernicus was born in Torun, Poland, on February19, 1473. Little is known about his early life except that his father died when he was 10. An uncle adopted (收养) him, his two sisters, and his brother. The uncle saw to it that the two boys received a good education. Copernicus went to the University of Cracow. There he studied such subjects as Latin, mathematics, and astronomy. It was probably at that time that he changed his Polish name, Niklas Kopernigk, to the Latin form of Nicolaus Copernicus. In 1946 Copernicus went to Italy, where he spent the next 10 years studying at various universities.In Copernicus’ time people still believed that all things—the sun, the stars, and the planets—moved around the earth. It was an old belief that few men had ever questioned. Aristotle had based his theory of astronomy on his belief. Because the Church had long been the center of learning, the theory was also linked to religious (宗教的) beliefs.In 1506 Copernicus returned to his homeland. A few years later he began to work for the Church. All those years Copernicus carried on his work on astronomy. He had just the most basic equipment and, like other scientists of his day, made observations with only his eyes. Still, using mathematics and logic (逻辑)，Copernicus worked out a different theory, which held that the planets went around the sun.Copernicus did not announce his ideas. He did not want to make trouble. But he could not hide the scientific truth. So he talked about his theory withhis friends, who strongly advised him to have his work published. His great book. On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies appeared at the very end of his life. Copernicus saw the first copy on the day he died, May 24, 1543.36. Which of the following is TRUE about Copernicus?A. He had two brothers and a sisterB. He used to be called Niklas KopernigkC. He lost his father soon after he was bornD. He spent 10 years at the University of Cracow37. From the passage we can see that astronomy is _____________.A. the life experience of great menB. the movement of the stars and the planetsC. the scientific study of natural objects in spaceD. the theories developed by scientists of old times38. Copernicus developed his theory ________.A. using various telescopesB. based on Aristotle’s beliefsC. through observations and reasoningD. under the encouragement of his friends39. The writer of the passage wants us to know that ______________.A. Copernicus did not tell about his theory until the day of his deathB. for many years Copernicus dared to do nothing openly against the ChurchC. pushed by his friends Copernicus decided to write a book in May1543D. shortly before he got back to Poland Copernicus started to work for the ChurchDThere was a river with a small town on either side of it. The towns were linked by a bridge.One day，a hole appeared in the bridge. Both towns agreed that the holeshould be mended. However，disagreement came up as to who should mend it. Each town thought that it had a better reason for the other to mend the hole. The town on the right bank said that it was at the end of the road，so the left-bank town should mend the hole. The town on the left bank，on the other hand，insisted that all the traffic came to the right-bank town，so it was in their interest to mend the bridge.The quarrel went on and on，and so did the hole. The more it went on，the more the hostility between the two towns grew.One day a man fell into the hole and broke his leg. People from both towns questioned him closely about whether he was walking from the right bank to the left or from the left bank to the right，in order to decide which town should be blamed for the accident. But he could not remember，since he got drunk that night..　Some time later，a car was crossing the bridge and broke an axle（轴）because of the hole. Neither town paid any attention to the accident，as the traveler was not going from one to the other，but was merely passing through. The angry traveler got out of the car and asked why the hole was not mended.On hearing the reason，he declared，“I'll buy this hole. Who‘s the owner？”Both towns at once declared that they owned the hole.“One or the other，whoever owns the hole must prove it.”“How shall we prove it？”asked both sides.“That's simple. Only the owner of the hole has the right to mend it. I‘ll buy the hole from whoever mends the bridge.”People from both towns rushed to do the job while the traveler smoked a cigar and his driver changed the axle. They mended the bridge in no time and asked for the money for the hole.“What hole？”The traveler looked surprised. “I can't see any hole. I‘ve been looking for a hole for several years now. I'm prepared to pay a good price for it，but there’s no hole here. Are you pulling my leg or what？” He got into his car and drove off.40. What did the two towns quarrel about？ A. Which of them should mend the hole. B. Whether the hole should be mended. C. Why there was a hole in the bridge. D. When they should mend the hole.41. The man who had fallen into the hole failed to answer any questions because he ______. A. had one of his legs broken B. was busy changing the axle C. had drunk too much wine D. was afraid to blame anybody42. Both towns rushed to mend the hole in order to prove that ______. A. they owned the whole bridge B. they had the right to sell the hole C. they were able to mend the hole D. they could afford to mend the hole43. In “Are you pulling my leg or what？”，the phrase pulling my leg refers to ______.A. trying to stop meB. laughing at meC. putting me in troubleD. making fun of me三、翻译：分别将下面两句话翻译成中文和英文。