2023年大学生英语竞赛类模拟试卷.doc

大学生英语竞赛（NECCS）C类模拟试卷27
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure
31． I want to put some money into my bank account, so I'm going to______bank this afternoon. It's in______Midland Street.
A．a: the B．the: the C．a: a D．the: /
32． Ms. Smith is very______. She has changed the director's mind about many issues.
A．Prompt B．Tidy C．Influential D．vital
33． The board______of the opinion that the news shouldn't be carried in the newspaper.
A．Is B．will be C．Were D．are
34． Production is to be______from big cities to the mountainous areas in case of war.
A．Transferred B．Transmitted C．Translated D．transformed
35． The crew worked so hard, they finished the entire project three days______schedule.
A．forward of B．ahead of C．onward of D．above of
36． We went to a restaurant that night. ______food was lovely, but I didn't like the soup or the dessert.
A．Some of B．Some of the C．None of the D．All the
37． The receptionist ______we handed the forms pointed out that they had not been properly filled in.
A．Who B．That C．to whom D．to who
38． It seems oil______from this pipe for some time. We'll have to take the machine apart to put it right.
A．had leaked B．Leaked C．is leaking D．has been leaking
39． The game was cancelled because most of the team members______a match without a standard court.
A．objected to have B．objected to having C．were objected to have D．were objected that
40． He was out when I called, but the secretary kindly offered______a message for me.
A．Taking B．to take C．Took D．taken
41． ______the note you left, I would have forgotten to close the door.
A．With B．In case of C．Because of D．But for
42． The spokesman admitted that the government's thoughtless policy had caused a crisis that
A．could never have happened B．might have happened
C．should never have happened D．would never have happened
43． We doubted if it was worth______about 40 miles to see the football match.
A．of riding B．Riding C．Ride D．being ridden
44． —Excuse me. Can I park my car here? —No, I'm afraid not. ______
—Oh, do you know of anywhere around here I can park?
—Sorry, I'm afraid I don't.
A． Maybe you will park here? B．This is a no parking zone.
C．Thanks for the offer. D．Would you mind parking here?
45． —Tom! What's that?
—There are two girls behind you. ______You've just noticed?
—I don't get why anybody does that anymore. It's so annoying!
A．They've been smoking like chimneys. B．I can't stand smoking here.
C．Many people around here are smoking. D．The secondhand smoke is going to kill us.
Part Ⅲ Cloze
In the early 1950s the researchers who produced the first clad glass optical fibers were not thinking of using them for communications.【C1】H______, fiber optics was already a well-established commercial technology when the famous paper by Kao and Hockham,【C2】______ (claim)the use of low-loss optical fibers for communication, appeared in 1966. The first low-loss silica fiber was described in【C3】______which appeared in October of 1970. The date of this publication is sometimes【C4】______(cite)as the beginning of the era of fiber communication. Although this development did receive【C5】______(consider)attention in the research community at the time, it was far from inevitable that a major industry would evolve.
The technological barriers appeared formidable because there were serious doubts as to【C6】wh______these fiber components could ever be produced economically enough, but the market potential was very significant.【C7】______(consequence), research and development activity expanded rapidly, and a number of important issues were【C8】re______during the early 1970s. During the middle and late 1970s, the rate of progress towards marketable products accelerated as the emphasis【C9】______(shift)from research to engineering. Fibers with losses【C10】app______the Rayleigh limit of 2 dB/km at a wavelength of 0. 8 μm were produced.
By 1980 improvement in component performance, cost, and reliability led to major commitments on the part of telephone companies.

Part Ⅳ Reading Comperhension
Section A
A collision between an aircraft and one or more birds is termed a bird-strike. Pilots sometimes record a birdstrike while at cruising altitudes, but most of them happen when an aircraft is relatively close to the ground, usually in proximity to an airport and during the circling, descent to land or take-off phases of a flight.
Birdstrikes may cause significant damage to an aircraft and/or, if the birds are ingested into a jet engine, a significant and sudden loss of power. If this were to happen during take-off or initial climb of a fully loaded passenger aircraft the results could be catastrophic-loss of the aircraft and the lives of those on board. Any bird is a potential hazard to aircraft and this is especially true as bird numbers and bird size increase.
Unfortunately airports themselves can be attractive to birds-rodents, insects and other small animals are a food source often found in flat grassed areas such as the runway strips. Even so, this problem can be reduced by careful habitat management or bird harassment techniques practised by airport maintenance and safety personnel.
Care needs to be taken by local authorities in deciding the location of rubbish tips, or when permitting other land uses that may be attractive to birds in this way. Of course these effects cannot always be anticipated with certainty since birds such as gulls have been recorded as travelling 50 kilometres or more from their roosting area to an attractive food source.
Local authority planning schemes often apply strict controls on developments such as abattoirs, cattle feed lots, grain handling, piggeries, canals and marina developments, fish farms, and suchlike. In most cases these uses will not be permitted without a full environmental study. That study should be required to deal with the question of likely bird hazards if the proposed location is in proximity to an airport.
In some instances it may be necessary to consider ways of managing a particular land use in order to reduce its attractiveness to birds, for example the adoption of land-fill measures at garbage tips, or enclosed rather than open-air activity. Specialist ornithological opinion may be necessary. In such cases it may not be possible to implement immediate changes in land use, but this should not inhibit the adoption of long-term measures which are designed to achieve this.
Summary:
A collision between an aircraft and one or more birds is known as a bird strike. It usually happens when an aircraft is close【A1】, and may result in significant damage of the aircraft or loss of the aircraft and【A2】of passengers and crew if they occur during take-off or initial climb. Because birds can find plenty food in flat grassed areas, airports are especially attractive to birds. However, the danger can be minimized by【A3】_____. Local authorities need to take care when deciding on【A4】It is suggested that a full environmental study should be made before making plans of developments on the land in proximity to an airport. Local authorities should get advice from specialists and take【A5】in order to bring about changes in land use.

Section B
Resources can be said to be scarce in both an absolute and relative sense: the surface of the Earth is finite, imposing absolute scarcity: but the scarcity that concerns economists is the relative scarcity of resources for different uses. Materials used for one purpose can not at the same time be used for other purposes: if the quantity of an input is limited, the increased use of it in one manufacturing process must cause it to become less available for other uses.
The cost of a product in terms of money may not measure its true cost to society. The true cost of, say, the construction of a supersonic jet is the value of the schools and refrigerators that will never be built as a result. Every act of production uses up some of society's available resources: it means the foregoing of an opportunity to produce something else. In deciding how to use resources most effectively to satisfy the wants of the community, this opportunity cost must ultimately be taken into account.
In a market economy the price of a good and the quantity supplied depend on the cost of making it, and that cost, ultimately, is the cost of not making other goods. The market mechanism enforces this relationship. The cost of, say, a pair of shoes is the price of the leather, the labor, the fuel, and other elements used in producing them. However, the price of these inputs, in turn, depends on what they can produce elsewhere—if the leather can be used to produce handbags that are valued highly by consumers, the prices of leather would be correspondingly higher.

61． This passage mainly discusses the finiteness and value of materials.
A．TURE B．FALSE
62． The cost of a product in terms of money measures its true cost to society.
A．TURE B．FALSE
63． The relationship between production and resources is that production reduces the amount of available resources.
A．TURE B．FALSE
64． What determines the price of goods in a market economy?

65． Using land for a house and for a park, which one best reflects a cost to society as defined in the passage?
Section C
Few words are more commonly used in our modern world than the word modern itself. The modernity of manufactured articles, of institutions, of attitudes, of works of art is constantly brought to our attention. We ourselves may well be judged by whether we are modern or not: indeed, many people go to considerable lengths to make quite certain that they will be accepted as modern-modern in their dress, their behavior, their beliefs. And yet, we may ask, must earlier generations not have felt precisely the same? Surely men throughout history must have recognized themselves as modern. Surely innovators like Julius Caesar, Peter the Great or Oliver Cromwell saw themselves as breaking with the past, as establishing a new order. Must they not also have shared our awareness of the significance of what is modern? What is modern is distinct from what belongs to the past and men in earlier times must have experienced this sense of distinctiveness. People cannot escape, and never have been able to escape, an awareness of change. Reflection will tell us that our awareness of change, our sense of distinctiveness, is very different from that of our predecessors. Change for us is more, much more, than the change brought about by the passing of time, by important events or by the actions of outstanding individuals or groups of people. We make use of change and are ourselves a part of a process of change. Change for us has become modernization and modernization implies both direction and consciousness. Change is something we seek, something we attempt to control and something that has no end.
Our "modern" consciousness of change and this desire to direct change began with the Industrial Revolution. The term revolution is usually applied to a historical event that causes a major change in thought, life styles, and identity. We can normally speak of a time before the revolution and a time after the revolution. But the Industrial Revolution, although it had a beginning, has never come to an end. It is a process not yet stopped. It is a process which affects more and more people in more and more ways. We may argue that it is a process directed by humans. The whole process is, as yet, beyond control of any particular individual or group.
We can decide the direction of modernization to some extent but we cannot decide to halt it. This has led to a disturbing situation. What we boast of as modern or up to date today, will be old-fashioned or out of date tomorrow. The noisy insistence that something is modern often conceals fear of the knowledge that it will inevitably soon be superseded. Again, the very fact that modernization has one direction only and involves every member of society permits only two attitudes: acceptance or rejection. The desire to change or modify the world we live in implies acceptance, since the world is a world of change. Rejection of modernization may, therefore, lead to a sense of the world as unreal and meaningless, and this, in turn, to a breakdown, either individual or social.

66． The author believes that today people are often assessed by their______.
67． People cannot escape, and never have been able to escape, ______.
68． According to the author, modernization is a process that______.
69． What does the passage say about the Industrial Revolution? ______.
A．Unlike other revolutions, it was an event without a fairly clear end.
B．Unlike other revolutions, it did not bring about major social changes.
C．It was not a revolution in the true sense of the word.
D．Its influence was limited to industry and economy.
70． With little change of meaning, the phrase, as yet, in Line 7, Paragraph 2, could be replaced by______.
A．Therefore B．However C．Already D．Still

Section D
Although few would deny that it's better to be rich than poor, for some people the quest for money is so all-consuming that it extinguishes all other aspects of life.
The cause of the compulsion to make enormous sums of money varies with the individual, but often money is a substitute for something a person's life lacks.(74)To some, money means security. To some, it means power. To others it means they are going to be able to buy love, and to a fourth group it means competition and winning the game. The belief that money can produce these things often leads to insomnia, heart attacks and problems with a spouse or children.
A tremendous need for power is invariably the bottom line for those driven to make a lot of money. The bigger the pile, the more powerful they think they will feel. Parents and family background also influence a person's pursuit of money. Many people who grew up poor and then made a fortune live in fear that they will lose it. Others strive for money to compete with their wealthy, successful parents. They want to be successful at any price. They do not feel they should enjoy what they have earned.
(75)Making money for its own sake can be addicting like high-stakes gambling. Some very wealthy people work so many hours, so hard and at such an intense pace that they totally neglect themselves. They don't eat right. They don't sleep right. They just act as if they were poor, as if they were struggl