2023年公共英语二级考试模拟试题二含答案分析.doc

全国公共英语二级考试模拟试题二（含答案分析）

第二部分：英语知识运用
第一节：单项选择
从A、 B、 C、 D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处 最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑．
1. Usually, _______ care for children's ______.
A. woman writers... lives B. women writer. life
C. women writers ... life D. women writer ... lives
2. ________ you are free, why not go skating with us?
A. Because B. Since C. As D. For
3. Great men never give up ______ difficulty.
A. in a face of B. in face of the C. in the face of D. in
the face of the
4. ----- _____ is the engineer's husband ?
----- The neighbor of your brother in the corner.
A. Who B. What C. How D. Which
5. There are ______ custom tailors and dressmakers in the U.
S. than in European countries.
A. far fewer B. so fewer C. very fewer D. too fewer

6. A fireman discovered the __________ of the fire.
A. truth B.. reason C. cause D. fact
7. That young man has made so much noise that he ___ not have
been allowed attend the concert.
A. could B. must C. wouldD. should
8. "Would you like some more noodles ?"
"'No, thanks. I ________________."
A. don't want to B. can't eat C.. am not hungry D. I'm full
9.You may write to me or come to see me. ____________ way will
do
A. All B. Both C OneD. Either
10. That was the first time I _______________ England's coast
A. left B. had left C. would leave D. has left
11. Whenever I met him, _____________ was fairly frequent,
___________ I liked his sweet and hopeful smile.
A. which ...不填 B that ... that C. it ... that D. what ... 不填
12.I don't know what illness he suffered from, but I do
remember he mentioned ___ in hospital last year.
A. to have been B . to be C. having been D. being
13. Entering the room, I found my father __ at the desk and
___ something .
A. seat... write B. seated ... wrote C. seated ... writing D.
seating ... writing
14. ____ they will send us an invitation is not yet known,
__we hope they sill.
A. If... write B. That so C. When ... yet D. Whether ... but
15. Nancy isn't here. It's my mistake. I forgot all about____
her.
A. telephoning B. to telephone C. to telephone to D. the
telephone to
第二节：完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题 四个选项（A、 B、 C、 D中选出能填入对应空白处 最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑．
"Cool" is a word with many meanings. It s traditional meaning
is used to 16 a temperature that is fairly cold. As the world
has 17 , however, the word has expanded to 18 many different
meanings.
"Cool" can be used to express feelings of 19 in almost
anything.
When you see a brandname car in the street, maybe you can't
help 20 , "It's cool." You might think, "He's so cool," when
you see your 21 footballer.
We all enlarge the meaning of "cool". You can use it 22 many
words such as "new" or "amazing." Here's an interesting story
we can see 23 illustrate the usage of the word: A teacher
asked her students to 24 the waterfall they had visited. On
one student’s paper was just the one 25 , "It's so cool." 26
he thought it was 27 to describe 28 he saw and felt.
29 the story also proves the shortage of words and
expressions. 30 "cool," some people have no words to express
the same meaning. So it is 31 to improve our word strength to
maintain some 32 .
As a popular word, "cool" stands for a kind of special 33 that
people can accept easily. Excepting "cool," can you think of
many words that 34 your life as colorful? I can. And I think
they are also very 35 .
16. A. find B. takeC. show D. make sure
17. A. changed B. been developed C. been cleaned D. informed
18. A. turn out B. take on C. take inD. come into
19. A. satisfaction B. interestC. senseD. interesting
20. A. to sayB. tellingC. shoutD. saying
21. A. famousB. out of date C. favourite D. modern
22. A. in stead of B. in place of C. to take place of D.
exchange
23. A. is used to B. showing C. used to D. explaining
24. A. write for B. copy down C. describe D. say something
25. A. phraseB. wordC. storyD. sentence
26. A. However B. May be C. As far as D. Perhaps
27. A. The just thing B. the very mean C. some methods D. the
best way
28. A. the means B. whatC. howD. wherever
29. A. AndB. If C. SoD. But
30. A. WithoutB. UsingC. Not being used D. With
31. A. important B. necessary C. impossible D. natural
32. A. trueB. beliefC. richness D. interest
33. A. habitB. cultureC. language D. enjoyment
34. A. put B. change C. betterD. make
35. A. coolB. easyC. difficult D. important
第三部分：阅读理解
阅读下列短文,从每题所给 四个选项（A、 B、 C和D）中,选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A Reading is not the only way to gain knowledge of the work in
the past. There is another large reservoir (知识库) which may be
called experience, and the college student will find that

every craftsman (工匠) has something he can teach and will
generally teach gladly to any college student who does not
look down upon them . The information from them differs from
(不一样于) that in textbooks and papers chiefly in that its
theoretical (理论 ) part -- the explanations of why things
happen -- is frequently quite fantastic (神奇 ) . But the
demonstration (示范) and report of what happens , and how it
happens are correct even if the reports are in completely
unscientific terms (术语). Presently the college student will
learn, in this case also, what to accept and what to reject.
One important thing for a college student to remember is that
if Aristotle could talk to the fisherman, so can he.
Another source of knowledge is the vast store of traditional
(老式 ) practices handed down from father to son , or mother to
daughter, of old country customs (习惯), of folklore (风俗). All
this is very difficult for a college student to examine, for
much knowledge and personal experience is needed here to
separate good plants from wild grass. The college student
should learn to realize and remember how much of real value
science has found in this wide, confused wilderness and how
often scientific discoveries of what had existed in this area
long age.
36.In the last paragraph the phrase "this wide, confused
wilderness" refers to _____.
A. personal experience B. wild weeds among good plants
C. the information from the parentsD. the vast store of
traditional practices
37. Which of the following statements is supported by the
passage?
A. The college students have trouble separating good plants
from wild grass
B. Craftsman's experience is usually unscientific
C. The contemptuous (傲慢 ) college students will receive
nothing from craftsmen
D. Traditional practices are as important as experience for
the college student
38. From this passage we can infer that ______.
A. we'll invite the craftsman to teach in the college
B. schools and books are not the only way to knowledge
C. scientific discoveries late based on personal experience
D. discoveries and rediscoveries are the most important source
of knowledge for a
college student
39. The author advises the college student to ______ .
A. be contemptuous to the craftsman
B. be patient in helping the craftsman with scientific terms
C. learn the craftsman's experience by judging it carefully
D. gain the craftsman's experience without rejection
40. The main idea of this passage is about ________.
A . what to learn from the parents B. how to gain knowledge
C. why to learn from craftsman D. how to deal with experience
B
Water, water every where.
It lasted almost two months , but in August it ended. It left
45 people dead and $10 billion worth of damage in nine states
of USA. It was quite a big Mississippi flood ever recorded.
In St.Louis, Missouri, 9,000 people were forced to leave their
homes while the city was in danger. St. Louis is just
downriver from the points where the Missouri and Illinois
Rivers flow into the Mississippi. All three rivers were
flooding. But the city escaped the worst when levees (堤) broke
upriver. A levee is built of river sand and clay(粘土).
Eleven miles of flood walls were built in the late 1960's The
walls are 18 inches thick and 5 to 22 feet high. They were
designed to protect against a 52-foot flood. In St. Louis,
water almost reached the top of flood walls. It measured 49.4
feet.
41.The flood referred to in the passage _____.
A. was the heaviest one in the history B. happened in Missouri
and Illinois states
C. happened in less than twenty percent of the states of
U.S.A.
D. was recorded several times
42. The meaning of the sentence "But the city escaped the
worst" is that _____.
A. many people escaped from the city B. the flood attacked the
city heavily
C. the flood did not attack the city at all D. the city
avoided the worst situation
43. The highest flood referred to in the passage was about
______.
A. 18 feet high B. 5-22 feet high C. nearly 50 feet high D. 52
feet high
C
In hopes of becoming millionaires, many Filipinos (菲律宾人) began
drinking more Pepsi. They hoped to get a bottle cap with the
winning number on it. In May 1992, the number was announced:
349. Thousands rushed to get their reward with their bottle
caps worth a million pesos (about US $ 40,000) each.
But Pepsi wouldn't pay. The company said there was a mistake.
The numbers on the caps did not include a security code (保险号),
so the caps were not really winners. Up to 800,000 bottle caps
had the number 349.
Pepsi has spent millions of dollars on the problem. The
company has paid 54 million pesos to real winners. It also
paid 500 pesos for each No.349 cap without the security code.
44. Which of the following is not true?
A. All those who got the number of 349 got some money
B. All those who got the number of 349 didn't get the same
amount of money
C. None of those who get the number of 349 wasn't rewarded
D. The company made a mistake so as to sell more pepsi
45. From the passage we can guess that peso is _________.
A. the name of a person B. a kind of drink
C. the name of a company D. none of the above
D
In Cardiff I was put to work in furniture department at one of
the local stores. It was large, fairly out of date, run ( 经营
), like its parent company in London, by a group of relatives.
Being only a member of the store for a short time, I was in a
very fortunate position. The others, particularly the older
members of the store, were naturally asked to produce good
sales figures. I was more of an observer. If I made a sale, I
was pleased, but if I didn't, I would not be blamed. I was
really there to observe and learn, and as I had no interest in
making a position in the furniture business, I wasn't too
diligent (勤奋) about that either.
One salesman in late middle age once expressed his insecurity
(不安全感) by scolding me of trying to steal one of his customers
(雇客). Nothing could have been further from the truth, but he
demanded that I go to the stockroom (货仓) with