北京外国语大学网校专升本英语试题(2)

There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the _________ (7) that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.

__________(8) feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house

and put away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I heard the cry of ―Help! Help!‖ This time from

right __________(9) my shoulder. I

dropped my book and

__________(10). There, sitting on

top of the radio set, was a parrot!

A. decision B.

(7) suggestion

C. explanation

D. conclusion

A. Even B. Just

(8) C. Still D. Though

A. before B. under (9)

C. beside D. behind

A. cried for B. came (10) out C. jumped up

D.

pointed to

阅读理解Dr. Haydon asked Dr. Eyck to come One night about nine o’clock, (1)

to Clens Falls because________.

Dr. Eyck, a surgeon (外科医生), had a phone call from Dr. Haydon

A. the boy wounded by a

at the hospital in Clens Falls. shot was Dr. Eyck’ patient The surgeon was asked to go there

B. the boy needed his help at once to operate on a very sick boy who shot himself while playing with a gun.

The doctor was soon on his way to Clens Falls. It was 60 miles away. And it was snowing heavily

in the city. The surgeon thought he could get there before 12

o’clock. A few minutes later, the doctor was stopped by a man in an old black coat. Gun in hand, the man ordered the doctor

to get out. Then the man drove the car down the road, leaving

the doctor in the falling snow.

It was after two o’clock in the

morning when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Clens Falls.

Dr. Haydon told him that the boy

had died an hour before. The two doctors walked by the

door of the hospital waiting

room. There sat the man in the

old black coat with his head in his hands.

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C. Dr. Haydon was not a surgeon

D. Dr. Eyck was his assistant

The surgeon was late because________.

A. he was stopped by a beggar

B. the weather was rather terrible

C. Clens Falls was far away from Albany D. His car was taken away Choose the right order of the

events given in the story. a. Dr. Eyck was asked to come to the hospital in Clens Falls.

b. Dr. Eyck arrived at the

hospital.

c. The boy shot himself.

d. The boy died. e. The man in an old coat reached the hospital.

f. Dr. Eyck was robbed (抢劫) of

his car. A. c, e, f, a, b, d (2)

(3)

Haydon to the man, \ Eyck. He is the surgeon who came

B. a, c, f, d, b, e C. c, a, f, e, d, b D. a, c, f, e, d, b

all the way from Albany to save your boy.\

(4) The boy died because________. A. he was too far away from

hospital B. Dr. Haydon didn’t do

anything to save him C. Dr. Eyck was not able to

arrive at the hospital in time

D. Dr. Haydon was not able

to arrive at the hospital in time

Who should be responsible for the (5)

boy’s death?

A. The boy’s father. B. The hospital. C. Dr. Eyck. D. Dr. Haydon

Every mom and dad can tell you “Stave off” in Paragraph 1 is

(1) closest in meaning to

that keeping children busy helps

__________.

stave off cries of boredom –

now there is scientific backing A. prevent to prove it. Dr. Anthony Chaston has proven that time really does fly when you’re having fun. Or, B. encourage C. support at least, it flies when your attention is engaged.

Working in the University of Alberta, Chaston devised a test that required subjects to find specific items in various images. However, before the

subjects started the test, they were told that once they had completed it they would be asked

to estimate how much time had

passed during their test.

There were seven levels of

difficulty among the tests. In some cases, the items were easy

to find because they were of different colors. In the more difficult tests, the items were placed among many similar looking items, or they didn’t even exist in the image. “The

harder the search tasks were, the smaller the estimates became,” said Chaston.

There are two kinds of time estimations, Chaston added, and

D. worsen

The second paragraph is centered on __________.

A. the difficulty of the test

B. the procedure of the test C. Dr. Chaston’s expected result

D. Dr. Chaston’s theory Dr. Chaston’s tests show that __________.

A. the easier task needs less time to make the estimation

B. the harder task needs less time to make the estimation

C. the easier task

results in less correct time

estimation

D. the harder task

results in less correct time

estimation

The major difference between

(2)

(3)

(4) there’s generally a big difference between the two. There’s prospective time estimation, which means the estimator knows in advance that

prospective and retrospective time estimation lies in __________.

A. different test results

B. different groups of he or she will be asked to make

an estimate after a task is completed. Then there’s retrospective, which means someone has been asked to provide a time estimate after the task has been completed.

Chaston said, “In our society, we’re pretty good with

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