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考博英语模拟试题

Part I Cloze (0. 5 x 20 = 10%)

Directions:In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

The most famous painter in Victoria's history is Emily Carr. When she was a child，she discoveredthatwalking in the woods 1 more to her than playing with other children, and that she was more interested in 2 the streets of old Victoria than playing at home with 3 and spending her time making up.

Emily was a cute little girl who spent 4 of her childhood in Beacon HillPark 5 was very close to her home. Drawing 6 her, and she also liked to play with the pets. She had ducks and chickens, and even 7 a monkey. She was 8 interested in the First Nations people and the Chinese people she saw inVictoria's Chinatown. Their culture and way of dressing seemed so 9 from her own.

As she became a young, strong and 10 woman, Emily began to go on long trips into the forests to11 and draw what she saw. She loved the free and simple 12 of the First Nations people. In the summer of 1895 she went on 13 with two other women to 14 the wilderness along the Cowichan Riverthat runs through Duncan, 15 north of Victoria. She knew more about their lifestyle and the forests of B. C. than 16 other Europeanwoman.Whenyou look at her paintingsyou can sense the 17 of these darkmysterious forests. Her paintingsare nowvery famous and, 18 the dark colors may not be attractive to some people, they19the beauty andmystery of the deep woods and the skill of a great artist. Emily was a very brave and independentwoman. She walked through the woods alone, even though she knew that bears and wolves might be her only 20 1. A. attracted B. appealed C. allured D. induced 2. A. dashing B. strolling C. jogging D. roaming 3. A. friends B. mates C. dolls D. parents 4. A. much B. lots C. more D. many 5. A. where B. which C. since D. it

6. A. fascinated B. bewildered C. captured D. indulged 7. A. fed B. domesticated C. trained D. confined 8. A.particularly B.almost C. constantly D. intrinsically 9. A. diverse B.various C. distinct D.outstanding 10. A. special B. independent C. lonely D. unaided 11. A. paint B. record C. describe D. take 12. A. society B. work C. lifestyle D. pace

13. A. an adventure B. an exploitation C. a tour D. an expedition 14. A. check B. explore C. examine D. search 15. A. only B. just C. much D. in 16. A. any B. some C. certain D. none

17. A. mood B. tone C. taste D. atmosphere I8. A. if B. otherwise C. though D. but 19. A. evoke B. arouse C. remind D. raise 20. A.enemies B. foods C. companions D. friends

Ⅱ. Reading comprehension (20 x 2 = 40% )

Directions: There are four passages in this part. After each passage, there are five questions,you are to choosethe best answer for each question. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

Passage One

Fast food, a mainstay of American eating for decades, may have reached a plateau in the United States asthe maturing baby-boom generation looks for a more varied menu. Fast food still represents a $ 102 billion ayear industry,but growth has turned sluggish recently amid tough competition from retail food stores and amore affluent population willing to try new things and spend more, analysts say. Signs of trouble in fast foodinclude price-cutting by industry leaders,including efforts by McDonald's to attract customers with a 55 centhamburger, and major players pulling out or selling. O'Pepsico, for example,is selling its fast-food restaurantdivision that includes Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.

\becoming harder and harder for these firms to grow,\said Jim Brown, a professor of marketing at Virginia Tech University. \think in the United States fast food has reached a saturation (饱和) point because of the number of competitors and the number of outlets.\

Fast-food restaurant revenues grew 2. 5 percent in 1996 according to industry figures, the slowest since the recession of 1991. That is for cry from (大不相同于) the levels of the 1970s and 1980s. According to the Food Marketing Institute, consumers are using supermarkets for 21 percent of take-home food, nearlydouble the level of a year ago. While fast-food restaurants still lead, their share slipped significantly, from 48percent in 1996 to 41 percent in 1997.

\senior vicepresident of the Supermarket Trade Group. \an issue.-, but theirtastes are increasingly diverse -- whether it's gourmet foods,ethnic foods or organic offerings.\

Meanwhile, the aging of the baby-boom population -- and the growth in the number of so-called \nesters\with grown children -- has meant a surge in the number of people willing to spend more for upscale items. This generation \have the luxury of being more discriminating\as their children leavehome, notes Harry Balzer, vice president of the Chicago-based NPD consulting group. Balzer said some 18million baby boomers will become empty-nesters in the next 10 years, leaving them with more disposable income to spend on dining out. \and cheap will still be driving factors.., but our definitions of fast andcheap may be changing.\

Various reports suggest industry leader McDonald's is struggling, losing market share, with lower same-store sales while cutting back the number of new outlets in the United States, partly due to pressure from franchisers who don't want to be squeezed. The company replaced the head of its 12,000 US restaurant chain lastOctober amid a slump in US market share. 21. What does the passage mainly tell about?

A. Fast food disappoints consumers. B. People prefer less expensive food. C. McDonald's dominates the market of fast food. D. Fast food is losing its attraction. 22. What can we learn from the passage? A. O'Pepsico goes bankrupt.

B. The number of supermarkets doubles.

C. Jim Brown takes a negative attitude towards the development of fast food.

D. McDonald's survives from the competition with retail food stores. 23. What is NOT true about baby-boom generation? A. They seek a variety of food. B. They have come of age.

C. They will spend more money on food. D. They tend to have luxurious food.

24. Which of the following is not mentioned as an influence on people's choices of food? A. Speed and price of the food. B. Diversity of the food. C. Tastes of the consumers. D. Age of the consumers. 25. What brings trouble to fast food industry?

A. Customers' demand and competition with retailers. B. The aging baby-boomer and diversity of food. C. Competition with retailers and diversity of food. D. Customers' demand and the aging of baby-boomer.

Passage Two

Parents of wailing (哀号) babies, take comfort: You are not alone. Chimpanzee babies fuss. Sea gull chicks squawk. Burying beetle larvae tap their parents' legs. Throughout the animal kingdom, babies knowhow to get their parents' attention. Exactly why evolution has produced all this fussing, squawking and tapping is a question many biologists are trying to answer.

Someday, that answer may shed some light on the mystery of crying in human babies. \may point researchers in the right direction to find the cause of excessive crying,\said Joseph Soltis,a bioacoustics expert at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista. Florida. Soltis published an article on the evolution ofcrying in the current issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Young animals vary in how much they cry, squawk or otherwise communicate with their parents, andstudies with mice,beetles and monkeys show that this variation is partly based on genes. Some level of cryingin humans, of course, is based on gas pains and messy diapers. But as for the genetic contribution, you mightexpect that natural selection would favor genes for noisier children, since they would get more attention.

Before long, however, this sort of deception may be ruinous. If the signals of offspring became totallyunreliable, parents would no longer benefit from paying attention. Some evolutionary biologists have proposed that natural selection should therefore favor so-called honest advertisements. Some biologists have speculatedthat these honest advertisements may not just tell a parent which offspring are hungry. They might also showtheir parent that they are healthy and vigorous and therefore worth some extra investment. The babies of monkeys cry out to their mothers and tend to cry even more around the time their mothers wean (断奶) them. The mothers, in response, begin to ignore most of their babies' distress calls, since most turn out to befalse alarms.

\the University of Chicago. \as the cries increase, they respond less and less. They become more skeptical.Soinfants start cryingless. So they go through these cycles, adjusting their responses.\

Kim Bard, a primatologist at the University of Plymouth in England, has spent more than a decade observing chimpanzee babies. \can cry for a long time if something terrible is