公共英语考试

【单选题】We should try our best to preserve our natural land so that future generations may also truly immerse themselves（）the experience of its natural beauty.
A、 on
B、 at
C、 for
D、 in

【分析解答题】In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance(文艺复兴), Venice was a major center for commerce and trade, and became an extremely wealthy European city.

【单选题】Until last summer I had a very comfortable life: winter vacations skiing and summer cruises. My parents spent a lot of money on a private school, so they could get me into a competitive middle school. Everything was about tomorrow, next year, my graduation. We never had to worry about today.  
     Before last summer I never thought much about the people in the world who live day to day, every day, whose lives are controlled by poverty and hunger. Then I enrolled in a two-week intensive program. We lived in a Tribal Village, in a hot, dry open grassland in Arkansas, a state of the south-central United States. I am a tribal member in Mozambique, a country of southeast AfricA. Every meal, I make the fire for my family, and feel the flames lick up my nostrils as I blow to keep the fuel alivE. I cook mush with vegetables. This is all my family is ever given. I feed the hen and three rabbits their dinner. I grow attached to the rabbits, even though I know I shouldn’t. I name them. I”m not getting enough to eat; its time to decide whether or not to kill the rabbits. I feel pain to kill them but it’s a privileged pain because I know I will soon be eating the meat again. That’s not true for a lot of other children around the worlD. Growing up comfortably in the U.S., I’ve never had to worry about my dinner, and even though this whole process was only a simulation, it changed my lifE. Now I believe in doing whatever I can to help find practical ways to defeat hunger. 
      So I’ve become president of Roots and Shoots, a group working to improve local environments for people and animals. I’m also working to create a program at my high school called the Safe Passage trip to help young people in the Guatemala City dump. And I’ve got plans to do morE. I'm often thinking of laboring in the hot sun and the millions who still do. Now, I try to live for today and stop worrying so much about the futurE. When I eat or feel full, I am grateful for this fortunate life and want to extend the same feeling to others.
    I believe in offering help to those who need it.
(1)What is true about the author before last summer?（）
A、 Her life was under great pressurE.
B、 Her life was well-planneD.
C、 She was upset about her futurE.
D、 She had to worry about her dinner.
(2)We can learn from the second paragraph that（）.  
A、 the author raised some rabbits as pets   
B、 the author took part in a two-week program in Africa
C、 the author had a very difficult life in the Tribal Village
D、 the author never thought about poor people after the program
(3)The author feels pain because（）.                   
A、 she is a privileged child  
B、 she is not getting enough to eat
C、 she doesn’t want to kill the rabbits
D、 she can’t go back to her regular life
(4)What does the underlined word “simulation” in the fourth paragraph probably mean?（）
A、 Reality 
B、 Experience
C、 Imagination
D、 Imitation
(5)What influence did the author’s experience in the “Tribal Village” have on her?（）
 
A、 It gave birth to a belief in helping others.
B、 It taught her to be grateful to her parents.
C、 It has made her life more comfortablE.
D、 It inspired her to start two groups to help others.

【分析解答题】每个中国人都是中国梦的参与者和创造者。

【分析解答题】自古以来，茶就被誉为中华民族的的“国饮”。

【填空题】Mr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy with driving and dealing with other things but he was paid much. Considering her husband’s hard work, his wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came back, she took good care of him and he never did anything at homE. So he had enough time when he had a holiday. A few friends of his liked gambling and he learned it soon. So he was interested in it and hardly forgot anything except gambling. He lost all his money and later he began to sell the television, watches and so on. His wife told him not to do it but he didn’t listen to her. She had to tell the policE. He and his friends were punished for it. And he was hardly sent away. After he came out of lockup, he hated her very much and the woman had to leave him.
It was New Years Day. Mr. Lang didn't go to work. He felt lonely and wanted to gamble again. He called his friends and they came soon. But they were afraid the police would comE. He told his five-year-old son to go to find out if there were the policemen outsidE. They waited for a long time and didn't think the police would come and began to gamblE. Suddenly opened the door and in came a few policemen.
“I saw there weren't any policemen outside, daddy”, said the boy, “so I went to the crossing and asked some to comE.”
(1)Mr. Lang was paid much because（）.
A、 he was a driver
B、 he worked in a factory
C、 he had a lot of work to do
D、 he had worked there for a long time
(2)Mrs. Lang did all housework because( ).
A、 she couldn't find any work
B、 she thought her husband was tired
C、 her husband spent all time in gambling
D、 she wouldn't stop her husband gambling
(3)（）, so he was put into lockup.
A、 Mr. Lang often gambled
B、 Mr. Lang was late for work
C、 Mr. Lang didn't help his wife at home
D、 Mr. Lang wasn't polite to the police
(4)The woman had to leave Mr. Lang because ( ).
A、 he didn't love her any longer for she told the police his gambling behaviors
B、 he hated gambling and didn’t want to touch it
C、 he had been put into lockup again
D、 he was hardly sent away by the factory and became very poor
(5)Which of the following is right? （）
A、 The boy hoped his father to be put into lockup again.
B、 The boy thought his father needed some policemen.
C、 The boy hoped his father to stop gambling soon.
D、 The boy hoped his mother to come back.

【分析解答题】But not everybody thinks the American Dream is a positive thing.

【分析解答题】如今，很多年轻人不再选择 “稳定”的工作，他们更愿意自主创业。

【分析解答题】水墨画(ink and wash painting)是中国独具特色的传统艺术形式之一，是中国国画（Chinese painting）的代表。

【分析解答题】中国是茶的故乡，也是茶文化的发源地。