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2023-2023学年度 《高级时事英语》模拟试题

2015 年5月28日
试卷代号：1015

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English in Current Affairs

This is the written examination which is part of the end-of-course assessment. The total marks for this examination are 100 points. The examination consists of two parts: Part 1. Language Test , Part 2. Reading and Short Sentence Writing. Time allowed for completing this examination is 1hours (60 mins).

Instructions：
Answer all questions．
You will have ten minutes at the end of the listening test to transfer your answers to the answer sheet．
All answers must be transferred to the answer sheet．

Part 1 Questions 1－10． Choose the best answer from the possible answers given according to the information in the sentences．Look through the sentences before you begin to choose．(40 points)

1. When a person is incensed, it means he is _______.
A. angry
B. active
C. hungry
D. sensitive
2. A satellite dish is ________ for receiving sound and image.
A. hammer
B. a device
C. DIY tool
D. water pipe
3. Writhing means ________.

A. twisting and turning the body
B. becoming cold
C. longing for something
D. handshaking
4. Magistrates are ________.

A. musicians who combines the pursuit of a business career with the composition of music
B. writers who makes a career in writing
C. officials who judge whether people in court are innocent or guilty
D. policemen who work for security of the public

5. Assumed means_______.
A. summarized
B. expected
C. met up with
D. thought.
6 A client is someone _______.
A. who is claimed to represent every minority group in the city
B. who is being represented by a professional person
C. who studies at college
D. who is supposed to be a candidate
7. Wrath is ______.
A. satisfaction
B. anger
C. gratitude
D. proposal
8. To take measure means ______.
A. to modify
B. to take action
C. to watch
D. to simulate
9. Given an absolute discharge means ________.
A. allowed to go free
B. allowed to serve
C. allowed to cut
D. moving in an excited way
10. A pornography is_________.
A. magazines, films, etc. about sex
B. a drama film
C. a news report
D. a carton film

Part 2: READING AND WRITING
Directions

·There are two passages to the reading test.

·You should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do the tasks.

Read passage 1 and answer Questions 11-20

Passage 1
Gunman Wounds Fives in Pittsburgh Suburb
WILKINSBURG, Pa. ( Reuters, Wednesday March 1 1:58 PM ET) - A gunman wounded up to five people in a Pittsburgh suburb on Wednesday, police said, the day after a 6-year-old boy shot and killed a classmate in an incident that stunned America.

Television networks reported the gunman was held up in a nearby building and could be holding five hostages.
"We do have four of the victims. They are all listed in critical condition right now." an official at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center told CNN television. A fifth person was also in critical condition at another hospital.
Pittsburgh police said the gunman shot three people in a McDonald’s restaurant in Wilkinsburg, then went to a Burge King next door and shot one more person. It was not clear where the fifth person was shot.
A woman who lived nearby told CNN an armed man walked into her apartment before the shooting took place and told her: "I’ll be dead in ten minutes."
"He said, "Well, I’m not gonna hurt any black people, I’m gonna kill all white people," she said. He then left the apartment, she added.
Police said there were SWT teams and negotiators in the area where buildings were being evacuated.
It was not clear what provoked the attack and details of the incident were sketchy.
An FBI agent told CNN: " Right now it’s a rapidly evolving situation. We have personnel on the scene from a number of agencies."
The incident was the latest in s string of shootings to jolt the United States.
The killing of the 6-year-old at an elementary school in Michigan on Tuesday prompted President Clinton to appeal to the American electorate to make tighter gun control laws an issue of the 2023 presidential election.
Vice President Al Gore ( news - web sites ), declaring " enough is enough," cited the death of the first grader in blasting the pro-gun lobby for blocking enactment of " common sense" gun controls.
"It is time to get guns out of the hands of those who should not have them - the criminals, the students, the children." Gore said as he campaigned in California, which holds its presidential primary next Tuesday.

Find out whether the following statements are True or False according to the text. Write T for True, and F for False in the spaces provided on your answer sheet.

11.The story is about a 6-year-old boy shooting five people in a Pittsburgh suburb.
12.The Vice President of the US does not want the criminals to have guns, and he does not want the students to have them, either.
13. President Clinton is campaigning in California.
14. There is no gun control law in the US.
15. Four of the five people who had been wounded died in hospital
16. An FBI agent said that the gunman had been arrested.
17. The gunman shot four people in two restaurants and then he shot a student in an elementary school.
18. A woman who witnessed the shooting said that the gunman would commit suicide.
19. The woman also mentioned that the gunman said that he would kill all white people.
20. TH woman was one of the five hostages who were rescued by the police.

Read Passage 2 and answer Questions 21-30.
Passage 2
Dressed for Success
What started out as a simple salad dressing in Europe has tickled the taste buds so wildly in Japan that it now has its own "Olympics".
More than 1,000 people entered the Mayolympics with their original recipes for using mayonnaise, which is eaten more by the Japanese than anywhere else in the world outside the United States. One hundred finalists were selected to present their creations to a paned of cooking school teachers, head chefs, and food company bosses.
The winner was a 21-year-old confectioner who blended mayonnaise with sweetened white lotus bean paste and spread it between two small pancakes to make a sweet mayo burger.
Until the 1980s, mayonnaise was just something to add to the salad. But then come the mayonnaise sushi boom with creations such as the California salad roll. That mayonnaise compliments soy sauce made it appear in many other Japanese dishes such as cold noodles, stir-fry dishes and as a dip for dried squid.
The average Japanese devours 1.8kg of mayonnaise a year. Instead of tomato sauce, there is a mayonnaise-based pizza. The best-selling convenience store bread is mayonnaise and corn flavored. Some people flavor their pancakes, custard puddings and chocolate chip cookies with mayonnaise. The cult followers of the condiment carry around "MY Mayo", their personal mini squirt bottle around everywhere they go.
Though not available on the market yet there are attempts to perfect the mayo pearl. A scientist in Fukui Prefecture has invented a method of using the glossiness of mayonnaise to put the sheen on a pearl. He puts household ingredients in an aquarium tank to recreate the environment of an oyster shell. Then he squirts in the mayo. Next he takes two tiny round balls and dips them into the swirling liquid. After five days, he has two shiny pearls. He sets it in an 18K gold ring and it looks like a marvelous replica although one pawnshop owner said that it was a bit too yellow.
Maybe a little less egg yolk would produce the next jewelry sensation.
Choose the best answer from the choices given (Write the letter representing your choice in the space provided on your Answer Sheet):
21. The story is about ______.
a) how Mayolympics is organized
b) How mayonnaise is used in Japan
c) Contrast between Japan and the US
22. Mayonnaise is _______.
a) an European invention
b) an American invention
23. Mayonnaise is eaten _______.
a) more by the Japanese than by the Americans
b) more by the Americans than by the Japanese
c) more by the Europeans than by the Japanese
24. Mayolympics is ______.
a) a sports event
b) a beauty contest
c) a creation contest
25 California salad roll is ______.
a) a Japanese dish
b) Western food
c) A kind of cold noodles
26 Mayonnaise is used ______.
a) to flavour bread
b) to flavour corn
c) to make a mixture with custard and chocolate
27. "My Mayo" is ______.
a) a cult follower
b) a cult leader
c) carried around by many Mayonnaise-lovers
28. Mayonnaise is also used ______.
a) to decorate aquarium tanks
b) for environmental purposes
c) for its glossiness
29. Mayo pearl was invented ______.
a) by a scientist named Fukui
b) by a pawnshop owner
c) by someone in Fukui Prefecture
30. Mayo pearl will be _____ once the color problem is solved.
a) massively produced
b) available on the market
c) an even better replica

英语课程《高级时事英语》模拟试卷

答案及评分原则

Part 1. One point for each correct answer Total=40 points

1. A 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. B 9. A 10. A

Part 2 Reading Test . Three points for each correct answer Total=60 points
11 F
12 T
13 F
14 F
15 F
16 F
17 F
18 F
19 T
20 F
21 b.
22 a.
23 b
24 c
25 a.
26 a
27 c
29 c
30 c