全国英语等级考试二级模拟试题(二)c
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The relationship between the home and market economies has gone through two distinct stages. Early industrialization began the process of transferring some production processes (e.g. clothmaking, sewing and caning foods) from the home to the marketplace. Although the home economy could still produce these goods, the processes were laborious(费力的) and the market economy was usually more efficient.
Soon, the more important second stage was evident@the marketplace began producing goods and services that had never been produced by the home economy, and the home economy was unable to produce them (e.g. electricity and electrical appliances, the automobile, advanced education, sophisticated medical care). In the second stage, the question of whether the home economy was less efficient in producing these new goods and services was irrelevant; if the family were to enjoy these fruits of industrialization, they would have to be obtained in the marketplace. The traditional ways of taking care of these needs in the home, such as in nursing the sick, became socially unacceptable ( and, in most serious cases, probably less successful ).
Just as the appearance of the automobile made the use of the horse-drawn carriage illegal and then impractical, and the appearance of television changed the radio from a source of entertainment to a source of background music, so most of the fruits of economic growth did not increase the options available to the home economy to either produce the goods or services or purchase them in the market. Growth brought with it increased variety in consumer goods, but not increased flexibility for the home economy in obtaining these goods and services. Instead, economic growth brought with it increased consumer reliance on the marketplace. In order to consume these new goods and services, the family had to enter the marketplace as wage earners and consumers. The neoclassical (新古典主义的) model that views the family as deciding whether to produce goods and services directly or to purchase them in the marketplace is basically a model of the first stage. It cannot accurately be applied to the second (and current) stage.
68. The reason why many production processes were taken over by the marketplace was that
[ A ] it was a necessary step in the process of industrialization
[B] the available electricity they depended on was only to the market economy
[C] it was troublesome to produce such goods at home
[D] the marketplace was more efficient with respect to these processes
69. It can be seen from the passage that in the second stage ________.
[A] some traditional goods and services were not successful when provided by the home economy
[B] the market economy provided new goods and services never produced by the home economy
[C] producing traditional goods at home became socially unacceptable
[D] whether new goods and services were produced by the home economy became irrelevant
70. During the second stage, if the family wanted to consume new goods and services, they had to enter the marketplace _________ .
[A] as wage earners
[B] both as manufacturers and consumers
[C] both as workers and purchasers
[D] as customers
71.Economic growth did not make it more flexible for the home economy to obtain the new goods
and services because _________.
[Aj the family was not efficient in production
[B] it was illegal for the home economy to produce them
[G] it could not supply them by itself
[D] the market for these goods and services was limited
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The earthworm is a useful animal out of the ground. It is food for other animals. In the ground,it makes rich soil for fields and gardens. Earthworms dig tunnels that loosen the soil and make it easy for air and water to reach the roots of plants. Their tunnels help the soil well drained.
Earthworms drag dead leaves, grass, and flowers into their caves. When this plant material decays,it makes the soil more fertile.
No other animals are so useful in building up good topsoil. It is estimated (估计) that in one year fifty thousand earthworms cany about eighteen tons of fine soil to the surface of an acre ( 公亩) of land.
72.The best title for the passage is _________.
[A] Working Underground
[B] Earthworm and land
[C] Fertilizing the Soil
[D] How Earthworms Improve the Soil
73.The plant carried underground by earthworms makes soil_____.
[A] well drained
[B] richer
[C] easier to plough
[D] uneven
74.The earthworm helps to _____by digging tunnels.
[A] destroy weeds
[B] pack earth tightly around plant roots
[C] carry water and air to the roots of plants
[D] both Band c
75.The word "drag"means_____.
[A] force
[B] lead
[C] pull
[D] drop
第四部分 写作
第一节 短文改错
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上面一个勾(/);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正。
多一个词:把多余的词用斜线()划掉,在该行石边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
锗一个词:在铺的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没有错的不要改。
Many people make their living with their
hands. Ed makes his living with his feet. He
plays soccer on the Santors team. He is thought 76._________
as the best player in the world. He can make the 77._________
ball to do anything he wants , people said. He 78._________
can kick it by his right foot or his left foot. 79._________
Or he can kick it one side or the other, 80._________
wherever he wants it to go to. These words are right.
Ed is making a lot of money. But he doesn't
spend it all in himself. He uses most of it 82._________
to help poor people. Years before, he gave his 83._________
family a new house. He also bought many houses
that he let the poor live for free. 84._________
He said, "I can always have friend though 85._________
I can ' t be the King of soccer always. "
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1、词数100词左右;
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