大学英语

《大学英语》专升本

单选题

1. The river ________ to the east. It is the second longest river in the country.A.runs

2. Look! The boy ________ a model ship and he ________ it in the lake now.B.has made; is sailing

3. Be quiet! They ________ a meeting in the next room.A.are having

4. When Jack arrived, he learned Mary ________ for almost an hour.D.had been away

5. When did you see her? What ________ then?A.was she doing

6. Since the road is wet, ________last night.A.it must have rained

7. I ________ help. I can do it myself.B.don’t need

8. Mr. Baker, a dozen students want to see you. ________ they wait here or outside?C.Shall

9. I’ve come to ask him for the book. That’s why I ________ wait until he comes back.D.have to

10. “Must we start the experiment now?” “No, you________.”B.needn’t

11. The medicine________ cool, clean and dry.B.must be kept

12. The song ________ by children.A.is often sung

13. My sister ________ by Grandma while my parents are away.C.will be taken care of

14. Electricity ________ by the Greeks a good many years ago.B.was first discovered

15. Great changes ________ in China since 1978. C.have taken place

16. This piece of ________ is long enough for you to make a shirt.A.cloth

17. Joan is ________ sister. D.Mary and Jack’s

18. Yesterday we had ________ talk.C.an hour and a half’s

19. There are ten ________ in our school.D.women teachers

20. A group of ________will come to our school tomorrow.B.Germans

21. We’ll leave our school in________.B.two years and a half

22. English was taught at the beginning of ________ century in China.C.the nineteenth

23. Let’s go over________.C.the third lesson

24. We’ll take ________ trip to Hangzhou tomorrow.B.a two-day

25. Last Sunday my grandma had her ________ birthday.B.ninetieth

26. Girl students are much cleverer in our class than ________ in theirs.D.those

27. Do you have ________ to say at the meeting?A.anything important

28. This ladder is too long for this truck. We need ________ truck to carry it.C.a bigger

29. The flowers smell ________ and look________.A.good; beautiful

0. Lily can work out maths problems ________ than Liz.D.much more quickly

31. Will you have________ cup of tea?D.another

32. I don’t think there is ________ important in today’s paper.C.anything

33. I have four brothers. One is in Japan, ________are in Shanghai.D.the others

34. Some people like to stay at home on Sundays, but ________ like to go to the cinema.B.others

35. Tom and John have arrived, but ________ students in the class aren’t here yet.D.the other

36. He doesn’t think I will get good marks, ________?C.does he

37. “________ some hot coffee now?” C.Would you like

38. It is still early. Why not ________ for a while?D.play the piano

39. “Alice couldn’t answer the question, could she?” “________.”A.No, she couldn’t

40. “________have you visited the Great Wall?” “Twice.”C.How many times

41. Can you tell me ________ is the nearest way to the station?C.which

2. “Tom has lunch at 12 o’clock.” “________.”A.So do I

43. I hear Mary ________ back in two days.C.will come

44. He wanted to see the film very much, ________he couldn’t get a ticket.A.but

45. ________you don’t like him is none of my business.C.That

46. I’ll never forget the days ________ we stayed together.A.when

47. Are you the boy ________ bicycle was stolen? D.whose

48. Can you tell me the reason ________ his mother got so angry just now?D.why

49. The girl________ an English song in the next room is Tom’s sister.A.who is singing

50. I’ll tell you ________ he told me yesterday.D.all

51. Tom had finished his work ________ his wife came back.B.before

52. He ________to bed ________ he finished his work last night.D.didn’t go; till

53. It is five days ________ we came here.D.since

54. He told us ________ story that all of us were pleased to hear it.C.such an interesting

55. ________he was very tired, he still went on working hard.B.Though

56. Think it over and you will remember ________ the word.A.how to spell

57. Is this house large enough for us________?D.to live in

58. It’s too expensive ________ by plane. I’ll go by train instead.D.to travel

59. Our TV set doesn’t work. I think we’ll have it ________ tomorrow.D.being repaired

60. The workers were busy ________ new houses throughout the winter.C.building

61. The number of teachers ________ never under 100 in this school.A.is

62. All the information about our school ________ in the book.B.is

63. Neither my mother nor my father ________ Japanese.D.teaches

64. Half of the money ________ your brother.C.belongs to

65. ________a good thing that they didn’t come to the meeting.B.It’s

66. When we reached the office, the clock on the wall was ________eight.C.striking

67. You don’t look________; you’d better see a doctor.B.well

68. She sang ________ D.very well indeed

69. Do you________what I told you?A.accept

70. I________ my textbook at home. I had to go back for it.C.had left

71. They may ________ the books for about two weeks.C.keep

72. You couldn’t ________any secrets for an hour in that little town.A.keep

73. Will the________ of houses and land continue to increase?B.value

74. She stopped and________the price of the diamond necklace.A.asked

75. Look, how perfectly that tie________ his suit!C.matches

76. We stopped but couldn’t ________ anything.C.to listen; hear

77. The price of the camera is very________ A.low

78. The close ________ are not allowed to get married.C.relatives

79. His cold was growing ________B.worse

80. Necessity is the mother of ________C.invention

81. What was the________ of the fireA.cause

82. I was late for work this morning because I ________the first bus.A.missed

83. Human history is often compared________ a long river.B.to

84. The inspector advised the old lady not to stay ________ in the flat for a few nights.C.on her own

85. It’s no________that you failed in the exam. You’re always being so careless.A.wonder

86. These oil paintings are ________ found now, so they are of great value.A.rarely

87. I’m ________ a lot of experience in my job.B.gaining

88. I’m very busy, so I can’t ________ that problem with you for the moment.A.discuss

89. We’re planning to________ a garden party next Saturday night.C.celebrate

90. Minghua is ________ good progress with his English.B.making

91. The film ________ about two hours.B.lasts

92. He was so poor that he had________than one hundred dollars.D.no more

93. Thanks, it will always ________ me of you.B.remind

94. Children can________a lot from television.B.learn

95. _______ a good beginning is made, the work is half done.D.Once

96. ________the fog, we should have reached Paris.A.Because of

97. If you ________William, ask him to come and see me.B.catch sight of

98. It’s going to rain we’d better ________our tools and go indoors.B.put away

99. My bike has ________. I have to go there by bus.A.broken down

100. Chemical energy can ________ heat energy.C.be changed into

阅读理解（以下阅读理解文章只选取了原文的第一句话，其它内容已省略，方便找题）

（一）Tom Smith was a writer. He wrote detective stories for magazines. One evening he could not

1. Tom Smith wrote about ________.

2. B.policemen

2. Tom went to the cinema because ________.

D.he could not finish a story

3.The man broke into Tom’s house in order to ________.

C.steal something

4 With the help of the thief’s suggestions, Tom ________.

B.could finish writing the story

5 Tom is waiting for the thief to return ________ .

C.to give him some more ideas

（二）The lady lived in a first class hotel that faced the park. Her driver called for her every morning at eleven.”

1.A good title for this passage is ________.

A.Don’t Break a Fond Dream

2.The word “smart” in this passage means________ .

B.magnificent

3. When the lady asked the man to her breakfast table, it was ________ .

C.Tuesday

4.The man would rather sleep on the bench than in the hotel because ________ ,

C.he wanted to have a good dream

There was ________between the park and the hotel.

D.a road

（三）Macao is only forty miles from Hong Kong and it is easy to reach. You can get there

by sea. It is

1. Macao is easy to get to because________ .

A.it is part of China and most people there are Chinese.

2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

B.Some Portuguese settled in Macao and made their homes nearly half a century ago.

3.You feel in Macao you are back in the old days because ________.

C.you go about and look at the old buildings and forts with pleasure

4.Where will you have a break when you feel worn out?

C.On some islands.

5.The writer’s idea seems to be that________ .

D.Macao is a quiet and peaceful place with a lot to see and to do

（四）Robert is a truck-driver. His job is to carry goods from a factory to the train station.

1.Robert was very tired because________ .

A.he went to bed too late the night before

2. He stopped his truck by the road to________ .

C.have a sleep

3.He became angry because ________.

A.the man and the woman disturbed him

4.Robert slept on the chair for ________ minutes.

D.less than fifteen

5.Robert was driver_______

C.a truck

（五）Hundreds of years ago, a Roman army came north from England to make war on Scotland. The

1 .Hundreds of years ago there was a war between ________

B.Roman army and the Scots

2.At first it looked as if the Roman would win because ________ .

B.the Roman army was so strong

3.“We must win or we will die.” What the leader of the Scots said means ________ .

D.they must try hard to win, otherwise they would be killed

3.The Romans climbed up the hill quietly because ________.

A.they didn’t want to wake the Scots

5. The people of Scotland made thistle their national flower because ________ .

D.it was the thistle that helped the Scots to win the battle

（六）Hank Stram was on vacation traveling through Europe by train with his two children, Tina and

1.Where were Hank and his two children traveling to?

B.Bonn

2.Why did Hank leave his children?

A.He was going go get himself a coffee.

3.Why didn’t Hank get back to his seat immediately after the announcement?

D.He didn’t pay any attention to the announcement.

4.When did the two children realize that they had lost their dad?

D.After they found the train had divided.

5.From the passage we can conclude that Hank________ .

C.was in Frankfort

（七）There was something wrong with Mrs. Black’s skin that always gave her a lot of trouble.

1.Mrs. Black was having a lot of trouble with her ________

C.skin

2.After he got the results of the tests, Mrs. Black’s should________ .

C.pay more attention to her food and drink

3.After she had hung up, she ________ .

A.went out to a meeting

4.When she got home, ________.

A.she found her husband waiting for her

5. Mr. Black bought all the things that________ .

D.the doctor didn’t allow Mrs. Black to eat

doctor suggested that she

（八） One morning last summer Joyce Andrews made some sausage sandwiches for her husband’

1.When Joyce was ________ , she gave the sausage to the dog.

B.preparing lunch for her husband

2.Joyce telephoned Jim because________

D.she thought the sausage would do harm to him

3.Joyce’s husband ________.

A.did take her advice that he should go to the hospital

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

C.The milkman explained Henry’s illness.

5.“Don’t take a chance with your health.” means “________.”

A.Do take care of your health