英语模拟试卷[有解答].doc

PAGE 25 First section Part I Vocabulary 1.With the _______of Mary, all the girl students are eager to go to the party. ?A. exhibition B. exception C. except D. reception 2.Although the traffic is not busy, he likes to drive at a _______ speed. 　A. spare B. fast C. moderate D. moral 3.All the memories of his childhood had _______ from his mind by the time he was 65. 　A. faded B. illustrated C. confined D. concerned 4.This river is so big that it is impossible to build a _______ under it without modern technology. 　A. canal B. tunnel C. channel D. cable 5.The _______ is nearly dead , so I can not start the car again. 　A. bean B. beam C. bake D. battery 6.When making modern cameras , people began to _______ plastics for metal. 　A. surround B. substance C. stretch D. substitute 7.With the help of the government , a large number of people _______ after the flood in 1991. 　A. survived B. suspended C. suffered D. infected 8.He always has a lot of _______ ideas in his mind , and sometimes we do not even know what he is thinking about. 　A. novel B. spoil C .acceptable D. additional 9.Please be serious. I am not _______. You should consider it carefully 　A. sorting B. joking C. counting D. comparing 10.We do not have a _______ school in our institute. The highest degree we provide for the students is a B. A. and a B. S. . 　A. continue B. bay C. assistance D. graduate Part II Reading comprehension Passage 1　　Looking back on my childhood, I am convinced that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were all brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon abandoned their pressed flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic.　　Before World War I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do