公共英语课程考试大纲试题及答案(9)

expands and if it were not allowed to do this, the rails would bend in shape. This caused railway __3__ in the past. __4__ solids expand much less than liquids or gases, the __5_ increases can add up to a lot, when there are long __6__ of rail. For example, the __7__ in length of rail, in summer and winter, __8__ the distance between London and Edinburgh, is about 200 miles.

We __9__ keep in our minds and must not __10__ the expansion of metal when we build a very long metal bridge __11__. So spaces are left in the places __12__ the metal is joined. When a solid gets colder, it becomes smaller in size. We can make use of the __13__ that solids expand when they are heated, and become smaller in size when they get colder, and __14__ they do it at different __15__. For example, when an iron band has to fit tightly __16__ a wooden wheel, first we make it __17__ than the wheel, then we __18__ it, so that it goes on easily. When __19__ gets colder, it becomes smaller in size and __20__ the wheel very tightly.

1. A: is designed 2. A: hot

3. A: incidents 4. A: Although 5. A: more

B: is left

C: is built C: cold C: trouble C: bit

D: is supplied D: dry D: accidents D: After D: small D: ways D: way D: from D: need D: remind D: too D: when D: way D: so D: lines D: within D: wash D: it D: holds

B: wet

B: If

B: happenings B: some B: lengths B: length

C: Because C: railways C: difference C: over C: may C: pretend C: else C: where C: cause C: that C: with C: warm C: keeps 3

6. A: differences 7. A: distance 8. A: on

9. A: have to 10. A: miss 11. A: either 12. A: that

13. A: reason 14. A: which 15. A: speeds 16. A: on

B: in

B: can

B: forget B: again B: which B: fact B: where B: round B: heat B: makes

B: expansions C: conditions

17. A: a little smaller B: a little longer 18. A: cool 20. A: carries

19. A: the weather

B: the temperature

C: much smaller D: much larger C: the climate

A driver had to stop his car soon after setting out from a country village to drive to London. Hearing a strange __1__ from the back of the car, he naturally got out to have a look. He __2__ the wheels carefully but as he found nothing __3__, he continued his way. The noise __4__ almost immediately and now it was __5__ than ever. Quickly __6__ his head, the man saw what appeared to be a great black __7__ following the car. When he

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stopped at a village further on, he was told a __8__ bee must be hidden in his car as there were thousands of __9__ nearby. On hearing this, the man realized that the only way to __10__ would be to drive away as quickly as possible. After an hour’s __11__ driving, he arrived in London where he stopped his car outside a __12__ and went in to have a drink. It was not long __13__ a policeman who had seen him arrived hurried __14__ to inform him that his car was __15__ with bees. The poor driver explained to the policeman what had happened. The policeman __16__ that the best way to deal with the situation would be to __17__ a bee-keeper. In a short time, the bee-keeper arrived. He found the __18__ passenger hidden near the wheels at the back of the car. Very grateful to the driver for the unexpected __19__, the bee-keeper took the queen and her thousands of __20__ home in a large box. Equally grateful, the driver drove away in a hurry.

1. A: shout 2. A: watched 3. A: important 4. A: stopped 5. A: louder 6. A: raising 7. A: cloud 8. A: little 9. A: bees

B: noise B: felt

B: serious B: lower B: turning B: dog B: baby B: people B: protect B: patient B: hospital B: since B: away B: found B: call B: result B: fellows

C: voice C: wrong C: better C: mouse C: queen C: cars C: hide C: slow C: garage C: before C: in

D: sound D: examined D: strange D: recovered D: worse D: shaking D: bus D: king D: dogs D: try D: hard D: gas station D: when D: on D: filled D: remembered D: become D: unwelcome D: gift D: babies

C: touched

B: disappeared C: continued

C: nodding

10. A: escape 12. A: hotel 13. A: after 14. A: up

15. A: covered 16. A: decided 17. A: send 18. A: unseen 19. A: money

11. A: successful

B: connected C: crowded C: agreed C: catch C: guest

B: unknown C: unfriendly C: workers

20. A: followers

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Last year I went to Nepal for three months to work in a hospital. I thought it was important to see as ___1__ of a country as one could, but it was__2__ to travel around Nepal. The__3__let me have a few days’ holiday, so I __4__ to go into the jungle and asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me. We started __5__ for the trip at six in the morning, and __6__ the camp with two elephants __7__ our equipment. It was hot, but Kamal __8__ me wear shoes and trousers to __9__ me from snakes. In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were __10__ to find big cats, especially tigers. We

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climbed __11__ the elephants’ back to get a better __12__. Then in the __13__ we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very __14__. We crept nearer and found a dead deer, still bleeding. This was the tiger’s lunch! Suddenly I started to feel very __15__. We heard the tiger the second before we saw __16__. It jumped out like a flash lightening. I looked __17__ its eyes and face, and saw right down the animal’s throat. It grabbed Kamal’s leg between its teeth, but I __18__ to pull Kamal away. One …… 此处隐藏：5769字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……