专插本《公共英语》模拟测试二

Passage 1
Many post-80s couples are complaining that going to the movies，shopping or attending parties have become impossible since their kids were born. That’s the way most parents are living their lives, no weekends of their own, no time to visit friends, not even a chance of promotion in their jobs.
Asking help from their parents might be a way out, but problems are that some aging parents are not strong enough to take care of the kids, and that the kids may also become too spoiled by their grandparents.
Then, here comes a solution: families with kids can form a small group, and parents of each family can take turns to took after all the kids in this group on weekends. Thus，other parents can have some quiet time and feel free to do something they’ve been planning for a long time. At the same time, the kids can make new friends arid won’t be hanging around their parents all day long.
This is baby-pooling.

Passage 2
Subways are underground trains, which usually operate 24 hours a day.They are found in larger cities and usually run between the suburbs and the downtown areas. Maps and schedules are available from the ticket offices. If you take the subway often, you can save money by purchasing a monthly pass (月票）.
City-operated buses run on various routes (线路)and are designed to be at certain places at certain time. Maps and schedules may be posted at certain stops, or they may be available at local banks, libraries, the student union, or from the bus drivers. Buses run mainly during the day. Fare is paid by exact change in coins, or by monthly passes.
Taxis are generally more expensive in the United States than in other countries. If you use a taxi, be sure you ask the amount of the fare, before you agree to ride. The driver usually expects a tip(小费)of 15 percent of the fare.

Passage 3
When it comes to human resources, hiring highly-skilled staff is not usually enough for a company to function successfully. Besides the knowledge in their particular fields, employees must always have additional skills-those of co-operation. In the case that work tasks can only be carried out by communicating with people,accepting common decisions, solving problems, sharing information and helping one another, teamwork skills are vital.
While some jobs may require talent, the ability to work as a team is learned. There are no complicated formulas；you don’t need to have any special qualities or exceptional mental abilities.
Individuals can be effective as a team if, they have developed certain behaviors or habits of communication. Many companies, clubs and organizations use team building activities. Team building activities may include a number of teamwork elements. They are aimed at encouraging active participation in task accomplishment while all members have their roles as individuals and are able to co-operate towards a common goal as a team.
Many team building activities focus on problem solving and discussing team issues ； thus argument as a way to common consensus (共识）is encouraged. Team building activities often involve recognition and identification of team member skills, talents, knowledge, and experiences which allow the team members to learn more about each other and fully utilize those skills where appropriate. Many team activities are focused on developing keys to trust during challenging times.

Passage 4
Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other , a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth，whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people is, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in their intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays an important part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.

Part Ⅲ Cloze(15%)
Directions ： There are 15 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices.
Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
While I was waiting to enter a university, I saw in a newspaper a teacher job 51 at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something 52 ，I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no 53 of teaching my chances of getting the job were slight.
54 ，three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a 55 with the headmaster. It proved to be a 56 journey-a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. It was clear the 57 himself that opened the door. He was short and round. “The school，” he said, “ is made up of one class of twenty-four between seven and thirteen.，’ I should have to teach all the subject? 58 art, which he taught himself.I should have to 59 the class into three groups and leach them 60 at three different levels, and I was 61 at the thought of teaching math-a 62 at which I wasn’t very 63 at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of having to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be 64 themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my 65 ，he got up to his feet. “Now，” he said, “you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this School”.