GCT考试英语模拟试题及答案三.docx

1、GCT考试英语模拟试题及答案三有 bluid 网络收集 2009年 GCT考试英语模拟试题及答案（三）本试题共 50题，每题 2分，满分 100分，考试时间 45分钟） Part One Vocabulary and Structure Directions: In this part there are ten incomplete sentences, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet

2、 by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets. 1. The sun?s appearing to rise in the east is _ the revolution of the earth on its axis from west to east. A. owe toB. due toC. as toD. as for 2. _ the increase in air fares, most people still prefer to travel by

3、plane. A. No matter howB. RegardlessC. ThoughD. Despite 3. We have _ the serious flood disaster and made advances in agriculture. A. overcomeB. conqueredC. succeededD. defeated 4. I hope to hear more about the activities _ there. A. going onB. being gone onC. being happenedD. to be happened 5. The a

4、ctress_ the terms of her contract and was sued by the producer. A. isolatedB. signed C. implementedD. violated 6. I _ at home to look after my sick mother. A. can? t help stayB. can? t help staying C. cannot help but stayD. cannot help but staying 7. Sally? s score on the exam is the lowest in the c

5、lass. She _ hard. A. should have studiedB. must have to study C. must have studiedD. needn? t have studied 8. _ a fine day, I decided to go for an outing. A. BeingB. Having beenC. It beingD. How 9. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used _ last for his lecture. A. to have studentsB.

6、for students? being C. for students to beD. to students? being 10. Jane never dreams of _ for her to be sent abroad very soon. A. there being a chanceB. there to be a chance C. there be a chanceD. being a chance Part Two Reading Comprehension Directions: In this part there are four passages followed

7、 by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets. Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage: C

8、hina is already the world? s third largest producer of electronics, and becoming a player in the global appliance market. Twenty years ago, U.S., European and Japanese compa?nies started moving into China to supply the local market with household goods. Now those same companies are get?ting whipped

9、by Chinese competitors. Over the past six years, the market share of foreign TV makers in China has dropped from 70 percent to less than 20 percent. Matsushita opened the first microwave-oven plant in China in 1995. Two years later the Chinese compa?ny Galanz started making microwaves and selling th

10、em for half Matsushita? s price. Chinese companies now make more than 43 million TVs yearly. Konka, one of China? s largest TV makers, sells its branded TVs in the United States, and has set up factories in Mexico to service the American market; While TCL, anoth?er major TV maker, exported 11 millio

11、n units from its Chinese factories last year. It has more Southeast Asian fac?tories than any other Chinese company. 11. This passage is primarily concerned with A. the world? s third largest producer of electronicsB. Chinese electronic companies C. China? s largest TV makersD. the increase of China

12、? s electronics 12. What do “whipped” mean? A. beat with a whipB. wonC. defeatedD. suffered 13. What is the decreased rate of the market share of foreign TV makers in China? A. 70%B. 20%C. 50%D. 20%-70% 14. When did Galanz start making and selling microwaves? A. 1993B. 1994C. 1995D. 1997 15. Which o

13、f the following produces more TV sets? A. GalanzB. KonkaC. TCLD. Unknown Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage: Ask three people to look out the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see. Chances are you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the sam

14、e scene, but each perceives something different about it. Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of the three people who look out the window, one may say that he sees a policeman giving a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees a rush-hour traffic jam at the crossing. The third may tell you that h

15、e sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children. For perception is the mind? s explanation of what the senses -in this case, our eyes -tell us. Many psychologists today are working to try to decide just how a person experiences or perceives the world around him. Using a scientific metho

16、d, these psychologists set up experiments in which they can control all of the factors. By measuring and charting the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene. 16. Seeing and perceiving are _. A. the s

17、ame actionB. two actions carried on entirely by the eyes C. two separate actionsD. several actions that take place at different time 17. Perceiving is an action that takes place _. A. in our eyesB. only when we think very hard about something C. only under the direction of a psychologistD. in every

18、person? s mind 18. People perceive different things about the same scene because _. A. they come from different countriesB. they can? t agree about things C. some have better eyesightD. none of these 19. Psychologists study perception by _. A. setting up many experimentsB. asking each other what the

19、y see C. looking out of the windowD. studying people? s eyes 20. The best title for this passage is _. A. How He SeesB. Learning about Our Minds Through Sciences C. What Psychologists PerceiveD. How to Become an Experimental Psychologist Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage: Not all he

20、roes are to be found in the army. Some of them are to be found in other fields of life. Early in this century, a group of doctors was trying to discover the cause of the dangerous disease called yellow fever. At that time it was one of the worst diseases known, thousands of people were dying of it e

21、very year. It had been suggested that the disease was caused by the bite of a certain mosquito. That is, it was thought that a certain kind of mosquito would bite a person ill with yellow fever and then, flying elsewhere, bite another person and give him the disease. To prove whether or not this was

22、 true, one of the doctors, Dr. James Carroll, allowed such a mosquito to bite him after it had bitten a yellow fever patient. He knew that the bite of this mosquito might cause his death, but he made the trial. Dr. Carroll became very ill with yellow fever but finally recovered. The risk this hero t

23、ook, however, helped to save the lives of many thousands of people. He had proved that yellow fever is carried by a mosquito. 21. What is the article about as a whole? A. A good family doctorB. A man who studied the mosquito C. A man who knew diseasesD. A man who risked his life to help others 22. T

24、he word “recovered” means _. A. covered something againB. uncovered C. got back to the state of healthD. discovered the cause of yellow fever 23. Dr. Carroll made his experiment _. A. to find how the mosquito bite peopleB. to find the cause of yellow fever C. to show he had a good healthD. to prove

25、he could resist yellow fever 24. According to the passage, James was interested in _. A. making lots of moneyB. finding people who had yellow fever C. saving people? s livesD. find clothes and food 25. Which of the following is true? A. Dr. Carroll was the only doctor hunting the cause of yellow fev

26、er. B. Dr. Carroll must have been a very brave man. C. Yellow fever was caused by the bite of a mouse. D. All real heroes are found in the army. Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage: In science the meaning of the word “ explain ” suffers with civilization? s every step in search of rea

27、lity. Science cannot really explain electricity, magnetism , and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature no more is known to the modern scientist than to Thales who first looked into the nature of the electrification of amber, a hard yellowish-brown gum. Most co

28、ntemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces “ really ” are. Electricity, Bertrand Russell says, “is not a thing, like St. Paul? s Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave. When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and unde

29、r what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to tell.” Until recently scientists would have disapproved of such an idea. Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated western thought for two thousand years, believe that man could arrive at an understanding of realit

30、y by reasoning form self-evident principles. He felt, for example, that it is a self-evident principle that everything in the universe has its proper place, hence one can deduce that objects fall to the ground because that? s where they belong, and smoke goes up because that? s where it belongs. The

31、 goal of Aristotelian science was to explain why things happen. Modern science was born when Galileo began trying to explain how things happen and thus originated the method of controlled experiment that now forms the basis of scientific investigation. 26. The aim of controlled scientific experiment

32、s is _. A. to explain why things happen B. to explain how things happen C. to describe self-evident principles D. to support Aristotelian science 27. What principles most influenced scientific thought for two thousand years? A. The speculations of Thales. B. The forces of electricity, magnetism , land gravity. C.Aristotle? s natural science. D.Galileo? s discoveries. 28. Bertrand Russell? s