1999年成人高考全国统一考试英语试题
三、语法知识(共25小题;每小题1.5分,共37.5分)
从每小题的四个选择项中,选取出的一项,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括号里.
( )21.Would you like a piece of cake_________________your coffee?
A.with B.to C. for D. in
( )22.Is it all right___________________I go with you to the exhibition on Friday,Pam?
A. because B. whether C. when D. if
( )23.We can easily get from the computer________________has been stored in it.
A.what B.whether C.when D.anything
( )24.Try your best ___________you’ll certainly succeed this time.
A.so B.and C.or D.for
( )25.The city government must take action__________the increasing population.
A.to control B.controlling C.controls D.controlled
( )26.The World Trade Center is higher than______I have ever seen during my visit.
A.any building B.any other building C.all the buildings D.all of the buildings
( )27.It was a cold winter night,and there wasn’t anyone__________the boy could turn to for help in the street.
A.that B.which C.whom D.what
( )28.All those_______to go to the football match please raise your hands.
A.will wish B.wish C.wishing D.wished
( )29.I had a discussion with Mr Baker and hoped he ___________us an early reply.
A.would give B.give C.gave D.had given
( )30.Everything_________________if Albert hadn’t called the fire department immediately after the fire broke out.
A.would destroy B.would have destroyed C.would be destroyed D.would have been destroyued
( )31.Now,many people use the word Ms instead of Miss or Mrs,for example,before the names of ____________in business letters.
A.woman manager B.women manager C.woman managers D.women managers
( )32.I’m sure that he’ll appreciate the chance__________to him. He really wants to visit your country.
A.to be given B.is given C.giving D.to give
( )33.-Shall I tell Ann the test results?
-No,you ___________.She’s already got the score report.
A.wouldn’t B.needn’t C.mustn’t D.shouldn’t
( )34.The musician,___________for his splendid speech,was warmly received by the students.
A.known B.being known C.knowing D.having known
( )35.The last time I__________her,she________at a medical college.
A.was visiting;studied B.visited;studies C.visited;was studying D.was visiting;was studying
( )36.-Sorry,I’m a little bit late.
-Oh,I__________here just a few minutes.
A.have been B.had been C.am D.will be
( )37.Health experts in many countries still_________their ideas about the relationships between our food and our health.
A.have tested B.tested C.are testing D.test
( )38.Jane wasn’s in when Jack came,was she?
A.No,she was B.No,she wasn’t C.Yes,she was D.Yes,she wasn’s
( )39.The guests were_________in the front rows___________to the president attentively.
A.seating;listened B.seating;listening C.seated;listened D.seated;listening
( )40.Hardly___________the door when he rushed into the office out of breath.
A.I opened B.did I open C.I had opened D.had I opened
( )41.Some people hope to be more successful while__________simply want to feel more comfortable.
A.the others B.others C.the other D.another
( )42.Some of his suggestions had been rejected____________they were quite impracticable.
A.as B.when C.until D.if
( )43.He has already gone home.But before he left,he__________all the mistakes in his translation.
A.had corrected B.has corrected C.corrected D.would correct
( )44.__________for several times,Bill made up his mind not to watch late night movies any more.
A.To be scolded B.To have been scolded C.Being scolded D.Having been scolded
( )45.He was in poverty at the time._________he wouldn’t have accepted the money.
A.However B.Therefore C.Otherwise D.Then
四.阅读理解(共15小题;每题3分,共45分。)
阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出的一项,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括号里。
A
Hugh Troy,a well-known artist, was a very interesting and clever person who spent most of his life playing tricks for the joy of it.
One winter in the 1920s,while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Troy got hold of a very old and ugly wastebasket with a real rhinoceros(犀牛)foot as its base.He filled it with metal weights and tied 30 feet of clothes-line to either side. Late one night he and a friend caried it out onto campus (校园),pulling the lines straight between them. Every few feet they would lower it into the snow, their own footprints so far away as to raise no suspicions(怀疑).
The next morning someone noticed the prints and invited learned professors to come and have a look. Excitedly,they followed the rhinoceros tracks.Then they were led onto the ice covering Beeb Lake,which connected to where the school got its drinking water. There the tracks ended in a huge hole.
It was said that half the population of Cornell stopped drinking tap water.Those who continued to drink it insisted that it tasted like rhinoceros.
( )46.What was Troy doing when the story began?
He was working as an artist.
He was studying in the university.
He was examining a rhinoceros foot.
He was doing rhinoceros experiments.
( )47.Why did Troy fill the basket with metal weights?
Make it easy to tie the lines.
Get rid of these useless things.
.Make it heavy enough for prints.
Support the base of the old basket.
( )48.Why did someone ask learned professors to examine the prints?
They knew where the rhinoceros existed in winter.
They might be able to explain what had happened.
They were looking for this animal just then.
They enjoyed following animal tracks.
( )49.Troy wanted people to believe that a rhinoceros___________.
might appear on campus again
might exist in this area all the time
had dug a hole for its winter home
had fallen into the lake through a hole