2015年成人学位英语模拟试题及答案（6）
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture (针灸) to perform operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves placing flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles are available in a number of stores in China and anyone may buy them.
To learn how to use the needles takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. (79) The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to put in the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. A particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation re-quires only 3 or 4 needles.
Today, the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. (80) They are trying to develop a convincing theory to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or why a nee-dle in the wrist, for example, would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth.
A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation but the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.
11. Acupuncture is__________
A. a medical operation
B. a medical needle
C. a medical technique
D. a medical machine
12. Which statement is NOT true of the performer of acupuncture?
A. He knows where to place the needles without pain.
B. He knows where the operation is to be performed.
C. He knows how to perform the operation to cure the patient.
D. He knows how to use the needles in an operation.
13. To learn how to use the needles, it takes a person__________
A. several months
B. a couple of weeks
C. a little time
D. almost one month
14. It can be learned from the passage that__________
A. the person performing the acupuncture knows a lot about the making of needles
B. an operation now needs fewer needles than in the past
C. acupuncture has existed in China for as long as 2,000 years
D. few patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals
15. Which is implied but not stated in the passage?
A. The Chinese mainly use acupuncture to cure strange disease.
B. The Chinese are learning to be more skillful and efficient in acupuncture.
C. The Chinese have spread acupuncture all over the world.
D. Most Chinese patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals in curing diseases.
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure (30 % )
Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A,B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corre- sponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
16. He didn' t fear new ideas, __________ the future.
A. nor feared he
B. nor he did fear
C. nor did he fear
D. nor did fear he
17. __________is well known to all, China will be an advanced and powerful country in the near fu-
ture.
A. As
B. That
C. This
D. It
18. __________ a good thing they didn' t catch you.
A. That' s
B. There' s
C. It' s
D. What' s
19. We all feel sorry for __________for so long after your arrival.
A. keep you waiting
B. having kept you waiting
C. waiting for you
D. keep you wait
20. There are four departments at this college, __________more than five hundred students.
A. with each have
B. each having
C. each of them have
D. with each is having