2008年成人高考高起点英语模拟试题二

一、语音知识（共5小题；每题1.5分，共7.5分。）

在下列每组单词中，有一个单词的划线部分与其他单词的划线部分的读音不同。找出这个词，并把它前面的大写字母填入左边括号里。

（  ）1.A. either  B. fail  C. decide  D. try

（  ）2.A. curtain  B. paint  C. sail  D. straight

（  ）3.A. country  B. courage  C. pronounce  D. double

（  ）4.A. carriage  B. idiom  C. immediate  D. material

（  ）5.A. neither  B. thirsty  C. through  D. thousand

二、词汇与语法知识（共25小题；每题1.5分，共37.5分。）

从每个小题的四个选项中，选出最佳的一项，并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括弧里。

（  ）6. What would you ________ to eat tonight？

A. like

B. wish

C. want

D. hope

（  ）7. I ________ my bicycle on the left side.

A. get off from

B. get down

C. get down from

D. get off

（  ）8. Coal ________ electricity very often.

A. is used to producing

B. is used to produce

C. used to produce

D. used to producing

（  ）9. Why can‘t you do this small _______ for me？ I’ve helped you often enough in the past.

A. work

B. demand

C. favour

D. good

（  ）10. Never _______ till tomorrow what may be done today.

A. put on

B. put away

C. put off

D. put up

（  ）11. Mother kept inviting Mrs. Smith to stay for lunch， and finally she _______.

A. gave out

B. gave off

C. gave in

D. gave away

（  ）12. France is ________ only European country I have visited.

A. an

B. a

C. the

D. 不填

（  ）13. The problem of pollution in this city is more serious than ______ in other cities.

A. that

B. it

C. this

D. those

（  ）14. Dick found himself walking _______ the direction of the post office.

A. to

B. by

C. along

D. in

（  ）15. _______ that we were late， we started to run.

A. Know

B. To know

C. Knowing

D. Being known

（  ）16. This room is _______ any of the others in the building.

A. the biggest than

B. big as

C. bigger than

D. the biggest of

（  ）17. Just think Ann got the house _______ all by herself！

A. paint

B. be painted

C. to paint

D. painted

（  ）18. The policeman caught the man _________ the arm.

A. by

B. with

C. on

D. at

（  ）19. To get an education， _______.

A. one must work hard

B. working hard is important

C. to work hard is necessary

D. it is needed to work hard

（  ）20. The old man could not decide ________ the money or to put it in the bank.

A. if he spent

B. whether to spend

C. that he spent

D. what to spend

（  ）21. I wish you‘d consider _______ to Miami with us this vacation.

A. going

B. that you‘ll go

C. to go

D. to going

（  ）22. I think I‘ll wait until the mail _______.

A. should come

B. is coming

C. comes

D. will come

（  ）23. We found ________.

A. the work hard for doing

B. hard to do the work

C. it hard for doing the work

D. the work hard to do

（  ）24. Professor Bixby warned his students ________ late for the examination.

A. not be

B. to be not

C. not to be

D. be not

（  ）25. I don‘t know what I’d have done if I _______ to make that decision.

A. would have

B. had had

C. have had

D. did have

（  ）26. I don‘t know how to play bridge and ________.

A. my wife doesn‘t neither

B. my wife does either

C. neither does my wife

D. neither my wife does

（  ）27. He asked ________ since he had been chairman for seven years.

A. not to have been re-elected

B. to not be re-elected

C. not to be re-elected

D. to have not been re-elected

（  ）28. The guests said that they wouldn‘t mind _______.

A. to have a little light music

B. have a little light music

C. having a little light music

D. that they have a little light music

（  ）29. Last night we caught a thief _______ John‘s car.

A. when stealing

B. that be stole

C. to steal

D. stealing

（  ）30. Without the invention of writing， a man ________ to remember so many things which he can write down or find in a book.

A. is forced

B. will be forced

C. forced

D. would be forced