陕西专升本《英语》模拟试题18

　　More and more private schools are being set up in China these days,ending the state monopoly of the country's educational system.Although private schools are still on the experimental stage and are much more expensive as compared with the public schools,there is no lack of application for enrollment.

　　People welcome private schools for good reasons.First of all,those schools are relieving our government of part of the burdens of financing so many schools.Second,parents are willing to send their only child to better schools even if it costs more.And having more money than the government?funded public schools,those private schools can attract better teachers.They can also offer better environments including superior living facilities and more advanced teaching equipments.However,adequate money doesn't guarantee good education.If not well guided and properly disciplined,the privileged young children might turn out to be new aristocrats,and therefore unfit for our highly competitive modern society.

　　1. The private schools indeed have something better than the public schools but not——

　　A.living condition B.teachers C.students

　　D.advanced teaching equipments

　　2. Which are the reasons for people welcome the private school? ————

　　a the government.

　　b.They break the traditional educational system.

　　c.More money is connected with higher quality of teaching.

　　d.Parents don't need to take charge of children so much like before

　　e.Parents hope their children act more wonderful.

　　A.a,b,c　B.a,c,d　C.a,b,e　D.a,c,e

　　3. The writer is likely to talk about———— in the next paragraph

　　A.private schools have more advantages than we imagine

　　B.how the private schools guide student to the right way

　　C.there are some disadvantages in the private schools

　　D.how the public schools compete with the private schools

　　Passage

　　A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers.When he goto home,he went upstairs to his living room and put them on.He found that they were about two inches too long.

　　He went downstairs,where his mother and his two sisters were washing up the tea things in the kitchen.“These new trousers are too long,” he said.“They need to be cut short by about two inches.Would one of you mind doing this for me,please?”His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.

　　But as soon as his mother finished washing up,she went upstairs to her son's room and cut the trousers short by two inches.She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.

　　Later,after supper,the elder sister remembered her brother's trousers.She was akindhearted girl,so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone,and shorted the trousers by two inches.

　　the younger sister went to the cinema,but when she came back,she,too,remembered what her brother had said.So she ran upstairs with her scissors,needle,and thread,and took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.

　　You can imagine the look on the young man's face when he put the trousers on thenext morning

　　1. The main idea of this passage is that ————

　　A.the young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers

　　B.the young man's new trousers were cut too short

　　C.the young man's mother and sisters hated to speak to each other

　　D.the young man was loved by his mother and sisters very much2. What can we infer from the passage?

　　A.The young man was very silly

　　B.The young man's mother and sisters never spoke to each other.

　　C.Everyone in his family was ready to help him.

　　D.The young man lived in a quiet house.

　　3. Why didn't the young man's mother and sisters give him a reply after he asked one of them to cut his trousers short?

　　A.Because they did not know how to answer him.

　　B.Because they were too busy to answer him.

　　C.Because they were used to keeping silence when they were busy.

　　D.Because one of them wanted to do it.

　　4What would the young man feel when he put the trousers on the next morning?

　　A.Worried. B.Cry. C.Surprising. D.Sad.