2016年公共英语二级考试(pets2)模拟试卷
第一节 单项填空
从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡1上将该项涂黑
21、Great men never give up.__________ difficulty.
A.in a face of
B.in face of the
C.in the fa e of
D.the face of the
22、 --Nancy is not comingtonight.
--Butshe__________ !
A.promises
B.promised
C.Will promise
D.had promised
23、 Usually，__________care for children’s__________ .
A.woman writers;lives
B.women writer;life
C.women writers;life
D.Women writer;lives
24、 I suppose when I come back in tenyears’time，all these old houes__________ down.
A.will have been pulled
B.Will have pulled
C.will be pulling
D.Will be pulled
25、 Thereare__________ dressmakers in the US than in European coun des.
A.far fewer
B.So fewer
C.very fewer
D.too fewer
26、 A fireman discovered the__________ of the fire.
A.truth
B.reason
C.rose
D.fact
27、 That young man has made SO muchnoise that he__________ not hay e been allowed to attenc the concert.
A.could
B.must
C.would
D.should
28、 --Would you like some morenoodles?
--No，thanks.I__________ .
A.don’t waiat to
B.Can’t eat
C.am not hungry
D.alTl full
29、 You may write to me or come tosee me.__________ way will do.
A.All
B.Both
C.(ne
D.Either
30、 I’m afraid it__________ tomorrow，but who knows?
A.may have rained
B.might rain
C.could rain
D.ought to rain
31、 Whenever I met him，__________ was fairly frequent__________ I li ked his sweet andhopeful smile.
A.which;/
B.that;that
C.it;that
D.what;/
32、 Is the average temperature ofBeijing in summer__________ ?
A.like Chicago
B.like it in Chicatgo
C.like the one of Chicago
D.like that of Chicago
33、 Entering the room，I found myfather__________ at the desk and like something.
A.seat;write
B.seated;wrote
C.seated;writing
D.seating;writing
34、 __________ they will send US aninvitation is not yet mown，————we hope they will.
A.If;but
B.That;SO
C.When;yet
D.Whether;but
35、 Cars moved very slowly in thel920s，but they__________ move more quickly than in 1910.
A.wereto can
B.did
C.will
D.Can
第二节 完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填人相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
36、回答36-55题：
“Cool” is a word with many meanings.Its traditiona meaning is used to 36__________ a tempera-ture that is fairlyc001.As the world has 37__________ ，the ord has expanded to.38__________ many different meanings.
“Cool”canbe used to express feelings of 39__________ in almost anything.
When yousee a brand—name car in the street，maybe you can’t help 40__________，“It’s cool.”
You might think，“He’S SO cool，”when you see yotu 41__________ footNdler.
We allenlarge the meaning of“cool".You Can use it 42__________ many words such as“new”or“amazing”.Here’S an interesting story 43__________ illusm te the usage of the word：Ateacher askedher students to 44__________ the waterfall they had visited.On one student’S paper was just the one45__________ ，“It’s so cool.”46__________ he thought itwas 47__________L to describe 48__________ he saw and felt.49__________ the story also proves the shortage of won.s and expressions.50 __________ “cool”，scmepeoplehave no words to express the same meaning.So it is 5l__________ to improve our word strengthtomaintain some 52__________ .
As apopular word，“cool”stands for a kind of Slecial 53__________ that people Can accept easily.Except“cool”，can you think of many words that 54__________your life as colorful?I Can.And I thinkthey are also very 55__________.
A.find
B.take
C.show
D.make sure
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