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北京电大开放教育 本科公共英语入学水平测试辅导材料 第一部分 模拟测试题 试模拟题1 英语知识运用 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项． 1. When we came out of the classroom, it was____ with rain. A) running B) dropping C) falling D) pouring 2. I can’t ______ you do that. A. ask B. let C. require D. allow 3. Before doing it, youd better_____ the advantages you can benefit from. A) look out B) sum up C) care for D) give up 4. He_____ over the letter and walked away without a word. A) saw B) glanced C) watched D) observed 5. This case is rather heavy, but that one is____ light. A) fairly B) barely C) merely D) scarcely 6. I failed in my job. If only I____ to my parents. A) listened B) had listened C) have listened D) would listen to 7. This morning our water supply was_____ because the pipe burst. A) cut out B) cut off C) cut down D) cut across 8. Scientist will have to____ new methods of increasing the worlds food supply in order to feed more hungry people. A) come up with B) keep up with C) put up with D) catch up with 9. ______ from the moon, our earth water covering seventy percent of its surface, appears a “blue planet”. A. Seen B. seeing C. Having seen D. To see 10.____ everybody is here, lets work out the traveling plan. A) Now that B) In that C) So that D) That ?阅读理解 A What is happening in our weather? Of course we have never been able to predict exactly what the weather wil1 be like, but now strange weather patterns are seriously affecting many parts of the world. Droughts in Mexico and Brazil have recently caused great crop losses in the United States they have even had to make their own snow for the Winter Olympics. Scientists have found that the cause of this strange weather is that air circulation pattern has changed and is now more variable than earlier in this century. This means that different regions of the world get long spells of the same type of weather, whether hot, co1d, wet or windy. However, weather experts have different views about why this has ha