2021年度公共英语考试模拟卷新整理版.doc

公共英语考试模拟卷 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.How much does the man give the woman A．1.80 pounds.B．1.85 pounds.C．5 pounds, 参考答案：C在最后一轮对话中，男士说：Here you are. Five pounds，表明他给了女士5英镑，选[C]。 2. Tobacco You most likely know that tobacco is a plant. It has large leaves that have been smoked in many forms for at least 2 000 years. But do you know that: Before the twentieth century, not many people died from using tobacco because there wasn’t much tobacco being used. Cigarettes had to be rolled by hand. A person who was really fast could roll about four cigarettes a minute, or around 2 000 a day. In 1884 the cigarette manufacturing machine was invented that could produce 120 000 cigarettes a day. Soon the number being sold rose to one billion a year. As a result of advertising and efficient machines, the tobacco business continued to grow. Today about 840 packs of cigarettes are sold every second in the US. That’s more than one million every hour! Imagine that! Blink you eyes and 840 packs are s01d. Blink again -- another 840 packs! As the number of cigarette sales increased, so did the number of deaths caused by cigarettes. Today one out of every five people who die in the US dies because of smoking. Smoking tobacco is responsible for more deaths than cocaine, heroin, alcohol, fire, automobile accidents, homicides, suicides, and AIDS combined. That amounts to about 430 000 people who die needlessly every year, 1 200 people who die every day because of their addiction to cigarettes. It’s like having several completely full jumbo jets crash every day, killing all aboard! Who in the USA Smokes Cigarette smoking is a widespread habit in the United States today. About forty-three percent of the adult men and thirty-one percent of the adult women smoke regularly. It is quite encouraging to note,however,that millions of people have given up the smoking habit. Seventy-five percent of the male population and forty-six perce