2021年度天津大学英语考试模拟练习卷（7）新整理版.doc

天津大学英语考试真题卷（7） 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.{{B}}Passage 1{{/B}} Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe(订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read newspapers Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings - battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown(推翻)or killed took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the some day they happen.Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories and, of course, advertisements. (76) {{U}}The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. {{/U}}They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country.For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.(77) {{U}}Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion, as well as a small but very popular section on jokes and cartoons(漫画). {{/U}} A few hundred years ago news did not ______. A．receive attentionB．travel fastC．travel slowlyD．spread to other countries 参考答案：B[分析] 见第二段第一句中“...took months and even years to travel．．．”可知本题选B。 2.{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}} The atmosphere is all the air surrounding the earth. Without it, we would be forced to seek shelter from the sun, as there would be no atmosphere to protect us from the sun’s deadly rays.Large and powerful, the atmosphere consists of an ocean of gases hundreds of miles high.