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山西省忻州市成考专升本英语真题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________  一、阅读理解(30题) 1. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A.There is no popularity that really counts.?B.What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths.?C.It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.?D.Most teenagers claim that they want to do what they like to, but they are actually doing the same.?2. The ShotSpotter has helped police ______ .A.a little bit?B.cut down the use of weapons?C.tremendously?D.solve all the shootings?3.Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland, on February 19, 1473. Little is known about his early life except that his father died when he was 10. An uncle adopted him, his two sisters, and his brother. The uncle saw to it that the two boys received a good education. Copernicus went to the University of Cracow. There he studied such subjects as Latin, mathematics, and astronomy. It was probably at that time that he changed his Polish name, Niklas Koppernigk, to the Latin form. of Nicolaus Copernicus. In 1496 Copernicus went to Italy, where he spent the next 10 years studying at various universities. In Copernicus time people still believed that all things—the sun, the stars, and the planets moved around the earth. It was an old belief that few men had ever questioned. Aristotle had based his theory of astronomy on this belief. Because the Church had long been the center of learning, the theory was also linked to religious beliefs. In 1506 Copernicus returned to his homeland. A few years later he began to work for the Church. All those years Copernicus carried on his work in astronomy. He had just the most basic equipment and, like other scientists of his day, made observations with only his eyes. Still, using mathematics and logic, Copernicus worked out a different theory, which held that the planets went around the sun. Copernicus did not announce his ideas. He did