2013年成人高考专升本《英语》临考摸底试卷(3)

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The death of a child, _51_ one’s own child,is something the mind can hardly comprehend．It seems togo _52_ nature．The end of a life that is still forming_53_ has just begun is an almost unthinkable cruelty．

But it happens．Parents sometimes must witness the illness and death of the children_54_ whom they gave birth．And _55_ will ever fill theempty place that the dead child leaves behind．Parents_56_ to die before their children, which is the natural order of life events．When the situation is reversed and a child dies _57_ the parents itseems wrong．

Yet we never know why one person dies andanother lives．But we do know _58_ a child is gone, theparents still have a future, as grey and worthless as it may at first seem．Death may take the child, but the love never _59_．

The sorrow after a child’s death is one ofthe longest and hardest type of _60_ to live with．And ittakes long to deal with the parents’ own emotions．

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John Light bought the “Lusitania” _______．

John Light hopes that he may be able to sell all the parts of the “Lusitania” for about _____．

Diver try to bring up metals because ________．

The word “surface” in the passage means the ______．

This selection says that the first wheel may have been a ______．

The wheel was probably invented by ______．

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In the old days, divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunk, because they hoped to find gold and jewels．Now divers still search for valuable things in sunken ships, but they also try to bring to the surface the ships themselves, or parts of them．The value of different kinds of metals has increased greatly over the last twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea for many years, it may be worth a great deal．

One famous sunken ship is the “Lusitania”, which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 with a loss of nearly, 1,500 lives．It has four huge propellers made of an expensive metal．Today each of those propellers is worth $ 300,000 or more．The ship lying on the sea-bed has been brought by a man called John Light．He paid about $ 1,200,000 for the whole ship．He hopes to bring up those propellers and sell them．He also hopes to sell other parts of the ship, when he has brought them to the surface, for about $ 600,000．

Divers today try to bring to the surface _______．

It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because _______．

The wheel is called _______．

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Man’s first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel．All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it．The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels．How, then, did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it．However, the logs themselves weighed a lot．

It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick．This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle．Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts．

The wheel is important because _______．

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He couldn’tuse his own car because it ________ then．

Somethingalways _______ wrong when we try this recipe．

You ought not to _______ him the news that day．

It was clever __ at the answer in two minutes．

He couldn’t explain the _______ of ten years in his job history．

He seems_______ from this university．

You must take __ for granted that I will help you．

It was Thomas Alva Edison who ______ the electric lamp．

Sports, ______ perhaps you don’t like very much, may make you strong．

I _______ here two years ago．

If you will do that, please take me into ________．

_______ round the city, we were impressed by the city’s new look．

I haven’tdecided which seat ________．

The fire_______ two persons’ death as well as the damage of allthe store’s property．

On hisreturn from his college, he found the house ________．

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