2023年遼寧考研英語考試模擬卷（9）

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1、2023年遼寧考研英語考試模擬卷（9） 本卷共分為1大題50小題，作答時(shí)間為180分鐘，總分100分，60分及格。 一、單項(xiàng)選擇題（共50題，每題2分。每題的備選項(xiàng)中，只有一個(gè)最符合題意） 1.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In one day, a five - acre forest can release 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill

2、 an average swimming, pool. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring devices, science is learning more and more abo

3、ut the far - reaching and often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and poor reception. What happened, said the chief e

4、ngineer, was that the humidity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensation on the playing beads and tapes of videocassette recorders produces a streaky p

5、icture. Humidity shortens the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pianos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. A

6、t the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performances.Humidity speeds the deterioration of treasured family photos and warps priceles

7、s antiques. Your home’ s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes blight that attacks potato and green - bean crops--adding to food costs. It also c

8、auses rust in wheat, which can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over

9、1700 patients for responses to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.What can be inferred from this passage（） A．Nowadays science is learning more and more about the impact humidity has on

10、 all of us by using sophisticated measuring devices. B．Humidity could interfere with television signals. C．Humidity may warp priceless antiques. D．Visual disturbances may decrease in days of low humidity. 2.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the

11、air. In one day, a five - acre forest can release 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into t

12、he atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring devices, science is learning more and more about the far - reaching and often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisco

13、nsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and poor reception. What happened, said the chief engineer, was that the humidity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water c

14、ondensation on the playing beads and tapes of videocassette recorders produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can

15、get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pianos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during pe

16、rformances.Humidity speeds the deterioration of treasured family photos and warps priceless antiques. Your home’ s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture p

17、romotes blight that attacks potato and green - bean crops--adding to food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, th

18、e Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over 1700 patients for responses to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.Why did the number of complaint

19、s drop（） A．Because they got poor reception. B．Because the humidity was interfering with the signals. C．Because there came a blast of dry air. D．Because humidity increased rapidly in the region. 3.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In

20、one day, a five - acre forest can release 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmos

21、phere.Using sophisticated measuring devices, science is learning more and more about the far - reaching and often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, co

22、mplaining about fuzzy pictures and poor reception. What happened, said the chief engineer, was that the humidity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensat

23、ion on the playing beads and tapes of videocassette recorders produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet

24、and squeak.Moisture also causes pianos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performanc

25、es.Humidity speeds the deterioration of treasured family photos and warps priceless antiques. Your home’ s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes

26、blight that attacks potato and green - bean crops--adding to food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health

27、, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over 1700 patients for responses to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.The main idea of the passage is about （

28、） A．the main source of humidity B．the impact of humidity on our world and ourselves C．how humidity affect our life D．the damage humidity has done to our world 4.Text 3The oceans are the main source of humidity, but plants also pour moisture into the air. In one day, a five - acre forest can r

29、elease 20, 000 gallons of water, enough to fill an average swimming, pool. A dryer extracts moisture from wet clothes, adding to humidity. Even breathing contributes to this sticky business. Every time we exhale, we expel nearly one pint of moist air into the atmosphere.Using sophisticated measuring

30、 devices, science is learning more and more about the far - reaching and often surprising impact humidity has on all of us.Two summers ago angry callers phoned American Television and Communications Corp. ’ s cable - TV operation in northeastern Wisconsin, complaining about fuzzy pictures and

31、poor reception. What happened, said the chief engineer, was that the humidity was interfering with our signals. When a blast of dry air invaded the state, the number of complaints dropped sharply.Humidity plays hob with our mechanical world as well. Water condensation on the playing beads and tapes

32、of videocassette recorders produces a streaky picture. Humidity shortens the life of flashlight and smoke - detector batteries. When the weather gets sticky, the rubber belts that power the fan, air conditioner and alternator under the hood of our cars can get wet and squeak.Moisture also causes pia

33、nos to go out of tune, often in no time flat. At the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. , pianos are tuned twice a day during the summer concert season. Often a tuner stands in the wings, ready to make emergency adjustments during performances.Humidity speeds the deterioratio

34、n of treasured family photos and warps priceless antiques. Your home’ s wooden support beams, doors and window framers absorb extra moisture and expand - swelling up to three percent depending on the wood, its grain and the setting.Too much moisture promotes blight that attacks potato and gree

35、n - bean crops--adding to food costs. It also causes rust in wheat, which can affect grain- product prices.Humidity affects our health, as well. We get more migraine headaches, ulcer attacks, blood clots and skin rashes in hot, humid weather. Since 1987, the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at Johns

36、 Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has tested over 1700 patients for responses to high humidity. They have reported increased dizziness, stomachaches, chest pains, cramps, and visual disturbances such as double and blurred vision.Which of the following is NOT included as source of humidity in this passa

37、ge（） A．Oceans. B．Plants. C．Air. D．Dryers. 5.Text 4Each time you step into those faded old Jeans, you put on a piece of history. The world’ s favorite trousers are now over a hundred years old, and here’ s how they started out.The first Jeans were made in 1850, in the California go

38、ld rush. A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold - diggers’ normal trousers weren’ t strong enough for the work they had to do and were wearing Out quickly. Strauss had some strong canvas, which he was going to make into tents and wagon covers to sell to the workers. Instead, he

39、made some trousers out of it and these became the first Jeans. They were brown and called the waist -high overall.The trousers sold well, and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even tougher. He found a material that was better than canvas-- a durable cotton that was manufactured on

40、ly in the south of France. In a town called Nimes, the material was denim--the name coming from the French for from Nimes. Strauss ordered boat loads of this material and, to keep the colour consistent, had it all dyed indigo blue. The trousers became known as blue denims or blue jeans ( the Word je

41、an is thought to come from Genoa. Italian’ sailors from the port of Genoa wore trousers similar to jeans, on the big trading ships).In the early days cowboys, farmers, miners and timber Jacks--all people associated with hard work--wore jeans. But there were a few design problems with the early

42、 styles--as cowboys discovered to their cost. When they crouched too close to the camp fire, the rivet (the metal button strengthening the jeans at the bottom of the fly) got too hot and became very uncomfortable. Levi didn t take much notice of the cowboys complaints until the 1940s, when a company

43、 official crouched too close to a camp fire and experienced the problem first - hand. The crotch rivet was soon removed.In the fifties and sixties, jeans represented rebellion. Film stars like James Dean, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe wore them, as did pop stars like the Beatles and the Rolling S

44、tones.Fashions changed in the seventies and jeans became flared--tight at the hip and wide at the bottom. They were very, very tight--if you could get the zip up while standing up, they weren’ t tight enough. You had to lie down on the bed to do them up; for a really skin - tight fit, people w

45、ould lie in a bath in their jeans and wait for them to shrink !As the trousers became more and more successful, other jeans manufacturers started up--such as Wrengler, Pepe and Lee.But jeans have had their opponents, in some countries--such as the old Soviet Union--jeans became a prized status symbo

46、l of the West. They suggested that a Soviet citizen had either traveled abroad or had contacts in the West. So the authorities discouraged the wearing of jeans. And in Japan,’a consumers’ association adamantly refused to sell one manufacturer’ s fashionable ripped jeans because it

47、felt these were interior and defective product!In the seventies, people would lie in a bath to （） A．take a bath with their jeans on B．make the jeans more comfortable C．make the jeans more fashionable D．make the jeans smaller for a tiny skin tight fit 6.Text 4Each time you step into those fade

48、d old Jeans, you put on a piece of history. The world’ s favorite trousers are now over a hundred years old, and here’ s how they started out.The first Jeans were made in 1850, in the California gold rush. A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold - diggers’ normal trousers w

49、eren’ t strong enough for the work they had to do and were wearing Out quickly. Strauss had some strong canvas, which he was going to make into tents and wagon covers to sell to the workers. Instead, he made some trousers out of it and these became the first Jeans. They were brown and called t

50、he waist -high overall.The trousers sold well, and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even tougher. He found a material that was better than canvas-- a durable cotton that was manufactured only in the south of France. In a town called Nimes, the material was denim--the name coming

51、from the French for from Nimes. Strauss ordered boat loads of this material and, to keep the colour consistent, had it all dyed indigo blue. The trousers became known as blue denims or blue jeans ( the Word jean is thought to come from Genoa. Italian’ sailors from the port of Genoa wore trouse

52、rs similar to jeans, on the big trading ships).In the early days cowboys, farmers, miners and timber Jacks--all people associated with hard work--wore jeans. But there were a few design problems with the early styles--as cowboys discovered to their cost. When they crouched too close to the camp fire

53、, the rivet (the metal button strengthening the jeans at the bottom of the fly) got too hot and became very uncomfortable. Levi didn t take much notice of the cowboys complaints until the 1940s, when a company official crouched too close to a camp fire and experienced the problem first - hand. The c

54、rotch rivet was soon removed.In the fifties and sixties, jeans represented rebellion. Film stars like James Dean, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe wore them, as did pop stars like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.Fashions changed in the seventies and jeans became flared--tight at the hip and wide

55、at the bottom. They were very, very tight--if you could get the zip up while standing up, they weren’ t tight enough. You had to lie down on the bed to do them up; for a really skin - tight fit, people would lie in a bath in their jeans and wait for them to shrink !As the trousers became more

56、and more successful, other jeans manufacturers started up--such as Wrengler, Pepe and Lee.But jeans have had their opponents, in some countries--such as the old Soviet Union--jeans became a prized status symbol of the West. They suggested that a Soviet citizen had either traveled abroad or had conta

57、cts in the West. So the authorities discouraged the wearing of jeans. And in Japan,’a consumers’ association adamantly refused to sell one manufacturer’ s fashionable ripped jeans because it felt these were interior and defective product!Which of the following statements is NOT tru

58、e according the passage（） A．The first jeans were wearing out quickly. B．The first jeans were made out of canvas by Strauss. C．The first jeans were made over a hundred years ago. D．The first jeans were brown instead of blue. 7.Text 4Each time you step into those faded old Jeans, you put on a p

59、iece of history. The world’ s favorite trousers are now over a hundred years old, and here’ s how they started out.The first Jeans were made in 1850, in the California gold rush. A man named Levi Strauss realized that the gold - diggers’ normal trousers weren’ t strong enough

60、 for the work they had to do and were wearing Out quickly. Strauss had some strong canvas, which he was going to make into tents and wagon covers to sell to the workers. Instead, he made some trousers out of it and these became the first Jeans. They were brown and called the waist -high overall.The

61、trousers sold well, and Strauss began looking around for ways of making them even tougher. He found a material that was better than canvas-- a durable cotton that was manufactured only in the south of France. In a town called Nimes, the material was denim--the name coming from the French for from Ni

62、mes. Strauss ordered boat loads of this material and, to keep the colour consistent, had it all dyed indigo blue. The trousers became known as blue denims or blue jeans ( the Word jean is thought to come from Genoa. Italian’ sailors from the port of Genoa wore trousers similar to jeans, on the

63、 big trading ships).In the early days cowboys, farmers, miners and timber Jacks--all people associated with hard work--wore jeans. But there were a few design problems with the early styles--as cowboys discovered to their cost. When they crouched too close to the camp fire, the rivet (the metal butt

64、on strengthening the jeans at the bottom of the fly) got too hot and became very uncomfortable. Levi didn t take much notice of the cowboys complaints until the 1940s, when a company official crouched too close to a camp fire and experienced the problem first - hand. The crotch rivet was soon remove

65、d.In the fifties and sixties, jeans represented rebellion. Film stars like James Dean, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe wore them, as did pop stars like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.Fashions changed in the seventies and jeans became flared--tight at the hip and wide at the bottom. They were ve

66、ry, very tight--if you could get the zip up while standing up, they weren’ t tight enough. You had to lie down on the bed to do them up; for a really skin - tight fit, people would lie in a bath in their jeans and wait for them to shrink !As the trousers became more and more successful, other jeans manufacturers started up--such as Wrengler, Pepe and Lee.But jeans have had their opponents, in some countries--such as the old Soviet Union--jeans became a prized status symbol of the West. The