环球雅思入门测试题A

环球雅思入门测试题 A

Vocabulary and Grammar

Choose the best answer (A, B, or C) to complete each of the following statements.（15分）1.The role change of husband to father, although difficult, doesn’t seem so gre at as ________ of

wife to mother.

A. that

B. one

C. this

D. those

2.There were so few people living in this area that we had covered 40 miles_______ we could find a

village.

A. until

B. before

C. after

D. when

3.Banks was the first _______ crops from one continent to another on a large scale, _______

develop local economies with these imports.

A. to move; helping

B. to move; to help

C. to have moved; to help

D. moving; helping

4.He went to bed _______, and when he woke up he found he still had his shoes on.

A. drinking

B. to drink

C. drunk

D. being drunk

5.It is hard for me to imagine what I _______ today if I hadn’t fallen in love, at the age of seven,

with the Melinda Cox Library in my hometown.

A. am doing

B. would be doing

C. may be doing

D. can be doing

6.Many students are studying English in the Xi’an Global IELTS School, _______ is famous and

_______ many excellent teachers work.

A. that; which

B. which; where

C. what; which

D. which; that

7.The sharp rise in cost of living _______ the public very much.

A. convinces

B. confirms

C. connects

D. concerns

8.He has learned _______, no matter what happens and how bad ______ seems today, life goes on

and it will be better.

A. that; it

B. it; that

C. it; it

D. that; that

9._______ in the regulation is that students attend at least 80% of the lectures.

A. As is required

B. What is required

C. It is required

D. There is required

10._______ he told us is the news _______ China has got 32 gold medals in the Athens Olympic

Games, ______, of course, made us feel very excited.

A. What; which; which

B. That; that; which

C. What; that; which

D. That; that; what

11.It was ______ that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.

A. addicted

B. alleged

C. assaulted

D. ascribed

12.The medicine ______ his pain but did not cure his illness.

A. activated

B. alleviated

C. medicated

D. deteriorated

13.He is the only people who can ______ in this case, because the other witnesses were killed

mysteriously.

A. testify

B. charge

C. accuse

D. rectify

14.Professor Hawking is ______ as one of the world’s greatest living physicists.

A. dignified

B. clarified

C. acknowledged

D. illustrated

15.The financial problem of this company is further ______ by the rise in interest rates.

A. increased

B. strengthened

C. reinforced

D. aggravated

READING

Questions 1-14（14分）

You are advised to spend about 25 minutes on Questions 1-14 which refer to Reading Passage 1 below

FINDING THE LOST FREEDOM

1.The private car is assumed to have widened our horizons and increased our mobility. When we

consider our children’s mobility, they can be driven to more places (and more distant places) than they could visit without access to a motor vehicle. However, allowing our cities to be dominated by cars has progressively eroded children’s independent mobility. Children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighborhood or city without adult supervision. In recent surveys, when parents in some cities were asked about their own childhood experiences, the majority remembered having more, or far more, opportunities for going out on their own, compared with their own children today. They had more freedom to explore their own environment.

2.Children’s independent access to their local streets may be important for their own personal,

mental and psychological development. Allowing them to get to know their own neighborhood and community gives them a ‘sense of place’. This depends on ‘active exploration’, which is not provided for when children are passengers in cars. (Such children may see more, but they learn less.) Not only is it important that children are able to get to local play areas by themselves, but walking and cycling journeys to school and to other destinations provide genuine play activities in themselves.

3.There are very significant time and money costs for parents associated with transporting their

children to school, sport and to other locations. Research in the United Kingdom estimated that this cost, in 1990, was between 10 billion and 20 billion pounds.

4.The reduction in children’s freedom may also contribute to a weakening of the sense of local

community. As fewer children and adults use the streets as pedestrians, these streets become less sociable places. There is less opportunity for children and adults to have the spontaneous exchanges that help to engender a feeling of community. This is itself may exacerbate fears associated with assault and molestation of children, and who can look out for their safety.

5.The extra traffic involved in transporting children results in increased traffic congestion, pollution

and accident risk. As our roads become more dangerous, more parents drive their children to more places, thus contributing to increased levels of danger for the remaining pedestrians. Anyone who has experience either the reduced volume of traffic jams near schools at the end of a school day, will not need convincing about these points. Thus, there are also important environmental implications of children’s loss of freedom.

6.As individual, parents strive to provide the best upbringing they can for their children. However, in

doing so, . by driving their children to sport, school) or generally, the idea that ‘streets are for cars and backyards and playgrounds are for children’s a strongly held belief, and parents have little choice as individuals but to keep their children off the streets if they want to protect their safety. 7.In many parts of Dutch cities, and some traffic calmed precincts in Germany, residential streets are

now places where cares must give way to pedestrians. In these areas, residents are accepting the view that the function of street is not solely to provide mobility for cars. Streets may also be for social interaction, walking, cycling and playing. One of the most important aspects of these European cities, in terms of giving cities back to children, has been a range of ‘traffic calming’initiatives, aimed at reducing the volume and speed of traffic. These initiatives have had complex

interactive effects, leading to a sense that children have able to do this in safety. Recent research has demonstrated that children in many German cities have significantly higher levels of freedom to travel to places in their own neighborhood or city than children in other cities in the world.

8.Modifying cities in order to enhance children’s freedom will not only benefit children. Such cities

will become more environmentally sustainable, as well as more sociable and more livable for all city residents. Perhaps, it will be our concern for our children’s welfare that convinces us that we need to challenge the dominance of the car in our cities.

Questions 1—5

Read statement 1-5 which relate to paragraphs 1,2 and 3 of the reading passage. Answer T if the statement is true, F if the statement is false, or NI if there is no information give in the passage. One has been done for you as example.

Example: The private car has made people more mobile.

Answer: T

Q1. The private car has helped children have more opportunities to learn. F

Q2. Children are more independent today than they used to be. F

Q3. Walking and cycling to school allows children to learn more. T

Q4. Children usually walk or cycle to school. NI

Q5. Parents save time and money by driving children to school. T

Questions 6—9

In Paragraphs 4 and 5, these are four problems stated. These problems, numbered as questions 6-9, are listed below. Each of these problems has a cause, listed A-G. Find the correct cause for each of the problems and write the corresponding letter A-G, in the spaces numbered 6-9 on the answer sheet. One has been done for you as example. There are more causes than problems so you will not use all of them and you may use any cause more than once.

Problems

Causes

Example: Low sense of community feeling

Q6. streets become less sociable. B

Q7. fewer chances for meeting

Q8. fears of danger for

Q9. higher accident

A.few adults know local children

B.fewer people use the streets

C.increased pollution

D.streets are less friendly

E.less traffic in school holidays

F.reduced freedom for children

G.more children driven to school

Questions 10—14

Questions 10-14 are statement beginnings which represent information given in Paragraphs 6, 7 and 8. In the box below, there are some statements. One has been done for you as an example.

Example: By driving their children to school, parents help create……

Answer: I

Q10. Children should play……

Q11. In some German towns, pedestrians have right of way……

Q12. Streets should also be used for……

Q13. Reducing the amount of traffic and the speed is……

Q14. All people who live in the city will benefit if cities are……

List of statement endings

Ⅰ--dangerous environment

Ⅱ—modified

Ⅲ--on residential streets

Ⅳ—modifying cities

Ⅴ--neighborhoods

Ⅵ--socializing

Ⅶ—in backyards

Ⅷ—for cars

Ⅸ—traffic calming

Ⅹ—residential

Answer sheet

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

F F T NI T B F D

G ⅦⅢⅥⅨⅡ