2023年上海公共英语考试真题卷本卷共分为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.{{I}}Questions 18-21 are based on the following passage.{{/I}}How long did it take the writer’s friend to get to his new flatA．Less than 2 hours.B．2 hours.C．More than 2 hours.D．Not mentioned. 2.{{I}}Questions 14-17 are based on the following dialogue.{{/I}}Why didn’t the woman register three weeks agoA．Because she didn’t have enough money to pay the tuition.B．Because some woman told her it was not right to register.C．Because some woman told her that she should have birth certificate.D．Because she didn’t have time. 3.What does the woman meanA．She is not willing to clean the room.B．She will be able to clean the house in time.C．She is not satisfied with the man.D．She has no time to clean the room. 4.{{I}}Questions 22 to 25 are based on a talk about Cambridge University.{{/I}}What do we know about the colleges of the university from the passageA．They are self-governing.B．They don’t have the right to choose their own students.C．They hold their own examinations.D．They award their own degrees. 5.{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} In the earliest stages of man’s development he had no more need of money than animals. He was content with very simple forms of shelter, made his own rough tools and weapons and could provide food and clothing for himself and his family from natural materials around him. As he became more civilized, however, he began to want better shelter, more efficient tools and weapons, and more comfortable and more lasting clothing than could be provided by his own neighborhood or by the work of his own unskilled hands. For these things he had to turn to the skilled people Such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters who were springing up everywhere. It was then that the question of payment arose. At first he got what he wanted by a simple process of exchange. The smith who had not the time to look after land or cattle was glad to take meat or grain from the farmer in exchange for an axe or a plough. But as more and more goods which had no fixed exchange value came on the market, exchange became too complicated to be satisfactory. Another problem arose when those who made things wanted to get stocks of wood or leather, or iron, but had nothing to offer in exchange until their finished goods were ready. Thus the difficulties of exchange led by degrees to the invention of money. In some countries, easily handled things like seeds or shells were given a certain value and the farmers, instead of paying the smith for a new axe by giving him some meat or grain, gave him so many shells. If the smith had any shells left when he had bought his food, he could get stocks of the raw materials of his trade. In some countries quite large things such as cows or camels or even big flat stones were used for trade. Later, pieces of metal, bearing values according to the rarity of the metal and the size of the pieces, or coins were used. Money as we know it had arrived.The need for exchange arose when ______. A．men wanted things they themselves could not provideB．men became independent of othersC．skilled people such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters sprang everywhereD．people began to learn making tools 6. On June 17,1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offers as follows: We know that you have a {{U}} (26) {{/U}} opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the {{U}} (27) {{/U}} of living of our young men, while {{U}} (28) {{/U}} you, would be very great to you. We are {{U}} (29) {{/U}} that you mean to do us {{U}} (30) {{/U}} by your proposal; and we thank you {{U}} (31) {{/U}}. But you must know {{U}} (32) {{/U}} different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will {{U}} (33) {{/U}} not be {{U}} (34) {{/U}} if our ideas of this kind of education happen {{U}} (35) {{/U}} be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were {{U}} (36) {{/U}} brought {{U}} (37) {{/U}} at the colleges of the northern provinces: they were taught all your sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, {{U}} (38) {{/U}} of every means of living in the woods — they were totally {{U}} (39) {{/U}} for nothing. We are, however, {{U}} (40) {{/U}}, {{U}} (41) {{/U}} by your kind {{U}} (42) {{/U}}, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a {{U}} (43) {{/U}} of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in {{U}} (44) {{/U}} we know, and make {{U}} (45) {{/U}} of them. A．expendituresB．costsC．expensesD．fees 。