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1、2022年河北大学英语考试真题卷（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。）单位：姓名：考号：题号单项选择题多项选择判断题综合题总分分值得分一、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. BPassage 37/BWhy dor? t b i rds get I ost on the i r I ong f I i ghts from one p I ace to another Sc i ent i sts have been puzz I ed over th i s quest i on for many years. No
2、w they re beginning to fill in the blanks.Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely on the sun to guide them during day I ight hours. But what about birds that fly by night (37) UTests with artificial stars have proved that certain night-flying b i rds are ab I e to fo I I ow the stars i n th
3、e i r I ong-d i stance f I i ghts. /)A dove had spent its Iifetime in a cage and had never flown under a naturaI sky. Yet it showed an inborn abi I ity to use the stars for guidance. The bird1 s cage was p I aced under an art if icial star-f i I led sky. The b i rd tried to fly in the same direction
4、 as that taken by his outdoor cousins. Any change in the position of the artificial stars caused a change in the direction of his flight.The stars are apparently their principal means of navigation. When the stars are h i dden by clouds, they seem i ng Iy find their way by such landmarks as mountain
5、 ranges, coast Iines, and river courses. But when it s too dark to see these, the doves circle helplessly, unabIe to find thei r way.B. a bird that has been caged will not fly long distancessome birds cannot fly at nightC. some birds seem to follow the stars when they fly at nightBPassage 43/BSometi
6、mes it is impossible to send al I the mai I that arrives at the post off ice. Perhaps there is an inadequate or i I legible address and there is no return address. The post off ice cannot just throw the mai I away, so it becomes dead mai IDead mai I is then sent to one of the U. S. PostaI Service s
7、dead ma i I off i ces in At I anta, New York, Ph i I ade I ph i a, St. Paul, and San Francisco. Seventy-f ive mi I I ion pieces of mai I can end up in these offices in one year.The staff of the dead mai I off ices has different ways to deal with al I of these pieces of dead mail. First of all, they
8、look for clues that can help them del i ver the mail; they open packages in the hope that something inside wi 11 show where the package came from or is going to. (43) UDead mai I wi I I also be I isted on a computer so that peopIe can cal I in and cheek to see if a missing item is there. /UHowever,
9、al I of the maiI cannot simply be stored forever: there is just too much of it. When a lot of dead mai I has piled upv the dead mai I off i ces hold pub I ic auctions. Every three months, the pub I ic is invited to the offices and containing items found in dead mai I packages are sold to the highest
10、 bidder (出价人).The staff in a dead mai I office may open a package in order to find.A. some moneysome missing objectsB. an addressa computer10. BPassage 41/BThree men got to the Dover RaiIway Station a few minutes after nine o clock one evening. They asked a guard, What time is the next train for Lon
11、don The guard said, You ve just missed one. A train goes every hour. The next one is at ten o clock.That sail right, n they said. We I I go and have a drink. So off they went to a bar. A minute or two after ten o clock they came running and asked the guard. Has the train gone Yes, the guard said. It
12、 went at ten, and I told you. The next one is at eI even o clock. nThat sail r i ght, 11 they sa i d aga i n. I I go and have another dr i nk. So they went back to the bar.They missed the e I even o clock train in the same way. Then the guard said, “No, the next train is the last one. If you miss th
13、at train, you won t get to London tonight.(41) UTwelve o clock came, and the last train was just starting out when the three of them came out of the bar running as fast as they could. /U Two of them got on the train just as it was Ieaving but the third one didn t run fast enough, and the train went
14、out Ieaving him behind. He stood there Iooking at the train and Iaughingv as if to miss a train was the best joke in the world. The guard went up to him and said, n I told you that this was the last train. Why didn t you come ear I ierThe man kept Iaughing untiI tears came into his eyes. Then he cau
15、ght hold of the guard and said, Did you see the two men get into the train and leave me here 11 Yes, I did.“Well, I was the only one to leave for London. They were here only to see me off!The guard toldThe guard toldthe three men that thereA.were trainsall the nightB.was a trainin the eveningC.was a trainevery sixty minutesD.D.were no trains that eveningBPassage 42/BSome countr i es have I arge numbers of earthquakes. Japan i s one of them. Others do not have many; for examp I e, there are few earthquakes in Br itain.There is often a great noise during an earthquake. The ea
