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1、2023年湖北公共英语考试考前冲刺卷(8)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.How she wishes she () more attention to her lessons when she was at school!A.have paidB.paidC.had paidD.has paid2.13-16W:What’s the matter Your bike is in bad shapeM: It was hit by a car yesterdayW
2、: Good God! Were you hurt M: I’m all rightI was not riding it thenW: Ohgood for you!But what happened M: I was in a hurry yesterday and I put the bike at the back of a carW: The driver didn’t see it andM: And the bike was run over by the carBoth its wheels were damagedThey are being repa
3、ired nowW: It was lucky that you didn’t get hurtM: YeahBut it’s a pity I can’t ride my bike this weekendW: OhDid you have a weekend plan M: YeahI planned to go sightseeing with friends by bikeW: Wellyou can use mine if you’d like toM: Thank you very muchHow will the man go ou
4、ting this weekend().A.He will use his own bikeB.He will use the woman’s bikeC.He will go by bus3.Whats the purpose of the talkWhere is the talk most probable being givenAAt a radio stationBIn a lecture hallCIn a biology lab4.Liz wont be at work next week()a well-earned break.A.she has hadB.she
5、 hadC.she was havingD.she is having5.Shanghai is a big city. It lies () southeast of China.A.atB.inC.onD.to6.I promise to look _ the matter as soon as I get back to the head office.A. into B. in C. for D. after7.The writer became well-known in().A.his thirties in the 1980sB.the thirties in his 1980C
6、.his 30s in 1980sD.the thirties during the 19808.Only when () possible for all the people present to make a final decision.A.does the director come will it beB.the director comes will it beC.has director come it will beD.the chief editor comes it will be9.Little John caught a bad cold because he()in
7、 the snow all afternoon.A.had been playingB.is playingC.had laidD.lay10.The measure of man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.Thomas MacaulaySome thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neill gave a
8、n arithmetic (39) to our class. When the papers were (40) she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the (41) mistakes throughout the test.There is nothing really new about (42) in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neill (43) even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to (
9、44) after class. I was one of the twelve.Mrs O’Neill asked (45) questions, and she didn’t (46) us either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the (47) words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to (48) these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.I don’t (49) about the
10、 other eleven boys. Speaking for (50) I can say. it was the most important single (51) of my life. Thirty years after being (52) to Macaulay’s words, they (53) seem to me the best yardstick(准绳), because they give us a (54) to measure ourselves rather than others.(55) of us are asked to make (5
11、6) decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called (57) daily to make a great many personal decisions. (58) the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket (59) turned over to the policeman Should the (60) change received at the store be forgotten or (6
12、1) Nobody will know except (62) . But you have to live with yourself, and it is always (63) to live with someone you respect.39().A. testB. problemC. paperD. lesson11.Robert Fred was the general manager of a large hotel in Ashbury Park, New Jersey. One cold day two years ago when he stopped his car
13、at a traffic light, Stephen Pearman, an out-of-work taxi and truck driver, walked up to Fred’s ear hoping to earn some change by washing his windshield. Like many motorists who try to keep the beggars off, Fred turned on the wipers to show he wasn’t interested.Pearman put his head close
14、to the window. Come on, mister. Give me a chance. I need a job, he said. Something in Stephen Pearman’s voice moved Robert Fred. In the seconds before traffic started moving again, Fred handed, Pearman a business card and told him to call if he was serious.My friends told me he was just pullin
15、g my leg, said Pearman. But I said, ’ No, he’s a businessman. I need to give it a shot.’Two days later, 29-year-old Pearman appeared in the manager’s office of the big hotel. Fred gave him a job and housing and lent him pocket money while training him.Today, Pearman works ful
16、l-time setting up the hotel’s dining halls for business meetings. In the past two years, he has found a flat, married and repaid Fred’s loans.Mr. Fred gave me a second chance, says Pearman, and I took advantage of it. I could have just come here a while, eaten up and left. But there is no future in washi