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1、2022年考博英语-湖南农业大学考前提分综合测验卷（附带答案及详解）1. 单选题Long hours and unsociable shifts _ take their toll on health, relationships and family life.问题1选项A.mustB.canC.are able toD.should【答案】B【解析】考查情态动词辨析。A选项“必须”；B选项“可以”；C选项“可以，能够”；D选项“应该”。句意：长时间工作和缺乏社交的轮班制度（）对他们的健康、人际关系和家庭生活造成损害。根据句意，句子应该填的是“可能”，所以把A，D选项排除。able表示对能力
2、的描述，例如Are animals able to think?（动物会说话吗？）；can表有对能力描述也可以表推测判断。两者对比后can比较符合题意，所以答案选B。2. 不定项选择题Some accept their fate. Others try to reason with the police officer who has pulled them over for some real or imagined traffic offense. But when law enforcement is represented by a computer-driven camera tha
3、t has immortalized your violation on filmas is the case at hundreds of intersections in more than 100 cities around the U.S.its hard to talk your way out of a heavy fine. Yet that is precisely what some 300 motorists in San Diego succeeded in doing last week when a superior court judge rules that pi
4、ctures taken by the so-called red-light cameras were unreliable and therefore unacceptable.The first U.S. Court decision to reject all the traffic violations caught on cameras; the ruling by Judge Ronald Styn has fueled debate over the growing use of the devices. Police departments swear, and studie
5、s indicate, that the robot cameras deter people from speeding and running red lights. A Lou Harris poll set for release this week finds that 69% of Americans support their use. Yet at least seven states have blocked proposals to implement them, and opponentsranging from House majority leader Dick Ar
6、mey to the American Civil Liberties Unionargue that the cameras violate privacy and place profit above public safety.Part of the problem is that virtually all the devices in place are operated by private firms that handle everything from installing the machinery to identifying violationsoften with m
7、inimal police oversightand have an incentive to pull in as many drivers as they can. The companies get paid as much as $70 a ticket, and the total revenue is hardly chump change. San Diego has got in $15.9 million last year and Washington $12.8 million. “Its all about money,” says Congressman Bob Ba
8、rr, a leading critic. Not so, insists Terrance Gainer, Washingtons executive assistant chief of police. “We have reduced fatalities. If some company is making money off that that is American way.”Critics counter that there must be other, less intrusive ways to make intersections safer, such as lengt
9、hening the yellow light and adding turn lanes. “I object to this fixation we have with cameras and electronically gathered information,” says Ban. “It places too much confidence in technology.” That confidence, as Washington residents have learned, can be misplaced. The city removed one camera last
10、May that had generated more than 19,000 tickets at a particularly confusing intersection. In San Diego, faulty sensors made drivers appear to be going faster than they really were. The city suspended the system in July.Another concern is privacy. While systems in Washington, Maryland and North Carol
11、ina photograph nothing but the rear of the car, others in Arizona, California and Colorado take a picture of the drivers seat as wella bit of electronic monitoring that could land straying spouses in trouble a lot more serious than a traffic violation.In Europe, where robot cameras are deployed by t
12、he thousands and are even less popular than they are here, resentful drivers have started to take matters into their own hands, seeking out hidden cameras and knocking them over with their cars.1. It is mainly indicated in the first paragraph that _.2. The court decision last week _.3. Opponents arg
13、uments against cameras include all the following EXCEPT _.4. Police department believes that _.5. The phrase “chump change” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _.6. According to the passage, Bob Barr _.7. The writers attitude towards robot cameras can be best expressed as _.8. Some drive
14、rs in European countries _.问题1选项A.most people respond intensively when caught in traffic offenseB.motorists can be wrongly accused by police officersC.speeders cannot defend themselves before red-light camerasD.computer-driven cameras sometimes do tell lies问题2选项A.triggered a dispute over the use of
15、robot camerasB.excused few camera-caught violators from punishmentC.found fewer red-light camera supporters in AmericaD.deterred some states from implementing camera devices问题3选项A.they intrude into peoples privacyB.they give priority to the pursuit of profitC.they are operated by private firmsD.they are under the supervision of police问题4选项A.robot cameras should not be operated by private firmsB.robot cameras are effective in maintaining traffic orderC.speeding is the major cause of traffic fatalitiesD.companies operating cameras should not p
