2024年成考专升本每日一练《英语》12月19日

• Every year gray whales migrate from the Bering Sea in Alaska to the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.
  Eleven gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay in the last three weeks.No one knows why the whales are dying.
  Last year 270 whales died along the whales' migration route.Many people think starvation is the cause.This year the dead whales seem to have more blubber (fat) on them.
  Twenty years ago, the gray whale was listed as an endangered species.
  Some scientists think that the larger number of whales makes it hard to find enough food.More whales create more pressure on the food supply, a supply that some scientists say may have dwindled as a result of the warm waters of El Nino.
  Most of the whales have been dead for many days before they are found and studied.This makes it hard to find the reason for death.
  65 whales have been seen in the San Francisco Bay Area this year compared to 17 last year.The whales could be dying from many diseases, but it may be over-population.
  
  
  1. About how many more whales have been sighted in the San Francisco Bay this year compared to last year?  

  ATwice as man

  BThree times as man

  CHalf as man

  DAbout the sam

• Years ago our cities were full of cars, buses and trucks.Now the streets are completely congested （拥挤的）and it is very difficult to drive a car along them.Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights.What are our cities going to be like in ten or twenty years? Will enormous（巨大的）motorways be built across them? With-big motorways cutting across them, full of noisy, dirty cars and lorries, our cities are going to be awful places.How can we solve the problem?
  There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars.In 1989, for example, the authorities in Rome began an interesting experiment: passengers on the city buses did not have to pay for their tickets.
  In Stockholm there was another experiment: people paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus, trolley bus, train or tram in all the city.
  In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles, and pedestrians are safe there.
  In London there is another experiment: part of the street is for buses only, so the buses can travel fast.There are no cars or taxies in front of them.
  
  
  2. What city once experimented with a very cheap bus service?  

  ALondon

  BRom

  CStockholm

  DNone of the above

• 3. 请选出读音不同的选项。（）。  

  Aafternoon 

  Btook 

  Cpollute 

  Drude

• Man's first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions. because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel？Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
  It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick This would roll along just as the logs did. yet be much lighter and easier to handle Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.
  
  
  4. It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because（）  

  Ait led to many other inventions

  Bman had no use for it then

  Cthere were no wheels in nature

  Dall of the above

• 1. Do you have access to the Internet?

• 2. 新学期伊始，你们班准备组织一场迎新晚会，让同学们熟悉起来。你(Li Yuan)打算邀请外教(Tim)来参加迎新晚会。请给他写一封e—mail，内容包括：
  (1)邀请他参加迎新晚会；
  (2)介绍迎新晚会的一些活动安排；
  (3)希望他能够做个简短发言；
  (4)期待他的到来。

• 3. 你(Li Yuan)组织同学进行了一次烧烤野餐(barbecue)。请给你的英国朋友Tim写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
  ·野餐前的准备；
  ·野餐过程；
  ·印象最深刻的人或事。

• 4. The doctor is very patient with his patients.

• 1. Writing：你（Li Yuan）的美国朋友Harry在最近的email中提到要带他的父母来华旅游，他们计划去黄山。给他回一封e-mail，内容包括： （1）欢迎他的父母来中国；
  （2）建议可行路线及交通方式；
  （3）提醒一些必要的旅行准备（如衣物、药口……）；
  （4）推荐1至2处其他景点。  

• 2. 你是王刚（Wang Gang），写一封给朋友李明（Li Ming）的祝贺信，祝贺他获得复旦大学计算机科学硕士学位，并祝他今后在学习和研究方面取得成功。