2014年成人高考专升本《英语》应试模拟题(8)

四、阅读理解
36、 回答36-55题
    Companies that employ illegal immigrants are to be named and shamed in a further attempt to crack down on people smuggling．  The move by the Home Office comes four months after officials launched a concerted effort to identify and prosecute companies breaking the law．  More than 200 companies have already been fined for hiring illegal labor． The Home Office says names of companies and directors are to be published on the UK Border Agency website． The agency will publish how many  illegal immigrants the company was employing and how much it was fined．
    By May this year there had been 137 prosecutions under the new rules leading to fines totaling 500,000--almost 3,000 per firm．  The total number of prosecutions was 10 times more than were carried out in 2007, and double the total for the previous decade．
    Immigration chiefs are also switching their focus from small-time illegal employers,  such as takeaway restaurants, in an effort to major organized criminal enterprises supplying illegal labor, often relying on international networks to smuggle people into the UK．
    Some 7,500 immigration officers will be re-organized into more localized teams with police and customs officials in an effort to better target what the Home Office says are illegal working hotspots． These could include areas of the economy where there is a high demand for labor including agriculture, construction and hospitality．  Nobody knows how many people are working without permission in the UK--although estimates put the number of illegal residents at more than 500,000．
    Trade Union leaders have also raised concerns about the government's strategy, arguing that it could drive the worst employers further underground, penalizing exceptionally poor workers unable to break out of a situation they did not necessarily choose．

What has happened in the first four months of the campaign to crack down on companies hiring illegal workers?
A．Nothing． The campaign is still in its beginning stage．
B．7,500 immigration officers will be re-organized into more localized teams．
C．200 companies have been fined．
D．3,000 small-time illegal employers have been cracked down．


37、 What steps will officials take to "shame" these companies?
A．They will publish their names as well as the details of the offence online．
B．They will shut down their business．
C．They will inform the police about the illegal hiring．
D．They will give poor workers working permission．

38、
Immigration officials are now focusing on________
A．small-time illegal employers
B．fining individual workers
C．large-scale organized criminal operations
D．the government's strategy

39、
Trade Union officials fear that this new campaign (战役) might end up unjustly penalizing________, by driving the employers further underground．
A．employers
B．workers
C．illegal residents
D．companies 

40、 回答40-59题
Student Volunteers Needed!
On Saturday, December 12th,from 10 A．M．until 4 P． M． , Carverton Middle School will be holding a music festival in the school gymnasium． The special event will feature a variety of
professional musicians and singers．

Interested students should speak with Ms．Braxton,the music teacher．Students who would like to help at the festival must have written permission from a parent or guardian．
What time will the festival begin?
A．10A．M．
B．11A.M．
C．1P.M．
D．2P．M．

41、 In line 2,the word feature is closest in meaning to________
A．look
B．keep
C．include
D．entertain

42、
What job will be done the day before the festival begins?
A．Making posters．
B．Setting up the gym．
C．Cleaning up the gym．
D．Helping the performers．

43、
Who is told to talk to Ms．Braxton?
A．Parents．
B．Students．
C．Teachers．
D．Performers． 
44、回答44-63题
Human needs seem endless．They might be regarded as making up several levels．When there is　enough money to satisfy one level of needs, another level appears．The first and most basic level of needs involves food．Once this level is satisfied, the second level　of needs, clothing and some sort of shelter, appears．By the end of World War Ⅱ , these needs were satisfied for a great majority of Americans．Then a third level appeared．It included such items as automobiles and new houses．
By 1957 or 1958 this third level of needs was fairly well satisfied．Then, in the late 1950s, a　fourth level of needs appeared: the "life-enriching   level．While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, that is, the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness．It includes a variety of goods and services．Among them are vacation trips, the best medical and dental care, and recreation．Also included here are fancy goods and the latest styles in clothing．On the fourth level, a lot of money is spent on services, while on the first three levels more is
spent on goods．A fifth level would probably involve needs that can be achieved best by community action．Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance, crime, and prejudice．After filling our stomachs, our clothes closets, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels．
According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothing only when________
A．he has saved up enough money
B．he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelter
C．he has satisfied his hunger
D．he has learned to build houses

45、 It can be inferred from the passage that by the end of World War Ⅱ , most Americans________
A．were very rich
B．lived in poverty
C．did not own automobiles
D．had own automobiles