2022年大学英语考试考前模拟卷第177测.docx

2022年大学英语考试考前冲刺卷（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： 题号单选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.　　Psychiatrists (精神病专家) who work with older parents say that maturity can be an asset in child rearing —— older parents are more thoughtful, use less physical discipline and spend more time with their children. But raising kids takes money and energy. Many older parents find themselves balancing their limited financial resources, declining energy and failing health against the growing demands of an active child. Dying and leaving young children is probably the older parents’’ biggest, and often unspoken, fear. Having late-life children, says an economics professor, often means parents, particularly fathers, "end up retiring much later." For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream.　　Henry Metcalf, a 54-year-old journalist, knows it takes money to raise kids. But he’’s also worried that his energy will give out first. Sure, he can still ride bikes with his athletic fifth grader, but he’’s learned that young at heart doesn’’t mean young. Lately he’’s been taking afternoon naps (午睡) to keep up his energy. "My body is aging," says Metcalf. "You can’’t get away from that."　　Often, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and older parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. "They worry they’’ll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they’’ll need help getting up out of those little chairs in nursery school," says Joann Galst, a New York psychologist. But at the core of those little fears there is often a much bigger one: "that they won’’t be alive long enough to support and protect their child," she says.　　Many late-life parents, though, say their children came at just the right time. After marrying late and undergoing years of fertility (受孕) treatment, Marilyn Nolen and her husband. Randy, had twins. "We both wanted children," says Marilyn, who was 55 when she gave birth. The twins have given the couple what they desired for years, "a sense of family." Kids of older dads are often smarter, happier and more sociable because their fathers are more involved in their lives. "The dads are older, more mature," says Dr. Silber, "and more ready to focus on parenting."Why do psychiatrists regard maturity as an asset in child rearingA．Older parents are often better prepared financially.B．Older parents can take better care of their children.C．Older parents are usually more experienced in bringing up their children.D．Older parents can better balance their resources against children’’s demands.2.Rugby has the reputation of being the roughest sports in the world. Outside the British isles, rugby is little known and, in fact, is often confused with soccer. But in England, an old sports saying serves to point out the differences between the two games: soccer is supposedly a gentlemen’’s game played by ruffians, whereas rugby is a ruffian’’s game played by gentlemen. The game begins with a kick-off from one end of a 100-yard field. The receiving ruggers, as a rugby team is called, attempt to move the ball down the field, the opposing team attempts to stop the man with the ball. The rules are quite simple. You cannot tackle anyone but the man who is carrying the ball, and once the ball carrier is tackled, he must give up the ball. Obviously, a good strategy for moving the ball downfield is to carry it as far as possible, then pass the ball before being tackled.If the ball carrier can travel the length of the field, his team is awarded four points, and another two points are won by kicking the ball over the goalpost after the score. Penalties are equally simple, tackling a player who is not carrying the ball carries a ten yard penalty. Much of rugby’’s reputation for roughness stems from the fact that the players wear no pads. To Americans accustomed to seeing professional football players in suits and helmets like armor, a rugby player’’s uniform seems suicidally simple. Most ruggers wear a very thick jersey, heavy gymnasium shorts, heavy socks, rugby shoes, and a mouthpiece. Ruggers use other equipment or pads only when an injury requires protection. But even with this minimal equipment, the game is apparently not as brutal as it might seem. The players are quite satisfied with the lack of padding and helmets and actually think the game might be too rough if players used more equipment. " Human nature is not to hit as hard if no one is wearing pads," one rugger explains. Rugby games are played in two halves, each lasting forty minutes. Teams always meet to play two games consecutively, back-to-back. Again, playing a demanding physical sport like rugby for more than 160 minutes seems like an impossible task, but the ruggers love this idea. " It gives everyone on t。