专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷69
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As protector of her family\’s health, the pioneer woman confronted situations she never imagined before crossing the Mississippi. Few women came West prepared to deal with desert sunburn, rattlesnake bites, or arrow wounds. Even when doctors were available, they were often no more knowledgeable than their patients. And most patent medicines were no more reliable than the traveling merchants who sold them.
In certain cases, a woman could draw upon the folk wisdom and remedies she had learned back home. Western mosquitoes, for example, proved to be as repelled by a paste of vinegar and salt as were their Eastern cousins. More often, however, a woman was guided only by her own skill in preparing tonics , powders, poisons, and polishes from whatever she had at hand: salt made a passable toothpaste; gunpowder was applied to warts \\
1.According to the passage, why were doctors in the West sometimes unable to help their patients?(A)
A. They did not know how to treat the unfamiliar illnesses.
B. They knew little about medicine.
C. They were not genuine doctors.
D. They were often overcome by diseases.
解析：文章第一段第三句说到“Even when doctors were available，they were often no more knowledgeable than their patients．”即：医生不比病人知道得多。此句中“no more knowledgeable”和选项A中的“didn’t know”是同义替换。
2.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about patent medicines?(C)
A. They were not available.
B. Few doctors knew how to use them.
C. They did not work very well.
D. The merchants who sold them were reliable.
解析：从文章第一段最后一句中“And most patent medicines were no more reliable…”可知这些药的效果也不是很好。故C正确。
3.It can be inferred that most of the pioneers referred to in the passage were originally from_________in the United States.(D)
A. the desert
B. the West
C. the state of Mississippi
D. the East
解析：文章第一段“Few women came West prepared to deal with desert sunburn，rattlesnake bites，or arrow wounds．”可知她们不可能来自西部和沙漠地带，又由第一句中“before crossing the Mississippi”可知她们也不可能来自密西西比。再结合地理知识可推出她们大多数来自美国东部。
4.As used in Line 3, Para. 2, the word \\(B)
A. similar medicines
B. mosquitoes in the East
C. people with the same beliefs
D. family members in the East
解析：由第二段第二句“Western mosquitoes，for example，proved to be as repelled by a paste of vinegar and salt as were their Eastern cousins．”可推理出cousins指的是mosquitoes in the east。这样选词主要是为避免重复。
5.It can be inferred from the passage that in order to survive in the West the pioneer had to be_________.(C)
A. sincere
B. friendly
C. resourceful
D. hard-working
解析：通过全文描述可推断出要想在西部生存的话必须要能够足智多谋，随机应变，即C项的意思。
People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from one another, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory.
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