2025年大学英语应用能力考试试题及答案

Part I Cloze Test Directions: This part, numbered 1 to 15, is to test your grammar and vocabulary ability. Each of the blanks (N0.1 to No.15) is followed by four choices of suggested choices marked A), B), C) and D). Make the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. How do you draw the interest of a 4,500 kilogram elephant? You hit the elephant with a big I , according to a zoo director in California. But is that a 2 way to treat the big, friendly animals? How zoos treat their elephants has led to a scientific 3 . Some scientists complain that zoos use 4 force to train the huge animals and get them 5 control. There are about 400 elephants in North American zoos, and wild animal parks. The 6 animals with their big trunks and ears and tusks delight children and 7 smiles from adults. 8 hasn't 9 when an elephant has picked up a peanut quickly with its trunk from a trainer? But elephants aren't in zoos just for entertainment. Elephants are 10 in Asia and Africa, and being raised in American zoos may be 11 to keep them 12. Elephants are different from most other zoo animals because they must be in touch with humans who take care of their feet, and 13 an elephant wants to be dominant(支配旳). An elephant wants to control the 14 , not on the contrary. Elephant keepers must make the animals obey them 15 they may be attacked by the elephants. But some scientists are worried that keepers are using too much force and are injuring elephants. Several zoos have recently been looked into because people said elephants were beaten with heavy sticks. Scientists are showing zoos how to make elephants behave without injuring them. If they succeed, children w...