成人高等教育学士学位英语考试复习资料

成人高等教育学士学位英语

考试复习资料

一、考试题型

本考试包括5个部分：阅读理解、词汇和语法、完形填空、英译汉和写作。客观题目全部按顺序统一编号。考试时间为120分钟。

第一部分阅读理解(ReadingComprehension)，共4篇短文，共20题，占总分的40%。

第二部分词汇和语法(Vocabulary and Structure)，共40题，占总分的20%。

第三部分完形填空(Cloze)，共20题，占总分的10%。

第四部分英译汉(Translation from English into Chinese)，1一2个段落，占总分的15%。

第五部分写作(Writing)，占总分的15%。

阅读理解专项练习

Passage 1

The secret of being born lucky is a summer birthday, with May babies most likely to enjoy a lifetime’s good fortune, according to a study of more than 40,000 people. The time of year at which you are born has an enduring influence on levels of optimism and self-reported luck, according to a research by British and Swedish scientists. May was the luckiest month in which to be born, with 50 percent of those born then considering themselves lucky, while October was the least lucky month, with just 43 percent claiming good fortune.

The findings add to growing evidence that the phenomenon of luck is not all down to chance, but is affected by a person’s general disposition. Other researc h has shown that whether people think themselves fortunate depends less on objective success than on having a “glass half-full” or “half-empty” approach to life. “What we are seeing suggests that something is influencing how people perceive their luckiness. My hypothesis is that people create their own luck by traits such as optimism, that luck is a psychological phenomenon rather than a matter of blind chance,” said Professor Richard Wiseman, who led the research.

The pattern of the result, with those born in spring and in summer reporting themselves luckier than those born in autumn or winter, could have two potential explanations, Professor Wiseman said.

1.According to the passage, whether people think themselves lucky or not depends on the

following factors EXCEPT _______.

A. one’s objective success

B. one’s general disposition

C. one’s attitude to life

D. one’s place of birth

2. According to the passage, those who were born in ________ regard themselves as the most fortunate.

A. March

B. April

C. May

D. October

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Optimistic people tend to be luckier.

B. Devoted people tend to be luckier.

C. Objective success is more important than one’s general disposition in feeling lucky.

D. People drinking more water tend to be luckier.

4. Which of the following words can be best replace the word “trait” (Line 7, Para. 2)?

A. Quality.

B. Expectation.

C. Belief.

D. Idea

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Luck is Something Born

B. Luck is Not All Down to Chance

C. Luck is a Matter of Blind Chance

D. Luck and Age

Passage 2

Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. One of them, for example, was the great Italian artist, Leonardo Da Vinci. In the 16th century he made designs for machines that would fly, but they were never built.

Throughout history, other less famous men had wanted to fly. An example was a man in England 800 years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into air from a tall building. He did not fly very far. Instead, he fell to the ground and broke every bone of his body and rested in peace.

The first real step took place in France, in 1783. Two brothers, the Montgolfiers, made a very large “hot air balloon”. They knew that hot air rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon was made of cloth and paper. In September of that year, the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon. They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely. Two months later, two men did the same thing. They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they traveled about.

1. Leonardo Da Vinci _______.

A. said that man would fly in the sky one day

B. built a kind of machine which never flew

C. made designs for flying machines

D. drew many beautiful pictures of birds

2. Eight hundred years ago an Englishman _______.

A. made a kind of flying machine

B. tried to fly with wings made of chicken feathers

C. wanted to build a kind of balloon

D. tried to fly on a large bird

3. In fact, the Englishman who tried to fly _______.

A. got badly wounded

B. succeeded in flying