学士学位英语2012年5月真题及答案
2012年广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语统考真题及答案
2012年广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语统考真题Paper One（试卷一）(90 minutes)Part I Dialogne Completion (15 points)Directions: There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part,each followed by 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that best completes the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.1、Speaker A: Would you like to go with me for a movie tonight?Speaker B: .[A] You name it [B] l hope you don't mind[C] If I can finish my homework [D] Thank you for inviting me2、Sam: Oh, I am feeling dizzy now. You know I have just enjoyed much beer.Tracy: Really? Don't you know it is a very important party? .[A] Behave yourself [B] Mind how you go[C] Mind your own business [D] Watch your back3、Naacy: Caroline must have left since your train arrived so late.Eiline: To my surprise, I found her waiting for me at the station.Nancy: .[A] What a pity [B] How kind[C] Good for her [D] No kidding4、Janny: Well, it is time for boarding.Robcrt: .[A] Nice to meet you [B] Have a nice party[C] I hope you will soon feel better [D] I wish you a pleasant journey5、Yvonne: You have a nice big room.Frank: .[A] It's not so big as you see it [BI I hope soIC] I don't know what to say [D] I’m glad you like it6、Interviewer: Let me repeat. How would you describe your personality?John: .[A] Yes, I got you this time [ B ] I missed your question just now[C] I'd better ask you [D] I want to bother you with7、Student: a few questions on the subject of solar energy.Teacher: Ok, go ahead.[A] I guess I can ask you [B] I’d like to ask you[C] I’d better ask you [D] I want to bother you with8、Johnnason: This has been very interesting. I'll discuss your plan with my boss.Cathy: .[A] Thank you for your time [B] I don't know what to do[C] Great. The pleasure is mine [D] That sounds fine with me9、Tom: Let's go picnic this Saturday.Susan: Don't you think it's still a bit chilly at this time of year?Tom: .[A] No wonder [B] Cheer up[C] Up to you [D] Come on10、Vivian: .?Roger: Yes, our family moved in here only a few days ago.Vivian: Welcome to the neighborhood.IA] Do you need any help [B] Are you here for holiday[C] Are you new here [D] What are you doing here11、Max: Do you mind waiting outside for a moment?Steve: .[A] Not at all [B] Yes, please[C] I guess So [D] I sure do12、Speaker: Thank you all for your attention.Host: Professor Cohen, .Speaker: Sure.[A] we'd like to thank you anyway.[B] I wish you a safe trip hack.[C] would you like to take some questions?[D] could you expand on it?13、Adam: I’m very sorry for stepping on your foot.Bob: . It's very crowded on the train.[A] That's right [B] Don't worry[C] I’ m fine [D] Take it easy14、T ed: I'm thinking of keeping a dog, and I wonder if you have any particular policy about animals?House owner: .[A] Yes, dogs will be out of the question[B] Yes, I like dogs[C] No, dogs are not good pets[D] No l our policy is not particular15、Chark: Would you like to have tea with us?Clara: No, thank you. .Chark: You must come again.[A] I wish I can [B] I must be going[C] I've had enough [D] I'm all rightPart II Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Passage OneWhen the terrorist attack on September 11th caused people to flee the building, Avremel Zelmanowitz risked his own chance of escape by staying behind with his friend and colleague, Ed Beyea, who was Confined to a wheelchair due to a par'alysis (瘫痪). Both men lost their lives, but the stray of Avremel's love and devotion to his friend conveys a life-giving message to all.Avremel never married, and he shared a house with his brother and his family. He was a loving uncle to his brother's children; and he was devoted to caring for his aging parents. He was a "family man" in every sense of the word. At the same time, he had his own life, his varied interests, and a job and friends.When the tragedy occurred, Avremel was age 55, and his friend, Ed Beyea, was age 42.Ed became disabled after a diving accident at age 22, but he managed to work 14 years at Blue Cross since his injury Both he and Avremel were program analysts who worked on the 27th floor of World Trade Center.They both loved books and music, and they both served as the special uncle of their respective families. Like Avremel, Ed had no children of his own, but he was a father figure to his two nephews after their father died.On the morning of September 11, Ed wanted to wait until he could be securely carried down by several rescue workers, as it was dangerous for someone with his disability to be moved. Avremel wouldn't allow his friend to wait alone when everyone else was fleeing the building, and he stayed with him.In the days that followed, the media learned about Aw'emel's selfless act, and the story began to spread. President Bush, in his national prayer address to the American people, referred to Avremel's act as one of the many "outstanding acts of sacrifice" that were demonstrated by Americans during this crisis.16、What happened to Avremel and Ed during the 9 . 11 terrorist attack?[A] Avremel rescued Ed at tile cost of his life.[B] Both Avremel and Ed gave up their chance of escape.[C] Avremel stayed with Ed and both lost their lives.[D] Both Avremel and Ed were finally rescued.17、What were the similarities between the two men?[A] Both of them loved hooks and music.[B] Both of them were in their 50s.[C] Both of them were disabled..[D] Both lived with their brother's families.18、Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?[A] Avremel took care of Ed's life after work.[B] Avremel liked diving when he was young.[C] Ed treated his nephews as his own children.[D] Ed became disabled after a driving accident.19、Why did Avremel choose to stay when others were fleeing the building?[A] Because he expected the rescuers to help him.[B] Because he tried to carry Ed downstairs.[C] Because he thought it was safer to stay inside.[D] Because he didn't want to leave Ed behind.20、The word "address'' in the last paragraph means ....[A] solution [B] speech [C] information [D] titlePassage TwoWhat you've always heard? We're eating way too much salt. The average American gets about 3.4 grams of sodium every day, far more than the upper limit of 2. 3 grams recommended by the USDA. The Institute of Medicine estimates that reducing sodium intake (摄取量) nationwide could prevent 100,000 deaths every year.The headlines now? It's time to get tough. The New York City health department recently kicked off a national effort to cut the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant food by 25% over five years. 80% of the salt in the average person's diet comes from those sources, not from the sahshaker (盐瓶).But wait! The benefits of salt reduction are surprisingly mruky. At least 13 studies have tried to find out what happens to people who choose to eat salty or not-so-salty food--and the results have pointed in eve~3~ direction. Sonre studies suggest that cutting salt protects the heart; others suggest that intense salt reduction can actually increase heart problems. What's needed,Dr. Michael Alderman says, is a randomized (随机的) , controlled trial, in which people are put on different diets and followed for years. It's the only way to get a reliable answer, but it's never been done.So what should you do? Go easy on processed foods and eat more produce. Those changes will improve your diet in a variety of ways and cut the amount of sodium you consume. If your blood pressure is high, work with your doctor to control it with drugs and lifestyle changes. If your blood pressure is healthy? At this point, there's no convincing reason for you to count every grain.21、It is stated in Paragraph 1 that our sodium intake[A] is within the healthy range[B] is a bit over the upper limit[C] is far beyond what is necessary[D] is well below the lower limit22、The main sources of salt in our diet are[A] home-made food and packaged food[B] restaurant food and saltshakers[C] home-made food and saltshakers[D] restaurant food and packaged food23、What does the word "murky' (Para. 3) probably mean?[A] Unclear [B] Significant[C] Obvious [D] Exaggerated24、What does Dr. Michael Alderman say about a randonfized, controlled trial?[A] It has been successfully conducted[B] It should be carded out.[C] It is already under way.[D] It is too late to try it.25、As stated in the last paragraph, people with normal blood pressure[A] should consider a change of their lifestyle[B] have every reason to be careful about sodium[C] will not be affected by the amount of sodium taken[D] do not have to take sodium too seriouslyPassage ThreeThere is a tale that straw is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry wolf around. So the cards were stacked against Warren Brush when local officials learned that he had several buildings made of straw bales ( 大捆) on his land.They have tried to fine him a lot. But the case is still unresolved. The problem is that California's building codes make no provision for the use of straw. And Mr Brush has many defenders--among them several university scientists and David Eisenberg, the chairman of the United States Green Building Council's code connnittee. They would like to see the prejudice against straw houses eliminated, for straw is, in many ways, an ideal building material.It is, for one thing, a great insulator (绝缘体). That keeps down the heating bills in houses made from it. It is also a waste product that would otherwise be burned, and is therefore cheap, and very much to the point in a place like California, it is earthquake-resistant. Last year a test conducted at the University of Nevada showed that straw-bale constructions could' withstand twice the amount of ground motion recorded in the Northridge earthquake that hit LosAngeles in 1994.There are other straws in the wind: a post office in suburban Albuquerque, a school in Maryland, and an office complex in suburban Los Angeles have all been built from straw. Even California is having a rethink, and may change its rules to adapt to straw-bale construction. As Mr Eisenberg observes, "the lesson of the Three Little Pigs isn't to avoid straw. It's that you don't let a pig build your house."26、By "the cards were stacked against Warren Brush, the author means that Brash[A] received punishment [B] made a breakthrough[c] would be in trouble [D] might win a prize27、David Eisenberg is mentioned[A] as a representative of official opinions[B] for the purpose of supporting Warren Brush[C] to provide evidence against straw houses[D] to show the importance of the building codes28、What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?[A] The structure of straw houses.[B] The possibility of building straw houses.[C] The suggestions for building straw houses.[D] The advantages of straw houses.29、It can be learned from the last paragraph that California[Al will fine Warren Brush as planned[B] will reduce the fine on Warren Brush[C] may consider a heavier fine on Warren Brush[D] may not fine Warren Brash30、The author's purpose in writing the passage is to[A] show that straw can be used to build houses[B] highlight the prejudice against straw houses[C] explain how to build a house with straw[D] introduce a new building materialPassage FourI was talking with a senior Public Relations manager the other day about "The Game Trainers" and he expressed much doubt about both the possibility and value of getting senior professionals to play games.These are serious people with serious jobs, and they are not going to waste time running around like school children,' he told me. This statement highlighted many of his assumptions.He also provided me with a golden opportunity to talk about how these "serious people with serious jobs" could actually learn something about themselves, their staff, their company, and their business opportunities by allowing creativity to flow more freely through "games".His position is not uncommon and it comes from a deep seated misunderstanding of what a "game" is and what it is for, as well as a set notion of what "work" nmst look like for it to beconsidered of value. It's not a coincidence (巧合) that the most successful companies of the last decade, including Apple and Google, were all started by college students, and perhaps as a consequence have at their core a spirit of fun，creativity and innovation. Their success has not been achieved through a strict work environment, dull meetings and a 9 to 5 work time. Instead they have flowing and flexible work spaces, a culture of cooperation, opportunities for creativity and relaxed work structures.The Game Trainers support this innovative and highly productive approach to work by developing games to integrate into the working environment, And so, I said to the PR man, it's a good thing that they are "serious people with serious jobs", because we also are extremely serious about play, and in today's environment they simply cannot afford not to play games.31、What does the PR manager think of the author’s proposal of playing games?[Al It is against the rule. [B] It makes no sense.[C] It is worth a try. [D] It would be beneficial.32、The author suggests that the PR manager’s position on games[A] represents a common misunderstanding[B] allows for greater work efficiency[C] is based on scientifically proven concepts[D] is hard to understand in today's world?33、The examples of Apple and Google show that[A] it helps to combine work with games[B] games should be separated from work[C] work and games can be clearly defined[D] no work can be done well without games34、"The Game Trainers" is probably a[A] computer game [B] search engine[C] game developer [D] research system35、In the passage the author[A] encourages people to work more creatively[B] describes how to balance work with life[C] analyzes why it is important to enjoy work[D] promotes an innovative approach to workPart III Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.36、Poor educational performance is sometimes to emotional disturbance.[Al connected [B] related [C] associated [D] joined37、The size of the castle and its commanding position still the visitors today..[A] impress [B] stress [C] affect [D] emphasize38、Their home is situated within easy of shops and other facilities.[A] acquisition [B] reach [C] possession [D] access39、Lee is coming on very well now and it's a of deciding how to fit him into the team.[A] problem [B] matter [C]thing [D] concern40、Once the excitement of watching TV all day has __ off, holidays can be boring.[Al shown [B] laid [C] worn [D] passed41、Feed plants and they grow; them and they suffer.[A] disgust [B] dismiss [C] omit [D] neglect42、It was considered impolite by many to discuss business on social[ Al events [ B] moments [C] occasions [ D] affairs43、Doctors have decided the only way he can live anything near a(n) life is to give him an operation.[A] normal [B] ordinary [C] regular [D] average44、There are many theories that to be able to predict whether you will give birth to a girl a boy.IA] declare [B] claim [C] announce [D] state45、It is very important for the staff to dress in something to the job.[ A ] proper [ B ] approximate [ C ] appropriate [ D ] relevant46、After the numbers' in every possible combination, we finally hit on a solution.[ A ] running through [ B ] running after[ C ] running over [ D ] running out47、Either he escaped, or he was put in prison, in , he was never seen again.[ Al all cases [ B] every case [C] any case [ D] no case48、The authorities wouldn’t us permission to fly all the way down to San Francisco.[ A ] grant [ B ] allow [ C ] provide [ D ] admit49、We should our differences and discuss the things we have in common.[ A ] put away [ B ] put aside [ C ] put off [ D ] put forward50、It was only by a great effort of will and courage that he was able to himself together.[A] pull [B] put [C] drag [D] push51、Seldom did we realize that many of our hair problems what we eat.[A] rely on [B] refer to [C] result from [D] respond to52、Mark needs to travel with his varied business interests.[A] extensively [B] intensely [C] broadly [D] widely53、Even though I'm quite a person, I like meeting people.[A] preserved [B] conserved [C] deserved [D] reserved54、Few people nowadays are able to friendship into their senior years.[A] postpone [B] maintain [C] withdraw [D] insist55、Tile necklace has 96 pieces and they are worth, individually and a lot of money.[A] wholly [B] jointly [C] collectively [D] completely56、A country birth rate is higher than its death rate will have an increasing population.[Al where [B] which [C] that ID] whose57、If' you don't agree with me,[A] neither they will [B] so won't they[C] neither will they [D] so they won't neither58、Although Americans have different views on many issues, they tend to agree __ one subject: taxes are too high.[A] on [B] to [C] with [D] at59、There is nothing about women careers to look after children.[A] to give up [B] give up [C] giving up [D] will give up60、His sickness, with terrible weather, has completely ruined this long expected trip.[A] combining [B] combined [C] to combine [D] to be combined61、A recent poll suggested that if money were not an issue, most people not to work at all.[A] should prefer [B] prefer [C] would prefer [D] preferred62、After seemed to be an endless wait, it was finally his turn to have the interview.[A] that [B] when [C] what [D] which63、It is worth that even the most complex scientific ideas can eventually affect one's daily life.[A] to remember [B] remember[C] remembered [D] remembering64、The degree you maintain your mental health may depend on certain simple environmental factors.[A] which [B] to which [C] that [D] to that65、The demand made by the workers is that their salaries to cover the increased cost of living.[A] increased [B] be increased[C] be increasing [D] were increased66、He is, by far, and will be for a time , the best basketball player in the history of the game.[A] coming [B] to come [C] to have come [D] to be coming67、When we arrived at the airport, we were told our flight[A] cancelled [ B] had cancelled[C] has been cancelled [D] had been cancelled68、Scarcely had they settled in their seats in the cinema the film began.[A] when [BI than' [C] as [D] until69、After careful investigation we find that one of the statements to be untrue.[Al is turned out [B] have been turned out[c] has turned out [D] have turned out70、This project is said right now and so far everything is going on quite smoothly.[Al to have carried out [B] having been carried out[C] to have been carried out [D] to be being carried out71、Without the sun's light the earth's surface, no life could exist on the earth.[A] warms [B] warmed [C] warming [D] to warm72、It is generally agreed that the Internet has brought people together[A] more than any invention [B] than any other invention[C] than any other invention has [D] more than has any other invention73、the price, it is a thousand times worth it.[A] Whatever [B] However [C] Whichever [D] Wherever74、How close parents are to their children a strong influence on the character of their children.[A] have [B]has [C] having [D] had75、It is high time that the international community together to fight against terrorism.[A] work [B] works [C] worked [D] workingPart 1V Cloze Test (10 points)Directions: There are 10 numbered blanks in the following passage. For each blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Everyone seems to know that grandma's cookies taste better because they're made with love. But is that really 76 ? A researcher from Marydand University devised experiments that put it to the 77 .In the first experiment, people were given candy with a note attached. One note read: "I 78 this just for you. Hope it makes you happy. "A second note read: "Whatever. I don't care. I just took it randomly. " 79 he people tested, tile candy that came with the former tasted better and sweeter.In the second experiment, people sat in a chair with an electric massage (按摩) device that was either 80 by a real human being or a computer. The massages were 81 , but people got more pleasure from the massages operated by a human. The massages operated by the computer weren't viewed as 82 .These simple experiments show how good intentions can 83 to life: food tastes better and pleasure is more pleasant. And it doesn't even 84 if the intentions actually exist--it's tile perception 85 they're there, that's important. The general message is that trusting in people's good intentions makes for a happier life.76、[A] fine [B] serious [C] strange [D] true77、[A] thought [B] test [C] proof [D] question78、[A] liked [B] meant [C] picked [D] carried79、[A] Because of [B] In spite of [C] Thanks to [D] According to80、[A] turned on [B] taken out [C] sent back [D] handed in81、[A] important [B] available [C] identical [D] necessary82、[A] safe [B] good [C] direct [D] worthy83、[A] put [B] make [C] reach [D] add84、[A] matter [B] hold [C] work [D] stand85、[A] while [B] when [C] that [D] which2012年广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语统考真题Paper One（试卷二）(30 minutes)Part V Writing (15 points)Directions: You are to write in, 100~120 words about the title "Is It Useful to Go to University Now?” You should base your composition on the outline given in, Chinese below:1、有人认为，上大学没有用；2、有人认为，上大学非常有用；3、你的看法是怎么样的？为什么？2012年广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语统考真题答案Part I Dialogne Completion (15 points)1、D2、C3、D4、D5、D6、D7、B8、A9、C 10、C11、A 12、D 13、A 14、A 14、A、15、APart II Reading Comprehension (40 points)Passage One16、C 17、A 18、D 19、B 20、DPassage Two21、B 22、D 23、C 24、B 25、APassage Three26、C 27、B 28、D 29、D 30、DPassage Four31、B 32、A 33、C 34、C 35、APart III V ocabulary and Structure (20 points)36、B 37、A 38、B 39、B 40、C 41、D 42、C 43、A 44、B 45、D46、A 47、C 48、A 49、D 50、A 51、C 52、D 53、B 54、B 55、A56、D 57、C 58、A 59、D 60、B 61、C 62、C 63、D 64、C 65、B66、B 67、D 68、A 69、C 70、D 71、D 72、C 73、A 74、B 75、CPart 1V Cloze Test (10 points)76、D 77、B 78、C 79、D 80、A81、C 82、B 83、D 84、A 85、C。
2012年学位英语考题(无答案)
2012年学位英语考试考题Part I Reading ComprehensionPassage 1For centuries Dutch engineers have been fighting a war against water. Their main enemy is the sea. A large part of the country is below sea level. In fact, Holland is also called the “Netherlands” which means “low land.” Very tall and strong walls, called dykes, have built to keep out the sea. But in very rough weather the sea may suddenly burst through a dyke. Great damage can be caused by floods when this happens.Three large rivers are also part of the problem. These rivers are the Rhine, the Maas and the Scheldt. They flow through Holland into the North Sea. They have cut many passages across the country. At low tides, the rivers flow into the sea as usual. But at high tide, the sea can flow into the rivers! This is because the land is so low.The battles against the water never end, but they have made Holland a bigger and bigger country. In order to prevent floods, the engineers take or reclaim land that was under water. The Dutch have been reclaiming land for seven hundred years.Land is usually reclaimed from a passage between islands. Two dykes are built across the passage, so they block the water between them. Then the engineers dig long canals and pump the water into them. At low tide, the canals empty the water into the sea.Because the land is so low, water from the sea and rivers can rise up through the ground. For this reason, the pumps continue working even the land has been drained (that is, when the water has been pumped away). The dykes contain gates, and through these the water is pumped out. In many parts of Holland, pumps must be working all the time. If they stopped, there will be very bad floods.1. Water is the main threat to Holland because ____.A. the sea is too roughB. the land is lower than the seaC. the high and strong dykes can not keep the floods outD. the weather is too rough2. “Netherlands” means ____.A. high landB. land of waterC. low landD. land of dykes3. Holland is threatened not only by the sea, but also by ____.A. the floods from broken dykesB. the three riversC. the sea tidesD. many passages the three rivers have cut across the country4. The Holland claim land from the sea in order to ____.A. prevent floodsB. make their country largerC. make their country more beautifulD. have more farmland5. If pumps stop working there will be very bad floods because _____.A. the water will run back at high tideB. the sea may break the dykes in rough weatherC. the battle against water will never endD. the land is too low and water can rise up through the drained landPassage 2The city has always been an engine of intellectual life, from the 18th-century cafes of London, where citizens gathered to discuss chemistry and politics, to the Left Bank bars of modern Paris, where Picasso talked about modem art. Without the metropolis, we might not have had the great art of Shakespeare.And yet, city life isn’t easy. Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are depressing. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs (损害) our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it’s long been recognized that city life is exhausting, this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.One of the main forces at work is a complete lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain. Studieshave demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly when they can see trees from their windows, and that women living in public housing are better able to focus when their apartments overlook a lawn. Even these glimpses of nature improve brain performance, it seems, because they provide a mental break from the urban life.This research arrives just as humans cross an important milestone (里程碑). For the first time in history, the majority of people live in cities. Instead of inhabiting wide-open spaces, we’re crowded into concrete jungles, surrounded by traffic and millions of s trangers. In recent years, it’s become clear that such unnatural surroundings have important implications for our mental and physical health, and can powerfully alter how we think.6. Which of the following is the main idea of this passage?A. The city inspires talented people.B. The city hurts your brain.C. The city has many pleasures and benefits.D. The city seriously affects the natural balance.7. The word “metropolis” in the first paragraph is closest in meani ng to_______.A. citizenB. natureC. cityD. stress8. People have just come to realize that_______.A. human attention is a scarce resourceB. city life can make people very tiredC. the city is an engine of intellectual lifeD. an urban environment is damaging to the brain9. What is the factor mentioned in the third paragraph that helps the hospital patients recover more quickly?A. Nature.B. Better treatment.C. Experienced doctors.D. Good medicine.10. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Different aspects (方面) of an urban environment, such as the crowded streets, can lead to an increase inself-control.B. Small changes in urban design cannot reduce the negative side effects of city life.C. For the firs t time in history, the earth’s population is more urban than rural.D. A walk down a busy city street will improve brain performance.Passage 3My father was foreman of s sugar-cane plantation in Rio piedras, puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and loyal to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay.I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirt floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem, one of the most important things a person can have.When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never miss one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands of dollars playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.The more I dreamed, the more I thought, why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity I learned working in the field – except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.11. What was the writer’s first job?A. To stand down the fairway at a golf course.B. To spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them.C. To drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields.D. To watch the sugar-cane plantation.12. The word “tedious” in paragraph 2 most probably means ____.A. hardB. boringC. interestingD. long13. What did the writer learn about from his first job?A. He could work as hard as possible.B. He could go to work on time.C. He should never fail to go to work.D. He should be respectful and loyal to the people he works for.14. What gave the writer self-esteem?A. Having a big family.B. Bringing money back home to help the family.C. Helping his father with the work.D. All of the above.15. What was the writer’s dream while working at a golf course?A. Making a lot of money by playing golf.B. Becoming a successful golfer.C. Running a golf course near his house.D. Both A & B.Passage 4In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the early postwar era, there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over-trusting of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons may be pushed, or that a computer may simply malfunction.Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the following warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.16. What is the main purpose of this passage?A. To look back to the early days of computers.B. To explain what technical problems may occur with computers.C. To discourage unnecessary investment in computers.D. To warn against a mentally lazy attitude towards computers.17. According to the passage, initial concerns about computers were that they might_____.A. lead us into the post-war eraB. be quite widespreadC. take controlD. take over routine tasks18. The passage recommends those dealing with computers to_____.A. be reasonably skeptical abort themB. check all their answersC. substitute them for basic thinkingD. use them for business purposes only19. An “internal computer” is_____.A. a computer uses exclusively by one company for its own problemsB. a person’s store of knowledge and the ability to process itC. the most up-to-date in-house computer a company can buyD. a computer from the post-war era which is very reliable20. The passage suggests that the present-day problem with regard to computers is_____A. challengingB. psychologicalC. dramaticD. malfunctioningPart II Vocabulary and Structure (30 minutes, 20 points)21. Many buildings ________ knocked down by the earthquake.A. wasB. wereC. isD. are22. A good teacher must know how to ________ his ideas.A. conveyB. displayC. consultD. confront23. The teacher should not confront his pupils ________ too much information in one lesson.A. byB. withC. fromD. about24. A large part of human activity, particularly in relation to the environment, is ________ conditions or events.A. in response toB. in favor ofC. in contrast toD. in excess of25. Harmonious marriage, however, does not necessarily ________ much sharing of interests and responsibilities.A. take overB. result inC. hold onD. keep to26. A man escaped from the prison last night. It was a long time ________ the guards discovered what had happened.A. beforeB. untilC. sinceD. when27. They spent all their money and made no ________ for the future.A. supplyB. assuranceC. provisionD. adjustment28. My letter of inquiry brought no ________.A. circumstanceB. requestC. receptionD. response29. The new technique ________, the yields as a whole increased by 20 percent.A. working outB. having worked outC. having been worked outD. to have been worked out30. He has such ________ that he is quick at learning anything.A. a good brainB. a good intentionC. good judgmentD. good imagination31. “The old lady was slightly injured in an accident.” This tells us that her injury was ________.A. deadlyB. very seriousC. fatalD. not serious32. A club is a place to make frequent ________ with friends.A. accountsB. attemptsC. contentsD. contacts33. _____ the obvious differences in size and population, the states of America have many things _____ common.A. Although; onB. Though; onC. Despite; inD. Because of; on34. Scientists say it may be five or six years ________ this medicine is tested on human beings.A. sinceB. beforeC. afterD. when35. With larger numbers of graduates than ever before, just having a degree will no longer be enough to make you ________ in the crowd.A. stand upB. stand byC. stand forD. stand out36. The doctor tried to do an experiment to find out the ________ of the medicine on the mice.A. causeB. resultC. reasonD. effect37. This is only one of the laundries in the district ________ modern equipment.A. that haveB. which haveC. that hasD. what has38. Skating can be good for you ________ correctly.A. though doingB. though doneC. if doneD. if doing39. By the end of last week, 611 people from 49 countries ________ to attend the meeting, with nearly half coming from the United States, Germany and Britain.A. had registeredB. have registeredC. registeredD. were registered40. It was suggested that ________ big event like the Year of Russia in China should certainly benefit ________ relationship between the two countries.A. a; theB. the; aC. a; /D. the; /41. Although he knew little about the large amount of work done in the field, he succeeded ________ other more well-informed experimenters failed.A. asB. unlessC. whatD. where42. ________ should any money be given to a small child.A. On no accountB. From all accountsC. Of no accountD. By all accounts43. ________ some mammals came to live in the sea is now known.A. WhichB. SinceC. AlthoughD. How44. ________ student with a little common sense should be able to answer the question.A. EachB. AnyC. EitherD. One45. ________ such a good chance, he planned to learn more.A. To be givenB. Having been givenC. Having givenD. Giving46. ________ that my head had cleared, my brain was also beginning to work much better.A. ForB. NowC. SinceD. Despite47. ________ that the trade between the two countries reached its highest point.A. During the 1960’sB. That it was in the 1960’sC. It was in the 1960’sD. It was the 1960’s48. ________ that they may eventually reduce the amount of labor needed on construction sites by 90 percent.A. So clever are the construction robotsB. So clever the construction robots areC. Such construction robots are cleverD. Such clever construction robots are49. ________ the whole, early American city planning was excellent.A. InB. FromC. OnD. Above50. The teacher’s lecture on American history was three hours long, and Mary felt very ________.A. upsetB. boredC. disturbedD. neglected51. Her mind was so ________ by the disease that she could not remember what she had done.A. actedB. influencedC. effectedD. affected52. Every boy and girl ________ not to swim in the lake, for it is polluted.A. has been warnedB. have been warnedC. has warnedD. have warned53. She heard a terrible noise, ________ brought her heart into her mouth.A. itB. thisC. whichD. that54. Why can’t you do this small ________ for me? I’ve helped you often enough in the past.A. commandB. demandC. effortD. favor55. ________ he often forgot their wedding anniversary greatly annoyed his wife.A. AllB. WhatC. WhichD. That56. You screamed in your sleep last night. You ________ a terrible dream.A. must have hadB. must haveC. must have hadD. must have been57. However much ________, it will be worth the money.A. the dictionary costsB. costs the dictionaryC. the dictionary will costD. does the dictionary cost58. I don’t care ________ or not she will apologize to me.A. ifB. whetherC. whatD. which59. One of my brother’s many faults is that he never ________ anything very long.A. decides onB. sticks toC. goes overD. makes up60. ________ when she started complaining.A. Not until he arrivedB. Hardly had he arrivedC. No sooner had he arrivedD. Scarcely did he arrivePart III Cloze (10 minutes, 10 points)Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we’ve both always ___61___ the few times a year when we can see each other.Over the ___62___, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was___63___ around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how she experimented with ___64___ and was into other ___65___ behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been ___66___ to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her ___67___ him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she ___68___ better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.I tried to ___69___ her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting ___70___. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.61. A. worried about B. looked forward to C. paid attention to D. think of62. A. weekend B. months C. years D. days63. A. working B. falling in love C. hanging D. keeping in touch64. A. books B. girls C. friends D. drugs65. A. self-destructive B. self-respecting C. self-confident D. self-defensive66. A. explaining B. reasoning C. declaring D. lying67. A. on B. beside C. around D. to68. A. did B. deserved C. had D. got69. A. told B. convince C. force D. warn70. A. somewhere B. everywhere C. nowhere D. anywhere英语试卷二Part IV Translation (15 minutes, 10 points)71. 说实话，直到昨天我才知道他去上海了。
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成人本科学士学位英语统一考试2012年5月12日Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:The most famous collections of fairy tales (童话) are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in 1812. They didn’t think they were writing for children. They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture. Their first edition (版本) was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales. They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children.But the Grimms needed money. They had made a bad deal with their publisher and received little payment for their first book. At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair in his house one could sit on without worrying it would break. So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children. He selected a few of the tales, made them much longer, and polished up the language. He didn’t add morals, but he did slip in character judgments and moralizing comments wherever he could.The Grimms’ fairy tales also have one characteristic that would seem to make them unsuitable for children. Many of them inc lude violent incidents. In “Hansel and Gretel” an old woman is burned to death in an oven, and in “Little Red Riding Hood” a child is eaten by a wolf. When he revised the tales for children, Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence. In fact, he sometimes even ramped it up. For example, in the first edition of the tales, Cinderella forgives her sisters at the end. It’s only in the second edition, the one intended for children, that her birds peck (啄) out their eyes.Why, then, have the Grimms’ fairy tales become classics of children’s literature, so much so that it is hard to imagine a child who doesn’t know Cinderella’s story or Snow White’s?One answer is that only a few of the tales survived into modem times. The first edition of the Grimms’ fairy tale s had 210 tales. By 1825 it was down to 50. And today only a dozen or so of the tales are often reprinted in children’s collections.(76) But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.1. Why did Wilhelm Grimm set out to adapt his book for children?A. To deal with readers’ complaints.B. To improve his financial situation.C. At the request of his publisher.D. To preserve the ancient stories in print.2. When revising the fairy tales, Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT .A. adding character judgmentsB. making the tales much longerC. deleting the violent scenesD. polishing up the language3. What does the expression “ramped it up” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Started.B. Allowed.C. Classified.D. Increased.4. Which of the following statements about the Grimms’ fairy tales is TRUEaccording to the passage?A. They were or iginally intended to be children’s stories.B. Generally speaking, the tales that have endured can help children deal with thechallenges life brings to them.C. A large number of the tales made it to the modem age.D. They are less violent th an the children’s stories being written today.5. What is the passage mainly concerned with?A. History of fairy tales.B. Ways to preserve the oral tradition.C. The Grimms’ fairy tales.D. Violence in fairy tales.Passage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:. As the school year kicks off, parents are once again straggling to cajole (哄编)and, if need be, drag their exhausted teens out of bed. That image may make you laugh, but lack of sleep is no joke. (77) Teenagers w ho don’t get enough rest have more learning. health~ behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night. Long-term lack of sleep is tied to heart disease, overweight, depression and a shortened life span in adults, indicating the importance of establishing good sleep habits early in life. Lack of sleep can be especially deadly for teens; car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers, and safety experts believe sleepy driving is a major factor.Unfortunately, few teenagers get the sleep they need. In a survey of middle- and high-school students, University of Colorado researchers found that 82 percent said they woke up tired and unrefreshed, and more than half had trouble concentrating during the day at least once a week.Blame multitasking for some of this. Many students are juggling after-school activities, homework and part-time jobs. Even when they manage to fulfill these obligations by a reasonable hour, television, the Internet, video games, phone calls and text messages to friends often keep them awake deep into the night. Taking soda and energy drinks late in the day and going to late-night parties on weekends add to sleep debt. Biology also works against teenagers’ sleep, The body’s internal clock, which controls when a person starts to feel tired, shifts after puberty (青春期), making it hard for most teens to fall asleep before 11 pm. Class usually begins before 8:15 am, with many high schools starting as early as 7:15 am. To get to school on time, most teens have to get up by 6:30 am, guaranteeing they’ll be sleep-deprived during the week. Teens often sleep much later on weekends to catch up, making it even harder to fallasleep on Sunday night and wake up Monday morning. Playing catch-up on weekends also doesn’t help teens stay refreshed when they need it most: during the week at school.Since the 1990s, middle and high schools in more than two dozen states have experimented with later school start times. (78) The results have been encouraging.’ more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents. But most schools still start early, meaning teens have their work cut out for them if they want to get enough sleep.6. According to the passage, poor sleep can be linked to all of the following EXCEPTA. heart diseaseB. car accidentsC. skin problemsD. poor concentration7. The main idea of Paragraph 3 isA. how sleep deprivation (缺乏) can be treatedB’ what causes sleep deprivationC. who is most at risk for sleep deprivationD. why sleep deprivation is a serious concern8. What does the word “juggling” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Dealing with at the same time.B. Striking a balance between.C. Applying for.D. Having difficulty in.9. Which of the following is NOT to blame for teenagers’ lack of sleep?A. Multitasking.B. Biological clock. :C. Weekend catch-up sleep.D. Healthy diet.10. According to the passage, what have some schools done to help their students get enough sleep?A. Educating their students about the importance of sleep.B. Monitoring their students’ late-night activities.C. Delaying school start times.D. Setting strict rules.Passage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job. The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 16- to 24-year-o!ds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step.(79) More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s. Keen both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment, the government has introduced an ambitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work.A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long; ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early- 1980s recession (~/l/), when unemployment continued in some parts of the country for a long time after theeconomy began to improve.To help young people into work, ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains, bookshops, and supermarkets, to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay, with the prospect of a proper job for those who shine. (80) Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for work is popular with voters: according to a survey published in February, about 60% of people support the program. Equally attractive was the option of compelling them to work: Under the existing arrangements youngsters could choose whether or not to accept a place, but if they dropped out after the end of the first week, the y stood to lose up to two weeks’ benefits.Yet the scheme has also polarized (两极分化的) opinion: a third of people are consistently opposed. Following a noisy “Right to Work” campaign that accused employers of co-operating secretly with the government in “forced labor”, several firms dropped out of the program. To prevent this from getting worse, Chris Grayling, an employment minister, admitted that young people could leave their work experience at any time without being punished for doing so. This not only halted the flight of employers (for now, at least) but also enabled him to announce that new firms have agreed to take part in the program.11. According to the passage, young people in Britain .A. are used to showing up for workB. value unpaid work very muchC. are always opposed to unpaid workD. could learn something about job security through unpaid work12. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?A. Most voters support the government’s effort to help yo ung people to find work.B. Some people protest against the government’s attempt to force young people towork.C. There are more than one million young people who took part in the program.D. There are more than one million young people who are jobless.13. According to the author, the British government is trying to .A. punish young people if they are not cooperating with itB. reform the unemployed youngstersC. avoid the economic slowdownD. reduce welfare spending14. The word “shine” in Paragraph 3 means““.A. do wellB. reflect lightC. look happyD. produce light15. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?A. Enjoy Work Without PayB. Can Work, Won’t WorkC. Should Work, Shouldn’t PlayD. Hate Work or Love WorkPart II Vocabulary and Structure (30%)Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.16. Please give Jim the schedule for tomorrow’s conference when he back. He is to chair the conference.A. will comeB. comeC. comesD. came17. five minutes earlier, you would not have missed the last train for Shanghai, but you were late.A. Had you comeB. Do you comeC. Did you comeD. Should you come18. After he worked out the solution, appeared a smile on his face.A. itB. hereC. whatD. there19. the former president’s supporters went out in streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction.A. A small amount ofB. A large number ofC. A little bit ofD. A great deal of20. To b e honest, today’s dinner was just so-so. It wasn’t such a good one promised by the boss.A. thatB. whichC. asD. what21. So many people ______ the meeting had to be put off.A. being absentB. to be absentC. were absentD. had been absent22. We often advise him not to drink more is good for his health.A. asB. thatC. thanD. but23. —Did Charles vote in the last election?—No, he wasn’t.A. enough old thenB. then enough oldC. old then enoughD. old enough then24. By no means look down on those who are less lucky in life than we are.A. we shouldB. should weC. we should notD. should we not25. He didn’t feel like that day so he stayed indoors reading.A. workingB. worksC. to workD. worked26. No sooner had we started on the road it began to rain.A. whenB. thanC. thenD. whenever27. He decided to go for a sailing holiday the fact that he was usually Seasick (晕船).A. because ofB. in spite ofC. in case ofD. as a result of28. What you do in your spare time is your own . However it should not be harmful to others.A. businessB. purchaseC. bargainD. sale29. As a gardener, Jim has to water the flowers and the grass in the garden every morning.A. trimB. improveC. refineD. repair30. The firemen are still the small fires started by the plane crash.A. taking offB. setting asideC. getting along withD. putting out31. He didn’t live up to had been expected of him.A. thatB. whatC. whichD. all32. The old couple decided to a boy and a girl though they had three of their own.A. adaptB. bringC. receiveD. adopt33. The relationship between employers and employees has been studied .A. originallyB. extremelyC. violentlyD. intensively34. The car halfway for no reason.A. broke offB. broke downC. broke upD. broke out35. The police that he committed a series of crimes in the north of the city.A. swelledB. submittedC. surveyedD. suspected36. The manager lost his just because his secretary was ten minutes late.A. moodB. temperC. mindD. passion37. We gave out a cheer when the red roof of the cottage came view.A. fromB. inC. beforeD. into38. I have kept that portrait I can see it every day, as it always reminds me ofmy university days in London.A. whichB. whereC. whetherD. when39. The room is in a terrible mess; it cleaned.A. can’t have beenB. mus tn’t have beenC. shouldn’t have beenD. wouldn’t have been40. You see the lightning it happens, but you hear the thunder later.A. the instantB. for an instantC. on the instantD. in an instant41. it or not, his discovery has created a stir in scientific circles.A. BelieveB. To believeC. BelievingD. Believed42. The medicine is on sale everywhere. You can get it at ch emist’s.A. otherB. someC. certainD. any43. Your hair wants . You’d better have it done tomorrow.A. cutB. to cutC. cuttingD. being cut44. I don’t think it advisable that Tom to the job since he has no experience.A. be assignedB. will be assignedC. is assignedD. has been assigned45. The goals he had fought all his life no longer seemed important to him.A. after whichB. with whichC. for whichD. at whichPart III Identification (10%)Directions: Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D. Identify the one that is not correct. Then blacken the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet.46. The sun gives off light and warmth, that makes it possible for plants to grow.A B C D47. Sand painting has also called dry or earth painting and is practiced byA B Cseveral American Indian artists.D48. Humans, like many other animals, are warm-blooded with a fairly constantlyA B C Dbody temperature.49. Now that the stress of examinations and interviews are over, we can all relaxA B C Dfor a while.50. The tallest of the twins went to search for the missing jewels, the picture ofA Bwhich you saw in today’s newspaper.C D51. They are going to have the serviceman to be installed an electric fan in theA B C Doffice tomorrow.52. Only under special circumstances freshmen are permitted to take make-up tests.A B C D53. It’s already 5 o’clock now. Don’t you think it’s about time we are going home?A B C D54. Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the three-hours’ movieA B Ccould not hold our attention.D55. People appreciate to have worked with him because he has a good sense ofA B Chumor.DPartly Cloze (10%)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.By the time I finished high school, my interest in animals had grown, and I enrolled at a university to study biology. I learned soon enough that studying animals 56 this level was not in the animals’ best 57. I remember one midterm exam in 58 each student was handed a large, freshly-killed frog and 59 to dissect (解剖)and mark a set of body parts. I looked at the 60 frog in front of me and was saddened that her life was 61 away for such a slight 62.A year later, in the same lab 63 I dissected the frog, I performed a small act of animal 64. We were 65 on fruit flies, and it was time to record the distribution of characteristics in their next generation. Flies were 66 in small plastic bottles. Counting the number of flies with white or red eyes required first exposing them to ether (乙醚) 67 they could not move. The flies were then spread onto a piece of white paper 68 and counted. When the data collection was 69 , the flies had no further use, and our instructions were to 70 them into a small glass dish of oil at the center of each desk, which was to be their final resting 71.Once my little pile of flies had been counted, I pushed them off the edge of the paper. As we recorded our data, I kept one eye 72 them. Within minutes the pile was humming (嗡嗡叫) as tiny legs and wings beat their way out of the ether fog. I was extremely excited as they 73 flight. That was my first 74 in refusing to conduct scientific research that treated nonhuman life in a(n) 75 way.56. A. at B, withC. forD. off57. A. duties B. interestsC. ratesD. hobbies58. A. what B. thatC, where D. which59. A. dismissed B. drawnC. instructedD. mended60. A. alive B, dead ~C. livingD. wounded61. A. made B. broughtC. takenD. passed62. A. reason B. spiritC. spaceD. system63. A. that B. whichC. whatD. where64. A. operation B. liberationC. tendencyD. wealth65. A. experimenting B. strengtheningC. stimulatingD. substituting66. A. solved B. soakedC. recoveredD. kept67. A. while B. becauseC. in caseD. so that68. A. being examined B. to be examinedC. being operated D- to be operated69. A. preliminary B. progressiveC. completeD. curious70. A. put B. raiseC. rouse D, spoil71.A. shade B. shadowC. placeD. stuff72. A. for B. withC. atD. on73. A. stood B. tookC. sentD. rode74, A. step B. reviewC. glanceD. gesture75. A. kind B. generousC. cruelD. effectivePart V Translation (20%)Section ADirections: In this part there are five sentences which you should translate into Chinese These sentences are all taken from the 3 passages you have just read in Reading Comprehension. You can refer back to the passages to identify their meanings in the context.76. But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.77. Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning, health, behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night.78. The results have been encouraging: more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents.79. More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s.80. Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.Section BDirections: In this part there are five sentences in Chinese. You should translate them into English. Be sure to write clearly.81．昨天，我坐在办公室写报告时，小明从英国打电话过来了。
12本科-学位英语考试题库-大学英语5卷
12本科-学位英语考试题库-大学英语5卷北京城市学院2015届学位英语考试题库2012级本科大学英语5卷Section A: Short Conversations（每小题0.5分，共5分）Directions:In this section, you are going to hear five short conversations. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken only ONCE. After each conversation a question will be asked about what you’ve heard. Choose the correct answers to the questions you hear. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。
1. A. The woman is not as strong as the man that she couldn‘t carry ten books.B. The man will do some research with the woman.C. E-books are convenient to download and light to carry around.D. E-books are better than paper books in every respect.2. A. It is high time that the government took some measures to limit gun ownership.B. A lot of young men in the United States have the tendency to kill.C. Young kids are often the target of killers.D. Illegal gun ownership is a serious problem in some western countries.3. A. She is not sure what kind of dance is suitable for the man to learn.B. Solo dance is as good as partner or group dance.C. She recommends the man to learn partner or group dance.D. Solo dance can also make people popular in social activities.4. A. The waterfalls are made from industrial materials like pumps and piping.B. The waterfalls are amazing because they are natural.C. Visitors can appreciate the waterfalls from the distance by sitting in the park.D. Visitors can take a boat trip to have a closer look at the waterfalls.5. A. Detroit of the United States suffered from urban decay in the 1960s.B. Symptoms of urban decay include a decrease in population and few jobopportunities.C. Buildings and streets of a city suffering from urban decay are empty and shabby.D. Manchester is the only city in British history that ever suffered from urbandecay.6. A. She believes the man is making fun of her.B. She thinks the doctors are irresponsible to have made such careless mistakes.C. She makes up her mind that she will never have any operation.D. She thinks the patients should communicate with the doctors before anyoperation.7. A. Only comic books have the mark ―c‖ wrapped in a circle.B. The mark ―c‖ wrapped in a circle is often on the back cover of the book.C. A tiny ―c‖wrapped in a circle indicates that the writer‘s copyright is protectedby the law.D. With the tiny mark, the book owner has the right to sell or make copies of thebook.8. A. This is the second time the man caught a cold in the past three months.B. The cold can be cured by drinking a lot of water or taking some vitaminC.C. Only tea or chicken soup can help the man feel better.D. There are several ways to make a person who has a cold feel better sooner.9.A. Cities should slow down their pace of development.B. Some measures should be taken to protect the Great Wall of China.C. More money should be invested in the protection of the historical buildings in allcommunities.D. Media should play a positive role in raising people‘s awareness of protectingcultural heritage.10. A. China‘s education mainly falls into four categories.B. There are different standards when categorizing education in China.C. Vocational and adult programs are the most important in China.D. Higher education is more important than others in any country.Section B: Long Conversations（每小题1分，共10分）Conversation 1Directions: In this section you’ll hear a long conversation. At the end of the conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only ONCE. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C, and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the conversation you just heard.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。
2012年学位课英语试题
2012年学位课英语试题（A卷）PAPER ONEPart I Listening Comprehension (25 minutes, 20 points)Section A ( 1 point each)1. A. He is pretty comfortable in this kind of setting.B. He is not at ease when seeing her.C. He is not used to the current surroundings.D. He rarely feels shy in unfamiliar places.2. A. Waiter and customer B Husband and wife.C. Boss and secretaryD. Doctor and patient3. A. They went to see a movie.B. They had a heated quarrel.C. They ended their relationship.D. They changed their plan.4. A. At a coffee shop. B In the street C. At one‟s home D. In a restaurant5. A. She prefers to go shopping with him.B. She does not want to eat out.C. She is in a bad mood today.D. She wants to enjoy the perfect weather.6. A. Tuesday and Friday B Wednesday and ThursdayC. Monday and SaturdayD. Saturday and Sunday7. A The man always makes wise decision.B. Jane may not be able to do the job very well.C. Jane knows how to run a chain store.D. The man really likes the book cover.8. A. The woman needs to arrive earlier.B. The man has to delay his departure.C. The woman dislikes air travel.D. The man has some extra work tomorrow.9. A. Double major in both business and psychology.B. Major in business and minor in psychology.C Drop business or psychologyD. Choose two closely related majors.Section B ( 1point each)Mini-talk One10. A. It represents the bride‟s link to her family and the past.B. It represents support of the bride‟s family and friends.C. It‟s a symbol of good luck and success.D. It‟s a symbol of good health.11. A. Wealth and health B. Protection against evilC Loyalty and purity D. A remainder of the past12. A Wearing something new B Wearing blue items.C. Wearing something borrowed D Wearing a silver sixpence in a shoe Mini-talk Two13. A. They are facing budget deficit.B. They are giving more weight to academic study.C. They are conducing observational studies.D. They are shortening school hours.14. A. Because being active is the cause of higher grades.B. Because the amount of activity required is just right.C. Because they help students learn to follow rules in class.D. Because they can arouse students‟ curiosity.15. A. Whether there is difference between school subjects.B. Whether physical activity is linked to academic performance.C. Whether a comparison should be made with the control.D. Whether the amount of activity affects academic performance.Section C ( 1 point each)16. To keep your sensitive information safe, your job is to create a password that is very ____( 3 words)17. Your password should not ____( 2 words) about you.18. Consider this: in addition to ___(2 words) , phrases can also be easy to remember.19. This password could still be stronger by adding upper-class letters, numbers or ____(2 words)20. Always remember to ____(3 words) each site you visit on a computer that isn‟t yours.Part II Vocabulary (10 minutes, 10 points)Section A (0.5 point each)21. Facebook‟s top executives are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries.A optionalB qualifiedC desirableD casual22. Ways have to be found to accommodate the special needs of these left-behind children in rural areas.A. satisfy B occupy C alter D host23. The number of people with Alzheimer‟s disease in the United States is projected to more than double by 2050.A devisedB thrustC estimatedD encountered24. My supervisor, gentle and friendly, made me feel at ease from the first meeting with him.A. at large B at length C at random D at home25. I searched the library to see what I could learn about the massacre, but nothing turned up.A was recommendedB was foundC was understoodD was clarified.26. Geraldine Ferraro said that whoever coined the term ObamaCare was brilliant.A came uponB broke downC made upD drew on27. Upon learning that his mother was gravely ill, he wasted no time getting to the hospital.A suddenlyB moderatelyC seriouslyD genetically28. It requires uncompromising efforts to develop these residences into true homes for our underprivileged citizens.A unproductiveB unyieldingC uninvitingD unintentional29. Snow is not predicted for today; we can expect some rain, though.A althoughB thereforeC yetD however30. At that time, there was a wealth of evidence that Japan was planning war in the Pacific.A abundantB valuableC expensiveD priceless.Section B (0.5 point each)31. This old man developed nerve damage to his brain, _____ him nearly disabled.A leavingB keepingC allowingD causing32. These discoveries have opened up new ____ in the field of cancer research.A rainbowsB horizonsC altitudeD paradoxes33. Some politicians in Japan still believe that the Nanjing Massacre is nothing but a ___.A novelB flawC truthD myth34. Many people choose to be honest when creating their online ____ to make future dating easier.A pretextsB prepositionsC profilesD protests35. Several large studies have found ____ lower odds of heart disease among regular nut eaters.A confidentlyB consistentlyC conceptuallyD contemptuously36. The boss needs a workout program that perfectly ____ his busy schedule.A turns intoB falls intoC looks intoD fits into37. A glimpse ___our solar system reveals the neighborhood outside the sun‟s influence is stranger than expected.A intoB atC byD beyond38. It has never ____ to me that an intimate knowledge of English grammar can be so useful .A occurredB happenedC turnedD conformed39. The FDA is expected to require safety studies on e-cigarettes and ____ their use.A regulateB recollectC reboundD rehearse40. Teenagers can become ____ and hard to handle if every single decision is taken away from them.A obedientB cooperativeC rebelliousD aestheticPart III Cloze Test (10 minutes, 10 points, 1 point each)“A better, richer and happier life for all our citizens.” That‟s the American __41__ . In practice, it means living in a spacious, air-conditional house, owning a car or three or maybe a boat or a holiday home, not to mention flying off to __42__ destinations. The trouble __43__ this lifestyle is that it consumes a lot of power. If everyone in the world started living like wealthy Americans, we __44__ need to generate morethan 10 times __45__ energy each year. And __46__ , in a century or three, we all expect to be __47__ by an army of robots and fly into space on holidays, we are going to need a vast amount more. Where are we going to get so much power from?It is a clear that continuing to rely on __48__ fuels will have catastrophic results, because of the dramatic warming effect of carbon dioxide. But alternative power sources will affect the climate too. For now, the climatic effects of “clean energy”sources are trivial __49__ those from greenhouse gases, but if we keep on using ever more power over the coming centuries, they will become ever more __50___.41.A. constitution B. dream C history D character42.A. exotic B. patriotic C. supersonic D. alcoholic43.A. on B. for C. at D with44.A shall B will C should D would45.A much more B more than C as much D of more46.A if B though C while D so47.A taken to B attended to C attached to D submitted to48.A rock B stone C fossil D diamond49.A according to B based on C such as D compared with50.A significant B imperative C indispensable D negligiblePart IV Reading Comprehension ( 45 minutes, 1 point each )Passage OneAs many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be. We suddenly can‟t remember where we put the keys just a moment ago or an old acquaintances‟ name. as the brain fades, we refer to these occurrences as “senior moments”. While seemingly innocent, this loss of mental focus can potentially have a detrimental impact on our professional, social, and personal well-being.Neuroscientists are increasingly showing that there‟s actually a lot that can be done. It turns out that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental workouts can significantly improve our basic cognitive functions. Thinking is essentially a process of making neural connections in the brain. Because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental efforts.A new company has taken it a step further and developed the first “brain training program”, called Lumosity, to actually help people improve and regain their mental sharpness. Lumosity is far more than an online place to exercise your mental skills. That‟s because they have integrated these exercises into a Web-based program that allows you to systematically improve your memory and attention skills. The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on your performance and improvement. Most importantly, it constantly modifies and enhances the games you play to build on the strengths you are developing---much like an effective exercise routine requires you to increase resistance and vary your muscle use.Apparently it works. In randomized, controlled clinical trials Lumosity was shown to significantly improve basic cognitive functions. One study showed studentsimproved their scores on math tests by 34 percent after using Lumosity for six weeks. The company says its users have reported clearer and quicker thinking, improved memory, increased alertness and awareness, elevated mood, and better concentration at work or while driving.While many of the games at Lumosity are free, a modest subscription fee is required to use the full program over the long term. However, Lumosity is currently offering a free trial of their program to new users so that you can see how well it works before you decide to subscribe. The company believes the results will speak for themselves.51.What can we learn about “senior moments”?A.They are nothing to be worried about.B.They happen to each middle-aged person.C.They mostly happen to the elders.D.They are signs of declining memory.52.Neuroscientists are beginning to find that ________A.cognitive functions can be improved by mental effort.B.Intelligence varies with the amount of physical exercise.C.“senior moments” are quite useful at work .D.Our brain and muscles should be trained differently.53.From paragraph 3, it can be concluded that Lumosity _____.A.is just an online place to exercise your mental skills.B.requires the users to keep doing the same games.C.is a set of exercises intended for the mentally-retarded.D.can help users make improvement in the brain.54.Clinical trials have proved that Lumosity _____A.is better than reported B is highly effective and beneficial.B.should be under strict control D leaves much to be desired.55.Which of the following statements is true about Lumosity?A.Access to these games is quite expensive.B.Chronic users have to pay for the access to the games.C.All the games at Lumosity are free of charge.D.Access to the games is limited to subscribers.56.The main purpose in writing this passage is to _____A.present the new findings of neuroscientists.B.remind the middle-aged to take physical exercise.C.describe how Lumosity came into being.D.introduce how braining training makes your smarter.Passage TwoAccording to psychology professor Carol Dweck of Stanford University, “Praising children for being smart can backfire.” If this doesn‟t get the attention of Millennium parents, I‟m not sure what will.It is my observation that so many parents today believe that if their child appears to be the least bit “advanced” for his age, he‟s destined to be the next Albert Einstein,Tiger Woods, or Bill Gates. It‟s human nature for mom and dad to show much admiration for their child and dish out praise for accomplishments achieved. The problem is, according to this study, parents may not be doing the best thing by praising their child for his intelligence.Dweck‟s research involved junior high students in New York and concluded that “classroom performance improved when her study subjects believed the brain is like a muscle that can grow.”Students who “focuses on the learning process (effort, concentration or strategies used) asked for feedback and did better in all subjects.”Feedback such as, …You did well because you worked so hard‟ or …You used so many descriptive words to make this story interesting‟can encourage children to try new things, as they are being rewarded for their effort. When the …time and effort‟ strategy is being positively reinforced, the child will probably use the same strategy next time they are learning something. Over time new strategies can be introduced, so the child‟s repertoire of strategies is broadened.Dweck goes on to say that “they(students who improved) performed better because their success was being measured by effort, not by test scores or grades.”Parents should praise effort, not just results. Children who received praise about their innate abilities (talents or strengths) had less chance of trying new things and became anxious and under performed as things became more difficult. That is one of the greatest dangers to continually praising children for whatever they do in order to falsely raise a child‟s self-esteem.What are mom and dad to do? Offer genuine praise and encouragement for effort and successes, but balance this with setting appropriate expectations and following up with consequences when the child falls short due to laziness. Don‟t make excuses. Your child will better face the challenges life had to offer in the future when you as a parent recognize the efforts he is making today.57.The underlined word “backfire” in the first paragraph probably means ____A.create some miracles.B.produce an undesirable resultC.be negligible to some extentD.be motivating and inspiring.58.Which of the following can be considered proper feedback?A.You did really well on this spelling test, you must have spent hours practicingyour words.B.Oh, honey, you‟re so smart----that failing grade won‟t matter anyway.C.This is a wonderful paintings. What a great artist you are!D.You did really well on this spelling test, you are very clever.59.A child who is praised for his effort and strategy is likely to ____A have his learning strategies increased.B feel inferior to the smart children.C. have falsely high self-esteem.D. expect more praise and encouragement.60. Praising a child for his talent may ________A. encourage him to try new things.B. motivate him to greater efforts.C. leave him less prepared for challenges.D. put his life at risk in case of failure61. The author‟s advice to parents is ___A. to expose the child to greater challenges.B. not to expect too much of a child.C. to forbid the child to make any excuses.D. to combine praise with constructive criticism.62. Which of the following can be a proper title for this passage?A. Never Praise Your Child for Any of His Achievement.B. Praise Your Child, But Not for Being SmartC. How to Reward a Child for His EffortD. Praise---- A Must for the Child‟s Future.Passage ThreeAs a new matchmaker, internet dating sites promise two cutting edges: a vastly greater choice of potential partners and scientifically proven way of matching suitable people together.The greater choice is unarguable. But does it lead to better outcomes? And do the “scientifically tested methods”actually work? These are the questions asked by a team of psychologists led by Eli Finkel.The researchers‟ first observation is how any of the much-boasted partner-matching methods actually works. Many firms preserve their intellectual property as trade secrets, and there is no reason why internet dating sites should not be among them. But this renders claims of effectiveness impossible to test objectively. There is thus no independent scientific evidence that any of these methods does enhance the chance of their hitting it off when they meet.It is possible to test the value of a claim that they match people with compatible personality traits. However, Dr Dyrenforth asked more than 20,000 people about their relationships and assessed their personalities. Members of couples with similar personalities were indeed happier than those without. But the difference was just 0.5%.Surely, the chances of finding that magic other are increased by the second thing internet dating brings: a multitude of choice. But here, too, things are not as simple as they might seem.An assumption behind all consumer decisions is that what people think they want is what they actually need. And the data suggest people are not good at knowing what they want. One of Dr Finkel‟s own studies showed that when they are engaged in speed dating, people‟s stated preferences at the beginning of the process do not well match the characters of the individuals they actually like. When faced with abundant choices, people pay less attention to characteristics that require thinking and conversation to evaluate and more to matters physical. Choice, in other words, dulls the critical faculties.Finkel‟s conclusion is that love is as hard to find on the internet as elsewhere. Youmay be just as likely to luck out in the local café, or by acting on the impulse to stop and talk to that stranger on the street whose glance you caught, as you are by clicking away with a mouse and hoping that, one day, Cupid‟s arrow will strike.63. The effectiveness of the dating sites is difficult to verify scientifically because they ____A. keep their intellectual property secret.B. have two cutting edges.C. adopt strange matching methodsD. are good at deception as evidenced.64. The expression “hit it off” in Paragraph 3 probably means ____A. say goodbye B get along well C get hurt D dislike each other65. Dr. Dyrenforth found that couples with different personalities ____A were much less happy than those with similar personalities.B. were more likely to divorce than those with similar personalities.C were almost as happy as those with similar personalities.D. were must happier than those with similar personalities.66. According to Paragraph 6, the abundance of choices offered by the dating sites ____A can increase the chance of finding ideal partners.B helps people to become better aware of what they want.C divert attention from other mental qualitiesD leads to exclusive concern with one‟s appearance67. Finkel‟s conclusion is that ______A. it is impossible to find true love on the Internet wherever you are.B.you are as likely to find love through chance encounters as via the Internet.C. you are more likely to find love through these online dating sites.D. you can find love more easily by talking to a stranger on the street.68. The researchers‟ attitude towards these Internet dating sites is ____A suspicionB confidenceC objectionD recommendationPassage FourMany countries have made it illegal to talk into a hand-held mobile phone while driving. But the latest research provides further confirmation that the danger lies less in what a motorist‟s hands do when he takes a call than in what the conversation does to his brain. Even using a “hands-free” device can impair a driver‟s attention to an alarming extent.Melina Kunar of the University of Warwick and Todd Horowitz of the Harvard Medical School ran a series of experiments in which two groups of volunteers had to pay attention and respond to a series of moving tasks on a computer screen that were reckoned equivalent in difficulty to driving. One group was left undistracted while the other had to engage in a conversation about their hobbies using a speakerphone. As Dr Kunar and Dr. Horowitz report in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, those who were making the equivalent of a hands-free call had an average reaction time 212 milliseconds slower than those who were not. That, they calculate, would add 5.7meters to the braking distance of a car traveling at 100kph. They found that the group using the hands-free kit made 83 percent more errors in their tasks than those who were not talking.They also explored the effect of simply listening to something ---- such as a radio program. For this they played a recording of the first chapter of Bram Stoker‟s “Dracula”. Even though the test subjects were told to pay attention because they would be asked questions about the story afterwards, it had little effect on their reaction times. Dr.Kunar reckons that having to think about responses during a phone conversation competes for the brain‟s resources in a way that listening to a monologue does not. The research led by Frank Drews of the University of Utah suggests the same thing is true of the idle chatter of a passenger.Punishing people for using hand-held gadgets while driving is difficult enough, even though they can be seen from outside the car. Stopping people making hands-free calls would probably be impossible ---- especially because more and more vehicles are now being fitted with the necessary equipment as standard. Persuading people to switch their phones off altogether when they get behind the wheel might be the only answer. Who knows, they might even come to enjoy not having to take calls. And they‟ll be likelier to arrive in one piece.69. Which body part is most affected by talking into a cell phone when driving?A. Hands B Feet C Eyes D The brain70. In Kunar and Horowitz‟s experiments, the subjects who performed tasks while talking ____A. reacted more quickly and made fewer mistakes.B reacted more quickly, but made more mistakes.C. reacted more slowly, but made fewer mistakes.D. reacted more slowly, and made more mistakes.71. According to Frank Drews, listening to a passenger talking ____A affects drivers more than a phone conversation.B affects drivers more than listening to a story .C has less effect on the drivers than a phone conversation.D has less effect on the drivers than listening to a story.72 The law forbidding the use of hand-held phones when driving ____A is necessary and feasibleB has been frequently brokenC will arouse heated debateD has been widely observed.73. The best hope of stopping people using hands-free phones lies with ____A the lawmakersB car manufacturersC drivers themselvesD new technology74. The purpose of the passage is to ________A inform people of the danger of using phones while driving.B call on lawmakers to make new road laws on the use of cell phonesC offer suggestions for drivers who use cell phones while driving.D weigh the benefits and harms of using phones when driving.Passage FiveIn these times of fast media and ever-growing Internet, we are under so many external influences that it is anything but easy to think for ourselves. Unless you are a cunning, very aware person, you most likely don‟t even know when your thinking is not your own.Not that all outside influence is bad to forming your own views, but being unable to think for yourself can make you miserable at best, or a puppet of someone else‟s programming, at worst.Admittedly, we are all born into societies or cultures where the norms and customs are already established. We have little choice but to conform to what is already in place. This is not necessarily a bad thing. However, it can be confining and controlling if we accept everything blindly and never question the status quo.Does this mean all of your ideas can be original and unlike everyone else‟s? Not at all!Nor does it require being contrary and argumentative just to be defiant or stand out. To think for yourself means that whatever opinions you hold will be well thought out and arise from thorough investigation and thoughtful analysis. It means choosing to not compromise the facts for the sake of consensus or fitting in. It is not unlike critical thinking ---- it just brings about a broader scope of choices and decision-making in your life.For example, how many of us feel the need to keep up with …the latest‟? We wear clothes, listen to music and follow trends that the media tells us we should in order to be cool. Marketing companies create ads that tempt us into a herd mentality as we fall into debt, wear fashions that are unbecoming, and get caught up in a cycle of over-spending and then stressing out over it. We are living lives designed for us by the powers without our conscious participation.Another trap we fall into when we don‟t think for ourselves is groupthink. Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that takes place within a group of people who try to avoid conflict and reach agreement without critically evaluating options or alternative ideas. The problem with groupthink is that it hinders finding the best solutions, impedes creative ideas and frustrates independent thinking. Wanting to be part of the crowd can certainly have its drawback!75. It can be learned from the first paragraph that _____A. it is necessary to take one‟s own interest into considerationB a clever person is always obedient and unselfish.C. independent thinking doesn‟t come easily to us.D the Internet has made humans more thoughtful.76. Trying to conform to established ideas ___A. is something you can easily avoid doingB is sometimes what we can‟t help doing.C can seldom do any good to you.D rarely happens in modern society.77. The ability to think for yourself means that ______A. your ideas have to be novel and unique.B your should never use critical thinking.C you should try to be defiant and well-known.D your opinions are based on facts and contemplation78. Paragraph 6 is mainly concerned with ____A. what we must do to learn to think for ourselves.B. the prevalent outside influence on our lives.C. the numerous mistakes we make in daily life.D. the negative impact of TV commercials on us.79. From the last paragraph, it can be concluded that groupthink ____A. can lead to the loss of individual creativity.B contributes little to group harmony and cohesion.C cares about alternative or different ideas .D encourages independent thinking eventually.80. The purpose in writing this passage is to ____A define what is independent thinking .B tell us how to develop original ideas.C describe the consequence of groupthink.D. urges people to think for themselves.Paper TwoPart V Translation (30 minutes, 20 points)Section A ( 15 minutes, 10 pointes)Excessive dependence on automobiles has profound negative impacts on human health: decreased opportunities for physical activity, increased exposure to air pollution, raised vulnerability to chronic diseases and the mounting incidence of traffic crashes that alone cost a staggering $180 billion. The determination of the magnitude of the health impact is notoriously so tricky as to end up with an astronomical figure probably. No calculation can be complete without formulating practical standards or models for estimating health costs. Costs associated with obesity, breathing illness, and injuries are evidenced by research. Growing recognition of the close connection between transportation, social cohesion and health has resulted in some studies that have achieved compelling findings.Section B( 15 minutes, 10 points)在21世纪，全球化和数字化已经把世界变成地球村。
2012年北京英语学士学位考试卷及答案
2012年5月北京学位英语试题和答案2012年05月12日Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet。
Passage 1Questions I to 5 are based on the following passage:Spending 50 minutes with a cell phone close to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna(天线).But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National Institute of Health said at a conference last month, adding that the study will not likely settle concerns of a link between cell phones and brain cancer.―What we showed is glucose (葡萄糖) metabolism(代谢)(a sign of brain activity)increases in the brain in people who were exposed to a cell phone in the area closest to the antenna,‖ said Dr. Nora Volkow of the NIH, whose study wa s published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (76) The study was meant to examine how the brain reacts to electromagnetic fields caused by wireless phone signals。
2012年考题(解析版)
2012年学位英语考试考题Part I Reading ComprehensionPassage 1【1-5 BCBAD】For centuries Dutch engineers have been fighting a war against water. Their main enemy is the sea. A large part of the country is below sea level. In fact, Holland is also called the “Netherlands” which means “low land.” Very tall and strong walls, called dykes, have built to keep out the sea. But in very rough weather the sea may suddenly burst through a dyke. Great damage can be caused by floods when this happens.Three large rivers are also part of the problem. These rivers are the Rhine, the Maas and the Scheldt. They flow through Holland into the North Sea. They have cut many passages across the country. At low tides, the rivers flow into the sea as usual. But at high tide, the sea can flow into the rivers! This is because the land is so low.The battles against the water never end, but they have made Holland a bigger and bigger country. In order to prevent floods, the engineers take or reclaim land that was under water. The Dutch have been reclaiming land for seven hundred years.Land is usually reclaimed from a passage between islands. Two dykes are built across the passage, so they block the water between them. Then the engineers dig long canals and pump the water into them. At low tide, the canals empty the water into the sea.Because the land is so low, water from the sea and rivers can rise up through the ground. For this reason, the pumps continue working even the land has been drained (that is, when the water has been pumped away). The dykes contain gates, and through these the water is pumped out. In many parts of Holland, pumps must be working all the time. If they stopped, there will be very bad floods.1. Water is the main threat to Holland because ____.A. the sea is too roughB. the land is lower than the seaC. the high and strong dykes can not keep the floods outD. the weather is too rough1.【答案】B第一段中提到：Their main enemy is the sea. A large part of the country is below sea level.他们主要的敌人就是海洋。
【VIP专享】2012年学位课英语试题
2012年学位课英语试题（A卷）PAPER ONEPart I Listening Comprehension (25 minutes, 20 points) Section A ( 1 point each)1.A. He is pretty comfortable in this kind of setting.B. He is not at ease when seeing her.C. He is not used to the current surroundings.D. He rarely feels shy in unfamiliar places.2. A. Waiter and customer B Husband and wife.C. Boss and secretaryD. Doctor and patient3. A. They went to see a movie.B. They had a heated quarrel.C. They ended their relationship.D. They changed their plan.4. A. At a coffee shop. B In the street C. At one’s home D. In a restaurant5. A. She prefers to go shopping with him.B. She does not want to eat out.C. She is in a bad mood today.D. She wants to enjoy the perfect weather.6. A. Tuesday and Friday B Wednesday and ThursdayC. Monday and SaturdayD. Saturday and Sunday7. A The man always makes wise decision.B. Jane may not be able to do the job very well.C. Jane knows how to run a chain store.D. The man really likes the book cover.8. A. The woman needs to arrive earlier.B. The man has to delay his departure.C. The woman dislikes air travel.D. The man has some extra work tomorrow.9. A. Double major in both business and psychology.B. Major in business and minor in psychology.C Drop business or psychologyD. Choose two closely related majors.Section B ( 1point each)Mini-talk One10. A. It represents the bride’s link to her family and the past.B. It represents support of the bride’s family and friends.C. It’s a symbol of good luck and success.D. It’s a symbol of good health.11. A. Wealth and health B. Protection against evilC Loyalty and purity D. A remainder of the past12. A Wearing something new B Wearing blue items.C. Wearing something borrowed D Wearing a silversixpence in a shoeMini-talk Two13. A. They are facing budget deficit.B. They are giving more weight to academic study.C. They are conducing observational studies.D. They are shortening school hours.14. A. Because being active is the cause of higher grades.B. Because the amount of activity required is just right.C. Because they help students learn to follow rules in class.D. Because they can arouse students’ curiosity.15. A. Whether there is difference between school subjects.B. Whether physical activity is linked to academic performance.C. Whether a comparison should be made with the control.D. Whether the amount of activity affects academic performance.Section C ( 1 point each)16. To keep your sensitive information safe, your job is to createa password that is very ____( 3 words)17. Your password should not ____( 2 words) about you.18. Consider this: in addition to ___(2 words) , phrases can alsobe easy to remember.19. This password could still be stronger by adding upper-class letters, numbers or ____(2 words)20. Always remember to ____(3 words) each site you visit on a computer that isn’t yours.Part II Vocabulary (10 minutes, 10 points)Section A (0.5 point each)21. Facebook’s top executives are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries.A optionalB qualifiedC desirableD casualDesirable development circumstances=favorableCautious , caution, precautious, precautionCasual clothes in the most casual tone ….CasualtyCasualnessAt randomOption, optionalOpticalOptimum /optimizeEdible=eatable , legible, illegible, eligible =qualifieddisqualify Affordable , respectableLiterate, illiterate, legal, illegal22. Ways have to be found to accommodate the special needs of these left-behind children in rural areas.A. satisfy B occupy C alter D hostHost , hostess , tiger, tigress, actor, actressHero , ----heroineAlter=change, transformAlternate v.Alternative adj/nounThere are 2 alternatives in front of you-----quitting your job or staying here.Alternative resources …Alternation =transformationAlternant=interchangeableAlterabilityUrban =of citySpecialSpecific requests when…… to your husband….Definite, distinct, distinctiveSpecificationSpecify =elaborate, =describe, illustrate ,23. The number of people with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States is projected to more than double by 2050.A devisedB thrustC estimatedD encountered UnderestimateOverestimateEncounter - = come across, run into , meet…by chance, chance upon24. My supervisor, gentle and friendly, made me feel at ease from the first meeting with him.A. at large =in detail B at length C at random D at home At ease = feel comfortableWith ease = easily,25. I searched the library to see what I could learn about the massacre, but nothing turned up.A was recommendedB was foundC was understoodD was clarified.-ifySatisfy, purify , simplifyThe book can be classified into 4 chaptersFall intoThe chapter can fall into 4 sections26. Geraldine Ferraro said that whoever coined the term ObamaCare was brilliant.A came uponB broke downC made up =inventD drew onMake up a story to entertain the child…CoinageBreak downDraw on/upon27. Upon learning that his mother was gravely ill, he wasted no time getting to the hospital.A suddenlyB moderatelyC seriouslyD genetically Spare no effortsGrave , gravitationGraveness28. It requires uncompromising efforts to develop these residences into true homes for our underprivileged citizens.A unproductiveB unyieldingC uninvitingD unintentionalCompromise =come to terms withCompensateIntention, intentHave the intention ofWith intent to do sthHe came here with intent to steal something.29. Snow is not predicted for today; we can expect some rain, though.A althoughB thereforeC yetD however Nevertheless, however,But he is innocentAs/though/that ….Child as he is, he has done the job very well.Word came that we succeeded at last.Handsome as he is , I don’t like him.Much as I admire him, I don’t want to be a man like him. 30. At that time, there was a wealth of evidence that Japan was planning war in the Pacific.A abundan tB valuableC expensiveD priceless.A host of =manyInvaluable=priceless , =expensiveUseless, worthlessSection B (0.5 point each)31. This old man developed nerve damage to his brain, _____ him nearly disabled.A leavingB keepingC allowingD causingDid you leave the window open?I wish the children would keep quietHe remains silent all through the night.Keep the window open ----unconsciouslyLeave the window open----consciouslyDamage toKey toSolution toAttitude toAnswer toReply to …An approach to dealing with the problem is very easy.32. These discoveries have opened up new ____ in the field of cancer research.A rainbowsB horizonsC altitudeD paradoxesOn the horizonHorizontal verticalAttitude altitude, latitude, longitude33. Some politicians in Japan still believe that the Nanjing Massacre is nothing but a ___.A novelB flawC truthD myth34. Many people choose to be honest when creating their online ____ to make future dating easier.A pretextsB prepositionsC profilesD protestsOn the pretext of ….35. Several large studies have found ____ lower odds of heartdisease among regular nut eaters.A confidentlyB consistentlyC conceptuallyD contemptuouslyContemporaryLook down on/upon , belittle , behead,Odd30-odd ,Even chestnutConfide oneself consist of , consist inConfident36. The boss needs a workout program that perfectly ____ his busy schedule.A turns intoB falls intoC looks intoD fits int o37. A glimpse ___our solar system reveals the neighborhood outside the sun’s influence is stranger than expected.A intoB atC byD beyond38. It has never ____ to me that an intimate knowledge of English grammar can be so useful .A occurredB happenedC turnedD conformed Intimate intimacyImitate , imitationInitiate =start, begin, initiativeHappen toSth occur to sbConfirm=verify, prove to beConform to = comply with, adhere to …Affirm =claim39. The FDA is expected to require safety studies on e-cigarettes and ____ their use.A regulateB recollectC reboundD rehearseFood and Drug Administration40. Teenagers can become ____ and hard to handle if every single decision is taken away from them.A obedientB cooperativeC rebelliousD aestheticPart III Cloze Test (10 minutes, 10 points, 1 point each) “A better, richer and happier life for all our citizens.” That’s the American __41__ . In practice, it means living in a spacious, air-conditional house, owning a car or three or maybe a boat or a holiday home, not to mention flying off to __42__ destinations.The trouble __43__ this lifestyle is that it consumes a lot of power. If everyone in the world started living like wealthy Americans, we __44__ need to generate more than 10 times __45__ energy each year. And __46__ , in a century or three, we all expect to be __47__ by an army of robots and fly into space on holidays, we are going to need a vast amount more. Where are we going to get so much power from?It is a clear that continuing to rely on __48__ fuels will have catastrophic results, because of the dramatic warming effect of carbon dioxide. But alternative power sources will affect the climate too. For now, t he climatic effects of “clean energy” sources are trivial __49__ those from greenhouse gases, but if we keep on using ever more power over the coming centuries, they will become ever more __50___.41.A. constitution B. dream C history Dcharacter42.A. exotic B. patriotic C. supersonic D.alcoholic43.A. on B. for C. at D with44.A shall B will C should D would45.A much more B more than C as much D of more46.A if B though C while D so47.A taken to B attended to C attached to Dsubmitted to48.A rock B stone C fossil Ddiamond49.A according to B based on C such as Dcompared with50.A significant B imperative C indispensable DnegligibleThe earth is 49 times the size of the moon.The earth is 49 times as much as the moon in size.The earth is 49 times larger than the moon.Part IV Reading Comprehension ( 45 minutes, 1 point each )Passage OneAs many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be. We suddenly can’t remember where we put the keys just a moment ago or an old acquaintances’ name. as the brain fades, we refer to these occurrences as “senior moments”. Whileseemingly innocent, this loss of mental focus can potentially have a detrimental impact on our professional, social, and personal well-being.Neuroscientists are increasingly showing that there’s actually a lot that can be done. It turns out that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental workouts can significantly improve our basic cognitive functions.Thinking is essentially a process of making neural connections in the brain. Because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental efforts.A new company has taken it a step further and developed the first “brain training program”, called Lumosity, to actually help people improve and regain their mental sharpness. Lumosity is f ar more than an online place to exercise your mental skills. That’s because they have integrated these exercises into a Web-based program that allows you to systematically improve your memory and attention skills. The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on your performance and improvement. Most importantly, it constantly modifies and enhances the games you play to build on the strengths you are developing---much like an effective exercise routine requiresyou to increase resistance and vary your muscle use. Apparently it works. In randomized, controlled clinical trials Lumosity was shown to significantly improve basic cognitive functions. One study showed students improved their scores on math tests by 34 percent after using Lumosity for six weeks. The company says its users have reported clearer and quicker thinkin g, impr oved memory, increased alertness and aw areness, elevated mood, and better concentration at work or while driving.While many of the games at Lumosity are f ree, a modest subscription fee is required to use the full program over the long term.However, Lumosity is currently offering a free trial of their program to new users so that you can see how well it works before you decide to subscribe. The company believes the results will speak for themselves.51.What can we learn about “senior moments”?A.They are nothing to be worried about.B.They happen to each middle-aged person.C.They mostly happen to the elders.D.They are signs of declining memory.52.Neuroscientists are beginning to find that ________A.cognitive functions can be improved by mental effort.B.Intelligence varies with the amount of physical exercise.C.“senior moments” are quite useful at work .D.Our brain and muscles should be trained differently.53.From paragraph 3, it can be concluded that Lumosity _____.A.is just an online place to exercise your mental skills.B.requires the users to keep doing the same games.C.is a set of exercises intended for the mentally-retarded.D.can help users make improvement in the brain.54.Clinical trials have proved that Lumosity _____A.is better than reported B is highly effective andbeneficial.B.should be under strict control D leaves much to be desired.55.Which of the following statements is true about Lumosity?A.Access to these games is quite expensive.B.Chronic users have to pay for the access to the games.C.All the games at Lumosity are free of charge.D.Access to the games is limited to subscribers.56.The main purpose in writing this passage is to _____A.present the new findings of neuroscientists.B.remind the middle-aged to take physical exercise.C.describe how Lumosity came into being.D.introduce how braining training makes your smarter.Passage TwoAccording to psychology professor Carol Dweck of Stanford University, “Praising children for being smart can backfire.” If this doesn’t get the attention of Millennium parents, I’m not sure what will.It is my observation that so many parents today believe that if their child appears to be the least bit “advanced” for his age, he’s destined to be the next Albert Einstein, Tiger Woods, or Bill Gates. It’s human nature for mom and dad to show much admiration for their child and dish out praise for accomplishments achieved. The problem is, according to this study, parents may not be doing the best thing by praising their child for his intelligence.Dweck’s research involved junior high students in New York and concluded that “classroom performance improved when her study subjects believed the brain is like a muscle that can grow.” Students who “focuses on the learning process (effort, concentration or strategies used) asked for feedback and did better in all subjects.” Feedback such as, ‘You did well because you worked so hard’ or ‘You used so many descriptive words to make this story interesting’ can encourage children to try newthings, as they are being rewarded for their effort. When the ‘time and effort’ strategy is being positively reinforced, the child will probably use the same strategy next time they are learning something. Over time new strategies can be introduced, so the child’s repertoire of strategies is broadened.Dweck goes on to say that “they(students who improved) performed better because their success was being measured by effort, not by test scores or grades.” Parents should praise effort, not just results. Children who received praise about their innate abilities (talents or strengths) h ad less chance of trying new thing s and became anxious and under performed as things became more difficult. That is one of the greatest dangers to continually praising children for whatever they do in order to falsely raise a child’s self-esteem.What are mom and dad to do? Offer genuine praise and encouragement for effort and successes, but balanc e this with setting appropriate expectations and following up with consequences when the child falls short due to laziness. Don’t make excuses. Your child will better face the challenges life had to offer in the future when you as a parent recognize the efforts he is making today.57.The underlined word “backfire” in the first paragraphprobably means ____A.create some miracles.B.produce an undesirable resultC.be negligible to some extentD.be motivating and inspiring.58.Which of the following can be considered proper feedback?A.You did really well on this spelling test, you must have spenthours practicing your words.B.Oh, honey, you’re so smart----that failing grade won’t matteranyway.C.This is a wonderful paintings. What a great artist you are!D.You did really well on this spelling test, you are very clever.59.A child who is praised for his effort and strategy is likely to____A have his learning strategies increased.B feel inferior to the smart children.C. have falsely high self-esteem.D. expect more praise and encouragement.60. Praising a child for his talent may ________A. encourage him to try new things.B. motivate him to greater efforts.C. leave him less prepared for challenges.D. put his life at risk in case of failure61. The author’s advice to parents is ___A. to expose the child to greater challenges.B. not to expect too much of a child.C. to forbid the child to make any excuses.D. to combine praise with constructive criticism.62. Which of the following can be a proper title for this passage?A. Never Praise Your Child for Any of His Achievement.B. Praise Your Child, But Not for Being SmartC. How to Reward a Child for His EffortD. Praise---- A Must for the Child’s Future.Passage ThreeAs a new matchmaker, internet dating sites promise two cutting edges: a vastly greater choice of potential partners and scientifically proven way of matching suitable people together. The greater choice is unarguable.But does it lead to better outcomes? And do the “scientifically tested methods” actually work? These are the questions asked by a team of psychologists led by Eli Finkel.The researchers’ first observation is how any of the much-boasted partner-matching methods actually works. Many firmspreserve their i ntellectual property as trade secrets, and there is no reason why internet dating sites should not be among them. But this renders claims of effectiveness impossible to test objectively. There is thus no independent scientific evidence that any of these methods does enhance the chance of their hitting it off when they meet.It is possible to test the value of a claim that they match people with compatible personality traits. However, Dr Dyrenforth asked more than 20,000 people about their relationships and assessed their personalities. Members of couples with similar personalities were indeed happier than those without. But the difference was just 0.5%.Surely, the chances of finding that magic other are increased by the second thing internet dating brings: a multitude of choice. But here, too, things are not as simple as they might seem.An assumption behind all consumer decisions is that what people think they want is what they actually need. And the data suggest people are not good at knowing what they want. One of Dr Finkel’s own studies showed that when they are engaged in speed dating, people’s stated preferences at the beginning of the process do not well match the characters of the individuals they actually like. When faced with abundant choices, people payless attention to characteristics that require thinking and conversation to evaluate and more to matters physical. Choice, in other words, dulls the critical faculties.Finkel’s conclusion is that love is as hard to find on the internet as elsewhere. You may be just as likely to luck out in the local café, or by acting on the impulse to stop and talk to that stranger on the street whose glance you caught, as you are by clicking away with a mouse and hoping that, one day, Cupid’s arrow will strike.63. The effectiveness of the dating sites is difficult to verify scientifically because they ____A. keep their intellectual property secret.B. have two cutting edges.C. adopt strange matching methodsD. are good at deception as evidenced.64. The expression “hit it off” in Paragraph 3 probably means ____A. say goodbye B get along well C get hurt D dislike each other65. Dr. Dyrenforth found that couples with different personalities ____A were much less happy than those with similar personalities.B. were more likely to divorce than those with similar personalities.C were almost as happy as those with similar personalities.D. were must happier than those with similar personalities.66. According to Paragraph 6, the abundance of choices offered by the dating sites ____A can increase the chance of finding ideal partners.B helps people to become better aware of what they want.C divert attention from other mental qualitiesD leads to exclusive concern with one’s appearance67. Finkel’s conclusion is that ______A. it is impossible to find true love on the Internet wherever you are.B.you are as likely to find love through chance encounters as via the Internet.C. you are more likely to find love through these online dating sites.D. you can find love more easily by talking to a stranger on the street.68. The researchers’ attitude towards these Internet dating sites is ____A suspicionB confidenceC objectionD recommendationPassage FourMany countries have made it illegal to talk into a hand-held mobile phone while driving. But the latest research provides further confirmation that the danger lies less in what a motorist’s hands do when he takes a call than in what the conversation does to his brain. Even using a “hands-free” device can impair a driver’s attention to an alarming extent.Melina Kunar of the University of Warwick and Todd Horowitz of the Harvard Medical School ran a series of experiments in which two groups of volunteers had to pay attention and respond to a series of moving tasks on a computer screen that were reckoned equivalent in difficulty to driving. One group was left undistracted while the other had to engage in a conversation about their hobbies using a speakerphone. As Dr Kunar and Dr. Horowitz report in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, those who were making the equivalent of a hands-free call had an average reaction time 212 milliseconds slower than those who were not. That, they calculate, would add 5.7 meters to the braking distance of a car traveling at 100kph. They found that the group using the hands-free kit made 83 percent more errors in their tasks than those who were not talking.They also explored the effect of simply listening to something ---- such as a radio program. For this they played a recording of the first chapter of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Even though the test subjects were told to pay attention because they would be asked questions about the story afterwards, it had little effect on their reaction times. Dr.Kunar reckons that having to think about responses during a phone conversation competes for the brain’s resources in a way that listening to a monologue does not. The research led by Frank Drews of the University of Utah suggests the same thing is true of the idle chatter of a passenger. Punishing people for using hand-held gadgets while driving is difficult enough, even though they can be seen from outside the car. Stopping people making hands-free calls would probably be impossible ---- especially because more and more vehicles are now being fitted with the necessary equipment as standard. Persuading people to switch their phones off altogether when they get behind the wheel might be the only answer. Who knows, they might even come to enjoy not having to take calls. And they’ll be likelier to arrive in one piece.69. Which body part is most affected by talking into a cell phone when driving?A. Hands B Feet C Eyes D The brain70. In Kunar and Horowitz’s experiments, the subjects who performed tasks while talking ____A. reacted more quickly and made fewer mistakes.B reacted more quickly, but made more mistakes.C. reacted more slowly, but made fewer mistakes.D. reacted more slowly, and made more mistakes.71. According to Frank Drews, listening to a passenger talking ____A affects drivers more than a phone conversation.B affects drivers more than listening to a story .C has less effect on the drivers than a phone conversation.D has less effect on the drivers than listening to a story.72 The law forbidding the use of hand-held phones when driving ____A is necessary and feasibleB has been frequently brokenC will arouse heated debateD has been widely observed.73. The best hope of stopping people using hands-free phones lies with ____A the lawmakersB car manufacturersC drivers themselvesD new technology74. The purpose of the passage is to ________A inform people of the danger of using phones while driving.B call on lawmakers to make new road laws on the use of cell phonesC offer suggestions for drivers who use cell phones while driving.D weigh the benefits and harms of using phones when driving.Passage FiveIn these times of fast media and ever-growing Internet, we are under so many external influences that it is anything but easy to think for ourselves. Unless you are a cunning, very aware person, you most likely don’t even know when your thinking is not your own.Not that all outside influence is bad to forming your own views, but being unable to think for yourself can make you miserable at best, or a puppet of someone else’s programming, at worst.Admittedly, we are all born into societies or cultures where the norms and customs are already established. We have little choice but to conform to what is already in place. This is not necessarily a bad thing. However, it can be confining and controlling if we accept everything blindly and never question the status quo.Does this mean all of your ideas can be original and unlike everyone else’s? Not at all!Nor does it require being contrary and argumentative just to be defiant or stand out. To think for yourself means that whatever opinions you hold will be well thought out and arise from thorough investigation and thoughtful analysis. It means choosing to not compromise the facts for the sake of consensus or fitting in. It is not unlike critical thinking ---- it just brings about a broader scope of choices and decision-making in your life.For example, how many of us feel the need to keep up with ‘the latest’? We wear clothes, listen to music and follow trends that the media tells us we should in order to be cool. Marketing companies create ads that tempt us into a herd mentality as we fall into debt, wear fashions that are unbecoming, and get caught up in a cycle of over-spending and then stressing out over it. We are living lives designed for us by the powers without our conscious participation.Another trap we fall into when we don’t think for ourselves is groupthink. Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that takes place within a group of people who try to avoid conflict and reach agreement without critically evaluating options or。
2012全国学位英语试卷
成人高等教育学士学位英语命题预测试卷（一）PartⅠ Dialogue Completion (15 points)Directions: There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.1. Black:Let me introduce myself. I’m Andrew Black.Keith:______A. It’s a pleasure.B. Pleased to meet you.C. How are you?D. Nice meeting you.2. Todd:Do you think it will snow this evening?Lily:______A. I hope it not.B. I don’t think so.C. Who is that?D. Who’s is it?3. Lucy:I’m Lucy. My teacher asked me to visit you.Juliet:______ Come in and sit down, please.A. Nice to meet you.B. That’s a good idea.C. That’s all right.D. Why don’t theycome?4. Norma:How can I learn to cook well?Kyle:______A. What a pity!B. Why don’t you follow your teacher’s advice?C. But I’m afraid it’s useless.D. Any reason for that?5. Basil:I won’t have beer any more.Lois:______A. So do I.B. So will I.C. Nor do I.D. Neither will I.6. Harry:Do you mind my smoking here?Lynn:______A. Yes, please do.B. No, please don’t.C. No, I dislike the smell of cigarette.D. Yes, please don’t.7. Owen:May I use your phone?Ruth:______A. It doesn’t matter.B. Go ahead.C. No, I don’t mind.D. No, you needn’t.8. Wendy:______?Wayne:For about two weeks.A. How long are you going to stay hereB. How soon will you leave this placeC. How often do you come hereD. How many times have you come here9. Rose:Hello, may I speak to Mr. Green?Steven:______,I will see if he is in.A. Don’t put down your phoneB. Hold the line a minuteC. Please phone him in five minutes againD. This is John speaking10. Viola: Excuse me,______?Rite:I am sorry, I don’t know. I’m new around here.A. will you please tell me timeB. is there a train time-tableC. can you tell me the best way to the neares t hospitalD. can you show me the map of this city11. Carol:______?Jane:I’d like two dozen eggs.A.What are you doingB. What would you like to doC. What can I do for youD. What would you like to eat12. Helen:______Sir, I didn’t quite hear you.David:I said that nobody but one had got a full mark in the tests.A. May I ask you a question?B. I am sorry,C. I beg your Pardon,D. I must say “no” to you,13. Jimmy:______ May I speak to John?Tony:John! You are wanted on the telephone.A. I am Mary.B. My name is Mary.C. Do you know Mary?D. This is Mary speaking.14. Rob:How could you say that?Bert:______, I didn’t mean to hurt you.A. That’s all rightB. I won’t regretC. I’m really sorryD. Excuse me15. June:Do you think it’s going to rain over the weekend?Judy:______.A. I don’t believeB. I don’t believe itC. I believe not soD. I believe notPart Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(40 points )Directions:There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.Passage 1Human needs seem endless. When a hungry man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat; when a manager gets a new sports car, a big house and pleasure boats dance into view.The many needs of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough 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, many of which could be called “luxury” items. 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. Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of needs as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level?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, crim, 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.16. According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housingand clothing only when ______.A. he has saved up enough moneyB. he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelterC. he has satisfied his hungerD. he has learned to build houses17. It can be inferred from the passage that by the end of World War Ⅱ, most Americans ______.A. were very richB. lived in povertyC. had the good things on the first three levelsD. did not own automobiles18. Which of the following is NOT related to “physical satisfaction”?A. A successful career.B. A comfortable home.C. A good meal.D. A family car.19. What is the main concern of man on the fourth level?A. The more goods the better.B. The more mental satisfaction the better.C. The more “luxury” items the better.D. The more earnings the better.20. The author tends to think that the fifth level ______.A. would be little better than the fourth levelB. may be a lot more desirable than the first fourC. can be the last and most satisfying levelD. will become attainable before the government takes actionsPassage 2In the same way that a child must be able to move his arms and legs before he can learn to walk, the child must physiologically be capable of producing and experiencing particular emotions before these emotions can be modified through learning. Psychologists have found that there are two basic processes by which learning takes place. One kind of learning is called “classical conditioning”. This occurs when one event or stimulus is consistently paired with or followed by, a reward or punishment. It is through classical conditioning that a child learns to associates his mother’s face and voice with happiness and love, for he learns that this person provides food and comfort. Negative emotions are learned in a similar fashion.The second kind of learning is called “operant conditioning”. This occurs when an individual learns to do things that produce rewards in his environment and learns not to do things that produce punishments. For example, if a mother always attends to her baby when he cries and cuddles him until he is quiet, she may teach him that if he cries he will get attention from mother. Thus, the baby will learn to increase his crying in order to have his mother more.Every day, we grow and have new experiences. We constantly learn by reading, watching television, interacting with other people, and so forth. This learning affects our emotions. Why is it that we learn to like some people and dislike others? If a person is nice to us, cares about us, we learn to associate this person withpositive feelings, such as joy, happiness, and friendliness. On the other hand, if a person is mean to us, does not care about us, and even deliberately does things to harm us, we learn to associate this person with negative feelings, such as unhappiness, discomfort, and anger.21. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ______.A. teach children how to learn to produce and experience certain emotionsB. give the general reader an account of two basic kinds of learningC. give parents some advice on how to modify their children’s emotions through learningD. discuss with psychologists how positive and negative feelings are produced22. If your jokes often find a ready echo in a person, you will learn through ______that telling jokes to this person is fun, and you will try with greater efforts to be humorous in his presence.A. classical conditioningB. neither of themC. operant conditioningD. some other sorts of conditioning23. If a child is bitten or startled several times by a dog, he may learn to associate furry animals with pain or startle and thus develop a fear of furry animals. This is a typical example of learning through ______.A. classical conditioningB. both of themC. operant conditioningD. neither of them24. In the third paragraph, the author is ______.A. discussing how we grow and have new experiences every dayB. talking about learning to modify emotions through operant conditioningC. concentrating on learning by reading, watching television, interacting with people, and so onD. using examples to further illustrate learning through classical conditioning25. In the following paragraphs the author will most probably go on to discuss ______.A. definitions of positive feelings and negative feelingsB. the third kind of learningC. further examples of learning through operant conditioningD. none of the abovePassage 3Katherine walked into a newspaper office, and demanded to see the editor. Fortunately, the editor was passing the inquiry office when she asked for him. Seeing she was a girl of school age, he thought it might offer him an amusing five minutes between interviews.Katherine was very rude to him when he told her they didn’t accept schoolgirls. She said she was surprised that the editor of a great London newspaper did not know how to behave like a gentleman. The editor sat back in his chair and laughed heartily. He had never been spoken to like that in his life. He rather liked it for its novelty. After some further conversation, in which Katherine attempted to persuade him that she could do anything he wanted, from writing a leading article to a serial story, she said: “I am not going to leave this room until you put me on the staff!”Then the editor had to speak to her rather seriously, and told her what a great London newspaper meant to a girl and how utterly ignorant she was of everything that would make her useful as a journalist. Upon this Katherine burst into tears, and the editor, who had dismissed many men in the course of his career, walked up and down the room wondering what he could do for this extraordinary young girl whose tearful eyes were so full of disappointment.“Look here,” he said, “if you come to me in two years’ time, with a knowledge of shorthand, and if you promise not to shed tears on my blotting paper, I will give you something to do.”“Really? If you don’t mind, I’ll have it in black and white,” said the girl.The editor was startled. He began to think that this young girl was not so young as she looked. He drafted out an agreement for her on the lines laid down with a great deal of solemnity (严肃) which he found quite amusing, for he was confident that the young girl might quite as well change her mind or would be engaged to a nice boy long before the agreement took effect.26. The real reason why the editor decided to interview the girl was that he ______.A. heard her asking for himB. was not very busyC. thought it would amuse himD. liked to work with young girls27. “He rather liked it for its novelty” means he liked it because it was ______.A. unusualB. pleasantC. courageousD. friendly28. The editor walked up and down the room, because he was ______.A. rather angry with herB. afraid other people would hear her cryingC. not sure whether he should dismiss her or notD. trying to make a decision29. As their conversation continued, the editor ______.A. changed his opinion of the girlB. grew tired of herC. became annoyedD. thought she was too uneducated30. When the editor drafted out the agreement for the girl, he ______.A. hoped that this would please the girlB. wished that it would take effect soonC. adopted a rather serious attitudeD. didn’t mean what he wrotePassage 4Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full blown. Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose—school work, matters of business, or purely social communication. You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.There are still some remote places in the world where you might find a public scribe to do your business or social writing for you, for a fee. There are a fewmanagers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous. What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes, that his writing will be read. We want to arouse(引起) and hold the interest of the readers. We want whatever we write to be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some “letters to be read” file or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.31. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because ______.A. both writers and cooks have to work long hours every dayB. both are essential to lifeC. both are enjoyableD. both writers and cooks can earn a good living32. A public “scribe” (Para.2) is ______.A. a secretary who does your business or social writingB. a machine that does writing for youC. a public school where writing is taughtD. a person who earns a living by writing for others33. According to the passage, some managers don’t have to do any letter writing because ______.A. they rely on quick notesB. they have a computer to do itC. they have excellent secretariesD. they prefer making phone calls34. According to the author, if your letter is thrown into some “letters to be read” file, ______.A. it will receive immediate attentionB. it is likely to be neglectedC. it will be dealt with by the secretaryD. it is meant to be delivered soon35. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is ______.A. to argue and demonstrateB. to comment and criticizeC. to interest and entertainD. to explain and persuadePart Ⅲ Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)Directions:There are 40 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.36. Some of this wheat came from Canada. What about ______?A. anotherB. the otherC. othersD. the rest37. I will now ______ Mr. Webster to drink the health of the happy pair.A. call onB. call upC. call forD. call off38. July is the month ______ is usually the hottest.A. whose weatherB. the weatherC. its weatherD. when the weather39. Because my scissors are dull, I’m going to buy a new ______.A. oneB. onesC. pairD. scissors40. ______ great was the destruction that the South took decades to recover.A. VeryB. TooC. SuchD. So41. Everyone should keep a sense of responsibility ______ what he is to do.A. ofB. forC. withD. to42. The statue is believed ______ by a professional thief a couple of weeks ago.A. to have stolenB. to be stolenC. having been stolenD. to have been stolen43. Neither Bill nor his parents ______ at home.A. areB. isC. wasD. has44. I don’t think there are several characteristics of the novel ______ special attention.A. worthwhileB. worth ofC. worthy ofD. worthless45. ______ people can speak a foreign language perfectly.A. Not muchB. LittleC. Only a small numberD. Few46. If I had more time, I should ______ table tennis as a hobby.A. take toB. take upC. take onD. take over47. The thief caught on the spot by tile policeman denied ______ anything.A. to doB. to have doneC. doD. doing48. I won’t have a whisky, thank you. It’s not that I don’t drink, ______ thatI don’t drink and drive.A. but alsoB. exceptC. otherwiseD. but rather49. A calculating machine has the advantage of speed and ______.A. having accuracyB. accuracyC. being accurateD. accurate50. Look at the pavilion ______ in the lake.A. reflectedB. reflectingC. to reflectD. to be reflected51. ______ help me, I had to do it all alone.A. There is no one toB. There being no one toC. Being no oneD. with no one52. Every government that refuses to meet the needs of its people must accept the ______.A. endingsB. consequencesC. resultsD. possibilities53. If only the committee ______the regulations and put them into effect as soon as possible.A. approveB. will approveC. can approveD. would approve54. It is because she is too inexperienced ______she does not know bow to dealwith the situation.A. thatB. thereforeC. so thatD. so55. Mike said that the house was ______ expensive for him.A. very muchB. so muchC. far tooD. about56. He ______ live in the country than in the city.A. had betterB. prefers toC. would ratherD. would like57. Let’s start again from where we ______.A. left overB. left offC. left outD. left aside58. New difficulties kept ______ as they built the railway tunnel.A. arisingB. arousingC. ascendingD. aggressing59. Improvements of all kinds ______ in television so that reception will be as close to perfect as possible.A. are constantly being madeB. are being made constantlyC. will be being madeD. will constantly be made60. A good newspaper publishes both ______ and foreign news.A. diplomaticB. democraticC. domesticD. dramatic61. The selling price of that house and ______ ＄25 000.A. many furniture areB. some furniture isC. the furniture isD. many pieces of furniture are62. Without air, ______ no wind or rain.A. there would beB. there will beC. there have beenD. there is63. It’s important to locate industries in areas where a supply of raw materials is ______.A. preferableB. availableC. dependableD. favorable64. The pilot lost contact with the military base, ______ the plane crashed in the desert.A. among whichB. for whichC. by means of whichD. as the result of which65. He’s lived in London ______.A. since a long timeB. for some timeC. long beforeD. some time ago66. ______ the university is by examination only.A. Admission toB. Permission inC. Admission inD. Permission on67. I remember ______ this person somewhere.A. to have metB. to meetC. meetD. meeting68. I did not realize you want to keep the letter, I have ______ it up.A. tornB. pickedC. pulledD. broken69. I ______ you that the equipment will be delivered today.A. persistB. confirmC. insistD. assure70. As I am free now, I ______ as well go with you.A. mightB. wouldC. shouldD. could71. I am going to the teacher, but you ______ with me.A. need go outB. need not goC. need not to goD. do not need go72. A laser beam is used to ______ even the hardest substance.A. pass throughB. repairC. light upD. identify.73. I could not ______ all the information given in the radio broadcast.A. receiveB. absorbC. admireD. deceive74. TV, if properly used, can ______ a child’s imagination.A. causeB. exciteC. stimulateD. arise75. Television keeps us informed about ______ events and the latest developments in politics and science.A. currentB. pastC. favorableD. newPart Ⅳ Cloze Test (10 points)Directions:There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood his heavy clock. Meals in the dining room were a __76 __ for our four generations to become one. My grandfather’s clock always stood like a trusted old family friend, __77 __ us playing jokes and telling stories, which was already a __78__ of our life.When I was a child, the old clock interested me. I watched and listened to it during __79 __. I was surprised how at __80 __ times of the day, the clock would strike three times, six times or more, with a wonderful great __81 __ that echoed throughout the house. The clock chimed year after year, a part of my __82 __, a part of my heart.Even more __83 __ to me was my grandfather’s special action each day. He meticulously __84 __ the clock with a special key each day. The key was magic to me. It __85 __ our family’s magnificent clock ticking and striking all year round.76. A. time B. possibility C. problem D. pleasure77. A. seeing B. hearing C. watching D. looking78. A. start B. part C. signal D. mark79. A. stories B. jokes C. periods D. meals80. A. busy B. urgent C. happy D. different81. A. shock B. sound C. song D. music82. A. memories B. minds C. comfort D. information83. A. comfortable B. hopeful C. wonderful D. skillful84. A. opened B. wound C. turned D. started85. A. made B. controlled C. kept D. fixedPart Ⅴ Writing (15 points)Directions:You are to write in 100~120 words about the title “Happiness”. You should base your composition on the requirement given below：Happiness(1)What is happiness?(2)Happiness is of great importance in everyone’s life.(3)Happiness is related to health.成人高等教育学士学位英语命题预测试卷（二）PartⅠ Dialogue Completion (15 points)Directions:There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.1. Eve:______Ivy:I am fine, thank you. And you?A. How do you do?B. How are you?C. Are you well again?D. What about your health?2. Dale:______ Would you please tell me the time?Laura:It’s ten past nine.A. I am sorry.B. I beg your pardon.C. Excuse me.D. Hello, how do you do?3. Linda:______ I haven’t seen you for ages.Lucy:I have just come back from the USA.A. Where have you been?B. Where have you gone?C. Oh, how I miss you!D. Are you back from the USA?4. Mary:We’re having a few people over for a dinner party Friday. We’d love to have you.Tom:______A. Oh, I’d love to. But I’m afraid.B. Oh, really! What time should I come?C. No, I have to prepare for the exam.D. Yes, though I have to take the exam.5. Son:I’m terribly sorry. Mom, I’ve broken an Italian vase.Mom:______A. Oh, what a shame!B. Oh, dear, how awful it is!C. Oh, that doesn’t matter.D. Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that.6. Teacher:You’re late again!Student:Sorry, ______A. I won’t do that anymore.B. but it’s my own business.C. I’m afraid I’ve overslept.D. but I need more sleep.7. Patient:I feel terrible today. My stomach doesn’t feel well at all.Doctor:______A. You should take something for it.B. That’s too bad for your health.C. It serves you right.D. Don’t remember.8. Sally:What is Jack like?Susan:______A. He’s kind and handsome.B. He’s very well.C. He likes music.D. He’s a worker.9. Speaker A:Did you check your e-mail today?Speaker B:No. ______A. Who cares?B. Why do you ask?C. Which one?D. Why is it so?10. Nat:I’d like to come to see you. Will ten o’clock do?Lulu:______A.Fine.B.Thanks.C. With Pleasure.D.See you.11. Hatty:______Jesse:Yes, I want a pencil box.A. Can I help you?B. What do I do for you?C. Can you help me?D. What do you want to do?12. Doris:You speak very good English.Jerry:______A. No, not at all.B. Thank you.C. No, my English is poor.D. I don’t think so.13. Homer:______Emily:He has a round face, blue eyes and brown hair.A. What do you think of the boy?B. How’s the boy?C. How do you like the boy?D. What does the boy look like?14. Amy:I’ve got a headache.Byron:______ I’ll get an aspirin.A. Have you, dear?B. Do you have really, dear?C. What shall I do?D. Do you want me to help you?15. Josie: Might I trouble you for a night?Justin:You ______A. might indeed!B. may indeed!C. could indeed!D. certainly did!Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(40 points )Directions:There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.Passage 1As you are students of English, it’s very possible that you’ll be interested in England. That’s where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names—England, Britain or Great Britain. Let’s see what each of these names means.If you look at a map of Europe, you’ll see a group of islands—one larger island off the northwest coast, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles. The largest island of the British Isles is Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland.Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word “England” is used instead of “Britain”. Why so?In ancient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. Peoplein these different countries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England is the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island.There’s another thing that confuses people: sometimes you may hear people say “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. That is the official name of the country. Northern Ireland is only one sixth of the island or Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of “England”, “Britain”, “Great Britain”, and “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. Now do you know what each of them means?16. English was first spoken in ______.A. BritainB. EnglandC. Great BritainD. Ireland17. Britain is divided into ______.A. England, Britain, and WalesB. England, Scotland, and WalesC. Wales, Scotland, and Great BritainD. Great Britain, Wales, and Scotland18. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?A. Wales is the richest of the three.B. Scotland is the largest of the three.C. Sometimes England is used instead of Britain.D. Britain is the only name of the largest island of British Isles.19. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is ______.A. part of BritainB. part of British IslesC. the official name of the whole country EnglandD. the largest country of all mentioned in the passage20. Which of the following is an independent country?A. WalesB. ScotlandC. Northern IrelandD. The Republic of IrelandPassage 2“Have you read the newly published edition of Harry Potter?”“Have you ever been fooled on April 1st?”“What have you given your boy/girlfriend on Valentine’s Day(情人节) ?” You may not feel even a little bit surprised when you are confronted with these questions. However, chances are that your parents cannot understand a word. In the wake of globalization, culture has gone beyond border and is flying all over the world, with a great impact on Chinese youths.By getting in touch with western culture, we are forced to think over things that we took for granted previously. We’ve gradually shrugged off some old notions that may hinder our development, such as “uniformity is always good”, or “authority is always in the right”. I think this is the greatest benefit we can get from this impact. We tend to be critical with what “should be” in our forefathers’ eyes. Only by this critical mind can we initiate some changes; only through change can our。
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Part I Dialogue Completion (15 points)Directions: There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this Part, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1. Speaker A: Excuse me, do you mind if I sit here?Speaker B: ________Speaker A: Thank you!A. Yes, please.B. No, not at all.C. How do you do!D. Glad to see you here!2. Speaker A: Hello, my name’s Meifang.Speaker B: Hi, I’m Susan.Speaker A: Nice to meet you!Speaker B: ________A.You are so kind!B. Are you sure?C.Thanks a lot!D. Nice meeting you, too!3.Speaker A: Would it be possible for you to help me with my English study?Speaker B: Yes. ________A. I’m most willing to do so.B. You’d better do it yourself.C. I don’t think so.D. When and where?4.Shop assistant: Can I help you?Customer: Yes, please. I would like two kilos of bananas.Shop assistant: Certainly. ________ Anything else?A. How much is it?B. Here you are.C. Thanks for coming!D. These are yours.5.John: Hi, Jack. Do you still intend to study business?Jack: No, I have changed my mind. I’ve decided to study English.John: Why?Jack: If I master English language well, I’m sure I can do better in the future.John: Oh, ________A. that sounds good.B. it’s very thoughtful of you.C. I don’t think of it.D. why not have a try?6. Speaker A: Excuse me, can you help me with my car?Speaker B: Sure. ________?Speaker A: I’ve got a flat tire.A. What’s wrong with itB. When shall we goC. Any problemD. What help do you need7.Interviewer: I’m doing research on “Women and Society”. I wonder if you couldhelp me with it by answering a few questions.Mr. Wright: ________.Interviewer: There is a famous saying “All men are created equal” .What haveyou got to say about it?A. Let me think about itB. Yes, I willC. I’d love toD. It’s an easy job8.Anna: So Mary, how’s the washing machine working?Mary: Actually, it doesn’t work well.Anna: Why don’t you take it back?Mary: _______, but I’ve misplaced the receipt.A. It’s not what I wantedB. It’s already brokenC. I have no ideaD. I’d like to9.Husband: What’s on the TV this evening? I feel like relaxing.Wife: _______ You know I never watch it.Husband: Too busy with your hobby? I wish I had as much free time as you do.A. Oh, it’s too bad!B. Why ask me that?C. What would you say?D. Are you mad?10.Speaker A: Do you prefer a small town like White Stone or bigger city like thestate capital?Speaker B: _______. What I do care about is getting attention from the faculty and meeting friends.Speaker A: Oh, I see.A. It’s easyB. I like bothC. I can’t know for sureD. That doesn’t matter to me11.Speaker A: So you don’t really like any of our food, do you?Speaker B: Oh, no. _______. In fact, I am very fond of the steak and kidney pudding you make and your apple pies too.Speaker A: It’s very nice of you to say so.A. I didn’t say thatB. I don’t like the foodC. I am sorry for thatD. You misunderstand me12.Receptionist: British Airways. Good morning. Can I help you?Passenger: I want to book a seat on a flight from London to New York on thesecond morning of October, please.Receptionist: ________Passenger: Riley Dewar.A. Who are you?B. Who do you book for?C. Could I have your name, please?D. Could you say it again? I didn’t catch it.13.Father: Lan, your school has called to say that you did a fabulous job at the talentshow.Son: Thanks, Dad. I’m glad people liked my performance.Father: ________A. You got it right.B. Your mother and I will learn from you.C. Your mother and I are very proud of you.D. Would you like to do it again?14.Receptionist: Eastchaster Hotel. Good morning. Can I help you?Secretary: Good morning. I’d like to book a room for Mr. Alain. Our executives usually stay at your hotel and you may recognize that.Receptionist: ________Secretary: The 21st September to the 2nd of October, inclusive.A. Name and dates, please.B. Can you give me the dates, please?C. Yes, I know the name but how about dates?D. I don’t need the name. I need dates only.15. Peter: Hi, Ben, I’ve got some good news. Ann and I are getting married.Ben: Oh, that’s wonderful. ________Peter: Thanks. I’m really excited!A.Pretty good.B. I will enjoy it.C. A piece of good news!D. Congratulations!Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 4 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Passage OneA traditional English breakfast is a very big meal —sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes … . But nowadays many people just have cereal with milk and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey. Marmalade and jam are not the same. Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffee, often instant coffee, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting.For many people lunch is a quick meal. In cities there are a lot of sandwich bars, where office workers can choose the kind of bread they want — brown, white, or a roll — and then all sorts of salad and meat or fish to go in the sandwich. Pubs often servegood, cheap food, both hot and cold. School-children can have a hot meal at school. But many just take a snack from home — a sandwich, a drink, some fruit, and perhaps some crisps.“Tea” means two things. It is a drink and a meal. Some people have afternoon tea, with sandwiches, cakes, and, of course, a cup of tea. Cream teas are popular. You have scones (a kind of cake) with cream and jam.The evening meal is the main meal of the day for many people. They usually have it quite early, between 6.00 and 8.00, and often the whole family eats together.On Sundays many families have a traditional lunch. They have roast meat, either beef, lamb, chicken, or pork, with potatoes, vegetables, and gravy. Gravy is a sauce made from the meat juices.The British like food from other countries, too, especially Italian, French, Chinese, and Indian. People often get take-away meals — you buy the food at the restaurant and then bring it home to eat. Eating in Britain is quite international!16.For traditional breakfast, many British people __________.A. have a big mealB. don’t like coffeeC. drink tea with hot milkD. eat very little17.For lunch, British people __________.A. often take food from homeB. often go to pubs for foodC. spend a long time eating their foodD. just have sandwiches18.The British people have dinner __________ in the evening.A. often at six o’clockB. often at eight o’clockC. usually for two hoursD. at any time between six and eight19.From the passage we know that __________.A. British people drink tea with other foodB. foreign food is often rejected in BritainC. British people don’t like eating in the restaurantD. British coffee is very popularPassage TwoDuring the Colonial period in American history, most communication and trade was conducted by ocean-going vessels sailing along the eastern seaboard（海滨）. As farms and great estates developed inland, the rivers of the East became the main transportation routes for people and goods. The settlement of the West brought the Mississippi River system into the national transportation network, and eventually the steamboat made the Mississippi the foremost （最重要的）inland carrier of all. With the introduction of the steamboat to Mississippi waters by Robert Fulton in 1811,transportation time and costs were greatly reduced.As technological improvements increased the speed at which boats could travel, particularly upstream, from one river port to another, operators were able to make a profit and greatly reduce rates at the same time. The steamboat also raised the volume of goods exchanged between the South and the down to the levees (大堤) of New Orleans for shipment overseas or for distribution by coastal vessels to the rest of the South and Southwest and even to the East. Most of the commodities from abroad or from the East were funneled（经过）into this booming port for shipment inland.20. Among the following geographical features, _________ probably contributed mostto the settlement of the interior of the Unite States.A. good ports on the eastern seaboardB. an abundance of small riversC. a good river systemD. suitable levees near the coast21. Steamboat operators were able to make a profit as well as to reduce shipping ratesbecause of the __________.A. low cost of fuelB. increased speed of their steamboatsC. size of their steamboatsD. intense competition22. According to the passage, what was transported down the Mississippi River to NewOrleans?A. Manufactured goods.B. Agricultural products.C. International commodities.D. Shipbuilding supplies.23. It can be inferred from the passage that all the following made a strong contributionto the growth of New Orleans as an important trading center EXCEPT __________.A. the growth of population in the WestB. the success of the steamboatC. nearby manufacturing facilitiesD. its location at the mouth of the MississippiPassage ThreeDrunken driving —sometimes called Americans’ socially accepted form of murder —has become a national epidemic (流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three bottles of beer, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American macho (男子气的) image and judges were lenient (宽大的) in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young child, that publicopinion is no longer so tolerant.Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20 year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.Though new laws have led to increased arrests and test and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities (死亡事故), some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern（酒馆）in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously intoxicated (喝醉的）” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forget that legal prohibition did not stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.24. Drunken driving has become a major problem in America because ___________.A. most of Americans are heavy drinkersB. heavy drinking is not severely penalizedC. accidents attract so much publicityD. drinking is a socially accepted habit in America25. Why was public opinion no longer tolerant of drunken driving?A. Detailed statistics are now available.B. The news media have highlighted the problem.C. Judges are giving more severe sentences.D. Drivers are more conscious of their image.26. Statistics issued in New Jersey suggested that ____________.A. many drivers were not of legal ageB. young drivers were often bad driversC. the level of drinking age increased in the 1960sD. the legal driving age should be raised27. Laws recently introduced in some states have ____________.A. reduced the number of convictionsB. resulted in fewer serious accidentsC. prevented bars from serving customersD. specified the amount drivers can drinkPassage FourComputer programmer David Jones earned £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18.He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding jobs. David’s firm releases（发行）two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards .He lives with his parents in their council house（地方政府修建的简易住房）in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.David got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels (普通成绩) and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,” he said.“I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year.” He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working.“Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school,” he said. “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway.”28. Why is David so different from other young people of his age?A. He can drive a car and get credit cards.B. He has got a job, earning a lot of money.C. He lives at home with his parents.D. He does not go out much with his friends.29. David’s greatest problem is that ___________.A. he can’t be treated as an adult by the bankB. he can’t make as many games as he wishesC. he doesn’t know what to buy with the moneyD. he had learnt to use computer at school30. He left school after taking six O-levels because ___________.A. he was afraid of getting too old to start computingB. he did not enjoy all the courses at schoolC. he wanted to work with computersD. he wanted to earn a lot of money31. He was employed by the company because __________.A. he had worked in a computer shopB. he works very hardC. he had written some computer programsD. he had learnt to use computer at schoolPassage FiveA computer is a machine designed to perform work mathematically and to store and select information that has been fed into it. It is run by either mechanical or electronic means. These machines can do a great deal of complicated work in a very short time. A large computer, for example, can add or subtract nine thousand times a second, multiply (乘) a thousand times a second, or divide five hundred times a second. Its percentage of error is about one in a billion digits (位数). It has been estimated that human beings making calculations average about one mistake per two hundred digits.The heart of an electronic computer lies in its vacuum tubes (电子管), or transistors (晶体管). Its electronic circuits work a thousand times faster than the nerve cells in the human brain. A problem that might take a human being two years to solve can be solved by a computer in one minute, but in order to work properly, a computer must be given instructions — it must be programmed.Computers can be designed for many specialized purposes — they can be used to prepare payrolls (薪水册), guide airplane flights, direct traffic, even to play chess. Computers play an essential role in modern automation in many plants and factories throughout the world.32. The speed with which an electronic computer works depends on its __________.A. electronic circuitsB. programmerC. vacuum tubes, or transistorsD. instructions33. The passage says that computers play an essential role in ___________.A. traffic controlB. automation processesC. mathematical computationsD. the development of mathematical theory34. The use of computers for specialized purposes depends on the ___________.A. design of the computerB. power used to operate the computerC. difficulty of the mathematical calculations involvedD. ability of the programmer35. The passage implies that human beings differ from computers in that human beings___________.A. make fewer errorsB. work more quicklyC. do not have to be programmedD. understand their instructionsPart III Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.36. Today the small town is better ________ against flood than it was 15 years ago.A. preventedB. preparedC. equippedD. protected37. A power failure completely _______ the cake she was baking.A. damagedB. harmedC. hurtD. spoiled38. Some companies provided special benefits when employees agreed to _______ aride to work.A. shareB. takeC. carryD. get39. The managing director took the _______ for the accident, although it was not reallyhis fault.A. guiltB. chargeC. blameD. accusation40. He has impressed his employers considerably and _______ he is soon to be promoted.A. eventuallyB. yetC. finallyD. accordingly41.Andrew has a very way of dealing with junk mail — he returns it to thesender.A. sensitiveB. rudeC. sensibleD. optimistic42. We are interested in the weather because it ________ us so directly — what we wear,what we do, and even how we feel.A. benefitsB. guidesC. affectsD. effects43. Having lived in the town for quite a few years, Mr. Smith no longer felt ______among the local people.A. out of orderB. out of placeC. out of controlD. out of the question44. The doctor told the patient to eat only ________ food, which was easy to digest.A. deliciousB. mixedC. specificD. liquid45. Many new ________ will be opened up in the future for those with a universityeducation.A. possibilitiesB. opportunitiesC. probabilitiesD. realities46. Many developments in modern surgery are almost _________.A. credibleB. incredibleC. greatD. rational47. Floods cause billions of dollars worth of poverty damage ________.A. comparativelyB. actuallyC. annuallyD. relatively48. One of the many _______ of foreign travel is learning how to cope with theunexpected.A. servicesB. offersC. interestsD. benefits49. For her, happiness _________ watching television and reading magazines.A .consists in B. builds on C. makes up D. composes of50. We need someone really ________ who can organize the office and make it runsmoothly.A. crucialB. realisticC. essentialD. efficient51. You have to know what is right for you and then ________ it regardless of whatothers may say.A. go afterB. go aheadC. go throughD. go on52. Some of the suggestions have been ________ but others have been turned down asthey are quite impracticable.A. receivedB. recognizedC. adaptedD. adopted53. We looked at four cars today. The first two were far too expensive, but ________ones were reasonably priced.A. otherB. othersC. the otherD. another54. A university is an educational institution which ________ degrees and carries outresearch.A. rewardsB. awardsC. grantsD. presents55. The lady who had invited us heard me telling my wife that the dinner was terrible soI was ________.A. confusedB. nervousC. embarrassedD. shameful56. The reason why he adapted to the new situations quickly is that he has a _______attitude.A. changeableB. alternativeC. movableD. flexible57. Most people not directly engaged in daily work express disapproval when they hearof people ________ on and off.A. being workingB. workedC. workingD. to work58. It is no longer a question ________ now man can land on the moon.A. thatB. whyC. whereD. what59. Though they’ve brought us many books for all of us to read in the coming summerholidays, ________ of them are suitable to our level.A. neitherB. noneC. nothingD. all60. The crazy fans ________ patiently for two hours and they would wait till the moviestar arrived.A. were waitingB. had been waitingC. had waitedD. would wait61. — Do you like cats?— Of course, they are ________ a kind of pet. They can do much good to their masters.A. better thanB. more thanC. no more thanD. not more than62. Not until the game had begun ________ at the sports ground.A. had he arrivedB. would he have arrivedC. he arrivedD. did he arrive63. They were more than glad to leave their cars parked and walked ________ a change.A. asB. toC. byD. for64. He made another wonderful discovery, ________ of great importance to science.A. which I think isB. which I think it isC. which I think itD. I think which is65. She has been a ballet dancer since eight, and remains ________ completelyto the art.A. dedicatingB. being dedicatedC. to dedicateD. dedicated66. The little boy ate ________ his mother gave him.A. thatB. whichC. whateverD. which67. I would rather that you ________ the work for me tomorrow.A. doB. will doC. have to doD. did68. Mr. Bush is on time for everything. How ________ it be that he was late for theopening ceremony?A. canB. shouldC. mayD. must69. If I had seen the movie, I ________ you all about it now.A. would tellB. will tellC. have toldD. would have told70. No sooner had we reached the top of the hill ________ we all sat down to rest.A. whenB. whileC. thanD. until71. It is the intelligent application of technology________ will lead us to success.A. whichB. thatC. itD. when72. My bike________ two weeks ago. May I borrow yours, please?A. has lostB. had lostC. had been lostD. was lost73. The experiment _________, the students went on to take notes in the experiment report.A. being doneB. having doneC. doneD. doing74. I prefer the climate of Kunming to ________ of Wuhan.A. itB. oneC. thisD. that75. This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen _______ smoothly.A. is wornB. wearsC. is wearingD. are wornPart IV Cloze Test (10 points)Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numberedblank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.During the first few weeks at college, I could do exactly 76 I wanted. But I found the lack of 77 quite difficult. At school we had always been told what to do. Now there was no one to tell me that I must get my essay 78 on time or that I should get up early to avoid the long queue for breakfast. On the third day of Freshers’ Week I had intended to 79 for an important course, but I overslept and by the time I got to the office there were no more 80 left. On the fifth day, I lost my watch, and was so poor that I decided not to buy another one. But the problem was that 81 a watch, I kept being late for lectures. So in the end I 82 and bought another one. Slowly I began to realize that I was 83 for my life and no one else. For a while this thought made me very 84 and I had difficulty sleeping at night. Then one night the thought entered my head that 85 it was my life, I could make it a very good one. I woke up the next morning, extremely happy in a way I’d never felt before.76. A. what B. that C. whole D. which77. A. lessons B. plans C. guidance D. category78. A. charged B. finished C. consulted D. enforced79. A. let down B. sign up C. make out D. turn to80. A. students B. teachers C. lectures D. places81. A. without B. within C. keeping D. losing82. A. carried on B. dressed up C. gave in D. laid down83. A. powerful B. vigorous C. different D. responsible84. A. nervous B. happy C. painful D. exhausted85. A. when B. while C. if D. even ifPart V Writing (15 points)Directions:You are to write 100~120 words about the title “Mobile Phones”. You should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:1. 手机给我们的生活带来极大的方便；2. 同时，我们也失去了独处的快乐；3. 我们应该怎样避免手机带来的问题。
2012年5月成人英语三级考试真题、答案、解析
北京地区本科学士学位英语统一考试2012年5月12日6. According to the passage, poor sleep can be linked to all of the following EXCEPTA. heart diseaseB. car accidentsC. skin problemsD. poor concentration6．C.问题问“依据短文，睡眠不好可能与下列的选项相关联，除了哪个选项以外？”. As the school year kicks off, parents are once again straggling to cajole (哄编)and, if need be, drag their exhausted teens out of bed. That image may make you laugh, but lack of sleep is no joke. (77) Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning. health~ behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night.Long-term lack of sleep is tied to heart disease,（与选项A呼应）overweight, depression and a shortened life span in adults, indicating the importance of establishing good sleep habits early in life. Lack of sleep can be especially deadly for teens; car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers, and safety experts believe sleepy driving is a major factor.（与选项B呼应）Unfortunately, few teenagers get the sleep they need. In a survey of middle- and high-school students, University of Colorado researchers found that 82 percent said they woke up tired and unrefreshed, and more than half had trouble concentrating during the day at least once a week.（与选项D呼应）只有C没有在文章中提到。
2012年5月学位英语真题及超详细答案
第一节：（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有1个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the woman want to do?A. Ask for the time.B. Repair her watch .C. Buy a new watch.2. What is the man most probably ?A. A driver.B. A passenger .C. A policeman.3. What are the two speakers doing?A. They are having a meeting .B. They are talking on the phone.C. They are listening to the radio.4. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?A. Father and daughter.B. Professor and student .C. Two good friends.5. When did the man probably leave the gate?A. At 12:00.B. At 12: 30.C. At 1:00.第二节：（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷相应位置。
听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟；听完后各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至第7题。
6. Who is the woman speaking to?A. Her husband.B. A policeman.C. A fire-fighter.7. What has happened to the woman’s house?A. It’s been burnt down.B. It’s been broken into.C. It’s been damaged.听第7段材料，回答第8至第9题。
2012年广东省学位英语历年真题答案
命题预测试卷（一）参考答案及名家精析PartⅠ Dialogue Completion(15 points)1. ［答案］B【精析】在别人介绍自己以后，应该说“见到你很高兴。
”选项B符合题意。
D也有此意，但只用于两人初次见面交谈后即将分别时。
2. ［答案］B【精析】“Do you think it will snow this evening?”的意思是：“你认为今晚会下雪吗？”选项B（我认为不会下雪）符合题意。
选项A（我希望不会）不符合题意。
选项C、D 都是特殊疑问句，很明显不符合题意。
3. ［答案］A【精析】“I’m Lucy. My teacher asked me to visit you.”是自我介绍，与第1题同，因而只有选项A正确，其他选项都不符合题意。
4. ［答案］B【精析】“How can I learn to cook well?”的意思是：“我怎么样才能学好做饭呢？”“Why don’t you…”是一种给别人提建议的方式，选项B（为什么不照老师说的去做呢？）符合题意。
选项A（真可惜）、选项C（我担心着可能没用）、选项D（有原因吗？）都不符合题意。
5. ［答案］D【精析】“I won’t have beer any more.”的意思是“我不会再喝啤酒了。
”题中为情态动词will的否定形式，那么与之相对应的应该是选项D（我也不会）。
选项A用于肯定句中。
6. ［答案］D【精析】“Do you mind my smoking here?”的意思是：“你介意我在这里抽烟吗？”选项D（是的，我介意，请不要在这里吸烟）与题意相符，其他选项都自相矛盾。
7. ［答案］B【精析】Owen说：“我可以用你的电话吗？”Ruth说：“好，用吧。
”只有B项符合。
而选项A（没关系），选项C（不，我不介意），选项D（不，你不需要）均不符合题意。
8. ［答案］A【精析】选项A“你准备在这里待多久？”；选项B“你什么时候离开这里？”；选项C“你多久来这里一次？”；选项D“你来过这里多少次了？”。
河北省2012年高中英语学业水平(5月)考试试题及答案
2012年5月河北省普通高中学业水平考试试题英语试题本试卷分为四部分，第一部分的第一节和第二节、第二部分和第三部分为选择题，第一部分的第三节和第四部分为非选择题。
本试卷共8页。
满分100分，考试时间90分钟。
注意事项：1. 答题前，考生务必用直径0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚。
2. 选择题部分：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。
答在试卷上的答案无效。
3. 非选择题部分：必须使用0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上书写，要求字体工整，笔迹清晰。
务必在题号所指示的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上答题无效。
4. 考试结束，务必将试题卷和答题卡一并上交。
第一部分听力 (共三节，满分20分)做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案填涂到答题卡上。
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
例: How much is the shirt?A. ￡19.15.B. ￡9.15.C. ￡9.18.答案: B1. Where does the woman want to go this summer?A. Greece.B. Japan.C. Canada.2. How much weight does the man plan to reduce?A. 90 pounds.B. 60 pounds.C. 30 pounds.3. What are the two speakers discussing?A. An evening class.B. Learning a language.C. A TV program.4. Whose party will the woman go to?A. John’s.B. Joe’s.C. Ann’s.5. What does the woman want to do first?A. Do the dishes.B. Wash the clothes.C. Sweep the floor.第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）听下面4段对话。
12年英语答案解析
北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试2012.05答案与解析第一部分阅读理解第一篇阅读一、文章大意与结构分析这篇文章主要讲述格林童话的由来、它的暴力性使得有些故事少儿不宜、以及即便它有这种负面效应但仍然成为经典的原因。
二、试题解析1.【答案】B。
细节题。
根据第二段But the Grimms needed money. So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children.。
可知Grimm家是因为缺钱而去为儿童写书，因此选择B。
2. 【答案】C。
细节题。
根据第三段When he revised the tales for children, Wilhelm Grimm retained(保留) the violence，可知选项C错。
3. 【答案】D。
词汇解释题。
根据第三段From example后面几句话的描述，在第一个版里，Cinderella 最终原谅了她的姐妹们。
但是在专门写给孩子们看的第二版里，Cinderella的鸟把她姐妹们的眼睛啄下来了。
可知是增加了暴力性。
4. 【答案】B。
细节题。
根据文章最后一句，延续下来的童话是一些奇幻的冒险，这些冒险的经历能帮助孩子们应付日常生活中的恐惧和挣扎。
5. 【答案】C。
主旨题。
全文都是围绕格林童话展开的。
A、D概念太宽泛，B只有在第一段里才提到。
三、长难句分析1. But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives. 但是深层次的原因是延续下来的童话是一些奇幻的探险故事，当儿童们在日常生活中害怕和挣扎的时候，这些故事能给他们带来勇气。
5月北京成人本科学位英语统一考试真题及答案1.doc
5月北京成人本科学位英语统一考试真题及答案1北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试2014.05.10Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, CandD. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:The first year of school in America, known as kindergarten, usually begins between the ages of five and six. Among rich countries such a late start is very strange. President Obama believes it is an economic and social problem; his education secretary goes as far as to say that it is "morally wrong”.This statement has some support, as it is clear from research into vocabulary that youngsters from poor families enter kindergarten well behind those from rich families—a disadvantage that usually lasts a lifetime. Children from households on welfare knew 525 words by the age of three, while the children of professionals had mastered1,116.(76) Pre-school can help close this gap. So in a speech last month, Mr. Obama called for a partnership between the federal government and the states to expand it to every American child. It later became known that "every" meant those who come from families with incomes of up to 200% above the poverty line—equal to an income of $47,000 for a family of four.(77) Some critics say that sending children to school at the age of four does not work. The evidence suggests otherwise. For example, on March 20th new results were announced from a study of 9tol1yearolds in New Jersey. This report found that disadvantaged children who had attended pre-school had better literacy (读写能力), language, maths and science skills. And two years of pre-kindergarten were better than one.Some studies also follow the effects of early learning over lifetimes, such as its effect on crime rates and other factors that may eventually burden society. Critics have singled out a government scheme called Head Start, created in 1965, which provides poor households with a range of services including school-based early education.1．Kindergarten in rich countries other than America usually begins at the age of _______A. eightB. sevenC. sixD. four2．According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?A. Poor pre-school kids have a larger vocabulary than rich kids.B. President Obama believes that early education can solve all economic and social problems.C. Rich pre-school kids have a richer vocabulary than poor kids.D.President Obama’s education secretary thinks it is morally wrong to let kids startkindergarten early.3．Which of the following about the New Jersey study is TRUE?A. There is no evidence to support the New Jersey study.B. New Jersey has created a new Head Start to help disadvantaged kids.C. Sending children to school at the age of four is not going to help.D. Two years of pre-kindergarten were better than one.4．The phrase "single out" in the last paragraph means _______.A. chooseB. think aboutC. countD. depend on5．Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?A. Secondary EducationB. Pre-school EducationC. Poor Kids’EducationD. Rich Kids’EducationPassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:Humans may not have landed on Mars (火星) just yet, but that isn’t shopping a European company from devising a plan to send four people to the Red Planet within the next few years.(78) This project, called Mars One, aims to send a small group of people to Mars in 2022 and eventually establish a permanent colony on the planet."Everything we need to go to Mars exists," said Mars One co-founder Bas Lansdorp in March 2014. "We have the rockets to send people to Mars, the equipment to land on Mars, the robots to prepare the settlement for humans. For a one-way mission, all the technology exists." Yet the four astronauts (宇航员) chosen for the trip will be stuck on Mars—forever. And despite Mars One’s thorough planning, there are a number of challenges that may prevent the mission from ever taking place. (79) The biggest roadblock could be the mission’s huge cost ($6 billion). However, Lansdorp is confident that Mars One will be able to fund the project by selling the broadcast rights for the mission and subsequent experiences living on the planet.Those broadcast rights will also play a part in helping to select the people who will be sent to Mars. Lansdorp said the company will hold a selection process similar to a reality show. Lansdorp is expecting at least 1 million applications from people around the world. In addition to the cost, several other potential problems could inhibit (阻止)the mission to Mars.“It’s even more challenging to send people there with life support, with food, with air, with all the other things like books, entertainment, means of communication and of providing for their own resources for a long stay on Mars," said Adam Baker，senior lecturer in space engineering at Kingston University in London. "The sheer size of the rockets you’d need to do this would be absolutely colossal.”6. According to Project Mars One, humans could send four people to Mars within the next _______ years.A. sevenB. eightC. tenD. six7．According to Bas Lansdorp, which of the following is NOT TRUE?A. For a one-way trip to Mars, all the technology exists.B. He could not come up with the fund for Mars One.C. We humans have the rockets to send people to Mars.D. We humans have the equipment to land on Mars.8．According to the passage, all the following statements are TRUEEXCEPT that _______.A. a competition process will be held to select the four astronautsB. the cost of Mars One could go as much as $6 billionC. if it goes as planned，we could expect to watch Mars One on TVD. the four astronauts could return to Earth after a few years’stay on Mars9. The word "colossal”in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.A. very largeB. very smallC. mediumD. average10. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?A. Ready for a Round Trip to MarsB. Ready for a Short Visit to MarsC. Ready for a One-way Trip to MarsD. Ready for a Walk on MarsPassage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:When the United States Congress created Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the goal was to set aside a place where Americans could enjoy the beauty of nature for years to come. Now, 142 yearslater, there are hundreds of national parks across the country, and technology is changing the way people experience them. Should park visitors be able to use cell phones, or should their use be restricted?"Connectivity presents a real challenge to all of us." Al Nash says. He is a public affairs officer at Yellowstone National Park. He says cell phone service at Yellowstone is available in parts of the park with stores and campgrounds. This makes it easy for visitors to share photos of their trip on social networking sites and to stay in touch with friends and family members. (80) If a park visitor is hurt or in danger, cell phones make it easier to get help. Some say the ability to download applications that provide information about plants and animals in the park can enrich a visitor’s experience.Others say cell phones disturb people’s enjoyment of our national parks. In their view, cell phone towers are an eyesore, and they’d rather hear the sound of birds than the ring of an incoming call. Can you imagine looking out a peaceful lake or field of grass only to be disturbed by a person shouting into their phone, "Can you hear me now?"Nash says Yellowstone tries to strike a balance. "Ultimately, our job is to let visitors understand and enjoy nature better while protecting what people find special about Yellowstone, and one of those things that’s special is the ability to get away from the hustle and bustle (喧嚣) of one’s daily life."11．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Which U.S. National Park Has the Most Visitors?B. Should National Parks Allow the Use of Cell Phones?C. What Did Yellowstone Do to Enrich Park Visitors’Experience?D. Can Technology Transform the Way People Experience Nature?12．National parks were established _______.A. to show respect to former presidentsB. to raise public awareness about climate changeC. to preserve areas of natural beautyD. to create job opportunities13．According to the passage, which of the following statements about the cell phone service at Yellowstone is TRUE?A. It is limited to certain areas in the park.B. It is available everywhere in the park.C. It is not available in the park.D. It is available to visitors at a fee.14．The word "eyesore “in the third paragraph probably means _______.A. something unpleasant to look atB. something harmful to healthC. beautiful sceneD. serious threat15．What’s the position of Yellowstone on cell phone use?A. Supportive.B. Neutral.C. Negative.D. Doubtful.Part ⅡV ocabulary and Structure (30%)Directions: In this part there are 30incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A. B. C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.16．All the passengers _______ in the accident were sent to the nearby hospital in no time.A. to find injuredB. finding injuredC. to be found injuredD. found injured17．The big fire lasted as long as 24 hours _______ it was brought under control.A. afterB. beforeC. sinceD. while18．In this workshop, the output of July was three times _______ of January.A. thatB. thisC. oneD. it19．Seeing her father come back, _______.A. tears ran down her cheeksB. her tears ran outC. she burst into tearsD. tears burst into her20．_______singer and _______ dancer is also good at drawing.A. The; aB. The; theC. A; aD. The; /21．It’s such a difficult problem _______ no one can work it out.A. asB. thatC. soD. thus22．I’d rather you _______ there next week.A. wearB. goC. should have goneD. had gone23．By the end of this term, we _______3,000 English words in all.A. will learnB. will have learnedC. learnedD. had learned24．_______is known to all, the earth moves around the sun once a year.A. ThatB. AsC. WhatD. It25．_______I admit that she has shortcomings, I still like her.A. WhenB. AsC. WhileD. Once26．To our great _______, Tom’s illness proved not to be asserious as we had feared.A. anxietyB. reliefC. viewD. judgment27．The meeting is to begin at 4:00 p.m., but as assistants, we’re _______ to be there a bit earlier.A. invitedB. supposedC. encouragedD. hoped28．Can you _______ the differences between the two pictures?A. tellB. talkC. speakD. say29．Do you know the _______ of the saying I just quoted?A. resourceB. sourceC. courseD. cause30．The Internet has brought _______ big changes in the way we work.A. aboutB. outC. upD. back31．Dr Hampton: Good morning, Professor Smith.Professor Smith: _______, Dr Hampton.Dr Hampton: May I come in?Professor Smith: Of course, please.A. Good morningB. Fine, thanksC. Pleased to meet youD. How do you do32. The travelers are going to Taiwan, _______ they plan tostay for two or three days.A. thatB. whichC. whenD. where33. When George was a little boy in primary school, he often _______ to school on foot.A. goesB. wentC. goD. will go34．On no account _______ to deprive (剥夺) a student of his right to receive education.A. anyone is allowedB. is anyone allowedC. anyone allowsD. allows anyone35．Alice speaks English well, _______?A. she doesB. does sheC. she doesn’tD. doesn’t she36．Student: Professor Wang, must I hand in the paper this week?Professor Wang: No, _______. You can hand it in next week.A. you mustn’tB. you can’tC. you needn’tD. you shouldn’t37．If I_______ you, I would go now and wait for them at the station.A. amB. wasC. wereD. have been38．Ted,_______ yourself and don’t get your coat dirty again,or you will get into trouble!A. behaveB. makeC. performD. take39．In the dead man’s bedroom the police found several important _______ which pointed to Blake as the murderer.A. careersB. cluesC. challengesD. dreams40．The old man sitting on the park bench seemed _______ to me, yet I couldn’t possibly remember where we had met before.A. proudB. gradualC. familiarD. mental41．They go to work every day _______ Saturday and Sunday.Those days are holidays.A. besidesB. onC. fromD. except42．She has _______ chance to win the election as her opponent is too strong.A. littleB. a littleC. fewD. a few43．Today Bob was late again for class because he overslept (睡过头), but he _______an excuse of being ill.A. looked upB. made upC. put upD. took up44．You have to _______ early in the morning to avoid the rushhour.。
2012年5月河南省成人学士学位外语考试(英语)真题
2012年河南省成人学士学位外语考试（英语）真题2012 年11月河南省成人高等教育本科毕业生申请学士学位外国语水平统一考试英语试题册（B）注意事项一、将自己的姓名、准考证号、接受申请单位填写在答题卡和答题纸上。
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Part I Vocabulary and Structure (20 points, 20 minutes)Directions: there are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best complete the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.1. An investigation was made into the accident, ___ five people were killed.A. whereC. for thatB. whenD. in which2. Gravity is sure to play an important part, ___ the ball ___ into the air won’t go up.A. as, thrownB. for, thrownC. since, throwingD. as, throwing3. Research into the dynamics of storms is directed toward improving the ability to predict these events ___ to minimize damage and avoid loss of life.A. and thusB. soC. howeverD. because4. Long before children are able to speak a language, ___communicate through facial expressions and by making noises.A. howeverB. theyC. furthermoreD. who5. ___ difficulties we may come across, we will help one another to get over them.A. WhicheverB. WhateverC. HoweverD. What6. Evidence comes up ___ specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as six months old.A. whatB. thatC. whoseD. which7. Tom's education gave him an advantage ___boys who had not been to a college.A. overB. upC. toD. above8. Had Paul received six more votes in the last election, he ___our chairman, now.A. must have beenB. would have beenC. wereD. would been9. You ___ your homework lately and your class work isn't up to standard either.A. didn'tB .weren't doingC. haven’t been doingD .won't be doing10. Henry looked very much ___ when he was caught cheating in the exam.A. excitingB. excitedC. embarrassingD. embarrassed11. In this factory, suggestions often have to wait for months before they are fully ___.A, admittedB. acknowledgedC. absorbedD. considered12. They have developed techniques which are ___ to those used in most factories.A. simplerB. betterC. superiorD. greater13.The problem has ___simple because you didn't follow the instructions in the handbook.A. assembledB. arisenC. appearedD. resulted14. Though badly damaged by fire, the palace was eventually ___to its original splendor.A. recoveredB. restoredC. renewedD .replaced15. As it is a very popular play, it would be wise to ___ seats in advance.A. buyB. preserveC. bookD. occupy16. The quiz ___ of fifty multiple-choice items and five passages for reading.A. constitutesB. composesC. comprisesD. consists17. After the party, the children were allowed to finish off the ___sandwiches and cakes.A. remainedB. leavingC. leftD. remaining18. The policeman stopped him when he was driving home and ___ him of speeding.A. chargedB. accusedC. blamedD. implied19. Color-b1ind people often find it difficult to ___ between blue and green.A. separateB. distinguishC. compareD. contrast20. It suddenly ___ him that he should solve the problem with a computer.A. occurred toB. struck atC. hit onD. dawned inPart Ⅱ Cloze Test (10 points, 10 minutes)Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.Pubs can be found in every town, city or village in Britain. Social life for many people has 21___ on the pub for many years. Opening and closing times are 22___by law and, ten minutesbefore closing time, the barman or barmaid rings a bell or 23___，"Last orders!"When you go into a pub you have to go to the bar, pay for your drink and carry it to your seat.It is 24___ in Britain to “go for a drink” with friends. People often 25___at a pub before going on to another place. On Friday and Saturday evening pubs in some city centers can be very 26___. Some people do a tour of all pars in one 27___ and have a drink in each one: this is called a “pub crawl”.It used to be 28___ to get a cup of coffee in a pub, and children were not allowed inside. Though it is still against the law to serve alcohol to anyone under eighteen, pubs are now trying to 29___ family. Pubs with gardens or chairs arid tables outside are often crowded in the summer. Pubs are still a central part of British30___.21. A. centered B. depended C. based D. acted22. A. planned B. agreed C. decided D. accepted23. A. comforts B. explains C. shouts D. apologies24. A. customary B. strange C. important D. expensive25. A. call B. meet C. smoke D. discuss26. A. beautiful B. surprising C. crowded D. lonely27. A. corner B. room C. area D. street28. A. necessary B. difficult C. cheap D. common29. A. protect B. remind C. encourage D. punish30. A. history B. science C. education D. culturePart III Reading Comprehension (40points, 40 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this pant. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 31 to 35 arc based on the following passage:Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something, his purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration.All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they went. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being we1l, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else. He offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute directly, he does so with skill:"I know this jacket is not the sty]e you want, Sir! but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned."Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is:"This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping not often based on need .She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed shesets great store by what the saleswoman tells her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her.Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a 1aborious（费时的）process, but apparently an enjoyable one.Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.31.When a man is buying clothes, ___.A.he buys cheap things, regardless of qualityB.he chooses things that others recommendC.he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right thingsD.he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too expensive32.What does a man do when he cannot get exactly what wants?A.He buys similar things of the color he wants.B.He usually does not buy anything.C.He tries on some other things, but never buys anything.D.So long as the size is right, he buys the thing.33. In commerce a good salesman is one who___.A.treats his customers kindly.B.always has in stock just what customers wantC.does not waste his time on difficult customersD.sells something a customer does not particularly want34.What does the passage tell us about women shoppers?A.They welcome suggestions from anyone.B. Women rarely consider buying cheap clothes.C.Women often buy things without giving the matter proper thoughtD.They listen to advice but never take it.35.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?A. The fact that men do not try clothes on in a shop.B. Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.C. Women stand up to shop, but men sit down.D. The time they took over buying clothes.Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:The poverty line is the minimum income that people need for an acceptable standard of living. People with incomes below the poverty line are considered poor. Economists study the causes of poverty in order to find solutions to the problem.As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, too. Therefore, even with today's relatively high standard of living, about ten percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line. However, if these people had stable jobs, they could have an acceptable standard of living. Economists suggest several reasons why poor people do not have jobs.For one thing, more than half of the poor people in the United States are not qualified to work. Over 40 percent of the poor people are children. By law, children less than 16 years old cannotwork in many industries. A large number of poor people are old. Many companies do not hire people over 65 years old, the normal retirement age.Some poor adults do not look for jobs for a variety of personal reasons: they are sick, they do not have any motivation, they have family problems, or they do not believe that they can find a job.Other poor people look for a job but cannot find one. Many poor adults never went to high school. Therefore, when they look for jobs, they have few skills that they can offer.At the present time, the government thinks it can reduce poverty in the country in the following ways. First, if the national economy grows, businesses and industries will hire more workers. Some of the poor who are qualified to look for jobs may fund employment. Then they will no longer be below the poverty line.Second, if society invests in the poor, the poor will become more productive. If the government spends money on social programs, education, and training for poor people, the poor will have the skills to offer, and then it is more likely that they can find jobs.Finally, if the government distributes society's income differently, it will raise some poor people above the poverty line. The government collects taxes from the non-poor and gives money to the poor. These payments to the poor are called welfare. In 1975 over 18 million people in the United States received welfare.Some economists are looking for better solution to the poverty problem. However, at the present time, many people depend on welfare for a minimally acceptable standard of living.36. The author's main purpose to write this article is___.A. to define what the poverty line isB. to explain why some people live below the poverty lineC. to find solutions to the problem of povertyD. to show sympathy for those poor people37. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Ten percent of the Americans live a poor life.B .Poor people are those who live below the poverty line.C. The poverty line rises as the general standard of living rises.D. The poverty line tends to be at the same level.38. More than 40 percent of the poor people are children. This is mainly because ___.A. they do not have enough motivationB. they are so young that they are deprived of chances to workC. they fail to get enough educationD. they are very poor in experience39. Most of the American poor people are not qualified for employment because___.A. they do not have any motivation to workB. they are not very self-confidentC. they are too young or too old to workD. they have physical and family problems40. We may conclude from the passage that___.A. better solutions to the poverty problem are not yet foundB. welfare will enable people to be richC. poor people are bound to go out of the poverty line of they have chances to do businessD. Employment is the best solution to the poverty problemQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:A popularly-held view has it that “opportunity to' learn" is the key to educational success, i.e., the more time children spend on a subject, the better they do at it. According to the recent study there seems little correlation between time spent on a subject and performance of pupils in tests. Young Austrians spend exceptionally long hours on math and science lessons; for them it pays off in higher test scores. But so do New Zealand's teenagers and they do not do any better than, say Norwegians, who spend an unusually short time on lessons in both subjects. Next and of particular interest to cash-strapped governments there appears to be little evidence to support the argument, often heard from teachers' unions, that the main cause of educational underachievement is underfunding. Low-spending countries such as South Korea and the Czech Republic are at the top. High-spenders such as America and Denmark do much worse. Obviously there are dozens of reasons other than spending why one country does well, another badly, but the success of the low –spending Czechs and Koreans does show that spending more on schools is not a prerequisite （前提）for improving standards.Another article of faith among the teaching profession that children are bound to do better in small classes is also being undermined by educational research. The study found that France, America and Britain, where children are usually taught in classes of twenty-odd, do significant1y worse than East Asian countries where almost twice as many pupils are crammed into each class. Again, there may be social reason why some countries can cope better with large classes than others. All the same, the comparison refutes the argument that larger is necessarily worse, Further, the study even cast some doubt over the cultural explanation for the greater success of East Asia: that there is some hard-to-define Asian culture, connected with parental authority and a strong social value on education, which makes children more eager to learn and easier to teach. Those who make this argument say it would of course be impossible to replicate such oriental magic in the West.Yet the results of the study suggest that this is, to put it mildly, exaggerated. If "culture" makes English children so poor at math, then why have they done so well at science (not far behind the Japanese and South Koreans)? Any why do English pupils do well at science and badly at math, while in France it is the other way around? A less mystical, more mundane explanation suggests itself English school: teach science well and math badly; French schools teach math better than science; East Asia schools teach both subjects well.41. The passage is mainly concerned with___.A. establishing a relationship between culture and educationB. exposing educational mythsC. introduction educational philosophiesD. comparing education philosophies42. All of the following are common-held beliefs about education EXCEPT___.A. time spent on a subject correlates with academic successB. educational achievements correlate with the money spentC. large classes contribute to poor educational achievementD .culture is not a deciding factor in school performance43. Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?A. Austrian teenagers do better than New Zealand's teenagersB. Low-spending will lead to good school performance.C. Students in large classes will do better than students in small class.D. Asian culture makes students eager to learn and easy to teach.44. The fact that English pupils do well at science and badly at math while in France it is the other way around is attributable to ___.A. cultural valuesB. teaching methodsC. class sizeD. money spent45. Which of the following countries does worse in science?A. Japan.B. South KoreaC. Britain.D. FranceQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage:"Clean your plate!" and “Be a me mber of the clean-plate club!"Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it's accompanied by an appeal:"Just think about those starving （饥饿）in Africa! Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying "clean the plate”, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies （肚子）.A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended （推荐）by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparent1y, some customs are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent o f more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that Are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can’t afford fine dining still large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $150.000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than $25,000 want smaller. ‘It's not that working class Americas don't want to eat healthy. It's just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seem like a good dea1. They live from paycheck （薪水）to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year's Christmas presents.46. Parents in the United States rend to ask their children ___.A. to save foodB. to wash the dishesC. not to waste foodD. not to eat too much47. Why do American restaurants serve large portions?A. Because Americans associate quantity with valueB. Because Americans have big belliesC. Because Americans are good eatersD. Because Americans are greedy48. What happened in the 1970s?A.The US government recommended the amount of food a restaurant gave to a customer.B.Health experts persuaded restaurants to serve smaller portions.C.The United States produced more grain then needed.D.The American waistline started to expand.49. What does the survey indicate?A. Many poor Americans want large portions.B. Twenty percent Americans want smaller potions.C. Fifty seven percent Americans earn $150,000 per year.D. Twenty three percent Americans earn less than $25, 000 per year.50. Which of the following is NOT true of working class Americans?A. they work long hours.B. they live from paycheck to paycheckC. they don't want to be healthy eaters.D. They want to save money for their children.Part IV English-Chinese Translation (10 points, 20 minutes)Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.（51）Each child has his individual pattern of social, as well as physical, development. Some of it depends on his home life and his home life and his relationships with the people who love him.（52）Children in large families learn how to get along with others through normalbrother-sister play and tussles（争斗）.An only child, on the other hand, may have to learn his lessons in social living through hard experiences on the playground or in the classroom.（53）Twins who always have one another to lean on may be slow in responding to others because they do not need anyone else.（54）A child who is constantly scolded（责骂）and made to fell he does everything wrong may have a difficult time developing socially. He may be so afraid of displeasing the adults around him that he keeps to himself (where he can't get into trouble),（55）or he may take the opposite route（道路）and go out of his way to create trouble. Like the isolated child, he too may return to infantile pleasures, developing habits that will satisfy him, but create barriers toward social contact.Part V Writing (20 points, 30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are given 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic of Classroom Learning or E-learning. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese.1. 我的观点：是喜欢传统的课堂学习还是网络教育？2. 给出两个或以上喜欢的原因。
2012年5月河北省成人本科英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)
2012年5月河北省成人本科英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. There was a big pile of bricks on the top of a tall building and a man had to bring them down to the ground. He had a long rope which went over a pulley(滑轮)at the roof of the building. The other end was fastened to a big box. First he pulled the box up to the top of the building, and fastened the end of the rope so that the box could not come down. Then he climbed up the ladder and filled the box with bricks. Next he climbed down the ladder and untied the rope. Unfortunately the box of bricks was heavier than the man, and as a result he was pulled up by the rope. Half - way up, the box of bricks hit him as it was coming down. When he reached the top, his head hit the pulley. The box of bricks hit the ground and broke. As a result the bricks fell out. The box was then lighter than the man and consequently he began to come down and the box began to go up. Half-way up, the box hit the man. The man still held on to the rope and the box therefore continued to go up. The man then reached the ground. Then he let go the rope to rub his head. The box, of course, then fell down and hit the man on the head again. As a result, an ambulance came and took him to hospital.1．Why did the man fasten the end of the rope before he climbed up the ladder?A．He was afraid that someone would steal his box.B．Because he wanted to climb up along the rope.C．He fastened the end of the rope in order to keep the box unmoved.D．Because he wanted to prevent the box from coming down.正确答案：D解析：此题为细节题。
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北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试2012年5月12日Part I Reading Comprehension(30%)Directions:There are three passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Passage1Questions1to5are based on the following passage:The most famous collections of fairy tales(童话)are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in1812.They didn’t think they were writing for children.They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture.Their first edition(版本)was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales.They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children.But the Grimms needed money.They had made a bad deal with their publisher and received little payment for their first book.At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair in his house one could sit on without worrying it would break.So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children.He selected a few of the tales,made them much longer,and polished up the language.He didn’t add morals,but he did slip in character judgments and moralizing comments wherever he could.The Grimms’fairy tales also have one characteristic that would seem to make them unsuitable for children.Many of them include violent incidents.In“Hansel and Gretel”an old woman is burned to death in an oven,and in“Little Red Riding Hood”a child is eaten by a wolf.When he revised the tales for children,Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence.In fact,he sometimes even ramped it up.For example,in the first edition of the tales,Cinderella forgives her sisters at the end.It’s only in the second edition,the one intended for children,that her birds peck(啄)out their eyes.Why,then,have the Grimms’fairy tales become classics of children’s literature, so much so that it is hard to imagine a child who doesn’t know Cinderella’s story or Snow White’s?One answer is that only a few of the tales survived into modem times.The first edition of the Grimms’fairy tales had210tales.By1825it was down to50.And today only a dozen or so of the tales are often reprinted in children’s collections.(76)But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.1.Why did Wilhelm Grimm set out to adapt his book for children?A.To deal with readers’complaints.B.To improve his financial situation.C.At the request of his publisher.D.To preserve the ancient stories in print.2.When revising the fairy tales,Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT.A.adding character judgmentsB.making the tales much longerC.deleting the violent scenesD.polishing up the language3.What does the expression“ramped it up”in Paragraph3probably mean?A.Started.B.Allowed.C.Classified.D.Increased.4.Which of the following statements about the Grimms’fairy tales is TRUEaccording to the passage?A.They were originally intended to be children’s stories.B.Generally speaking,the tales that have endured can help children deal with thechallenges life brings to them.C.A large number of the tales made it to the modem age.D.They are less violent than the children’s stories being written today.5.What is the passage mainly concerned with?A.History of fairy tales.B.Ways to preserve the oral tradition.C.The Grimms’fairy tales.D.Violence in fairy tales.Passage2Questions6to10are based on the following passage:.As the school year kicks off,parents are once again straggling to cajole(哄编)and, if need be,drag their exhausted teens out of bed.That image may make you laugh,but lack of sleep is no joke.(77)Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning. health~behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night. Long-term lack of sleep is tied to heart disease,overweight,depression and a shortened life span in adults,indicating the importance of establishing good sleep habits early in ck of sleep can be especially deadly for teens;car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers,and safety experts believe sleepy driving is a major factor.Unfortunately,few teenagers get the sleep they need.In a survey of middle-and high-school students,University of Colorado researchers found that82percent said they woke up tired and unrefreshed,and more than half had trouble concentrating during the day at least once a week.Blame multitasking for some of this.Many students are juggling after-school activities,homework and part-time jobs.Even when they manage to fulfill these obligations by a reasonable hour,television,the Internet,video games,phone calls and text messages to friends often keep them awake deep into the night.Taking soda and energy drinks late in the day and going to late-night parties on weekends add to sleep debt.Biology also works against teenagers’sleep,The body’s internal clock,which controls when a person starts to feel tired,shifts after puberty(青春期),making it hard for most teens to fall asleep before11pm.Class usually begins before8:15am,with many high schools starting as early as7:15am.To get to school on time,most teens have to get up by6:30am,guaranteeing they’ll be sleep-deprived during the week. Teens often sleep much later on weekends to catch up,making it even harder to fallasleep on Sunday night and wake up Monday morning.Playing catch-up on weekends also doesn’t help teens stay refreshed when they need it most:during the week at school.Since the1990s,middle and high schools in more than two dozen states have experimented with later school start times.(78)The results have been encouraging.’more sleep,increased attendance,better grades and fewer driving accidents.But most schools still start early,meaning teens have their work cut out for them if they want to get enough sleep.6.According to the passage,poor sleep can be linked to all of the following EXCEPTA.heart diseaseB.car accidentsC.skin problemsD.poor concentration7.The main idea of Paragraph3isA.how sleep deprivation(缺乏)can be treatedB’what causes sleep deprivationC.who is most at risk for sleep deprivationD.why sleep deprivation is a serious concern8.What does the word“juggling”in Paragraph3probably mean?A.Dealing with at the same time.B.Striking a balance between.C.Applying for.D.Having difficulty in.9.Which of the following is NOT to blame for teenagers’lack of sleep?A.Multitasking.B.Biological clock.:C.Weekend catch-up sleep.D.Healthy diet.10.According to the passage,what have some schools done to help their students get enough sleep?cating their students about the importance of sleep.B.Monitoring their students’late-night activities.C.Delaying school start times.D.Setting strict rules.Passage3Questions11to15are based on the following passage:As any middle-class parent knows,unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job.The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in2011that had formerly stopped16-to24-year-o!ds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit.But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step.(79)More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed,the highest number since the mid-1980s.Keen both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment,the government has introduced an ambitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work.A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long; ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early-1980s recession(~/l/),when unemployment continued in some parts of the country for a long time after theeconomy began to improve.To help young people into work,ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains,bookshops,and supermarkets,to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay,with the prospect of a proper job for those who shine.(80)Some35,000youngsters participated last year;half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for work is popular with voters:according to a survey published in February,about60%of people support the program.Equally attractive was the option of compelling them to work:Under the existing arrangements youngsters could choose whether or not to accept a place,but if they dropped out after the end of the first week,they stood to lose up to two weeks’benefits.Yet the scheme has also polarized(两极分化的)opinion:a third of people are consistently opposed.Following a noisy“Right to Work”campaign that accused employers of co-operating secretly with the government in“forced labor”,several firms dropped out of the program.To prevent this from getting worse,Chris Grayling, an employment minister,admitted that young people could leave their work experience at any time without being punished for doing so.This not only halted the flight of employers(for now,at least)but also enabled him to announce that new firms have agreed to take part in the program.11.According to the passage,young people in Britain.A.are used to showing up for workB.value unpaid work very muchC.are always opposed to unpaid workD.could learn something about job security through unpaid work12.According to the passage,which of the following is NOT TRUE?A.Most voters support the government’s effort to help young people to find work.B.Some people protest against the government’s attempt to force young people towork.C.There are more than one million young people who took part in the program.D.There are more than one million young people who are jobless.13.According to the author,the British government is trying to.A.punish young people if they are not cooperating with itB.reform the unemployed youngstersC.avoid the economic slowdownD.reduce welfare spending14.The word“shine”in Paragraph3means““.A.do wellB.reflect lightC.look happyD.produce light15.Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?A.Enjoy Work Without PayB.Can Work,Won’t WorkC.Should Work,Shouldn’t PlayD.Hate Work or Love WorkPart II Vocabulary and Structure(30%)Directions:In this part there are30incomplete sentences.For each sentence there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.16.Please give Jim the schedule for tomorrow’s conference when he back. He is to chair the conference.A.will comeeesD.came17.five minutes earlier,you would not have missed the last train for Shanghai,but you were late.A.Had you comeB.Do you comeC.Did you comeD.Should you come18.After he worked out the solution,appeared a smile on his face.A.itB.hereC.whatD.there19.the former president’s supporters went out in streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction.A.A small amount ofB.A large number ofC.A little bit ofD.A great deal of20.To be honest,today’s dinner was just so-so.It wasn’t such a good one promised by the boss.A.thatB.whichC.asD.what21.So many people______the meeting had to be put off.A.being absentB.to be absentC.were absentD.had been absent22.We often advise him not to drink more is good for his health.A.asB.thatC.thanD.but23.—Did Charles vote in the last election?—No,he wasn’t.A.enough old thenB.then enough oldC.old then enoughD.old enough then24.By no means look down on those who are less lucky in life than we are.A.we shouldB.should weC.we should notD.should we not25.He didn’t feel like that day so he stayed indoors reading.A.workingB.worksC.to workD.worked26.No sooner had we started on the road it began to rain.A.whenB.thanC.thenD.whenever27.He decided to go for a sailing holiday the fact that he was usually Seasick (晕船).A.because ofB.in spite ofC.in case ofD.as a result of28.What you do in your spare time is your own.However it should not be harmful to others.A.businessB.purchaseC.bargainD.sale29.As a gardener,Jim has to water the flowers and the grass in the garden every morning.A.trimB.improveC.refineD.repair30.The firemen are still the small fires started by the plane crash.A.taking offB.setting asideC.getting along withD.putting out31.He didn’t live up to had been expected of him.A.thatB.whatC.whichD.all32.The old couple decided to a boy and a girl though they had three of their own.A.adaptB.bringC.receiveD.adopt33.The relationship between employers and employees has been studied.A.originallyB.extremelyC.violentlyD.intensively34.The car halfway for no reason.A.broke offB.broke downC.broke upD.broke out35.The police that he committed a series of crimes in the north of the city.A.swelledB.submittedC.surveyedD.suspected36.The manager lost his just because his secretary was ten minutes late.A.moodB.temperC.mindD.passion37.We gave out a cheer when the red roof of the cottage came view.A.fromB.inC.beforeD.into38.I have kept that portrait I can see it every day,as it always reminds me ofmy university days in London.A.whichB.whereC.whetherD.when39.The room is in a terrible mess;it cleaned.A.can’t have beenB.mustn’t have beenC.shouldn’t have beenD.wouldn’t have been40.You see the lightning it happens,but you hear the thunder later.A.the instantB.for an instantC.on the instantD.in an instant41.it or not,his discovery has created a stir in scientific circles.A.BelieveB.To believeC.BelievingD.Believed42.The medicine is on sale everywhere.You can get it at chemist’s.A.otherB.someC.certainD.any43.Your hair wants.You’d better have it done tomorrow.A.cutB.to cutC.cuttingD.being cut44.I don’t think it advisable that Tom to the job since he has no experience.A.be assignedB.will be assignedC.is assignedD.has been assigned45.The goals he had fought all his life no longer seemed important to him.A.after whichB.with whichC.for whichD.at whichPart III Identification(10%)Directions:Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A,B,C and D.Identify the one that is not correct.Then blacken the corresponding letter ontheAnswer Sheet.46.The sun gives off light and warmth,that makes it possible for plants to grow.A B C D47.Sand painting has also called dry or earth painting and is practiced byA B Cseveral American Indian artists.D48.Humans,like many other animals,are warm-blooded with a fairly constantlyA B C Dbody temperature.49.Now that the stress of examinations and interviews are over,we can all relaxA B C Dfor a while.50.The tallest of the twins went to search for the missing jewels,the picture ofA Bwhich you saw in today’s newspaper.C D51.They are going to have the serviceman to be installed an electric fan in theA B C Doffice tomorrow.52.Only under special circumstances freshmen are permitted to take make-up tests.A B C D53.It’s already5o’clock now.Don’t you think it’s about time we are going home?A B C D54.Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the three-hours’movieA B Ccould not hold our attention.D55.People appreciate to have worked with him because he has a good sense ofA B Chumor.DPartly Cloze(10%)Directions:There are20blanks in the following passage,and for each blank there are 4choices marked A,B,C and D at the end of the passage.You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage.Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.By the time I finished high school,my interest in animals had grown,and I enrolled at a university to study biology.I learned soon enough that studying animals 56this level was not in the animals’best57.I remember one midterm exam in58 each student was handed a large,freshly-killed frog and59to dissect(解剖)and mark a set of body parts.I looked at the60frog in front of me and was saddenedthat her life was61away for such a slight62.A year later,in the same lab63I dissected the frog,I performed a small act of animal64.We were65on fruit flies,and it was time to record the distribution of characteristics in their next generation.Flies were66in small plastic bottles. Counting the number of flies with white or red eyes required first exposing them to ether(乙醚)67they could not move.The flies were then spread onto a piece of white paper68and counted.When the data collection was69,the flies had no further use,and our instructions were to70them into a small glass dish of oil at the center of each desk,which was to be their final resting71.Once my little pile of flies had been counted,I pushed them off the edge of the paper.As we recorded our data,I kept one eye72them.Within minutes the pile was humming(嗡嗡叫)as tiny legs and wings beat their way out of the ether fog.I was extremely excited as they73flight.That was my first74in refusing to conduct scientific research that treated nonhuman life in a(n)75way.56.A.at B,withC.forD.off57.A.duties B.interestsC.ratesD.hobbies58.A.what B.thatC,where D.which59.A.dismissed B.drawnC.instructedD.mended60.A.alive B,dead~C.livingD.wounded61.A.made B.broughtC.takenD.passed62.A.reason B.spiritC.spaceD.system63.A.that B.whichC.whatD.where64.A.operation B.liberationC.tendencyD.wealth65.A.experimenting B.strengtheningC.stimulatingD.substituting66.A.solved B.soakedC.recoveredD.kept67.A.while B.becauseC.in caseD.so that68.A.being examined B.to be examinedC.being operated D-to be operated69.A.preliminary B.progressivepleteD.curious70.A.put B.raiseC.rouse D,spoil71.A.shade B.shadowC.placeD.stuff72.A.for B.withC.atD.on73.A.stood B.tookC.sentD.rode74,A.step B.reviewC.glanceD.gesture75.A.kind B.generousC.cruelD.effectivePart V Translation(20%)Section ADirections:In this part there are five sentences which you should translate into Chinese These sentences are all taken from the3passages you have just read in Reading Comprehension.You can refer back to the passages to identify their meanings in the context.76.But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.77.Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning,health,behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night.78.The results have been encouraging:more sleep,increased attendance,better grades and fewer driving accidents.79.More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed,the highest number since the mid-1980s.80.Some35,000youngsters participated last year;half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.Section BDirections:In this part there are five sentences in Chinese.You should translate them into English.Be sure to write clearly.81．昨天，我坐在办公室写报告时，小明从英国打电话过来了。