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成人本科学士学位英语考试试题及答案
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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 1
Questions 1 to 5
are based on the following passage:
In
the United States elementary education begins at
the age of six. At this stage nearly ail the
teachers are women, mostly married.
(76) The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and
the
teachers have now accepted the idea
that the important thing is to make the children
happy and
interested. The old
authoritarian (
要绝对服从的
)
methods of education were discredited
(
不被认可
)
rather a
long time ago - so much so that many people now
think that they have gone too far in
the direction of trying to make
children happy and interested rather than giving
them actual
instruction.
The
social education of young children tries to make
them accept the idea that human beings in a
society need to work together for their
common good. So the emphasis is on co-operation
rather
than competition throughout most
of this process. This may seem curious, in view of
the fact that
American society is
highly competitive; however, the need for making
people sociable in this
sense has come
to be regarded as one of the functions of
education. Most Americans do grow up
with competitive ideas, and obviously
quite a few as criminals, but it is not fair to
say that the
educational system fails.
It probably does succeed in making most people
sociable and ready to
help one another
both in material ways and through kindness and
friendliness.
1. According to the
passage, the U.S. elementary education is supposed
to make
children__________.
A. sensible and sensitive
B. competitive and
interested
C. curious and friendly
D. happy and
co-operative
2. Some Americans complain
about elementary schools because they
think__________.
A. children are
reluctant to help each other
B. schools
lay too much emphasis on co-operation
C. children should grow up with
competitive ideas
D. schools give
little actual instruction to children
3. The author's attitude towards
American education can be best described
as__________.
A. favorable
B. negative
C.
tolerant
D.
unfriendly
4.
The American
educational system emphasizes__________.
A. material wealth
B.
competition
C. co-operation
D. personal benefit
5. The
word
A. fond of talking freely
B. friendly with other people
C. concerned about social welfare
D. happy at school
Passage 2
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Questions 6 to 10 are
based on the following passage:
Nonverbal (
非语言的
)
communication has to do with gestures, movements
and closeness of two
people when they
are talking. (77) The scientists say that those
gestures, movements and so on
have
meaning which words do not carry.
For
example, the body distance between two speakers
can be important. North Americans often
complain that South Americans are
unfriendly because they tend to stand close to the
North
American when speaking, while the
South American often considers the NorthAmerican
to be
speaking to. The
communication. Scientists have observed
that there is more eye contact between people who
like
each other than there is between
people who don't like each other. (78) The length
of time that
the person whom you are
speaking to looks at your eyes indicates the
amount of interest he has
in the things
you are talking about.
On the other
hand, too long a gaze can make people
uncomfortable. The eyes apparently play a
great part in nonverbal communication.
Genuine warmth or interest, shyness or confidence
can
often be seen in the eyes. We do
not always consider a smile to be a sign of
friendliness.
Someone who is always
smiling, and with little apparent reasons, often
makes us uneasy.
6. According to the
passage, nonverbal communication__________.
A. is a method often used by people who
cannot speak
B. can tell something that
words cannot
C. can be used to talk
with people who cannot bear
D. is less
used than words
7. The South
American__________.
A. tends to keep a
distance between himself and the person he is
speaking to
B. usually stands close to
the person he is talking to
C. is often
unfriendly when spoken to
D. is often
cold and distant when speaking
8. Which
of the following is NOT true?
A. Less
eye contact suggests distance in relation.
B. The longer one looks at you, the
more interest he has in you.
C. There
is more eye contact between people who like each
other.
D. Shorter eye contact shows
more interest in what one is talking about
9. Too long a gaze__________.
A. may upset people being looked at
B. shows one's great confidence
C. indicates one's interest in the talk
D. tells you how friendly one is
10. Constant smiling without apparent
reason__________.
A. is a sign of one's
friendliness
B. is a sign of one's
unfriendliness
C. makes people feel
happy
D. makes people feel
uncomfortable
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the
following passage:
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Television has opened windows in
everybody's life. Young men will never again go to
war as they
did in 1914. Millions of
people now have seen the effects of a battle. And
the result has been a
general dislike
of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those
who suffer from all the terrible
things
that have been shown on the sc-Teen.
Television has also changed politics.
The most distant areas can now follow state
affairs, see and
hear the politicians
before an election. Better informed, people are
more likely to vote, and so to
make
their opinion count.
Unfortunately,
television's influence has been extremely harnfful
to the young. (79) Children do
not have
enough experience to realize that TV shows present
an unreal world; that TV
advertisements
lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or
useless. They believe that the
violence
they see is normal and acceptable. All educators
agree that the
are more violent than
their parents and grandparents.
Also,
the young are less patient. (80) Used to TV shows,
where everything is quick and interesting,
they do not have the patience to read
an article without pictures; to read a book that
requires
thinking; to listen to a
teacher who doesn't do funny things like the
people on children's
programs. And they
expect all problems to be solved happily in ten,
fifteen, or thirty minutes.
That's the
time it takes on the screen.
11. In the
past, many young people__________.
A.
knew the effects of war
B. went in for
politics
C. liked to save the wounded
in wars
D. were willing to be soldiers
12. Now with TV people can__________.
A. discus politics at an information
center
B. show more interest in
politics
C. make theft own decisions on
political affairs
D. express their
opinions freely
13. The author thinks
that TV advertisements__________.
A.
are not reliable on the whole
B. are
useless to people
C. are a good guide
to adults
D. are very harmful to the
young
14. Which is NOT true according
to the passage?
A. People have become
used to crimes now.
B. With a TV set
some problems can be solved quickly.
C.
People now like to read books with pictures.
D. The adults are less violent than the
young.
15. From the passage, we can
conclude that__________.
A. children
should keep away from TV
B. TV programs
should be improved
C. children's books
should have pictures
D. TV has a deep
influence on the young
Part II
Vocabulary and Structure
(30%)
P3
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. It was while
she was sleeping in her bedroom __________ a thief
broke into the house.
A. which
B. that
C. where
D. than
17. In
learning English we should not __________ our
students of their mistakes all the time.
A. remind
B. remember
C.
remain
D. remark
18. These three teachers vary
__________ their manner of teaching.
A.
between
B. from
C. with
D. in
19. Who
can it be? I'm quite __________ a loss to guess.
A. of
B. on
C. in
D. at
20. The
monitor __________ the examination papers to the
class for his teacher.
A. delivered
B.
distributed
C. reported
D. presented
21. Have you any __________ that you
were not there at 9 o'clock last night?
A. statement
B. cause
C. words
D. proof
22. The children
looked up as the planes passed __________.
A. overall
B. overhead
C.
outward
D. forward
23. Charles Dickens __________ many
wonderful characters in his novels.
A.
invented
B.
discovered
C. uncovered
D. created
24. Many young
people find it harder to appreciate __________
music than pop music.
A. simple
B. light
C. ancient
D. classical
25. If the wounded soldier had been
given first __________, he would not have died.
A. help
B. aid
C.
care
D. attention
26. Since he
left the university, he __________ in an
accounting company.
A. has been working
B. had worked
C. had been
working
D.
was working
27. The weather in China is
different from__________.
A. America
B. in
America
C. that in America
D. one in
America
28. It was not until dawn
__________ their way out of the forest.
A. when they found
B. that they
found
C. did they find
D. that they didn't lind
29.
__________ he says or does won't make me change my
mind at all.
A. Whatever
B. However
C.
Which
D. How
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