广东省成人高等教育学士学位外语水平考试模拟试题(10)

1、1 / 14 省成人高等教育学士学位外语水平考试模拟试题十英语试卷一part i dialogue completion 15 pointsdirections: 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 th

2、e center. 1. jeff : could you pass me the album, please? julie: _. a. not at all b. yes, i could c. here you are d. youre welcome 2. bob: hi, tom. havent seen you for ages. how is everything with you? tom : _. a. that s very kind of you b. fine, thank you c. thank you d. its good with me. 3. may: th

3、ank you for the wonderful meal. it was so delicious. mrs. sun : _. a. don t be too polite. b. the food was very poor c. thanks. glad you liked it d. really? im a bad cook. 4. stranger : excuse me, can you tell me the way to the blackwells inn? peter : _. a. yes, i can. im a native here b. i cant tel

4、l you that c. yes, a bus will take you there d. sure. take bus no.211. 5. susan: i wonder if you could drive me to the airport. teddy: _. a. id be glad to b. oh, its my duty c. i think so d. its accepted 6. sally : sorry i came late again. peter : _ a. how can you be late again? b. i cant bear a guy

5、 like that. c.yes, you should be. d. thats all right. 7. jenny: shall i go and tell mr. fairbanks about our proposal? jackie : _. 2 / 14 a. yes, you go b. go at once c. yes, lets d. yes, please 8. wife : i hope nothing terrible will happen to the kids. husband: _. a. i dont hope b. i hope not, eithe

6、r c. i hope so d. i hope neither 9. mori : its a pleasure to meet you here. kaco: _. a. pleased to meet you, too b. thank you so much c. you re too hospitable d.i didnt expect to see you here 10. billy: you look cool in that niki jumper? bobby: _ a.how can you say that? b. yes, it is just a special

7、sale. c.yes, i know. it is cool, not me. d.thank you. 11. tim: i hear you have been to the book fair. how is it? susan: _ a. absolutely marvelous. b. very much indeed. c. very well, wasnt it? d. no, get it yourself. 12. anne: shall we drop in the mexican canteen for a bite? coco: _ a. it doesn t mat

8、ter to me. b. i dont care for it. c. whatever you say! d. so what? 13. nancy: have you heard about the match? our team won by one point. scott: _ a.is it a real thing? b. congratulations! b.good luck! d. youre kidding! 14. jenny : may i use your camera this afternoon? jimmy: _, but nancy came in and

9、 borrowed it just now. jenny: never mind. a. do as you please b. yes, you may c. i m sorry d. as luck would have it 15. mom : johnny, where are the cookies? dont tell me you ate them all! 3 / 14 johnny: yes, i did. _. a. i just couldnt bear it b. i just couldn t help it c. they were too good to eat

10、d. they were good to eat part ii reading comprehension (40 points directions: there are 4 passages in this part. each of the passages 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

11、 sheet with a single line through the center. passage one dorothea dix left home at an early age of her own free will to live with her grandmother. at fourteen, dorothea was teaching school at worcester, massachusetts. a short time after she had begun teaching, she established a school for young gir

12、ls in her grandparents home. stresswas placed on moral character at dorotheas school, which she conducted until she was thirty-three. she was forced to give up teaching at her grandparents home, however, when she became ill. a few year of inactivity followed. in 1841 dorothea began to teach again, a

13、ccepting a sunday school class in the east cambridge, in a massachusetts jail. here, she first came upon insane people locked up together with criminals. in those days insane people were treated even worse than criminals. there were only a few asylums in the entire country. therefore jails, poor hou

14、ses, and houses of correction were used to confine the insane. dorothea dix made a careful investigation of the inhuman treatment of the insane. it was considered unfit for a woman to devote herself to such work at this time. but this did not stop dorothea dix in her efforts to provide proper medica

15、l care for the insane. gradually, because of her investigations, conditions were improved. more than thirty mental institutions were founded or re-established in the united states because of her efforts. dorothea also extended her investigations to england and to other parts of europe. during the ci

16、vil war, dorothea served as superintendent of women hospital nurses in the union army. when the war was over, she returned to her work of improving conditions for insane people. 16. which of the following is the best title for the passage? a. the treatment of mental illness. b. the life of a young e

17、nglish woman c. an american humanitarian d. social problems of the nineteenth century 17. the word “stress in line 3 of paragraph 2 could best be replaced by _? a. emphasis b. strain 4 / 14 c. relative loudness d. physical pressure 18. dorothea dix first become aware of the mistreatment of insane pe

18、ople when she _. a. taught sunday school in a jail b. worked in an insane asylum as a nurse. c. had her grandmother treated mentally. d. was asked to investigate the problem. 19. which of the following statements about dorothea dix is true according to the passage? a. she spent time studying crimina

19、l law. b. people believed she shouldnt help the insane. c. she considered most criminals mentally unstable. d. her grandmother was a teacher. 20. the author implies that dorothea dixs work with the insane was interrupted by _. a. an illness b. her trip to england c. the civil war d. her grandmothers

20、 deathpassage two the faces of elderly, happily-married people sometimes resemble each other. dr. aiken studied a number of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years. each couple provided four photographs-one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo of

21、each partner twenty-five or more years later. all background was cut from the photos to remove any clues. the photos were then displayed in groups: a random grouping of the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later. some testees

22、were asked to pick out the partners. they failed totally with the first group. their judgments were no better than chance. but with the photos taken twenty-five or more years after the marriage, the testees were quite successful in deciding who was married to whom. they were particularly successful

23、with the most happily-married couples. dr. aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike. one reason has something to do with imitation. one person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing it. he says human begins to imitate the expressions of the faces of their

24、 loved ones. another possible reason, he says, is the common experience of the couples. there is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. for example, if a couple suffered from a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a simil

25、ar way. 21. the main purpose of the passage is to _. a. tell how couples like each other 5 / 14 b. show the life experience of husband and wife c. explain why couples grow alike d. describe the study on a number of married people 22. in the testing, dr. aiken cut the background from those photos for

26、 the purpose of _. a. grouping those couples again b. leaving no trace for the testees c. imitating those couples life d. leaving the testees more chances 23. the testees failed to _. a. tell couples by looking at their photos taken when they got married b. distinguish happily-married couples from s

27、adly-married couples c. discover the difference of each partner d. understand dr. aikens study thoroughly 24. it can be inferred from the study that _. a. life experiences tend to change ones expression b. shared experiences may leave good impressions c. couples may learn from each other in sharing

28、experiences d. couples tend to love and hate the same thing in life 25. from the passage we can draw a conclusion that _. a. happily-married couples are often richer than other couples b. couples who look alike can live longer c. the influence between couples can be quite strong d. all couples have

29、been proved to grow alike passage three public goods are those commodities whose enjoyment nobody can be effectively excluded. everybody is free to enjoy the benefits of these commodities and one persons use does not reduce the possibilities of anybody else s enjoying the same good. examples of publ

30、ic goods are not as rare as one might expect. a flood control dam is a public good. once the dam is built, all persons living in the area will benefit-regardless of their own contribution to the construction cost of the dam. the same holds true for highway signs or aids in navigation. once a lightho

31、use is built, no ship of any nationality can be effectively excluded from use of the lighthouse for navigational purposes. national defence is another example. even a person who voted against military costs or did not pay any taxes will benefit from the protection afforded. it is no easy task to det

32、ermine the social costs and social benefits associated with a public good. there is no practicable way of charging drivers for looking at 6 / 14 highway signs, sailors for watching a lighthouse and citizens for the security provided to them through national defence. because the market does not provi

33、de the necessary signals, economic study is to be replaced by the impersonal judgment of the marketplace. 26. what does the passage mainly discuss? a. a specific group of commodities. b. the economic structure of the marketplace. c. mechanism for safer navigation. d. the advantage of lowering taxes.

34、 27. which of the following is not an example of a public good as described in the passage? a. a stoplight. b. a bridge. c. a fire truck. d. a taxicab. 28. the word “holds in line 4 of paragraph 2 could best be replaced by _. a. has b. is c. grasps d. carries 29. according to the passage, finding ou

35、t the social costs of a public good is a _. a. matter of personal judgment b. daily administrative duty c. difficult procedure d. citizens responsibility30. which of the following statements best describes the organization of the first two paragraphs? a. a general concept is defined and then example

36、s are given. b. generalizations are presented from which conclusions are drawn. c. persuasive language is used to argue against a popular idea. d. suggestions for the application of an economic concept are offered. passage four money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any i know of. it s

37、erves directly to assist distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. by drawing attention to new ideas, it helps enormously to raise standards of living. by helping to increase demand, it e

38、nsures an increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. it lowers the cost of many services: without ads your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your tv license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost fifty percent

39、more. and perhaps most important of all, ads provides a guarantee of reasonable value 7 / 14 in the products and services you buy. apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote products that fail to live up to the promise

40、 of his ads. he might fool some people for a little while through misleading ads. he will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once. if you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof i know that the article doe

41、s what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value. advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force i can think of. there is one more point i feel i ought to touch upon. recently i heard a well-known tv personality declare that he was against advertising

42、 because it persuades rather than informs. he was drawing excessively fine distinctions. of course advertising seeks to persuade. if its message were confined merely to information-and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of color of a

43、shirt is subtly persuasive-advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention. but perhaps that is what the well-known tv personality wants. 31. by the first sentence of the passage, the author means that _. a. he is quite familiar with the cost of advertising b. everyone knows adver

44、tising is costly c. advertising costs money like everything else d. it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising 32. according to the passage, which of the following is not mentioned as the advantage of advertising? a. securing greater fame b. providing more jobs c. enhancing living standards d. r

45、educing media cost 33. the author thinks that the well-known tv personality is _. a. very precise in his comment on ads b. reasonable in making the comment c. partial in his view of advertising d. funny in misleading the audience 34. in the authors opinion, _. a. advertising benefits people by provi

46、ding information b. advertising seldom misleads people with information c. there is nothing wrong with ads in persuading buyers d. advertising with only information is a waste of money 35. the author s attitude to advertising is _. a. negative b. positive c. ridiculous d. not clear 8 / 14 part iii v

47、ocabulary 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. mark your answer on the answer sheet with a single line through the center. 36. the plan is not

48、 based on a careful survey and analysis and therefore is _ to failure. a. supposed b. doomed c. certain d. likely 37. during the heavy storm last week, we had to take _ under a flyover. a. shade b. shelter c. shadow d. shield 38. the three men were assigned jobs according to their_ abilities. a. res

49、pectful b. respectable c. respective d. respecting 39. we don t know if the story is true or not, but we hope to _ the truth in it. a. confirm b. introduce c. recognize d. conduct 40. it is a desire shared by all those delegates present at the conference that financial cooperation _ carried on in su

50、ch a difficult situation. a. must be b. be c. has to be d. got to be 41. _ with the size of the ocean on earth, world continents seem really small. a. when compared b. while comparing c. compare d. comparing 42. scientists have discovered that many animals seem to be highly _ to various signals asso

51、ciated with earthquakes. a. sensible b. sensual c. sensuous d. sensitive 43. our guests will be guided to safety through the fire-escape _ a fire. a. as a result of b. in case of c. in the case of d. in the sake of 44. nowadays only a few university students manage to meet the _, both 9 / 14 mentall

52、y and physically, for the heavy burden in future work and life. a. request b. requirements c. qualities d. competence 45. when told by their parents to eat some vegetables, many children only do so _. a. readily b. unconsciously c. purposefully d. reluctantly 46. most homes in china s cities have be

53、en equipped with electrical _, such as refrigerators and washing machines. a. appliances b. facilities c. instruments d. equipment 47. we worked far into the night, but no one _ a satisfactory solution. a. came up with b. kept up with c. caught up with d. checked up with 48. goodness, economy, and h

54、onesty are considered as some universal _ a man should have. a. habits b. customs c. characters d. virtues 49. it is quite necessary for a senior manager to have good manners and _ knowledge. a. extensive b. intense c. excessive d. expensive 50. he was really depressed when his project proposal was

55、_ for the third time. a. turned aside b. turned against c. turned over d. turned down 51. i stared at her, _ that anyone could have changed so much. a. astonished b. astonishing c. to astonish d. to be astonished 52. i dont really mind what time he arrives at the office _ he finishes his tasks in ti

56、me. a. so far as b. since c. so long as d. unless 53. new york s statue of liberty was designed to be a beacon for ships and a monument _. a. as well b. by the way 10 / 14 c. besides d. either 54. he took _ of their hospitality and stayed there for a month without paying them anything. a. charge b.

57、the place c. care d. advantage 55. the lost car of the johnsons was found _ in the woods off the expressway. a. vanished b. scattered c. rejected d. abandoned 56. some of the most important breakthroughs in engineering should be _ to mathematical researches. a. contributed b. summed up c. attributed

58、 d. delivered 57. too much _ to x-rays can cause skin burns, cancer or other damage to the body. a. disclosure b. exhibition c. contact d. exposure 58. the british parliament is _ of the house of commons and the house of lords. a. composed b. consisted c. made d. combined 59. just as your supervisor

59、 advised, you ought to devote your time and energy to something _ researching into. a. valuable b. precious c. worth d. worthy 60. please dont be _ by his bad manners since he is merely trying to attract attention. a. irritated b. distorted c. disregarded d. intervened 61. the remarkable _ of life o

60、n the galapagos islands inspired charles darwin to establish his theory of evolution. a. classification b. diversity c. density d. difference 62. the english language contains a(n) _ of words which are comparatively 11 / 14 seldom used in everyday conversation. a. attitude b. altitude c. multitude d