1992年地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试[001]

1、1 / 81992年 北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试Part I Reading Comprehension （40%）Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each ofthem there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corres

2、ponding letter on theanswer sheet with a single line through the center.b5E2RGbCAP矚慫润厲钐瘗睞枥庑赖賃軔。Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:p1EanqFDPw聞創沟燴鐺險爱氇谴净祸測。More than 30,000 drivers and front seat passengers are killed or seriously injured each year. At a speed of only 30 miles

3、 per hour itis the same as falling from a third-floor window. Wear a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by morethan half.DXDiTa9E3d残骛楼諍锩瀨濟溆塹籟婭骒。Therefore drivers or front passengers over in most vehicles must wear a seat belt. If you do not, you could be fined u

4、p to$50. It will notbe up to the drivers to make sure you wear your belt. But it will be the drivers responsibility to make sure that children under 14 donot ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.RTCrpUDGiT酽锕极額閉镇桧猪訣锥顧荭。However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you

5、are reversing （倒开） your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery orcollection using a special vehicle; or if you have valid （有效的） medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it. Make surethese circumstances apply to you before you decide not to wear your seat belt. Remember you may be take

6、n to court for not doing so,and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.5PCzVD7HxA彈贸摄尔霁毙攬砖卤庑诒尔。1. This passage is most probably taken from .A. a medical magazineB. a legal documentC. the Federal LawsD. a police report2. Wearing a seat belt in a ve

7、hicle .A. reduces road accidents by more than halfB. saves lives while during at a speed up to 30 miles per hourjLBHrnAILg謀荞抟箧飆鐸怼类蒋薔點鉍。C. reduces the death rate in traffic accidentsD. saves more than 15,000 lives each year3. It is the drivers responsibility to .A. make the front seat passenger wear

8、a seat beltB. make the front seat children under 14 wear a seat beltxHAQX74J0X厦礴恳蹒骈時盡继價骚卺癩。C. stop children riding in the front seatD. wear a seat belt each time he drives4. According to the passage, who, riding in the front, does not have to wear a seat belt?LDAYtRyKfE茕桢广鳓鯡选块网羈泪镀齐。A. someone who is

9、 backing into a parking spaceB. someone who is picking up the children from the local schoolZzz6ZB2Ltk鹅娅尽損鹌惨歷茏鴛賴縈诘。C. someone who is delivering invitation lettersD. someone who is under 145. For some people, it may be better .A. to wear a seat belt for health reasonsB. not to wear a seat belt for he

10、alth reasonsC. to get a valid medical certificate before wearing a seat beltdvzfvkwMI1籟丛妈羥为贍偾蛏练淨槠挞。D. to pay a fine rather than wear a seat beltPassage 2 Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:rqyn14ZNXI預頌圣鉉儐歲龈讶骅籴買闥。2 / 8If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season

11、 to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you areat any other time of the year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1974), concluded, from other menswork and his ownamong peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abi

12、lities.EmxvxOtOco渗釤呛俨匀谔鱉调硯錦鋇絨。He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not mean that all peopleare less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of largenumbers

13、of people tend to be lowest in the summer.SixE2yXPq5铙誅卧泻噦圣骋贶頂廡缝勵。Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in spring mansmental abilities are affected bythe same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.6ewMyirQFL擁締凤袜备訊顎轮烂蔷報赢。Fall is the next-b

14、est season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be good time to take a long vacation fromthinking.kavU42VRUs贓熱俣阃歲匱阊邺镓騷鯛汉。6. According to this passage, your intelligence probably . y6v3ALoS89坛摶乡囂忏蒌鍥铃氈淚跻馱。A. stays the same throughout the yearB. varies from day to dayC. changes with the seasonsD. c

15、hanges from year to year7. Huntington based his conclusions on .A. records of changes in his own intelligenceB. work with peoples in different climatesC. records of temperature changesD. all of the above8. It seems that the cold of winter .A. increases the ability to thinkB. is the best time for thi

16、nkingC. is better for thinking than is very warm weatherM2ub6vSTnP蜡變黲癟報伥铉锚鈰赘籜葦。D. decreases the ability to think9. One possible reason why spring is the best reason for thinking is that .0YujCfmUCw買鲷鴯譖昙膚遙闫撷凄届嬌。A. all nature, including man, is growing thenB. it lasts longer than the other seasonsC. i

17、t is not too warm and not too coldD. both B and C10. The two best seasons for thinking seem to be .A. spring and fallB. winter and summerC. summer and springD. fall and winter Passage 3 Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:eUts8ZQVRd綾镝鯛駕櫬鹕踪韦辚糴飙钪。I came to India a year ago to find a

18、village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily inthis Himalayan community.sQsAEJkW5T驅踬髏彦浃绥譎饴憂锦諑琼。I wasted a lot of time looking for the“typical”village. Yet no such thing exists. Conditions vary too wide But the village Istayed in had much in common-pove

19、rty, dirt, ignorance. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled, suspicious. Why had I come?I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in theThird World was more important than anything else. But to understand how t

20、hree-quarters of the worlds people live, and how theirfuture might affect ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.GMsIasNXkA猫虿驢绘燈鮒诛髅貺庑献鵬。In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along abumpy road.

21、 Then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river. After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to3 / 8catch my breath, there was a magnificent view. After several hours walk the village came into view.TIrRGchYzg锹籁饗迳琐筆襖鸥娅薔嗚訝。11. After the writer had arrived in India .A. he sp

22、ent a year writing about the place he lived in7EqZcWLZNX構氽頑黉碩饨荠龈话骛門戲。B. he took quite a long time finding a suitable place to livelzq7IGf02E輒峄陽檉簖疖網儂號泶蛴镧。C. he spend years looking for a certain villageD. he lived in a Himalayan community for many monthszvpgeqJ1hk尧侧閆繭絳闕绚勵蜆贅瀝纰。12. While looki ng for a“

23、typical”village the writer fou nd .N识饒鎂錕缢灩筧嚌俨淒侬减。A. he was searching for the impossibleB. all the villages were exactly the sameC. the villagers made him feel confusedD. the villagers asked him a lot of questions13. Before coming to India the writer .A. had been a successful politicianB. had made a

24、decision to do no more workC. had been dismissed from his jobD. had written articles for publication14. The writer decided to change his way of life because .1nowfTG4KI凍鈹鋨劳臘锴痫婦胫籴铍賄。A. he no longer found his work interestingB. he wanted to live a peaceful life in the countrysidefjnFLDa5Zo恥諤銪灭萦欢煬鞏鹜錦聰櫻

25、。C. he wanted to find out more about the Third WorldtfnNhnE6e5鯊腎鑰诎褳鉀沩懼統庫摇饬。D. he thought living in a small community would be rewardingHbmVN777sL硕癘鄴颃诌攆檸攜驤蔹鸶胶。15. The village the writer finally chose to live in .V7l4jRB8Hs阌擻輳嬪諫迁择楨秘騖輛埙。A. was situated at the end of a bumpy roadB. had a better climate

26、than those in the plainsC. was a short walk from the riverD. had a magnificent view of the riverPassage 4Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:83lcPA59W9氬嚕躑竄贸恳彈瀘颔澩纷釓。Large companies need a way to reach the saving of the public at large. The same problem, on the smaller scale, facespr

27、actically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sumsneeded from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling toprovide money on a permanent basis for l

28、ong-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, ortake a share in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals andinstitutions, both at home and overseas.mZkklkzaaP釷鹆資贏車贖孙滅獅赘慶獷。When the saver nee

29、ds his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, hesells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.AVktR43bpw怂阐譜鯪迳導嘯畫長凉馴鸨。Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by t

30、he Government or by local authorities. Withouthospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on newequipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The

31、Government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capitalspending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange.ORjBnOwcEd谚辞調担鈧谄动禪泻類谨觋。There is hardly, a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depen

32、d on the ability of his orher employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the saving of thecountry. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who needfinance.2MiJTy0dTT嘰觐詿缧铴嗫偽純铪锩癱恳。16. Almos

33、t all companies involved in new production and development must .gIiSpiue7A熒绐譏钲鏌觶鷹緇機库圆鍰。4 / 8A. rely on their own financial resourcesB. persuade the banks to provide long-term financeC. borrow large sums of money from friends and people they knowuEh0U1Yfmh鶼渍螻偉阅劍鲰腎邏蘞阕D. depend on the population as a

34、whole for finance17. The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is .IAg9qLsgBX纣忧蔣氳頑莶驅藥悯骛覲僨。A. repaid to its original owners as soon as possibleWwghWvVhPE颖刍莖蛺饽亿顿裊赔泷涨负。B. raised by the selling of shares in the companiesasfpsfpi4k濫驂膽閉驟羥闈詔寢賻減栖。C. exchange for part ownership

35、in The Stock ExchangeooeyYZTjj1銚銻縵哜鳗鸿锓謎諏涼鏗穎。D. invested in different companies on The Stock ExchangeBkeGuInkxI挤貼綬电麥结鈺贖哓类芈罷。18. When the savers want their money back they .A. ask other company to obtain their money for themPgdO0sRlMo赔荊紳谘侖驟辽輩袜錈極嚕。B. look for other people to borrow money fromC. put their shares in the company back on the market3cdXwckm15塤礙籟馐决穩賽釙冊庫麩适。D. transf