2022年广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语试卷及答案

1、广东省成人高等教育学士学位外语水平考试模拟试题（五）英语试卷一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

2、 center.Customer: Could you find these books for me?Seller: Sure. Let me have a look at your list.Customer: _A. Its all right. B. No problem.C. Here you are. D. Thank you. Neighbor: Hi. You said that you might need some help with preparing dinner. What would you like me to do?Hostess: _ I really app

3、reciate it. First, could you peel the vegetables? Ive put them all in the sink and theres a peeler.A. Thanks for coming. B. Sit down, please. C. Oh, its you. D. I have no idea.Jack: John, you look terrible! _?John: My girlfriend broke up with me.A. Are you all rightB. What goes wrong with youC. Are

4、you feeling wellD. Do you need helpJane: I failed the test again! Three times in a row!Helen: _ Its no big deal. You still have another chance. A. Cheers. B. Dont worry. C. Come onD. Forget itJuly: Hello, Mr. Green. _.Mr. Green: Youre leaving so soon? When are you off? July: Early tomorrow morning.A

5、. Im leavingB. Ive come to say goodbyeC. I want to tell you that I am leavingD. GoodbyeOperator: Hello, International Trade Corporation.Customer: Hello! May I talk to Mr. George Adam, please?Operator: _, please.A. WaitB. Hold onC. connectingD. YesPeter: Would you lend me your typewriter?Jane: Im sor

6、ry, it is out of order. It could not be used right now.Peter: _. Ill ask Jim if he has one. A. ReallyB. It doesnt matterC. ThanksD. SorryManager: _Applicant: I have come at your invitation for an interview.Manager: Nice to meet you. Please sit down. A. Whats the matter? B. What can I do for you?C. H

7、ow are you?D. Excuse me?Stewardess:Good morning. _ This way, please.Passenger: Thank you. Stewardess, can you direct me to my seat?Stewardess: Certainly. May I see your boarding pass, please?Passenger: Sure, here it is.A. How are you? B. Nice to meet you.C. You are welcome to our plane. D. Welcome a

8、board. Jiang: Hello, can I speak to the head of the household?Chen: _Jiang: This is Jiang Ping with Childrens Publishing Company. May I have your name, sir?Chen: My name is Chen.A. May I ask whos calling?B. Hello.C. Whats your name?D. Would you tell me your name?Customer: I want to mail this parcel

9、to Beijing. Clerk: _Customer: Register is enough. I really dont want insurance.Clerk: Please, put the box on this scale.A. Would you like to register it? B. Do you want to register and insure it?C: Do you want to register or insure it? D. Would you register and insure it?Mary: Excuse me for being la

10、te, Peter. I was held up by the traffic.Peter: _, Mary. Come in and take a seat.A. Thats quite all rightB. No problemC. Dont mention itD. WelcomeMrs. Weller: Welcome, Mr. Zhao. Were very pleased to have you with us.Zhao Kai: Thank you, Mrs. Weller. Im more than happy to have this chance to join in a

11、 real Thanksgiving celebration. Mrs. Weller: _ Ill join you in a while. A. You are welcome.B. Please make yourself at home.C. Dont wait for me.D. Please start to eat.Janet: Linda, I was shocked to hear about your husbands illness! Im so sorry!Linda: _ I appreciate your sympathy, Janet. I hope hell b

12、e all right, but this is his second heart attack in five years. A. It doesnt matter.B. Thank you.C. Me tooD. Dont mention it.Mrs. Fox: _ what you have done to my son, doctor.Doctor: Thats all right, Mrs. Fox. Thats my job. Im very glad he recovered so soon. Mrs. Fox: I know he has brought great trou

13、ble to you. A million thanks. A: Im very grateful forB. I feel very happy withC. I really like D. Ive got to knowPart 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 ar

14、e 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 OneAre some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to thes

15、e questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied

16、surroundings. Thus the limits of a persons intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reached those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways. It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born w

17、ith. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical tw

18、ins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth. Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments.

19、 We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in cl

20、ose contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence. The writer is in favor of the view that mans intelligence is given to him _. at birththrough educationboth at birth and through educationmore at birth than through educationIf a child is bo

21、rn with low intelligence he can _.never become a geniusstill become a genius if he should be given special educationexceed his intelligence limits in rich surroundingsnot exceed his intelligence limits even in rich surroundingsIn the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from t

22、he population-” means if we _.pick any two personstake out two different personschoose two persons who are relativechoose two persons with different intelligenceThe example of the twins going to a university and to a factory separately shows _. the importance of their intelligencethe role of environ

23、ment on intelligencethe importance of their positionthe part that birth placesThe best title of this passage can be _. SurroundingsIntelligenceDependence on EnvironmentEffect of EducationPassage TwoBefore the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees it

24、is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded bottles and

25、soiled nappies at the edge of every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for ye

26、ars; a semi-permanent reminder of what a tatty little country we have now.Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish gove

27、rnment introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed

28、before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined effort, both individual and collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast

29、municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly. Now, much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will

30、 it look like in five years? The writer says that it is a good time to see Britain before the trees have leaves becauseA. Britain looks perfect.B. you can see Britain at its dirtiest.C. you can see how dirty Britain is now.D. the grass has thickened on the verges.According to the writer, things used

31、 to be_. A. worse abroad.B. the same abroad.C. better abroad.D. worse, but now things are better abroad.To solve the problem of plastic bags, Michael Meacher_A. followed the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags.B. tried to follow the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags.C. made no attempt to

32、 follow the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags.D. had problems with the plastics industry who werent bothered about the tax.As to what can be done, the writer thinks _A. it is too late to do anything.B. we are at the tipping point.C. there is more than one way to solve the problem.D. we need t

33、o work together to solve the problem.The writer thinks that_A. people are squalid.B. people behave according to what they see around them.C. people are clean and tidy.D. people are like a vast municipal rubbish tip.Passage ThreeThe men who planned and constructed the first American railroads were me

34、n of great vision. They predicted that their “iron horses” would open vast expanses of land to farming and industry. They knew that towns would spring up along the new railroads. Yet few of these pioneers could have guessed that American railroads would establish the system of time used throughout m

35、ost of the world today. Until the 1880s, all time in the United States was sun time. Farmers set their clocks to noon when the sun appeared to be overhead. In towns, people set their clocks by a courthouse clock or factory whistles. One towns time was often different from the time in a neighboring t

36、own. As the new railroads expanded, large numbers of people began to travel. But the railroads were unable to print accurate timetables when most towns along their tracks have their clocks set differently. There was need for a change, and the railroads led in planning it. In 1883, railroads in the U

37、nited States and Canada adopted standard time, a system which divided the continent into four time zones. Within each zone, all railroad clocks were set to an identical time. When it was noon in the Eastern Zone, it was nine oclock in the Pacific Zone. Railroad time signals were sent out by the newl

38、y-invented telegraph. Standard time quickly spread. Traveling businessmen set their watches to correspond to the railroad clocks. Factories and schools followed the railroads lead. Soon, nearly everyone in the United States and Canada was using the four-zone time system standard time. Today, nearly

39、all the world keeps standard time according to an international system of twenty-four time zones. Implied but not directly stated: _.Farmers set their clocks according to the factory whistlesThe correct time was not too important before the 1800sOnly people who traveled on trains ever knew timeA sta

40、ndard system was set up by the pioneersOn the whole, the article tells about _.pioneers who rode on “iron horses”large numbers of people who traveledthe establishment of standard timethe accurate timetable in the United StatesWhich statement does this article lead you to believe?Accurate timetelling

41、 is important in many industries.Accurate time is important only in the United States.Accurate time is owned by the men who built railroads.Accurate time is owned by pioneers. Why werent railroads able to print accurate timetables?Towns along the tracks set their clocks differently. No one was able

42、to read timetables that were accurate.Farmers preferred to read the sun instead of timetables.Railroad workers had no watches.What does the word “identical” mean?differentdifficultsimilarunderstandablePassage FourUntil recently, women in advertisements were one of three things an apron, a glamorous

43、dress or a frown. Although that is now changing, many women still feel angry enough to deface offending advertisements with stickers protesting. “This ad degrades women.” Why does this sort of advertising exist? How can advertisers and ad agencies produce, sometimes, after months of research, advert

44、isements that offend the consumer?The advertising Standards Authority (the body which deals with complaint about print media) is carrying out research into how women feel about the way they are portrayed in advertisements. Its conclusions are likely to be what the advertising industry already knows;

45、 although women are often irritated by the way they are seen in ads, few feel strongly enough to complain. Women are not only the victims of poor and boring stereotypes in many TV commercials men are seen neither as useless, childish oafs who are unable to perform the simplest household tasks, or as

46、 in considerate boors, permanently on the lookout for an escape to the pub. But it is women who seem to bear the impact of the industrys apparent inability to put people into an authentic present-day context. Yet according to Emma Bennett, executive creative director of a London advertising agency,

47、women are not infuriated by stereotypes and sexist advertising. It tends to wash over them. They are not militant or angry they just find it annoying or tiresome. They reluctantly accept outdated stereotypes, but heave a sigh of relief when an advertisement really gets it right. She says that it is

48、not advertisings use of the housewife role that bothers women, but the way in which its handled. “Researchers have often asked the wrong questions. The most important thing is the advertisements tone of voice. Women hate being patronized, flattered or given desperately down-to-earth commonsense advi

49、ce.”In the end, the responsibility for good advertising must be shared between the advertiser, the advertising agency and the consumer. Advertising does not set trends but it reflects them. It is up to the consumers to tell advertisers where they fail, and until people on the receiving end take the

50、business seriously and make their feelings known, the process of change will remain laboriously slow. Despite recent changes in attitudes, some advertisements still fail to _.change womens opinions of themselvesshow any understanding of peoples feelingspersuade the public to buy certain productsmeet

51、 the needs of the advertising productsAccording to the writer, the commonest fault of present-day advertising is to _.condemn the role of the housewifeignore protests about advertisementpresent a misleading image of womenmeet the needs of the advertising industryResearch suggests that the reaction o

52、f women towards misrepresentation by advertisements is _. indifference hostilityconsentunbeliefEmma Bennett suggests that advertisement ought to _.give further emphasis on practiceuse male images instead of female oneschange their style rather than their contentpay more compliments to women than bef

53、oreUltimately the advertising industry should _.take its job more earnestlydo more pioneering worktake notice of the public opinionconcentrate on the products advertisedPart III Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there ar

54、e 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.Access _ the paper is restricted to senior management.A. toB. withC. forD. inEmployees can buy books _ a discount.A. forB. of C. atD. inI was

55、looking forward to working _ her expert guidance.A. inB. onC. underD. atCanceling the conference will _ a very bad impression . A. getB. doC. makeD. giveHe looked shocked, then burst _ laughter.A. toB. inC. uponD. intoWhat _ him most was that he had received no apology.A. worriedB. annoyedC. challen

56、gedD. troubledI dont _ of cosmetic surgery.A. contendB. improveC. approveD. consentThe firm will _ workers for their loss of earnings.A. payB. compensateC. comfortD. chargeA security officer at the factory, who _ to give his name, said he had seen two men leave the building.A. preparedB. triedC. dec

57、linedD. pleasedMedical supplies have been _ among families affected by the epidemic.A. distributedB. givenC. contributedD. deliveredSeveral children were _ bread to the ducks.A. showingB. puttingC. feedingD. makingI really need to speak to you now. Oh, all right if you_.A. tryB. needC. insistD. hold

58、They welcomed the opportunity to participate fully_the life of the village.A. inB. toC. intoD. ofLadies and gentlemen, I regret _ that a number of statements made by the department were incorrect.A. sayingB. to sayC. sayD. of sayingThe recipe says you can _ yoghurt for the sour cream.A. replaceB. su

59、bstituteC. exchangeD. placeI suggest you _ before you go round there.A. phonedB. phoneC. phoningD. to phoneIt was a really bad accident - theyre lucky to be _. A. livingB. aliveC. liveD. livedThe results are _ with earlier research.A. insistentB. consistentC. concernedD. connectedThe law requires eq

60、ual treatment for all, _ of race, religion, or sex.A. regardB. regardlessC. in regardD. disregardIm extremely _ about what I read in the press.A. criticalB. skepticalC. frightenedD. convincedIf people dont learn from this, then his suffering and death were _.A. in vainB. on vainC. for vainD. to vain