(A)成人本科英语-3及答案解析.doc

1、(A)成人本科英语-3 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Dialogue Comp(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Dialogue One(总题数：1，分数：4.00)Woman: I dont like riding buses.Man: (1) Woman: They are seldom on time. (2) Man: Dont they clean the bus every night?Woman: (3) , but with too many passengers on them, they cant be very clean.Man:

2、 You should bring some wipes with you.Woman: Thats a good idea.Man: Then you can wipe your seat and window.Woman: People will think Im strange.Man: Who cares? (4) Woman: Thats for sure.Man: Dont worry about what people think.A. I think they doB. Why not?C. Besides seats and windows are dirty.D. Ever

3、yone is strange.（分数：4.00）A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.三、Dialogue Two(总题数：1，分数：3.00)Man: I like this magazine very much.Woman: So do I.Man: I read it once, then (5) Woman: What makes you so interested in it?Man: It gives you all the news. (6) Woman: What section do you like most?Man: I like the po

4、litical cartoons and the beautiful photos of the houses for sale.Woman: I always read the film reviews and I never miss the food and drink section.Man: I recommended it to my parents. (7) Woman: Me too. And they also like it.A. But nobody likes the other sections.B. And they canceled their other new

5、s magazines.C. All the news in only 50 pages.D. I buy it every week.（分数：3.00）A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.四、Dialogue Three(总题数：1，分数：3.00)Woman: What did the doctor say about your stomachache?Man: (8) Woman: Can stress cause stomachaches?Man: Stress causes different problems with different people.Woman: S

6、o what did he tell you to do?Man: (9) Woman: But how do you think positive?Man: (10) Woman: Like what?Man: Like a day at the beach, with my toes in the sand.A. He said I need to think positive.B. He thinks I have too much stress.C. He said that I should take some medicine.D. I think about nice thing

7、s.（分数：3.00）A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.五、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Many older Americans spend their final years in a nursing home or assisted living center. These places provide services that help older adults with activities they can no longer do on their own. However,

8、 most people say they would like to remain in their own homes. Now, there are nonprofit groups that help them do that.Philip Smith is ninety-one years old and lives with his wife in an old house in Seattle, Washington. And he wants to keep it that way. He always says: “As far as Im concerned, I woul

9、d not like to leave this place. Living in a group situation is something I couldnt tolerate. Id kill myself before I had to do that.“Mr. Smith says now he and his wife can take good care of themselves in their two-level house. But he and his wife know they will soon need help with simple housework.

10、Work like changing a light bulb that hangs at the top of the stairs. In the past, an older American would ask one of their children or a neighborhood teenager to change the light bulb. But here, those young helpers have grown up and gone. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, but they all live in

11、other states. So they are considering joining a “virtual village.“ This is a local group of volunteers and service providers that help older adults. They might help these adults with anything from transportation to small home repairs and dog walking.The virtual village idea was first developed about

12、 ten years ago in Boston, Massachusetts. The idea has spread to an unofficial network of villages around the country. One hundred fifty are currently in development.（分数：10.00）(1).Mr. Smith doesnt like living in a nursing home, because _.A. he hates to live with many other people togetherB. he is afr

13、aid that he will kill himself thereC. older people are treated badly thereD. he and his wife have heir own house（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Now Mr. and Mrs. Smith cant get help from their children, because _.A. nowadays children wouldnt like to help their parentsB. their children are married and busy all t

14、he timeC. their children have grown up and long goneD. traditionally, children have no responsibility to help their parents（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What volunteer service for the seniors is not mentioned in the passage?A. Providing ride for them.B. Changing light bulbs for them.C. Taking their dogs for

15、a walk.D. Cooking meals for them.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What is the idea of “virtual village“?A. Building more nursing home in the countryside.B. Seniors live in their own home with the help of volunteers.C. Arranging older people to live in group situations.D. Encouraging children to live with their

16、older parents together.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The difference between nursing home and virtual village is that _.A. the former provides help for older people with activitiesB. the former provides medical treatment for the older peopleC. in the latter older people can get help in their own homeD. in the

17、 latter older people get help from volunteers（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.七、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out.We asked Professor Steve Graham at Vanderbilt University in N

18、ashville, Tennessee. He told us that he has been hearing about the death of handwriting for the past fifteen years. He said: “If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three.“Ninety percent of teachers

19、also say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. Professor Graham said: “One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting.And then when you look

20、 at how its taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten, fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day-which really for handwriting is pretty much death.“Many adults remember learning that way

21、-by copying letters over and over again. Todays thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.Handwriting involv

22、es two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency-writing without having to think about it. Experts say fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one-fourth of

23、 their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important anymore because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt said: “Word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. Even with high school teachers

24、, we find that less than fifty percent of assignments are done via word processing or with word processing. And, in fact, if we added in taking notes and doing tests in class, most of the writing done in school is done by hand./（分数：10.00）(1).Some people think handwriting lessons are out of date, bec

25、ause _.A. handwriting lessons take too much of their timeB. handwriting lessons are boring for kidsC. they write little at present timeD. they write through computers not by handwriting（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the survey published by professor Steve Graham _.A. most teachers in grades one t

26、o three still teach handwritingB. 3/4 teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwritingC. most students in grades one to three have learned handwriting wellD. most teachers think handwriting should not be taught by itself（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Students will learn handwriting well by _.A. learnin

27、g by themselvesB. practicing it once in a short timeC. practicing it more than an hour a dayD. copying letters over and over again（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The purpose for us to write is to _.A. communicate with othersB. show our education levelsC. express our ideasD. record our activities（分数：2.00）A.B.C.

28、D.(5).According to the author, handwriting lessons _.A. are on the way outB. will be replaced by word processingC. have been cut out by most elementary schoolsD. are still necessary for elementary school students（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.八、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Some prisoners in the United States create w

29、orks of art. Prison art is sold in art galleries (画廊) in the Washington D. C. area. The profits are split among the artists and the Prisons Foundation, a not-for-profit group in the nations capital. The Prisons Foundation supports the arts in prisons and programs designed to help keep people out of

30、jail.Some prisoners create pictures filled with images of natural beauty. It helps them remember the world they left behind. Dennis Sobin served twelve years in prison. He created the Prisons Foundation while he was jailed. He said. “Art is a cure and remedy for prisoners. And prison art is often fu

31、ll of emotion“.Dennis Sobin now owns the Watergate Gallery, which sells prisoner art. He said: “Theres a lot of sensitivity in this art. You can see what people are thinking.“Brian Driggers was released from prison recently. He created a lot of art during his eight years in prison. Some of it is in

32、the Crime and Punishment Museum in Washington. He used a pen in his art. Paint and brushes were not permitted in the prison because they could be used for body art. He told us about what he used to create a picture of his wife.He said. “I created the brush out of my own hair. I would cut a lot of my

33、 hair out, tie it up with thread, and then use a pen. And then paint with instant coffee. You could mix it down with different levels of water to create different tones and use it as a watercolor medium.“Mr. Driggers also created a picture of himself using color chalks. He said: “The shapes are brok

34、en apart, and what that implies to is my life had completely fallen apart, and the meaning behind that is for me to come back together again./（分数：10.00）(1).Some prisoners like to create art of natural beauty because _.A. prisons are usually built in the wildB. they miss their homes and familiesC. th

35、ey are unable to get close to itD. they have no access to other themes（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the founder of the Prisons Foundation, prison art _.A. is more popular among artistsB. can reflect the real societyC. can make people think deeplyD. is meaningful and emotional（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3)

36、.Mr. Driggers used coffee and the brush made of his own hair to paint the picture of his wife, because _.A. he missed his wife so muchB. paint and brushes are not allowed in prisonC. he punished himself for he had let his wife downD. he had nothing else to paint in prison（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Mr. Dri

37、ggers thought the meaning of his own picture was that _.A. his future would be unimaginableB. he would change himself and start with a clean new lifeC. his life had been completely ruinedD. he would be released from the prison soon（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).We can learn from the passage that prison art is

38、 _.A. a good way to help prisoners go back to societyB. very valuable in the art marketC. a way for prisoners to pass timeD. a way to train famous artists（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.九、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Did your mum and dad go to university, or did they leave school and go straight to the Job Centre? The

39、 educational experience of parents is still important when it comes to how todays students choose an area of study and what to do after graduation, according to The Future-track research in the UK.The research was done by the Higher Education Careers Service Unit. It plans to follow university appli

40、cants for six years from 2006 through their early careers.The first years findings come from a study of 130,000 university applicants. They show significant differences in prospective students approach to higher education, depending on whether their parents got degrees (second-generation applicants)

41、 or didnt (first-generation applicants).First-generation applicants were more likely to say that their career and employment prospects were uppermost in their minds in deciding to go to university. About one-fifth of this group gave “to enable me to get a good job“ as their main reason for choosing

42、high education. And 37 percent said that a degree was “part of my career plan“.A young person coming from a non-professional household where finances are stretched may find the idea of learning for its own sake to be a luxury. This explains the explosion in vocational courses.At Portsmouth Universit

43、y, first-year student Kim Burnett, 19, says that she specifically chose her degree in health research management and psychology to get a secure, well-paid job. Harriet Edge, 20, studying medicine at Manchester University, also wanted job security. Her parents lacked college degrees, though the fact

44、that her uncle is a doctor appears to have influenced her choice.“Medicine is one of those fields where its pretty likely youll get a job at the end. Thats a big plus, as the debt levels after five years of study are going to be frightening,“ she says. Many experts believe that this situation affect

45、s those with no family tradition of higher education far more keenly. The fact that 26 percent of respondents said that they needed more advice implies that some students may end up feeling that their higher education investment was not worthwhile.For those with graduate parents, this lack of guidan

46、ce may, the researchers suggest, be less of a problem. “But, for those without the advantages, lack of access to career guidance before applying for higher education leaves them exposed to making poorer choices,“ the survey concludes.（分数：10.00）(1).The main idea of the passage is that _.A. parents ex

47、periences are more important for their childrens educationB. parents careers are vitally important for their childrens degreesC. students approach to higher education correlates with their parents educational experienceD. students career and employment prospects are decided by their parents（分数：2.00）

48、A.B.C.D.(2).A young person coming from a non-professional household _.A. is less likely to get financial aid to go to universityB. is more likely to choose vocational educationC. may think learning for pleasure is a good ideaD. may choose to study for a professional degree（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).In whi

49、ch of the following aspects do Kim Burnett and Harriet Edge have in common?A. They both chose their majors because of their family influence.B. They are both the first-year students in university.C. Both of their parents lack college degrees.D. Both of them chose degrees for job security.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).It is implied that _.A. the cost of a degree in medicine is very highB. higher education investment in medicine is not worthwhileC. a student without family medical tradition