1、成人高等教育学士学位英语-8 及答案解析(总分：130.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B Directions:/(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.Wilson: Hello. May I speak to Peter?Peter:_（分数：1.00）A.Sorry, the number is engagedWill you hold?B.Yes, speaking.C.Hello. Whore you please?D.Hello. Thank you for calling.2.Client: Hello. May I speak to Mr. Turner?Secretary:_
2、（分数：1.00）A.Im sorry. Hes at a meeting now.B.I am. Speak, please.C.Hello. Whore you, please?D.Hello. Thank you for calling.3.Hows your brother these days?He hasnt been very well just recently._. Whats the matter?I think hes been overworking.（分数：1.00）A.Ill be pleased to hear you ask after himB.Im sorr
3、y, to hear thatC.Thats not too badD.Ill tell him what you said4.Kate: Do you mind opening the door for me?Bob:_（分数：1.00）A.Yes, Ill do it.B.Its nothing.C.Thats all right.D.Not at all.5.W: What is all this glass doing on the floor?M:_（分数：1.00）A.Look at the window and you11 see.B.Ill clean it.C.Ill cal
4、l the repair man.D.Cant you find out?6.Speaker A: Would you care for another helping(还要再吃点东西吗) ?Speaker B:_（分数：1.00）A.I have helped enough.B.No more help is needed.C.No, thanks, Im quite full.D.Please pass me the helping.7.Desk Clerk: Good afternoon, Holiday Inn.Customer: Hello, Id like to book a do
5、uble room for the nights of 23rd and 24th please.Desk Clerk:_（分数：1.00）A.Whats the matter?B.What can I do for you?C.Just a minute, please.D.Can I help you?8.Jack: Hey, how are you, Susie? We havent seen each other for., it must be close to three years.Susie:_Jack: OK.（分数：1.00）A.How do you do?B.Nice t
6、o meet you.C.Fancy meeting you here.D.Well. How have you been?9.Speaker A: You are washing your car even on vacation. It makes me feel guilty.Speaker B:_（分数：1.00）A.Though Im washing my car on vacation, I was still criticized by my wife being lazy.B.Never mindEveryone does.C.You shouldnt. Its just th
7、at I have nothing better to do at the moment.D.Well, Im afraid I cant do better than this.10.Mary: Your little boy has done a good job at school.Eva:_（分数：1.00）A.Yes, you are very kind.B.No, you are too polite.C.Thanks, but you are exaggerating.D.Yes, Im proud of him.11.W: Im taking the train downtow
8、n to go shopping.M:_（分数：1.00）A.Well, youd better keep an eye on your wallet.B.Why dont you stay at home and watch your baby?C.By the way, what about your plan to visit your parents?D.Take the train? Youre a fool.12.Speaker A: Can you come down a little for this watch?Speaker B:_（分数：1.00）A.Yes, we wo
9、uld like to do so.B.Sorry, but we go strictly by the price tag.C.No, but you may try again.D.Sure. Well come to the first floor as soon as possible.13.Speaker A: Im not at all satisfied with the service.Speaker B:_（分数：1.00）A.Nobody has complained like that before.B.I sincerely apologize for that.C.I
10、 wonder why you are satisfied with it.D.Its not our fault as there are too many customers.14.Speaker A: Thats very kind of you to do so.Speaker B:_（分数：1.00）A.Thats all right, Im pleased to meet you.B.As you are our important guest.C.Im pleased to be at your service.D.Its no trouble at all.15.Passer-
11、by:_.Local resident: Sure. Its on Ehn Street: between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenue.Passer-by: Thank you.（分数：1.00）A.Help please. Could you tell me where the post office is?B.Sorry, where is the post office, please?C.Trouble you. Could you please tell me where the post office is?D.Excuse me. Do you kno
12、w where the post office is?二、BPart Reading (总题数：3，分数：30.00)BPassage 1/BIn sport the sexes are separate. (76) UWomen and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. /UThat at least is what people say. Women arc called“ the weaker sex“ ,or, if men want to please them, “th
13、e fair sex“. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68Are womens bodies really weaker?T
14、he fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Womens speeds are always slower than mens, but some facts are surprising. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16The first “Tarz
15、an“ in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious
16、that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!（分数：10.00）(1).Women are called “the weaker se
17、x“ because_.（分数：2.00）A.women do as much work as menB.people tilde women are weaker than menC.sport is easier for men than for womenD.in sport the two sexes are always together(2).Which of the following is tree?（分数：2.00）A.Boys and girls study separately everywhere.B.Women do not run or swim in races
18、with men.C.Famous Prime Ministers are women.D.Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.(3).“That at least is what people say.“ means people_.（分数：2.00）A.say other things tooB.dont say this muchC.say this but may not think soD.only think this(4).What problems does sport have?（分数：2.00）A.Some
19、women athletes are actually men.B.Some women athletes are given hormone injections.C.Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.D.It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women.(5).In this passage the author implies that _.（分数：2.00）A.women axe weaker than men, but fasterB.w
20、omen are slower than men, but strongerC.men are not always stronger and faster than womenD.men are faster and stronger than womenBPassage 2/B(77) UWhat do we mean by a satisfactory standard of living? Obviously, it must include the basic necessities of life such as food, clothing and shelter. /UTo g
21、et these necessities on regular basis, a person must have a reliable income. But we have other needs which would probably also be included as basic, such as health and education facilities.We may think of all of these as our needs. Yet most of us would be far from satisfied if we had nothing more th
22、an these which are supplied for us. (78) UWe all enjoy extra income to spend on things like books, sports or hobbies. /USometimes we save some of this extra income to pay for future expense of this type on holidays. So we must add our wants to our basic needs. Our standard of living is the degree, t
23、o which these needs and wants are satisfied.But as time goes on, what we think of as our basic needs changes. Twenty years ago a television would have been a luxury, and still is in many countries now. Even now we cannot say it is a need in the same sense as food, clothing and shelter. Yet if most o
24、f the people of a country have one, it comes to be accepted as a needIt is possible therefore to have food, clothing and shelter and still be poor by the standards of our own society.（分数：10.00）(1).What we need in life is divided into _ according to this article.（分数：2.00）A.the basic necessities and l
25、uxuryB.many kinds of need such as food, clothing and housesC.four groups the basic necessities, luxury, reliable income and future expenseD.the basic necessities and reliable income(2).A person who gets the basic necessities must _ according to the writer.（分数：2.00）A.have a reliable incomeB.learn how
26、 to please his managerC.finish his work ahead the timeD.get a good education(3).We all enjoy _.（分数：2.00）A.having only reliable incomeB.having reliable income and extra incomeC.having nothing more than food and clothingD.having nothing more than reliable income(4).With time going on, _.（分数：2.00）A.a l
27、uxury may change into a need which most people want to getB.the basic needs are getting smaller and smallerC.a luxury and the basic needs can be exchangedD.the basic needs can be changed into a luxury(5).If most of the people of a country have a television, we _（分数：2.00）A.can say the television is a
28、 need in the same sense as food and clothing and shelterB.can say the television must be in the basic necessitiesC.cannot say the television is in the basic necessitiesD.can say every family must have oneBPassage 3/BIncreasingly, over the past ten years, peopleespecially young peoplehave become awar
29、e of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed food, is not good for the health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods.Foods which do not contain chemical additives (添加剂) and which have not been affected by chemical f
30、ertilizers, widely used in farming today.(79) UNatural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic (有机的) matter. /UIn simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential v
31、itamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amountbut not the qualityof foods grown in commercial farming areas.Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move f
32、reely in healthy pastures(牧场). Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry: there are farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless a
33、s food, they .also lay eggs which lack important vitamins.There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a non-essential food! Al though a natural alternative, such as honey, can
34、be used to sweeten food if it is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all
35、 it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber.(80) UIt is significant that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. /UIn white bread, for example, the fiber has been removedBut it is present in unr
36、efined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare. Hence the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by mo
37、dem experts on “healthy eating“.（分数：10.00）(1).People have become more interested in natural foods because _.（分数：2.00）A.they are more health consciousB.they want to taste all kinds of foodsC.natural foods are more delicious than processed foodsD.they want to return to nature(2).Soil that is rich in o
38、rganic matters _.（分数：2.00）A.has had chemicals and fertilizers added to itB.contains vegetable matter that has not been consumedC.has been nourished by fertilizersD.already contains large quantities of vitamins and minerals(3).Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following EXCEPT that _.（分
39、数：2.00）A.they are fed on food which is little better than garbageB.they live in very crowded conditionC.the eggs they lay lack vitaminsD.they are allowed to move about and eat freely(4).According to the passage,_.（分数：2.00）A.people need sugar to give them energyB.sugar is bad for the healthC.the use
40、of sugar is habit formingD.sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful(5).The best rifle for this passage is _.（分数：2.00）A.Peoples Growing Interest in Natural FoodsB.Natural Foods and Healthy DietC.Harmful Effects of SugarD.The Importance of Fiber in Foods三、BPart Vocabula(总题数：30，分数：
41、30.00)16.My brothers plans are very _; he wants to master English, French and Spanish before he is sixteen.（分数：1.00）A.arbitraryB.aggressiveC.ambitiousD.abundant17.You should have been more patient _ that customer; Im sure that selling him the watch was a possibility.（分数：1.00）A.ofB.withC.forD.at18.If
42、 tap water were as dangerous as some people think, _ would be getting sick.（分数：1.00）A.a lot of more usB.more a lot of usC.a lot of us moreD.a lot more of us19.Fifty years ago, wealthy people liked bunting wild animals for fun _ sightseeing.（分数：1.00）A.than to goB.rather than to goC.more than goingD.o
43、ther than going20.It seems very difficult_.（分数：1.00）A.to stop the child to cryB.restraining the child to cryC.to stop the child from cryingD.holding the childs crying21.Purchasing the new production line will be a _ deal for the company.（分数：1.00）A.profitableB.tremendousC.forcefulD.favorite22.The Pri
44、me Minister refused to comment on the rumor that he had planned to _.（分数：1.00）A.dischargeB.dismissC.resignD.resume23.Many a delegate was in favor of his proposal that a special committee _ to investigate the incident.（分数：1.00）A.were set upB.was set upC.be set upD.set up24.A season ticket _ the holde
45、r to make as many journeys as he wished within the stated period of time.（分数：1.00）A.grantsB.promisesC.entitlesD.presents25.I feel sure that qualification, ability and experience, you are abundantly suited to the position we have in mind.（分数：1.00）A.in case ofB.in terms ofC.in the opinion ofD.in the c
46、ourse of26.There was a good _ of the countryside from the front of the bus.（分数：1.00）A.sightB.viewC.sceneD.scenery27.The _ stuck on the envelope says “By Air“.（分数：1.00）A.diagramB.labelC.signalD.mark28.According to the American federal government, residents of Hawaii have the longest life_.（分数：1.00）A.
47、scopeB.rankC.spanD.scale29.This album is _ as it was the only one ever signed by the President.（分数：1.00）A.unusualB.uniqueC.rateD.special30.Stressful environments lead to unhealthy such as poor eating habits, which _ increase the risk of heart disease.（分数：1.00）A.in turnB.in returnC.by chanceD.by turn
48、s31.Fruit is rich _ vitamins.（分数：1.00）A.withB.inC.atD.of32.She _ the temptation to buy a coat she could not afford.（分数：1.00）A.challengedB.obstructedC.contradictedD.resisted33.The birth rate in a city _ to fall as its gross domestic product (GDP) rises steadily.（分数：1.00）A.estimatesB.anticipatesC.assumesD.tends34.We hadnt met for 20 years, but I recognized her _ I saw her.（分数：1.00）A.for the momentB.the moment whenC.at the moment
