1、成人本科学位英语模拟试卷 55及答案与解析 一、 Dialogue Communication 0 A: Excuse me, I am a reporter from a student magazine.【 D1】 _ B: Sure, Please. A: Where do you come from? B: I am from Germany. A:【 D2】 _ B: I got here the day before yesterday. A: How do you like Lanzhou? B: I like your city very much. The people he
2、re are very friendly. But I m still not used to the weather here. I have a sore throat today. A: The weather in Lanzhou is kind of dry. Drinking more water can make you feel better. B: Thanks for your suggestion. A:【 D3】 _ B: Of course not. I come here for watching Lanzhou International Marathon. An
3、d then I m planning to go to Dunhuang for a tour. A: Great. Thank you for answering my questions.【 D4】 _ B: Thank you. A. Would you mind telling me what you come here for? B. Have a great time. C. May I ask you some questions? D. When did you arrive in Lanzhou? 1 【 D1】 2 【 D2】 3 【 D3】 4 【 D4】 4 Man:
4、 Parking at school is impossible. Woman: Ill say. Man:【 D5】 _ Woman: Did you find a spot? Man: I found a spot, but someone cut in and took it from me. Woman: Did you yell at them? Man: Yes, I did. Woman: And? Man:【 D6】 _ Woman: How rude. Man:【 D7】 _ Woman: You have to be lucky to find a parking spac
5、e. A. But I got lucky a few minutes later. B. I drove around for half an hour. C. I hate to drive to school now. D. And he yelled back at me. 5 【 D5】 6 【 D6】 7 【 D7】 7 Woman: What did the doctor say about your stomachache? Man:【 D8】 _ Woman: Can stress cause stomachaches? Man: Stress causes differen
6、t problems with different people. Woman: So what did he tell you to do? Man:【 D9】 _ Woman: But how do you think positive? Man:【 D10】 _ 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
7、 should take some medicine. D. I think about nice things. 8 【 D8】 9 【 D9】 10 【 D10】 二、 Part I Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and
8、 D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 10 The top of the world is a wonderland. In winter, the temperature often falls to -30F and the sun never rises. The ocean is surrounded by frozen ground. There are f
9、ew people or trees, but to polar bears, the Arctic(北极 )is home. Polar bears have thick fur, big paws and other features that make them well prepared for life in their tough environment. In fact, they need the Arctic sea ice for survival. But climate change is causing larger and larger areas of summe
10、r sea ice to melt(融化 ). Experts say that if warming patterns continue, the Arctic could be free of summer sea ice by 2050. That may cause two-thirds of the word s 20,000 polar bears to be gone by then too. Polar bears can t survive for long on land. Seals are their main source of food. The only plac
11、e where polar bears can hunt seals is on the ice. Although these bears are strong swimmers, they are no match for lightning swift seals in the water. A polar bear has brilliantly clever strategies to overcome this disadvantage. In winter the bear waits motionless beside a seal s breathing hole, whic
12、h is a narrow tunnel through the ice. Often many hours pass before the seal comes up for air and the bear kills it with a powerful blow of its paw. In summer, the polar bears that live on land eat very little and wait for the sea ice to return. With the sea ice forming later in the year and melting
13、earlier, polar bears do not have enough opportunity to hunt and eat. Less sea ice makes it harder for the bears to catch the seals. The bears must swim longer distances between ice packs(大片浮冰 ), and they can t always make it. The ice is also getting thinner. These conditions can cause polar-bear cub
14、s to become separated from their mothers, who provide them with food. Steven Amstrup is the chief scientist of Polar Bear International. The group aims to save the bears and their home. “The more people who see polar bears and understand their difficult situations, the better the chance well alter o
15、ur warming path in time to save them,“ he says. 11 Which is the best title for the passage? （ A） Climate Change in the Arctic （ B） How to Protect the Environment （ C） The Arctic Is Home to Polar Bears （ D） Polar Bears in Danger 12 Where do polar bears usually hunt seals? （ A） On land. （ B） In open w
16、ater. （ C） In openings in the sea ice. （ D） At the bottom of the sea. 13 The word “cubs“ in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to_. （ A） adults （ B） babies （ C） hunters （ D） enemies 14 According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? （ A） Starving polar bears are increasi
17、ngly coming into villages, where they may be killed either for food or safety. （ B） Polar bears can spend their entire lives on land if the sea ice melts completely. （ C） Two-thirds of the worlds polar bears may disappear by 2050 as global warming continues. （ D） The growing distance between ice pac
18、ks is not a problem for polar bears, because they are excellent swimmers. 15 Whats the mission of Polar Bears International? （ A） Saving energy. （ B） Conducting scientific research. （ C） Seeking international cooperation. （ D） Saving polar bears and their home. 15 The exact number of English words i
19、s not known. The large dictionaries have over half a million entries, but many of these are compound words(schoolroom, sugar bowl)or different derivatives of the same word(rarerarely, rarefy), and a good many are obsolete words to help us read older literature. Dictionaries do not attempt to cover c
20、ompletely words that we can draw on: the informal vocabulary, especially slang, localism, the terms of various occupations and professions: words used only occasionally by scientists and specialists in many fields: foreign words borrowed for use in English: or many new words or new senses of words t
21、hat come into use every year and that may or may not be used long enough to warrant being included. It would be conservative to say that there are over a million English words that any of us might meet in our listening and reading and that we may draw on in our speaking and writing. Professor Seasho
22、re concluded that first-graders enter school with at least 24,000 words and add 5,000 each year so that they leave high school with at least 80,000. These figures are for recognition vocabulary, the words we understand when we read or hear them. Our active vocabulary, the words we use in speaking an
23、d writing, is considerably smaller. You cannot always produce a word exactly when you want it. But consciously using the words you recognize in reading will help get them into your active vocabulary. Occasionally in your reading pay particular attention to these words, especially when the subject is
24、 one that you might well write or talk about. Underline or make a list of words that you feel a need for and look up the less familiar ones in a dictionary. And then before very long find a way to use some of them. Once you know how they are pronounced and what they stand for, you can safely use the
25、m. 16 According to the author s estimation, there are_words in English. （ A） more than half a million （ B） at least 24,000 （ C） at least 80,000 （ D） more than a million 17 The italicized word “obsolete“ in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to_. （ A） no longer in use （ B） profound （ C） colorf
26、ul （ D） common 18 One s recognition vocabulary is_. （ A） less often used than his active vocabulary （ B） smaller than his active vocabulary （ C） as large as his active vocabulary （ D） much larger than his active vocabulary 19 The author does not suggest getting recognition vocabulary into active voc
27、abulary by_. （ A） making a list of words you need and looking up the new ones in a dictionary （ B） spending half an hour studying the dictionary （ C） consciously using the words you recognize in reading （ D） trying to use the words you recognize 20 From the passage we learn that_ （ A） dictionaries c
28、ompletely cover the words we can make use of （ B） schoolroom is used in the passage as an example of a specialized term （ C） once you know how a word is pronounced and what it represents, you have turned it into your active word （ D） active vocabulary refers to words we understand when we read and h
29、ear them 20 In 1991, when announced to be HIV positive, “Magic“ Johnson became the face of a disease that the public still had a lot to learn about. The basketball star established the Magic Johnson Foundation that year and took a leading role on the public relations and fund-raising fronts in the f
30、ight against HIV and AIDS. Fifteen years later, there is still more work to do. “ A lot of times, what happens is that the poster is not enough,“ Johnson says, motioning to his likeness on the blackboard behind him. “So I have to get out and tell them myself, like I m doing here today. “ Johnson is
31、now talking to an assembly at Boys and Girls High School in his neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. The crowd is a few hundred students in a mostly black, working-class neighborhood. Thus event is the fourth of a 10-city speaking tour that is organized for minority communities. According to drug maker Ab
32、bot, half of the more than 1 million Americans living with HIV are black. African-American men are being diagnosed with the disease at a rate 10 times as high as that of white men. For women, the situation is even worse. The rate of diagnosis for African-American women is 23 times as high as that fo
33、r their white counterparts. “Right now, we dont have a solution on how to combat it, so we re trying to do some different things than what has happened before, “Johnson says. Getting the word out is what draws Johnson to black neighborhood high schools such as this one, and the message he brings wit
34、h him is a practical one. “The safest sex is no sex,“ he says. “But, in reality, we know only a certain number of people are going to hear that. Then I hit them with Hey, if you re going to do if, you ve got to protect yourself and your partner. “ Hopefully, by talking realistically instead of avoid
35、ing the issues, Johnson can help make the next generation of African-Americans less likely to have HTV and AIDS. “Just try to be real with them,“ he says. “They appreciate that. “ 21 The phrase “disease that the public still had a lot to learn about“ here means a disease that_. （ A） was already well
36、-known then （ B） was too complicated for people （ C） was still too new to be understood （ D） killed too many victims then 22 According to the passage, the group with the highest AIDS rate is_. （ A） the white Americans （ B） African-American men （ C） the American women （ D） the black American women 23
37、 The speaker is named “Magic“ Johnson because_. （ A） he was once a famous basketball coach （ B） he was a happy survivor of the unhappy disease （ C） he was given chance to talk of his own experience （ D） he was a very practical and realistic person in life 24 The word “combat“(Paragraph 4)is closest
38、in meaning to_. （ A） come back （ B） combine （ C） fight against （ D） avoid 25 What is the purpose of Johnson s speech tour? （ A） To take himself as an example in fighting the disease. （ B） To raise the awareness of young Americans against the disease. （ C） To provide a better cure for the black Ameri
39、can HIV sufferers. （ D） To try some new medical solutions on the HIV and AIDS sufferers. 25 As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job. The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 1
40、6 to 24-year-olds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step. More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s. Keen
41、both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment, the government has introduced an ambitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work. A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long:
42、ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early-1980s recession(衰退 ), when unemployment continued in some parts of the country for a long time after the economy began to improve. To help young people into work, ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains, bookshops a
43、nd supermarkets, to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay, with the prospect of a proper job for those who shine. Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year: half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme. The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for w
44、ork is popular with voters: according to a survey published in February, about 60% of people support the program. Equally attractive was the option of compelling them to work: Under the existing arrangements youngsters could choose whether or not to accept a place, but if they dropped out after the
45、end of the first week, they stood to lose up to two weeks benefits. Yet the scheme has also polarized(两极分化的 )opinion: a third of people are consistently opposed. Following a noisy “Right to Work“ campaign that accused employers of co-operating secretly with the government in “ forced labor“ , severa
46、l firms dropped out of the program. To prevent this from getting worse, Chris Grayling, an employment minister, admitted that young people could leave their work experience at any time without being punished for doing so. This not only halted the flight of employers(for now, at least)but also enable
47、d him to announce that new firms have agreed to take part in the program. 26 According to the passage, young people in Britain_. （ A） are used to showing up for work （ B） value unpaid work very much （ C） are always opposed to unpaid work （ D） could learn something about job security through unpaid w
48、ork 27 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE? （ A） Most voters support the government s effort to help young people to work. （ B） Some people protest against the government s attempt to force young people to work. （ C） There are more than one million young people who took part
49、 in the program. （ D） There are more than one million young people who are jobless. 28 According to the author, the British government is trying to_. （ A） punish young people if they are not cooperating with it （ B） reform the unemployed youngsters （ C） avoid the economic slowdown （ D） reduce welfare spending 29 The word “shine“ in Paragraph 3 means “_“. （ A） do well （ B） reflect light （ C） look happy （ D） produce light 30 Which of the following i
