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广东外语外贸大学成人高等教育毕业水平考试
复习资料 （英语专业）试卷一
Graduation Proficiency Test For Adult Higher Education
（English Major)
考生注意：1. 答案全部写在答卷上，否则无效。 2. 考试时间120分钟
I. Proofreading and Cloze (20%)
Section A: Proofreading (10%)
Correct the errors in the passage on the ANSWER SHEET. Some lines are correct, and the others are incorrect, each line containing only one error: with a wrong word, an unnecessary word OR a missing word. Make the corrections in the following way.
For a correct line: Put a tick (√)in the space given.
For an unnecessary word: Cross out the unnecessary word, and then write the word in the space given.
For a missing word: Mark the position of that missing word with a
caret “ ? ”, and then write the word in the space given.
For a wrong word: Underline the wrong word, and then write the
correct one in the space given.
Sample:
When ? art museum wants a new exhibit, it 1. an never buys things in finished form and hangs 2. never them on the wall. When a natural history museum 3. √ wants an exhibition, it must often build it. 4. exhibit
NOW do it on your ANSWER SHEET
Section Two: Cloze (10%)
There are 20 blanks in the passage, and 25 words in the box below the
passage. Decide which given word should go to which blank.
Most parents, I suppose，have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children. And they must have 21 how difficult it is to write a 22 children's book. Either the author has aimed too 23 ，so that the children can't follow what is in his （or more often，her）story，24 the story seems to be talking to the readers.
The best children's books are 25 very difficult nor very simple，and satisfy both the 26 who hears the story and the adult who 27 it. Unfortunately，there are in fact 28 books like this，29 the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not 30 to solve. This may be why many of books regarded as 31 of children's literature were in fact written for 32. “Alice's Adventure in Wonderland” is perhaps the most 33 of this. Children, left for themselves, often 34 the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in bookshop or 35 and he will 36 willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way，or have a look at most children's comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the 37 of teachers and right-thinking parents. Perhaps we parents should stop trying to brainwash children into 38 our taste in literature. After all children and adults are so 39 that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the 40 books. So I suppose we'll just have to compromise over that bedtime story.
a. or b. easy c. obvious d. objections e. and f. accepting g. for h. good i. show j. more k. different l. realized m. about n. high o. grown ups p. library q. through r. neither s. works t. reads U．not v. few w. so x. child y. same
II. Reading Comprehension (20%)
There are 4 reading passages in this part. Read them and answer the 25 questions following these passages.
Questions 41 to 45 refer to the passage below:
I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died \normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence calls on the two families on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me, \my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It's my fault that she died.\woman said, \
alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. It's my fault that she's dead.\
When things don't turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course - keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation – would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds. The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. Psychologists speak of the infantile myth of omnipotence . A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen.
41. What is said about the two deceased elderly women? A) They lived out a natural life.
B) They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride. C) They weren't accustomed to the change in weather. D) They died due to lack of care by family members.
42. The author had to conduct the two women's funerals probably because ________. A) he wanted to console the two families B) he was an official from the community C) he had great sympathy for the deceased D) he was priest of the local church
43. What does the underlined word “condolence” mean (Line 6, Para. 1)? A) inquiry B) sympathy C) indifferent D) emergency
44. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ________ A) they couldn't find a better way to express their grief B) they believe that they were responsible
C) they had neglected the natural course of events
D) they didn't know things often turn out in the opposite direction 45. In the context of the passage, \probably means that ________.
A) everything in the world is predetermined
广东外语外贸大学成人高等教育毕业水平考试复习资料(英语专业)试卷一
