61. What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage?
A. It targets rich people as its potential customers.
B. It?s hard for the industry to beat its competitors.
C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.
D. It?s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.
62. Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. Timex or Rolex?
B. My Childhood Timex
C. Watches? Mot for Me!
D. Watches—a Valuable Collection
D
A few years ago, Paul Gerner began to gather a group of architects in Las vegas to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and obviously improved student learning . ”I think half of then fell off their chairs,” Gerner says.
Gerner manages school facilities （设施）for Clark county, Nevada, a district roughly the size of Massachusetts. By 2018, 143, 000 additional students will enter the already crowded public-education system. Gerner needs 73 new schools to house them. Four architecture teams have nearly finished designing primary school prototypes （样品） ; They plan to construct their schools starting in 2009. The district will then assess how well the schools perform, and three winners will copy those designs in 50 to 70 new buildings.
Green schools are appearing all over , but in Clark County, which stands out for its vastness, such aggressive targets are difficult because design requirements like more natural light for students go against the realities of a desert climate. ”One of the biggest challenges is getting the right site orientation（朝向）, ” Mark McGinty, a director at SH Architecture, says. His firm recently completed a high school in Las Vegas. “You have the same building, same set of windows, but if its orientation is incorrect and it faces the sun, it will be really expensive to cool.”
Surprisingly, the man responsible for one of re most progressive green-design competitions has doubts about ideas of eco-friendly buildings. ”I don?t believe in the new green religion,” Gerner says. ”Gerner says.”Some of the building technologies that you get are impractical. I?m interested in those that work. ”But he wouldn?t mind if some green features inspire students. He says he hopes to set up green energy systems that
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allow them to learn about the process of harvesting wind and solar power. ”You never know what?s going to start the interest of a child to study math and science,”he says.
63．How did the architects react to Garner?s design requirements?
A. They lost balance in excitement.
B. they showed strong disbelief.
C. they expressed little interest.
D. they burst into cheers.
64．Which order of steps is followed in carrying out the project?
A. Assessment－Prototype－Design－Construction.
B. Assessment－Design－Prototype－Construction.
C. Design－Assessment－Prototype－Construction.
D. Design－Prototype－Assessment－Construction.
65．What makes it difficult to build green schools in Clark County?
A. The large size.
B. Limited facilities.
C. The desert climate.
D. Poor natural resources.
66．What does Gerner think of the ideas of green schools?
A. They are questionable.
B. They are out of date.
C. They are advanced.
D. They are practical.
E
Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be, Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant （不相关的）. A half century ago in the United states, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time, Today the boundaries still exist, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does , It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week should
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strengthen its legal limits, or whether it should become more “flexible” is often debated, How should we , as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the boundaries of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we rarely recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years—but unless we meet the truant officer （学监） , we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom and parents? demand rather than to the law. As adults we are familiar with “extra pay for overtime working.”but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes（构成） “overtime” is a matter of legal definition. , When we turn the clock forward to start daylight—saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves; “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law—as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work , time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
67. By saying” Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be,” the writer means that __________.
A. work time is equal to rest time
B. many people have a day off on Monday,
C. it is hard for people to decide when to rest
D. the line between work time and rest time is unclear
68. The author raises the questions in Paragraph 2 to introduce the fact that people____.
A. fail to make full use of their time
B. enjoy working overtime for extra pay
C. are unaware of the law of time
D. welcome flexible working hours
69. According to the passage, most children tend to believe that they go to school because they_____.
A. need to acquire knowledge
B. have to obey their parents
C. need to find companions
D. have to observe the law
70. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Our life is governed by the law of time
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B. How to organize time is not worth debating.
C. New ways of using time change our society.
D. Our time schedule is decided by social customs
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
例：We______（起床）before dawn, It was still dark outside. （get） 答案:got up 71. ______（多亏了）her assistance , we succeeded in starting the engine. （turn）
72. When you are finished with the electric. iron, don?t forget_____（关掉它）. （turn）
73. During his last lecture, the scientist______（觉得）easier to explain the theory to those with some background knowledge. （find）
74. _____（获得奖学金） gave Martin the chance to go to a college in one of the northern states. （win）
75. If times______（变了），have our ways of thinking changed too?（change）
76. At the award ceremony, Mr. Jackson said,”for me, there has been______（没有更大的回报）than your support. ”（great）
77. ______（任何计划了的事）is sure to change as one puts it into practice. （whatever）
78. Such knowledge is still useful ______（当应用） to similar situations in other countries. （when）
79. After circling around the earth for three days, Shenzhou Spaceship received the command from the ground that _____（它着陆）as scheduled the next day. （land）
80. Learning strategies, to _________（老师们认为） importance, have not yet drawn enough attention of students. （attach）
第二节：短文写作（共1题；满分25分）
假设你是华华，与英国网友汤姆约定用对方的母语通信，以提高各自的外语水平。最近你收到汤姆的电子邮件（附后），发现有一个成语使用不当。请根据下列要点，用英文回一封电子邮件。
要点：
1. 不应使用“无所不为”，应使用“无所事事”；
2. 说明这两个成语的用法；
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3. 给与鼓励。
注意：1. 词数为100左右；
2. 参考释义：无所不为—do all kinds of bad things
无所事事—have nothing to do;
3. 除以上两个成语外，邮件中不得使用其他汉字或拼音；
4. 电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入你所写词数），但不得抄入答题卡。
附（汤姆的邮件）：
华华，你好！
近几天在忙什么事？有什么有意思的事吗？我们的学校放假了，所以这几天在家无所不为，饱食终日，只好上网发伊妹儿。没意思。我决定找份工作，做个自食其力的人。祝好！
（以下所给内容不得抄入答题卡）
Hi Tom,
Nice to read your e-mail today. I notice you?ve begun to use Chinese idioms and used most of them correctly.
…
Hope you?ll find a job soon.
Huahua
参考答案
1-5 ACBCA 6-10 CABAB 11-15 CABAC 16-20 BBABC 21-25 DCACD
26-30 ABCBD 31-35 BACDB 36-40 ABDCD 41-45 DCDBA 46-50 BCACA
51-54 DADB 55-58 BCBC 59-62 ADAC 63-66 BDCA 67-70 DCBA
71. Owing to 72. to turn it off 73. found it/ found (that) it was
74. Winning a scholarship 75. have changed 76. no greater reward/ no reward greater
77. Whatever one has planned/ Whatever has been planned 78. when (it is) applied
79. it (should) land 80. which (the) teachers attach/ have attached
Possible version:
Hi! Tom,
Nice to read your e-mail today. I notice you?ve begun to use Chinese idioms and used most of them correctly.
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2011-2016年历年成人高考《英语》真题及答案 - 图文
