2015年成人学位英语考前冲刺试题及答案（第七套）
(考试时间120分钟)
选作题I：
Part IDialogue Communication ( 15 % )
Directions: In this section, you will read 15 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each fol-lowed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 1. W: Would you do me a favor? M:__________ A. I would.
B. With pleasure.
C. I don' t know if I can. D. What is the favor? 2. W: Operator, I want to make a person-to-person call to Toronto, Canada. The number is 932 - 0808. M:__________
A. But I don' t know whom you want to call.
B. What' s the name of the party you' re calling? C. What' s the address of the person you' re calling? D. What's the extension number you' re calling? 3. Speaker A: Wow! How nice the room is! Speaker B:__________ A. It' s just so so. B. So it is, C. Is that so? D. So you love it.
4. W: Sunshine Hotel. May I help you? M: __________
A. All fight. My name is David Jones and my room number is 103. B. Yes. We need a double room for this weekend.
C. Thank you, I' d like to make a long distance call to New Zealand. D. Sorry. I don' t think you can help us. Thank you anyway. 5. M: I want to try on that black pair. W: __________
A. Do you mean this black pair or that black pair? B. Oh, I thought the red ones looked very nice on you. C. Would you mind changing another pair? D. Get the red ores, please. I' m busy.
6. Guest: I' d like a room with an ocean view (风景), please. Clerk: I' m sorry. __________ A. Those rooms are all ordered.
B. Those rooms are all possessed. C. Those rooms are all owned. D. Those rooms are all held.
7. Speaker A: Are you feeling better now? Speaker B：__________
A. Well, not too better yet, thank you.
B. Well, not too good yet. Better than I was though. C. Well, it doesn' t matter. D. I' m all right now.
8. W: My watch is not working.__________ M: It' s ten past twenty. A. What time is it? B. What' s the time?
C. What is time by your watch? D. what time is it by your watch?
9. Speaker A: Can I do anything for you? Speaker B :__________
A. No. You can' t do anything for me. B. Never mind.
C. It' s my pleasure.
D. No, it' s all right. I can manage myself.
10. Speaker A: I' m terribly sorry for being so careless. Speaker B :__________ A. Never mind.
B. Don' t worry about it.
C. Don' t feel sorry about it. D. I feel sorry too. ll.W:__________
M: I' d like to see a pair of brown shoes. A. What do you want?
B. What can I do for you? C. What do you like?
D. Do you want to buy something?
12. W: Please deposit (投进去) twenty more cents. M:__________
A. Oh, dear, I don' t have any more money. I' 11 have to hang up now. B. Deposit twenty more cents. It' s an astronomical figure for me. C. Sorry, I didn' t owe you twenty more cents. D. Sorry, I didn' t even have a bank account book.
13. Katherine : Linda ! I haven' t seen you for ages. How are you? Linda: Fine. And you?
Katherine: Pretty good. How' s Frank?
Linda: Oh, don't you know? We got divorced two years ago. Katherine :__________ A. Oh, I am sorry. B. What a pity !
C. It is really a problem. D. Hope you' II be better.
14. W :A man from AT&T would like to talk with the manager on the new project. Is she available? M：__________
A. I' m sorry. She is engaged just now. B. I' m sorry. She is free.
C. Pardon, please. She said she would come to meet sooner or later. D. She said she should apologize for inconvenience. 15. Speaker A: Hello. May I speak to Sally, please? Speaker B：__________ A. May I ask who you are?
B. Yes. But the number is engaged. C. Yes. This is Sally. D. Thanks for calling.
Part IReading Comprehension (30 % )
Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfin-ished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.You should de-cide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage :
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery. The Civil War was still going on. There was much criticism of Presi-dent Lincoln at the time. He was not at all popular. He had been invited to speak at Gettysburg on-ly out of politeness. The principal speaker was to be Edward Everett, a famous statesman and speaker of the day. Everett was a handsome man and very popular everywhere.
It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to Gettysburg. Late that night, alone in his hotel room and tired out, he again worked briefly on the speech. The next day Everett spoke first. He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes. His speech was a perfect example of the rich oratory of the day. Then Lincoln rose. The crowd of 15,000 people at first paid little attention to him. He spoke for only nine minutes. At the end there was little applause. Lincoln turned to a friend and remarked,\have failed again\On the train back to Washington, he said sadly, \speech was a fiat failure, and the people are disappointed\
Some newspapers at first criticized the speech, but little by little as people redid the speech they began to understand better. (76) They began to appreciate its
simplicity and its deep mean-ing. It was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made.
Today, every American school child learns Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address by heart. Now eve-ryone thinks of it as one of the greatest speeches ever given in American history.
1. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was__________. A. very critical B. unpopular C. very popular D. very courteous
2. Lincoln was invited to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery because he was__________.
A. a famous speaker B. a very handsome man
C. President of the country D. a popular statesman
3. It can be inferred from the text that__________.
A. Lincoln prepared his speech very carefully before he went to Gettysburg
B. Lincoln was very busy at the time and didn' t have much time to prepare his speech C. Lincoln' s speech was full of rich words D. Lincoln' s speech was very long
4. It was a fact that Lincoln' s speech was__________. A. an immediately success B. warmly applauded C. a total failure
D. not well-received at first
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? A. Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address has deep meaning. B. Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address is simple in style.
C. Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address is memorized by every American school child. D. Lincoln' s Gettysburg Address is the greatest speech ever delivered in the United States. Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
(77) In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the early post-war era( 站后时期 ), there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are facing with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over-trusting (过分信任) of computers and are re-luctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons may be pushed, or that a computer may simply malfunction(失灵).
(78) Obviously, there would be no point in investing (投入) in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days.
Maybe each computer should come with the following warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
6. What is the main purpose of this passage? A. To look back to the early days of computers.
B. To explain what technical problems may occur with computers. C. To discourage unnecessary investment in computers.
D. To warn against the blindness to the probable shortcomings of computers. 7. The passage recommends those dealing with computers to__________. A. be reasonably doubtful about them B. check all their answers
C. substitute them for basic thinking D. use them for business purpose only
8. An \
A. a computer used exclusively by one company for its own problems B. a person’s store of knowledge and the ability to process it C. the most up to date in home computer a company can buy D. a computer from the post-war era which is very reliable
9. The passage suggests that the present day problem with regard to computers is __________. A. challenging B. psychological C. dramatic D. over-trusting
10. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would disapprove of__________.
A. computer science courses in high schools
B. businessmen and women who use pocket calculators C. maintenance(连续不断) checks on computers D. companies which depend entirely on computers Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
To swim across the English Channel takes at least nine hours. It' s a hard work and it makes you short of breath. To fly over the Channel takes only twenty minutes ( as long as you' re not held up at the airport), but it' s an expensive way to travel. You can travel by hovercraft if you don' t mind the noise, and that takes forty minutes. Otherwise you can go by boat, if you forget your sea-sickness ills. All these means
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