2015年成人学位英语考前冲刺试题及答案（第十套）
(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. Mary: Your little boy has done a good job at school. Eva:__________
A. Yes, you are very kind. B. No, you are too polite.
C. Thanks, but you are exaggerating. D. Yes, I' m proud of him.
2. W : What is all this glass doing on the floor? M:__________
A. Look at the window and you' 11 see. B. I' ll clean it.
C. I' 11 call the repair man. D. Can' t you find out?
3. W: I' m taking the train downtown to go shopping. M:__________
A. Well, you' d better keep an eye on your wallet. B. Why don' t you stay at home and watch your baby?
C. By the way, what about your plan to visit your parents? D. Take the train? You're a fool.
4. Client: Hello. May I speak to Mr. Turner? Secretary :__________
A. I' m sorry. He' s at a meeting now. B. I am. Speak, please.
C. Hello. Who' re you, please? D. Hello. Thank you for calling.
5. Speaker A: You are washing your car even on vacation. It makes me feel guilty. Speaker B:__________
A. Though I' m washing my car on vacation, I was still criticized by my wife being lazy.
B. Never mind. Everyone does.
C. You shouldn' t. It' s just that I have nothing better to do at the moment. D. Well, I' m afraid I can' t do better than this.
6. Jack: Hey, how are you, Susie? We haven't seen each other for...it must be close to three years. Susie:__________
Jack: OK.
A. How do you do? B. Nice to meet you.
C. Fancy meeting you here. D. Well. How have you been?
7. Speaker A: Can you come down a little for this watch? Speaker B :__________
A. Yes, we would like to do so.
B. Sorry, but we go strictly by the price tag. C. No, but you may try again.
D. Sure. We' 11 come to the first floor as soon as possible. 8. Kate: Do you mind opening the door for me? Bob:__________
A. Yes, I' 11 do it. B. It' s nothing.
C. That' s all right. D. Not at all.
9. Desk Clerk: Good afternoon, Holiday Inn.
Customer: Hello, I' d like to book a double room for the nights of 23rd and 24th please.
Desk Clerk:__________ A. What' s the matter? B. What can I do for you ? C. Just a minute, please. D. Can I help you?
10. Speaker A: Would you care for another helping(还要再吃点东西吗) ? Speaker B :__________ A. I have helped enough. B. No more help is needed.
C. No, thanks, I' m quite full. D. Please pass me the helping.
11.--How' s your brother these days?
--He hasn' t been very well just recently. --__________. What' s the matter? --I think he' s been overworking.
A. I' 11 be pleased to hear you ask after him B. I' m sorry to hear that C. That' s not too bad
D. I' 11 tell him what you said
12. Speaker A: I' m not at all satisfied with the service. Speaker B :__________
A. Nobody has complained like that before.
B. I sincerely apologize for that.
C. I wonder why you are satisfied with it.
D. It' s not our fault as there are too many customers. 13. Passer-by:__________
Local resident: Sure. It' s on Ehn Street: between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenue. Passer-by: Thank you.
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 know where the post office is? 14. Speaker A : That' s very kind of you to do so. Speaker B :__________
A. That' s all right, I' m pleased to meet you. B. As you are our important guest. C. I' m pleased to be at your service. D. It' s no trouble at all.
15. Wilson: Hello. May I speak to Peter? Peter:__________
A. Sorry, the number is engaged. Will you hold? B. Yes, speaking.
C. Hello. Who' re you please? D. Hello. Thank you 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:
In sport the sexes are separate. (76) Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called\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 68. Are women' s bodies really weaker?
The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women' s speeds are always slower than men' s, 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 16. The first\Tarzan\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 girl50 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 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 !
1. Women are called \A. women do as much work as men
B. people think women are weaker than men C. sport is easier for men than for women D. in sport the two sexes are always together 2. Which of the following is true?
A. Boys and girls study separately everywhere. B. Women do not run or swim in races with men. C. Famous Prime Ministers are women.
D. Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.
3. \A. say other things too B. don' t say this much
C. say this but may not think so D. only think this
4. What problems does sport have?
A. Some women athletes are actually men.
B. Some women athletes are given hormone injections. C. Women and men do not mn 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__________ . A. women are weaker than men, but faster B. women are slower than men, but stronger
C. men are not always stronger and faster than women D. men are faster and stronger than women Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage: (77) What do we mean by a satisfactory standard of living? Obviously, it must include the basic necessities of life such as food, clothing and shelter. To get these necessities on regular basis,a person must have a reliable income. But we have other needs which would probably also be in-cluded 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 than these which are supplied for us. (78) We all enjoy extra income to spend on things like books, sports or hobbies. Sometimes 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 liv-ing is the degree, to 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 televi-sion 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 of the people of a country have one, it comes to be accepted as a need. It is possible therefore to have food, clothing and shelter and still be poor by the standards of our own society.
6. What we need in life is divided into__________ according to this article. A. the basic necessities and luxury
B. many kinds of need such as food, clothing and houses
C. four groups the basic necessities, luxury, reliable income and future expense D. the basic necessities and reliable income
7. A person who gets the basic necessities must __________according to the writer. A. have a reliable income
B. learn how to please his manager C. finish his work ahead the time D. get a good education 8. We all enjoy__________. A. having only reliable income
B. having reliable income and extra income C. having nothing more than food and clothing D. having nothing more than reliable income 9. With time going on,__________.
A. a luxury may change into a need which most people want to get B. the basic needs are getting smaller and smaller C. a luxury and the basic needs can be exchanged D. the basic needs can be changed into a luxury
10. If most of the people of a country have a television, we__________. A. can say the television is a need in the same sense as food and clothing and shelter B. can say the television must be in the basic necessities C. cannot say the television is in the basic necessities D. can say every family must have one Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: Increasingly, over the past ten years, people--especially young people--have become aware 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 fertilizers, widely used in farming today.
(79) Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic ( 有机的 ) matter. In simple terms, this means
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