2006年成人高等教育学士学位英语考试试卷

2006年成人高等教育学士学位英语考试试卷 Part I Dialogue Completion (15 points) 1. Helen : Hello？

Danny : Hello. Could I speak to Helen? Helen: _____.

Danny: Hi, Helen. This is Danny.

A I am Helen B This is Helen C Yes, I am D Yes, I am her.

2. Tom: I?ve decided to spend the summer holidays traveling in America. Jane: Oh, _____

A if only I could go with you. B what good news it is!

C how happy I was to hear that D how exciting to hear the news! 3. Salesclerk: Can I help you, madam？ Customer：No, thanks. I _____.

A have just looked around B just look around C am just looking around D just looked around 4. Tom: I?m afraid I must be going now. Thank you for the delicious dinner. Lucy: ______

A Take care B It?s just so-so

C I?m not good at it D I?m glad you enjoyed it 5. Adam: It?s very kind of you to come to see me off, Betty. Betty: _____ A That?s my duty

B Not at all. It?s the least I could do. C Don?t be so polite D Never mind it. 6. Tom: Nice to meet you, Jim. Jim:_____

A Same here B Same to you

C Thank you all the same D The same again, please 7. Tom: Jane, may I come into your office and talk to you? Jane: Sure. I have some free time now. ____, please A Come into B Come on in C Go ahead D Enter

8. Jack: Thanks for your invitation. How thoughtful of you, Spencer. Shall I bring something?

Spencer: Nothing. I mean we?ve got plenty to eat._____ A Just take yourself B Just come yourself C Just bring yourself D Just come over 9. Smith: You are leaving soon. We?ll be sorry to see you go.

Anderson: I?m sorry too. But that?s life. Smith: Yes, I suppose ___.

A we can?t help B it can?t be avoided C we can?t do anything D it can?t be helped 10.James: George, did you tell Bob to come to this meeting? George: I?m terribly sorry. I forget all about it.

James: It doesn?t matter. ____ Let?s get started without him.

A Good luck B Come on C No problem D Good heavens 11. Passenger A : Do you mind my smoking here? Passenger B: Not at all. ______

A I?m sorry B Smoke as you like C Go right ahead D Do it, please 12. Customer: Can I have a look at the blue jacket over there? Salesman: Here you are.

Customer: Oh, it?s too big. May I have size smaller? Salesman: _______

A By all means B By no means

C By any means D By some means or other 13. Lucinda: Can you come and have dinner with us? Jonathan: Sounds good. What shall I come? Lucinda: At eight.______

A We?ll be seeing you B We wait for you B We wait until you come D We?ll be expecting you 14. A Stranger: ____. Can you tell me where the Big Hen Supermarket is?

A Passer-by: Got me, boy. I?m a stranger here myself. A Stranger: Well, thank you anyway.

A I?m sorry B Excuse me C Never mind D Glad to meet you 15. Student A: How is everything with Mary?

Student B: She had an accident in her new car and she?s still in hospital.

Student A: _____

A That?s great! B That?s too bad. C That sounds nice D That?s OK. Part II Reading Comprehension

Passage one

Tracy McGrady is a real-life superstar. He spent the summer traveling in Europe, working with Adidas on his latest basketball shoe and playing with Team U.S.A. in an Olympic qualifying game. He also spent countless hours in the gym. “I work on things every day in the off-season,” says McGrady, 24, an All-Star guard with the National Basketball Association?s Orlando Magic.

Until McGrady was 17, few outside his tiny hometown knew of his skills. He was raised mostly by his grandmother in a rough part of town. Sports were his escapes. To gain more exposure for his basketball skills, McGrady transferred to play his senior season at Mount Zion Christian Academy in North Carolina. After leading the Mighty Warriors to a 26-2 record that season, McGrady was named Player of the Year by a national newspaper.

At 18, McGrady was starring for Toronto by the end of his new players? season. But he wanted to become one of the NBA?s elite(精英)， so he hired a trainer and began intense workouts. It?s not uncommon for McGrady, who signed with Orlando in 2002, to shoot 200 jumpers after practice, grab a healthy bite to eat and go to work out with the Los Angeles Lakers? Shaquille O?Neal, who owns a home in Orlando.

“He?s stayed at a high level,” Orlando coach Doc Rivers says of McGrady. “A lot of young player can play a good 20 minutes, or have a great month. Tracy does it all season on boath ends.”

To be that good takes a lot of work. To be better takes even more. McGrady is ready for the challenge, because he knows what he wants. “I don?t want to be one of those players that?s known for being a great player that never won a championship.” McGrady says. “I want a title.”

16. Which of the following teams has McGrady NOT so far played for?

A Team U.S.A B Los Angeles Lakers C The Mighty Warriors D Orlando Magic

17. The sentence “I work on things every day in the off-season”(Line 3, Paragraph 1) implies that ____

A McGrady practices other things more often than he does with basketball

B McGrady keeps on his skills training particularly hard in the off-season days

C McGrady keeps on training with other exercises than with basketball

D McGrady practices his skills every day including the off-season time.

18. McGrady is different from other players mainly in ____ A his particular shooting skills in playing basketball B his trying to save every minute to work out with O?Neal C his persistence in constant hard training D his stronger desire for a title than other players 19. McGrady is different from other players mainly in ___. A he has stayed at a high level of training

B he has created a record among the best players that season

C he was well ready for the coming challenge D he is regarded as an All-Star guard with the NBA

20. The sentence “Sports were his escapes” (Line 2, Paragraph 2) can best mean that ____

A sporting activities were the means for him to get fullest happiness by

B physical exercises were the only way to relieve him of his pains

C he didn?t want to do more things than sportive activities D sports enabled him to run away from his hometown

Passage Two

Last December?s earthquakes in the Iranian city of Bam took a huge death toll—— roughly 40,000 people-largely because of the collapse of thousand of mud-brick buildings. If a group of researchers in India are successful, the next earthquake might not be as destructive. British and Indian engineers are developing earthquake-proof housing using a cheap, universal material: bamboo. They designed a model house built around waterproof bamboo-sheet roofing and bamboo-reinforced concrete walls. To test the structure, the engineers, sponsored by the U.K. Department of International Development, took it to the Earthquake Engineering and Vibration Research Centre in Bangalore, which has a

state-of-the-art earthquake simulator(模拟装置). The researchers shook the house with five successive 30-second pulses, being equal to 7.8 on the Richter(里氏) scale. The simulation was more than 10 times as violent as the Bam earthquake, yet the house emerged undamaged. “We didn?t even crack the paint, ” says engineer Paul Follett, of Britain?s Timber Research and Development Association. By some estimates, more than a billion people already live in bamboo structures. The innovation lies in developing ways to exploit bamboo?s spring. Easily pre-built, fire resistant, and far lighter than steel, bamboo-based structures could be assembled in three weeks and last 50 years. At five dollars a square foot, they would last roughly half as much as brick-and-block constructions. Follett says the project will follow an “open source” model:” Whatever is developed is freely available for the common good.”

21. Thousands of people died in the Bam earthquake mainly because _____.

A the earthquake occurred in the cold December B many mud-brick houses collapsed

C the earthquake reached 7.8 on the Richter scale D bamboo houses hadn?t been built yet

22. The phrase “a universal material”(Line 5, Paragraph 1) refers to a material that can be found ____

A everywhere in India B in the universe C in a university D in a unique place 23. What was the result of the test? A The shake lasted 150 seconds.

B The simulation was over 10 times as violent C The paint was cracked

D The model remained undamaged

24. The researchers have been working hard to ____ A reduce the damage by earthquakes B explore the functions of bamboo C build bamboo houses for a billion people D design bamboo house models

25. Which of the following are the advantages of bamboos in building houses? I Cheap to get

II light to carry Ⅲ Easy to build A I and II B II and Ⅲ C I ,II and Ⅲ Ｄ Ｉand Ⅲ Ｐassage Three

As they entered the 21st century, people could not help looking back to the past 20 years when they managed to cope with a new threat— the computer. By the year of 1980, computers had become

a fact of life.. They were, the magazine DISCOVER noted that December, “in cars, offices, schools and homes, toys and watches. In some airplanes, pilots need not handle the controls; they are ?flight managers? who watch the computer manage the flight and landing. On the way are voice-driven typewriters, robots that can ?see?, and hand-held computers that can cover the contents of the Library of Congress.”

But at the same time, observed the writer John Leo, a large number of Americans were “computerphobes”(电脑恐惧者) and “techno-peasants”, who feared that computers were “designed to destroy privacy, eliminate jobs, carry the TV generation even further away from literacy, read few words on food boxes so that the grocer can cheat his customers more easily, and allow World War III to be launched entirely by technical error.”

Some executives especially hated computers, Leo reported. They worried that they would lose status—and their assistants—if they were seen at a keyboard. Publishers and journalists, he continued, were frightened that the printed word would be eliminated. “True, the newspaper travels well— you can not put a computer under your arm while rushing for a train,” he wrote. “Not now, but a more advanced and complicated portable version, about the size of a band-held electronic game, may not be far off.”

Today those same executives and journalists who feared computer wouldn?t be found without having their portable computers on their laps. The widespread fear of computers seems a thing of the past- a shift that Leo correctly predicted. “Every one will accept computers,” he wrote, “because there is no alternative.” 26. The magazine listed the uses of computers in the following fields EXCEPT ____

A education B transportation C publication D medicine 27. Some executives did not like computers in that ____ A they might lose their importance and respect B they had to learn how to use computers. C they had to hire more assistants

D they had to buy expensive portable computers

28. Which of the following is NOT what the computerphobes are expecting?

A More privacy B More jobs C More literacy D More would wars

29. Today the same executives and journalists can be found to ____ A dislike computers B fear using computers C use computers frequently D use computers rarely 30. When the author says “… there is no alternative” in the last sentence of the passage, he means that ____

A computers provide no choice B computers are to be accepted C computers offer no help to pilots

D more complicated computers have to be made in factories

Passage Four

As contrasts go, there are few other pairs of culture as distinct from each other as the Japanese and Americans. Japan?s many centuries of history and especially its Buddhist heritage(佛教文化) have given the Japanese an attitude of repose(从容)——the best course is to let it be: When the time is ripe, things will work out by themselves. America, on the other hand, is just a few centuries old and displays an almost volcanic liveliness and restlessness. For the Japanese, social harmony has a prior claim in every circumstance; for the Americans, harmony is the result of the rational interaction of free and fair-minded people. One does not lightly move from traditions in Japan, many of which are centuries old; in the United States, the habits and attitudes of even one?s parent?s generation are suspect.

Every culture, through its legal and institutional arrangements, mirrors the society?s resolution of some basic human problems. These can provide a useful framework for the analysis of cultural

differences. Organizations also face the same problems and usually take their cue from the prevailing culture in designing solutions to their problems. This suggests that the perspective provided by viewing culture through the framework of this problem will be useful for organizational analysis as well. The following sections present a discussion of such a framework in the context of the contrast between Japan and the United Stares.

Before this is presented, however, we must alert the reader that the differences are stated here as being sharper than they may be in reality. On each of the aspects discussed later, there is naturally considerable variation within each culture, because examples demonstrating the cultural reality opposite to the one described in this book can be found easily. Thus, the following discussion should be viewed in the way it is presented, as generalizations and tendencies rather than as absolutes.

31. Cultural differences between the Japanese and the Americans are the ___

A most obvious B slightest C same D less suitable

32. Those who are likely to doubt their parents? values and ways of doing things are probably ____

A the Japanese B the Americans

C both the Japanese and the Americans D neither the Japanese nor the Americans

33. How many types of cultural differences are mentioned in the first paragraph?

A Six B Five C Four D Two 34. The phrase ”alert the reader”(Line 1, paragraph 3) means __

A remind the reader B teach the reader C trust the reader D deceive the reader 35. The passage is probably the ____

A main part of a research proposal B opening remark of a lecture C conclusion of a thesis D introduction to a book

Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 points) 36. Success in life is not ___ you make.

A what money B How many money C how much money D what amount of money 37. The newly-wed couple left for Europe ___ their honeymoon immediately after the wedding ceremony was held in South Africa. A in B during C over D on 38. The vast majority of children from 5 to 16 in Britain ____ state schools.

A attend B visit C present D join 39. One of the most ___ ways of improving listening comprehension is by watching television.

A specific B proficient C efficient D special

40. Actually, both men and women, nine out of ten, are firmly convinced ____ the superior excellence of their own side. A as B about C through D of

41. It is ____ that all students will need to complete a University Registration form.

A sure B certain C correct D necessary 42. In European universities, students are not ____ to attend classes. A requested B persuaded C needed D required 43. Adventure travel has now become a hot ____ in the tourist industry.

A inclination B trend C direction D hint 44. Dolphins are interesting because they ___ almost human behavior at times.

A play B replay C backplay D display 45. It was ____ that helped clean the teaching building 30 meters high.

A the football team and I B the football team and me

A difference _81__ the timing in man and in woman points to a biological cause, perhaps a hormonal effect.

Because the living clock is __82__ by exposure to sunlight, the researchers suspect the many hours some kids _ 83__ staying in their dark rooms could push the clocks even later——a pattern that may be more common in industrialized societies. The researcher also discovered that rural residents, __84_ lifestyle puts them in daylight more, go to bed and get up an hour earlier than city ___. “We think this is only the tip of an iceberg that shows us the consequences of dim-light environments,” the researchers say.

76. A former B latter C first D last 77. A range B ranges C ranging D ranged 78. A Rather B Though C Yet D Nevertheless 79. A forth B forwards C upwards D back 80. A this B that C those D these 81. A for B between C among D of 82. A adjusted B adjusting C adapted D adapting 83. A take B use C afford D spend 84. A their B whose C which D how 85. A researchers B teenagers C residents D parents Part V Writing (15 points) 1. 学位对人生成功的意义

2. 你应当如何努力取得学位？

参考作文

The importance of Obtaining a Degree for Your life

It is well-known that there are sharp competitions in the market of employment nowadays. A college degree is, to some extent, a passport to a prosperous future. So if one wants to find a decent job in the future, it is important and necessary for him to obtain a degree in his life first.

As for me, to obtain a degree is not an easy thing. But I believe that great success resulted from hardworking and great confidence. On one hand, I must overcome a lot of difficulties while I am learning something new within my courses at my spare time. I will try my best to understand what?s more, I should build up faith in myself by realizing my strong points and weak points.

As the proverb goes, “where there is a will, there is a way.” I am sure I can obtain a degree successfully in my life by means of confidence and diligence.

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