广东省成人学士学位英语真题.doc

2006年6月成人高等教育本科毕业生申请学士学位外国语水平考试（广东）

Paper One 试卷一
(90 minutes)

Part Ⅰ Dialogue Completion(15 points)

Directions:There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part, each followed by 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

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 forgot 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 ac the blue jacket over there?
Salesman: Here you are.
Customer: Oh, it’s too big. May I have a 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. When shall I come?
Lucinda: At eight. ______________.
A: We’ll be seeing you B. We wait for you
C. 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 (40 points)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
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 beban 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 players can play a good 20 minutes, or have a great month. Tracy does it all season on both 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. Whnich 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 was honored Player of the Year by a national newspaper because _______.
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 thousands of mud-brick buildings, If a group of researchers in India are successful, the 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 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 house 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.  Ⅰand Ⅱ.                   B.  Ⅱand 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 Cecember, “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 over 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 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 hand—held electronic game , may not be far off.”
Today those same executives and journalists who feared computers 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 executivex 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 world 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 the 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 frame work 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 these 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