成人高等教育学士学位英语考试复习.pdf

成人高等教育学士学位英语

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一、考试题型

本考试包括 5 个部分： 阅读理解、词汇和语法、完形填空、英译汉和写作 。客观题目全部按顺序统

一编号。考试时间为 120 分钟 。

第一部分 阅读理解 (ReadingComprehension) ，共 4 篇短文，共 20 题，占总分的 40%。

第二部分 词汇和语法 (Vocabulary and Structure) ，共 40 题，占总分的 20%。

第三部分 完形填空 (Cloze) ，共 20 题，占总分的 10%。

第四部分 英译汉 (Translation from English into Chinese) ，1 一 2 个段落，占总分的 15%。

self-reported luck, according to a research by British and Swedish scientists. May was the

luckiest month in which to be born, with 50 percent of those born then considering

themselves lucky, while October was the least lucky month, with just 43 percent claiming

good fortune.

The findings add to growing evidence that the phenomenon of luck is not all down to

chance, but is affected by a person ’ s general disposition. Other research has shown that

whether people think themselves fortunate depends less on objective success than on

having a “ glass half-full ” or “ half-empty ” approach to life. “ What we are seeing suggests

that something is influencing how people perceive their luckiness. My hypothesis is that

people create their own luck by traits such as optimism, that luck is a psychological

the following factors EXCEPT _______.

A. one ’ s objective success

B. one ’ s general disposition

C. one ’ s attitude to life

D. one ’ s place of birth

2. According to the passage, those who were born in ________ regard themselves as the

most fortunate.

A. March B. April C. May D. October

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Optimistic people tend to be luckier.

D. People drinking more water tend to be luckier.

A. Luck is Something Born

B. Luck is Not All Down to Chance

C. Luck is a Matter of Blind Chance

D. Luck and Age

Passage 2

the problem. One of them, for example, was the great Italian artist, Leonardo Da Vinci. In

the 16

th

century he made designs for machines that would fly, but they were never built.

Throughout history, other less famous men had wanted to fly. An example was a man

in England 800 years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed

the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about

the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed

safely. Two months later, two men did the same thing. They rose above Paris in a balloon

of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they traveled about.

1. Leonardo Da Vinci _______.

A. said that man would fly in the sky one day

2. Eight hundred years ago an Englishman _______.

4. The very first air passengers in the balloon were _______.

5. When did two Frenchmen rise above Paris?

Passage 3

nutritiously （有营养的） and exercising more regularly to lose any unnecessary fat that

they may have.

Not only are people being more careful about what they eat, they are also concerned

with how they eat and how their meals are prepared. People are taking more time for each

meal. Many avoid the so called “plastic ” fast-food hamburgers and choose to eat a salad

or a sandwich of more healthful ingredients(成分 ) in a quiet restaurant with a more

leisurely atmosphere. At home, they also try to take enough time to eat a relaxing dinner

without phone or TV interruptions.

While dieting may be viewed as beneficial, it has also become a serious problem for

Americans, particularly for young women. Dieting for them has actually become a

psychological addiction(依赖 ). They eat so little that they can lose as much as fifty

organizations, newspapers and magazines, for example, are offering classes, printing

booklet articles, etc. to inform the public of the way to exercise and diet, of the dangers of

dieting too rapidly, and of the places people can go for medical help if they find

themselves on the road to “diet addiction ”．

1. These days people are dieting more because _______.

A. they have become fatter and fatter

B. they have realized the danger of eating

C. they have become more health conscious

D. they have taken better care of themselves

2. What changes have people made in the atmosphere of mealtime?

A. they are very pretty

B. they are very ugly

C. they are too thin

D. they are starving

4. The main idea of the last paragraph is about ________.

A. how the organizations try to help people with dieting addiction

5. According to the passage, we can infer that the atmosphere of eating has something to

Passage 4

Do you know who Benjamin Banneker was and what he did? Benjamin Banneker was

a self-educated scientist at a time when most African Americans were slaves. Born a free

black man in the British Colony of Maryland in 1731, he received some formal education,

but he mostly borrowed books and taught himself science and mathematics. At 22, he

borrowed a pocket watch, and without any training, figured out how to carve a working

people would visit him just to see his creation.

Banneker ran his family farm from many years, but when he was in his late 50s, a

neighbor ’ s son lent him a telescope. He became interested in astronomy, the study of the

planets and stars, and again taught himself a new science. He made calculations of tides,

which became the nation ’ s capital. For a look at Banneker ’ s amazing life, visit the

1. What was the status of most African-Americans at Banneker ’s time?

A. Most African-Americans could have formal education.

B. Most African-Americans could be self-educated.

C. Most African-Americans had freedom.

D. Most African-Americans were slaves.

2. What subjects did Benjamin teach himself?

A. Science and mathematics.

B. Science, mathematics and astronomy.

C. Astronomy only.

D. Six Almanac.

A. Eclipse prediction.

B. Helping surveying the capital.

C. Benjamin Banneker ’s Almanac.

D. A wooden clock.

Passage 5

I was going to have my examination the next day. “When can I go to bed? ” I asked

me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.

The clock stroke one. I was quite desperate now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too

exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen. ”

My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my

head on the desk, I fell asleep.

2. The underlined word “ wretched ” in Para. 3 probably means ______.

4. What do you suppose happed to the author?

5. The best title for the passage would be ______.