1、广东省成人高等教育学士学位外语水平考试模拟试题（五）英语试卷一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
2、 center.1. Customer: Could you find these books for me?Seller: Sure. Let me have a look at your list.Customer: _A. Its all right. B. No problem.C. Here you are. D. Thank you. 2. Neighbor: Hi. You said that you might need some help with preparing dinner. What would you like me to do?Hostess: _ I real
3、ly appreciate it. First, could you peel the vegetables? Ive put them all in the sink and theres a peeler.A. Thanks for coming. B. Sit down, please. C. Oh, its you. D. I have no idea.3. Jack: John, you look terrible! _?John: My girlfriend broke up with me.A. Are you all rightB. What goes wrong with y
4、ouC. Are you feeling wellD. Do you need help4. Jane: I failed the test again! Three times in a row!Helen: _ Its no big deal. You still have another chance. A. Cheers. B. Dont worry. C. Come onD. Forget it5. July: Hello, Mr. Green. _.Mr. Green: Youre leaving so soon? When are you off? July: Early tom
5、orrow morning.A. Im leavingB. Ive come to say goodbyeC. I want to tell you that I am leavingD. Goodbye6. Operator: Hello, International Trade Corporation.Customer: Hello! May I talk to Mr. George Adam, please?Operator: _, please.A. WaitB. Hold onC. connectingD. Yes7. Peter: Would you lend me your ty
6、pewriter?Jane: Im sorry, it is out of order. It could not be used right now.Peter: _. Ill ask Jim if he has one. A. ReallyB. It doesnt matterC. ThanksD. Sorry8. Manager: _Applicant: I have come at your invitation for an interview.Manager: Nice to meet you. Please sit down. A. Whats the matter? B. Wh
7、at can I do for you?C. How are you?D. Excuse me?9. Stewardess:Good morning. _ This way, please.Passenger: Thank you. Stewardess, can you direct me to my seat?Stewardess: Certainly. May I see your boarding pass, please?Passenger: Sure, here it is.A. How are you? B. Nice to meet you.C. You are welcome
8、 to our plane. D. Welcome aboard. 10. Jiang: Hello, can I speak to the head of the household?Chen: _Jiang: This is Jiang Ping with Childrens Publishing Company. May I have your name, sir?Chen: My name is Chen.A. May I ask whos calling?B. Hello.C. Whats your name?D. Would you tell me your name?11. Cu
9、stomer: I want to mail this parcel to Beijing. Clerk: _Customer: Register is enough. I really dont want insurance.Clerk: Please, put the box on this scale.A. Would you like to register it? B. Do you want to register and insure it?C: Do you want to register or insure it? D. Would you register and ins
10、ure it?12. Mary: Excuse me for being late, Peter. I was held up by the traffic.Peter: _, Mary. Come in and take a seat.A. Thats quite all rightB. No problemC. Dont mention itD. Welcome13. Mrs. Weller: Welcome, Mr. Zhao. Were very pleased to have you with us.Zhao Kai: Thank you, Mrs. Weller. Im more
11、than happy to have this chance to join in a real Thanksgiving celebration. Mrs. Weller: _ Ill join you in a while. A. You are welcome.B. Please make yourself at home.C. Dont wait for me.D. Please start to eat.14. Janet: Linda, I was shocked to hear about your husbands illness! Im so sorry!Linda: _ I
12、 appreciate your sympathy, Janet. I hope hell be all right, but this is his second heart attack in five years. A. It doesnt matter.B. Thank you.C. Me tooD. Dont mention it.15. Mrs. Fox: _ what you have done to my son, doctor.Doctor: Thats all right, Mrs. Fox. Thats my job. Im very glad he recovered
13、so soon. Mrs. Fox: I know he has brought great trouble to you. A million thanks. A: Im very grateful forB. I feel very happy withC. I really like D. Ive got to knowPart II Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions
14、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 OneAre some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and o
15、ur experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intel
16、ligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a persons intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reached those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways. It is easy to show that int
17、elligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely differe
18、nt. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth. Imagine now that we take two iden
19、tical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is al
20、so suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence. 16. The writer is in favor of the view that mans intelligence is given to him _. A. at birthB. through educationC. both at birth and throu
21、gh educationD. more at birth than through education17. If a child is born with low intelligence he can _.A. never become a geniusB. still become a genius if he should be given special educationC. exceed his intelligence limits in rich surroundingsD. not exceed his intelligence limits even in rich su
22、rroundings18. In the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population-” means if we _.A. pick any two personsB. take out two different personsC. choose two persons who are relativeD. choose two persons with different intelligence19. The example of the twins going to a
23、university and to a factory separately shows _. A. the importance of their intelligenceB. the role of environment on intelligenceC. the importance of their positionD. the part that birth places20. The best title of this passage can be _. A. SurroundingsB. IntelligenceC. Dependence on EnvironmentD. E
24、ffect of EducationPassage TwoBefore the grass has thickened on the roadside verges and leaves have started growing on the trees it is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out and the gutters are full of
25、 discarded fast food cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingl
26、y mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-permanent reminder of what a tatty little country we have now.Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will t
27、ake anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a sim
28、ilar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined effort, both individual and
29、 collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave
30、 cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor, they behave squalidly. Now, much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will it look like in five years? 21. The writer says that it is a good time to see Britain before the trees have leaves becauseA. Britain looks perfect.B. you can see Britai
31、n at its dirtiest.C. you can see how dirty Britain is now.D. the grass has thickened on the verges.22. According to the writer, things used to be_. A. worse abroad.B. the same abroad.C. better abroad.D. worse, but now things are better abroad.23. To solve the problem of plastic bags, Michael Meacher
32、_A. followed the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags.B. tried to follow the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags.C. made no attempt to follow the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags.D. had problems with the plastics industry who werent bothered about the tax.24. As to what can be done,
33、 the writer thinks _A. it is too late to do anything.B. we are at the tipping point.C. there is more than one way to solve the problem.D. we need to work together to solve the problem.25. The writer thinks that_A. people are squalid.B. people behave according to what they see around them.C. people a
34、re clean and tidy.D. people are like a vast municipal rubbish tip.Passage ThreeThe men who planned and constructed the first American railroads were men of great vision. They predicted that their “iron horses” would open vast expanses of land to farming and industry. They knew that towns would sprin
35、g up along the new railroads. Yet few of these pioneers could have guessed that American railroads would establish the system of time used throughout most of the world today. Until the 1880s, all time in the United States was sun time. Farmers set their clocks to noon when the sun appeared to be ove
36、rhead. In towns, people set their clocks by a courthouse clock or factory whistles. One towns time was often different from the time in a neighboring town. As the new railroads expanded, large numbers of people began to travel. But the railroads were unable to print accurate timetables when most tow
37、ns along their tracks have their clocks set differently. There was need for a change, and the railroads led in planning it. In 1883, railroads in the United States and Canada adopted standard time, a system which divided the continent into four time zones. Within each zone, all railroad clocks were
38、set to an identical time. When it was noon in the Eastern Zone, it was nine oclock in the Pacific Zone. Railroad time signals were sent out by the newly-invented telegraph. Standard time quickly spread. Traveling businessmen set their watches to correspond to the railroad clocks. Factories and schoo
39、ls followed the railroads lead. Soon, nearly everyone in the United States and Canada was using the four-zone time system standard time. Today, nearly all the world keeps standard time according to an international system of twenty-four time zones. 26. Implied but not directly stated: _.A. Farmers s
40、et their clocks according to the factory whistlesB. The correct time was not too important before the 1800sC. Only people who traveled on trains ever knew timeD. A standard system was set up by the pioneers27. On the whole, the article tells about _.A. pioneers who rode on “iron horses”B. large numb
41、ers of people who traveledC. the establishment of standard timeD. the accurate timetable in the United States28. Which statement does this article lead you to believe?A. Accurate timetelling is important in many industries.B. Accurate time is important only in the United States.C. Accurate time is o
42、wned by the men who built railroads.D. Accurate time is owned by pioneers. 29. Why werent railroads able to print accurate timetables?A. Towns along the tracks set their clocks differently. B. No one was able to read timetables that were accurate.C. Farmers preferred to read the sun instead of timet
43、ables.D. Railroad workers had no watches.30. What does the word “identical” mean?A. differentB. difficultC. similarD. understandablePassage FourUntil recently, women in advertisements were one of three things an apron, a glamorous dress or a frown. Although that is now changing, many women still fee
44、l angry enough to deface offending advertisements with stickers protesting. “This ad degrades women.” Why does this sort of advertising exist? How can advertisers and ad agencies produce, sometimes, after months of research, advertisements that offend the consumer?The advertising Standards Authority
45、 (the body which deals with complaint about print media) is carrying out research into how women feel about the way they are portrayed in advertisements. Its conclusions are likely to be what the advertising industry already knows; although women are often irritated by the way they are seen in ads,
46、few feel strongly enough to complain. Women are not only the victims of poor and boring stereotypes in many TV commercials men are seen neither as useless, childish oafs who are unable to perform the simplest household tasks, or as in considerate boors, permanently on the lookout for an escape to th
47、e pub. But it is women who seem to bear the impact of the industrys apparent inability to put people into an authentic present-day context. Yet according to Emma Bennett, executive creative director of a London advertising agency, women are not infuriated by stereotypes and sexist advertising. It tends to wash over them. They are not militant or angry the
