2013年学士学位英语真题锦集.docx

资料来源/2013年学士学位英语真题锦集Part I Vocabulary and Structure (20 points, 20 minutes)Directions: there are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best complete the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center. 1. An investigation was made into the accident, _ five people were killed.A. whereC. for thatB. whenD. in which2. Gravity is sure to play an important part, _ the ball _ into the air wont go up.A. as, thrown B. for, thrownC. since, throwingD. as, throwing3. Research into the dynamics of storms is directed toward improving the ability to predict these events _ to minimize damage and avoid loss of life.A. and thusB. soC. howeverD. because4. Long before children are able to speak a language, _communicate through facial expressions and by making noises.A. howeverB. theyC. furthermoreD. who5. _ difficulties we may come across, we will help one another to get over them.A. WhicheverB. WhateverC. HoweverD. What6. Evidence comes up _ specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as six months old.A. what B. thatC. whose D. which7. Toms education gave him an advantage _boys who had not been to a college.A. overB. upC. to D. above8. Had Paul received six more votes in the last election, he _our chairman, now. A. must have been B. would have been C. were D. would been 9. You _ your homework lately and your class work isnt up to standard either.A. didntB .werent doingC. havent been doing D .wont be doing10. Henry looked very much _ when he was caught cheating in the exam.A. exciting B. excitedC. embarrassingD. embarrassed11. In this factory, suggestions often have to wait for months before they are fully _. A, admitted B. acknowledgedC. absorbed D. considered12. They have developed techniques which are _ to those used in most factories.A. simplerB. betterC. superiorD. greater13. The problem has _simple because you didnt follow the instructions in the handbook.A. assembledB. arisenC. appearedD. resulted14. Though badly damaged by fire, the palace was eventually _to its original splendor.A. recoveredB. restoredC. renewedD .replaced15. As it is a very popular play, it would be wise to _ seats in advance.A. buyB. preserveC. bookD. occupy16. The quiz _ of fifty multiple-choice items and five passages for reading.A. constitutesB. composesC. comprisesD. consists17. After the party, the children were allowed to finish off the _sandwiches and cakes.A. remainedB. leavingC. left D. remaining18. The policeman stopped him when he was driving home and _ him of speeding.A. charged B. accusedC. blamedD. implied19. Color-b1ind people often find it difficult to _ between blue and green.A. separateB. distinguishC. compareD. contrast20. It suddenly _ him that he should solve the problem with a computer.A. occurred toB. struck atC. hit on D. dawned inPart Cloze Test (10 points, 10 minutes)Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.Pubs can be found in every town, city or village in Britain. Social life for many people has 21_ on the pub for many years. Opening and closing times are 22_by law and, ten minutes before closing time, the barman or barmaid rings a bell or 23_，Last orders!When you go intoa pub you have to go to the bar, pay for your drink and carry it to your seat.It is 24_ in Britain to “go for a drink” with friends. People often 25_at a pub before going on to another place. On Friday and Saturday evening pubs in some city centers can be very 26_. Some people do a tour of all pars in one 27_ and have a drink in each one: this is called a “pub crawl”.It used to be 28_ to get a cup of coffee in a pub, and children were not allowed inside. Though it is still against the law to serve alcohol to anyone under eighteen, pubs are now trying to 29_ family. Pubs with gardens or chairs arid tables outside are often crowded in the summer. Pubs are still a central part of British30_.21. A. centered B. depended C. based D. acted22. A. planned B. agreed C. decided D. accepted23. A. comforts B. explains C. shouts D. apologies24. A. customary B. strange C. important D. expensive25. A. call B. meet C. smoke D. discuss26. A. beautiful B. surprising C. crowded D. lonely27. A. corner B. room C. area D. street28. A. necessary B. difficult C. cheap D. common29. A. protect B. remind C. encourage D. punish30. A. history B. science C. education D. culturePart III Reading Comprehension (40points, 40 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this pant. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 31 to 35 arc based on the following passage:Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something, his purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration.All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they went. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being we1l, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyones satisfaction.For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else. He offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesmanbrings out such a substitute directly, he does so with skill:I know this jacket is not the stye you want, Sir! but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is:This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping not often based on need .She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only having a look round. She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a 1aborious（费时的）process, but apparently an enjoyable one.Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.31. When a man is buying clothes, _.A. he buys cheap things, regardless of qualityB. he chooses things that others recommendC. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right thingsD. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too expensive32. What does a man do when he cannot get exactly what wants?A. He buys similar things of the color he wants.B. He usually does not buy anything.C. He tries on some other things, but never buys anything.D. So long as the size is right, he buys the thing.33. In commerce a good salesman is one who_.A. treats his customers kindly.B. always has in stock just what customers wantC. does not waste his time on difficult customersD. sells something a customer does not particularly want34. What does the passage tell us about women shoppers?A. They welcome suggestions from anyone.B. Women rarely consider buying cheap clothes.C. Women often buy things without giving the matter proper thoughtD. They listen to advice but never take it.35. What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?A. The fact that men do not try clothes on in a shop.B. Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.C. Women stand up to shop, but men sit down.D. The time they took over buying clothes.Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:The poverty line is the minimum income that people need for an acceptable standard of living. People with incomes below the poverty line are considered poor. Economists study the causes of poverty in order to find solutions to the problem.As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, too. Therefore, even with todays relatively high standard of living, about ten percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line. However, if these people had stable jobs, they could have an acceptable standard of living. Economists suggest several reasons why poor people do not have jobs.For one thing, more than half of the poor people in the United States are not qualified to work. Over 40 percent of the poor people are children. By law, children less than 16 years old cannot work in many industries. A large number of poor people are old. Many companies do not hire people over 65 years old, the normal retirement age.Some poor adults do not look for jobs for a variety of personal reasons: they are sick, they do not have any motivation, they have family problems, or they do not believe that they can find a job. Other poor people look for a job but cannot find one. Many poor adults never went to high school. Therefore, when they look for jobs, they have few skills that they can offer.At the present time, the government thinks it can reduce poverty in the country in the following ways. First, if the national economy grows, businesses and industries will hire more workers. Some of the poor who are qualified to look for jobs may fund employment. Then they will no longer be below the poverty line.Second, if society invests in the poor, the poor will become more productive. If the government spends money on social programs, education, and training for poor people, the poor will have the skills to offer, and then it is more likely that they can find jobs.Finally, if the government distributes societys income differently, it will raise some poor people above the poverty line. The government collects taxes from the non-poor and gives money to the poor. These payments to the poor are called welfare. In 1975 over 18 million people in the United States received welfare.Some economists are looking for better solution to the poverty problem. However, at the present time, many people depend on welfare for a minimally acceptable standard of living.36. The authors main purpose to write this article is_.A. to define what the poverty line isB. to explain why some people live below the poverty lineC. to find solutions to the problem of povertyD. to show sympathy for those poor people37. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Ten percent of the Americans live a poor life.B .Poor people are those who live below the poverty line.C. The poverty line rises as the general standard of living rises.D. The poverty line tends to be at the same level.38. More than 40 percent of the poor people are children. This is mainly because _.A. they do not have enough motivationB. they are so young that they are deprived of chances to workC. they fail to get enough educationD. they are very poor in experience39. Most of the American poor people are not qualified for employment because_.A. they do not have any motivation to work B. they are not very self-confidentC. they are too young or too old to workD. they have physical and family problems40. We may conclude from the passage that_.A. better solutions to the poverty problem are not yet foundB. welfare will enable people to be richC. poor people are bound to go out of the poverty line of they have chances to do business D. Employment is the best solution to the poverty problemQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:A popularly-held view has it that “opportunity to learn is the key to educational success, i.e., the more time children spend on a subject, the better they do at it. According to the recent study there seems little correlation between time spent on a subject and performance of pupils in tests. Young Austrians spend exceptionally long hours on math and science lessons; for them it pays off in higher test scores. But so do New Zealands teenagers and they do not do any better than, say Norwegians, who spend an unusually short time on lessons in both subjects. Next and of particular interest to cash-strapped governments there appears to be little evidence to support the argument, often heard from teachers unions, that the main cause of educational underachievement is underfunding. Low-spending countries such as South Korea and the Czech Republic are at the top. High-spenders such as America and Denmark do much worse. Obviously there are dozens of reasons other than spending why one country does well, another badly, but the success of the low spending Czechs and Koreans does show that spending more on schools is not a prerequisite （前提） for improving standards. Another article of faith among the teaching profession that children are bound to do better in small classes is also being undermined by educational research. The study found that France, America and Britain, where children are usually taught in classes of twenty-odd, do significant1y worse than East Asian countries where almost twice as many pupils are crammed into each class. Again, there may be social reason why some countries can cope better with large classes than others. All the same, the comparison refutes the argument that larger is necessarily worse, Further, the study even cast some doubt over the cultural explanation for the greater success of East Asia: that there is some hard-to-define Asian culture, connected with parental authority and a strong social value on education, which makes children more eager to learn and easier to teach. Those who make this argument say it would of course be impossible to replicate such oriental magic in the West. Yet the results of the study suggest that this is, to put it mildly, exaggerated. If culture makes English children so poor at math, then why have they done so well at science (not far behind the Japanese and South Koreans)? Any why do English pupils do well at science and badly at math, while in France it is the other way around? A less mystical, more mundane explanation suggests itself English school: teach science well and math badly; French schools teach math better than science; East Asia schools teach both subjects well.41. The passage is mainly concerned with_.A. establishing a relationship between culture and educationB. exposing educational mythsC. introduction educational philosophiesD. comparing education philosophies42. All of the following are common-held beliefs about education EXCEPT_.A. time spent on a subject correlates with academic successB. educational achievements correlate with the money spentC. large classes contribute to poor educational achievementD .culture is not a deciding factor in school performance43. Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?A. Austrian teenagers do better than New Zealands teenagersB. Low-spending will lead to good school performance.C. Students in large classes will do better than students in small class.D. Asian culture makes students eager to learn and easy to teach.44. The fact that English pupils do well at science and badly at math while in France it is the other way around is attributable to _. A. cultural valuesB. teaching methodsC. class sizeD. money spent45. Which of the following countries does worse in science?A. Japan.B. South KoreaC. Britain.D. FranceQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage:Clean your plate! and “Be a member of the clean-plate club!Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, its accompanied by an appeal:Just think about those starving （饥饿）in Africa! Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying clean the plate”, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow. According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies （肚子）. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended （推荐） by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little. Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparent1y, some customs are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent o f more than 4,000 pe