江苏省成人学士学位英语考试真题及答案.doc

FOR A BACHELOR’S DEGREE(Nov. ) 转自学易网 Paper One 转自学易网 Part I Listening Comprehension (15 minutes 15%)Part II Reading Comprehension (30 minutes 30%)转自学易网 Directions: In this part there are four reading passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or incomplete statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are required to choose the best answer from the four choices. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.转自学易网 Questions 16--20 are based on the following passage.转自学易网 The exact number of English words is not known. The large dictionaries have over half a million entries, but many of these are compound words (schoolroom, sugar bowl) or different derivatives of the same word (rare--rarely, rarefy), and a good many are obsolete words to help us read older literature. Dictionaries do not attempt to cover completely words that we can draw on: the informal vocabulary, especially slang, localism, the terms of various occupations and professions; words used only occasionally by scientists and specialists in many fields; foreign words borrowed for use in English; or many new words or new senses of words that come into use every year and that may or may not be used long enough to warrant being included. (86) It would be conservative to say that there are over a million English words that any of us might meet in our listening and reading and that we may draw on in our speaking and writing.转自学易网 Professor Seashore concluded that first-graders enter school with at least24,000 words and add 5,000 each year so that they leave high school with at least80,000. These figures are for recognition vocabulary, the words we understand when we read or hear them. Our active vocabulary, the words we use in speaking and writing , is considerably smaller.转自学易网 You cannot always produce a word exactly when you want it. But consciously using the words you recognize in reading will help get them into your active vocabulary. (87) Occasionally in your reading pay particular attention to these words, especially when the subject is one that you might well write or talk about. Underline or make a list of words that you feel a need for and look up the less familiar ones in a dictionary. And then before very long find a way to use some of them. Once you know how they are pronounced and what they stand for, you can safely use them.转自学易网 转自学易网 16. According to the author's estimation, there are words in English.A. more than half a million B. at least 24,000 C. at least 80,000 D. more than a million转自学易网 17. The italicized word "obsolete" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to 转自学易网 A. no longer in use B. profound C. colorful D. common转自学易网 18. One's recognition vocabulary is ．转自学易网 A. less often used than his active vocabulary B. smaller than his active vocabulary转自学易网 C. as large as his active vocabulary D. much larger than his active vocabulary19. The author does not suggest getting recognition vocabulary into active vocabulary by .转自学易网 A. making a list of words you need end looking up the new ones in a dictionary转自学易网 B. spending half an hour studying the dictionaryC. consciously using the words you recognize in reading转自学易网 D. trying to use the words you recognize20. From the passage we team that ．转自学易网 A. dictionaries completely cover the words we can make use of转自学易网 B. "schoolroom" is used in the passage as an example of a specialized termC. once you know how a word is pronounced and what it represents, you have turned it into your active word转自学易网 D. active vocabulary refers to words we understand when we read and hear them转自学易网 Questions 21--25 are based on the following passageA third of Britons are overweight, states a report published in January by the Royal College of Physicians, the result of an 18-month-long study. About five percent of children weigh too much, and are likely to stay that way for life; in the mid-twenties age group the proportion of fat people rises to a third, and of the middle-aged population half ere overweight.转自学易网 Fat people risk severe health problems, says the report, including high blood pressure, breathlessness, and various forms of heart disease. Smoking is particularly risky for overweight people.转自学易网 The safest way to lose weight is to eat cereals, bread, fruit and vegetables, and cut down on fatty meats, butter and sweet foods. Fad diets do far more harm than good; slimming machines that vibrate muscles have not been proved useful; saunas（桑拿浴）merely remove a littl。