北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试
2011.11.05
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migrating(迁徙的) route, can be deadly for birds.“We live in an age of glass,”said Ms. Laurel,an architect. (76) “It can be a perfect mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is.”About 90,000 birds are killed by flying into buildings in the city each year. Often, they strike the lower levels of glass towers after searching for food in nearby parks. Such crashes are the second-leading cause of death for migrating birds, after habitat (栖息地) loss, with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year.
(77) As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too have calls to makethem less deadly to birds. San Francisco adopted bird-safety standards for new buildings in July. The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group that encourages the creation of environmentally conscious buildings, will introduce a bird-safety credit this fall as part of its environmental certification process.
There are no easy fixes, however. A few researchers are exploring glass designs that use ultraviolet (紫外线的) signals, but they are still in their infancy. Covers, dot patterns, shades and nets are the main options available.
Often, only one section of a building needs to be changed. \every window,\IC Javits Convention Center, which has been undergoing alterations, is the most recent building to voluntarily correct the problem of bird crashes. The architects used less reflective glass and dot patterns.
1. What is the main idea of the passage? A. New York is a city of glass towers.
B. Glass towers are dangerous for migrating birds.
C. New York adopted new safety standards for buildings. D. Glass towers are a new trend in the United States.
2. What is the number one cause of death for migrating birds? A. Climate change. B. Habitat loss. C. Lack of food. D. Crashing into buildings. 3. What does the word“fixes”in the third paragraph probably mean? A. Choices. B. Explanations. C. Solutions. D. Developments.
4. are used in the alteration of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. A. Dot patterns B. Shades C. Nets D. Covers
5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. In many cases, the whole building needs to be altered to prevent bird crashes.
B. The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is the first building to deal with the problem of bird crashes.
C. About 90,000 birds are killed due to habitat loss in New York City each year.
D. Unfortunately, glass designs that use ultraviolet signals are still in their early stages.
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Today's students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they live in a world where amazing innovations (革新) are common. The current 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital (数字的), they are impatient to get on with life.
The easiest way to fred kids like these is to check in on entrepreneurship (企业家才能 ) education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them.
A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finances programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 5,000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two- and four-year campuses-up fromjust 250 courses in 1985. Lesa Mitchell, a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which used to be found only inbusiness schools. Now, the concept of entrepreneurship is blooming in engineering programs and medical schools, and even in the liberal arts. “Our interest is inall the programs,” she says.“We need to spread out from the business school.”
Either as class projects or on their own_, students in a variety of majors are coming up with ideas, writing business plans and seeing them through to prototype and, often, market. In their spare time, students in agricultural economics at Purdue invent new uses for bean; industrial design majors at Syracuse, in a special laboratory, create wearable technologies.
(78) The entrepreneurship movement has its critics' especially among those who see college as a time for extensive academic exploration. “I just don't think that entrepreneurship ranks so high in terms of national: need,”says Daniel S. Greenberg, author of Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards and Delusions of Campus Capitalism.
Leonard A. Schlesinger, Babson College's president, says that the question of whether innovation can really be taught is“an age-old argument.”
6. When Google and Facebook were established, the founders were still__________. A. in high school B. in the army C. in primary school D. at college
7. According to the passage, what is the main purpose of entrepreneurship education? A. To prepare students for future academic life.
B. To prepare students to fred oppommities and seize them. C. To prepare students for overseas career.
D. To prepare students to develop interpersonal skills.
8. Theword“prototype” in the fourth paragraph is most likely to mean __________ A. model B. strategy C. method D. stage
9. What does Daniel S. Greenberg think of entrepreneurship education? A. Entrepreneurship, or at least certain elements of it, can be taught.
B. An entrepreneurship program can help students find what they really like and entrepreneurship isn't all about business.
C. Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields.
D. Colleges shouldn't put too much emphasis on entrepreneurship programs. 10. What is the main ideaof the passage?
A. Entrepreneurship courses in business schools. B. Qualities of an entrepreneur.
C. Entrepreneurship education in colleges. D. Kids in the information age.
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based onthe following passage:
Regret is as common an emotion as love or fear, and it can be nearly as powerful. So, in a new paper, two researchers set about trying to find out what the typical American regrets most. In telephone surveys, Neal Roese, a psychologist and professor of marketing at the School ofmanagement at Northwestern UniverSity, and Mike Morrison, a doctoral candidate in psychology at University of Illinois, asked 370 Americans, aged 19 to 103, to talk about their most notable regret. Participants were asked what the regret was, when it happened, whether it was a result of something they did or didn't do, and whether it was something that could still be fixed.
The most commonly mentioned regrets involved romance (浪漫的事) (18%)——lost loves or unfulfilled relationships. Family regrets came in second (16%), with people still feeling badly about being unkind to their brothers or sisters in childhood. Other frequently reported regrets involved career (13%), education (12%), money (10%) and parenting (9%).
Roese and Morrison's study, which is to be published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, is significant in that it surveyed a wide range of the American public, including people of all ages and socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Previous studies on regret have focused largely on college students, who predictably tend to have education-focused regrets, like wishing they had studied harder or a different major. The new survey shows that in the larger population, a person's \ accomplishments, shortcomings, situation in life- inject considerable fuel into the fires of regret,\
(79) People with less education, for instance, were more likely to report education regrets. People with higher levels of education had the most career regrets. And those with no romantic parmer tended to hold regrets regarding love.
Broken down (分解、细分) by sex, more women (44%) than men (19%) had regrets about love and family not surprising, since women \write. In contrast, men (34%) weremore likely than women (27%) to mention work-related regrets, wishing they'd chosen a different career path, for instance, or followed their passion. (80) Many participants also reported wishing they had worked less to spend more time with their children. There was an even split between regrets about inaction (not doing something) and action (doing something you wish you didn't). But, like previous studies, the current research found that some regrets are more likely than others to persist over time: people tend to hang on longer to the regret of inaction; meanwhile, regrets of action tend to be more recent.
11. In the second paragraph, the author shows__________.
A. the researchers' findings B. the importance of family C. the importance of money D. the importance of career
12. According to the passage, college student participants mainly had regrets about
their__________.
A. family and childhood B. study and major C. career and job D. romance and fear
13. The word \
A. common B. capable C. wonderful D. remarkable 14. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The less education he or she has, the more regrets she or he would have. B. The more education he or she has, the less regrets she or he would have. C. More women than men had regrets about love and family. D. The regret of action seems to last longer than that of inaction. 15. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. How regret is understood by a typical American. B. Common regrets Americans have.
C. Why regret is more important than love and hate. D. How regret has shaped Americans.
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure (30%)
Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the Corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
16. Mr Smith is coming to visit us soon. We'd better get everything ready before he__________.
A. arrives B. arrive C. will arrive D. arrived
17. __________ yesterday, you would have met Professor Jones. But now he has left for London.
A. Did you come B. Had you come C. Should you come D. Were you to come
18. The man denied __________ into the neighbor's garden and _______his cow.
A. going... stealing B. going... stole C. went... stealing D. went... stole
19. Ted worked like a horse in his youth, __________ contributed to his great success later as a
businessman. A. that B. who C. what D. which
20. A few hours ago, a small suitcase with some important papers __________ stolen from the
general manager's office.
A. is B. are C. were D. was 21. __________ on the New World, he felt like crying.
A. Land B. Landed C. To land D. Having landed 22. Visit our store. Nowhere else __________ such good bargains.
A. you find B. find you C. do you find D. you do find
23. After __________ seemed an endless wait, it was his mm to go into the doctor's office.
A. this B. that C. which D. what
24. Ever since the Smiths moved to the lake area a year ago, they __________ better health.
A. could have enjoyed B. had enjoyed C. have been enjoying D. are enjoying
25. The boss doesn't want to talk about the accident; now he is in no __________ to do so.
A. feeling B. attitude C. emotion D. mood 26. I can't understand why you regard it as music. It __________ me mad!
A. puts B. sets C. drives D. changes
27. Yesterday Mr Blake was caught in the rain and got wet through, _____he caught a bad cold.
A. Consequently B. Finally C. Lately D. Strangely 28. William likes to eat out, but he is not __________ about what he eats.
A. peculiar B. unusual C. particular D. special 29. Their house stands at a hilltop, __________ the Hudson River down below.
A. seeing B. viewing C. looking at D. overlooking 30. I can't understand why my boss is always __________ fault with my work.
A. finding B. seeking C. looking D. making 31. This is the same knife __________ I lost yesterday.
A. which B. what C. like D. as 32. ---When will you be back?
---I'11 be back __________ a couple of days. A. after B. for C. about D. in 33. We hear that they will __________ a new school here.
A. set down B. set up C. set off D. set out 34. He will never forget the days __________ he spent in Japan.
A. when B. after C. that D. how 35. Interestingly enough, the two brothers have nothing in__________.
A. ordinary B. common C. general D. particular 36. The scientists are trying to fred out the facts to __________ their theory.
A. support B. carry C. design D. raise
37. The performance of the English team was __________ They played much worse than expected.
A. disappoint B. disappointing C. disappointed D. to disappoint 38. You are welcome to order the goods now. But payment should be made__________.
A. for advance B. from advance C. in advance D. to advance 39. Speak louder so that you can make yourself__________.
A. heard B. to hear C. hearing D. have been heard 40. Now it won't be long before we meet again, __________?
A. will it B. do we C. won't we D. does it 41. Americans eat __________ vegetables per person today as they did in the 1960s.
A. more than twice B. as twice many C. twice as many D. more than twice as many
42. I was so familiar with her that I recognized her voice __________ I picked up the phone.
A. the moment B. since C. before D. while 43. The education of ________ young is always ________ hot and serious topic.
A./, / B. the, a C./, the D. the, the
2011年11月北京成人本科学位英语统一考试真题及答案
