1999年成人高考英语试题
1999年成人高考英语试题
一.语音知识（共８小题，每题１．５分，共１２分．）
在下列每组单词中，有一个单词的划线部分与其他单词的划线部分的读音不同．找出这个词，并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括号里．
（）１．A.Neighbour B.height C.weight D.eigh ty
（）２．A.official B.medicine C.pronunciation D.physic ist
（）３．A.lecture B.recognize C.level D.re cent
（）４．A.put B.push C.Spublic D.pu ll
（）５．https://www.360docs.net/doc/861622398.html,fortable B.possible C.horrible D.co nstant
（）６．A.climb B.mind C.sign D.pri nt
（）７．A.measure B.health C.theatre D.rea dy
（）８．A.hall B.shall C.fall D.small
二.词汇知识（共１２小题；每题１．５分，共１８分．）
从每小题的四个选择项中，选出意思与句中划线部分最接近的一项，并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括号里．
( )9.These construction workers used to live in a tiny village in the mountains.
A. poor
B. small
C. distant
D. shabby
( )10.Driving a car is not as difficult as you imagine,if you stick to the rules.
A. depend on
B. understand
C. turn to
D. follow
( )11.In my opinion,the changing job market will cause pepole many diffculties.
A. overcome
B. find
C. take
D. bring
( )12.Finally,he got a position as a teaching assistant.
A. job
B. rank
C. situation
D. title
( )13.Since the two restaurants offer almost the same food and service,it doesn`s matter where you stop to eat.
A. prepare
B. cook
C. sell
D. provide
( )14.Her parents wouldn’t allow her to stay out later than 10:30 at night.
A. require
B. ask
C. encourage
D. permit
( )15.Margaret was so thirsty for news of her lost child that she was almost driven mad
A. sorry
B. anxious
C. sad
D. careful
( )16.Thousands of people suffered from the floods brought about by the storms,
A. were in danger of
B. were killed by
C. experienced losses during
D. were on guard against
( )17.After a day’s hard work,he appeared rather tired.
A. turned
B. seemed
C. came out
D. looked around
( )18.Old John often says that he`d like to live by himself when he is retired
A. separately
B. lonely
C. single
D. turn up
( )19.It is not polite to interrupt when someone is making a speech at a meeting like this.
A. stand by
B. speak out
C. cut in
D. turn up
( )20.A man with such pride never qurrels with others in public .
A. in the open
B. in society
C. in the newspaper
D. in front of other people
三.语法知识(共25小题;每小题1.5分,共37.5分)
从每小题的四个选择项中,选取出最佳的一项,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的
括号里.
( )21.Would you like a piece of cake_________________your coffee?
A. with
B. to
C. for
D. in
( )22.Is it all right___________________I go with you to the exhibition on Friday,Pam?
A. because
B. whether
C. when
D. if
( )23.We can easily get from the computer________________has been stored in it.
A. what
B.whether
C.when
D.anything
( )24.Try your best ___________you’ll certainly succeed this time.
A.so
B.and
C.or
D.for
( )25.The city government must take action__________the increasing population.
A.to control
B.controlling
C.controls
D.controlled
( )26.The World Trade Center is higher than______I have ever seen during my visit.
A.any building
B.any other building
C.all the buildings
D.all of the buildings
( )27.It was a cold winter night,and there wasn’t anyone__________the boy could turn to for help in the street.
A.that
B.which
C.whom
D.what
( )28.All those_______to go to the football match please raise your hands.
A.will wish
B.wish
C.wishing
D.wished
( )29.I had a discussion with Mr Baker and hoped he ___________us an early reply.
A.would give
B.give
C.gave
D.had given
( )30.Everything_________________if Albert hadn’t called the fire department immediately after the fire broke out.
A.would destroy
B.would have destroyed
C.would be destroyed
D.would have been destroyued
( )31.Now,many people use the word Ms instead of Miss or Mrs,for example,before the names of ____________in business letters.
A.woman manager
B.women manager
C.woman managers
D.women managers ( )32.I’m sure that he’ll appreciate the chance__________to him. He really wants to visit your country.
A.to be given
B.is given
C.giving
D.to give
( )33.-Shall I tell Ann the test results?
-No,you ___________.She’s already got the score report.
A.wouldn’t
B.needn’t
C.mustn’t
D.shouldn’t
( )34.The musician,___________for his splendid speech,was warmly received by the students.
A.known
B.being known
C.knowing
D.having known
( )35.The last time I__________her,she________at a medical college.
A.was visiting;studied
B.visited;studies
C.visited;was studying
D.was visiting;was studying
( )36.-Sorry,I’m a little bit late.
-Oh,I__________here just a few minutes.
A.have been
B.had been
C.am
D.will be
( )37.Health experts in many countries still_________their ideas about the relationships between our food and our health.
A.have tested
B.tested
C.are testing
D.test
( )38.Jane wasn’s in when Jack came,was she?
A.No,she was
B.No,she wasn’t
C.Yes,she was
D.Yes,she wasn’s
( )39.The guests were_________in the front rows___________to the president attentively.
A.seating;listened
B.seating;listening
C.seated;listened
D.seated;liste ning
( )40.Hardly___________the door when he rushed into the office out of breath.
A.I opened
B.did I open
C.I had opened
D.had I opened
( )41.Some people hope to be more successful while__________simply want to feel more comfortable.
A.the others
B.others
C.the other
D.another
( )42.Some of his suggestions had been rejected____________they were quite impracticable.
A.as
B.when
C.until
D.if
( )43.He has already gone home.But before he left,he__________all the mistakes in his translation.
A.had corrected
B.has corrected
C.corrected
D.would correct
( )44.__________for several times,Bill made up his mind not to watch late night movies any more.
A.To be scolded
B.To have been scolded
C.Being scolded
D.Having been scolded
( )45.He was in poverty at the time._________he wouldn’t have accepted the money.
A.However
B.Therefore
C.Otherwise
D.Then
四．阅读理解（共１５小题；每题３分，共４５分。）
阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项，并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括号里。
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Ｈugh Troy,a well-known artist, was a very interesting and clever person who spent most of his life playing tricks for the joy of it.
One winter in the 1920s,while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Troy got hold of a very old and ugly wastebasket with a real rhinoceros(犀牛)foot as its base.He filled it with metal weights and tied 30 feet of clothes-line to either side. Late one night he and a friend caried
it out onto campus (校园),pulling the lines straight between them. Every few feet they would lower it into the snow, their own footprints so far away as to raise no suspicions(怀疑).
The next morning someone noticed the prints and invited learned professors to come and have a look. Excitedly,they followed the rhinoceros tracks.Then they were led onto the ice covering Beeb Lake,which connected to where the school got its drinking water. There the tracks ended in a huge hole.
It was said that half the population of Cornell stopped drinking tap water.Those who continued to drink it insisted that it tasted like rhinoceros.
( )46.What was Troy doing when the story began?
A. He was working as an artist.
B. He was studying in the university.
C. He was examining a rhinoceros foot.
D. He was doing rhinoceros experiments.
( )47.Why did Troy fill the basket with metal weights?
A. Make it easy to tie the lines.
B. Get rid of these useless things.
C. .Make it heavy enough for prints.
D. Support the base of the old basket.
( )48.Why did someone ask learned professors to examine the prints?
A. They knew where the rhinoceros existed in winter.
B. They might be able to explain what had happened.
C. They were looking for this animal just then.
D. They enjoyed following animal tracks.
( )49.Troy wanted people to believe that a rhinoceros___________.
A. might appear on campus again
B. might exist in this area all the time
C. had dug a hole for its winter home
D. had fallen into the lake through a hole
B
Millions of hamburgers are eaten by pepole in every corner of the world every day.Togetjherwith hot dogs and Coca-Cola,hamburgers have been the most important American contribution（贡献）to international eating habits. The name ‘hamburger’has nothing to do with ham(火腿).It is believed that the hamburger was first brought to the United States by Germans from the city of Hamburg some time in the 1850s.The first known reference to hamburgers was in a newspaper in Washington State in 1889.From then on the
hamburger became a kind of popular American fast food.
Now young people in Asia ,Europe and South America have learned to eat while on the move�a hamburger in one hand and a soft drink in the other. There have been cries to anger from Italy and Spain about the shortening of the usual four lunch break. Instead, young people have discovered a lunch for which they don’t have to stop at all.
However, there are clouds over the hamburger’s world .People who concern about health dislike the high animal fat in the hamburger. They think the time saved seems a high price to pay for poor health. The packages in which hamburgers are usually served are causing serious pollution problems in many large cities. Big hamburger companies(公司 ) are destroying large areas of South American rainforest to produce the cheap meat they need .So, will the hamburger celebrate its next century?
( )50.In which way do hamburgers change people’s eating habits?
A. People can have their meals at any time of the day.
B. They can be served in any restaurant.
C. People can have them with soft drinks.
D. Meal time can be greatly reduced.
( )51.The hamburger, as a kind of popular American fast food ,______________.
A. has a history of over one hundred years
B. was brought to Europe in the 1850
C. is usually eaten with the hot dog
D. is better served in Hamburg.
( )52.Which of the following is TRUE ,according to the passage?
A. Young people in Europe don’t stop to buy hamburgers
B. It is suggested that hamburgers be eaten with both hands.
C. Some people in Europe don’t like to reduce their lunch break
D. Young people in many countries are learning how to eat in their cars.
( )53.The writer doesn’t believe that ____________.
A. packages for hamburgers are polluting many big cities.
B. Hamburgers will remain popular for the following 100 years
C. The meat in hamburgers can cause health problems
D. Cattle raising leads to the destroying of rainforest
C
My father woke me up early one summer morning when I was fourteen and announced:‘Get up. You’re going with me to cut grass,’
The idea that my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his business made me feel proud and excited. From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I worked in the large yards in a rich part
of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out ,but I felt good.
I had put in a hard day’s labour
and had earned $6.
One day my father found some leaves I’d missed and pulled me aside. ‘Clear away these leaves,’he said firmly,‘and don’t make me have to do it again,’The message was clear. Today I value the importance of doing a job right the first time. It will never fail to impress the person you are working for.
After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were old enough to do lawns(草坪)on our own. Every Saturday during our last two years of high school. We set out early in the morning with the same desire(愿望)and drive we had gained while working under our father.
Taking care of lawns was not exciting or high-paying, but that didn’t matter. It taught me that any job is a good job and that whatever I was paid was more than I had before.
A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone could possibly live on a forty-hour-a-week minimum(最低的)pay.‘My father never worked just forty hours a week, and neither have I,’I replied.‘If you’re only working forty hours, you probably don’t want to do any better than you’re doing.’
In every job I’ve held�from doing lawns to washing dishes�I have learned something that helped me in my next job. If you look hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.
( )54.Why did the writer feel proud and excited when asked to cut grass?
A. He was old enough to help his family.
B. He became important to his father’s business.
C. He was able to take care of large yards.
D. He could earn $6that day.
( )55.What does message in the third paragraph mean?
A. Leaving leaves behind is not right.
B. Giving no excuse for your mistakes.
C. Doing a good job at the very beginning.
D. Missing things can be found out.
( )56.When the writer finished high school, he might be __________year old.
A. 14
B. 16
C. 18
D. 20
( )57.When of the following is the most important thing that the writer has learned from his father?
A. Watch clearly while doing a job.
B. Set out early for physical work.
C. Keep learning from any job you hold.
D. Work over 40hours every week.
D
Forty-thousand of the world’s young children die every day. This is 15 million a year. Many of these deaths can be prevented. In fact, experts say, techniques now exist to save the lives of half of these children. The techniques are medically effective(有效的),simple to use and low-cost. The biggest task has been to inform parents about these life-saving techniques. Diarrhea(腹泻)is the main cause of death among children in developing countries .Diarrhea results when the body tries to clear itself of harmful bacteria(细菌).The body does this by getting out liquids, sometimes uncontrollably. If too much water, sugar and salt are lost in this way, the body cannot work normally. The child may die.
The United Nations International Children’s Fund, UNICEF, introduces a technique. It uses a simple mixture of sugar and salt in water. The mixture does not stop diarrhea. But if used often as needed, it keeps fluid(体液)levels normal until the body has fought off the harmful bacteria.
In Egypt, for example , the treatment was used in a children’s health care program in the province of Alexandria. It reduced by one-half the number of deaths caused by diarrhea. The technique has now been used throughout the country.
( )58.According to the passage, a large number of children can be saved only when_ _______________.
A. the life-saving ways are medically effective
B. their parents are rich enough for the life-saving techniques
C. the life-saving techniques are easy to use
D. their parents learn the life-saving techniques
( )59.Which of the following situations will cause the death of a child?
A. The child clears its body of bacteria
B. The body loses liquids without any control
C. The child has diarrhea in a developing country.
D. The body controls its fluid levels.
( )60.When the mixture is used, it is important to ___________.
A. Keep sugar and salt in water
B. drink it as often as necessary
C. take it as much as possible
D. use it to kill the bacteria
五．完形填空（共１５小题；每题１．５分，共２２．５分）
通读下面的短文，掌握其大意．然后，从每小师的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选择，并把它前面的大写字母填入左边的括号里．
Dear Rosemary,
I must thank you for the very pleasant weekend my brother and I spent with you ,We won’t forget the trip to the zoo.
When we were__61_____I did a very foolish thing.I____62_____to put the examination papers in my bag._______63__I need them badly, because I have to___64__________them to the children in my ______65_____by Friday.
The papers are in a blue folder(文件夹)________66____my name on the cover.
I think I_________67__it in the drawer(抽屉)of the bedside
table____68_____it may be on the bookshelf. Or search___69______the magazines. It could be there.
I’m sorry to______70________you with this, but could
you________71___________send the folder to me by post? I should be
very_____72______for what you do for me .
Please______73________hello to your husband and the
childen.We_____74______hope to see you all in London soon. Let us
know______75_______you decide on the date of your visit.
Love,
Helen
( )61.A.leaving B.staying C.working D.preparing
( )62.A.chose B.managed C.tried D.forgot
( )63.A.Then B.Now C.Thus D.However
( )64.A.collect B.put C.return D.turn
( )65.A.class B.house C.village D.hometown
( )66.A.with B.within C.by D.in
( )67.A.lost https://www.360docs.net/doc/861622398.html,ed C.left D.missed
( )68.A.where B.so C.or D.unless
( )69.A.for B.through C.from D.at
( )70.A.ask B.trouble C.tell D.press
( )71.A.willingly B.also C.please D.easily
( )72.A.thankful B.upset C.pleasant D.worried
( )73.A.speak B.give C.pass D.say
( )74.A.each B.very C.both D.too
( )75.A.where B.what C.when D.how
六（Ａ）。完成句子（共５小题；每题满分为３分，共１５分。）
把括号里的汉语译成英语，写在线上，使句子完整、通顺。
76.I was very surprised ______________________________________.
（昨天在火车上见到一位老朋友）
77.His mother woke him up early in the morning
__________________________________.
(以便他能准时到达机场)
78.Students of Open University take their lessons at home
______________________________.
(通过特殊的电视和广播节目)
79.Huang Hong, ____________________________,studies computer science in the U.S.
（其父亲是位出租车司机）
80.I wanted to go on a holiday last December,
___________________________________.
（但是有那么多的事情等着我去做）
六（Ｂ）。补全对话（共５句；每句满分为３分，共１５分．）
根据中文提示，将对话中缺少的内容写在线上．这些句子必须符合英语表达习惯．打句号的地方，用陈述句；打问号的地方，用疑问句．
提示：星期五晚上有音乐会，Chris得到两张票，打电话给Linda，问好是否有空一同前往，并约她音乐会后一道吃饭．Linda听了非常高兴，俩人相约六点四十五分在入中处见面．
Linda: Hello! This is Linda speaking.
Chris: Hello, Linda, this is
Chris_______________76______________________this Friday evening? Linda: Yes, why?
Chris: There’s a good concert,and I’ve got two tickets.
I wonder_____________77________________.
Linda: That’s great!____________78_______________?
Chris:7o’clock.But how about___________79__________________at 6:45? Linda: OK.I think I can make it.
Chris: After the concert,______________80___________________,shall we? Linda Wonderful! Why don’t we go to a Chinese restaurant?
Chris Why not? OK see you Friday.
Linda: See you then. Bye!