2009年黑龙江省成人本科毕业生申请学士学位英语考试A卷

2009年黑龙江省成人本科毕业生申请学士学位英语考试A卷（150 minutes）Paper One(90 minutes)Part I Vocabulary and Structure (10 points; 15 minutes)Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer by blackening the letter of your choice on the Answer Sheet.1. When you come back from London, would you please buy me ______of a small radio?A. ten dollar's worthB. worth ten dollarsC. ten dollars of worthD. ten dollars' worth2. Although she ______law for only a little over eight years, Florence Allen became in 1992 the first woman to sit on a state supreme court.A. would practiceB. practicesC. had practicedD. has practiced3. It was necessary that he ______his mother, otherwise she would have known this from someone else, and been very angry with him.A. told.B. had toldC. tellD. would tell4. The school was named ______the hero who gave his life for the cause of the revolution.A. afterB. forC. withD. about5. The news media ______radio, television and newspapers.A. compose ofB. are consisted ofC. are composed ofD. consist6. They turned a deaf ear to our demands, ______enraged all of us.A. thatB. whichC. asD. this7. He is so sick today that he does not ______having anything to eat.A. turn outB. tend toC. make forD. feel like8. Age is not important. It's brains and knowledge that______.A. judgeB. impressC. countD. survive9. We haven't the ______idea of what you meant.A. smallestB. dimmestC. weakestD. slightest10. Many things ______impossible in the past are common today.A. to considerB. consideredC. consideringD. being considered11.When asked ______they needed most, the kids said they wanted to feel important and loved.A. whatB. whyC. whomD. which12. ______the project as planned, we'll have to work two more hours a day.A. CompletingB. CompleteC. To completeD. Completed13. ______hungry I am, I never seem to be able to finish off this loaf of bread.A. WhateverB. WheneverC. WhereverD. However14. - How can the problem be solved?- Well, we must ______it to the president's own judgment.A. dependB. leaveC. suggestD. realize15. He is very popular among his students as he always tries to make them ______in his lectures.A. interestedB. interestingC. interestD. to interest16. The present situation is very complex, so I think it will take me some time to ______its reality.A. make upB. figure outC. look throughD. put off17. In those days, our ______concern was to provide people who were stopped by the snow storm with food and health care.A. normalB. constantC. permanentD. primary18. As he works in a remote area, he visits his parents only______.A. occasionallyB. anxiouslyC. practicallyD. urgently19. Nowadays the Chinese are becoming more familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, ______is often the case in other countries.A. whatB. asC. whoD. that20. We have been told that under no circumstances ______the telephone in the office for personal affairs.A. may we useB. we may useC. we useD. do we usePart II Cloze Test (10 points, 20 minutes)Directions: Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. Blacken the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen on the Answer Sheet.Cars are an important 21 of life in the United States. 22 most people feel that they are poor. And 23 if a person is poor he doesn't feel really poor 24 he has a car.There are three main reasons the car became so 25 in the United States. 26 of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move 27 in it. The car provides the most comfortable and 28 form of transportation. 29 a car people can go any place without spending a lot of money.The second reason cars are popular is the fact 30 the United States never developed 31 and inexpensive form of public 32 . Long-distance trains have never been 33 common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system ofair-service 34 planes. But it is 35 expensive to be used frequently.The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is 36 really made cars popular. Americans don't like to wait 37 a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don't like to have to 38 an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule39 time. And this is the freedom that Americans want 40 to have.21. A. role B. part C. effect D. basis22. A. Without a car B. Not with a car C. Without no car D. With not a car23. A. ever B. still C. even D. quite24. A. although B. when C. whether D. but25. A. qualified B. increasing C. developing D. popular26. A. First B. Firstly C. At first D. The first27. A. around B. on C. along D. forth28. A. cheap B. most cheap C. cheapest D. cheaper29. A. Through B. By C. With D. As30. A. which B. that C. where D. what31. A. an interested B. an affected C. an efficient D. a satisfied32. A. movement B. carriage C. shipping D. transportation33. A. quite B. very C. too D. as34. A. providing B. to provide C. provided D. provides35. A. very B. so C. too D. as36. A. that B. what C. how D. which37. A. for B. on C. beside D. about38. A. run B. further C. chase D. follow39. A. their own B. their self C. theirs own D. theirs self40. A. best B. most C. worst D. leastPart III Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(40 points; 55 minutes)Section 1Directions: Each of the following passages is followed with five questions. For each question there are four choices. Choose the best answer to each question. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage: All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay for her shopping. For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised. It said: "Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This May Be Your Lucky Day!"For several weeks Mrs. Edwards hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, she never gave up hoping. The cupboards in kitchen were full of things which she did not need. Her husband tried to advise her against buying things but failed. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would approach her and say: "Madam, this is Your Lucky Day. Everything in your basket is free." One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken it to her car, she found that she had forgotten to buy any tea. She went back to the supermarket, got the tea and went towards the cash-desk. As she did so, she saw the manager of the supermarket approach her. "Madam," he said, holding out his hand, "I want to congratulate you! You are our lucky customer and everything you have in your basket is free!"41. The housewives learnt about the free goods _______.A. on TVB. from the managerC. at the supermarketD. from the newspaper42. Mrs. Edwards ________.A. was always very luckyB. had no friendsC. hoped to get free shoppingD. got disappointed easily43. Mrs. Edwards's husband tried to ________.A. make her unhappyB. cheer her upC. buy things with herD. keep her from buying things44. Mrs. Edwards went back to the supermarket quickly because she had to ______.A. buy another thingB. talk to the managerC. pay for her shoppingD. find her shopping45. Mrs. Edwards must have been ________.A. pleasedB. delightedC. proudD. disappointedQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage:A third of British people are overweight, states a report published in January by the Royal College of Physicians, the result of an 18-month-long study. About 5％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-age population half are overweight.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.The safest way to lose weight is to eat cereals, bread, fruit and vegetables, and cut down on fatty meats, butter and sweet foods. Current diets do far more harm than good; slimming machines that vibrate muscles have not been proved useful; saunas (蒸气浴) merely remove a little body water, and health farms, says the report, serve as expensive holidays.The report emphasizes that exercise is most important to health. Though it doesn't necessarily reduce weight, it maintains the correct proportion of body fat to body muscle. And it isn't only for the young. From middle age a minimum of 20 minutes of gentle physical jerks should be practiced three times a week.The report advocates several public health measures to combat the high prevalence of overweight in this country. They include an increase of tax on alcohol to reduce its increasing, and dangerously fattening consumption; and the provision of more sports facilities by local authorities. Britain's doctors, the report concludes, must learn to be more sympathetic and specific in their advice to the overweight, encouraging a change in eating habits on a long-term basis, and taking into account the many-often complex-reasons why fat people are fat.46. The passage is mainly about______.A. why many British people are overweightB. how to avoid getting overweightC. British people' s overweight problemD. the relations between overweight and health47. According to the report，a person is most likely to stay fat for the whole of his life ifhe______.A. gets fat in middle ageB. gets fat in his twentiesC. gets fat when he is a childD. is born fat48. The report thinks that exercise________.A. is a way to reduce weight C. can convert fat to muscleB. is a sure way to keep one healthy D. sometimes increases weight49. The report points out that drinking too much alcohol________.A. will also cause a person to get overweightB. will cause a person to do less sportsC. will make a person forget the fact that he is fatD. will lead a person to bad eating habits50. The report suggests that when treating the overweight, doctors should______.A. encourage a long-term diet for everyoneB. first consider why so many people are overweightC. know that there are complex reasons why a person gets overweightD. be more considerate and give detailed adviceQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:A scientist who does research in economic psychology and who wants to predict the way in which consumers will spend their money must study consumer behavior. He must obtain data both on the resources of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money spending. If an economist were asked which of the three groups borrow most-people with rising incomes, stable incomes or declining incomes-he would probably answer those with declining incomes. Actually, in the years 1947-1950, the answer was: people with rising incomes. People with declining incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us that traditional assumptions about earning and spending are not always reliable. Another traditional assumption is that if people who have money expect prices to go up, they will hasten to buy. If they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But research surveys have shown that this is not always true. The expectations of price increases may not stimulate buying. The investigations mentioned above were carried out in America. Investigations conducted at the same time in Great Britain, however, yielded results that were more in agreement with traditional assumptions about saving and spending patterns. The condition most favorable to spending appears to be price stability. If prices have been stable and people consider that they are reasonable, they are likely to buy. Thus, it appears that common business policy of maintaining stable prices is based on correct understanding of consumer psychology.51. According to the passage, if one wants to predict the way consumers will spend their money, he should _______.A. try to encourage or discourage consumers to spend moneyB. carry out investigations on consumer behaviorC. do researches in consumer psychology in a laboratoryD. rely on traditional assumptions about earning and spending52. According to paragraph 2, one traditional assumption is that people with______ incomes borrow most.A. averageB. stableC. decliningD. rising53. The results of the investigations on consumer psychology carried out in America were______ those of the investigations made at the same time in Great Britain.A. not as good asB. much better thanC. exactly the same asD. somewhat different from54. Which of the following statements is always TRUE according to surveys mentioned in the passage_______?A. Consumers will put off buying things if they expect prices to decrease.B. Consumers will spend their money quickly if they expect prices to increase.C. The price condition has an influence on consumer behavior.D. Traditional assumptions about earning and spending are reliable.55. From the results of the surveys, the writer of this article _______.A. concludes that the saving and spending patterns in Great Britain are better than those in AmericaB. concludes that consumers always expect prices to remain stableC. does not draw any conclusionD. concludes that maintaining stable prices is correct business policySection 2Directions: Read the following passage, and then decide whether the statements are true(A) or false (B) (判断对错，对的在答题卡上画A，错的在答题卡上画B。