河南省成人高等教育学士学位英语考试全真模拟试题

河南省成人高等教育学士学位英语考试全真模拟试题（二）

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)

Directions:In this part there are 20 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 mark the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

1. It is reported that a (n) ______of accidents has occurred at that crossroads.

A. series

B. lot

C. number

D. amount

2. If someone is in the United States for good, it means he is there______.

A. to do good

B. temporarily

C. to rest well

D. permanently

3. Please let us have more time, ______?

A. shall we

B. will you

C. won’t

D. don’t you

4. There is no hurry. You can take your time ______ those exercises.

A. doing

B. to do

C. done

D. to be doing

5. He spoke English so well that I took it ______ that he was an American.

A. for granted

B. as true

C. for certain

D. as such

6. ______ we need air and water, so we need criticism and self-criticism.

A. Even though

B. So long as

C. Just as

D. Now that

7. Children are always curious ______ everything they see.

A. to

B. for

C. on

D. about

8. Anyone, rich or poor, old or young, sick or ______, can follow a favorite hobby.

A. well

B. good

C. fine

D. happy

9. It’s desired that she ______ to teach us at least twice a week.

A. comes

B. will come

C. come

D. may come

10. ______, I should ask them some questions.

A. Should they come to us

B. If they come to us

C. Were they come to us

D. Had they come to us

11. In 1990 he caught a serious illness from ______ effects he still suffers.

A. that

B. which

C. what

D. whose

12. He found ______ everybody know what had happened.

A. it necessary letting

B. it necessary to let

C. necessary letting

D. necessary to let

13. The interviewer should take down notes at the moment the person ______ answers

the questions.

A. to be interviewed

B. interviewing

C. being interviewed

D. interviewed

14. “Car 17 won the race.” “Yes, but its driver came close to ______ killed.”

A. being

B. having been

C. be

D. have been

15. About the sixth century A.D. when few Europeans could read, the Chinese

______ paper.

A. invented

B. had invented

C. have invented

D. had been invented

16. I have two friends but ______ of them likes to go fishing with me.

A. none

B. neither

C. both

D. either

17. His unhappy childhood ______ his bad temper.

A. counts for

B. accounts for

C. makes for

D. goes for

18. No one doubts ______ it is true.

A. whether

B. if

C. that

D. what

19. His brother had become a teacher, ______ he wanted to be.

A. who

B. what

C. which

D. that

20. Not until I came to China ______ what kind of a county she is.

A. I knew

B. I didn’t know

C. I did know

D. did I know

Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points)

Directions: There are four 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage 1

How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child —things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.

When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of