1、广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语水平考试模拟题 11 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Paper One(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part Dialogue Comp(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.Anny: Do you still have a headache, Mike? Mike: Yes, I do. And now I have a fever and cough constantly. Anny: _（分数：1.00）A.That“s very regretful.B.That“s pitiful.C.That“s too bad.D.Th
2、at“s a pity.2.Bus Driver: Move to the back of the bus, please. There are plenty of seats. Passenger: _ Bus Driver: Forty cents. Drop it in the box?（分数：1.00）A.What is the price, please?B.What shall be the fee, please?C.How much does it cost, please?D.How much is the fare, please?3.W: Have you had the
3、 brakes (刹车) and tires (轮胎) checked? And do you have enough money? M: _（分数：1.00）A.No. I“m going to buy some brakes and tires.B.I“ve taken care of everything and I“m sure it“s going to be a wonderful trip.C.I“ll buy some traveler“s checks for my trip.D.I have finished the brakes and tires and I have
4、no problem with money.4.W: Could you please make up this prescription (药方) for me? M: _（分数：1.00）A.No. You need to see a doctor first.B.Yes. You can buy the medicine from the drugstore at the corner.C.Well. It is prescribed clearly in that book.D.Certainly, I“ll do it for you right away.5.Speaker A:
5、Good to see you. You look more fit and better. Speaker B: _（分数：1.00）A.Thanks. I had a lot of exercise and drank vegetable juice every day.B.Sorry. I don“t think I am more fit. Actually, I caught a bad cold.C.Yes. I“m much more fit. And you?D.I“m glad to see you too, though I“m not much better that e
6、ver before.6.Kate: Hello. Could I speak to Jane, Please? Jane: _（分数：1.00）A.Yes, you could.B.Speaking.C.Who are you?D.Speak, Please.7.M: Can I see a demonstration of this tape recorder? W: _（分数：1.00）A.No, I am afraid you can“t.B.Sure. It is very easy to operate.C.All right, sir. Here you go.D.That“s
7、all right. But we can“t break it up.8.Woman: Thank you very much for your help. Man: _（分数：1.00）A.Never mind.B.Not at all.C.It doesn“t matter.D.No thanks.9.Speaker A: I“ve just heard that the tickets for Swan Lake have been sold out. Speaker B: Oh, no!（分数：1.00）A.It doesn“t matter.B.It“s not at all in
8、teresting.C.I was looking forward to it.D.I knew it already.10.Speaker A: Excuse me, Professor Smith, can you spare me a few minutes? There“s something I“d like to speak to you about. I won“t keep you long. Speaker B: _（分数：1.00）A.Of course not. Haven“t you seen have been pretty busy now?B.Well, I“m
9、afraid we have to find some other time. I“m fully occupied now.C.No. I“ll have an important meeting to attend this evening.D.Not possible, as I don“t know how long you will keep me.11.Speaker A: East Bouren 54655. Speaker B: Hello. John here. Can I speak to Mary, please? A: _ B: OK.（分数：1.00）A.Who“s
10、that speaking?B.Could you take a message?C.Hold the line, please.D.I think she“s gone shopping.12.W: I“m terribly sorry I“m late. I had rather a difficult time finding your office. M: _（分数：1.00）A.Saying sorry won“t be enough for being late. You have to account for what you“ve done.B.That“s all right
11、. Please sit down and I“ll start to ask you a few questions.C.You needn“t saying sorry. It“s often the case.D.Put on your name in the attendance record and go to your work.13.Jack: _ Lora: I“m an engineer. Jack: Oh, are you? Lora: How about you? Jack: I work for a trading company.（分数：1.00）A.How are
12、you doing?B.What do you do?C.How do you do?D.What are you doing?14.Speaker A: Allow me to introduce Dr. Jones to you. Speaker B: _（分数：1.00）A.I“m much pleased to make you an acquaintance.B.That“s all right. I“m Jim Watson.C.Thank you for your introduction.D.I“d like to express my thanks to you.15.Doc
13、tor: _ Patient: I“ve caught a bad cold and got a sour throat.（分数：1.00）A.Do you have anything to declare, sir?B.Good morning. May I help you?C.How have you been getting along recently?D.What seems to be the problem?三、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)There was one thought th
14、at air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of
15、air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing c
16、oncentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creating a “greenhouse effect“ conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world“s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world“s temperature is raised only a few degrees
17、, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water. Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth“s temperaturea result that would be equally disastrou
18、s. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top fanning areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the
19、 field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world“s temperature will stay about the same as it is now.（分数：10.00）(1).As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air poll
20、ution _.（分数：2.00）A.caused widespread damage in the countrysideB.affected the entire eastern half of the United StatesC.had damaging effect on healthD.existed merely in urban and industries areas(2).As to the greenhouse effect, the author _.（分数：2.00）A.shares the same view with the scientistsB.is unce
21、rtain of its occurrenceC.rejects it as being ungroundedD.thinks that it will destroy the world soon(3).The word “ offset “ in the second paragraph could be replaced by _.（分数：2.00）A.slip intoB.make up forC.set upD.catch up with(4).It can be concluded that _.（分数：2.00）A.raising the world“s temperature
22、only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earthB.lowering the world“s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming are-as to disasterC.almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decadeD.the world“s temperature will remain constant in the years to come(5
23、).This passage is primarily about _.（分数：2.00）A.the greenhouse effectB.the burning of fossil fuelsC.the potential effect of air pollutionD.the likelihood of a new ice age五、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery book, “ Uncle Tom“s Cabin “. But neithe
24、r she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success. The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress. But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they
25、sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England. For a while it outsold (销得比多) every book in the world, except the Bible. Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained A
26、merica“s most popular play for 80 years. It might appear that “ Uncle Tom“s Cabin “ was universally popular, but this was certainly not true. Many people during those pre-Civil War daysparticularly defenders of the slavery systemcondemned it as false propaganda and poorly written melodrama(传奇剧作品). H
27、arriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied, “God wrote it.“), and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so perhaps the book could be considered propaganda. But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described
28、 the evils of slavery. Though she was born in Connecticut, 1832, as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary(神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action.
29、She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college. In 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe began her book. Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system. Today some historians(历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American
30、Civil War. In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said, “So, this is the little lady who started this big war.“（分数：10.00）(1).Before the publication of the book “ Uncle Tom“s Cabin “（分数：2.00）A.Harriet knew that it would be a great successB.the publisher
31、wanted Harriet to publish it at her own expenseC.nobody knew that it would become a very popular bookD.no publisher wanted to publish this anti-slavery book(2).Some people did not like “ Uncle Tom“s Cabin “ chiefly because _.（分数：2.00）A.the author was merely an unknown little ladyB.they thought it wa
32、s mere propagandaC.the book was poorly writtenD.the book might lead to a terrible war(3).Harriet Beecher Stowe was able to describe the evils of slavery because _.（分数：2.00）A.she had lived for 18 years in a state where slavery was legalB.she had suffered quite a lot under the slavery systemC.she had
33、witnessed what happened under the slavery systemD.she had read a lot about the slavery system(4).When Abraham Lincoln called Harriet “the little lady who started this big war“, he _.（分数：2.00）A.thought that she was almost a war criminalB.was talking about the great influence her book had producedC.wa
34、s blaming her for the miseries the people had suffered during the warD.was praising her for the contributions she had made during the war(5).The writer wrote the passage in order to _.（分数：2.00）A.expose the evils of the slavery systemB.condemn all kinds of warC.describe people“s life in Harriet“s tim
35、eD.tell us how Harriet wrote her famous book六、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)“Equal pay for equal work“ is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work. Some people say men have more du
36、ties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is fight for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If wome
37、n are encouraged by equal pay to take fulltime jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up children. Women who disagree say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between wor
38、k and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the fight not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.（分数：10.00）(1).The women use the phrase “equal pay for equal work“ to ask society to _.（分数：2.00）A.pay men less than womenB.give women harder workC.pay men and women the same amount of money
39、for the same workD.pay people more who do harder work(2).Some people believe that _.（分数：2.00）A.women can“t do what men canB.men have to work much harder than womenC.men can earn money more easily than womenD.men“s duties are different from women“s(3).Some people holding even stronger opinions say th
40、at _.（分数：2.00）A.women should be kind to their husbandsB.women are too weak to take full-time jobsC.home is the best pace for womenD.women should only take part-time jobs(4).The women who disagree say that _.（分数：2.00）A.women need chances to go out of the home more oftenB.women want more freedom in de
41、ciding what kind of life they wantC.women are no longer interested in taking care of their homesD.if women are given equal pay, they can do everything instead of men(5).According to this passage some women want to give up _.（分数：2.00）A.their present position in societyB.their marriageC.their right to
42、 equal payD.their home life七、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：10.00)We all know that DNA has the ability to identify individuals but, because it is inherited, there are also regions of the DNA strand which can relate an individual to his or her family (immediate and extended), tribal group and even an entire popu
43、lation. Molecular Genealogy(宗谱学) can use this unique identification provided by the genetic markers to link people together into family trees. Pedigrees(家谱) based on such genetic markers can mean a breakthrough for family trees where information is incomplete or missing due to adoption, illegitimacy
44、 or lack of records. There are many communities and populations which have lost precious records due to tragic events such as the fire in the Irish courts during Civil War in 1921 or American slaves for whom many records were never kept in the first place. The main objective of the Molecular Genealo
45、gy Research Group is to build a database containing over 100,000 DNA samples from individuals all over the world. These individuals will have provided a pedigree chart of at least four generations and a small blood sample. Once the database has enough samples to represent the world genetic make-up,
46、it will eventually help in solving many issues regarding genealogies that could not be done by relying only on traditional written records. Theoretically, any individual will someday be able to trace his or her family origins through this database. In the meantime, as the database is being created,
47、molecular genealogy can already verify possible or suspected relationships between individuals. “For example, if two men sharing the same last name believe that they are related, but no written record proves this relationship, we can verify this possibility by collecting a sample of DNA from both an
48、d looking for common markers (in this case we can look primarily at the Y chromosome(染色体),“ explains Ugo Perego, a member of the BYU Molecular Genealogy research team.（分数：10.00）(1).People in a large area may possess the same DNA thread because _.（分数：2.00）A.DNA is characteristic of a regionB.they are
49、 beyond doubt of common ancestryC.DNA strand has the ability to identify individualsD.their unique identification can be provided via DNA(2).The possible research of family trees is based on the fact that _.（分数：2.00）A.genetics has achieved a breakthroughB.genetic information contained in DNA can be revealed nowC.each individual carries a unique record of who he is and how he is related to othersD.we can use DNA to prove how distant an in
