1、广东省成人高等教育学士学位英语水平考试模拟题 12 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.Mary: Your little boy has done a good job at school. Eva: _（分数：1.00）A.Yes, you are very kind.B.No, you are too polite.C.Thanks, but you are exaggerating.D.Yes, I“m proud of him.2.W:
2、What is all this glass doing on the floor? M:_（分数：1.00）A.Look at the window and you“ll see.B.I“ll clean it.C.I“ll call the repair man.D.Can“t you find out?3.W: I“m taking the train downtown to go shopping. M: _（分数：1.00）A.Well, you“d better keep an eye on your wallet.B.Why don“t you stay at home and
3、watch your baby?C.By the way, what about your plan to visit your parents?D.Take the train? You“re a fool.4.Client: Hello. May I speak to Mr. Turner? Secretary: _（分数：1.00）A.I“m sorry. He“s at a meeting now.B.I am. Speak, please.C.Hello. Who“re you, please?D.Hello. Thank you for calling.5.Speaker A: Y
4、ou are washing your car even on vacation. It makes me feel guilty. Speaker B: _（分数：1.00）A.Though I“m washing my car on vacation, I was still criticized by my wife being lazy.B.Never mind. Everyone does.C.You shouldn“t. It“s just that I have nothing better to do at the moment.D.Well, I“m afraid I can
5、“t do better than this.6.Jack: Hey, how are you, Susie? We haven“t seen each other for.it must be close to three years. Susie: _ Jack: OK.（分数：1.00）A.How do you do?B.Nice to meet you.C.Fancy meeting you here.D.Well. How have you been?7.Speaker A: Can you come down a little for this watch? Speaker B:
6、_（分数：1.00）A.Yes, we would like to do so.B.Sorry, but we go strictly by the price tag.C.No, but you may try again.D.Sure. We“ll come to the first floor as soon as possible.8.Kate: Do you mind opening the door for me? Bob: _（分数：1.00）A.Yes, I“ll do it.B.It“s nothing.C.That“s all right.D.Not at all.9.De
7、sk Clerk: Good afternoon, Holiday Inn. Customer: Hello, I“d like to book a double room for the nights of 23rd and 24th please. Desk Clerk: _（分数：1.00）A.What“s the matter?B.What can I do for you?C.Just a minute, please.D.Can I help you?10.Speaker A: Would you care for another helping? Speaker B: _（分数：
8、1.00）A.I have helped enough.B.No more help is needed.C.No, thanks, I“m quite full.D.Please pass me the helping.11.How“s your brother these days? He hasn“t been very well just recently. _ What“s the matter? I think he“s been overworking.（分数：1.00）A.I“ll be pleased to hear you ask after himB.I“m sorry
9、to hear thatC.That“s not too badD.I“ll tell him what you said12.Speaker A: I“m not at all satisfied with the service. Speaker B: _（分数：1.00）A.Nobody has complained like that before.B.I sincerely apologize for that.C.I wonder why you are satisfied with it.D.It“s not our fault as there are too many cus
10、tomers.13.Passer-by: _ Local resident: Sure. It“s on Ehn Street: between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenue. Passer-by: Thank you.（分数：1.00）A.Help please. Could you tell me where the post office is?B.Sorry, where is the post office, please?C.Trouble you. Could you please tell me where the post office is?D.E
11、xcuse me. Do you know where the post office is?14.Speaker A: That“s very kind of you to do so. Speaker B: _ A, That“s all right, I“m pleased to meet you. B. As you are our important guest. C. I“m pleased to be at your service. D. It“s no trouble at all. （分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15.Wilson: Hello. May I speak
12、 to Peter? Peter: _（分数：1.00）A.Sorry, the number is engaged. Will you hold?B.Yes, speaking.C.Hello. Who“re you please?D.Hello. Thank you for calling.三、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)In sport the sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women
13、 are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called “the weaker sex“, or, if men want to please them, “the fair sex“. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live l
14、onger than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women“s bodies really weaker? The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women“s speeds are always slower than men“s, but some facts are surprising. Some of the
15、fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first “Tarzan“ in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years lat
16、er! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sa
17、d that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!（分数：10.00）(1).Women are called “the weaker sex“ because _.（分数：2.00）A.women do as much work as menB.people think women are weaker than menC.sport is easier for men than for womenD.in sport the two sexes are
18、always together(2).Which of the following is true?（分数：2.00）A.Boys and girls study separately everywhere.B.Women do not run or swim in races with men.C.Famous Prime Ministers are women.D.Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.(3).“That at least is what people say.“ means people _.（分数：2.00
19、）A.say other things tooB.don“t say this muchC.say this but may not think soD.only think this(4).What problems does sport have?（分数：2.00）A.Some women athletes are actually men.B.Some women athletes are given hormone injections.C.Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.D.It is difficult to c
20、heck whether women athletes are really women.(5).In this passage the author implies that _.（分数：2.00）A.women are weaker than men, but fasterB.women are slower than men, but strongerC.men are not always stronger and faster than womenD.men are faster and stronger than women五、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Wh
21、at do we mean by a satisfactory standard of living? Obviously, it must include the basic necessities of life such as food, clothing and shelter. To get these necessities on regular basis, a person must have a reliable income. But we have other needs which would probably also be included as basic, su
22、ch as health and education facilities. We may think of all of these as our needs. Yet most of us would be far from satisfied if we had nothing more than these which are supplied for us. We all enjoy extra income to spend on things like books, sports or hobbies. Sometimes we save some of this extra i
23、ncome to pay for future expense of this type on holidays. So we must add our wants to our basic needs. Our standard of living is the degree, to which these needs and wants are satisfied. But as time goes on, what we think of as our basic needs changes. Twenty years ago a teleisvion would have been a
24、 luxury, and still is in many countries now. Even now we cannot say it is a need in the same sense as food, clothing and shelter. Yet if most of the people of a country have one, it comes to be accepted as a need. It is possible therefore to have food, clothing and shelter and still be poor by the s
25、tandards of our own society.（分数：10.00）(1).What we need in life is divided into _ according to this article.（分数：2.00）A.the basic necessities and luxuryB.many kinds of need such as food, clothing and housesC.four groups the basic necessities, luxury, reliable income and future expenseD.the basic neces
26、sities and reliable income(2).A person who gets the basic necessities must _ according to the writer.（分数：2.00）A.have a reliable incomeB.learn how to please his managerC.finish his work ahead the timeD.get a good education(3).We all enjoy _.（分数：2.00）A.having only reliable incomeB.having reliable inco
27、me and extra incomeC.having nothing more than food and clothingD.having nothing more than reliable income(4).With time going on, _.（分数：2.00）A.a luxury may change into a need which most people want to getB.the basic needs are getting smaller and smallerC.a luxury and the basic needs can be exchangedD
28、.the basic needs can be changed into a luxury(5).If most of the people of a country have a television, we _.（分数：2.00）A.can say the television is a need in the same sense as food and clothing and shelterB.can say the television must be in the basic necessitiesC.cannot say the television is in the bas
29、ic necessitiesD.can say every family must have one六、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Increasingly, over the past ten years, peopleespecially young peoplehave become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed food, is not good for the health. Co
30、nsequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods. Foods which do not contain chemical additives (添加剂) and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today. Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that i
31、s rich in organic(有机的) matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to incr
32、ease the amountbut not the qualityof foods grown in commercial farming areas. Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures(牧场). Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry: there are farms, for example, where thousands of
33、 chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food, they also lay eggs which lack important vitamins. There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention
34、from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a non-essential food! Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if it is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addict
35、ive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber. It is significant that nowa
36、days fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined fl
37、our and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare. Hence the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on “healthy eating“.（分数：10.00）(1).People have become more interested in natural foods because _.（分数：2.00）A.they are more health consciousB
38、.they want to taste all kinds of foodsC.natural foods are more delicious than processed foodsD.they want to return to nature(2).Soil that is rich in organic matters _.（分数：2.00）A.has had chemicals and fertilizers added to itB.contains vegetable matter that has not been consumedC.has been nourished by
39、 fertilizersD.already contains large quantities of vitamins and minerals(3).Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following EXCEPT that _.（分数：2.00）A.they are fed on food which is little better than garbageB.they live in very crowded conditionC.the eggs they lay lack vitaminsD.they are allo
40、wed to move about and eat freely(4).According to the passage, _.（分数：2.00）A.people need sugar to give them energyB.sugar is bad for the healthC.the use of sugar is habit formingD.sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful(5).The best title for this passage is _. A, People“s Growing
41、 Interest in Natural Foods B. Natural Foods and Healthy Diet C. Harmful Effects of Sugar D. The Importance of Fiber in Foods（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.七、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Much unfriendly feeling towards computers has been based on the fear of widespread unemployment resulting from their introduction. C
42、omputers are often used as part of automated(自动化的) production systems requiring a least possible number of operators, causing the loss of many jobs. This has happened, for example, in many steelworks. On the other hand, computers do create jobs. They are more skilled and better paid, though fewer in
43、 number than those they replace. Many activities could not continue in their present form without computers, no matter how many people are employed. Examples are the check clearing (交换) system of major banks and the weather forecasting system. When a firm introduces computers, a few people are usual
44、ly employed in key posts (such as jobs of operations managers) while other staff are re-trained as operators, programmers, and data preparation staff After the new system has settled down, people in non-computer jobs are not always replaced when they leave, resulting in a decrease in the number of e
45、mployees. This decrease is sometimes balanced by a substantial increase in the activity of the frim, resulting from the introduction of computers. The attitudes of workers towards computers vary. There is fear of widespread unemployment and of the takeover of many jobs by computer-trained workers, m
46、aking promotion for older workers not skilled in computers more difficult. On the other hand, many workers regard the trend toward wider use of computers inevitable. They realize that computers bring about greater efficiency and productivity, which will improve the condition of the whole economy, an
47、d lead to the creation of more jobs. This view was supported by the former British Prime Minister, James Callaghan in 1979, when he made the point that new technologies hold the key to increased productivity, which will benefit the economy in the long run.（分数：10.00）(1).The unfriendly feeling towards
48、 computers is developed from _.（分数：2.00）A.the possible widespread unemployment caused by their introductionB.their use as part of automated production systemsC.the least possible number of operatorsD.the production system in steelworks(2).The underlined word “ They “ (Line 1, Para.2) refers to _.（分数
49、：2.00）A.computersB.jobsC.activitiesD.systems(3).According to Paragraph 2, without computers _.（分数：2.00）A.human activities could not continueB.there could not be weather forecasting systemsC.many activities would have to change their present formD.banks would not be able to go on with check clearing(4).According to the passage, what results from the introduction of computers?（分数：2.00）A.After re-training, all employees in the
