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北京城市学院2014届学位英语考试题库
11非校本英综5卷
得 分 Part I Writing（共15分）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: TV Talent Show. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
1. 有人赞成电视选秀节目。 2. 有人则反对。 3. 我的观点。
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡背面作答。 得 分 Part II Vocabulary and Structure（每小题1分，共20分）
Directions: Each of the following sentences is incomplete and followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on the Answer Sheet.
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1. No one imagined that the apparently businessman was really a criminal. A. respective B. respectable C. respectful D. realistic 2. He is in making decisions-- he never seeks others? opinions. A. arbitrary B. considerate C. aggressive D. ambitious 3. The problem will be discussed at length in chapters. A. late B. consequent C. final D. subsequent 4. He would imagine himself before each meet. A. winning B. being won C. to win D. being winning 5. Outside of class, the student continues to use the personal model because it has always worked well that circumstance. A. in B. with C. on D. for
6. One of the tasks of the teachers is to children to think creatively. A. stimulate B. seek C. shape D. secure
7. Few cities build new airports. Instead, most cities expand or their existing airports. A. switch B. change C. renovate D. revise
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8. Let me sit down for a moment and .
A. hold my breath B. catch my breath C. take a breath D. lose my breath 9. He has always been in class and never misses anything that the teacher says.
A. energetic B. radiant C. careless D. conscientious. 10. In order to do the business, a large has to be obtained from the bank. A. capital B. loan C. debt D. funds
11. A reader who is unfamiliar with these variations may that your resume contains errors.
A. assure B. claim C. assume D. predict 12. I have no doubt he will be very successful. A. that B. what C. which D. how 13. her own housework, she has to help her mother out.
A. In addition to B. By means of C. With regard to D. In response to 14. , I sent them to my mother?s place. A. The children getting in my way B. Got in my way the children C. Being in my way D. Having been in my way 15. I remember her face, but I can?t where I met her.
A. memorize B. forget C. recall D. recite
16. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her attitude toward customers. A. impartial B. mild C. hostile D. opposing 17. I hope you will not his work. A. interfere B. interfere with C. interfere in D. interference 18. Robert will never anything unless he works harder. A. amount to B. amount C. number D. lead 19. They have trouble .
A. concentrating B. concentration C. concentrate D. concentrating of 20. He believed that much of his success was the positive use of daydreaming. A. because B. for C. due to D. due 得 分 Part III Reading Comprehension（共40分）
Section A（每小题2分，共30分）
Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers 24.4
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thousand acres, size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1, 1971, five years after Walt Disney?s death, and it is a larger, slightly more ambitious version of Disneyland near Los Angeles. Foreigners tend to associate Walt Disney with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and with his other famous cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto, or with his nature films, whose superb photography is spoiled, in the opinion of some, by the vulgarity（粗俗）of the commentary and musical background.? There is very little that could be called vulgar（粗俗的）in Disney World. It attracts people of most taste and most income groups, and people of all ages, from toddlers to grandpas. There are two expensive hotels, a golf course, and forest trails for horseback riding and rivers for canoeing. But the central attraction of the resort is the Magic Kingdom.
Between the huge parking lots and the Magic Kingdom lies a broad artificial lake. In the distance rise the towers of Cinderella?s Castle, which like every other building in the Kingdom is built of solid materials. Even getting to the Magic Kingdom is quite an adventure. You have a choice of transportation. You can either cross the lake on a replica of a Mississippi paddle wheeler, or you can glide around the shore in a streamlined monorail train.?
When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square which faces Main Street. Main Street is of late 19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the decades are of the period. There are hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and there is no traffic except a horse drawn streetcar and an ancient double decked bus. Yet as you walk through the magic Kingdom, you are actually walking on top of a network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all the other material needs of the Magic Kingdom are.?
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。 21. In which year did Walt Disney die?
A. 1971. B. 1976. C. 1966. D. 1900.
22. The main attraction of Disney World is . A. the Seven Dwarfs B. Mickey Mouse C. Donald Duck D. the Magic Kingdom
23. Reaching the Magic Kingdom is . A. adventurous B. dangerous C. difficult D. easy
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24. When one visits the biggest amusement in the world, one will find .
A. it is relatively cheap B. it is very expensive C. it just wastes his time D. it is vulgar
25. Why is Disney World the most famous amusement resort? ?
A. It is funny. B. It is interesting. C. It is the biggest one. D. It is the most expensive.
Passage 2
If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this, and nobody would think of questioning this fact. Yet there are many people who do not seem to know that the memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it regularly, either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough opportunity to become strong. The position is exactly the same as that of two persons, one of whom exercises his arms and legs by playing tennis, while the other sits in a chair or a motorcar all day.
If a friend complains that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to be blamed, or that he is just unlucky, and few of us realize that it is just as much his own fault. Not all of us can become extremely strong or extremely clever; but all of us can, if we have ordinary bodies and brains, improve our strength and our memory by the same means — practice.
Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read or write usually have better memories than those who can? Why is this? Of course, because those who cannot read or write have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember dates, times and prices, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.
So if you want a good memory, learn from the poor and humble: practice remembering.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。
26. Which of the following is TRUE, according to the first paragraph?
A. It is a fact that some people do not use their arms or legs.
B. Everybody knows that memory of words is the same way as the arms or legs. C. To have a good memory, one has to exercise it regularly. D. To keep fit, one should not sit in a chair or a motorcar.
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27. In the author?s opinion, poor memory results from .
A. poor health
B. lack of remembering practice C. unlucky fortune
D. insufficient education
28. The author seems to advise us . A. to play tennis to improve our memory B. to complain about nothing but our health
C. to blame ourselves rather than our parents for the poor memory D. to learn from those who cannot read or write
29. The author comes to the conclusion that .
A. the poorer one is, the better his memory B. memory can be improved by practicing it
C. the poor and humble people may help you remember things D. if you want a good memory, do not read or write anything
30. Which of the following may best serve as the title of the article?
A. How to Improve Your Memory. B. Poor and Good Memory. C. Your Arms, Legs and Brain.
D. Learn from the Poor and Humble.
Passage 3
People are always talking about “the problem of youth”. If there is one, then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings — people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him; and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain — that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitious or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It is as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He maybe conceited, ill-mannered, or too self-confident but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichés（陈腐观点）about respect for elders as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accepted that we were equals, and I will argue
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