成人学士学位英语考试模拟试卷 （八）
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20 minutes 20%)
Section A (5%)
Directions: In this section you will hear five incomplete dialogues. They will be spoken only once. After each incomplete dialogue there will be a pause. During the pause you must read the four choices marked A,B,C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Section A (5%)
1. A. No, it is so hot today
B. No, nothing is as bad as a humid weather. C. No. this weather is really enjoyable. D. No, it is really freezing. 2. A. It is not late now.
B. I will stay here for the next five days. C. Maybe tomorrow if 1 hurry up. D. I can. Why not?
3. A. I don't get on well with Mr. Smith.
B. My essay is good according to Mrs. Smith comments.
C. I am trying my best to finish it. But you know, easy said than done. D. I'm no sure. Maybe next week.
4. A. I'd love to, but 1 will be fully occupied that afternoon. B. I can't finish the job within a half day.
C. I don't need a full day to complete the task. D. I'm afraid I can't handle it.
5. A. I'm sorry; Mr. Johnson is at a conference. B. Sorry, the line is not occupied now. C. Why do you call?
D. Sorry, the office is open. Section B (10%)
6. A. It has plenty of light. B. It's rather expensive. C. It's too small for the man. D. It doesn't have any closets. 7. A. To visit her.
B. To see a new type of boiler. C. To buy a new type of boiler.
D. To learn something about electricity. 8. A. Give him the necessary documents.
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B. Send him back to his hotel. C. Call a taxi for him to the hotel. D. Book a room for him. 9. A. In an art history class. B. In a museum.
C. In the man's dormitory. D. In the woman's dormitory. 10. A. Their neighbors.
B. Their schoolmates. C. Their children. D. Their parents.
11. A. He went for a drink with a friend.
B. He met an accident.
C. He witnessed the accident. D. He bumped into an old lady.
12. A. Teach him how to write a chemistry report.
B. Review the last exam with him. C. Walk with him from the library. D. Help him with his physics.
13. A. It'd give her a chance to make a lot of money immediately.
B. She could stay at the chain at a discount. C. It is available for her.
D. She might get a good job later.
14. A. She will be picked up at her own house.
B. She will be picked up at the station. C. She will take a train there. D. She will take a bus.
15. A. He couldn't go to the art exhibition.
B. He thought he'd better stay in bed.
C. He was told to take good care of himself. D. He had a slight temperature. Section C (5%)
16. A. They may support the employers.
B. They always encourage strikes. C. They are strikers themselves.
D. They are fairly rewarded by the employers. 17. A. The employee side would give up the job.
B. The employer side would force people to work. C. A third party would impose a settle.
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D. They would go on fighting themselves. 18. A. A black spider.
B. A poisonous spider. C. A beautiful spider. D. A very large spider. 19. A. During the day.
B. At dawn. C. At night.
D. In the evening.
20. A. The bird-eating spider is dangerous.
B. The bird-eating spider is able to climb any places.
C. The bird-eating spider spends lots of time on the ground. D. The bird-eating spider likes to live anywhere.
Part ⅡReading Comprehension (30 minutes 30%)
Directions: In this part there are four passages. 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 are required to decide on the choice that best answers the question or completes the statement.
Passage 1
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their product's obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were made to find the cause of the consumers' seemingly unreasonable resistance to the product. The reason given by most people was dislike for the taste. The producer suspected that there might be deeper reasons, however. This was confirmed by one of motivation research's classic studies, one often cited in the trade.
Mason Haire, a professor of the University of California, constructed two shopping lists that were identical except for one item. There were six items common to both lists: hamburger, carrots, bread, baking powder, canned peaches, and potatoes, with the brands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in fifth place on both lists, read \on one list and Nescafe Instant Coffee'' on the other. One list was given to each one in a group of fifty women, and the other list to those in the other group of the same size. The women were asked to study their list and then to describe, as far as they could, the kind of woman (\had received the list including instant coffee described a housewife who was lazy and a poor planner. On the other hand, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had included regular coffee on her list, as lazy; only six of that group suggested that she was probably not a good wife. No one in the other group drew such a conclusion about the housewife
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who intended to buy regular coffee.
21. In the opinion of instant coffee producers, _____________. A. people should buy regular coffee
B. regular coffee is superior to instant coffee
C. instant coffee should have a good market because of its obvious advantages D. the advertising expenditure for regular coffee is very great
22. In this instance, the purpose of motivation study was to discover ____________. A. why there were deeper reasons
B. why instant coffee did not taste good C. why regular coffee was successful
D. the reason why people resisted instant coffee
23. The list on which \consisting of ____________.
A. seven people B. seven women C. fourteen people D. fifty women
24. On the result of this test, the producers of instant coffee probably would advertise on TV to show a _________________.
A. lazy wife drinking instant coffee B. stupid wife using instant coffee
C. hard-working woman drinking instant coffee D. good wife using regular coffee
25. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. It is reasonable for people to resist instant coffee.
B. Advertising does not always assure favorable sales results. C. People pay little attention to advertising.
D. Regular coffee has better taste than instant coffee.
Passage 2
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
There are places in the world where people are alleged to live much longer and remain more vigorous in old age than in most modern societies. I have visited the best known of these regions, all relatively remote and mountainous.
A striking feature common to all three cultures is the high social status of the aged. Each of the very elderly persons I saw lived with family and close relatives-often an extensive household-and occupied a central and privileged position within this group. The sense of family continuity is strong.
There is also a sense of usefulness. Even those well over 100 for the most part continue to perform essential duties and contribute to the economy of the community. These duties included weeding in the fields, feeding the poultry, tending flocks, picking tea, washing the laundry, cleaning house, or caring for grandchildren, all on a regular daily basis.
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In addition, the aged are esteemed for the wisdom that is thought to derive from long experience, and their word in the family group is generally law.
In none of the three communities is there any forced retirement age, and the elderly are not shelved, as occurs in most of our industrialized society. Khfaf Lasuria, the former tea picker, had retired only two years before I met her. When I asked Seliac Butba, age 121, if he was helping in the construction of a new house springing up next to his own, he responded, “Of course, they can't do without me. ”
Many of the centenarians emphasized the importance of being independent and free to do the things they enjoyed and wanted to do, and of maintaining a placid state of mind free from worry or emotional strain. “Now everywhere people don't live so long because they don't live a free life,” commented Sonia Kvedzenia of Atara, age 109. “They worry more and don't do what they want.” Fabriel Chapnian, 117, of Gulripshi expressed a similar thought when told that few Americans attain his age. His response is: “Hmm--- too literate.”
Expectation of longevity may also be important. In America the traditional life-span is three score and ten years. But when we asked the young people of Abkhazia how long they expected to live , they generally said, \the public has the notion that the normal life-span of man is 100 years. For exaggeration, when proposing toasts, they say 300 years, but everyone expects to be 100.
26. What does the word \ A. Person who has 100 family members. B. Person who is 100 or more years old. C. Person who is the central figure. D. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers.
27. From the interviews with some local aged, it can be inferred that people in industrialized society ___________. A. don't have personal freedom B. are illiterate
C. don't have a placid state of mind D. are poorer and less healthy
28. According to the passage, all the following are the reasons for the longer life span of the aged the author saw EXCEPT ______________.
A. They enjoy high privilege in their families B. They live in an extensive household
C. their food are not as polluted as those in industrialized society D. they working and make themselves useful as possible as they can
29. In the three communities ____________. A. the aged must retire at a certain age B. the aged worked till death
C. there is no retirement age the aged must observe
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