河北成人学位英语考试考前预测卷01Paper One (65minutes, 70points)Part I Dialogue Completion (10minutes, 10 points)Directions: In this part, there are 3 dialogues with 3 or 4 blanks, each .followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the choice that best suits the situation until the dialogue is complete. With Dialogue One, all the choices will have to be used. With Dialogue Two and Dialogue Three, one choice will be left unused. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single bar through the centre of the letter that indicates your choice.Dialogue OneSpeaker A: Good evening, sir and madam.Speaker B: Good evening. _____1_____Speaker A: Let me check the list. Yes, we do have a reservation under Mr. Stephen. Speaker B: _____2_____There are six of us. Four of my friends are coming soon.Speaker A: It doesn't matter. Follow me, please. What do you think of the tablein the centre of the dining room?Speaker B: But _____3_____Speaker A: I'm sorry, but you see, all the tables by the window are small, with up to four seats.Speaker B: Oh, I see. We'll have to make up with the centre one.Speaker A: Thank you for your understanding, Mr. Stephen.Speaker B: If a Mr. Sun comes to look for me, _____4_____Speaker A: Yes, I will.A. it's a window table that we've booked.B. just usher him here.C. We've a reservation for a table for two under the name of Stephen.D. But there is a change in the number of people.Dialogue TwoSpeaker A: Good morning, sir. Can I help you?Speaker B: Yes, I'm leaving today. Can I have my bill settled?Speaker A: Of course, sir. May I have your name?Speaker B: My name is Peter Brown and my room number is 556.Speaker A: Just a second, please. Mr. Brown, _____5_____ Please cbeek.Speaker B: I'm sorry. I suppose there is a mistake indeed. I only stayed herefor three nights, not four.Speaker A: Just a second, please. I'll check it...I am sorry, Mr. Brown, _____6 _____So the fee in total should be $155.Speaker B: Now you are right. Could I pay with credit card?Speaker A: What kind of card do you have?Speaker B: Visa.Speaker A: _____7_____...OK, here is your bill and receipt. Thank you, sir. Hope you have enjoyed your stay at our hotel.Speaker B: Certainly I have. Thank you.Speaker A: You're welcome. Goodbye.A. That's acceptable.B, here is your bill.C. this is a miscalculation.D. How do you pay for the bill?Dialogue ThreeSpeaker A: Hello. Can I be of service to you?Speaker B: I'm just window shopping.Speaker A: You are always welcome. _____8_____Speaker B: They look very interesting, especially the yellow gowns.Speaker A: They are imperial gowns. Ancient Chinese Emperors wear them. Yellowis a noble color to Chinese people. The imperial laws forbade the ordinary people to wear yellow.Speaker B: Did they? But _____9_____Speaker A: Cultures differ from country to country. Why not try them on?Speaker B: How much should I pay you for trying it on?Speaker A: Free of charge.Speaker B: That's fine. Is this yellow too bright for me?Speaker A: It's a very bright yellow, but it looks terrific on you.Speaker B: Does it? What size is it?Speaker A: It's size 8.Speaker B: But I wear size 10.Speaker A: Here is another gown. It's size 10. Try it on. _____10_____. Why not take one as a souvenir? It's cheap. Only 100 Yuan.Speaker B: That's a good idea. I'11 take it.A. You look so smart in the imperial gown.B. Do you want to try any other size again?C. We sell all kinds of things used in ancient Chinese Imperial Palaces.D. in my country purple is associated with being noble.Part II Reading Comprehension (35minutes, 40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET witha single line through the centre.Passage OneConcerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often centre around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent training courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive. But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents andchildren often disagree about what is important and what is right.Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos.But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression thatall teenagers are troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into solid citizens who fulfill most of theirparents' expectations. In fact, recent studies show that the generation gap is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.11. According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usuallyreflect__________.A. feeling of hatredB. power straggleC. that they don't care for each otherD. that they may appeal to divorce12. As children enter adolescents, they begin to do the following EXCEPT__________.A. demanding greater freedom to go wherever they pleaseB. making decisions without parental interferenceC. getting married whenever they pleaseD. doing what they please13. ...generation gap is narrowing. means__________.A. the adolescents now become timidB. parents come to get along with their childrenC. the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents'values and ideasD. parents and teenager don't like to quarrel14. Parents and children often disagree about what is important or rightbecause__________.A. they have different styles of lifeB. they hate each otherC. parents think that their children are troublemakersD. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values15. When many American parents don't know how to deal with their children they seek advice from the following EXCEPT__________.A. neighborsB. parent-training coursesC. booksD. lecturesPassage TwoAnother thing an astronaut has to learn about is eating in space. Food is weightless, just as men are.Food for space has to be packed in special ways. Some of it goes into tubes that a man can squeeze into his mouth. Bite-sized cookies are packed in plastic. .There is a good reason for covering each bite. The plastic keeps pieces of food from travelling in the spaceship. On the earth very small pieces of food would simply fall to the floor. But gravity doesn't pull them to the floor when they are out of the plastic in a spaceship. They move here and there and can get into a man's eyes or into the spaceship's instruments. If any of the instruments is blocked, the astronauts may have trouble getting safely home.As astronauts travel on longer space trips, he must take time to sleep. An astronaut can fit himself to his seat with a kind of seat belt. Or, if he wants to, he can sleep in a sleeping bag which is fixed in place under his seat. But be careful he must put his hands under the belt when he goes to .sleep. This is because he is really afraid that he might touch one of controls that isn't supposed to be touched until later.16. Why would astronauts cover each bite of food in space?A. Because small pieces of food would fall down to the floor.B. Because weightless pieces of food might make trouble when they travel around.C. Because they haven't enough food for longer trips.D. Because astronauts don't want to waste food.17. In a spaceship, astronauts can__________.A. walk just as they do on the earthB. not eat anything because it's dangerousC. control the spaceship when they are sleepingD. not litter small things or it will make trouble18. In what way is food for space packed?A. Very small pieces of food are put on the floor.B. Some of it is put into tubes.C. Small-sized cookies are packed in plastic.D. Both B and C.19. Why does an astronaut put his hand under his belt when he sleeps?A. Because he thinks it is comfortable to sleep in that way in space.B. Because he doesn't want to touch any controls when he sleeps.C. Because the instruments of the spaceship are easily broken.D. Because he is afraid that the seat will move.20. The best title of this article is__________.A. Eating and Sleeping in SpaceB. How Astronauts Eat in SpaceC. Food for SpaceD. How Astronauts Sleep in SpacePassage ThreeThe Chinese have used a method called acupuncture (针灸) to perform operationsfor about4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves placing flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles are available in a number of stores in China and anyone may buy them.To learn how to use the needles takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to put in the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. A particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation requires only 3 or 4 needles.Today, the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. They are trying to develop a convincing theory to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or why a needle in the wrist, for example, would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth, A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation but the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.21. Acupuncture is__________.A. a medical operationB. a medical needleC. a medical techniqueD. a medical machine22. Which statement is NOT true of the performer of acupuncture?A. He knows where to place the needles without pain.B. He knows where the operation is to be performed.C. He knows how to perform the operation to cure the patient.D. He knows how to use the needles in an operation.23. To learn how to use the needles, it takes a person__________.A. several monthsB. a couple of weeksC. a little timeD. almost one month24. It can be learned from the passage that__________.A. the person performing the acupuncture knows a lot about the making of needlesB. an operation now needs fewer needles than in the pastC. acupuncture has existed in China for as long as 2,000 yearsD. few patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals25. Which is implied but not stated in the passage?A. The Chinese mainly use acupuncture to cure strange disease.B. The Chinese are learning to be more skillful and efficient in acupuncture.C. The Chinese have spread acupuncture all over the world.D. Most Chinese patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals in curing diseases.Passage FourSpending 50 minutes with a cell phone close to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna (天线). But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National Institute of Health said at a conference last month, adding that the study will not likely settle concerns of a link between cell phones and brain cancer. What we showed is glucose(葡萄糖) metabolism(代谢)(a sign of brain activity) increases in the brain in people who were exposed to a cell phone in the area closest to the antenna, said Dr. Nora Volkow of the NIH, whose study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study was meant to examine how the brain reacts to electromagnetic fields caused by wireless phone signals.Volkow said she was surprised that the weak electromagnetic radiation (电磁辐射) from cell phones could affect brain activity, but she said the findings, donot shed any light on whether cell phones cause cancer. This study does not in any way indicate that. What the study does is to show the human brain is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation from cell phone exposures. Use of the devices has increased dramatically since they were introduced in the early 1955s, with about5 billion cell phones now in use worldwide.Some studies have linked cell phone exposure to an increased risk of brain cancers, but a large study by the World Health Organization did not offer a clear answer to this. Volkow's team studied 47 people who had their brain examined while a cell phone was turned on for 50 minutes and another while the phone was turned off. While there was no complalete change in brain metabolisthey found a 7 percent increase in brain metabolism in the region closest to the cell: phone antenna when the phone was on.Experts said the results were interesting, but urged that they be understoodwith great care. Al-though the biological significance, if any, of increased glucose metabolism from too much cell phone exposure is unknown, the results require further investigation, Henry Lai of the University of Washington in the U. S. and Dr. Lennart Hardell of University Hospital in Sweden, wrote in an article in JA-MA. Much has to be done to further investigate and understand these effects. They wrote.26. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?．A. Cell phone use is dangerous.B. Cell phone use causes cancer.C. The human brain is an electromagnetic field.D. There are about 5 billion cell phone users in the world right now.27. Doctor Volkow was astonished because__________.A. her research has shed light on her understanding of cell phoneB. she found that cell phone exposure is harmful to human brainC. she found that using a cell phone for about 50 minutes could influence or change brain activityD. human brain is not responsive to electromagnetic radiation28. According to the passage, cell phones were launched__________.A. in the late 1970sB. between 1955 and 1960C. in the late 1955sD. in the early 1990s29. What does the word hat stand for in the second paragraph?A. Brain activity.B. Her research findings.C. The fact that cell phone use may cause cancer.D. Her research progress.30. Which of the following is an appropriate tire for this passage?A. Cell Phone Radiation: Is It Harmful?B. Cell Phone Radiation: Is It Useful?C. Cell Phone Radiation: Is It Healthy?D. Cell Phone Radiation: Is It Weak?Part III Vocabulary and Structure (10minutes, 10 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 corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.31. He didn't fear new ideas, __________ the future.A. nor feared heB. nor he did fearC. nor did he fearD. nor did fear he32. __________ is well known to all, China will be an advanced and powerful country in the near future.A. AsB. ThatC. ThisD. Itt catch you.'33. __________ a good thing they didnA. That'sB. There'sC. It'sD. What's34. We all feel sorry for __________ for so long after your arrival.A. keep you waitingB. having kept you waitingC. waiting for youD. keep you wait35. There are four departments at this college, __________ more than five hundred students.A. with each haveB. each havingC. each of them haveD. with each is having36. Sorry, I don't know he is a friend of__________.A. your brotherB. your brothersC. your brother's friendD. your brother's37. When she was busy tidying the room, her little kid is always__________.A. under wayB. on the wayC. in the wayD. by the way38. Living in the central American desert has its problems, __________ obtaining water is not the least.A. of whichB. for whatC. asD. whose39. Although __________ happened in that developed country sounds like science fiction, it could occur elsewhere in the world.A. whichB. whatC. howD. it40. The door over there needs__________.A. paintedB. paintingC. has paintedD. paint41. You __________ yesterday if you were really serious about the job.A. ought to comeB. ought to be comingC. ought to have comeD. ought have come42. It was not until the accident happened__________.A. when I became aware of my foolishnessB. when my foolishness became obviousC. that did I realize my foolishnessD. that I became aware of my foolishness43. As we know, physics __________ the science of energy.A. wasB. wereC. isD. are44. The train __________ of the station right on time.A. pulledB. pulled downC. pulled onD. pulled out45. __________ you say, he won't listen to you.A. No matter whereB. No matter whatC. HoweverD. Whichever46. Where did you get your watch __________?A. repairB. to repairC. repairedD. repairing47. No sooner __________ than he realized that he should have remained silent.A. the words had spokenB. had the words spokenC. the words had been spokenD. had the words been spoken48. She is such a __________ person, always asking how I'm feeling.A. considerableB. consideringC. consideredD. considerate49. It is said that he__________ a murder.A. committedB. conductedC. executedD. emitted50. Only residents here enjoy the __________ of using this parking lot.A. privilegeB. possibilityC. favorD. rightPart IV Cloze (10minutes, 10 points)Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know what to do when it slipped from his horse and fell 51 the road. The sack wastoo heavy for him to 52 , and his only hope was that 53 some one would comeriding by and lend a hand.It was not long before a rider appeared, but the farmer's heart sank when he54 him, for it was the great man who lived in a castle nearby. The farmer 55have dared to ask another farmer to help, or any poor man who might have come 56the road, but he could not beg a favor of so great a man. 57 , as soon as the great man came up he got off his horse, saying I see you've had bad luck, friend. How good it is that I'm here just at the 58 time. Then he took one 59 ofthe sack, the farmer the other, and between them they lifted it on the horse.卜物尬愠歳摥琠敨映牡敭?尠潨?慣??慰?潹?Easily enough, the great man 60 Whenever you see anyone else in trouble,潤琠敨猠浡?潦?楨?51. A. onB. inC. offD. onto52. A. pickB. liftC. takeD. left53. A. presentlyB. immediatelyC. generallyD. quickly54. A. knewB. understoodC. rememberedD. recognized55. A. oughtB. shouldC. wouldD. could56. A. acrossB. alongC. throughD. alone57. A. NeverthelessB. HoweverC. MoreoverD. Although58. A. exactB. sameC. rightD. good59. A. pieceB. endC. partD. edge60. A. referredB. respondedC. reflectedD. repliedPaper Two (55minutes, 30points)Part V Translation (25minutes, 15 points)Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and put your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.Throughout the world, for more than a century, artists have embraced jazz. They have adopted its spontaneity and its freedom of expression. Jazz is so much more than music : it is a lifestyle and a tool for dialogue, even social change. The history of jazz tells of the power of music to bring together artists from different cultures and backgrounds, as a driver of integration and mutual respect. Jazz gave rhythmto the straggles of the civil fights movement in the United States, and has doneso elsewhere in the world. Through jazz, millions of people have sung and still sing today their desire for freedom, tolerance and human dignity.Part VI Writing (30minutes, 15 points)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Reading Selectively or Extensively. You should write in no less than 100 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:1.有人认为读书要有选择;;有人认为应当博览群书2.3.我的看法。