2011-11北京地区学位英语真题

北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试

2011年11月5日

Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)

Directions: There are three passages in this part. 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 should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migrating(迁徙的) route, can be deadly for birds.“We live in an age of glass,”said Ms. Laurel,an architect. (76)90,000 birds are killed by flying into buildings in the city each year. Often, they strike the lower levels of glass towers after searching for food in nearby parks. Such crashes are the second-leading cause of death for migrating birds, after habitat (栖息地) loss, with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year. July. The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group that encourages the creation of environmentally conscious buildings, will introduce a bird-safety credit this fall as part of its environmental certification process.

There are no easy fixes, however. A few researchers are exploring glass designs that use ultraviolet (紫外线的) signals, but they are still in their infancy. Covers, dot patterns, shades and nets are the main options available.

Often, only one section of a building needs to be changed. "You don't necessarily have to treat every window," Ms. Laurel said. "It would be too expensive to do the whole building." The Jacob IC Javits Convention Center, which has been undergoing alterations, is the most recent building to voluntarily correct the problem of bird crashes. The architects used less reflective glass and dot patterns.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. New York is a city of glass towers.

B. Glass towers are dangerous for migrating birds.

C. New York adopted new safety standards for buildings.

D. Glass towers are a new trend in the United States.

2. What is the number one cause of death for migrating birds?

A. Climate change. B. Habitat loss.

C. Lack of food. D. Crashing into buildings.

3. What does the word“fixes”in the third paragraph probably mean?

A. Choices. B. Explanations.

C. Solutions. D. Developments.

4. are used in the alteration of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

A. Dot patterns B. Shades

C. Nets D. Covers

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. In many cases, the whole building needs to be altered to prevent bird crashes.

B. The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is the first building to deal with the problem of bird crashes.

C. About 90,000 birds are killed due to habitat loss in New York City each year.

D. Unfortunately, glass designs that use ultraviolet signals are still in their early stages.

Passage 2

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

Today's students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they live in a world where amazing innovations (革新) are common. The current 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital (数字的), they are impatient to get on with life.

The easiest way to fred kids like these is to check in on entrepreneurship (企业家才能 ) education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them.

A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finances programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 5,000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two- and four-year campuses-up fromjust 250 courses in 1985. Lesa Mitchell, a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which used to be found only inbusiness schools. Now, the concept of entrepreneurship is blooming in engineering programs and medical schools, and even in the liberal arts. “Our interest is inall the programs,” she says.“We need to spread out from the business school.”

Either as class projects or on their own_, students in a variety of majors are coming up with ideas, writing business plans and seeing them through to prototype and, often, market. In their spare time, students in agricultural economics at Purdue invent new uses for bean; industrial design majors at Syracuse, in a special laboratory, create wearable technologies. “I just don't think that entrepreneurship ranks so high in terms of national: need,”says Daniel S. Greenberg, author of Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards and Delusions of Campus Capitalism.

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Babson College's president, says that the question of whether innovation can really be taught is“an age-old argument.”

6. When Google and Facebook were established, the founders were still__________.

A. in high school B. in the army

C. in primary school D. at college

7. According to the passage, what is the main purpose of entrepreneurship education?

A. To prepare students for future academic life.

B. To prepare students to fred oppommities and seize them.

C. To prepare students for overseas career.

D. To prepare students to develop interpersonal skills.

8. Theword“prototype” in the fourth paragraph is most likely to mean __________

A. model B. strategy C. method D. stage

9. What does Daniel S. Greenberg think of entrepreneurship education?

A. Entrepreneurship, or at least certain elements of it, can be taught.

B. An entrepreneurship program can help students find what they really like and entrepreneurship isn't all about business.

C. Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields.

D. Colleges shouldn't put too much emphasis on entrepreneurship programs.

10. What is the main ideaof the passage?

A. Entrepreneurship courses in business schools.

B. Qualities of an entrepreneur.

C. Entrepreneurship education in colleges.

D. Kids in the information age.

Passage 3

Questions 11 to 15 are based onthe following passage:

Regret is as common an emotion as love or fear, and it can be nearly as powerful. So, in a new paper, two researchers set about trying to find out what the typical American regrets most. In telephone surveys, Neal Roese, a psychologist and professor of marketing at the School ofmanagement at Northwestern UniverSity, and Mike Morrison, a doctoral candidate in psychology at University of Illinois, asked 370 Americans, aged 19 to 103, to talk about their most notable regret. Participants were asked what the regret was, when it happened, whether it was a result of something they did or didn't do, and whether it was something that could still be fixed.

The most commonly mentioned regrets involved romance (浪漫的事) (18%)——lost loves or unfulfilled relationships. Family regrets came in second (16%), with people still feeling badly about being unkind to their brothers or sisters in childhood. Other frequently reported regrets involved career (13%), education (12%), money (10%) and parenting (9%).

Roese and Morrison's study, which is to be published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, is significant in that it surveyed a wide range of the American public, including people of all ages and socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Previous studies on regret have focused largely on college students, who predictably tend to have education-focused regrets, like wishing they had studied harder or a different major. The new survey shows that in the larger population, a person's "life circumstances accomplishments, shortcomings, situation in life- inject considerable fuel into the fires of regret," the authors write.

(79) People with higher levels of education had the most career regrets. And those with no romantic parmer tended to hold regrets regarding love.

Broken down (分解、细分) by sex, more women (44%) than men (19%) had regrets about love and family not surprising, since women "value social relationships more than men," the authors write. In contrast, men (34%) weremore likely than women (27%) to mention work-related regrets, wishing they'd chosen a different career path, for instance, or followed their passion. There was an even split between regrets about inaction (not doing something) and action (doing something you wish you didn't). But, like previous studies, the current research found that some regrets are more likely than others to persist over time: people tend to hang on longer to the regret of inaction; meanwhile, regrets of action tend to be more recent.

11. In the second paragraph, the author shows__________.

A. the researchers' findings B. the importance of family

C. the importance of money D. the importance of career

12. According to the passage, college student participants mainly had regrets about

their__________.

A. family and childhood B. study and major

C. career and job D. romance and fear

13. The word "notable" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to __________.

A. common B. capable

C. wonderful D. remarkable

14. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The less education he or she has, the more regrets she or he would have.

B. The more education he or she has, the less regrets she or he would have.

C. More women than men had regrets about love and family.

D. The regret of action seems to last longer than that of inaction.

15. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. How regret is understood by a typical American.

B. Common regrets Americans have.

C. Why regret is more important than love and hate.

D. How regret has shaped Americans.

Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure (30%)

Directions: In this part there are 30 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 blacken the Corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

16. Mr Smith is coming to visit us soon. We'd better get everything ready before he__________.

A. arrives B. arrive C. will arrive D. arrived

17. __________ yesterday, you would have met Professor Jones. But now he has left for London.

A. Did you come B. Had you come

C. Should you come D. Were you to come

18. The man denied __________ into the neighbor's garden and _______his cow.

A. going... stealing B. going... stole

C. went... stealing D. went... stole

19. Ted worked like a horse in his youth, __________ contributed to his great success later as a

businessman.

A. that B. who C. what D. which

20. A few hours ago, a small suitcase with some important papers __________ stolen from the

general manager's office.

A. is B. are C. were D. was

21. __________ on the New World, he felt like crying.

A. Land B. Landed C. To land D. Having landed

22. Visit our store. Nowhere else __________ such good bargains.

A. you find B. find you C. do you find D. you do find

23. After __________ seemed an endless wait, it was his mm to go into the doctor's office.

A. this B. that C. which D. what

24. Ever since the Smiths moved to the lake area a year ago, they __________ better health.

A. could have enjoyed B. had enjoyed

C. have been enjoying D. are enjoying

25. The boss doesn't want to talk about the accident; now he is in no __________ to do so.

A. feeling B. attitude C. emotion D. mood

26. I can't understand why you regard it as music. It __________ me mad!

A. puts B. sets C. drives D. changes

27. Yesterday Mr Blake was caught in the rain and got wet through, _____he caught a bad cold.

A. Consequently B. Finally C. Lately D. Strangely

28. William likes to eat out, but he is not __________ about what he eats.

A. peculiar B. unusual C. particular D. special

29. Their house stands at a hilltop, __________ the Hudson River down below.

A. seeing B. viewing C. looking at D. overlooking

30. I can't understand why my boss is always __________ fault with my work.

A. finding B. seeking C. looking D. making

31. This is the same knife __________ I lost yesterday.

A. which B. what C. like D. as

32. ---When will you be back?

---I'11 be back __________ a couple of days.

A. after B. for C. about D. in

33. We hear that they will __________ a new school here.

A. set down B. set up C. set off D. set out

34. He will never forget the days __________ he spent in Japan.

A. when B. after C. that D. how

35. Interestingly enough, the two brothers have nothing in__________.

A. ordinary B. common C. general D. particular

36. The scientists are trying to fred out the facts to __________ their theory.

A. support B. carry C. design D. raise

37. The performance of the English team was __________ They played much worse than expected.

A. disappoint B. disappointing C. disappointed D. to disappoint

38. You are welcome to order the goods now. But payment should be made__________.

A. for advance B. from advance C. in advance D. to advance

39. Speak louder so that you can make yourself__________.

A. heard B. to hear C. hearing D. have been heard

40. Now it won't be long before we meet again, __________?

A. will it B. do we C. won't we D. does it

41. Americans eat __________ vegetables per person today as they did in the 1960s.

A. more than twice B. as twice many

C. twice as many D. more than twice as many

42. I was so familiar with her that I recognized her voice __________ I picked up the phone.

A. the moment B. since C. before D. while

43. The education of ________ young is always ________ hot and serious topic.

A./, / B. the, a C./, the D. the, the

44. Dad wondered where I'd been, and I __________ a story about being at Grandma's.

A. made out B. made up C. looked out D. looked up

45. Your sister doesn't study as __________ as you do.

A. hard B. hardly C. harder D. hardest

Part III Identification (10%)

Directions: Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D. Identify the one that is not correct. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D

Part IV Cloze (10%)

Directions: There are 20 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 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Experts suggest using a different password for every website you visit, and changing the Use privacy settings (设置entry into your personal information and limit of private information you share. Even seemingly innocent information you you. I once read about a burglary (入室盗窃 a Facebook message.

According to personal safety experts, it isn't a(n)

on websites activity. You may not about posting the concert you are going to or your weekend away, but it could be a(n) Information on the Internet has made it easier for thieves to steal any information about you. you are certain who you are dealing with. necessary precautions (预防措施) is the best way you and your personal information stay protected.

56. A. effect B. effort C. labor D. matter

57. A. proud B. true C. honest D. creative

58. A. accounts B. records C. directions D. collections

59. A. complex B. careful C. diligent D. elastic

60. A. away B. on C. out D. in

61. A. respond B. resign C. restrict D, resemble

62. A. number B. amount C. pile D. piece

63. A. with B. for C. about D. against

64. A. turned out B. turned in C. picked out D. picked up,,

65. A. which B. while C: because D. although

66. A. knowing B. reading C. inspecting D. realizing

67. A. impacted B. collected C. repaired D. isolated

68. A. lead to B. result fi.om C. see off D. make up

69. A. out B. aloud C. once D. twice

70. A. resistance B. statement C. invitation D. struggle

71. A. reveal B. revise C. resemble D. require

72. A. threatening B. requesting C. worshipping D. delivering

73. A. since B. as C. when D. until

74. A. Replacing B. Liberating C. Taking D. Depending

75. A. ensure B. separate C. spread D. switch

Part V Translation (20%)

Section A

Directions: In this part there are five sentences which you should translate into Chinese. These sentences are all taken from the 3 passages you have just read in Reading Comprehension. You can refer back to the passages to identify their meanings in the context.

76. It can be a perfect mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is.

77. As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too, have calls to

make them less deadly to birds.

78. The entrepreneurship movement has its critics, especially among those who see college as a

time for extensive academic exploration.

79. People with less education, for instance, were more likely to report education regrets.

80. Many participants also reported wishing they had worked less to spend more time with their

children.

SectionB

Directions：In this part there are five sentences in Chinese．You should translate them into English．Be sure to write clearly．

81．他站在窗户旁边，思考着自己的学习计划。

82．她设法按时完成了任务。

83．这本小说，我已经看了三遍，很感人。

84．他一回来我就告诉他这个消息。

85．思想是可以通过词语来表达的。

参考答案

1~~~15 BBCAD DBADC ABDCB

16~~45 ABADD DCDCD CACDA DDBCB ABCAC CABBA

46~~55 CDBCB CBDBB

56~~75 BDAAC CBDAC BDADC ABDCA

76． 在一些光照下，它成为了完美的镜子。玻璃的面积越大，造成的危险也越大。

77． 过去十年中，随着使用落地玻璃窗的办公楼和公寓楼的增加，人们也越来越多地呼吁要减少它们对鸟类的伤害。

78．企业家才能运动遭到了批评，批评者认为大学应该是广泛涉猎开拓学业的时光。

79． 例如，接受教育较少的人，更倾向提到在教育方面的事情上有所懊悔。

80． 很多参与者也提到希望曾经在工作上少花些时间，多花点时间陪孩子。

81. He is standing beside the window, thinking of his study plan.

82. She managed to finish the task in time.

83. I have read this novel three times. It is a moving story.

84. I will tell him this piece of news as soon as he comes back.

85. Ideas can be expressed by words.