2016 年四川成人学士学位英语考试真题及答案
Part I Vocabulary and Structure (20%)
Directions: Inthispartthereare40incompletesentences.Foreachsentencethere
arefourchoicesmarkedA, B, CandD.ChoosetheONEanswerthatbestcompletes
thesentence.ThenmarkthecorrespondingletterontheAnswerSheetwithasingle
line through the center.
1. How long do you think ________ to finish this urgent task?
A. did it take
you
will take you
C. will it take
you
you
B. it
D. it to take
2. Wealth, education and occupation vary greatly ________ members of the middle
class.
A. among
from
B. between
D. inside
3. Let’s buy our tickets while I still have ________.
A. a little money to leave
money left
C. a few dollars left
few dollars to leave
C.
B. little
D.
4. ________ was not the way the event happened.
A. Which the press reported
B. That the press
reported
C. What did the press report
D. What the press
reported
5. People do not like such persons who are always ________ the way of others.
A. on
in
B. by
C.
D. behind
6. At first we were ________ amused by Don’s words, but soon we were tired of them.
A. great
much
B. far
D. never
C.
7. He talks as if he ________ everything in the world.
A. knows
B. knew
C. would have
known
D. had known
8. The doctor advised that Mr. Malan ________ an operation right away so as to save
his life.
A. had
have
B. was going to have
C.
D. would have
9. He forgot about ________ him to attend my wife’s birthday party.
A. I asking
ask
B. my asking
D. mine to ask
C. me to
10. So little ________ about stock exchange that the lecture was completely beyond
me.
A. did I
know
had known
C. I
know
D. was I known
11. The boy’s laziness ________ his failure in the exams.
A. resulted
from
in
in
C. resulted
into
B. I
B. brought
D. led
12. Only guests of the hotel enjoy the ________ of using the private beach.
A. privilege
favor
B. possibility
C.
D. advantage
13. Tom ________ more than twenty pounds for the dictionary.
A. spent
paid
cost
B.
C.
D. took
14. The governor had to ________ all his appointments for the day and rush to the
train accident.
A. set off
B. pay off
C. see
off
D. call off
15. One car went too fast and ________ missed hitting another car.
A. completely
B. greatly
C.
narrowly
D. little
16. He was accused ________ stealing from the shop.
A. with
of
B. in
D. at
C.
17. It took me a long time to ________ the disappointment of losing the match.
A. get over
B. get up
C. get
into
D. get down
18. All the reference books should be made ________ to the teachers and students
in our university.
A. concerned
B. available
C.
related
D. flexible
19. He never thought the committee would ________ his proposal.
A. put up
on
B. object to
D. call on
C. pass
20. The company official ________ I thought would be fired received a raise.
A. whom
who
B. whoever
D. of whom
C.
21. Mr. Green ________ my letter, otherwise he would have replied before now.
A. must have receive
must have failed to receive
C. must
receive
must fail to receive
B.
D.
22. We shall appreciate ________ from you soon.
A. being heard
B. hearing
C. having been
heard
D. to hear
23. I fell and hurt myself while I ________ tennis.
A. was playing
B. am playing
C.
play
D. played
24. ________ you disagree with her, her idea is still worth considering.
A. Even if
B. If only
C. Instead
of
D. Despite of
25. I’d ________ you didn’t touch that, if you don’t mind.
A. rather
happier
B. better
C.
D. further
26. The two men arrested for breaking into that shop have been ________ $10,000.
A. committed
B. driven
C.
charged
D. fined
27. The driver might have ________ the accident if he had had his headlights on.
A. missed
stopped
B. avoided
C.
D. dismissed
28. The people at the party were worried about Janet because no one was aware ________
she had gone.
A. where that
B. of where
C. of the
place
D. the place
29. I ________ on the door for ten minutes now without an answer.
A. was knocking
B. am
knocking
C.
knocking
D. have been knocking
30. _________ tired after a hard work, she fell into bed and went straight to sleep.
A. Felt
felt
B. Feeling
D. To feel
C. Being
31. He was ________ enough to understand my questions from the gestures I made.
A. intelligent
B. efficient
C.
proficient
D. diligent
32. If you ________ the speed limit you will get into trouble with the police.
A. exclude
B. exceed
C.
excuse
D. execute
33. He opened the door and let himself in quietly ________ not to wake the family.
A. because
B. so as
C. so
that
D. despite
34. I wish you ________ to me before you went and bought that car.
A.
spoke
B. will speak
C. was going to speak
had spoken
D.
35. The director who was recently promoted did ________.
A. work more than anyone else
B. more than anyone else work
C. more work than anyone else
D. work more than anyone
36. Before her marriage, she spent a considerable time in that very part of
Shanghai,
_______ she belonged.
A. which
which
B. to where
D. at which
C. to
37. “Good- bye, Mr. Wang. I’m pleased _________ you”
A. to meet
B. meeting
C. to have been
meeting
D. to be met
38. The investigation, ________ will soon be published, was made by John.
A. at which the results
results on which
C. whose results
results
39. Don’t you know he is an old friend of ________?
A. my
brother
my brother’s friend
C. my brother’s
my brothers
B. the
D. at whose
B.
D.
40. _________ you return those books to the library immediately you will have to
pay a fine.
A. Until
If
B. Unless
C.
D. Provided
Part
II Reading Comprehension (40%)
Directions: Therearefourpassagesinthispart.Eachpassageisfollowedbysome
questionsorunfinishedstatements.Foreachofthemtherearefourchoicesmarked
A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people
subscribe (订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read
newspapers?
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings — battles lost and won,
king or rulers overthrown(推翻) or killed — took months and even years to travel
from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate.
Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away
countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of
other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film
guides, book reviews, stories and, of course, advertisements. The bigger ones are
put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the
newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space but it is worth the money,
for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those
who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from
advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price
and still make a profit.
Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion, as well
as a small but very popular section on jokes and cartoons(漫画).
41. The habit of reading newspapers is ________.
A. uncommon in the world
C. widespread in the world
families
42. A few hundred years ago news did not ________.
B. not popular in
U.S.A.
D. founded among a few
A. receive attention
C. spread to other countries
reach other countries
43. In the past, news was ________.
A. sent by telegraph
one person to another
C. sent by letter
telephone
B. travel fast
D. take long to
B. passed from
D. sent by
44. The money spent on advertisements is ________.
A. wasted
much
C. worthwhile
D. useless
B. not
45. The section on jokes and cartoons is ________.
A. read only by children
B. of no value
C. not helpful
D.
read by many
Passage 2
Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd,
1666. They were very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the
next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky.
By 3 o’clock on the Sunday morning, its glow had become so bright that Jane woke
her husband to watch it. Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown and went to the window
to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When
he got up in the morning, it looked as though the fire was dying down, though he
could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things
back where he wanted them.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was
a bad one. Three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was
still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to
the
Tower
ofLondon and climbed up on a high part of the buildings so that he could
see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire
and that even the houses on
London
Bridge
were burning. The man of the Tower told
him that the fire had started in a baker’s shop in
Pudding Lane; the baker’s house
had caught fire from the over-heated oven and then the flames had quickly spread
to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire
that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is
said, at Pie Corner.
46. What is the passage about?
A. The Great Fire of
London.
B. Who was the first
to discover the fire.
C. What Pepys was doing during the fire.
D. The losses caused by the fire.
47. They were up very late because ________.
A. it was Sunday morning
B. they were not very
sleepy
C. they were preparing for the dinner
D. they saw the great fire
start
48. What was Pepys doing when his wife told him about the fire?
A. He was asleep.
writing something.
B. He was
C. He was putting things back.
D. He was looking out
of the window.
49. Pepys slipped on his dressing gown. “To slip on ” means______.
A. to be wearing
B. to be pushing
C. to take
off
D. to put on
50. Why did the flames spread quickly?
A. The oven became very hot.
B. The houses
were close together.
C. The baker did nothing to stop it.
D. The baker’s house
was burning quickly.
Passage 3
A new report of the United Nations shows that, if the present growth rate of
2 percent per year continues, today’s world population of 5.1 billion will hit 6.4
billion by the year 2000.
What’s more, the great part of the growth — 9 of every 10 people added to
the earth’s population — will be in the poor and undeveloped countries. These
are the nations where providing enough food for billions of people already is proving
to be a headaching problem.
By the year 2000, today’s “have not” nations will have a total population
of 5 billion people, nearly four fifths of the world’s population.
Food isn’t the only problem that such a population explosion presents. The more
people there are and the worse their living conditions, the greater grows the
possibility of all kinds of social problems.
In 1830, world population reached 1 billion. It took only 100 more years to add
another billion to world population; just 30 more to add a third billion. And it
took just 15 more years to reach the 4 billion mark in 1975.
Actually, the world’s birth rate is falling. But so is death rate, as medical
advances have made it possible for man to live longer than before. Such advances
have also reduced baby death rate. Unless population growth is reduced, the world
population may reach 12 billion in a century. Is the earth capable of providing a
good life for so large a population?
51. A population explosion will lead to ________.
A. a lot of social problems
B. medical advances
C. a decrease in food production
D. a worse life in every
country
52. It took about ________ years for world population to grow from l billion to 3
billion.
A. 100
130
B.
115
C.
D. 145
53. By the year 2000, today’s ________ nations will have a total population of 5
billion people, nearly four fifths of the world’s population.
A. biggest
B. Asian
C. developing
D.
developed
54. ________, the world may have a population of 12 billion a century.
A. If man can live longer in the future
B. If the science of medicine is developing fast enough
C. If the population growth is not reduced
D. If the earth is able to provide a good life for more people
55. This passage tells us that ________.
A. the United Nations thinks it possible to avoid a population explosion
B. 5.1 billion people are living in the undeveloped countries
C. in advanced nations the population growth is being controlled
D. the world’s population is increasing
Passage 4
A scientist who wants to predict the way in which consumers(消费者) will spend
their money must study consumer behavior. He must obtain data both on the resources
of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money spending.