成人学位英语考试试题精解历年试题.doc

1、2004年11月成人学位英语考试试题精解历年试题 2004年11月北京成人本科学位英语考试A卷 Part I Reading Comprehension Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a weight problem. To many people, the cause is obvious: they eat too much. But scientific evidence

2、does little to support this idea. Going back to the America of the 1910s, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less and didnt watch television. Several modem studies, moreover, have shown t

3、hat fatter people do not eat more on the average than thinner people. In fact, some investigations, such as the 1979 study of 3, 545 London office workers, report that, on balance, fat people eat less than slimmer people. Studies show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a re

4、search group at Stanford University School of Medicine found the following interesting facts: The more the men ran, the more body fat they lost. The more they ran, the greater amount of food they ate. (76) Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat. 文章大意及重要词汇

5、美国30%的成人（adult）都有“体重（weight）问题”。大多数人认为造成这一现象的原因很明显（obvious）他们吃的太胖了。但是这一观点却没有足够的科学证据（evidence）来支撑。回顾一下20世纪处的美国，当时的人们普遍比现在的人瘦，吃得比现在的人多，同时他们的体力劳动（physically）很辛苦、经常走路、很少使用机器、也不看电视。现在许多研究也表明。从整体上（average）来看胖人比瘦人吃得要少。而1979年对伦敦3545个办公室人员的调查也恰恰证实了这一观点。研究同时也表明瘦人比胖人运动量更大。美国斯坦福大学医学院的研究人员发现了下列有趣的事实：运动量越大的人，消耗的体

6、内脂肪越多。运动量越大的人，饭量越大。因此（Thus），运动量最大的人吃得也最多，但同时消耗的体内脂肪也最多。1. The physical problem that many adult Americans have is that_. A. they are too slim B. they work too hard C. they are too fat D. they lose too much body fat 答案：C 细节题。答案在第一段第一句话,“In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a we

7、ight problem许多美国成年人身体问题是他们太胖了。 2. According to the article, given 500 adult Americans, _ people will have a weight problem. A. 30 B. 50 C. 100 D. 150答案：D计算题。答案在第一段第三句话,“In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a weight problem”做一个简单的剩法就得到答案。 3. Is there any scientific evidence to

8、 support that eating too much is the cause of a weight problem? A. Yes, there is plenty of evidence. B. Of course, there is some evidence to show this is true. C. There is hardly any scientific evidence to support this. D. We dont know because the information is not given.答案：C细节题。答案在第一段第二和第三句话,“To m

9、any people, the cause is obvious: they eat too much But scientific evidence does little to support this idea因此几乎没有任何科学家依据证明这一点”。 4. In comparison with the adult American population today, the Americans of the 1910s _. A. ate more food and had more physical activities B. ate less food but had more ac

10、tivities C. ate less food and had less physical exercise D. had more weight problems 答案：A细节题。答案在第一段。“Going back to the America of the 1910s, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically” 题干中worked harder physically相当于答案中had more p

11、hysical activities。 5. Modem scientific researches have reported to us that_. A. fat people eat less food and are less active B. fat people eat more food than slim people and are more active C. fat people eat more food than slim people but are less active D. thin people run less, but have greater in

12、crease in food intake 答案：A细节题。答案在第一段。“Going back to the America of the 1910s, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically” 题干中worked harder physically相当于答案中had more physical activities。 Passage 2 Questions 6 to 10 are based on th

13、e following passage: By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can greatly increase their childrens language development. It is surprising but true. (77) How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the childrens language development. If a parent encoura

14、ges the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the childs language skills increase. A study was done with 30 three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group,

15、 the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-or-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, What is the doggie doing? rather than Is the doggie running away? (78) The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers. At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ in measures of langua