成人本科英语考试试题及答案解析九.docx

1、成人本科英语考试试题及答案解析九成人本科英语考试试题及答案解析(九)一、Reading Comprehension（共15小题,共30.0分）There are serval 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 mark the correspo

2、nding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 第1题 Puerto Rico may be part often USA but its music and dance is a mixture of both Spanish and American rhythms (节奏). The country, as a result, is a mixture of the new and the old. It exhibits the open American way of life yet m

3、aintains formal Spanish influences (影响). (76)This is shown in the buildings, not just in the difference between old and modem urban areas but also in the countryside, where older buildings sit side by side with schools and houses. It is found in the cooking, too many fast food restaurants together w

4、ith local cooking which has its roots in the mixture of culture of all the Caribbean and in the music-rock music is played in beach holiday centers but in the hilly center, Puerto Rican music can be heard.Old volcanic mountains, long and motionless, take up a large part of the islands center, with t

5、he highest peak, Cerro de Punta, at 1,338 meters in the Cordillera Central. The mountains are surrounded by a coastal plain with Atlantic shore beaches cooled all year round by trade winds.The population is 3.8 million, of which about 1.5 million live in San Juan, although about another two million

6、Puerto Ricans live in the USA. (77)The average lifespan is 73.8 years and GDP per capita is US12, 212, the highest in Latin America, although not up to the level of the continental USA. The people are largely a mixture of Amerindian, TainoArawak, Spanish and African. Most Puerto Ricans do not speak

7、English and less than 30% speak it well. The people are very friendly and hospitable, but there is law-breaking action linked to drags and unemployment.It can be learned from the passage that _ .A Puerto Rico belongs to the USAB Puerto Rico is part of SpainC Puerto Rico is an independent countryD Pu

8、erto Rico has the highest peak in Latin America【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】细节题。答案由第一段的首句可知。本题要求考生平时多积累英美地理及文化知识。Puerto Rico(波多黎各)是美国在加勒比海地区的自治联邦岛，16世纪成为西班牙殖民地，1898年荚西战争后被割让给美国，1952年宣布为联邦，自20世纪60年代起通过各种全民投票保持了其联邦地位。 圣胡安是其首都和最大城市。第2题 According to the passage, old volcanic mountains lie _ .A in the center

9、 of the countryB on a coastal plainC near the Cordillera CentralD in the north of the country【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】细节题。采用大写字母定位，回文中找到第二段第一句，即是答案。第3题 The underlined word hospitable in the last sentence means _ .A impolite to visitorsB welcoming to visitorsC tired of visitorsD impatient to a patien

10、t【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】词义题。此类题型一定要根据上下文或前后句判断。因and前后连接的是并列成分，意思相近，因此由 friendly一词可知B项正确。第4题 What is the best title for the passage?A Puerto Rico Maintains Formal Spanish InfluencesB Puerto Rico Is a Mixture of the New and the OldC Mixture City in AmericaD The General Geography and Population in Pu

11、erto Rico【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】主旨题。通读全文，A、B、D选项均体现文章的细节，只有C选项具有概括意义。因此选择C。第5题 Whats the character of Puerto Rico?A Either new or old.B Mixture of different people.C Too many fast food restaurants.D Either Spanish or American.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】推理题。问题是关于波多黎各城市特征的。各段中都出现有如“a mixture of the ne

12、w and the old”“a mixture of both Spanish and American rhythms(节奏)”等表融合意义的意群。因此可推断B正确。而C选项本身说法没有错，但是作为突出城市特点的答案意义不完整。A、D为错误选项，可直接排除。第6题 Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortun

13、ately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted(曲解) one.Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages.(78) Itis only by traveling in or living in a country and getting m know its inhabitants and their language that one

14、 can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves ar

15、e not very different after all!Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. (79) The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of

16、 affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, the greater ease of travel today has at least revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselv