学位英语真题及答案.docx

1、学位英语真题及答案 北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试 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 c

2、orresponding 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) “It can be a perfect

3、mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is.”About 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

4、 for migrating birds, after habitat (栖息地) loss, with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year. (77) As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too have calls to makethem less deadly to birds. San Francisco adopted bird-safety standards for new buil

5、dings in 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 researche

6、rs 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 dont necessarily have to treat every window, Ms. Laurel said.

7、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 th

8、e 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

9、 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. D. Developments. C. Solutions. 4. are used in the alteration of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. A. Dot patterns B. Shades C. Nets D. Covers 5. Whic

10、h 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 lo

11、ss 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: Todays students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they live in a world where amazi

12、ng 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.

13、 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 inno

14、vation 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 inbusi

15、ness 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

16、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.

17、 (78) The entrepreneurship movement has its critics especially among those who see college as a time for extensive academic exploration. “I just dont think that entrepreneurship ranks so high in terms of national: need,”says Daniel S. Greenberg, Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards and Delusions of

18、 Campus Capitalism. author of Leonard A. Schlesinger, Babson Colleges 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.

19、 at college educationentrepreneurship of purpose main the is what passage, the to According 7. 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 skill

20、s. 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 stude

21、nts find what they really like and entrepreneurship isnt all about business. C. Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields. D. Colleges shouldnt put too much emphasis on entrepreneurship programs. 10. What is the main ideaof the passage A. Entrepreneurship courses in business schools.

22、 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

23、 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

24、 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 didnt do, and whether it was something that could still be fixed. The most commonly mentioned regrets involved romance (浪漫的事) (18%)lost lo

25、ves 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 Morrisons study, wh

26、ich 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 predic

27、tably 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 persons life circumstances accomplishments, shortcomings, situation in life- inject considerable fuel into the fires of regret, the authors w

28、rite. (79) People with less education, for instance, were more likely to report education regrets. 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%) h

29、ad 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 theyd chosen a different career path, for instance, or followed their passion. (8

30、0) Many participants also reported wishing they had worked less to spend more time with their children. There was an even split between regrets about inaction (not doing something) and action (doing something you wish you didnt). But, like previous studies, the current research found that some regre

31、ts 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 otable in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _. A. common B. capable C. wond