成人学士学位英语考试模拟卷.docx

1、成人学士学位英语考试模拟卷成人学士学位英语考试模拟试卷 （一）Part Listening Comprehension (20 minutes 20%)Section A (5%)Directions: In this section you will hear five incomplete dialogues. They will be spoken only once. After each incomplete dialogue there will be a pause. During the pause you must read the four choices marked A

2、,B,C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.1. A. How do you do.B. Nice to meet you.C. Have a nice day.D. I havent seen you for a long time.2. A. Its nice to meet you.B. Have a good day.C. Its been nice

3、 having met you.D. I am looking forward to meeting you.3. A. I feel so hot today.B. Yes, its quite cool today.C. I am so happy today.D. I dont like the weather here.4. A. Mind your own business.B. Whats up?C. I am busy now.D. Sure, what can I do for you?5. A. Dont mention it.B. Its so kind of you to

4、 say that.C. Dont say that.D. Its what I should do. Section B (10%)Directions: In this section you will hear ten short conversations. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question the

5、re will be a pause. During the pause you must read the four choices marked A,B,C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.6. A. She must begin writing a paper for her history class.B. She must start writi

6、ng up her laboratory assignments for her chemistry class.C. She must begin studying for her English examination.D. She must begin studying for her French examination.7. A. In New York.B. In Boston.C. In Michigan.D. In Washington.8. A. First gear.B. Second gear.C. Reverse.D. Drive.9. A. He relaxes.B.

7、 He goes fishing.C. He goes to work.D. He works at home.10.A. He ordered chocolate cake.B.He ordered apple pie.C.He ordered vanilla ice cream.D.He did not order dessert.11. A. From eight oclock in the morning until noon.B. From noon until six oclock in the evening.C. From eight oclock in the morning

8、 until nine oclock at night.D. Twenty-four hours a day.12. A. Spanish.B. Arabic.C. Japanese.D. Chinese.13. A. To a museum.B. To a wedding.C. To New Mexico.D. To visit a friend in Arizona.14. A. She decided to buy a gold necklace.B. She decided to buy a pair of earrings and a gold necklace to match t

9、hem.C. She decided to buy a pair of gold earrings to match a gold necklace that she already had.D. She decided to buy a pair of silver earring they were cheaper than the gold ones.15. A. Two hours.B. Four hours.C. Six hours.D. Eight hours. Section C (5%)Directions: In this section you will hear one

10、dialogue and one short passage. At the end of the dialogue and the passage, you will hear some questions. The dialogue and the passage will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the four choices marked A,B,C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the correspo

11、nding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 16 to 17are based on the dialogue you have just heard.16. A. Accounting.B. Engineering.C. Education.D. International business.17. A. A concert.B. A dance.C. A party.D. A movie.Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage

12、 you have just heard.18. A. impatient.B. terrible.C. angry.D. happy.19. A. You are patient.B. You obey all the traffic rules.C. You dont cut another car off.D. You wait in line at a red light.20. A. Traffic Safety.B. A Careful Driver.C. How To Drive A Car.D. A Traffic Accident .Part Reading Comprehe

13、nsion (30 minutes 30%)Directions: In this part there are four passages. 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 are required to decide on the choice that best answers the question or completes the statemen

14、t.Passage 1Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the voice of the advertisers. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; signals to us f

15、rom the roadside billboards all day and flashes messages to us in colored lights all night.Advertising has been among Englands biggest growth industries since the war. Perhaps the reason is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing an

16、d developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thin

17、g and leave it to the advertiser to find eleven ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness.Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate chang

18、e. The ideal product is one which goes on unchanged for ever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for-how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.21. Which

19、of the following can best describe the authors attitude toward modern advertising?A. Indifferent. B. Shocked.C. Disapproving. D. Approving.22. According to the author, which is NOT the designers chief concern when he designs a product?A. Stress factors. B. Man-hours.C. Machine tolerances. D. Custome

20、r-appeal.23. It is stated in the passage that those responsible for giving a product customer-appeal are _.A. customers B. designers C. advertisers D. manufacturers24. According to the author, when some change in a product is necessary, a manufacturer will choose to _.A. lower the production cost B.

21、 hire a better designerC. improve its quality D. alter its image25. The best title for the passage might be _.A. Advertising Since the WarB. Advertising and ManufacturersC. AdvertisingEnglands Biggest IndustryD. Advertising and Purchasers Passage 2Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passag

22、e:There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Information in long-term memory can be remembered at a later time when it is needed. The information may be kept for days or weeks. However, information in short-term memory is kept for only a few seconds, usually by repeating the informatio

23、n over and over. The following experiment shows how short-term memory has been studied.Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember vocabulary. The subjects in his experiment were 75 college students. They represented all levels of ability in English: beginning

24、, intermediate, advanced, and native-speaking students.To begin, the subjects listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording, the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they remembered. Each question had four choices. The subjects had

25、 to circle the word they had heard in the recording. Some of the questions had four choices that sound alike. For example, weather, whether, wither, and wetter are four words that sound alike. Some of the questions had four choices that have the same meaning. Method, way, manner, and system would be

26、 four words with the same meaning. Finally the subjects took a language proficiency test.Henning found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike; students with a higher proficiency made more of their mistakes on words that have the same m

27、eaning. Hennings results suggest that beginning students hold the sound of words in their short-term memory, and advanced students hold the meaning of words in their short-term memory.26. Henning made the experiment in order to study_.A. how students remember English vocabulary by short-term memoryB

28、. how students learn English vocabularyC. how to develop students ability in EnglishD. how long information in short-term memory is kept27. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. Information in short-term memory is different from that in long-term memory.B. Long-term m

29、emory can be achieved only by training.C. It is easier to test short-term memory than long-term memory.D. Henning gave a separate test on vocabulary to his students.28. From Hennings results we can see that_.A. beginners have difficulty distinguishing the pronunciation of wordsB. advanced students r

30、emember words by their meaningC. it is difficult to remember words that sound alikeD. it is difficult to remember words that have the same meaning29. The word “subject” (Para. 2) in the passage means_.A. the college course the students take B. the theme of the listening materialC. a branch of knowle

31、dge studied D. the student experimented on30. The passage centers on_.A. memory B. two kinds of memoryC. short-term memory D. an experiment on students Passage 3Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always at the mercy of t

32、he scientists timekeeping methods. For this reason, scientists are interested in devices that give premise of more precise timekeeping.In their search for precision, scientists have turned to atomic clocks that depend on various vibrating atoms or molecules to supply their “ticking”. This is possible bec