英语B级考试试题答案.docx

1、英语B级考试试题答案2011年英语B级考试试卷答案一、单项选择题（说明：这是我同学给的）1HoW Can We reduce the risk Of cancer?A CUt i n B CUt dow nC CUt off D CUt out2The SteadiIy rising cost of labor On the WaterfrOnt has greatly inCreaSed thecost of ShiPP ing cargo by water.A ContinU OUSly B quicklyC excessively D excepti On ally3DUring the

2、 PaSt ten years there have been dramatic Changes in the internatiOnal Sit uatio n.A Perma nent B POWerfUIC Strik ing D PraCtiCaI4The most CrUCiaI problem any econo mic SyStem faces is how to USe its SCarCe reso urces.A PUZZIing B difficultC terrifying D Urgent5HiS new girlfriend had Omitted to tell

3、him that She WaS married.A failed B deletedC refused D rejected6The SUbStance Can be added to gasoline to accelerate the SPeed of automobiles.A quicke n B ShOrte nC loose n D en Iarge7We should n ever Content ourselves With a little kno WIedge On ly.A ConVinCe B SatiSfyC comfort D ben efit8We should

4、 Con templated the problem from all sides.A deliberated B thoughtC described D desig ned9HiS health had deteriorated while he WaS in PriSon.A became better B became worseC became Stron ger D became Weaker10If you Want my advice, you should revise your pla n for the trip to Beiji ng.A Change B exchan

5、ge C en Iarge D en COUrage11Smok ing is in hibited in PUbIiC places.A in StrUCted B inqu iredC forbidde n D StriVedeutha nasia12.He is Said to be SUffering from terminal CanCer and has asked for（安乐死）A acute B ChroniCC final D fatal13I felt impelled to tell the truth.A promoted B in ducedC compelled

6、D improved14ItS PrUdent to take a thick coat in cold Weather When you go out.A Con troversial B reas On ableC Sen sible D Sen SitiVe15S bee n no mistake?Are you POSitiVe that thereA rati Onal B reas On ableC Certa in D bound、阅读判断。 阅读判断。An ObSerVati On and an Expla nati OnIt is worth look ing at One

7、or two aspects of the Way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, CUddIing and cleaning require little comment, but thePOSitiOn in WhiCh She holds the baby against her body When resting is rather revealing. CarefUI StUdi es have show n the fact that 80 PerCe nt of mothers hold their i

8、nfants in their left arms, ho lding them against the left Side of their bodies. If asked to explain the Significance of thi S Preference most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right -handedness in the population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers

9、 keep their dominant arm free for maniPUIations. BUt a detailed analysis shows that this is not t he CaSE True, there is a SIight difference between right-handed and left-handed females 。 b Ut not enoUghto PrOVide adequate explanation. It emerges that 83 PerCent of right-handed mothers hold the baby

10、 On the left side, but so do 78 PerCent of left-handed mothers. In Otherwords, On Iy 22 PerCe nt of the left-ha nded mothers have their dominant hands free fo r actions. Clearly there must be some other, less obvious explanation.The Only Other clue comes from the fact that the heart is On the Side o

11、f the mother S body. Could it be that the SoUnd of her heartbeat is the vital factor? And in What way? Thinking along these IineS it WaS argued that PerhaPS duri ng its existe nce in Side the bod y of the mother the Unborn baby get USed to the SoUnd of the heart beat. If this is so, th en the re-dis

12、covery of this familiar SoUnd after birth might have a clai ming effect On the infant, especially as it has just bee n born into a Strange and frighteningly new worlD if t his is so then the mother would,somehow, Soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at PeaCe if held On the left against

13、 her heart than on the right.16We Can Iearn a lot by ObSerVing the POSitiOn in WhiCh a mother holds her babya gainst her body.A Right B Wrong C Not men tio ned17Most left-handed womenfeel comfortable by holding their babies in their leftarm and keep the right arm free.A Right B Wrong C Not mention e

14、d 18The number of right-handed mothers who hold the baby On the left Side exceeds t hat of left-ha nded ones by 22%.A Right B Wrong C Not men tio ned19The fact that most left-handed mothers hold the baby On their left Side renders th e first expla nati on Un SUSta in able.A Right B Wrong C Not men t

15、io ned 20The fact that the heart is On the left Side of the mothers body PrOVideS the most ConVinCing expla nati On Of all.A Right B Wrong C Not mention ed 21A baby held in the right arm of its mother Can be easily frighte ned.A Right B Wrong C Not men tio ned 22The WriterS explanatiOn Of the Phenom

16、enonis SUPPOrted by the fact that babies te nd to be more PeaCefUI if held in their mothers left arms than in the right arms.A Right B Wrong C Not men tio ned 三、概括大意与完成句子。 概括大意与完成句子。Caring for the oldThe old do not have to look exclusively to the past. ReIieVed of some of life S respo nSibiIitieS an

17、d fortified by many years of experience and knoWIedge, they mayhave a mu Ch better idea of how to SPend their time enjoyably than they did in their youth. And not all enjoyment is restricted to the mental or philosophical. HeaIthyPhySiCaI activity remai ns quite POSSibIe for most of US well into our

18、 later years.Old people SometimeS display SUrPriS ing freedom and forthright ness in the expressi On Of their thoughts and feeli ngs, and an ability to tran Smit affect ion. It is as though some o f the rituals WhiCh ConStriCt US in earlier life fall away.BUt a higher PerCentage of people SUffer fro

19、m emotiOnal distress in Old age than at a ny Other time in adult life, and the gap between need and Care is often filledby dubious measures, SUCh as heavy-ha nded PreSCriPti On Of medic inE For many years it WaS assumed that old people Were not appropriate Can didates for psychotherapy.BUt a few Cli

20、nicians h ave risen to the challenge and discovered that individual and group PSyChOtheraPy is just as effective With the old as With the young.It is easy to Un dersta nd Why an earthquake CaUSeS terror. Yet in Old age theremay b e terror of a Very PriVate n ature, a SenSe of dis in tegrati On SOmet

21、imeS Stemmi ngfrom inner Conflicts, SOmetimeS from a PremonitiOn Of death or the fear of becomingdepe ndent.DePendency is a grim choice: inSeCUrity and deprivatiOn must be Weighed against loss of autOnomy and integrity. BUt if there is nothing ShamefUI about the dependency of a baby or a young child

22、, there should be nothing ShamefUI about the depe nden CieS n atural Wi th old age and diminishing PhySiCaI resources.The complexity and impersOnality of the bureaucratic establishments, WhiCh havethe meansto PrOVide help, are often threatening to old peoplE The younger generatiOn today, on the othe

23、r hand, will have had many decades to in teract With the system by the time they reach old age.Many Of us, including healthcare providers, assume that We know What old people an d dying people want, but our assumptiOnS are often a reflectiOnS of our won thoughts and feeli ngs based On PerS Onal in t

24、erpretati OnS of SCa nty bits of ObSerVation. SUCh assumptiOnS are really an excuse to avoid close Contact With the terminally ill. ASSUming We know What they want, We ObSerVe ourselves from being With them, and Shari ng their thoughts about the end of life.We SOmetimeS assume, Wron gly, that old pe

25、ople are too Con fused or Sen ile to beawa re of the nearn ess of death. In Con SeqUe nce, com muni Cati On betwee n a dying andOtherS is SUbjeCt to extraordinary OmiSSiOnS and distortions. Protecting the dyingfrom knoWIedge of their ConditiOn Often SerVeS to PrOteCt US from the UncomfortablePrOSPeC

26、t of talking a bout dying and death. EVaSiOnS like this Only Iead to inCreaSing isolation at a time When emotiOnal honesty and Understanding are most needed.23ParagraPh 124ParagraPh 225ParagraPh 326ParagraPh 5A KnoWing better how to enjoy IifeB FreedOm in expressi OnC PSyChOtheraPy effective With so

27、me of the oldD PeriOd of greater emoti Onal distressE DePe ndency: a grim ChOiCeF GUiIti ness: depe ndency27Old people may well be active in28Old people SOmetimeS know better29It is a n atural thi ng30We Oftenthink that We know the feeli ng of a dying PerS on,A how to show love to OtherS B how to sh

28、ow an ger to OtherSC yet We know We are WrongD VariOUS kinds of SPOrtSE but We are ofte n WrongF that old people depe nd On OtherS四、阅读理解第一篇A Gay（n. 同性恋Biologist（n. 生物学家同性恋）生物学家）Molecular biologist Dean HammerhaS blue eyes, light brown hair and a good SenSe Of humor. He SmOkeS cigarettes, SPends Iong

29、 hours in an old laboratory at the USNatiOn al InStitUte of Health, and in his free time CIimbS UP CIiffS and PointS hisSkiS dow n Stee P slopes. He also happe ns to be ope nly, matter-of-factly gay.What is it that makes HammerWhO he is? What, for that matter, accoUntS for the tal ents and traits th

30、at make UP anyone S PerSOnality? HammeliS not Content merely to ask S UCh questiOnS 。 he is trying to anSWer them as well. A Pioneer in the field of molecular P sychology, Hammer is exploring the role genes play in governing theVery core of our in dividuality. To a remarkable extent, his work on Wha

31、t might be called the gay, thrill-seeki ng and quit-smoking genes reflects how own genetic PrediSPOSiti ons.That work, WhiCh has appeared mostly in SCientific journals, has been gatheredinto a n accessible and quite readable form in Hammer S CreatiVe new book, LiVing With OUr G enes. “you have about

32、 as much ChOiCe in some aspect of your PerSOnality. ”Hamer and co - author Peter Copeland Write in the introductory chapter, “ as you doin the ShaPe of your nose or the SiZe of your feet. ”Un til rece ntly, research into behavioral gen etics WaS domin ated byPSyChiatriStS and PS ychologists, who based their most compell ing Con clusi OnS about the importa nce of genes o n StUdieS of ide ntical twins. F