2008年成人高考高起点英语全真试题
Passage One
In 2006, CharlestonMiddle Schoolstarted an outdoor classroom program by a small group of teachers. “This program is well on its way to being a great success for our school community. 36The students love it because they to see nature work. I love it because I see it in their eyes that they are learning about the outdoors,” said Coach Nathan Ross, a 5th grade teacher atCharlestonMiddle School. These teachers took their summer break to get this program started. 37The money for the outdoor classroom came from collecting cans, school plays, teachers vs. students basketball games.
The outdoor classroom has different kinds of trees plans labeled so that the students can see know what is in their school backyard. They built an outdoor theater, bridge bird-houses. The bridge is a walkway over a small river, which is still under construction
38The bird-houses are home to many different kinds of birds. “ I think the outdoor classroom is so much fun ! My favorite thing is the bird-houses because I love to listen to the birds sing,” said 4 th grade Kailee Porter.
The outdoor classroom connects the students with the outdoors an provides a new setting environment for learning. “I like the outdoor classroom because we don’t have to sit in the hot classroom all day. We get to go outside enjoy nature,” said Scott Ross, a 5 th grader.
（A）36. The teachers started an outdoor classroom program in order to ________.
A. help students learn about nature
B. take students away to the countryside
C. see what the school backyard looks like
D. get something to do when school is over
（B）37. Part of the money for the outdoor classroom came from________.
A. students in the program
B. the income from student’s plays
C. a can collector in the community
D. parents interested in the program
（A）38. ________ is one of the activities in the outdoor classroom..
A. Building bird-houses
B. Holding basket games
C. Having classes in the theater
D. Catching different kinds of birds
Passage Two
Joseph Lemasolai wrote a book about his life. His people, The Maasai, are nomads, meaning they do not stay in one place for long. They move their villages in search of good grass fresh water for their cattle. 39“The cow is the centerpiece of pretty much everything we do,” Joseph explains. “ That’s why we move. We could not be nomads without cattle. You can’t move for nothing- you can’t just walk around!”
When he was very young, 40Joseph spent much of his time looking after his family’s cattle,taking them to food water watching out for lions. He played on the grasslwith his friends.
When Joseph was about six years old, he left his family to attend a boarding school. There, Joseph faced difficulties much like other children do. He was laughed at because he was fat. He got into trouble daily with his teachers.
But Joseph also faced difficulty most children do not. 41“Every time school closed for vacation, I had to find my way home,” Joseph says. “That was ones of the hardest things: The village might be 5 miles away, or it might be 50. Sometimes I wouldn’t know exactly where my family was. I had to search for them.”
Joseph later attended high school in a city. After graduation, he went to college. Finally, he became a social studies teacher, now he is teaching seventh graders at a school.
Every summer, Joseph travels back to the grasslto visit his mother, brothers, friends. 42he takes a group of students with him to see both the beauty the difficulty of growing up in the part of the country. “ I like to show them the other side of the coin,” Joseph says.
（C）39. The word “centerpiece” in Paragraph 1 means “________”.
A. the reason of moving
B. the things already done
C. the most important part
D. the animal in the middle
（C）40. Before going to school, Joseph spent a lot of his time________.
A. visiting his friends from place to place
B. getting food water for his family
C. taking care of his family’s cattle
D. watching lions on the grassland
（A）41. When school closed for vacation, Joseph had great difficulty________.
A. finding out where his home village were
B. understanding what he was required to do
C. getting in touch with his teachers
D. walking 5 to 50 miles in a day.
（D）42.By taking some of his students home, Joseph wants them to ________.
A. deal with difficult situations
B. know about his love for his family
C. realize what the people really need
D. learn about a different way of living
Passage Three
Clay is important because it is used to make containers of all kinds. 43Workers add water to soften clay. This makes it easier to form into shapes by hor by machine. Then it is heated to a very high temperature. The result is a container that will last for many years.
In many countries, clay was formed from volcanoes.44 This kind of clay usually contains many minerals. So the fires to make containers from volcanic clay must be hotter than those used for non-volcanic clay. The fires may be as hot as1400℃, The high temperature should not be reached too fast so that the containers can be dried slowly
You can add some materials to clay to gain desired results. For example, 45 you can add sto prevent tiny breaks or lines from forming on the surface of the final product. But you should not use sfrom the coasts of oceans, Instead, you should use from rivers or other areas.
46Clay often exists in fields covered with some water. The clay will be found about one meter below the ground. River banks often also have clay about one meter or less under the surface. Clay is very shiny when it is wet. You can also take some of the material add enough water to it. Then press it in your hands until it is about the size of an egg. It is probably clay if it holds together when you stop pressing
（A）43. What do workers do with clay to make it into different shapes?
A. Soften it by putting water into it
B. Heat it to a very high temperature
C. Harden its surface by pressing it
D. Add some materials into it.
（D）44. What’s the difference between volcanic clay non-volcanic clay?
A. Volcanic clay can be found in very few countries.
B. Non-volcanic clay can be dried more quickly.
C. Non-volcanic clay makes better containers
D. Volcanic clay usually has more minerals
（A）45. In making containers sis added to clay ________.
A. to produce containers free from tiny breaks
B. to make desired lines on the surface
C. to make it easier to shape
D. to get special patterns
（C）46.Clay can often be found ________.
A. along the coast of the ocean
B. anywhere under the ground
C. in water-covered fields
D. under volcanoes
Passage Four
Nearly five million people seeGrCanyoneach year.
Most of them see it from their cars at overlooks along the South Rim. The South Rim is the easiest to reach in the park.
The South Rim is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Services are provided facilities are open year round..
47 A much smaller number of people see the Canyon from the North Rim, which lies just 10 miles directly across the Canyon from the South Rim. The North Rim rises a thousfeet higher than the South Rim, is more difficult to reach. 48Heavy snows close the road to the North Rim from late October to mid-May of each year. Even in good weather it’s harder to get to.
49The inner canyon includes everything below the rim is seen mainly by campers, mule rider, or river runners. There are many opportunities here for adventurous persons who want to camp, ride a mule to Phanton Ranch, or take a river trip through the Canyon on theColorado River.
Visitor services facilities inside the national park on the north Rim are only open from mid-May to late October. Weather permitting, the North Rim is open fro day use only, following the close of facilities in late October, During this time there are neither services nor overnight facilities.
（D）47. What do we learn from the passage about the South Rim?
A. It attracts over five million visitors each year
B. It is hard to get to even in good weather
C. It is not open in winter months
D. It is lower than the North Rim
（B）48. From late October to mid-May,_______ the North Rim.
A. many mule riders come to
B. heavy snows block the way to
C. services are provided 24 hours on
D. the weather is usually pleasant on
（D）49.To see the inner part of the Canyon visitors can _______.
A. follow the mules passing by
B. drive a car to Phantom Ranch
C. have campers take them there
D. take a trip on theColorado River
（B）50. The article is most probably from _______.
A. a history book for children
B. a guidebook for tourists
C. a newspaper for businessmen
D. a magazine for sportsmen
四）附加练习题
Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it is painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands wives realize what these energy cycles mean, which cycle each member of the family has.
You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract (对抗) your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam (鼓起干劲 |