2016年4月湖南成人学士学位英语考试真题及答案

2016 年 4 月湖南成人学士学位英语考试真题及答案 PartⅠDialogue Completion (10 points) Dialogue One Mike: Can I borrow $5? Tony: 1 Why do you need it? Mike: I want to buy lunch. Tony: Where’s your money? Mike: 2 Tony: Your wallet is empty? Mike: I don’t have even one dollar in it. Tony: 3 Mike: Even if it’s only for a short while. Tony: It’s always good to have friends Mike: Friends will lend you money when you’re broke. Tony: 4 A. Being broke is no fun. indeed. C. It’s not in my wallet. 1——4 DCAB B. A friend in need is a friend D. Sure. Dialogue Two Mary: I like living here. Jenny: 5 Pasadena is a nice city. Mary: It’s not too big. Jenny: And it’s not too small. Mary: It has great weather all year long. Jenny: It has the Rose Parade. Mary: It has beautiful houses, great schools and Jenny: It’s close to the mountains. Mary: 7 Jenny: I’m not ever going to leave. A. People enjoy the Parade. C. I agree. 5——7 CDB Dialogue Three 6 B. No place is better than this. D. wonderful restaurants. John: Do you have a car? Bill: Yes. I do. 8 John: Is it new? Bill: It was new in 2008. John: So, it’s pretty old now. Bill: Yes, it is. 9 John: Do you take good care of it? Bill: Oh, yes. 10 And my mechanic changes the oil twice a year. A. But it still looks good. B. What kind of car do you have? C. I have a Honda. D. I wash it once a week. 8——10 CAD PartⅡReading Comprehension (40 points) Passage One The new year brought new desks for students at Vallecito Elementary School, in San Rafael, California. The last three of the school’s 22 classrooms switched from seated desks to standing desks. “It’s now the first all-standing school,” Juliet Starrett told TFK. She started the group StandUp Kids. Her goal is to have every U.S. public school kid using a standing desk within the next 10 years. Starrett’s daughters—Georgia, 10, and Caroline, 7—attend Vallecito. They are thrilled with their desks. “You feel happier, you’re less tired, and you’re more active,” Georgia says. Some of the desks have wheels and fidget bars. The bars let kids move in a way that doesn’t disturb the class. Wheels allow the desks to be moved easily. The desks also adjust to different heights. Kids take breaks by sitting on the floor. There is the trend of designing things to make them easy and safe to use. According to Mark Benden, director of the Texas A&M Center, standing workers are more focused and healthier. He says his research shows that kids using standing desks are more engaged and burn more calories ( 卡 路 里 ). In December, researchers in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom released similar findings. But not everyone is convinced standing is better than sitting. Some parents and teachers worry that kids will get tired and that standing for long periods of time may be harmful. And standing desks are more expensive. Benden says both sitting and standing desks can cause problems if they are not the proper height. “Our message should not be ‘Sit less, stand more,’” he says, “but ‘Sit less, move more.’” 11. How many classrooms in Vallecito are equipped with standing desks? A. 3 B. 25 C. 19 D. 22 12. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. Why standing desks are used. B. Where standing desks are used. C. How standing desks are used. D. Who use standing desks. 13. Mark Benden’s research shows that kids using standing desks . A. feel more tired B. are more focused C. get better scores D. tend to eat more 14. The researchers in Australia and the UK (para. 4) . A. would agree with Benden B. are not fully convinced by Benden C. partly support Benden’s findings D. find it hard to accept Benden’s theory 15. Some parents and teachers worry that using standing desks may . A. disturb the kids in class B. leave the classroom noisy C. harm the students’ health D. increase the teachers’ workload 11——15 DCBAC Passage Two Japan and Germany have the world's oldest populations, but neither country has enough trained health care workers to meet the needs of older adults. So, they are turning to Vietnam for help. This month, 100 young Vietnamese are going to Germany as part of a project to train what are called geriatric ( 老年 的) nurses to work in the European country. The trainees recently completed a six-month language and culture class, they will spend the next two years in an occupational training program. If the trainees pass the final exam, they will be able to work in Germany as geriatric nurses for another 3 years. Germany is facing a crisis as low birth rates combine with a growing population of citizens who are living longer. About 20 percent of the population is over the age of 65, and that percentage is expected to continue rising. This is a problem Japan also faces. Later this year, 150 Vietnamese candidates will go to Japan for two years of training at the country's hospitals, after that they are expected to take the national nursing exam. Japan already trains nurses from the Philippines and Indonesia, but the health care system has been criticized for being too harsh. All candidates must take the same exam, but it is very difficult for foreign applicants because few can speak the Japanese language. Even with an aging population, many Japanese are opposed to foreigners working in some industries. Critics say foreign labor could lead to higher unemployment, but there is little opposition to foreign nurses. In Vietnam, the situation is very different. 60 percent of the population was born after the Vietnam war ended in 1975. There are not enough jobs for everyone who wants one in Vietnam, but learning the nursing skills can help them find jobs overseas. 16. The overseas Vietnamese nurses must complete the following EXCEPT . A. a culture course B. a health care exam C. a language training D. a driving test 17. A Vietnamese youngster will spend at least in Germany before working there as a geriatric nurse. A. six months B. one and a half years C. two and a half years D. five years 18. It is inferred from the passage that in Japan . A. the health care system is much more strict than that in Germany B. the majority of nurses are from Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines C. the Vietnamese who pass the national exams will be trained at hospitals D. foreigners find it hard to pass nursing exams because few can speak Japanese 19. Faced with the aging population, many Japanese . A. welcome foreign nurses working in Japan B. oppose foreign labor working in most places C. criticize the government for being too harsh D. blame the government for high unemployment 20. The last paragraph indicates that . A. the Vietnamese also face the aging problem B. over half of the Vietnamese are under the age of 45 C. sixty percent people cannot find jobs in Vietnam D. more and more Vietnamese have found jobs abroad 16——20 DCDBD Passage Three Born around 1770 in Tennessee, Sequoyah was a Cherokee. Like other Native Americans of that time, he could neither read nor write. He couldn’t help noticing, though, how white people wrote to one another on sheets of paper. They often used these “talking leaves,” as some Native Americans called them, to communicate. Back then, the Cherokee had no way to write down words in their own language. Sequoyah believed it was important for the Cherokee to have a system of writing. So, in 1809, he set out to create an alphabet that the Cherokee could use to do just that. Sequoyah started by drawing pictures, with each one representing a different word or idea. He soon realized that writing sentences using pictures would be much too difficult. There were too many words. No one would ever be able to remember that many pictures. Sequoyah decided to try a different approach. He began to develop symbols to stand for the sounds, or syllables (音节), that made up words. Twelve years later, he completed a system of writing with 86 different symbols. Each one stood for a different syllable in the Cherokee language. The symbols could easily be put together to form words. Soon thousands of Cherokee were able to read and write in their own language. Sequoyah’s work did not end there, however. He helped to establish a print shop and began publishing a bilingual newspaper in both Cherokee and English. The shop also printed books translated from English into Cherokee. Sequoyah died in 1843, but many Cherokee of today still use the alphabet he invented. Thanks to him, the Cherokee now have a written history that will never be forgotten. In honor of his achievements, one of the California parks was named as Sequoia National Park. 21. As can be learned from the first paragraph, a Cherokee was a . A. Native Americans B. writer C. White man D. genius 22. “Talking leaves” in the final paragraph refers to . A. English spellings B. pieces of paper with words C. English sentences D. tree leaves that make sounds 23. To create an alphabet, Sequoyah began with pictures that stand for A. sounds B. symbols C. words D. syllables 24. Sequoyah’s invention was important to the Cherokee, because . A. the Cherokee are now able to read and write B. the Cherokee now make a living with the writing system .