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2018
年
5
月
12
日北京地区成人学士学位英语考试
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 corresponding letter on
the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
In 1866, sailors on a German ship called Paula threw a bottle with a message into
waters hundreds of miles off the western coast of Australia. One hundred and thirty-one
year later, (76) the bottle was found on an Australia island.
It’s believed to be the oldest
-known message in a bottle, in terms if the amount of
time
that
has
passed
between
when
it
was
written
and
when
it
was
found. Before
this
discovery, Guinness(
吉尼斯
) world Records said that the oldest was 108 years old, found
in
Germany
in
2015.
Australian
and
German
researchers
worked
together
to
check
whether the note is real or not.
Tonya Illman was walking on the beach in January when she spotted the old bottle. “I
picked it up thinking it might look nice on display in my home,” Illman says, according to an
account
on
her
husband’s
website.
(77)
The
bottle
was
partially
filled
with
wet
sand.
Shortly after, Illman’s son’s girlfriend
poured out the
contents and
found
a
tightly rolled
note covered in a piece of string.
Too
damp
to open initially, according to the account, the group waited for it to dry and
were
amazed
to
see
that
it
was
carefully
handwritten
in
German.
“The
first
thing
that
caught my eye was the year 1866,” said Illman’s husband Kym. “It seemed totally unlikely
to us that the note and bottle could have lasted that long.”
The pair reached out to the Western Australia Museum, which set out to study the
document.
“Extraordinary
finds
need
extraordinary
evidence
to
support
them,
so
we
contacted colleagues in German for help to find more information,” Ross Anderson, who is
in charge of works of art in the museum, said in a statement.
But this message is no SOS or love letter.
1.
According
to
Guinness
World
Records,
the
second
oldest
message
was
found
________.
A. in 2014
B. in 2015
C. 2017
D. in 2016
2. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. A sailor named Paula threw the old bottle into waters in 1866
B. Kym found the old bottle first
C. This oldest message was found in Germany
D. The oldest message was 131 years old
3. From the passage, we learn that__________.
A. Tonya found the bottle first
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B. Tonya and Kym contacted researchers in Germany for help
C. Illman’s son broke the bottle to take out what was inside
D. The note was written in English
4. The word damp in Paragraph 4 is closet in meaning to _________.
A. wet
B. dry
C. cool
D. hot
5. Which of the following is probably the best title for this passage?
A. The Oldest-Known Message Found in Australia
B. The Old-Known Message Found in Germany
C. An Extraordinary Evidence of History
D. A Guinness Beer Bottle
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
A handwritten note from Albert Einstein sold for more than $$1.5 million at an auction
(
拍卖会
). He gave the note to a hotel porter in Japan in 1922. Einstein was not carrying
money when the porter came to his room. (78) He was unable to give a cash tip, as a
guest normally would. Instead he gave a
tip
on how to live life.
“A
calm
and
modest
life
brings
more
happiness
than
pursuit
of
su
ccess
combined
with
constant
restlessness.”
Einstein
wrote.
The
note
was
written
in
German.
It
was
written
on
notepaper
from
the
imperial
Hotel
in
Ginza,
Tokyo,
where
Einstein
was
delivering a series of lectures.
He was travelling to Asia when news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics
reached
him
via
telegraph.
Einstein
was
unable
to
attend
the
prize-giving
ceremony
in
Stockholm.
Gal Wiener is head of the auction house in Jerusalem, Israel, where the note was
sold. He said Einstein told the hotel porter to keep the note since it will probably be worth
more than a regular trip.
Bidding(
拍卖中的出价
)
on
the
note
began
at
$$2000.
It
was
expected
to
sell
for
no
more than $$8000. But 25 minutes later, the auction house made the major sale.
(79) A second Einstein note was sold at the auction. It went for more than $$200,000.
“where there a will, there’s a way.” the note says.
The identity of the person or group that sold the notes has not been made public. Nor
has that of the buyer or buyers.
6. The word tip in Line 4 paragraph 1 probably mean _____________.
A. advice
B. trick
C. news
D. trend
7. The note was written in_________.
A. English
B. Japanese
C. German
D. French
8. Albert Einstein went to Japan to __________.
A. visit some friends
B. do some sightseeing
C. receive the Nobel Prize
D. give a series of lectures
9. The estimated sale value of the first note is about _____________.
A. $$2000
B. $$ 8000
C. $$200,000
D. $$1.5 million
10. According to the passage, which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?
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A. Einstein gave the porter the note instead of a tip.
B. The buyer of the second note was a Japanese businessman.
C. Einstein learned that he had won the Nobel Prize during his trip to Japan.
D. Einstein told the porter to keep the note since it might become valuable.
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
In 1950, Helena Rubinstein was one of the richest women in the world. She started
with nothing. She had no money, no education, and no one to help her. All she had were
12
jars
of
face
cream
and
a
lot
of
energy
and
ambition.
She
turned
there
into
a
multimillion-dollar cosmetics(
化妆品
) empire.
Helena Rubinstein was born in 1870 in Krakow, Poland. She was the oldest of eight
girls. Helena’s mother thought that beauty was very important. She used a special skin
cream that a foreign chemist made for her. Helena’s mother made all of her daughters use
it too.
Helena’s fat
her wanted her to be a doctor. But she hated medicine and left school.
Her father was very angry. Then he wanted her to get married, but she refused. In 1992,
she went to Melbourne, Australia, to live with a cousin and an uncle. She took only her
clothes and 12 jars of face cream.
Helena
didn’t
speak
English.
She
had
no
money
and
no
plans.
After
she
arrived,
everyone noticed her beautiful skin. In Australia, the hot and dry weather is very bad for
the skin. When she told some of the women the face cream, they all wanted some. Helena
sold them her cream and then ordered more.
Helena
’
s borrowed $$1,500 and opened a shop to sell the cream. (80)She worked 18
hours a day, seven days a week. She lived simply and saved all of her profits. She also
learned how to make different kinds of creams and showed women how to take care of
their skin. It was the first shop of this kind in the world.
In less than two years, Rubinstein had paid her loan and saved $$50,000. She made
more and more money every year. All this time, she thought only of work and success. A
newspaper reporter named Edward Titus was in love with her. But she was not interested
in him. She left Australia and went Europe to learn more about the science of beauty.
11. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Helena Rubinstein became the richest person in the world in 1950.
B. Helena’s father helped her to start her business.
C. Helena was an energetic and ambitious person.
D. Helena’s mother supported her with valuable business ideas.
12. From the passage, we learn that__________.
A. Helena had 8 sisters
B. Helena was born in Poland
C.
Helena’s
mother
m
ade
skin
cream
for
her
daughter
D.
Helena’s
father
was
a
doctor
13. Which of the following is TRUE?
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A. Helena went to Australia to study medicine.
B. Helena went to Australia to do business.
C. Helena’s uncle and cousin worked for her.
D. The weather in Australia is very bad for the skin.
14. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Helena was a hardworking businessman.
B. Helena saved all the money she made.
C. Helena could make a variety of creams.
D. Helena was in love with Edward Titus.
15. Which of the following is probably the best title for this passage?
A. The Science of Beauty
B. The Story of Helena
C. A Story of Love
D. A Business Empire
Part
Ⅱ
Vocabulary and Structure (30%)
Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there
are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the
sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the answer Sheet.
16. She is more beautiful than _______ in the class.
A. any girl
B. any other girl
C. all the girls
D. any girls
17. Please don’t come here today. I would
rather you ______ tomorrow.
A. came
B. will come
C. come
D. are coming
18. Tom and John seldom go to the library in the evening, _______?
A. do they
B. don’t they
C. are they
D. aren’t they
19. It was in this room_______ they had a meeting yesterday.
A. which
B. there
C. that
D. where
20. __________ it is very late now, the researchers are still working in the lab.
A. As
B. When
C. If
D. Although
21. _________ and you will make it next time.
A. Work hard
B. To work hard
C. Working hard
D. Worked hard
22. Written is great haste, _______________.
A. Jim made a lot of mistakes in the report.
B. there are plenty of mistakes in the report.
C. we found several mistakes in the report.
D. the report is full of mistakes.
23. The
number of primary schools in the rural areas
_______ doubling in the
past 50
years.
A. are
B. is
C. have been
D. has been
24. The key ________ success is hard work and persistence.
A. on
B. to
C. for
D. of
25. The train starts ______ 6:20, so you’d better get there before 6.
A. on
B. at
C. in
D. of
26. In the past we had only a day off for the whole week: we work every day_________
Sunday.
A. besides
B. beside
C. except
D. on top of
27. Though Thomas is very busy, he _________ one evening a week to play with his kids.
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