江苏省成人高等教育英语考试（夜大、函授卷）B4 I. Listening Comprehension 10%（略）
II. Vocabulary and Structure 20%
There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B,
C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. 11. It is easy for us to make friends with each other, but it is hard to _______ our friendship for a long time.
A. make B. maintain C. hold D. reserve
12. _______ makes perfect. If you go on practising, you will make much progress.
A. Exercise B. Training C. Practice D. Drill
13. She had a son _______ when she came to China for the first time.
A. aged six B. is at six age C. is six year old D. is old six
14. In _______ years there have been many changes in my hometown. Many joint-ventures are seen everywhere.
A. lately B. late
C. recently D. recent
15. These research workers will ______ the problem at once. A. search B. look into C. inquire D. exploit
16. Don’t ______ the receiver. He is coming. A. put up B. line up C. hang up D. keep up
17. The Summer Palace ____ many foreign visitors every year. A. attacks B. affects C. affords D. attracts
18. His mother told him to ______ his little brother when she was away.
A. look back B. look over C. look at D. look after
19. As my beloved uncle, he gave me advice ______ money. A. as well B. as long as C. as well as D. as good as
20. I wonder whether wet weather is a ______ of life in Scotland.
A. creature B. feature C. picture D. nature
21. We______ hearing from you as soon as possible. A. look forward to B. pay attention to C. gave way to D. hold on to
22. When I went home, they had already ______ for the North. A. cut off B. called off C. set off D. dropped off
23. Fortunately, the experiment ______ as we had expected. A. fell out B. fell behind C. fell back on D. fell in
24. Jack told me that ________ of the two women was his teacher of Chinese.
A. the tallest B. the most tall C. the tall D. the taller
25. This lesson is ________ than the last one in this book. A. more easy B. very easy C. more easier D. much easier
26. The man looked ____at the news that he had failed again. A. disappointed B. being disappointed C. disappointing D. to be disappointing
27. I had the car ____ for me for an hour yesterday afternoon. A. waiting B. waited C. to waited D. be waiting
28. When we saw Jimmy at the party last night, we found that he had greatly ____.
A. changed B. to change C. to have changed D. changing
29. He made a note of the homework ______ he forget it. A. that B. so C. lest D. in case
30. I shall stay at home all day_____ there is news of my husband.
A. so that B. therefore C. however D. in case
II. Reading Comprehension
The following passages have been chosen from the textbook and followed by questions or unfinished statements. For each of
them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. I am one of those unfortunate people who have a very poor sense of direction, and though I may have visited a place time after time, I still manage to get lost on my way there. So if anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I always tell them that I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid confusing them, but even this can have embarrassing results.
I was once on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him to the Bank of China Building. Without thinking, I gave my usual reply, but I had only walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I found it was too late to turn back and search him out in the crowd behind me as I had an appointment to keep at the office with a new client and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to my office and his surprise when he recognized me as the person he had asked!
31. The author thinks that some people are fortunate because _______.
A. they are born with a poor sense of direction B. they are born with a good sense of direction C. they are born with no sense of direction
D. they are born with less sense of direction than others
32. When someone asks the author the way, he usually says _______.
A. that he knows the way
B. that he is willing to tell the direction C. that he is a stranger to the town D. that he is an acquaintance to the town
33. Later the author realized that the man had asked for directions _______.
A. to his office building B. to his friend's office building C. to a bank he doesn’t know D. to a place he has never heard of
34. The man who had asked the author for directions was _______.
A. the author's friend B. the author's new client C. the author's boss D. the author's secretary
35. The author felt _______ when his secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions.
A. satisfied B. lucky C. fortunate D. embarrassed 2
The London Stock Exchange has always been famous as a place for men only, and women used to be strictly forbidden to enter. But the world is changing day by day, and even the Stock Exchange, which seemed to be a man’s castle, is gradually opening its doors to the other sex. On November 16, 1971, a
great decision was made. The Stock Exchange Council ( the body of men that administers the Stock Exchange) decided that women should be allowed onto the new trading floor when it opened in 1973. But the “castle” had not been completely conquered. The first girls to work in “The House” w ere not brokers or jobbers. They were neither allowed to become partners in stock-broking firms, nor to be authorized dealers in stocks and shares. They were simply junior clerks and telephone operators.
Women have been trying to get into the Stock Exchange for many years. Several votes have been taken in “ The House” to see whether the members would be willing to allow women to become members, but the answer has always been “ No”. There have been three refusals of this kind since 1967. Now women are admitted, although in a very junior capacity. Two firms of jobbers made an application to the Stock Exchange Council to be allowed to employ girl clerks. Permission was finally given: “the new floor is going to be different from the old one. All the jobbers will have their own stands, with space for a telephone and typewriters. Therefore there will have to be typists and telephone operators. So women must be allowed in.” This decision did not mean a very great victory in the war for equal rights for women. However, it was a step in the right direction. The Chairman of the Stock Exchange said, “I think that the opening of the new building will eventually
lead to women being allowed to have full membership of the Stock Exchange. It is only a matter of time; it must happen.”
36. The Stock Exchange seemed to be a man’s castle（城堡） because ______ .
A. men had completely conquered it by force
B. women were simply junior clerks and telephone operators C. men were rich and strong enough to build it D. women were strictly forbidden to enter
37. The Stock Exchange Council made a decision that ______ . A. they would gradually open its doors to the other sex B. women were allowed to work in the Stock Exchange from 1971
C. women should be allowed to work in the new Stock Exchange set up in 1973
D. women were not allowed to become partners in stock-broking firms
38. The House took the vote to see ______.
A. whether the members would be willing to allow women to become members
B. how many women wanted to work in the Stock Exchange C. whether they need typists and telephone operators D. whether the application made by two firms of jobbers was reasonable
39. Women are admitted because ______. A. women are badly needed in the new building
B. they have been trying to be administrators of the Stock Exchange for many years
C. two firms of jobbers made an application for girl clerks after women had tried hard for a long time
D. women agree to take junior positions
40. The opening of the new building is significant because ______.
A. it is a new trading floor
B. it means a great victory in the war for equal rights for women
C. it will allow women to be typists and telephone operators forever
D. it will eventually lead to women being allowed to have full membership of the Stock Exchange
3
Footprints on The Moon. On the lonely, lifeless surface of the moon, a strange-looking vehicle squats（蹲伏）motionless under the sun’s glaring（刺眼的）rays. On one of its four legs is attached a small, stainless steel plaque（匾）which reads:
HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON JULY,1969 A.D.
WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND
The vehicle, the cast-off（丢弃的）lower half of a lunar landing craft, is a monument（纪念）to the historic event on July 20, when two American astronauts planted the first human footsteps on the moon. The man who took the first step was Neil A. Armstrong, the 39-year-old civilian commander of the Apollo 11. As he reached the bottom of the landing craft’s ladder and extended his booted left foot to touch the moon’s powdery surface,he said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
He was followed down the ladder minutes later by Edwin B. Aldrin, Jr., a 39-year-old Air Force colonel. For 2 hours and 21 minutes, the two men, carefully at first and then boldly, wandered about on the barren, rock-strewn surface. They tested their ability to move about on this strange world. They took photographs of the landscape. They set up scientific experiments and collected rock and soil samples. They set up a television camera so the whole world could watch. All the while, the third member of the
crew, Michael Collins, 38, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, piloted the Command Ship in lunar orbit 70 miles above the surface, waiting for the two explorers to rejoin him for the trip back to the earth. Altogether, the visit to the moon lasted 21 hours and 37 minutes.
Though the mission（任务）was completed almost without flaw（瑕疵）, it was filled with suspense and anxiety. The astronauts faced risks on the moon never before met by man. And, as with all space flights, chances of failure and disaster were ever present—the blast-off（发射）of the
giant Saturn（土星）rocket at Cape Kennedy, the entry of the spaceship into earth and lunar orbits, the never-before-attempted landing and lift-off from the moon, the link-up of Columbia and Eagle, the re-entry into the atmosphere（大气层）, and the splash-down（溅落）. An error or failure of any of the millions of individual parts anywhere along the way could have ended the mission short of the goal. An equipment failure or accident on the moon could have left the astronauts stranded（陷入困境）.
But they made it. After eight days in space, they splashed down in the Pacific to a presidential （总统的）greeting aboard the recovery carrier, the USA. Hornet. They were the heroes of the nation and the world. It was a journey that took man beyond the earth to walk on another world.
41. What was left on the moon after man’s first landing on it?
A. Two astronaut’s footprints. B. A monument built by man.
C. The cast-off lower half of a lunar landing craft. D. A flag.
42. When did man first set foot on the moon? A. 1969. B.1961. C. 2001. D. 1984.
43. What is the name of the astronaut who first landed on the moon?
A. Neil A. Armstrong. B. Dennis Tito. C. Apollo. D. Gagarin.
44. Armstrong said“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”, because .
A. that is a historic step for mankind
B. one step on the moon equals one leap on the earth. C. that step is very important D. that step is really great
45. Judging from the facts that we can easily conclude that the landing was seen as a great success.
A. the three astronauts won a large amount of prize
B. their return was greeted in a presidential level and their names soon became household names at that time
C. man feels proud of their performance D. they were all promoted to a higher position 4
Time fleets away like a flash. After Christmas and New Year comes the Chinese lunar New Year—the Spring Festival. It falls on the first day of the first lunar month.
The lunar New Year is quite a great event in the Chinese community as a whole as well as in every individual family. Long
before it arrives, children look forward to it with great eagerness.
Today the living standard of the Chinese people has been raised. A display of flowers has become one of the main features of Chinese families’ New Year decoration, especially in southern China. On the eve of the lunar New Year, the whole family have a reunion dinner together.
New Year calls are paid to relatives and friends, and New Year cards and presents are exchanged. When acquaintances meet, they say “Wish you a good bonanza” to each other.
As a rule, children receive some money in red packets from their elders as lunar New Year gifts.
46. The lunar New Year refers to ______. A. Christmas B. New Year’s Day C. the Spring Festival
D. the first day of every month
47. The lunar New year is a very important event for______ . A. each individual
B. The whole country and every family C. All the children D. Every family
48. According to the passage, we can safely infer that ________. A. the life of the Chinese people has become much better B. flowers are on display
C. reunion dinner is a common thing D. family income is as much as it was before
49. What do people do when the lunar New Year comes? A. People call their relatives and friends to pay the fee. B. People of the whole community have a reunion dinner together.
C. New Year cards and presents are sold to each other. D. Say “ Wish you a good bonanza” to acquaintances. 50. What do children receive from their elders as lunar New Year gifts?
A. Red cards. B. Red presents. C. Red packets. D. Red gifts. IV. Cloze 10%
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D under the passage. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage.
Most shops in Britain open at 9:00 a.m., and close at 5:00 or 5:30 in the evening. Small shops usually close 51 an hour at lunchtime. On one 52 two days a week—usually Thursday or Friday –some large food shops 53 open until about 8:00 p.m., for 54 night shopping.
Many shops are 55 in the afternoon on one day 56 week. The day is usually Wednesday or Thursday and 57 a different day in different towns.
Nearly 58 shops are closed on Sundays. Newspaper shops are open in the morning, 59 sell sweets and cigarettes as 60 . But not all things can be 61 on Sundays.
Usually it is not 62 for foreign visitors to find 63 to buy things. Most shops sell the things 64 you want to buy. 65 problem is stamps. In Britain you can only buy these at post offices. Many large food shops are self – service（自选）. 66 you go into one of these shops, you take a basket and you put the things you wish to buy into 67 . You pay for everything just 68 you leave. If anyone
tries to take things from a shop without 69 they are almost certain to 70 , because most shops have detectives.
51. A.from B. for C. until D. after 52. A. then B. or C. and D. of 53. A.give B. bring C. stay D. make 54. A. later B. former C. late D. early 55. A. open B. opening C. closing D. closed 56. A. a B. next C. this D. last 57. A. it is B. it has C. it will D. it was 58. A. all B. that C. such D. what 59. A. or B. so to C. but D. and 60. A. also B. yet C. too D. well 61. A. bought B. held C. taken D. sold
62. A. convenient B. important C. difficult D. different 63. A. why B. how C. where D. what 64. A. such B. that C. those D. what 65. A. That B. The C. What D. One 66. A. When B. While C. Since D. As 67. A. one B. this C. them D. that 68. A. before B. about C. when D. after 69. A. taking B. paying C. saying D. playing
70. A. caught B. be catching C. be caught D. catching V. Translation: (E-C)
71.Your voice should be friendly and your manner courteous, regardless of who is calling.
72.You have to find out about the company and gain some insight into what the requirements of the position are.
73.On the other hand, if your language learning has been less than successful, you might do well to try some of the techniques outlined above.
74.I guess it is natural for me to want to go into medicine because I want to return to the area I come from.
75.I am one of those unfortunate people who have a very poor sense of direction.
VI. Translation (C-E) 76. 懒惰会导致他的失败。 77. 做水手就不得不常年在外。 78. 无人知道这一习俗始于何时。 79. 我为家乡近几年的发展而感到自豪。
80. 她的话很含糊以致于我根本不明白他想要说什么。 Key to the exercise I. listening:10%（略） II. vocabulary 20%
11-15 BCADB 16-20 CDDCB 21-25 ACDDD 26-30 AAACD III. Reading 30%
31-35 BCABD 36-40 DCABD 41-45 CAAAB 46-50 CBADC IV. Close 10%
51-55 BBCCD 56-60 AAADD 61-65 DCCBD 66-70 ABABC V. Translation15%
71. 无论打电话的人是谁，你的声音都应该是友好的，态度应是谦恭有礼的。
72. 你必须弄清楚公司的情况，深入了解这个职位的工作要求。 73. 另一方面，如果你的语言学习一直不太成功，你不妨试试上面提到的这些方法。
74. 我想学医对我来说是一件自然的事，因为我要回到家乡。 75. 我是那些识别方向能力较差的不幸者之一。 VI . Translation 15%
76. Laziness leads to his failure.
77. Being a sailor involves long periods away from home. 78. No one knows when such a custom first came into
existence.
79. I’m proud of the developments that have taken place in my hometown in recent years.
80. She is so vague that I can never understand what she is trying to say.
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