2015年成人学位英语考前冲刺试题及答案（第六套）
Part IReading Comprehension (30%)
Directions : There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfin-ished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.You should de-cide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
(76) Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a power straggle.Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent training courses. Par-ents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.
But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is fight.
(77) Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quar-rels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager,one gets the impression that all teenagers are troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into "solid citizens" who fulfill most of their parents' ex-pectations. In fact, recent studies show that the "generation gap" is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.
1. According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect__________.
A. feeling of hatred
B. power struggle
C. that they don' t care for each other
D. that they may appeal to divorce
2. As children enter adolescents, they begin to do the following EXCEPT__________.
A. demanding greater freedom to go wherever they please
B. making decisions without parental interference
C. getting married whenever they please
D. doing what they please
3. "... generation gap is narrowing. "means__________.
A. the adolescents now become timid
B. parents come to get along with their children
C. the vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas
D. parents and teenager don' t like to quarrel
4. Parents and children often disagree about what is important or right because__________.
A. they have different styles of life
B. they hate each other
C. parents think that their children are troublemakers
D. they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
5. When many American parents don' t know how to deal with their children they seek advice from the following EXCEPT__________.
A. neighbors
B. parent-training courses
C. books
D. lectures
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Another thing an astronaut has to learn about is eating in space. Food is weightless, just as men are.
Food for space has to be packed in special ways. Some of it goes into tubes that a man can squeeze into his mouth. Bite-sized cookies are packed in plastic.
There is a good reason for covering each bite. The plastic keeps pieces of food from travelling in the spaceship. On the earth very small pieces of food would simply fall to the floor. But gravity doesn' t pull them to the floor when they are out of the plastic in a spaceship. (78) They move here and there and can get into a man' s eyes or into the spaceship' s instruments. If any of the instru-ments is blocked, the astronauts may have trouble getting safely home.
As astronauts travel on longer space trips, he must take time to sleep. An astronaut can fit himself to his seat with a kind of seat belt. Or, if he wants to, he can sleep in a sleeping bag which is fixed in place under his seat. But be careful he must put his hands under the belt when he goes to sleep. This is because he is really afraid that he might touch one of controls that isn' t supposed to be touched until later.
6. Why would astronauts cover each bite of food in space?
A. Because small pieces of food would fall down to the floor.
B. Because weightless pieces of food might make trouble when they travel around.
C. Because they haven' t enough food for longer trips.
D. Because astronauts don' t want to waste food.
7. In a spaceship, astronauts can__________.
A. walk just as they do on the earth
B. not eat anything because it' s dangerous
C. control the spaceship when they are sleeping
D. not litter small things or it will make trouble
8. In what way is food for space packed?
A. Very small pieces of food are put on the floor.
B. Some of it is put into tubes.
C. Small-sized cookies are packed in plastic.
D. Both B and C.
9. Why does an astronaut put his hand under his belt when he sleeps?
A. Because he thinks it is comfortable to sleep in that way in space.
B. Because he doesn' t want to touch any controls when he sleeps.
C. Because the instruments of the spaceship are easily broken.
D. Because he is afraid that the seat will move.
10. The best title of this article is__________.
A. Eating and Sleeping in Space
B. How Astronauts Eat in Space
C. Food for Space
D. How Astronauts Sleep in Space
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture(针灸) to perform operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves placing flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles are available in a number of stores in China and anyone may buy them.
To learn how to use the needles takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. (79) The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to put in the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. A particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation re-quires only 3 or 4 needles.
Today, the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. (80) They are trying to develop a convincing theory to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or why a nee-dle in the wrist, for example, would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth.
A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation but the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.
11. Acupuncture is__________.
A. a medical operation
B. a medical needle
C. a medical technique
D. a medical machine
12. Which statement is NOT true of the performer of acupuncture?
A. He knows where to place the needles without pain.
B. He knows where the operation is to be performed.
C. He knows how to perform the operation to cure the patient.
D. He knows how to use the needles in an operation.
13. To learn how to use the needles, it takes a person__________.
A. several months
B. a couple of weeks
C. a little time
D. almost one month
14. It can be learned from the passage that__________.
A. the person performing the acupuncture knows a lot about the making of needles
B. an operation now needs fewer needles than in the past
C. acupuncture has existed in China for as long as 2,000 years
D. few patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals
15. Which is implied but not stated in the passage?
A. The Chinese mainly use acupuncture to cure strange disease.
B. The Chinese are learning to be more skillful and efficient in acupuncture.
C. The Chinese have spread acupuncture all over the world.
D. Most Chinese patients prefer acupuncture to chemicals in curing diseases.
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