2015年学位英语考试冲刺试题及答案（套）
Part 11 Reading Comprehension (40 % )
Directions : There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or un-finished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best oneand mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a powerstruggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter ad-olescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, andmake decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal withtheir teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent-training courses. Parents want to
maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behaviorwill 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 right.
Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quarrels mayalso concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sex behav-ior. Some famihes 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 impres-sion that all teenagers are troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, andnearly all grow up into "solid citizens" who fulfill most of their parents' expectations. In fact, recentstudies show that the "generation gap" is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of theirparents' values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.
16. 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
17. 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
18. "... 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
19. Parents and children often disagree about what is important or fight 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
20. 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
The annual campaign to make Singapore's three million people more polite ended yesterday and was immediately followed by another drive to get them to be punctual.
Tardiness is not yet a criminal offence in the island republic, and the National Punctuality Work-ing Committee can only use gentle persuasion. "Being on time means being considerate," said com-mittee chairman Toh Weng Cheng. Previous drives made little headway in changing a deeply rootedhabit that seems oddly out of place in this otherwise efficient city-state. Tardiness at dinner parties isusually attributed to Chinese tradition, a belief that older and more important guests were expected tomake an entrance after the others.
Meanwhile, officials will assess the results of the 15th annual courtesy (礼貌) campaign, a HK$ 2.4 million drive to persuade Singaporeans to mind their manners. Earlier courtesy campaigns usedposters, films, advertisements in newspapers and magazines to portray considerate behavior. The pub-licity this year stressed courtesy through examples of discourtesy. Few countries use elaborate publiccampaigns to change behavior and raise civic consciousness. It has been a way of life in Singapore formore than 30 years. Some, like the courtesy drive, deal with basic habits and culture. October wasfirst declared "Speak Mandarin Month" in 1978, an effort to wipe out regional Chinese dialects in fa-vor of the official tongue.
Others focus on problems of the day. The police launched a drive in 1989 to stop abuse of theemergency phone number 999, because one call in five was of the nuisance or non-emergency variety.Some campaigns have been so successful that they have been reversed. Family planners urged parentsto "Stop at Two" in 1978. Birth rates dropped from 3.5 percent in 1960 to 1.2 percent in 1980, andfamilies who can afford it are now encouraged to "Have Three or More". By the early 1980s, thegrowth of campaigns inspired one exhausted newspaper columnist to suggest a "take your campaignsseriously campaign".
21. In the passage, the word " tardiness" (Line 1, Paragraph 2 ) most probably means__________.
A. punctuality
B. impoliteness
C. dishonesty
D. lateness
22. The courtesy drive was launched in Singapore to__________.
A. develop appropriate personal habits
B. stress the importance of punctuality
C. make the people more polite
D. urge the officials to be on time
23. When did the campaign to standardize spoken language begin?
A. In 1960.
B. In 1978.
C. In 1980.
D. In 1989.
24. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Singapore has always been a highly efficient country in every way.
B. The campaigns are not always very effective in Singapore.
C. Singapore does its best to make its people more polite.
D. Not all the campaigns are launched every year.
25. Which of the following statements is not directly said but implied in the passage?
A. All the campaigns are to improve people's behavior.
B. There are too many campaigns in Singapore.
C. The more campaigns, the more efficient they are.
D. Almost all campaigns in Singapore don't amount to anything. "
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