2015年学位英语考试冲刺试题及答案（第三套）
Part II 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
The old idea that child prodigies(神童)"burn themselves" or "overtax their brains" in the ear-ly years, therefore, are prey to failure and (at worst)mental illness is just a myth. As a matter of fact,the outstanding thing that happens to bright children is that they are very likely to grow intobright adults.
To find this out,1,500 gifted persons were followed up to their thirty-fifth year with these re-suits.
On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as they did as children. They were, as a group,in good health, physically and mentally. Eighty-four percent of their group were married and seemedcontent with their life.
About 70 percent had graduated from colleges, though only 30 percent had graduated with honors. A few had even flunked out (退学) , but nearly half of these had returned to graduate.
of the men,80 percent were in one of the professions or in business, managers or semi-profes-sional jobs. The women who had remained single had offices, business, or professional oceupatians.The group had published 90 books and 1,500 articles in scientific, scholarly, and literary maga-zines and had collected more than 100 patents(专利权).
In a material way they didn't do badly either. Average income was considerably higher among thegifted people, especially the men, than for the country as a whole, despite their comparative youthwhen last surveyed.
In fact, far from being strange, maladjusted(难以适应) people locked in an ivory tower, most of the gifted were turning their early promises into practical reality.
16. The statement that child prodigies" burn themselves" or"overtax their brains" are prey to failure is_________.
A. exactly reasonable
B. doubted by the author
C. an idea of old men
D. a belief of the author
17. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Each of the gifted published at least one article.
B. Only half of the talented followed up graduated from all the colleges.
C. Most of the bright children became white collars.
D. Bright men got higher income than bright women.
18. The adult intelligence tests showed that_________.
A. bright children do not become bright adults
B. between childhood and adulthood there is a considerable loss of intelligence
C. bright children were mostly also bright adults
D. as adults the gifted make much lower scores on intelligence tests
19. The underlined part " turning their early promises into practical reality" most probably means_________.
A. earning their living and keeping promises
B. realizing what they were expected
C. doing what they have promised
D. doing practical jobs and facing reality
20. The main idea of the passage is_________.
A. that gifted children were most likely to become bright grown-ups
B. that bright children were unlikely to be physically and mentally healthy
C. how many gifted children turned successful when they grew up
D. that when the bright children grew up, they would become ordinary
Passage 2
It was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth ( 收费站 ). "I'mpaying for myself, and for the six cars behind me," she said with a smile, handing over seven tick-ets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, "Some lady upahead already paid your fare.
It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend's refrigerator:"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. " The phrase impressed her so much that shecopied it down.
Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayedon her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. "I thought it was beau-tiful," she said, explaining why she'd taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, "like a mes-sage from above. " Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much that he put it up on the classroomwall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice putit in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn't know where it came from or what itreally meant.
Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in a restau-rant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind fordays.
"Here's the idea," Anne says. "Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly. "Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables inthe poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, "Kindness can buildon itself as much as violence can. "
The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!
21. Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?
A. She knew the car drivers well.
B. She wanted to show kindness.
C. She hoped to please others.
D. She had seven tickets.
22. Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she_________
A. thought it was beautifully written
B. wanted to know what it really meant
C. decided to write it on a warehouse wall
D. wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom
23. Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?
A. Judy Foreman.
B. Natalie Smith.
C. Alice Johnson.
D. Anne Herbert.
24. Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?
A. Kindness and violence can change the world.
B. Kindness and violence can affect one's behavior.
C. Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves.
D. Kindness and violence can shape one's character.
25. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. People should practice random kindness to those in need.
B. People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others.
C. People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet.
D. People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.
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