2016年湖北成人学位英语考试冲刺试题及答案一
Passage 2
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect a po we struggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children ente 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.Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide thegn 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 right.
Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quarrels 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' expectations.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.
26.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
27.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
28. "...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 tnost of their parents' values and ideas
D.parents and teenager don't like to quarrel
29.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 trouble~nakers
D.they are in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values
30.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 3
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:
In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the early post-war era( 战后时期), there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.
Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are facing with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.People tend to be over-trusting(过分信任) of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority.Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons may be pushed, or that a computer may simply malfunction(失灵).
Obviously, there would be no point in investing (投入) in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own inter nal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong. Questioning and routine double checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer should come with the following warning: for all the help this computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute foi fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
31.What is the main purpose of this passage?
A.To look back to the early days of computers
B.To explain what technical problems may occur with computers
C.To discourage unnecessary investment in computers
D.To warn against the blindness to the probable shortcomings of computers
32.The passage recommends those dealing with computers to ( ).
A.be reasonably doubtful about them
B.check all their answers
C.substitute them for basic thinking
D.use them for business purpose only
33.An"internal computer" (Para.2) is ( ).
A.a computer used exclusively by one company for its own problems
B.a person's store of knowledge and the ability to process it
C.the most up to date in home computer a company can buy
D.a computer from the post-war era which is very reliable
34.The passage suggests that the present day problem with regard to computers is ( ).
A. challenging
B. psychological
C. dramatic
D. over-trusting
35.It can be inferred from the passage that the author would disapprove of ( ).
A.computer science courses in high schools
B.businessmen and women who use pocket calculators
C.maintenance(连续不断) checks on computers
D.companies which depend entirely on computers