2013年湖北成人学位英语考试真题及答案（文字版）
Passage 4
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:
All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun.The sun heats and feeds creatures and mankind.Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored energy from the sun. Some was collected by this season's plants as carbon compounds.Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago.
Even waterpower derives from the sun. Water turned into vapor by the sun fails as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power. Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun's outer layer, and much of this energy that is directed towards the earth never arrives.About nine tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact, the earth itself gets only one half millionth of the sun's entire output of radiant energy.
36.The sun is the source of all of the following EXCEPT ( ).
A.gasoline
B.natural gas
C.atomic power
D.animal fat
37.Radiant energy is stored as carbon compounds by ( ).
A. plants
B. water
C. rock
D. creatures
38.The sun's energy provides us with all EXCEPT ( ).
A.rain
B.teal
C.water
D.light
39.The largest part of the light energy directed towards the earth is ( ).
A.stored up by the plants
B.absorbed by the earth's atmosphere
C.stored up by the animals in the form of body fat
D.used for electric power
40.Of the sun's total output of radiant energy, the earth receives ( ).
A.one tenth
B.one millionth
C.all that comes from the surface of the sun
D.a verysmall portion
Part llI Cloze ( 10 points)
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage, For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet One with a single line through the center.
Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know 41 to do when it slipped from his horse and fell onto the road.The sack was 42 heavy for him to lift, and his only hope was that 43 some one would come riding by and lend a hand.
It was not long 44 a rider appeared, but the farmer's heart sank when he recognized him, for it was the great man who lived in a castle nearby.The farmer 45 have dared to ask another farmer to help, or any poor man who might have come 46 the road, but he eould not beg a favor of so great a man. 47 , as soon as the great man came up he got off his horse, saying "I see you've had bad luck, friend.How good it is 48 I'm here just at the right time." Then he took one 49 of the sack, the farmer the other, and between them they lifted it on the horse.
"Sir," asked the farmer, "how can I pay you?"
"Easily enough," the great man replied. " Whenever you see 50 else in trouble, do the same for him."
41.A.how
B.what
C.which
D.whether
42. A. so
B. very
C. quite
D. too
43. A. presently
B. immediately
C. generally
D. quickly
44. A. before
B. until
C. after
D. since
45. A. ought
B. should
C.would
D. could