2003年江苏省成人学士学位英语考试历年真题和答案

学位英语考试答案

2003年江苏省成人学士学位英语考试历年真题和答案

FOR A BACHELOR’S DEGREE

(Nov. 2003)

Paper One

Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension(15minutes 15%)(共15题 略) Part II Reading Comprehension: Directions: There are some reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and write down the corresponding letter in the Answer Sheet.

Recently I decided to hold some poetry readings for friends, partly for a selfish reason, liking to hear the sound of my own voice, but also because I suspected that there is a dimension of pleasure and understanding that we miss by reading poems only to ourselves.

The most basic preliminary question of any reading is who reads. One answer would be to ask everyone to prepare one or two poems, and to go around the room. This gives everyone something to do, and it exposes everyone to a variety of tastes and interpretations.

An alternative is to let one ham run the show. The ability to read aloud, like any other talent, is unevenly distributed; it’s probably better not to hear a poem at all than to hear it mangled. Reading aloud is also a mental and, to a degree, a physical effort.（86） If only one person does it, then, everyone else can enjoy the unalloyed pleasure of listening. If it’s not a pleasure, the reader will have no guests for his second reading.

I thought it was only fair to my listeners to reward them for their attention with food and drink, but only fair to me to withhold it until I had finished. I limited the reading to one hour.

16．According to this passage, reading poetry aloud to other people

A. Is a selfish thing

B. Gives one no pleasure or understanding

C. Gives one a kind of pleasure different from silent reading

D. Is a suspicious act.

17．The author believes that when people read a poem aloud, they

A． Show their own ways of understanding

B． Betray their poor tastes in literature

C． Take a walk around the room

D． Are happy to have found something to do

18．What does the author think is the best form for a poetry reading session?

A． Ask everyone to participate in the reading

B． Ask one talented person to do the reading throughout.

C． Invite everyone to walk around the room.

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D． Ask one person to read a few poems and then let others take their turns.

19．What is the author’s opinion of people’s ability to read aloud well?

A． Such an ability is not a matter of talent.

B． No one has the talent to do so.

C． Not everyone has that ability.

D． Everyone has the ability

20．According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?

A． The author gave listeners food only after the reading had finished.

B． The author was eating while other people were reading.

C． The listeners were eating while the author was reading.

D． The listeners gave the author drinks by way of thanks.

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. （87）All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed. Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.

Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies（一分为二）. （88）This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.

21.The passage is mainly discussing __________ .

A. the necessity of social change

B. certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur

C. two different societies

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D. certain factors that promote social change

22.______ is one of the factors that tend to promote social change.

A. Joint interest B. Different points of view

C. Less emotional people D. Advanced technology

23.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Social change tends to meet with more difficulty in basic and emotional aspects of society.

B. Disagreement with and argument about conditions tend to slow down social change.

C. Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspect of society.

D. Social change is less likely to occur in what people learned when they were young.

24.The expression "greater tolerance"(paragraph 1) refers to _____ .

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