江西省专升本 - 统考英语试题历年真题(2005-2010)(3)

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A) When to get physical exercise. B) How to gain confidence. C) Whom to get advice from. D) How to overcome stress.

22. When you deal with stress the first thing you should do is _______. A) find out what causes stress

B) seek help from your classmates C) inquire about instructions D) make a plan of your work

23. According to the writer, by setting a daily routine you will feel that______. A) you need to make a lot of small decisions

B) you can beat others in boat sailing

C) you can capable of handling simple tasks D) everything goes smoothly the whole day

24. The writer suggests that you make sure to______. A) be absent-minded for a while every day

B) spare some time each day to relax

C) take a positive attitude in overcoming stress D) go to a lab for academic assistance

25. What can we learn from the passage? _______.

A) As long as you take action you can overcome stress. B) When you feel pressures you should take action.

C) College life is both new and challenging for students. D) You can enjoy your life by identify the source of stress.

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

What is exactly a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you, you say: “I wish I could help you but I?m short of money myself.” In fact, you are not short of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don?t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this really a lie? A scientific study of lying shows women are better liars (说谎者) than men, particularly when telling “a white lie”, such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks terrible. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researches show that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no intention (意图)of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.

Research has also been done into the way people?s behavior changes in a number of small, unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the same time, they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer they are saying, “I wish I were somewhere else now.”

26. This passage tells us that telling lies is ___________. A) often necessary in order to avoid being defeated B) quite bad because people ought to be honest

C) sometimes necessary in order not to hurt other?s feelings D) usually bad if you are talking with a good friend

27. The writer says that women are better liars than men because __________. A) their lies are easier to be accepted by men B) men are not as skillful as women in telling lies C) they often have a good intention in telling lies D) women tell fewer lies than men do

28. A “white lie” means a lie that ___________. A) is told with a good intention B) is quite unbelievable C) is almost true to the fact D) often has a bad purpose

29. Politicians and businessmen are supposed to be skilled at telling lies that______. A) will allow them to gain some benefits B) seem to be strange but interesting C) can make women believe to be true

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D) can keep better relations with others

30. It can be concluded from the passage that _________. A) there is a simple way of finding out if someone is lying B) people?s behaviors sometimes can tell us they are lying C) people often repeat what they are saying when telling a lie D) in some situations women are most likely to tell a lie

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Unemployment may be one of the biggest problems our people as well as our government are faced with today. According to an official report, in one big city alone, since 1986, nearly 1,000,000 adult workers have lost their jobs because of factory closings and cutbacks--either temporarily(暂时) laid off or permanently forced to retire.

Many people, especially the policy makers, believe that forcing adult workers, those who are over 45, to retire is an effective means to relieve the tension of unemployment, for it can provide more job opportunities for the jobless young. But they fail to notice that forcing a person who is still able to work and has a family to support to retire brings serious financial problems as well as emotional and physical ones. They also fail to realize that actually, workers aged 45-60 tend to be more stable, more skillful and more experienced than workers of any other ages, that, to some extent, this age is the prime time for one?s productivity and creativity. To force them to retire is a huge waste of the nation?s best resources. On the contrary, if we turn our attention to the other end of the age line, a more effective way might emerge. Today, only 3% of school-leavers are allowed to go to college, leaving the majority of the young people under 18 without adequate preparation to join the labor force. If, however, more of them are able to attend college and begin full-time employment at a later age, more job opportunities will be created.

Most importantly, we should not be satisfied merely to solve the problem of unemployment, but rather, we should improve the quality of the work force at the same time-by keeping the skilled adults and accepting the well-educated young.

31. Forcing middle-aged persons to retire might cause______. A) the loss of valuable resources

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