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1、联大专升本英语专业考试真题专升本A卷/密封装订线密封线内不要答题准考证号：姓名：/绝密启用前2012年北京联合大学高职升本科专业基础课考试考试科目 英语综合（A卷）（总分：100分 考试时间：120分钟）注意事项：1 共 17 页，用蓝色或黑色钢笔或圆珠笔答在答题纸上。2 答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。题号一二三四五总分分数4015151515100I. Reading Comprehension （本大题共20 个小题，每空2 分，共40 分）得分评卷人Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is fol

2、lowed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1In the early 18th century, children did not choose what they wanted to be when they gre

3、w up. Most girls did not have professions, but rather grew up to become wives and mothers. Boys, particularly the sons of tradesmen, had their futures decided for them by their fathers.Josiah Franklin intended for his tenth or tithe son, Benjamin, to devote his life to the Service of the Church. But

4、 as Josiah could afford to send Benjamin to school for only one year, a career in the clergy was impossible. Instead, the lad began working for his father in the family soap business.As young Benjamin had always been a bookish lad, his father determined that a trade in printing would prove a suitabl

5、e match. Moreover, as Bens older brother James was already in the printing trade, it was determined that the younger brother would be a printing apprentice to the elder brother. Franklin to his delight had access to a wide range of books. He also borrowed books from clients. He read eagerly and even

6、 began skipping meals and using the money he saved to buy books.During this time Franklin struck up a friendship with another bookish Boston boy named John Collins. At one point Collins and Franklin had a written debate on the Propriety of educating the Female Sex in Learning, and their Abilities fo

7、r Study. Collins felt that it was improper to teach girls, while Franklin argued that females should be educated. Josiah Franklin read the debate letters and judged that his son needed to be more attentive to his style of writing, vocabulary, elegance of expression and method of perspicuity(明晰).Fran

8、klin undertook teaching himself to write through reading the newspapers of the era and by an exercise in which he would take poems and translate them into stories and by turning stories into verse. In this way, Franklin felt he became a tolerable English Writer.1. Why did boys fail to choose what th

9、ey wanted to be when they grew up in the early 18th century?A. Because their futures were decided by their wives.B. Because their futures were decided by their fathers. C. Because their futures were decided by their mothers.D. Because their futures were decided by their children. 2. To develop his c

10、areer in the Service of the Church., like anyone else at that time Benjamin was supposed to before ?/密封装订线密封线内不要答题准考证号：姓名：/ A. work for his father in the family business B. have one year education in school C. get support from his rich fatherD. get good educations3. What does the phrase “skipping me

11、als” (Line5, para.3) mean_? A. eating quickly over reading B. having meals quickly C. running for mealsD. missing meals 4. Which of the following statements is true? A. Collins judged that his son didnt need to be more attentive to his style of writing. B. Franklin broke up with another bookish Bost

12、on boy named John Collins. C. Franklin argued that females should be educated. D. Collins argued that it was proper to teach girls.5. What is the passage mainly about? A. How Benjamin Franklin grew up to be a good writer. B. How tradesmen determined their sons future. C. How John Collins helped his

13、friend. D. How Josiah Franklin treated his son.Passage 2There are some 7,000 languages spoken in the world, and half of them could be gone by 2100. To rescue these languages, two linguists decided to use a combination of digital recording technology and the Internet. K. David Harrison and Gregory An

14、derson are compiling what they call talking dictionaries. Some of the languages they recorded have never been documented before. In 2010, they made the first recordings of Koro, for example, a language spoken by only a few hundred people in northeastern India.The dictionaries so far contain more tha

15、n 32,000 word entries in eight endangered languages, with over 24,000 audio recordings of native speakers pronouncing words and sentences. Some of the work is available online. In one case, a community in Papua New Guinea that speaks a language called Matukar Panau, with only 600 speakers, asked tha

16、t the language be put on the Internet even though it was only in the last two years that their village received electricity.Another example is Chamacoco, spoken in Paraguay by only 1,200 people. In the United States, the team is working with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Oregon on rev

17、iving their language. Even languages that have written forms can be endangered: one of the groups Harrison and Anderson work with speaks Ho, which is spoken by a million people in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The people who speak it have been under pressure to assimilate with the larger tongues th

18、at surround it.Harrison, associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College, and Anderson, president of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, are presenting their work today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, B

19、ritish Columbia. Preserving language can become an important part of preserving the cultures of smaller and marginalized groups. Living languages also tell scientists a lot about the past evolution of language itself.6. What K. David Harrison and Gregory Anderson are compiling is called talking dict

20、ionaries. (Line4, para.1), for the talking dictionaries are used to _? A. use some 7,000 languages in the world.B. speak Koro, a language in northeastern India.C. record the languages with a use of digital recording technology and the Internet.D. compile 7,000 languages spoken in the world./密封装订线密封线

21、内不要答题准考证号：姓名：/7. How many recordings are contained in the talking dictionaries?A. more than 32,000B. over 24,000C. only 600D. about 88. Which of the following statements is true? A. The language, Ho, is spoken in Paraguay by a million people. B. The language, Ho, is spoken in Paraguay by only 1,200

22、people. C. The language, Chamacoco, is spoken in Paraguay by only 1,200 people. D. The language, Chamacoco, is spoken in Paraguay by a million people.9. What does the word “tongue” (Line 6, para.3) mean_?A. language B. organ C. influenceD. culture 10. What is the passage mainly about? A. How to resc

23、ue the languages. B. How to make “talking dictionaries”. C. How to compile dictionaries.D. How to revive the languages. Passage 3 Marriages are happier when wives are thinner than their husbands, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Tennessee studied the BMI (body mass index, a

24、 common measure of obesity) of nearly 170 newlywed couples, along with their marital satisfaction over time. Andrea Meltzer, the lead author and a doctoral candidate at UT, told Discovery News that We found this effect initially on husbands satisfaction at the beginning of marriage. husbands were mo

25、re satisfied at the time of marriage to the extent that their wives had a lower BMI than themselves. The fact that men tend to be happier with a thinner wife may not be surprising, but Meltzer and her colleagues also found that women who had a lower BMI than their husbands were significantly more sa

26、tisfied with their marriage over time. Thinner wives make both spouses happier.Wives are happier to the extent that their husbands are happy, Meltzer explained. If we were looking at another quality that was more important to women than men - say, economic resources - we might see opposite effects.

27、Women might be more satisfied to the extent that their partners are making more money than they are. This study is important because it demonstrates that woman of any size can be happy in their relationships with the right partner. Its not necessarily striving for thinness per se, but striving to be

28、 thinner than their partner, Meltzer said.Thus overweight or obese women (which, statistically, is the majority of women in America) seeking a happy marriage might choose a heavier husband, or else choose an average-weight partner and lose enough weight that they are thinner by comparison. Body size

29、 is only one of many factors that contribute to overall marriage satisfaction, though it does seem to be important to both men and women.The preference for thinner partners goes both ways, of course. Its not just guys looking for a thin girlfriend or wife: Studies show that both men and women across the board express a strong preference for thinner partners. Another possible factor behind the findings (besides attractiveness) is that marital satisfaction is also correlated with partner health. Couples are more satisfied to the /密封装订线密封线内不要答题准考证号：姓名：/