1、1 / 81992年 北京地區成人本科學士學位英語統一考試Part I Reading Comprehension （40%）Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each ofthem there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corres

2、ponding letter on theanswer sheet with a single line through the center.b5E2RGbCAP矚慫潤厲釤瘞睞櫪廡賴賃軔。Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:p1EanqFDPw聞創溝燴鐺險愛氌譴凈禍測。More than 30,000 drivers and front seat passengers are killed or seriously injured each year. At a speed of only 30 miles

3、 per hour itis the same as falling from a third-floor window. Wear a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by morethan half.DXDiTa9E3d殘騖樓諍錈瀨濟溆塹籟婭騍。Therefore drivers or front passengers over in most vehicles must wear a seat belt. If you do not, you could be fined u

4、p to$50. It will notbe up to the drivers to make sure you wear your belt. But it will be the drivers responsibility to make sure that children under 14 donot ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.RTCrpUDGiT釅錒極額閉鎮檜豬訣錐顧葒。However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you

5、are reversing （倒開） your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery orcollection using a special vehicle; or if you have valid （有效的） medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it. Make surethese circumstances apply to you before you decide not to wear your seat belt. Remember you may be take

6、n to court for not doing so,and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.5PCzVD7HxA彈貿攝爾霽斃攬磚鹵廡詒爾。1. This passage is most probably taken from .A. a medical magazineB. a legal documentC. the Federal LawsD. a police report2. Wearing a seat belt in a ve

7、hicle .A. reduces road accidents by more than halfB. saves lives while during at a speed up to 30 miles per hourjLBHrnAILg謀蕎摶篋飆鐸懟類蔣薔點鉍。C. reduces the death rate in traffic accidentsD. saves more than 15,000 lives each year3. It is the drivers responsibility to .A. make the front seat passenger wear

8、a seat beltB. make the front seat children under 14 wear a seat beltxHAQX74J0X廈礴懇蹣駢時盡繼價騷巹癩。C. stop children riding in the front seatD. wear a seat belt each time he drives4. According to the passage, who, riding in the front, does not have to wear a seat belt?LDAYtRyKfE煢楨廣鰳鯡選塊網羈淚鍍齊。A. someone who is

9、 backing into a parking spaceB. someone who is picking up the children from the local schoolZzz6ZB2Ltk鵝婭盡損鵪慘歷蘢鴛賴縈詰。C. someone who is delivering invitation lettersD. someone who is under 145. For some people, it may be better .A. to wear a seat belt for health reasonsB. not to wear a seat belt for he

10、alth reasonsC. to get a valid medical certificate before wearing a seat beltdvzfvkwMI1籟叢媽羥為贍僨蟶練淨櫧撻。D. to pay a fine rather than wear a seat beltPassage 2 Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:rqyn14ZNXI預頌圣鉉儐歲齦訝驊糴買闥。2 / 8If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season

11、 to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you areat any other time of the year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1974), concluded, from other menswork and his ownamong peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abi

12、lities.EmxvxOtOco滲釤嗆儼勻諤鱉調硯錦鋇絨。He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not mean that all peopleare less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of largenumbers

13、of people tend to be lowest in the summer.SixE2yXPq5鐃誅臥瀉噦圣騁貺頂廡縫勵。Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in spring mansmental abilities are affected bythe same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.6ewMyirQFL擁締鳳襪備訊顎輪爛薔報贏。Fall is the next-b

14、est season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be good time to take a long vacation fromthinking.kavU42VRUs贓熱俁閫歲匱閶鄴鎵騷鯛漢。6. According to this passage, your intelligence probably . y6v3ALoS89壇摶鄉囂懺蔞鍥鈴氈淚躋馱。A. stays the same throughout the yearB. varies from day to dayC. changes with the seasonsD. c

15、hanges from year to year7. Huntington based his conclusions on .A. records of changes in his own intelligenceB. work with peoples in different climatesC. records of temperature changesD. all of the above8. It seems that the cold of winter .A. increases the ability to thinkB. is the best time for thi

16、nkingC. is better for thinking than is very warm weatherM2ub6vSTnP蠟變黲癟報倀鉉錨鈰贅籜葦。D. decreases the ability to think9. One possible reason why spring is the best reason for thinking is that .0YujCfmUCw買鯛鴯譖曇膚遙閆擷凄屆嬌。A. all nature, including man, is growing thenB. it lasts longer than the other seasonsC. i

17、t is not too warm and not too coldD. both B and C10. The two best seasons for thinking seem to be .A. spring and fallB. winter and summerC. summer and springD. fall and winter Passage 3 Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:eUts8ZQVRd綾鏑鯛駕櫬鶘蹤韋轔糴飆鈧。I came to India a year ago to find a

18、village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily inthis Himalayan community.sQsAEJkW5T驅躓髏彥浹綏譎飴憂錦諑瓊。I wasted a lot of time looking for the“typical”village. Yet no such thing exists. Conditions vary too wide But the village Istayed in had much in common-pove

19、rty, dirt, ignorance. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled, suspicious. Why had I come?I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in theThird World was more important than anything else. But to understand how t

20、hree-quarters of the worlds people live, and how theirfuture might affect ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.GMsIasNXkA貓蠆驢繪燈鮒誅髏貺廡獻鵬。In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along abumpy road.

21、 Then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river. After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to3 / 8catch my breath, there was a magnificent view. After several hours walk the village came into view.TIrRGchYzg鍬籟饗逕瑣筆襖鷗婭薔嗚訝。11. After the writer had arrived in India .A. he sp

22、ent a year writing about the place he lived in7EqZcWLZNX構氽頑黌碩飩薺齦話騖門戲。B. he took quite a long time finding a suitable place to livelzq7IGf02E輒嶧陽檉籪癤網儂號澩蠐鑭。C. he spend years looking for a certain villageD. he lived in a Himalayan community for many monthszvpgeqJ1hk堯側閆繭絳闕絢勵蜆贅瀝紕。12. While looki ng for a“

23、typical”village the writer fou nd .N識饒鎂錕縊灩筧嚌儼淒儂減。A. he was searching for the impossibleB. all the villages were exactly the sameC. the villagers made him feel confusedD. the villagers asked him a lot of questions13. Before coming to India the writer .A. had been a successful politicianB. had made a

24、decision to do no more workC. had been dismissed from his jobD. had written articles for publication14. The writer decided to change his way of life because .1nowfTG4KI凍鈹鋨勞臘鍇癇婦脛糴鈹賄。A. he no longer found his work interestingB. he wanted to live a peaceful life in the countrysidefjnFLDa5Zo恥諤銪滅縈歡煬鞏鶩錦聰櫻

25、。C. he wanted to find out more about the Third WorldtfnNhnE6e5鯊腎鑰詘褳鉀溈懼統庫搖飭。D. he thought living in a small community would be rewardingHbmVN777sL碩癘鄴頏謅攆檸攜驤蘞鷥膠。15. The village the writer finally chose to live in .V7l4jRB8Hs閿擻輳嬪諫遷擇楨秘騖輛塤。A. was situated at the end of a bumpy roadB. had a better climate

26、than those in the plainsC. was a short walk from the riverD. had a magnificent view of the riverPassage 4Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:83lcPA59W9氬嚕躑竄貿懇彈瀘頷澩紛釓。Large companies need a way to reach the saving of the public at large. The same problem, on the smaller scale, facespr

27、actically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sumsneeded from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling toprovide money on a permanent basis for l

28、ong-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, ortake a share in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals andinstitutions, both at home and overseas.mZkklkzaaP釷鵒資贏車贖孫滅獅贅慶獷。When the saver nee

29、ds his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, hesells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.AVktR43bpw慫闡譜鯪逕導嘯畫長涼馴鴇。Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by t

30、he Government or by local authorities. Withouthospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on newequipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The

31、Government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capitalspending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange.ORjBnOwcEd諺辭調擔鈧諂動禪瀉類謹覡。There is hardly, a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depen

32、d on the ability of his orher employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the saving of thecountry. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who needfinance.2MiJTy0dTT嘰覲詿縲鐋囁偽純鉿錈癱懇。16. Almos

33、t all companies involved in new production and development must .gIiSpiue7A熒紿譏鉦鏌觶鷹緇機庫圓鍰。4 / 8A. rely on their own financial resourcesB. persuade the banks to provide long-term financeC. borrow large sums of money from friends and people they knowuEh0U1Yfmh鶼漬螻偉閱劍鯫腎邏蘞闋D. depend on the population as a

34、whole for finance17. The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is .IAg9qLsgBX紂憂蔣氳頑薟驅藥憫騖覲僨。A. repaid to its original owners as soon as possibleWwghWvVhPE穎芻莖蛺餑億頓裊賠瀧漲負。B. raised by the selling of shares in the companiesasfpsfpi4k濫驂膽閉驟羥闈詔寢賻減棲。C. exchange for part ownership

35、in The Stock ExchangeooeyYZTjj1銚銻縵嚌鰻鴻鋟謎諏涼鏗穎。D. invested in different companies on The Stock ExchangeBkeGuInkxI擠貼綬電麥結鈺贖嘵類羋罷。18. When the savers want their money back they .A. ask other company to obtain their money for themPgdO0sRlMo賠荊紳諮侖驟遼輩襪錈極嚕。B. look for other people to borrow money fromC. put their shares in the company back on the market3cdXwckm15塤礙籟饈決穩賽釙冊庫麩適。D. transf