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1、2015 同等学力英语真题12015 年同等学力英语考试真题年同等学力英语考试真题Part IOral Communication(10 points)Section ADirections:In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and threechoices A,B and C,taken from the dialogue.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to completethe d

2、ialogue and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.Dialogue OneA.Do you know what a handicapped space is?B.The signs always tell you how long you can park there and on what days.C.Then you also need to be aware of the time limits on the street signs.Student:Can you tell me where I can park?Clerk:Are y

3、ou driving a motorcycle or an automobile?Student:I drive an automobile.Clerk:Fine.You can either park in the student lot or on the street.1Student:Yes,I have seen those spots.Clerk:Well,when you see the blue spots with the handicapped sign,do not park there unless you have aspecial permit.Are you go

4、ing to be parking in the daytime or evening?Student:I park in the evenings.Clerk:2Have you seen those signs?Student:Yes,I have seen those signs.Clerk:3Dialogue TwoA.The hours and limitations are printed on the card and this handout.B.May I have your drivers license,please?C.Are you familiar with our

5、 rules and fines?Student:Excuse me,I am interested in getting a library card.Librarian:Sure,let me give you an application.You can fill it out right here at the counter.Student:Thank you.Ill do it right now.2015 同等学力英语真题2Librarian:Let me take a look at this for you.4Student:Here it is.Librarian:You

6、seem to have filled the form out all right._5_Student:Yes.I know what to do.Librarian:_6_Student:OK.I see.Librarian:Thank you for joining the library,we look forward to serving you.Section BDirections:In this section there is one incomplete which has four blanks and four choices A,B,C and D,taken fr

7、om the interview.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete theinterview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.A.And fooled the boys for a while.B.And I dont think the boys have minded.C.Well,its because my British publisher.D.All this time I thought you were J.K.Winfrey:So,th

8、is is the first time weve met.Rowling:Yes,it is.Winfrey:And my producers tell me that your real name is J.O._7_Rowling:(laughing)Yeah.Winfrey:J.K is Rowling:_8_ When the first book came out,theythought this is a book that will appeal toboys ,but they didnt want the boys to know a woman had written i

9、t.So they said to me could we useyour initials and I said fine.I only have one initial.I dont have a middle name,So I took my favoritegrandmothers name,Kathleen.Winfrey:_9_Rowling:Yeah,but not for too long,because I started getting my picture in the press and no one couldpretend I was a man anymore.

10、2015 同等学力英语真题3Winfrey:_10_Rowling:NOit hasnt held me back,has it?Part IIVocabulary(10 points)Directions:In this part there are ten sentences,each with one word or phrase underlined.Choose the onefrom the four choices marked A,B,C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence.Mark your answeron t

11、heAnswer Sheet.11.There are several different options for getting Internet access.A.choicesB.definitionsC.channelsD.reasons12.Earth has an atmosphere,which protects the surface from harmful rays.A.mineralsB.substancesC.gasesD.beams13.Themanager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her hos

12、tile attitude toward customers.A.unfriendlyB.optimisticC.impatientD.positive14.Since it is late to change my mind now,I am resolved to carry out the plan.A.reviseB.implementC.reviewD.improve15.Security guards dispersed the crowd that had gathered around the Capitol.A.arrestedB.stoppedC.scatteredD.wa

13、tched16.To start the program,insert the disk and follow the instructions.A.take outB.turn overC.trackdownD.put in17.The patients condition has deteriorated since last night.A.improvedB.returnedC.worsenedD.changed18.I couldnt afford to fly home,and a train ticket was likewise beyond my means.A.alsoB.

14、nonethelessC.furthermoreD.otherwise19.Despite years of searching,scientists have detected no signs of life beyond our own solar system.A.withinB.besidesC.outsideD.except20.I prefer chicken to fish because I am worried about accidentally swallowing a small bone.A.intentionallyB.unexpectedlyC.anxiousl

15、yD.hurriedly2015 同等学力英语真题4Part IIIReading Comprehension(25 points)SectionADirections:In this section,there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements,eachwith four suggested answers A,B,C and D.Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the AnswerSheet.Passage OneSometimes

16、a race is not enough.Sometimes a runner just wants to go further.Thats what happened toDennis Martin and Brooke Curran.Martin,68,a retired detective from New York City,took up running after his first wife died.Curran,46,a philanthropist(慈善家）from Alexandria,started running to get out of the house and

17、 collect her thoughts.Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more.“The more I trained,the better Igot,”Curran said,”but I would cross the finish line with no sense of accomplishment.”Eventually,they worked up to running marathons(马拉松）（and longer races)in other countries,on

18、other countries.Now both have achieved a notable-and increasingly less rate-milestone;running the26.2-mile race on all seven continents.They are part of a phenomenon that has grown out of the running culture in the past two decades,atthe intersection of athleticism and leisure:“runcations,”which com

19、bine distance running with travel toexotic places.There trips,as expensive as they are physically challenging,are a growing and competitivemarket in the travel industry.“In the beginning,running was enough,”said Steen Albrechtsen,a press manager.“The classicmarathon was the ultimate goal,then came t

20、he super marathons,like London and New York.But when90,000 people a year can take that challenge,it is no longer exciting and adventurous.Hence,the searchfor new adventures began.”“No one could ever have imagined that running would become the lifestyle activity that it is today,”said Thom Gilligan,f

21、ounder and president of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel.Gilligan,who hasbeen in business since 1979,is partly responsible for the seven-continent phenomenon.It started with a casual talk to an interviewer about his company offering trips to every continentexcept Antarctica.And then in 1995,Ma

22、rathon Tours hosted its first Antarctica Marathon on King GeorgeIsland.Off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula:160 runners got to the starting line of a dirt-and ice-trail route2015 同等学力英语真题5via a Russian icebreaker through the Drake Passage.21.At the beginning,Martin took up running just to.A.meet r

23、equirements of his jobB.win a running raceC.join in a philanthropic activityD.get away from his sadness22.Martin and Curran are mentioned as good examples of.A.winners in the 26.2-mile race on all seven continentsB.people who enjoy long running as a lifestyle activityC.running racers satisfied with

24、their own performanceD.old people who live an active life after retirement23.Anew trend in the travel industry is the development of.A.challenging runcationsB.professional racesC.Antarctica travel marketD.expensive tours24.The classic marathon no longer satisfies some people because.A.it does not pr

25、ovide enough challengeB.it may be tough and dangerousC.it involves too fierce a competitionD.it has attracted too many people25.The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that.A.international cooperation is a must to such an eventB.runcations are expensive and physically challengi

26、ngC.Marathon Tours is a leader of the travel industryD.adventurous running has become increasingly popularPassage TwoBefore the 1970s,college students were treated as children.So many colleges ran in loco parentissystem.“In loco parentis”is a Latin term meaning“in the place of a parent.”It describes

27、 when someone2015 同等学力英语真题6else accepts responsibility to act in the interests of a child.This idea developed long ago in British common law to define the responsibility of teachers towardtheir students.For years,American courts upheld in loco parentis in cases such as Gott versus BereaCollege in 19

28、13.Gott owned a restaurant off campus.Berea threatened to expel students who ate at places not ownedby the school.The Kentucky high court decided that in loco parentis justified that rule.In loco parentis meant that male and female college students usually had to live in separate buildings.Women had

29、 to be back at their dorms by ten or eleven on school nights.But in the 1960s,students began to protest rules and restrictions like these.At the same time,courtsbegan to support students who were being punished for political and social dissent.In 1960,Alabama State College expelled six students who

30、took part in a civil rights demonstration.They sued the school and won.After that it became harder and harder to defend in loco parentis.At that time,students were not considered adults until 21.Then,in 1971,the 24th amendment to theConstitution set the voting age at eighteen.So in loco parentis no

31、longer really applied.Slowly,colleges began to treat students not as children,but as adults.Students came to be seen asconsumers of educational services.Gary Dickstein,an assistant vice president at Wright State University in Dayton,Ohio,says in locoparentis is not really gone.It just looks differen

32、t.Todays parents,he says,are often heavily involved instudents lives.They are known as“helicopter parents.”They always seem to hover over their children.Gary Dickstein says these parents are likely to question decisions,especially about safety issues and grades.They want to make sure their financial

33、 investment is not being wasted.26.Before the 1970s,many colleges ran in loco parentis system because.A.they could take the place of the studentsparentsB.parents asked them to do it for the interests of their childrenC.this was a tradition established by British collegesD.college students were regar

34、ded as too young to be treated as adults27.Who won the case of Gott versus Berea College in 1913?A.Berea College.B.Gott.C.It was a win-win case.D.The students.2015 同等学力英语真题728.The word“dissent”(Para.5)probably means“”.A.extreme behaviorsB.violation of lawsC.strong disagreementD.Wrong doings29.In 196

35、0，the court ruled thatAlabama State College_A.had no right to expel the studentsB.was justified to have expelled the studentsC.shouldnt interfere with studentsdaily lifeD.should support civil rights demonstrations30.According to Gary Dickstein,todays“helicopter parents”_A.dont set their hearts at re

36、st with college administratorsB.keep a watchful eye on their childrens life and studyC.care less about their childrens education than beforeD.have different opinions on their childrens educationPassage ThreeWe tend to think of plants as the furniture of the natural word.They dont move,they dont make

37、sounds,they dont seem to respond to anything at least not very quickly.But as is often the case,ourhuman view of the world misses quite a lot.Plants talk to each other all the time.And the language ischemical.Over the years scientists have reported that different types of plants,from trees to tomato

38、es,releasecompounds into the air to help neighboring plants.These chemical warnings all have the same purposetospread information about one plants disease so other plants can defend themselves.But exactly how plantsreceive and act on many of these signals is still mysterious.In this weeks Proceeding

39、s of the National Academy of Sciences,researchers in Japan offer someexplanations.They have identified one chemical message and traced it all the way from release to action.The scientists looked at tomato plants infested(侵害)by common pest,the cutworm caterpillar(毛虫).To start out,they grew plants in

40、two plastic compartments connected by a tube.One plant was infested andplaced upwind and the others were uninfested and placed downwind.The downwind plants were laterexposed to the cutworm caterpillar.The results showed that plants that had previously been near sickneighbors were able to defend them

41、selves better against the caterpillar.2015 同等学力英语真题8The researchers also studied leaves from exposed and unexposed plants.They foundone compoundshowed up more often in the exposed plants.The substance is called Hex Vic.When the scientists fed HexVic to cutworms,it knocked down their survival rate by

42、 17%.The scientists identified the source of HexVic,and sprayed it lightly over healthy plants.Those plants were then able to start producing thecaterpillar-killing Hex Vic.Researchers confirmed that uninfested plants have to build their own weapon tofight off bugs and diseases.How do they know when

43、 to play defense?They are warned first by theirfriendly plant neighbors.It is a complex tale,and it may be happening in more plant species than tomatoes.It may also behappening with more chemical signals that are still unknown to us.For now though,we know that plantsnot only communicate,they look ou

44、t for one another.31.What does the author try to emphasize in Paragraph 1?A.How plants communicate is still a mystery.B.Enough attention has been paid to plant talk.C.Plants are the furniture of the natural world.D.Plants can communicate with each other.32.According to Paragraph2,what remains unknow

45、n is _A.how plants receive and handle the signals from their neighborsB.why plants spread chemical information to their neighborsC.how many types of plants release compounds into the airD.whether plants send chemical warnings to their neighbors33.The tomato plants in the experiment were _A.placed se

46、parately but connected through airB.exposed to different kinds of pestsC.exposed to the pest at the same timeD.placed together in a closed compartment34.The experiment shows that the infested plant helps its neighbors by _A.making more Hex Vic to attract the pestB.releasing Hex Vic into the air to w

47、arn themC.letting them know how to produce Hex VicD.producing enough Hex Vic to kill the pest2015 同等学力英语真题935.What may be the best title for the passage?A.Survival of PlantsB.Plant WorldC.Talking PlantsD.Plant Bug KillerPassage FourVancouver is the best place to live in the Americas,according to a q

48、uality-of-life ranking publishedearlier this month.The city regularly tops such indexes as its clean air,spacious homes and weekendpossibilities of sailing and skiing.But its status as a liveable city is threatened by worsening congestion(拥挤).Over the next three decades,another I million residents a

49、re expected to live in the Greater Vancouverregion,adding more cars,bicycles and lorries to roads that are already struggling to serve the existing 2.3million residents.A proposal by Vancouversmayor seeks to prevent the worsening conditions.Upgrades would bemade to 2,300 kilometres of road lanes,as

50、well as bus routes and cycle paths.Four hundred new buseswould join the fleet of 1,830.There would be more trains and more“seabus”ferry crossings betweenVancouver and its wealthy northern suburbs.To get all that,residents must vote to accept an increase insales tax,from 7%to 7.5%.Polls suggest they