中央电大2008年11月部分专业本科学士学位英语统一考试真题与答案

中央电大开放教育部分专业本科学士学位英语统一考试真题与答案

中央电大本科学士学位英语统一考试真题（B卷）

2008年11月

注 意 事 项

一、本场考试时间为上午9：00——11：00.

二、考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹签字笔填写自己的准考证号、姓名和学校，再用2B铅笔把对应准考证号码的标号涂黑。

三、请考生仔细阅读题目的说明。

四、答案必须按要求写在答题卡规定的位置上，凡是写在试题册上的答案一律作废。

五、答题时，PartⅠ至 Part Ⅳ部分用2B铅笔按示例填涂，如：[■][B][C][D]，用其它符号答题者不记分。修改时，必须先用橡皮擦去原来选定的答案，然后再按要求重新作答。

六、Part V 部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔在答题卡规定区域内作答，超出黑色矩形边框区域的答案无效。

中央电大开放教育部分专业本科学士学位英语统一考试真题与答案

Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)

Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some 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 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive these experiences in nightmares (噩梦).

(76) The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase (抹去), the effect of painful memories. In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body

The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it.

Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers’ troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.

“Some memories can ruin people’s lives. They come back to you when you don’t want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions.” said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “This could relieve a lot of that suffering.”

But those who are against the research say that it is very dangerous to change memories because memories give us our identity. They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past. “All of us can think of bad events in our lived that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. I’m not sure we want to wipe those memories out,” said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.

1. The passage is mainly about _____. A. a new medical invention B. a new research on memories C. a way of erasing painful memories D an argument about the research on the pill 2. The drug tested on people can ____. A. cause the brain to fix memories

B. stop people remembering their experiences C. prevent body producing certain chemicals D. wipe out the emotional effects of memories

中央电大开放教育部分专业本科学士学位英语统一考试真题与答案

3. We can infer from the passage that_____. A. people doubt the effects of the pills B. the pill will stop people’s bad experiences C. taking the pill will do harm to people’s health D. the pill has probably been produced in America 4. Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with? A. Some memories can ruin people’s lives. B. People want to get rid of bad memories.

C. Experiencing bad events makes us different from others. D. The pill will reduce people’s sufferings from bad memories. 5. The word “scars” in Paragraph One is close in meaning to ____. A. good stories C. experiences Passage 2

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

On-the-job smoking is a hot issue for both smokers and non-smokers, and many managers now see smoking as a productivity problem. Although some people question whether smoking really affects one’s productivity, it has, in fact, been proven that a smoker costs a company more than a non-smoker. According to Professor William Weis, a smoking employee costs his or her employer about $ 5,700 more a year than a never-smoker. These costs include medical care, lost earnings and insurance. And absence due to smoking breaks is one of the productivity problems, yet it accounts for a great deal of employer costs.

It has long been proven that smoking is linked to lung cancer. Now many health experts warn that passive smoking can cause lung cancer and other illnesses in healthy never-smokers. Passive smoking can be defined as exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in enclosed areas. Anyone who has been with smokers indeed knows that their smoke can cause eye irritation, coughing, headaches and throat soreness. While eye irritation may seem a small thing to some smokers, it nevertheless is a problem that occurs every workday in offices and break-rooms and can lead to greater health problems. Employees who do not smoke should not be subjected to the risks of passive smoking and need to be able to work in a safe environment. Surgeon General Koop states that the right of the smoker stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment.

6. All the following cases are on-the-job smoking except that____. A. an employer smokes while working in the office B. a taxi driver smokes while driving the car C. a worker smokes while working in the workshop

B. pains D. memories

中央电大开放教育部分专业本科学士学位英语统一考试真题与答案

D. a worker smokes while reading in the train

7. According to the passage, on-the-job smoking affects an employee’s performance in the office in that_____. A. he can concentrate on what he is doing while smoking B. he often goes away from his desk to smoke in the break-room C. he often asks …… 此处隐藏：5469字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……