2010年成人高等学校招生全国统一试卷 英语专升本试题

III.Cloze (30 points)
      Directions: For each blank in the following passage ,there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

      On our first day's driving on the Scottish island of Mull, my husband and I came to a stretch of water that we had to cross on a small ferry boat. The ferryman asked if we would 21 waiting ten minutes while he transported a family of cows 22 the water to their summer pasture. This 23 with the cows stuck in my mind as a 24 of Mull, a place far removed from the hurried confusion of city life.
      For travelers in 25 of a quiet, peaceful place, there can be few better ends. We 26 the island to be a charming mix of mountains, castles and sandy beaches. One of the best days of our trip was 27 we joined a nature tour of the island, and had the 28 fortune to see a 29 of rare creatures, including red deer and golden eagles.
      But no visit to Mull is 30 without a trip to the small island of Iona. Iona has great historical 31 because it is the place where early Scottish kings werewhere early Scottish kings were 32 . Our first
attempt to get to Iona had to be 33 owing to the heavy rain which is 34 characteristic of the island. It was another three days before we could get to Iona, but in the end it was well 35 the wait and was the highlight of our trip.

IV. Reading Comprehension (60 points)
      Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
      One of the most interesting experiments in electronic communication I've ever seen is coming from Wave. It's real-time e-mail. What that means is that as you're typing a message in Wave, either a new message or a reply, the person you're writing to can see what you're typing as you type it. Sounds awful, right?
      You don't have to use Wave in this real-time way. It also works as a standard e-mail. What's really different about Wave is that if you're replying to a message and the person you're replying to happen to be online, they can jump into the conversation at that point, and change what is an email conversation into an instant message conversation or a chat.
      Wave right now is still closed to most users. And Wave isn't yet connected to other communication systems, like regular e-mail, which means that the only people we can Wave with are other people on Wave as well. So we don't yet know what using Wave will be like once it gets crowded like e-mail. Also, the technology behind Wave is far more demanding on servers and the Internet itself than regular e-mail or chat, so we don't know if the technology will work at scale.
      But Wave really is a current re-think of e-mail. A lot of people won't like it. A lot of people didn't like e-mail either when it first showed up. But people will find real uses for Wave or whatever it becomes, and it's one of the most interesting new takes on communication. Even if you don't like it, it will make you think differently about e-mail.

      Well, it could not have got better for young Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old student from Olathe, Kansas, as she came out very successfully at the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2009(2009全美拼字大赛). On Thursday night she defeated the other 11 finalists to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home more than $40,000 cash money along with other prizes.
      Kavya Shivashankar, whose parents migrated to the United States from India, and who aims to become a doctor, enjoys playing the violin, bicycling, swimming and learning Indian classical dance.
     Thing came a bit late in Kavya's life since she could win the championship with her fourth appearance in the competition. The last three times when she had taken part in the same competition she had finished Tenth, Eighth and Fourth.
     However, this time Kavya proved her courage and determination by winning the title she had been competing for so long. Her last challenge was to spell out "Laodicean". The word "Laodicean" means one who is indifferent, mostly in religious matters. She spelled it correctly and a big smile appeared on her face. Kavya wrote the words on her palm each time and spelled every word correctly.
     After winning Kavya exclaimed, "I can't believe it happened.... It feels like kind of unreal." Her family was there to support her through the competition. Her father, Mirle Shivashankar said, "The competitiveness is in her...but she doesn't show that. She still has that smile. That's her quality." He went on to say that this was "the moment" they had been waiting for so long. It was like "a dream come true" for them.

       Laura and Anthony Valois are a young New York couple who have been trying in vain to have their first child.Several years ago.Belinda Ramlrez read an Internet adoption listing and quickly contacted them from her home in Texas,telling them they could adopt her unborn baby. Excited, Laura and Anthony spent weeks communicating with Ramirez and got regular updates on her preg –nancy.
      Before long, Ramirez began to ask them for financial support. That took the Valoises by surprise. But were willing to do a lot to ensure a smooth birth. They sent more than $1,000 to Ramirez over several months.
      Laura and Anthony finally drove to Texas so they could be on hand for the birth. But once they arrived,Ramirez avoided their daily phone calls. After there weeks, the couple drove back to New York-empty-handed and emotionally crushed.
      They later learned Ramirez had been cheating about ten other people for such things as Wal-mart gift cards in ststes ranging from California to Ohio to Florida. From start to finish,it was a scam .In fact,Ramirez was never even pregnant. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison as she deserved.
     “When you find out you can’t have children, it’s just depressing.” Laura Valois told a Texas TV station. “But when somebody intentionally does this to you,it’s 15 times worse.”

      Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time. Some people express anger openly in a calm reasonable way. Others explode with anger,and yell. But other people keep their inside. They can not or will not express it. This is called repressing (压制) anger.
      For years many doctors thought that compared with expressing anger,repressing anger was more dangerous to a person’s health. It may speed the heart rate,raise blood pressure or sugar into the blood and narrow the blood vessels. To avoid these problems,doctors thought a person should let the anger out by expressing it freely. But recently some doctors disputed this. They said that people who express anger repeatedly and explosively did cause,in fact,more and not less anger. They said these too can cause medical problems.
      Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. Expressing anger intensively may be more likely to develop heart disease, and keeping anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure. Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger. They say the first step is to admit that you are angry and to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide if the cause is serious enough to get angry about. If it isn’t, they say,”Don’t express your anger while angry .Wait until your anger has cooled down and you are able to express yourself calmly and reasonably.”
      Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry.They said that laughter is much healthier than anger.

Ⅴ.Daily Conversation(15 points)
       Directions: Pick out appropriate expressions from the eight choices below and complete the following dialogues by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.