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1、1/281 2015 年同等学力英语考试真题Part I Oral Communication(10 points)Section A Directions:In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A,B and C,taken from the dialogue.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mar
2、k your answer on the Answer Sheet.Dialogue One Do you know what a handicapped space is?The signs always tell you how long you can park there and on what days.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 you driving a motorcy
3、cle or an automobile?Student:I drive an automobile.Clerk:Fine.You can either park in the student lot or on the street.1 Student: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 a special permit.Are you going to be parking
4、in the daytime or evening?Student:I park in the evenings.Clerk:2 Have you seen those signs?Student:Yes,I have seen those signs.Clerk:3 Dialogue Two A.The hours and limitations are printed on the card and this handout.B.May I have your driver s license,please?C.Are you familiar with our rules and fin
5、es?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.I ll do it right now.2/281 Librarian:Let me take a look at this for you.4 Student:Here it is.Librarian:You seem to have filled
6、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 B Directions:In this section there is one incomplete which has four blanks and four choices A,B,C and D,taken from the interview.
7、Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.A.And fooled the boys for a while.B.And I don t think the boys have minded.C.Well,it s because my British publisher.D.All this time I thought you were J.K .Winfrey:So,this is the fir
8、st time we ve 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,they thought this is a book that will appeal to boys ,but they didn t want the boys to know a woman had written it.So the
9、y said to me could we use your initials and I said fine .I only have one initial.I don t have a middle name,So I took my favorite grandmother s name,Kathleen.Winfrey:_9_ Rowling:Yeah,but not for too long,because I started getting my picture in the press and no one could pretend I was a man anymore.3
10、/281 Winfrey:_10_ Rowling:NOit hasn t held me back,has it?Part II Vocabulary(10 points)Directions:In this part there are ten sentences,each with one word or phrase underlined.Choose the one from the four choices marked A,B,C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence.Mark your answer on the A
11、nswer Sheet.There are several different options for getting Internet access.A.choices B.definitions C.channels D.reasons 12.Earth has an atmosphere,which protects the surface from harmful rays.A.minerals B.substances C.gases D.beams 13.The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her
12、hostile attitude toward customers.A.unfriendly B.optimistic C.impatient D.positive Since it is late to change my mind now,I am resolved to carry out the plan.A.revise B.implement C.review D.improve 15.Security guards dispersed the crowd that had gathered around the Capitol.A.arrested B.stopped C.sca
13、ttered D.watched 16.To start the program,insert the disk and follow the instructions.A.take out B.turn over C.track down D.put in 17.The patient s condition has deteriorated since last night.A.improved B.returned C.worsened D.changed 18.I couldn t afford to fly home,and a train ticket was likewise b
14、eyond my means.A.also B.nonetheless C.furthermore D.otherwise 19.Despite years of searching,scientists have detected no signs of life beyond our own solar system.A.within B.besides C.outside D.except I prefer chicken to fish because I am worried about accidentally swallowing a small bone.4/281 A.int
15、entionally B.unexpectedly C.anxiously D.hurriedly Part III Reading Comprehension(25 points)Section A Directions:In this section,there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements,each with four suggested answers A,B,C and D.Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answe
16、r Sheet.Passage One Sometimes a race is not enough.Sometimes a runner just wants to go further.That s what happened to Dennis 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 run
17、ning to get out of the house and collect her thoughts.Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more.“The more I trained,the better I got,”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 l
18、onger races)in other countries,on other countries.Now both have achieved a notable-and increasingly less rate-milestone;running the 26.2-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,at the intersection of athleticis
19、m and leisure:“runcations,”which combine distance running with travel to exotic places.There trips,as expensive as they are physically challenging,are a growing and competitive market in the travel industry.“In the beginning,running was enough,”said Steen Albrechtsen,a press manager.“The classic mar
20、athon was the ultimate goal,then came the super marathons,like London and New York.But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge,it is no longer exciting and adventurous.Hence,the search for new adventures began.”“No one could ever have imagined that running would become the lifestyle activi
21、ty that it is today,”said Thom Gilligan,founder and president of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel.Gilligan,who has been 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 cont
22、inent except Antarctica.And then in 1995,Marathon Tours hosted its first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island.Off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula:160 runners got to the starting line of a dirt-and ice-trail route via a Russian icebreaker through the Drake Passage.At the beginning,Martin took
23、 up running just to.5/281 A.meet requirements of his job B.win a running race C.join in a philanthropic activity D.get away from his sadness 22.Martin and Curran are mentioned as good examples of.A.winners in the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents B.people who enjoy long running as a lifestyle a
24、ctivity C.running racers satisfied with their own performance D.old people who live an active life after retirement 23.A new trend in the travel industry is the development of.A.challenging runcations B.professional races C.Antarctica travel market D.expensive tours The classic marathon no longer sa
25、tisfies some people because.A.it does not provide enough challenge B.it may be tough and dangerous C.it involves too fierce a competition D.it has attracted too many people 25.The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that.A.international cooperation is a must to such an event B.
26、runcations are expensive and physically challenging C.Marathon Tours is a leader of the travel industry D.adventurous running has become increasingly popular Passage Two Before the 1970s,college students were treated as children.So many colleges ran in loco parentis system.“In loco parentis”is a Lat
27、in term meaning“in the place of a parent.”It 6/281 describes when someone else 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 toward their students.For years,American courts upheld in loco parentis
28、 in cases such as Gott versus Berea College in 1913.Gott owned a restaurant off campus.Berea threatened to expel students who ate at places not owned by the school.The Kentucky high court decided that in loco parentis justified that rule.In loco parentis meant that male and female college students u
29、sually had to live in separate buildings.Women had 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,courts began to support students who were being punished for political and social dissent.In 19
30、60,Alabama State College expelled six students who 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 the Constitution se
31、t the voting age at eighteen.So in loco parentis no longer really applied.Slowly,colleges began to treat students not as children,but as adults.Students came to be seen as consumers of educational services.Gary Dickstein,an assistant vice president at Wright State University in Dayton,Ohio,says in l
32、oco parentis is not really gone.It just looks different.Today s parents,he says,are often heavily involved in students 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
33、issues and grades.They want to make sure their financial 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 students parents B.parents asked them to do it for the interests of their children C.this was a tradition e
34、stablished by British colleges D.college students were regarded as too young to be treated as adults 27.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.7/281 28.The word“dissent”(Para.5)probably means“”.A.extreme behaviors B.violati
35、on of laws C.strong disagreement D.Wrong doings 29.In 1960，the court ruled that Alabama State College_ A.had no right to expel the students B.was justified to have expelled the students C.shouldn t interfere with students daily life D.should support civil rights demonstrations 30.According to Gary D
36、ickstein,today s“helicopter parents”_ A.don t set their hearts at rest with college administrators B.keep a watchful eye on their children s life and study C.care less about their children s education than before D.have different opinions on their children s education Passage Three We tend to think
37、of plants as the furniture of the natural word.They don t move,they don t make sounds,they don t seem to respond to anything at least not very quickly.But as is often the case,our human view of the world misses quite a lot.Plants talk to each other all the time.And the language is chemical.Over the
38、years scientists have reported that different types of plants,from trees to tomatoes,release compounds into the air to help neighboring plants.These chemical warnings all have the same purposeto spread information about one plant s disease so other plants can defend themselves.But exactly how plants
39、 receive and act on many of these signals is still mysterious.In this week s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,researchers in Japan offer some explanations.They have identified one chemical message and traced it all the way from release to action.The scientists looked at tomato plants
40、infested(侵害)by common pest,the cutworm caterpillar(毛虫).To start out,they grew plants in two plastic compartments connected by a tube.One plant was infested and placed upwind and the others were uninfested and placed downwind.The downwind plants were later exposed to the cutworm caterpillar.The resul
41、ts 8/281 showed that plants that had previously been near sick neighbors were able to defend themselves better against the caterpillar.The researchers also studied leaves from exposed and unexposed plants.They found one compound showed up more often in the exposed plants.The substance is called Hex
42、Vic.When the scientists fed Hex Vic to cutworms,it knocked down their survival rate by 17%.The scientists identified the source of Hex Vic,and sprayed it lightly over healthy plants.Those plants were then able to start producing the caterpillar-killing Hex Vic.Researchers confirmed that uninfested p
43、lants have to build their own weapon to fight off bugs and diseases.How do they know when to play defense?They are warned first by their friendly plant neighbors.It is a complex tale,and it may be happening in more plant species than tomatoes.It may also be happening with more chemical signals that
44、are still unknown to us.For now though,we know that plants not only communicate,they look out 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 w
45、orld.D.Plants can communicate with each other.32.According to Paragraph2,what remains unknown is _ A.how plants receive and handle the signals from their neighbors B.why plants spread chemical information to their neighbors C.how many types of plants release compounds into the air D.whether plants s
46、end chemical warnings to their neighbors 33.The tomato plants in the experiment were _ A.placed separately but connected through air B.exposed to different kinds of pests C.exposed to the pest at the same time D.placed together in a closed compartment 34.The experiment shows that the infested plant
47、helps its neighbors by _ A.making more Hex Vic to attract the pest B.releasing Hex Vic into the air to warn them 9/281 C.letting them know how to produce Hex Vic D.producing enough Hex Vic to kill the pest 35.What may be the best title for the passage?A.Survival of Plants B.Plant World C.Talking Pla
48、nts D.Plant Bug Killer Passage Four Vancouver is the best place to live in the Americas,according to a quality-of-life ranking published earlier this month.The city regularly tops such indexes as its clean air,spacious homes and weekend possibilities of sailing and skiing.But its status as a liveabl
49、e city is threatened by worsening congestion(拥挤).Over the next three decades,another I million residents are expected to live in the Greater Vancouver region,adding more cars,bicycles and lorries to roads that are already struggling to serve the existing 2.3 million residents.A proposal by Vancouver
50、 s mayor seeks to prevent the worsening conditions.Upgrades would be made to 2,300 kilometres of road lanes,as well as bus routes and cycle paths.Four hundred new buses would join the fleet of 1,830.There would be more trains and more“seabus”ferry crossings between Vancouver and its wealthy northern