2016年成人高等学校专升本招生全国统一考试

Ⅰ. Phonetics( 5 points)
Directions ：In each of the following groups of words，there are four underlined letters or letter combinations marked A，B ，C ，and D．Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation．Mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet．

Ⅱ.Vocabulary and Structure( 15 points)
Directions ：There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section.For each sentence there are four choices marked A，B ，C and D．Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet．

Insomnia, or “poor sleep”, can have bad effects on a person's health and general well-being. It can__21__on both our physical and mental health and can lead to other health__22__. Insomnia can be traced to many different reasons, but what is__23___to many sufferers is their inability to relax fully and "switch the mind__24__". Constant thoughts, __25__around and around in the mind, moving from one__26__ to the next, prevent stillness and peace and__27__a sufferer extremely tired. In order to treat insomnia__28__, it is first necessary to allow a sufferer to re-experience__29__ real relaxation feels like. It's almost as though they've forgotten how to relax. Once this has been__30__by the brain, then fast and effective__31__can be made to re-educate the unconscious towards allowing the person to relax__32__and to allow a natural state of sleep to__33__. Hypnotherapy (催眠疗法) is one of the fastest and most effective ways of__34__this goal for long-lasting results. Sleeping pills, is used at all, should only be a short-term__35__as their effect is soon reduced and their side effects can be deep and far-reaching.

   Alexia Sloane, a 10-years-old girl, lost her sight when she was two following a brain disease .But despite her disability she has excelled at languages and is already fluent in English, French, Spanish and Chinese-and is learning German. Now she has experienced her dream job of working as an interpreter after East of England MEP(欧盟议员)Robert Sturdy invited her to the parliament in Brussels, thus becoming the youngest interpreter to work at the European Parliament."She was given a special permit to get into the building, where there is usually a minimum age requirement of 14, and sat in a booth listening and interpreting," said her mother ,Isabelle, "The other interpreters were amazed at how well she did as hedebate was quite complicated and many of the words were rather technical." Alexia has been tri-lingual since birth as her mother, as her mother, a teacher, is half French and half Spanish, while her father, Richard, is English.She started talking and communicating in all three languages before she lost her sight but adapted quickly to her blindness. By the age of four, she**reading and writing in the Braille(盲文). When she was six,Alexia began to learn Chinese. The **now learning German at school in Cambridge. Alexia has been longing to be an interpreter since she was six and she chose to go to the European Parliament as her prize when she won a young achiever of the year award. She asked if she could shadow interpreters and Mr. Sturdy agreed to take her along as his guest. Alexia worked with the head of interpreting and had a real taster of life in parliament. “It was fantastic and I’m absolutely determined now to become an interpreter,” she said.

Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one’s life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip. But for many people, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure. So despite all the efforts, they still take no breakfast.Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained, the number of people
who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33%--from 8.8
million to 11.7 million—according to the Chicago-based Market Research corporation of America. For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years
have shown that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve work.” Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly inadequate(不充分的), and most of the recent work involves children, not adults. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr. Earnest Polite at the University of Texas, “is poor.”

    When you stretch out in the sun you can do one of the three things: you can use no sun tan oil, an ordinary sun tan oil; or Bergasol If you don’t use any sun tan oil when you’re in the sun, you will burn surprisingly quickly. If you use an ordinary sun tan oil, you will protect your skin to a lesser or greater degree. How much protection depends on the “protection-factor number” on the bottle. Some oils block out so many of the sun’s rays and you can stay
in the sun all day without burning---but you won’t go very brown, wither.Bergasol will protect your skin like an ordinary sun tan oil. It also has a tan accelerator that speeds up the rate at which the sun activates the skin cells that produce melanin(黑色素). It is melanin that gives the skin its brown colour. Bergasol enables you to go brown faster, and as the days pass the difference will become more obvious. Unfortunately, this special formation isn’t cheap to prepare. So Bergasol is rather more expensive than ordinary sun tan oil. However, the price looks more attractive as you do.
Protection
Many people imagine that “cover-up” means you don’t get a tan. Nothing go show for your holiday.
Not so. With “Cover-up”, you can get brown if you want to. The point of “cover-up” is to protect
your skin from the harmful rays of the sun which, according to the experts, make your skin look order.
That’ what Solex Cover-up is all about—protection for your skin. It has a Sun Protection Factor 8,which makes it suitable for anyone. Find out how it works for you by consulting the Solex Sun Chart. On sale wherever Solex is.
With Solex Cover-up, you can tan as slowly as you like. As gently as you like. And with much less chance of peeling. You tan will look better. Your skin will stay young longer.
Solex
Gentle tan…full protection

   Ideas about polite behavior differ from one culture to another. Some societies, such as America and Australia, for example, are mobile and very open.
People change jobs and move house quite often. As a
result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know
people quickly. So it’s normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met,and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal. On the other hand, there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long-term relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business. But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society. To Americans, both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first.On
the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, it’s no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don’t want to answer.Cross-cultural differences aren’t just a problem for travelers, but also for
people in daily life. Some societies have “universalist” cultures. These societies strongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way.“Particularist”(强调特性的)societies also have rules, but they are less important than the society’s written ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person. So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.

  Claude-Oscar Monet (1840-1926) was a French artist and a leading member of the Impressionist group of painters. Born in Paris, Monet spent his childhood in Le Havre. There he met a local artist, Eugene Boudin, who encouraged him to become a landscape painter. In 1859, Monet went to Paris to study at the Academie Suisse. Between 1860 and 1862, Monet served in the army in Algeria (阿尔及利亚). He returned to Paris where he met most of the major artists of the era. In 1870, Monet married Camille Doncieux. To escape the Franco-Prussian war, they moved to London. Back to France, they settled at Argenteuil, a boating centre on the Seine (塞纳河)which drew many other Impressionist painters. Working from nature was a particular symbol of the Impressionist movement, and one that Monet valued, reflecting in his paintings the ever-changing impact of light and weather conditions. In 1872, he visited Le Havre where he painted “An Impression, Sunrise”. When exhibited in 1874, part of its title was used by a critic to label the whole movement “Impressionism”.Monet’s wife died in 1879, and he set up home with Alice Hoschede, the wife of one of his most important sponsors. During the 1880s, Monet travelled through France painting a variety of landscapes. He gradually became better known and for the last 30 years of his life he was regarded as the greatest of the Impressionists. From 1890 he began to paint a series 系列）of pictures of one subject, including “Haystacks”, “Rouen Cathedral” and “Waterlilies”, The latter were painted in the fine garden Monet created at his house at Giverny, where he lived from 1883 on.He painted them over and over again, most significantly in a series especially for a museum in Paris.

A.How can you say that
B. Do you want me to be honest
C. I really loved it
D. That’s all right
E. What did I say
F. I never want to watch any opera
G. I’m sorry
H. That’s the problem

Lisa: Well, honey, how did you like the opera?
Henry: ___56____?
Lisa: Of course.
Henry: To tell me the truth. I was bored to death. What a ridiculous art form! ___57____.
Lisa: Hum! ___58____? It was beautiful. And you just saw one of my favorite operas.
Henry: __59___, dear. I know you like opera, but it just isn’t for me. I’d rather read a novel or watch a movie.
Lisa: but you don’t know how to appreciate opera. ___60___.
Henry: OK, what you’re saying may be true.

VI. Writing （25 points）
Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write an essay in English in about 100~120 words based on the following information. Remember to write it clearly.

61. 你(Li Yuan)是班长，准备周末组织全班同学参观历史博物馆(the museum of History)。请根据以下提示写一个通知：
周六上午八点全班在校门口集合，乘公交汽车前往;
参观时，要认真听讲并记录重要内容;
遵守参观规定，如：馆内不得喧哗、拍照，勿带食品饮料入馆;
下周五之前交一份参观报告。