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1、. . 北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试 2011.11.05 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
2、the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migrating(迁徙的 ) route, can be deadly for birds. “We live in an age of glass, ”said Ms. Laurel,an architect. (76) “It can be a
3、perfect mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is.”About 90,000 birds are killed by flying into buildings in the city each year. Often, they strike the lower levels of glass towers after searching for food in nearby parks. Such crashes are the second-leading cause
4、of death for migrating birds, after habitat ( 栖息地 ) loss, with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year. (77) As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too have calls to makethem less deadly to birds. San Francisco adopted bird-safety standards fo
5、r new buildings in July. The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group that encourages the creation of environmentally conscious buildings, will introduce a bird-safety credit this fall as part of its environmental certification process. There are no easy fixes, however. A few
6、 researchers are exploring glass designs that use ultraviolet ( 紫外线的 ) signals, but they are still in their infancy. Covers, dot patterns, shades and nets are the main options available. Often, only one section of a building needs to be changed. “You dont necessarily have to treat every window,“ Ms.
7、 Laurel said. “It would be too expensive to do the whole building.“ The Jacob IC Javits Convention Center, which has been undergoing alterations, is the most recent building to voluntarily correct the problem of bird crashes. The architects used less reflective glass and dot patterns. 1. What is the
8、 main idea of the passage? A. New York is a city of glass towers. B. Glass towers are dangerous for migrating birds. C. New York adopted new safety standards for buildings. D. Glass towers are a new trend in the United States. 2. What is the number one cause of death for migrating birds? A. Climate
9、change. B. Habitat loss. C. Lack of food. D. Crashing into buildings. 3. What does the word“ fixes”in the third paragraph probably mean? A. Choices. B. Explanations. C. Solutions. D. Developments. 4. are used in the alteration of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. A. Dot patterns B. Shades C. Ne
10、ts D. Covers . . 5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. In many cases, the whole building needs to be altered to prevent bird crashes. B. The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is the first building to deal with the problem of bird crashes. C. About 90,000 birds are
11、 killed due to habitat loss in New York City each year. D. Unfortunately, glass designs that use ultraviolet signals are still in their early stages. Passage 2 Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage: Todays students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they li
12、ve in a world where amazing innovations (革新 ) are common. The current 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital (数字 的), they are imp
13、atient to get on with life. The easiest way to fred kids like these is to check in on entrepreneurship (企业家才能) education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them. A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finance
14、s programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 5,000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two- and four-year campuses-up fromjust 250 courses in 1985. Lesa Mitchell, a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which us
15、ed to be found only inbusiness schools. Now, the concept of entrepreneurship is blooming in engineering programs and medical schools, and even in the liberal arts. “Our interest is inall the programs,” she says.“We need to spread out from the business school.” Either as class projects or on their ow
16、n_, students in a variety of majors are coming up with ideas, writing business plans and seeing them through to prototype and, often, market. In their spare time, students in agricultural economics at Purdue invent new uses for bean; industrial design majors at Syracuse, in a special laboratory, cre
17、ate wearable technologies. (78) The entrepreneurship movement has its critics especially among those who see college as a time for extensive academic exploration. “I just dont think that entrepreneurship ranks so high in terms of national: need, ”says Daniel S. Greenberg, author of Science for Sale:
18、 The Perils, Rewards and Delusions of Campus Capitalism. Leonard A. Schlesinger, Babson Colleges president, says that the question of whether innovation can really be taught is “an age-old argument.” 6. When Google and Facebook were established, the founders were still_. A. in high school B. in the
19、army C. in primary school D. at college 7. According to the passage, what is the main purpose of entrepreneurship education? A. To prepare students for future academic life. B. To prepare students to fred oppommities and seize them. C. To prepare students for overseas career. D. To prepare students
20、to develop interpersonal skills. 8. Theword“prototype ” in the fourth paragraph is most likely to mean _ A. model B. strategy C. method D. stage . . 9. What does Daniel S. Greenberg think of entrepreneurship education? A. Entrepreneurship, or at least certain elements of it, can be taught. B. An ent
21、repreneurship program can help students find what they really like and entrepreneurship isnt all about business. C. Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields. D. Colleges shouldnt put too much emphasis on entrepreneurship programs. 10. What is the main ideaof the passage? A. Entrepre
22、neurship courses in business schools. B. Qualities of an entrepreneur. C. Entrepreneurship education in colleges. D. Kids in the information age. Passage 3 Questions 11 to 15 are based onthe following passage: Regret is as common an emotion as love or fear, and it can be nearly as powerful. So, in a
23、 new paper, two researchers set about trying to find out what the typical American regrets most. In telephone surveys, Neal Roese, a psychologist and professor of marketing at the School ofmanagement at Northwestern UniverSity, and Mike Morrison, a doctoral candidate in psychology at University of I
24、llinois, asked 370 Americans, aged 19 to 103, to talk about their most notable regret. Participants were asked what the regret was, when it happened, whether it was a result of something they did or didnt do, and whether it was something that could still be fixed. The most commonly mentioned regrets
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