1、西北大学成考学位英语历年真题选作题I：Part I Dialogue Communication ( 15 % )Directions: In this section, you will read 15 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 choices marked A ,B , C and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the correspond
2、ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.1. Speaker A: Firstly, allow me to introduce myself. My name is John Brown, manager of the company.Speaker B： 单选题 *A. You must be mistaken. I dont know you at all.B. Hello, Brown! I havent seen you for ages.C. How do you do, Mr. Br
3、own? Very happy to see you.(正确答案)D. Hi, John! Welcome to China.2. W: How long can I keep the book?M： 单选题 *A. Yes. You can keep it.B. No. Im afraid you should return it now.C. Three weeks. But you can renew it if you need it for a longer time.(正确答案)D. You can take it at any time you want.3. Speaker A
4、: Take a seat, Mr. Brown. Could you tell me which position you think most appeals toyou?Speaker B： 单选题 *A. Well, Im easy-going and have many personal interests.B. Im strong-willed and determined.C. I prefer to take the post of sales manager if you think Im qualified.(正确答案)D. I dont quite care whatev
5、er is offered to me.4. W: I was thinking of staying in tonight to surf the Internet, do you want to join me?M: 单选题 *A. Staying in tonight to surf the Internet? Its a good idea. Enjoy yourself.B. Join you with the Internet? What about the Internet?C. What I want to do is nothing else but take a walk.
6、D. Not really. I work on the computer all day long. I need a break from computers screen.(正确答案)5. Speaker A: I wonder if Ann will come. Its 8:30 now and she was supposed to come at 8: 00.Speaker B： 单选题 *A. She assured me she would start at 7: 30. Maybe she had been held up by the traffic.(正确答案)B. Yo
7、u shouldnt be wondering. I believe she wont come.C. Dont worry. Lets wait here until she comes.D. Yes. I do agree with you.6. M:What are you doing?W:Trying to get this wine stain(污渍) out of the carpet.M:Hang on. Theres some soda here. It should take the stain right out.W :Really? Hey,。单选题 *A. it is
8、really functioning.B. it is really working.(正确答案)C. it is really playing.D. it is really influencing.7. Endy : Hi, Tom. How is everything?Tom. 单选题 *A. I dont care at all.B. No good, thanks.C. Not bad. How are you?(正确答案)D. Thank you for asking.8. Grandpa: Robbie, well go fishing soon, and well take y
9、our Dad with us.Grandson: Im ready, Grandpa. 单选题 *A. You name the day.(正确答案)B. Enjoy yourselves.C. You cant miss it.D. Take your time.9. Teacher: Where is Mike this morning?Student: Hes got a cold.Teacher: 单选题 *A. Just tell him to take it easy.(正确答案)B. He is absent.C. Whats the matter with him？D. Wh
10、at? Where is he?10. W: How was the job interview? I think you make a good journalist(记者).M: 单选题 *A. Well. My application was a journalist.(正确答案)B. Well. I gave it up as I was a journalist.C. Well. The interview is OK. But I want to be a journalist.D. Well. The people interviewed were not very cooper
11、ative.11. Speaker A: Have you ever done any work in this field?Speaker .B : 单选题 *A. It doesnt mean I cant do it well without experience.B. No. But we did some practice in class.(正确答案)C. Maybe I can try it now.D. This is just the chance for me to practice.12. W : This book is great. I cant put it dow
12、n.M: 单选题 *A. What? I cant imagine your being excited by a book.(正确答案)B. Sorry. Books cannot attract you so much.C. I doubt you are involved in something else.D. Perhaps this book is something mysterious.13. Waiter: Customer: Yes, Ill have a cheeseburger, with French fries(薯条). 单选题 *A. What do you wa
13、nt to eat?B. Have you decided what to have yet?C. Excuse me, are you ready to order now?(正确答案)D. Excuse me, but whos like to order?14. W: How did you do with your essay for Professor Black Scott?M. 单选题 *A. Everything is OK. But I failed to finish it.B. Professor Smith Scott didnt work successfully e
14、nough to let me believe in him.C. Nonsense. Its not your business.D. Not too bad, it took me almost 10 hours.(正确答案)15. Mary: Tom, would you like to go to a party this Sunday?Tom： What kind of party ?Mary: Its a birthday party. 单选题 *A. Sounds good(正确答案)B. Looks niceC. Seems all rightD. Feels excellen
15、tPart I Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions : There are 3 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 decideon the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer S
16、heet with a single line through the center.Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:Some psychologists(心理学家) maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performedin the brain alone, but that ones muscles also participate. (76) It may be said that we think withour muscles i
17、n somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your earsbut with your whole body. Few people can listen to music without moving their body or, more specifically, some part of their body. Often whe
18、n one listens to a symphonic concert on the radio, he is attracted to direct the orchestra (乐队) even though he knows there is a good conductor on the job.Strange as this behavior may be, there is a very good reason for it. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, s
19、o to speak, in its performance. The listener feels himself into the music with more or less noticeable motions of his body.( 77 ) The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the sameway, but this participation is less obvious because it is less noticeable.1. Som
20、e psychologists think that thinking is 单选题 *A. not a mental processB. more of a physical process than a mental actionC. a process that involves our entire bodiesD. a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain(正确答案)2. The process of thinking and that of listening to music are similar in t
21、hat 单选题 *A. both are mental actsB. muscles participate in both processes(正确答案)C. both processes are performed by the entire bodyD. we derive equal enjoyment from them3. Few people are able to listen to familiar music without 单选题 *A. moving some part of their body(正确答案)B. stopping what they are doing
22、 to listenC. directing the orchestra playing itD. wishing that they could conduct music properly4. The listeners way of feeling the music is 单选题 *A. the unnoticed motion of his musclesB. participating in the performance(正确答案)C. bending an ear to the musicD. being the conductor of the orchestra5. Acc
23、ording to the passage, muscle participation in the process of thinking is 单选题 *A. deliberateB. ApparentC. indistinct(正确答案)D. impressivePassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. (78) The meanings of. thousands of e
24、veryday perceptions , the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits andskills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includesnot only remembering th
25、ings like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involving any change inthe way an animal typically behaves. (79)Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain be-cause he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a b
26、aseball bat.Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting tocompare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access memory
27、 of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 words -ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of
28、 faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings.A large part of a persons memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.6. According to the passage, memory is considered to be 单选题 *A. the ba
29、sis for decision making and problem solvingB. an ability to store experiences for future use(正确答案)C. an intelligence typically possessed by human beingsD. the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words7. The comparison made between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of a
30、 human being shows that 单选题 *A. the computers memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenagersB. the computers memory capacity is much smaller that an adult human beingsC. the computers memory capacity is much smaller even than a teenagers(正确答案)D. both A and B8. The whole passage implies that 单选
31、题 *A. only human beings have problem-solving intelligenceB. a persons memory is different from a computers in every respectC. animals are able to solve only very simple problems(正确答案)D. animals solve problems by instincts rather than intelligence9. The phrase in terms of in the last sentence can best be replaced by 单选题 *A. in connection withB. expressed by(正确答案)C. consistingD. by means of10. The to
