2014年浙江省专升本大学英语试题和答案

14.What is Dr Belton’s advice for youngsters ?

A. Observe the world around them.

B. Get information online from time to time.

C. Remain constantly active.

D. Read as many books as possible.

15.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Deal with boredom wisely.

B. Learn from a young age.

C. Enjoy village life. D. Forget old sayings.

Passage Four

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

During her junior year of high school, Candice Backus’s teacher handed her a sheet and instructed the 17-year-old to map out her future financial life. Backus pretended to buy a car, rent an apartment, and apply for a credit card. Then, she and her classmates played the “stock market game, ” investing the hypothetical(假设的) earnings from their hypothetical jobs in the market in the fateful fall of 2008. “Our pretend investments crashed , ”Backus says, still horrified. “We felt what actual shareholders were feeling.”

That pain of earning and losing money is a feeling that public school increasingly want to teach. Forty states now offer some types of financial instruction at the elementary or high-school level, including lessons in balancing checkbooks( 支票本 ) and buying stock in math and social-studies classes. The interest in personal-finance classes has risen since 2007 when bank failures became a regular occurrence.

Rather than teach investment strategies, these courses offer a basic approach to handling money: Don’t spent what you don’t have. Put part of your monthly salary into a saving account, and invest in the stock market for the long-term rather than short-term gains. For Backus, this means dividing her earnings from her part-time job at a fast-food restaurant into separate envelopes for paying bills, spending, and saving. “Money is so hard to make but so easy to spend, ”she says one weekday after school.

After Backus finished her financial classes, she opened up a savings account at her local bank and started to think more about how she and her family would pay for college. “She just has a better understanding of money and how it affects the world ,” says her mother, Darleen. All of this talk of money can make Backus worry, she says, but luckily, she feels prepared to face it.

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16. The purpose of the high school class’s “stock market game” is to

____________.

A. introduce a new course B. encourage personal savings

C. learn about investment D. teach credit card hazards

17. Student interest in taking classes on finance has increased because of

____________.

A. the state of the economy B. the need for employment

C. the rate of graduation D. the desire to purchase cars

18. According to the passage, taking money management courses will help to

____________.

A. get accepted by colleges B. become very wealthy

C. take more vacations D. prevent from going into debt

19.After Candice Backus completed the class about money, she _______.

A. is debt free B. manages the family income

C. will graduate early D. feels more competent

20.The author’s attitude toward financial classes in public school is

___________.

A. positive B. critical C. objective D. worried

Format Ⅱ

Directions: In the following passage, some sentences have been removed. For questions 21—25, choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit into any of the gaps. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet.(10 marks)

Now put on sunscreen(防晒霜)

Some sunscreens prevent sunburn but not other types of skin damage. Make sure yours offers a broad range of protection. 21. Anything higher than SPF 50+ can tempt you to stay in the sun too

long. Even if you don’t burn, your skin may be

damaged. Stick to SPFs between 15 and 50+. Pick a product based on your own skin color, time outside, shade and cloud cover.

News about vitamin A. Eating vitamin A–rich vegetables is good for you, but spreading vitamin A on your skin may not be. Government data shows that cancers develop sooner on skin coated with creams with vitamin A .22.

Pick a good sunscreen. EWG’s sunscreen database rates the safety and effect of about 1,400 SPF-rated products, including about 750 sunscreens for beaches and sports use. We give high ratings to brands that provide broad-range, long-lasting protection with ingredients that pose fewer health concerns when

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absorbed by the body.

23. Cream, because sprays cloud the air with tiny particles that may not be safe to breathe. Reapply cream often. Sunscreen chemicals sometimes degrade in the sun, wash off or rub off on towels and clothing. 24. The FAD treats powdered sunscreens as unapproved new drugs and may take enforcement action against companies that sell them-except for small businesses, which can sell powders until December 2013. 25. Wear sunscreen. In 2009, nearly twice as many American men died form skin cancers as women. Surveys show that 34 percent of men wear sunscreens, compared to 78 percent of women.

Got your vitamin D? Many people don’t get enough vitamin D, a hormone manufactured by the skin in the presence of sunlight. Your doctor can test your level and recommend supplements if you are low in this vital nutrient. A. No powder!

B. Avoid midday sun.

C. Message for men:

D. Cream or spray?

E. Don’t fall for high SPF labels.

F. Take special precautions with infants and children.

G. Avoid any sun product whose label says vitamin A.

Section B （每小题 1 分）

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Please blacken the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet.

You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.(10 marks)

A survey of English schoolchildren shows boys and girls are worrying about

the way they look. The 26 found that over half of male schoolchildren

lacked confidence because of their body 27 .The figure for girls was slightly 28 , at 59 percent. Researchers questioned 693 teachers about how their students 29 about their bodies. All the children had taken lessons on body image and self-esteem. Teachers said many children were very 30 if others

said bad things about their appearances. Around 55 percent of teachers reported

that girls were extremely sensitive to comment 31 their looks; the figure for boys being easily hurt by teasing(取笑)was 27 percent. Teachers gave a number of 32 why children as young as four years old were stressing out about their shapes. Over 90 percent of teachers 33 the

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Internet and television. Children see images of“perfect”bodies every day and they feel they have to look that way too. Many children are on diets to make themselves 34 to the opposite sex. One elementary school teacher said :“I will make me

work with four to five-year-olds and some say things like, ‘I can’t eat cheese , it

35 ’”, A teachers’ spokeswoman warned that children trying to look like “celebrities in the media only lead to misery”.

A. about B. attractive C. blame D. complete E. discover F. fat G. felt H. for I. higher J. lazy K. questions L. reasons M. shape N. study O. upset Part Ⅱ Integrated Testing (30 marks, 30 minutes)

Section A Cloze （每小题 1 分）

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet.(20 marks)

To stay economically competitive on a global scale, the United States needs 8 million more college graduates 36 2020. That may sound impossible,

37 according to Education at a Glance 2013, the 38 international

report on the state of education 39 Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the 40 is still the world

42 that almost leader in producing college graduates. 41 , OECD data

half of the world’s university graduates come from three countries—the United

States, China and Japan.

43 the 34 OECD countries, 44 26 percent of the total 255 million

college-educated 45 between the ages of 25 and 64 come from the United

States. China comes in a distant second at 12.1 percent and Japan is a 46 third at 11.4 percent.

Global prosperity( 繁 荣 ) won’t increase if only three nations

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higher education output, so it’s exciting to see that the number of students

to college increased 25 percent across all OECD countries 49 1995 and 2012. If that 50 continues, 59 percent of young adults in those countries will go on to college, 51 19 percent will enter vocational programs over their lifetimes.

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