《2016年11月北京成人本科学位英语考试试题(A卷)及精解》.doc

2005年11月19日北京地区成人本科学位英语考试试题(A卷) 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. (76)(They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. )To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, “As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives.”A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes. 1. The best title for this passage is__________A. Organs of Culture B. Brain and BodyC. Looking into his eyes D. Language and Culture2. According to this passage, the best way to learn a foreign language is__________A. to read the works of poets and philcsophersB. to find a native speaker and look directly into his eyesC. to begin by learning its body languageD. to visit a country where you can study3. According to this passage, gestures are__________A. spoken words B. a non-language elementC. pictures in a language D. written language4. As many languages as one speaks, so many lives... means__________A. if one learns many foreign languag