《北京地区成人本科学位英语统一考试最新预测试卷》.doc

前 言 《北京地区成人本科学位英语统一考试最新预测试卷》是中国人民大学英语三级红宝书系列的重要的一本书，编者根据新大纲的考试要求和最新命题方向，精心编制了这10套模拟题，目的是帮助考生在夯实基础、强化提高的基础上检查复习效果，体验临场实战的感觉。 本书特点之一： 内容新，针对性强，选材广泛，关注历年真题常涉及领域。帮助考生模拟演练，检查复习效果，发现问题与不足，在最后阶段进行针对性地提高。 本书特点之二： 本书是根据考试大纲的要求，结合作者近几年辅导和命题研究的经验，在近几年考试情况的基础上，命制的10套与大纲要求完全一致的模拟试题。在编写这10套题时，既注重文章内容的深度和广度，使其覆盖更广的知识面，又注重了考题难度的要求，力求接近考题。 编者 于中国人民大学 模拟试题一 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 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you. You say “I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself.” In fact, you are not short of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debt and you don’t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this rally a lie? Professor Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California has made a scientific study of lying. (76)According to him, women are better liars than men, particularly when telling a “white lie”, such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks awful. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researchers say that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no intension of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way. Research has also been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a numb