大学英语(A)模拟试卷及答案2011Test06.docVIP

全国高校网络教育公共基础课统一考试 大学英语（A）模拟试卷（2010年修订版） Test 6 （根据全国高校网络教育考试委员会2011年1月新颁考试大纲和题型进行了相应调整） Information for the Examinees: This examination consists of FOUR parts. They are: Part Ⅰ: Reading Comprehension (30 points, 25 minutes) Part Ⅱ: Vocabulary and Grammar (30 points, 25 minutes) Part Ⅲ: Translation (20 points, 10 minutes) Part IV: Writing (20 points, 30 minutes) The total marks for this examination is 100 points. Time allowed for completing this examination is 90 minutes). Section I: Reading Comprehension [30 points] Instructions: ???????? This section will take approximately 25 minutes. ???????? There are TWO sections in this part. Part 1: Questions 1-5 are based on this part. (15 points) Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C and D. Since World War II, there has been a clearly discernible trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin dating in the first stages of adolescence, “go steady” through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. However, emotional maturity is no respecter of birthday; it does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even in three score years and ten. Many students are marrying as an escape, not only from an unsatisfying home life, but also from their own personal problems of isolation and loneliness. And it can almost be put down as s dictum that any marriage seldom solves one’s problems, more often, it merely makes them worse. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the home is an institution that is capable of carrying all that the young are seeking to put into it. Young people correctly understand that their parents are wrong in believing that “success” is the ultimate good, but they erroneously believe that they themselves have found the true center of life’s meaning. Their expectations of marriage are essentially utopian and therefore