成人本科学位英语考试真题及答案98年09年A,B卷.doc

北京地区成人三级英语网 PAGE PAGE 142 北京大学资源东楼5层1526室 电话：010- 北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试 1998.6.13 注意事项 一、将答题卡(纸)上的姓名及学生代号用中文和阿拉伯数字填好。 二、仔细阅读题目的说明。 三、在120分钟内答完全部试题。 四、答案一定写在答题卡上，凡是写在试题册上的答案一律作废。 五、用铅笔这样划答案：[A] [B] [C] [D]，用其他符号答题者不记分。 六、如要改动答案，必须先用橡皮擦去原来选定的答案，然后再按上面的规定重新答题。 Part I Reading Comprehension (40%) Directions: There are four 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 remark 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. Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe (订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read newspapers? Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings —— battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown (推翻) or killed —— took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the same y they happen. Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories and, of course, advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit. Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashi