2017年11月北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试试卷及答案分析.pdfVIP

北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试 2017.05.06真题 Part Reading Comprehension (30%) Ⅰ 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 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: People say that money cannot buy happiness. This was true forHoward Hughes. (76) He was one of the richest and most powerfulmen of his time. He had everything:good look, success, power, and a lot of money. But he didn ’t have love or friendship because he couldn ’t buy them. All his life he used his money to control everything and everyone around him. In the end, he lost control of everything, even himself. Howard Hughes was born in1905 in Houston, Texas. His father started theHughes Tool Company. He was aworkaholic （工作狂）and made a lot of money. He bought everything he wanted. He even gave money to schools so Howard could get into them. From his father, Howard learned to bea successful but merciless（hopeless, homeless, jobless）businessman. Hughes ’s mother, Allene also hada big influence/effect/impacton his life. Howard was her only child. She protected him and gave him everything. Unfortunately Allene had mental problems. (77)She was afraid of germs and diseases. Shewas obsessed with推测 Howards health，and hebecame obsessed with it too. Allene died when Howard was 16 years old. Two years later his father died（18）. Hughes inherited 继承 the Hughes Tool Company. Then hemarried Ella Rice. He and Ella moved to Los Angeles,Californi a. It was there that Howard Hughes began to become a legend （传奇人物）. Hughes began to invest his money in movies. He became an important producer 导演 soon after he moved to California. He work