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华南师范大学高等教育自学考试2016年1月委考课程 《高级英语(一)》模拟题A卷 (课程代码：07374 ) 注意：1．本试卷共六大题，满分100分，考试时间150分钟； 2．所有答案必须写在答卷的规定位置上； 3. 必须用黑色墨水的钢笔或圆珠笔填写，不能使用涂改液； 4. 考试形式：闭卷。 题 号 I II III IV V VI 总 分 得 分 I. Reading Comprehension (20%) (1) Reading the following passage carefully and then choose one from the given choices to answer each question. 1) Barbie, a twelve-inch plastic teen-ager, is the best-known and best-selling doll in history. Since its introduction in 1959, the Barbie doll population of the world has grown to 12,000.000 --- more than the human population of Los Angeles or London or Paris. Little girls adore Barbie because she is highly realistic and eminently dress-upable. Mattel, Inc., maker of Barbie, also sells a complete wardrobe for her, including clothes for ordinary daytime wear, clothes for formal party wear, clothes for swimming and skiing. 2) Recently Mattel announced a new improved Barbie doll. The new version has a slimmer figure, real eyelashes, and a twist-and-turn waist that makes her more humanoid than ever. Moreover, Mattel announced that, for the first time, any young lady wishing to purchase a new Barbie would receive a trade-in allowance for her old one. 3) What Mattel did not announce was that by trading in her old doll for a technologically improved model, the little girl of today, citizen of tomorrows super-industrial world, would learn a fundamental lesson about the new society: that mans relationships with things are increasingly temporary. 4) The ocean of man-made physical objects that surrounds us is set within a larger ocean of natural objects. But increasingly, it is the technologically produced environment that matters for the individual. The texture of plastic or concrete, the 3iridescent glisten of an automobile under a streetlight, the staggering vision of a cityscape seen from the window of a jet --- these are the intimate realities of his existence. Man-made things enter into and color his consciousness. Their number is expanding with exp