2023年江苏省成人学士学位英语考试真题及答案.docVIP

FOR A BACHELOR’S DEGREE (Nov. 2023) ?转自学易网 Paper One ?转自学易网 Part I Listening Comprehension (15 minutes 15%) Part II Reading Comprehension (30 minutes 30%)转自学易网 Directions: In this part there are four reading passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or incomplete statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are required to choose the best answer from the four choices. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.转自学易网 Questions 16--20 are based on the following passage.转自学易网 The exact number of English words is not known. The large dictionaries have over half a million entries, but many of these are compound words (schoolroom, sugar bowl) or different derivatives of the same word (rare--rarely, rarefy), and a good many are obsolete words to help us read older literature. Dictionaries do not attempt to cover completely words that we can draw on: the informal vocabulary, especially slang, localism, the terms of various occupations and professions; words used only occasionally by scientists and specialists in many fields; foreign words borrowed for use in English; or many new words or new senses of words that come into use every year and that may or may not be used long enough to warrant being included. (86) It would be conservative to say that there are over a million English words that any of us might meet in our listening and reading and that we may draw on in our speaking and writing.转自学易网 Professor Seashore concluded that first-graders enter school with at least24,000 words and add 5,000 each year so that they leave high school with at least80,000. These figures are for recognition vocabulary, the words we understand when we read or hear them. Our active vocabulary, the words we use in speaking and writing , is considerably smaller.转自学易网 You cannot always produce a word exactly when you want it. But consciously using the words you recognize in re