河南2012年11月成人学位英语考试真题及答案(B卷)

??1.我的观点：是喜欢传统的课堂学习还是网络教育？ 

2.给出两个或以上喜欢的原因。??

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（1）Each child has his individual pattern of social, as well as physical, development. Some of it depends on his home life and his home life and his relationships with the people who love him.（2）Children in large families learn how to get along with others through normal brother-sister play and tussles（争斗）. An only child, on the other hand, may have to learn his lessons in social living through hard experiences on the playground or in the classroom.（3）Twins who always have one another to lean on may be slow in responding to others because they do not need anyone else.

（4）A child who is constantly scolded（责骂）and made to fell he does everything wrong may have a difficult time developing socially. He may be so afraid of displeasing the adults around him that he keeps to himself(where he can't get into trouble),（5）or he may take the oppositeroute（道路）and go out of his way to create trouble. Like the is olated child, he too may return to infantile pleasures, developing habits that will satisfy him, but create barriers toward social contact.

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What happened in the 1970s?

• A.The US government recommended the amount of food a restaurant gave to a customer.
• B.Health experts persuaded restaurants to serve smaller portions.
• C.The United States produced more grain then needed.
• D.The American waistline started to expand.

What does the survey indicate?

• A.Many poor Americans want large portions.
• B.Twenty percent Americans want smaller potions.
• C.Fifty seven percent Americans earn $150,000 per year.
• D.Twenty three percent Americans earn less than $25, 000 per year.

Which of the following is NOT true of working class Americans?

• A.they work long hours.
• B.they live from paycheck to paycheck
• C.they don't want to be healthy eaters.
• D.They want to save money for their children.

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Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

“Clean your plate!”and“Be a member of the clean-plate club!” Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it's accompanied by an appeal: Just think about those starving（饥饿）in Africa! Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying“clean the plate”, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.

• According to newsreports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies（肚子）. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended（推荐）by the government, according to a USA Today story. American
• Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professorat Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waist line began to expand.
• Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparent1y, some customs are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QS Rreported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe
• It's not that working class Americans don't want to eat healthy. It's just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seem like a good dea1. They live from paycheck（薪水）to paycheck, happy to save a little mone
• A.to save food
• B.to wash the dishes
• C.not to waste food
• D.not to eat too much

Why do American restaurants serve large portions?

• A.Because Americans associate quantity with value
• B.Because Americans have big bellies
• C.Because Americans are good eaters
• D.Because Americans are greedy

Which of the following countries does worse in science?

• A.Japan.
• B.South Korea
• C.Britain.
• D.France

The fact that English pupils do well at science and badly at math while in France it is the other way around is attributable to ___.

• A.cultural values
• B.teaching methods
• C.class size
• D.money spent

All of the following are common-held beliefs about education EXCEPT___.

• A.time spent on a subject correlates with academic success
• B.educational achievements correlate with the money spent
• C.large classes contribute to poor educational achievement
• D.culture is not a deciding factor in school performance