2018年陕西省普通教育专升本招生考试大学英语试题

　　My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she would have me call people on the phone to pretend I was she. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her.

　　One time I had to call her stockbroker(股票经纪人). I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing. “This is Mrs. Tan.” And my Mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me cheek already two week lone.”

　　And then, in perfect English I said: “I’m getting rather concerned. You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.” Then she talked more loudly. “What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again, “I can’t tolerate any more excuse. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.”

　　The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English. When I was a teenager, my mother ’s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother ’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear, it is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and understood the world.

　　61.Why was the author’s mother poorly served?

　　A. She was unable to speak good English.

　　B. She was often misunderstood

　　C. She was not clearly heard

　　D. She was not very polite

　　62.From Paragraph 2, we know that the author was __________.

　　A. good at pretending

　　B. rude to the stockbroker

　　C. ready to help her mother

　　D. unwilling to phone for her mother

　　63. After the author made the phone call, __________.

　　A. they forgave the stockbroker

　　B. they failed to get the check

　　C. they went to New York immediately

　　D. they spoke to their boss at once

　　64. What does the author think of her mother’s English now?

　　A. It is confusing

　　B. It is embarrassing

　　C. It is clear and natural

　　D. It is intolerable

　　65. We can infer from the passage that Chinese English __________.

　　A. is clear and natural to non-native speakers

　　B. is vivid and direct to non-native speakers

　　C. has a very bad reputation

　　D. may put its speakers to inconvenience

　　Passage 2

　　In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different story to tell.

　　My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal Dream would have to wait.

　　Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.

　　You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8. Our home was a complete zoo—a joyous zoo. Not surprising. I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester. The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.

　　In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. I spent a total of 21 years getting my college degree!

　　I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside, it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it. It just seems normal.Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.

　　66. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be __________.

　　A. a writer

　　B a teacher

　　C. a judge

　　D. a doctor

　　67.Why did the author quit in her second year of college?

　　A. She wanted to study by herself.

　　B. She fell in love and got married

　　C. She suffered from a serious illness

　　D. She decided to look after her grandma

　　68. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 4?

　　A. She was busy yet happy with her family life

　　B. She ignored her guilty feelings for her sons

　　C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife

　　D. She was too contused to make a correct choice

　　69. What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

　　A. Failure is the mother of success

　　B. Little by little, one goes far.

　　C. Every coin has two sides

　　D. Well begun is half done.

　　70. Which of the following can best describe the author?

　　A. Caring and determined

　　B. Honest and responsible

　　C. Ambitious and sensitive.

　　D. Innocent and single-minded

　　Passage 3

　　It was the summer of 1965. De Luca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked De Luca about his plans for the future. “I’m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” De Luca recalls saying, Buck said, “You should open a sandwich shop.”

　　That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1, 000. De Luca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn’t cover their start-up costs, Buck gave another $1,000.But business didn't go smoothly as they expected De Luca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn't know how badly, because we didn't have any financial controls”. All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.

　　De Luca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They ’ d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. "We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, “We are so successful: we are opening a second store.” And they did in the spring off 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.

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