长沙学院2021年专升本大学英语样题

Reading Comprehension (3′×20=60′)

Directions: There are 4 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
 A few years ago it was common to speak of a generation gap between young people and their elders. Parents said that children didn’t respect and listen to them, while children said that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared? Actually, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many people argue that it is built into every part of our society.
 One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their ways of life. In a more traditional (传统的) society, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and like, and often to continue the family jobs. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family at an early age, marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose jobs different from those of their parents.
 In our society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did, to find better jobs, to make more money and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, that is another cause of the gap between them. Often they discover that they have very little in common with each other.
 Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is the third cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, senior people are valued for their knowledge, but in our society the knowledge of a life time may become out of date. The young and the old seem to live in two different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities. No doubt, the generation gap will continue in American life for some time to come.

21.The first paragraph tells us that ________.

(A) the problem of the generation gap draws much attention from people.

(B)it is out of date to talk about the generation gap.

(C)children and parents are trying to understand each other.

(D)it is very important for people to frequently communicate with each other.

22.In a more traditional society, old people ________.

(A) have their children respect and listen to them.

    (B) do not care for their children at all.

(C)expect their children to rebel against them.

    (D) do not live together with their children.  

23.In American society young people ________.

(A) do not need to find jobs (B) marry people younger than them

(C)have better education than their parents (D) leave home at an early age

24.Which of the following is NOT the cause of the generation gap?

(A) Young people like to depend more on themselves. (B) Parents do not love their children dearly.

(C)American society changes rapidly. (D) Parents expect too much of their children.

25.The main idea of the passage is _________.

(A) that the generation gap needs considering

(B)when the generation gap is necessary in American society

(C)why the generation gap exists

(D) how we can reduce the generation gap.

Passage Two
 Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:
 Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's liberation movement in the United States. She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892.Strangely enough she had a very happy life as a child. She was the only daughter and the youngest child of five. Her parents and her brothers always treated her as their favorite.
 In 1896 the family moved to Chicago. Three years later they moved back to St. Louis where Agnes spent the rest of her childhood. She enjoyed her years in school and was an excellent student of mathematics. She also was quite skillful as a painter.
 It was when Agnes went off to college that she first learned that women were not treated as equals. She didn't like being treated unequally but she tried not to notice it. After graduating from college she tried to get a job in her major field——physics. She soon found it was almost impossible for a woman.
 Agnes spent a full year looking for a job. Finally she gave up in anger. She began writing letters of anger to various newspapers. An editor in New York liked her ideas very much. He specially liked her style（风格）.He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties that women had in finding a job. And there she began her great fight for equal rights for women.

26. How many children did Mr. Miller and Mrs. Miller have?
 (A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
 27. Where did Agnes spend her childhood？
 (A) Missouri   (B) Chicago      (C) New York     (D) St. Louis and Chicago
 28. At school，Agnes was good at ________.
 (A) physics and painting              (B) maths and painting
 (C) writing and maths               (D) physics and writing
 29. What is her major in college?
 (A) Physics       (B) Mathematics   (C) Chemistry      (D) English
 30. What happened in Agnes's life when she was in college？
 (A) She learned to accept the fact that men and women were unequal.
 (B) She learned that it was impossible for a woman to be a scientist.
 (C) She came to know of the inequality between men and women.
 (D) She developed her personal way of writing.

Passage Three
 Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:
 People often say that the Englishman's home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats（公寓），and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them personal, and change them in any way they like．Most houses have a garden, even if it is a small one, and the garden is usually loved. The house and the garden are the private space of a person. In a crowded city a person knows that he or she has a private space which is only for him or herself and for invited friends.
 People usually like to mark their space. If you are on the beach you may have spread（铺开）your towels（浴巾）around you; on the train you may have put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you; in a library you may spread your books around you.
 Once I was travelling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us. The man opposite to me had his briefcase（公文包）on the table. There was no space on my side of the table at all. I was unhappy. I thought he thought that he owned the whole table. I had been reading a book about nonverbal（非言语的） communication（交流）so I took various papers out of my bag and put them on his case！ When I did this he suddenly became angry and his eyes nearly popped out（突出）of his head. I had taken up his space！A few minutes later I took my papers off in order to read them. He immediately（立即）moved his case to his side of the table.

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