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1、贵州省成人高等教育本科毕业生申请学士学位英语课程考试学习与辅导（非英语专业）Part I Reading ComprehensionDirections:There are thiry 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 of them.Mark your ans
2、wers on your Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage 1The U.S.Department of Labor statistics indicates that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing.Already there is an overabundance of teachers,engineers,physicists and other special
3、ists.Yet colleges and graduate schers continue every year to turn our highly trained people to compete for jobs that arent there.(1)The result is that the graduates cannot enter the professions for which they are trained and must take temporary jobs,which do not require a college degree.These“tempor
4、ary”jobs have a habit of becoming permanent. On the other hand,three is a tremendous need for skilled workers of all sorts:carpenters,electricians,mechanics,and TV repairmen. (2)These people have more work than they can handle and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates
5、.The old distinction that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers longer holds true.The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that a college degree is a passport to bright future.Parents begin telling their children this myth before they are out of school.Under
6、 this pressure the kids fall in line .Whether they want to go to college or not doesnt matter.Evverbody should go tl college.One result of this emphasis on a collete education is that many people go to college who do not belong there.Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter collete,ha
7、lf of them do not graduate with their class.Many of them drop out within the first year.Some struggle on for two or three years and then givp up.1.The U.S.Department of Labor statistics shows that . A.many college graduates find it increasingly hard to get suitable jobs B.there is an oversupply of w
8、orkers and this oversupply is recently increasing C.teachers,engineers,physicists and other specialists are extremely needed2.What does the author mean by sayin,“These temporaryjobs have a habit of becoming permanent”? A.Once college graduates take a temporary job,they soon get used to it. B.College
9、 gradrates have the habit of taking temporary jobs. C.Many college graduates might never find jobs for which they are trained. D.College graduates might never find jobs for which they are trained.3.We can conclude from the the passage that in the past . A.blue-collar workers worked harder than white
10、-collar workes B.white-collar works had little difficulty getting good jobs C.there were more white-collar workers than boue-collar workers D.colleges and graduate schools trined more skilled workers than now4.It is impoied in the last paragraph that . A.many people do not have fit for college educa
11、tion B.many people are not fit for college education C.many college students drop out in the first year D.many college students are bored of their education5.Which of the following statements is true? A.Every young man and woman should go to college if possible. B.College education has become worse
12、and worse in recent years. C.People with a college education should receive a higher pay. D.Fewer students should go to college but more be trained for skilled jobs.Passage2All of us communicate with one another nonverbally,as well as with words.Most of the time,we are not aware that we are doing it
13、.We gesture with eyebrows or a hand,meet someone elses eyes and look away,change positions in a chair,These avtions we assume are occasional.However in recent years reserchers have discovered that there is a system to them almost as consistent and understandable as language.One important kind of bod
14、y oanguage is eye behavior. (1)Americans are careful about how and when they meet one anothers eyes.In our normal conversation,each eye contact only about a second before one or both of us look away. When two Americans look searchingly into each others eyes,they become more intimate.Therefore, we ca
15、refully avoid this, except in suitable situation.Researchers who are engaged in the study of communication through body movement are not prepared to spell out a precise vocabulary of gestures.When an American rubs his nose ,it may mean he is disagreeing with someone or refusing something .But there
16、are other possible explanations,too.Another example:when a student in conversation with a professor holds the older mans eyes a little longer than is usual,it can be a sign of respect;it can be a challenge to the professors authority;it can be something else entirely. The researchers look for patterns in the situation,not for a s eparate meaningful gesture.(2)Comm
