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1、中央电大本科学士学位英语统一考试真题（B卷）2023年11月注 意 事 项一、本场考试时间为上午9：0011：00.二、考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹签字笔填写自己旳准考证号、姓名和学校，再用2B铅笔把对应准考证号码旳标号涂黑。三、请考生仔细阅读题目旳阐明。四、答案必须按规定写在答题卡规定旳位置上，但凡写在试题册上旳答案一律作废。五、答题时，Part至 Part 部分用2B铅笔按示例填涂，如：BCD，用其他符号答题者不记分。修改时，必须先用橡皮擦去本来选定旳答案，然后再按规定重新作答。六、Part V 部分必须用黑色字迹旳签字笔在答题卡规定区域内作答，超过黑色矩形边框区域旳答案无效。Part I
2、 Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions: There are three 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 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer S
3、heet. Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotionalscars. Often they relive these experiences in nightm
4、ares(恶梦). (76) Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase(抹去), the effect of painful memories. In November, e
5、xperts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. (77) So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased. The research has caused a great deal o
6、f argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories. “Some memories can ruin peoples lives. They come back to you whe
7、n you dont want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions.” said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “This could relieve a lot of that suffering.” But those who are against the research say that it is very dangerous to change
8、 memories because memories give us our identity. They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past. “All of us can think of bad events in our lived that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. Im not sure we want to wipe those memories out,” said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.1.Th
9、e passage is mainly about _. A. a new medical invention B. a new research on memories C. a way of erasing painful memories D an argument about the research on the pill 2. The drug tested on people can _. A. cause the brain to fix memories B. stop people remembering their experiences C. prevent body
10、producing certain chemicals D. wipe out the emotional effects of memories 3.We can infer from the passage that_. A. people doubt the effects of the pills B. the pill will stop peoples bad experiences C. taking the pill will do harm to peoples health D. the pill has probably been produced in America
11、4.Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with? A. Some memories can ruin peoples lives. B. People want to get rid of bad memories. C. Experiencing bad events makes us different from others. D. The pill will reduce peoples sufferings from bad memories. 5.The word “scars” in Paragraph One i
12、s close in meaning to _. A. good storiesB. pains C. experiencesD. memories Passage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage: On-the-job smoking is a hot issue for both smokers and non-smokers, and many managers now see smoking as a productivity problem. Although some people question whe
13、ther smoking really affects ones productivity, it has, in fact, been proven that a smoker costs a company more than a non-smoker. According to Professor William Weis, a smoking employee costs his or her employer about $ 5,700 more a year than a never-smoker. These costs include medical care, lost ea
14、rnings and insurance. And absence due to smoking breaks is one of the productivity problems, yet it accounts for a great deal of employer costs. (78)When the issue of smoking at the workplace is discussed, perhaps the most important problem is the health risk that smoking causes to both smokers and
15、never-smokers. It has long been proven that smoking is linked to lung cancer. Now many health experts warn that passive smoking can cause lung cancer and other illnesses in healthy never-smokers. Passive smoking can be defined as exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in enclosed areas. Anyone who ha
16、s been with smokers indeed knows that their smoke can cause eye irritation, coughing, headaches and throat soreness. While eye irritation may seem a small thing to some smokers, it nevertheless is a problem that occurs every workday in offices and break-rooms and can lead to greater health problems. Employe
