成人高考专升本（英语）考前模拟试题及答案二

4: 根据以下内容，回答题。
Passage Five
"Family"is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life，they are thinking of "family" in its "narrow，peculiarly European sense of mother， father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus， every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—— hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both the man and the woman， marriage means leaving one"s parents and starting one"s own life. The man"s first duty will then be to his wife， and the wife"s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support， and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife"s parents nor the husband"s， nor their brothers or sisters，

aunts or uncles， have any right to interfere with them——they are their own masters.    Readers of novels like Jane Austen"s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl"s
A.Different families have different ways of life.
B.Different definitions could be given to the word.
C.Different nations have different families.
D.Different times produce different families.

7: It can be inferred from the passage that the Craighead Caverns presendy serve as__________. 查看材料

8: 根据以下内容，回答题。
Passage Four
Deep inside a mountain near Sweetwater in East. Tennessee is a body of water known as the Lost Sea. It is listed by the Guinness Bool of World Records as the world"s largest underground lake. The Lost Sea is part of an extensive and historic cave system called Craighead Caverns.
The caverns have been known and used since the days of the Cherokee Indian Nation. The cave expands into a series of huge rooms from a small opening on the side of the mountain. Approximately one mile from the entrance， in room called "the Council Room"， many Indian artifacts have been found. Some of the items discovered include pottery， arrowheads， weapons， and jewelry.
For many years there were persistent rumors of a large underground lake somewhere in a cave， but it was not discovered until 1905. In that year， a thirteen-year-old boy named Ben Sands crawled through a small opening three hundred feet underground. He found himself in a large cave half filled with water.
Today tourists visit the Lost Sea and ride far out onto it in glass-bottomed boats powered by electric motors. More than thirteen acres of water have been mapped out so far and still no end to the lake has been found. Even though teams of divers have tried to explore the Lost Sea， .the full extent of it is still unknown.
The Lost Sea is unique because it is__________. 查看材料

Alaska， which was called Russian America before it was sold to U. S. A. ，joined the union as the forty-ninth state in 1959.
Alaska is now the largest of all the 50 states of the U. S..
It was in 1867 that President A. Johnson"s Secretary of State（国务卿），Seward bought Alaska from the Russians at a cost of 7.2 million. The buying of the huge northern land mass seemed at first something foolishly done. Not only was Alaska difficult to reach
However， in 1896 gold was found in Alaska， and people poured tin to the land quickly. Since then other important natural resources were discovered， including oil. Soon people changed their thinking about "Seward"s Fooly". But most people visit Alaska in o
every year.
Alaska belonged to__________before 1867. 查看材料
A.Russia
B.America
C.Canada
D.Japan

14: Which of the following statements about computerized monetary systems is NOT supported by the passage? 查看材料

15: The author mentions food，tools and precious metals and stones together because they are all__________. 查看材料

16: 根据以下内容，回答题。
Passage Two
In ancient times wealth was measured and exchanged in things that could be touched: food ，tools， and previous metals and stones. Then the barter system was replaced by coins， which still had real value since they were pieces of rare metal. Coins were followed by fiat money， paper notes that have value only because everyone agrees to accept them.
Today electronic monetary systems are gradually being introduced that will transform. money into even less tangible forms，reducing it to a series of "bits and bytes" ，or units of computerized information， going between machines at the speed of light. Already， electronic fund transfer allows money to be instantly sent and received by different banks， companies， and countries through computers and telecommunications devices.

According to the passage， which of the following was the earliest kind of exchange of wealth? 查看材料
A.Bartered goods.
B.Fiat money
C.Coin currency
D.Intangible forms