2002年江苏省成人学士学位英语考试历年真题和答案Part Listening Comprehension(15minutes 15%)(共15题 略) Part II Reading Comprehension: Directions: There are some reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and write down the corresponding letter in the Answer Sheet. I hear many parents complaining that their teen-age children are rebelling, I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents.（86）Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at（attempting to seize） one anothers hands for reassurance. They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up crowded round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon（蚕茧）- into a larger cocoon. It has become harder and harder for a teen-ager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry firmly carved out a teen-age market. These days every teen-ager can learn from the advertisements what a teen-ager should have and be. And many of todays parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a great barrier for the teen-ager who wants to find his or her own path. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-with the people who respect you for who you are. Thats the only kind of popularity that really counts.16. The authors purpose writing this passage is to tell _.A) readers how to be popular in with aroundB) teen-agers how to learn to decide things for themselvesC) parents how to control and guide their childrenD) people how to understand and respect each other17. According to the author, many teen-agers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them _.A) have much difficulty understanding each otherB) lack confidenceC) dare not cope with problems single-handedD) are very much afraid of getting lost18. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A) There is no popularity that really counts.B) What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths.C) It is not necessarily bad for a teen-ager to disagree with his or her classmates.D) Most teen-agers claim that they want to do what they like to, but they are actually doing the same. 19. The author thinks of advertisements as _.A) convincing B) influential C) instructive D) authoritative 20. During the teen-age years, one should learn to _.A) differ from others in as many ways as possibleB) get into the right season and become popularC) find ones real selfD) rebel against parents and the popularity waves The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a womans life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a womans youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods. （87）This important change in womens way of life has only recently begun to have its full effect on womens economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry y