2023年广东学位英语历年真题（2009年下）

2009年广东学士学位英语历年真题考试附答案 Paper One 试卷-90 minutes PartI Dialogue Completion (15points)

一、广东学位英语真题下部分

Passage Two

The faces of elderly, happily-married people sometimes resemble each other. Dr. Aiken studied anumber of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years. Each couple provided fourphotographs-one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo of eachpartner twenty-five or more years later. All background was cut from the photos to remove anyclues. The photos were then displayed in groups: a random grouping of the persons at the time oftheir marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later.Some testees were asked to pick out the partners. They failed totally with the first group. Theirjudgements were no better than chance. But with the photos taken twenty-five or more years afterthe marriage, the testees were quite successful with the most happily-married couplesDr. Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike. One reason has something todo with imitation. One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing itHe says human begins to imitate the expressions of the faces of their loved ones. "Anotherpossible reason," he says, "is the common experience of the couples." There is a tendency forpeople who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. For example, if acouple have suffered from a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a similar way21. Dr. Aiken cut the background from the photos for the purpose ofA. imitating the couples' life B. grouping the couples again

C. leaving no trace for the testees D. giving the testees more chances

22. The underlined sentence "Their iudgements were no better than chance" implies that thetestees

A. did a good job in making their choices

B. had difficulty in picking out the partners

C. had no chance to make the right judgements

D. did better with the first group than with the second

23. The underlined word “imitate” (in Para. 2) has a similar meaning to

A. copy B. change C.know D. suffer

24. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that

A. couples who look alike can live longer

B. most partners have been proved to grow alike

C. the influence between partners can be quite strongD. happily-married couples are often richer than others

25. The main purpose of the passage is to

A. explain why couples grow alike B. tell how couples like each other

C. discuss the function of marriage D. describe the life of happily married couplesPassage Three The three biggest lies in America are: (1) “The check is in the mai", (2) "Of course lll respectyou in the morning", and (3) “lt was a computer error."

Of these three little white lies, the worst is the third. lt's the only one that can never be true. Today.if a bank statement cheats you out of $ 900 that way, you know what the clerk is sure to say," ltwas a computer error" Nonsense. The computer is reporting nothing more than what the clerktyped into it.

The most annoying case of all is when the computerized cashier in the grocery store shows that anitem costs more than it actually does. lf the innocent buyer points out the mistake, the checker,bagger, and manager all come together and offer the familiar explanation. “It was a computeerror.

lt wasn't, of course that computerized cashier is really nothing more than an electric event. The

eye reads the Universal Product Code-chat bar of black and white lines in a corner of thepackage-and then checks the code against a price list stored in memory. lf the price list is right.you'll be charged accurately.

Grocery stores update the price list each day-that is, somebody sits at a keyboard and types in theprices. lf the price they type in is too high, there are only two explanations: carelessness ordishonesty. But somehow “a computer error" is supposed to excuse everything.One reason we let people hide behind a computer is the common misperception that huge, moderncomputers are electric brain with "artificial intelligence." At some point there might be a machinewith intelligence but none exists today. The smartest computer on Earth right now is no moreintelligent than your average pen. At this point in the development of computers, the only thingany machine can do is what a human has instructed it to do.

26. Of the three lies, the one about computer is the worst because the computer itself

A. says nonsense B.cheats customers

C. cannot make the error D. does not admit its error

27.According to the author, a computerized cashier is really just

A. a machine to count money B. a machine to receive money

C. an instrument to print codes D. an instrument to read codes

28. Grocery store price lists are updated by

A. a computer B. a keyboard C. an employee D. an electric brain

29. The last paragraph of the passage implies that computers

A. are very clever B. never make mistakes

C. have a good memory D. are controlled by men

30. Which of the following describes the main idea of the passage?

A. Computers are stupid and inefficient.

B. Computer errors are due to its dishonesty.

C. Computers help stores update the price list

D. Computer errors are actually human errors.

二、2023年广东学位英语什么时候开始报名？

（一）时间安排

报名时间：2023年3月7日9：00至11日17：00；考试时间：4月23日14:30至16:30；准考证打印时间：4月18日9:00-23日14：45；成绩查询时间自5月25日起。

（二）报名方式

符合本次报考资格的考生须在规定时间内通过广东省学士学位外语统考报名网站（https://www.eeagd.edu.cn/crxwwy）进行网上报名。

（三）考试费用及缴纳方式

根据广东省物价局、广东省财政厅粤价函〔2009〕186号文件的规定，成人本科学士学位外语水平全省统考考试费按每位考生120元收取。考点审核通过后，考生以网上缴费方式缴纳考试费。