2012下半年北京成人学位英语考试真题

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Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken then corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet。

Visitors to the zoo usually pity the animals owing to their particular emotional associations(联想). Which animals should be indeed pitied?

The first type are those clever and 56 developed animals 57 lively intelligence and desire for activity can 58 no outlet behind the bars of the cage. Those animals living in a free state before 59 in the zoo have a strong desire for moving about 60, but have to turn around repeatedly in their quarters. Owing to this disappointment, foxed and wolves 61 in places which are far too small, are among the most 62 of all zoo animals。

Another sad scene, seldom 63 by ordinary zoo visitors, is the 64 flying trials of swans(天鹅)

At migration(迁途) time. These creatures, like most other water birds, are generally made unable to fly by the 65 of cutting off a tip of the wing bone. 66 such swans in the zoo generally seem happy under 67 care and they raise their young without any trouble, at migration time things become 68. The birds never really 69 that they can no longer fly, and repeatedly swim to the 70 of the pond so that they can have the whole extent of its surface when trying to 71 against the wind. Meanwhile, their loud flying calls can be heard as they try to 72, and again and again the grand preparations end in 73.

I do not like seeing those 74 water birds in the zoo. The missing tip of one wing and the still sadder picture that the bird makes when it 75 its wings hurt me badly. What a truly sorry picture it is。

56. A. high B. highly

C. deep D. deeply

57. A. whose B. whom

C. that D. which

58. A. find B. lose

C. declare D. transform

59. A. to be put B. being put

C. to put D. putting

60. A. partly B. highly

C. deeply D. freely

61. A. kept B. keeping

C. roes D. rising

62. A. victorious B. thoughtful

C. miserable D. fortunate

63. A. scattered B. written

C. noticed D. wakened

A similar B. suitable

C. apparent D. constant

A. experiment B. operation

treatment D. movement

A. Although B. when

Since D. Because

A original B. proper

C. parallel D. precious

68.A. private B . public

C. different D. similar

A. Suggest B. assure

underline D. realize

A. limit B. side

middle D. center

A. Take off B. stand up

Take up D. stand by

A. spring B. raise

Swell D. rise

A. passage B. support

C. failure D. success

A. upright B. powerful

C. valuable D. unlucky

A. spreads B. strengthens

C. enlarges D. inspects