北京市2009年普通高等学校高职单独招生公共文化课考试
英语
本试卷分试卷一（选择题）和试卷二（非选择题）两部分。试卷一1至10页，试卷二11至12页，共150分。考试时间120分钟。
试卷一
注意事项：
1．答试卷一前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目涂写在答题卡上。
2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。
3．考试结束后，考生将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
Part Ⅰ. 语音知识（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分。）
1. breakfast A. beach B. disease C. weather D. dream
2. advice A. begin B. cinema C. discuss D. invite
3. mountain A. mail B. curtain C. straight D. explain
4. excuse A. computer B. push C. rude D. run
5. child A. character B. touch C. stomach D. chemistry
6. downtown A. however B. window C. know D. narrow
7. wealth A. northern B. whether C. theater D. there
8. enormous A. actor B. effort C. comfort D. absorb
9. brother A. bother B. apology C. colour D. follow
10. flame A. magazine B. locate C. national D. palace
Part Ⅱ. 阅读理解（本题共20小题，每小题2分，共40分。）
阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目。从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的答案，并把答案涂在答题卡的相应位置上。
Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage.
The English language is being used worldwide. It is now the number one language being learned all over the world. In fact, even non-native speakers started to hire native and non-native English teacher to teach in their country. This is only one of the effects of business competition and globalization(全球化).
Today, you will be left behind if you don’t know how to speak, read and write the English language. This is very obvious in the online community(社区). All of the websites on the top ten of the search engines are all written in English.
Learning the language is not as difficult as most of the students think. Everything can be learned
and with repeated practice you will be able to use the language fluently.
The Internet has listed various learning methods, step-by-step instructions, self-learning with audio visual and interactive presentation and a lot more. Encourage those who are extending effort in improving the ways to learn this language. Thus, make the human beings understand each other better.
11. More English teachers are hired because .
A. there are more English websites
B. learning methods are various
C. English is difficult to learn
D. English is most popular
12. Business competition and globalization .
A. forces people to learn English
B. makes learning English easier
C. prevents people from learning English
D. has nothing to do with learning English
13. Online community is used in the passage as an example to show .
A. you ought to be online
B. you had better learn English
C. online learning might be easier
D. you should have your own website
14. “Self-learning with audio visual and interactive presentation” in the last paragraph is .
A. one of the learning methods
B. one of the extending efforts
C. one of the reasons English is difficult
D. one of the considerations in setting websites
15. The best title for the passage might be .
A. Online English
B. Written English
C. Learning English
D. Teaching English
Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage.
A rich man from a country died and in his will(遗嘱) he left all that he had to his son. But only on condition that he would give 1000 pounds to the meanest(吝啬的) man he could find.
The dutiful son knew of a man that he thought could be the meanest person in the world. It was the head of the village. He offered him the money.
“But I can’t take your 1000 pounds,” said the village head. “I never knew your father. There was no reason why he should leave me the money.”
“It’s yours, all right,” insisted the sad youth.
“I could take it if you would buy something from me,” said the village head.
Then he thought for a little while and said, “I can sell you all the snow in the yard for 1000 pounds.”
The young man agreed, and he didn’t care for the snow. He only wanted to complete his father’s
