北京邮电大学-2018年5月学位英语真题及答案.pdf

1、2018 年 5 月真题 Part I Reading comprehension（30 分）Passage 1 In 1866,sailors on a German ship called Paula threw a bottle with a message into waters hundreds of miles off the western coast of Australia.One hundred and thirty-one years later,(76)the bottle was found on an Australian island.Its believed t

2、o be the oldest-known message in a bottle,in terms of the amount of time that has passed between when it was written and when it was found.Before this discovery,Guinness（吉尼斯）World Records said that the oldest was 108 years old,Tonya Illman was walking on the beach in January when she spotted the old

3、 bottle.“I picked it up thinking it might look nice on display in my home,”Illman says,according to an account on her husbands website.(77)The bottle was partially filled with wet sand.Shortly after,Illmans sons girlfriend poured out the contents and found a tightly rolled note covered in a found in

4、 Germany in 2015.Australian and German researchers worked together to check whether the note is real or not.piece of string.Too damp to open initially,according to the account,the group waited for it to dry and were amazed to see that it was carefully handwritten in German.“The first thing that caug

5、ht my eye was the year 1866.”Said Illmans husband Kym.“It seemed totally unlikely to us that the note and bottle could have lasted that long.”The pair reached out to the Western Australia Museum,which set out to study the document.“Extraordinary finds need extraordinary evidence to support them,so w

6、e contacted colleagues in Germany for help to find more information,”Ross Anderson,who is in charge of works of art in the museum,said in a statement.But this message is no SOS or love letter.1.According to Guinness World Records,the second oldest message was found _.A.In 2014 B.in 2015 C.in 2017 D.

7、in 2016 2.Which of the following is TRUE?A.A sailor named Paula threw the old bottle into waters in 1866.B.Kym found the old bottle first.C.This oldest message was found in Germany.D.This oldest message was 131 years old.3.From the passage,we learn that _.A.Tonya found the bottle first.B.Tonya and K

8、ym contacted researchers in Germany for help.C.Illmans son broke the bottle to take out what was inside.D.the note was written in English.4.The word damp in Paragraph 4 is closet in meaning to _.A.wet B.dry C.cool D.hot 5.Which of the following is probably the test title for this passage?A.The oldes

9、t-known message found in Australia B.The oldest-known message found in Germany C.An extraordinary evidence of history D.A Guinness beer bottle Passage 2 In 1950,Helena Rubinstein was one of the richest women in the world.She started with nothing.She had no money,no education,and no one to help her.A

10、ll she had were 12 jars of face cream and a lot of energy and ambition.She turned these into a multimillion-dollar cosmetics（化妆品）empire.Helena Rubinstein was born in 1870 in Krakow,Poland.She was the oldest of eight girls.Helenas mother thought that beauty was very important.She used a special skin

11、cream that a foreign chemist made for her.Helenas mother made all of her daughters use it too.Helenas father wanted her to be a doctor.But she hated medicine and left school.Her father was very angry.Then he wanted her to get married,but she refused.In 1902,she went to Melbourne,Australia,to live wi

12、th a cousin and an uncle.She took only her clothes and 12 jars of the face cream.Helena didnt speak English.She had no money and no plans.After she arrived,everyone noticed her beautiful skin.In Australia,the hot and dry weather is very bad for the skin.When she told some of the women about the face

13、 cream,they all wanted some.Helena sold them her cream and then ordered more.Helena borrowed$1,500 and opened a shop to sell the cream.(78)She worked 18 hours a day,seven days a week.She lived simply and saved all of her profits.She also learned how to make different kinds of creams and showed women

14、 how to take care of their skin.It was the first shop of this kind in the world.In less than two years,Rubinstein had paid back her loan and saved$50,000.She made more and more money every year.All this time,she thought only of work and success.A newspaper reporter named Edward Titus was in love wit

15、h her.But she was not interested in him.She left Australia and went to Europe to learn more about the science of beauty.6.Which of the following is TRUE?A.Helena Rubinstein became the richest person in the world in 1950.B.Helenas father helped her to start her business.C.Helena was an energetic and

16、ambitious person.D.Helenas mother supported her with valuable business ideas.7.Form the passage,we learn that _.A.Helena had 8 sisters.B.Helena was born in Poland.C.Helenas mother made skin cream for her daughters.D.Helenas father was a doctor.8.Which of the following is TRUE?A.Helena went to Australia to study medicine.B.Helena went to Australia to do business.C.Helenas uncle and cousin worked for her.D.The weather in Australia is very bad for the skin.9.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?A.Hel