2026年贵州《学位英语》考前点题卷一

Dialogue One
Speaker A: I heard that you’re going to move.How about the new house?
Speaker B: Oh, it’s perfect!（1）________The surrounding is homey.And I love that huge yard, the dome window with the attic, and the fireplace in the bedroom.Speaker A: Wow, it sounds gorgeous!（2）________.Speaker B: Not that expensive, as a matter of fact.It’s really under price!
Speaker A: How could that be?
Speaker B: Our realtor said,（3）________and he has to move and live with his parents!
Speaker A: What a piece of luck! It has brought a lot of lovely color to your face! What’s the location? It’s hard to find such a house in the city.Speaker B: Yes.（4）________.Speaker A: Isn’t it very inconvenient for you to go to work?
Speaker B: A little bit.But now we are expecting our baby and we decided not to raise the kid in the city.Speaker A: How sweet! You are already considerate parents for the baby!

Dialogue Two
John: Oh Anne, that was a wonderful dinner.That’ s the best meal I’ve had in a long time.Anne: Oh, thank you! Thank you very much.John: Can I give you a hand with the dishes?
Anne: Uh-uh, don’t bother.（1）________Hey, would you like me to fix some coffee?
John: Uh, thanks a lot.I’d love some.Uh, would you mind if I smoke?
Anne: Why, not at all.Here, let me get you an ashtray.John: Aw, thanks very much...Oh， Anne,（2）________
Anne: Actually, I’ve only just learned how, you know.It’s because I’ve been taking these courses．
John：Why， I can’t cook at all， can’t even boil an egg．
Anne：No kidding.（3）________you could take a couple of classes over at Sheridan College and learn how to do it too.John：Aw， thanks a lot.

Dialogue Three
Man: Okay, Mr.Taylor,let’s go ahead and begin.First of all, tell me about your last job.Mr.Taylor: Well, as stated on my resume, I’ve worked for five years at Hi-tech Computers.Man: Okay.Hi-Tech.And what do you know about computer networks and operating systems including DOS, Windows, Macintosh OS, and UNIX?
Mr.Taylor: Umm...well...I did come into contact with computers every night at my last job.Man: Huh...（1）________We are looking for someone to create and manage our company’s website which would include the development, configuration and use of CGI scripts.Mr.Taylor: Umm...uh, web page, web page.Huh...I don’t think I’ve read that book, and（2）________.Man: Huh And what about experience with Java or JavaScript?
Mr.Taylor: Well....I think I’ve tried Java at a foreign coffee shop one time, if that’s what you mean?
Man:Okay, Mr.Taylor,（3）________
Mr.Taylor: Oh, and I really like computer games.I play them everyday.Man: Right, right.Thanks, Mr.Taylor.We’ll be in touch.

Some psychologists(心理学家) maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performed in the brain alone, but that one’s muscles also participate.It may be said that we think with our muscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body.Few people can listen to music without moving their body or, more specifically, some part of their body.Often when one listens to a symphonic concert on the radio, he is attracted to direct the orchestra (乐队) even though he knows there is a good conductor on the job.Strange as this behavior may be, there is a very good reason for it.One cannot derive all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates, so to speak, in its performance.The listener “feels” himself into the music with more or less noticeable motions of his body.The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way, but this participation is less obvious because it is less noticeable.

It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory.The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use.It includes not only “remembering” things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involving any change in the way an animal typically behaves.Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile.Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines.Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use.It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being.The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100，000 “words”—ready for instant use.An average U.S.teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100，000 words of English.However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored.Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings.A large part of a person’s memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.

Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services.People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of others they need or want.When they work, they usually get paid in money.Most of the money today is made of metal or paper.But people used to use all kinds of things as money.One of the first kinds of money was shells.Shells were not the only things used as money.In China, cloth and knives were used.In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money.In some parts of Africa, cattle were one of the earliest kinds of money.Other animals were used as money, too.The first metal coins were made in China.They were round and had a square hole in the center.People strung them together and carried them from place to place.Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money.The first coins in England were made of tin.Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money.Later，other countries began to make coins of gold and silver.But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive.Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money.They began to use paper money.The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than paper money used today.Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.

My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.My first job was to drive the oxen that plowed the cane fields.I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick.For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons.Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could.I’ve never been late for any job since.I also learned about being respectful and loyal to the people you work for.More important, I earned my pay.I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job.Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week.Our home was a three-room wood shack with dirty floor and no toilet.Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters.This gave me self-esteem, one of the most important things a person can have.When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house.My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them.Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never miss one.Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands of dollars playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.The more I dreamed, the more I thought.Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb and a piece of pipe.Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball.And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth.I practiced with the same devotion and intensity I learned working in the field—except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.