2005年陕西省高校在校生专升本英语考试试题
注意事项:
1.本卷满分为150分。考试时间为150分钟。
2.本卷分试卷I和试卷II,均用钢笔或圆珠笔答卷。第I卷为客观题,考生必须把答案用大写字
母写在答题纸上;第II卷为主观题,考生直接把答案写在试卷上。 3.答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。 题号 分数
一 二 三 四 五 总分 总分人 试卷I
得分 评卷人 I. Vocabulary and structure (40分)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then write your answer on the Answer Sheet. 1. The professor needs an assistant that he can to take care of problems in his absence. A. count in
B. count up
C. count on
D. count out
2. I am not sure whether l can get any profit from the business, so I can't make a(n) decision
about what to do next. A. exact
B. denied
C. sure
D. definite
3. Because of the cold weather, they through the night in the camp. A. kept the burning fire C. kept the fire burnt A. ready
B. kept the fire burning D. kept burning the fire
C. probable
D. approachable
4. Convenience foods which are already prepared for cooking are in stores.
B. available
5. Many people are reported in the natural disaster. A. being killed
C. to have killed A. was planned
B. to be killed
D. to have been killed
6. If the whole surgery beforehand carefully, there would have been a better result.
B. has been planned D. were planned
D. spoken to
C. had been planned A. spoken
7. Jane has said little so far, responding only briefly when
B. speaking to C. speaking
8. to finish quickly. A. Not every worker want
C. Not every worker wants A. recall
B. No every workers want
D. No every workers wants C. remember
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9. The photos on the wall grandma of those happy, old days when a large family lived together.
B. retain
D. remind
10. You’d better tell me beforehand if go with me. A. you’ll rather not C. you’d rather not
A. get through
B. you won’t rather D. you’d rather not to
C. get up
D. get down
11. We all hope he’ll soon his disappointment and be happy again. B. get away
12. The problem of environment protection has been studied . A. extremely
B. intensively C. originally
D. violently.
13. All games_____because of the rainstorm, many students could do nothing but study in the classroom. A. were canceled C. had been canceled
B. having been canceled. D. have been canceled
14.“Did you buy anything at the clothing store?”
―Yes, I bought three shirts for just$120.‖ A. fifty-dollar C. fifty-dollars
B. fifties-dollar D. fifties-dollars
B. will be taken place
D. will have taken place B. must be studying D. would study
15. By the time you get back, great changes_____in this area. A. will take place C. are going to take place A. must study C. must have studied A. Just then
16. The boy now for the 1ight in his room is still on.
17. _____she was living in Paris that she met her husband Terry.
B. It was while
D. During the time when
C. Soon after work. A. to
B. in B. initial
C. for
D. of
D. incredible
19. His written English was first-class and he had a(n) vocabulary for a sophomore. A. intimate
C. inevitable
20. After the company the problem of unfair competition, its sales figures dropped to a record low. A. look into B. ran into A. wasn’t
C. come into
D. put into
D. hasn’t he
D. being not
21. John isn’t a diligent student for it is the third time he has been late, ? B. hasn’t it B. not to be
C. isn’t it C. not being
22. He told me_____afraid because l had done nothing wrong. A. to be not A. rose
23. Last year, the production rate by 20 percent.
B. raised
C. arose
D. aroused
24. I hope that the good weather ______ for the rest of our trip.
A. holds up B. holds down C. holds out D. holds in
25. Each person in the world has a(n) personality. They are different from one another. A. only
B. sole
C. unique B. must have gone D. might have gone
D .have damaged D. one
26. With all the work on hand. He _____to the cinema last night. A. should go C. shouldn’t have gone
18. Technical schools prepare their students for the application of practical skills, they learn in class their
27. I am sorry to your feelings.
A. have spoilt B. have destroyed C. have hurt
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28. He is so wise a man that all the people _______. A. 1ook him up
B. 1ook into him
C. 1ook up to him D. 1ook to him
D. some way
D. what
29. Yon can write the paper______ you 1ike. A. whatever B. however A. that A. sets off
B. if
C. anyway C. whether C. sets aside
30. I don’t doubt she will learn a lot during her stay in China.
31. Though Mum is very busy, she always some time every day to read to her children.
B. sets in
D. sets up D. one and other
32. These three girls help _____to clean the house. A. one another B. each other
numbers.
A. must study A. before long A. we can be A. serious
A .had
B. could study C. study B. soon after C. long after
D. studied D. soon before
34. He participated in the reconstruction of the city the war was over.
35. Only by making wise use of land to find a solution to the problem of hunger and famine.
B. we will be able C. will we be able D. can we
C. secure
C. having
D. senior
D. had had
36. A teacher who is______ to the needs of individual student is sure to achieve some success.
B. sensitive
37. Nobody any more to say, the meeting was closed.
B. has had B. put off
38. When the guests were gone, she the tea-things in the cupboard. A. put up
C. put away
C. one and the other
33. The teacher recommended that Jack math or physics instead of English because he was quick at D. put in
39. Staying in a hotel costs renting a room in an apartment for a week. A. twice more than A. are 得分 评卷人
B. twice as much B. were
C. as much as twice D. much as twice as C. have
D. has
40. One and a half years passed.
?? Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (50%)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:
Passage One
Population tends to grow at an exponential(指数的)rate. This means that they progressively double. As an example of this type of growth rate take one penny and double every day for one month. After the first week,
you would have only 64 cent, but after the fourth week you would have over a million dollars.
This helps explain why the population has come on“all of a sudden” took from he beginning of human 1ife to the year 1830 for the population of the earth to reach one billion. That repents(缓慢进行) a time span of at least two million years. Then it took from 1830 to 1930 for world population to reach 2 billion. The next billion was added by 1960 only thirty years and in 1975 world population reached 4 billion which is another billion
people in only fifteen years.
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World population is increasing at a rate of 9, 000per hour, 220,000 per day and 80 million per year.
This is not only due to higher birth rate, but to lower death rate as well. The number of births has not declined at the same rate as the number of deaths.
Some countries such as Columbia, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica and the Philippines are doubling their population about every twenty-one years with a growth rate of 3.3 percent a year or more. The United States is doubling its population about very eighty-seven years, with a rate of 0.8 percent per year. (81)Every time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, schools, resources, food and medicines to care for its people. It is easy to see that this is very difficult to achieve for the more rapidly growing countries.
41. This passage chiefly discusses
A. the growth of world population.
B. one type of the exponential rate. C. the population problem of more rapidly growing countries. D. the possible ways of dealing with the rapid population growth.
42. According to the passage what helps to explain why the population problem has come on ―all of a sudden‖?
A. The penny that doubles itself every day for one month. B. The time span of at 1east two million years in human history. C. An illustration of the exponent growth rate given by the author.
D. The large amount of money you would luckily make after the fourth week.
43. It took for the world to increase its population from 1 billion to 4 billion. 44. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. World population is increasing at a rate of 150 per minute. B. Lower death rate also contributes to world population growth.
C. The population of Columbia has been doubling every year for 21 years. D. The United States is usually doubling its population on about every 87 years.
45. When a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything including __. A. hospitals and medicines
C. food and manpower resources Questions 46 to 50 based on the following passage:
Passage Two
Women are on the whole more verbal than men. They are good at 1anguage and verbal reasoning. while men tend to be skilled at tasks demanding visual-spatial(视空)abilities. In fact, along with aggression these are the most commonly accepted difference between these sexes.
Words are tools for communicating with other people especially information about people. They are mainly social tools. Visual and spatial abilities are good for imagining and manipulating objects and for communicating information about them. Are these talents programmed into the brain? In some of the newest and most controversial research in neurophysiology(神经生理学), it has been suggested that when it comes to the brain males are specialists while women are generalists.
But one knows that, if anything this means in terms of the abilities of the two sexes. Engineering is both Visual and spatial and it’s true that there are relatively few women engineers. But women become just as skilled as men at shooting a rifle or driving a car task that involve visual-spatial skills. They also do equally well at programming a computer, which is neither visual nor spatial. Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves. We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity. (82)A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle or computer as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating.
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A. 100 years B. 175 years C. 1975 years D. over two million years
B. schools and students D. all of the above
46. According to the passage, women are usually good at_____. A. body language
B. logical reasoning D. both A and B
D. reconciled
C. tasks demanding for the use of words A. believed B. assumed A. achieving one’s objects.
47. The word \‖ in the last sentence of the first paragraph, roughly means_____.
C. received
48. In the author’s opinion, visual and spatial abilities are good for______.
B. mind and body.
D. imagination and communication.
C. programming talents into the brain. A. imagining and handling objects.
B. providing a computer with a set of instructions C. shooting a gun and driving an automobile D. planning and making things as an engineer does
50. Why do women seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves? A. Because they have no visual-spatial skills.
B. Because they are only good at 1anguage and verbal reasoning. C. Because they are less likely to see their charming or interesting aspects. D. Because they rarely use machines such as cars, rifles, computers, etc. Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
Passage Three
The US. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by
publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. (83)The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake ―belt‖. The government is, spending a great deal money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions: l. Can we predict earthquake? 2. Can we control earthquakes?
To answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault(断层)systems
in the country such as the San Andreas fault in California, a fault is break between two sections of the earth’s surface. These breaks between sections are the place where earthquake occurs. Scientists look at the faults for changes that might show that an earthquake was about to occurs. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately. And the control of earthquakes is even farther away. Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes.
The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was put into a layer of rocks 4000 meters below surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water, there were a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into rocks works like oil on each other. When the water“oiled”the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released. Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes. 51. Earthquake belts are . A. maps that show where earthquakes are likely to occur B. zones with a high probability of earthquakes C. breaks between two sections of the earth’s surface D. the two layers of earth along a fault
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49. All the following tasks involve visual-spatial abilities EXCEPT____.
52. The San Andreas’ fault is . A. an active fault system
B. a place where earthquakes have been predicted accurately C. a place where earthquake have been controlled D. the location of the Rocky Mountain
53. What did scientists learn about earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal? A. They occur at bout 4000 meters below ground level
B. The injection of water into earthquake faults prevents earthquakes from occurring.
C. They are usually caused by the oil in the faults.
D. Harmful earthquakes can be possibly prevented by causing small harmless earthquake. 54. What can be said about the experiments at Rocky Mountain Arsenal? A. They have no practical value in earthquake prevention. B. They may have practical value in earthquake prevention. C. They are certain to have practical value in earthquake prevention.
D. he article does not say anything about their practical value in earthquake prevention. 55. What is the most appropriate title for the passage? A. Dangers of Earthquake B. Earthquake Belts and Prediction C. Earthquake Prediction and Control D. Earthquake Engineering in California Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage:
Passage Four
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving(进化) as Cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. (84)Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed:They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attack.
Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting the food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life was put to a new use——that of controlling and domesticating (驯养) their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival. (85)The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets. Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences(后果), but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that was no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other purposes, much simpler of obtaining a meaty meal. 56. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Hunting is very important in human civilization. B. Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern society. C. It’s hunting that provides human beings with food. D. The importance of sporting activities in modern society.
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57. According to the author, sporting activities . A. are essential to the survival
B. have actually developed from hunting C. evolve as biological development D. are football games
58. For over a million years. our forefathers were basically . A. skillful sportsmen
B. successful farmers D. cooperating hunters C. farmers
D. prey killing
C. runners and jumpers A. sports activities
59. The word“operation (Par. 4)refers to . B. hunting
60. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. The goalmouth is equal to the weapon in hunting. B. Without hunting our forefathers couldn’t live.
C. After our forefathers became farmers they still hunted for food.
D. Farmers are satisfied with stable lives and they didn’t have enthusiasm for hunting any more 得分 评卷人 III. Cloze Test (20分)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D below the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet.
The Red Cross is 61 organization which cares for people who are in 62 of help. A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured 63 an earthquake, and a family in India 64 lost their home in a storm may all 65 by the Red Cross. The Red Cross exists in almost every country 66 the world . The World Red Cross Organizations are sometimes are sometimes called the Red Crescent(新月) the Red Mogen David, the Sun , and the Red Lion . All of these agencies 67 a common goal of trying 68 people in need. The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and 69 during a war started 70 Jean Henry Dunant. In 1859, he observed 71 suffering 72 a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people 73 of which side they were 74 .The most important result of his work was an international treaty 75 the Geneva Convention(日内瓦公约). It 76 prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and 77 citizens during a war.
The American Red Cross 78 by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of 79 for the public. Such as helping people in need, teaching first aid, 80 water safety and artificial respiration, and providing blood.
61. A. internationally 62. A.lack 63. A. in 64. A. where 65. A. be aiding 66. A. around 67. A. belong to 68. A. with helping 69. A. wounding
B. an international C. a worldly D. a world’s B. supply C. necessity D. need B. at C. by D. on B. that C. when D. whom B. be aided C. aid D. aided B. on C. within D. of B. owe C win D. share B. and help
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C. to help D. for helping
B. having wounded C. wounded D. being wounded
70. A. from 71. A. how were people 72. A. from 73. A. regardless 74. A. fought for 75. A. to call 76. A. prohibits 78. A. was setting up
B. with C. by B. on C. by B. fighting for B. calling B. protests
D. at
B. how people were C. people were how D. people how were
D. with
D. on account
B. in favor C. despite
C. fought D. fighting C. call D. called C. protects D. provides
D. the other
D. had been set up D. money D. demonstrates
77. A. other B. others C. another 79. A. services B. helpings C. facilities 80. A. to demonstrate B. demonstrating C. demonstration
B. has been set up C. was set up
试卷II
得分 评卷人 IV. Translation (20分) Section A. (非英语专业学生做)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five items which you have to translate into Chinese. Each item has one or two sentences. These sentences are all underlined and taken from the reading passages you have just read in the Reading Comprehension part. You are allowed 20 minutes to do the translation. You should refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.
81. (Para.4, Passage 1)
Every time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, school, resources, food and medicines to care for its people.
82. (Para.3, Passage 2)
A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle, or computer as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating.
83. (Para.1, Passage 3)
The areas of the map where earth quakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake ―belt‖.
84. (Para.2, Passage 4)
Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed.
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85. (Para.4, Passage 4)
The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets.
Section B (英语专业学生做)
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage in Chinese. Read it carefully and put it into English. 中国作为一个发展中国家,面临着发展经济与保护环境双重任务。从国情出发,中国在全面推进现代化的进程中,将环境保护视为一项基本国策, 将实现经济持续发展视为一项重要战略。同时在全国范围内开展污染防治工作和生态环境保护活动。
自改革开放以来的18年中,中国国民生产总值的年均增长率为10%左右。环境恶化的状况基本得到了控制。实践证明,我们协调经济发展与环境保护两者之间关系的做法是行之有效的。
中国作为国际社会中的成员。在努力保护自己环境的同时,还积极参与国际环保事务。促进国际环保合作,认真履行了国际义务。所有这些都充分表明了中国政府和人民保护全球环境的诚意和决心。
人类在解决环境与发展问题中仍面临着大量的难题,任重而道远。中国将一如既往,与其他国家合作。为保护我们的生存环境,为人类的幸福和繁荣,为造福下一代而奋斗。 得分 评卷人 V. Writing (20 分)
Directions: In this part of the test, you are to write a short composition of about 120 to 150 words (non-English majors) or 150 to 180 (English majors) based on the topic given below.
Modern Life in the Modern World
1. 现代社会人们所享受到的高科技发展所带来的各种福利。 2. 高科技发展也给人们带来了种种难以承受的压力。 3. 不管怎么样,人类的前途是光明的。
答案详解
I. Vocabulary and structure
1. C count on sb.:依靠、指望某人,其为固定短语,其他选项均无此意。句意:老师希望在他不在的
时候有一个助手帮他处理问题。
2. D exact:准确的;right:正确的;sure:确信的;一定的;可靠的;definite:明确的、确切的;一定的.、
肯定的.。本题中是穿越大西洋的航海旅行,只有voyage符合题意。句意:约翰森夫妇还没有为穿越大西洋的航海旅行作任何准备。
3. B keep sth. + V.ing形式:使某物继续保持某种状态。句意:由于天气寒冷,他们在野营的夜晚一直
点着火。
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4. B ready:准备就绪的、乐意的;available:现成可使用的、可利用的、可得到的;probable:很可能
的、大概的;approachable:可接近的、随和的。食物在商店里应该是可以买到的,所以使用available. 句意:商店里有售可直接烹饪的方便食品。
5. D 动词的过去完成时表示已经发生的动作,同时被报道应使用被动态。句意:据报道,许多人死于
这场自然灾害。
6. C 表示―本可能发生却未发生的事情‖, 条件从句用过去完成时, 主句用would have done, should have
done, might / could have done。句意:如果事前仔细设计了整个手术的话,结果会更好。
7. D speak to sb.:对某人讲话。此处使用被动态, 别人对Jane说话。句意:Jane寡言少语,当被问
及才简单地回答几句。
8. C every后面的名词用单数,跟动词使用第三人称单数。句意:并不是每一个工人都想迅速地结束。 9. D recall:回忆起、召回、收回、撤销;retain:保留、保持;remember:记住;remind sb. of :提醒
某人某事。句意:墙上的照片使奶奶想起以前一大家子住在一起时快乐的日子。 10. C would rather not do sth.:不愿做某事。句意:如果你不愿和我去. 你最好提前告诉我。
11. A get through:完成;度过、通过;讲清楚;打通电话;get away:走开;逃脱;(with)做了坏事而逃
脱责罚;get up:起床;get down:下来;写下;使沮丧;(to)着手做。句意:我们希望他会很快结束他的失望和沮丧并且又变得开心起来。
12. B extremely:极端地、非常地;intensively:集中地、强烈地、密集地;originally:原有地、独创地;
violently:暴力地、猛烈地。句意:环境保护的问题正在被深入地研究着。
13. B 现在分词完成被动式 sb./sth. having been done。句意:由于暴风雨,所有的活动被取消了,许多学
生只能呆在教室里什么也做不了。
14. A 在“名词-名词”组合的复合词作为形容词时,一般不需要连字符,因为混淆的可能性很小。如
果“形容词-名词”在单独使用情况下为复数形式,在使用连字符时要变单数。句意:“你在服装店买东西了吗?”“是的,我花一百二十美元买了三件价值五十美元的衬衣。”
15. D 将来完成时:(shall)will+have+动词过去分词,用来表示在将来某一时间以前已经完成或一直持
续的动作。经常与before+将来时间或by+将来时间连用,也可与before或by the time引导的现在时的从句连用。句意:到你回来的时候,这个地方会发生很多变化。
16. B 情态动词后跟现在进行时。句意:男孩的房间灯还亮着,他一定正在学习。
17. B just then:就在那时;while:当...的时候;soon after:不久以后;during the time when:在...期间。
句意:当她住在巴黎的时候. 她遇见了她的丈夫Terry.
18. A apply A to B 将A适用于B。句意:职业学校使学生做好准备,将在课堂上所学到的实际技能使用
到工作中去。
19. D intimate:亲密的;私人的; initial:开始的;inevitable:无法避免的;incredible:令人难以想象的。
句意:他的书写英语十分优秀,他拥有着一个大二学生无法达到惊人的词汇量。
20. B look into:调查、观察;run into:遭遇(困难等);撞在…上;偶然碰见;共计;come into:继承;
获得;得到;进来;put into:输入;翻译;进入。句意:自从这家公司遭遇了不公平竞争后. 它的销售指数降到了历史新低。
21. C 反义疑问后半句,以it作为反义疑问的提问词,动词be(is. isn't are aren't was wasn't were weren't )
+人称代词主格或there。句意:John不是一个勤奋的孩子,这已经是他第三次迟到了,难道不是吗? 22. B tell sb. not to do sth. 告诉某人不要做某事。句意:由于我什么都没有做错,他告诉我不要害怕。 23. A rise:vi.升起、起立(床);上涨;raise:vt./ n.举起;增加;筹集;引起;养育;arise:vi.产生、出
现;起源于;起身(床);arouse:vt.引起、激起、唤起、唤醒。句意:去年生产率增长了百分之二十。 24. C hold up:支持、支撑;延迟;展示、举出;抢劫;hold down:阻止上涨;压制、控制;保持住(工
作等);hold out:伸出;维持;坚持(要求);不屈服;hold in:约束、抑制、克制。句意:我希望这种好天气能一直持续到我们的旅行结束。
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25. C only:唯一的、最好的;sole:唯一的、独有的;unique:唯一的、独一无二的;极不寻常的;one
一个。句意:世界上的每一个人都拥有着独一无二的性格,而每个人都是互不相同的。
26. C 该做而未做: should have done;不该做而做了: should not have done。句意:手头上有许多工作. 他
昨晚却去了电影院。
27. C spoil:损坏、溺爱;destroy:破坏、毁坏;hurt:弄伤(痛);伤感情;危(损)害;damage:毁坏、
损害。句意:对不起. 我伤害了你的感情。
28. C look sb. Up:拜访某人;look into sb.:调查、观察某人;look up to sb.:尊敬某人;look to sb. 照
管、留心、指望某人。句意:他是一位充满智慧的人. 所有的人都很尊敬他。
29. C whatever:pron.无论什么 a.不管怎样的;however:ad.然而、可是、无论如何;conj.不管怎样;anyway:
ad.不管怎么说、至少、不论以何种方式;some way:一部分、有点。句意:你可以以自己喜欢的任何形式来写这篇论文。
30. C 在be uncertain/doubtful之后,常用whether引导宾语从句。句意:我不知她是否能从她的中国之
行学到很多。
31. C set off:出发、启程;激起、引起;set in:开始(并将延续下去);set aside:留出、拨出(时间等);
把…置于一旁;set up:创立. 建立。句意:即使母亲很忙. 她仍然每天匀出时间读书给孩子听。 32. A one another:互相(三者及三者以上);each other:互相、彼此(二者);one and the other 一个和
另一个。句意:这三个女孩子来互相帮忙打扫房间。
33. C recommend that sb (should) do sth. :建议某人做某事。句意:老师建议Jack学习数学和物理而不
是英语,因为他计算很快。
34. B before long:不久以后;soon after:很快;long after:很久以后;soon before:不久以前。句意:
战争结束后不久. 他参加了这个城市的重建。
35. C 副词only置于句首,强调方式状语、条件状语、地点状语、时间状语等状语时,主句要进行部分
倒装。句意:只有明智地使用这片土地,才能找到解决饥荒问题的方法。
36. B serious:严重的、重要的、认真的、严肃的; sensitive:敏感的、神经过敏的、易受伤害的; secure:
安全的、牢固的; senior:地位高的、年长的。句意:一位能够迅速感知每位学生需求的老师必定会取得成功。
37. C V.+ing. 表原因。句意:没有人还想说什么,所以会议结束了。
38. C put up 建造;张贴;提高;投宿;提出;put off 推迟;put away 放好、收好;put in 花费、付出(时
间等);正式提出、申请。句意:当客人离开以后,她收拾好橱柜里的茶具。
39. B 数量词+as much/many as +n. 固定搭配。句意:在宾馆里待一周会比租一套公寓多花一倍钱。 40. D one and a half:后面接复数名词,比如接名词是时间、距离、金钱和度量衡的时候就都应该用单
数谓语动词。句意:一年半已经过去了。
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension
41. A 主旨题。题干大意是:本篇文章主要讨论的是______。从文章第一句“Population tends to grow at an
exponential rate.”可知,本篇文章主要讨论人口增长。故正确答案为A。
42. C 事实细节题。题干大意是:______可以解释人口突然增长的问题。从文章第二段This helps explain
why the population has come on“a11 of a sudden”took from he beginning of human life to the year 1830 for the population of the earth to reach one billion. 作者举出实例来解释人口突然增长的问题。故正确答案为C。
43. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:世界人口要从十亿增长到四十亿需要花_____年。原文“The next billion
was added by 1960 only thirty years and in 1975 world population reached 4 billion which is another billion people in only fifteen years. ”可以得知175 years为正确答案. 故选择B。
44. C 推理判断题。题干大意为:下列哪项说明不是真实的?根据原文“World population is increasing at
a rate of 9, 000per hour,220,000 per day and 80 million per year.”得知A选项正确。因为9000除以60
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为150。根据原文“This is not only due to higher birth rate, but to lower death rate as well. The number of births has not declined at the same rate as the number of deaths.”得知低死亡率同样影响了世界人口的增长. 所以B选项正确。根据原文“Some countries such as Columbia, Thailand Morocco Costa Rica. and the Philippines are doubling their population about every twenty-one years with a growth rate of 3.3 percent a year or more.”得知C选项错误。根据原文“The United States is doubling its population about very eighty-seven years, with a rate of 0.8 percent per year. ”得知D选项正确。故正确答案为C。
45. A 事实细节题。题干大意为:当人口翻一番,国家的______需求会变为以前的两倍。根据原文“Every
time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, schools , resources ,food and medicines to care for its people.”得知A选项正确。
46. C 事实细节题。题干大意为:妇女一般善于做______。根据原文“They are good at 1anguage and verbal
reasoning. while men tend to be skilled at tasks demanding visual—spatial(视空)abilities. ”得知tasks demanding for the use of words正确。
47. A 事实细节题。题干大意为:第一段最后一句中的“accepted”意为______。
在文中第一段的最后一句“In fact, along with aggression. these are the most commonly accepted difference
between these sexes. ”中,accepted为相信、认为的意思。
48. D 事实细节题。题干大意为:作者认为. 视觉和空间能力尤对______好。根据原文“Visual and spatial
abilities are good for imagining and manipulating objects and for communicating information about them. ”得知对于imaging and communicating很好. 故正确答案为D。
49. B 事实细节题。题干大意为:以下任务除了______都包括视力空间能力。根据原文“Engineering is both
Visual and spatial. and it’s true that there are relatively few women engineers. But women become just as skilled as men at shooting a rifle or driving a car. task that involve visual-spatial skills. They also do equally well at programming a computer, which is neither visual nor spatial. Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves.”得知providing a computer with a set of instructions不包含视力及空间能力。
50. C 事实细节题。题干大意为:为什么妇女更不易于爱上事物本身?根据原文“Women do, however,
seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves. We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity. A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle, or computer as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating.”得知妇女不易于发现事物本身的延伸——即有趣的一面. 故正确答案为C。 51. B 事实细节题。题干大意为:地震带是_______。根据原文“The areas of the map where earthquakes are
most likely to occur are called earthquake “belt”。
52. A 事实细节题。题干大意为:San Andreas断层是_______。根据原文“To answer the first question,
scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault(断层)systems in the country. such as the San Andreas fault in California, a fault is break between two sections of the earth's surface. ”得知San Andreas断层是most active fault system。故正确答案为A。
53. D 事实细节题。题干大意为:科学家从Rocky Mountain Arsenal地震中学到了什么?根据原文“They
have realized that there is a connection between injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.”得知一些无害小地震可以阻止大型伤亡严重地震的发生。故正确答案为D。
54. B 事实细节题。题干大意为:从Rocky Mountain Arsenal的研究可以得知_______。根据原文最后一
段“ Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was put into a 1ayer of rocks 4000 meters below surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water. there was a small number of earthquakes. ”可以推断出这个实验对于预防地震有实际效果。故正确答案为B。
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55. C 推理判断题。题干大意是:本文最合适的题目是?根据内容可以推断出全文主要涉及地震分析、
预防及其控制。
56. B 主旨题。题干大意为:全片主旨为?根据原文topic sentence“Sporting activities are essentially
modified forms of hunting behavior.”可以推断出全文主要涉及体育运动和现代社会需求的关系. 故正确答案为B。
57. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:作者认为,体育活动是______。根据原文“Instead the sportsmen set off
to test their skill against prey that was no longer essential to their survival.”得知体育活动对于生存不是必需的。根据原文“Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. ”得知体育运动是从狩猎缓慢演变而来. 故正确答案为B。
58. D 事实细节题。题干大意是:一百万年以前. 我们的祖先是______。根据原文“Then about ten thousand
years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting the food. they became farmers. Their improved intelligence. so vita1 to their old hunting life was put to a new use——that of controlling and. domesticating (驯养) their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival. ”得知祖先是在合作狩猎. 故正确答案为D。
59. D 事实细节题。题干大意是:第四段中的“operation”意思是_______。根据原文“Hunting for sport
replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences(后果), but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. ”得知“operation”指的是成功狩猎后的宰杀。 60. B 推理判断题。题干大意是:根据原文. 下列哪个选项是真实的?根据原文“His killing weapon has
turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth.”goalmouth应该对应猎物,所以A选项错误。根据原文“Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity.”得知后期祖先不是因食物而打猎,而是出于运动的目的,故答案为B。 III. Cloze
61. B worldly 世俗的、世故的;internationally为副词形式。而此处需形容词性来修饰organization. 可知B为正确答案。
62. D in need of...急需. 缺少...;lack of...缺少...;supply n. 补给、供给、供应品;necessity n.必需品、必
要(性)、(迫切)需要。此处为急需帮忙。 63. A 在一次地震中受伤。
64. B where指地点;that引导从句、无实义;when指时间;whom指人(宾格)。根据句意为一个在印
度的家庭。
65. B may情态动词后接动词原形,故may be aided。 66. A 在世界上:in/all over the world. 故正确答案为A。
67. D belong to 属于;owe 欠;应该把…归功于;感激、感恩;win 赢得;share 分享. 分担;分配。
句意为共有一个目标,所以正确答案为share。
68. C try to do sth. 试图做某事。句意为试图帮助有需要的人们。 69. C the +adj. 表示一类人。the wounded表示受伤的人。 70. B 根据句意“由Jean Henry Dunant引起的战争”。
71. B 陈述句中使用特殊疑问词后谓语使用陈述句语序,故使用people were suffering。 72. B on a battlefield 在战场上,固定搭配。
73. A regardless of 不顾、不惜;in favor of 支持、赞同;despite of 尽管;on account of 为了…的缘、因
为、由于。根据句意“他想帮助所有受伤的人而不顾他为哪方而战。” 74. B fight for...为...而战,固定搭配。句中使用过去进行时。故正确答案为B。 75. D called 被称为、被叫作...
76. C prohibit 禁止、不准;protest 抗议、反对;protect 保护;provide 提供。Protect sb. Of/from sth. 保
护某人不受...。句意中“保护犯人不受战争、战争、疾病的影响”。
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77. A other 其他的;others 其他(复数);another 再(另)一个;the other 二者中的另一个(单数)。Other
+ n. :句中other citizens 表其他国民。
78. C 一般过去时表示过去某个时间里发生的动作或状态;过去习惯性、经常性的动作、行为;过去主
语所具备的能力和性格。基本结构:主语+动词过去式+其他;否定形式①was/were+not;②在行为动词前加didn't. 同时还原行为动词;一般疑问句Did+主语+do+其他。句中“美国的红十字协会于1881年由Clara Barton建立。” 故正确答案为C。
79. A service 服务;helping 服务;facility 设施;money 金钱。根据原句:Such as helping people in need,
teaching first aid, water safety and artificial respiration, and providing blood. 均指各种服务. 所以正确答案为A。
80. B 保持谓语一致. 原句中出现了helping,teaching,providing,故demonstrate也应使用ing.形式. 故
正确答案为B。 Ⅳ. Translation
Section A(非英语专业学生做)
81. 人口每增加一倍,相关国家所需要的所有东西都要增加一倍,包括医院、学校、资 源、食品和其人民所需要的医药。
82. 女人更可能将她的汽车、来复枪或计算机看作有用的工具。而不可能感到它们本 身有何魅力。
83. 地图上标出的地震最容易发生的地方被称为“地震带”。
84. 在这种压力下,他们的整个生活方式,包括身体结构,都发生了很大的变化。
85. 但是,打猎的激情和技能仍保留着,并需要以新的形式表现出来。
Section B(英语专业学生做)
As a developing country, China is confronted with the dual task of developing the economy and protecting the environment. Preceding from its national conditions, China has in the process of promoting its overall modernization program made environmental protection one of its basic policies regarded the realization of sustained economic development as an important strategy and meanwhile carried out throughout the country campaigns for pollution prevention and treatment as well as ecological environmental protection.
Over the 18 years since its adoption of reform and opening policy, China's gross national product has achieved a sustained average annual growth of around10 percent. While its environment has basically ceased from deteriorating, the results of our work have shown that China’s endeavor in striking a balance between economic development and environmental protection has been effective.
As a member of the international community, while making great efforts to protect its own environment. China has taken an active part in international environmental protection affairs to promote international cooperation in environmental protection and earnestly fulfilled her international obligations. All these have given full expression to the sincerity and determination of the Chinese government and people to protect the global environment.
Mankind still faces a great many difficulties in solving the problems of the environment and development and there is a grand task to perform and a long way to go. China will do as it did in the past to cooperate with other countries of the world and strive for the protection of the environment for human survival for the happiness and prosperity of humanity and for the benefits of our children.
V. Writing
Modern Life in the Modern World
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Many people insist that now we live in the most wonderful and promising era in history , as more and more machines take over our hard work, making our societies more efficient and our lives more comfortable. For instance, telephone and cell phone become so popular that you can anywhere if you want. Household electrical appliances free us from housework so that we can enjoy more leisure time. Modern transportation makes the world so small that you can travel by air from one city to another in a few hours which could take several days by trains.
In spite the above benefits we gained from the development of science and technology, however, everyone now worries about the pressure modern life. As more and more machines are applied in our daily life, life pace keeps getting faster and the world is getting too complex. As we pursue more and more material things such as luxury cars, personal computers, big houses etc. our financial pressures are growing. As job markets become shrinking and job competition becomes intense, everyone worries about losing his job. What’s more, many people are now faced with the threat of terrorists or live in constant fear because of the unfair wealth distribution between the rich and the poor.
Since human beings are largely a pleasure seeking and pain-avoiding creature, we never stop inventing things to release us from hard labor. And we also try our best to prove that we are the masters of our
surrounding .That’s why our civilization keeps going forward and every new generation benefits from the efforts made by previous one. As high tech develops at a surprisingly high speed, we will gain more instead of suffering more and our future bright and promising.
2006年陕西省高校在校生专升本英语考试试题
注意事项:
1.本卷满分为150分。考试时间为150分钟。
2.本卷分试卷I和试卷II,均用钢笔或圆珠笔答卷。第I卷为客观题,考生必须把答案用大写字
母写在答题纸上;第II卷为主观题,考生直接把答案写在试卷上。 3.答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。 题号 分数
一 二 三 四 五 总分 总分人 试卷I
得分 评卷人 I. Vocabulary and structure (40%)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then write your answer on the Answer Sheet. 1. His boss is constantly finding _________with him, which makes him very angry. A. fault B. error C. shortcoming D. flaw
2. The Johnsons have not got anything ready for a ________across the Atlantic. A. journey B. trip C. travel D. voyage
3. Peter felt lonely at first, but after a time he got _______alone and even enjoyed it.
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A. used to living B. using to live C. used to live D. to be used to living 4. She says she’d rather he _______tomorrow instead of today.
A. had felt B. should leave C. left D. leaves
5. Having lost consciousness for twenty hours, the wounded soldier ________ at last.
A. came off B. came to C. came up D. came through
6. Students are required to keep writing a ______for the purpose of improving their writing skills.
A. dairy B. dialogue C. diary D. dictation 7. The weather _______fine, they decided to go out for a picnic.
A. is B. was C. being D. having been
8. _______is so often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used to equally for good or evil.
A. Which B. What C. That D. As 9. The factory had to________500 workers after the fire.
A. lay aside B. lay out C. lay off D. lay down
10. Children who are over-protected by their parents may become ________.
A. harmed B. damaged C. hurt D. spoiled
11. It’s not until he was put to prison ______he realize he had broken the law.
A. before B. after C. when D. that
12. It was no good _______to his proposal because he will never change his mind.
A. object B. to object C. objecting D. to have objected 13. The skirt is ______in small, medium and large size.
A. visible B. original C. delicate D. available
14. The boy’s pale face and lack of appetite aroused the teacher’s _________.
A. doubt B. sense C. judgment D. suspicion
15. In some countries, ________is called ―equality‖ does not really mean equal rights for all citizens.
A. which B. that C. what D. one
16. ---―Why didn’t your wife answer my phone last night?‖
---―I think she ______when you called.‖ A. had to have slept B. has to be sleeping C. must sleep D. must have slept
17. Whoever does _______with that fellow is bound to lose money.
A. affairs B. things C. business D. events
18. The ________teacher is praised by her students for her communicative language teaching.
A. respectful B. respectable C. respecting D. respective
19. If a computer could be made as complex as a human brain, it could do _______a man can do.
A. that B. whatever C. whichever D. however
20. It was difficult to understand ________the amount of money allocated for education.
A. them to reduce B. them reducing C. their reducing D. their reducing 21. John hoped the firm would _______him to the New York branch.
A. remove B. transmit C. exchange D. transfer 22. I’ll come after the meeting if time ________.
A. allows B. needs C. requires D. permits
23. Tom might have been killed _______the timely arrival of the police.
A. except for B. with C. but for D. for
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24. He bought a new house this year, which is ______his former one.
A. twice as big as B. twice than C. twice as much as D. twice the size as 25.I was informed that the contract would come into _______on the first day of the following month.
A. influence B. effect C. affect D. affection
26. A harmonious society would ______considerable benefits for the country’s health.
A. lead to B. result from C. lie in D. settle down 27. Young ______he was, she was equal to the task.
A. as B. because C. if D. unless
28. Professor Li has neither watched TV nor _____the film for quite a few days.
A. see B. seen C. saw D. watch
29. It is a pity that three paragraphs of my paper were ______by my advisor.
A. deleted B. skimmed C. omitted D. left off
30. The soldier was ________of running away when the enemy attacked.
A. punished B. charged C. scolded D. accused 31. The young girl dares to drive alone at night,_______?
A. doesn’t she B. daren’t she C. isn’t she D. won’t she
32. His sitting room is lined with all kinds of books, _______he has ever read.
A. none of B. of which C. none D. none of which 33. I entered the hall at the ________moment when the concert began.
A. desiring B. accurate C. punctual D. precise
34. The ________of human knowledge of are being pushed further with the advancement of science and technology.
A. edges B. limits C. borders D. boundaries
35. Hydrogen is the fundamental element of the universe ______it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.
A. so that B. but that C. in that D. provided that
36. You would not feel tired this morning if you _______to bed earlier last night.
A. has gone B. went C. had gone D. would have gone 37. It has been raining _________for two days.
A. continuously B. continually C. consciously D. contractively 38. Don’t_______ me _______when you’re giving out the invitations.
A. leave...off B. count…on C. leave…out D. count…up 39. _______a chemical change a new kind of substance is formed.
A. In the case of B. In case C. In case of D. In event of 40. The number of registered participants in this year’s marathon was half________.
A. of last year B. those of last year’s C. of those last year D. that of last year’s 得分 评卷人 Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (50%)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:
Passage One
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A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers. ―Last week,‖ he said, my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn’t get it back.
―How did you write your advertisement?‖ asked one of the listeners, a merchant.
―Here it is,‖ said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper, The other man took it and read, ―Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street.‖
―Now,‖ said the merchant, ―I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I’ll buy you a new one.‖
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: ―If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn’t wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street. He is well known.‖
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when the opened the front door. (81) In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown in, and his own was among the number. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they hand been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter. 41. The man once thought advertising was _______.
A. of little use B. of some use C. practical D. valuable
42. The result of the first advertisement was that______.
A. the man got his umbrella back
B. the man wasted some money advertising C. nobody found the missing umbrella
D. the umbrella was found somewhere near the church 43. The merchant suggested that the man should_______.
A. buy a new umbrella B. go on looking for his umbrella C. write another better advertisement. D. report to the police
44. Why did the merchant say ―I often advertise and find that it pays me well‖?
A. He knew how to advertise B. He had more money for advertising C. He found it easy to advertise.
D. He had a friend in the newspaper where he advertised. 45. This is a story about _________.
A. a useless advertisement
B. how to make an effective advertisement C. how the man lost and found his umbrella D. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner Questions 46 to 50 based on the following passage:
Passage Two
The great advance in rocker theory 40 years ago shows that liquid-fuel rockets were far superior in every respect to the skyrocket with its weak solid fuel. However, during the decade, large solid-fuel rockets with solid fuels about as powerful as liquid fuels have made their appearance, and it is a favorite layman’s question to
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inquire which one is ―better‖. The question is meaningless. One might as well ask whether a gasoline or a diesel engine is ―better‖. It all depends on the purpose, a liquid-fuel rocket is complicated, but has the advantage that it can be controlled beautifully. The burning of the rocket engine can be stopped completely: it can be reignited when desired. In addition, the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the speed of the fuel pumps. A solid-fuel rocket, on the other hand, is rather simple in construction, though hard to build when a really at very short notice. A liquid-fuel rocket has to be fueled first and cannot be held in readiness for very long after it has been fueled. (82)However, once a solid-fuel rocket has been ignited, it will keep burning. It cannot be stopped and reignited whenever desired and its thrust cannot be varied. Because a solid-fuel rocket can be kept ready for a long time, most military employ solid fuels, but manned space-flight needs the fine adjustments that can only be provided by liquid fuels. It may be added that a liquid-fuel rocket is an expensive device; a large solid-fuel rocket is, by comparison, cheap. But the solid fuel, pound per pound, costs about 10 times as much as the liquid fuel. So you have, on the one hand, an expensive rocket with a cheap fuel and on the other hand a comparatively cheap rocket with an expensive fuel.
46. The author feels that a comparison of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets shows that _______. A. neither type is very economical B. the liquid-fuel rocket is best C. each type has certain advantages D. the solid-fuel rocket is best.
47. The most important consideration for manned space flight is that the rocket be_____.
A. inexpensive to construct B. capable of lifting heavy space shift into orbit C. easily controlled D. inexpensive to operate 48. Solid-fuel rockets are expensive to operate because of their_______.
A. size B. fuel C. construction D. complicated engines
49. Which of the following statements is not characteristic of liquid-fuel rockets?
A. the fuel is cheap B. they are cheap to build.
C. they can be stopped and reignited. D. they must be used soon after fueling. 50. The author tells us that_______.
A. whether a liquid-fuel or a solid-fuel rocket is better depends on the purpose B. neither type is superior
C. forty years ago, large solid-fuel rockets with solid-fuel as powerful as liquid fuels were made D. the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the direction of the pump Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
Passage Three
As a medium of exchange, money permits the separation of exchange into the two distinct acts of buying and selling. Hence producers who know they will be paid in money, can concentrate on finding the most suitable outlet for their goods, while buyers who will pay in money, can concentrate on finding the cheapest market for the wings they wish to purchase. (83) Specialization is encouraged, because people whose output is not a complete product but only a part of one can be paid an amount equivalent to their share of the product. Another advantage of money is that it is a measure of value. In a barter economy it would be necessary to determine how many plates were worth one hundred weight of cotton, or how many pens should be exchanged for a ton of coal. (84) The process of establishing relative values would have to be undertaken for every act of exchange, according to what products were being offered against one another, and according to the two parties’ desires and preferences. Thirdly, money acts as store of wealth. It is difficult to imagine saving under a barter system. No one engaged on only one stage in the manufacture of a product could save part of his output, since he would be producing nothing complete. Most products deteriorate fairly rapidly, either physically or in value, as a result of long storage; even if storage were possible, the practice of storing products for years on end would involve
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obvious disadvantages. If wealth could not be saved, or only with great difficulty, future needs could not be provided.
51. Using money as a medium of exchange means that_____.
A. you have to sell something in order to buy something B. you have to buy something in order to sell something C. you don’t have to buy something in order to sell something D. the seller and the purchaser are the same person 52. Specialization is encouraged because_______.
A. people can use their money to buy whatever they want B. people get paid according to their share of the product. C. people pay great attention to the manufacture of a product D. people cannot use their money to buy whatever they want 53. A barter economy is one in which _______.
A. value is decided by weight B. value is decided by number
C. money is used and goods are not exchanged D. goods are exchanged and money is not used
54. If one had to save products instead of money, __________.
A. this would need years of practice B. coal, for example, would lose its value C. they could not be stored for years on end D. many products would lose their value 55. How many advantages of money are mentioned in this passage? A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage:
Passage Four
There are two common explanations for origin of tipping. The Oxford English Dictionary says tip was seventeenth-century underworld slang for ―give‖———as in ―Tip me your money or your life.‖ (85)Opponents of tipping will probably prefer this explanation, since it suggests the practice as originally a form of robbery. A less reputable, but nonetheless charming explanation is that in Renaissance(文艺复兴) coffeehouses, boxes were set near the door, into which customers could drop money: These boxes, according to the story, bore the legend ―To Insure Promptitude,‖ which was ultimately shortened to TIP. Whether it was a serving woman or a boss with his or her eye on depressing wages who first thought up the idea, the story does not say.
Tipping became common in England by the middle of the eighteenth century. Because it is ill-suited to a country without an established servant class, it did not catch on in America until after the Civil War, when former slaveholders suddenly found themselves having to pay the help and when new-rich industrialists adopted the European fashion. By the turn of the century, we had made the custom our own, and the American ―big tipper‖ was on his way.
Today, although the lines between bribery(贿赂) and thanks for services remain as vague as ever, tipping has become universal, not least because, in an increasingly uncertain economy, it provides the growing service class with income that is at least as reliable as wages and that is less subject to tax review. Not surprisingly, government officials as among the few die-hards who still question the tipping system. They have a point too. Tippers’ International Association estimates that U.S. workers get about $5 billion a year in tips. 56. In the seventeenth century, tip was probably a word used by_____.
A. lawbreakers B. customers C. waitresses D. coffeehouse bosses 57. Tipping did not become popular in U.S. until after the Civil War because______.
A. the country was free of a servant class
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B. former slaveholders did not want to pay the help
C. northern industrialists refused to adopt the European fashion D. tipping was contradictory to the American custom 58. Tipping is universally accepted mainly because_______.
A. it is an easy way to make money
B. it ensures people a good and prompt service C. it enables the service class to be free from taxes
D. it supplies the service class with a sort of reliable income
59. Which of the following words can best describe the government officials’ attitudes towards the tipping
system?
A. Positive. B. Negative. C. Doubtful. D. Indifferent. 60. The passage is about_______.
A. the origin of tipping B. the practice of tipping in U.S C. the popularity of tipping D. the shaping of the tipping system 得分 评卷人 III. Cloze Test (20分)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D below the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet.
Henry’s job was to examine cars crossing the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every morning, except weekends, he 61 see a factory worker coming up the hill toward the frontier, 62 a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle 63 the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and 64 him take the straw off and 65 it. Then he would examine the straw very carefully to see 66 he would find anything, after which he would look in all the man’s pockets 67 he let him tie the straw up again. The man would then pull it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always 68 to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things 69 in the straw, he never found 70, even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was 71something, but he was not 72 to imagine what it could be. Then one morning, after he had looked 73 the straw and emptied the factory worker’s pockets 74 usual, he 75 to him, ―Listen, I know that you are smuggling things 76 this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is that you are bringing into the country so successfully? I’m an old man, and today is my last day on the 77 .Tomorrow I’m going to 78 .I promise that I shall not tell 79 if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling. ―The factory worker did not say anything for 80 . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and quietly, ―Bicycles.‖
61. A. should B. would C. might D. must 62. A. pushing B. pulling C. filling D. carrying 63. A. arrived B. appeared C. came D. reached 64. A. force B. order C. make D. call 65. A. show B. lead C. unite D. loose 66. A. that B. where C. how D. whether 67. A. before B. thus C. first D. so 68. A. lucky B. expecting C. suspecting D. insisting 69. A. had been hidden B. hiding C. have been hidden D. hidden 70. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything 71. A. cheating B. smuggling C. stealing D. pushing
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72. A. capable B. possible C. able D. clever 73. A. through B. thoroughly C. upon D. on 74. A. then B. more C. as D. like 75. A. cried B. said C. ordered D. told 76. A. cross B. behind C. across D. into 77. A. job B. work C. case D. duty 78. A. return B. risk C. retire D. rest 79. A. everyone B. someone C. no one D. anyone 80. A. long time B. period C. moment D. some time
试卷II
得分 评卷人 IV. Translation (20分) Section A. (非英语专业学生做)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five items which you have to translate into Chinese. Each item has one or two sentences. These sentences are all underlined and taken from the reading passages you have just read in the Reading Comprehension part. You are allowed 20 minutes to do the translation. You should refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context. 81. (Para.6, Passage 1)
In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown in, and his own was among the number.
82. (Para.1, Passage 2)
However, once a solid-fuel rocket has been ignited, it will keep burning. It cannot be stopped and reignited whenever desired and its thrust cannot be varied.
83. (Para.1, Passage 3)
Specialization is encouraged, because people whose output is not a complete product but only a part of one can be paid an amount equivalent to their share of the product
84. (Para.2, Passage 3)
The process of establishing relative values would have to be undertaken for every act of exchange, according to what products were being offered against one another, and according to the two parties’ desires and preferences.
85. (Para.1, Passage 4)
Opponents of tipping will probably prefer this explanation, since it suggests the practice as originally a form of robbery.
Section B (英语专业学生做)
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Directions: In this section, there is a short passage in Chinese . Read it carefully and put it into English.
李成业是文化部翻译组的主任。他认为,语言是一种活的东西,和我们的日常生活息息相关。他说他十分幸运,最初做法庭翻译和目前在翻译组里的工作,使他能够不断的学习和接触两种语言。
当他还在学校教英语的时候,就曾翻译了好多英文杂志中的文章,投给本地英语报。
他说:“学习语言的动机和兴趣都非常重要。”他把学习语言比喻为跑步,跑步虽然非常吃力,但运动员知道它的好处并饶有兴趣,所以还是一点都不觉得厌倦。
“在学习语言的过程中,我们一定要创造学习语言的机会和环境。”他认为看电影,阅读和交流等都是学习语言的好机会。
最后他说:“由于现在大家的时间都很有限,如果阅读能力短篇故事或一些名人的语录,对我们学习英语会很有帮助,同时也能增进学习的兴趣。”
得分 评卷人 V. Writing (20 分)
Directions: In this part of the test, you are to write a short composition of about 120 to 150 words (non-English majors) or 150 to 180 (English majors) based on the topic given below.
How to Repay Your Parents
1. 父母在孩子的成长过程中付出了很多(如在孩子的生活、教育等方面)。 2. 子女选择各种不同方式报答父母的养育之恩。 我的观点。
答案详解
I. Vocabulary and structure
1. A find fault with sb. 找??的茬;挑剔;对??吹毛求疵;为固定短语,其他选项均无这
种用法。句意:老板总是找他的茬儿,这让他很生气。 2. D journey 路程,通常指陆地上的远距离“旅行”;trip一般指时间段、距离近的“旅行、
远足”;travel作“旅行,游历”讲,一般表示旅行的总的概念;voyage主要指远距离的水上旅行,本题中是穿越大西洋的航海旅行,只有voyage符合题意。句意:约翰森夫妇还没有为穿越大西洋的航海旅行作任何准备。
3. A get used to doing sth.意为“习惯于做某事”,get在这里做系动词。句意:起先彼特感到
很孤独,但是一段时间之后他渐渐习惯了自己生活,甚至喜欢上了这种方式。
4. C would rather所跟从句表示希望或委婉的责备时,动词用过去式表示当时或将来的情况,
用过去完成式表示过去的情况。句意:她说她宁愿他明天走,而不是今天。
5. B come off:能被去掉,举行;come up:发生,升起,被提及;come through:实现诺言;
come to:苏醒,恢复意识。句意:昏迷了24小时之后,那位受伤的士兵终于醒了。 6. C keep a diary“记日记,写日记”,为固定搭配。句意:学生们被要求坚持记日记,目的是
为了提高他们的写作技能。
7. C 在独立主格结构中,分词作状语时,其主语与句子的主语一致时,分词前不需要再加主
语;若分词的逻辑主语与主句的主语不一致,则分词前要加上自己的主语。本题独立主格结构The weather being fine表示原因。句意:因为天气很好,我们决定出去野餐。 8. D as在句子中引导定语从句,“as+is+过去分词”构成常用的句式,可译为“正如??” ,
如:as it known to all众所周知。句意:正如人们经常指出的,知识是一把“双刃剑”,即可
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为善也可为恶。 9. C lay aside:把??放在一边,储备;lay out:展开,提出;lay off (sb.):解雇某人;lay down:
规定。句意:火灾后那家工厂不得不解雇500名工人。
10. D harm, damage, hurt都有“伤害”的意思,注意这几个词的区别:damange:损害,毁害;
harm:伤害,损害;hurt:(心理上的)伤害;spoil:变味,损坏,糟蹋,宠坏。Spoiled“宠坏的,溺爱的”,句意:被父母过度保护的孩子会被宠坏的。
11. D it + be +被强调部分+ that 是强调句的固定结构。请注意not until强调句的用法。句意:
知道被送进了监狱他才意识到自己已经犯了法。
12. C it’s no + use/good + doing sth.意为“做什么没用/没好处”等,为固定用法。句意:反对
他的建议是没好处的,因为他从不改变主意。
13. D visible:可见的;original:起初的;delicate:脆弱的,易损的;available:可获得的,
可取的。句意:大、中、小号的裙子一应俱全。
14. D doubt:怀疑;sense:感觉;judgement:判断;suspicion:察觉。其中doubt是由于信息
不足而不相信,或不能辨别是非真伪,拿不准;suspicion是感到可能存在某事,猜疑有某种情况,多指疑心别人有不好的事。句意:老师觉察到那个男孩脸色苍白,没有胃口。
15. C 句子中缺少主语,只有what可以引导主语从句。句意:在有些国家,那些被称做平等
的东西并非意味着所有公民权利平等。
16. D 从大雨中可以看出是一种肯定得推测,并且打电话的那个时候妻子已经睡着了。must
have done表示对过去动作的肯定推测。句意:“昨天晚上你妻子为什么不接我电话?”“我想你打电话时她一定睡着了。”
17. C do business with sb.意为“与某人做生意”,为固定用法。其他选项都不正确。故选C。
句意:谁和那位仁兄做生意谁就会破财。
18. B respectful:尊敬的,表示敬意的;respectable:令人尊敬的,值得尊敬的;respective:
各自的,分别的;respecting是respect的现在分词形式。句意:那位令人尊敬的老师凭着她的交际语言教学法收到了学生的赞扬。
19. B 句子空缺处缺少宾语成分,只有that和whatever可以引导宾语从句;根据句意可知应是
“人可以做的任何事情”。句意:如果计算机造得像人脑一样复杂,它就可以做人类可以做的任何事。
20. C 物主代词/人称代词/名词所有格+动名词,构成了动名词的复合结构,物主代词或名词所
有格等是动名词的逻辑主语。动名词复合结构在句子中主要作主语和宾格。本题中their reducing作understand的宾语。句意:他们缩减了用于教育事业的资金数额,这一行为使人费解。
21. D transfer sb./ sth. from to将sb./ sth.意为“从一个地方转移到另一个地方”,符合题意。其
他选项transmit:传送,传输,发射;remove:移开,拿去,去掉;exchange:交换;均不合题意。句意:约翰希望公司能够将他调到纽约的分公司。
22. D allow:允许,其主语一般为人;need:需要;require:要求,均不合题意。permit:允
许,许可,主语可以是人,也可以是物。句意:如果时间允许的话,开完会后我会来。 23. C 虚拟条件有时不通过if明显表达出来,而是隐含在副词、介词短语或上下文中。but for,
but that就是其中之一。but for = if it were not for或if it had not been for意思为“要不是,如果不是”。句意:要不是警察及时赶到,汤姆可能已经被杀害了。
24. A 本题涉及倍数表示发的其中之一:A + be +倍数+ as +计量形容词原级+ as + B。句意:他
去年买了一座新房子,是他以前那座的两倍大。 25. B come into effect意为:“生效,起作用”。为固定搭配。句意:我被告知合同将于下个月
的第一天生效。
26. A lead to:引起,带来;result from:由于,因为;lie in:位于;settle down:建立,居住。
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根据句中主语和宾语的逻辑关系可以确定正确答案。句意:和谐社会会给国家的卫生、财产和安全都带来可观的效益。
27. A as/though引导的让步状语从句要用部分倒装结构,所以将表语young提前。句意:尽管
她很年轻,她也能胜任那项工作。
28. B neither nor连接的两个成分的时态和语态应该保持一致。Neither后跟的是现在完成时,
所以nor后也应跟动词的现在完成时形式,has可以省略。句意:李教授已经好几天既没看电视也没看电影了。
29. A delete:删除,删掉;skim:掠过,滑过;omit:忽略;leave off:中断。句意:我的论
文被导师删掉了三段,好可惜!
30. D sb. is accused of doing sth.:某人被指责做了某事;punish与scold均不能与of连用;be
charged with意为“指控,控告”。句意:那名士兵被指责在敌人袭击时临阵脱逃。
31. A dares在本句中是实意动词,所以变反意疑问句式借助于助动词does(主语是第二人称
或复数时借助于do);又因前半句是肯定形式,所以反意疑问句要用否定形式。句意:那个年轻女孩敢在夜晚独自驾驶,不是吗?
32. D 非限定性定语从句应该用which来引导,所以可以排除A、C,选B项的话,从句仍缺
少宾语。句意:他的起居室里陈列着各种各样的书,但他一本也没有读过。 33. D precise:就,恰好,at the precise moment意为“就在这个时候”,其他均不能用于此结
构。句意:我走进大厅,恰好在这个时候音乐会开始了。
34. D edge:边沿,边线;limit:限度,程度;border:一般指“国界,边界”,boundaries:边
界,界限。所以综合可知D最合适。句意:随着科技的进步,人类知识的界限正在进一步向外扩充。
35. C in that相当于because;so that:以至于;provide that:只要;but that:要不是。句意:
氢是宇宙中的基本元素,因为它提供了产生其他因素的固体。
36. C 在表示虚拟语气的条件句中,从句与过去事实相反,要用过去完成时。句意:如果你做
完早睡的话,今天早上你就不会感到这么累了。
37. A continuously:持续地,连续地,不断地;continually:频繁地,多次重复地;consciously:
有意思的;contractively:合同地,契约地。根据句意,雨应该是持续不断地下了两天。句意:已经连续下了两天雨了。
38. C leave sb./ sth. off和leave sb./ sth. out都有“将某人/某事漏掉;不包含某人/某物在内”的
意思。leave sb./ sth. out还有“冷落某人”的意思,带有感情色彩,更符合题意。Count on sb./ sth.意为“依赖某人,某物”;count up意为“总数为,总计”。这两个都不合题意。句意:你分发请帖时别漏掉我。
39. A in case of sth.:假使,如果;in case:以防,万一;in event of:如果,以防;三项都不
符合题意。in the cause of意为“在??过程中”。句意:在化学变化中一种新物质生成了。 40. D 进行比较的应该是人数(the number),所以用that来指代前面的the number,不能用those,
故B不正确;A、C均无引导词,也不正确。句意:报名参加今年的马拉松的人数是去年(人数)的一半。
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension
41. A 事实细节题。题干大意是:这个男人一度认为广告是______。从文章第一句“A man once
said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers.”可知,这个人曾经认为打广告是没有用的。故正确答案为A。
42. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:第一则广告的结果是______。从文章第一段主人公所说的话
中“As it was a present, I spend twice its worth in advertising, but didn’t get it back.(因为它是别人送的礼物,我花了两倍的价钱做广告,但还是没有找回伞)”可知,B项为正确答案。其
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他几项不符合题意。
43. C 事实细节题。题干大意是:商人建议这个男人应当______。从文章第四段内容中,这个
商人认为广告中心表达的方式是极其重要的。他准备再试着找一下,如果找不到,他会给那个人买把新的。可知,这个商人认为原来的广告写的没有力度,他准备写个更好一点的。故正确答案为C。 44. A 推理判断题。题干大意是:为什么这个商人说“我经常做广告并且发现从中获得不少”?
从文章最后一段商人写广告收到的效果可以判断,商人的意思是他经常写广告,知道怎么才能把广告做好?故A为正确答案。
45. B 主旨大意题。题干大意为:这个故事是关于______。文章通过两则广告所带来的不同效
果来说明,不同的广告语言会产生截然不同的效果,意在告诉我们怎样才能写出更有影响力的广告。由此可知,B项符合文章大意。C、D两项只体现文中某一方面,不能概括全文,A项不正确。
46. C 推理判断题。题干大意是:作者对液体燃料火箭和固体燃料火箭的对比表明______。这
是一篇较为典型的说明文(描述文),以比较对照的写作方式介绍火箭燃料技术。由文中内容“It all depends on the purpose, a liquid-fuel rocket is complicated, but has the advantage that it can be controlled beautifully.”和“A solid-fuel rocket, on the other hand, is rather simple in construction, it is ready for action at very short notice.”以及最后一句“so you have, on the one hand, an expensive rocket with a cheap fuel and on the other hand a comparatively cheap rocket with an expensive fuel.”可知,它们各有千秋,各有各的优缺点。
47. C 事实细节题。题干大意是:载人航天飞机最重要的考虑是火箭要______。由文中“but
manned space-flight needs the fine adjustments that can only be provided by liquid fuels.(但是载人太空飞机需要只有液态燃料才能提供的精细的调节。)”可知,C项为正确答案。其他几项都不符合文意。
48. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:固体燃料火箭很昂贵是因为他们的______。由文中“But the
solid fuel, pound per pound, costs about 10 times as much as the liquid fuel.(但是每磅固体燃料的价钱都是液体燃料的10倍)”可知,B项为正确答案。 49. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:下列哪种说法不属于液体燃料火箭的特点?由文中“It may be
added that a liquid-fuel rocket is an expensive device”可知液体燃料火箭是很贵的设备。故B是错误的,A,C,D三项都是其特点。本题是选择不属于其特点的,故B项为正确答案。 50. A 事实细节题。题干大意是:作者告诉我们______。从文中“It all depends on purpose”可
知A选项是正确的。另外用排除法也可得出答案。B项明显错误,由“during the decade, large solid-fuel rockets with solid fuels about as powerful as liquid fuels have made their appearance”可知C项错误;由“the thrust can be made to vary by adjusting the speed of the fuel pumps”可知D项错误。故正确答案为A。
51. C 事实细节题。题干大意是:用钱作为交换的媒介意味着______。这是一篇说明文,从三
个方面讲述金钱货币的作用。根据文章第一段第一句“As a medium of exchange, money permits the separation of exchange into the two distinct acts of buying and selling.”(作为交换的媒介,钱把买和卖这两种不同行为的交换关系区分开来。)可知,有了钱,你就不用为了卖一些东西而非得买进一些东西了。故C为正确答案。
52. D 推理判断题。题干大意是:鼓励专业化生产是因为______。由第一段最后一句
“Specialization is encouraged, because people whose output is not a complete product but only a part of one can be paid an amount equivalent to their share of the product.(鼓励专业化生产,因为尽管专业化生产者生产的不是成品而是部件,他们依然能够得到应得的劳动报酬。)”可知,B为正确答案。 53. D 推理判断题。题干大意是:物物交换经济指的是______。由文章第二段第二句“In a barter
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economy for a ton of coal.(在物物交换经济中,有必要确定一百斤重的棉花值多少个盘子或者一吨煤能换多少支笔。)”可推断,在物物交换经济中,只是实行货物交换,无需用钱。故D为正确答案。
54. D 事实细节题。题干大意是:如果人们储存产品而不是钱,______。根据文章第三段第四
句“Most products deteriorate(变坏)fairly rapidly, either physically or in value, as a result of long storage(由于长时间的存储,大部分产品无论是产品本身还是在价值上很快就会变质或贬值。)”可知,如果人们储存产品而不是钱,那么很多产品就会失去其价值。故选D。
55. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:文中提到了钱的几处优点?由文章每段的首句的关键词就可
得出答案。由文中的“Another advantage”和“Thirdly”可知文章共介绍了钱的三大优点。故正确答案选B。
56. A 推理判断题。题干大意是:在17世纪,“tip”有可能是被用于______的词。由文章第一
段第二句和第三句的内容可知,在17世纪,tip作为俚语在下层社会(under-world)中使用,是give的意思,如:“给我你的钱,要不就留下你的命。”反对给小费的人也许更喜欢这种解释,因为该解释暗示了给小费这种做法是源自抢劫的一种形式。故选项A符合文意。B“顾客”;C“女服务员”;D“咖啡店老板”都不符合文义。 57. A 事实细节题。题干大意是:“小费”直到内战之后才在美国风行起来是因为______。由
文章第二段“it did not catch on in America until after the civil war, when former slaveholders suddenly found themselves having to pay the help and when new-rich industrialists adopted the European fashion.”可知美国是在内战之后,奴隶制被废除,新富裕起来的工人阶级接受欧洲的时尚之后,“Tipping”才受欢迎的。故A项为正确答案。 58. D 事实细节题。题干大意是:消费被普遍接受主要是因为______。从文中第三段“tipping has
become universal, not least because, in an increasingly uncertain economy, it provides the growing service class with income that is at least as reliable as wages and that is less subject to tax review.”可知小费可以给服务阶层提供一种可靠的收入。故D为正确答案。
59. C 事实细节题。题干大意是:下列哪个词可以更好地描述政府官员对消费体制的态度?由
文中第三段第二句“Not surprisingly, government officials are among the few die-hards who still question the tipping system.(毫无疑问,政府官员属于那些仍然质疑消费体制的少数顽固派。)”可知,只有C(充满疑问的)与question比较接近。A“积极的”,B“消极的”,D“冷漠的,漠不关心的”都与文意无关。
60. D 主旨大意题。题干大意是:这篇文章是关于______。通读全文,可知本文是讲述小费的
形成及发展历程。第一段将消费的起源,接下来讲述小费制度在美国的形成情况。A项仅涉及小费的起源,只是其中一个方面。故选D。
III. Cloze
61. B should:应该(某事宜于做);would:将会,总是(过去的习惯动作);might:可能会
(表示可能性);must:必须,一定要。根据句意:除了周末,每天早上他都将看到一个工人??可知B为正确答案。还可根据下文“would”频繁出现,推知此类似用法。 62. A push:推;pull:拉;fill:填;carry:搬,拿。根据题意,是“推自行车”,因此选A。 63. D arrive:到达,为不及物动词,加地点时要用arrive at;appear:出现,为不及物动词;
come:来,为不及物动词;reach:到达,为及物动词。因此选D。
64. C force:强迫,用法为force sb. to do sth.;make:迫使,强迫,用法为make sb. do sth.;
call:召至某处,命令到某处。根据词义及搭配,只能选C。
65. C show:展示;lead:领导,指路;untie:揭开;loose:松开,放开。根据题意,应为揭
开那捆稻草,因此选C。
66. D that引导从句,无实义;where指地点;how指方式;whether意为“是否”。根据句意
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应为“他将会仔细检查稻草,看看他能否发现什么”因此选D。 67. A 根据句意:在他让那个工人把那捆稻草再次捆起来之前,他将检查那个工人的所有口袋。
因此选A。
68. B lucky:幸运的;expecting:期待;suspecting:怀疑;insisting:坚持。根据句意:尽管
亨利总是期待从稻草中发现隐藏的金子、珠宝或其他有价值的东西,但即使他很认真的检查,也什么都没有发现。可得知B为正确答案。
69. D 本题用分词作定语,修饰前面的things,由于此分词定语与所修饰词things是逻辑上的
动宾关系,因此用过去分词表被动。
70. D nothing:什么也没有;something:一些东西;everything:一切东西;anything:任何东
西。anything与前面的never连用,构成否定,指什么也没有,依据68题中的句意分析,可知选D。
71. B cheat:欺骗;smuggle:走私;steal:偷;push:推。依据第一段第一句话可知亨利的工
作是检查出入境人员是否走私,因此选B。
72. C capable:有能力的,其搭配为be capable of doing sth.;possible:可能;able:有能力的,
能够,其搭配为be able to do sth.;clever:聪明的。句意为“他不能想象那到底是什么”。依据词义以及搭配,应选C。
73. A look through:审核,仔细查看;look thoroughly无此固定搭配;look upon/on sb./ sth.:
把??视为,看作。根据题意,是要表达他仔细查看了稻草堆之意,因此选A。 74. C as usual:像往常一样,固定搭配。 75. B cry:叫,喊,哭;say:说,表达;“对某人说”常用“say to sb.”的结构;order:命令;
tell:告诉,讲述,是及物动词,宾语为人时,其搭配为tell sb.。根据空后面的内容,他是在询问那个工人如何走私的,急切想知道其走私的方法,因此不能用cry和order,而只有say意思与搭配都合适。
76. C cross:穿越,穿过,为动词;behind:在??之后,为介词;across:横过,越过,可以
作介词或副词;into:到??里面。根据句意,要表达的是“越过边境”之意,而此句话中已有谓语动词,不能再用动词,因此选C。
77. A on the job:在工作岗位上,在上班。根据题意,是要表达“我已经老了,今天是我最后
一天上班了,明天我就退休了。如果你告诉我你一直在走私什么,我保证不会告诉任何人。”因此选A,其他选项无此搭配。
78. C return:返回,归还;risk:冒险;retire:退休;rest:休息。根据77题句意分析,可知
C为正确答案。
79. D everyone:每个人;someone:某人;no one:没有人;anyone:任何人,多用于否定句
或疑问句中。根据77题句意分析,可知D为正确答案。
80. A a long time:很长时间;a period:指一段时间;a moment:片刻,瞬间;some time:某
段时期。根据亨利和这个人的对话可知,这个走私者停顿了很长时间才犹豫地说出了他一直走私的是自行车。因此选A较为合适。 IV. Translation
Section A(非英语专业学生做)
81. 在门口至少堆放着被扔进来的色彩各异、大小不一的十二把雨伞,他的也在其中。
82. 然而,一旦固体燃料火箭被点燃,它就一直燃烧,不能随心所欲地熄灭、再次点燃,火箭的
推动力无法调节。 83. 鼓励分工协作,因为分工协作者尽管生产的不是成品而是部件,他们依然能够得到应得的劳
动报酬。
84. 根据双方所提供产品的对比,以及双方的期望和喜好,每次交易都必须估算产品的相对价值。 85. 反对给小费的人也许更喜欢这种解释,因为该解释暗示了给小费这种做法是源自抢劫的一种
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形式。
Section B (英语专业学生做)
Li Chengye is the head of the Ministry of Culture’s Translation Section. He believes that language is something alive, which relates/ is relevant to our daily life closely. According to him, he was lucky in the sense that he could maintain his grasp of English and Chinese with constant use of the languages in his work – first as a court interpreter and now as the supervisor in the translation section.
Even when he was a teacher of English, he kept in touch with Chinese by translating articles from English magazines into Chinese for the local press. He said: ―Internet and motivation are most important in learning and mastering a language.‖ He compares language learning to jogging. It is a laborious exercise, but what keeps the jogger running is an interest and the knowledge of the advantages and benefits of the exercise. One must always create the environment and opportunities for language learning. He suggests watching movies, reading books, and even writing to pen-pals as some of the ways to get involved in the learning. ―Because of the limited time we have, reading short stories, or even lines of famous quotations of wise men, is good, and helps make language learning more interesting,‖ he added.
V. Writing
How to Repay Your Parents
Children can’t live happily and healthily without parents, because parents have done a lot during the growth of children. From the necessities such as three meals a day to school education at different levels, parents’ love of and devotion to children are felt everywhere.
As children have become grown-up, they realize how much their parents have done for them and how important it is to repay their parents; some work so hard to earn large sums of money to provide big houses for their parents. Some are always cooking delicious food or buying expensive clothes for them; still others arrange for parents to go traveling both home and abroad and the like. Naturally all these would make their parents happy.
However, as far as I am concerned, what parents need most is simply a call, a talk, or a dinner together. To tell you the truth, whenever I have spare time, I try to see them in person, have meals with them, talk with them and share with them my joys and sorrows, which offers them the greatest happiness. In a word, I think we should repay our parents with the deep love from the bottom of our hearts as they have done for us.
2007年陕西省高校在校生专升本英语考试试题
注意事项:
1.本卷满分为150分。考试时间为150分钟。
2.本卷分试卷I和试卷II,均用钢笔或圆珠笔答卷。第I卷为客观题,考生必须把答案用大写字
母写在答题纸上;第II卷为主观题,考生直接把答案写在试卷上。 3.答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。 题号 分数
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得分 评卷人 I. Vocabulary and structure (40分)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then write your answer on the Answer Sheet. 1. The two passengers, as well as the driver, _____in the traffic accident.
A. were injured B. was wounded C. was harmed D. were damaged 2. I suddenly realized that he was trying to _____quarrelling with me.
A. consider B. avoid C. enjoy D. prevent 3. It is the mistake ______ you should focus on, not the person.
A. which B. in that C. that D. for which 4. The price of shoes is _____ during the Spring Festival.
A. lower B. more expensive C. smaller D. cheaper
5. It was essential that the application forms _______ back on time.
A. must be sent B. was sent C. be sent D. were sent 6. We can’t get rid of war _____we get rid of the cause of war.
A. when B. unless C. unlike D. except
7. The waterfall was running down from the high cliff so smoothly that it looked like a piece of silver cloth _______ from the sky.
A. hanging back B. hanging down C. hanged D. hanged down
8. ______ by division of labor can an increase in production be achieved.
A. If B. Expect C. Only D. Otherwise 9. Your watch is always slow; it needs to be _________.
A. fixed B. controlled C. regulated D. governed 10. No sooner had he entered the hall ________ the meeting started.
A. when B. before C. after D. than 11. On hearing the news that his father died, David burst into ________.
A. cry B. tears C. sob D. anger
12. When he was in the middle school, he _____ half an hour reading aloud every morning.
A. used to spend B. was used to spend C. used to spending D. was used to spending 13. The sun ______ strong X-rays that sometimes injure our skins.
A. gives off B. gives away C. sends off D. sends away 14. _____ he has tried his best, I don’t mind his not having finished the task on time.
A. As soon as B. As well as C. So far as D. So long as 15. The T-shirts made in China are by no means _______ the ones made in America.
A. less inferior than B. inferior to C. less inferior to D. inferior than
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16. The physicist used so many new terms in his lecture that the students could not take ______ what he was
saying.
A. in B away C. to D. over
17. One of the requirements for producing vapor is that the water ______ to its boiling point.
A. must be heated B. has to be heated C. is to be heated D. be heated 18. Iran is one of the word’s leading _______ oil expert countries.
A. raw B. crude C. rough D. primitive
19. According to Aristotle’s theory, everything is made out of four ______: earth, air, fire, and water.
A. factors B. portions C. sources D. elements
20. The article strongly argues for the need to ______ students’ ability in higher education.
A. form B. shape C. cultivate D. present 21. Rather than ______ money in such a dishonest way, Jack would beg in the street.
A. get B. got C. getting D. to get
22. In the long run, the search for sale and _____ ways of generating electricity should be continued.
A. economy B. economics C. economical D. economic 23. To our disappointment, very few lambs ____ the severe winter last winter.
A. survived B. endured C. spent D. remained alive 24. Every bush and every flower ________ to be cut down.
A. are B. are going C. will go D. is
25. The witness’ statement about the crime is very ______, so the criminal might be in control in no time.
A. specific B. special C. unusual D. different 26. It’s important to locate industries in area where rich raw materials are _____.
A. preferable B. available C. dependable D. favorable 27. The old lady who moved here a month ago never laughs, _____ lose her temper.
A. nor she ever does B. or she ever does C. or does she ever D. nor does she ever 28. I want to buy a new tie to go _____ this brown suit.
A. with B. after C. into D. by
29. Nothing has so changed our economy in recent years ________ the development of the automobile industry.
A. with B. as C. like D. than
30. You should ______ that she has been working for the company for almost 20 years.
A. account for B. count on C. take it into account D. take it for granted
31. What he said on the press conference sounded convincing, but I ______ it to be a lie.
A. doubted B. suspected C. expected D. predicted 32. My sister ______ my e-mail. Otherwise, she would have replied.
A. mustn’t have received B. can’t have received C. shouldn’t have received D. needn’t have received 33. I think you are supposed _______ your assignment last night.
A. to be finishing B. to have finished C. to finish D. to have been finished 34. In his time, he enjoyed a reputation __________.
A. as great as Mozart, if not greater than B. as great as, if not greater than, Mozart
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C. as great, if not greater, as Mozart D. greater, if as greater as Mozart
35. We will go to Mount Huang for our holidays, ______ it isn’t too expensive.
A. except B. unless C. as soon as D. provided 36. Nobody should _____ the authority that people have placed on him.
A. abuse B. accuse C. amuse D. arouse 37. Whenever I ask a question in class, I expect a ______ answer from my students.
A. punctual B. prompt C. rapid D. fast
38. ______ with that of the developed countries, people’s living standard of this African country is extremely
low.
A. Compare B. While comparing C. When compared D. Comparing
39. More and more automatic machines ______, the output of the factory that manufactured electronic
equipment increased tremendously.
A. using B. having used C. having been used D. to have been used
40. When several graduates apply for the same job, ______ is often given to whoever is better qualified for it.
A. superiority B. privilege C. majority D. priority 得分 评卷人 Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (50分)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:
Passage One
Learning how to write is like taking a course in public speaking. I’d ask whether anyone in class had ever taken such a course. Invariably a few hands would go up.
―What did you learn in that course?‖ I’d ask.
―Well, the main thing was learning how to face an audience? not to be inhibited (拘谨;抑 制) ?not to be nervous?‖
Exactly, when you take a course in public speaking nowadays, you don’t hear much about gr-
ammar and vocabulary. Instead, you’re taught how not to be afraid or embarrassed, how to speak without a prepared script, how to reach out to the live audience before you. Public speaking is a matter of overcoming your longstanding nervous inhibitions.
It is the same in writing. (81) The point of the whole thing is to overcome your nervous inhibi- tions, to break through the invisible barrier that separates you from the person who’ll read what y- ou wrote. You must learn to sit in front of your typewriter or dictating machine and reach out to the person at the other end of the line.
Of course, in public speaking, with the audience right in front of you, the problem is easier. You can look at them and talk to them directly. In writing, you’re alone. It needs an effort of your
experience or imagination to take hold of that other person and talk to him or her. But that effort is
necessary or at least it’s necessary until you’ve reached the point when you quite naturally and unconsciously
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―talk on paper.‖
41. The main task of a public speech course is to ________.
A. teach spoken-language experience B. teach how to use gestures to assist speech C. help the learners overcome nervousness
D. teach how to control the volume of the speaker’s voice
42. Learning how to write is similar to learning how to speak in public in that a writer should ___________.
A. overcome his or her nervousness in the first place B. watch his or her grammar and vocabulary C. collect a lot of data before writing
D. take hold of a reader and talk to him or her before writing 43. In the author’s opinion_________.
A. writing needs more experience and skill than public speaking B. both writing and public speaking require effort C. writing is imaginative
D. public speaking is not so natural as writing
44. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Not many students feel the need to learn public speaking B. Training is necessary before you can speak with script
C. In public speaking, the audience are more nervous than the speaker D. Writing is just like making a public speech on paper 45. This selection is mainly about learning how to _______.
A. make a public speech B. talk on paper
C. behave properly in public speech D. express strong emotion on paper
Questions 46 to 50 based on the following passage:
Passage Two
In the modern technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive. (82)Resources on land are beginning to grow less. The sea, however, still offers hope to supply many of man’s needs. The riches of the sea yet to be developed by man’s technology are impressive. Oil and gas explorations have existed for nearly thirty years. Valuable amounts of minerals such as iron, nickel and copper and so on exist on the ocean floor, ready to be mined.
Fish farming promises to be a good way to produce large quantities of food. The culture of fish and shellfish is an ancient skill practiced in the past mainly by Oriental peoples.
Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way similar to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents and waves offer possible use as a source of energy such as hydroelectric power.
Technology is enabling man to explore ever deeper under the sea. The new undersea technology is providing divers with diving suits and undersea chambers that are kept at sea level pressure. The development of strong, new materials has made this possible.
The technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. By the year 2000, experts believe that the problems to exploit the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved. 46. What is the best title for the passage?
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A. Needs of .Man B. Sources of..Energy C. Sea Harvest D. Sea Exploring Technology 47. According to the author, technology for exploring the sea is important because______.
A. man cannot travel farther into space B. resources on land are running short C. it’s a lot of fun diving into the sea D. ancient people used to explore the sea 48. Why does the author mention a steamship?
A. To indicate that it is warmer in the ocean than on land. B. To show that a steamship is better than other kinds of ship.
C. To argue that man should use steamships more than other means of transportation. D. To illustrate that man can make use of sources of energy from the sea. 49. It can be inferred from the passage that_______.
A. man hasn’t completely developed the riches of the sea B. technology for exploring the sea has been solved
C. planting rice in the sea will be made possible in a short time D. in the near future man can live on the ocean floor
50. The word ―exploit‖ in the last paragraph could best be replaced by________.
A. evaluate B. develop C. gather D. scatter
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
Passage Three
Your passport is your official identification as an American citizen. In American, most people never consider
obtaining a passport unless they are planning a trip out of the country. In Europe,
where travel from one country to another is much more common, almost everyone carries a pass- port. A passport is final proof of identity in almost every county in the world.
In 1979 almost 15 million American held passports. Most of these passports were obtained to travel outside the country because, except for a few Western nations, passports are required to enter every country. And if you travel abroad, you must have a valid passport to return the country.
When traveling abroad, you will need a passport for identification when exchanging dollars for francs or marks or other foreign currency. You may also need your passport to use a credit card, buy an airplane ticket or check into a hotel. As a passport is an official U.S. document, it is valuable as identification in any emergency overseas, such as floods, fires or war.
Don’t confuse passports and visas. (83)Whereas a passport is issued by a country to its citizens, a visa is official permission to visit a country granted by the government of that country. For some years, many countries were dropping their visa requirements, but that trend has reversed. They may be obtained from the embassy of the country you wish to visit.
Passport applications are available at passport agency offices in large cities like Boston, New York, or Chicago. In smaller cities, applications are available at post offices and at federal courts. To get your first passport, you must submit the application in person, along with a birth certificate and two pictures. 51. The main purpose of this passage is to___________.
A. discuss traveling in other countries B. distinguish between passports and visas C. discuss the financial uses of a passport D. provide information about passports 52. Passports are beneficial for___________.
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A. exchanging currency B. using a credit card C. checking into hotels D. all of the above 53. We can conclude from the passage that_________.
A. passports are more important than visas B. visas and passports are the same thing
C. foreign government issue visas instead of passports D. visas are required to obtain passports 54. The passage suggests that_________.
A. Most people don’t realize how important passports are
B. passports aren’t important once you are in the country you’ve chosen to visit C. passports are simple to obtain through the mail
D. passports are obtained at the embassy once you enter a country.
55. As used in this passage, the word ―valid‖ in the second paragraph means__________.
A. foreign B. legal C. monetary D. illegal
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage:
Passage Four
I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At young age you ought to be growing away from you parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet.
But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are a1l taking the same way of snowing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out on their own,most of them are clutching at one another’s hands for reassurance.
They say they want to dress as they please,but all of them wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music,but all of them end up huddled round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in this and that way is that the crowd is doing it.
(84)It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and go his or her own way. These days every teenager can 1earn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. (85)All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well,go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-will the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.
56. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell _____.
A. readers how to be popular with people around B. teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves C. parents how to control and guide their children D. people how to understand and respect each other
57. According to the author, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them _____.
A. have much difficulty understanding each other B. lack confidence
C. dare not cope with problems single-handed D. are very much afraid of getting lost
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58. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. There is no popularity that really counts.
B. What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths. C. It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.
D. Most teenagers claim that they want to do what they like to, but they are actually doing the same. 59. The author thinks of advertisements as _____.
A. convincing B. influential C. instructive D. authoritative 60. During the teenage years, one should learn to _____.
A. differ from others in as many ways as possible B. get into the right season and become popular C. find one’s real self
D. rebel against parents and the popularity wave 得分 评卷人 III. Cloze Test (20分)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D below the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet.
In china, it is relatively usual to ask people their age, but in the west, this question is generally regarded as impolite. This is particularly true 61 women, and even more 62 if the inquirer is a man. However, it is 63 to ask children their age, and some adults may not mind 64 either. In fact, some elderly people are quite happy to 65 their age, especially if they feel they look young 66 their age. Nevertheless, it is not very wise to ask a(n) 67 question like ―How old are you?‖ if elderly people want to talk about their age, and perhaps receive a compliment on how young they look, they may easily 68 the topic themselves, and ask the other person to 69 how old they are. 70 such a situation, it is quite acceptable to discuss age 71.They normally expect to be complimented on their youthfulness, though rather than 72 that they look very old! 73 westerners do not usually ask people directly how old they are, this does not 74 that they are not interested to know how old other people are. They may ask 75 for the information, 76 they may try to 77 the topic indirectly. Sometimes discussions about educational 78 and the number of years of working experience may provide some 79 , but this is not always the 80 .
61. A. with B. for C. of D. to 62. A. that B. such C. than D. so 63. A. average B. normal C. expected D. unusual 64. A. being asked B. asking C. to ask D. to be asked 65. A. reveal B. reflect C. release D. remark 66. A. to B. with C. for D. at 67. A. open B. strange C. impolite D. direct 68. A. bring about B. bring up C. bring along D. ring to 69. A. guess B. know C. learn D. predict 70. A. for B. with C. in D. on
71. A. free B. with freedom C. freely D. in a free way
72. A. being told B. told C. to tell D. to be told
73. A. Though even B. Even C. Even that D. Even though
74. A. include B. intend C. mean D. conclude
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75. A. someone else B. anyone else C. no one else D. everyone else 76. A. rather else B. or else C. so else D. still else
77. A. approach B. solve C. address D. take
78. A. background B. level C. knowledge D. experience
79. A. knowledge B. clues C. evidence D. suggestions
80. A. case B. truth C. reality D. fact
试卷II
得分 评卷人 IV. Translation (20分) Section A. (非英语专业学生做)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five items which you have to translate into Chinese. Each item has one or two sentences. These sentences are all underlined and taken from the reading passages you have just read in the Reading Comprehension part. You are allowed 20 minutes to do the translation. You should refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context. 81. (Para.5, Passage 1)
The point of the whole thing is to overcome your nervous inhibitions, to break through the invisible barrier that separates you from the person who’ll read what you wrote.
82. (Para1. Passage 2)
Resources on land are beginning to grow less. The sea, however, still offers hope to supply many of man’s needs.
83. (Para4. Passage 3)
Whereas a passport is issued by a country to its citizens, a visa is official permission to visit a country granted by the government of that country.
84. (Para4. Passage 4)
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and go his or her own way.
85. (Para4. Passage 4)
All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.
Section B (英语专业学生做)
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage in Chinese. Read it carefully and put it into English.
端午节
每年农历的五月初五是中国的一个民间传统节日,叫端午节。在这一天,人们要赛龙舟、吃粽子。这个节日是为了纪念著名诗人屈原。
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相传两千多年前,楚国诗人屈原因政治改革,屡遭保守势力的诽谤,失去楚王的信任,后被放逐。最终,因国家衰败,理想无法实现,自投汨罗江而死。
据说,老百姓听到屈原投江自尽,就有人驱舟去打捞,但没有找到。他们担心屈原的遗体会被鱼吃掉,便将煮熟的米饭撒到江中。我们今天吃粽子、赛龙舟的习俗就是因此慢慢演变而来。 得分 评卷人 V. Writing (20 分)
Directions: In this part of the test, you are required to write a short composition of about 120 to 150 words (non-English majors) or 150 to 180 words (English majors) based on the topic given below.
Waste on Campus
1. 目前校园浪费现象严重。 2. 浪费是一种不良习惯。 3. 从我做起,减少浪费。
答案详解
I. Vocabulary and structure
1. A 名词+with/along with/together with/as well as / rather than等+名词作主语时,谓语动词应
与介词短语前面的名词在人称和数量上保持一致,故本题谓语动词应用复数形式;又因“在事故中受伤”应该用injure,而不用damage。句意:两名乘客连同司机一起在车祸中受了伤。
2. B consider:考虑;enjoy:喜欢,享受;prevent:阻止;avoid:避免。句意:我突然意识
到他在尽量避免跟我吵架。
3. C “It is +被强调部分+that+从句”是强调句的基本句型。句意:你应该关注的是错误(所
在),而不是(犯错误的)人。
4. A 价格、价钱的高低应该用high和low来表示。句意:春节期间鞋的价格更低了。 5. C 在essential(必要的)、urgent(紧迫的)、necessary(必须的)、important(重要的)等
这类形容词后接的名词从句中,谓语动词应该用“should+动词原形”,should可以省略。本题中application forms与send back之间是动宾关系,所以要用被动语态。句意:有必要将申请表按时送还。
6. B when:当??的时候;useless:除非;如果不;unlike:不像??;except:除了。句意:
如果不能根除战争的诱因的话,我们就不能摆脱战争。
7. B hang back:留下,留在原处,意思不正确;silver cloth与hang down之间是逻辑上的主
谓关系,应用hang down的-ing形式表示一种状态。句意:瀑布从高高的悬崖上一泻而下,如此顺滑,看起来就像从天空垂下的一块丝绸。 8. C only+状语位于句首时,句子要用倒装;句中谓语部分将can提至主语前,所以应用“only+
状语”。句意:只有通过劳动分工,才能实现产量增长。
9. C fix:固定;control:控制;regulate:调节;govern:统治,掌管。“调表”应该用动词
regulate;表走慢了,而不是坏了,所以不能用fix。句意:你的表总是慢,需要调一下了。 10. D no sooner than/hardly when/as soon as都是“一??就??”的意思。句意:他刚进大厅,
会议就开始了。
11. B burst into tears:放声大哭,为固定搭配。句意:听到父亲去世的消息,大卫放声大哭起
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A used to do sth.:过去常常做某事;be used to doing sth.:习惯于做某事。句意:上中学时,他经常每天早上花半个小时大声读书。
A give off:发出,放出(气味、光、热等);give away:赠送,捐赠;send off:寄出,发出;send away:邮购,函购。句意:太阳放出的X射线有时会损伤我们的肌肤。
D as soon as:一??就??;as well as:也,还;so far as:和??一样远;as long as:只要。句意:只要他尽力了,我就不会怪他没按时完成任务。
B inferior to sth.:比某物差;inferior本身就含有比较级的意思,所以前面不用more或less来修饰。句意:中国生产的T恤绝不比美国产的差。
A take in:吸收,理解;take away:解除,消除;take to:逃往,逃到;take over:取而代之,接手,掌管。句意:那位物理学家在他的报告中用了这么多新术语,以至于学生们不能理解他在讲什么。
D 本句相当于It is required for producing vapor that (should)be heated to its boiling point,表示要求、命令等这些形容词引导的主语从句的谓语动词应该用should+动词原形,should可以省略。句意:生成水蒸气的条件之一是水应当被加热至沸点。
B crude oil:原油,天然气;其他的三个词都不能与oil搭配。句意:伊朗是世界上主要的原油输出国之一。
D factor:因素;portion:比例;source:资源;elements:成分,要素。句意:根据亚里士多德的理论,土、空气、火和水是构成一切物质的四大要素。
C form:形成;shape:塑造;cultivate:培养,养育;present:呈现。句意:文章重在论证在高等教育阶段培养学生能力的必要性。
A 本句相当于sb. would do sth. rather than do sth.,所以用动词原形。句意:杰克宁愿在在街上乞讨,也不愿意以这种不诚实的方式获得钱。
C economy:经济,经济状况;economics:经济学;economical:经济实用的,节约的;economic:经济上的,经济学的。句意:从长远来看,对安全而又经济实用的发电方法的研究应当继续下去。
A survive+名词意为“幸免??,从??中幸存下来”。句意:令我们失望的是,去年几乎没有小羊能够在严冬中幸存。
D 主语是and连接的两个单数名词,且前面有each,every,many a,no等词修饰时,谓语动词用单数。句意:灌木丛和每朵花都要被砍掉。
A specific:详细的,清楚的,明确的;special:独特的;unusual:不寻常的;different:不同的。句意:证人关于犯罪事件的陈词是非常详细和明确的,所以罪犯很快就能被控制住。
B preferable:较合适的;available:可获得的,可取的;dependable:可依赖的;favorable:喜好的。句意:将工厂建在易获取丰富原材料的地区是很重要的。
D 从句是以nor引导的表否定的句子,应用倒装结构,把助动词does提到主语前。句意:一个月前搬到这儿的那位年长的女士从来不笑,也不发脾气。 A go after:追求,追赶;go into:装上某物;go by:路过,经过;均不合题意,只有go with:与??匹配 正确。句意:我想买条新领带来配这套棕色的西装。
B so?as?:像??一样,为固定搭配,其他均不符合题意。句意:近年来,没有什么能像汽车工业的发展那样如此改变我们的经济了。
C take sth. into consideration:考虑到,顾及到;account for:是??的原因(说明);take it for granted:想当然地认为;count on:依靠,依赖。故只有C符合题意。句意:你应该顾及到她已经在这家公司工作了将近20年了。
B expect:期望;predict:预言,都不符合题意。doubt有“怀疑”的意思,但对怀疑的事
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物不确定,没有把握,故也不正确。suspect:觉得,疑有(尤指坏事可能属实或发生)。句意:他在新闻发布会上所说的听起来可信,但是我觉得那是个谎言。 B 有时假设的情况不用if引导虚拟条件来表达,而用并列连词(如or,otherwise,but,though等)来表达,此时句中谓语动词仍采用虚拟语气的相应形式。mustn’t不用于这种结构;shouldn’t表“本不应该”;needn’t表“不必要”;本句中表“不可能”应该用can’t have done。句意:妹妹可能没有收到我的电子邮件,要不然的话,她可能已经回复我了。 B 本题考查动词不定式完成时的用法。be supposed to have done sth.表示“本应该做某事(实际上并未做)”,相当于should have done sth.句意:我认为你昨天晚上就应该完成你的论文。 B as?as?:与??一样;if not greater than:如果不比??更伟大的话;在这里做插入语。句意:在他的那个年代,他享有着即使不比莫扎特伟大,也和莫扎特一样多的荣誉。
D 句子中缺少引导条件状语从句的关系词,as soon as引导时间状语从句,不正确;except不能引导从句,也不正确;unless引导条件状语从句,但它是“除非”的意思;只有provided(假如)正确。请注意:从句中本身就是否定,故不用unless。句意:假如不是很贵的话,我们将去黄山度假。
A abuse:滥用,妄用;accuse:控告,控制;amuse:使娱乐,使高兴;arouse:激起,引起。后三个选项均不合题意。句意:任何人都不能滥用人民赋予他的权利。 B punctual:准时的;rapid:迅速的(一般指车辆等的速度);fast:快的,与rapid相近;故都不正确。prompt:迅速的,立即的,及时的。句意:无论何时我在课堂上问个问题,我都期待我的学生能迅速地回答。
C 在独立主格结构中,分词作状语时,其主语与主句的逻辑主语一致时,用现在分词的形式;若其主语与主句的逻辑主语是动宾关系,则要用过去分词形式。本句中living standard与compare之间是动宾关系,所以要用compare的过去分词形式,前面可以加上when。句意:与发达国家人民的生活水平相比,这个非洲国家的人民的生活水平太低了。
C 从句与主句逻辑主语不一致,所以从句要用“主语+现在分词”的形式,machines与use之间是被动关系,所以用被动语态。句意:由于越来越多地使用自动机器,生产电子设备工厂的产量也得到了迅速的增长。
D superiority:优势,优越感;privilege:特权;majority:大多数。优势是申请者本身应具有的,而不是被别人赋予的,故A不正确;特权是与法律相关的一些权利,故这里也不能用;C意思不符合题意,故只有priority(优先权)符合题意。句意:几名毕业生申请同一职位时,经常优先考虑那些更适合这项工作的人。
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension
41. C 事实细节题。题干的大意是:公共演讲的主要任务是______。根据第四段最后一句“Public
speaking is a matter of overcoming your longstanding nervous inhibitions”可知公共演讲能克服你长久以来存在的心理拘谨。故正确答案为C。
42. A 事实细节题。题干的大意是:学习怎么写作和学习怎么在公共场合演讲是相似的,作家
应该______。根据第五段前两句“It is the same in writing. The point of the whole thing is to overcome your nervous inhibitions, to break through the invisible barrier that separates you from the person who’ll read what you wrote”可知正确答案为A。
43. A 推理判断题。题干大意是:依据作者的观点,______。文章最后一段演讲和写作进行比
较:演讲面对观众,可以面对面交流;而在写作时,你是独立的,需要经验和想象力来与其他人交流,所以写作需要更多的经验和技巧。故选项A符合作者观点。
44. D 推理判断题。题干大意是:根据文章内容,下列哪一项说法是正确的?由文中第四段最
后一句“Public speaking is a matter of overcoming your longstanding nervous inhibitions”和第五段第一句“It is the same in writing”可知,作者认为演讲和写作有相同之处,而其主要的相同之处在文章最后一句得到了明确的答案:写作的最高层次就是“talk on paper”。
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45. B 主旨大意题。题干大意是:本文主要是谈论学习如何______。文章开始就点明了主旨:
Learning how to write is like taking a course in public speaking,作者最后得出结论:写作就是在纸上做演讲。故正确答案为B。
46. C 主旨大意题。题干大意是:本文的最佳题目是______。本文是一篇介绍关于海洋开发的
说明文,介绍到的是人们对海洋开发的成果。A、B两项明显不符合题意。本文主要介绍的是海洋开发的收获,而不是海洋开发技术,所以尽管D项看似正确却不能成为主旨。文章指出的是海洋开发的收获,而不是海洋开发技术,所以尽管D项看似正确却不能成为主旨。文章指出了海洋开发的好处,如:Oil and gas,fish farming,ocean currents and waves等,特别是由最后一句“the problems to exploit will be largely solved”可得出正确答案C。
47. B 事实细节题。题干大意是:根据作者的观点,开发海洋的技术是重要的,因为______。
从文中第一段的第二和第三句“Resources on land are beginning to grow less. The sea, however, still offers hope to supply many of man’s needs(陆地上的资源已开始减少。然而,海洋却依然有望为人类提供更多所需的资源)”可知B项为正确答案。 48. D 事实细节题。题干大意是:作者为什么提到蒸汽轮船?蒸汽轮船出现在文章第四段第二
句“Experts believe that the warm temperature of the ocean can be used in a way similar to the steam in a steamship”作者在第四段讲述海洋为人类提供的能源,其中包括温暖的海水。蒸汽轮船利用蒸汽机作动力,而人们也可以用温暖的海水作动力,以利用其能量,故正确答案为D。
49. A 推理判断题。题干大意是:由本文可以推断出______。由文章最后一段“The technology
to harvest the sea continues to improve. By the year 2000, experts believe that the problems to exploit the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved(人们对海洋的开发技术继续在提高。截止到2000年,专家相信,海洋的食物、矿物和能源的开发问题将会大大的解决)”可知人们还未完全开发海洋。B、C、D项均不符合文意。
50. B 词语解释题。题干大意是:最后一段中能代替“exploit”最好的词是______。由文中组
后一句“By the year 2000, experts believe that the problems to exploit the food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will be largely solved”说的就是海洋开发利用的前景。文中第二段第一句的谓语动词develop,第四段中反复出现的use和第五段最后一句的development均是指海洋资源的开发利用。Evaluate“评价,评估”,gather“聚集,集合”,scatter“撒播;驱散”都不符合文意,只有develop(开发,发展)符合文意。
51. D 主旨大意题。题干大意是:本文的主要目的是______。本文通篇讲的都是关于护照的信
息。A、B、C选项都只是文章的一个方面,不足以概括全文。而选项D(提供关于护照的信息)正是本文的目的。
52. D 事实细节题。题干大意是:护照有利于______。由第三段第一和第二句“When traveling
abroad, you will need a passport for identification when exchanging dollars for francs or marks or other foreign currency. You may also need your passport to use a credit card, buy an airplane ticket, and check into a hotel or casino.”可知A、B、C三项均不符合文意,故D为正确答案。 53. B 推理判断题。题干大意是:由本文可以推断出______。第四段最后两句话句意是:有几
年,许多国家停止了签证要求,但这个趋势已经转变。阿根廷、巴西和委内瑞拉现在要求美国居民的签证。你可以从你想要参观国家的大使馆获得签证。可推知,虽然趋势已经转变,但并不是所有国家都爱接受外国居民的签证。A、C、D三项都太过绝对,只有B项符合题意。
54. A 推理判断题。题干大意是:文章表明______。由文章第一段第二句“In America, most
people never consider obtaining a passport unless they are planning a trip out of the country(在美国,大部分人从来没想过办护照,除非他们计划去国外旅游)”可知,A选项(大部分人没有认识到护照有多重要)是正确的。B、C、D项都与文章不符。
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55. B 词语解释题。题干大意是:文中第二段运用的单词“valid”意思是______。第一段句首
“your passport is your official identification”和第二段第二句“passport are required to enter every country”表明了护照的用途,所以进入一个国家,所持护照一定要valid。valid的意思是“(法律上)有效的;(正式)认可的”。A“外国的”;C“货币的,钱的”;D“非法的”均无此意;只有B“合法的”与valid意思相近,故选B。
56. B 主旨大意题。题干大意是:作者写这篇文章的目的是______。本文是一篇鼓励青少年独
立自主的文章,作者试图找出青少年现存的问题,并要求他们“Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come with the people who respect you for who are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts”可知作者是想告诉青少年;学会自己做决定。故B为正确答案。 57. B 推理判断题。题干大意是:作者认为,许多青少年认为他们足够勇敢按自己的方式生活,
但是,事实上,他们大部分______。由第一段最后一句话“Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at one another’s hands for reassurance(他们不敢大胆地自立谋生,相反大部分人互相抓着手来寻求保证)”可知他们缺乏自信,故正确答案为B。
58. A 事实细节题。题干大意是:根据文章,下列哪项是不正确的?由文章最后一段最后两句
话“Popularity will come with the people who respect you for who are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts”可知A项是错误的。
59. B 推理判断题。题干大意是:作者认为广告是______。由第三段第三句“These days, every
teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be(当今,每一个青少年都能从广告上了解到一个青少年应该拥有什么和应该成为什么样的人)”可知广告的影响是很大的。A“令人信服的”;C“富有教益的,增长知识的”;D“有权威性的”都不符合文意,故B(有很大影响的)为正确答案。 60. C 推理判断题。题干大意是:在青少年时期,人们因该学会______。由文中最后一段话知,
青少年最重要的是要学会有自己的想法,发现自己,做自己。详见精析56,可得出C为正确选项。A、B、D三项都与文章不符。 III. Cloze
61. C “This is particularly true women”句中this指的是前面所陈述的现象,这种现象对于
women来说是真实的,所以应用介词for,意为“对于??来说”。
62. D 根据句意“如果提问者是男士的话,就更??”比较四个选项可知只有so最符合句意,
意为“就更加如此了”。so指代前文提到的这种现象。
63. B however在这里点明后面这句话与前面所说的是相反的关系,前文提到问人年龄是不礼
貌的,所以后面应该是说问小孩子年龄是很正常的,所以选B。
64. A mind后应接动词-ing形式,又因adult与ask之间应是动宾关系,所以要用被动语态,
故选A。
65. A in fact点明了后面的句子是对前面的肯定,所以应该是老年人很乐意透漏他们的年龄。
reflect:反映;release:释放,缓解;remark:评论,谈论;只有reveal有“披露,揭露”的意思,故选A。
66. C for在这里意为“就??而言”,句子意为:尤其是就他们那样的年纪而言,他们感到自
己看起来很年轻。
67. D 根据上下文可知,问类似“How old are you?”这样直接的问题是很不明智的。 68. B bring about“导致,引起”;bring along没有意义;bring to“带给(某人),带到(某地)”。
bring up“提出(讨论话题等)”。根据句意应该是老年人自己提出这个话题。 69. A 根据上下文,老年人提出话题后并让别人猜他们的年龄。 70. C in such a situation在这种情形下,所以用介词in。
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71. C 根据句意:在这种情形下,自由讨论年龄是可接受的。freely意为“自由地,无拘无束
地”。
72. D rather than在这里是“而不愿意??”,其后所接的谓语形式应与except后的成分一致,
所以应填to be told。 73. D 根据上下文,西方人不经常直接询问别人的年龄,这并不意味着他们对别人的年龄不感
兴趣。可知前后是转折关系,所以前半句应填入表让步的连词,故选even though(即使,尽管)。
74. C include:包含,包括;intend:计划,想要;mean:意味着;conclude:总结。根据句
意可知应该选mean(意味着)。本题答案可参考73题。 75. A 上文提到西方人并非对别人年龄不感兴趣,所以接下来就说他们可以通过询问别人来获
得信息,所以选someone else某个(知情)人,B、C、D均不正确。
76. B 根据上下文,他们不向知情人询问的话,就会就话题简单展开讨论,句子前后应是转折
关系,所以选or else(否则,不然的话)。 77. A 应该是间接地接近这个topic。
78. A and后接的是working experience,所以and前应是与工作经验相对应的内容,故
educational background(教育背景)最合适。 79. B 在了解有关他人个人信息时,谈论他的教育背景和工作经验的年限只是最终获得信息的
途径。这就为了解某人的个人信息提供了一些线索。
80. A this is not always the case并不总是这样。The case意为“事实,实情”,为固定搭配。
IV. Translation
Section A(非英语专业学生做)
81. 整个问题的关键在于克服内心的拘谨,打破你与读者之间无形的隔阂。 82. 陆地上的资源已开始减少,而海洋却依然有望为人类提供更多所需的资源。 83. 护照是国家为其公民颁发的证件,签证则是政府颁发给他国来访者的官方许可。 84. 对青少年来说,要逆世俗潮流,走自己的路,是越来越难了。
85. 对那些想走自己道路的青少年来说,这一切都成了一个巨大的障碍。
Section B (英语专业学生做)
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year is a traditional Chinese gala which is named Dragon Boat Festival, when people hold dragon boat races and eat rice dumplings. This gala has been practiced to commemorate the famous Chinese poet, Qu Yuan.
It was recorded that more than two thousand years ago, Qu Yuan, a great poet in the state of Chu, was defamed by the conservatives because he was inclined to reform the government. As a result, he lost the king’s trust and was driven out of the state. At last, seeing that he could not reach his goal in a declining state, he jumped into the Mi-Luo River and ended his life.
It is said that people went to save him by boat on hearing of his suicide, but in vain. Therefore, they threw cooked rice into the river for fear that his body might be eaten by fishes. The dumplings we eat and the dragon boats we race today both result from the story.
V. Writing
Waste on Campus
As is known to all, waste on campus has become a more and more serious problem. Some students waste food, some waste stationery, and some waste money. For example, we can easily see that many students dump a lot of food into the garbage can, some tear blank sheets from notebooks and throw
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them away without a second thought if they write one or two words incorrectly, and some even try to follow fashion.
Waste on campus is a bad habit. First, it makes some students rely on their parents for more money, which is harmful to their development. Probably they should turn out an uneconomical person, which is not good to their family as well as to the society. Second, it is not easy for parents to provide students with money. Waste brings more burden to their parents. The last but not the least, it is the fact that our country is still not rich enough. There are many who don’t have enough to eat or can’t afford to send their children to school. They still need our help.
As far as I am concerned, I should do something myself to reduce waste on campus. First of all, I will refrain from wasting anything, from food to stationery. Second, I am determined to call on my classmates to launch a movement to cut down waste on campus. Only by taking specific measures can we hope to gradually reduce waste on campus.
2008年陕西省高校在校生专升本英语考试试题
注意事项:
1.本卷满分为150分。考试时间为150分钟。
2.本卷分试卷I和试卷II,均用钢笔或圆珠笔答卷。第I卷为客观题,考生必须把答案用大写字
母写在答题纸上;第II卷为主观题,考生直接把答案写在试卷上。 3.答卷前将密封线内的项目填写清楚。 题号 分数
一 二 三 四 五 总分 总分人 试卷I
得分 评卷人 I. Vocabulary and structure (40分)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then write your answer on the Answer Sheet. 1. John will go to school the moment he ______ his work.
A. will finish B. finish C. finishes D. would finish
2. The surgeon’s advice was that the patient ______at once.
A. to be operated on B. being operated on C. be operated on D. was operated on
3. It is ______one thousand students can live in it.
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A. too large a building that B. so a large building that C. such large a building that D. so large a building that
4. Not only ______a promise, but he kept it.
A. does the manager make B. did the manager make C. the manager made D. the manager makes
5. Even if he ______here, he would not be able to help us.
A. is B. were C. has been D. will be
6. The chairman as well as many other people ______present at the conference.
A. was B. were C. would D. should
7. Do you have any idea what she meant? I really can’t ______what she said at the meeting.
A. figure on B. figure out C. find out D. find
8. We’ve ______paper and ink. Ask Mrs. Edward to lend us some.
A. run away with B. run out of C. run off D. run down
9. You’d better ______a doctor as soon as possible.
A. seeing B. saw C. see D. seen
10. After saying that, he ______the door quickly.
A. made up B. made for C. made out D. made up for
11. I gave John a present but he gave me nothing ______.
A. in return B. in turn C. in hand D. in vain
12. She ______to say that she was not interested in what I was talking about.
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A. broke out B. broke in C. broke down D. broke up
13. She ______be ill because I saw her playing basketball just now.
A. can’t B. couldn’t C. mustn’t D. wouldn’t
14. It is already five o’clock now. Don’t you think it’s about time______.
A. we are going home B. we go home C. we went home D. we can go home
15. All things ______, the planned trip will have to be cancelled.
A. considering B. having considered C. be considered D. considered
16. It ______have rained last night, for the ground is wet.
A. should B. can C. will D. must
17. IfJohn had told me in advance, I ______him at the airport.
A. would meet B. will meet C. am going to meet D. would have met
18. This year we’ll produce ______steel as we did last year.
A. three times as much B. as three times much C. as much three times D. three times much as
19. I’d rather you ______make any comment on the issue for the time being.
A. don’t B. wouldn’t C. didn’t D. shouldn’t
20. The government has promised to do ______lies in its power to ease the hardships of the homeless.
A. what B. that C. all D. which
21. ______how to operate a switchboard, I have to ask the office supervisor to show me the correct procedures.
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A. Not known B. Not to know C. Not knowing D. Having not known
22. ______is mentioned in some of his stories, the author was brought up in a small village.
A. It B. What C. That D. As
23. Since I was a stranger there, I had no one to ______.
A. turn up B. turn on C. turn to D. turn down
24. Words ______meaning, as we all know.
A. convince B. convey C. contribute D. conquer
25. Mr. Wang does not ______as a teacher of English as his pronunciation is terrible.
A. qualify B. match C. fit D. equal
26. The clothes a person wears may express his ______or social position.
A. significance B. determination C. curiosity D. status
27. In some countries, traffic police can ______instant fines on speeding motorists.
A. compel B. impose C. charge D. force
28. It is very ______of you to let us know you are going to be late.
A. considering B. considerate C. considerable D. considered
29. I have to ______my visit as I’ll be very busy next week.
A. call for B. call on C. call off D. call in
30. Most of the students are said to ______the proposed new training system.
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A. object B. oppose C. disagree D. opposite
31. His marked changes in personality were ______by a series of unfortunate events in his life.
A. brought to B. brought out C. brought about D. brought up
32. Respect for the law is the foundation of civilized living, ______breaks it will be punished.
A. who B. whoever C. people who D. no matter who
33. John worked late into the night, ______a speech for tomorrow’s meeting.
A. preparing B. to prepare C. was preparing D. prepared
34. Three new buildings ______on the campus by the end of this year.
A. will be built B. are going to be built C. will have been built D. have been built
35. One should never lose heart when ______with temporary difficulties.
A. being confronted B. confronted
C. having been confronted D. confronting
36. The class needs a monitor ______.
A. whom everyone has confidence on B. who everyone has confidence of C. for whom everyone has confidence D. in whom everyone has confidence
37. It is reported that there is no better ______for mother’s milk.
A. alternative B. exchange C. equivalent D. substitute
38. After a number of disagreements with the committee, the chairman decided to ______.
A. resign B. retire C. retreat D. withdraw
39. Physicists have made new discoveries that: challenge our ______theories of the universe.
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A. organized B. existed C. adapted D. established
40. In these mountainous areas, women are ______the opportunity of receiving education.
A. reserved B. disrupted C. denied D. invaded 得分 评卷人 Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (50分)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:
Passage One
Telephone, television, radio and the Internet help people communicate with each other. Because of these devices, ideas and news of events spread quickly all over the world. For example, within seconds, people can know the results of an election in another country. An international football match comes into the homes of everyone with a television set. News of a disaster, such as a flood, can bring help from distant countries. With in hours, help is on the way. This is because modern technology information travels fast.
How has this speed of communication changed the world? To many people, the world has become smaller. Of course, this does not mean that the world is actually physically smaller. It means that the world seems smaller. Two hundred years ago, communication between the continents took a long time. All news was carried on ships that took weeks or even months to cross the oceans. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it took six weeks for news from Europe to reach the Americas. This time difference influenced people’s actions. For example, a few battles in the war of 1812 between England and the United States could have been avoided. A peace agreement had already been signed. Peace was made in England, but the news of peace took six weeks to reach America. During these six weeks, the large and serious Battle of New Orleans was fought. Many people lost their lives after a peace treaty had been signed. They would not have died if news had come in time. In the past, communication took much more time than it does now. There was a good reason why the world seemed so much larger than it does today.
41. News spreads fast because of ______.
A. modern transportation B. new technology C. the changes of the world D. a peace agreement
42. According to this passage, ______is very important to people in a disaster area.
A. fast communication B. modern technology C. the news D. new ideas
43. Which of the following statements is TRUE based on the text?
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A. The world now seems smaller because of faster communication. B. The world is actually smaller today. C. The world is changing in size.
D. The distant between England and America has changed since the War of 1812. 44. Two hundred years ago, news between the continents was carried ______.
A. by telephone B. by land C. by air D. by sea
45. The New Orleans Battle could have been avoided if the peace agreement had been signed ______.
A. by both sides B. in time C. in America D. in England
Questions 46 to 50 based on the following passage:
Passage Two
This story began about 10 years ago. I was coming out of a very bad marriage. For seven long years my husband spent his every waking moment telling me just what was wrong with me. When I finally asked for a divorce, he answered by telling me that I would never find anyone to love me because I was just so unattractive. This went on for about two years. One night one of my friends convinced me to go out with her. We went to a nightclub and that’s when I met him.
Clint was playing a game with a girl. I sat in the corner watching him. I didn’t feel that I had whatever it took to get up and mix with others because of my self-esteem problem. Finally I got up the courage to order a drink for him. When he got it, he gave me the most dazzling smile. We spent the rest of the evening talking until I realized that it was almost morning. I figured that he was simply being nice to me because I had brought him a drink, but the next day he called and told me that he could not stopping thinking about me and that he wanted to meet my kids too.
(81) About 3 months later, my divorce was final and Clint sat my boys down and asked them if it was all right with them if he asked me to marry him because he could not imagine life without the three of us anymore. I was so touched that he went to my boys and asked for their approval because they were the ―men of the house‖ at the ripe old ages of 2 and 4. They said yes and we have all been together even since. Clint gave me and my boys a second chance at a wonderful life. (82) Not a day goes by that he doesn’t tell we are the best thing that ever has happened to him and that he loves us. 46. The writer’s first marriage was unsuccessful because ______.
A. her husband often woke her up at midnight B. her husband kept criticizing her C. she was unattractive
D. she had a self-esteem problem
47. When the writer asked for a divorce, her husband ______.
A. told her that she would never find one who loved her as he did B. delayed two years before giving her a reply C. accused her of having an affair
D. said that she was unattractive and not worth loving 48. When the writer first met Clint, she felt that ______.
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