江苏专转本英语真题详解.docx

1、江苏专转本英语真题详解2006-20102006年江苏省普通高校“专转本”统一考试大学英语第I卷（共100分）Part I Reading Comprehension (共20小题，每小题2分，共40分)Passage 1Vegetable gardening is the relaxing art and science of turning a love for growing plants into a meaningful activity. Having vegetables in the backyard makes home gardening appealing for man

2、y people. In addition, vegetable gardening provides exercise and fun for both urban and suburban families.Vegetable gardeners agree that many home-grown vegetables are superior to those purchased from markets. Form spring through late fall, a well-planned and well-kept garden can provide a supply of

3、 fresh vegetables, thus increasing the nutrition of the family diet.Freezers make it possible to keep some of the vegetables to be enjoyed at a later date. Other vegetables can be stored for a few months in a cool area.Although the money spent for a garden may be little, one cannot escape the fact t

4、hat gardening requires hard work and time. Many of the gardening tasks must be performed at times that are most inconvenient. Not doing jobs that should be done on a regular basis may result in failure and a negative feeling toward gardening.One should not plant a garden that is too large for him to

5、 care for. A small, well-kept garden is more enjoyed and profitable than a large neglected one. Vegetables do well in full sunlight and need at least five or six hours of sun during the middle of one day. Too much shading results in poor plants and few vegetables. If possible, the garden should be n

6、ear the house, so the garden can work in it whenever they are free.Soils for vegetables be easily broken up and porous (多孔的) for quick water drainage and good aeration (透气) . Usually the home owner has little choice in the soil type he can choose. Fortunately, many vegetables can be frown on poor so

7、ils if the soils are properly prepared.1. Many people find home gardening A. expensive and boring B. interesting and enjoyableC. time-consuming and inconvenient D. neither interesting nor enjoyable2. A well-planned and well-kept garden can provide a supply of fresh vegetables A. all year round B. wh

8、enever you need nutritious foodC. for a greater part of the year D. throughout spring3. The amount of money you spend on your garden A. can be large B. must be largeC. can not be large D. must not be small4. Which of the following statements is true?A. Vegetables need to have as much shading as poss

9、ible.B. A small garden is much better than a large one.C. Homeowners can freely choose the soil for their vegetable garden.D. Whenever possible, the vegetable garden should be close to your home.5. From the passage we can conclude that A. vegetables need little care while growingB. vegetables can be

10、 grown on almost any kind of soilC. vegetable gardening is an indispensable part of life for urban and suburban peopleD. vegetable gardening is a good pastime for retired peoplePassage 2In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something so shocking as distract the serious work of a

11、n office, secretaries were men.Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A mans secretary became his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep away people he did not wish to speak to; and, of course, typing and filling and taking shorthand.

12、Now all this may be changing again. The microchip (芯片) and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical (文书的) work tat secretaries did.“Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve the high-t

13、ech workand then men will want to do it again.”That was said by one of the executive (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under was in the U. S.Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine (乏味的) , will there be a male

14、takeover? Men should be careful of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do job as well as mennot just because they can buy negligees (女士长睡衣) for the bosss wife, but because they are as efficient and well-trained to cope with word proce

15、ssors and computers and computers as men.6. Before 1914 female secretaries sere rare because they A. were less efficient and less trained than menB. were looked down upon by menC. would have disturbed the other office workersD. wore stocking and were not as serious as men7. A female secretary has be

16、en expected, besides other duties, to A. be her bosss memoryB. do everything her boss asks her to doC. clean her bosss clothsD. telephone the bosss wife8. Secretaries, until recently, had to do a lot of work now done by A. machines B. other staff C. servants D. wives9. A secretary in the future will

17、 A. have more work to do B. be better paidC. have higher status D. have less work to do10. The writer believes that before long A. both men and women can act as secretariesB. men will be better than machinesC. men will take over womens jobs as secretariesD. women will operate most office machinesPas

18、sage 3Humanity is new experiment on plant Earth. For most of its history, life on Earth was restricted to the sea. Living things began to popular the land slightly over 400 million years ago, and humans have existed for no more than 3 million years.One way to represent the evolution of life is to co

19、mpress the 4.6-billion-year history of Earth into a 1-year-log film. In such a film, earth forms as the film begins on January 1, and through all of January and February it cools and is cratered (变成坑状) and the first oceans form. But those oceans remain lifeless until sometimes in March or early Apri

20、l, when the first living things develop. The 4-million-year history of Precambrian (前寒武纪) evolution lasts until the film reaches mid-November, when primitive ocean life begins to evolve into complex organisms such as trilobites (三叶虫) .If we examine the land instead of the oceans, we find a lifeless

21、waste. But once our film shows plant and animal life on the land, about November 28, evolution proceeds rapidly. Dinosaurs, for example, appear about December 12 and vanish by Christmas Eve, as mammals (哺乳动物) and birds flourish.Throughout the 1-year-run of our film there are no humans, and even duri

22、ng the last days of the year as the mammals rise and dominate the landscape, there are no people. In the early evening of December 31, vaguely human forms move through the grasslands, and by late evening they begin making stone tools. The Stone Age lasts until shout 11:45 pm, and the first signs of

23、civilization, towns and cities, do not appear until 11:45 pm. The Christian era begins only 14 seconds before the New Year, and the Declaration of Independence is signed with 1 second to spare.11. In comparing all of Earths geological evolution to one calendar year, the author shows A. just how rece

24、ntly humanity has arrived on the sceneB. just how simple it is to understand the history of EarthC. just how early humanity appears on planet EarthD. just how difficult it is to understand the history of earth12. According to the passage, primitive ocean life begins to evolve into complex organisms

25、A. in the middle of December B. when Earth is crateredC. at the beginning of November D. when the land is still a lifeless waste13. It is indicated in the passage that A. Earth id cool at firstB. Earth id hot at the beginningC. There are oceans at the beginningD. There is life in the ocean in late F

26、ebruary14. In the one-year-long film dinosaurs A. die out on December 25 B. appear after December 25C. die out on December 24 D. appear on December 2415. In the compressed history of Earth the Declaration of Independence is signed A. a long time before the New Year B. immediately after the New Years

27、 DayC. just one second before the New Year D. right on the New Year DayPassage 4 (非英语类考生必做)Internet-addicted job seekers may be partly the cause of the fact that it is taking the unemployed 23% longer to find a new position than it took during the recession (经济萧条) , when the “benefits” of online job

28、 searching were unavailable. “A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing (浏览) the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, filling them with resumes, and then waiting for replies. It is common for long-time joblessness,” argues Professor John A. Challenger. Although the Internet

29、has the potential to be very useful for job seekers and it has become the primary tool for many, Challenger believes that it should be considered secondary to be traditional technique of meeting would-be employers in person.In addition to slowing job search efforts, the Internet is making the hiring

30、 process longer for the employer. In a survey of 5,000 hiring managers by an online resume site, 72% said that a majority of the resumes they received in response to an online job posting did not match the positions description.“The more unrelated resumes managers have to go through in order to sele

31、ct the few to bring in for interviews, the longer it takes to fill the position,” points out Challenger. “One result of this has been the increased use of screening software by employers. This will make it even more difficult for job seekers get their resumes in front of the hiring executive for an

32、interview.”“All of this is not to say that the Internet has not revolutionized job hunting. It has certainly made it easier for someone in San Francisco, for example, to search for job opening in Miami. In addition, the ability to conduct keyword searches have reduces the amount of time it takes to find the type of position a person is seeking.”“Job seekers must learn how to use the Internet as a tool, rather than just replying on it as a means for submitting electronic resumes,” conc