专插本英语98年14年历年真题.docx

1、专插本英语98年14年历年真题1998年广东省普通高等学校本科插班生考试英语试题Part I Reading Comprehension40%Passage IThe computer is a wonderful is the most important invention since the type of engine used in it has the greatest effect on science,industry,and business,but it is being used more in education and the end of this century

2、it will touch the lives of everyone,even people in distant is a revolutionary invention.The oldest kind of computer is the abacus used in China since the sixth the seventeenth century an adding machine was invented,but the furst large,modern computer was built in few years later a computer could do

3、5000 additions per the computations are so fastthat they are measured in nanoseconds 毫微秒 .Today most computers have a are getting smaller and smaller,and computing faster and in a large computer,the part that does the actual computing is about the size of the end of a finger.Computers can do all kin

4、ds of someone buys something in a department store,information about the sale goes into a computer,A scientist can talk to the computer about the rocks,and the computer answers the doctor can talk to the computer and explain what iswrong with a the doctor asks why,the computer goes through its store

5、d information and explains exactly why.When early humans began farming,it was a revolutionary change in human was hundreds of thousands of years later that people developed a writing system 方法 .In less thanfifty years people have developed computers that can do most of the things humans can do .This

6、 could be a frightening puter is considered a wonderful machine because is small in size answers all kinds of questionscomputations of the computer are usually measured in .computer will soon affect .in large cities in developed countriesall over the world in the Western worldPassage 2In the traditi

7、onal marriage,the man worked at a job to earn money for the men worked in an office,a factory,or some other place away from the the man earned the money,hepaid the money was used for food,clothes,a house,and other family man made most of the was the boss.In the traditional marriage,the woman seldom

8、worked away from the stayed at home to care for the children and her cooked the meals,cleaned house,washed the clothes,and did other household job at home was every important.In recent years,many couples continue to have a traditional relationship of this manhas a job and earns the money for the wom

9、an stays at home and cares for the children and the Americans are happy with this kind of some other Americans have a different impression of marriage and family responsibilities.There are two important differences in male and female roles is that both men andwomen have many more may choose to marry

10、 or to stay may choose to work or stay at men and women may choose roles that are comfortable for them.A second difference in male and female roles is that within marriage many decisions and responsibilities are husband and wife may choose to have children,or they may they have children,the man may

11、take care of them some of the time, all of the time,or not at woman may want to stay at home and take care of the she may want to go to and Womennow decide these things together in a married people now share these decisions and the responsibilities of their families.of the following is NOT true in t

12、he traditional marriageworked at a job to earn money for family.woman made most of decisions.woman stayed at home to care for the children.man paid the bills.recent years .couples reject the traditional relationshipwoman has a job and earns the money for the familywoman doesn t stay at home and care

13、 for the children and the houserole of men and women has begun to changeand women may now choose all the following EXCEPT to .or to stay singleor to stay at homethe roles that are comfortable for them their jobs just because they have children following are all now true EXCEPT .may choose to have ch

14、ildren or notman may take care of the children some of the time woman may want to go to workwoman is the most important person in the houseof the following is NOT trueman was the boss in the traditional marriage.woman s job at home was very important in the past.Americans still have a traditional ma

15、rriage.tries to get married.Passage 3Did you know that the empty plastic soft drink bottles you throw away every day can be turned into carpet or automobiles partsThat used glass bottles and aluminum cans can be turned into new ones And that yesterda ys newspaper can be turned into tomorrow sIt all

16、happens because of recycling再禾U用.The simple waste we throw away is a “natural resource that,with recycling,can be used to produce a variety of new products.Unfortunately,America recycles only 10% of its rubbish,burns 10% and deposits 80% in waste desposal grounds,As a result,it is having to cope wit

17、h a serious solid waste problem.Every year,Americans throw away about 160 million tons of that total,plastics make up less than 8%,paper about 36%,and glass and metal about 20%,all by are naturally lighter,but still,when pressed together,accout for only about 20% by volume.As a result,in the past 10

18、 years the United States waste disposal grounds have decreased from about 18,500 to 6, five years 2,000 more will close.In the process of finding solutions,some people have proposed to stop using plastics. Unfortunately,stop using plastics would do much harm and no would lose all of the safety,healt

19、h and convenience features of plastics.Besides,packaging would still be 1987 study shows what would happen if plastics were not used-the energy needed to produce other packaging,its cost,and the volume of waste collected would all rise greatly.Some Americans believe part of the answer to America wsa

20、ste problem lies in recycling everything from glass to metals to paper to plastic.Today,recycling is on the are now more than 1,000 waste recycling programs in theare beginning to recycle plastics.Right now,almost 200 companies are recycling millions of used plastic containers into toys,traffic sign

21、s,waste baskets,floor materials,and park benches.Plastics are among the easiest materials to than 150 million pounds or 20% of all plastic soft drink bottles were recycled in 1987.can t the plastic soft drink bottles be turned into. parts. signs.all the rubbish in the .,plastics account for by weigh

22、t and by volume.%; 20% B. 8%; 20%; 8% %; 36%average,waste plastics are other wastes.heavy in density as in density thanin density than same by weight as5 years,the have only waste disposal grounds.,000 ,000,000 ,500author of this passage the proposal of stopping using plastices.nothing about sympath

23、etic withto toPassage 4There are two kinds of memory:short-term and in long-term memory can be remembered at a later time when it is information may be kept for days or ,information in short-term memory is kept for only a few seconds,usually by repeating the information over and following experiment

24、 shows how short-term memory has been studied.Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember subjects in his experiment were 75 college represented all levels of ability in English:beginning,intermediate,advanced,and native-speaking students.To begin,the subjects

25、 listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in the recording,the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they question hadfour subjects had to circle the word they had heard in the of the questions had four choicesthat sound example,weather,whethet,wither,and wetter

26、are four words that sound of the questions had four choices that have the same ,way,manner,and system would be four words with the same the subjects took a language proficiency test.Henning found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike;

27、students with a higher proficiency made more of theirmistakes on words that have the same s results suggest that beginning students hold the soundof words in their short-term memory,and advanced students hold the meaning of words in their short-term memory.made the experiment in order to study .stud

28、ents remember English vocabulary by short-term memorystudents learn English vocabulary to develop students ability in English long information in short-term memory is kept of the following statements is TRUE according to the passagein short-term memory is different from that in long-term memory. mem

29、ory can be achieved only by training.is easier to test short-term memory than long-term memory.gave a separate test on vocabulary to his students.Henning s results we can see that .have difficulty in distinguishing the pronunciation of words students remember words by their meaning is defficult to r

30、emember words that sound alike is difficult to remember words that have the same meaningword “ subject in the passage means .college course the students take theme of the listening materialbranch of knowledge studied student experimented onpassage centers on .kinds of memorymemory experiment on stud

31、entsPart II. Vocabulary,Structure and Grammar(30%)view from the other side of the mountain was even more .train and was late this morning,which annoyed them very much.duck s can keep out water because they have oily substance on them.the box of explosive carefully or we ll up dead ourselves.Browns w

32、ere a great deal more of their guests than the Smiths.is by death in many countries.can he save when he spends his incomes entertainment.you live in the city,your friends are always for a chat or an eveningwitness was badly wounded himself,so he couldnt appear in court .fact nature particular person eggs,some meat,toast fruit and coffee at breakfast.often fell in front of the television.sleep asleep fertilizer play