江苏省专转本英语真题以及答案.docx

1、江苏省专转本英语真题以及答案2003江苏省专转本英语真题以及答案2003年江苏省普通高校“专转本”统一考试试卷 大学英语来源： 作者：5UZB 发布时间：2012-1-10 8:37:18 浏览：136第卷（共100分）注意事项：1答第卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。2每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。如果答案不涂写在答题卡上，成绩无效。Part I Reading Comprehension (40，40minutes)Directions: In this part there a

2、re four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then mark your answer byblackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Passage 1 After a day of work and play, the body needs to rest. Sleep is necessary for good he

3、alth. During this time, the body recovers from the activities of the previous day. The rest that you get while sleeping enables your body to prepare itself for the next day.There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. As you sleep, your muscles relax little by litt

4、le. Your heart beast more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts back and forth from one level of sleep to another. Although your mind slows down, from time to time you will dream. Scientists who study sleep state that when dreaming occurs, your eyeball

5、s begin to move quickly (although your eye-lids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement.If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend breathing very slowly and very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warm milk will help make you drowsy.

6、 There is also an old suggestion that counting sheep will put you to sleep.1. A good title for this passage is _.A. Sleep B. Good HealthC. Dreams D. Work and Rest2. The word drowsy in the last paragraph means _.A. sick B. asleep C. a little sleepy D. nosy3. This passage suggests that not getting eno

7、ugh sleep might make you _.A. dream more often B. have poor healthC. nervous D. breathe quickly4. During REM, _.A. your eyes move often B. you dreamC. you are restless D. both A and B5. The average number of hours of sleep that an adult needs is _.A. approximately six hours B. around ten hoursC. abo

8、ut eight hours D. not stated herePassage 2For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe and America seldom left their smoky cities to see the beauties of the countryside. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit peo

9、ple to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.In 1970, a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory or hostel for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along cou

10、ld stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the schoolhouse was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there, As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel.Today, young students a

11、nd workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other. When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their card of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. This card will permit him to use the facilities of hostels all over the world for very

12、 low prices.Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or the world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances,

13、songs, or short talks followed by a question period. One can learn a lot of things about other places, just by meeting people who come from those places. For this reason, a few weeks spent hostelling can be just as useful a part of ones education as classes in school.6. The author says children in t

14、he city seldom went to the woods and fields because _.A. these places were too far away for them to go between morning and nightfallB. it was impossible for them to go and get back in one day C. they were not old enough to take such a tripD. they were not permitted to go to these places7. By saying

15、His idea was a success, the author means _.A. the school master made a lot of money and got richB. the school master became very famous among young studentsC. more and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidaysD. more and more young students came to study at his school8. According to t

16、he passage, young people the customer.At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tole

17、rance and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find clever ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers(赋予) status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness.Other manufacturers find advertising

18、 saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one that goes on unchanged forever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for-how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go

19、 to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.11. Which of the following can best describe the authors attitude toward modem advertising?A. Indifferent B. ShockedC. Disappearing D. Approving12. According to the author, which is NOT the designers chief concern when he designs a product?A.

20、Stress factors B. Man-hours.C. Machine tolerance D. Customer-appeal.13. It is stated in the passage that those responsible for giving a product customer-appeal are _.A. customers B. designersC. advertisers D. manufacturers14. According to the author, when some change in a product is necessary, a man

21、ufacturer will choose to _.A. lower the production costB. hire a better designerC. improve its qualityD. alter its image15. The best title for the passage might be _.A. Advertising since the WarB. Advertising and ManufacturersC. Advertising-Englands Biggest IndustryD. Advertising and PurchasersPassa

22、ge 4 All that we really need to plot out the future of our universe are a few good measurements. This does not mean that we can sit down today and outline the future course of the universe with anything like certainty. There are still too many things we dont know about the way the universe is put to

23、gether. But we do know exactly what information we need to fill in our knowledge, and we have a pretty good idea of how to go about getting it. Perhaps the best way to think of our present situation is to imagine a train coming into a switchyard( 调车场). All of the switches(转辙器）are set before the trai

24、n arrives, so that its path is completely determined. Some switches we can see. others we cannot. There is no ambiguity if we can see the setting of a switch; we can say with confidence that some possible futures will not materialize and others will. At the unseen switches, however, there is no such

25、 certainty. We know the train will take one of the tracks leading out, but we have no idea which one. The unseen switches are the true decision points in the future, and what happens when we arrive at them determines the entire subsequent course of events.When we think about the future of the univer

26、se, we can see our track many billions of years into the future, but after that there are decision points to be dealt with and possible fates to consider. The goal of science is to reduce the ambiguity at the decision points and find the true road that will be followed.16. According to the passage,

27、it is difficult to be certain about the dist universe because we _.A. have too many conflicting theoriesB. do not have enough funding to continue our researchC. are not sure how the universe is put togetherD. have focused our investigations on the moon and planets17. What does the author see as the

28、function of the universes unseen switches?A. They tell us which one of the tracks the universe will use.B. They enable us to alter the course of the universe.C. They give us information about the lunar surface.D. They determine which course the universe will take in the future.18. In the second para

29、graph, the word track could hest be replaced by which of the following?A. Band B. Rails C. Path D. Sequence19. For whom is the author probably writing this passage?A. Train engineers.B. General audiences.C. Professors of statistics.D. Young children.20. Which of the following statements best describ

30、es the organization of the passage?A. A statement illustrated by an analogy (类比).B. A hypothesis supported by documentation (引用文献).C. A comparison of two contrasting theories.D. A critical analysis of a common assumption.Part Vocabulary and Structure(20，25minutes)Directions: There are 40 incomplete

31、sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.21. A great many cancers can be cured but only if _before they h

32、ave begun spread or colonize in other parts of the body. A. properly treat B. properly treatingC. being properly treated D. properly treated22. _she is a likeable girl, she is very difficult to work with. A. Since B. However C. As far as D. While23. All the _tourists gave the robber their money. A. f