江苏省年普通高校专转本选拔考试英语真题附参考答案.docx

1、江苏省年普通高校专转本选拔考试英语真题附参考答案江苏省2017年普通高校专转本选拔考试Part 1 Reading Comprehension (共20小题，每小题2分，共40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 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and

2、 mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet.Passage One Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passageWe use both words and gestures to express our feelings,but the problem is that these words and gestures can be understood in different waysIt is true that a smile m

3、eans the same thing in any language,So does laughter or crying.There are also a number of striking similarities in the way different animals show the same feelings .Dogs, tigers and humans，for example, often show their teeth when they are angry. This is probably because they are born with those beha

4、vior patternsFear is another emotion that is shown in much the same way all over the world. In Chinese and English literature, a phrase like “he went pale and begin to tremble” suggests that the man is either very afraid or deep shocked, However,” he opened his eyes wide” is used to suggest anger in

5、 Chinese whereas in English it means surprise In Chinese surprise can be described in a phrase like “they stretched out their tongues” Sticking out your tongue in English is an insulting gesture or expresses strong dislikeEven in the same culture, people differ in ability to understand and express f

6、eelings,Experiments in America have shown that women are usually better than men at recognizing fear,anger,love and happiness on peoples faces,Other studies show that older people usually find it easier to recognize or understand body language than younger people do.1.According to the passage，BA.We

7、can hardly understand what peoples gestures meanB.words and gestures may have different meaning in different culturesC.words can be better understood by older peopleD.gestures can be understood by most of the people while words can not2.Peoples facial expressions may be misunderstood becauseBA peopl

8、e of different ages may have different understandingB people have different cultures C people of different sexes may understand a gesture differently D people of different countries speak different languages3 .Even in the same culture. people AA.have different abilities to understand and express fee

9、lings B.have exactly the same understanding of something C.never fail to understand each other D.are equally intelligent4.From this passage, we can conclude C5.A words are used as frequently as gestures B words are often difficult to understand C words and gestures are both used in expressing feelin

10、gs D gestures are more efficiently used than words 5.The best title for this passage may be BA.Words and Feelings B.Words,Gestures and FeelingsC.Gestures and Feelings D.Culture and UnderstandingPassage TowQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passageThe English policeman has several nicknames

11、 but the most frequently used arecopper and bobby the first name comes from the verb to cop. (which is also slang).meaning to take or to capture. and the second comes from the first name of Sir Robert Peel, the nineteenth-century politician, who was the of the police force as we know it today. An ea

12、rly nickname for the policeman was peeler but this one has died out. Whatever we may call them,the general opinion of the police seems to be a favorable one, except, of course, among the criminal part of the community where the police are given more derogatory nicknames which originated in America,

13、such as fuzz or pig. Visitors to England seem to be very impressed by the English police. It has. In fact, become a standing joke that the Visitor to Britain, when asked tar his views of the country. will always say, at some point or other, I think your policemen are wonderful. Well,the British bobb

14、y may not always be wonderful but he is usually a very friendly and helpful sort of character. A music-hall song of some years ago was called If You Want To Know The Time, Ask A Policeman. Nowadays. most people own watches but they still seem to find plenty of other questions to ask the policemen. I

15、n London, the policemen spend so much of their time directing visitors about the city that one wonders how they ever find time to do anything else. Two things are Immediately noticeable to the stranger, when he sees an English policeman for the first time. The first is that he does not carry a pisto

16、l and the second is that he wears a very distinctive of headgear. the policemans helmet ,His helmet, together which his height,enables an English policeman to he seen from a considerable distance, a fact that is not without its usefulness. From time to time it is suggested that the policeman should

17、be given a pistol and that his helmetshould be taken from him, but both these suggestions are resisted by given and that his helmet should be taken from him ,but both suggestions are resisted by the majority of the public and the police themselves. 6.Nowadays British people call the policeman CA.pig

18、 B. peeler C. Bobby D. Fuzz 7. Which of the following statements is TRUE? BA. There are fewer criminals America than tn Britain. B. The English police usually leave a deep impression on visitors. C. The English bobby is friendly but not helpful. D. The English police enjoy having pistols. 8. If you

19、see an English policeman for the first time. you will probably notice at once that CA. he often tells people time B. he is usually very helpful C.he has a helmet on the head D. he wears special clothes 9. That an English policemen can be seen from some distance is DA.standing joke B. Of no help C. S

20、trange and funny D. Of some help 10. Visitors praise the English police because AA.they are polite and helpful B. they obey orders C. they often given thanks D. they are armed with modem equipment Passage Three Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.It is difficult to imagine what lif

21、e would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to he found in our past experiences,which are brought into the present by memory. Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep informatio

22、n available for later use. It not only includes remembering things like arithmetic or historical facts but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is als

23、o involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat. Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers. for example, contain devices from storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a com

24、puter with that of a human being. The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 words -ready for instant use. An average American teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information whic

25、h the teenager has stored. Consider. tar example- the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the bass of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a persons memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.11.Acc

26、ording to the passage, memory is considered to be BA.the basis for decision making and problem solvingB. the ability to store information for future use C. an intelligence typically possessed by human beings D. the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words 12.The comparison between t

27、he memory capacity of a large computer and that of a human being shows that CA. computers memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenagers B. computers memory capacity is much smaller than an adult human beings C. computers memorys capacity is much smaller even than a teenagers D. computers memo

28、rys capacity is the same as a teenagers 13.1t is implied in the passage that CA. only human beings have problem-solving intelligenceB a persons memory is different from a computers in every respect C. animals can solve very simple problems D animals solve problems by instincts rather than intelligen

29、ce14.The phrase “in terms of”in the last sentence can be best replaced byBA.in connection with B.expressed byC.consisting D.by means of15.The main idea of the passage isBA.What life would be like without memoryB.Memory is of vital importance to lifeC.How a persons memory different from an animals or

30、 a computersD.What memory carriesPassage fourQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passageClearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live, we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of spe

31、ech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely to have our views challenged by other members of society. Face to face contact is by no means the only form of c

32、ommunication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advanced imprinting, telecommunications photography, radio and television. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the transmission and reception of communications so that local news often ta