江苏专转本英语真题和答案解析.docx

1、江苏专转本英语真题和答案解析江苏省2017年普通高校专转本选拔考试英语试题卷注意事项：1.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分，试题卷共 10 页，全卷满分 150 分，考试时间 120分钟。2.必须在答疑卡上作答，作答在试题卷上无效。作答前务必将自己的姓名和准考正好准确清晰的填写在试题卷和答题卡上的指定位置。考试结束时，须将试题卷和答题卡一并交回。Prat I Reading Comprehension （共 20 小题，每小题 2 分，共 40 分）Directions: There are 4 passage in this part . Each passage is followed by

2、 somequestions or unfinished statements . For each of them there are 4 choicesmarked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answerby blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet .Passage OneQuestions 1 to 5 based on the following passage .We use both words and ges

3、tures to express our feelings ,but the problem isthat these words and gestures can be understood in different ways .It is true that a smile means the same thing in any language . So doeslaughter or crying . There are also a number of striking similarities in theway different animals show the same fe

4、elings . Dogs , tigers and humans , forexample , often show their teeth when they are angry . This is probably becausethey are born with those behavior patterns .Fear is another emotion that is shown in much the same way all over theworld . In Chinese and English literature , a phrase like “he went

5、pale andbegan to tremble”suggests that the man is either very afraid or deeply shocked. However , “he opened his eyes wide ” is used to suggest anger in Chinesewhereas in English it means surprise . In Chinese surprise can be described ina phrase like “they stretched out their tongues ”. Sticking ou

6、t your tonguein English is an insulting gesture or expresses strong dislike .Even in the same culture , people differ in the ability to understand andexpress feelings Experiments in America have shown that women are usuallybetter than men at recognizing fear ,anger love and happiness on peoplesfaces

7、 . Other studies show that older people usually find it easier torecognize or understand body language than younger people do .1.According to the passage , _.A.we can hardly understand what peoples gestures meanB.words and gestures may have different meanings in different culturesC.words can be bett

8、er understand by older peopleD.gestures can be better understand by most of the people while words can not2.Peoples facial expressions may be misunderstand because_。A.people of different ages may have different understandingsB.people have different culturesC.people of different sexes may understand

9、a gesture differentlyD.people of different countries speak different languages3.Even in the same culture , people_.A.have different abilities to understand and express feelingsB.have exactly the same understanding of somethingC.never fail to understand each otherD.are equally intelligent4.From this

10、passage .we can conclude_.A.words are used as frequently as gesturesB.words are often found difficult to understandC.words and gestures are both used in expressing feelingsD.gestures are more efficiently used than words5.The best title for this passage be_.A. Words and FeelingsB. Words,Gestures and

11、FeelingsC. Gestures and FeelingsD. Culture and UnderstandingPassage TwoQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage .The English policeman has several nicknames but the most frequently usedare “copper” and “bobby”. The first name comes form the verb “to cop” (which is also slang ) , meaning

12、“to take”or “to capture” , and the secondcomes form the first name of Sir Robert Peel , a 19th century politician , whowas the founder of the police force as we know it today . An early nickname forthe policeman was “peeler” , but this one has died out .Whatever we may call them , the general opinio

13、n of the police seems to be afavorable one , except , of course , among the criminal part of the communitywhere the police are given more derogatory nicknames which originated inAmerica , such as “fuzz” or “pig” . Visitors to England seem to be veryimpressed by the English police . It has , in fact

14、, because standing joke thatthe visitor to Britain , when asked for his views of the country , will alwayssay , at some point or other , “I think your policemen are wonderful”.Well , the British bobby not always be wonderful but he is usually a veryfriendly and helpful sort of character . A music-ha

15、ll song of some years agowas 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 questionsto ask the policeman . In London , the policeman spend so much of their timedirecting visitors about the city that one wonder

16、s how they ever find time todo anything else .Two things are immediately noticeable to the stranger when he sees anEnglish policeman for the first time . The first is that does not carry apistol and the second is that he wears a very distinctive type of headgear ,the policemans helmet . His helmet ,

17、 together with his height , enables anEnglish policeman to be time it is suggested that the policeman should be givena pistol and than his helmet should be taken form him , but both suggestionsare resisted by the majority of the public and the police themselves .6. Nowadays British people call the p

18、oliceman_.A.pig B.peeler C.bobby D.fuzz7.Which of following statements is TRUE?A.There are fewer criminals in America than in Britain .C.The English bobby is friendly but not helpful .D.The English police enjoy having pistols .8.If you see an English policeman for the first time , you will probably

19、noticeat once that_.A.he often tells people timeC.he has a helmet on the headB.he is usually very helpfulD.he wears special clothes9.That an English policeman can be seen form some distance is_.A.a standing jokeB.of no helpD.of some helpC.strange and funny10.Visitors praise the English police becaus

20、e_.A.they are police and helpfulC.they often give thanksB.they obey ordersD.they are armed with modern equipmentPassage ThreeQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage .It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory . Themeanings of thousands of everyday perceptions , t

21、he bases for the decisions wemake , and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our pastexperiences , which are brought into the present by memory .Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available forlatter for later use . It not only includes “remembering ” things l

22、ikearithmetic or historical facts but also involves any change in the way ananimal typically behaves . Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grainbecause he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile . Memory is alsoinvolved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat .M

23、emory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physicalobjects and machines . Computers , for example , contain devices for storingdata for later use . It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacityof a computer with that of a human being . The instant-access memory of a larg

24、ecomputer may hold up to 100,000 “words” ready for instant use . An averageAmerican teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words ofEnglish . However , this is but a fraction of the total amount of informationwhich the teenager has stored . Consider , for example , the number of fa

25、cesand places that the teenager can recognize on sight .The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem solving intelligenceof human beings . A large part of a persons memory is in terms of words andcombinations of words .11.According to the passage , memory is considered to be_.A.the basis fo

26、r decision making and problem solvingB.the ability to store information for future useC.an intelligence typically possessed by human beingsD.the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words12.The comparison between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of ahuman being shows t

27、hat_.A.computers memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenagersB.computers memory capacity is much smaller than an adult human beingsC.computers memory capacity is much smaller even than a teenagersD.computers memory capacity is the same as a teenagers13.It is implied in the passage that_.A.on

28、ly human beings have problem-solving intelligenceB.a persons memory is different from a computers in every respectC.animals can solve very simple problemsD.animals solve problems by instinct rather than intelligence14.The phrase “in term of” in the last sentence can be best replaced by“_” .A.in conn

29、ection withC.consistingB.expressed byD.by means of15.The main idea of the passage is_.A.what life would be like without memoryB.memory is of vital importance to lifeC.how a persons memory is different form an animals or a computersD.what memory carriesPassage FourQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the

30、following passage .Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we mustcommunicate with other people . A great deal of communication is performed on aperson-to-person basis by the simple means of speech . If we travel in buses ,buy thing in shops , or eat in restaurants , we are

31、likely to haveconversations where we give information or opinions , receive news or comment,and very likely have our views challenged by other members of society .Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication andduring the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become oneof the dominating factors of contemporary society . Two things , above others ,have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry . Firstly ,inventiveness has led to advances in printing,telecommunications,photography ,