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

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第Ⅰ卷（共100分）

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Part I Reading Comprehension (40﹪，40minutes)

Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of

comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then mark your answer by

blackening 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 health. 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 little. 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 eyeballs 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. 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 Health

C. Dreams

D. Work and Rest

2. The word "drowsy" in the last paragraph means ____.

A. sick

B. asleep

C. a little sleepy

D. nosy

3. This passage suggests that not getting enough sleep might make you ____.

A. dream more often

B. have poor health

C. nervous

D. breathe quickly

4. During REM, ____.

A. your eyes move often

B. you dream

C. you are restless

D. both A and B

5. The average number of hours of sleep that an adult needs is ____.

A. approximately six hours

B. around ten hours

C. about eight hours

D. not stated here

Passage 2

For 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 people 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 could 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 and 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 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, 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 one's education as classes in school.

6. The author says children in the city seldom went to the woods and fields because ____.

A. these places were too far away for them to go between morning and nightfall

B. it was impossible for them to go and get back in one day

C. they were not old enough to take such a trip

D. they were not permitted to go to these places

7. By saying "His idea was a success", the author means ____.

A. the school master made a lot of money and got rich

B. the school master became very famous among young students

C. more and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays

D. more and more young students came to study at his school

8. According to the passage, young people can pay less for their stay in the hostel if ____.

A. they share their food with each other

B. they can prove they have joined the hostel organization

C. they have brought enough equipment with them

D. they can prove that they are from a foreign country

9. In the author's opinion, young people can learn a lot during the days they speed "hostelling"

because ____.

A. they meet a lot of people from different places

B. they have such useful classes in the hostel as they don't have in schools

C. they have more interesting activities than at school

D. they are very much interested in life in the hostel

10. Which do you think might be the proper tide for this passage?

A. Youth Organization.

B. International Travel

C. Education Out of School.

D. Summer Holidays.

Passage 3

One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the

voice of the

advertisers. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from

every page of the newspaper; signals to us from the roadside bill-boards all day and flashes

messages to us in colored lights all night.

Advertising has been among England's biggest growth industries since the war. Perhaps the

reason is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about 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 tolerance 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 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 to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.

11. Which of the following can best describe the author's attitude toward modem advertising?

A. Indifferent

B. Shocked

C. Disappearing

D. Approving

12. According to the author, which is NOT the designer's chief concern when he designs a

product?

A. 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. designers

C. advertisers

D. manufacturers

14. According to the author, when some change in a product is necessary, a manufacturer will

choose to ____.

A. lower the production cost

B. hire a better designer

C. improve its quality

D. alter its image

15. The best title for the passage might be ____.

A. Advertising since the War

B. Advertising and Manufacturers

C. Advertising-England's Biggest Industry

D. Advertising and Purchasers

Passage 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 don't know about the way the universe is put

together. 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

train 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 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 universe, 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, it is difficult to be certain about the dist universe because we ____.

A. have too many conflicting theories

B. do not have enough funding to continue our research

C. are not sure how the universe is put together

D. have focused our investigations on the moon and planets

17. What does the author see as the function of the universe's 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 paragraph, the word "track" could hest be replaced by which of the following?

A. Band

B. Rails

C. Path

D. Sequence

19. 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 describes 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.

PartⅡ Vocabulary and Structure(20﹪，25minutes)

Directions: There are 40 incomplete 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 have begun spread or

"colonize" in other parts of the body.

A. properly treat

B. properly treating

C. being properly treated

D. properly treated

22. ____she is a likeable girl, she is very difficult to work with.

A. Since

B. However

C. As far as

D. While

23. All the ____tourists gave the robber their money.

A. frightened

B. frightening

C. frighten

D. frightful

24. ____her age, she really did a good job in such a short time.

A. Giving

B. Gives

C. Give

D. Given

25. The soldier was ____with neglecting his duty.

A. charged

B. conducted

C. changed

D. committed

26. The reason why the car stopped was ____.

A. because the road was not good

B. that the road was not good

C. due to the bad road

D. because of the had road

27. You'd better hurry; ____you might be late for class.

A. or

B. and

C. unless

D. but

28. They ____on a trip into the desert in the following year.

A. set in

B. sent for

C. set off

D. sent off

29. The doctor felt John's arm to ____if the bone was broken.

A. work out

B. find out

C. look at

D. see out

30. He just ____my suggestion at the meeting yesterday.

A. put away

B. shut down

C. showed off

D. brushed aside

31. The question ____at the next meeting remains a secret.

A. discussed

B. to discuss

C. to be discussed

D. being discussed

32. His laziness ____his failure in the final exam.

A. gave up

B. contributed

C. resulted in

D. distributed

33. The teacher's ____to my statement about this poet led me to read widely about poems.

A. change

B. charge

C. challenge

D. chance

34. On most of the nights, Jane ____reading letters from her boyfriend.

A. stayed off

B. stayed on

C. stayed out

D. stayed up

35. The first-year students were learning from the army in Miyun, a suburb of Beijing near ____I

lived.

A. what

B. where

C. that

D. which

36. Lynda and hundreds of young people like him ____the post of typist.

A. approached

B. applied for

C. appealed to

D. approved of

37. Prices have been ____rapidly in many cities.

A. went up

B. gone up

C. going up

D. go up

38. In this building each apartment could ____a family of six.

A. house

B. cover

C. make

D. include

39. I can hardly hear what he's saying, and ____.

A. so can all the other people

B. nor can all the other people

C. so can hardly all the other people

D. nor all the other people can

40. When he explained it again and again, the students' patience ____.

A. ran over

B. ran on

C. ran out

D. ran off

41. When her neighbor Grandma Wang became ill, the girl often ____.

A. fitted in

B. worked out

C. held back

D. helped out

42. If you really want to apply for the dangerous job, I won't ____, though I

think it's a crazy

idea.

A. stood in your way

B. stand on the way

C. stand in your way

D. stand by the way

43. He was trying to read; ____, the phone kept ringing.

A. meanwhile

B. then

C. later

D. afterwards

44. I am not of those people who like a strenuous(费力的) holiday; I believe in ____.

A. took it easy

B. taken it easy

C. taking it easy

D. taking it easily

45. If I don't ____them ____I should probably forget all about them.

A. wrote; down

B. write; down

C. write; for

D. written; about

46. She told her little brother ____her hand tightly while they were crossing the busy street.

A. hold on to

B. holding on to

C. held on to

D. to hold on to

47. If you don't mind, I ____do my homework than play cards with you.

A. had better

B. prefer

C. would rather

D. would like

48. Their idea was to get us to ____the strike at once.

A. call at

B. call off

C. call in

D. call for

49. My car ____so I had to come by bus.

A. fell down

B. broke down

C. fell over

D. turned away

50. I could tell he was surprised from the ____on his face.

A. appearance

B. sight

C. expression

D. explanation

51. Which is ____, North America or South America?

A. biggest

B. the biggest

C. more bigger

D. bigger

52. You should observe carefully how the audience ____his speech.

A. reach to

B. refer to

C. react to

D. relate to

53. These farmers got a good harvest last year, so they ____a big sum of money for new farm

machines.

A. set aside

B. set about

C. set up

D. set back

54. One of my ____sayings is "where there is a will, there is a way. "

A. likely

B. favorable

C. alike

D. favorite

55. All ____is a continuous supply of fuel oil.

A. what is needed

B. that is needed

C. the thing is needed

D. for their needs

56. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere ____of your help.

A. appreciation

B. appearance

C. preparation

D. appointment

57. When the ship was caught in a strong storm at the sea, the captain ____a danger signal.

A. sent for

B. sent off

C. sent out

D. sent around

58. The sea separates Taiwan ____the Chinese mainland.

A. at

B. into

C. from

D. of

59. It is decided that he ____for a bus to meet the guests from Beijing.

A. call

B. calls

C. arrange

D. arranges

60. I know it's not important but I can't help ____about it.

A. to think

B. thinking

C. and think

D. being thought

Part III Cloze(10﹪，15minutes)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices

marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the

corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Other experiments have shown 61 the brain needs time to "digest" 62 has been learned. The time

necessary 63 this is 5 to 10 minutes. After a break of this period of time the memory will have 64 what

has just been learnt, and more will be remembered. During this break, 65 is important to exercise the

right side of the brain, 66 the left side is used during a learning period. 67 you should relax in some

way. 68 music, breathing in fresh air, and 69 at a picture, are all ways of using 70 side of the brain.

61. A. that B. what C. which D. it

62. A. that B. how C. what D. which

63. A. in B. for C. about D. to

64. A. attracted B. added C. brought D. absorbed

65. A. this B. it C. that D. such

66. A. because of B. due to C. because D. just as

67. A. So that B. Now that C. However D. Therefore

68. A. Hearing B. Attending C. Absorbing D. Listening to

69. A. looking B. look C. to look D. looked

70. A. other B. the other C. another D. others

There are many problems in our modern world. One very serious problem is energy. We get a

great 71 of energy we need from coal, gas, and oil. However, the 72 of energy which we use is 73

every year, and we only have enough coal, gas, and oil for the next twenty or thirty years. How will we

live 74 the energy which these things give us? Scientists are looking for 75 to this problem. They are

looking for new 76 to produce energy. For example, they are working with new ways 77 energy from

the light and heat of the sun. They are also working with plans which produce energy from 78 of the

oceans. All of the new methods 79 scientists arc finding arc still very expensive, but perhaps they will

help solve our energy problems 80 the future.

72. A. effect B. amount C. course D. program

73. A. increase B. increasing C. had increased D. is increasing

74. A. without B. improve C. producing D. strength

75. A. weather B. a direction C. a solution D. service

76. A. cost B. methods C. branch D. pound

77. A. show B. pay C. save D. produce

78. A. property B. remedy C. welfare D. movements

79. A. so that B. which C. whose D. of which

80. A. at B. for C. in D. from

第二卷（共30分）

Part Ⅳ Vocabulary (10﹪，10minutes)

Directions: Complete each of the following sentences with the proper word derived from the one

given in the bracket.

1. What a pity that they didn't realize the entire event had been arranged for their ____

(convenient)!

2. We made plans for a visit but the subsequent ____ (difficult) with the car prevented it.

3. Max has no ____ (appreciate) of the fine things in life.

4. The problem requiring immediate solution will be given ____ (prior) at the meeting.

5. With the hospitality(热情好客) so ____ (character) of these people, they opened their house to

over fifty guests.

6. Thinking is one of the most ____ (produce) activities of a human being.

7. A thief stole some ____ (value) paintings from the museum.

8. I am very doubtful whether the proposed scheme would be ____ (advantage) to us.

9. She's ____(fortune) enough to enjoy good health.

10. John is very quiet and shy, hut Bill has a very outgoing ____ (person) and

loves to meet

people.

Part Ⅴ Sentence Completion(20﹪，30minutes)

Directions: Put the underlined part in each sentence into English.

Section A

1. 怪不得he speaks English fluently. He often communicates with foreigners in English.

2. 请务必you get in touch with the factory before you go there on business.

3. 尽管天气不好the football game went on and the audience stayed there, cheering for their

favorite players.

4. The coat I bought last week fits me well 除了颜色外。

5. Nowad8ys most companies don't judge an employee simply根据其所受教育。

6. I tried to get out of the business,我发现这是不可能的。

7. He has a large collection of books,其中不少是英文版的。

8. As far as interest and hobbies are concerned,他们几乎没有相似之处。

9. Advanced technology is expected to benefit people而不是伤害他们。

10. 众所周知，our natural resources will be exhausted in the near future.

Section B

Directions: Put the underlined part in each sentence into Chinese.

1. It was very clever of her to turn his argument against himself.

2. Parents often check their children's homework and make a big fuss over grades.

3. Some people will be at a in case of a fire.

4. As is often the case. the more you use your brain, the more active it will become.

5. We must make full use of these waste material since they are still of some value.

6. As long as you keep up your English study, you'll certainly make greater progress.

7. If inflation gets any worse, people who have worked all their lives will end up with nothing.

8. Reading good books increases your contentment when you are cheerful and

relieves your

sorrow when you are sad.

9. Langu8ge can never be separated from society, Apart from society there is no language.

10. A good player should know how to take advantage of his opponent's weakness.

2003年江苏省普通高校“专转本”统一考试

大学英语答案及解析

Part I Reading Comprehension

1.参考答案： A

详细解答： A。主旨题，从Sleep is necessary for good health，以及下两句的There are four

levels of sleep，可做出正确选择。

2.参考答案： C

详细解答： C。猜测词义题。根据drowsy所在行的意思，有些人认为睡觉前喝牛奶可使人变得困倦，想睡觉，即能推测drowsy的意思是“a little sleepy”。

3.参考答案： B

详细解答： B。推断题。根据上下文的意思可知缺乏睡眠必然导致身体状况糟糕，故选B。

4.参考答案： D

详细解答： D。仔细阅读，可以较容易地在文中找到REM这个阶段的两个特点，即from time to

time you will dream和rapid eye movement.