2014年甘肃专升本考试公共课英语真题

2014年甘肃专升本考试公共课英语试题[真题] Part ⅠReading Comprehension (40points)

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and put the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Passage 1

Many students who participated in the 2010 civil service exams(公务员考试)in China saw them as the “most difficult”due to their emphasis on general knowledge.

This year, the Chinese central governmen t offices have opened 15,000 posts but it’s not large enough to find a home for the one million people applying. According to a 2009 Washington post report, US students are also giving government jobs a hard look. “T he Partnership for Public Service”poll(民意调查) found that about 90% of US students are interested in federal (联邦政府的) jobs. Nearly 84% gave the security offered by federal jobs as a reason.

The same goes for students in the UK. A 2008 Daily Mail report found that applications from college graduates for government civil service jobs have surged 33% over 2007.

Besides providing financial security, civil service jobs usually offer other benefits, especially in Asia. In India, for example, the average annual income is about $8, 116-more than 10 times higher. Plus, civil servants get a one-month paid holiday every year, 20 days of medical leave and 20-day half-paid vacation.

1. The 2010 civil service exams in China were thought the “most difficult”because

A. most of the students hadn’t prepared we ll.

B. the exams emphasized general knowledge.

C. too many people were interested in civil services.

D. students were not good at answering the questions.

2. US students are also giving government jobs a hard look, according to

A. Washington post

B. Daily Mail

C. the US federal government

D. the Chinese central government

3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “surged” (in Para.3)?

A. Improved

B. Failed

C. Increased

D. Decreased

4. The civil servants’ annual income in India is

A. as much as 8，116 dollars

B. no more than 720 dollars

C. less than the average annual income

D. the same as the average annual income

5. This passage is mainly about .

A. what benefits a civil servant can enjoy

B. how to get a desirable salary as one expects

C. why the students complained about the exams

D. why so many people want to be civil servants

Passage 2

I once knew a young man, nineteen years of age, who lived with absolute outward(外表的)confidence and self-possession for a number of years before I discovered that he could not read or write. His various methods of trick, which were also skills of self-protection, were so skillful and so desperate(绝望)that neither I nor any of his other adult friends were aware of