2005-2009英语历年真题专转本

江苏省2005年普通高校专转本统一考试英语试卷

第Ⅰ卷（共100分）

Passage 1

Human feelings are affected by color unconsciously. Manufacturers have discovered by trial and error that sugar sells badly in green wrappings, that blue foods are considered by consumers as tasteless, and the cosmetics should never be packaged in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole discipline of color psychology. Some of our preferences are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore associated with calm, while yellow is a day color in association with energy. For primitive men, activity during the day meant hunting and attacking, in which he soon saw as red, the color of blood and hunting and fire. So it was natural that green, the complementary color to red , should be associated with passive defense. Experiments have shown that colors also have a direct psychological effect. People, when exposed to bright red, show an increase in breathing rate, heart beat and blood pressure . Red is exciting. Similar exposure to pure blue has exactly the opposite effect, because it is a calming color. Because red has an implication of excitement, it is chosen as the signal for danger. Some analyses show that a vivid yellow can produce a more basic state of alertness and alarm. So fire engines and ambulances in some advanced countries are now rushing around in bright yellow colors that stop the traffic dead. ( ) 1. If people are exposed to bright red, which of the following things does NOT happen?

A. They feel afraid.

B. They breathe faster.

C. Their blood pressure rises

D. They hearts beat faster

( ) 2. Manufacturers have discovered the secret of colors in marketing .

A. by experimenting with different colors

B. by developing the discipline of color psychology

C. by trying not to make mistakes

D. by accumulating their various experiences

( ) 3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Our feelings about certain colors are purely psychological.

B. Food should never be packaged in brown.

C. Sugar sells badly in green wrappings.

D. Color probably has an effect on us which we are not conscious of.

( ) 4. Our preferences for certain colors are .

A. dependent on our character

B. linked with our primitive men

C. associated with psychology

D. associated with the time of day

( ) 5. The passage is about .

A. color and traffic accidents

B. color and manufacturers

C. which color might influence human feelings

D. why color affects human emotions and behavior Passage Two

Exchange a glance with someone, and then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer, and you have made a different statement .Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again .For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person‟s gaze without being intimate , rude , or aggressive . If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do .You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up( 打量) and to assure them that you mean no threat .Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to emit a signal telling others you want to be left alone .So you cut off eye contact, which sociologist Erving Goffman (1963 ) calls “a dimming of the lights”. You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another