2002年江西省专升本英语统一考试试题

2002年江西省专升本英语统一考试试题

Part I Listening comprehension (20 points)

Part II Reading Comprehension (30 Points)

Directions:In this section there are four passages. Each of them is folded by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

America put more people in prison in the 1990s than in any decade in its history. That started a debate over the wisdom of spending billons of dollars to keep nearly 2 million people locked up. According to statistics, the United States ends 1999 with 1,983,084 men and women in prisons. That shows an increase nearly 840,000 prisoners during the 1990s and makes the United States the country with the highest prison population in the world. With the cost of housing a prisoner at about $20,000 a year, the cost in 1999 keeping all these prisoners behind bar is about $39 billion.

Some experts argue that the money is well spent, saying the cost of keeping prisoners behind back doesn’t seem much in comparison to the cost of crime to society. They also point out that the rise in the prisoner population in the 1990s coincided with (与……相一致) a steady drop in the US crime rates. It is reported that serious crime has decreased for seven years continuously. “There are a noticeable number of people who don’t do crimes because they don’t want to go to prison,” they say.

21. There is a heated debate among American experts because _______.

A) America has put 2million people in prison.

B) the cost for housing a prisoner keeps rising

C) billions of dollars has been spent on prisoners

D) the prisoner population is the largest in the world

22. From the first paragraph, we learn that ______.

A) the number of prisoners in America is increasing

B) America has the largest prison in the world

C) crime in America is getting much more serious

D) it is easy for a person to be locked up in America

23. In 1999 the government spent about $39 billion to __________.

A) improve the prison conditions

B) keep men and women in prison

C) build houses for prisoners

D) maintain the prisons

24. Some experts argue that it is necessary to spend the money because ______.

A) crime will cost even more money to society

B) the government can well afford the money

C) the number of prisoners is not really large

D) prisoner population decreased in the 1990s

25. The author’s attitude towards the government’s policy is ______.