2017年江苏省专转本英语模拟试题第四套(含答案)

2017年江苏省专转本英语模拟试题1（含答案）

第I卷（共100分）

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Part I Reading Comprehension （共20小题，每小题2分，共40分）

Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by four comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Passage One

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory (迁徙的) flight? Scientists have puzzled over this question for many years. Now they are beginning to fill in the blanks.

Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely on the sun to guide them during daylight hours. But what about birds that fly mainly by night? Tests with artificial (人造的) stars have proved conclusively that certain night-flying birds are able to follow stars in their long-distance flights.

One such bird – a warbler – had spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown under a natural sky. Yet it showed an inborn ability to use stars for guidance. The bird’s cage was laced under an artificial star-filled sky at migration time. The bird tried to fly in the same direction as that taken by his outdoor cousins. Any change in the position of the artificial stars caused a change in the direction of his flight.

Scientists think that warblers, when flying in daylight, use the sun for guidance. But stars are apparently their main means of directed flight in the night. What do they do when stars are hidden by clouds? Apparently, they find their way by such landmarks as mountain ranges, coast lines and river courses. But when it is too dark to see these, the warblers circle helplessly, unable to find their way.

1. Which of the following is NOT true about migratory bird’s flight?

A、Some birds fly mainly by day.

B、Some birds fly mainly by night.

C、Birds like to fly during daylight hours.

D、Birds depend on the sun or stars to guide them.

2. What do we know about the experimental warbler?

A、It was set free for the experiment.

B、It had never flown freely outdoors.

C、It had never been placed under the sun.

D、It had lost its way in its daylight flight.

3. What do we know about warblers as a whole?

A、They do not have intelligence.

B、They tend to take the same route as other birds.

C、They do not need to learn to fly in the right way.

D、They cannot sense changes in the position of the moon.

4. What does the passage say about warblers’ sense of direction?

A、They get lost under star-filled sky.

B、They lose their way when it is too dark.

C、They are not able to see clearly at night.

D、They usually depend on clouds for direction.

5. What does “fill in the blanks” in the first paragraph mean?

A、“to do the exercise”

B、“to take the test”

C、“to know the right words”

D、“to know the answer”

Passage Two

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:

How men first learned to invent words is unknown. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then, lies in their associations – the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the happy and sad events of our past; the more we read and learn, the larger the number of words that mean something to us becomes.

Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to out minds and feelings. This attractive use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master