五年一贯制专转本英语测验考试试卷

2013 年江苏省五年一贯制专转本英语试题

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension（每题 2 分，共30 分）

Directions : there are 3 reading passages in this part . Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A , B , C and D choose the best answer to each question

Passage one

On June 26, 2000, two scientists, called Francis Collins and Craig Venter, told the world that they could now read the whole "map" of the human body: DNA. DNA is something that everybody has, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our mother and father, because we get some of their DNA to make our own.

People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In 1860, Gregor Mendel discovered a special reason why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things named "genes" in our body. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made another discovery and found out that those small parts are real messages written in the DNA with a special language.

In 1961, Marshall Nirenberg and Johann Matthaei found a message in DNA showing how DNA tells the cell （细胞） to build its parts. Scientists have now found

all the words in the DNA map, but we still do not understand what they all do. By understanding what just one "word" means, we can help save more people from several illnesses.

Most people hope that this will help make better medicine and help sick

people. Other people worry that when people begin to know more words and find

out lots of other information, we might use it in a wrong way, just to make people

more attractive, or stop sick people from getting jobs. Man would have to meet a

lot of trouble if DNA technic wasn t limited in use.

1. When did we first know why we look like other people in

our family?

A. In 1860.

B. In 1953.

C. In 1961.

D. In 2000.

2. What does the underlined word "gene" mean?

A. The "map" of DNA.

B. A special language.

C. Small parts of DNA.

D. DNA.

3. What did the two scientists first discover in 1961?

A. The "map" of DNA.

B. A new illness.

C. The language of DNA.

D. A message of DNA.

4. What can we do if we understand some "words" of the language

inside the

body?

A. Make people get new jobs.

C. Make maps of human.

5. What do people think about this work?

A. It can cause good or bad resutls.

C. It can cause good results but won

B. Make medicine for

illnesses.

D. Make people less

attractive.

B. It can cause only good results.

t work. D. It can cause only bad results

Passage two

I find it annoying and funny when I think about how we use protective or decorative wrappings （装饰性包装） in this country.