江苏省2015年普通高校专转本选拔考试
英语试题卷
(非英语类专业)
Part I Reading Comprehension (共20小题，每小题2分，共40分)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices 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.
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
This course is for those who want to learn to type, aswellas those who want to improve their typing. The course is not common. You are tested in the first class and begin practicing at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.
Course fee:$125 Materials:$25
Two hours each evening for two weeks.New classes begin every two weeks. This course is taught by a number of professional business education teachers who have successfully taught trying courses before.
UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can’t do and how to use them.
Course fee:$75 Jan.4,7,11,14,18
Wed.& Sat. 9:00-11:30 a.m. Equipment fee:$10
David is a professor of Computer Science atBeijingUniversity. He has over twenty years of experience incomputerfield.
STOPSMOKING
Do you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop and failed? Now is thetime to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.
Course fee:$30 Jan.2.9,16,23 Mon.2:00-5:00 p.m.
Dr John is a practicing psychologist who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking successfully.
1.If you choose the U course NDERSTANDING COMPUTERS, you will have classes______.
A. from Monday to SundayB. on Wednesday and Saturday
C. on Saturday and SundayD. on weekend evenings
2. .How long will the course STOP SMOKING last each time?
A. Four weeks.B. Three hours.
C. A week.D. Twenty hours
3.Mr. Black works every morning and evening, but he wants to take part in one of thethree courses. Which one is suitable for him?
A.TYPINGB.UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
C.STOP SMOKINGD. None
4.If you want to take UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS and TYPING, you will pay ______.
A.$75. B.$150.
C.$235 D. $360
5.What’s the difference between the course TYPING and the other two?
A. People at different skill levels may learn at different speed.
B. You will take a test after the course.
C. You will pay the same amount.
D. You need to be equipped with computer knowledge.
Passage Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.
If I had the ability to change one thing about American society, my decision would not be a difficult one. I would ban television.
I grew up a couch potato. Looking back, it seems I hardly read anything else at all—I watched TV almost seven hours a day.
There are so many good reasons for you to be a couch potato. Television is good before-breakfast entertainment. Television is good after-school entertainment. Television is good before-bed entertainment. Everybody watches it, so you have to watch it too in order to talk about it with friends. Otherwise you cannot say a word, which makes you look like an idiot.
But when I stopped watching television completely several months ago, I found that I had become a more reflective person, simply because I had more time to think. Television had stopped stuffing its ideas into my head. I was thinking of my childhood, and to my disappointment, I found that it could be summed up adequately in one sentence: “I watched a lot of TV.” And I wasted too much of my youth that I cannot have back. I will never be more imaginative than I was in my childhood.
Now I can totally resist the temptation of TV no matter how marvelous the programs are, and I’m entering into a new stage of life. In the meantime, I’d hope that all couch potatoes would turn off their TV. But I am afraid that with more and more attractive TV programs, I’m not going to be the last person in this country to idle away the best years of life sitting passively in front of a television.
6. A couch potato is someone who ______.
A. spends much time sitting and watching TV
B. plants potato
C. plants potato in the couch
D. sits in a couch eating potato
7. People watch TV so much because ______.
A. television is good before breakfast entertainment
B. television is good after-school entertainment
C. television is good before-bed entertainment
D. All of the above
8. According to the passage, people will ______if they stop watching TV.
A. fill themselves with idea on TV
B. be more lazy and relaxed
C. have more time to think
D. not look back at their childhood
9. Which of the following is NOT true of the author?
A. The author had watched television a lot.
B. The author had wasted too much of his youth.
C. The author will never be more imaginative than he was in his childhood.
D. The author is determined to go on watching television.
10. The phrase “idle away” (Para.5) probably means “______”.
A. spend time in a different way
B. spend time in a relaxed way
C. enter a new stage
D. watch television
Passage Three
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
Ifwewereaskedexactlywhatweweredoingayearago，weshouldprobablyhavetosaythatwecouldnotremember. Butifwehadkeptabookandhadwritteninitanaccountofwhatwedideach day, weshouldbeabletogiveananswertothequestion.
Itisthesameinhistory. Manythingshavebeenforgottenbecausewedonothaveanywrittenaccountofthem. Sometimesmendidkeeparecordofthemostimportanthappeningsintheircountry，butoftenitwasdestroyedbyfireorinawar. Sometimestherewasneveranywrittenrecordatallbecausethepeopleofthattimeandplacedidnotknowhowto write. Forexample, weknowagooddealaboutthepeoplewholivedinChina4,000yearsago,becausetheycouldwriteandleavewrittenrecordsforthosewholivedafterthem. Butweknowalmostnothingaboutthepeoplewholivedeven200yearsagoincentralAfricabecausetheyhadnotlearnedtowrite.
Sometimes, ofcourse, evenifthepeoplecannotwrite, theymayknowsomethingofthepast. Theyhaveheardaboutitfromolderpeopleandoftensongsanddancesandstorieshavebeenmadeaboutthemostimportanthappenings, andthesehavebeensungandactedandtoldformanygenerations, formostpeopleareproudtotellwhattheirfathersdidinthepast. Thiswemaycall‟rememberedhistory”. Someofithasnowbeenwrittendown. Itisnotsoexactorsovaluabletousaswrittenhistoryis, becausewordsaremuchmoreeasilychangedwhenusedagainandagaininspeechthanwhencopiedinwriting. But if thereare no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.
11. Which of the following is NOT suggested in the passage?
A. Written history is more reliable.
B. Written records play an important role in learning about history.
C. A written account of our daily activities helps to answer many questions.
.D. Where there are no written records, there is no history.
12. Little is known about the central Africa 200 years ago because ______.
A. there was nothing worth writing down at that time
B. peoplethereignoredtheimportanceofkeepingarecord
C. people there did not know how to write
D. the writtenrecordswereperhapsdestroyedbyafire
13. “Remembered history” refers to ______.
A. history based on a person’s imagination
B. stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth
C. songs and dances about the most important events.
D. both B and C
14. “Remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when ______.
A. it is written downB. No written account is available
C. it proves to be timelyD. People are interested in it
15. It is suggested that we could have learned more about our past if ancient people had ______.
A. kept a written record of every past event
B. burnt their written records in wars
C. told exact stories of the most important happenings
D. made more songs and dances
Passage Four
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
NOT all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive experiences in nightmares.
Now American researchers are developing a pill which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase the effect of painful memories.
In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.
The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.
“Some memories can ruin people's lives. They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions,” said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.“This could relieve a lot of that suffering.”
But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity. They also help us avoid the mistakes of the past.
“All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but they can make us who we are. I'm not sure we want to wipe those memories out,”said Rebecca Dresser ,a medical ethicist.
16. The drug tested on people can ______.
A. help cure brain damage
B. stop people remembering bad experiences
C. stop the body producing certain chemicals
D. wipe out the emotional effects of memories
17. According to the supporters of the pills, ______.
A. the pills might relieve people of troubling memories
B. the pills could help people avoid mistakes
C. taking the pill will do harm to people’s health
D. the pills should be produced in American soon
18. The word “they” (Para.6) refers to ______.
A. the researchersB. the people on test
C. memoriesD. mistakes
19. Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with?
A. Some memories can ruin people’s lives.
B. People want to get rid of bad memories.
C. Experiencing bad events makes us differentfrom others.
D. The pill will reduce people’s sufferings from bad memories.
20. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. an argument about the research on the pill
B. a new research on the pill
C. a way of deleting painful memories
D. a new medical invention
Part II Vocabulary and Structure （共40小题，每小题1分，共40分）
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
21. The patient was warned ______oily food after the operation, but he wouldn’t listen.
A. to eat notB. eating not
C. not to eatD. not eating
22. Feeling something wrong with our car, we pulled over. Not until then ______it had been badly damaged.
A. did we findB. found we
C. we foundD. we did find
23. The girl was so ______at her father’s decision about her marriage that she had a bitter quarrel with him.
A. disappointingB. disappointed
C. delightedD. exciting
24. I don’t think you can work out the maths problem ____the teacher’s help.
A. withoutB. unless
C. becauseD. since
25. If you are unable to attend the meeting, for ______reason, you should inform us in advance.
A. whateverB. wherever
C. howeverD. whoever
26. ______he will enter the speech contest has not been decided yet.
A. IfB. That
C. WhetherD. Which
27. --- I must apologize for ______the meeting ahead of time.
--- That’s all right.
A. letting you not knowB. not letting you know
C. letting you know notD. letting not you know
28. My son seemed not to have understood what I meant, ______really upset me.
A. thatB. it
C. whatD. which
29. We came early and had to wait for one hour before the wedding ceremony began. We ______.
A. should not hurryB. need not have hurried
C. must not have hurriedD. need not hurry
30. There ______no money left for our project, we had to change our plan.
A. beingB. had
C. wereD. are
31. It was not until she had arrived home ______she remembered her appointment with the doctor.
A. thatB. and
C. whichD. then
32. He had decided to buy a newly made car, so he sold his old car ______only 500 dollars.
A. withB. on
C. byD. for
33. The teacher of physical education told us that the football match ______if it rained.
A. will be put offB. would be put off
C. would put offD. will put off
34. It is generally believed that ______exercise you do, the healthier you will become.
A. much moreB. the much
C. muchD. the more
35. Many children think that if there were not so many examinations, they should have ______at school.
A. the most happiest timeB. a more happier time
C. much happy timeD. a much happier time
36. While ______the mountain area, all the men carried guns lest they should be attacked by wild animals.
A. crossingB. crossed
C. they crossD. to cross
37. ______our great relief, his illness was not so serious as we had thought.
A. InB. With
C. AtD. To
38. If he were you, he ______take the task that you are unwilling to do..
A. willB. can
C. wouldD. must
39. The middle aged woman rushed to the bus station only ______that the last bus had gone.
A. findingB. to find
C. foundD. finds
40. Busy as she was, she made ______her duty to help her old neighbors.
A. thisB. that
C. oneD. it
41. It is urgent to find an ______secretary since the general manager is getting busier than before.
A. effectiveB. efficient
C. affectD. effect
42. Experts advise that parents should develop a sense of ______in their children
A. intelligenceB. indifference
C. reactionD. responsibility
43. The present policy in China has ______further co-operation with many other countries.
A. electedB. entertained
C. enteredD. enabled
44. Fortunately, the new government has made great ______to fight against the official corruption.
A. translationB. temperature
C. determinationD. claim
45. When businessmen first meet, they often ______their cards with personal information for further contact.
A. exchangeB. touch
C. changeD. ignore
46. The purpose of this article is to draw ______to the problems faced by single parents.
A. satisfactionB. attention
C. competitionD. emotion
47. He is late for class with all kinds of excuses, but today he is ______excuses.
A. sorry forB. curious about
C. short ofD. keen on
48. The ______of private cars in our country has been rising dramatically these years.
A. amountB. number
C. sameD. score
49. ______pets is an emotional journey which helps people to connect with and react to the world.
A. Putting offB. Carrying out
C. Caring forD. Passing away
50. Two-thirds of young people go to bed with their phones nearby, for they’re afraid they’ll ______something important.
A. missB. have
C. cancelD. pass
51. This research team was firmly ______the possibility of life on other planets.
A. convinced ofB. decided on
C. controlled byD. talked of
52. He left Manchester with the ______of finding a job in London when he was 25.
A. cautionB. application
C. intentionD. function
53. It is of great importance for college students to have an ______character and set a clear goal.
A. independentB. ignorant
C. indifferentD. impatient
54. You had better stay home in bed since you haven’t ______recovered from the operation.
A. equallyB. excitedly
C. completelyD. confidently
55. ______the pilots’ strike, all flights have had to be cancelled.
A. As a matter ofB. As a rule
C. As thoughD. As a result of
56. The flood in 1941 was so severe that many people in these villages were made ______.
A. homesickB. homeless
C. hopefulD. healthful
57. Being a southerner, she has always ______going to the north to see snow.
A. carried onB. called off
C. taken offD. dreamed of
58. Our education system should offer ______opportunities for all children.
A. calmB. especial
C. equalD. careful
59. Since he started working at the age of 20, he has not ______turned to his father for money.
A. everB. never
C. badlyD. already
60. Small grocery stores are going out of business in the face of fierce ______from the large supermarket chains.
A. complaintB. competition
C. productionD. profession
Part III Cloze（共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）
Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the context. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
When I was younger, I thought that boys and grown men shouldn’t cry. Tears were a sign of being weak, ___61___ a man isn’t supposed to be.
However, last June I ___62___ that courage isn’t all about trying to keep all the pain ___63___ and trying to hide the ___64___. My 18-year-old sister had eloped (私奔) and then I saw how ___65___ my father’s heart was. We were used to ___66___ him as a strong-willed father.
For three days he wouldn’t ___67___. He would just sit ___68___ outside our house in the dark. ___69___ the fourth night, I sat beside him and ___70___ him to tell me what he felt about everything. __71___ many years I haven’t put my hand on my father’s shoulder as we have drifted (疏远) further and further apart while I was growing up. That night we had all cried ___72___ what happened except my father. I sensed my father trying to ___73___ his pain and I wanted him to ___74___ it.
I touched my father and said, “Dad, it’s not your ___75___ .” He began to cry. I ___76___ his shoulders shaking as he whispered. “Where did I go wrong? All I ever wanted was for my children to grow up ___77___. Why shouldn’t your sister wait?”
I understood then ___78___ he preferred to be in the dark. His tears, though we hadn’t seen ___79___ before that night, were there all the time. I saw his courage that night ___80___ my father cried with my hand on his shoulder, and understood his pain.
61.A. whichB. thatC. whoseD. unless
62.A. discoveredB. searchedC. wanderedD. apologized
63.A. forwardB. outsideC. insideD. backward
64.A. soundsB. tearsC. opinionsD. qualities
65.A. weakB. poorC. luckyD. honest
66.A. lookingB. thinkingC. seeingD. making
67.A. talkB. sayC. comeD. go
68.A. quietlyB. politelyC. gentlyD. likely
69.A. AsB. OnC. AtD. In
70.A. shoutedB. askedC. pleasedD. demanded
71.A. ForB. InC. OverD. Of
72.A. duringB. inC. beyondD. over
73.A. controllingB. being controlledC. controlD. be controlled
74.A. releaseB. allowC. beginD. create
75.A. characterB. taskC. faultD. duty
76.A. touchedB. feltC. heardD. imagined
77.A. quicklyB. kindlyC. happilyD. eagerly
78.A. whereB. whyC. whatD. when
79.A. themB. itC. himD. her
80.A. whenB. whereC. whatD. who
Part IV Translation(共35分)
Section A (共5小题，每小题4分，共20分)
Directions:Translate the following sentences into Chinese. You may refer to the corresponding passages in Part I.