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江苏省2003年普通高校专转本统一考试
英语试卷
本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分。第一卷1至10页,第二卷11页至14页。两卷满分100分。考试时间120分钟。
第一卷 (共70分)
注意事项:
1.答第一卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。 2.每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。如果答案不涂写在答题卡上，成绩无效。
Part I Reading comprehension(40%, 35 minutes)
Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage
After a day of work and play, the body needs to rest. Sleep is necessary for good health. During this time, the body recovers from the activities of the previous day. The rest that you get while sleeping enables your body to prepare itself for the next day.
There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. As you sleep, your muscles relax little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts back and forth from one level of sleep to the other. Although your mind slows down, from time to time you will dream. Scientists who study sleep state that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs begin to move more quickly (although your eyelids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement.
If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend breathing very slowly and very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warm milk will help make you drowsy. There is also an old suggestion the counting sheep will put you to sleep. 1. A good title for this passage is ____.
A. Sleep B. Good health C. Dreams D. Work and rest 2. The word “drowsy” in the last paragraph means ____.
A. sick B. asleep C. a little sleepy D. nosy 3. This passage suggests that not getting enough sleep might make you _____.
A. dream more often B. have poor health C. nervous D. breathe quickly 4. During REM, ____.
A. your eyes move often B. you dream C. you are restless D. both a and b 5. The average number of hours of sleep that an adult needs is ______ . A. approximately six hours B. around ten hours C. about eight hours D. not stated here
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Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage
For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe and America seldom left their smoky cities to see the beauties of the countryside. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.
In 1970, a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory or hostel for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the schoolhouse was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel.
Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostels and get to know each other. When young people arrive at a hostel, they have only to show their card of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. This card will permit them to use the facilities of hostels all over the world for very low prices.
Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or world, will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes on. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. One can learn a lot of things about other places, just by meeting people who come from those places. For this reason, a few weeks spent \
6. The author says children in the city seldom went to the woods and fields because _________. A. all these places were too far away for them to go between morning and night fall B. it was not important for them to go to these places C. they were not old enough to take such a trip D. they were not permitted to go to these places
7. By saying ‘His idea was a success’, the author means __________. A. the school master made a lot of money and got rich
B. the school master became very famous among young students
C. more and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays D. more and more young students came to study at his school
8. According to the passage, young people can pay less for their stay in the hostel if ______. A. they share their food with each other
B. they can prove they have joined the hostel organization C. they have brought enough equipment with them D. they can prove that they are from a foreign country
9. In the author’s opinion, young people can learn a lot during the days they spend ‘hostelling’ because ______.
A. they meet a lot of people from different places
B. they have such useful classes in the hostel as they don’t have in schools C. they have more interesting activities than at school D. they are very much interested in life in the hostel
10. Which do you think might be the proper title for this passage?
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A. Youth Organization B. International Travel C. Education Our of School D. Summer Holidays
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage
One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the voice of the advertisers. It shouts at us from the television screens and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; signals to us from the roadside bill-boards all day and flashes messages to us in colored lights at night.
Advising has been among England's biggest growth industries since the war. Perhaps the reason is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer.
At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find clever ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers(赋予) status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness.
Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one that goes on unchanged forever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for -- how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.
11. Which of the following can best describe the author’s attitude toward modern advertising? A. Indifferent. B. Shocked. C. Disappearing. D. Approving.
12. According to the author, which is NOT the designer’s chief concern when he designs a product?
A. Stress factors. B. Man-hours. C. Machine tolerance. D. Customer-appeal. 13. It is stated in the passage that those responsible for giving a product customer-appeal are ____.
A. customers B. designers C. advertisers D. manufacturers 14. According to the author, when some change in a product is necessary, a manufacturer will choose to ______.
A. lower the production cost B. hire a better designer C. improve its quality D. alter its images
15. The best title for the passage might be ______. A. Advertising since the War
B. Advertising and Manufacturers
C. Advertising – England’s Biggest Industry D. Advertising and Purchasers
Passage 4
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage
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All that we really need to plot out the future of our universe are a few good measurements. This does not mean that we can sit down today and outline the future course of the universe with anything like certainty. There are still too many things we do not know about the way the universe is put together. But we do know exactly what information we need to fill in our knowledge, and we have a pretty good idea of how to go about getting it. Perhaps the best way to think of our present situation is to imagine a train coming into a switchyard ( 调车场 ). All of the switches(转辙器) are set before the train arrives, so that its path is completely determined. Some switches we can see, others we cannot. There is no ambiguity if we can see the setting of a switch; we can say with confidence that some possible futures will not materialize and others will. At the unseen switches, however, there is no such certainty. We know the train will take one of the tracks leading out, but we have no idea which one. The unseen switches are the true decision points in the future, and what happens when we arrive at them determines the entire subsequent course of events.
When we think about the future of the universe, we can see our “track” many billions of years into the future, but after that there are decision points to be dealt with and possible fates to consider. The goal of science is to reduce the ambiguity at the decision points and find the true road that will be followed.
16. According to the passage, it is difficult to be certain about the distant future of the universe because we ___________.
A. have too many conflicting theories
B. do not have enough funding to continue our research C. are not sure how the universe is put together
D. have focused our investigations on the moon and planets
17. What does the author see as the function of the universe's unseen “switches”? A. They tell us which one of the tracks the universe will use. B. They enable us to alter the course of the universe. C. They give us information about the lunar surface.
D. They determine which course the universe will take in the future.
18. In the second paragraph, the word “track” could best be replaced by which of the following? A. Band B. Rails C. Path D. Sequence 19. For whom is the author probably writing this passage?
A. Train engineers. B. General audiences. C. Professors of statistics. D. Young children.
20. Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the passage? A. A statement illustrated by an analogy (类比).
B. A hypothesis supported by documentation (引用文献). C. A comparison of two contrasting theories. D. A critical analysis of a common assumption.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20%，25 minutes)
Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
21. A great many cancers can be cured but only if _____ before they have begun to spread or ‘colonize’ in other parts of the body.
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