C. Expanding Your Vocabulary D. Vocabulary Ability VI: 写作 （10 分）
按要求写一篇题为“Traveling by Train” 的英语短文 （字数为
100 单词左右）
1. 乘火车旅行的优点是??
2. 乘火车旅行也有许多不利的方面?? 3. 我的选择是??
河北省2003年专接本综合考试考卷（英语）
(90 minutes)
Part I. Reading Comprehension (40/150)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four 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 centre. Passage One
Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage:
A forger(伪造者)is a person who makes an imitation or copy of money or a document. A forger usually sells his works to people who don’t have much knowledge in the field.
Robert Spring, a 19th century forger, was so good at his profession that he was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of famous Americans. At first he succeeded in selling his small but genuine collection of early U.S. autographs (亲笔签名). Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection, he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale.
In Spring’s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented a Miss Fanny whose financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts belonging to her famous father. Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals. 1. Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada? A. There was a greater demand there than in America. B. There was less chance of being detected there. C. Britain was Spring’s birthplace.
D. The prices were higher in England and Canada.
2. After the Civil War, there was a great demand in Britain for______. A. Southern money
B. Signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin C. Southern manuscripts and letters
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D. Civil War battle plans
3. Robert Spring spent 15 years_____. A. running a bookstore in Philadelphia B. corresponding with Miss Fanny Jackson C. as a forger
D. as a respectable dealer
4. According to the passage, forgeries are usually sold to ____. A. sharp-eyed experts
B. persons who aren’t experts C. book dealers
D. owners of old books
5. Who was Miss Fanny Jackson?
A. The only daughter of General “Stonewall Jackson”.
B. A little-known girl who sold her father’s papers to Robert Spring. C. Robert Spring’s daughter.
D. An imaginary person created by Spring. Passage Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Obviously it is meaningless in increasing your w.p.m. rate if you do not understand what you are reading. When you are consciously trying to increase your reading speed, stop after every chapter if you are reading a novel, or stop every section or group of ten or twelve pages if it is a textbook, and ask yourself a few questions about what you have been reading. If you find you have lost the clue of the story or you cannot remember clearly the details of what was said re-read the section or chapter.
Try this from time to time. Take four or five pages of the general interest book you happen to be reading at the time. Read them as fast as you possibly can. Do not worry about whether you understand or not. Now go back and read them at what you feel to be your normal w.p.m. rate, the rate at which you can comfortably understand. After a lightning speed read through (probably about 600 w.p.m.) you will usually find that your technique that players use when they habitually run further in training than they will have to on the day of the big race.
6. When you are reading a novel, the passage advises you to pause to check the content____. A. every chapter B. every hour C. every three or four pages D. after every page 7. The purpose of pausing so often is to _____. A. rest the eyes
B. make sure you have not missed any pages
C. make sure you really understand what you have read D. prevent brain fatigue
8. If you have lost the clue of the story you are reading, the passage suggests_____.
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A. choosing an easier book
B. glancing back over the chapter you have just read C. asking a friend to help you with the difficult words D. learning the previous chapter
9. The purpose of the lightning speed exercise is to ______.
A. increase your normal speed by practicing at a very high rate
B. get through the book in half the time so that you can go on to with the next C. help you understand more of the content of the book D. enable you to win reading races against your friends 10. The word “interest” in Paragraph 2 means . A. attractive B. easy C. interesting D. important Passage Three
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Sports and games make our bodies strong: prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. But these are not their only use. They give us valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles work together. In tennis, our eyes see the ball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this information on to the brain. The brain has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs and so on, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with very great speed; and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this complicated chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, the practice of such skills is especially useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for character—training. In their lessons at school, boys and girls may learn about such virtues as unselfishness, courage, discipline and love of one’s country, but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child’s character as what is learned by experience. The ordinary day—school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils’ time is spent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for their country instead of only for his own benefit.
11. According to the author, sports and games are useful because they ____.
A. help us lose weight
B. bring us much practice in body C. make us fat and strong
D. improve our bodily strength and coordination 12. The “complicated chain of events ” refers to ______.
A. the passing of information and making of decision B. the meeting and hitting back of the ball
C. the coordination of our eyes, brain and muscles
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D. a lot of practice before playing tennis
13. By character-training, the author means that sports and games can help children _____.
A. live a better life when they grow up
B. know better how to behave properly in their future life C. understand better the virtues they learn in books D. take a better position in society
14. According to the author, a child’s character can be most deeply influenced by ____.
A. what he does after class B. what he learns in books C. his place in society D. his lessons at school
15.What is of the greatest importance to a football team is _____.
A. its members B. its team work C. the football field D. the climate Passage Four
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
In 1848 a settler in remote, undeveloped California discovered gold near Sacramento. As the news spread, a great tide of gold-hungry men flowed into California. These “Forty--niners” (migrants of 1849) came from Europe. Some of the people moved across the country by wagon, traveling almost half a year and meeting many hardships and danger. Others sailed all the way around South America, finally reaching the California shore. Since the first discovery was of tiny pieces of gold at the bottom of a stream, many of the prospectors used pans and sieves, searching the waters of brooks and rivers for the precious specks of yellow metal. Others made channels to draw off flowing water in order to examine it carefully for specks of gold. They worked with almost insane determination and fierce competition.
Life was hard and rough in the days of the California gold rush. A few of the adventurers became rich, but most of them were bitterly disappointed. After having uprooted themselves from home and from livelihood and after traveling the long, dangerous road to California, they had found little or nothing. Some returned home. But many remained in California to work and to settle as ordinary citizens without the riches they had dreamed of.
It was this great influx of population that built up California very fast and led to its becoming a state of the United States in 1850.
16. Many people rushed to California because _____. A. they were hungry for discoveries B. they were attracted by gold C. they were travelers form Europe D. they looked for a new competition
17. According to the author, some gold—seekers were perhaps from ____.
A. South America
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B. England or France
C. prosperous Sacramento D. industrialized California
18. In Line Two, “Forty--niners” referred to _____.
A. those people who left California B. the number of the gold-rushers C. the newcomers to California in 1849 D. the year of gold rush 19. A great many people remained in California because _____. A. they found what they had expected B. life there was full of competitions C. they had no better choices D. they still dreamed of the riches 20. What was the suggested title for the passage?
A. The California Gold Rush B. The Migrants of 1849
C. The Hard and Rough Life in California D. How to Find Gold in California A. when B. which C. then D. that
Part IV. Cloze (20/150)
Directions: In this part, there are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best fits into the passage and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Television, it is often said, keeps one __81___ about current events, allows one to follow the ____82___ development in science and politics, and ___83___ an endless series of programs which are both ____84____ and stimulating. The most distant ___85___ and the strangest customs are brought right ____86____ one’s sitting-room. It could be argued that the radio performs this ___87___ just as well; but on television everything is mush more living, much more ___88____. Yet here is a danger. The television screen itself has a terrible, almost physical fascination for us. We get ___89___ used to looking at its movements, so ____90___ on its flickering pictures, that it belongs to ____91____ our lives. A friend of ___92___ told me the other day that his television set had broken ___93___ and that he and his family had suddenly found that they had far more time to do things, and that they had ___94___ begun to talk to each other again. It makes one think. ___95___ it!
There are many other arguments for and against television. The poor __96__ of its programs is often criticize, but it is undoubtedly a great comfort to many __97__ elderly people. And does it corrupt or instruct our children? I think we must realize that television __98__ is neither good nor bad. It is the uses__99__ which it is put that determines its __100__ to society. 81. A. informative B. informed C. knowing D. familiar 82. A. latter B. late C. latest D. later 83. A. offers B. awards C. rewards D. avails 84. A. instructive B. teaching C. constructive D. illuminating
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