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2008普通高校“专转本”统一考试英语模拟试卷A
普通高校“专转本”统一考试模拟试卷A
本试卷分第1卷(客观题)和第Ⅱ卷(主观题)两部分。第1卷l至10页，第Ⅱ卷11页至13页。两卷满分150分。考试时间120分钟。
第一卷(共100分)
注意事项：1．答第1卷前，考生务必按规定要求填涂答题卡上的姓名、准考证号等项目。2．用铅笔把答题卡上相应题号中正确答案的标号涂黑。答案不涂写在答题卡上，成绩无效。
Part I Reading comprehension:(共20小题,每题2分，共40分)
Directions: There are four 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, D. You should decide the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
It seems that fate was on the side of the Japanese. At 6:30 a.m. on 7 December a small Japanese submarine entered a prohibited area off Oahu and was sunk by destroyers and aircraft. The naval watch-officer was informed and, in his turn, informed the Chiefs-of-Staff at Pearl Harbour; but for some reason no general alert was given. More extraordinary still, it is a fact that at 7.00 a.m. the operator of a provisional detector station out in the Pacific belonging to the American Army reported a large flight of aeroplanes about 210 kilometres from Oahu to the east-northeast. An army lieutenant decided that the aeroplanes must obviously be friendly ones and took no action. An unusually cloudy sky added to Japanese luck. A routine dawn patrol of American aircraft had passed over Oahu and reported nothing.
At 7:50 a.m. on that Sunday morning a great noise of approaching aircraft was heard on Oahu and at 7:55 the first bombs fell. Low-level bombers and torpedo aircraft attacked the ships in the harbour and the naval installations; high-level bombers bombed the airfields and also Honolulu some 11 kilometres away. The attacks were followed by fighter planes firing machine-guns with incendiary bullets, particularly at the planes on the airfield; some pocket submarines attacked the harbour at the same time.
Just as there had been no adequate air or sea patrols, so inside Pearl Harbour no precautions against attack had been taken; warships were moored close one against another and a large pro-portion of officers and ratings were on leave and many
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sleeping ashore. A similar peace-time carelessness pervaded the Hickham army airfield close to Pearl Harbour and other aerodromes on the island. Before the last attack, which was made at 9:00 a.m. and which met with heavy anti-airs craft and naval gun-fire, the Japanese were able to strafe their objectives almost without resistance and the aircraft were able to return to their carriers to refuel and to return to the attack.
Of the eight battleships, the Arizona, California and Utah, a target ship, were sunk outright; the Oklahoma capsized shortly after being bombed; the Nevada was set on fire and put out of action for many months; the three others were more or less seriously damaged. Considerable additional damages were done to ships, a minelayer was sunk, three cruisers damaged, two destroyers sunk and another damaged. Some 2,300 officers and men were killed and some hundreds of the nearly two thousand wounded died later. The Japanese are said to have lost 60 aircraft, whilst the Americans had 173 destroyed and over 100 damaged.
1. How was fate on the side of the Japanese?
A. No general alert was given by the Chiefs-of-Staff.
B. A cloudy sky covered the Japanese movement.
C. Japanese submarine was able to enter a prohibited area.
D. All of the above.
2. What information did the naval watch-officer give his superiors at Pearl Harbour?
A. A small Japanese submarine had entered a prohibited area off Oahu.
B. Japanese destroyers and aircraft had entered the prohibited area off Oahu.
C. The Japanese were sending their submarines into the prohibited area off Oahu.
D. An unidentified submarine was sunk by destroyers and aircraft.
3. What was \detector station?
A. The planes were immediately shot down.
B. An army lieutenant took no action, thinking the planes were friendly.
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C. The planes were too far away to be seen.
D. The station was supposed to be looking for ships, not planes.
4. What does 'capsized' mean?
A. 'Overturned'
B. 'Started its engines'
C. 'Caught fire'
D. 'Escaped'
5. Why was the United States unprepared for the attack?
A. The U.S. and Japan had just signed a peace treaty.
B. The attack came as a complete surprise.
C. All the ships of the U.S. Navy were somewhere else.
D. The U.S. thought it would attack Japan first.
Passage 2
Joe works for a large auto-insurance company. He thought it wasn't hurt to leave the key in the truck when he filled his gas tank at a self-service gas station. But moments later, as he was paying the money, he saw the truck being driven away.
In 1987, 1.6 million motor vehicles were stolen in the United States---one every 20 seconds. If current trends continue, experts predict annual (每年的) vehicle thefts (行窃) could be more than two millions by the end of the decade.
Vehicles theft is a common occurrence, which has a direct impact on over four million victims a year. The cost is surprising.
Many police officials blame professional thieves for the high volume (大量) of thefts. It is a major moneymaker for organized crime. Normally, stolen cars are taken to pieces and the parts are sold to individuals. But as many as 200,000 cars are smuggled (走私) out of the country every year. Most go to Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.
Only about 15 percent car thefts result in an arrest, because few police
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departments routinely conduct in-depth auto investigations. When thieves are arrested, judges will often sentence them to probation (缓刑), not immediately put them in prison because the prisons are overcrowded with violent criminals.
One exception is Michigan program that assigns 92 police officers to work full-time on the state's 65,000 car theft cases a year. Since 1986, when the effort began, the state's auto-theft rate has fallen from second in the nation to ninth.
How can you protect your car? If you live in a high-theft area of drive an expensive model, consider a security system. It may cost anywhere from $25 to $1,000. Some systems engage automatically-simply removing the key disables (使失去能力) the fuel pump and the starter. When cars are equipped with such systems, thefts may drop by one-third. In some states, you may be able to use a device that sends radio signals, allowing stolen cars to be tracked by police.
6. The passage is mainly about _________.
A. Michigan program
B. security system
C. police departments' routine job
D. vehicle theft
7. The following are not the ways thieves sell the stolen cars except that they are __________.
A. sold to auto-insurance company
B. sold to Australia
C. smuggled to Latin America, the Middle East and Europe
D. sold to individuals as a whole
8. The author predicts the annual vehicle theft could be ________ in 1989.
A. 1.6 million
B. less than 2 million
C. 65,000
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D. over 2 million
9. The way to protect your car from stealing is to ________.
A. notify police
B. buy insurance
C. have a special fuel pump and a starter
D. equip a security system
10. The reason judges will often sentence the thieves to probation and not immediately put them in prison is that _________.
A. there isn't enough evidence (证据)
B. the prisons are overcrowded with violent criminals
C. vehicle theft is a criminal misdemeanor (轻罪)
D. the thieves have escaped to Europe
Passage 3
Between the ages of six months and one year, the baby learns to laugh for essentially the same reasons he will laugh throughout his life, says Dr. Jacob Levine, associate professor of psychology at Yale University. Dr. Levien says that people laugh to express mastery over an anxiety. Picture what happens when a father tosses his child into the air. The child will probably laugh-----but not the first time. In spite of his enjoyment of “flying”, he is too anxious to laugh. How does he know Daddy will catch him? Once the child realizes he will be caught, he is free to enjoy the game. But more importantly, sys Dr. Levine, the child laughs because he has mastered an anxiety.
Adult laughter is more subtle, but we also laugh at what we used to fear. The feeling of achievement, or lack of it, remains a crucial factor. Giving a first dinner party is an anxious event for a new hostess? All goes well; the party is over. Now she laughs freely. Her pleasure form having proved her success is the foundation for her pleasure in recalling the evening’s activities. She couldn’t enjoy the second pleasure without the first, more important one---her mastery of anxiety.
Laughter is a social response triggered by cues. Scientists have not determined a brain center for laugher, and they are perplexed by patients with certain types