2008普通高校“专转本”统一考试英语模拟试卷A

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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

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of brain damage who go into laughing fits for no apparent reason. The rest of us require company, and a reason to laugh.

11.The intended audience of the passage are ____.

A. mental patients B. humorists

C. psychologists D. the general public

12. The primary purpose of this passage is to demonstrate _____.

A. that we are social animals

B. why we laugh

C. the importance of humor

D. that laughter is deceptive

13.According to the passage, a six-month old laughs _____.

A. more frequently than an adult

B. when he fells anxious

C. more subtly than an adult

D. when he masters his anxiety

14.Which of the following best supports the theory discussed in the passage?.

A. A footballer laughs before the game starts.

B. A student laughs at the mistakes made by his teacher

C. A students laughs after an exam

D. A guest laughs at a joke told by his host.

15. Which of the following would the author agree with?

A. Company tends to make us laugh more

B. We never laugh alone.

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C. We all laugh for a good reason.

D. We laugh for the physical sensations involved

Passage 4

Unless we spend money to spot and prevent asteroids (小行星) now, one might crash into Earth and destroy life as we know it, say some scientists.

Asteroids are bigger versions of the meteoroids (流星) that race across the night sky. Most orbit the sun far from Earth and don't threaten us. But there are also thousands of asteroids whose orbits put them on a collision course with Earth.

Buy $50 million worth of new telescopes right now. Then spend $10 million a year for the next 25 years to locate most of the space rocks. By the time we spot a fatal one, the scientists say, we'll have a way to change its course.

Some scientists favor pushing asteroids off course with nuclear weapons. But the cost wouldn't be cheap.

Is it worth it? Two things experts consider when judging any risk are: 1) How likely the event is; and 2) How bad the consequences if the event occurs. Experts think an asteroid big enough to destroy lots of life might strike Earth once every 500,000 years. Sounds pretty rare - but if one did fall, it would be the end of the world. \we don't take care of these big asteroids, they'll take care of us,\says one scientist. \

The cure, though, might be worse than the disease. Do we really want fleets of nuclear weapons sitting around on Earth? \world has less to fear from doomsday (毁灭性的) rocks than from a great nuclear fleet set against them,\said a New York Times article.

16. What does the passage say about asteroids and meteoroids?

A. They are heavenly bodies different in composition.

B. They are heavenly bodies similar in nature.

C. There are more asteroids than meteoroids.

D. Asteroids are more mysterious than meteoroids.

17. What do scientists say about the collision of an asteroid with Earth?

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A. It is very unlikely but the danger exists.

B. Such a collision might occur once every 25 years.

C. Collisions of smaller asteroids with Earth occur more often than expected.

D. It's still too early to say whether such a collision might occur.

18. What do people think of the suggestion of using nuclear weapons to alter the course of asteroids?

A. It sounds practical but it may not solve the problem.

B. It may create more problems than it might solve.

C. It is a waste of money because a collision of asteroids with Earth is very unlikely.

D. Further research should be done before it is proved applicable

19. We can conclude from the passage that ______.

A. while pushing asteroids off course nuclear weapons would destroy the world

B. asteroids racing across the night sky are likely to hit Earth in the near future

C. the worry about asteroids can be left to future generations since it is unlikely to happen in our lifetime

D. workable solutions still have to be found to prevent a collision of asteroids with Earth

20. Which of the following best describes the author's tone in this passage?

A. Optimistic. C. Objective.

B. Critical. D. Arbitrary.

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (共40小题,每题1分，共40分)

Directions: In this part there are forty incomplete sentences. Each sentence is followed by four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence and .then

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mark your answer on the answer sheet.

21. The coming of the railroads in the 1830s _____ our society and economic life.

A. transported B. transferred C. transformed D. transmitted

22. As you have seen, the value of a nation's currency is a _____of its economy.

A. reflection B. response C. revelation D. reaction

23. Finding it difficult to ______ to the climate in the city, he decided to move to the north.

A. fit B. adopt C. adapt D. suit

24. The population of the world is growing at a dangerous _____.

A. measure B. step C. progress D. rate

25. It is not easy to learn English well, but if you ______, you will succeed in the end.

A. hang about B. hang on C. hang about D. hang onto

26. The shy girl felt _____ and uncomfortable when she could not answer her teacher's question.

A. amazed B. curious C. awkward D. amused

27. In many cultures people who were thought to have the ability to _____ dreams were likely to be highly respected.

A. intervene B. inherit C. impart D. interpret

28. All the visitors are requested to ____ with regulations.

A. comply B. agree C. assist D. consent

29. The director was critical _______ the way we were doing the work.

A. in B. at C. with D. of

30. When she heard the bad news, she _____ completely.

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A. broke down B. broke through C. broke away D. broke out

31. He had been compelled to give up much of his time to housework.

A. ordered B. persuaded C. forced D. frightened

32. What it amounts to is simply that he is not willing to give us his support.

A. means B. matters C. reaches D. signals

33. The nation watched in shock as the 1992 riots _______ in Los Angeles.

A. flared in B. flared up C. flared on D. flared about

34. Mrs. Fuller went on a diet and in three months _______ her weigh to 100 pounds.

A. brought down B. brought back C. brought forth D. brought out

35. He accepted his friend's _____ to swim across the river in the depths of winter.

A. presence B. challenge C. appreciation D. relief

36. If the government had built more homes for poor people in 1970, the housing problems now in some parts of this city ______ so serious.

A. wouldn't be B. will not have been

C. wouldn't have been D. would have not been

37. The University of California, _______ in 1868, is administered by a president and governed by a twenty-four-member board of regents.

A. founded B. has been founded

C. to have been founded D. was founded

38. Nowhere else in the world _______ more attractive scenery than in China.

A. you can find B. you have found

C. has been found D. can you find

39. _______ you are here punctually tomorrow morning.

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A. See it B. See to that C. See to it that D. See to

40. _______ that the jewels had been in the bank all the time.

A. It is turned out B. It turned out

C. It was turned out D. It turns out

41. The policeman had him arrested since he was under _____ of murder.

A. stress B. illusion C. suspicion D. doubt

42. Take the doctor's advice, and you will soon be _____ to perfect health.

A. recovered B. restrained C. relieved D. restored

43. He got punished severely because of his _____ of the regulations.

A. approval B. neglect C. outlook D. privilege

44. He was made so _____ as to criticize the professor in public.

A. humorous B. realistic C. optimistic D. bold

45. I have just received a letter from Mary; _____ is a cheque for 20,000 $.

A. inserted B. evolved C. included D. enclosed

46. Hearing the shot, all the birds ________ flight.

A. added to B. led to C. threatened to D. took to

47. I illustrated my plan, of which many people seemed to _____.

A. disagree B. oppose C. frown D. disapprove

48. Her broken legs condemned her ___ a wheelchair.

A. by B. in C. for D. to

49. He deceived his boss _________ the wrong decision of sinking all the money into the project.

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A. to making B. to make C. make D. into making

50. In no circumstances _________ tell a lie.

A. we should B. should we C. should we not D. should not we

51. As we can no longer wait for the delivery of our order, we have to _______it.

A. postpone B. refuse C. delay D. cancel

52. these books, which you can get at any bookshop, will give you _______ you need.

A. all the information B. all the informations

C. all of information D. all of the informations

53. Not until the game had begun_______ at the sports ground.

A. had he arrived B. would he have arrived

C. did he arrive D. should he have arrived

54. Young people are not _______ to stand and look at works of art; they want art they

can participate in.

A. conservative B. content C. confident D. generous

55. Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue that the

power of the medium is _______.

A. granted B. implied C. exaggerated D. remedied

56. These surveys indicate that many crimes go _______ by the police, mainly because

not all victims report them.

A. unrecorded B. to be unrecorded C. unrecording D. to have been unrecorded

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57. I have no objection _______ your story again.

A. to hear B. to hearing C. to having heard D. to have heard

58. The clothes a person wears may express his _______ or social position.

A. curiosity B. status C. determination D. significance

59. By law, when one makes a large purchase, he should have _______ opportunity to

change his mind.

A. accurate B. urgent C. excessive D. advertising

60. You will see this product _______ wherever you go.

A. to be advertised B. advertised C. advertise D. advertising

Part III Cloze (共20小题，每题1分，共20分)

Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices. Choose the one that best fits into the passage and then mark your answer on the answer sheet.

Americans are quite casual about manners and accept a wide range of behavior as appropriate. If you follow the suggestions and ??? 61 given here and your own good _ 62 your behavior will probably satisfy even the most 63 American.

When introducing people of different 64 in the USA., it’s polite to say the woman’s name first. But if the man is 65 or famous, then his name or title should be 66 first; when two people of the 67 sex are introduced, the older person is named first.

Proper forms of 68 are often a puzzle to foreigners. In the USA., people in the same general age group 69 to get a first-name basis very quickly. Co-workers, classmates, and neighbors often call each other by 70 names. But an adult is 71 to continue to call doctors, lawyers, teachers, religious leaders, and bosses by their last names.

72 , it is not polite to call someone by the last name only. Titles that 73 the last name include Mr. for a man, Miss for a single woman, Mrs. For a woman who is married, divorced, or widowed, and Ms used for a woman whose marital 74 you

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don’t know. Some single or_ 75 _ women may 76 the title Ms. When in doubt about which 77 to use when introducing a woman, use her 78 name without any title at all. To address a man whose name you don’t know, use sir. It is rude to call him mister. To address a woman you don’t know, use madam or ma’am. Remember that the title Dr. is used not only for a medical doctor but also for a dentist and for a person with a(n) 79 doctorate degree.

It is also important to remember that 80 few titles are used without the last name. Those that can be used alone include Doctor, Professor, and some of the titles for religious leaders.

61

A) alarms

B) advise

C) warnings

D) notices

62

A) judgment

B) sense

C) measure

D) estimation

63

A) appropriate

B) suitable

C) right

D) proper

64

A) men

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B) women C) sexes D) people 65 A) elderly B) senior C) elder D) junior 66

A) regarded B) mentioned C) thought D) preferred 67

A) coherent B) identical C) same D) unanimous 68 A) call B) name C) address

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D) label 69 A) tend B) intend C) extend D) trend 70 A) second B) middle C) last D) first 71 A) likely B) possible C) probable D) proper 72 A) But

B) Nevertheless C) while D) However 73

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A) proceed B) precede C) put D) place 74 A) stature B) statue C) status D) stadium 75 A) widowed B) married C) marital D) divorced 76 A) prefer B) appreciate C) enjoin D) enjoy 77 A) head B) name

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C) title

D) honor

78

A) complete

B) whole

C) entire

D) full

79

A) scientific

B) academic

C) technological

D) physical

80

A) right

B) very

C) rather

D) fairly

第二卷（共50分）

Part IV Translation(共35分)

Section A(共5小题，每题4分，共20分)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into Chinese. You may refer to the corresponding passages in Part I.

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81. An army lieutenant decided that the aeroplanes must obviously be friendly ones and took no action.

82. 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.

83. Only about 15 percent car thefts result in an arrest, because few police departments routinely conduct in-depth auto investigations.

84. Adult laughter is more subtle, but we also laugh at what we used to fear.

85. By the time we spot a fatal one, the scientists say, we'll have a way to change its course.

Section B (共5小题，每题3分，共15分)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English

86. 我认为,扩大词汇量对提高写作能力来讲并不是最重要的.

87. 俗话说得好,善始则善终.

88. 重要的是我们应该更加注重农业的发展.

89. 只要努力学习,你肯定能通过这次考试.

90. 他太生气了,以致于离开房间时一言不发.

Part V Writing (共15分)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: \less than 120 words in three paragraphs and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below.

1.教育对建设富强繁荣的国家起着重要的作用

2.教育对个人成长很重要

3.但并不是每个人都意识到了其重要作用，我们应该怎样做

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