2013年河南省普通专升本考试《专业英语》真题+答案.docx

2013 年河南省普通专升本考试专业英语真题Part I Vocabulary and Structure (1 x 30)Directions: There are 30 incomplete statements in this part. You are required to complete each one by choosing the most appropriate word or expression from the four choices marked A. B, C and D. then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET.1.Virtue and vice are before you; leads you to happiness,to misery.A. former/latterB. the former/the latterC. a former /a latterD. the former/latter 2.The earth is about as the room.A. as fifty time bigB. As big fifty timeC. fifty times as bigD. fifty as times big 3.My sister is going to visit Xian with friends.A. other her two littleB. her other little twoC. her two other littleD. her two little other 4.The little girl was left alone, with to look after her.A. anyoneB. someoneC. not oneD. no one 5.It was at the coffee bar she met her husband for the first time.A. whereB. /C. thatD. which 6.-“You realize that you were driving at 100 mph, dont you ?”-“No, officer. I . This car cant do more than 80.”A. couldnt have beenB may not have beenC didnt need to beD neednt have been 7.Dont let him catch you .A. do that againB doing that againC to do that againD done that again 8.He was thoroughly ashamed so much money on such an ugly picture.A. for spendingB. with spendingC. to have spentD. of having spent9.I never dreamed I here discussing state affairs with the other deputies.A. would be sittingB. would had been sitting C. will have been sittingD. will be sitting 10.All these dictionaries are a great help to you, ?A. are theyB. are all these dictionaries C. arent theyD. arent all these dictionaries 11.Not until I shouted at the top of my voice his head.A. he had turnedB. that he turnedC. he didnt turnD. did he turn 12.Every means tried but without much result.A. areB. isC. has beenD. have been 13.Its high time you .A. started to workB. had stared to workC. will start to workD. would start to work 14.We required that the machine parts cast iron.A. is made ofB. be made fromC. is made byD. be made of 15. , we could not have finished the work on time.A. But for their helpB. Was it not for their help C. If they do not help usD. Should they offer to help us 16.No sooner had he finished his speech stormy applause broke out.A. asB. thanC. thenD. when 17.Thats the doctor on the seriously wounded man.- 8 -A. that be operatedB. that operated himC. who he operatedD. who operated18. , she knows Germany well.A. The child as she isB. As she is a childC. Child as she isD. A child as she is 19.There is something wrong with Stevens car, he must have it .A. checkingB. checkedC. to checkD. check 20.Her answer is not acceptable, and .A. neither am IB. mine is neitherC. either is mineD. neither is mine 21.No one can function properly if they are of sleep.A. ridB. declinedC. refusedD. deprived 22.This kind of analysis the problem to its simplest form.A. reducesB. decreasesC. breaksD. displaces 23.In the current economic climate it is fairly that unemployment will continue to rise.A. reliableB. predictableC. desirableD. indifferent 24.This map carries a of one centimeter to ten kilometers.A. coordinateB. regulateC. adaptD. suit25.The new comers found it impossible to themselves to the climate sufficiently to make permanent homes in the new county.A. coordinateB. regulateC. adaptD. suit 26.The traitor was sent into to a remote island.A. expelB. extolC. excelD. exile27.Extensive reporting on television has helped to interest in a wide variety of sports an activities.A. generateB. gatherC. assembleD. yield 28.During the process, great care has to be taken to protect the silk from damage.A. sensibleB. delicateC. tenderD. sensitive29.The strong storm did a lot of damage to the coastal villages: several fishing boats were and many houses collapsed.A. wreckedB. tornC. spoiledD. injured 30.Having decided to rent a flat, we contacting all the accommodation agencies in the city.A. set outB. set aboutC. set upD. set downPart Reading Comprehension (2×20 points)Directions：There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or incomplete statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET.Passage One"Loving a child is a circular business. The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give." Penelope Leach once said. What she said proves to be true of my blended family. I was born in 1931.As the youngest of six children, I learned to share my parents' love.Raising six children during the difficult time of the Great Depression took its toll on my parents' relationship and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. Daddy never had very close relationships with his children and drifted even farther away from us after the divorce. Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his life and they were married. She had two sons, one of them still at home. Under her influence, we became a blended family and a good relationship developedbetween the two families. She always treated us as if we were her own children. It was because of our other mother. Daddy's second wife, that he became closer to his own children.They shared over 25 years together before our father passed away. At the time of his death, the question came up of my mother, Daddy's first wife, attending his funeral. I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my step mother.When I asked her if she would object to mother attending Daddy's funeral, without giving it a second thought, she immediately replied," Of course not, honey. She is the mother of my children."31. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parents' divorce? .A. Family violenceB. The Great DepressionC. Bad relationship between parents and their six childrenD. Her fathers disloyalty32. "Loving a child is a circular business. The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give." How do you understand this sentence? .A. Love is blindB. Love is a businessC. Love breeds loveD. Love can tame the wildest 33.What brought the father closer to his own children? .A. His childrens effortsB. His improved financial conditionC. His advanced ageD. His second wifes positive influence 34.Which one is NOT true about the writers step mother? .A. a wonderful womanB. unconditional love shown to her step childrenC. positive influence on the blended familyD. caring for her own children only 35.What message does the writer want to convey in this passage? .A.Divorce often has disastrous consequences. B.Happiness is hard to find in blended families.C. The piety of the family relation should be respected in the highest degree.D. Love is the base of family relationship especially in blended families.Passage TwoLike many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all begin to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero?Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people.A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and a community who will listen.But a hero goes beyond mere fame.Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it can be used by ordinary people.The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who imitate a genuine hero experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they willing to live and die for? If the answer or evidence suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes. Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, but who would claim that their fans find life more abundant?Heroes are catalysts (催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charmto move the masses. They create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire. Without Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., we might still have segregated ( 隔 离 的 ) buses, restaurants, and parks. It may be possible for large-scale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow,the vision uncertain, and the committee meetings endless. 36.Although heroes may come from different cultures, they .A. generally possess certain inspiring characteristicsB. probably share some weaknesses of ordinary peopleC. are often influenced by previous generationsD. all unknowingly attract a large number of fans37. According to the passage, heroes are compared to high-voltage transformers in that .A. they have a vision from the mountaintopB. they have warm feelings and emotionsC. they can serve as concrete examples of noble principlesD. they can make people feel stronger and more confident38. Madonna and Michael Jackson are not considered heroes because .A. they are popular only among certain groups of peopleB. their performances do not improve their fans morallyC. their primary concern is their own financial interestsD. they are not clear about the principles they should follow39. Gandhi and Martin Luther King are typical examples of outstanding leaders who .A. are good at demonstrating their charming charactersB. can move the masses with their forceful speechesC. are capable of meeting all challenges and hardshipsD. can provide an answer to the problems of their people 40.The author concludes that historical changes would . A.be delayed without leaders with inspiring personal qualitiesB. not happen without heroes making the necessary sacrificesC. take place ff there were heroes to lead the peopleD. produce leaders with attractive personalitiesPassage ThreeKaren and Ken Mullin, a young professional couple in Cleveland, own fifty Cookbooks and two fully equipped kitchens in their house. Yet they rarely cook their Own meals; instead, on their way home from work they usually stop at a supermarket And choose two portions of meat loaf and a container of ready-to-serve potatoes "My Job," says Karen "is to poor the salad from the bag."A half-century after the first TV dinner was born, the food industry is approaching its long-sought dream of relieving people like the Mullins of unpaid labor in the final, and arguably most profitable, step by which a cow gets turned into meat loaf. Increasingly, tables in America's kitchens are used not for cutting or peeling but for putting takeout food onto plates. For those who even bother with plates. According to Harry Blazer, an influential food-industry researcher, American dinners that came from a takeout counter increased by 24 percent in the past decade, "We thought the microwave would be a cooking device," says Harry Blazer, "but we find it reheating takeout pizza."Across the United States, entire business models are being transformed. supermarket takeout counters, formerly a place where unsold chickens were courted with sauce, increasingly resemble high-end corporate cafeterias, with sushi bars and stir-fly stations.One psychologist thinks the trend toward healthier eating is responsible: Americans have finally gotten the message that it's bad to eat fried chicken, so theyre doing it at home where no one can see them.Of course, thee are people you wouldn't expect to cook at home, like Steve Traxler, an unmarried Chicago theater producer, whose refrigerator contains little more than orange juice, wine and leftovers.Well, somebody must be using those cookbooks, right? "people don't have time to cook; I think they're reading them in bed," says Rozanne Gold, author of a cookbook.It's not entirely a question of time. The takeout fashion is fueled, in part, by the popularity of foods like sushi, which even adventuresome American cooks are unlikely to try to make at home. And takeout fills another need as well, for the atmosphere of the home-cooked dinner.41. From the text we a 1a that the Mullins .A. are experienced in cookingB. are expert at food shoppingC. often go dining out at a restaurantD. often eat ready-made food at home 42.The food industry is approaching its final goal of .A. freeing people of cooking at homeB. turning cows into meat loaf far peopleC. relieving itself of unpaid labor for peopleD. providing people with delicious TV dinners 43.We a infer from the text that some Americans .A. are too busy to cut or palB. are too bay to use their tablesC. do not even are their platesD. do not even use the microwave 44.Supermarket takeout counters .A. have sushi based stir-fry stations nowB. used to process the lea-ova food for saleC. cooperate with high-end corporation cafeteriasD. used to court chickens of inferior with sauce 45.Takeout food is not only convenient but also enables Americans to .A. avoid taking unhealthy foodB. follow the trend of eating outC. enjoy eating together at homeD. have time to improve their cookingPassage FourFaced with a mission-critical decision, who would you turn to for advice? Someone you have great confidence in, surely.But several lines of research show that our instincts about where to turn to for counsel are often not completely correct.My research looks at prejudices that affect how people use advice, including why they often blindly follow recommendations from people who-as far as they know-are as knowledgeable as they are. In studies I conducted with Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University, for example, I found that people tend to overvalue advice when the problem they're addressing is hard and to undervalue it when the problem is easy.In our experiments, subjects were asked to guess the weight of people in various pictures, some of which were in focus and some of which were unclear. For each picture, subjects guessed twice: the first time without advice and the second time with input from another participant. When the pictures were in focus, we found, subjects tended to discount the advice; apparently, they were confident in their ability to guess correctly. When the pictures were unclear, subjects leaned heavily on the advice of others and seemed less secure about their initial opinion. Because they misjudged the value of the advice they received-consistently overvaluing or undervaluing it depending on the difficulty of the problem-our subjects did not make the best guesses overall. They would have done better if they'd considered the advice equally, and to a moderate degree, on both