专升本大学英语试卷(共5页).doc

精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上College English TestPart I Skimming and Scanning (Each item: 1 point; total: 10 points) 15 minutesDirections: In this part, you will go over the passage quickly and choose the best answer to each question and then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. For questions 1 - 7, mark A. Y, B. N and C. NG; For questions 8- 10, fill in the balnk with proper words Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.World of the FutureScientists think that wonderful things may come true in the future. Future means a time that is not yet here. It can be a short time from now or a long time from now. Some of the underwater wonders are almost ready to come true now. Others won't come tree, we think, until a long time from now. Some, of course, may never come true-but who knows for sure? They may. What are some of the wonders that may come true in the future?A world undergroundThe green utopia (an ideally perfect place) underground is going to help us regain a more harmonious relationship between the often opposing sides of large-scale development and our ecosystem. The city may be called Alice City, from Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland, which offers a wonderful world that is almost as fantastical as that was described in the book.A large clear dome (圆顶), within an area of open parkland, leads into a multi-leveled structured metropolis of underground offices, housing, transportation and public areas. There will be everything to make the city as self-sufficient as possible including shopping malls, theatres and sports complexes in addition to facilities (contained in a separate structure) for power generation, heating and waste recycling.Apart from offering an almost limitless space for development, such underground development has many more attractive ecological advantages over traditional forms of housing. It is less disturbing than high rise development and therefore favorable in environmentally sensitive areas. Land above the complex can be set aside for parkland and recreational use. In towns or cities where pollution levels are high, air can be filtered through air pipes in the roof of an underground housing or industrial complex.A world underwaterAt the docks you step into a shiny metal submarine that is shaped like a shark. The door is closed behind you, and powerful engine starts to push. Down slides the submarine-like a shark diving. Deeper and deeper under the water.Soon all sunlight is gone. The headlights of the diving ship are turned on. Then, six miles below, you come to the sea bottom. From the diving submarine, you change to tiny jet boat and ride along close to the bottom of the ocean, almost as you would skim over the land in an air-plane. As you travel, you have fun looking out the window at the sights on the bottom of the ocean. You see strange fish and underwater mountains, cliffs, and valleys. But more than that-hotels and mining camps and farms and factories!A world in spaceLet's go back to dry land and take a future journey the other way-up instead of down. Huge rocket liners take you into space to visit the Moon Camp. You walk around on the moon in a special moon suit. You visit an observatory where a giant telescope looks far into space-farther than anyone has ever been able to see from Earth. You go deep down into one of the moon mines.After you have visited the moon, you visit the Mars Colony and the Venus Exploration Outpost.A new world on the EarthLet's go back to Earth.In the far, far future, girls-and boys, too-may be playing with dolls that look like the people of the planets visited by our spacemen.To control or run all kinds of toys, boys and girls may learn to use special computers -machines that answer questions and do arithmetic faster than you can blink.Bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power, and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucer. Imagine a race between them!There may be telepathy (心灵感应) helmets that send thought waves from your brain to that of your friend miles away. You just think a thought and your friend knows it! You can have secrets with each other that nobody else can turn in on!RobotsThere will be other surprises in the future. How would you like to have a robot playmate? Having robot playmates may not be-so much fun as it seems. But maybe a boy with a wrench (扳手) and a screwdriver can fix the robot so that it won't be too perfect!FoodWhat about the food of the future? Scientists think that much of it will be artificial -made in factories from such surprising things as coal, limestone, air, and water. You don't think that ice-cream or cake or candy or even bread and potatoes made out of these things will taste very good? You may be wrong. These artificial things will be blended so skillfully by food chemists that the food of the future probably will be delicious. It probably will also be healthful because all the things that you need to live a long and healthy life will be put into it.A longer lifeScientists of the future will almost certainly find other ways to make life last longer. They probably will find cures for most diseases. Hospitals will probably have "body banks" that can give you almost any new part you need to keep on living. People of the future may live to be a lot older than 100 years.TVAre you wondering whether there'll be television in the future? There'll almost certainly be wonderful programs. Television screens probably will be large and flat, hanging on the wall or going across the four walls of a room. People on the screen will look as real as if they were right in the room with you.HighwaysWhat about highways of the future? Well, a very small child probably will be able to drive a car. Nobody will need to steer. Electric signals will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the "driver" wants to go. And it probably will be impossible for cars to smash together. Controls that won't even have to be touched will make all speeding cars miss each other or will put on the brakes. Driving by car will be as safe as being at home.Weather controlBut maybe the most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control. Cities may have giant plastic domes over them to keep out snow, rain, or storms.When you plan a picnic in a park, you won't have to worry about rain. It will rain only when the "weatherman" thinks it is needed to freshen the air inside the city. All other days will be fair and warm. The future should be a wonderful time in which to live. But the time you axe living in now was also "a wonderful future" to the people who lived 100 years ago.1. The underground city would get its name from a book called Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland. A. Y B. N C. NG2. The multi-leveled structure underground would include everything that is necessary to a city, from offices, shopping malls to power and heating system. A. Y B. N C. NG3. The underground city would not produce so much air or water pollution as the city on the ground. A. Y B. N C. NG4. One may reach the bottom of the world underwater by submarine or airplane. A. Y B. N C. NG5. In the far future, our spaceships may be able to go to planets where there are living beings. A. Y B. N C. NG6. The future ice-cream or cake or candy or even bread and potatoes may be made out of such things as coal, limestone, air, and water. A. Y B. N C. NG7. Television will no longer be needed in the future because it will be completely replaced by computers. A. Y B. N C. NG8. In the future, we may go to places such as the Moon Camp, the Mars Colony, and the Venus Exploration Outpost by _.9. In the future, you can keep secrets with your friends thanks to _.10. Weather control may become the most marvelous surprise because snow, rain and storms will be kept out by _.Part II Reading in Depth 35 minutesSection A (Each item: 1 point; total: 10 points)Direction: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write the corresponding letter for each item on the ANSWER SHEET. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost 11 today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today 12 of children is limited to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and 13 farms, rather than to large factories.Girls 14 more from child labor practices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work when they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often 15 , it is often harmful to their health. 16 , children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working 17 . Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the 18 going to a parent or older relative. The children not only receive nothing or very little for their long hours of work, but also they are prevented from attending school. Therefore, when they become older they are unable to do any other kind of work.The 19 to the problem of child labor is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervision of industry and heavier fines for those who break the laws. Only in this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most 20 time of their lives-children.A. elsewhere B. employment C. dissolved D. lightE. recently F. solution G. unchanged H. sufferI. conditions J. perspective K. impatient L. valuableM. particularly N. proceed O. paymentSection B (Each item: 2 points; total: 20 points)Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre.Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:In the early days of sea travel, seamen lived entirely on salted meat and biscuits. Many of them died of scurvy (坏血病), a disease of the blood which causes swollen gums, pale white spots on the flesh and general exhaustion. On one occasion, in 1535, an English ship arrived in Newfoundland with its crew seriously ill. The mens lives were saved by Iroquois Indians who gave them vegetable leaves to eat. Gradually it came to be realized that scurvy was caused by some lack in the sailors diet and Captain Cook, who was to discover Australia and New Zealand, established the fact the scurvy could be avoided by provision of fresh fruit for the sailors. Nowadays it is understood that a diet which contains nothing harmful may yet result in serious disease if certain important elements are missing. These elements are called 'vitamins'. Quite a number of such substances are known and they are given letters to identify them, A, B, C, D, and so on. Different diseases are associated with deficiencies of particular vitamins. Even a slight lack of Vitamin C, for example, the vitamin most plentiful in fresh fruit and vegetables, is thought to increase significantly our possibility of getting bad colds. The vitamins necessary for a health body are normally supplied by a good mixed diet, including a variety of fruit and green vegetables. It is only when people try to live on a very restricted diet, say during extended periods of religious fasting (禁食), or when trying to lose weight, that it is necessary to make special provision to supply the missing vitamins. 21. Scurvy is a disease which causes _. A. loss of blood B. swollen limbs C. exhaustion D. bright red spots on the flesh 22. A diet which contains nothing harmful _. A. may yet cause scurvy B. has plenty of vitamins C. will usually result in serious disease D. always ensures good health 23. Deficiencies of the various vitamins _. A. cause identical diseases B. are not serious except in the case of vitamin C C. cause different diseases D. are often caused by scurvy 24. Fresh fruit and vegetables _. A. contain more vitamin C than any other food B. decrease our resistance to colds C. contain every kind of vitamin D. increase our possibility of getting bad colds 25. A good mixed diet _. A. normally contains enough vitamins B. still needs supplementing with vitamins C. is suitable for religious fasting D. is often difficult to arrange Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:In 1913, the United States government launched a bold, new nickel. Sculptor James Earle Fraser said his goal was to design a coin that would be "truly American." In his search for symbols, he found none more distinctive than the American buffalo. Choosing to show a native American on the other side of the coin, Fraser said the new nickel had "perfect unity of theme." Production of "Buffalo" or "Indian Head" nickels began in February 1913. A single coining press at the Philadelphia Mint（造币厂）started turning out the nickels at the rate of 120 a minute. But after the first examples were placed in circulation, the New York Times condemned them as a "bad". Other critics said that the coin's "rough" surfaces would encourage counterfeiters（造假币的人）. But the most serious complaint about the nickel had to do with its inability to stand heavy use. One coin collectors' magazine predicted that the slightest wear would remove the date and the words Five Cents "beyond understanding." In 1938, the Department of Treasury staged a competition for a new nickel picturing Thomas Jefferson. According to a news item of the day, the Bureau of Indian Affairs didn't receive a single complaint from native Americans about the design change. Collectors didn't seem to mind either. 26. In the eyes of Fraser _ is the most beaut