2003年陜西專升本（英語）真題試卷

一、1.Vocabulary and Structure

Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

0. The next afternoon he went to ______ Mr. Smith again.

A．call forth
B．call off
C．call by
D．call on

1. You should not ______ too much fun from him.

A．expose
B．express
C．expect
D．experience

2. Ford proposed a system ______ each worker would have a special job to do.

A．that
B．in which
C．which
D．a(chǎn)t which

3. Most of Americans get so used ______ TV. so dependent on its flickering (閃動的) pictures, that it begins to dominate their lives.

A．to watch
B．in watching
C．to watching
D．with watching

4. At least twenty firemen were killed ______ of the collapse of the building during the fire accident.

A．a(chǎn)s a rule
B．a(chǎn)s for
C．a(chǎn)s a result
D．a(chǎn)s far

5. The medal did not cost much, ______ very good.

A．or was it
B．nor was it
C．or did it
D．nor did it

6. The truth is that it is only by studying history ______ we learn what to anticipate(期待) in the future.

A．a(chǎn)nd then
B．so
C．by which
D．that

7. I forgot ______ something which I have long meant to ask you.

A．to ask
B．having asked
C．to be asking
D．to have asked

8. Make sure to ______ the children ______ swimming in the dirty river.

A．protect, from
B．keep, from
C．a(chǎn)void, from
D．a(chǎn)sk, from

9. It is of vital importance that a person ______ at least both physically and mentally strong to be an astronaut(宇航員).

A．shall be
B．be
C．a(chǎn)re to be
D．must be

10. In the advanced reading course students must take tests at monthly ______.

A．distance
B．length
C．periods
D．intervals

11. The scientist was so absorbed in his work that he was not ______ of the fire that was spreading to his room.

A．a(chǎn)dequate
B．a(chǎn)live
C．a(chǎn)ware
D．a(chǎn)wake

12. The manager ______ all the engagements on the ground that he needed more rest.

A．canceled
B．a(chǎn)nnounced
C．eliminated
D．kept

13. The vitamins necessary for a healthy body are normally supplied by a ______ of fruit and green vegetables.

A．variety
B．fraction
C．section
D．series

14. Jack spent the whole day repairing the car. The work was ______ easy.

A．nothing but
B．something except
C．a(chǎn)nything but
D．a(chǎn)ll except

15. Meanwhile, with the price of oil ______, Saudi Arabia"s economy is getting much better.

A．goes up
B．going up
C．went up
D．gone up

16. If he were really interested in buying the apartment, Jack ______ an offer before now.

A．must have made
B．will make
C．would have made
D．would make

17. Mrs. Jones seems to think that the delay of the conference is to suit the director"s ______.

A．confidence
B．curiosity
C．convenience
D．challenge

18. Nobel Prizes are annual ______ made to persons who have contributed to the good of mankind.

A．salaries
B．a(chǎn)wards
C．wages
D．rewards

19. The highway policeman on duty ______ the driver who was speeding and asked to see his license.

A．pulled up
B．pulled in
C．pulled out
D．pulled off

20. The professor found no student in the lecture hall when he arrived. Only then did he realize that he came ______ early.

A．too much
B．so much
C．much too
D．much so

21. ______ his speech than the audience began to ask him some difficult questions.

A．The speaker had finished no sooner
B．No sooner have the speaker finished
C．The speaker had no sooner finished
D．No sooner the speaker finished

22. Mary ______ at the bus stop for about an hour when Tom finally came and started to argue about what ______ before.

A．waited, happened
B．have waited, has happened
C．had waited, was happened
D．had been waiting, had happened

23. Vicky, one of my doctoral students, had her dissertation(論文) ______ as soon as she finished ______ it.

A．to be typed, to write
B．typed, to write
C．being typed, writing
D．typed, writing.

24. Believe it or not, Matt, the peddler, earned ______ his brother, who is a white collar in a big company.

A．much as twice as
B．a(chǎn)s twice much as
C．twice as much as
D．a(chǎn)s much twice as

25. Peter said he was in no ______ for going to the movie with me because he had to make preparations for his GRE.

A．mood
B．motive
C．mind
D．liking

26. The minister gave a report ______ the effect on the economy after China became a member of WTO.

A．involving
B．relating
C．regarding
D．a(chǎn)s for

27. Ever since she was a little girl, she ______ interested in music.

A．is
B．has been
C．was
D．had been

28. When she found her daughter was running a high fever, she ______ took her to hospital.

A．promptly
B．consequently
C．consistently
D．provokingly

29. Most Americans would like to do shopping in the weekends since they expect to pick up wonderful ______ in the supermarkets or shopping malls.

A．batteries
B．bargains
C．baskets
D．barriers

30. She did not throw away the stockings until they were so ______ that they couldn"t be mended anymore.

A．wearing off
B．worn out
C．wearing out
D．worn off

31. ______ that man was the master of the earth used to be widely held early last century.

A．To believe
B．It was believed
C．The belief
D．Believing

32. The old lady, with her seeing-eye dog, ______ seen going along the street every morning.

A．was
B．were
C．a(chǎn)re
D．will be

33. Nothing taking place there is interesting, ______?

A．a(chǎn)re they
B．is it
C．didn"t they
D．isn"t it

34. In ESL teaching, it is really hard to say which theory is ______ any of the others put forward so far.

A．obviously superior than
B．obviously superior to
C．superior obviously to
D．superior obviously than

35. "Does Professor O" hare live near the downtown area?"  "No, he lives ______."

A．out in the suburbs
B．out in suburb
C．in the out suburbs
D．in suburb

36. The young engineer was quite excited when he ______ the experts in this complicated project.

A．insisted
B．a(chǎn)ssisted
C．resisted
D．persisted

37. The book is ______ as it was the only one ever signed by the President last month in the White House.

A．common
B．unique
C．rare
D．singular

38. The day she got married is a day she will always ______ though her children have grown up and also got married.

A．look up to
B．look forward to
C．look back to
D．look down upon

39. The launching of China"s first manned-spaceship was televised ______ by CCTV.

A．a(chǎn)live
B．live
C．life
D．lively

二、2.Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part, each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

0.Ideas about education are changing in the United States. Education today is not just a high school diploma or a college degree. Many adults are not interested in going to college. They are interested in other kinds of learning. For them, learning does not end with a diploma.
  Continuing education gives these adults the opportunity to increase their knowledge about their own field or to learn about a new field. It also gives them a chance to improve their old skills or to learn new ones.
  Continuing education classes give some adults the chance to learn new skills. There are usually many kinds of classes to choose from, foreign cooking, auto repair, or furniture repair. These are only some of the classes available.
  Some adults take classes for fun or because the class will be useful for them. For example, they can choose a class in almost any language as a second language. There are classes in first aid or classes in sewing. There are also many other types of classes to choose from.
  Other adults take continuing education classes to improve their own lives because they want to feel better about themselves. Overweight people can find exercise classes or classes in nutrition. Others can learn how to be good parents, or how to get along with other people.
  There are many opportunities for adults to continue their learning. Almost any community college or public school system has a continuing education program. There are classes in schools, community buildings, or churches. Most classes are in the evening, so working people can attend. The classes are usually small, and they are inexpensive.
  Thousands of people register for continuing education classes each year. They receive no diploma or certificate, and no grade for most of the classes they attend. For them, learning is something they do because they want to.
Some adults go to continuing education classes to ______.

A．get a college education
B．learn new skills
C．get a certificate
D．earn grades

1.
Attending continuing education classes ______.

A．does not cost much more
B．is expensive
C．requires a loan
D．is free of charge

2.
What"s the main idea of para. 6?

A．Adults can continue their learning
B．Most continuing education classes are in the evening
C．Adults have many opportunities to continue their learning
D．Classes are held for working people

3.
Lots of people attend continuing education classes because ______.

A．the classes will help them feel better about themselves
B．there are many courses they can choose from
C．they can also go to church at the same time
D．learning is something they are interested in

4.
We can learn from the passage that ______.

A．college education is not important
B．a(chǎn)dult education is very popular
C．other kinds of learning are more important than school learning
D．continuing education classes teach the same courses that are taught in colleges.

5.Basketball is a sport enjoyed by millions of fans in at least 100 countries. It"s one of the best-known sports in the world. It all began in 1891.
  Dr. James A. Naismith, the father of basketball, was an instructor at a YMCA(基督教) Training school. The school trained people to work in YMCAs. Officials at the school were concerned about the low attendance during the winter months. They felt that people didn"t attend then because the school did not have a good winter sports program. So they asked Dr. Naismith for help. He came up with a new indoor game.
  Naismith studied current games. He found that all the most popular games used a ball. So a ball would be a part of his new game, he decided. But kicking the ball or hitting it would be too rough for indoor. So he put 2 peach baskets up on poles. The players had to try to throw a soccer ball into them. Naismith then made thirteen rules for the game. 12 of them are still in use today. Just 7 years after the game began, professional basketball teams were formed.
  And that"s how basketball was born.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．The Birth of Basketball
B．YMCA and Basketball
C．Basketball——an Indoor Game
D．A Winter Sports Program

6.
The YMCA training school officials asked Naismith to invent a new game because ______.

A．People didn"t have enough outdoor exercises in the winter
B．basketball would become popular among the young people
C．they hoped that would attract more people to their school
D．kicking the ball or hitting it would be too rough for indoors

7.
First basketball teams were formed ______.

A．a(chǎn)round 1898
B．in 1891
C．a(chǎn)t the time when YMCA was established
D．when Naismith came to the YMCA training school

8.
The "current games" (line 1, para. 3) refers to ______.

A．new games to be played for the first time
B．old games no longer played
C．the most popular games at the time
D．games played at the time

9.
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Basketball was meant to be played indoors at first
B．Ball games attract a lot of people
C．Football is not suited for indoors
D．A YMCA training school is one where athletes are trained

10.More than 30000 drivers and front seat passengers are killed or seriously injured each year. At a speed of only 30 miles per hour it is the same as falling from a third floor window. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.
  Therefore drivers of front seat passengers over 14 in most vehicles must wear a seat belt. If you do not, you could be fined up to ￡50. It will not be up to the drivers to make sure you wear your belt. But it will be the driver"s responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.
  However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it. Make sure these circumstances apply to you before you decide not to wear your seat belt. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.
This text is taken from ______.

A．a(chǎn) medical magazine
B．a(chǎn) police report
C．a(chǎn) legal document
D．a(chǎn) government information booklet

11.
Wearing a seat belt in a vehicle ______.

A．reduces road accidents by more than half
B．saves lives while driving at a speed up to 30 miles per hour
C．reduces the death rate in traffic accidents
D．saves more than 15000 lives each year

12.
It is the driver"s responsibility to ______.

A．make the front seat passenger wear a seat belt
B．make the front seat children under 14 wear a seat belt
C．stop children riding in the front seat
D．wear a seat belt each time he drives

13.
According to the text, which of the following people riding in the front does not have to wear a seat belt?

A．Someone who is backing into a parking space
B．Someone who is picking up the children from the local school
C．Someone who is delivering invitation letters
D．Someone who is under 14

14.
For some people, it may be better ______.

A．to wear a seat belt for health reasons
B．not to wear a seat belt for health reasons
C．to get a valid medical certificate before wearing a seat belt
D．to pay a fine rather than wear a seat belt

15.Once they are more than a month old, babies seem to learn readily. Moreover, solving a problem or discovering the relationship between their own actions and an event in the external world seems to have its own rewards for infants.
  The pleasure involved in such an experience seemed obvious in one study of two-to-four- month-old infants who were given a chance to control a yellow-and-green mobile. One of these mobiles was suspended above each infant, who play in a crib (小床) with a ribbon attached to one ankle. The other end of the ribbon was attached to the hook from which the mobile was suspended. As the infants moved about, waving their arms and kicking their legs, they learned to connect the motion of one leg with the bobbing(跳動) of the mobile. As they smiled and gurgled(咯咯的笑) at the moving mobile, the infants began to kick the leg attached to the mobile forcefully and precisely and only that leg. Apparently, they enjoyed controlling the mobile, for they would continue for as long as 45 minutes.
  Nor is this pleasure in mastery limited to infants. In an experiment with fifth and sixth graders, the children were asked to solve some word puzzles that varied in difficulty. The youngsters smiled more, and reported far more pleasure, when they solved a difficult puzzle than any easy one. The implication is that human beings of any age-from infancy to old age- derive pleasure from intellectual mastery.
In the experiment, the infants ______.

A．kicked their legs randomly all the time
B．kicked the leg controlling the mobile most of the time
C．a(chǎn)ttached the colorful ribbons to their own legs
D．felt very tired and lost their interest soon

16.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．Youngsters gain more pleasure in solving a difficult puzzle than any easy one
B．People, old and young, can derive pleasure from intellectual mastery
C．Youngsters tend to smile less when solving an easier problem
D．The experiment indicates that the younger a person is, the happier he or she will be

17.
The statement "As they smiled and gurgled at the moving mobile" (line 7, para. 2) suggests that ______.

A．the infants liked the beautiful color of the mobile although they couldn"t say so
B．the infant were happy because the cribs were very comfortable to sleep in
C．the infants realized the connection between the motion of one leg and the bobbing of the mobile
D．the infants wanted to grasp the bobbing mobiles and keep them

18.
The infants kept kicking their legs for ______.

A．they were too young to control themselves
B．they wanted to attract others" attention
C．they were required to do so by the researchers
D．they might have found it enjoyable to control the mobile

19.
If the writer continues to develop this passage, he will probably ______.

A．illustrate some experiments with old people
B．introduce more information about the infants
C．devote some space to the background information about the experiment
D．talk about different theories on learning

三、3.Cloze

Cloze
Directions: Each blank in the following passage is provided with 4 choices. Read the whole passage and choose the best answer for each blank. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

0.   "I get by with a little help from my friends" is a popular lyric(抒情詩) with age-old wisdom behind it. 【B1】______ people need people is something we have 【B2】______ understood, but more recent research has confirmed the relationship 【B3】______ good health and good social relationships. 【B4】______ infants, the lack of human interaction may 【B5】______ retard (阻滯) the development of intelligence. Adults who seek supportive social relationships find greater longevity(長壽) and have 【B6】______ chances of developing a disease.
  Most of us 【B7】______ develop relationships to increase our life spans 【B8】______ to improve our minds and bodies. Such improvements are side 【B9】______ . Instead, most people seek relationships 【B10】______ others to feel love, gain companionship, or simply to have fun. Mutual interests can be a 【B11】______ for new relationships. A good 【B12】______ to find new friends is to get busy 【B13】______ the things you love to do. That way, you"re 【B14】______ to meet more people who 【B15】______ a similar interest and a similar view of the world.
  A good relationship helps you feel lovable and capable. It 【B16】______ as a support system, 【B17】______ you to develop your full potential 【B18】______ a person. One of the most 【B19】______ things you can do for friends is to help them develop their self-concept as they help you develop 【B20】______ .

A．Because
B．Which
C．That
D．Whether

1.(62)

A．shortly
B．long
C．just
D．never

2.(63)

A．in
B．between
C．of
D．to

3.(64)

A．Of
B．Except
C．Besides
D．For

4.(65)

A．exactly
B．a(chǎn)ctually
C．a(chǎn)ccurately
D．exceptionally

5.(66)

A．more
B．no
C．less
D．much

6.(67)

A．do
B．may
C．don"t
D．shouldn"t

7.(68)

A．a(chǎn)nd
B．so
C．but
D．or

8.(69)

A．response
B．effects
C．habits
D．consequence

9.(70)

A．of
B．for
C．on
D．with

10.(71)

A．feature
B．part
C．center
D．basis

11.(72)

A．manner
B．way
C．thing
D．point

12.(73)

A．do
B．done
C．doing
D．did

13.(74)

A．likely
B．unlikely
C．incredibly
D．truly

14.(75)

A．receive
B．divide
C．disclose
D．share

15.(76)

A．serves
B．regards
C．is
D．does

16.(77)

A．lending
B．making
C．a(chǎn)llowing
D．a(chǎn)cquiring

17.(78)

A．to
B．a(chǎn)s
C．for
D．of

18.(79)

A．stupid
B．a(chǎn)wful
C．interesting
D．wonderful

19.(80)

A．you
B．yours
C．them
D．theirs

四、4.Translation

0.Section A (非英語專業(yè)學(xué)生做)
Directions: In this part, there are 5 items which you should translate into Chinese, each item consisting of one or more sentences. These sentences are all taken from the reading passage in part II. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meaning in the context.
Continuing education gives these adults the opportunity to increase their knowledge about their own field or to learn about a new field.

1. Officials at the school were concerned about the low attendance during the winter months. They felt that people didn"t attend then because the school did not have a good winter sports program.

2. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.

3. Moreover, solving a problem or discovering the relationship between their own actions and an event in the external world seems to have its own rewards for infants.

4. In an experiment with fifth and sixth graders, the children were asked to solve some word puzzles that varied in difficulty.

5.Section B (英語專業(yè)學(xué)生做)
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage in Chinese. Read it carefully and put it into English.
   大多數(shù)人所從事的工作或多或少都和計算機有聯(lián)系，但是，目前大量的工作計算機無法完成。例如，計算機不能做手術(shù)，也不能駕駛汽車，但計算機可以幫助從事這些職業(yè)的人。實際上，計算機的確可以幫助包括從建筑師到郵政人員在內(nèi)每一個人，可是沒有哪一個計算機的程序可以像人腦那樣運行。即便如此，還是有人想編寫出一種程序，好讓計算機有類似人類的思維。這些人已經(jīng)取得了一些令人矚目的成就。有些計算機下棋的水平超過了常人。在一場象棋比賽中，計算機甚至戰(zhàn)勝了世界冠軍。

五、5.Writing

0. In this part, you are to write a short composition of about 150 words based on the topic given. Write a letter to Sam Adams, a college student in the U.S., describing any one of the scenic sports or places of historical interests in China.

                               November. 22, 2003
Dear Sam,
  ___________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________