2008年專升本（英語）真題試卷

一、1.Phonetics

0.(1)

A．water
B．porter
C．dughter
D．laughter

1.(2)

A．naked
B．a(chǎn)ddicted
C．smelled
D．rested

2.(3)

A．structure
B．mixture
C．gesture
D．mature

3.(4)

A．honest
B．chest
C．harvest
D．forest

4.(5)

A．feather
B．leather
C．strengthen
D．southern

二、2.Vocabulary and Structure

Part I  Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

0. -- Bradford graduated from college with honors at a very young age.-- He ______ have been an outstanding student.

A．must
B．could
C．should
D．might

1. None of us called the police when the two cars collided,______?

A．didn"t we
B．don"t we
C．did we
D．do we

2. Not only I but also Douglas and Miranda ______ fond of watching television.

A．a(chǎn)m
B．is
C．a(chǎn)re
D．be

3. -- May I have the ______ of dancing with you, Madame?-- Yes, of course.

A．pleasure
B．joy
C．right
D．desire

4. Our president made a(n) _____ speech at the opening ceremony of the sports meeting, which encouraged the sportsmen greatly.

A．indifferent
B．inspiring
C．flat
D．dry

5. Diana was reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, completely _____ in the mysterious world.

A．being lost
B．having lost
C．losing
D．lost

6. If I had known you weren"t coming, I ______ a cake.

A．would not bake
B．did not bake
C．will not have baked
D．would not have baked

7. Staying in a four-star hotel for a night costs ______ renting a house in the suburb for a month.

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

8. In winter, traffic accidents occur ______ on the highway.

A．frequently
B．suddenly
C．usually
D．rapidly

9. Only when I began to do it ______ that I had made a mistake.

A．I realized
B．I had realized
C．did I realize
D．would I realize

10. It was three weeks later _____ he heard the news.

A．which
B．that
C．a(chǎn)fter
D．when

11. He ______ live in a remote and underdeveloped country than in this modem but noisy city.

A．prefers to
B．likes to
C．had better
D．would better

12. ______, Sam knows lots of things about philosophy.

A．As he is young
B．As young he is
C．Young as is he
D．Young as he is

13. Today the energy problem becomes critical. It ______ an immediate solution.

A．calls on
B．calls for
C．calls up
D．calls at

14. Dr. Zhang was always ______ the poor and the sick, his private clinic often providing them with free medical care.

A．tended by
B．a(chǎn)bsorbed in
C．concerned about
D．reminded of

三、3.Reading Comprehension

Part III  Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passages and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1.Win a Week in England
  You still don"t know what to do this summer? Well, here"s your chance to win a one-week language course in Kent, England! Free4Fun and ETC (English Travel Connections) are giving away two trips to Rochester. This historic city is less than an hour"s drive from London and close to the sea resort of Herne Bay. It is also the home of one of England"s most famous writers, Charles Dickens. The town of Rochester is in Southeast England. Charles Dickens often wrote about it in his books. His home, Gad"s Hill, is there, too. A popular attraction is Rochester Castle, a large Norman fortress. It was built in the 11th century and rebuilt during the 14th century. Other attractions are Rochester Cathedral, which was built during the 13th century, and Dickens Centre. It has got its name in honour of Dickens himself.
The trip to England includes:
  travel by train (via the Eurotunnel) to and from any railway station in Germany
room and full board with a guest family for one week
  language course in small groups
  two trips to London
  large choice of sports and entertainment
  German-speaking advisors available 24 hours a day Interested? All you have to do is to answer the following question:
  When was Charles Dickens born?
So, take the chance and send your answer by 1 May to:
Free4Fun "Rochester"
Free4Fun, 24 Elphinstone Road, Hastings, 2FQ6VJ
Fax: 089/85 763-103
E-mail: fi-ee4fun@netlight.com
The winners will be contacted directly before 5 May. They will also be announced in the June issue of Free4Fun. Good luck!
For further information contact:
Phone: (03212)144 43
Fax: (03212)144 42
E-mail: info@etc.com

Rochester Cathedral was built in the ______.

A．ll00s
B．1200s
C．1300s
D．1400s

2.
What activities can you participate in during the trip?

A．Working as an advisor.
B．Learning German language.
C．Travelling with a guest family.
D．Enjoying sports and entertainment.

3.
If you want to win a prize you have to send your answer to ______.

A．the June issue of Free4Fun
B．free4funnetlight.com
C．info,crc.com
D．ETC

4.
The persons who know ______ of Charles Dickens are likely to win the free trip.

A．the birth date
B．the home town
C．the major works
D．the writing style

6.In 2000, with little but a bar and a church left to make it a destination,, tiny St. James, Nebraska, was taken off state highway maps. Then the church closed, and the small farm village in the state"s northeast comer looked set to just disappear. Thanks to five devoted women, it didn"t.
  In May 2001, after meeting with staff from the Center for Rural Affairs, the friends -- Louise Guy, Vicky Koch, Jeanette Pinkelan, Mary Rose Pinkelman and Violet Pinkelman -- opened a weekend market for vendors (小商販) to sell handcrafts and local food.
  "We felt like, what can we do to bring the community together?" says Mary Rose Pinkelman. "We decided to make a place to sell local goods." They set up shop in the church school, which, though closed for nearly 40 years, had been well maintained. The first weekend, 16 vendors took over an old classroom. The result was an instant hit. Today, the market draws up to 70 vendors -- who sell such items as homemade jellies, baked goods, hand-woven rugs, and farm-grown produce -- and what Pinkelman calls an unexpected number of visitors. In the process, the market has made St. James a destination again, putting it back on the state road map.

According to Paragraph 1, what fate was St. James, Nebraska suffering ?

A．The replacement of the church.
B．The disappearance from highway maps.
C．The closedown of the bar.
D．The set-up of a market.

7.
St. James in this passage is ______.

A．a(chǎn) small village
B．a(chǎn) little farm
C．a(chǎn) tiny city
D．a(chǎn) little town

8.
What does the underlined phrase "an instant hit" (Paragraph 3) mean?

A．A fast blow.
B．A sudden beat.
C．A big strike.
D．A quick success.

9.
St. James has been put back to the state road map due to ______.

A．the efforts of five women
B．the efforts of the Center for Rural Affairs
C．the vendors in the local place
D．the unexpected number of visitors

11.Romeo and Juliet was probably written in 1595, when Shakespeare was a young, successful playwright. He had already written comedies and history plays, but had not yet developed his skill at tragedy.
  The power of fate is strong in Shakespeare"s play. Chance and evil eventually join to bring tragedy. Chance involves Romeo in a murder, chance prevents a message from reaching Romeo in 6me, chance brings about deadly meeting in a cemetery.
  Many Elizabethans were followers of astrology (星相術(shù)) and believed that the stars could control events. Thus, Romeo and Juliet are referred to as "star-crossed lovers" whose stars doomed (命中注定) them to disaster.
  Elizabethans also had a concept of fate in the person of Dame Fortune (命運(yùn)女神). By spinning her wheel, she could raise the state of a beggar or lower that of a king. One of the fascinations of Shakespeare is the way in which he put these ideas into the play.
  One of the most difficult things to decide about this play is the question of responsibility. Did irresistible fate bring tragedy to Romeo and Juliet, or were they themselves to blame? The fact that this question is not resolved by the author also helps to make Shakespeare"s Romeo and Juliet a fascinating work.

According to Paragraph 1, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet ______.

A．when he succeeded in comedies and history plays
B．a(chǎn)fter he had developed his skill in tragedy
C．before he wrote comedies and history plays
D．when he was no longer young

12.
According to the passage, chance ______.

A．involves Juliet in a murder
B．sends Romeo and Juliet into evil-doing
C．causes late arrival of a message for Romeo
D．leads to a happy meeting between Romeo and Juliet

13.
The passage indicates that Shakespeare put ______ into Romeo and Juliet.

A．historical events
B．Elizabethan beliefs
C．his personal experience
D．political issues at the time

14.
What is unresolved about this play is ______.

A．who is responsible for the tragedy
B．whether Romeo and Juliet are tragic characters
C．what the most fascinating element of the play is
D．how tragic fate can be avoided

16.Friends become a child"s chosen family. If his social life is going well, he gains confidence. If he has trouble connecting, it hurts and can make him feel sad and withdrawn and lonely.
  1. Help your child communicate. Naturally outgoing kids have an easier time expressing their interest in other children than shy ones do. But you can help build this skill through practice. Ask your child about his favorite games and toys. Praise him for specifics when he shows interest in other people: "You were so nice to let Roger talk about his little dog. I am proud of you."
  2. Keep play short and sweet. Parents should keep early play dates short, so no one gets too fired and everyone has fun. Schedule the next one soon after that, so kids can quickly build on their comfort foundation.
  3. Know your child. If your child is bossy, talk with him and agree before hand on which toys will be shared and which ones should be put away because your child just can"t seem to share them. If you have a shy child, match him with a younger child so he has a chance to be the leader.
  4. Help your child help others. Encourage your child to be a better friend by helping him include others in play. If you see someone being excluded, don"t ignore it. This is an opportunity to work on your child"s ability to understand others. "Rachel is being left out. That must make her feel very sad. Can you think or a way to include her in the game?"
  5. Help your kids help themselves. If your child is the one who"s being ignored or treated badly, teach him to speak up.

Which word can best describe a child who is good at connecting?

A．Bossy.
B．Confident.
C．Proud
D．Showy.

17.
According to the passage, parents can help their children communicate by ______.

A．showing their own interest in other children
B．encouraging their interest in other children
C．playing games with them
D．buying them more toys

18.
The phrase "left out" in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to "______".

A．neglected
B．criticized
C．not included
D．not respected

19.
What is probably the best title for the passage?

A．How to Help Your Child Help Others
B．How to Educate a Shy Child
C．How to Communicate with Your Child
D．How to Help Your Child Make Friends

21.Memory is the ability to keep track of things that have happened in the past. Memory really is learning. One needs memory to ride a bicycle. A dog needs to remember if it is to come when called.
  Memory is said to be stored in the brain as a "memory trace (記憶痕) ". What makes up this trace is not known. Some scientists believe that certain chemical substances may carry certain memories. For example, one substance, when given to rats, causes them to fear the dark.
  Other research into memory has to do with how the brain works. Psychologists use three means to find out bow a person remembers. For example, give a person a grocery list. Let the person memorize the list, then put it away. The most natural way to find out how much a person remembers of the grocery list is to ask what he or she remembers. This is called the method of recall. Another method is called recognition. Give the person another grocery list. Ask him or her to choose items on the first list from the items that are on only the second list. Often a person will be able to recognize things that he or she cannot recall. A third method of finding how much a person remembers is called relearning. Here the person is asked to read over the first list. The person will probably learn the list the second time faster than he did the first time. The difference in the time it takes to relearn the list is thought of as measure of how much a person has remembered.
  One way of remembering something is to repeat it many times. Interest is very important. Boring lists of facts are much more difficult to remember than something that we understand and are interested in. Motivation, or wanting to do something, is also important. Motivation is linked with reward. For example, a hungry animal quickly learns how to do something if that action gets the animal food. In humans, wanting to learn is often motivation. The praise of a teacher or the knowledge that an answer is correct is rewarding.

We can learn from the 2nd paragraph that ______.

A．bad memories may cause rats to fear the dark
B．it is hard to tell what a memory trace consists of
C．chemical substances carry certain memories
D．memory is stored in the brain as a substance

22.
The way to pick out the items on the first list from the second is known as ______.

A．recognition
B．recall
C．memorization
D．relearning

23.
What is considered as a measure of how much one has remembered?

A．The length of the list.
B．The type of the items.
C．The time difference of relearning.
D．The time difference of brain working.

24.
A good way to train an animal to do something quickly is to ______.

A．make the action easy
B．praise it in words
C．reward it with food
D．weaken its motivation

四、4.Cloze

Part IV  Cloze
Directions: There are some blanks in the following passages. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passages. Then, mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1.The first snowboards were made in the 1960s. However, it was in the late 1970s that they became more【C1】______Throughout the 1980s, more and more people began taking up the sport, even though snowboards were not allowed on most ski hills.【C2】______its earlier problems, snowboarding is now the world"s 【C3】______ growing winter sports and most resorts (度假地) welcome snowboards.
  In 1963, a Grade 8 student named Tom Sims【C4】______ a ski-board for a school project in New Jersey. Then in 1966, a man named Sherman Poppen【C5】______ two skis together for his kids on Christmas day. He called his invention "the Snurfer," which 【C6】______ the words "snow" and "surf". In 1969, Jack Burton Carpenter received a【C7】______for Christmas. He soon began designing boards, and today "Burton" is a popular【C8】______of snowboard.
  By the 1980s, snowboarding had become very popular.【C9】______, most ski resorts did not allow snowboarding because they thought it was too【C10】______. Since many snowboarders were young, many older skiers did not want them on the ski hills. The snowboarders had to go to the backcountry, 【C11】______ patrolled (有巡邏的) resorts.
  Rejection at the resorts did not【C12】______snowboarding from growing in popularity. Eventually, the owners of ski resorts changed their views. They 【C13】______that they could make more money by allowing snowboarding. One by one, the resorts【C14】______ to welcome snowboards. Today, many resorts even set【C15】______special areas where snowboarders can practice their creative tricks.

【C1】

A．spreading
B．popular
C．ordinary
D．interesting

2.
【C2】

A．Besides
B．Instead of
C．Despite
D．Because of

3.
【C3】

A．fastest
B．best
C．most slowly
D．most efficiently

4.
【C4】

A．discovered
B．found
C．planned
D．designed

5.
【C5】

A．bought
B．made
C．a(chǎn)ttached
D．mended

6.
【C6】

A．combines
B．mixes
C．unites
D．a(chǎn)ssociates

7.
【C7】

A．tool
B．snurfer
C．board
D．ski

8.
【C8】

A．brand
B．game
C．resort
D．person

9.
【C9】

A．Therefore
B．Furthermore
C．Meanwhile
D．However

10.
【C10】

A．showy
B．dangerous
C．exciting
D．harmful

11.
【C11】

A．nearby
B．a(chǎn)cross
C．a(chǎn)way from
D．close to

12.
【C12】

A．fail
B．involve
C．stop
D．drop

13.
【C13】

A．rejected
B．realized
C．fulfilled
D．denied

14.
【C14】

A．wanted
B．hurried
C．refused
D．began

15.
【C15】

A．a(chǎn)side
B．back
C．out
D．down

五、5.Writing

Part VII  Writing

0.   你(LiYuan)所在的酒店需招聘數(shù)名管理人員，請(qǐng)你寫一則招聘廣告，內(nèi)容包括：
  (1)招聘原因和人數(shù)。
  (2)招聘對(duì)象(年齡、性別、學(xué)歷要求、工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)等)。
  (3)優(yōu)先考慮條件(如高學(xué)歷、有多年工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)、會(huì)外語等)。
  (4)報(bào)名時(shí)間、地點(diǎn)和聯(lián)系方式。

六、6.Daily Conversation

1.A. What do you mean               B. What about you
C. I"m not sure                 D. What a pity
E. What do you think               F. Sounds great
G. Say, why don"t you come with us        H. Do you mean it
Jessica: I"m so excited! We have two weeks off!. What are you going to do?
Natasha: 【S1】______ . I guess I"ll just stay home. Maybe I"ll catch up on my reading.
     【S2】______? Any plans?
Jessica: Well, my parents have rented an apartment in California. I"m going to take long walks along the beach every day and do lots of swimming.
Natasha:【S3】______!
Jessica:【S4】______ ? My parents will be happy to have you with us.
Natasha:【S5】______ ? I"d love to!

【S1】

2.
【S2】

3.
【S3】

4.
【S4】

5.
【S5】