2004年北京市专升本英语真题

英 语

考生注意：1. 答案必须写在答题纸上。

2. 本试卷共8页，满分为100分，考试时间为120分钟。

Part I Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: In this part, there are 15 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete each one

by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked with A., B., C. and D. Then you should write the letter in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

1. It’s expected that the new highway ________ completed by next July.

A. would be B. will have been C. has been D. had been 2. Nowadays the new medicine can ________ man of the deadly disease.

A. save B. treat C. remove D. cure

3. I called Mr. Smith at his office this morning, but the voice ________ answered the phone was not his. A. which B. who C. as D. whom 4. I’m thinking about changing careers, but I don’t quite know how to ________ it.

A. go about B. go around C. go by D. go for

5. ________ well enough before the final exam, he failed to finish answering all the questions in time.

A. Preparing not B. To preparing not C. Not to prepare D. Not having prepared

6. He has never been to London before, ________ he knows everything about the people and the

customs there. A. and B. but C. for D. so

7. Bill Clinton─one of the ________ American presidents gave a speech last week in Oxford

University. A. lively B. living C. alive D. live 8. Little ________ about his situation though he was in great danger himself.

A. does he care B. he cared C. did he care D. he cares 9. The new president is reported ________ China after he takes office in the capital.

A. to visit B .to have visited C. to be visiting D. visiting 10. They ________ be singing my favourite English song in the classroom. I can hear it.

A. could B. should C. might D. must

11. ________ when he started the research, he never gave up trying new ways to increase the production. A. How old he was B. As he was old C. However old he was D. Old as he was

12. Don’t worry about your earrings─I’ m sure they’ll ________ sooner or later.

A. make out B. hold up C. turn up D. find out 13. Mary ________ clean out the guest room last Saturday, but she was too busy that day.

A. has intended to B. was intended to C. intended to D. had intended to

14. If it ________ in the early April, the crops wouldn’t be growing so well now.

A. didn’t rain B. wasn’t rained C. hadn’t rained D. was not raining

15. By then, the country’s “green agriculture” centering on water and land will reach its full ________.

A. capacity B. power C. ability D. energy

Part II Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are four reading passages in this part. After reading each passage, you will find

5 questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked with A., B., C. and D. You should choose the most appropriate answer and write the letter in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.

If you do not use your arms or legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this, and nobody would think of questioning this fact. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it regularly, either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough practice. The position is exactly the same as that of two people, one of whom exercises his arms and legs by playing tennis, while the other sits in a chair or a car all day.

If a friend complains that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, or that he is just unlucky, and few of us realize that it is just as much his own fault as it was his arms or legs that were weak. Not all of us can become extremely strong or extremely clever; but all of us can, if we have ordinary bodies and brains, improve our strength and our memory by the same means—practice.

Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read or write usually have better memories than those who can? Why is this? Of course, because those who cannot read or write have to remember things: they cannot write them down in a notebook. They have to remember dates, times, prices, names, songs and stories, so their memory is always being exercised.

So if you want a good memory, learn from the poor and humble: practise remembering.

16. The first paragraph is intended to tell us that ________.

A .everybody knows that memory works in the same way as arms or legs B. it is a fact that some people do not use their arms or legs C. to have a good memory, one has to exercise it regularly D. to keep fit, one should not sit in a chair or a car all day

17. In the author’s opinion, a poor memory may result from ________.

A. unlucky fortune B. weak arms and legs C. insufficient education

D. lack of remembering practice

18. The author seems to suggest that we should ________.

A. complain about nothing but our health B. play tennis to exercise our arms and legs

C. blame ourselves rather than our parents for a poor memory D. learn from those who cannot read or write for a better memory 19. The author comes to the conclusion that ________.

A. memory can be improved by practising it B. the poorer one is, the better memory he has

C. if you want a good memory, do not read or write anything D. the poor and humble people may help you remember things

20. The most appropriate title for the passage would be ________.

A. Poor and Good Memory B. Your Arms, Legs and Brain C. How to Improve Your Memory D. Learn from the Poor and Humble

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

How Toxic（中毒的)Are You? Take this test and find out

Yes No □ □1. Have you felt fatigued now and then for no apparent reason? □ □2. Have you ever felt “wooden” or lifeless? □ □3. Have you ever experienced drug “flashbacks”? □ □4. Do you have trouble thinking clearly? □ □5. Do you sometimes get a feeling of reacting slowly? □ □6. Do you feel annoyed without reason or cause? □ □7. Do you have unexplained aches and pains? □ □8. Do you find it difficult to get excited about people and things? □ □9. Do you find you feel anxious but don’t know why? □ □10. Have you ever experienced shortness of breath for no reason?

Drugs, chemicals and environmental poisons don’ t just go away. They stay in your body and can even affect you years later.

If you answered yes to 3 or less you could have a low level of accumulated toxins in your body, affecting your ability to think clearly. If you answered yes to 4—7 of the above questions, you could have considerable accumulated toxins, making you feel dull, lifeless and “wooden.”

If you answered yes to most of these questions, you could be experiencing heavy body pollution.

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21. From the passage we know that one of the reasons why people feel tired, anxious, etc. is that

________.

A. they are exposed to poisons

B. they fail to follow the doctor’s advice C. there are harmful things in their bodies D. there is air pollution in their living places

22. The poisons from drugs, chemicals and environment may stay in one’s body and ________.

A. affect him years later

B. have an influence immediately C. go away in a few years D. make him depend on drugs

23. If one answered yes to two questions he may experience a ________ level of body pollution.

A. considerable B. high C. medium D. low

24. If one experiences heavy body pollution he may answer yes to ________ of the questions.

A. a half B. a few C. most D. some 25. Clear Body, Clear Mind is probably the name of a ________.

A. hospital B. book C. program D. manual Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

Higher productivity is essential to the rising of living standards and to the declining prices of goods and services. But higher productivity may lead to fewer jobs.

Early in the postwar era, analysts were worried that automation would take over manufacturing, throwing everyone out of work. That fear went unrealized for a generation, in part because robots and computers weren’t good at much. Today, near-automated manufacturing is becoming a reality.

Newly built factories often require only a small part of the work force in the plants. Office technology, meanwhile, now allows a few to do what once required a large group of people.

There may come a point when the gains from higher productivity pale before the job losses. But even if that point does not come, rapid technological change is causing anxiety about future employment: anxiety that makes it hard to appreciate and enjoy what productivity creates.

Prosperity brings many other mixed blessings. Living standards keep rising, but so do cases of depression. Agricultural yields continue rising, yet that means fewer family farms are needed. Biotechnology may allow us to live longer, but may leave us dependent on costly synthetic drugs. There are many similar examples. Increasingly, western life suffers from the paradoxes (自相矛盾) of progress. Material circumstances keep improving, yet our quality of life may be no better as a result—especially in those cases, like food, where enough becomes too much.

26. The fear that automation would make people out of work turned out to be ________.

A. impossible B. reasonable C. practical D. unnecessary 27. In the third paragraph the word “pale” most probably means ________.

A. result from technological changes B. decrease in relative importance C. result in poor health. D. increase in anxiety

28. We can find in the passage that it is hard to enjoy higher production because ________.

A. people are afraid of automation.

B. technology may change even more rapidly C. computers are not good at some work

D. unemployment may emerge on a large scale 29. The last paragraph mainly tells us that ________.

A. material benefits are what we need

B. prosperity is just one side of the same coin C. the quality of life may be worse than before

D. western people are free from the paradoxes of progress 30. The author implies in the passage that ________.

A. while life gets better, people feel worse B. life is generally not as good as it used to be C. people should return to the past to feel better

D. our quality of life has turned worse before it turns better

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passages.

In today’s competitive job market, students are looking for degrees outside their home countries to position themselves as global managers fluent in international practices. Among them is Simon Tindall, an American who turned down a scholarship to Georgetown University in Washington in favor of Cambridge.

Foreign students make up an average 70 percent to 80 percent of non-U.S. MBA programs. In contrast, the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania, reports one of the highest percentages of international students for an American program at 39 percent, a figure that includes U.S. permanent residents.

While the tough recruiting climate for graduates entering the U. S. job market is a factor in the decrease, another pressure point seems to be restrictions on visas for travel, education and work in the States after the war in Iraq, SARS in Asia and political changes related to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

One Chinese student said she had been offered a full scholarship to attend the University of Michigan’s MBA program in 2002 but that a visa request had been denied two years in a row. Another could not obtain a visa to enroll at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Many students are also being attracted by the affordability of international programs, especially in relation to costs in the United States. Most MBA programs outside the United States can be completed in one year rather than two, representing a huge saving in both tuition and opportunity costs.

Britain has an advantage over other international programs in both ranking and brand value.

Better rankings attract better students, who in turn improve the rankings. “The applications we received this year were on average of a much higher quality than last year,” said Gary, the admission director at Cambridge. “The increase in applications enables us to be more selective. Year to year, we’re looking to increase the quality of the student body, which in turn strengthens competition for the whole program. ”

31. Simon Tindall went to Cambridge to study for an MBA program because ________.

A. Cambridge offered him a full scholarship

B. he was denied a scholarship by Georgetown University C. there was a lower percentage of foreign students in Britain D. international experience would benefit him in employment

32. Compared with students taking U. S. programs, those doing an MBA in Britain have ________.

A. a wider variety of nationalities B. a small number of nationalities

C. a hard time selecting a favorite school

D. a better opportunity getting a full scholarship

33. Some Chinese students gave up their choices of studying in the States because ________.

A. their visa requests were denied B. they found it hard to hunt a job

C. they lacked qualifications for the program D. the scholarship couldn’t cover their expenses

34. The fifth paragraph tells us that most MBA programs outside the States ________.

A. last longer

B. are cost-efficient C. lack global attraction D. are hard to complete

35. The increase in applications for MBA in Britain is due to ________ of the universities.

A. the locations B. the reputation C. the academic levels D. the tuitions and facilities

Part III

Cloze

Directions: There is a passage in this part with10 blanks in it. Read the passage carefully and then

choose the most appropriate answer from the 4 choices marked with A., B., C. and D. Then you should write the letter in the corresponding space on the Answer.

If you’re driving m Brooklyn, Ohio, and find yourself attracted by your surroundings, resist the urge to get hold of your cell phone and share the moment. The leafy Cleveland suburb is the first town in the country in which it’s 36 to drive and talk on a cell phone at the same time. “We don’t ban cell phones,” 37 former mayor John M. March. “But pull to the side of the road.”

It wasn’t the first 38 Brooklyn, with a population of 11,924 and Coyne, 83, who served as mayor for 52 years, 39 the lead on driving safety. In 1966, after Coyne saw a child who was riding in the front seat of her parents’ car hit her head 40 the windshield (挡风玻璃), the city passed the nation’s first mandatory (立法规定) seat-belt law.

His idea to stop cell-phone users was 41 by another accident. “In early January 1999,” he says, “our chief of police 42 a car smashed (撞毁) from behind by another vehicle.” The driver of the second car was talking on a cell phone and, according to the chief, 43 talking even after the crash.

The regulation 44 drivers to keep both hands on the steering wheel while talking on a cell phone. First-time offenders are fined $3, then the fine jumps 45 $100.

Coyne doesn’t own a cell phone. “I’m not that important,” he says.

36. A. fault 37. A. demands 38. A. city 39. A. held 40. A. by 41. A. confirmed 42. A. arrested 43. A. continued 44. A. allows 45. A. as high as

B. illegal B. explains B. law B. made B. into B. determined B. discovered B. insisted B. forces B. as many as C. incorrect C. insists C. man C. took C. on C. decided C. drew C. persisted C. requires C. as far as D. mistaken D. tells D. time D. did D. with D. found D. saw D .stopped D. wants D. as well as

Part IV Word Forms

Directions: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. You should fill in each blank with the

proper form of the word given in the brackets. Write the word in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

46. She no longer had that feeling of (dependent) ________ she had fought so hard to win. 47. Hutchings, like many (ambition) ________ young lawyers, became interested in politics. 48. For the (secure) ________ of passengers, all hand baggage is carefully checked at the airport. 49. Weather (permit) ________, we’ll have a picnic at the beach next Saturday. 50. The computer does not work properly. I think it needs (repair) ________.

51. Ms Lee recommends that the student who was late this morning (speak) ________ to the director. 52. Do you realize that the rules of safe driving (application) ________ to all of us?

53. You’d better speak slowly; otherwise you will fail to make yourself (understand) ________. 54. It (sudden) ________ occurred to her that Joe was afraid of being alone.

55. The place is so (attract) ________ that most tourists will spend much more time here than in

other places.

Part V Translation-English into Chinese

Directions: This part is to test your ability to translate English into Chinese. There are 5 sentences

in this part. Write your translation in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

56. We do have an opening in the file department and Mr. Johnson would be happy to discuss the

position with you.

57. The two parties in the spirit of friendship and cooperation have entered into an Agreement to

sign the present contract.

58. An agenda is enclosed. Also, you will find a map with complete travel directions and a

description of the parking facilities.

59. The use of recycled paper is saving thousands of trees from being cut down.

60. Today many countries are struggling for exploiting oil reserves, water power and other natural

resources under the sea.

Part VI Writing

Directions: This part is to test your ability to do practical writing. You are required to write a fax

based on the following information. You should write about 100 words.

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