2017年江苏省专转本英语模拟试题第九套(含答案)

2017年江苏省专转本英语模拟试题第九套

Part I Reading comprehension:(共20小题,每题2分，共40分)

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

Passage 1

Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins.

People in California love to talk about “zero-emissions vehicles,” but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants most all use fire to make it. Aside from the few folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by something — usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning https://www.360docs.net/doc/5417447738.html,

In other words, those “zero-emissions” cars are likely coal-burning cars. It's just the coal is burned somewhere else so it looks clean. It is not. It’s as if the California Greens are covering their eyes —“If I can’t see it, it’s not happening.” Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat — at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc.

A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won't get you nearly as far — so electric cars burn more fuel than gas-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes, or geothermal, or hydro, or solar, or wind, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and economic reasons, we don’t use much of those energy sources.

In addition, electric cars’ batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill. And finally, when cars are the polluters, the

pollution is spread across all the roads. When it’s a power plant, though, all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot.

1 What does “clueless” mean in paragraph 2?

A) The California Greens are covering their eyes.

B) People in California love to talk about zero-emissions vehicles

C) People in California love to have their roofs covered with solar cells

D) People there have no idea that so far electricity mainly comes from burning coal, oil, etc.

2 According to the passage, why the California Greens hold the idea “If I can’t see it, it’s not happening.”?

A) They do not know those clean cars are likely coal-burning cars.

B) They do believe that the coal is burned somewhere else so it looks clean.

C) They tend to hold that electricity is a nice part of https://www.360docs.net/doc/5417447738.html,

D) They tend to maintain that gasoline is a good way to run a vehicle.

3. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car run __________.

A) not less than 25 miles.

B) more than 25 miles.

C) no less than 25 miles.

D) not more than 25 miles.

4 Compared with cars using gas, electric cars __________

A) do not burn fuel and more environmental.

B) are toxic and it is difficult for nature to clean it up when their batteries are buried in one spot.

C) are very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated

D) are poisonous for a long time and will eventually end up in a landfill.

5. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

A) Being green is good and should be encouraged in communications

B) Electric cars are not clean in that we get electricity mainly by burning something.

C) Zero-emissions vehicles should be chosen to protect our environment.

D) Electric cars are now the dominant vehicle compared with gasoline-powered cousins.

Passage Two

Rising global carbon dioxide levels tied to global warming may not be as crucial in determining the composition of plant communities as other, localized climate changes.

"Nobody really knows what the increases in carbon dioxide are going to entail in terms of future changes in vegetation types," said Mark Brenner, a University of Florida assistant professor of paleolimnology, the study of ancient lakes. "It looks like climate changes in different areas may be more important than carbon dioxide, at least carbon dioxide by itself," he said.

Brenner’s research team based their conclusions on an analysis of sediment from two lake bottoms, one in northern Mexico and one in northern Guatemala. The researchers used new techniques that allowed them to analyze only the remains of land plants, specifically their leaf waxes. By measuring the composition of the leaf waxes, the researchers were able to distinguish two broad categories of plants living in these areas -- so-called C3 and C4 plants, which have different photosynthetic(光合作用) processes. Many C4 plants are tropical grasses, while most tropical trees are C3 plants. The researchers analyzed sediments(沉积物) deposited over the last 27,000 years, from the last ice age to the current geological period. Over this period, there was a worldwide, relatively uniform increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

Brenner said that if carbon dioxide played the major role in determining plant composition, one would assume that analysis of the sediments would reveal very similar changes in relative abundance of C3 and C4 plants in the two places over the study period. But, in fact, the researchers found that trends in the two types of plants were different at the two locations. The changes were related not with carbon dioxide levels, but with shifts in rainfall. "The result appears to be that climate factors, especially moisture availability, determine whether C4 or C3 plants

dominate in an area, not carbon dioxide," Brenner said.

Many scientists believe global warming will cause major variation in local climates worldwide, with some wet areas becoming dry and dry areas becoming wet. If that happens, it could have more impact on relative C3 versus C4 plant distribution than the rising carbon dioxide levels.

6. What can be inferred in the first paragraph?

A) Climate changes are more important to the composition of plant communities than rising global carbon dioxide.

B) Localized climate shifts may not be as crucial as carbon dioxide.

C) Nobody knows which one is important.

D) Carbon dioxide levels is crucial to the global warming.

7. What is Mark Brenner?

A) He studies co-author’s opinion.

B) He is assisting the University of Florida.

C) He is an expert in the field of ancient lakes.

D) His research team composed of six geologists and geographers.

8. According to the third paragraph, which one is NOT true?

A) Tropical grasses are usually C4 plants.

B) C3 and C4 plants used to live in northern Mexico and Guatemala.

C) C3 and C4 plants don’t have the same processes.

D) Tropical trees are all C3 plants.

9. Why, in the 4th paragraph, the researchers found that trends in C3 and C4 plants were different at the two locations?

A) The assumption that carbon dioxide played the major role is wrong.

B) The carbon dioxide played an important role.

C) The moisture availability was different.

D) The carbon dioxide level was different.

10 What’s the main idea of the passage?

A) Climates factors determine the plant distribution and composition of plant communities.

B) Global warming will cause major variation.

C) How has Brenner’s research team proved a truth.

D) C3 and C4 plants are important plants in determining the composition of plant communities.

Passage 3

Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.

The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn culture one has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald’s. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging.

The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia or even blindness.

Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience. They have not rushed into situations but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your adversary, know your audience, and know your customer.

11. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A）All international managers can learn culture.

B）Business diversity is not necessary.

C）Views differ on how to treat culture in business world.

D）Most people do not know foreign culture well.

12. According to the author, the model of Pepsi.

A）is in line with the theories of the school advocating the business is business the world around.

B）is different from the model of McDonald’s

C）shows the reverse of globalization

D）has converged cultural differences

13. The two schools of thought.

A）both propose that companies should tailor business approaches to individual cultures

B）both advocate that different policies be set up in different countries

C）admit the existence of cultural diversity in business world

D）Both A and B

14. This article is supposed to be most useful for those.

A）who are interested in researching the topic of cultural diversity

B）who have connections to more than one type of culture

C）who want to travel abroad

D）who want to run business on International Scale

15. According to Fortune, successful international companies.

A）earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas

B）all have the quality of patience

C）will follow the overseas local cultures

D）adopt the policy of internationalization

Passage 4

There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey.

A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may

be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, and gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.

By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.

On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.

Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”

The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.

16.The passage is mainly concerned with .

A）the different tastes of people for sports B）the different characteristics of sports

C）the attraction of football D）the attraction of baseball

17.Those who don’t like baseball may complain that.

A）it is only to the taste of the old B）it involves fewer players than football C）it is not exciting enough D）it is pretentious and looks funny

18.The author admits that.

A）baseball is too peaceful for the young

B）baseball may seem boring when watched on TV

C）football is more attracting than baseball

D）baseball is more interesting than football

19.By stating “I could have had my eyes closed.” the author means (4th paragraph last sentence).

A）The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game

B）Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the result

C）The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well

D）The consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it

20.We can safely conclude that the author.

A）likes football B）hates football C）hates baseball D）likes baseball

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (共40小题,每题1分，共40分)

Directions: In this part there are forty incomplete sentences. Each sentence is followed by four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence and .then mark your answer on the answer sheet.

21. The fifth generation computers, with artificial intelligence, ________ and perfected now.

A) developed

B) have developed

C) are being developed

D) will have been developed

22. This ticket ________ you to a free meal in our new restaurant.

A) gives

B) grants

C) entitles

D) credits

23. You ________ her in her office last Friday; she’s been out of town for two weeks.

A) needn’t have seen

B) must have seen

C) might have seen

D) can’t have seen

24. That was so serious a matter that I had no choice but ________ the police.

A) called in

B) calling in

C) call in

D) to call in

25. She was so ________ in her job that she didn’t hear anybody knocking at the door.

A) attracted

B) absorbed

C) drawn

D) concentrated

26. ________ as it was at such a time, his work attracted much attention.

A) Being published

B) Published

C) Publishing

D) To be published

27. At first, the speaker was referring to the problem of pollution in the country, but halfway in her speech, she suddenly ________ to another subject.

A) committed

B) switched

C) favoured

D) transmitted

28. It is politely requested by the hotel management that radios ________ after

11 o’clock at night.

A) were not played

B) not to play

C) not be played

D) did not play

29. Although I like the appearance of the house, what really made me decide to buy it was the beautiful ________ through the window.

A) vision

B) look

C) picture

D) view

30. Cancer is second only ________ heart disease as a cause of death.

A) of

B) to

C) with

D) from

31. Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the ________ movie could not hold our attention.

A) three-hours

B) three-hour

C) three-hours’

D) three-hour’s

32. The manager needs an assistant that he can ________ to take care of problems in his absence.

A) count on

B) count in

C) count up

D) count out

33. The organization had broken no rules, but ________ had it acted responsibly.

A) neither

B) so

C) either

D) both

34. We gave out a cheer when the red roof of the cottage came ________ view.

A) from

B) in

C) before

D) into

35. They took ________ measures to prevent poisonous gases from escaping.

A) fruitful

B) beneficial

C) valid

D) effective

36. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true ________ it comes to classroom tests.

A) when

B) since

C) before

D) after

37. Careful surveys have indicated that as many as 50 percent of patients do not take drugs ________ directed.

A) like

B) so

C) which

D) as

38. In developing countries people are ________ into overcrowded cities in great numbers.

A) breaking

B) filling

C) pouring

D) hurrying

39. It’s reported that by the end of this month the output of cement in the factory ________ by about 10%.

A) will have risen

B) has risen

C) will be rising

D) has been rising

40. If I had remembered ________ the window, the thief would not have got in.

A) to close

B) closing

C) to have closed

D) having closed

41. There are other problems which I don’t propose to ________ at the moment.

A) go into

B) go around

C) go for

D) go up

42. Don’t get your schedule ________; stay with us in this class.

A) to change

B) changing

C) changed

D) change

43. It is quite necessary for a qualified teacher to have good manners and ________ knowledge.

A) extensive

B) expansive

C) intensive

D) expensive

44. Jean doesn’t want to work right away because she thinks that if she ________

a jo

b she probably wouldn’t be able to see her friends very often.

A) has to get

B) were to get

C) had got

D) could have got

45. I felt somewhat disappointed and was about to leave, ________ something occurred which attracted my attention.

A) unless

B) until

C) when

D) while

46. A love marriage, however, does not necessarily ________ much sharing of interests and responsibilities.

A) take over

B) result in

C) hold on

D) keep to

47. The ability to store knowledge makes computers different form every other machine ________ invented.

A) ever

B) thus

C) yet

D) as

48. I’m not sure whether I can gain any profit from the investment, so I can’t make a(n) ________ promise to help you.

A) exact

B) defined

C) definite

D) sure

49. I have kept that portrait ________ I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of my university days in London.

A) which

B) where

C) whether

D) when

50. The sports meet, originally due to be held last Friday, was finally ________ because of the bad weather.

A) set off

B) broken off

C) worn off

D) called off

51. He came back late, ________ which time all the guests had already left.

A) after

B) by

C) at

D) during

52. I’m very sorry to have ________ you with so many questions on such an occasion.

A) interfered

B) offended

C) impressed

D) bothered

53. If the whole operation ________ beforehand a great deal of time and money would have been lost.

A) was not planned

B) has not been planned

C) had not been planned

D) was not planned

54. The price of beer ________ from 50 cents to $4 per liter during the summer

season.

A) altered

B) ranged

C) separated

D) differed

55. His remarks left me ________ about his real purpose.

A) wondered

B) wonder

C) to wonder

D) wondering

56. I have heard both teachers and students ________ well of him.

A) to speak

B) spoken

C) to have spoken

D) speak

57. Our son doesn’t know what to ________ at the university; he can’t make up his mind about his future.

A) take in

B) take up

C) take over

D) take after

58. The house was very quiet, ________ as it was on the side of a mountain.

A) isolated

B) isolating

C) being isolated

D) having been isolated

59. Although they plant trees in this area every year, the tops of some hills are still ________.

A) blank

B) hollow

C) vacant

D) bare

60. Being a pop star can be quite a hard life, with a lot of traveling ________ heavy schedules.

A) with regard to

B) as to

C) in relation to

D) owing to

Part III Cloze (共20小题，每题1分，共20分)

Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices. Choose the one that best fits into the passage and then mark your answer on the answer sheet.

When a person walks, the movement of his head, trunk, hipbones and limbs are all reflected in changes in his body. A computer 61 these changes into a database. Later, the computers can accurately 62 him according to these changes. This is a new biological identification method and it can quickly identify an examinee 63 disturbing him. It's especially suitable for use in airports and supermarkets.

Everybody's voice is 64 . When a person's voice is recorded by an __65__, its voice frequency spectrum is called his sound print. Like a fingerprint, everybody's sound print is different. How can computers 66 his sound? First, his voice is recorded, which allows the computers to become familiar ___67__ his voice. It will then turn his sound characteristics into a ___68 of digits. These digits ___69___ the frequency, pitch and rhythm of the person's voice. These are the 70 on which the computers can distinguish his voice from 71 .

When that person needs to be identified, after he says only one word or two, the computers can identify him. The computers can even identify sounds coming 72 the wires. This will provide a safer 73 to electric banks and electric purchases.

We often bring ID cards, work cards, or driver licenses with us to ___74__ our identity. If all these cards are forgotten or lost, how can we prove 75 we are? In fact, it's not difficult to prove whom you are, because your body 76 has identifying

markers. Some are physiological features, such as fingerprints, sounds, facial types and eye color. The computer can help to identify you. __77_ your features have already been stored in the database. To identify you, we have to take your picture with a camera and send it to a computer for 78 . First, the computer needs to reposition this picture according to the position of your eyes, and then starts to read the message of your physiological features such as the 79 of your pupil to the whites of your eyes and the shape of your nose. Next, it seeks matching records from the database. Finally, it makes a 80 .

61. A checks B stores C revises D modifies

62. A identify B distinguish C convey D strike

63. A without B with C for D in

64 A identical B similar C unique D sole

65. A implement B appliance C instrument D equipment

66. A hear B understand C record D distinguish

67 A to B in C on D with

68. A series B package C line D pair

69. A reverse B represent C reveal D recession

70. A origin B cause C reason D basis

71 A other's B another's C each other's D one another's

72. A at B on C in D through

73. A assure B guarantee C ensure D confirm

74. A cause B make C prove D leave

751A whom B how C what D where

76. A oneself B themselves C itself D himself

77 A Provide B Suppose C Imagine D Give

78. A processing B copying C coloring D revising

79 A size B type C ratio D shape

80. A recommendation B contribution C proposal D decision

第二卷（共50分）

Part IV Translation(共35分)

Section A(共5小题，每题4分，共20分)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into Chinese. You may refer to the corresponding passages in Part I.

81. Aside from the few folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators.

82. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot.

83. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection.

84. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball.

85. Brenner said that if carbon dioxide played the major role in determining plant composition, one would assume that analysis of the sediments would reveal very similar changes in relative abundance of C3 and C4 plants in the two places over the study period.

Section B (共5小题，每题3分，共15分)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English

86. 他这次考试失败使他意识到定期复习功课是多么重要。

87. 请一定不要忘记离家前你父母对你说过的话。

88. 即使智力一般的学生也可以通过改进学习习惯而成为优等生。

89. 她读这部小说时，不禁想起了她在农村度过的那五年。

90. 我们认为他不能在一刻钟内走完那段距离，但他却成功地做到了这一点。

Part V Writing (共15分)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: "Why Should We Attach Importance to Education? You should write no less than 120 words in three paragraphs and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below.

1.有些大学允许学生自由选择某些课程的任课教师

2.学生选择教师时所考虑的主要因素

3.学生自选任课教师的益处和可能产生的问题

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