专升本英语考试试卷及答案(1)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Should College Students Take Part-time Jobs? You should write in at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below.1. 人们对大学生打工的不同看法2. 大学生究竟是否应该打工

I take it for granted that he must be sentenced____.

The tutor asked his students to leave a wide ____ when typing their essays.

Bring the umbrella on the picnic even though you don’t anticipate ____ it.

The flight was supposed to take off at nine o’clock but ____ we had to wait until ten.

Never before ____ such a smoke in the room.

No one ____ that to his face.

I don’t doubt ____ the plan will be well-conceived.

The train arrived twenty minutes late, but we were not told what caused the ____.

Who allowed you ____ my car?

Will all those ____ the proposal raise their hands?

Tom doesn’t want to take part in any school activities,____.

Many people complain of the rapid ____ of modern life.

I hope my boss will take my recent illness into ____ when judging my performance at work.

Cars moved very slowly in the 1930s, but they ____ move more quickly than in the 1920s.

An efficient engine is____ of fuel.

They’ve done ____ with compulsory Latin for university entrance at our university.

Some areas, ____ their severe weather conditions, are hardly populated.

When I was very young, I was terribly frightened of school, but I soon ____ it.

It is desirable that the course in general science ____ taken before the chemistry course.

I never thought he would let us down like that; I always ____ him.

The terrible noise is ____ me mad.

We had to start at exactly the same time, so we had our watches ____.

You think you are clever,____, I assure you that you are very foolish.

My fingernails are so ____ that they break off before they get long enough to polish.

The brave man was greatly honoured when the organizer announced, “You____ a medal!”

All imported wine were made to pay heavy ____.

Both sides in the conflict agreed to ____.

American women were ____ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

When snow ____ on top of a building during the winter, the weight sometimes weakens the construction, and occasionally causes the roof to collapse.

What is the best title for the passage?

A new product should be judged not by the promises made in commercials and advertisements, but by the results ____.

The following statements about the E-mail have been mentioned EXCEPT ____.

The word “that” in the last sentence of the third paragraph most possibly means ____.

Which of the following is NOT true about MessageLabs?

The last paragraph of this passage may be concluded with the statement that ____.

Few observers have a better view of that ocean of exchanging gossip called E-mail than Mark Sunner. The chief technology officer of E-mail management company MessageLabs, Sunner oversees a network that processes 4.5 million letters each day. Servers operated and maintained by MessageLabs manage mail delivery and routing for a number of companies, including Bank of England and Condé Nast Publications. In fact, all of MessageLabs’ customers are corporations whose daily E-mail output and inflow has soared with the growth of the Web. “E-mail usage has increased massively in the last couple of years,” he says. Indeed, MessageLabs estimates that it has gone from 10 a day per employee as recently as two years ago to more like 20 or 30 now.

 The implications for Corporate America are equally huge. According to E-mail researcher and consultant David Ferris, companies can expect the volume of E-mail coursing through their servers to grow 60% to 80% in 2002. And as individual messages grow in size - they’re now more likely to contain memory - companies could end up paying 100% to 150% more just this year on systems to store and manage those messages. That’s why tech consultancy Radicati Group expects demand for soft ware that manages E-mail, such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, to grow from $2.6 billion in sales today to $4.4 billion by 2005. Too much of this money will be spent in controlling pure junk. About 20% of the E-mail MessageLabs manages is unwanted, according to Sunner - who adds that about 1.25% of all the E-mail his company moves contains useless attachments. Already, the cost of handling spam（垃圾邮件）is estimated at $8.6 billion worldwide, according to a 2001 European Union study. And the barrage of pornographic spam has made some companies worried that employees might sue on grounds of disturbance arising from exposure to unwanted unpleasantness.

The first sentence of this passage “Few observers have a better view of that ocean of exchanging gossip called E-mail than Mark Sunner” most probably means ____.

One motion（提议）is adopted by the Security Council only if ____.

The passage introduces all things about the Security Council EXCEPT____.

The Security Council is the most powerful body in the UN. It is responsible for maintaining international peace, and for restoring peace when conflicts arise. Its decisions are binding on all UN members. The Security Council has the power to define what is a threat to security, to determine how the UN should respond, and to enforce its decisions by ordering UN members to take certain actions. The Council convenes（召集）any time there is a threat to peace. A representative from each member country who sits on the Council must be available at all times so that the Council can meet at a moment’s notice. The Security Council also frequently meets at the request of a UN member - often a nation with a grievance about another nation’s actions.

 The Security Council has 15 members; five of which hold permanent seats. The Assembly elects the other ten members for two-year terms. The five permanent members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), and China - have the most power. These nations were the winning powers at the end of World War II, and they still represent the bulk of the world’s military might. Decisions of the Council require nine votes. But any one of the permanent members can veto an important decision. This authority is known as the veto right of the great powers. As a result, the Council is effective only when its permanent members can reach a consensus（一致同意）.

The Council has a variety of ways it can try to resolve conflicts among countries. Usually the Council’s first step is to encourage the countries to settle their disagreements without violence. The Council can mediate a dispute or recommend guidelines for a settlement. It can send peacekeeping troops into a distressed area. If war breaks out, the Council can call for a ceasefire. It can enforce its decisions by imposing economic sanctions on a country, or through joint military action.

Which is TRUE in the following statements according to the passage?

The Security Council is effective only when its permanent members can reach a consensus because ____.

According to the passage, the following statements are true EXCEPT ____.

According to the author, the last paragraph mainly deals with ____.

Which conclusion can be drawn based on the opinions from the Japanese people (in paragraph 2 and 4 of this passage)

By saying “countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English,” the author implies that ____.

Doors and windows can’t keep them out; airport immigration officers can’t stop them and the Internet is an absolute reproduction soil. They seem harmless in small doses, but large imports threaten Japan’s very uniqueness, say critics. “They are foreign words and they are infecting the Japanese language” Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language,” says Yoko Fujimura with little anger, a 60-year-old Tokyo restaurant worker. “Its becoming incomprehensible.” It’s not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca-Cola, for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth. It is made worse for Japan, however, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances - except Chinese - in a different script. called katakana（片假名）. It is the only country to maintain such a distinction. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji - the core pictograph（象形文字）characters that the Japanese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to resemble extended strings of lights. As if that weren’t enough, katakana terms tend to get confusing. For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear-pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtle. “It’s very frustrating not knowing what young people are talking about,” says humorously Minoru Shiratori, a 53-year-old bus driver. “Sometimes I can’t tell if they’re discussing cameras or turtles.”

   In a bid to stop the flood of katakana, the government has formed a Foreign Words Committee to find suitable Japanese replacements. The committee is slightly different from French-style. language police, which try to support a law that forbids advertising in English. Rather, committee members and traditionalists hope a sustained campaign of persuasion, gentle criticism and leadership by example can turn the tide.

According to the last two paragraphs, the appropriate snacks that theparents provide will ____.

Which of the following is NOT recommended for the break during the children’s study after class?

The words “this way” in the sentence “But most homes aren’t run this way” in the first paragraph most possibly means ____.

According to the passage, the expert named Martin, appearing in the second paragraph, most probably takes up the following jobs EXCEPT ____.

Teachers always plan down to the minute what their students will be doing. This is good for kids, because it teaches them to stay on task and follow a schedule. But most homes aren’t run this way. If parents do plan their children’s lives minute by minute, what happens when that child grows up and goes to college? At some point, kids need to learn to manage their own time. This can be one of the valuable skills you help your kids develop outside of school. But it generally won’t happen all by itself, because there’s a big transition that happens when kids leave the structured school environment and come home. If you have kid stay alone at home, think hard about trying to find an adult who can be there and provide the support your child needs. If a supportive adult isn’t available, an expert named Martin recommends you find an after-school program led by experienced professionals who will engage them in creative activities, nourish them with healthy snacks, and assist them with their schoolwork. If you are at home on the contrary, to take some break after the guys get started on diversions, because it’s hard to stop and do something like homework.“If that little bit of downtime is television, good luck ... getting them to do their homework.” says a professor of child development at California State University, “TV is addictive.” A better way to help your child unwind is with a healthy snack. “Wait until dinner, make a plate full of energizing food. You could even dish up part of the dinner you’re preparing a little early for the kids,”she says. While you’re sharing a snack, you can make a list of what your kids will get to do during their study breaks. The types of breaks recommended include shooting baskets, getting a drink, using the bathroom, or even playing a quick card game with parents. Your kids can be the ones to decide which breaks they’d like to take. But, as Freimuth says, your children will have to be honest about what kind of break will energize them and not upset their momentum.

The main purpose of this passage is ____.