2002年陕西专升本（英语）真题试卷

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 professor needs an assistant that he can______ to take care of problems in his absence.

A．count in
B．count up
C．count on
D．count out

1. I am not sure whether I can get any profit from the business, so I can"t make a(n)______ decision abut what to do next.

A．exact
B．denied
C．sure
D．definite

2. Because of the cold weather, they______ through the night in the camp.

A．kept the burning fire
B．kept the fire burning
C．kept the fire burnt
D．kept burning the fire

3. Convenience foods which are already prepared for cooking are______ in stores.

A．ready
B．available
C．probable
D．approachable

4. Many people are reported______ in the natural disaster.

A．being killed
B．to be killed
C．to have killed
D．to have been killed

5. If the whole surgery______ beforehand carefully, there would have been a better result.

A．was planned
B．has been planned
C．had been planned
D．were planned

6. Jane has said little so far, responding only briefly when______.

A．spoken
B．speaking to
C．speaking
D．spoken to

7. ______ to finish quickly.

A．Not every worker want
B．No every workers want
C．Not every worker wants
D．No every worker wants

8. The photos on the wall______ grandma of those happy old days when a large family lived together.

A．recall
B．retain
C．remember
D．remind

9. You"d better tell me beforehand if______ go with me.

A．you"ll rather not
B．you won"t rather
C．you"d rather not
D．you"d rather not to

10. We all hope he"ll soon______ his disappointment and be happy again.

A．get through
B．get away
C．get up
D．get down

11. The problem of environment protection has been studied______.

A．extremely
B．intensively
C．originally
D．violently

12. All games______ because of the rainstorm, many students could do nothing but study in the classroom.

A．were canceled
B．having been canceled
C．had been canceled
D．have been canceled

13. "Did you buy anything at the clothing store?"    "Yes. I bought three______ shirts for just $120."

A．fifty-dollar
B．fifties-dollar
C．fifty-dollars
D．fifties-dolls

14. By the time you get back, great changes______ in this area.

A．will take place
B．will be taken place
C．are going to take place
D．will have taken place

15. The boy______ now for the light in his room is still on.

A．must study
B．must be studying
C．must have studied
D．would study

16. ______ she was living in Paris that she met her husband Terry.

A．Just then
B．It was while
C．Soon after
D．During the time when

17. Technical schools prepare their students for the application of practical skills they learn in class______ their work.

A．to
B．in
C．for
D．of

18. His written English was first-class, and he had a(n)______ vocabulary for a sophomore.

A．intimate
B．initial
C．inevitable
D．incredible

19. After the company______ the problem of unfair competition, its sales figures dropped to a record low.

A．look into
B．ran into
C．come into
D．put into

20. John isn"t a diligent student, for it is the third time he has been late, ______?

A．wasn"t
B．hasn"t it
C．isn"t it
D．hasn"t he

21. He told me______ afraid because I had done nothing wrong.

A．to be not
B．not to be
C．not being
D．being not

22. Last year, the production rate______ by 20%.

A．rose
B．raised
C．arose
D．aroused

23. I hope that the good weather______ for the rest of our trip.

A．holds up
B．holds down
C．holds out
D．holds in

24. Each person in the world has a(n)______ personality. They are different from one another.

A．only
B．sole
C．unique
D．one

25. With all the work on hand, he______ to the cinema last night.

A．should go
B．must have gone
C．shouldn"t have gone
D．might have gone

26. I am sorry to______ your feelings.

A．have spoilt
B．have destroyed
C．have hurt
D．have damaged

27. He is so wise a man that all the people______.

A．look him up
B．look into him
C．look up to him
D．look to him

28. Yon can write the paper______ you like.

A．whatever
B．however
C．anyway
D．some way

29. I don"t doubt______ she will learn a lot during her stay in China.

A．whether
B．if
C．that
D．what

30. Though Mum is very busy, she always______ some time every day to read to her children.

A．sets off
B．sets in
C．sets aside
D．sets up

31. These three girls help______ to clean the house.

A．one another
B．each other
C．one and the other
D．one and other

32. The teacher recommended that Jack______ math or physics instead of English because he was quick at numbers.

A．must study
B．could study
C．study
D．studied

33. He participated in the reconstruction of the city______ the war was over.

A．before long
B．soon after
C．long after
D．soon before

34. Only by making wise use of land______ to find a solution to the problem of hunger and famine.

A．we can be
B．we will be able
C．will we be able
D．can we

35. A teacher who is______ to the needs of individual student is sure to achieve some success.

A．serious
B．sensitive
C．secure
D．senior

36. Nobody ______ any more to say, the meeting was closed.

A．had
B．has had
C．having
D．had had

37. When the guests were gone, she______ the tea-things in the cupboard.

A．put up
B．put off
C．put away
D．put in

38. Staying in a hotel costs______ renting a room in an apartment for a week.

A．twice more than
B．twice as much as
C．as much as twice
D．much as twice as

39. One and a half years______ passed.

A．are
B．were
C．have
D．has

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.Population tends to grow at an exponential(指数的)rate. This means that they progressively double. As an example of this type of growth rate, take one penny and double every day for one month. After the first week, you would have only 64 cents, but after the fourth week you would have over a million dollars.
  This helps explain why the population has come on "all of a sudden". It took from the beginning of human life to the year 1830 for the population of the earth to reach one billion. That repents(缓慢进行)a time span of at least two million years. Then it took from 1830 to 1930 for world population to reach 2 billion. The next billion was added by 1960, only thirty years, and in 1975 world population reached 4 billion, which is another billion people in only fifteen years.
  World population is increasing at a rate of 9000 per hour, 220000 per day, and 80 million per year. This is not only due to higher birth rate, but to lower death rate as well. The number of births has not declined at the same rate as the number of deaths.
  Some countries, such as Columbia, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, are doubling their population about every twenty-one years, with a growth rate of 3.3% a year or more. The United States is doubling its population about very eighty-seven years, with a rate of 0.8% per year. Every time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, schools, resources, food and medicines to care for its people. It is easy to see that this is very difficult to achieve for the more rapidly growing countries.
This passage chiefly discusses______.

A．the growth of world population
B．one type of the exponential rate
C．the population problem of more rapidly growing countries
D．the possible ways of dealing with the rapid population growth

1.
According to the passage, what helps to explain why the population problem has come on "all of a sudden"?

A．The penny that doubles itself every day for one month
B．The time span of at least two million years in human history
C．An illustration of the exponent growth rate given by the author
D．The large amount of money you would luckily make after the fourth week

2.
It took______ for the world to increases its population from 1 billion to 4 billion.

A．100 years
B．145 years
C．1975 years
D．over two million years

3.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．World population is increasing at a rate of 150 per minute
B．lower death rate also contributes to world population growth
C．The population of Columbia has been doubling every year for 21 years
D．The United States is usually doubling its population on about every 87 years

4.
When a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including______.

A．hospitals and medicines
B．schools and students
C．food and manpower resources
D．all of the above

5.Women are, on the whole, more verbal than men. They are good at language and verbal reasoning, while men tend to be skilled at tasks demanding visual—spatial(视空)abilities. In fact, along with aggression, these are the most commonly accepted difference between these sexes.
  Words are tools for communicating with other people, especially information about people. They are mainly social tools. Visual and spatial abilities are good for imagining and manipulating objects and for communicating information about them. Are these talents programmed into the brain? In some of the newest and most controversial research in neurophysiology(神经生理学), it has been suggested that when it comes to the brain, males are specialists while women are generalists.
  But one knows that, if anything, this means in terms of the abilities of the two sexes. Engineering is both Visual and spatial, and it"s true that there are relatively few women engineers. But women become just as skilled as men at shooting a rifle or driving a car, task that involve visual-spatial skills. They also do equally well at programming a computer, which is neither visual nor spatial. Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves. We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity. A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle, or computer as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating.
According to the massage, women are usually good at______.

A．body language
B．logical reasoning
C．tasks demanding for the use of words
D．both A and B

6.
The word "accepted" in the last sentence of the first paragraph, roughly means______.

A．believed
B．assumed
C．received
D．reconciled

7.
In the author"s opinion, visual and spatial abilities are good for______.

A．achieving one"s objects
B．mind and body
C．programming talents into the brain
D．imagination and communication

8.
All the following tasks involve visual-spatial abilities EXCEPT______.

A．imagining and handling objects
B．providing a computer with a set of instructions
C．shooting a gun and driving an automobile
D．planning and making things as an engineer does

9.
Why do women seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves?

A．Because they have no visual-spatial skills
B．Because they are only good at language and verbal reasoning
C．Because they are less likely to see their charming or interesting aspects
D．Because they rarely use machines such as cars, rifles, computers, etc

10.The U. S. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake "belt". The government is. spending a great deal money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions: ① Can we predict earthquakes? ② Can we control earthquakes?
  To answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault (断层)systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is break between two sections of the earth"s surface. These breaks between sections are the place where earthquake occurs. Scientists look at the faults for changes that might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately. And the control of earthquakes is even farther away.
  Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes, The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was put into a layer of rocks 4000 meters below surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water, there was a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into rocks works like oil on each other. When the water "oiled" the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released. Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a Connection between injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change the big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.
Earthquake belts are______.

A．maps that show where earthquakes are likely to occur
B．zones with a high probability of earthquakes
C．breaks between two sections of the earth"s surface
D．the two layers of earth along a fault

11.
The San Andreas fault is______.

A．an active fault system
B．a place where earthquakes have been predicted accurately
C．a place where earthquake have been controlled
D．the location of the Rocky Mountain

12.
What did scientists learn about earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal?

A．They occur at bout 4000 meters below ground level
B．The injection of water into earthquake faults prevents earthquakes from occurring
C．They are usually caused by the oil in the faults
D．Harmful earthquakes can be possibly prevented by causing small harmless earthquake

13.
What can be said about the experiments at Rocky Mountain Arsenal?

A．They have no practical value in earthquake prevention
B．They may have practical value in earthquake prevention
C．They are certain to have practical value in earthquake prevention
D．The article does not say anything about their practioal value earthquake prevention

14.
What is the most appropriate title for the passage?

A．Dangers of Earthquake
B．Earthquake Belts and Prediction
C．Earthquake Prediction and Control
D．Earthquake Engineering in California

15.Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey into a goalmouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter"s triumph of killing his prey.
  To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at our forefathers. They spent over a million years evolving (进化) as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attack.
  Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting the food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use—that of controlling and domesticating (驯养) their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival.
  The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets. Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences (后果), but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that was no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other purposes, much simpler of obtaining a meaty meal.
What is the main idea of the passage? ______.

A．Hunting is very important in human civilization
B．Sporting activities satisfy the desire of modern society
C．It"s hunting that provides human beings with food
D．The importance of sporting activities in modern society

16.
According to the author, sporting activities______.

A．are essential to the survival
B．have actually developed from hunting
C．evolve as biological development
D．are football games

17.
For over a million years, our forefathers were basically______.

A．skillful sportsmen
B．successful farmers
C．runners and jumpers
D．cooperating hunters

18.
The word "operation" (para. 4) refers to______.

A．sports activities
B．hunting
C．farmers
D．prey killing

19.
Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．The goalmouth is equal to the weapon in hunting
B．Without hunting our forefathers couldn"t live
C．After our forefathers became farmers, they still hunted for food
D．Farmers are satisfied with stable lives, and they didn"t have enthusiasm for hunting any more

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.   The Red Cross is 【B1】______ organization which cares for people who are in 【B2】______ of help. A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured 【B3】______ an earthquake, and a family in India 【B4】______ lost their home in a storm may all 【B5】______ by the Red Cross.
  The Red Cross exists in almost every country 【B6】______ the world. The World Red Cross Organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent (新月), the Red Mogen David, the Sun, and the Red Lion. All of these agencies 【B7】______ a common goal of trying 【B8】______ people in need.
  The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and 【B9】______ during a war started 【B10】______ Jean Henry Dunant. In 1859, he observed 【B11】______ suffering 【B12】______ a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people 【B13】______ of which side they were 【B14】______ . The most important result of his work was an international treaty 【B15】______ the Geneva Convention(日内瓦公约). It 【B16】______ prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and 【B17】______ citizens during a war.
  The American Red Cross 【B18】______ by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of 【B19】______ for the public. Such as helping people in need, teaching first aid, 【B20】______ water safety and artificial respiration, and providing blood.

A．internationally
B．an international
C．a worldly
D．a world"s

1.(62)

A．lack
B．supply
C．necessity
D．need

2.(63)

A．in
B．at
C．by
D．on

3.(64)

A．where
B．that
C．when
D．whom

4.(65)

A．be aiding
B．be aided
C．aid
D．aided

5.(66)

A．around
B．on
C．within
D．of

6.(67)

A．belong to
B．owe
C．win
D．share

7.(68)

A．with helping
B．and help
C．to help
D．for helping

8.(69)

A．wounding
B．having wounded
C．wounded
D．being wounded

9.(70)

A．from
B．with
C．by
D．at

10.(71)

A．how were people
B．how people were
C．people were how
D．people how were

11.(72)

A．from
B．on
C．by
D．with

12.(73)

A．regardless
B．in favor
C．despite
D．on account

13.(74)

A．fought for
B．fighting for
C．fought
D．fighting

14.(75)

A．to call
B．calling
C．call
D．called

15.(76)

A．prohibits
B．protests
C．protects
D．provides

16.(77)

A．other
B．others
C．another
D．the other

17.(78)

A．was setting
B．has been set up
C．was set up
D．had been set up

18.(79)

A．services
B．helpings
C．facilities
D．money

19.(80)

A．to demonstrate
B．demonstrating
C．demonstration
D．demonstrates

四、4.Translation

0.Section A (非英语专业学生做)
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.
Every time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, schools, resources, food and medicines to care for its people.

1. A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle, or computer as a useful tool but not in itself fascinating.

2. The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake "belt".

3. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed.

4. The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets.

5.Section B (英语专业学生做)
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage in Chinese. Read it carefully and put it into English.
   中国作为一个发展中国家，面临着发展经济与保护环境双重任务。从国情出发，中国在全面推进现代化的进程中，将环境保护视为一项基本国策，将实现经济持续发展视为一项重要战略，同时在全国范围内开展污染防治工作和生态环境保护活动。
  自改革开放以来的18年中，中国国民生产总值的年均增长率为10%左右，环境恶化的状况基本得到了控制。实践证明，我们协调经济发展与环境保护两者之间关系的做法是行之有效的。
  中国作为国际社会中的成员，在努力保护自己环境的同时，还积极参与国际环保事务，促进国际环保合作，并认真履行国际义务。所有这些都充分表明了中国政府和人民保护全球环境的诚意和决心。
  人类在解决环境与发展问题中仍面临着大量的难题，任重而遭远。中国将一如既往，与其他国家合作，为保护我们的生存环境，为人类的幸福和繁荣，为造福下一代而奋斗。

五、5.Writing

0. In this part of the test, you are to write a short composition of about 120 to 150 words (non-English majors) or 150 to 180 words (English majors) based on the idea given bellow.
             Modem Life in the Modern World
1. 现代社会人们所享受到的高科技发展所带来的各种福利。
2. 高科技发展也给人们带来了种种难以承受的压力。
3. 不管怎么样，人类的前途是光明的。