西安交通大学网络教育2013年专升本《大学英语》入学测试复习题

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Questions 71~75 are based on the following passage:

The American definition of success is largely one of acquiring wealth and a high material standard of living. It is not surprising, therefore, that Americans have valued education for its monetary value. The belief is widespread in the United States that the more schooling people have, the more money they will earn when they leave school. The belief is strongest regarding the desirability of a undergraduate university degree, or a professional degree such as medicine or law following the undergraduate degree. The monetary value of graduate degree in “nonprofessional ” fields such as art, history, or philosophy is not as great.

The belief in the monetary value of education is supported by statistics on income. Ben Wattenberg, a social scientist, estimated that in the course of a lifetime a man with a college degree in 1972 would earn about $380 000 more than a man with just a high school diploma. Perhaps this helps to explain survey findings which showed that the Americans who wished they had lived their lives differently on some way regretted most of all that they did not get more education.

71. What most Americans like most about higher education is ____. A. its cultural value

B. its monetary value

C. its moral value D. its material value

72. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

A. Americans take success as acquiring wealth and a higher material standard of living. B. In American people’s mind eyes, education has its monetary value. C. Education is the only way to acquire wealth. D. A person’s income is related to his schooling.

73. The passage says that people have stronger desire to ____. A. study medicine B. study history

A. not having much education

B. having too much unnecessary education C. living differently D. earning $ 380 000

75. In this passage, the writer wanted to show us ____.

A. the earlier you start to work, the better you live

B. education is very important in the American society

C. people with little education are looked down upon by others everywhere in the United

States

D. Americans take money seriously

III. Cloze (1 marks each)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices

C. study law D. both A and C

74. In the survey findings, some Americans regretted ____.

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marked A, B, C and D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the one answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil. Smoking, which may be a pleasure for some people, is a serious source of discomfort for their fellows. 76 medical authorities express their 77 about the effect of smoking 78 the health not only 79 those who smoke but also of those who do not. In fact, non-smokers who must involuntarily inhale the air80 by tobacco smoke may 81 more than the smokers themselves. As you are doubtlessly 82 that a considerable number of our students have 83 in an effort to 84 the university to ban smoking in the classroom. I believe they are85 right in their aim. 86, I would hope that it is 87 to achieve this by 88 the smokers to use good judgment and show concern 89 others rather than by regulation.

Smoking is 90 by City by-laws in theaters and in halls used for 91 films as well as in laboratories where there 92 be a fire hazard. Elsewhere, it is up to your good sense.

I am 93 asking you to maintain94 in the auditoriums, classrooms and seminar rooms. This will prove that you have the non-smokers’ health and well-being 95, which is very important to a large number of our students. 76. A. Still

B. More B. trouble B. in B. about B. cleaned B. suffer

C. Again C. interest C. with C. with C. dirty C. undergo

D. Further D. displeasure D. to D. of D. fresh

D. put up with D. informed D. joined D. tell D. wholly D. Moreover D. possible D. calling on D. in

D. prevented D. exhibiting D. must D. so

D. Non—Smoke”

77. A. concern 78. A. on 79. A. so

80. A. polluted 81. A. endure 82. A. alert 83. A. linked 84. A. make 85. A. entirely 86. A. But then 87. A. likely 88. A. pleading

B. awake B. connected B. persuade B. totally

C. aware C. associated C. cause C. just C. Further C. capable C. insisting

B. However B. probable B. begging B. for B. stopped

89. A. with 90. A. prohibited 91. A. playing 92. A. will 93. A. hence 94. A. “No Smoking” 95. A. on mind

C. to C. suppressed

B. demonstrating C. showing B. should C. may B. therefore C. subsequently B. “Non-Smokers” C. “No-Smoke”

C. in mind

B. in heart D. on your mind

IV. Translation from English into Chinese (15 marks)

Directions: In this part there is a passage with 5 underlined parts, numbered 96~100. After reading the passage carefully, you should translate the underlined parts into Chinese.

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(96) The invention of electronic computers makes it possible to free man from the labour of complicated measurement and computation. A high speed electronic computer can carry out up to one hundred million arithmetical operations in one second. A computation which would have taken years of human work in the past is now done in a few seconds. 97) A number of various complicated problems which could not be solved before have been solved with the help of computers.

Accurate measurement and exact computation are the bases of modern engineering and scientific research. Every engineering worker must determine accurately the amount of any change that the material to be used undergoes in different conditions.

And every science worker will have to make numerous accurate computations before he can say that the results of his experiment are correct. 98) Yet there exist complex computations in science and engineering which science workers are unable to make because they are too long and too complicate. Here is an example which can illustrate how much time some of them may take. In order to solve a complicated chemical problem a chemistry worker must make about four million operations. (99) It would take him years to work the problem out, while electronic computing machine would do the same job only in a few second. We may divide electronic computers into two groups: machines that can control and those that can count. The former is used in satellites, guided missiles, weather-forecasting instruments and other devices, both simple and sophisticated. And the later can add, subtract, multiply and divide. (100) Such machines are to do any operation which we can reduce to arithmetic. Besides, they are able to combine many problems and take them in any order. V. Chinese-English Translation (15 points)

Directions:

There are five sentences in Chinese in this part. Please translate them into English and write your translations on the ANSWER SHEET . 101．电能用来驱动机器。

102．我们把英语作为学习西方先进科学技术的一种工具。 103．我们不知道其它星球上是否有生物存在。 104．给我看看你在长城照的照片好吗？ 105．我答应一接到她的信就回信。

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复习题（一）

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