2023年专升本考试样题及答案.doc

2023年陕西省一般高等教育专升本招生考试（样题）
大学英语

注意事项:
1．本卷满分为150分。考试时间为150分钟。
2．本卷分试卷一和试卷二。第一卷为客观题，考生必须把答案用2b铅笔涂抹在答题卡上；第二卷为主观题，考生直接把答案用墨迹未蓝（黑）色旳钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔写在答题纸上。

试卷一
I. Vocabulary and structure (40%)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
1. I’ll come to see you tomorrow if ______.
A. you’re convenient B. it is convenient for you
C. you feel convenient D. it is convenient with you
2. He ran as fast as he could ______ the bus.
A. catch B. to catch C. Catching D. caught
3. _______ he followed my advice, he would have succeeded.
A. When B. If C. Had D. Has
4. ______ smoking here will be fined.
A. Who B. Whomever C. Anyone D. Whoever
5. After______ seemed like hours he came out with a bitter smile.
A. which B. it C. what D. that
6. ______ is known to everybody, the moon travels round the earth once every month.
A. It B. As C. That D. What
7. He is always really rude, ______ is why people tend to avoid him.
A. that B. it C. this D. which
8. Mr. Smith is a painter, ______ I should also like to be.
A. that B. which C. who D. it
9. According to the rules, students must not ______ their books during examinations.
A. read B. watch C. notice D. look at
10. Remind him ______ the window when he leaves.
A. of closing B. closing C. to close D. close
11. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Green went to the market, ______ some bananas and visited her cousin.
A. bought B. buying C. to buy D. buy
12. It was 10 o’clock ______ the front doorbell rang.
A. where B. when C. that D. which
13. _________, we went for a swim.
A. Being hot B. It being hot C. As it is hot D. It was hot
14. Before he went abroad, he spent as much time as he could ______ English.
A. learning B. learned C. to learn D. have learned
15. —Did they all pass the driving test?
—No, ____ only three of them who passed it.
A. there was B. that was C. there were D. it was
16. The “Two Cities” referred to _____ London and Paris.
A. is B. be C. are D. going to be
17. When _____ why he was painting a sunset, the man replied that he was doing so because he wanted to.
A. asking B. asked C. being asked D. having been asked
18. ______, I can’t afford to support Paul.
A. Such is the case B. Such being the case
C. Such to be the case D. Such were the case
19. Which do you enjoy ______ your weekends, fishing or watching TV?
A. spending B. to spend C. being spent D. spend
20. I am sorry I can’t see you immediately, but if you’d like to take a seat, I will be with you ____ moment.
A. for the B. in a C. at the D. for a
21. I didn’t expect that he would _______ my failure to achieve his own goal.
A. make use of B. base on C. take advantage of D. take account of
22. — “Do you know that girl with the long hair?”
— “I don’t think so, although she ____ me of someone I knew.”
A. remembers B. recalls C. reminds D. suggests
23. The noise of the plane died _____ in the distance.
A. away B. out C. off D. down
24. I am afraid you have no ____ but to come along with us.
A. possibility B. selection C. choice D. election
25. He told me he had been offered a very well-paid _____ abroad.
A. employment B. trade C. position D. work
26. How much would you _____ for repairing my watch?
A. charge B. demand C. pay D. offer
27. Her display of bad temper completely ____ the party.
A. damaged B. spoilt C. influenced D. ruined
28. We must ____ the simple fact that drugs are dangerous.
A. get across B. get down to C. get through D. get over
29. No wonder he is getting fat. He seems to restrict his activities ____ eating and sleeping.
A. by B. from C. to D. of
30. When John was elected president, his country was facing an ______ crisis.
A. economical B. economy C. economic D. economics
31. I just couldn’t remember her name even though it was on the ____ of my tongue.
A. edge B. top C. tip D. front
32. There is a real concern that food supplies will not be _____ to feed the increasing population in the world.
A. equal B. sufficient C. satisfied D. satisfactory
33. I broke my relationship with John because he was always finding _____ with me.
A. error B. mistake C. fault D. failure
34. Greg is determined to travel alone _______ his friends’ warnings.
A. in spite of B. in response to C. instead of D. although
35. He would rather do anything ________ prepare for the test.
A. other than B. more than C. better than D. less than
36. The ________ of traffic on our roads has risen by 50 percent in the past three years.
A. plenty B. crowd C. volume D. degree
37. The building of the new road has been _____ by bad weather.
A. put up B. looked up C. held up D. made up
38. All that money brought _______ sadness, misery and tragedy and caused the breakup of his family.
A. all but B. nothing but C. anything but D. everything but
39. _________ my colleagues and myself I’d like to give a warm welcome to you all.
A. In honor of B. In memory of C. On behalf of D. For the sake of
40. The noise was so _____ that only those with excellent hearing were aware of it.
　　A. dim B. soft C. faint D. gentle
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (50%)
Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Animation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move.
（81）From earliest times, people have always been fascinated by movement, but not until this century have we managed to capture movement，to record it, and in the case of animation，to reinterpret it and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector.
In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the characters you create do exactly what you want them.
A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created by Pat Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a marvelous cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat could do like taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back.
Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America, the home of the moving picture industry. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters came to life after 1928. Popeye the Sailorman and his girl friend Olive Oyl were born at the Max Fleischer studios in 1933．
But to be an animator, you don’t have to be a professional. It is possible for anyone to make a simple animated film without using a camera at all. All you have to do is draw directly on to blank film and then run the film through a projector.
41. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Animal world. B. Movie camera. C. Cartoon making. D. Movement.
42. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. People were unable to cause the movement to last or record it in the last century.
B. Pat Sullivan was a famous early cartoon character.
C. It is impossible to make cartoon characters do what they are designed to do.
D. In ancient times people were surprised by movement.
43. According to the passage, Felix the Cat ________.
A. was created by the American cartoonist Felix
B. was designed by Pat Sullivan in the early twentieth century
C. was unable to do what natural cats could not do
D. was created in the United States in the nineteenth century
44. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. Walt Disney’s cartoon characters were born earlier than Pat Sullivan’s
B. only professionals can create cartoon characters
C. Popeye the Sailorman and Olive Oyo were famous cartoonists
D. the cartoon industry started in the United States
45. Which of the following statements best describes the author’s attitude towards cartoon making?
A. Cartoon making is an easy job. Anyone can do it.
B. Only trained people can be employed in cartoon making industry.
C. Anyone can make cartoons under the instructions of professionals.
D. Cartoon making is no easy job. You have to spend much time drawing onto empty film.

Passage Two
Television was not invented by any one person. Nor did it spring into being overnight. It evolved gradually, over a long period, from the ideas of many people — each one building on the work of their predecessors. The process began in 1873, when it was accidentally discovered that the electrical resistance of the element selenium（硒）varied in proportion to the intensity of the light shining on it.（82）Scientists quickly recognized that this provided a way of transforming light variations into electrical signals. Almost immediately a number of schemes were proposed for sending pictures by wire（it was, of course，before radio).
One of the earliest of these schemes was patterned on the human eye. Suggested by G. R. Carey in 1875, it envisioned a mosaic of selenium cells on which the picture to be transmitted would be focused by a lens system. At the receiving end there would be a similarly arranged mosaic made up of electric lights. Each selenium cell would be connected by an individual wire to the similarly placed light in the receiving mosaic. Light falling on the selenium cell would reproduce the original picture. Had the necessary amplifiers（放大器、扩音器）and the right kind of lights been available, this system would have worked. But it also would have required an impractical number of connecting wires. Carey recognized this and proposed to “scan” the cells — transmitting the signal from each cell to its associated light, in turn, over a single wire. If this were done fast enough, the retentive power of the eye would cause the resultant（合成旳）image to be seen as a complete picture.
46. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Television in the Electronic Era
B. First Steps in the Invention of Television
C. The Art of Television
D. Harmful Effects of Television Viewing
47. In Paragraph 1，the word “being” could best be replaced by ________.
A. place B. creature C. subsistence D. existence
48. An important discovery in early television was the electrical resistance of ________.
A. mosaics B. the human eye C. lenses D. the element selenium
49. In 1875, Carey suggested that the human eye envisioned a mosaic of selenium cells on which the picture to be transmitted would be focused by ________.
A. wire B. electric lights C. a lens system D. amplifiers
50. Following are the reasons why the first scheme for television was abandoned EXCEPT ________.
A. he lacks an effective assistant
B. the necessary amplifiers were unavailable
C. the proper lights were unavailable
D. the number of connecting wires is impractical

Passage Three
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old.（83）By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenience foods．
This important change in women's life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work.（84）Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
51. For women at the beginning of the twentieth century, the amount of time spent taking care of children ________.
A. was shorter than in previous centuries
B. was longer than in previous centuries
C. was considered to be surprisingly long
D. account for a great part of their lives
52. According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ________.
A. at about twenty-five
B. in their early fifties
C. as soon as possible after they were fifteen
D. at any age from fifteen to forty-five
53. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth-century mother ________.
A. would be healthy enough to take up paid employment
B. was usually expected to die fairly soon
C. would expect to work until she died
D. was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one
54. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________.
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. need not worry about food for her children
D. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty
55. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.
A. stay at home after leaving school
B. marry men younger than themselves
C. start working again later in life
D. marry while still at school

Passage Four
Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being—somewhere—in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away just as unnoticed.
Objects of sheerest beauty, they have been called. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green