1、江苏专转本英语真题和答案解析江苏省 2017年普通高校专转本选拔考试英语试题卷注意事项：1.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分，试题卷共 10 页，全卷满分 150 分，考试时间分钟。2.必须在答疑卡上作答，作答在试题卷上无效。作答前务必将自己的姓名和准考正好准确 清晰的填写在试题卷和答题卡上的指定位置。考试结束时，须将试题卷和答题卡一并交回。Prat I Reading Comprehension （共 20 小题，每小题 2 分，共 40 分） Directions: There are 4 passage in this part . Each passage is followed by
2、some questions or unfinished statements . For each of them there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet .Passage One Questions 1 to 5 based on the following passage .We use both words and
3、gestures to express our feelings ,but the problem is that these words and gestures can be understood in different ways .It is true that a smile means the same thing in any language . So does laughter or crying . There are also a number of striking similarities in the way different animals show the s
4、ame feelings . Dogs , tigers and humans , for example , often show their teeth when they are angry . This is probably because they are born with those behavior patterns .Fear is another emotion that is shown in much the same way all over the world . In Chinese and English literature , a phrase like
5、“ hewent pale andbegan to tremble ” suggetshtast the man is either very afraid or deeply shocked . However , “ heopened his eyes wide ”is used to suggest anger in Chinese whereas in English it means surprise . In Chinese surprise can be described in a phrase like “ theystretched out their tongues ”.
6、Sticking out your tongue in English is an insulting gesture or expresses strong dislike .Even in the same culture , people differ in the ability to understand and express feelings Experiments in America have shown that women are usually better than men at recognizing fear ,anger love and happiness o
7、n people s faces . Other studies show that older people usually find it easier to recognize or understand body language than younger people do .A.we can hardly understand what people gsestures meanB.words and gestures may have different meanings in different culturesC.words can be better understand
8、by older peopleD.gestures can be better understand by most of the people while words can not2.People fascial expressions may be misunderstand because 。A.people of different ages may have different understandingsB.people have different culturesC.people of different sexes may understand a gesture diff
9、erentlyD.people of different countries speak different languages3.Even in the same culture , people .A.have different abilities to understand and express feelingsB.have exactly the same understanding of somethingC.never fail to understand each otherD.are equally intelligent4.From this passage .we ca
10、n conclude .A.words are used as frequently as gesturesB.words are often found difficult to understandC.words and gestures are both used in expressing feelingsD.gestures are more efficiently used than words5.The best title for this passage be .A.Words and FeelingsB.Words,Gestures and FeelingsC.Gestur
11、es and FeelingsD.Culture and UnderstandingPassage Two Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage .The English policeman has several nicknames but the most frequently used are “ copper a”nd “ bobby ”Th.e first name comes form the verb “ tocop ”( which is also slang ) , meaning “ totake ” o“
12、r tocapture ,”and the second comes form the first name of Sir Robert Peel , a 19th century politician , who was the founder of the police force as we know it today . An early nickname for the policeman was “ peeler, b”ut this one has died out .Whatever we may call them , the general opinion of the p
13、olice seems to be a favorable one , except , of course , among the criminal part of the community where the police are given more derogatory nicknames which originated inAmerica , such as “ fuzz o”r “ pig .”Visitors to England seem to be very impressed by the English police . It has , in fact , beca
14、use standing joke that the visitor to Britain , when asked for his views of the country , will always say , at some point or other , “Ithink your policemen are wonderful ”.Well , the British bobby not always be wonderful but he is usually a very friendly and helpful sort of character . A music-hall
15、song of some years ago was called “ IfYou Want To Know The Time , Ask A Policeman ”. Nowadays , most people own watches but they still seem to find plenty of other questions to ask the policeman . In London , the policeman spend so much of their time directing visitors about the city that one wonder
16、s how they ever find time to do anything else .Two things are immediately noticeable to the stranger when he sees an English policeman for the first time . The first is that does not carry a pistol and the second is that he wears a very distinctive type of headgear , the policeman heslmet . His helm
17、et , together with his height , enables an English policeman to be time it is suggested that the policeman should be given a pistol and than his helmet should be taken form him , but both suggestions are resisted by the majority of the public and the police themselves .6.Nowadays British people call
18、 the policeman .A.pig B.peeler C.bobby D.fuzz7.Which of following statements is TRUE?A.There are fewer criminals in America than in Britain .C.The English bobby is friendly but not helpful .D.The English police enjoy having pistols .8.If you see an English policeman for the first time , you will pro
19、bably notice at once that .A.he often tells people time B.he is usually very helpfulC.he has a helmet on the head D.he wears special clothes9.That an English policeman can be seen form some distance is .A.a standing joke B.of no helpC.strange and funny D.of some help10.Visitors praise the English po
20、lice because .B.A.they are police and helpfulC.they often give thanksthey obey ordersD.they are armed with modern equipment Passage Three Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage .It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory . The meanings of thousands of everyday p
21、erceptions , the bases for the decisions we make , and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences , which are brought into the present by memory .Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for latter for later use . It not only includes “ reme
22、mbering” things like arithmetic or historical facts but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves . Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile . Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to sw
23、ing a baseball bat .Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines . Computers , for example , contain devices for storing data for later use . It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being . The instant
24、-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 “ words ” ready for instant use . An average American teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English . However , this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored . Consider ,
25、for example , the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight .The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem solving intelligence of human beings . A large part of a person msemory is in terms of words and combinations of words .11.According to the passage , memory is
26、 considered to be .A.the basis for decision making and problem solvingB.the ability to store information for future useC.an intelligence typically possessed by human beingsD.the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words12.The comparison between the memory capacity of a large computer
27、 and that of a human being shows that .A.computer msemory has a little bigger capacity than a teenager sB.computer msemory capacity is much smaller than an adult human being sC.computer msemory capacity is much smaller even than a teenager sD.computer msemory capacity is the same as a teenager s13.I
28、t is implied in the passage that .A.only human beings have problem-solving intelligenceB.a person msemory is different from a computer insevery respectC.animals can solve very simple problemsD.animals solve problems by instinct rather than intelligence14.The phrase “ interm of ”in the last sentence
29、can be best replaced bya ”A.in connection with B.expressed byC.consisting D.by means of15.The main idea of the passage is .A.what life would be like without memoryB.memory is of vital importance to lifeC.how a person msemory is different form an animal osra computer sD.what memory carriesPassage Fou
30、r Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage .Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communicate with other people . A great deal of communication is performed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of speech . If we travel in buses , buy thing i
31、n shops , or eat in restaurants , we are likely to have conversations where we give information or opinions , receive news or comment ,and very likely have our views challenged by other members of society .Face-to-face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last two hun
32、dred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society . Two things , above others , have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry . Firstly , inventiveness has led to advances in printing , telecommunications , photography , radio and television . Secondly , speed has revolutionized the transmission and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back seat to national news , which itself is often almost ecl
