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2001
年广东省普通高等学校本科插班生考试
英
语
试
题
Part I.
Reading Comprehension(40%)
Passage One
Did
you know that the empty plastic soft
drink bottles you throw away every day can
be turned into carpet or automobile
parts ?
That used glass bottles and
aluminum cans can be turned into new ones?
And that yesterday’s newspaper can be
turned into tomorrow’s ?
It
all happens because of recycling .This simple
waste we throw away is a “natural resource”
that , with recycling, can be used to
produce a variety of mew products.
Unfortunately,
America
recycles
only
10%
of
its
rubbish
,burns
10%
and
deposits
(
存
放
)80%
in
waste
disposal
grounds.
As
a
result
,
it
has
to
cope
with
a
serious
solid
waste
problem.
Every year,
Americans throw away about 160 million tons of
rubbish. Of that total, plastics
make
up less than 8% , paper about 36% , and glass and
metal about 20% , all by weight . Plastics
are naturally lighter, but still, when
pressed together, account for only about 20% by
volume(
体
积
).
As a result, in the past 10 years the
United States’ waste disposal grounds have
decreased
from about 18, 500 to 6,000.
In five years 2,000 more will close.
In
the process of finding solutions, some people have
proposed to stop using plastics.
Unfortunately, stopping using plastics
would do much harm and no good. We would lose all
of the safety, health and convenience
features of
plastics.
Besides,
packaging
（包装
) would still be
needed. A1987 study shows what would happen if
plastics were not used---the energy
needed to produce other packaging, its cost, and
the volume of
waste collected would all
rise greatly.
Some
Americans
believe
part
of
the
answer
to
Ameri
ca’s
waste
problem
lies
in
recycling
everything from
glass to metals to paper to plastic.
Today, recycling is on the rise.
There are now more than
1,000 waste recycling programs
in the
U. S. Many are beginning to recycle plastics.
Right now, almost 200 companies are
recycling millions of used plastic containers into
toys,
traffic signs, wastebaskets,
floor materials, and park benches.
Plastics are among the easiest
materials to recycle. More than 150 million pounds
or 20% of
all plastic soft drink
bottles were recycled in 1987.
1. What
can’t the plastic soft drink bottle be turned
into?
A. Newspapers
B. Automobile parts
C. Toys
A. 20%, 20%
C.
36%, 8%
A. as heavy in density as
C. lighter in density than
A. 2,000
C. 4,000
A. says nothing about
C. agrees to
Passage Two
D.
Traffic signs
B. 8%, 20%
D. 20%, 36%
B.
heavier in density than
D. the same by
weight as
B. 6,000
D. 18,500
B. is
sympathetic with
D. disagrees to
2. Of all the rubbish in the U.S. ,
plastics account for ____by weight and ____by
volume.
3. On average, waste plastics
are ____ other wastes.
4. In five years
,
the
U. S. will have only ____waste disposal
grounds.
5. The author
of this passage ____the
proposal of stopping using plastics.
Sleep is something we generally
associate with living persons or animals. Of
course, it is
true that a lot of
animals sleep, but zoologists are not certain that
primitive forms of animals’ life,
like
worms, ever really sleep. On the other hand
animals such as bears sleep for 4 or 5 months
every year.
The
amount
of
sleep
human
beings
need
varies
with
people
of
different
ages,
habits
and
possible races. For example, doctors
think that pre-school children need between 10 and
12 hours
a night; school children
between 9 and 11 hours; and adults between 7 and 9
hours. There are rare
cases of old
people who only sleep between 2 and 3 hours a day
and continue to be active and
healthy.
The sleep requirements of different races also
appear to be different. Japanese people, for
example, sleep fewer than Europeans.
It is not known for certain if the
activity of a man’s mind (besides dreaming) occurs
when he
is asleep. However, it is
certainly
true that some people can
wake up at a pre-determined time.
There
are
also
stories
about
some
maths
professors
who
solve
difficult
problems
during
sleep,
because their
subconscious minds continue working on the
problem.
passage is about ______.
A. how many hours of sleep different
people need every day
B. some kinds of
dreams people have
C.
how to
make use of man’s subconscious minds
D. sleep and the activity of a man’s
mind during his sleep
ing to
the author, ______.
A. an Englishman
usually sleeps more than a Japanese does
B. every year bears sleep 4 or 5 months
more than worm
C. some worms sleep more
than babies
D. a Japanese
usually sleeps more than an Englishman
of the following is TRUE according to this
passage?
A. Very few old men need only
3 hours’ sleep a day.
B.
Doctors tend to sleep more than school teachers.
C. Many healthy Japanese old men sleep
only 2-3 hours a day.
D. The more a
student sleeps, the healthier he is.
a
man is asleep, his subconscious mind ______.
A. wakes up at once
C. may still be working
author believes that ______.
A. the
activity of a man’s mind occurs when he is
asleep
B. human beings can
control the amount of sleep they need
C. some primitive forms of
animal life also sleep
D. some people
can solve some problems in dreams
Passage Three
Why don’t birds get lost on their long
flights from one place to another? Scientists have
puzzled over this question for many
years. Now they’re beginning to fill in the
blank.
Not
long
ago,
experiments
showed
that
birds
rely
on
the
sun
to
guide
them
during
daylight hours. But what about birds
that fly by night? Tests with artificial stars
have proved that
certain night-flying
birds are able to follow the stars in their long-
distance flights.
A dove had
spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown
under a natural sky. Yet it
showed
an
inborn
ability
to
use
the
stars
for
guidance.
The
bird’s
cage
was
placed
under
an
artificial
star-filled
sky.
The
bird
tried
to
fly
in
the
same
direction
as
that
taken
by
his
outdoor
cousins. And change
in the position of the artificial stars caused a
change in the direction of his
flight.
But the stars are
apparently their principal means of navigation.
When the stars are hidden
by clouds,
they apparently find their way by such landmarks
as mountain ranges, coast lines, and
river courses. But when it’s too dark
to see these, the doves circle helplessly, unable
to find their
way.
reason that birds don’t get lost on
long flights ____.
A. have
been known to scientists for years
B. have only recently been
discovered
C. are known by everyone
D. will probably remain
a
mystery
daylight hours, birds ____.
A. fly aimlessly
C.
use sun for guidance
B. rely on landmarks
D. are
more likely to get lost
B. begins to
solve difficult problems
D. stops
working
“his outdoor cousins” the
author means ____.
A. other
experimenters
C. doves under the natural
sky
A. birds have to be taught to
navigate
B. the other doves of the same
brood
D. other birds in general
experiment with the dove indicated
that ____.
B. a bird that has been
caged will not fly long distances
C.
some birds cannot fly at night
D. some
birds seem to follow the stars when they fly at
night
total darkness, doves ____.
A. use landmarks
C. fly back
home
Passage Four
I
had
not
announced
my
arrival
to
Stroeve
and
when
I
rang
the
bell
of
his
studio,
on
opening
the
door
himself,
for
a
moment
he
did
not
know
me,
Then
he
gave
a
cry
of
delighted
surprise and drew
me in. It was charming to be welcomed with so much
eagerness. His wife was
seated near the
stove at her sewing and she rose as I came in. He
introduced me.
He had the same absurd (
令人发笑的
) appearance that I
remembered. He was a fat little
man,
with short legs, young still ( he could not have
been more than thirty ) but prematurely bald
(
过早秃顶
) . His
face was perfectly round and he had a very high
color, a white skin, red cheeks
and
red
lips.
His
eyes
were
blue
and
round
too,
he
wore
large
gold-rimmed
glasses
and
his
eyebrows
were
so
fair
that
you
could
not
see
them.
He
reminded
you
of
those
happy,
fat
businessmen that Rubens
painted.
Mrs. Stroeve
sat
quietly mending her stockings, without talking,
and she listened to all he
said with a quiet smile on her lips.
“So, you see,
I’m married,” he said suddenly; “what do you think
of my wife?”
“Really, Dirk,” said Mrs Stroeve,
smiling.
“But isn’t she wonderful? I
t
ell you, my boy, lose no time; get
married as soon as ever you
can, I’m
the happiest msn alive. Look at her sitting there.
Doesn’t she make a picture? Chardin, eh?
I’ve seen all the most beautiful women
in the world; I’ve never seen anyone more
beautiful t
han
Madame Dirk
Stroeve.”
“If you don’t be quiet, Dirk, I shall
go away.”
“My darling,” he said.
She was rather
tall and her gray dress was simple and quite well-
cut, Her hair, brown and
plentiful,
was
plainly
done,
her
face
was
very
pale
and
her
features(
面貌
)
were
good
without
being distinguished. She had quiet gray
eyes. She just missed being beautiful and in
missing it was
not even pretty. But
when Stroeve spoke of
Chardin it was without reason, and she
reminded me
curiously of that pleasant
housewife in her cap and apron whom the great
painter has given the
fame to. I could
imagine her busy among her pots and pans, making
her household duties; I didn’t
B. don’t
know which way to fly
D.
wait for the stars to appear
suppose
that
she
was
clever
or
could
ever
be
amusing,
but
there
was
something
in
her
grave
intentness(
严肃专注的精神
) which excited my interest. She
was very silent, but when she spoke
it
was with a pleasant voice, and her manners were
natural.
16.“For a moment he didn’t
know me.” This is because ____.
A. they didn’t know each other
well
B. it was sometime
since they last met
C. he couldn’t see
the author clearly without glasses
D. he pretended not to know him so as
to give him a surprise
did Mrs.
Stroeve say “Really, Dirk”? Because
____.
A. she was really
happily married
B. she could hardly
believe she was married
C. she really
wanted the author to say what he thought of her
D. she felt embarrassed by what her
husband said
18.“Doesn’t
she make a picture?” By this he meant
____.
A. she was drawing a
picture
beautiful
just missed being beautiful and in
missing it was not even pretty. The author meant
that
____.
A. she was ugly-
looking
C. she was pretty
A. a beautiful lady
B. she was plain-looking
D.
she was between pretty and beautiful
B.
the most beautiful woman in the world
B. she was making a picture in her
sewing
C.
she
looked
like
a
picture
D.
she
looked
very
the
passage we learnt that Chardin was ____.
C. a pleasant housewife
D.
a great painter
Part II
Vocabulary, Structure and
Grammar (30%)
21.A ____ person is one
who is easily hurt or offended by things people do
or say.
A. sensitive
A. question
A. go over
A.
continually
A. in possession
B. sensible
B. order
B. turn over
B.
continuously
B. in the possession
C. senseless
C. place
C.
get over
C. nervously
C. in charge
D.
sentimental
D. reach
D. take over
D. normally
D. in a charge
’ll telephone to Mary, but she is out
of ____.
or later you’ll
____ your shyness.
two
nations had been at war ____ for eight years.
documents are ____ of
the lawyer.
26.A government
notice on each packet ____ the public ____ the
dangers of cigarette smoking.