浙江省普通高等教育專升本考試

英語(yǔ)考前押密試卷（二）

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Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (60 marks, 60 minutes)

Section A (50 marks: 2 marks for each item)

Format Ⅰ

Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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. (40 marks)

Passage One

Questions l to 5 are based on the following passage.

A couple of months ago, Andre Dickson, an older kid who lived next door to me, threw a ball down the back of my shirt when we were siting on the steps eating a sandwich. That night at dinner I told my big brother Louis about it. “We’ll get him back for it!” he said. And then we came up with a plan to do just that!

We knew Andre was scared of snakes. So Louis and I went to the nearby woods and caught two small grass snakes and brought them back to our house. We knew we’d see Andre the next day because we had a large screen TV and Andre liked to watch his favorite football team — the Woodsworth — on the big screen.

The next day Andre called and asked if he could come over and watch the Woodsworth on our TV. “Sure,” we told him. Then my brother Louis and I went to work putting our plan in place!

When Andre got there, we just hung out and everything was normal — although every once in a while Andre would look at me and we’d have to hold back our smiles. Andre sat where he usually did, in the big chair, the one with several big cushions. He liked to throw pillows at the screen whenever one of his favorite players made a bad play — which happened this day too. But this time, as Andre picked up a cushion, just as he was about to throw it, he noticed a snake swinging from the cushion. And in that same instant, the little snake dropped onto his feet, where, to his horror, yet another little snake was making its way across his leg. Andre let out a terrible scream and jumped ten feet off the chair! He ran out of our house so fast! Louis and I nearly died while laughing — as we still do whenever either of us brings it up.

1. The sentence “We’ll get him back for it!” in Paragraph 1 most probably means .

A. we will ask him to join in the plan

B. we will invite him to play together

C. we will treat him the way he treats us

D. we will get back to his house to punish him

2. Andre usually visited “my” house to .

A. play football in the yard B. play games with the boys

C. catch snakes with the boys D. enjoy sports programs on TV

3. How did Andre respond that day when his favorite players failed

A. He held back his smile. B. He jumped off the chair.

C. He threw cushions at the screen. D. He shouted at the other boys.

4. What can we infer from the story

A. Louis and I almost died.

B. Louis and I were not afraid of snakes.

C. Andre and I often laughed at each other.

D. Andre and I never spoke to each other.

5. The tone of the story is .

A. serious B. sad C. offensive D. humorous

Passage Two

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Traveling without a map in different countries, I find out about different ways of directions every time I ask “How can I get to the post office”

Foreign tourists are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don’t have name signs. In Japan, people use landmarks (地標(biāo)) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”

People in Los Angeles, the US, have no idea of distance on the map: they measure distance by time, not miles. “How far away is the post office” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it’s about five minutes from here.” You don’t understand completely, “Yes, but how many miles away is it, please ” To this question you won’t get an answer, because most probably they don’t know it themselves.

People in Greece sometimes do not even try to give directions because tourists seldom understand the Greek language. Instead, a Greek will often say, “Follow me.” Then he’ll lead you through the streets of the city to the post office.

Sometimes a person doesn’t know the answer to your question. What happens in the situation A New Yorker might say, “Sorry, I have no idea.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don’t know.” People there believe that “I don’t” is impolite. They usually give an answer, but often a wrong one. So a tourist can get lost very easily in Yucatan! However, one thing will help you everywhere in the world. It’s body language.

6. Which of the following is probably an example of Japanese directions

A. The local tourist office is at Street Kamira.

B. Turn left at the hospital and go past a school.

C. The local tourist office is about five minutes from here.

D. The local tourist office is three miles away from here.

7. People in Los Angeles don’t give directions in miles, because they .

A. prefer to draw a sketch map to show the way

B. are willing to use landmarks to provide directions

C. often have no idea of distance measured by miles

D. use street names in their cities instead of landmarks

8. Greeks might give directions by .

A. telling tourists the distance B. using their hand gestures

C. leading tourists directly D. giving tourists a wrong direction

9. According to the last paragraph, we can learn that .

A. people in Yucatan always give people wrong directions

B. Mexicans know the landmarks in their directions well

C. people in Mexico much prefer to use body language

D. body language makes you get lost in New York easily

10. Where is Yucatan

A. In Japan. B. In Los Angeles.

C. In New York. D. In Mexico.

Passage Three

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.

We all know that stores where you can buy medicines when you’re sick are fairly recent inventions. But how and when did people get medicine in the ancient times Scientists think the earliest time could be traced back to 200,000 years ago, but the earliest drugstore is only 300 or 400 years from now. People got medicine from nature, mostly from plants. In fact, the study of plants started out as a section of medicine. To this day, many people around the world still get their medicine from plants.

Plants are full of chemicals, ones that they produce themselves. They don’t make them for us to use medicinally. Plants can’t move around like we animals do, so they use chemicals to accomplish a lot of their most basic life functions, everything from fighting off fierce animals to communicating, and to producing young.

Long ago, humans learned that these same chemicals affect our bodies. Some make us sick or even kill us, but many are beneficial. Early people must have discovered which was which through trial and error, and also by watching animals. Scientists know that some animals treat themselves with plants when they are sick. Bears in North America have been observed to dig up the roots of a plant, chew the roots, and then spread it all over their fur.

Over time, humans developed great skill at diagnosing conditions and knowing just which plants to prescribe and how to prepare. Much knowledge about those plants wasn’t written down. So with the arrival of modern medicine, some of what people used to know was lost.

Medicinal plants come in all shapes and sizes. Some grow at the tops of mountains; others in forests; still others, in deep ocean. Probably some are in your yard, fields, or even narrow gaps in sidewalks. Many of the plants you have regularly in food and drink have medicinal elements. Who knows there is a different kind of drugstore — a vital and ancient one — all around us

11. The ancients knew about medicinal plants .

A. 700 years ago B. 400 years ago

C. 300 years ago D. 200,000 years ago

12. Why do plants produce