江苏省2015年普通高校专转本选拔考试英语试题卷 (非英语类专业)Part I Reading Comprehension (共20小题，每小题2分，共40分)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should de cide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.This course is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their t yping. The course is not common. You are tested in the first class and begin practicing at one of ei ght different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.Course fee: $125 Materials: $25Two hours each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks. This course is taug ht by a number of professional business education teachers who have successfully taught trying c ourses before.UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERSThis twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who n eed to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can’t do and how to use them.Course fee: $75 Jan.4,7,11,14,18 Wed. & Sat. 9:00-11:30 a.m. Equipment fee: $1 0David is a professor of Computer Science at Beijing University. He has over twenty years of expe rience in computer field. STOP SMOKINGDo you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop and failed? Now is the time to sto p smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.Course fee: $30 Jan.2.9,16,23 Mon.2:00-5:00 p.m.Dr John is a practicing psychologist who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking successfully .1. If you choose the U course NDERSTANDING COMPUTERS, you will have classes_______. A. fro m Monday to Sunday B. on Wednesday and Saturday C. on Saturday and Sunday D. on weekend evenings2. .How long will the course STOP SMOKING last each time?A. Four weeks.B. Three hours.C. A week.D. Twenty hours3. Mr. Black works every morning and evening, but he wants to take part in one of the three cours es. Which one is suitable for him? A.TYPING B. UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS C. STOP SMOKINGD. None4. If you want to take UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS and TYPING, you will pay ______. A. $75.B. $150.C. $235D. $3605. What’s the difference between the course TYPING and the other two? A. People at different sk ill levels may learn at different speed. B. You will take a test after the course. C. You will pay the s ame amount. D. You need to be equipped with computer knowledge.Passage TwoQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.If I had the ability to change one thing about American society, my decision would not be a difficu lt one. I would ban television.I grew up a couch potato. Looking back, it seems I hardly read anything else at all—I watched TV a lmost seven hours a day.There are so many good reasons for you to be a couch potato. Television is good before-breakfast entertainment. Television is good after-school entertainment. Television is good before-bed enter tainment. Everybody watches it, so you have to watch it too in order to talk about it with friends. Otherwise you cannot say a word, which makes you look like an idiot.But when I stopped watching television completely several months ago, I found that I had becom e a more reflective person, simply because I had more time to think. Television had stopped stuffi ng its ideas into my head. I was thinking of my childhood, and to my disappointment, I found that it could be summed up adequately in one sentence: “I watched a lot of TV.” And I wasted too muc h of my youth that I cannot have back. I will never be more imaginative than I was in my childhoo d.Now I can totally resist the temptation of TV no matter how marvelous the programs are, and I’m entering into a new stage of life. In the meantime, I’d hope that all couch potatoes would turn off their TV. But I am afraid that with more and more attractive TV programs, I’m not going to be the last person in this country to idle away the best years of life sitting passively in front of a televisio n.6. A couch potato is someone who ______.A. spends much time sitting and watching TVB. plants potatoC. plants potato in the couchD. si ts in a couch eating potato7. People watch TV so much because ______. A. television is good before breakfast entertainmen t B. television is good after-school entertainment C. television is good before-bed entertainmentD. All of the above8. According to the passage, people will ______ if they stop watching TV. A. fill themselves with i dea on TV B. be more lazy and relaxed C. have more time to think D. not look back at their child hood9. Which of the following is NOT true of the author? A. The author had watched television a lot.B. The author had wasted too much of his youth.C. The author will never be more imaginative than he was in his childhood.D. The author is dete rmined to go on watching television.10. The phrase “idle away” (Para.5) probably means “______”. A. spend time in a different wayB. spend time in a relaxed wayC. enter a new stageD. watch televisionPassage ThreeQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago，we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the ques tion.It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written ac count of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their coun try，but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a g ood deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leav e written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa because they had not learned to write. Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past. Th ey have heard about it from older people and often songs and dances and stories have been mad e about the most important happenings, and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations, for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call。