2024英语甘肃专升本真题
I. Reading Comprehension(每题 2 分, 共 40 分)
Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or u nfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A,B, C and D. You shoul d decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a sing le line through the center.
Passage One
Classified advertising is that advertising which is grouped in certain sections of the paper a nd is thus distinguished from display advertising. Such groupings #s "Help Wanted","Real Estate(房地产)",“Lost and Found" are made, the rate charged being less than for display advertising. Cl assified advertisements are a convenience to the reader and a saving to the advertiser.
The reader who is interested in a particular kind of advertisement finds all advertisements of that type grouped for him. The advertisers may, on this account, use a very small advertisement if i t were placed among larger advertisements in the paper. It is evident that the reader approaches t he classified advertisement in a different frame of mind from that in which he approaches the oth er advertisements in the paper. He turns to a page of classified advertisements to search for the particular advertisement that will meet his needs.
As his attention is voluntary, the advertiser does not need to rely too much extent on display typ e to get the reader's attention.
Formerly all classified advertisements were of the same size and did not have display type. With t he increase in the number of such advertisements, however, each advertiser within a certain group is c ompeting with others in the same group for the reader's attention.81. In many cases, the result has be en an increase in the size
of the space used and the addition of headlines and pictures. In that way, the classified advertisemen has in reality advertisement. This is particularly true of real estate advertising?
1. All of the following facts are advantages of classified advertisement for advertisement EXCEPT that
A. classified advertisement charges less money
B. it is easier to attract the attention of the target consumers
C. it provides more information for the readers
D. it does not have to rely to much on display type
2. One of the examples given of types of classified advertisement is
A. houses for sale
B. people who are asking for help
C. people who are lost
D. job vacancies
3. What sort of attitude do people have when they look at classified advertisement, according to t he writer?
A. They are in the frame of mind to buy anything.
B. They are looking for something they need.
C. They feel lost because there are so many advertisements.
D. They feel the same as when they look at display advertisements.
4. According to the passage, in which way have the classified advertisements changed nowadays?
A. They depend more on display type
B. More money is charged for them.
C. They are divided into more groups.
D. They are less formal.
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5. Why have classified advertisements changed in appearance?
A. Because people no longer want headlines and pictures.
B. Because real estate advertising is particularly truthful now.
C. Because the increase in the number of such advertisements means they have to be small now.
D. Because there are more advertisements now and more competition among advertisers.
Passage Two
82. c and then shift your gaze to its surroundings. What you now see appears to drift upward. These optical illasions occur because the brain is constantly matching its model of reality to signals fro m the body's sensors and interpreting what must be happening-that your brain must have moved, n ot the other; that downward motions is now normal, so a change from it must now be perceived as o n upward motion.
The sensors that make this magic are of two kinds. Each eye contains about 120million rods(杆),which provide somewhat blurry black and white vision. These are the windows of night vision; once adapted to the dark, they can detect a candle burning ten miles away.
Colour vision in each eye comes from six to seven million structures called cones(圆锥细胞). Und er ideal conditions, every con e can "see" the entire rainbow spectrum of visible colors, but one type of con e is most sensitive to red, another to green, a third to blue.
Rods and cones send their messages pulsing an average 20 to 25 times per
However, look at a white shirt during the reddish light of sunset, and you'll still see it in its "true" colour-white. not red. Our eves are constantly comparing an object against its surroundings. They t herefore observe the effect of a shift in the colour of illuminating on both, and adjust accordingly.
The eyes can distinguish several million graduations of light and shades of colour. Each waking s econd they flash tens of millions of pieces of information to the brain, which weaves them incessantly into a picture of the world around us.
Yet all this is done at the back of each eye by a fabric of sensors, called the retina(网膜), about a s wide and as thick as a postage stamp. As the Renaissance inventor and artist Leonardo d Vince wro te in wonder,"Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?"
6. Visual illusions often take place when the image of reality is .
A. matched to six to seven million structures called cones.
B. confused in the body's sensors of both rods and cones
C. interpreted in the brain as what must be the case.
D. signaled by about 120 million rods in the eye
7. The visual sensor that is capable of distinguishing shades of color is called
A. cones
B. color vision
C. rods
D. spectrum
8. The retina send pulses to the brain .
A. in short wavelengths
B. as color pictures
C. by a ganglion cell
D. along the optic nerve
9. The author's purpose in writing the passage lies in
A. showing that we sometimes are deceived by our own eyes
B. informing us about the different functions of the eye organs.
C. regretting that we are too slow in the study of eyes
D. marveling at the great work done by the retina
10. Twenty-four still photographs are made into a continuous moving picture just because
A. The image we see usually stays longer than it actually appears.
B. We see an object in comparison with movies
C. The eyes catch million pieces of information continuously
D. rods and cones send messages 24 times a second
Passage 3
slightly backward position, with his face clear of the water, even when the wearer is exhausted or unconscious.
The method of adjustment to the body should be simple and self-evident to uninitiated persons e ven in the dark under the confused conditions, which follow a disaster. Thus, the life be reversible that it is nearly impossible to get it on wrong. Catches, straps, and ties should be kept to a minimum.83. In ad dition. the life preserver must be adjustable to the wide variety of shapes and sizes of wearers, since this greatly affects the position of floating and the self-righting qualities. A suitable life also be comfortable to wear at all times, in and out of the water, not so heavy as to encourage to take it off on shipboard
while the ship is in danger, nor so burden so me that it hinders a person in the water while trying to swim.
11. According to the passage, a life be first of all
A. adjustable
B. comfortable
C. self-evident
D. self-righting
12. United States Coast Guard does NOT require the life preserver to be made
A. with as few strings as possible
B. capable of being wor n on both sides
C. according to each wearer's size
D. comfortable and light to wear
13. By "the uninitiated individual" (Pars. 1, Line.4) the author refers to the person
A. who has not been instructed how to use a life preserver
B. who has a little experience in using a life preserver
C. who uses a life preserver without permission
D. who becomes nervous before a disaster
14. What would happen if a person were supported by the life preserver in a wrong position?
A. The waves would move him backwards.
B. He would be turned to an upright or sightly back ward position.
C. He would not be hindered in the water while trying to swim.
D. He would be exhausted or unconscious
15. The main purpose of this passage is to explain
A. the price of life preservers
B. the design of life preservers
C. the materials for life preservers
D. The booyancy of life preservers
