1、2014 年武汉纺织大学专升本（英语）真题试卷及答案与解析一、Vocabulary and Structure1 The organization had broken no rules, but_had it acted responsibly.（A）neither（B） so（C） either（D）both2 In general, the health of older people is superior to_of previous generations.（A）one（B） some（C） that（D）those3 One should always give_plenty o
2、f time to pack.（A）their（B） her（C） oneself（D）those4 Anyone who_coming to the picnic on Sunday_to bring_own beer and soda.（A）are. have.has（B） are.have.their（C） is.has.their（D）is.has.his5 Ham and eggs_a hearty breakfast for a growing boy.（A）made（B） make（C） makes（D）are making6 A pair of glasses_quite a
3、lot these days.（A）costs（B） cost（C） is cost（D）are cost7 She said that she _ here for four years when she graduated from the college this summer.（A）will study（B） would be studying（C） is studying（D）studies8 Whether he went in this country, he_down what he saw and heard.（A）remained（B） remains（C） is rema
4、ined（D）remain9 Pick me up at 8 o clock. I _my bath by then.（A）will have had（B） will be having（C） can have had（D）may have10 She said she would go and she_go.（A）didnt（B） did（C） would（D）will11 _be allowed to walk on the grass.（A）Under no circumstances visitors can（B） Under no can circumstances visitors
5、（C） Under no visitors circumstances can（D）Under no circumstances can visitors12 _, Jane is not prettier than her younger sister.（A）Pretty though is she（B） Pretty as is she（C） As she is pretty（D）Pretty as she is13 I hid the book lest he_it.（A）saw（B） had seen（C） should see（D）will see14 My cat would no
6、t have bitten the toy fish_it was made of rubber.（A）if she has known（B） if she knew（C） she should have known（D）had she known15 He must have had an accident, or he_here then.（A）would have been（B） had to be（C） should be（D）would be16 The old man is said_very rich when he was young.（A）to have been（B） to
7、 be（C） having been（D）to have being17 Mark often attempts to escape_whenever he breaks traffic regulations（A）having been fined（B） to have been fined（C） being fined（D）to be fined18 “Why were you late?“ “ I had a hard time_up this morning.“（A）to get（B） get（C） having getting（D）getting19 Your hair wants_
8、. You d better have it done tomorrow.（A）cut（B） to cut（C） cutting（D）being cut20 _an eclipse(日/月蚀)will occur was known lone ago in China.（A）what（B） When（C） Which（D）Its21 WhetherRome or Paris is a better place to visit_up to you.（A）being（B） be（C） is（D）are22 _he treated the Indians tells us something ab
9、out his personality.（A）How（B） However（C） When（D）What23 _or not we had a baby, we couldn t survive only on my salary.（A）As（B） Even（C） However（D）Whether24 John seems a nice person. _, I dont trust him.（A）Even though（B） Even so（C） Therefore（D）Though25 I was advised to arrange for insurance_I needed med
10、ical treatment.（A）nevertheless（B） although（C） in case（D）so that26 It is generally believed that children are curious_so your child s words and behavior are quite normal.（A）at heart（B） in person（C） by nature（D）in private27 He gives people the impression_all his life abroad（A）of having spent（B） of bei
11、ng spent（C） to have spent（D）to spend28 We take our skin for granted until it is burned_repair.（A）beyond（B） for（C） without（D）under29 Though he was born and brought up in America, he can speak_ Chinese.（A）fluid（B） smooth（C） fluent（D）flowing30 Housewives who do not go out for work feel they are not wor
12、king to their full_.（A）capacity（B） strength（C） length（D）possibility30 There are two factors which determine an individual s intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to be
13、gin with, an individual will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individualthe sort of environment in which he is reared. If an individual is handicapped environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop a
14、nd he will never attain the level of intelligence of which he is capable.The importance of environment in determining an individual s intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark X. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their gro
15、wth processes were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster homes. Peter was reared by parents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor educational opportunities. Mark was reared in the home of well-to-do parents who ha
16、d been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Mark s IQ was 125 , twenty-five
17、 points higher than the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, having identical brains, would have tested at roughly the same level.31 This selection can best be titled_.（A）Measuring Your Intelligence（B） Intelligence and Environment（C）
18、 The Case of Peter and Mark（D）How theBrain Influences Intelligence32 The best statement of the main idea of this passage is that_.（A）human brains differ considerably（B） the brain a person is born with is important in determining his intelligence（C） environment is crucial in determining a person s in
19、telligence（D）persons having identical brains will have roughly the same intelligence33 According to the passage, the average IQ is_.（A）85（B） 100（C） 110（D）12534 The case history of the twins appears to support the conclusion that_.（A）individual with identical brains seldom test at same level（B） an in
20、dividuals intelligence is determined only by his environment（C） lack of opportunity blocks the growth of intelligence（D）changes of environment produce changes in the structure of the brain35 This passage suggests that an individual s IQ_.（A）can be predicted at birth（B） stays the same throughout his
21、life（C） can be increased by education（D）is determined by his childhood35 Selling Expertise on the Internet for Extra CashTeresa Estes, a licensed mental-health counselor, watched as business at her private practice decreased last year. Then the single mother turned to her keyboard to boost her incom
22、e.Ms. Estes applied to become an “expert“ on Live Person Inc., a Web site where clients pay for online chat time with professionals and advisers of all fields. For $ 1.89 a minute a rate she set the 39-year-old from Marianna, Fla., dispenses advice to clients around the globe. She spends about four
23、hours a day online, often at night, when her daughter has gone to bed.“It was the economy,“ she says of her move to take her skills online. “Live Person is more profitable than my private practice.“ Ms. Estes had charged her private clients up to $ 75 an hour.As the recession(经济衰退 )deepens, a small
24、but growing number of people are taking their skills online, offering expertise or performing specified tasks for a fee. Labor-at-the-keyboard sites are gaining popularity as people increasingly turn to the Web in search of work. Internet job-search sites saw a 51% rise in traffic from January 2008
25、to January 2009, according to comscore Media Metrix, to 26.7 million unique visitors.Among the many fee-for-service Web sites out there, at least three are attracting a significant number of users though consumers should exercise a healthy degree of skepticism(怀疑态度 )when consulting any of these site
26、s. Live Person seeks out experts on a slew of topics, including mental health, financial services, shopping and fashion, as well as psychics and spiritual advisers. Mechanical Turk, a Web service run by A Inc., pays workers to perform tasks, such as cataloging products online. Associated Content pay
27、s contributors to write articles on a wide range of subjects, from organic flower gardening to how to apply for financial aid.Live Person went public in 2001, and the current version of the site was launched in late 2007. Today, the site has 30,000 registered experts, attracting an average of 100,00
28、0 people a year who pay for the offered services, says Chief Executive Officer Robert Locascio. Roughly 3,500 people have made contributing to the site their full-time job, he says.Associated Content reviews submissions in house and then decides how much to pay for them. The site, which specializes
29、in how-to pieces and feature stories on news topics, had 237, 000 registered contributors and more than one million content pieces as of February, both about double from the same month a year ago.Sabah Karimi, a 26-year-old fromOrlando, Fla., left a career in marketing to become a full-time freelanc
30、e writer and now spends between 8 and 10 hours a week writing for Associated Content. She has been at it for about three years and says she earns roughly $ 1,000 a month from her past and current submissions.Mechanical Turk is based on “crowd sourcing“ , or breaking a task into lots of tiny pieces a
31、nd giving it to a big group of people to complete quickly. Most of these jobs which the site calls HITs, for human intelligence tasks pay just a few cents. Efficient Mturkers, as they call themselves, can make more than $ 100 a week doing things such as finding someone s email address or labeling im
32、ages of a particular animal in a photograph.36 What is the passage mainly talking about?（A）The economic recession will last a few years.（B） More people are taking their skills online to make money.（C） Asking for advice through the Internet is a good way to solve your problems.（D）People shouldnt rele
33、ase their financial and personal details online.37 Live Person Inc. is a website where .（A）people chat with each other and make friends freely（B） professionals and advisers help others for free（C） people pay money for applying to become an expert（D）clients pay for online chat time with professionals
34、 and advisers38 Why are labor-at-the-keyboard sites gaining popularity?（A）Because people love to work on the Internet.（B） Because more people are finding jobs on the Internet.（C） Because working on the Internet is easier than other ways of working.（D）Because people are being asked to work on the Int
35、ernet.39 What is Sabah Karimi s job?（A）She is a part-time freelance writer.（B） She is a news writer.（C） She submits articles to Associated Content.（D）She reviews articles for Associated Content.40 Mechanical Turk originated as a method to_.（A）label images of a particular animal in a photograph（B） se
36、rve a variety of companies who need Web tasks performed（C） help Amazon manage its product database（D）find someone s email address40 The greatest contribution to civilization in the century may well be the air-conditioning- and American leads just as amazing is the speed with which this situation cam
37、e to be. Air-conditioning began to spread in industries as a production aid during World War II. Today most Americans need to take air-conditioning for granted to homes, offices, factories, theatres, shops, studios, schools, hotels, and restaurants.But not everybody is aware that high cost and easy
38、comfort are merely two of the effects of the vast cooling of American. In fact, air conditioning has substantially altered the country s character and customs.Many of the byproducts are so conspicuous that they are scarcely noticed. To begin with, air-conditioning transformed the face of America by
39、making possible those glassy, boxy, sealed-in skyscrapers. It has been indispensable, no less, to the functioning of sensitive advanced computers, whose high operating temperatures require that they be constantly cooled.It has, at will, forced families into retreating into families with closed doors
40、 and shut windows, reducing the interactions of neighborhood life. It is really surprising that the public s often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privacy has coincided with the historic spread of air-conditioning. Though science has little studied how habitual air-conditioning affects mind a
41、nd body, some medical experts suggest that, like other technical avoidance of natural variations in climate, air-conditioning may damage the human capacity to adapt to stress. If so, air-conditioning is only like many other greatly useful technical developments that liberate man from nature by incre
42、asing his productivity and power in some way - while indirectly weakening him in others.41 According to this selection, which of the following constitutes the unique character ofU.S.?（A）Its excessive use of air-conditioning.（B） Its advanced computerized civilization.（C） Its public s retreating into
43、self-pursuit.（D）Its greatest contribution to human civilization.42 According to the author, the chief consequence brought about by the wide application of air-conditioning is_.（A）the loss of human capacity to adapt to changes in climate（B） the reduction of social communications of neighborhood life（
44、C） the active life style of all its users（D）the decreased human production and power43 The tone of this selection reveals that air-conditioning_.（A）has little effect on its users（B） has more effect on body than on mind（C） brings more benefits than damage to its users（D）does harm as well as good to i
45、ts users44 Who benefits the least from air-conditioning according to the author?（A）Medical experts.（B） Manufacturers.（C） Factory laborers.（D）Consumers.45 What is the author s overall attitude towards air-conditioning?（A）Neutral（B） Objective（C） Critical（D）Compromising45 In the 1960s, many young Ameri
46、cans were dissatisfied with American society. They wanted to end the Vietnam War and to make all of the people in the U.S. equal. Some of them decided to “drop out“ of American society and form their own societies. They formed Utopian communities , which they called “ communes,“ where they could fol
47、low their philosophy of “ do your own thing.“A group of artists founded a commune in southern Colorado called “Drop City.“ Following the ideas of philosopher and architect Buckminster Fuller they built domeshaped houses from pieces of old cars.Other groups, such as author Ken Keseys Merry Pranksters
48、, the followers fo San Francisco poet Steve Gakin, and a group that called itself the Hog Farm, lived in old schoolbuses and traveled around the United States. The Hog Farm become famous when they helped organize the Woodstock Rock Festival in 1969. Steve Gaskins followers tried to settle down on a
49、farm in Tennessee, but they had to leave when some members of the group were arrested for growing marijuana.Not all communes believed in the philosophy of “ do you own thing,“ however . Twin Oaks , a commune founded inVirginia in the late 1960s, was based on the ideas of psychologist B.F.Skinner. The people who lived at Twin Oaks were carefull
