专升本英语入学考试样题

1. Shakespeare compared the world _______ a stage.

A. with        B. to              C. for             D. as

2. All foreign merchants were made to pay heavy _______ on the goods they sold and bought.

A. weights         B. prices     C. tasks      D. duties 

3. In sales, shops may say “Thousands of items at half-price" when only a few are _______ at such a drastic reduction.

A. ready       B. handy      C. affordable      D. available

4. Nice words may win friends, but only one's good personality and credit can hold _______.

A. it     B. that            C. those      D. them 

5. He came all the way to China for promoting friendship _______ for making money.

A. much than   B. more than       C. better than         D. rather than

6.The professor was surprised at the full _______ and began his lecture with enthusiasm.

A. attendance  B. audience        C. appearance      D. presence
 

7. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _______ when judging my examination.

A. regard      B. counting        C. account         D. observation
 

8. He was afraid he would have to _______ her invitation to the party.

A. refresh         B. refuse     C. ignore     D. decline

9. _______ he works hard, I don't mind when he finishes the experiment.

A. As soon as  B. As well as      C. So far as       D. So long as

10.  _______ you were busy, I wouldn't have bothered you with my questions.

A. Realized    B. As I realized   C. I had realized  D. Had I realized

11. In the desert, even a small cup of water may be a _______ of life or death.

A. fact        B. thing      C. matter     D. business

12. That was such a serious matter that I had no choice but _______ the police.

A. called in   B. calling in      C. call in         D. to call in

13. I need to rent a larger apartment. Do you know of any _______ ones in this neighborhood?

A. blank       B. vacant     C. open       D. free

14. The _______ bridge was built in 1700 and rebuilt 20 years ago.

A. beautiful white stone

B. white beautiful stone

C. beautiful stone white

D. white stone beautiful

15. _______ to the question of drinks, I think orange juice will be enough.

A. As     B. Due             C. According       D. Up

Part II Cloze 完型填空(30 points)

Choose the best word to fill each blank from the choices A, B, C and D given after the passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 从A, B, C, D中选择最正确的答案，并填写在答题卷上。

Last December I bought myself a video cassette recorder described as "simple to use".  In the first week, I failed to program the machine to record from the TV, _______ (16) even after months of practice I still made mistakes. I am not _______ (17) it seems. According to a survey last year, more than one _______ (18) four VCR owners never use the timer on their machines to record a program.

So why do producers keep on designing and producing VCRs that are difficult to use if problems are so obvious? First, the problems are not obvious to designers who have years of experience and who are _______ (19) to understand how these things work. Secondly, designers tend to add one or two features at a time to each model, whereas you or I face all of a machine’s features _______ (20). Thirdly, although finding problems in a _______ (21) product is easy, it is too late by then to do anything about the design. Finally, if producers can _______ (22) selling products that are difficult to use, it is not worth the effort of any of them to make improvements.

Some producers say they like to provide a wide _______ (23) of features rather than making the machines easy to use. But that gives rise to the question, "Why _______ (24) you have features that are easy to use?" The answer is you can.

In an ideal world, there would be some ways of controlling quality _______ (25) repeatedly redesigning the VCR until, say, 90 percent of users can work 90 percent of the features correctly 90 percent of the time.

16.     A. but        B. that            C. since      D. and

17.     A. along      B. lonely     C. alone      D. lone

18.     A. to         B. in              C. for             D. by

19.     A. training       B. trained         C. having trained  D. was trained

20.     A. at once        B. at times        C. all in one      D. once and for all

21.     A. fulfilled      B. done       C. made       D. finished

22.     A. get away with  B. get through with    C. get behind with D. get over with

23.     A. degree         B. range      C. scope      D. extent

24.     A. doesn't        B. do              C. can't      D. can

25.     A. for example    B. much like       C. such as         D. that is

Part III Reading Comprehension 阅读理解（40 points）

Passage One

This summer, for the first time, Emory College let freshmen pick their own roommates in an online roommate-selection system. Students, using screen names to hide their identities, posted profiles of themselves detailing personality attributes, work habits, music and food preferences, and exchanged information using e-mail.

Housing officials at Emory say they expect that letting students pick their own roommates who are their closest matches will increase the likelihood of compatibility, and there’s little risk of hurt feelings if the e-mail exchanges do not lead to a match, since the initial round of contacts is done under screen names.

Several studies have shown that roommates have an impact on the attitudes and social behavior of those they live with, and one recent study found that a roommate's academic performance has a small, but statistically significant effect on the other roommate's grade-point average. Other studies, however, did not find that effect.

The business of assigning roommates varies widely across the country. At Davidson College, the housing staff sort every freshman with careful hand-selection. The Davidson philosophy is that roommates should be as similar as possible, while halls should be as diverse as possible.

"We had a match that seemed perfect, until we discovered that one was a cattle rancher's son and the other was a vegan (绝对素食者)," said Ms. Kromm.

"They should definitely meet, on the same hall. But we didn't want to put them in the same room." Occasionally, an incoming student asks to be paired with an Asian, or says she might not be able to get along with a Republican. In such cases, Ms. Kromm will remind them that Davidson does not accept roommate preferences based on race, ethnicity, and religion.