2016年五年一贯制专转本英语考试试卷

2016年五年一贯制高职专转本英语考试

（考试时间：90分钟）

I. Reading Comprehension. (本题共15小题，每题2分，共30分)

Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to each question.

Passage One

Many students trying to increase their effective reading speed become discouraged when they find that if they try to race through a passage faster, they fail to take in what they have read. At the end, they have been so busy “reading faster”that they cannot remember what the passage was about. The problem here is that the material they are practicing on is either too difficult for them in vocabulary or content, or not sufficiently interesting. We hope that the passages in this course material will be both interesting and fairly easy, but you should also practice as much as you can in your own time. Read things you like reading. Go to the subject catalogue in the library. Biography, sport, domestic science, the cinema .... there is bound to be some area that interests you and in which you can find or just below.

If you want a quick check on how easy a book is, read through three or four pages at random （随意）. If there are, on average, more than five or six words on each page that are completely new to you, then the book is not suitable for reading-speed improvement.

1. This passage is mainly about how to__________.

A) use the passages in a reading course B) develop reading comprehension

C) improve reading speed D) make a good use of the library

2. The expression “books of about your level of library...” in paragraph I is closest in meaning to to __________.

A. the books about your ability

B. the books about your height

C. the books that you could find

D. the books that you can understand

3. According to this passage, if you could not understand a passage, you__________.

A. may not sit in the library

B. probably don’t know its background

C. may not have practiced on reading it

D. probably think it is too easy for you to read

4. If a book has seven or more new words on each page, a reader who wants to practice reading speed__________.

A. will probably drop it

B. will probably read it very fast

C. may study it very carefully

D. may read it with a dictionary

5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned for fast reading purpose ?

A. Books about tennis playing.

B. Books about ruining family.

C. Books about language testing.

D. Books about personal life history.

Passage Two

Hi. My name is Dina. I'm a black Canadian. When i was two-and-a-half years old I was adopted（收养）by a white couple who already had two biological sons. I am grateful for my parents and two brothers but growing up was sometimes difficult.

Nearly everyone living in our neighborhood was white. Children sometimes laughed at me

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