2003年北京市专升本英语真题

北京市2003年高职升本科招生统一考试

英语

考生注意：1. 答案必须写在答题纸上。

2. 本试卷共8页，满分为100分，考试时间为120分钟。

Part I Vocabulary and Structure

Directions:In this part, there are 15 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete each one by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked with A.,

B.,

C. and

D. Then you should write the letter in the corresponding space on the

Answer Sheet.

1. Jenny is only three years old. She is tooyoung ________ alone at home.

A. to leave

B. to be leaving

C. to be left

D. to have been left

2. Mother has never been to Tibet b ut that’s the only city ________.

A. where she most likes to visit

B. that she most likes to visit

C. which she likes to visit most

D. what she likes to visit most

3. It’s so long sin c e I last saw her that Icouldn’t ________ her.

A. realize

B. review

C. acknowledge

D. recognize

4.By the end of 2002 we ________ more than 5000 teachers of English all over the province.

A. trained

B. had trained

C. would have trained

D. have trained

5. ──There must be someone at the door.

──Who could ________ be? It is already midnight.

A. it

B. he

C. she

D. this

6. He talked as if he ________ there before.

A. used to be

B. was

C. had been

D. had gone

7. I ________ them to go by train, but they went by bus after all.

A. suggested

B. demanded

C. proposed

D. advised

8. ________ knowsthe fact should report it to the manager.

A. Whoever

B. No matter who

C. Someone

D. Anyone

9. Itriedto catch the ball but it was ________ my reach.

A. over

B. above

C. out

D. beyond

10. Let me ________ your telephone number before I forget it.

A. put up

B. putdown

C. put off

D. put on

11. No sooner had thethief disappeared into a side street ________.

A. than the police arrived

B. asthe police arrived

C. then the police arrived

D. when the police arrived

12. ________, we missed our train the day when we were back to Paris.

A. With the bus late

B. The bus to be late

C. The bus being late

D. The bus was late

13. After a whole-night discussion, they have finally________ the conclusion that they

should be united as oneand fight against the local authorities.

A. come

B. reached

C. received

D. arrived

14. ________ from the top of the TVtower, you will find the city far more beautiful at night.

A. To see

B. Seen

C. Seeing

D. See

15. But for his kind help, I ________ this experiment so quickly.

A. shou ldn’t be finishing

B. couldn’t finished

C. hadn’t finished

D. wouldn’t have finished

Part II Reading Comprehension

Directions:There are four reading passages in this part. After reading each passage, you will find

5 questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement there are 4

choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should choose the most appropriate answer and

write the letter in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.

For thousands of years, people have looked up at the night sky and looked at the moon. They wondered what the moon was made of. They wanted to know how big it was and how faraway it was. One of the most i nteresting questions was “Where did the moon come from?” No one knew for sure. Scientists developed many different theories, or guesses, but they could not prove that their ideas were correct.

Then, between 1969 and 1972, the United States sent astronauts to the moon. They studied the moon and returned to the earth with rock samples. Scientists have studied these pieces of rock, the moon’s movements, and information about the moon and the earth. They can finally answer questions about the origin of the moon.

Today most scientists believe that the moon formed from the earth. They think that a large object hit the earth early in its history. Perhaps the object was as big as Mars. When the object hit the earth, huge pieces of the earth broke off. These pieces then moved around the earth. After a brief time, the pieces came together and formed the moon.

This “impact(撞击)theory” exposes many facts about the earth and the moon. For example, the moon is very dry because the impact created so much heat that it dried up all the water. The earth has iron in its centre. However, the moon has very little iron in its centre. This is because the moon formed from lighter materials that make up the outer part of the earth. Finally, the earth and the moon are almost of the same age: the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, while the moon is about 4.4 billion years old.

No one can prove that something really happened billions of years ago. In the future, new information will either support this theory or show that it is wrong. For now, scientists accept the impact theory because it explains what we know today about the earth and the moon.

16. From the first paragraph we know that when people looked atthe moon they ________.