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2001-2004年江苏专转本英语历年真题
2001年江苏省普通高校“专转本”统一考试试卷大学英语
第Ⅰ卷（共100分）
注意事项：
1．答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。
2．每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。如果答案不涂写在答题卡上，成绩无效。
Part I Reading Comprehension(40﹪，40minutes)
Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passage and answer the questions. Then mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
Questions l to 5 are based on the following passage.
Do you want to say what you think in a letter to the President of the United States? You'll get a reply from him-written in ink, not typed-after only a few days.
The President gets about 4,000 letters every week. He answers everyone who writes to him on special White House Paper. But he doesn't need a lot of time for it. In fact, he only gives 20 minutes a week to looking at his personal correspondence. He has the most modern secretary in world to help him.
His computer, worth $800,000; which has its own room on the first floor of the White House. It has a bank of electronic pens which write like the President writes, in his favorite light blue ink. Each letter the President receives gets a number, according to the type of answer it needs. The pens then write the correct reply for it, according to the number. Each letter takes less than a second to write. A White House official said, "It's not important that the letters come from a computer. Each letter says what the President wants to say.
1. ____for a reply from the President.
A. You have to wait a long time
B. You have to wait at least one month
C. You only have to wait several days
D. You only have to wait a few weeks
2. The reply from the President ____.
A. is always printed
B. is always written in ink
C. is always typed
D. is always written by himself
3. It takes the computer ____to write ten letters.
A. no more than ten seconds
B. less than ten seconds
C. a little more than ten seconds
D. at least one second
4. The computer can be described as ____.
A. expensive but efficient
B. heavy and inefficient
C. possessing a beautiful handwriting
D. the President's most reliable secretary
5. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.
A. the President never reads any letters written to him by ordinary people
B. the President hires a very efficient secretary to deal with his correspondence
C. the President does not really care about the letters he receives every week
D. the President is assured that the computer expresses his views in the letters
Passage 2
