2011年专转本英语模拟题之阅读理解

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2011年专转本英语模拟题之阅读理解

阅读理解在试卷中历来占得比重很大，共4个passage,20题，每题2分，其重要性不言自明。不少考生对阅读理解存在着误解，简单地认为只要掌握了词汇和语法就可解决问题，因而不了解如何运用主动的阅读方法来有效地进行阅读和解答有关问题。还有的考生对阅读理解心存恐惧，做了很多题得分仍然未能得到提高。这些都是认识上和解题方法上的问题。阅读每篇文章时，要先Skimming，快速通读全文，抓住中心思想和主要事实内容，不要纠缠于琐碎细节。在获得主要论点后，可主动出击对下文进行预测。在读完后，针对不同提问，运用scanning的方法，快速回原文定位寻找相关信息。对于不能直接从原文的得到的答案，则采用推断法，在准确理解的基础上，灵活运用各种逻辑推理，进行深层次理解，挖掘隐含的意义来答题。】

Passage 1

One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the voice of the advertisers. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; signals to us from the roadside billboards all day and flashes messages us in colored lights all night.

Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress

factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find 11 ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness.

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Other manufactures find advertising saves them from changing products. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one which goes on unchanged for ever,. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems call for –how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.

1. Which of the following can best describes the author’s attitude toward modern advertising?

a. indifference b. shocked c. disapproving d. approving

2.According to the author, which is NOT the designer’s chief concern when he designs a product?

a. stress factors b. man-hours

c. machine tolerances d. customer-appeal

3. It is stated in the passage that those responsible for giving a product customer-appeal are _______.

a. customers b. designers

c. advertisers d. manufacturers

4. According to the author, when some changes in a product is necessary, a manufacturer will choose to _____.

a. lower the product cost b. hire a better designer c. improve its quality d. alter its image

5. The best title for the passage might be?

a. Advertising Since the War

b. Advertising and Manufacturers

c. Advertising-England’s Biggest Industry

d. Advertising and Purchasers

Passage 2

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Honda Motor Co., Japan’s second largest car maker, yesterday

confirmed it is to replace a defective part in about 31,000 of is popular Accord models in China, which could potentially emit harmful gas.

A spokeswoman from Guangzhou Honda, the company’s joint

venture in South China’s Guangdong province, said Honda has

decided to replace the defective part at no charge at any of its 160 authorized sales outlets until September 10.

The defect centers on a rubber exhaust connector in the engine which could shrink in could weather and then loosen when the car accelerates or is driven over a rough surface. The defect does not affect the car’ s performance but could cause pollution, the speaks woman said, adding the recall is part of Honda’s commitment to

environmental awareness. The recall covers the 2 and 2.4 liter Accord sedans built at the Guangzhou plan between January 15 and June 17 this year. Honda had announced the recall of 29,494 Accords in Japan last week, citing a similar defect.

Honda has been one of the more successful of several firms

competing for a piece of China’ s booming car market, thanks largely to the popularity of the Accord.

Guangzhou Honda, a joint venture of Honda and Hongkong-listed Denway Motors, sold 47, 863 new and used Accords in the first seven months of 2003. The defect has prompted five complaints in Japan but none so far in China, the spokeswoman said. No accident has been

6. The defective part of Accord models is recalled by Honda for fear of_____.

a. environmental pollution

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b. road accidents

c. complaints from consumers

d. popularity under threat

7. Which of the following is true?

a. The defect will affect the performance .

b. The recall is the evidence of Honda’s commitment to users

c. Not all Accord models produced so far are on the list of recall

d. The recall of 29,494 Accords was announced in Japan last week after an accident happed.

8. All the following serves as a good climate for Honda’s

products in China except __________.