2021年成考专升本英语试题及答案解析

2021年成考专升本英语试题及答案解析

2021年成人高等学校招生全国统一考试专升本 英语

第一卷（选择题，共125分） I . Phonetics (5 points)

Directions: In each of the following groups of words, there are four underlined letters or letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. 1. A. grand

B. gravity

C. gratitude D. grateful

2. A. theater 3. A. laugh 4. A. guilt 5. A. lamb

B. threat C. thread B. weigh C. tough B. build

D. treasure D. rough D. guitar D. ambition C. guide C. comb B. bombing

II. Vocabulary and Structure (15 points)

Directions: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that

best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

6．―Have you ever played bridge?

―Yes. We_____ on weekends when I was in college. A. would have played B. should have played C. used to play D. had played

7. Would you please let me finish my words? Don't _____ in the middle of a sentence. A. put me off B. cut me off C. keep me off D. get me off 8. A newspaper headline concerning new energy development ___his attention and he was much interested in making investment in it. A. gave B. caught C. turned D. paid

9.Their experiment________，Tom and Mary set out to write the report on the results. A. done B. to be done C. being done D. will be done 10. After the party, we had to tidy up the kitchen, which was a

(n)_____mess. A. exact B. entire C. definite D. complete 11. In the first semester, I asked my teacher______. A. what courses should I take B. what courses I should take C. I should take what courses D. should I take what courses

12. There are ______ fewer custom tailors and dressmakers in the U. S. than in European countries. A. so B. very C. far D. too 13. You mustn't go unless either your father or I _______with you. A. come B. comes C. came D. has come

14. In our view, the root ______of the crime problem is poverty and

unemployment. A. solution B. reason C. cause D. fact 15.―I didn’t go to class last night because my car broke down. 1

―You_______ mine. I wasn't using it. A. could borrow B. may borrow C. could have borrowed D. may have borrowed

16. Nelson is a creative liar who is always making______ unusual excuses for not doing his work. A. across B. away C. off D. up

17. They demanded that the government _______all political prisoners in the next two days. A. free B. freed C. will free D. would free 18. Since you feel so strongly about this matter, you should make your views ___to other committee

members. A. know B. knowing C. being known D. known

19._____I could say anything more， Holmes had rushed off towards the door. A. Before B. After C. When D. As

20. There aren't many wild pandas ______in the world today. A. live B. living C. to live D. lived III. Cloze (30 points)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage，there are four

choices marked A， B， C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Scientists have been struggling to find out the reason behind blushing (脸红). Why would humans evolve(进化) a 21 that puts us at a social disadvantage by 22 us to reveal that we have cheated or lied?

Charles Darwin pointed out that 23 all people of all races blush，

animals do not. When it came to explaining the reason, he was 24 a loss. That has not stopped others from trying.

One 25 is that blushing started out as a way to show we obey

authoritative members of the group. Later, as our social interactions became 26 complex, it became involved with higher, self-conscious 27 such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. This would seem to put individuals at a disadvantage，but blushing might actually make a person more 28 or socially desirable. 29 that women blush more than men，one university researcher suggests that blushing might have evolved as a way for women to 30 their honesty to men so as to win their support in raising children. Some zoologists also think blushing could have emerged as a way to foster trust. \\ 31 a stone-faced

partner，you could never 32 what he wants. “he says. Once blushing became 33 with embarrassment, anyone who did not blush might have been at a

disadvantage because we are 34 likely to trust someone who appears never to feel 35 about anything. 21. A. response B. reply C. reflection D. recall