【正文】 ve r s well writ ten been writ ten re writ ten re writ ten Ⅳ.Reading Comprehension(45 points)DirectionsThere are three reading passages in this passage is followed by five each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer One Man’s first r eal invention , one of the most impor tant invention s in history , was the t ranspor tation and every machine in the world depend on wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most r ema rkable of all inventions , because there a re no wheels in nature—no living thing was ever created with , then , did man e to invent the wheel ? Perhaps some early h unte rs found that they could roll the dead body of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could car ry , the logs 127 themselves weighed a must have taken a great prehistoric thinke r to imagine two thin slices of log connected a t their center s by a st rong his would roll along just as the log s did , yet be much light er and easier to us the wheel and axle(輪軸)came into being , and with them the first ca wheel is import ant becau was man’s first real invention tr an spor tation depends on it ry machine depends on it B and C was r ema rkable of man to invent the wheel becau led to many other invention s had no use for it then we re no wheels in nature of the above wheel was probably invented group of ea rly hunters first men on ear th gr ea t pr ehistoric thin ker man who made the first car t passage says that the first wheel may have been piece of stone log of met al of log idea for it may have e a rolling stone a dead body of an animal on log s tching running animals an animal Passage Two T hen in the 1830s came the invention of the telegr he telegr aphist(電報員)could send messages from lands hundr eds of miles away more quickly than a horseman could deliver a lett er from the next course mistakes we re made , some of them very fun a telegram to London from the other end of the wor ld was at fir st ve ry telegr aphists used as few words as words were misspelt and the telegrams we re difficult to unde e is a famous the ve ry fir st r ailway line was st ar ted in Queensland , Aust ralia, the Gover nor himself dug the first piece of ear his was an import ant e 128 a telegram was sent to t r eadGovernor Queensland turns(digs)first sod(piece of ea rth).“ But when the telegr am a r rived , it r ead Governor Queensland twins’ fir st son.” The newspaper then printed the exciting news that the Governor’s wife had had twins , the first one being a boy!This came as a gr eat s urprise to everybody , becau se the Governor was not mar ried! passage mainly tells expen sive telegram telegraphists used as few words as possible funny mistake in a telegram example of the mistakes in the news aphists used as few words as pos sible was too distant f rom London to the other end of the world akes u sed to be made s would be misspelt by them a message by telegr aph was very expensive made that words wer e spelled by telegrams difficult to understand telegrams funny telegrams s hor t t elegrams ha rd to delive r word“ “ was the misspelt form of the word“ turn s” , “ “andwas“sod”. s’。son 。ear th ’。ear th 。son to the newspaper ,. Gove rnor’s wife was the younger of the twins Governor and his wife were mar ried and had a son Gove rnor was his wife’s twin brothe r Governor’s wife had twinned and the elder baby was a boy Passage Three In the United States , it is not customary to telep hone someone very early in the you telephone him early in the day , while he is s having or having breakfast , the time of the call shows that the mat ter is very impor tant and requires immedia te he same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11 ∶ 00 someone r eceives a call during sleeping hours , he assumes it is a matte r of life or he time chosen for the call municates its impor tance. 129 I f a late t elephone call is r egarded in the Unit ed States as a cause for concer n , imagine the excitement and fear caused by a crowd of people ar riving at the door at 2 ∶00 an island in the south Pacific, a plant manager from the United Stat es had just such an natives of the island met one night to discu ss a they ar rived at a solution , they went to see the plant manager and woke him up to tell him what had been tu nately , they did not know that it is a very se rious matt er to wake up Ame ricans at such an he plant manager , who did not unde rstand the local culture , thought ther e was a fight and called the neve r occur r ed to him(or to the natives)that pa rts of the day have differ ent meanings in different to the , what does a very ear ly telephone call mean to an American ? which of the following hours is a phone call NOT regarded as of primary importance ? ∶00 ∶30 ∶00 ∶00 did the natives go to the plant manager’s home and wake him up ? have a talk with inform him of their discuss a problem with tell him a problem they met was the manage r’s immediate reaction to the natives’ a r rival ? thought the na tives were didn’t take it called in a policeman to talk with the believed ther e was a fight and called the police a t is most likely cau sed by a phone call or a visit at midnight ? of the above.Ⅴ.Translation(20 points) 130 Directons: There are five sentences in Chinese in this them into 。? 年來到上海, 他一直在這里教書。 131 1999 年成人高等學校專升本招生全國統(tǒng)一考試非師范類公共課英語試題答案及解析Ⅰ.語音 1.【答案】C 【解析】元音字母a 在C 項中讀[] , 而在A、B、D 三項中均讀[ ei]。2.【答案】A 【解析】元音字母組合ea 在A 項中讀[i ] ,而在B、C、D 三項中均讀[i ]。3.【答案】D 【解析】輔音字母s 在D 項中讀[ z] , 而在A、B、C 三項中均讀[ s]。4.【答案】C 【解析】字母y 在C 項中屬非重讀音節(jié)讀音為[ i] , 而在A、B、D 三項中是重讀音節(jié), 讀音為 [ai]。5.【答案】B 【解析】字母組合or 在B 項中讀[] , 而在A、C、D 三項中均讀[]。6.【答案】A 【解析】元音字母組合oo 在A 項中讀[] , 而在B、C、D 三項中均讀[ u]。7.【答案】B 【解析】字母組合a r 在B 項中讀[] , 而在A、C、D 三項中均讀[ɑ]。8.【答案】A 【解析】輔音字母組合ch 在A 項中讀[ k ] , 而在B、C、D 三項中均讀[ t]。9.【答案】C 【解析】字母組合ai 在C 項中屬非重讀音節(jié), 讀音為[