2014年浙江专升本英语真题及答案解析

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Most Important Influence on Young Adults . You should write

about 120 words following the Chinese outline given below.

(1)有些人认为父母对年轻人的影响较大，也有些人认为朋友对年轻人的影响较大

(2)我的看法

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Mary was very fond of television, so when she met a young man who workedfor a television company, she was very interested and asked him a lot ofquestions. She discovered that he had also worked for a film company, 【66.so sheasked him whether there was any difference between film work and televisionwork .】 

“Well,” answered the young man, “there is one very big difference. 【67.Ifsomeone makes a mistake while a film is being made, it is possible to stop anddo the scene again.】 In fact, one can do it over and over again a lot of times.Mistakes waste time, money and film, but the audience who see the film when itis finished don ’t know that anything went wrong. In a live television show, onthe other hand, the audience can see any mistakes that are made. ” 

“I can tell you a story about that, 【68. One day, a live television show wasgoing on, and one of the actors was supposed to have been shot.】 He fell to theground, and the camera moved somewhere else to allow time for me to run outwith a bottle of tomato sauce to pour on to him to look like blood. Butunfortunately the camera turned back to him before I had finished, 【69.and thepeople saw me pouring the sauce on to the man. ”】 

“Oh, how terrible! ” Mary said. “And what did you do? ” 

“Well”, answered the young man, “our television director is a very strictman.【70.If anyone makes a mistake, he fires him at once.】 So I just had to pretendthat this was part of the story and eat the man. ” 

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I don ’t know why you ’re so concerned._________________ (这毕竟不是你的问题 ).

For such a big house the price is fairly low. But you’ve got to _________________ (考虑维修所需要的钱 ).

My parents taught me not to take what ’s not mine. I ’ve always tried to_________________ (教育我的子女同样的价值观 ).

I understand the two factors that contributed to my downfall: _________________ (缺乏职业目标和缺乏自信 ).

Compared with people lacking relationships, those who can name severalintimate friends are_________________ (更健康、不容易早逝、更加快乐 ).

Which word in the passage is the closest in meaning to “public figure ”?

What do fans usually get in return if they write letters to celebrities?

What will Sylvia Taylor do if fans are threatening her celebrity clients?

Who told fans not to send any letters?

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How would you feel if the letter you penned carefully and posted to yourfavorite star ended up in the recycling bin? That ’s where unopened fan mail sentto singer Taylor Swift was found.Swift ’s management said it was an accident, but dealing with piles of lettersis a burden for most public figures. According to the BBC reporter Jon Kelly, atthe height of his fame, Johnny Depp was said to receive up to 10,000 letters aweek. 

Some celebrities don’t want letters. In 2008, Beatles drummer Ringo Starrannounced openly that he would throw them out because he was too busy. Othersdo attempt to get through it themselves. Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilightfilms, claims that he reads“tones and tones”of letters from fans. 

Many artists, however, outsource( 外包 ) the tasks of opening, reading andreplying. Sylvia Taylor, 58, has run a service in California that does just thatsince She and her staff deal with up to 20,000 items of mail a month onbehalf of 26 celebrities. 

Most letters are simply declarations of affection and admiration, she says. Afew ask for money. A small number contain threats which require her to contactthe celebrity ’s security tea m and the police. 

The biggest problem for Taylor is working out how to deal with thecorrespondence. Presents such as soft toys are sent to local hospitals, and theletters: most of them just get recycled. 

Typically, correspondence is acknowledged by a photo with a printed“autograph(亲笔签名)”. For some, this is enough, according to Lynn Zubernis,an expert at West Chester University. She says that the relationship between fansand celebrity may exist only in the mind of the former but it comes from adeeply-rooted human need for community. 

 56.Where were the unopened letters to singer Taylor Swift found?

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To stay economically competitive on a global scale, the United States needs 8 million more college graduates ___36___ That may sound impossible,___37___ according to Education at a Glance 2013, the ___38___ internationalreport on the state of education ___39___ Tuesday by the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the ___40___ is still the worldleader in producing college graduates. ___41___ , OECD data ___42___ that almosthalf of the world ’s university graduates come from three countries — the UnitedStates, China and Japan. 

___43___ the 34 OECD countries, ___44___ 26 percent of the total 255 millioncollege-educated ___45___ between the ages of 25 and 64 come from the UnitedStates. China comes in a distant second at 12.1 percent and Japan is a ___46___third at 11.4 percent. 

Global prosperity( 繁荣) won’t increase if only three nations ___47___higher education output, so it ’s exciting to see that the number of students ___48___to college increased 25 percent across all OECD countries ___49___ 1995 and 2012. If that ___50___ continues, 59 percent of young adults in those countrieswill go on to college, ___51___ 19 percent will enter vocational programs over theirlifetimes. 

 The number of students who actually graduate ___52___ college has increasedas well. In 2012, an average of 39 percent of students in OECD nations ___53___college, up from 20 percent in 1995. Since college dropouts ___54___ the U.S.economy billions of dollars every year, an international increase in graduation___55___ is good news for the entire planet. 

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A survey of English schoolchildren shows boys and girls are worrying aboutthe way they look. The ___26___ found that over half of male schoolchildrenlacked confidence because of their body ___27___ .The figure for girls was slightly___28___ , at 59 percent. Researchers questioned 693 teachers about how theirstudents ___29___ about their bodies. All the children had taken lessons on bodyimage and self-esteem. 

Teachers said many children were very ___30___ if otherssaid bad things about their appearances. Around 55 percent of teachers reportedthat girls were extremely sensitive to comment ___31___ their looks; the figurefor boys being easily hurt by teasing(取笑)was 27 percent.Teachers gave a number of ___32___ why children as young as four years oldwere stressing out about their shapes. Over 90 percent of teachers ___33___ theInternet and television. Children see images of “perfect”bodies every day andthey feel they have to look that way too. Many children are on diets to makethemselves ___34___ to the opposite sex. One elementary school teacher said :“Iwork with four to five-year- olds and some say things like, ‘I can ’t eat cheese , itwill make me ___35___ ’”, A teachers ’ spokeswoman warned that children tryingto look like “celebrities in the media only lead to misery ”. 

A. about F. fat   K. questions   B. attractive 

G. felt  L. reasons   C. blame   H. for 

M. shape D. complete   E. discover    I. higher 

N. study   J. lazy   O. upset 

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21___________Anything higher than SPF 50+ can tempt you to stay in the sun toolong. Even if you don’t burn, your skin may bedamaged. Stick to SPFs between 15 and 50+. Pick a product based on your ownskin color, time outside, shade and cloud cover.News about vitamin A. Eating vitamin A –rich vegetables is good for you, butspreading vitamin A on your skin may not be. Government data shows thatcancers develop sooner on skin coated with creams with vitamin A .

22___________Pick a good sunscreen. EWG ’s sunscreen database rates the safety and effectof about 1,400 SPF-rated products, including about 750 sunscreens for beachesand sports use. We give high ratings to brands that provide broad-range, long-lasting protection with ingredients that pose fewer health concerns whenabsorbed by the body. 

23___________Cream, because sprays cloud the air with tiny particles that maynot be safe to breathe. Reapply cream often. Sunscreen chemicals sometimesdegrade in the sun, wash off or rub off on towels and clothing. 

24___________ The FAD treats powdered sunscreens as unapproved new drugsand may take enforcement action against companies that sell them-except forsmall businesses, which can sell powders until December 2013. 

25___________ Wear sunscreen. In 2009, nearly twice as many American mendied form. skin cancers as women. Surveys show that 34 percent of men wearsunscreens, compared to 78 percent of women.Got your vitamin D? Many people don ’t get enough vitamin D, a hormonemanufactured by the skin in the presence of sunlight. Your doctor can test yourlevel and recommend supplements if you are low in this vital nutrient. 

A.No powder! 

B.Avoid midday sun. 

C.Message for men: 

D.Cream or spray? 

E.Don’t fall for high SPF labels. 

F.Take special precautions with infants and children. 

G.Avoid any sun product whose label says vitamin A. 

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According to the passage, taking money management courses will help to____________.

After Candice Backus completed the class about money, she _______.

The author’attitude toward financial classesin public school is___________.

During her junior year of high school, Candice Backus ’s teacher handed her asheet and instructed the 17-year-old to map out her future financial life. Backuspretended to buy a car, rent an apartment, and apply for a credit card. Then, sheand her classmates played the “stock market game, ” investing thehypothetical(假设的) earnings from their hypothetical jobs in the market in thefateful fall of 2008. “Our pretend investments crashed , ”Backus says, stillhorrified. “We felt what actual shareholders were feeling. ” 

That pain of earning and losing money is a feeling that public schoolincreasingly want to teach. Forty states now offer some types of financialinstruction at the elementary or high-school level, including lessons in balancingcheckbooks( 支票本 ) and buying stock in math and social-studies classes. Theinterest in personal-finance classes has risen since 2007 when bank failuresbecame a regular occurrence. 

Rather than teach investment strategies, these courses offer a basic approach tohandling money: Don’t spent what you don’t have. Put part of your monthlysalary into a saving account, and invest in the stock market for the long-termrather than short-term gains. For Backus, this means dividing her earnings fromher part-time job at a fast-food restaurant into separate envelopes for paying bills,spending, and saving. “Money is so hard to make but so easy to spend, ”she sone weekday after school. 

Student interest in taking classes on finance has increased because of____________.

What is Dr Belton ’s advice for youngsters ?

Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

Which of the following best describes the village where Meera Syal grew up?

The expression “the devil finds work for idle hands ” probably means thatpeople are more likely to ?

How many people were rated as very attractive in Jason Fletcher ’s study?

Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage ?

Were you constantly bored as a child? Maybe that helped you to developyour ability to be creative. 

 Boredom can be a good thing for children, according to Dr Teresa Belton,researcher at the University of East Anglia ’s School of Education and LifelongLearning. After interviewing authors, artists and scientists in Britain, she’sreached the conclusion that cultural expectations that children should beconstantly active could block the development of their imagination. 

British actress and writer Meera Syal grew up in a small mining village withfew distractions. The researcher said:“Lack of things to do urged her to talk topeople she wouldn’t otherwise have engaged with and try activities she wouldn ’under other circumstances, have experienced, such as talking to elderly neighborsand learning to bake cakes.” 

Belton added: “Boredom made her write. Meera Syal kept a diary from ayoung age, filling it with observations, short stories, poems. ” 

The researcher didn’t ignore the old saying the devil finds work for idlehands, though. Belton pointed out that young people who don ’t have the interiorresources to deal with boredom creatively may end up smashing up bus sheltersor taking cars out for a joyride. 

How about watching TV and videos on the computer? The researcherbelieves that nothing replaces standing and staring at things and observing yoursurroundings. 

It’s the sort of thing thatstimulates the imagination, she said, while thescreen “tends to short circuit that process and the development of creativecapacity. ”Dr Belton concluded: “For the sake of creativity, perhaps we need to slowdown and stay offline from time to time. ” 

11. Dr Teresa Belton did her research by_____.

Good-looking people are usually paid more probably because________ .

What ’sthe average annual salary of a good-looking person?

What can be inferred about the Doughnut Girls during world war I?

In paragraph 3, the word “ consequence” probably means_________ .

It is a blow for the Ugly Bettys and Plain Janes ——research shows thatgood looks lead to better pay. A study of 4,000 young men and women foundthat beauty boosted pay checks more than intelligence. Those judged to be themore attractive earned up to 10 percent more than their less attractive friends andcolleagues. Applied to the average salary of ￡ 25,000 a year, the “ plainnesspenalty(处罚)”would make a difference of ￡2,500 a year —— or around ￡50a week. 

It is unclear what is behind the phenomenon but it may be that beauty createsconfidence. The self-confident may appear to be doing better than they are andwill not hesitate about asking for a pay rise. 

Researcher Jason Fletcher, of Yale University in the U.S., rated theattractiveness of the 4,000 men and women. Just over half were judged average,while 7 percent were felt to be very attractive and 8 percent were judgedunattractive or very unattractive. The volunteers also sat an IQ test and reportedtheir salary. It became clear that pay scales were far from fair. For instance, a 14-point increase on the IQ score was associated with a 3 to 6 percent increase inwage. But being of above-average looks increased pay by 5 to 10 percent . 

For a plain person to be paid the same as a very attractive one , they wouldhave to be 40 percent brighter, the journal Economics Letters reports. 

Dr Fletcher said:“The results do show that people ’s looks have an impact ontheir wages and it can be very important.” 

6.What is the “plainness penalty ”?

The first Dutch “ olykoek ” came into being probably because_________ .

What was used to replace the uncooked center to improve doughnuts?

Have you ever wondered where the first doughnut( 炸面圈)was made? Whothought up the idea of a fried cake with a hole in the center? 

No one knows for sure who made the first doughnut. Some people think thatdoughnut probably began in the 1800s as Dutch “ olykoeks ” or “oily cakes.those days, a cook would not want to waste any scraps of food. Leftover piecesof bread dough (生面团) were put into hot oil and fried. Olykoeks were tasty onthe outside, but soft and uncooked in the center. 

Some people say that the mother of a New England sea captain invented thefirst real doughnut. Her name was Elizabeth Gregory. She replaced the softcenter with spices and nuts. But, Elizabeth ’s son, Captain Gregory, did not likenuts. He punched out the center, and the consequencewas the first hole in adoughnut. 

Others say the real story is that Captain Gregory had difficulty steering hisship while trying to eat doughnut. He asked the ship’s cook to make hisdoughnuts with holes so he could hang them on the steering wheel! Others thinkthat Captain Gregory saw holed cakes in Europe and brought the idea back toAmerica with him. 

During world war I, homesick American soldiers in Europe were serveddoughnuts by the Salvation Army. These brave women volunteering for the jobwere called “Doughnut Girls. ” They often worked in dangerous conditions nearthe soldiers, so the Doughnut Girls wore helmets and uniforms. The womenmade doughnut cutters out of a large can with a smaller can inside it to cut outthe hole. They could set up a kettle of hot oil to fry the dough almost anywhere. 

In the 1920s, doughnut machines were invented. Doughnuts were producedfaster and easier than ever before. Still, many people preferred to make theirfavorite doughnuts at home. 

1.The passage is mainly about_________ .