1 / 9 机密★启用前 江苏省 2020 年普通高校专转本选拔考试 英语 试题卷 （非英语类专业） 注意事项： 1. 本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分，试题卷共 10 页。全卷满分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。 2. 必须在答题卡上作答，作答在试题卷上无效。作答前务必将自己的姓名和准考证号准确清晰地填写在试题卷和答题卡上的指定位置。 3. 考试结束时，须将试题卷和答题卡一并交回。 Part I Reading Comprehension (共 20 小题，每小题 2 分，共 40 分) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage One Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. When Beverly Goodman was in elementary school, she gave a series of presentations on her favorite topic: disasters. She told her classmates about some disasters in history, for instance, the Titanic. Today, at 45, she’s a marine geoarchaeologist (地理考古学家) who explores coastlines for clues to erosion, past tsunamis (海啸), and other disasters. “It’s funny now that I’m a disaster scientist, basically,” she says. “It all came together.” Human settlements have long been built around access to water. Goodman studies how coastal change affected our ancestors: Were people forced to leave? Did they find innovative ways to adapt to the changes? This knowledge, she says, can help us “prepare responsibly for what this landscape is going to look like in the future.” That was the case when Goodman and her team of scientists proved tsunamis had struck the coast of what is now Israel over the course of thousands of years. Partly as a result of their research,...
