2012年5月学位英语真题及超详细答案

第一节：（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有1个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，

并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the woman want to do?

A. Ask for the time.

B. Repair her watch .

C. Buy a new watch.

2. What is the man most probably ?

A. A driver.

B. A passenger .

C. A policeman.

3. What are the two speakers doing?

A. They are having a meeting .

B. They are talking on the phone.

C. They are listening to the radio.

4. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A. Father and daughter.

B. Professor and student .

C. Two good friends.

5. When did the man probably leave the gate?

A. At 12:00.

B. At 12: 30.

C. At 1:00.

第二节：（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选

出最佳选项,并标在试卷相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟；听完后各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至第7题。

6. Who is the woman speaking to?

A. Her husband.

B. A policeman.

C. A fire-fighter.

7. What has happened to the woman’s house?

A. It’s been burnt down.

B. It’s been broken into.

C. It’s been damaged.

听第7段材料，回答第8至第9题。

8. Where is the woman from?

A. The plains of the west.

B.The plains of the Midwest.

C. The plains of the northwest.

9. What happened in the flood that the woman experienced?

A. The woman’s house was destroyed.

B. She lost her dog.

C. Her father’s car was destroyed.

听第8段材料，回答第10至第12题。

10. How does the man feel?

A. Happy.

B. Sad.

C. Excited.

11. What’s wrong with the man?

A. He was knocked down by a car.

B. He had an accident when he was walking along the street.

C. He had an accident in the car.

12. Why did it happen?

A. Because there’s something wro ng with the driving mirror.

B. Because there’s something wrong with the roadside mirror.

C. Because the other driver drove too fast.

听第9段材料，回答第13至第16题。

13. What caused the man being late?

A. The trafffic jam

B. His broken car.

C. His extra work.

14. Why doesn’t the man want to find different route to get home?

A. He doesn’t like a different way.

B. There is only one way for him to get home.

C. He thinks that he can’t avoid traffic jam.

15. What does the man feel bad about?

A. He is adding polluted air to the air pollution.

B. Having the less freedom without a car.

C. The stronger stress.

16. How will the man go to work in the future?

A. Take his car.

B. By bike.

C. Taking public transport.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20题。

17. Why can’t Coston sle ep well on Saturday nights?

A. He always worries that there may be a fire.

B. He has some sleeping problems

C. He has to do his job as a volunteer firefighter.

18. What can we learn from the passage?

A. He will go to college next year.

B. He dreams to be a great hero one day.

C. He is only sixteen years old.

19. What is the key thing in putting out a fire?

A. Skills.

B. Teamwork.

C. Courage.

20. What does Coston want to do in the future?

A. A flight doctor.

B. A firefighter.

C. A fighter.

第二部分：语言知识应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从A. B. C. D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. ---- You’ve done very well. It’s a pity you missed the sports meeting last week.

---- Yes, it was a real pi ty! _______, I’m feeling better now.

A. Never mind

B. You’re so kind

C. Take it easy

D. That’s life

22. The pavements are designed to provide easy access for the blind to _______conveniently, which is bound to_______ active effects on people’s opinion on the government’s performance.

A. walk ; produce

B. walking ; producing

C. walk ; producing

D. walking ; produce

23. It has been evident that too many children in the city are left ________ when their development requires parents’ close attention.

A. alone

B. off

C. out

D. behind

24. It’s desired especially this year that this rule _______be brought to the attention of all the teachers.

A. should

B. would

C. might

D. could

25. ---- It’s raining heavily! Why must we go out right now?

---- The reason is that we are going to help the villages on the mountains.

---- ______.

A. Go ahead

B. with pleasure

C. It depends

D. Congratulations

26. Nowadays, there seems little room for traditional literature, but skills like writing or critical thinking actually ________ promise for opening doors to good entry-level jobs.

A. hold

B. reflect

C. set

D. make

27. Jeremy Lin’s success is more than coincidence. ________ talent, persistence and sweat can not be ignored.

A. Except for

B. As well as

C. But for

D. But

28. All the buildings look old but the library _________.

A. need to be repaired

B. needs reparing

C. needs be repaired

D. need repairing

29. —The apples are already smelling. You shouldn’t have chosen that kind for me.

— _______.

A. Oh, don’t complain about a gift.

B. What’s wrong with you？

C. Sorry. I’ll give you a better one next time.

D. What can I do for you？

30. At present obtaining more land is only possible as _____ result of urbanization, when more farmers leave _____ rural areas to work in the city.

A. a ; the

B. the ; /

C. a ; /

D. the ; the

31. Hearing their grandpa was coming, they began to ________ the work to prepare for a nice dinner.

A．set off B．set down C．set aside D．set about

32. If the work _____ by the end of this month is delayed,the team will be fined.

A. to be finished

B. is finished

C. being finished

D. finished

33. With the stress heavier, physicians are always ______ caution upon citizens in view of heart attack.

A. declaring

B. urging

C. suggesting

D. favouring

34. The people, ________ had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.

A. all whose homes

B. all of whose homes

C. all their homes

D. all of their homes

35. ---- You’ll not be here tomorrow, will you?

---- _______, for I may go to meet my parents at the station.

A. I soppose so.

B. I suppose not

C. It depends

D. Of course.

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

—William Bennett

Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun __36__ to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful.

Most of the class might be considered economically __37__, but still many would __38__ the holidays with turkeys and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the __39__ of most of her students’ art. And they were.

__40__, Douglas made a different kind of picture. Douglas was a special kind of boy. He was the teacher’s true child of misery, __41__ and unhappy. As other children played at break, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess the pain Douglas felt

__42__ those sad eyes.

Yes, his picture was different. When __43__ to draw a picture of something for which he was thankful, he drew a hand. Nothing else. Just a(n) __44__ hand.

His abstract image captured the __45__ of his classmates, whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers __46__ turkeys. Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and __47__ people. And so the discussion went ---- until the teacher __48__ forgot the young artist himself.

When the children had gone on to other tasks, she __49__ at Douglas’ desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it wa s. The little boy looked away and __50__, “It’s yours, teacher.”

She __51__ the times she had taken his hand and walked with him here and there, __52__ she had other student. How often had she said, “Take your hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside.” Or, “Let me show you how to hold your pencil.” Or, “Let’s do this together.” Douglas was most thankful for his teacher’s hand.

Brushing __53__ a tear, she went on with her work.

The story speaks of __54__ thankfulness. It says something about teachers teaching and parents parenting and friends showing friendship, and how much it means to the Douglases of the world. They might not always say thanks, but they'll remember the hand that __55__.

36. A. assessment B. assignment C. appointment D. adjustment

37. A. disadvantaged B. convenient C. wealthy D. advantaged

38. A. share B. like C. observe D. avoid

39. A. purposes B. subjects C. motivations D. examples

40. A. But B. Thus C. Therefore D. However

41. A. merry B. naughty C. weak D. lively

42. A. behind B. beside C. before D. around

43. A. ordered B. asked C. forced D. persuaded

44. A. rough B. big C. empty D. small

45. A. thought B. description C. respect D. imagination

46. A. raise B. need C. buy D. sell

47. A. look at B. care for C. take away D. drive off

48. A. always B. almost C. usually D. therefore

49. A. knocked B. stopped C. kicked D. looked

50. A. cried B. shouted C. whispered D. laughed

51. A. recalled B. reviewed C. recognized D. repeated

52. A. when B. where C. as D. which

53. A. out B. up C. down D. aside

54. A. other than B. more than C. less than D. rather than

55. A. move on B. stick above C. reaches out D. help out

第三部分：阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分；满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中(A、B、C和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Most of us feel upset if we miss just one meal, and if we try to go without food for 12 hours we would really be uncomfortable. But there are some people who seem able to “fast” for very long periods.

Various records are claimed for long fast, but in most cases there is no medical proof and so the records are doubtful. One South African woman claimed that she lived for 102 days on nothinig but water and soda water.

There are great differences among living things in the ability to survive without food. For example , a tick（扁虱）, which lives on animals, may survive a whole year. Warm-blooded animals use up their stores of food in the body more quickly.

In fact, the smaller and more active the animal, the more quickly it uses up its reserves. A small bird starves to death in about five days, a dog in about twenty. In general, we can say that a warm-blooded creature will die when it has lost about half its normal weight.

This matter of weight is important. Man and other creatures live in a state of metabolic equiplibrium（新陈代谢的平衡）which means maintaining the body weight once a certain point has been reached. This regulation of body weight is done by thirst, hunger, and appetite.

When your blood lacks nutritional materials, this registers（记录）in the hunger center of the brain and you feel “hungry”. The body is crying out for any kind of fuel(food). And it is our appetite that sees to it hat we chooose a mixed diet, which is the kind the body needs.

56. According to this passage, a man will die _________.

A. when a certain point in losing weight has been reached.

B. when his blood lacks nutritional material

C. when his normal weight is lost

D. when he goes without food for more than 12 hours

57. The word “fast” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by ________.

A. eat no food

B. live merely on water and soda water

C. live on nothing

D. remains alive for a long time without food

58. A tick can survive much longer than a bird because ________.

A. a tick lives on animals

B. a tick is much smaller

C. a bird is more active

D. both B and C

59. A person feels hungry _________.

A. if he doesn’t choose a mixed diet

B. because his body cries out for food

C. when soemthing is wrong with regulation of body weight

D. if there are not enough nutritional in his blood

60. From the passage we can infer that the author ________.

A. believes the South African woman very firmly

B. does not believe the South African woman at all

C. is not certain whether the South African woman’s claim was true.

D. is doubtful whether there was such a South African woman

B

It might sound ridiculous that goal setting could actually hold you back from completing tasks and dreams you may have. But it seems like everyone tells you should be setting goals for everything you want to accomplish, short term and long term. Goals can help you sometimes, but in some cases they just lead to constant frustration and they actually bring you down.

Let's look at this a little closer with an example. A lot of people might set forth as a goal. Many people jump online and are looking to start a business online as a way to make money from home and let's say they set a goal to make $10,000 in their first month. They do this because they seem tons of people making large sums of money in very little time so they think, $10,000

a month, that shouldn't be too hard.

But what happens when you only bring in $1,000 in your first 30 days online? If this is pure profit you might still be happy but this is nowhere near reaching the goal you originally set out to meet. So naturally you would feel like you failed to reach your goal and you may be a little disappointed in yourself.

If you continue not to reach this goal month in month , it starts to add up and really weighs on you. I'm not saying that they are bad and you shouldn't set them but you need to realize that you should not be emotionally attached to your goals.

An alternative approach would be to set certain milestones for when you want to accomplish things and start out small. Build your confidence by accomplishing smaller feats and if you overproduce, then it will be a nice surprise. You have to have some sort of end result in mind but break it down in to a day by day task. It makes it a lot easier for you to handle by just knowing everyday you have to complete a few small tasks and over time the snowball will roll into great things.

61. The purpose of the passage is to _______.

A. show that it’s necessary to set goals

B. prove the disadvantages of setting goals

C. suggest way of setting goals to reach success

D. introduce how to reach success by setting high goals.

62. In Paragraph 2 , the writer used the example to _______.

A. persuade readers not to be greedy for money

B. prove that goals often result in frustration.

C. show goal setting sometimes stops you realizing your dreams

D. advise readers not to set goals to avoid frustration

63. According to the passage, always sticking to our goals is ______.

A. important

B. unnecessary

C. ridiculous

D. natural

64. What belief does the writer most probably hold?

A. The higher goals we set, the more success we’ll achieve

B. Goal setting is not always necessary and helpful

C. We shouldn’t set higher goals than other people

D. Goals should be set for short term and long term.

65. What information will probably be provided following the last paragraph?

A. Another helpful tip for setting goals

B. Benefits of setting small goal

C. Side effects of goal setting

D. Success achieved without goal setting.

C

Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both questions is yes.To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random (随意地) from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters,

parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that integigence depends on birth.

Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this shows that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who lives in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.

66. Which of the following best describes the writer’s point in Paragraph One?

A. To some extent, intelligence is given at birth.

B. Intelligence is developed by the environment.

C. Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

D. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.

67. In the first paragraph,“no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence” suggests that .

A. no environment can change the least able into the most able

B. the difference in men’s intelligence depends on t he amount of their education

C. if a person is born clever, he is certain to be a genius

D. if a person is born stupid, nothing can change him into an educated person

68. The last paragraph mainly shows .

A. the importance of education

B. the relationship between environment and birth

C. the writer’s final conclusion

D. the relationship between intelligence and environment

69. The best title for this passage would be .

A. Dependence on Education

B. Intelligence

C. Surroundings

D. Effect of Education

70. Which statement about the passage is true?

A. All twins have similar degrees of intelligence.

B. A man who is educated in university must make greater achievements than a man who works in a boring factory.

C. Proper education can change one’s intelligence at some degree.

D. Education can’t make a child born with low intelligence cleverer.

D

A team of US psychologists have found that talking to another person for ten minutes a day helps with memory.

"Socializing is just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual performance," Oscar Ybarra, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, said in a statement.

In one investigation, they analyzed data on 3610 people, aged 24 to 96.

They found that the higher their level of social interaction (交流), the better their cognitive (认知的) functioning. Social interaction includes getting together or having phone chats with relatives, freinds and neighbors.

In another experiment, the researchers conducted lab tests on 76 college students, aged 18 to 21, to evaluate how social interactions and intellectual exercises affected the results of memory and mental performance tests.

The students were divided into three groups: the social interaction group had a discussion of a social issue for 10 minutes before taking the tests; the intellectual activities group completed three tasks (including a reading comprehension exercise and a crossword puzzle) before the tests; and a control group (对照组) watched a 10-minute clip (电源片段) of the Seinfeld television show.

"We found that short-term social interaction lasting for just 10 minutes improved participants' intellectual performance as much as engaging in so-called 'intellectual' activities for the same amount of time," Ybarra said.

The study was expected to be published in the February issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

71. The underlined word "boosting" in the second paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A. improving

B. decreasing

C. preventing

D. training

72. Which is not included in social interaction?

A. Having a talk with a neighbor.

B. Attending a birthday party.

C. Watching TV at home alone.

D. Calling your classmates

73. What's the purpose of the experiment on 76 college students?

A. To judge the effect of social interaction on memory and intelligence.

B. To find out what is real social interaction.

C. To learn how much time is needed for social interaction.

D. To show the function of people's cognition.

74. Which of the following questions may be asked in the social interaction group in the experiment?

A. What does the author want to show us?

B. Do you like living in a big city or a small one?

C. Which word can be used to fill in the blank?

D. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

75. What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Intellectual exercises improve memory.

B. Different people have different ways of communication

C. Communicating with others keeps you healthy.

D. Social interaction makes you smart

第二卷（非选择题共35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：阅读表达 (共 5 小题,每小题2分,满分10分)

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的词数要求，并将答案写在二卷答题纸上)。

［1］What does a successful language learner do? Language learning research shows that successful language learners are similar in many ways.

［2］First of all, successful language learners are independent learners. They do not depend on the book or the teacher. They don’t wait for teachers to explain, but try to find the patterns and the rules for themselves. They are good guessers who look for clues and form their own conclusions.

［3］Secondly, successful language learning is active learning. Therefore, successful learners do not wait for a chance to use the language but . They find people who speak the language and they ask these people to correct them when they make a mistake. They will try anything to communicate. They are not afraid to repeat what they hear or to say strange things. They are willing to make mistakes and try again. When communication is difficult, they can accept information that is inexact or incomplete. It is more important for them to learn to think in the language than to know the meaning of every word. Actually, all successful language learners cannot agree on it more.

［4］Finally, successful language learners are learners with a purpose. They want to learn the language because they are interested in the language.

［5］What kind of language learners are you? If you are a successful language learner, you have probably been learning independently, actively and purposefully. On the other hand, if your

language learning has been less than successful, you might do well to try some of the techniques above.

76. What is the main idea of the text？ (no more than 10 words.)

_________________________________________________________________________ 77. Complete the following statements with proper words. ( no more than 8 words ) Successful language learners make efforts to seek their own ways of learning___________

_________________________________________________________________________ 78. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. no more than 8 words)

_________________________________________________________________________ 79. If you want to be a successful language learner, what should you do? (no more than 15 words)

80. What does the word “it” (paragraph 3) probably refer to? ( no more than 8 words )

第二节：书面表达

《CCTV经济生活大调查（2011-2012）》问卷调查结果发布第十一条“您对目前生活的感觉”，调查结果：很幸福（13.33%）、比较幸福（31.33%）、一般（42.85%）、

比较不幸福（7.36%）、很不幸福（5.13%）。请按要求写作：

内容：①你对目前生活的感觉；

②说明理由；

③如果是幸福请给出建议或如果幸福指数不够甚至不幸福你希望怎样改变？

词数：120词。

单选

21—25 ADAAB 26—30 ABBCA 31—35 CABBB

阅读理解

56—60 AACDC 61—65 CCBDA

66—70 DADBC 71—75 ACABD

76. The secret of successful language learning/How to be a successful language learner/ Successful language learning techniques