硕士研究生英语期末考试
GENERAL ENGLISH QUALIFYING TESTFOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR GRADUATE STUDENTS试卷BPAPER ONEPart I Listening ComprehensionSection A (1 point each)Directions:In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third voice will ask a question about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices, A, B, C and D by marking the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.1. A. Three dollars and twenty-five cents.B. Five dollars.C. One dollar and fifty cents.D. One dollar.2. A. The man considers himself a good traveler.B. The man brought his pet along on the trip.C. The woman would like to join the man the next time.D. Neither of them has had a chance to see the play.3. A. He doesn’t want to work tomorrow night.B. He can’t find the way out of the student center.C. He’s afraid to work at night.D. He’s afraid the work will be real ly hard.4. A. In a camera store.B. In a hardware store.C. In an art gallery.D. In a machine repair shop.5. A. She parked her car in a safe place.B. Her car ran out of gas.C. Brenda has borrowed her car.D. She came with Brenda today.6. A. Stay awake for the midnight news program.B. Prepare an editorial for this week’s newspaper.C. Find the newspaper editor.D. Find a job working as a reporter.7. A. A refinished cellar.B. A new record.C. A furnished house.D. A recent book.8. A. He hadn’t had time to do the experiment.B. The experiment turned out well.C. The experiment took a lot of time.D. He only did part of the experiment that day.9. A. Inspecting the wiring.B. Replacing the lamp.C. Keeping the check.D. Sending a wire.Section B (1 point each)Directions:In this section, you will hear two short passages and some questions. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear one question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices, A, B, C and D by marking the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.Questions 10-12 are based on the following passage:10. A. Children taught one another in small supervised groups.B. Parents instructed their chi ldren in the “three R’s”.C. Teachers came to children’s homes.D. Children acquired the information they needed by direct experience.11. A. Outmoded methods of farming and ineffective means oftransportation.B. Larger family units and greater financial hardships.C. A new dependence on people far away and the use of money.D. The introduction of a new alphabet and numerical system.12. A. The increasingly complex skills subsequently taught in schools.B. The problems evolved in the construction of new schools.C. The various means of survival taught by parents in contemporarysociety.D. The importance of history instruction in the first schools.Questions 13-125 are based on the following passage:13. A. To point out similarities between jazz and classical music.B. To describe what makes a good jazz performance.C. To explain the importance of learning rhythm and harmony in jazz.D. To show that jazz is not really music at all.14. A. They perform their music as a means of individual self-expression.B. They possess detailed knowledge of the rules of jazz composition.C. They memorize their music before performing it.D. They are more famous than performers of other kinds of music.15. A. Watch a film about jazz performers.B. Listen to some recordings of jazz music.C. Practice various jazz rhythms.D. Interview a jazz musician.Section C (1 point each)Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage. The passage will be read TWICE. After you hear the passage, complete the following paragraphs with the information you get from the tape. Y ou should write your answer on ANSWER SHEET II.Bones can provide archaeologists with a valuable method of measuring time. The name of the method is calcium-9 dating. Calcium-9 dating is based on the fact that animals accumulate calcium in their bones. The calcium in the bones of the animalscomes from 16 that the animals ate while they were alive. There are certain varieties, or isotopes, of all elements known to man. These isotopes are known to occur in specific amounts in nature. When a large amount of calcium is collected in one place it should reflect the amounts found in nature. There is one complication of this simple model which makes 17 possible. Over a period of time the type of calcium known as calcium-9 tends to deteriorate into the more common form of calcium. Because scientists can guess how fast this change should happen, they can guess how old a piece of bone is by testing how much calcium-9 is present in the bone 18 .It is true that as the bone develops and new layers are added, the same levels of calcium-9 are not always added to the bone at the same rate. Also, 19 can have an effect on the exact amount of calcium-9 found in a bone. But since there are so many millions of atoms of calcium in a tiny piece of bone, a scientist can essentially date the age of a bone even though the guess will not be exact.In the early 1970’s a team of archaeologists used the calcium-9 technique to date a series of prehistoric bones found in West Africa. They compared the levels of calcium-9 in the ancient bones with those of an animal that had recently died. The comparison actually made it possible to determine the century in which the older bones had been buried. Little by little, the system was extended backward into time. Eventually, calcium-9 dating produced 20 going back over two million years. Part II Cloze (10 points, 0.5 point each)Directions:In this part, there is passage with twenty blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kinds of innovation. It should be 21 also that technological innovations have 22 the character of war itself by the 23 of new mechanical and chemical devices. One weapon developed during World War II 24 a special mention. The 25 of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as a 26 of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the earth’s gravitational pull had been 27 by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. 28 , a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working 29 the same lines, and in the 1930s, it was this team that developed a rocket 30 of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket 31 the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design team were 32 in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war.Technology had a tremendous social 33 in the period 1900-1945. The automobile and electric power, 34 , radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, 35 a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution 36 living through mass production of household goods and 37 . The rapid development of the airplance, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more 38 . The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years 391945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be 40 , although the process has not been without its problems.21. A. detected B. commentedC. observedD. notified22. A. simulated B. innovatedC. imitatedD. transformed23. A. alteration B. eliminationC. innovationD. introduction24. A. deserves B. furnishesC. entitlesD. requires25. A. doctrine B. strategyC. disciplineD. principle26. A. medium B. techniqueC. meansD. methods27. A. pointed out B. carried outC. handed overD. taken over28. A. Instantaneously B. SpontaneouslyC. AdvantageouslyD. Simultaneously29. A. with B. alongC. atD. across30. A. suitable B. possibleC. ableD. capable31. A. marked B. labeledC. informedD. spoiled32. A. integral B. structuralC. mechanicalD. instrumental33. A. conflict B. impactC. connectionD. influence34. A. for instance B. on the contraryC. as a resultD. on the other hand35. A. assisting B. promotingC. urgingD. encouraging36. A. on B. throughC. inD. by37. A. equipment B. instrumentsC. utilitiesD. appliances38. A. controversial B. complexC. accessibleD. perceptive39. A. following B. subsequentC. previousD. preceding40. A. processed B. adoptedC. appliedD. exploitedPart III Reading Comprehension (35 points, 1 point each)Directions:In this part, there are six short passages, which are followed by questionsor unfinished sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one by marking the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.Passage OneIn most countries, the law on organ transplantation is poorly defined, as legislation has not yet been created to cope with this advance in surgery. The existing framework relating to physical assault and care of the dead has no provision for organ transplantation. It is customary to ask the permission of the relatives, but, because organ removal must take place immediately after death, it may be impossible to reach the relatives in time. It has been suggested that there should be a widespread campaign to encourage persons to provide in their wills that their organs be used for transplantation. An alternative is to provide by law that permission is assumed unless removal has been forbidden by the individual in his lifetime. Such laws have been passed in Denmark, France, Sweden, Italy, and Israel. Compulsory postmortem (死后的) examination, a far more extensive procedure than organ removal for grafting (移植), is required in most countries after unexpected death, and this compulsion is not a matter of public concern and debate.There would seem to be no reason why organ removal for transplantation purposes should not also be accepted to public opinion, provided there is a mechanism by which individuals in their lifetime can refuse this permission. This, of course, requires an efficient register of those who indicate their refusal: the register would be consulted before any organs would be removed. It is important that there be public reassurance that consideration of transplantation would not impair normal resuscitative (抢救的) efforts of the potential donor.Transplantation has obviously raised important ethical considerations concerning the diagnosis of death, and, particularly, how far resuscitation should be continued. Every effort must be made to restore the heartbeat to someone who has had a sudden cardiac arrest (心跳骤停) or breathing to someone who cannot breathe. Artificial respiration and massage of the heart, the standard methods of resuscitation, are continued until it is clear that the brain is dead. Most physicians consider that beyond this point efforts at resuscitation are useless.41. According to the author, which of the following is NOT true?A. The traditional way of asking for permission of relatives for organremoval does not prove to be always feasible.B. Most countries do not6 have an effective law on organtransplantation.C. In some countries there are laws providing that the permission oforgan removal is taken for granted unless it has been refused by the person inhis lifetime.D. It is hard to understand why people should remain silent on compulsorypostmortem exam after unexpected death.42. Which of the following is NOT a suggestion made in the passage?A. Organ removal should be permitted in the course of compulsorypostmortem exam.B. People should be encouraged to donate their organs after death.C. Organ removal for transplantation could be considered legal unlessthe dead person stated otherwise in his lifetime.D. Organ removal for transplantation should be advocated because it benefitsthe human society.43. The underlined word “impair” at the end of Paragraph 2 can best be replaced by_______.A. weakenB. neglectC. be superior toD. come together with44. It is believed that efforts at resuscitation are useless when _______.A. a person’s heartbeat and breath has totally stoppedB. artificial respiration and massage of the heart have yielded no obvious resultC. the brain is certainly deadD. standard methods of resuscitation have failed45. Which of the following can best sum up the passage?A. Some underlying principles on organ transplantation.B. Legal and ethical problems of organ transplantation.C. The difference between compulsory postmortem exam and organtransplantationD. The diagnosis of death before organ transplantation.Passage TwoWith human footprints on the moon, radio telescopes listening for messages from alien creatures (who may or may not exist), technicians looking for celestial and planetary sources of energy to support our civilization, orbi ting telescopes’ data hinting at planetary systems around other stars, and political groups trying to figure out how to save humanity from nuclear warfare that would damage life and climate on a planet-wide scale, an astronomy book published today enters a world different from the one that greeted books a generation ago. Astronomy has broadened to involve our basic circumstances and our mysterious future in the universe. With eclipses and space missions broadcast live, and with NASA, Europe, and the USSR planning and building permanent space stations, astronomy offers adventure for all people, an outward exploratory thrust that may one day be seen as an alternative to mindless consumerism, ideological bickering (争吵), and wars to control dwindling resources on a closed, finite Earth.Today’s astronomy students not only seek an up-to-date summary of astronomical facts: they ask, as people have asked for ages, about our basic relations to rest of the universe. They may study astronomy partly to seek points of contact between science and other human endeavors: philosophy, history, politics, environmental action, even the arts and religion.Science fiction writers and special effect artists on recent films help today’s students realize that unseen worlds of space are real places --- not abstract concepts. Today’s students are citizens of a more real, more vast cosmos than conceptualized by students of a decade ago.In designing this edition, the Wadsworh editors and I have tried to respond tothese developments. Rather than jumping at the start into murky waters of cosmology, I have begun with the viewpoint of ancient people on Earth and worked outward across the universe. This method of organization automatically (if loosely) reflects the order of humanity’s disco veries about astronomy and provides a unifying theme of increasing distance and scale.46. This passage is most probably taken from _______.A. the introduction of a book of astronomyB. an article of popular scienceC. the preface of a piece of science fictionD. a lecture given by the author to astronomy students47. The author’s purpose in presenting the first paragraph is _______.A. to discuss in detail the most recent achievements in space researchB. to explain the background and new features o f today’s astronomyC. to illustrate that the world today is different in many aspects from that of ageneration agoD. to introduce some newly established space stations48. The author thinks that the growing interest in space exploration among people onEarth will probably lead to _______.A. the realization of permanent settlement on other planetsB. all people having chances of traveling in spaceC. orders, harmony and peace on our planet EarthD. more disturbance not only on Earth but also in outer space49. The author believes that today’s astronomy students _______.A. no longer care about astronomical factsB. are much brighter than students of a generation agoC. may learn more about man and his research in various fields through thestudy of astronomyD. are better-informed about the unseen worlds of space50. In the last paragraph, the underlined expression “these developments” refers to allof the following EXCEPT _______.A. the new concepts about the universe acquired by today’s astronom y studentsB. the development of science fiction and special effects of filmsC. humanity’s new achievements in the field of astronomyD. the world-wide involvement in space explorationPassage ThreeTelevision --- the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth --- is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.The word “television”, derived from its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin (vision: sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight from distance. V ery simply put, it works in this way: through a sophisticated system of electronics, television provides the capability of converting an image (focused on a special photo-conductive platewithin a camera) into electronic impulses, which can be sent through a wire of cable. These impulses, when fed into a receiver (television set), can then be electronically reconstituted into that same image.Television is more than just an electronic system, however. It is a means of expression, as well as a vehicle for communication, and as such becomes a powerful tool for reaching other human beings.The field of television can be divided into two categories determined by its means of transmission. First, there is broadcast television, which reaches the masses through broad-based airwave transmission of television signals. Second, there is non-broadcast television, which provides for the needs of individuals or specific interest groups through controlled transmission techniques.Traditionally, television has been a medium of the masses. We are most familiar with broadcast television because it has been with us for about thirty-seven years in a form similar to what exists today. During those years, it has been controlled, for the most part, by the broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, who have been the major purveyors of news, information, and entertainment. These giants of broadcasting have actually shaped not only television but our perception of it as well. We have come to look upon the picture tube as a source of entertainment, placing our role in this dynamic medium as the passive viewer.51. What is the literal meaning of the world “television”?A. Sight from distance.B. Medium of the masses.C. V ehicle for communication.D. Airwave transmission.52. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a function of electronics in television transmissions?A. The sending of impulses through a wire cable.B. The conversion of an image into electronic impulses.C. The feeding of impulses into a receiver.D. The changing of one image into another image.53. According to the passage, how many major broadcast networks are there?A. Three.B. Two.C. Five.D. Four.54. What field of television is intended for specific interest groups?A. Reconstituted.B. Broad-based.C. Non-broadcast.D. Traditional.55. Which of the following statements about the relationship between the television and its viewers can be inferred from the passage？A. Viewers would prefer increased news coverage.B. Viewers do not take an active role in watching television.C. Viewers have grown tired of television.D. Viewers like to use television to reach other human beings.Passage FourWholly aided from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor. Nevertheless, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombroso’s belief that the enormous stress which women lay oneverything pertaining to clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the tendency to crystallize sentiment into an object. Woman symbolizes every important event in her life by a special dress; and a jewel or a beautiful gown means to a woman what an official decoration means to a man. “The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to which the novice has to submit before entering the cloister. The memory of the gown which she too might have worn was the strongest temptation that assailed St. Catherine before she took her solemn vows --- a gown, embroidered with gold and stars, like those her sisters had worn, which her grandchildren would have gazed at with eyes filled with wonder and admiration …”.“If a woman’s clothes cost the family and society a little time, money, and activity, they allow woman, independent of lies and calumnies, to triumph and come to the fore outside of man’s world and competition. They allow woman to satisfy her desire to be the first in the most varied fields by giving her the illusion that she is first, and at the same time enabling her rival to have the same illusion. Clothes absorb some of woman’s activit y which might otherwise be diverted to more or less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction, a satisfaction complete in itself, and independent of others, and … they constitute a safety valve which saves society from much greater and more dange rous evils than those which they cause.”The aptness of these observations lies in the emphasis on clothes which are really beautiful and distinctive. But fashion is not primarily concerned with beauty; and fashion connotes conformity, not the individuality so cherished by our society and so artfully suggested by the copywriters. Many people who rigorously follow fashions believe they are following their own inclinations; they are unaware of the primitive, tribal compulsion; and this is true of fashions in manners, morals, and literature, as well as in clothes.56. Gina Lombroso believes that with regard to clothes and the art of personal adornment, women _______.A. are absurdB. are individualisticC. are not sentimentalD. tend to crystallize sentiment into an object57. A gown embroidered with gold and stars is _______.A. said to be the strongest temptation St. Catherine faced before she took herfinal vowsB. offered as a temptation to every novice entering the conventC. worn by novices when they take their vowsD. the dream of every woman58. A woman’s clothes allow her to _______.A. triumph outside of man’s worldB. be the best, actually, in many fieldsC. deceive both men and womenD. compete on an equal basis in a man’s world59. The author of this article believes that fashion _______.A. promotes individualityB. promotes conformityC. is concerned only with the clothes that are beautiful and distinctiveD. is primarily concerned with beauty60. In the author’s opinion, women who follow fashion vigorously _______.A. follow their own inclinationsB. are highly individualisticC. must be wealthyD. obey a primitive, tribal impulse61. According to this article, conformity in manners, morals, and literature _______.A. stems from the same kind of impulses as does conformity in fashionsB. differs distinctly from conformity in fashionsC. is impossible because all artists are individualistsD. has no exceptions62. Which of the following statements is not stated but implied in the passage?A. Fashion is not primarily concerned with beauty.B. Copywriters suggest that fashion connotes conformity.C. Fashion emphasizes clothes that are beautiful and distinctive.D. People who follow fashions are not really following their own inclinations. Passage FiveIn a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important --- and that has happened in some cases --- we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” --- but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism ()”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit --- nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a wom an’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent not only toa healthy democracy, but also to healthy family.63. The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is _______.A. both A and BB. responsible for MomismC. pertinent to a healthy family lifeD. fundamental to sound democracy64. Notions of male superiority are _______.A. difficult to maintain in a home where household tasks are shared by themother and fatherB. difficult to maintain in a home where the father is the acknowledged ruler ofthe familyC. difficult to maintain in a home where the woman does most of the workD. maintained by most American women65. The danger in the sharing of household tasks by the mother and father is that_______.A. sharing leads to constant arguingB. the children will grow up believing that life is a battle of the sexesC. the role of the mother may become an inferior oneD. the role of the father may become an inferior one66. The author states that bringing up children _______.A. involves a partnership of equalsB. is the job of schools and churchesC. belongs among the duties of the fatherD. is mainly the mother’s job67. Today, people who specialize in family problems _______.A. are becoming more aware of the importance of the father’s role in the familyB. have concl uded that today’s delinquent children are the result of MomismC. would re-establish the father as the autocratic ruler of the familyD. reaffirm the belief that a woman’s place is in the home68. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?A. A woman’s place is in the home --- now as always.B. Division of household responsibilities is workable only in theory.C. Men are basically opposed to sharing household chores.D. A healthy, co-operative family is a basic ingredient of a healthy society. Passage SixCulture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all languages needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess。
研究生英语期末考试(学霸笔记版)
n. 用蒸汽加压煮出的浓咖啡
inspire
v.激发,启示
探索的魔力会激励我们的年轻人去学习数学、科学以及工程学，并为我们培养出新一代的改革者和开拓者。
foray
v. 冒险的尝试,涉足…,突袭
一回到英国，他就利用媒体的高知名度，作为进入政坛的踏板。
brew
v.酿酒,冲泡
k
v.抗拒,抵抗,美元
All in all
总而言之,头等重要的事
At the rate of
以…速度/比例
未来是这样一件东西，每个人都以每小时六十分钟的速度朝它走去，不管他做什么，也不管他是谁。
Drop out
退出,退学,脱离
The Marathon runners raced ahead in the early stages of the race but he had overplayed his hand and had todrop outexhausted with only three miles to go.
Grid
n.电网
Murky
adj.黑暗的，朦胧的，阴郁的
Murky=gloomy
Innovative
adj.革新的，创新的
Malicious
adj.蓄意的，恶毒的
Malicious=hostile
chimera
n.嵌合体，虚构的怪物
Imminent
adj.即将到来的，迫近的
Imminent=impending
dedicated
adj.专注的,献身的
Dedicated=devoted
encompass
v. 包含,环绕,完成
Encompass=include
江苏大学XXXX级硕士研究生英语期末考试样卷
江苏大学XXXX级硕士研究生英语期末考试样卷考试科目：文献阅读与翻译 考试时间：XXXXXXDirections:Answer the following questions on the Answer Sheet.1. How many kinds of literature do you know? And what are they? (5%)2. How many types of professional papers do you know? And what are they? (5%)3. What are the main linguistic features of Professional Papers? (10%)4. What are the purposes of abstracts? How many kinds can theabstracts be roughly classified into? And what are the different kinds? (10%)5.What is a proposal? How many kinds of proposals do you think are there? What are the main elements of a proposal? (10%)6.Give your comments on the linguistic features of the following passage. (15%)Basic Point-Set TopologyOne way to describe the subject of Topology is to say that it isqualitative geometry. The idea is that if one geometric object can be continuously transformed into another, then the two objects are to be viewed as being topologically the same. For example, a circle and a square are topologically equivalent. Physically, a rubber band can be stretched into the form of either a circle or a square, as well as many other shapes which are also viewed as being topologically equivalent. On the other hand, a figure eight curve formed by two circles touching at a point is to be regarded as topologically distinct from a circle or square. A qualitative property that distinguishes the circle from the figure eight is the number of connected pieces that remain when a single point is removed: When a point is removed from a circle what remains is still connected, a single arc, whereas for a figure eight if one removes the point of contact of its two circles, what remains is two separate arcs, two separate pieces.The term used to describe two geometric objects that are topologically equivalent is homeomorphic. Thus a circle and a square are homeomorphic. Concretely, if we place a circle C inside a square S with the same center point, then projecting the circle radially outward to the square defines a function f :C→S, and this function is continuous: small changes in x produce small changes in f(x). The function f has an inverse f -1:S→C obtained by projecting the square radially inward to the circle, and this is continuous as well. One says that f is a homeomorphism between C and S.One of the basic problems of Topology is to determine when two given geometric objects are homeomorphic. This can be quite difficult in general.Our first goal will be to define exactly what the ‘geometric objects’are that one studies in Topology. These are called topological spaces. The definition turns out to be extremely general, so that many objects that are topological spaces are not very geometric at all, in fact.7. Match the phrase in the first column with its translation in the second column.(10%)1. Full length paper a.征稿启事2. Sponsoring organization b.会务组3. Call for papers c.全文4. Submission of papers d.提交论文5. Conference venue and fees e.信息牌/布告栏6. Conference editorial board f.主办单位7. Review g.研讨会8. Limousine service h.评审、审稿9. Message board i.客车设施10. Audio visual facilities j.会址和会费11. Colloquia k.视听设施8. How do you understand Yan Fu’s three-word guide xing, da,ya? What’s youropinion on the principles of translation? (10%)9. It is very common that one word has more than one meaning.The proper choice of word meaning is essential to translation.Choose the correct meaning of the word “story ” in thefollowing sentences. (5%)(1) This war is becoming the most important story of thisgeneration.(2) It is quite another story now.(3) Some reporters who were not included in the session broke thestory.(4) He'll be very happy if that story holds up.(5) The Rita Haywoth story is one of the saddest.[The meanings of STORY: a. situation; b. inside information; c. experience; d. law case; e. statement; f. event]10. Put the following abstract into Chinese. (10%)Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a major source of indoorair pollution. A major point stressed in both the Surgeon General’s Report and the National Academy of Science’s Report is that methods used to determine the exposure of the nonsmoking population to ETS must be improved. In this dissertation, a semi-real time system for monitoring ETS are proposed and compared with other systems. Several new tracers for ETS are proposed. The generalization and decay of ETS in an indoor environmental laboratory is studied. A new technique for analyzing microgram and sub microgram amount of nicotine is developed. A unique exposure study to ETS is to carry out wherein never-smokers are exposed to ETS. Much evidence has accumulated that fine particulate matter in the atmosphere affects human health and atmospheric properties. To monitor airborne particles, it is necessary to separate various particle sizes in the atmosphere and to determine the chemical compositions of the particles. A new high flow rate, multichannel parallel plate denuder sampling system has been developed which is capable of determining the particle size distributions and the semi-volatile organic compounds which can be lost from particles during sampling.11.Put the following passage into English. (10%)在本《国际标准》中，”文摘”一词的意义是：对原文献内容准确、扼要而不加解释或评论的表述。
2024年全国研究生考试英语试卷
1、Which of the following is NOT a type of conditional sentence in English grammar?A. Zero conditionalB. First conditionalC. Second conditionalD. Absolute conditional (答案：D)2、In academic writing, which verb tense is typically used to describe actions or states that are generally true or always happening?A. Present simpleB. Past simpleC. Present continuousD. Future perfect (答案：A)3、Which phrase is used to express contrast between two ideas in a sentence?A. In spite ofB. Because ofC. Due toD. As a result of (答案：A)4、What is the purpose of a thesis statement in a research paper?A. To summarize the entire paperB. To provide background informationC. To state the main argument or point of the paperD. To list the sources used in the paper (答案：C)5、Which of the following is an example of a transitive verb?A. SleepB. ArriveC. WriteD. Laugh (答案：C)6、In a formal email, which of the following greetings is appropriate?A. Hey there!B. Hi,C. Dear [Recipient's Name],D. Yo! (答案：C)7、Which pronoun is used to refer to a non-specific person or thing, often used in general statements?A. OneB. TheyC. ItD. You (答案：A)8、Which of the following is a common mistake in sentence structure known as a "dangling modifier"?A. Walking to the park, the flowers were beautiful.B. After finishing her homework, she watched a movie.C. Seen from the top of the mountain, the view was breathtaking.D. Driving carefully, the car reached its destination. (答案：A)。
天津大学硕士研究生英语期末考试试题（五篇材料）
天津大学硕士研究生英语期末考试试题（五篇材料）第一篇：天津大学硕士研究生英语期末考试试题ENGLISH FINAL EXAM FOR MASTERS OF ENGINEERNING NAME__________MAJOR__________ STUDENT NO: ______________Part one: Vocabulary and Structure(20%)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 20 incomplete sentences each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D.Choose the one you think is the best answer.Mark your choice ticking the corresponding letter before the choice.1.This issue ______ interesting reading because it tells how these people made their money and, indirectly, how the country has changed over the years.A.accounts forB.serves asC.makes forD.makes use of 2.Jane used to be slow in class, but now she is ______.A.getting alongB.getting aheadC.getting byD.getting above 3.Paul ______ me very much of a schoolmate I used to know at university.A.remembersB.remindsC.recallsD.recollects 4.Don’t count your chickens before they are ______.A.hatchedB.harvestedC.hurriedD.hastened 5.Several car manufactures will ______ half of their workers because of economic difficulty.A.discountB.disposeC.bootD.disclose 6.They had ______ funds to cover the cost of the trip.A.ampleB.luxuryC.sampleD.superb 7.All living things have certain _______ that are passed on from one generation to the next.A.cellsB.virusesC.flawsD.attributes 8.She ______ her mother’s good looks and her father’s bad temper.A.inheritedB.inhabitedC.hinderedD.objected 9.It is for this reason ______ he refused to take the job.A.whyB.whenC.thatD.so 10.Who ______ that spoke first at yesterday’s meeting?A.was itB.wasC.it wasD.did 11.It wasn’t ______ personal interests that they did all this.A.becauseB.onlyC.justD.for 12.Hardly ______ the people ran toward it.A.had the plane landed whenB.had the plane landed thanC.the plane landed beforeD.the plane was landing that 13.No sooner ______ than herealized that he should have remained silent.A.had the words been spokenB.the words had spokenC.the words had been spokenD.had the words spoken 14.You’d rather not do it, ______?A.shouldn’t youB.wouldn’t youC.would youD.ought you 15.We never dared to ask him a question, ______?A.did weB.doesn’t itC.dared weD.daren’t we 16.Unlike hackers, who gain unauthorized ______ to computer or telecommunication systems for the challenge or even the principle of it, crackers do so for malicious purposes.A.password B.entryC.accessD.approach 17.There are four factories in our institute, _________ over 200 workers.A.with each B.each having C.each hasD.with each has 18.By conservative ______ 80% of humanity still can’t use written language effectively.A.estimatesB.estimatedC.estimationsD.estimating 19.With ______ her do this, she will have no difficulty persuading them to accept her plan.A.my helpingB.mine helpingC.me helpingD.I help 20.Only rarely do people’s jobs, spouses and children ______ these imagined ideals.A.live up toB.agree withC.meet withD.realizesPart two: Cloze(10%)Directions: In this part of the test, there is an incomplete passage with 10 blanks.For each blank in the passage, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D.Choose the one you think that can best complete the passage and mark your answer by ticking the corresponding letter before the choice.When Forbes published its first list in 1982, five of the top ten were in the Hunt family that drilled Texas __1__ holes and hit a lot of gushers, which reminds us of advice __2__ billionaire J.Paul Getty on how to get ahead in the world: rise early, work hard, strike oil.Getty got his big start the __3__ way—from his father’s money.The original list 14 years ago was __4__ Rockefellers, and Du Ponts, a Frick, a Whitney, Mellon or two—all great family fortunes that stretched back to the 19th century.The word “inheritance” appeared in the biographies 75 times.There weren’t as many old-money fortunes on last year’s list—which leads to some conclusions about wealth in America.First, it’s not easy to __5__ money, even for millionaires.Taxes put a big __6__ in family fortunes, and unless the heirs are careful and invest wisely, they can lose their millions as fast as their ancestors made them.Second, the old ways to riches aren’t as __7__ as they used to be.Besides the three Du Pont entries, only 43 of the 400 entries on the most recent Forbes list represent people who got __8__ through inheritance.And only 18 in the latest 400 made their fortunes from oil, so Getty’s quote no longer __9__ as true as it once did.Third, America is still the land of opportunity where smart young people like Bill Gates of Microsoft can __10__ on top of the list of richest Americans ahead of the Rockefellers, Mellons, Gettys and Carnegies.1.A.intoB.full ofC.withD.through 2.A.attributed toB.contributed toC.accounted forD.brought about 3.A.old-fashionB.old-fashionableC.old-fashionedD.unfashionable 4.A.crawling withB.filling withC.popular withD.credited with 5.A.hold downB.containC.graspD.hold on to 6.A.edgeB.dentC.disadvantageD.effect 7.A.impressiveB.dependableC.influentialD.available 8.A.thereB.awayC.onD.in 9.A.looksB.ringsC.viewsD.takes 10.A.end upB.showC.arrive atD.raise upPart three: Reading Comprehension(30%)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 3 passages.The passages are followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of the questions and unfinished statements there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D.Choose the one you think is the best answer.Mark your choice ticking the corresponding letter before the choice.Passage 1 When your parents advise you to “get an education” in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth.What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.Get a high school diploma, at least.Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully drop out in grade school.Get a college degree, if possible.With a B.A., you are on the launching pad.But now you have to start to put on the brakes.If you go for a master's degree, make sure it is an M.B.A., and is famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect.Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was '24000.While the full professors managed to earn just '23030.A Ph.D.is the highest degree you can get.Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, if you pursue such a degree in any other field, you will face a dim future.there are more Ph.D.s unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or-worst of all-in philosophy, you run the risk of becomingovereducated for our national demands.Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands.Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes, driving cars, waiting on table, and endlessly filling out applications month after month.They may also take a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns.You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far.Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.1.According to the writer, what the society expects of education is to turn out people who ______.A.will not be a disgrace to society B.will become loyal citizens C.can take care of themselves D.can meet the nation's demands as a source of manpower2.Many Ph.D.s are out of job because ______.A.they are improperly educated B.they are of little commercial value to their society C.there are fewer jobs in high schools D.they prefer easier jobs that make more money3.The nation is only interested in people ______.A.with diplomas B.who specialize in physics and chemistry C.who are valuable to the gross national product D.both A and C4.Which of the following is not true?A.Bernard Shaw didn't finish high schools, nor did Edison.B.One must think carefully before pursuing a master degree.C.The higher your education level, the more money you will earn.D.If you are too well-educated, you'll be overeducated for society's demands.5.The writer sees education as ______.A.a means of providing job security and financial security and a means of meeting a country's demands for technical workers B.a way to broaden one's horizons C.more important than finding a job D.an opportunity that everyone should havePassage 2 The agricultural revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific bor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce.“In Europe”, said Thomas Jefferson, “the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant;here it is to make the most of our labor, lard being abundant”.It was in America, there fore, that the great advances in nineteenth-century agricultural machinery first came.At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs: by 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form.The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow.As early as 1990 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire fortune in introducing his invention.The farmers, however, would home none of it, claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds grow.Nevertheless many people devoted their attention to the plow, until in 1869, James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow.6.The word “here”(Para.1, line.4)refers to ______.A.EuropeB.AmericaC.New JerseyD.Indiana7.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?A.The reed for labor helped the invention of machinery in America.B.The farmer rejected Charles Newbold's plow for fear of ruin of their field.C.Both Europe and America had great need of farm machinery.D.It was in Indiana that the first chilled-steel plow was produced.8.The passage is mainly about ______.A.the agricultural revolution B.the invention of labor-saving machinery C.the development of scientific agriculture D.the farmingmachinery in America9.At the opening of the nineteenth-century, farmers in America ______.A.preferred light tools B.were extremely self-reliant C.had many portable tools D.had very few tools10.Implied but not stated ______.A.There was a shortage of workers on American farms B.The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow C.After 1869,many people devoted their attention to the plow D.Charles Newbolt had made a fortune by his cast-iron plowPassage 3 We can see how the product life cycle works by looking at the introduction of instant coffee.When it was introduced, most people did not like it as well as “regular” coffee and it took several years to gain general acceptance(introduction stage).At one point, though, instant coffee grew rapidly in popularity and many brands were introduced(stage of rapid growth).After a while people became attached to one brand and sales leveled off(stage of maturity).Sales went into a slight decline when freeze-dried coffees were introduced(stage of decline).The importance of the product life cycle to marketers is this: Different stages in the product life cycle call for different strategies.The goal is to extend product life so that sales and profits do not decline.One strategy is called market modification.It means that marketing managers look for new users and market sections.Did you know, for example, that the backpacks that so many students carry today were originally designed for the military? Market modification also means searching for increased usage among present customers or going for a different market, such as senior citizens.A marketer may re-position the product to appeal to new market sections.Another product extension strategy is calledproduct modification.It involves changing product quality, features, or style to attract new users or more usage from present users.American auto manufacturers are using quality improvement as one way to recapture world markets.Note, also, how auto manufacturers once changed styles dramatically from year to year to keep demand from falling.11.According to the passage, when people grow fond of one particular brand of a product, its sales will ______.A.decrease gradually B.become unstable C.improve enormously D.remain at the same level12.The first paragraph tells us that a new product is ______ually introduced to satisfy different tastes B.often more expensive than old ones C.often inferior to old ones at first D.not easily accepted by the public13.Marketers need to know which of the four stages a product is in so as to ______.A.work out marketing policies B.increase its popularity C.promote its production D.speed up its life cycle14.The author mentions the example of “backpacks”(Line 4, Para.2)to show the importance of ______.A.increasing usage among students B.exploring new market sectionsC.pleasing the young as well as the oldD.serving both military and civil needs15.In order to recover their share of the world market, U.S.auto makers are ______.A.improving product qualityB.re-positioning their product in the marketC.modernizing product styleD.increasing product featuresPart four: TranslationSection A:(15%)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 5 sentences from your textbook.Translate the sentences into Chinese and write your Chinese versions of the sentences in thespace provided below.1.Engineers should be curious about the “how” and “why” of natural and mechanical things and creative in finding new ways of doing things, able to analyze problems systematically and logically and to communicate well, and willing to work within strict budgets and meet tight deadlines.2.I acquired a very strong work ethic from my parents, both of whom lived through the Great Depression.3.It is estimated that the new interaction between computers and Net technology will have significant influence on the industry of the future.4.Eventually, you may reach the point where you can afford to spend the rest of your life at the side of a swimming pool with a drink in your hand, but you probably won’t.5.Two people may choose different brands of toothpaste with the identical price, amount, and quality;each person believes that he or she is expressing his personality by choosing that brand.Section B:(10%)Directions: In this part of the test, there is a short passage.Read the passage carefully and translate it into English.Write your translation of the passage in the space provided below.节省、积累可观的财富，不是自动完成的。
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ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMFOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSJan. 5th, 2012PART 1: Vocabulary (20%)Directions: In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1.Mutual endeavor has shaped our world, and mutualism, the belief that individual andcollective well-being is obtainable only by mutual dependence, ______ family life, relationships and society.A. underpinsB. overstatesC. underlinesD. overcomes2. A man of original power can never be ______ within the limits of a single field of interestand activity, nor can he ever be content to bear the marks and use the skill of a single occupation.A. locatedB. liberatedC. committedD. confined3.As a result of technological convergence and progress in digitization, the laboratories ofcomputer technology and consumer electronics firms are ______ in the race for innovation and sophistication.A. searchingB. competingC. interveningD. absorbing4.The degree in which a man ______ his work and gives it the quality of his own mind andspirit is the measure of his success in giving his nature free and full expression.A. demolishesB. standardizesC. individualizesD. abolishes5.In common with other developed economies, Britain has advocated the creation of ahigh-skilled, high-waged economy by ______ the education and skills of its workforce.A. renewingB. overthrowingC. decreasingD. upgrading6.No one on the planet is going to escape the effects of global warming, and for billions theresulting environmental deterioration is going to make life ______ more difficult.A. considerablyB. terminallyC. originallyD. regularly7.Digital television will enable users to access a wide range of new services, such aspay-per-view TV, the downloading of video games or software, or channels ______ in sports or teleshopping.A. interferingB. specializingC. participatingD. consisting8.Earthquakes are immensely destructive, mainly because most cities in regions of highseismic risk are dominated by buildings that are simply not built well enough to ______ the severe ground shaking of a major quake.A. sustainB. withstandC. guaranteeD. inspect9.By giving students access to a new world of information, sparking creativity, and ______rich communication and collaboration across vast distances, computers have long been a powerful tool for education.A. preventingB. disruptingC. facilitatingD. manipulating10.While more and more women are ______ roles as managers, a new study reveals that thesewomen are increasingly turning to the stereotypically more 'male' traits, such as aggression, to get results.A. definingB. assumingC. regardingD. interpreting11.The potential negative effects of violent video games on adolescent antisocial behavior, andyouth violence ______, is a highly debated issue, both in academic circles and among the general public and policy makers.A. on averageB. on purposeC. in particularD. in advance12. A new digital watermarking system not only protects music and media files from onlinepirates but also ensures that the quality for ______ users is as good as it gets.A. unauthorizedB. temporaryC. malicious恶意的故意的D. legitimate13.There is relatively little ______ of opinion and scholarship about whether generationaldifferences exist that are worth taking into consideration in the workplace, colleges, and universities, and other contexts.A. permissionB. minorityC. absenceD. consensus14.Young people‟s worlds have changed in a variety of ways, many of which have a ______ onthe sort of education and training that they demand.A. contactB. bearingC. leadD. stake15.Nowadays graduates in the labor market are expected to be flexible, to direct and steer theirown work as well as that of others, to take responsibility and to mould jobs to make best use of their ______ in the global market economy.A. expectationsB. blundersC. competenciesD. defects16.No gene ration is more at ease with online, collaborative technologies than today‟s youngpeople—“digital natives”, who have grown up in a/n ______ computing environment.A. immersive拟真的B. emergentC. hostileD. rural17.Whereas university research and development departments may once have been the primaryarena for testing new tools and theories, the survey data reveal that corporations now have the ______ in adopting new innovations.A. rightB. edgeC. controlD. license18.Access to technology in school is particularly important ______ increasing disparities intechnology access outside of school.A. in tune withB. in line withC. in need ofD. in light of19.Taking an international overview on anything, in this case the out-of-school education of thegifted and talented, offers ______ which can sometimes cut right across anyone‟s cultural assumptions.A. perspectivesB. prosecutionsC. obligationsD. objections20.Obesity is a national health crisis and if current trends continue, it will soon ______ smokingin the U.S. as the biggest single factor in early death, reduced quality of life and added health care costs.A. distinguishB. modifyC. imitateD. surpassPART 2: Cloze (15%)Directions: In this part of the test, you‟ll read an incomplete passage with 15 blanks. Read the passage carefully, and choose the best answer from choices marked A, B, C and D. Then on your ANSWER SHEET, find the number of the question and mark your answer with a single line through the center.One of the greatest assets a manager can have is a happy and satisfied team of employees. However, building such a team is a __21__. Unless you‟re in senior management, you may be limited __22__ the amount of compensation or the promotion opportunities you can provide to your employees. Fortuna tely, these aren‟t the only factors that influence employee job satisfaction, or __23__ the most important.Providing tangible proof to your employees that their efforts are recognized, while often __24__ as secondary to other factors, is still very important. Reasonable employees willunderstand that wage increases do have their limits, __25__ they expect to be adequately compensated. However, other types of incentives, such as bonuses or prizes for the __26__ achievers in key performance categories, can be just as effective.It is crucial that both increases and other monetary incentives be performance __27__. Employees should always receive greater rewards and more recognition when they are giving a higher quality of work. __28__ being fair, of course, it also sends the message that the organization values and recognizes those who __29__ their jobs instead of just doing the bare minimum.The culture and the work environment factor highly into employee job satisfaction. Employees who enjoy being around their coworkers and respect their management team are more __30__ to stay in a job when they agree with the company‟s goals and values.Another major __31__ to job satisfaction is how the employee feels about their role and responsibilities. Studies show __32__ those surveyed about their level of job satisfaction have cited factors such as the desire for __ 33__ in their work, having a variety of tasks to __34__, being properly trained and equipped to do their jobs, and having work that is challenging and requires thought and creativity. Employees looking to __35__ a company will have an interest in their personal development and opportunities for advancement as well.Above all, employees want to feel that both they and their work are valued and appreciated by the company.21. A. blessing B. handicapC. challengeD. failure22 A. in favor of B. in terms ofC. on behalf ofD. on top of23. A. necessarily B. viciouslyC. accuratelyD. collectively24. A. to rank B. being ranked25. C. rankedA. thereforeC. otherwiseD. ranksB. unlessD. but26. A. top B. bottomC. lowD. peak27. A. driving B. driven28. C. countingA. In addition toC. With regard toD. countedB. Regardless ofD. For the sake of29. A. specialize in B. excel atC. draw onD. ward off30. A. subject B. likelyC. contraryD. loyal31. A. advantage B. obstacleC. responseD. contributor32. A. that B. howC. whenD. whether33 A. authorship B. automationC. autonomyD. authority34. A. adopt B. undergoC. performD. supply35. A. depart fromC. interfere in B. confine toD. stay withPart 3: Reading Comprehension (40%)Directions: In this part of the test, there are 4 passages. After each passage there are 5 questions or unfinished statements followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that can best answer the question or complete the statement, and then on your ANSWER SHEET, find the number of the question and mark your answer with a single line through the center.Passage 1It seems only natural that happiness should flow from having more money. Even if they don‟t admit it, people still behave as though it were true. More money means you can have what you want and do what you want. The house you dream of? It‟s yours. The new car you desire? Here are the keys. The freedom to enjoy your favorite pastimes? Here‟s your racket, the court is down there, just past the pool.So the puzzle is this: why do social scientists consistently find only moderate relationships between having more money and being happy? Some have even suggested that this moderate connection might be exaggerated. In reality money might have very little to do with happiness at all. Most puzzling, though, is that people often seem aware at some level that money won‟t make them happy. And yet they continue to work away earning money they don‟t objectively need.First, though, let's look at the three reasons money doesn‟t make us happy:It‟s relative income that‟s important. As I‟ve noted previously, money is relative. It turns out we don‟t mind so much about our actual level of income, so long as we‟re earning more than other people around us. Unfortunately as we earn more money we‟re likely to be surrounded by richer people so we often end up failing to take advantage of the positive comparison.Material goods don‟t make us happy. Acquiring things like houses and cars only have a transient effect on happiness. People‟s desires for material possessions crank up at the same, or greater rate, than their salaries. Again, this means that despite considerably more luxurious possessions, people end up no happier. There‟s even evidence that materialism make us lesshappy.People don‟t shift to enjoyable activities when they are rich. This may be because of …the focusing illusion‟. When people think about earning more money they probably imagine they would use the money on recreational activities. In fact, to earn the money, they have to spend more time at work, and commuting to and from work.These three reasons naturally raise the question of why psychological findings are so out of step with people‟s everyday experience. Surely if money doesn‟t lead to happiness, most people would have worked that out by now. So why do people still chase the mighty dollar/pound/yen like their lives depended on it?Nobel-prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and colleagues put forward the idea that the reason people continue to think money makes them happier is that chasing it leads to conventional achievements. Conventional achievements include things like getting that coveted promotion or being able to afford that big house - in other words things that say loud and clear: hear I am and this is what I can do.So we end up with this: money doesn't make us happy on a day-to-day basis. Acquiring money and status makes us feel satisfied with life. Through the …focusing illusion‟ we convince ourselves that satisfaction equals happiness. Unfortunately it doesn‟t. Even though we appear to have everything, we are left feeling that something is missing, but are unable to identify what that thing is. That thing is simply this: feeling happy. Right now. In the moment.36. What do social scientists find about money and happiness?A.Money is the final goal of people pursuing happiness.B.Happiness largely depends on the amount of money.C.More money does not necessarily make people happy.D.Money counts most in people‟s feeling of happiness.37. According to the passage, which of the following confuses the author most?A.The scientific findings fail to explain people‟s obsession with pursuing money andhappiness.B.Although happiness loosely correlates with money, people still paradoxically crave forearning more.C.Social scientists cannot reach an agreement on their findings as to the importance ofmoney.D.Awareness of causal relationship between money and happiness weakens people‟sdesire to make money.38. According to the passage, people _____.A.care a lot about their actual level of incomeB.are convinced that people around them earn higher incomepare their income with that of higher earnersD.feel contented when they earn more than others39. Material goods don‟t make us happy because _____.A.we need something permanent to feel happyB.we need psychological and spiritual satisfactionC.people in pursuit of money are despised in societyD.the more money we have, the more we desire40. If money brings little happiness, why do people still chase money?A.Because money and wealth gratify people‟s vanity.B.Because money is the only way to measure people‟s achievement.C.Because people use money to show off their success and social status.D.Because people believe money brings things that reflect their accomplishments.Passage 2As Wal-Mart grew into the world‟s largest retailer, its staff were subjected to a long list of dos and don‟ts covering every aspect of their work. Now the firm has decided that its rules-based culture is too inflexible to cope with the challenges of globalization and technological change, and is trying to instill a “values-based” culture, in whic h employees can be trusted to do the right thing because they know what the firm stands for.“Values” is the latest hot topic in management thinking. PepsiCo has started preaching a creed of “performance with purpose”. Chevron, an oil firm, brands itself as a purveyor of “human energy”, though presumably it does not really want you to travel by rickshaw(人力车). Nearly every big firm claims to be building a more caring and ethical culture.A new study suggests there is less to this than it says on the label. Commissioned by Dov Seidman, boss of LRN, a firm that advises on corporate culture, and author of “How”, a book arguing that the way firms do business matters as much as what they do, and conducted by the Boston Research Group, the “National Governance, Culture and Leadership Assessment” is based on a survey of thousands of American employees, from every rung of the corporate ladder.It found that 43% of those surveyed described their company‟s culture as based on command-and-control, top-down management or leadership by coercion—what Mr. Seidman calls “blind obedience”. The largest category, 54%, saw their employer‟s culture as top-down, but with skilled leadership, lots of rules and a mix of carrots and sticks, which Mr. Seidman calls “informed acquiescence(默许)”. Only 3% fell into the category of “self-governance”, in which everyone is guided by a “set of core principles and values that inspire everyone to align around a company‟s mission”.The study found evidence that such differences matter. Nearly half of those in blind-obedience companies said they had observed unethical behavior in the previous year, compared with around a quarter in the other sorts of firms. Yet only a quarter of those in the blind-obedience firms said they were likely to blow the whistle, compared with over 90% inself-governing firms. Lack of trust may inhibit innovation, too. More than 90% of employees in self-governing firms, and two-thirds in the informed-acquiescence category, agreed that “good ideas are readily adopted by my company”. At blind-obedience firms, fewer than one in five did.Tragicomically (悲喜交加), the study found that bosses often believe their own guff (胡扯), even if their subordinates do not. Bosses are eight times more likely than the average to believe that their organization is self-governing. (The cheery folk in human resources are also much more optimistic than other employees.) Some 27% of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their firm. Alas, only 4% of employees agree. Likewise, 41% of bosses say their firm rewards performance based on values rather than merely on financial results. Only 14% of employees swallow this.41. We can infer that “human energy” in the second paragraph refers to _____.A. a method of generating electricityB.an advanced means of transportationC. a strategy of personnel managementD. a method of evaluating corporate profits42. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?A.Most of the big firms in the US imposed rigid rules on their employees.B.Wal-Mart credits its market dominance to its value-based culture.C.The study shows that big firms haven‟t yet built a more caring culture as they say.D.The survey by the Boston Research Group limits its subjects to senior employees.43. Which of the following situations can be classified as “self-governance”?A.Employees hold the most stock shares of a company.B.The labor union has the paramount power in a company.C.Employees willingly do the right thing under the same values.D.Employees are rewarded based on their skills and performance.44. The biggest difference between a blind-obedience company and a self-governance companyis ____.A.the adoption of good ideasB.the occurrence of unethical behaviorC.the cases of blowing the whistleD.the level of productivity45. The main purpose of this passage is to show _____.A.employers and employees usually don‟t feel the same about the corporate cultureB.employers should trust and respect their employeesC.self-governing companies enjoy more advantages than the other two types of companiesD.there is still a long way for companies to truly build a value-based culturePassage 3“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul,” Simone Weil argued in the mid-twentieth century. Even our virtual playgrounds pay homage to the deeply felt need for place: MySpace was, until recently, called “a place for friends”; Second Life mimics real-life places with its homes, offices, and restaurants. What is different about mobile playgrounds is that mobile devices force real life and virtual life (and real places and virtual places) to try to coexist in a way they never have before.We want to see this as a good, enabling thing — I can fire off that e-mail to the office and then get back to relaxing on my vacation! — but it is instructive to go to a playground today: even on a weekend, you will see parents engrossed in their iPhones and BlackBerrys while their children make increasingly loud bids for their attention. The November 2, 2009 cover of The New Yorker sadly and beautifully satirized this trend: it shows an illustration of children out trick-or-treating, basked in the glow of houselights, while their parents bask in the glow of the smart-phones in which they are rapt(全神贯注的). Even our leisure time, it seems, has been colonized by our need to stay connected —and it is a constant struggle to set limits on our engagement with the virtual world so that we can attend to the real one in front of us.And when we decide to leave home entirely, we find it difficult to leave the demands of work behind. Consider the cruise ship industry: every year, more than three million people board a Carnival Cruise ship to take a vacation. They spend a great deal of time eating — and gambling — and then eating some more. The perpetual buffets that have long been a staple of the cruise ship lifestyle cater to one kind of hunger; Carnival now caters to another —one that seems counterintuitive in vacationers eager to get away from it all: staying connected. With their twenty-four-hour Internet cafés, onboard WiFi, and an advertising campaign that features bikini-clad patrons lounging on deck chairs with laptop computers, Carnival Cruise Lines has enthusiastically responded to the demands of patrons who seek an ideal of maritime escape but still want to check their e-mail several times a day.This, too, is the strange new world of leisure: never disconnected, and never really free from the demands of daily life. Notwithstanding all the talk of mobility, we find ourselves tethered in novel ways —not to a hometown, or to a particular social background, but to our devices themselves and the feeling of connection they provide, which we seemingly cannot sit still without.46.According to the first paragraph, what can we learn about MySpace and Second Life?A.They function as real life venues for entertainment.B.They deserve credit for reflecting the human soul.C.As virtual playgrounds, they resemble reality in terms of place.D.Through mobile devices, they represent engagement with society.47.When saying it is instructive to go to a playground today, the author means that ____.A.people‟s indulgence in staying connected can be witnessed thereB.playgrounds are the places for parents and children to spend time togetherC.responsible parents are supposed to engage their children with outdoor activitiesD.smart phones are the culprit for the poor relations between parents and children48.The following statements are TRUE except ____.A.people vacationing on Carnival Cruise ships have access to the Internet todayB.eating and gambling are the exclusive things people can enjoy on cruise shipsC.Carnival Cruise Lines cater to vacationers‟ demands to stay in contact with othersD.people‟s desire to remain connected makes it difficult for them to escape from work49.The word “tethered” in Line 2 of the last paragraph probably means ____.A.disconnectedB. confinedC. immuneD. indifferent50.This passage is intended to ____.A.analyze the various reasons for humans to settle downB.advocate the necessity of virtual connection in leisure timeC.enumerate the enormous benefits of mobile devices for work and lifeD.highlight the transformation of mobility through ubiquitous connectionPassage 4State environmental officials are proposing a new set of rules that would give automobile manufacturers three years to start selling zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) that — for all practical purposes — do not yet exist. The state Department of Environmental Quality has released draft rules mandating that 11 percent of all automobiles sold in Arizona beginning with the 2011 model year have zero emissions. That would increase to 16 percent by 2018 and beyond.However, there are opposing opinions which claim that replacing conventional cars with electric vehicles will expose people to dangerous levels of lead, according to industry and environmental groups. A research led by three professors from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh suggests that an electric car powered by lead-acid batteries will “release 60 times more lead per kilometer of use” than an “equivalent car burning leaded gasoline”. But critics argue that the researchers have used unrealistic assumptions.Releases of lead to the environment are now tightly controlled because of the metal‟s toxicity since the 1970s, when leaded petrol began to be removed in the US, levels of lead in the blood of American children have dropped. But economist Lester Lave and engineers Chris Hendrickson and Francis McMichael worry that mass production of lead-acid batteries for electric cars might reverse that trend.Reaction to this suggestion has been hostile, however. “I think they‟ve missed the point completely,” says John Rodman of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He says the benefits of reducing pollution from traffic in cities will far exceed the risks of small increases in lead releases. Michael Weistein of Electro Source in Austin, Texas, a developer of advanced lead-acid batteries, complains that is “misleading scare tactics”.The research result, published in the latest edition of Science, comes as American car makers are being forced to produce “zero-emission vehicles” starting in 2000. The plan was originally designed to reduce airborne pollution in California, and Massachusetts and New York have since followed suit. While car company engineers are designing ZEVs, their top executives are fighting the mandates being imposed on them.The Carnegie-Mellon researchers estimated the amount of lead needed to power ZEVs and how much would be released in mining, battery manufacture and recycling. But critics complain that the team's 1378 kilogram figure for the weight of batteries needed in a ZEV is a serious overestimate. General Motors‟ small electric car, called the Impact, weighs 132 kilograms in total and carries only 522 kilograms of batteries. Lave says he had too little performance data to use the impact as a baseline.51. What are the research findings published by the professors from Carnegie-MellonUniversity?A.Conventional cars burning leaded gasoline are more dangerous than electric cars.B.Mass production of lead-acid batteries will seriously affect American children‟s health.C.The wide use of electric cars powered by batteries will increase lead releases to theatmosphere.D.Replacing conventional cars with ZEV will be very dangerous.52. By "that trend"(Line 5, Para.3) the author refers to _____.A.the drop of the lead level in the blood of American childrenB.the replacement of conventional cars with electric carsC.the control of the releases of lead to the environmentD.the ban on the use of leaded petrol53. Which of the following statements best expresses the viewpoints of John Rodman?A.He is opposed to the mass production of lead-acid batteries for electric cars.B.He believes the advantages of ZEV outweigh its disadvantages.C.He thinks the increase in lead releases will be exceedingly risky.D.He supposes the only benefit of ZEV is to reduce pollution in cities.54. The American car makers' attitude towards the ZEV mandates is _____.A. suspiciousB. scaredC. confidentD. displeased55. According to the Carnegie-Mellon team research, which of the following is NOT the reasonfor the increasing amount of lead needed in a ZEV?A.Production of lead-acid batteries.B. Weight of batteries.C. Leaded petrol.D. Mining of lead.Part 4: Translation (10%)Directions: Read the following passage carefully and translate it into Chinese. And then write your translation in the space provided on the ANSWER SHEET.We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner working of the human mind. Far from being dryly materialistic, their work illuminates the rich underwater world where character is formed and wisdom grows. They are giving us a better grasp of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, predispositions, character traits, and social bonding, precisely those things about which our culture has least to say. 我们在生活中的革命意识。
长安大学研究生期末英语考试题（答案）
长安大学研究生期末英语考试题（答案）长安大学研究生期末英语考试题(答案)长安大学2011-2012 学年第一学期硕士研究生英语试题（A）卷考生注意事项:一．本考试由两部分组成：试卷一（Paper One）包括词汇、完形填空与阅读理解三部分，共65题，按顺序统一编号；试卷二（Paper Two）包括翻译与写作两部分，共2题。
两份试卷合并装订成试题册。
二．试卷一（题号1-65）为客观评分题，答案一律用中性（HB 或2B）铅笔做在机读答题卡上，在对应题号下所选的字母中间划黑道，如【A】【B】【C】【D】。
三．试卷二为主观评分题，答案一律写在主观答题纸ANSWER SHEETⅡ上。
答题前，请仔细阅读试卷二前的注意事项。
请在答题纸上写上姓名、学号、班级及任课教师姓名，以免漏改、漏登成绩。
四．答题卡和答题纸上须写清姓名和准考证号，考试结束时一并交回。
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试卷一为70分钟，试卷二为50分钟。
考[A] on drug [B] dopedout[C] onwelfare[D] onpension2. His speech was made with such greatambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.[A] neatnes s [B]acquisition[C]vagueness[D]perception3. The eating process is a time to show humilityand concern for others.[A] mode sty [B]abuse [C]responsibility [D]passion4. Some liberals dream of extending subsidies eligible low-income families, but that $100 billion-a-year solution was unrealistic even before the budget deficit ballooned again.[A] in the black [B] in thered[C] in theblue[D] in thegreen5. While participation in business teams canoffer enormous psychic satisfaction, it can also cause great distress.[A] spiritual [B]physical[C]natural[D]equitable6. Even when government regulations appearspecially formulated to support the culture of cuisine, they often go astray.[A] defined [B]collected[C] studied [D] stated7. Yoga originated in ancient India and is one ofthe longest surviving philosophical systems.[A] living [B]existing[C] having [D]acting8. Impatience, self-criticism and comparingoneself to others will not help in this process of self-knowledge.[A]self-insi ght. [B]self-satisfaction[C]self-esteem[D]self-respect9. Under pressure, or change of interest,Potentials can partially or wholly disappear from view for considerable periods of time;but nothing can permanently modify them, nothing can obliterate them.[A] expand [B]formulate [C]wipeout[D] getout10. Government employees living in remotecommunities receive an isolated post allowance payment to help offset the higher cost of living.[A] welfare [B]reduction[C] dole [D]subsidySection B (0.5 point each)Directions: There are ten sentences in this section.Each sentence has something omitted.Choose the word or words from thefour choices given to best completeeach sentence.11.Every company has a handful of staff in a given area of ________that you can count on to get the job done.[A] science [B] technology [C] expertise [D]ability12. It deserves repeating because it is the single most public difference between ________and industry.[A] academia [B]specialization [C]major [D]school13. Guangdong Province is located in southernChina，with a_______climate and abundant produce all year round.[A] harsh [B] mild [C]excessive [D]humid14. Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo Riverafter being politically_________.[A] sentenced [B] abused [C] treated unjustly [D] banished15. At a party or a banquet, everyone first takes into consideration the needs of the group; with the eating process also being a time to show _________and concern for others.[A] hospitality [B] vigor [C] carefulness [D] humility16. Once desire diminishes, disappointed loversmay wonder where the “spark ”in their relationship has gone and may________regretfully and longingly about “the good days”.[A] reminisce [B] expect [C] wish [D] cuddle17. These misconceptions often lead tounrealistic expectation, stereotypes, and _________.[A][B] disappearance [C] discourage [D] disillusionmentdisapproval18. Countless unnamed and unrecorded men have given their lives for their fellowmen, not only on the _________but on the home-front as well.[A] battlefront [B]endeavor [C] majesty [D] battlefield19. A study of history reveals that the people who walked this earth in______ were moved by the same fundamental forces, were swayed by the same passions , and the same aspirations as the men and women of today.[A] aspiration [B] antiquity [C] happiness [D] order20. Human nature is the basis of character, thetemperament and _________; it is that indestructible matrix upon which the character is built.[A] alteration [B] improvement [C] disposition [D] naturePart II CLOZE TEST (10 minutes, 10 points)Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back andchoose one item of suitableword(s) marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]for each blank in the passage. Markthe corresponding letter of the word(s)you have chosen with a single baracross the square brackets on yourMachine-scoring Answer Sheet.Every man unfolds a distinct character over which circumstances and education have only the most limited __21__. No two people will have ever __22__ the same conclusions from the same experiences, but each must interpret events and __23__ them into the mosaic of his own life pattern. Human nature is ever true to itself, not to the systems of faith or education. Each __24__ to the structure of the mold into which the soul was cast at the time of its individualization. The qualities __25__ in one remain as potentials whether they have a chance to develop or not. Under pressure, or change ofinterest, they can partially or wholly __26__ from view for considerable periods of time; but __27__ can permanently modify them, nothing can obliterate them.Although man is potentially __28__ he is far from being actually so. If he were actually perfect there would be __29__ for preachers, teachers and humanitarians to do; no use for churches, schools, courts and prisons. __30__ while it is impossible to change human nature, it can be studied, controlled and directed and this should be the supreme __31__ of our religious, educational and social institutions.Man is perfect as a seed is perfect, germinally. The spirit is perfect, but when it __32__ human structures, it participates in the imperfections of __33__; and during its association with matterstakes on a mortal weakness, desires and limitations. But the spirit, the inner man, remains untouched and undefiled by evil. Only the outer man---the personality and the physical body---becomes imperfect, due to ignorance,wrong thinking and __34__ of the laws of being. The outer man, too, was originally perfect, __35__ man has so desecrated and abused it that today it is a far __36__ from the original model. Man’s inherent goodness, moreover, is __37__ by his countless acts of heroism, unselfishness and sacrifice. Human nature does not and cannot __38__ but unfolds its inherent pattern. Man has a nature and its __39__ can be known. We can only endeavor __40__ man as he is.21. [A] power [B] control [C]privilege[D]management22.[A] draw [B] take [C]withdraw[D]acquire23.[A] put [B] mold [C] fit [D] match24.[A]stick[B] form [C] shape [D] hold25.[A] born [B]produced[C]developed[D] bought26.[A] [B] peep [C] behold [D] appear disappear27.[A] something [B] anything[C]nothing[D]everything28. [A] perfect [B]common[C]ordinary[D]general29.[A]much [B]nominal[C]nothing[D]minority30.[A]Althou gh [B] Therefore[C]Providing[D]Nevertheless31.[A] purpose [B]assignment[C]accomplishment[D]function32.[A] accommod ates [B] inhabits[C]shelters[D]dormers33.[A] the latter [B]theforme r[C] thebetter[D] thelater34.[A] realization [B]fulfillment[C]violation[D]accomplishment35.[A] and [B] but[C] thus [D] then36.[A] cry [B] shout [C] scream [D] criterion37.[A] hidden [B]covered[C]revealed[D]disclosed38.[A] develop [B] change [C] reform [D]disappear39.[A] laws[B] crust [C]principles [D] appearanc e40.[A] understan ding [B] to beunderstood[C] beingunderstood[D] tounderstandPart III READING COMPREHENSION (45 minutes, 50 points) Directions: In this part of the test, there are six short passages for you to read. Readeach passage carefully, and then dothe questions that follow. Choose thebest answer [A],[B],[C] or [D], andmark the corresponding letter with asingle bar across the square bracketon your Machine-scoring AnswerSheet.Passage OneActing is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young person thinking of goingon the stage is "Don't!” But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act, though the chances of his becoming famous are slim. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama school. Usually only students who show promise and talent are accepted, and the course lasts two years. Then the young actor or actress takes up work with a repertory company, usually as an assistant stage manager. This means doing everything that there is to do in the theatre: painting scenery, looking after the furniture, taking care of the costumes, and even acting in very small parts. It is very hard work indeed. The hours are long and the salary is tiny. But young actors with the stage in their blood are happy, waiting for the chances of working with a better company, or perhaps in films ortelevision.Of course, some people have unusual chances which lead to fame and success without this long and dull training. Connie Pratt, for example, was just an ordinary girl working in a bicycle factory.A film producer happened to catch sight of her one morning waiting at a bus stop, as he drove past in his big car. He told the driver to stop, and he got out to speak to the girl. He asked her if she would like to go to the film studio to do a test, and at first she thought he was joking. Then she got angry and said she would call the police. It took the producer twenty minutes to tell Connie that he was serious. Then an appointment was made for her to go to the studio the next day. The test was successful. They gave her some necessary lessons and within a few weeks she was playing the leading part opposite one of the most famous actors of the day. Of Course, she was given a more dramatic name, which is now world-famous. But chances like this happen once in a blue moon!41. According to the passage, the main reason why young people should be discouraged from becoming actors is ______.[A] actors are very unusual people[B] the course at the drama school lasts two years[C] acting is really a hard job[D] there are already too many actors42. An assistant stage manager's job is difficult because he has to ______.[A] do all kinds of stage work [B] work for long hours[C]wait for a better company[D] act well43. According to the context, the sentence "Butyoung actors with the stage in their blood are happy" at the end of the first paragraph means ______.[A] they don't care if their job is hard[B] they like the stage naturally[C] they are born happy[D] they are easily satisfied44. Conie Pratt soon became a famous actress after ______.[A] learning some lessons about the art of speaking[B] playing her part in the "Blue Colored Moon"[C] successfully matching the most famous actors[D] a cting a leading part with a most famous actor at that time45. The phrase "once in a blue moon" in last line refers to ______.[A] all at once [B] once for a long time[C] once in a while [D] once and for allPassage TwoDesegregation of higher education has produced significant improvements in educationfor all Americans. The opening up of segregated colleges and universities to students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds came about only as the result of many forms of prolonged struggle in the courts, in the streets, and on campuses.The efforts to open up higher educational opportunities for blacks in historically white institutions also led to expanded opportunities for lower- and middle-class white students, especiall y at institutions that adopted “open admissions” policies of accepting all high school graduates. Between 1960 and 1981, while the number of black students between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four enrolled in college increased from 134,000 to over750,000, the number of white students in the same age group grew from just over 2 million to over 6.5 million. In 1960 more than one-half of blacks attending colleges were enrolled at historically black institutions. By 1981 that percentage had declined to just 18 per cent. Most of the blacks enrolled in traditionally white institutions,however, were at two-year community colleges or at four-year public colleges that were becoming or had already become predominantly black.Desegregation of higher education produced difficult problems for historically black institutions that had always struggled under great hardship to provide higher education for blacks when blacks had been barred from white institutions. Historically black institutions, however, have continued to produce a high percentage of the most educationally and professionally successful blacks in the United States. Meanwhile, blacks in predominantly white institutions have achieved notable progress, but they have also encountered various problems.College completion rates for young blacks have increasedsubstantially, but they are only about one-half the rate for young whites. In 1981, for example, 11.5 percent of blacks aged twenty-five to twenty-nine and 21.3percent of。
武汉大学硕士生英语期末考试试卷真题扫描版
武汉大学硕士生英语期末考试试卷真题扫描版武汉大学硕士生英语期末考试试卷真题扫描版武汉大学是一所享有盛誉的高等学府，其英语教育水平一直处于国内领先地位。
每学期，武汉大学都会对硕士生进行英语期末考试，以确保学生的英语能力达到学校的要求。
以下是武汉大学硕士生英语期末考试试卷真题扫描版，供读者参考。
一、选择题1、The train _____ in an hour. A. leaves B. left C. is leavingD. will leave 答案：A 解析：根据时间状语“in an hour”可知，本题应使用一般将来时。
2、--- Shall we go for a walk? --- _____. A. It's a good ideaB. That's all rightC. You're welcomeD. Not at all 答案：A 解析：根据问句“shall we...”可知，本题应回答肯定回答，即“It'sa good idea”是正确答案。
3、--- How was your trip to Beijing? --- _____. A. It was greatB. It was terribleC. Yes, it was greatD. No, it was terrible 答案：A 解析：根据问句“How was your trip to Beijing?”可知，本题应回答“It was great”。
二、阅读理解4、The passage mainly discusses the relationship between language and culture. 答案：TRUE 解析：本文主要讨论语言和文化之间的关系，说明语言反映文化，文化影响语言。
41、The word "etiquette" in the passage refers to good manners. 答案：TRUE 解析：根据文章第二段中的句子“etiquette is a code of behavior that is based on rules of good manners”可知，“etiquette”指的是良好的礼仪。
硕士研究生英语期末考试(DOC)
GENERAL ENGLISH QUALIFYING TESTFOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR GRADUATE STUDENTS试卷BPAPER ONEPart I Listening ComprehensionSection A (1 point each)Directions:In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third voice will ask a question about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices, A, B, C and D by marking the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.1. A. Three dollars and twenty-five cents.B. Five dollars.C. One dollar and fifty cents.D. One dollar.2. A. The man considers himself a good traveler.B. The man brought his pet along on the trip.C. The woman would like to join the man the next time.D. Neither of them has had a chance to see the play.3. A. He doesn’t want to work tomorrow night.B. He can’t find the way out of the student center.C. He’s afraid to work at night.D. He’s afraid the work will be real ly hard.4. A. In a camera store.B. In a hardware store.C. In an art gallery.D. In a machine repair shop.5. A. She parked her car in a safe place.B. Her car ran out of gas.C. Brenda has borrowed her car.D. She came with Brenda today.6. A. Stay awake for the midnight news program.B. Prepare an editorial for this week’s newspaper.C. Find the newspaper editor.D. Find a job working as a reporter.7. A. A refinished cellar.B. A new record.C. A furnished house.D. A recent book.8. A. He hadn’t had time to do the experiment.B. The experiment turned out well.C. The experiment took a lot of time.D. He only did part of the experiment that day.9. A. Inspecting the wiring.B. Replacing the lamp.C. Keeping the check.D. Sending a wire.Section B (1 point each)Directions:In this section, you will hear two short passages and some questions. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear one question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices, A, B, C and D by marking the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.Questions 10-12 are based on the following passage:10. A. Children taught one another in small supervised groups.B. Parents instructed their chi ldren in the “three R’s”.C. Teachers came to children’s homes.D. Children acquired the information they needed by direct experience.11. A. Outmoded methods of farming and ineffective means oftransportation.B. Larger family units and greater financial hardships.C. A new dependence on people far away and the use of money.D. The introduction of a new alphabet and numerical system.12. A. The increasingly complex skills subsequently taught in schools.B. The problems evolved in the construction of new schools.C. The various means of survival taught by parents in contemporarysociety.D. The importance of history instruction in the first schools.Questions 13-125 are based on the following passage:13. A. To point out similarities between jazz and classical music.B. To describe what makes a good jazz performance.C. To explain the importance of learning rhythm and harmony in jazz.D. To show that jazz is not really music at all.14. A. They perform their music as a means of individual self-expression.B. They possess detailed knowledge of the rules of jazz composition.C. They memorize their music before performing it.D. They are more famous than performers of other kinds of music.15. A. Watch a film about jazz performers.B. Listen to some recordings of jazz music.C. Practice various jazz rhythms.D. Interview a jazz musician.Section C (1 point each)Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage. The passage will be read TWICE. After you hear the passage, complete the following paragraphs with the information you get from the tape. You should write your answer on ANSWER SHEET II.Bones can provide archaeologists with a valuable method of measuring time. The name of the method is calcium-9 dating. Calcium-9 dating is based on the fact that animals accumulate calcium in their bones. The calcium in the bones of the animalscomes from 16 that the animals ate while they were alive. There are certain varieties, or isotopes, of all elements known to man. These isotopes are known to occur in specific amounts in nature. When a large amount of calcium is collected in one place it should reflect the amounts found in nature. There is one complication of this simple model which makes 17 possible. Over a period of time the type of calcium known as calcium-9 tends to deteriorate into the more common form of calcium. Because scientists can guess how fast this change should happen, they can guess how old a piece of bone is by testing how much calcium-9 is present in the bone 18 .It is true that as the bone develops and new layers are added, the same levels of calcium-9 are not always added to the bone at the same rate. Also, 19 can have an effect on the exact amount of calcium-9 found in a bone. But since there are so many millions of atoms of calcium in a tiny piece of bone, a scientist can essentially date the age of a bone even though the guess will not be exact.In the early 1970’s a team of archaeologists used the calcium-9 technique to date a series of prehistoric bones found in West Africa. They compared the levels of calcium-9 in the ancient bones with those of an animal that had recently died. The comparison actually made it possible to determine the century in which the older bones had been buried. Little by little, the system was extended backward into time. Eventually, calcium-9 dating produced 20 going back over two million years. Part II Cloze (10 points, 0.5 point each)Directions:In this part, there is passage with twenty blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kinds of innovation. It should be 21 also that technological innovations have 22 the character of war itself by the 23 of new mechanical and chemical devices. One weapon developed during World War II 24 a special mention. The 25 of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as a 26 of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the earth’s gravitational pull had been 27 by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. 28 , a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working 29 the same lines, and in the 1930s, it was this team that developed a rocket 30 of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket 31 the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design team were 32 in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war.Technology had a tremendous social 33 in the period 1900-1945. The automobile and electric power, 34 , radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, 35 a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution 36 living through mass production of household goods and 37 . The rapid development of the airplance, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more 38 . The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years 391945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be 40 , although the process has not been without its problems.21. A. detected B. commentedC. observedD. notified22. A. simulated B. innovatedC. imitatedD. transformed23. A. alteration B. eliminationC. innovationD. introduction24. A. deserves B. furnishesC. entitlesD. requires25. A. doctrine B. strategyC. disciplineD. principle26. A. medium B. techniqueC. meansD. methods27. A. pointed out B. carried outC. handed overD. taken over28. A. Instantaneously B. SpontaneouslyC. AdvantageouslyD. Simultaneously29. A. with B. alongC. atD. across30. A. suitable B. possibleC. ableD. capable31. A. marked B. labeledC. informedD. spoiled32. A. integral B. structuralC. mechanicalD. instrumental33. A. conflict B. impactC. connectionD. influence34. A. for instance B. on the contraryC. as a resultD. on the other hand35. A. assisting B. promotingC. urgingD. encouraging36. A. on B. throughC. inD. by37. A. equipment B. instrumentsC. utilitiesD. appliances38. A. controversial B. complexC. accessibleD. perceptive39. A. following B. subsequentC. previousD. preceding40. A. processed B. adoptedC. appliedD. exploitedPart III Reading Comprehension (35 points, 1 point each)Directions:In this part, there are six short passages, which are followed by questionsor unfinished sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one by marking the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center.Passage OneIn most countries, the law on organ transplantation is poorly defined, as legislation has not yet been created to cope with this advance in surgery. The existing framework relating to physical assault and care of the dead has no provision for organ transplantation. It is customary to ask the permission of the relatives, but, because organ removal must take place immediately after death, it may be impossible to reach the relatives in time. It has been suggested that there should be a widespread campaign to encourage persons to provide in their wills that their organs be used for transplantation. An alternative is to provide by law that permission is assumed unless removal has been forbidden by the individual in his lifetime. Such laws have been passed in Denmark, France, Sweden, Italy, and Israel. Compulsory postmortem (死后的) examination, a far more extensive procedure than organ removal for grafting (移植), is required in most countries after unexpected death, and this compulsion is not a matter of public concern and debate.There would seem to be no reason why organ removal for transplantation purposes should not also be accepted to public opinion, provided there is a mechanism by which individuals in their lifetime can refuse this permission. This, of course, requires an efficient register of those who indicate their refusal: the register would be consulted before any organs would be removed. It is important that there be public reassurance that consideration of transplantation would not impair normal resuscitative (抢救的) efforts of the potential donor.Transplantation has obviously raised important ethical considerations concerning the diagnosis of death, and, particularly, how far resuscitation should be continued. Every effort must be made to restore the heartbeat to someone who has had a sudden cardiac arrest (心跳骤停) or breathing to someone who cannot breathe. Artificial respiration and massage of the heart, the standard methods of resuscitation, are continued until it is clear that the brain is dead. Most physicians consider that beyond this point efforts at resuscitation are useless.41. According to the author, which of the following is NOT true?A. The traditional way of asking for permission of relatives for organremoval does not prove to be always feasible.B. Most countries do not6 have an effective law on organtransplantation.C. In some countries there are laws providing that the permission oforgan removal is taken for granted unless it has been refused by the person inhis lifetime.D. It is hard to understand why people should remain silent on compulsorypostmortem exam after unexpected death.42. Which of the following is NOT a suggestion made in the passage?A. Organ removal should be permitted in the course of compulsorypostmortem exam.B. People should be encouraged to donate their organs after death.C. Organ removal for transplantation could be considered legal unlessthe dead person stated otherwise in his lifetime.D. Organ removal for transplantation should be advocated because it benefitsthe human society.43. The underlined word “impair” at the end of Paragraph 2 can best be replaced by_______.A. weakenB. neglectC. be superior toD. come together with44. It is believed that efforts at resuscitation are useless when _______.A. a person’s heartbeat and breath has totally stoppedB. artificial respiration and massage of the heart have yielded no obvious resultC. the brain is certainly deadD. standard methods of resuscitation have failed45. Which of the following can best sum up the passage?A. Some underlying principles on organ transplantation.B. Legal and ethical problems of organ transplantation.C. The difference between compulsory postmortem exam and organtransplantationD. The diagnosis of death before organ transplantation.Passage TwoWith human footprints on the moon, radio telescopes listening for messages from alien creatures (who may or may not exist), technicians looking for celestial and planetary sources of energy to support our civilization, orbi ting telescopes’ data hinting at planetary systems around other stars, and political groups trying to figure out how to save humanity from nuclear warfare that would damage life and climate on a planet-wide scale, an astronomy book published today enters a world different from the one that greeted books a generation ago. Astronomy has broadened to involve our basic circumstances and our mysterious future in the universe. With eclipses and space missions broadcast live, and with NASA, Europe, and the USSR planning and building permanent space stations, astronomy offers adventure for all people, an outward exploratory thrust that may one day be seen as an alternative to mindless consumerism, ideological bickering (争吵), and wars to control dwindling resources on a closed, finite Earth.Today’s astronomy students not only seek an up-to-date summary of astronomical facts: they ask, as people have asked for ages, about our basic relations to rest of the universe. They may study astronomy partly to seek points of contact between science and other human endeavors: philosophy, history, politics, environmental action, even the arts and religion.Science fiction writers and special effect artists on recent films help today’s students realize that unseen worlds of space are real places --- not abstract concepts. Today’s students are citizens of a more real, more vast cosmos than conceptualized by students of a decade ago.In designing this edition, the Wadsworh editors and I have tried to respond tothese developments. Rather than jumping at the start into murky waters of cosmology, I have begun with the viewpoint of ancient people on Earth and worked outward across the universe. This method of organization automatically (if loosely) reflects the order of humanity’s disco veries about astronomy and provides a unifying theme of increasing distance and scale.46. This passage is most probably taken from _______.A. the introduction of a book of astronomyB. an article of popular scienceC. the preface of a piece of science fictionD. a lecture given by the author to astronomy students47. The author’s purpose in presenting the first paragraph is _______.A. to discuss in detail the most recent achievements in space researchB. to explain the background and new features o f today’s astronomyC. to illustrate that the world today is different in many aspects from that of ageneration agoD. to introduce some newly established space stations48. The author thinks that the growing interest in space exploration among people onEarth will probably lead to _______.A. the realization of permanent settlement on other planetsB. all people having chances of traveling in spaceC. orders, harmony and peace on our planet EarthD. more disturbance not only on Earth but also in outer space49. The author believes that today’s astronomy students _______.A. no longer care about astronomical factsB. are much brighter than students of a generation agoC. may learn more about man and his research in various fields through thestudy of astronomyD. are better-informed about the unseen worlds of space50. In the last paragraph, the underlined expression “these developments” refers to allof the following EXCEPT _______.A. the new concepts about the universe acquired by today’s astronom y studentsB. the development of science fiction and special effects of filmsC. humanity’s new achievements in the field of astronomyD. the world-wide involvement in space explorationPassage ThreeTelevision --- the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth --- is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.The word “television”, derived from its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin (vision: sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight from distance. Very simply put, it works in this way: through a sophisticated system of electronics, television provides the capability of converting an image (focused on a special photo-conductive platewithin a camera) into electronic impulses, which can be sent through a wire of cable. These impulses, when fed into a receiver (television set), can then be electronically reconstituted into that same image.Television is more than just an electronic system, however. It is a means of expression, as well as a vehicle for communication, and as such becomes a powerful tool for reaching other human beings.The field of television can be divided into two categories determined by its means of transmission. First, there is broadcast television, which reaches the masses through broad-based airwave transmission of television signals. Second, there is non-broadcast television, which provides for the needs of individuals or specific interest groups through controlled transmission techniques.Traditionally, television has been a medium of the masses. We are most familiar with broadcast television because it has been with us for about thirty-seven years in a form similar to what exists today. During those years, it has been controlled, for the most part, by the broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, who have been the major purveyors of news, information, and entertainment. These giants of broadcasting have actually shaped not only television but our perception of it as well. We have come to look upon the picture tube as a source of entertainment, placing our role in this dynamic medium as the passive viewer.51. What is the literal meaning of the world “television”?A. Sight from distance.B. Medium of the masses.C. Vehicle for communication.D. Airwave transmission.52. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a function of electronics in television transmissions?A. The sending of impulses through a wire cable.B. The conversion of an image into electronic impulses.C. The feeding of impulses into a receiver.D. The changing of one image into another image.53. According to the passage, how many major broadcast networks are there?A. Three.B. Two.C. Five.D. Four.54. What field of television is intended for specific interest groups?A. Reconstituted.B. Broad-based.C. Non-broadcast.D. Traditional.55. Which of the following statements about the relationship between the television and its viewers can be inferred from the passage？A. Viewers would prefer increased news coverage.B. Viewers do not take an active role in watching television.C. Viewers have grown tired of television.D. Viewers like to use television to reach other human beings.Passage FourWholly aided from aesthetic and moral considerations, fashion is an economic absurdity, and there is little to be said in its favor. Nevertheless, we can appreciate the wisdom in Gina Lombroso’s belief that the enormous stress which women lay oneverything pertaining to clothes and the art of personal adornment is connected with the tendency to crystallize sentiment into an object. Woman symbolizes every important event in her life by a special dress; and a jewel or a beautiful gown means to a woman what an official decoration means to a man. “The temptation of dress is the last step in the ceremony to which the novice has to submit before entering the cloister. The memory of the gown which she too might have worn was the strongest temptation that assailed St. Catherine before she took her solemn vows --- a gown, embroidered with gold and stars, like those her sisters had worn, which her grandchildren would have gazed at with eyes filled with wonder and admiration …”.“If a woman’s clothes cost the family and society a little time, money, and activity, they allow woman, independent of lies and calumnies, to triumph and come to the fore outside of man’s world and competition. They allow woman to satisfy her desire to be the first in the most varied fields by giving her the illusion that she is first, and at the same time enabling her rival to have the same illusion. Clothes absorb some of woman’s activit y which might otherwise be diverted to more or less worth-while ends; they give woman real satisfaction, a satisfaction complete in itself, and independent of others, and … they constitute a safety valve which saves society from much greater and more dange rous evils than those which they cause.”The aptness of these observations lies in the emphasis on clothes which are really beautiful and distinctive. But fashion is not primarily concerned with beauty; and fashion connotes conformity, not the individuality so cherished by our society and so artfully suggested by the copywriters. Many people who rigorously follow fashions believe they are following their own inclinations; they are unaware of the primitive, tribal compulsion; and this is true of fashions in manners, morals, and literature, as well as in clothes.56. Gina Lombroso believes that with regard to clothes and the art of personal adornment, women _______.A. are absurdB. are individualisticC. are not sentimentalD. tend to crystallize sentiment into an object57. A gown embroidered with gold and stars is _______.A. said to be the strongest temptation St. Catherine faced before she took herfinal vowsB. offered as a temptation to every novice entering the conventC. worn by novices when they take their vowsD. the dream of every woman58. A woman’s clothes allow her to _______.A. triumph outside of man’s worldB. be the best, actually, in many fieldsC. deceive both men and womenD. compete on an equal basis in a man’s world59. The author of this article believes that fashion _______.A. promotes individualityB. promotes conformityC. is concerned only with the clothes that are beautiful and distinctiveD. is primarily concerned with beauty60. In the author’s opinion, women who follow fashion vigorously _______.A. follow their own inclinationsB. are highly individualisticC. must be wealthyD. obey a primitive, tribal impulse61. According to this article, conformity in manners, morals, and literature _______.A. stems from the same kind of impulses as does conformity in fashionsB. differs distinctly from conformity in fashionsC. is impossible because all artists are individualistsD. has no exceptions62. Which of the following statements is not stated but implied in the passage?A. Fashion is not primarily concerned with beauty.B. Copywriters suggest that fashion connotes conformity.C. Fashion emphasizes clothes that are beautiful and distinctive.D. People who follow fashions are not really following their own inclinations. Passage FiveIn a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important --- and that has happened in some cases --- we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” --- but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism ()”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit --- nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a wom an’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent not only toa healthy democracy, but also to healthy family.63. The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is _______.A. both A and BB. responsible for MomismC. pertinent to a healthy family lifeD. fundamental to sound democracy64. Notions of male superiority are _______.A. difficult to maintain in a home where household tasks are shared by themother and fatherB. difficult to maintain in a home where the father is the acknowledged ruler ofthe familyC. difficult to maintain in a home where the woman does most of the workD. maintained by most American women65. The danger in the sharing of household tasks by the mother and father is that_______.A. sharing leads to constant arguingB. the children will grow up believing that life is a battle of the sexesC. the role of the mother may become an inferior oneD. the role of the father may become an inferior one66. The author states that bringing up children _______.A. involves a partnership of equalsB. is the job of schools and churchesC. belongs among the duties of the fatherD. is mainly the mother’s job67. Today, people who specialize in family problems _______.A. are becoming more aware of the importance of the father’s role in the familyB. have concl uded that today’s delinquent children are the result of MomismC. would re-establish the father as the autocratic ruler of the familyD. reaffirm the belief that a woman’s place is in the home68. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?A. A woman’s place is in the home --- now as always.B. Division of household responsibilities is workable only in theory.C. Men are basically opposed to sharing household chores.D. A healthy, co-operative family is a basic ingredient of a healthy society. Passage SixCulture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all languages needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess。
2024年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语真题及答案(二)
2024年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语（二）Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(10points)Your social life is defined as“the activities you do with other people,for pleasure, when you are not working.”It’s important to have a social life,but what’s right for one person won’t be right for another.Some of us feel energised by spending lots of time with others, 1 some of us may feel drained,even if it’s doing something we enjoy.This is why finding a 2 in your social life is key.Spending too much time on your own,not 3 others,can make you feel lonely and 4 .Loneliness is known to impact on your mental health and 5 a low mood.Anyone can feel lonely at any time.This might be especially true if, 6 ,you are working from home and you are7 on the usual social conversations that happen in an office.Other life changes can8 periods of loneliness too,such as retirement,changing jobs or becoming a parent.It’s important to recognise these feelings of loneliness.There are ways to9 a social life,but it can feel overwhelming10 .It’s a great idea to start by thinking about hobbies you enjoy.You can then find groups and activities related to those where you will be able to meet11 people.There are groups aimed at new parents,at those who want to12 a new sport for the first time,or networking events for those in the same profession to meet up and13 ideas.On the other hand,it’s14 possible to have too much of a social life.If you feel like you’re always doing something and there is never any15 in your calendar for downtime, you could suffer social burnout or social16 .We all have our own social limit and it’s important to recognise when you’re feeling like it’s all too much.Low mood,low energy, irritability and trouble sleeping could all be17 of poor social health.Make sure you18 some time in your diary when you’re19 for socialising and use this time to relax,20 and recover.1. A.because2. A.contrast3. A.seeing4. A.misguided5. A.contribute to6. A.in fact7. A.cutting back8. A.shorten9. A.assess10.A.at first11.A.far-sighted12.A.try13.A.test14.A.already15.A.list16.A.fatigue17.A.sources18.A.take over19.A.ungrateful20.A.reactB.unlessB.balanceB.pleasingB.surprisedB.rely onB.of courseB.missing outB.triggerB.interpretB.in turnB.strong-willedB.promoteB.shareB.thusB.orderB.criticismB.standardsB.wipe offB.unavailableB.repeatC.whereasC.linkC.judgingC.spoiledC.interfere withC.for exampleC.breaking inC.followC.provideC.on timeC.kind-heartedC.watchC.acceptC.alsoC.spaceC.injusticeC.signsC.add upC.responsibleC.returnD.untilD.gapD.teachingD.disconnectedD.go againstD.on averageD.looking downD.interruptD.regainD.by chanceD.like-mindedD.describeD.reviseD.onlyD.boundaryD.dilemmaD.scoresD.mark outD.regretfulD.rest Section II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40points)Text1In her new book Cogs and Monsters:What Economics Is,and What It Should Be,Diane Coyle,an economist at Cambridge University,argues that the digital economy requires new ways of thinking about progress.“Whatever we mean by the economy growing,by things getting better,the gains will have to be more evenly shared than in the recent past,”she writes.“An economy of tech millionaires or billionaires and gig workers,with middle-income jobs undercut by automation,will not be politically sustainable.”Improving living standards and increasing prosperity for more people will require greater use of digital technologies to boost productivity in various sectors,including health care and construction,says Coyle.But people can’t be expected to embrace the changes if they’re not seeing the benefits—if they’re just seeing good jobs being destroyed.In a recent interview,Coyle said she fears that tech’s inequality problem could be a roadblock to deploying AI.“We’re talking about disruption,”she says.“These are transformative technologies that change the ways we spend our time every day,that change business models that succeed.”To make such“tremendous changes,”she adds,you need social buy-in.Instead,says Coyle,resentment is simmering among many as the benefits are perceived to go to elites in a handful of prosperous cities.According to the Brookings Institution,a short list of eight American cities that included San Francisco,San Jose,Boston,and Seattle had roughly38%of all tech jobs by2019.New AI technologies are particularly concentrated:Brookings’s Mark Muro and Sifan Liu estimate that just15cities account for two-thirds of the AI assets and capabilities in the United States.The dominance of a few cities in the invention and commercialization of AI means that geographical disparities in wealth will continue to soar.Not only will this foster political and social unrest,but it could,as Coyle suggests,hold back the sorts of AI technologies needed for regional economies to grow.Part of the solution could lie in somehow loosening the stranglehold that Big Tech has on defining the AI agenda.That will likely take increased federal funding for research independent of the tech giants.A more immediate response is to broaden our digital imaginations to conceive of AI technologies that don’t simply replace jobs but expand opportunities in the sectors that different parts of the country care most about,like health care,education,and manufacturing.21. Coyle argues in her new book that economic growth should______A.give rise to innovations.B.diversify career choices.C.benefit people equally.D.be promoted forcefully.22. According to Paragraph2,digital technologies should be used to______A.bring about instant prosperity.B.reduce people’s workload.C.raise overall work efficiency.D.enhance cross-sector cooperation.23. What does Coyle fear about transformative technologies?A.They may affect work-life balance.B.They may be impractical to deploy.C.They may incur huge expenditure.D.They may be unwelcome to the public.24. Several American cities are mentioned to show______A.the uneven distribution of AI technologies in the US.B.the disappointing prospect of tech jobs in the US.C.the fast progress of US regional economies.D.the increasing significance of US AI assets.25. With regard to Coyle’s concern,the author suggests______A.raising funds to start new AI projects.B.encouraging collaboration in AI research.C.guarding against the side effects of AI.D.redefining the role of AI technologies.Text2The UK is facing a future construction crisis because of a failure to plant trees to produce wood,Confor has warned.The forestry and wood trade body has called for urgent action to reduce the country’s reliance on timber imports and provide a stable supply of wood for future generations.Currently only20percent of the UK’s wood requirement is home-grown while it remains the second-largest net importer of timber in the world.Coming at a time of fresh incentives from the UK government for landowners to grow more trees,the trade body says these don’t go far enough and fail to promote the benefits of planting them to boost timber supplies.“Not only are we facing a carbon crisis now,but we will also be facing a future construction crisis because of a failure to plant trees to produce wood,”said Stuart Goodall,chief executive of Confor.“For decades we have not taken responsibility for investing in our domestic wood supply,leaving us exposed to fluctuating prices and fighting for future supplies of wood as global demand rises and our own supplies fall.”The UK has ideal conditions for growing wood to build low-carbon homes and is a global leader in certifying that its forests are sustainably managed,Confor says.While around three quarters of Scottish homes are built from Scottish timber,the use of home-grown wood in England is only around25percent.The causes of the UK’s current position are complex and range from outdated perceptions of productive forestry to the decimation of trees by grey squirrels.It also encompasses significant hesitation on behalf of farmers and other landowners to invest in long-term planting projects.While productive tree planting can deliver real financial benefits to rural economies and contribute to the UK’s net-zero strategy,the focus of government support continues to be on food production and the rewilding and planting of native woodland solely for biodiversity. Goodall added:“While food production and biodiversity health are clearly of critical importance,we need our land to also provide secure supplies of wood for construction, manufacturing and contribute to net-zero.”“While the UK government has stated its ambition for more tree planting,there has been little action on the ground.Confor is now calling for much greater impetus behind those aspirations to ensure we have enough wood to meet increasing demand.”26. It can be learned from Paragraph1that the UK needs to______A.increase its domestic wood supply.B.reduce its demand for timber.C.lower its wood production costs.D.lift its control on timber imports.27. According to Confor,the UK government’s fresh incentives______A.can hardly address a construction crisis.B.are believed to come at a wrong time.C.seem to be misleading for landowners.D.will be too costly to put into practice.28. The UK’s exposure to fluctuating wood prices is a result of______A.the governments inaction on timber imports.B.inadequate investment in growing wood.C.the competition among timber traders at home.D.wood producers’motive to maximise profits.29. Which of the following causes the shortage of wood supply in the UK?A.Excessive timber consumption in construction.B.Unfavourable conditions for growing wood.C.Outdated technologies of the wood industry.D.Farmers’unwillingness to plant trees.30. What does Goodall think the UK government should do?A.Subsidise the building of low-carbon homes.B.Pay greater attention to boosting rural economies.C.Provide more support for productive tree planting.D.Give priority to pursuing its net-zero strategy.Text3One of the biggest challenges in keeping unsafe aging drivers off the road is convincing them that it’s time to turn over the keys.“It’s a complete life-changer”when someone stops —or is forced to stop—driving,said former risk manager Anne M.Menke.“The American Medical Association advises physicians that in situations where clear evidence of substantial driving impairment implies a strong threat to patient and public safety, and where the physician’s advice to discontinue driving privileges is ignored,it is desirable and ethical to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles,”Menke wrote.“Some states require physicians to report,others allow but do not mandate reports,while a few consider a report a breach of confidentiality.There could be liability and penalties if a physician does not act in accordance with state laws on reporting and confidentiality,”she counseled.Part of the problem in keeping older drivers safe is that the difficulties are addressed piecemeal by different professions with different focuses,including gerontologists,highway administration officials,automotive engineers and others,said gerontologist Elizabeth Dugan.“There’s not a National Institute of Older Driver Studies,”she said.“We need better evidence on what makes drivers unsafe”and what can help,said Dugan.One thing that does seem to work is requiring drivers to report in person for license renewal.Mandatory in-person renewal was associated with a31percent reduction in fatal crashes involving drivers85or older,according to one study.Passing vision tests also produced a similar decline in fatal crashes for those drivers,although there appeared to be no benefit from combining the two.Many older drivers don’t see eye doctors or can’t afford to.Primary care providers have their hands full and may not be able to follow through with patients who have trouble driving because they can’t turn their heads or remember where they are going—or have gotten shorter and haven’t changed their seat settings sufficiently to reach car pedals easily.As long as there are other cars on the roads,self-driving cars won’t solve the problems of crashes,said Dugan.Avoiding dangers posed by all those human drivers would require too many algorithms,she said.But we need to do more to improve safety,said Dugan.“If we’re going to have100-year lives,we need cars that a90-year-old can drive comfortably.”。
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研究生基础英语期末考试样卷Graduate English Examination(基础综合英语期末考试时间为2小时30分钟)Part I Listening Comprehension (35 points)Section A: Gap-fillingDirections:Please fill in the gaps with the exact words you hear. Write down your answers on the Answer Sheet. The report will be broadcast TWICE.American Mosaic has been broadcasting a series of reports for foreign students who want to attend college in the United States. This is the _____1_____ program in this series.We hope these reports helped students think about their _____2_____ and provided ways to reach them.We explained the kinds of colleges and universities in the United States, how to get information about them and how to ____3______ for admission. We discussed admissions tests and how to prepare for them. We reported about the high cost of attending an American university and told about possible places to seek __________4 __________. We talked about the legal documents that are needed before a student can travel to the United States to attend college. We also discussed the ____5______ of using the computer to take classes at an American college without leaving home.In other programs, we told about some American colleges that are not so well known. Landmark College, for example, teaches students with __________6 __________. Johnson and Wales University offers __________7 __________. We also provided information about _____8_____ colleges and the Masters of Business Administration degree.We would like to thank everyone who wrote to us asking questions that were used in this series. They helped us explain subjects we had not considered. For example, we explained about the need for student __________9 __________. We discussed dormitory life. And we told the difference between an American college and a university.All these reports can be found on the computer by going to the Special English web site. The address is _____10_______. We hope you will continue to listen to American Mosaic for reports about American life and other information about American colleges. In about two years, we will broadcast this series again to provide new information. By then, another group of students will be looking for information about attending college in the United States.Section BDirections: In this section you will hear a passage twice. Then you should give brief answers to the questions printed on the examination paper. Be sure to writeyour answers on the Answer sheet.11. Where did most people live fifty years ago and how many people live in citiesnow?12. Why do many experts worry about the process of urbanization?13. What report did the environmental research group release last week?14. What are unplanned settlements?15. According to Molly O’Meara Sheehan, what should policymakers do?16. Why did Freetown, Sierra Leone establish farming withincity limits?17. Why is the bus system created by engineers in Bogota successful?18. What are the reasons forcing people to move out of rural areas?19. What are the two issues that have existed side by side according toOlav Kjorven?Section CDirections: In this section you will hear two passages. Each passage will be read twice. After each passage there will be some questions or unfinishedstatements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letteron the Answer Sheet.Questions for passage one of section C20.Who agrees that foods from healthy cloned animals are safe?A．U.S. Center for Food SafetyB．A news conferenceC．U.S. Agriculture DepartmentD．B ruce Knight21.According to the FDA assessment, meat and milk from cattle, swine andgoat clones _________________________.A. are different from traditionally-bred animalsB. are as safe as food from traditionally-bred animalsC.pose safety concernD.are better than ordinary animals22.Which of the following is true about meat or milk from cloned sheep?A. The FDA has proved the safety of products from cloned sheep.B. Meat and milk from cloned sheep are harmful.C. The FDA is not sure if meat or milk from cloned sheep is safe.D. There are not enough cloned sheep for research.23.According to the FDA, labeling is only required ____________________.A. for products that pose a safety threatB. when people want to know what they are buyingC. for the cloned animal productsD. for meat and milk from cloned sheep24.Reaction from consumer and animal welfare groups has been mainly__________.A.affirmativeB.inconclusiveC.activeD.negative25. According to the center for Food Safety, ________________________.A. the FDA should apologize for having made the announcementB. the FDA’s risk assessment relies on complete and correct researchC. the FDA’s risk assessment was based on studie s that are supplied bycloning companies.D. the FDA did an adequate job before making the announcement26. Who have come to the same conclusion about the safety of cloned animalproducts?A. Regulators in the European Food Safety Authority.B. Regulators in New Zealand.C. Regulators in the European Union.D. Both B and C27. The FDA says clones will mainly be used ________________________.A. for their meat and milkB. to improve the quality of the herdC. for scientific purposesD. to produce safe foodQuestions for passage two of section C28. Which of the following factors doesn’t top the list of heart attack risks?A. bad habitsB. fatty diets C . stress D. smoking29. Most of what we know about the causes of heart disease comes fromstudies among people ___________________________.A.in developing countries, mainly old aged white men.B.in western countries, mainly middle aged white women.C.in western countries, mainly middle aged white men.D.in industrial nations, mainly old aged white men30. _______________ account for 90 percent of heart attacks internationally.A. No simply measured risk factorsB. The same factorsC. Three risk factorsD. Nine simply measured risk factors31. Dr. Anand says ______________ is responsible for __________ of heart attacks.A. weight gain ……one fifthB. emotional stress …… one fi fthC. smoking …… one fourthD. high blood pressure …… one sixth32. What is Dr. Anand’s description of the relationship between stress andhaving heart attack?A.DependentB.AdverseC.IndependentD.Unpredictable33. _______________ seems to be responsible for only one percent of heart attackrisk.A. High blood pressureB. Genetic inheritanceC. Poor dietD. Diabetes34. What can help protect against heart disease?A. Regular physical exercise.B. Consumption of fruits and vegetables.C. Moderate amounts of alcohol.D. All of the above.35. Which of the following statements is true according tothe report?A. Countries like India and Japan will experience an epidemic of heart disease.B. Death rates have decreased dramatically in low and middle income nations.C. There is a decline in heart disease in industrial countries in the past few decades.D. The studies can not help governments make prevention policies to curb theepidemic.Part II Reading Comprehension (20 points)Directions: There are Three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C or D. Decide on the best choice，and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Passage One[1] Rubbish may be universal, but it is little studied and poorly understood. Nobody knows how much of it the world generates or what it does with it. In many rich countries, and most poor ones, only the patchiest of records are kept. That may be understandable: by definition, waste is something its owner no longer wants or takes much interest in.[2] Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York’s infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country’s landfills had run out of space. It also makes it hard to draw up sensible policies: just think of the endless debate about whether recycling is the only way to save the planet—or an expensivewaste of time.[3] Rubbish can cause all sorts of problems. It often stinks, attracts vermin and creates eyesores. More seriously, it can release harmful chemicals into the soil and water when dumped, or into the air when burned. It is the source of almost 4% of the world’s greenhouse gases, mostly in the form of methane from rotting food—and that does not include all the methane generated by animal slurry and other farm waste. And then there are some really nasty forms of industrial waste, such as spent nuclear fuel, for which no universally accepted disposal methods have thus far been developed.[4] Yet many also see waste as an opportunity. Getting rid of it all has become a huge global business. Rich countries spend some $120 billion a year disposing of their municipal waste alone and another $150 billion on industrial waste, according to CyclOpe, a French research institute. The amount of waste that countries produce tends to grow in tandem with their economies, andespecially with the rate of urbanization. So, waste firms see a rich future in places such as China, India and Brazil, which at present spend only about $5 billion a year collecting and treating their municipal waste.[5] Waste also presents an opportunity in a grander sense: asa potential resource. Much of it is already burned to generate energy. Clever new technologies to turn it into fertiliser or chemicals or fuel are being developed all the time. Visionaries see a future in which things like household rubbish and pig slurry will provide the fuel for cars and homes, doing away with the need for dirty fossil fuels. Others imagine a world without waste, with rubbish being routinely recycled. As Bruce Parker, the headof the National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), an American industry group, puts it, “Why fish bodies out of the river when you can stop them jumping off the bridge?”[6] Until last summer such views were spreading quickly. Entrepreneurs were queuing up to scour rubbish for anything that could be recycled. There was even talk of mining old landfills to extract steel and aluminium cans. And waste that could not be recycled should at least be used to generate energy, the evangelists argued. A brave new wasteless world seemed nigh.[7] But since then plummeting prices for virgin paper, plastic and fuels, and hence also for the waste that substitutes for them, have put an end to such visions. Many of the recycling firms that had argued rubbish was on the way out now say that unless they are given financial help, they themselves will disappear.[8] Subsidies are a bad idea. Governments have a role to play in the business of waste management, but it is a regulatory and supervisory one. They should oblige people who create waste to clean up after themselves and ideally ensure that the price of any product reflects the cost of disposing of it safely. That would help to signal which items are hardest to get rid of, giving consumers an incentive to buy goods that create less waste in the first place.[9] That may sound simple enough, but governments seldom get the rules right. In poorer countries they often have no rules at all, or if they have them they fail to enforce them. In rich countries they are often inconsistent: too strict about some sorts of waste and worryingly lax about others. They are also prone to imposing arbitrary targets and taxes. California, for example, wants to recycle all its trash not because it necessarily makes environmental or econ omic sense but because the goal of “zero waste” sounds politically attractive. Britain, meanwhile, hasstarted taxing landfills so heavily that local officials, desperate to find an alternative, are investing in all manner of unproven waste-processing technologies.[10] As for recycling, it is useless to urge people to salvage stuff for which there are no buyers. If firms are passing up easy opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by re-using waste, then governments have set the price of emissions too low. They would do better to deal with that problem directly than to try to regulate away the repercussions. At the very least, governments should make sure there are markets for the materials they want collected. (844 words)36.Which of the following is True according to the first two paragraphs?A.The author thinks it is a good idea to dump the garbage in the Atlantic.B.The United States’ landfills have already run out of space.C.People are scared of not knowing where to dump the garbage.D.What the New York garbage barge did in 1987 is notorious.37.Almost 4% of the world’s greenhouse gases comes from ___________.a)animal slurryb)farm wastec)municipal wasted)industrial waste38.We can infer from paragraph [4] that _______________________.a)coll ecting and treating rubbish stimulates a country’s economyb)the higher the rate of urbanization, the less waste thecountry producesc)the poorer a country is, the more rubbish it producesd)China, India and Brazil will probably spend more money disposing of their municipalwaste39.According to paragraphs [5] and [6], ___________________________.a)Bruce Parker thinks that waste should be routinely recycledb) a large amount of steel and aluminium cans have been extracted from old landfillsc)we no longer need dirty fossil fuels to provide fuel for cars and homesd)waste is a potential natural resource40.The word “plummeting” in paragraph [7] most probably means ______________.a)disappointingb)dropping downc)rocketingd)unexpected41.In the author’s view, governments ___________________________.a)should give the recycling firms financial help as soon as possibleb)should encourage people to buy goods that produce less wastec)should inflict severe punishment on those who create wasted)should only care about politically attractive issues42.From the passage we can conclude that _____________________.A. cooperation between governments is essential to waste managementB. the problem of waste is worse than everC. governments’ policies on treating waste remain largely incoherentD. governments should tax landfills heavily and invest in waste-processing technologiesPassage TwoThere were strangers on our beach yesterday, for the first time in a month. A new footprint on our sand is nearly as rare as in Robinson Crusoe. We are at the very edge of the Atlantic; half a mile out in front of us is a coral reef （珊瑚礁）, and then nothing but 3000 miles of ocean to West Africa. It is a wild and lonely beach, with the same surf beating on it as when Columbus came by. And yet the beach is polluted.Oil tankers over the horizon have fouled it more than legions of picnickers could. The oil comes ashore in floating patches that stain the coral black and gray. It has blighted the rock crabs and the crayfish and has coated the delicate whorls of the conch shells with black goo（黏质物质）. And it has congealed（凝结）upon itself, littering the beach with globes of tar that resemble the cannonballs of a deserted battlefield. The islanders, as they go beachcombing for the treasures the sea has washed up for centuries, now wear old shoes to protect their feet from the oil that washes up too.You have to try to get away from pollution to realize how bad it really is. We have known for the last few years how bad our cities are. Now there is no longer an escape. If there is oil on this island far out in the Atlantic, there is oil on nearly every other island.It is still early here. The air is still clear over the island, but it won’t be when they build the airstrip they are talking about. The water out over the reef is still blue and green, but it is dirtier than it was a few years ago. And if the land is not despoiled, it is only because there are not yet enough people here to despoil it. There will be. And so for the moment on this island we are witnesses to the beginning, as it were, of the pollution of our environment.Until the pollution of our deserted beach, it seemed simple to blame everything on the “population explosion.”If the population of this island, for example, could be stabilized at a couple of hundred, there would be very little problem with the environment in this secluded（与世隔绝的）area. There would be no pollution of the environment if there were not too many people using it, and so if we concentrate on winning the war against overpopulation, we can save the earth for mankind.But the oil on the beach belies this too-easy assumption. Those tankers are not out there because too many Chinese and Indians are being born every minute. They are not even out there because there are too many Americans and Europeans. They are delivering their oil, and cleaning their tanks at see and sending the residue up onto the beaches of the Atlantic and Pacific, in order to fuel the technology of mankind --- and the factories and the power plants, the vehicles and the engines that have enabled mankind to survive on his planet are now spoiling the planet for life.The fishermen on this island are perfectly right in preferring the outboard motor to the sail. Their livelihood is involved, and the motor, for all its fouling smell, has helped increase the fisherman’s catch so that he can now afford to dispense withthe far more obnoxious（讨厌的）outdoor privy. But the danger of technology is in its escalation, and there has already been a small amount of escalation here. You can see the motor oil slicks around the town dock. Electric generators can be heard over the sound of the surf. And while there are only about two dozen automobiles for the ten miles of road, already there is a wrecked jeep rusting in the harbor waters where is was dumped and abandoned. The escalation of technological pollution is coming herejust as surely as it came to the mainland cities that are now shrouded（笼罩）by fly ash.If the oil is killing the life along the coral heads, what must it not be doing to the phytoplankton（浮游植物群落）at sea which provide 70% of the oxygen we breathe? The lesson of our fouled beach is that we may not even have realized how late it is already. Mankind, because of his technology, may require far more space per person on this globe than we had ever thought, but it is more than a matter of a certain number of square yards per person. There is instead a delicate balance of nature in which many square miles of ocean and vegetation and clean air are needed to sustain only a relatively few human beings. We may find, as soon as the end of this century, that the final despoliation of our environment has been signaled not by starvation but by people choking to death. The technology --- the machine --- will then indeed have had its ultimate, mindless, all-unintended triumph over man, by destroying the atmosphere he lives in just as surely as you can pinch off a diver’s breathing tube.Sitting on a lonely but spoiled beach, it is hard to imagine but possible to believe.(868 words)43. Which of the following is the best summary of this essay?A.Pollution has reached even the remotest areas of the globe and will only worsen.B.The solution to pollution problems lies in controlling population growth.C.Outboard motors are the major culprits（元凶）in the pollution of our ocean.D.We can solve pollution problems only when we stop all oil production.44. Before the pollution on the beach, the main environmental problems of the island were being caused by __________.A.overpopulationB. factoriesC. wood stovesD. commercial fishing45. The word “despoliation” as used here means _____________.A.destructionB. definitionC. desperationD. destination46.The pollution in our oceans may be causing phytoplankton to _________.A.increase to a dangerous levelB. be eaten by fish in place of their usual foodC. gradually be destroyedD. poison important species of fish47.The tone expressed throughout this essay is one of ________.A.panic and confusionB. gloom and despairC. enthusiasm and hopeD. humor and lightheartednessPassage ThreeSometimes when you take a common drug, you may have a side effect. That is, the drug may cause some effect other than its intended one. When these side effects occur, they are called adverse reactions. Whenever you have an adverse reaction, you should stop taking the drug right away. Ask you pharmacist whether he can suggest a drug that will relieve the symptoms but that will not cause the adverse reaction. If an adverse reaction to a drug is serious, consult your doctor for advice at once.Drugs that are safe in the dosage stated on the label may be very dangerous in large doses. For example, aspirin is seldom thought of as dangerous, but there are many reports of accidental poisoning of young children who swallow too many for their young bodies to handle. In adults, excessive use of some pain-killing drugs may cause severe kidney damage. Some drugs for relief of stomach upsets, when taken in excess, can cause an upset in the body’s secretion of enzymes,perhaps causing serious digestive problems. You should never use any over-the-counter drug on a regular, continued basis, or in large quantities, except on your doctor’s advice. You could be suffering from a serious illness that needs a doctor’s care.Each drug you take not only acts on the body but may also alter the effect of any other drug you are taking. Sometimes this can cause dangerous or even fatal reactions. For example, aspirin increases the blood-thinning effect of drugs given to patientswith heart disease. Therefore, a patient who has been taking such a drug may risk hemorrhage（大出血）if he uses aspirin whenever he gets a headache. Before using several drugs together you should ask your doctor and follow his advice. Your pharmacist can tell you whether certain drugs can safely be taken together.Alcohol may increase the effect of a drug. Sleeping pills and antihistamines（抗组胺药）are two types of drugs that combine with alcohol to produce drowsiness. When taking any drug, you should ask your doctor whether drinking alcohol could be dangerous in combination with the medicine.Experts believe there is a relationship between adult abuse of legitimate medicines and the drug culture that has swept our country. You can do your share to reduce the chances that your children will become part of the drug culture by treating all medicines with respect. Always let your children know that medicines and drugs should not be used carelessly.(409 words)48.Adverse reactions to drugs sometimes are called ________.A.side effectsB. overdosesC. withdrawal symptomsD. risks49.When aspirin is used with heart medication, it can __________.A.clot bloodB. thin blood.C. thicken bloodD. damage muscle50.The author implies that alcohol _________.A.can intensify the effects of a drugB. can make a drug uselessC. can cause a person to turn to drugsD. can damage the pancreas（胰腺）51.The author advises parents ________.A.to avoid taking drugs in front of childrenB.to teach their children about drugsC.to throw away old medicinesD.to prevent their children from strenuous exercises after taking drugs52.We can conclude that ________.A.drugs should be bought by prescription onlyB.people react differently to drugsC.aspirin is not considered a drugD.it is not a problem to take large quantities of over-the-counter drugsPart III Translation (25 points)Directions:Please translate into Chinese the following paragraphs from the texts learned in this semester.1.The Information Marketplace will make of us urban villagers—half urban sophisticated,roaming the virtual globe, and half villager, spending more time at home and tending to family, friends, and the routines of the neighborhood. If our psyches tilt toward the crowded urban info-city, we will become more jaded, more oriented toward the self, and more indifferent, fickle, and casual in our relationships with others, as well as less tightly connected to our families and friends.2.Perhaps the most difficult thing to accept in our profession permanent criticism directed atour work. It is the background of our daily activity—and it is as necessary for us as is the plane to the carpenter. In the technological and scientific community, everyone criticizes everyone, continuously and sometimes sharply, irrespective of age or status./doc/4e3766898.html,plicating things further, the traits a culture values most are not fixed. If cloning hadexisted a few centuries ago, men with strong backs and women with broad pelvises would have been the first ones society would have wanted to reproduce. During the industrial age, however, brainpower began to count for more than muscle power.4.Entrepreneurs are sometimes suspicious of venture capitalists for two other reasons. Thefirst is that they have, for richer or poorer, married a meddlesome outsider. Once a venture firm has taken a stake, it usually sticks around either until it has made the money it wants or until the company fails. Either way, it is deeply involved for five years or more. During that time it will often demand management changes and may even sack the founder for the greater good of the firm.5.We need only consult Aldous Huxley’s prophetic novel Brave New World for a likelyanswer to these questions. There we encounter a society dedicated to homogeneity and stability, administered by means of instant gratifications, and peopled by creatures of human shape but of stunted humanity that makes it all possible. They do not read, write, think, love or govern themselves. Creativity and curiosity, reason and passion exist only in a rudimentary andmutilated form. In short, they are not men at all.Part IV Writing (20 points)Directions:Is it possible to replace dialects with Putonghua in the future? Is it necessary to protect dialects from being restricted?What is your opinion on the issue? Give reasons for your answer.You should write at least 200 words.You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your argument with examples and relevant evidence.。