在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷8
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷1
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷1(总分：40.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、英文阅读理解题(总题数：4，分数：40.00)It is easier to negotiate initial salary requirement because once you are inside, the organizational constraints (约束) influence wage increases. One thing, however, is certain: your chances of getting the raise you feel you deserve are less if you don"t at least ask for it. Men tend to ask for more, and they get more, and this holds true with other resources, not just pay increases. Consider Beth"s story: I did not get what I wanted when I did not ask for it. We had cubicle (小隔间) offices and window offices. I sat in the cubicles with several male colleagues. One by one they were moved into window offices, while I remained in the cubicles. Several males who were hired after me also went to offices. One in particular told me he was next in line for an office and that it had been part of his negotiations for the job. I guess they thought me content to stay in the cubicles since I did not voice my opinion either way. It would be nice if we all received automatic pay increases equal to our merit, but "nice" isn"t a quality attributed to most organizations. If you feel you deserve a significant raise in pay, you"ll probably have to ask for it. Performance is your best bargaining chip (筹码) when you are seeking a raise. You must be able to demonstrate that you deserve a raise. Timing is also a good bargaining chip. If you can give your boss something he or she needs (a new client or a sizable contract, for example) just before merit pay decisions are being made, you are more likely to get the raise you want. Use information as a bargaining chip too. Find out what you are worth on the open market. What will someone else pay for your services? Go into the negotiations prepared to place your chips on the table at the appropriate time and prepared to use communication style to guide the direction of the interaction. (345 words)（分数：10.00）(1).According to the passage, before taking a job, a person should______.（分数：2.00）A.demonstrate his capabilityB.give his boss a good impressionC.ask for as much money as he canD.ask for the salary he hopes to get √解析：解析：本题属于简单推理题。
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷11
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷11(总分：50.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、英文阅读理解题(总题数：5，分数：50.00)What you give your relatives, friends, husband, or wife can help you know yourself better. Also, what they give you can tell you something about their personality. Most gift-giving(and getting)shows nothing more than the spirit of love and friendship. But it is possible to form some associations between the kinds of things bought and the people buy them. Here is a guide to give what and why. The clothes you wear tell something about your personality. They tell the world not only how you want to be seen but how you see yourself as well. When someone gives you something to wear that agrees with your self-image, they"re saying, "I agree with you. I like the way you are. " Such a gift should be taken as a form of compliment. On the other hand, a gift of clothing that doesn"t match your personality could be an insult to your character. Making something by hand has become the exception in many countries today—so much so that giving a homemade gift is sometimes considered unusual. If you receive a homemade gift, you are lucky. It may not be made perfectly, but it will show a certain quality of love. People who give homemade gifts may be said to be very generous. They have given time and emotion, two important characteristics of being creative. A person who thinks of food when thinking of a gift is good example of what human warmth means. Whether you give a box of chocolates, a bag of oranges, or a ball of cheese, all carry the same message of comfort and support. People who give books as gifts either like reading or would like everyone to think they do. If you happen to receive a large, heavy book, its giver may be much more interested in the way things appear than in the way they actually are. Of course, reading is a way of feeling the emotions of another person and of learning new things. Giving a book can be a way of sharing a feeling or a newly learned meaning. The giver is probably trying to say to you what the book said to him.（分数：10.00）(1).The first paragraph is written mainly to tell readers that______.（分数：2.00）A.the gifts you give can help you understand yourself betterB.the gifts you receive are helpful for you to know the personality of those who give themC.gifts can show friendship and loveD.there is a certain relationship between the kinds of gifts and the people who give them √解析：解析：这是一道段落大意题。
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编3(题后
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编3(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 3. 英文阅读理解题英文阅读理解题To the people of ancient Egypt, life on earth was short. Life after death, however, was eternal. Therefore they built their tombs of stone and they took their possessions with them into another world. The more important the people, the greater the tomb. The Pharaohs were the rulers of the country and when they died they became gods. Many of their tombs remain, and some have become a wonder of the world. These are the pyramids. The purpose of these stone mountains was to protect the burial chamber from the weather and from thieves who might try to steal the gold, jewels and precious possessions placed there to accompany the dead ruler into eternal life. Their shape, with four triangular sides spreading from a single point, represented the rays of the sun. Their position on the west bank of the River Nile was where the sun set every day and where they believed it began its journey into the other world. All the burial grounds in ancient Egypt were on the west bank of the river.1．Why did the people of ancient Egypt build their tombs of stone?A．Because they thought life on the earth was short, but life after death was eternal.B．Because they wanted to bring all their possessions into another world.C．Because they wanted to protect their possessions into another world.D．All of the above.正确答案：D解析：这是一道细节题，要求考生回答古埃及人建石墓的原因。
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 3. 英文阅读理解题英文阅读理解题Believe it or not, optical illusion (错觉) can cut highway crashes. Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent stripes, called chevrons (人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down. Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes. Excessive speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards are the greatest—curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges. Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars. Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents. (227 words)1．The passage mainly discusses______.A．a new way of highway speed controlB．a new pattern for painting highwaysC．a new approach to training driversD．a new type of optical illusion正确答案：A解析：本题属于主旨大意题。
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解模拟试卷8(题后含答案及解析)
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解模拟试卷8(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children’s leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25 %. “Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children’s timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner”households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers. ) All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. “Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself,”says T. Berry Brazel-ton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing “free time”watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If they’re spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids aren’t replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Let’s face it, who’s got the time? (310 words)16．By mentioning “the same time crunch” (Line 1, Para. 2) Sandra Hofferth meansA．children have little time to play with thei * parentsB．children are not taken good care of by their working parentsC．both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure timeD．both parents and children have trouble managing their time正确答案：C解析：本题属于词义理解题。
在职艺术硕士MFA全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编8_真题(含答案与解析)-交互
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编8(总分30, 做题时间90分钟)3. 英文阅读理解题Researchers have shown that noise can adversely affect human in both physiological and psychological ways. Hearing losses in particular occupations such as shipbuilding and construction work are well-known. In fact, however, we all find hearing more difficult as we age. Young ears can distinguish a wide range of sounds from low to very high frequencies, while older ears lose the ability to distinguish high-pitched sounds. A comparison of people living in some industrialized and non-industrialized areas suggests that this hearing loss may not necessarily accompany old age. Furthermore, a closer inspection of other data reveals economic effects. For instance, an increased turnover in property has been observed in noisy areas near airports. Job performance can be adversely affected by loud noise, especially if accuracy and mental effort are involved. The use of outdoor areas for conversation is not possible for an estimated 5 to 10 million people who live or work in urban areas. When interference with television or speech or sleep is included, as many as 22 to 24 million people can be said to have lost part of the use of their homes and grounds because of noise. Thus noise pollution is a serious environmental concern. The indifferentattitude toward noise should be **e; considerable efforts should be made to alert people to the grave effects that may stem from an excessively noisy environment.SSS_SINGLE_SEL1.We can learn from this passage that______.A young people are sensitive to high-pitched soundsB young people distinguish low frequency noise better than old peopleC high frequency noise can cause hearing loss in old peopleD people in industrialized areas will suffer hearing loss when they are old该问题分值: 2答案:A解析：这是一道细节题，可定位在本文第1段“Young ears can distinguish a widerange of sounds from low to very high frequencies，while older ears lose the ability to distinguish high—pitched sounds．”说明年轻人比老年人更能分辨高频声音，选项A是其同义表达。
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编4(题后
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编4(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. Wal-Mart’s achievement caps a bigger economic shift—from producing goods to providing services. Manufacturing’s share of U. S. employment peaked in 1953, at 35%. It has been declining steadily since. In the decade that will end in 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that goods-producing industries will create 1. 3 million new jobs, compared to 20 million for service industries. To look at it another way, today there are about four times as many people working in service jobs as in other kinds of jobs. And even within manufacturing, services are an increasingly large share of operations. As America got richer, consumption got more complicated. With more income to throw around, people started spending more on services—movies and travel, mortgages to buy houses, insurance to protect those houses, the occasional weekends at a luxury hotel; Fortune calls this a shift in the demand pattern. Over the few years, only three of the ten fastest-growing occupations(software engineers, nurses, and computer support)pay middle-class salaries. The rest could be called Wal-Mart kinds of jobs—cashiers, retail assistants, food service, and so on. In short, the service economy is delivering more good jobs than ever before.11．In 1993, Wal-Mart could have a sales volume of two billion dollars in______.A．one weekB．two weeksC．one dayD．two days正确答案：B解析：这是一道细节推断题。
在职艺术硕士(MFA)全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编1
在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解历年真题试卷汇编1(总分：30.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、英文阅读理解题(总题数：3，分数：30.00)Oscar Night Oscar Night is one of the most awaited events in the entire entertainment industry of the world. The award ceremony has become an inseparable component of the life of all the people associated with Hollywood. One cannot simply escape the charm of this wonderful night. The scheduled time of the glitzy evening of Academy Award is usually late February or early March. It is time when the awards are presented for the year-best achievements in the Motion Picture Industry. The Oscar statuette, presented during the Awards night, is regarded to be the most prestigious honor for Hollywood artists. Oscar ceremony was started with the intention of acknowledging the excellence in Hollywood. It was also an approach, made a long time back, to encourage the spirit of the people connected with the Motion picture industry. The various categories of award try to honor people involved in all the facets of film-making. Academy Awards Night comprises of that point of time when the talented artists of the film fraternity get the apt recognition. It is the best way of honoring the efforts and dedication that go into the making of a movie. Oscars are organized in a grand manner, with an alluring appeal. This mega event takes place at the Kodak Theatre, in Los Angles, annually. Oscar Night is the much-awaited moment, when all the stars of Hollywood gather at a single venue. The Red Carpet is rolled out for the dignitaries of the function. The air is filled with the gusto and zeal of the celebrities, who are invited to witness this ceremony. The atmosphere of Oscar Night is ruled by an element of surprise. It is the night when the mystery unfolds with each passing moment, with the announcement of winners in various categories.（分数：10.00）(1).According to the author, ______.（分数：2.00）A.The award ceremony is an inseparable part of the life of all those who are related to Hollywood √B.The award ceremony is an inseparable part of the life of all the people who are associated with Los AngelesC.The award ceremony is an inseparable part of the life of all those who are living in HollywoodD.The award ceremony is an inseparable part of the life of all the people who are working in film industry解析：解析：这是一道细节题，考查考生对第一段第二句话“The award ceremony has be—come an inseparable component of the life of all the people associated with Hollywood．”的理解。
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在职艺术硕士（MFA）全国联考英文阅读理解-试卷8(总分：40.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、英文阅读理解题(总题数：4，分数：40.00)Do you know how to use a mobile phone (手机) without being rude to the people around you? Talking during a performance irritates (激怒) people. If you are expecting an emergency call, sit near the exit doors and set your phone to vibrate (振动. When your mobile phone vibrates, you can leave quietly and let the others enjoy the performance. Think twice before using mobile phones in elevators, museums, churches or other indoor public places—especially enclosed spaces. Would you want to listen to someone"s conversation in these places? Worse yet, how would you feel if a mobile phone rang suddenly during a funeral! It happens more often than you think. Avoid these embarrassing situations by making sure your mobile phone is switched off. When eating at a restaurant with friends, don"t place your mobile phone on the table. This conveys the message that your phone calls are more important than those around you. Mobile phones have sensitive microphones that allow you to speak at the volume you would on a regular phone. This enables you to speak quietly so that others won"t hear the details of your conversations. If you are calling from a noisy area, use your hand to direct your voice into the microphone. Many people believe that they can"t live without their mobile phone. Owning a mobile phone definitely makes life more convenient, but limit your conversations to urgent ones and save the personal calls until you are at home. (253 words)（分数：10.00）(1).What should you do when you need to answer a phone call during a performance?（分数：2.00）A.Call back after the performance.B.Answer it near the exit door.C.Talk outside the exit door. √D.Speak in a low voice.解析：解析：本题属于事实细节题。
题干中提到“need to answer”，所以“演出结束后回电话”便为时已晚，因此A不符合题意；B“在靠近出口的地方接听”，“靠近出口”还是在演出现场，与原文不符；D“低声接听电话”同样会影响周围观众观看演出，与原文不符。
文章第二段末句说“When your mobile phone vibrates，you can leave quietly and let the others enjoy the performance．”(当电话振动时，你可以悄悄地离开，让其他人继续欣赏节目。
)可见，在观看演出时，如果必须接电话，最好离开演出现场到外面接听，因此选C。
(2).Putting your mobile phone on a restaurant table may make your friends think（分数：2.00）A.you prefer to talk to your friends at the tableB.you value your calls more than your friends √C.you are enjoying the company of your friendsD.you are polite and considerate of your friends解析：解析：本题属于事实细节题。
文章第四段第二句说“This conveys the message that your phone calls are more important than those around you．”(这样做就表示你的电话比在座的各位都重要。
)这与B 的意思一致。
A“你喜欢和朋友在就餐时谈话”与手机无关，可以排除；C“你对朋友的陪伴很高兴”，文章没有提及；D“你对朋友礼貌和体谅朋友”与事实相反。
(3).When you are calling in a noisy area, you are advised to______.（分数：2.00）e a more sensitive microphoneB.shout loudly into your microphoneC.go away quietly to continue the phone calle your hand to help speak into the phone √解析：解析：本题属于事实细节题。
文章第五段末句说“If you are calling from a noisy area，use your hand to direct your voice into the microphone．”(如果在嘈杂环境中接听电话，要用你的手帮助你的声音向话筒集中。
)这与D的意思一致。
A“使用更灵敏的话筒”、B“对着话筒大声说话”、C“悄悄离开，换个地方接电话”文中均未提及。
(4).The author implies that the use of mobile phones in such places as museums should be______.（分数：2.00）A.limited √B.expectedC.discouragedD.recommended解析：解析：本题属于观点态度题。
文章第三段首句说“Think twice before using mobile phones in elevators，museums，churches or other indoor public places--especially enclosed spaces．”(在电梯、博物馆、教堂或者其他室内公共场所，特别是密闭环境下使用手机应该三思而后行。
)可见，作者的意思：在像博物馆这样的环境中，接打手机不能毫无顾忌，应有所限制，即A。
B“许可”、C“反对”、D“推荐使用”语气都太绝对，与题意无法契合。
(5).Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A.You should limit your mobile phone calls to personal affairs.B.You should speak quietly into your phone while in a church.C.You are supposed to turn off your mobile phone at a funeral. √D.You are supposed to use your mobile phone as much as possible.解析：解析：本题属于事实细节题。
文章第三段第三句说“Worse yet，how would you feel if a mobile phone rang suddenly during a funeral!”接下来在末句说：要想避免类似的尴尬局面，就要“making sure your mobile phone is switched off”(确保你的手机是关闭的)，这里的“switched off”与C中的“turn off”同义。
A“只能用手机来谈论私事”与原文不符；文中只说在教堂打手机应该有所限制，并没有说应该“speak quietly”，故排除B；D“尽可能多使用手机”原文并未提及。
It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean"s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior. So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy"s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans. Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies. Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption (爆发) for the first time and that they plan similar studies. Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures. The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second—slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (听诊器) does when it carries faint noises from a patient"s chest to a doctor"s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles. (283 words)（分数：10.00）(1).The passage is chiefly about______.（分数：2.00）A.an effort to protect an endangered marine speciesB.the civilian use of a military detection system √C.the exposure of a U.S. Navy top-secret weaponD.a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales解析：解析：本题属于主旨归纳题。