2011年非英语专业研究生学位英语考试试卷

2011 年非英语专业研究生学位英语考试试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20%)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. (10%)1. A. Japanese B. American C. Chinese D. English2. A. She understands the reading.B. She isnt having much trouble.C. She hasnt been doing much of the reading.D. She understands very little.3. A. Getting another ticket at the door.B. Trying to sell the extra ticket.C. Canceling the concert.D. Exchanging the ticket for a better one.4. A. She will be making a presentation to the directors.B. She will be making a presentation on the blackboard.C. She will be making a presentation in the meeting room.D. She will be making a presentation to all the staff.5. A. Beethoven. B. Strauss. C. Bach. D. Mozart.6. A. It is a bank. B. It is a company.C. It is a toy. D. It is a factory.7. A. The man is a teacher. B. They are friends.C. The woman is a teacher. D. They are classmates.8. A. An art painting. B. The painting of a wall.C. The broken glass. D. An art museum.9. A. $46. B. $86. C. $56 D. $1610. A. To a park. B. To a restaurant. C. To the beach. D. To a theater.Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its original 2idea. Then listen to the passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written (10%)In recent years a new and serious problem has arisen for international airlines and their passengers. This is the _11_ new crime of hijacking. Once an unheard-of event, it has now become a common _12_. The number of hijacks is increasing and the governments of the world are becoming more concerned about them.Who are these hijackers? The first ones were usually political refugees- _13_ who simply wanted to leave their country and fly to another. For instance Cubans in America used the hijack technique to get themselves back to Cuba. After the plane had taken off, the hijacker would force his way into the pilots _14_ and threaten him with a gun. This technique was often successful, because there is very little the pilot can do in these circumstances. If he refuses to do what the hijacker wants then there is a strong chance that the plane will _15 _ and everyone on board will be killed.However, more recently, there have been serious developments in hijacking. Present-day hijackers usually have other _16_ for taking over a plane. They do not want simply to fly to another destination; they want to use the aircraft and the passengers on board as _17_ points for their political beliefs. They tell the world governments that unless their demands are met, the plane will be blown up and all the passengers will be killed.These hijackers are often members of international _18_ organizations. They may want to change the system of government in their own country by using violence, or they may have hijacked a plane in order to try and force a government to _19_ members of their organization from prison.There is not very much anyone can do once a hijacker is on board an aeroplane. He may be carrying a gun or hand grenades, which, if used, would cause a disaster. The only thing to do is to try to _20_ that these people never get on the plane.Part II Reading Comprehension (40%)Directions: There are four 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 and D. Read these passages carefully and then choose the one which best completes the statements. Passage 1Urban life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and rewards 3against dangers and stress; its moving force is, in the broadest sense, money. Opportunities to make money mean competition, and competition is stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities, where opportunities are greatest. Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity of urban life, but todays ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever; there is much evidence that its extent has a direct relationship to the size of communities. City dwellers may become trapped in their homes by the fear of crime around them. As defense against these developments, city dwellers tend to use various strategies to try and reduce the pressures upon themselves: contacts with other people are generally made brief and impersonal; doors are kept locked; telephone numbers may be ex-directory; journeys outside the home are usually hurried, rather than a source of pleasure. Inner areas of cities tend to be abandoned by the more successful and left to those who have done badly in the competitive struggle or who belong to minority groups; these people are then geographically trapped because so much economic activity has migrated to the suburbs and beyond. Present-day architecture and planning have enormously worsened the human problems of urban life. Old-established neighborhoods have been ruthlessly swept away, by both public and private organizations, usually to be replaced by huge, ugly, impersonal structures. People have been forced to leave their familiar homes, usually to be re-housed in tower blocks which are inconvenient, and fail to provide any setting for human interaction or support. The destruction of established social structures is the worse possible approach to the difficulties of living in a town or city. Instead, every effort should be made to conserve the human scale of the environment, and to retain familiar landmarks. 21. According to the author, living in a city causes stress because there are so many people who are _.A. anxious to succeed B. in need of helpC. naturally aggressive D. likely to commit crime.22. The author thinks that crime is increasing in cities because _.A. people do not communicate with their neighborsB. criminals are difficult to trace in large populationsC. people feel anonymous thereD. the trappings of success are attractive to criminals23. The majority of people who live in inner cities tend to quit from the inner areas because they _.4A. dislike having to travel far to workB. have been forced by circumstances to do soC. dont like the idea of living in the suburbsD. have turned against society24. Architectural changes have affected city life by _.A. scattering long-established communitiesB. giving the individual a say in planningC. forcing people to live on top of each otherD. making people move to the suburbs25. The authors general argument is that urban life would be improved by _.A. moving people out of tower blocksB. restoring old buildingsC. building community centersD. preserving existing social systemsPassage 2 For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with the natural world, and sciences dealing with mankind. Apart from these sciences is philosophy. In the first place, pure or theoretical knowledge have been sought only for the purpose of understanding. What distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know. If man did not know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldnt be man. The technical aspects or applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and are of the greatest importance, because they also contribute to defining him as man and permit him to pursue a life increasingly more truly human. But even while enjoying the results of technical progress, he must defend the value of pure knowledge. Knowledge sought directly for its practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success, but pure or theoretical knowledge will not. Let me recall a well-known example. If the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conic sections, keenly and without the least suspicion that it might someday be useful, it would not have been possible centuries later to navigate far from shore. The first man to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely think of contemporary life. Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, because the human spirit cannot resign itself to ignorance. But, in addition, it is the foundation for practical results that 5would not have been reached if this knowledge had not been sought disinterestedly. 26. The most important advances made by mankind come from _ according to the passage.A. practical applications of social sciencesB. practical applications of pure knowledgeC. sciences dealing with the natural worldD. the biological sciences27. The author does not include among the sciences the study of _.A. chemistry B. astronomy C. economics D. literature28. The author points out that the Greeks who studied conic sections _.A. were mathematicians B. were interested in navigationC. were unaware of the value of their studies D. worked with electricity29. The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is _.A. Technical progressB. A Little Learning Is a Dangerous ThingC. Mans Distinguishing CharacteristicsD. The Value of Pure Knowledge30. Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake because_.A. it is sought only for the purpose of understandingB. it is the foundation for practical resultsC. people are keen on itD. people are curious about itPassage 3The administration, which already declared part of its plan to revise the landmark 1996 welfare law, plans to announce its proposals on Tuesday. Mr. Bush told the nations governors meeting here today that he would ask Congress to approve new work requirements but would also seek to give states the flexibility to meet the needs of people who need training or drug abuse treatment.Still, Mr. Bush said, “work ought to be the core of welfare reform.“ In all excerpt from an advance text of his speech, Mr. Bush declares: “We are encouraged by the initial results of welfare reform, but we are not content. We ended welfare as weve known it, yet this is not a post-poverty America. Child poverty is still too high, too many families are strained and fragile and broken, and too many Americans still have not found work. Because these needs continue, 6our work is not done.“At least 50 percent of a states welfare families must now participate in work and other activities aimed at self-sufficiency; Mr. Bush proposes to raise that requirement so that 70 percent must be working by 2007. Administration officials also said they hoped to close loopholes that render the work requirement, in some cases, largely meaningless.The administration plans to require welfare recipients to work 40 hours a week “at a job or in programs designed to help them achieve independence”. Adults are now generally required to work 30 hours a week, of which no more than 10 could be in job training or education programs. But advocates for low-income people were already starting to mobilize against the plan. “Its almost welfare reform in Wonderland,” said Deepak Bhargava, director of the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, a group seeking to make the welfare law liberal. “Were in the middle of a recession. Now is a strange time to be arguing we ought to toughen work requirements on poor families.31. The purpose of the new welfare plan of the administration is to_.A. make more people participate in workB. provide poor people with job training activitiesC. cancel the landmark 1996 welfare lawD. help poor people with drug abuse treatment32. According to the administration plan, there will be _ of welfare families participating in work by 2007.A. none B. 70 percent C. 30 percent D. 50 percent 33. It can be seen from the passage that the advocates for the low-income families _.A. fully support the administrations plan B. consider it to be unreasonable to raise work requirements at the present time C. encourage welfare recipients to work 40 hours a week D. believe that poor people can support themselves without government aid 34. From the passage we know Mr. Bush _.A. does not care about the job training of welfare people B. believes welfare reform has solved all the problems in America C. considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful D. feels completely satisfied with the results of welfare reform 35. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE ? A. About 50% of the welfare population has achieved self-sufficiency, B. Congress has agreed to the new work requirements of the administration.7C. Theres still poverty in America now.D. The living standards of most people will go up.Passage 4 Directions: This passage is for fast reading. After you finish it, you should decide whether the five statements are true (T) or false (F). No agricultural operation has ever been invested with so much glamour as the making of maple syrup. We tapped about two hundred trees, few enough for us to know the personality of each. In a hollow on the southeast corner of the woods was a vast gnarled specimen who always had its three small red buckets full and often running over. I still think of that tree with affection, admiration, and gratitude. On the more exposed westerly side of the wood were almost equally sizeable specimens which scarcely produced a drop. We regarded them with dislike and resentment. Like certain politicians they had successfully divorced promise from performance.Sap in those days was collected in a wooden tub mounted on a sleight. A circular track would through the black, silent woods. The horses pulled the tub on the sleighs from point to point along this track. At each stop we fanned out with large pails to collect the sap from the bucket attached to each tree. If the sap was running well there might be a pleasant air of urgency about this task for numerous buckets would be spilling over. The sap was them boiled in a flat rectangular pan, about three feet by six or seven, which sat on a cement arch over a vigorous log fire. Immediately behind the arch, from which the operation could be watched, and with the whole front open to the fire, was the small, tin-roofed shed. There is no aroma on earth like that of boiling sap. In good years it was necessary to boil all night to keep abreast of the run. Then hour after hour the white steam billowed off into the black night or, on occasion, rolled into the shed as a special reward. Neighbors who did not make syrup came across the fields and through the woods to sit and watch the fire and the steam and enjoy the smell. One could take a dipper, dip out a pint or two of the thickening sap, cool it, and drink it all.The flavor of the syrup then produced was far better than what a less fortunate generation now gets. I learned the reason in what I believe was my first introduction to scientific investigation. Two brothers named John and Angus McNabb went into production of maple syrup on a commercial basis: they bought covered buckets and an evaporator and a galvanized tank for the sap and set out to make a quality product. It was completely tasteless and Jim McKillop showed them why.As the sap dripped into the open buckets, quite a few dried leaves fell in too. 8A large number of brown moths were also attracted by the moisture, sugar, or both. So were the field mice. Jim rightly suspected that these had something to do with the flavor and on the night of the experiment he put a quart or so of water into a sap bucket and added a handful of moths, two dead mice, and several milligrams of mouse droppings which he had got from a mouses nest. He boiled all of this into a good thick stock and added it to a gallon of the inspired McNabb syrup. There was no question: the flavor was miraculously improved.Decide whether the five statements are true (T) or false (F).36. The writer disliked certain trees on the western side because these trees looked like certain well-known personalities.37. The men who were collecting the sap went to different trees at each stop.38. The smell of the boiling sap made the work especially enjoyable.39. Wood equipment is critical to the quality of the syrup.40. The flavor of syrup made by the traditional method was produced by things accidentally fell into the buckets. III Integrated test （25%）Section A Vocabulary and Structure (5%)41. If you are accepted as a member of the club you must _by its rules.A. agree B. abide C. confirm D. conform42. _ you dislike ancient monuments, Warrick Castle is worth a visit.A. Since B. Even C. Even if D. If43. The Egyptians _ an area equal to France and Spain combined.A. inhabit B. live C. dwell D. settle44. It was a long time before scientists could _ the mystery of the atom.A. penetrate B. pierce C. permeate D. pervade45. The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, _ all practical value by the time they were finished.A. had lost B. would lose C. would have lost D. should have lost46. _ more and more scientists carrying out large-scale scientific researches, the space industry will become more promising.A. As B. Thanks to C. With D. Since47. In American universities, classes