2014同等学力--英语--模考班--模考试题一.pdf

1 绝密绝密 启用前启用前 2014年同等学力人员申请硕士学位年同等学力人员申请硕士学位 外国语水平全国统一模拟考试外国语水平全国统一模拟考试 英语试卷英语试卷 一一 A ENGLISHQUALIFICATIONTEST FORMASTER DEGREE APPLICANTS Part IOral Communication 15 minutes 10 points Part IIVocabulary 10 minutes 10 points Part IIIReading Comprehension 45 minutes 25 points Part IVCloze 10 minutes 10 points Part VText Completion 20 minutes 20 points Part VITranslation 20 minutes 10 points Part VIIWriting 30 minutes 15 points 考生须知考生须知 1 本考试共150分钟 2 请考生务必将本人考号最后两位数字填写在本页右上角方框内 3 本试卷为 A 型试卷 请将答案用 2B 铅笔填涂在 A 型答题卡上 答在其它类型答题卡或试卷上 的无效 答题前 请核对答题卡是否为 A 型卡 若不是 请要求监考员予以更换 4 在答题卡上正确的填涂方法为 在答案所代表的字母上涂黑 如 A B C D 5 监考员宣布考试结束后 请停止答题 监考员收卷过程中 考生须配合监考员验收 并请监考员 在准考证上签字 作为考生交卷的凭据 否则 若发生答卷遗失 责任由考生自负 2 Part One Oral Communication 15 minutes 10 points Section A Directions In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A B and C taken from the dialogue Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet Dialogue One A It s all very well to say that B Sounds a bit like you actually C it s partly their own fault Jean Gosh have you seen this Richard Richard See what Jean In the paper says there s a man going round pretending he is from the electricity board He is been calling at people s homes saying he s come to check that all their appliances are safe Then he gets around them to make him a cup of tea and while they are out of the room he steals their money handbag whatever and makes off with it Richard But you know Jean 1 They should never let anyone like that in unless you are expecting them Jean 2 but someone comes to the door and says electricity or gas And you automatically think they are ok Especially if they flashed a card to you Richard Does this man have an ID then Jean Yes that s just it It seems he used to work for the electricity board at one time According to the paper the police are warning people especially pensioners not to admit anyone unless they have an appointment It s a bit sad One old lady told them she s just been to the post office to draw her pension when he called she said he must follow her home He stole the whole lot Richard but what does he look like Surely they must have a description Jean Oh yes They have Let s see in his 30s tall bushy dark hair slight northern accent 3 Dialogue Two A Oh dear that s bad news B It maybe that some have them already C I m very sorry about this inconvenience Mr Summerfield Clerk Hello Mr Summerfield How are you today Mr Summerfield Very well Thank you Ms Green Clerk What can I do for you Mr Summerfield Well unfortunately there is a problem with the order we received from you yesterday It seems we haven t seen the right quantity of manuals to support the telephone system Clerk 4 I m very sorry to hear that and you don t know how many packs are without manuals Mr Summerfield No because we haven t opened every pack But in several of those that have been opened there are none no manuals 3 Clerk 5 We ll send out the manuals this afternoon by express mail entirely at our cost and the manuals should arrive tomorrow or the day after at the latest Mr Summerfield All of them right Clerk Yes 6 but we cannot be sure So the best thing is to send out the manual for every pack Mr Summerfield Yes Yes I see That would be great Clerk Please accept our apologies for this mix up I assure you we will do everything possible to find out why the mistake happened Mr Summerfield Right Thanks for your swift action Clerk Not at all Thank you and goodbye for now Section B Directions In this section there is one incomplete interview which has four blanks and four choices A B C and D taken from the interview Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet A As I speak Japanese I had a very big advantage B That s why I am very interested in this job C I see from your resume that you speak Japanese D They were all luxury hotels in the leisure sector all of very high standard Interviewer Miss Jones could you tell me more about your first job with hotel marketing concepts Miss Jones Yes certainly I was a marketing consultant responsible for marketing ten UK hotels 7 Interviewer Which markets were you responsible for Miss Jones For Europe and Japan Interviewer 8 Have you ever been to Japan Miss Jones Yes I have I spent a month in Japan in 2006 I met all the key people in the tourist industry the big tour operators and the tourist organizations 9 Interviewer Yes of course Have you had any contact with Japan in your present job Miss Jones Yes I ve had a lot Cruises have become very popular with the Japanese both for holidays and for business conferences In fact the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently Interviewer Really I m interested to hear more about that But first tell me have you ever traveled on a luxury train the Orienting Express for example Miss Jones No I haven t But I ve traveled on the Glacier Express to Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago I love train travel 10 Part II Vocabulary 10 minutes 10 points Directions There are 10 incomplete sentences in this section 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 11 This incident my belief that loving mother force alone is incomplete without father s 4 discipline A committedB conductedC confirmedD compelled 12 Difficulties and hardships have the best qualities of the young geologist A brought outB brought aboutC brought forthD brought up 13 Corruption in the running of the city s largest bank was in People s Daily yesterday A detectedB explodedC exposedD discovered 14 To my surprise the house which looked rather shabby outside was luxuriously and furnished inside A artificiallyB arbitrarilyC arrogantlyD artistically 15 Being aware of the potential objections they launched a reform at the beginning stage A humbleB modestC timidD middle 16 The committee members offered a approach to the problem A sensitiveB sensibleC sentimentalD sensational 17 It s not easy to between words which look or sound alike or which have nearly the same meaning A defineB detectC distinguishD differ 18 Some surveys have suggested that the belief that the more money we have the happier we are is a A mythB religionC statementD fable 19 The old scientist decided to move to his country home his advanced age and poor health A in the interest ofB at the cost of C on account ofD in support of 20 With keen convincing facts and a global angle Epstein vividly recorded a brilliant page of the great Chinese revolution A inspectionB intellectualC intentionD insight Part III Reading Comprehension 45 minutes 25 points Section A Direction There are 4 passages in this part each passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are 4 choice marked A B C and D Choose the best one and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine scoring ANSWER SHEET Passage 1 Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents but in recently years it has been particularly scorned School districts across the country most recently Los Angeles Unified are revising their thinking on this educational ritual Unfortunately L A Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses homework may no longer count for more than 10 of a student s academic grade This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework But the policy is unclear and contradictory Certainly no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete on their own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children 5 District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want But with homework counting for no more than 10 of their grades students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework It is quite possible that the homework helped Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students the policy imposes a flat across the board rule At the same time the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students academic achievement it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments not make them count for almost nothing Conversely if should account for a significant portion of the grade Meanwhile this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board which is responsible for setting educational policy looks into the matter and conducts public hearings It is not too late for L A Unified to do homework right 21 It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework A is receiving more criticismB is no longer an educational ritual C is not required for advanced coursesD is gaining more preferences 22 L A Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students A tend to have moderate expectations for their education B have asked for a different educational standard C may have problems finishing their homework D have voiced their complaints about homework 23 According to Paragraph 3 one problem with the policy is that it may A discourage students from doing homework B result in students indifference to their report cards C undermine the authority of state tests D restrict teachers power in education 24 As mentioned in Paragraph 4 a key question unanswered about homework is A it should be eliminatedB it counts much in schooling C it places extra burdens on teachersD it is important for grades 25 A suitable title for this text could be A Wrong Interpretations of an Educational Policy B A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students C Thorny Questions about Homework D A Faulty Approach to Homework Passage 2 The swan is mostly silent through its life unable to sing sweet songs like most other birds in ancient times however people believed a swan sings the most beautiful song just before it dies The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this 2 300 years ago Socrates explained that the swan was singing because it was happy The bird was happy because it was going to serve the Greek god Apollo Swans were holy to Apollo the god of poetry and song 6 The story of the swan s last song found a place in the works of other writers including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare And the expression swan song has long been a part of the English language At first swan song meant the last work of a poet musician or writer Now it means the final effort of any person Someone s swan song usually is also considered that person s finest work A political expression with a similar meaning is the last hurrah The expression may be used to describe a politician s last campaign his final attempt to win cheers and votes The last hurrah also can mean the last acts of a politician before his term in office ends Writer Edwin O Connor made the expression popular in 1956 He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long time mayor of Boston He called his book the last hurrah Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson America s seventh president They cheered hurrah so loudly for Andrew Jackson during his presidential campaign that they became known as the hurrah boys Jackson s hurrah boys also played a part in the election to choose the next president Jackson s choice was his vice president Martin Van Buren A newspaper of the time reported that Van Buren was elected president by the hurrah boys and those who knew just enough to shout hurrah for Jackson President Jackson really heard his last hurrah in the campaign of the man who would replace him in the white house 26 In ancient times people believed that a swan sings most beautifully A before deathB when is happyC for ApolloD in front of other birds 27 According to Socrates swans were A holy birdsB happy birdsC pets of a Greek godD in front of other birds 28 The English expression swan song A was first used by ChaucerB changed its meaning through time C means the best song ever createdD refers to a work of Shakespeare 29 Martin Van Buren A was the U S president before JacksonB served as the eighth U S president C is the author of the last hurrahD was a political rival of O Connor 30 President Jackson s last hurrah was to A express his gratitude to his supportersB win the final cheers from his supporters C defeat another candidate in the electionD help his vice president get elected Passage 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick hard wired responses Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms if we are judging whether someone is dangerous our brains and bodies are hard wired to react very quickly within milliseconds But we need more time to assess other factors To accurately tell whether someone is sociable studies show we need at least a minute preferably five It takes a while to judge complex aspects of personality like neuroticism or open mindedness But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren t exclusive to the interpersonal realm Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster even though reading has little to do with eating We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we re doing Subjects exposed to fast food flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long 7 Yet we can reverse such influences If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling we can take a moment before buying If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants we can help screeners understand their biases or hire outside screeners John Gottman the marriage expert explains that we quickly thin slice information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in thick sliced long term study When Dr Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation two days not two seconds Our ability to mute our hard wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals dog can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term Although technology might change the way we react it hasn t changed our nature We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the high speed trend 31 The time needed in making decisions may A vary according to the urgency of the situation B prove the complexity of our brain reaction C depend on the importance of the assessment D predetermine the accuracy of our judgment 32 Our reaction to a fast food logo shows that snap decisions A can be associativeB are not unconscious C can be dangerousD are not impulsive 33 To reverse the negative influences of snap decisions we should A trust our first impressionB do as people usually do C think before we actD ask for expert advice 34 John Gottman says that reliable snap reaction are based on A critical assessmentB thin sliced study C sensible explanationD adequate information 35 The author s attitude toward reversing the high speed trend is A tolerantB uncertainC optimisticD doubtful Passage 4 The great recession may be over but this era of high joblessness is probably beginning Before it ends it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults And ultimately it is likely to reshape our politics our culture and the character of our society for years No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster Many said that unemployment while extremely painful had improved them in some ways they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent they were more aware of the struggles of others In limited respects perhaps the recession will leave society better off At the very least it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending But for the most part these benefits seem thin uncertain and far off In The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth the economic historian Benjamin Friedman argues that both inside and outside the U S lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean spirited and less inclusive and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms Anti immigrant sentiment typically increases as does conflict between races and classes 8 Income inequality usually falls during a recession but it has not shrunk in this one Indeed this period of economic weakness may reinforce class divides an