2011在职教育硕士英语冲刺模拟附答案(二).doc

2011在职教育硕士英语冲刺模拟附答案（二）Paper OnePart I Dialogue Communication (15 minutes, 15 points)Section A Dialogue CompletionDirections: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1. A: Oh . um . do you mind if I smoke?B: _A: Oh, I didnt notice.B: Mmm. Theres a sign on the door.A. How long for?B. Well, yes, actually this is a no smoking compartment.C. I dont think I agree with you.D. When exactly?2. A: Susan, this is my boyfriend Sam.B: _C: Nice to meet you, too.A. You may only have one.B. Yours is lovely, too.C. Very well, thank you.D. Oh, really? Nice to meet you.3. A: Fine day, isnt it?B: Well, yeah, its beautiful.A: Youre looking so nice.B: _A. Yes, Im extremely well, thanks.B. Its very nice of you, and you are so beautiful.C. Sorry to hear that.D. Pretty good.4. A: Ive been on business trip abroad last month.B: _A: Oh, pretty good, thanks. What about you?B: Just cant complain.A. Hows everything going?B. Its very nice of you.C. Youre kind to say so.D. Id love to.5. A: I have two tickets for tonights concert. Could you go with me?B: Id like to, but Im busy tonight.A: _A. All my work goes for nothing. B. What a pity. Im sorry.C. How could I do such a silly thing? D. Is it just as what you said?Section B Dialogue ComprehensionDirections: In this section, you will read 5 short conversations between a man and a woman. At the end of each conversation there is a question followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the four choices given and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.6. Man: Mr. Brown asked me to tell you that hes sorry, he cant come to meet you in person. Hes really too busy to make the trip.Woman: Thats OK. Im glad youve come in his place.Question: What do we learn from the conversation?A. The man is late for the trip because he is busy.B. The woman is glad to meet Mr. Brown in person.C. The man is meeting the woman on behalf of Mr. Brown.D. The woman feels sorry that Mr. Brown is unable to come.7. Woman: So you finally listen to your wifes advice and give up smoking.Man: It was my doctors advice. Im suffering from high blood pressure.Question: What do we learn from the conversation?A. The man no longer smokes.B. The man is under pressure from his wife.C. The man usually follows his wifes advice.D. The man refuses to listen to his doctors advice.8. Man: Can I borrow your maths textbook? I lost mine on the bus.Woman: Youve asked the right person. I happen to have an extra copy.Question: What does the woman mean?A. She can find the right person to help the man.B. She can help the man out.C Shes also in need of a textbook.D. She picked up the book from the bus floor.9. Woman: You seem to pride yourself on having a lot of friends.Man: Thats for sure. Everyone would be proud of having many friends.Woman: But its a pity that most of them are fair-weather friends.Man: What does that matter.? Isnt that we need all kinds of friends?Question: What do we know about the mans friends?A. They may not turn up in bad weather.B. They may not be there when you need them.C. They will come in good weather.D. The man is on good terms with his fair-weather friends.10. Man: The front tire is flat, and the seat needs to be raised.Woman: Why not take it to Mr. Smith?Question: What kind of work does Mr. Smith probably do?A. He fixes bicycles. B. He raises sheep.C. He sells chairs. D. Hes a gardener. Part Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes, 10 points)Directions: There are 20 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 ANSER SHEET with a single line through the center.11. In the course of a day, students do far more than just _ classes.A. attend B. attended C. to attend D. attending12. He resented _ to wait. He expected the minister_ him at once.A. to be asked, to see B. being asked, to seeC. to be asked, seeing D. being asked, seeing13. If the building project _ by the end of this month is delayed, the construction company will be fined.A. being completed B. is completedC. to be completed D. completed14. This is one of the questions _ at the meeting next week.A. discussed B. discussingC. to be discussed D. being discussed15. _, a man who expresses himself effectively is sure to succeed more rapidly than a man whose command of language is poor.A. Other things being equal B. Were other things equalC. To be equal to other things D. Other things to be equal16. They are going to have the serviceman _ an electric fan in the office tomorrow.A. install B. to installC. to be installed D. installed17. Since both he and I work in the same hospital, I can hardly avoid _ him.A. being met B. meeting C. to be met D. to meet18. The indoor swimming pool seems to be a great deal more luxurious than _.A. is necessary B. being necessaryC. to be necessary D. it is necessary19. What a lovely party! Its worth _ all my life.A. remembering B. to rememberC. to be remembered D. being remembered20. Contrast may make something appear more beautiful than it is when _ alone.A. seen B. is seenC. to be seen D. having been seen21. He _ his old car for a new one as soon as he had won the prize.A. replaced B. converted C. exchanged D. interchanged22. He is a very _ character; he is never relaxed with strangers.A. serf-confident B. self-conscious C. self-evident D. self-serving23. Youll find that the community has _ great changes since you were here last time.A. submitted B. sustained C. perceived D. undergone24. You dont have to _ yourself. I think you did the right thing putting your mother in a nursing home.A. justify B. hinder C. indulge D. appoint25. If prisoners behave well they are allowed the _ of visiting their families at the weekend.A. equality B. security C. privilege D. prestige26. Despite his _ as a trouble-maker, he was promoted to department manger.A. repetition B. repression C. reputation D. representation27. It was obvious that she and her husband were _ and she wished shed never married him.A. insolvable B. insensible C. inseparable D. incompatible28. The new law allows you to _ payment if you think a bill is incorrect.A. withhold B. withdraw C. wither D. withstand29. It was a real _ when Susan came back from her vacation and told us she had married a local waiter.A. comfort B. shock C. attack D. impact30. To celebrate the National Day, there was a _ fireworks display.A. specific B. spectacular C. speculative D. specialistic Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passage is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Passage OneHe is a rare celebrity scientist. Hes even had a TV cameo role (小角色) in Star Trek in which he plays poker with scientific icons (偶像) Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Yet when asked about comparisons between himself and the two scientists, he calls it all media hype (炒作) Once asked how he felt about being labeled the worlds smartest person, he responded: It is very embarrassing. It is rubbish, just media hype. They just want a hero, and I fill the role model of a disabled genius. At least I am disabled, but I am no genius.Hawking has ALS or Lou Gehrigs disease, a neuromuscular disease that progressively weakens muscle control. He gets around in a wheelchair, and after completely losing the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985, he communicates through a computer. A speech synthesizer speaks for him after he punches in what he wants to say, selecting words in the computer software by pressing a switch with his hand. Unfortunately, it makes him sound like he has an American accent, he says.Despite his humorous, self-effacing manner, Hawking is one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists. Many consider him to be the most brilliant since Einstein. Since 1979, hes held the post of Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University which was once held by Isaac Newton no less and has twelve honorary degrees. Hes also a best-selling author. His book, A Brief History of Time, has been translated into 33 languages and has sold nine million copies.For much of his academic life, Hawking has been among a group of theoretical physicists searching for a theory of everything one unified scientific theory that explains the big cosmological questions like How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? and How will it end?You are probably familiar with the existing theories, such as the Big Bang theory. However, these theories are inconsistent with each other. So Hawking among a group of theoretical physicists-has been on a quest to come up with a theory of quantum (量子) gravity that would incorporate these theories-the theory of everything (TOE) which would solve the problem of what caused the universe to start expanding.How successful have the worlds leading cosmologists been? Hawking predicts well have the TOE in the next 20 years.31. From the first paragraph we can see that Hawking _.A. is a very famous scientistB. can be compared with Newton and EinsteinC. is a very good actorD. has surpassed any scientists known in the world32. In this passage, Hawking appears to be _.A. silent and hard working B. humorous, modest and industriousC. confident and proud D. diffident and shy33. Why does Hawking communicate with others through a computer?A. He is too weak to speak.B. He is a computer addict.C. An operation to help his breathing made him unable to pronounce.D. His illness makes him unable to speak.34. The leading theoretical physicists are searching for a theory of everything because _.A. the existing theories are out of dateB. the theories are not enoughC. some of the theories are wrongD. the existing theories are somewhat contradictory to each other35. Hawking and his colleagues are working hard to try to find _.A. a new theory to replace the Big Bang theoryB. a new theory to replace Einsteins general theory of relativityC. a theory that can incorporate the existing theoriesD. an all-powerful theory that can explain everything in the worldPassage TwoI have an infatuation (迷恋) with autumn. The colors of the season and the smells, have always thrilled me. I have always found joy in this time of year. The last few autumns of my life, however, I recollect in shades of gray rather than cheerful oranges and yellows.When I became a single mother, every aspect of life took on new meaning. Since I was used to carrying out most of the parental duties without much help during my marriage, I truly did not foresee how different parenting would become after the marriage was over. But suddenly I realized I was a statistic. The daily routine was not changed so much; it was the angle at which I had begun to look at life.I believed my ex-husbands lawyer was tracking every grade the children made, and I was under a microscope in this new town where the children and I moved our broken home. I feared having to eventually establish my family with each new teacher and each new term as a single-parent family. I just wanted to be us again, without the stigma (耻辱) of the label put on us.During those few gray years, I would reassure myself that soon things would be better, and that I would someday be able to feel whole again. There is no mathematical equation of adults proportioned to children to equal a stable, loving family. Every family has its strengths. In fact, studies show that in families who read together, eat together and communicate openly, children are likely to succeed academically, as well as socially and emotionally. I am sure these habits are just as effective when practiced in single-parent families. I realize now that I am not a statistic. We are an active, vital family in this charming community, where we are not marked by any stigma of any statistics of any focus groups.We are given opportunity, all of us. We are surrounded by beauty and immersed in possibility. There is joy to be found here, in what we see around us and in creating our own rendition of how we want to be seen. There is strength and grace in our own willingness to break free from conformity without falling behind the barriers of self-imposed limitations or preconceived notions of where we should fit in this world according to research.36. What does the last sentence of paragraph one imply?A. The author moved to a new place.B. The climate changed greatly in the last few years.C. In the last few years, the authors mood changed.D. There were some natural disasters.37. After the divorce, _.A. there wasnt any change, since she used to play a main part in taking care of the childrenB. she became interested in statisticsC. everything in her life was changedD. it was the way by which she looked at life that changed38. According to the passage, _ brought the unpleasant change in her life.A. a kind of discrimination against single-parent familiesB. her ex-husbandC. social scientistsD. the feeling about autumn39. In the few gray years, the author _.A. felt helpless and sadB. had the help from her friendsC. never lost hope, and believed that everything would change somedayD. became very nervous and silent40. What is the authors main point?A. Every family has its happiness and unhappiness.B. Her family has suffered a lot.C. Her ex-husband is not a good man.D. Every family has its strength and can create its happiness. Passage ThreeUltralight (超轻型的) airplanes are a recent development in aviation that provide what aviation enthusiasts have long been seeking: born of the marriage of the hang glider and the go-kart (轻型单座赛车) engine around 1974, when John Moody mounted a 12-horsepower go-kart engine on his Icarus II hang glider.Todays ultralights are not just hang gliders with engines; they are air recreation vehicles. Modem ultralight planes use snowmobile engines that let them cruise at about 40 miles per hour, climb at about 400 feet per minute, and carry combined payloads of pilot and fuel up to about 200 pounds, which is about equal to an ultralight planes weight when empty. More than ten thousand ultralight planes were sold last year at prices ranging from $2,800 to $7,000. But the main reason for the increasing popularity of these aircraft is not that they are inexpensive, but that they are fun to fly.The modem ultralight plane would look very familiar to the earliest pioneers of aviation. Otto Lilienthal made more than 2,000 flights in Germany in the 1890s in what were actually hang gliders. Octave Chanute designed and built many early hang gliders. Augustus Herring, Chanutes assistant, used these gliders as models for a glider that he built for himself. On this glider, Herring installed a compressed-air motor and flew 267 feet in 1898. The Wright brothers flyer was the grandfather of todays ultralight planes. The pilot sat right out in the open, just as in modem ultralights, and used controls that were much the same as those used in todays machines. Though most ultralight planes are used for pleasure flying, some are also used for crop dusting, aerial photography and even military observation service. The likelihood is that further uses will be found for ultralight planes, but their greatest use will continue to be as air recreational vehicles.41. The author seems to feel that ultralight airplanes are _.A. a toy for the richB. nothing but hang glidersC. a new development that meets the needs of aviation enthusiastsD. the most important development in aviation since the Wright brothers flyer42. The author compares John Moodys use of a go-kart engine on a hang glider to _.A. a marriage B. the flight of IcarusC. cruising in a snowmobile D. soaring and gliding from a high altitude43. Which of the following statements is an opinion?A. Ultralight planes use snowmobile engines that let them cruise at about 40 miles per hour.B. John Moody used a 12-horsepower engine to power his Icarus II hang glider.C. The use of ultralight planes will increase in such areas as crop dusting and aerial photography.D. Otto Lilienthal made more than 2,000 flights in Germany in the 1890s in what were actually hang gliders.44. The author finds great similarity betweenA. the weight of the hang glider and that of the ultralight airplaneB. ultralight airplanes and