2012年在职研究生英语复习题

桂林理工大学桂林理工大学 2012 年年 5 月在职研究生英语试题月在职研究生英语试题 Part I Dialogue Communication 10 minutes 10 points 1 for each Section A Dialogue Completion Directions In this section you ll read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers each followed by 4 choices marked A B C and D Choose the answer that best suit the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center 1 A Your husband is a real outdoors man He just can t wait to get out of the city He likes fishing and boating and bird watching B A Oh great How about your husband B OH yes He thinks sleeping in a tent beside a lake is great C But do you really know your husband D But I think he is a coward 2 A Could you spare a few hours to help me clean the house B A No the house is clean B Nobody could help you C No you should rely on yourself D I m really busy with school these days How does this Saturday sound 3 A What shall I do I ve got so many things on my mind now Will anybody help me B A How can I get support from others B Don t expect me to help you Is there anybody who can help me C Don t ask me It s your baby Mary See my hands are full D Sorry I didn t expect you are so busy Section B Dialogue Comprehension Direction In this section you will read 5 short dialogues between a man and a woman At the end of each conversation there is a question followed by 4 choices marked A B C and D Choose the best answer to the question form the 4 choices given by marking the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center 4 Woman Do you want the windows open or closed Man I almost always prefer fresh air if possible Question What dose the man imply A He d like to have the windows open B He rarely leaves the windows open C He thinks the air is polluted D He ll help her close the windows 5 Woman The clerk said that we had to wait until after lunch to pick up the papers Man But what are we going to do to kill time before then Question What dose the man mean A He doesn t have anything to do B He believes she is wrong about the pickup time C Before lunch is a great time to pick up documents D Time passes very quickly 6 Woman Are you sure you cleaned your car thoroughly You want to impress the boss Man I d better double check to be sure Question What will the man probably do next A Have the boss drive another car B Ask the woman to help him clean the car C Check the car to see if it runs well D Make sure that his car is clean Part II Vocabulary 20 minutes 10 points 0 5 for each Section A Directions In this section there are 10 sentences each with one word or phrase underlined Choose the one form the 4 choices marked A B C and D that best keep the meaning of the sentence Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center 7 Lou Gehrig established a record for the number of consecutive games played by a professional baseball player A successive B successful C superlative D demonstrative 8 Recent research into aging suggests that the body defense mechanisms may lose the ability to distinguish what is alien A insane B infectious C foreign D poisonous 9 The rapid expansion of cities during the Industrial Revolution created a housing crisis A avoided B brought about C aggravation D started with 10 The agency s ruling crippled their plans A enhanced B promoted C impaired D advanced 11 In ancient times the custom of shaking hands served to transfer power or authority A practice B folklore C culture D doctrine 12 Embroidery depicting scenic views became popular in the United States toward the end of the eighteenth century A stating B relating C portraying D celebrating Section B Directions In this section there are 10 incomplete sentences For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A B C and D Choose the one that best complete the sentence Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center 13 He was charged with being an to the crime A accessory B access C assessor D acquaintance 14 His attempts to the two friends failed because they had complete faith in each other A alienate B appreciate C align D alarm 15 Children half of their 23 pairs of chromosomes from each parent A unite B bring C integrate D inherit 16 A plot to the President was uncovered by government agents A assassinate B assign C assess D assist 17 He does a bit of writing but first and he s a teacher A primary B foremost C principal D dominant 18 He was exhilarated by the thought of his trip A forthcoming B imminent C immediate D upspring Part III Reading Comprehension 45 minutes 30 points 1 for each Directions There are 5 passages in this part Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are 4 choices marked A B C and D Choose the best one and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center Passage One Before high school teacher Kimberly Rugh got down to business at the start of a recent school week she joked with her students about how she d had to clean cake out of the corners of her house after her 2 year old son s birthday party This friendly combination of chitchat took place not in front of a blackboard but in an E mail message that Rugh sent to the145 students she s teaching at the Florida Virtual School one of the nation s leading online high schools The school s motto is any time any place any path any pace Florida E school attracts many students who need flexible scheduling from young tennis stars and young musicians to brothers Tobias and Tyler Heeb who take turns working on the computer while helping out with their family s clam farming business on Pine Island off Florida s southwest coast Home schoolers also are well represented Most students live in Florida but 55 hail from West Virginia where a severe teacher shortage makes it hard for many students to take advanced classes Seven kids from Texas and four from Shanghai round out the student body The great majority of Florida Virtual Schoolers 80 percent are enrolled in regular Florida public or private high schools Some are busy overachievers Others are retaking classes they barely passed the first time The school s biggest challenge is making sure that students aren t left to sink or swim n their own After the school experienced a disappointing course completion rate of just 50 percent in its early years Executive Director Julie Young made apriority out of what she calls relationship building asking teachers to stay in frequent E mail and phone contact with their students That personal touch has helped The completion rate is now 80 percent Critics of online classes say that while they may have a limited place they are a poor substitute for the face to face contact and socialization that take place in brick and mortar classrooms Despite opportunities for online chats some virtual students say they d prefer to have more interaction with their peers Students and parents are quick to acknowledge that virtual schooling isn t for everyone If your child s not focused and motivated I can only imagine it would be a nightmare says Patricia Haygood of Orlando whose two daughters are thriving at the Florida school For those who have what it takes however virtual learning fills an important niche I can work at my own pace on my own time says Hackney It s the ultimate in student responsibility 19 Kimberly Hugh talked about her son s birthday party A with her friends B with her colleagues C in the classroom D in an E mail massage sent to her students 20 Any time any place any path any pace is A what taken as the guiding principle of the Florida Virtual School B words placed at the beginning of a book or a chapter C a slogan put on the wall D words used in advertisements 21 From this passage we can find the following facts except that A the students the Florida Virtual School hail from places in and out of the U S B the students at the online schools can take classes at any time C the online schools provide a variety of training from tennis to music D among the students of Florida Virtual School there are some very advanced or backward ones 22 The challenge of the school is A How to teach students to swim well B How to make the students more active in their leaning C to complete the relationship building ahead of time D to urge the teachers to go to the office more often 23 The following are the disadvantages actually present un online schooling EXCEPT A It lacks face to face contact and socialization that take place in classroom B Some students prefer to have more interaction with their peers C If students are not focused and motivated it would be a nightmare D Students can work at their paces and on their own time 24 What is the passage mainly about A Online schooling is more convenient and efficient B Online schooling lacks in face to face contact and socialization C Online schooling is not for everyone D An overall estimate on online schooling Passage Two When I was a still an architecture student a teacher told me We learn more from buildings that fall down than from buildings that stand up What he meant was that construction is as much the result of experience as of theory Although structural design follows established formulas the actual performance of a building is complicated by the passage of time the behavior of users the natural elements and unnatural events All are difficult to simulate Buildings unlike cars can t be crash tested The first important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is that tall building can withstand the impact of a large jetliner The twin towers were supported by 59 perimeter columns on each side Although about 30 of these columns extending from four to six floors were destroyed in each building by the impact initially both towers remained standing Even so the death toll 代价 was appalling 2 245 people lost their lives I was once asked how tall buildings should be designed given what we d learned from the World Trade Center collapse My answer was Lower The question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer Common aerial fire fighting ladders in use today are 100 feet high and can reach to about the 10th floor so fires in buildings up to 10 stories high can be fought from the exterior 外部 Fighting fires and evacuating occupants above that height depend on fire stairs The taller the building the longer it will take for firefighters to climb to the scene of the fire So the simple answer to the safety question is Lower than 10 stories Then why don t cities impose lower height limits A 60 story office building does not have six times as much rentable space as a 1 story building However all things being equal such a building will produce four times more revenue and four times more in property taxes So cutting building heights would mean cutting city budgets The most important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is not that we should stop building tall buildings abut that we have misjudged their cost We did the same thing when we underestimated the cost of hurtling along a highway in a steel box at 70 miles per hour It took many years before seat belts air bags radial tires and antilock brakes became commonplace At first cars simply were too slow to warrant concern Later manufacturers resisted these expensive devices arguing that consumers would not pay for safety More we do willingly 25 The first paragraph tells us that A architecture is something more out of experience than out of theory B architecture depends just as much as on experience as on theory C it is safer for people to live in old buildings D we learn not so much form our failures as from our success 26 What can we learn for the WTC collapse A Although the structure of the two buildings was very strong the death toll was still very shocking B The structure of the two buildings was of the first class C Thee structure of the two buildings was not so strong as people had expected D The structure of the two buildings was strong enough to withstand any accidents 27 Ideally the policy in city construction should be A lower than ten stories B the lower the better C the higher the better D higher than ten stories 28 Why are there still high buildings or even skyscrapers in many cities A Because they are the symbol of modern time B Because many cities now lack building space C Because high buildings are an important financial source of a city s budget D Because high buildings represent the level of a country s science and technology 29 What is the most important lesson of the WTC collapse A We should wear seat belts while driving B We should build low buildings just as we should drive slowly C We should make building tall buildings illegal D We should pay for safety while constructing tall buildings 30 What is the author s attitude towards building tall buildings A positive B neutral C indifferent D critical Passage Three Humans should not try to avoid stress any more than they would shun food love or exercise said Dr Hans Selye the first physician to document the effects of stress on the body While here s no question that continuous stress is harmful several studies suggest that challenging situations in which you re able to rise to the occasion can be good for you In a 2001 study of 158 hospital nurses those who faced considerable work demands but coped with the challenge were more likely to say they were in good health than those who felt they couldn t get the job done Stress that you can manage may also boots immune function In a study at the Academic Center for Dentistry in Amsterdam researchers put volunteers through two stressful experiences In the first a timed task that required memorizing a list followed by a short test subjects believed they had control over the outcome In the second they weren t in control they had to sit through a gory video on surgical procedures Those who did go on the memory test hand an increase in levels of immunoglobulin 免疫球蛋白 A an antibody that s the body s first line of defense against germs The video watchers experienced a downturn in the antibody Stress prompts the body to produce certain stress hormones In short burst these hormones have appositive effect including improved memory function They can help nerve cells handle information and put into storage says Dr Bruce of Rockefeller University in New York But in the long run these hormones can have a harmful effect on the body and brain Sustained stress is not good for you says Richard Morimoto a researcher at Northwestern University in Illinois studying the effects of stress on longevity It s the occasional burst of stress or brief exposure to stress that could be protective 31 The passage is mainly about A the benefits of manageable stress B how to avoid stressful situation C how to cope with stress effectively D the effects of stress hormones on memory 32 The word shun Line 1 Para 1 most probably means A cut down on B stay away from C run out of D put up with 33 We can conclude from the study of the158 nurses in 2001 that A people under stress tend to have a poor memory B people who can t get their job done experience more stress C doing challenging work may be good for one s health D stress will weaken the body s defense against germs 34 In the experiment described in Para 3 the video watchers experienced a downturn in the antibody because A the video was not enjoyable at all B the outcome was beyond their control C they knew little about surgical procedures D they felt no pressure while watching the video 35 Which of the following is Dr Bruce McEwen inclined to emphasize by saying But in the long run these hormones can have a harmful effect on the body and brain A a person s memory is determined by the level of hormones in his body B stress hormones have lasting positive effects on the brain C short hurts of stress hormones enhance memory function D a person s memory improves with continued experience f stress 36 What does the author imply to the readers according to the passage A People should avoid stress just as they shun food love or exercise B People should keep sustained stress which is good for our health C People should live without stress at all D People should not be afraid of occasional stress which can be good for us Passage Four By 2010 half the recoverable material in Britain s dustbins will be recycled that at least was the target set by Chris Patten Secretary of State for the Environment But he gave no clues as to how Britain should go about achieving it While recycling enthusiasts debate the relative merits if different collection system it will largely be new technology and the opening up of new markets that makes Patten s target attainable a recycling scheme is successful only if manufacturers used the recovered materials in new products that people want to buy The first question is how best to separate clean element glass container plastics and some paper and metal containers that is relatively clean when discarded from mixed refuse This clean element is the main target for Britain s recyclers The method of collection is important because manufacturers will not reuse collected material unless it is clean and available in sufficient quantities A bewildering assortment of different collection schemes operates in the rest of Europe and pilot schemes are now under way in many British cities A realistic target for recycling mixed refuse is somewhere between15 an 25 percent by weight according to researchers at the Department of Trade and Industry s Laboratory Statistics complied by researchers at the University of East Anglia show that Britain could almost halve the total weight of domestic waste going to landfill by a combination of collect schemes such as doorstep collections for newspaper bring schemes such as bottle banks and plants for extracting metals This estimate makes two important assumptions One is that the government wi