研究生英语试题2011年12月24日.doc

姓名 学号 班级 口语班华北电力大学研究生课程考试试题 （2011-12-24 ）GENERAL ENGLISH QUALIFYING TEST FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR GRADUATE STUDENTS 监考及考试注意事项：1） 考试时间：8：30-10：402） 请学生不要在课桌内及身上携带任何书、本、纸片、电子文具、字典、手机，一经发现，即视为作弊。书包，大衣请放到教室统一位置。3） 听力考试播音时间：9：004） 学生按英语口语班坐位，收卷按英语口语班收卷。机读卡左上角请注明英语口语班级。5） 调频台频率为FM 86.56） 收卷时分别按试卷，答题纸，机读卡，收齐后机读卡分别用纸包好写上英语口语班级和份数，送交主楼C 705。请口语老师把自己班的试卷拿走，批改听力Section C部分。7） 考生在答题卡的学生代号栏中填上完整的学生证号，且左对齐，剩余空格不填。试卷，答题纸，机读卡均需写明姓名、学号、口语班号。8） 祝大家圣诞节快乐！PAPER ONE PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (22.5 points) Section A ( 1 point each) Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be read ONLY ONCE. Choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet. 1. A. Hell get promoted. C. Hell be disappointed. B. Hell get another job. D. Hell give a talk. 2. A.$3.78. C. $3.87. B. $4.25. D. $4.15. 3. A. It was just so-so. C. It was quite good. B. It was really special. D. It was awful. 4. A. The woman should divorce her husband. B. The woman is thinking negatively. C. The woman is ignoring her husband. D. The woman is not imaginative. 5. A. It seems too hard to most students. B. It is the most boring class. C. What is taught comes directly from the book. D. It is quite popular among students. 6. A. Jennifer was a real stand-out. B. Jennifer had an impractical wish. C. Jennifer used to like eating pies. D. Jennifer realized her dreams.7. A. Its hard to explain. C. He cherishes their friendship. B. Its an unforgettable history. D. He is pretty busy.8. A. He is a gardener. C. He is a plumber. B. He is an electrician. D. He is a cleaner.9. A. Visit his doctor. C. Leave for a trip. B. Get a massage. D. Cancel an appointment. Section B (1 point each)Directions: In this section you will hear two mini-talks. At the end of each talk, there will be some questions. Both the talks and the questions will be read to you only once. After each question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.Mini-talk One 10. A. Columbia University. C. The University of Pennsylvania. B. Princeton University. D. Cornell University. 11. A. It is settled. B. It is not controversial. C. It is uncertain. D. It has never been studied. 12. A. 2%. C. 12%. B. 7% D. 17%. Mini-talk Two13. A. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. C. Dwight Eisenhower. B. Jacqueline Kennedy. D. Edward Durrell Stone14. A. Opera House. C. Family Theater. B. The Concert Hall. D. States Gallery.15. A. The performing arts. C. Methods of competition. B. Creation of new works. D. The history of western music. Section C (7.5 points, 1.5 point each)Directions: In this section you will hear a conversation. Listen to it and complete the notes about the conversation. ( You will hear the recording twice.) (1620题写在卷子上) 16. My mom is one of millions of _ _ (2 words) -women whose husbands watch the games from _ (1 word) until New Years Day and pay no attention to their wives and children. 17. Theyre expected to be _ _ (2 words) cause kids look to them as _. (1 word) 18. They earn millions _ _ (2 words) and by endorsing _ (1 word) 19. Communities take _ _ (2 words) in their teams, and its fun go to the _ (1 word) 20. Colleges also_ _ _ _ (4 words)from TV companies that broadcast the games.PART II VOCABULARY ( 5 points, 0.5point each) Directions: There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring AnswerSheet.21. Dayton Robles was on Monday sensationally _ his world 110m hurdles title for obstruction of Liu Xiang. A. warded off B. stripped off C. called off D. paid off22. Since childhood, Crews had been _ by health problems - fatigue, fever and trouble breathing. A. facilitated B. consoled C. plagued D. infected23. Grace urged students to stand by their beliefs and principles, and _ themselves. A. believe in B. persist in C. consist in D. specialize in24. The Mexican settlers built cities and mansions in what _ become California. A. used to B. had to C. ought to D. was to25. The President cancelled a foreign trip _ growing concerns of a domestic crisis. A. for B. via C. versus D. amid26. Healthy communication is essential for _ through difficulties for a married couple. A. invading B. navigating C. composing D. contradicting27. With better drugs and medical facilities, _ rates in hospitals have declined sharply. A. mortality B. morality C. modesty D. mobility28. A world-renowned scientist is scheduled to give a _ on the future of biology. A. projection B. prevalence C. proficiency D. presentation29. During the Gold Rush, many were gripped by an _ desire for wealth and migrated to the West. A. allocating B. evaporating C. overwhelming D. illuminating30. Russia is _ the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earths land area.A. far from B. by far C. at first D. other thanPART III READING COMPREHENSIONSection A (20 points, 1 point each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are four short passages. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer from the four choices given and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.Passage One It happens to every college student. Every professor on campus assigns a paper the same week. Volunteer work and social activities fill the calendar. Before long, an assignment is due in the morning, so what else is there to do? Brew a pot of coffee and begin another of that most storied of college traditions: the all-nighter. Many college students have found themselves in this position. Although studying late into the early hours is a pretty well-accepted part of college life, the scientific consensus is clearinsufficient sleep is bad for a students performance, happiness and health. Sleep is one of the bodys most vital processes, affecting everything from muscle strength to memory span. Sleep increases blood flow to muscles and repairs damaged cells. A recent study indicates that college basketball players perform better on the court if they sleep at least ten hours the night before. Sleep consolidates memories and prepares the brain to perform-students who get more sleep can improve recall ability and actually do better on tests. How much sleep a person needs varies, but Dr. William DeMent from Stanford University says college students need over eight hours per night. With assignments piling up, many students end up constantly sleep deprived. Students accumulate a sleep debt that can get larger over time and can only be paid off by getting the amount of sleep the body needs. Naturally, a persons body would force them to get enough sleep by making them feel sleepy. But caffeine, stimulants, pressing deadlines encourage students to ignore the bodys natural signals and go without sleep far longer than they should. Its easy to get caught up in the excitement and stress of college life and to get in the habit of getting to bed later and later. But pushing bodies and schedules to their limits does not come withoutcost. In the short-term, sleep deprivation affects mood, mental ability and physical performance. It decreases reaction time and makes a person more easily distracted. Thats bad for test taking, and even worse for students who are driving. In the long-term, not getting enough sleep can sacrifice your health and shorten your life span by causing irritability, frustration and proneness to mistakes, associated with high blood pressure, obesity and heart failure. There are more than enough reasons to hit the sack early tonight!31. The expression all-nighter in the first paragraph refers to those students who - A. sleep soundly the whole night B. stay up all night studying C. spend the night drinking coffee D. dont come back for the night32. It can be concluded from this passage that - A. sleep is of great importance to college students B. most college students refuse to go to bed early C. college students go to bed late only occasionally D. most colleges force students to work at night33. The harm that insufficient sleep does to test-takers is that - A. they feel sleepy during the test B. they forget what is learned C. they become lazy thinkers D. they are left inattentive34. This passage implies that sleep deprivation is - among college students. A. rare B. commonplace C. negligible D. justified35. The underlined words in the last paragraph probably mean A. get down to work B. see a doctor C. take some medicine D. go to bedPassage Two At the beginning of a countrys rise out of backwardness and poverty, more wealth does make a difference. However, citing surveys from China and South Korea, the economist Richard Easterlin points out: In these countries, per capita income has doubled in 20 years but overall happiness does not seem to have followed the same path. Economists are surprised, because GNP has long been thought the best indicator of human welfare. More GNP generally means more money for most people, and more money improves the quality of life, and that means happiness. But, perhaps, the survey suggests that more money can make you happy only if those aroundyou do not share in your good fortune. General prosperity may fail to enhance individual contentment. Perhaps it is a matter of being aware of your advantage, not that you need to get thehighest salaries or be the object of envy. Maybe, individual goals vary too much to be generalized.Maybe one has nothing at all to do with the other. Freud was well aware that economic success did not make people happy. Most psychoanalysts and therapists today would agree. He thought only the realization of a deep childhood desire could provide such satisfaction.Another problem is that people are poor reporters of their own states of mind. They will usually tell you what they themselves want to believe. To know if someone is really happy or not, you have to catch him or her in the act of happiness. Being happy or acting happy are more reliable indicators than thinking too much about it. Professional therapists also know that what makes people happy defies explanation, but what prevents them from being happy doesnt. Poor self-esteem undermines all feelings of success. Hunger and cold make it harder to relax and enjoy ones experience. Insecurity and failure to engage ones work leave one dissatisfied. Anxiety penetrates all our perceptions and feelings, and brings us down.Economists can probably hope to measure how well our basic needs for security and health are met in society, and if those are reasonably OK, people tend to find the happiness they seek. Most of us want to enjoy life, spend time with our children, play at sports, sing, dance and travel. If we can do those things without dread, the amount of money we have is irrelevant.36. It seems to Richard Easterlin that higher GNP- A. will certainly make people happier B. depends on the overall level of happiness C. does not necessarily add to peoples happiness D. is a good indicator of human happiness37. According to the second paragraph, individual happiness arises from - A. setting a high goal B. the respect fiom your neighbors C. common prosperity D. your superiority over others38. Freuds doctrine is mentioned to show that - A. goals vary from person to person B. a happy childhood means life-long happiness C. psychoanalysts and therapists think alike D. wealth does not always make one happy39. It can be inferred from the passage that - A. our feelings of happiness tend to be the same B. there are few people who are really happy C. people sometimes dont know exactly how they feel D. thinking about happiness can make you feel happy40. Professional therapists believe that - A. it is easy to explain what makes people happy B. it is easy to tell what leaves people unhappy C. it is difficult to tell who is happy D. it is hard to distinguish happiness from unhappinessPassage Three It may sound like something out of a science fiction plot, but Oxford researchers say thatmodern conventional medicine is gradually developing ways to change the moral states of humans through pharmaceutical drugs, and thus control the way people think and act in various life situations. These new drugs will literally have the ability to disrupt an individuals personal morality, and instead reprogram that person to believe and do whatever the drug designer has created that drug to do. Science has ignored the question of moral improvement so far, but it is now becoming a bigdebate, said Dr. Guy Kahane fiom the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics in the UK. There is already a growing body of research you can describe in these terms. Studies show that certain drugs affect the ways people respond to moral dilemmas by increasing their ability to share in anothers feelings, group affiliation and by reducing aggression. While this may sound good in theory, mind control is already a very dangerous side effect ofexisting drugs. Take the antidepressant drug Prozac, for instance, which has been known to cause those taking it to lash out in violent rages. One young boy murdered his father by beating him and stabbing him in the head, and hit his mother with a crowbar and stabbed her in the face, shortly after starting to take Prozac.But the kinds of drugs Kahane and his colleagues are referring to imply designer drugs specifically designed to not only alter ones mental state, but also to change the way that person thinks about situations from a moral perspective. The end result is literally a type of drug-induced mind control where human subjects will be controlled by someone else, and unable to make conscious decisions .for themselves. Research on the subject, of course, tries to paint the idea of mind-control drugs in a positive light, suggesting that they could be used to help make the world a better place. Just imagine less violence, more trust, and more love, they say. This way of using words persuasively, though, is really just a tactic to further numb the already mind-numbed masses into accepting the idea as a good thing.41. The underlined part of the first sentence of the passage implies that - A. developing drugs to change human morality sounds unbelievable B. modern conventional medicine can bring miracles to health C. it is impossible to control human behavior through drugs D. Oxford researchers are writing sci-fiction about new drugs42. Guy Kahane believes that certain drugs can - A. induce crime among drug-takers B. cause death if taken at a high dose C. bring about moral improvement D. make some patients feel lonely43. The drug Prozac is mentioned as evidence that - A. it is an effective drug for depression B. some drugs can cause violent behavior C. most drugs can make depression worse D. antidepressant drugs produce the desired effect 44. The biggest side effect of designer drugs is that the users - A. can become increasingly immoral B. can feel too upset to live a normal life C. can no longer make any decisions D. can no longer control their own minds45. The authors attitude towards development of such drugs is - A. supportive B. indifferent C. negative D. uncertain（46题不涂）Passage Four America has been a land of naming freedom and self-expression. While other governments impose restrictions-German parents have to choose a name that clearly indicates the gender of the child and is not a surn