2006年-2010年在职攻读硕士学位全国联考英语真题及答案(2006年-2010年十月联考英语真题)

2006年在职攻读硕士学位全国联考英语试题Part I Dialogue Communication(1 5 minutes，1 5 points)Section A: Dialogue Completion Directions:In this section,you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers,each followed by four choices marked A，B,C,andD. Choose the answer that best suits the sit-uation to comple the dialogue .Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single linethrough the center1Speaker A：Excuse me，but can you tell us where the conference room is?Speaker B：The conference room is located on the third floor of the hotelAOf course，si r BYes，pleaseCRight，sirD.You are welcome2. Speaker A：_Speaker B：Im running a temperature，and feel sick.A What can I do for you? B What seems to be the trouble?C What are you doing these days? DHow long has this been going on?3Speaker A：Nancy，you look very wellSpeaker B：Thank you，JaneYou look wonderful tooYour weekend swimming must havedone good to youSpeaker A：AYou think so?Thats encouragingBThats very kind of youCAre vou serious?Thank you anywayDAre you kidding?I dont believe it4Speaker A：It took me ten years to build up my business，and it almost killed m eSpeaker B：Well，you know what they say：AThere is no smoke without fireBPractice makes perfct.CAll roads lead to RomeDNo pains，no gains.5Speaker A：Dont you smoke?Speaker BANoNothing interests me less than smokingBYesI have never smoked in my lifeCNoOnly once in a whileD.Yes.And I hate others smoking in my faceSection 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 4 choices given and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center6Woman：I just found out at registrationthat the creative writing class is fullNow I have to wait a whole year to get inMan：Why dont you check back after the first week? Somebody might drop itQuestion：What does the man suggest the woman should do?AMake sure the registration office didnt make a mistakeBDecide whether to drop the course next weekCFind out if a place opens up in the course laterDTake the course next year7Woman：1 want to talk with Tom nowMan：You cant do thatHe is in bad moodQuestion：Why cant the woman talk to Tom now?ATom is terribly i11 BTom is in low spiritsCTom is badtempered DTom is very nervous8Woman：You often complain a lot about your bossBut today you are differentMan：We had a hearttoheart talk and I saw him with new eyesQuestion：What does the man mean?AHe saw his boss as a real person for the first timeBHe is now complaining in a different wayCHe has made his boss change his attitudeDHe has changed his opinion of his boss9Woman：Maybe we should take the front street this morningThe radio announcer said thatthe traffic is very heavy on the freewayMan：Well，if he says to take the front street，we should go the other wavQuestion：What does the man think of the radio announcer7A：Hes humorousBHe makes no mistakesCHe doesnt speak clearlyDHes tlnreliable10Woman：I didnt see you at the concert last nightWhatS wrong with you?Man：ThatS not my cup of teaQuestion：What does the man mean?AHe is not fond of concertsBHe didnt like the tea at the concertCHe left early to have some tea with somebody elseDHe doesnt want to tell the woman why he was not therePart Vocabulary and Structure(2 0 minutes，1 0 points)Directions：There are20incomplete sentences in this part For each sentence there are 4choices marked A，B，Cand D Choose the one that best completes the sentenceMark your answer onthe ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center1 1The work has the status of a classic among the composerS admirersAreauired Bacquired Cinquired Dinspired1 2Some people think they can read manS_from his handwriting.Aattribute Bfeature Cproperty Dcharacter1 3The young heir was so_that he gave all his money away in a couple of yearsAhandsome Bgenuine Ctalented Dgenerous1 4 Only by understanding the Web deeply_hope for people to grasp its full potentialA can there be B can be there C be there can Dthere can be15What youreto read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we liveAaround Bahead Cabove Dabout16The goal is to use crops，weeds and even animal waste_the petroleum that fuels muchof American manufacturingAin terms of Bin favor of Cin spite of Din place of17.The_he said it he knew what a mistake he had madeAmoment Btime Coccasion Dhour18I_rather s01ve the problems in my farm myself than seek the help of other peopleAshould Bshall Cwould Dwill19From what has been discussed above，we may safely draw the_that its disadvantagesare far greater than its advantagesAsolution Bconclusion Canswer Dattention20.By the time you have completed the essential training，you_exposed to Virtually everynew feature of the courseAwill have been Bwill beCwould have been Dwould be21Too often teachers_with parents involve complaints about childrens misbehaviors andiazinessAacquaintances BassociationsCconferences D consultations-22.I admit that the Droblems are difficult，I dont agree that they cannot be solvedAWhen BWhere CWhile DWhy23He should_ be a110wed to get up until he has completely recovered from his illness.A.in case Bin any case Cin that case Din no case24If nature does not provide man with the necessary material，it is the laboratorv_he willturn to for itAwhere Bwhich Cthat Dwhat25All flightsbecause of the snowstorm，they decided to take the trainAwere cancelled Bhave been cancelledChad been cancelled D. havihg been cancelled26I really appreciate_to help me,but I am sure that I can manage it myself.Ayou to come Bthat you comeCyour coming Dhow you come27A new system of quality control was_to overcome the shortcomings in the firms productsA.invested Breformed C introduced Dinstructed28It may be worthwhile at this moment to_and see what results we have got after oneyears experimentsA100k back B100k around C100k up D100k forward29I dont think MrWatson wili come here again todayPlease give the ticket to_comeshere firstAwhomever Bwhom Cwho Dwhoever30Far too many owners of electric appliances have a hard time_qualified repairmen to fixtheir machinesAfinding Bto find Cto finding Dhaving founPart Reading Comprehension (40 minutes，40 points)Directions：There are 4 passages in this partEach of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinisbed statementsFor each of them there are 4 choices marked A，BCand DChoose thebest one and lTlark your allszuer 0n the ANSWER SHEET zuith a single line through the cellterPassage OneDont have time to read anymore?Now you can get free，quick literatnre via emaitMorethan 100 000 people open their email each day,to read a chapter of a book，through ChapterADayan online book club created two years agoIts a free email service that provides a short daily reading for busy people，exposing them to literature they may not find on their own inspiringsome to recommit it to the reading habitAbout 550 public library systems representing over 3 000 branch libraries already have signed up to offer ChapterADayVia email，participants get about five minutesworth of reading every dayAfter three chapters aremailedthe installments stop，and those who want to keep reading can borrow the book at their public library or purchase it onlineChapterADay has eight free book clubs，and sells thousands of books each monthChapterA-Day started in 1999 when Suzanne Beecher，a lifelong book lover，realized howmanyof the women whoworked parttime for her software development company didnt havetime in their busy lives to readShe decided to type part of a chapter of a book，and send it to heremployees through emailThe next day she typed a little more，and continued tosend literaryinstallments each dayShe says she started getting feedback from the staff about how readingmade them feel“They were interested，and realized thatthough they didnt have time in theirbusv lives for reading,just reading that little bit each day got them back in the habit.Realizingthat many other people could benefitshe decided to take the idea even further and start an emailchapter-a-daybook club to help others ease their way back into daily reading.“Reading makeschanges in peopleS lives”Beecher says.Pat Dempseya librarian at a public library in Ohio，has found ChapterADay helps her library clients get back in the habit of readingIts a different way to get people h00ked onbooks,”she says3 1Chapter-A-Day is intended to help people_Aget back into the habit of readingBrelieve stress from office workCfind interesting books onlineDbuy books more conveniently32The passage was written in_.A1999 B2000 C2001 D.2002331t can be inferred that through ChapterA-Day.ADublic libraries have become crowded with readersBMs Beecber made much money for her software companyCDeople begin to read very slowly and patientlyDDeople cannot finish reading any book online34The word“installment”in the passage probably means“”-Aa 1ibrary email Ba rare piece of literatureCa free novel Da part of a book35Ms Beecher decided to expand her ChapterADay service because_Aover 3 000 1ibraries had j oinedBmany other people could benefitCeight book clubs supported herD free emajl service was availablePassage twoChicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers-now the school districtrecruits teachers fr。m other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers.It all started in 1999，when R。uses Hannona math and physics teacher from Palestine(巴勒斯坦)，visited Chicago He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they dhire him The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreignborn teachers like Hannon，and he was the first teacher hiredThe program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO，and its a partnership betweenChicago Public Schools and the U。S government Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is soextreme，the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1一B visas.The Government grants these visas oniy to skilled foreign_born citlzens SO they can work in highly specialized jobs that cant be filled with available US.workforceThrough the GEO，the school district has hiredtriesApplicants must pass an English language test dozens of teachers from 22 different counand specialize in math，science。world language or bilingual(双语的)educationHannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 20002001 school year，What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom?ttannon， who was hired toteach math at Gage Park High School，says classrooms in Chicagoare very different from those inPales tine. For one thing，he says，the fixed schedule that forces students t0 attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dutl. In Palestine，the class sehedule changes eachweek.He says in Palestine，the culture forces students to work hard because if they dont theyilbe kicked out and put in vocational schools，which limits their career optionsThere is not nearlvaS much pressure for American students to do,veil。He says he has todouble the amounts ofwork just to get his students interested，36.Chicago Public Schools began to employ foreign teachers becauseAthere were not enough American teachersB.a program for foreign teachers was startedC.the schooi board was interested in foreign teachersD.foreign teachers taught better than American teachers37.The American Government is involved in the program because A.the schools are public schoolsB.the Government is to finance the programCthe Government grants visas to the foreign teachersD.the program involves bilingual education38.It seems that the Global Educator Outreaeh wiil Abe difficult to continue B.last a limited period of timeC.pose a threat to US.workforce D.be extended to other cities39Chicago Public Schools do not seem to lack teachers of_.AEnglish BmathC.science D.world language40.Hannon，as a GEO teacher，has found that_.A.class schedules in America and Palestine are very much the sameB.fixed class schedules make it easy for teachers to prepare lessonsCvocational schools offer a good career option for American studentsD.American students do not work as hard as Palestinian studentsPassage ThreeWorkforce is defined as the total number of people who are available to work and earn incomesThe definition includes everyone who is employed or seeking paid employment，SO it illcludes employees and the self-employedAlthough the size of the workforce depends a great deal on the size of the total population,there are several other influences which also affect itThe age distribution of the total populationhas a very marked effect on the available workforceIf the population has a high proportion of very young people or of those too old to work，then the available workforce would be lower thanif there were an evenly spread age distributionIf the population grows rapidly from natural increase，iethe number of births greatly exceeds the number of deaths，then as the total population increases，the proportion in the workforce declinesSometimes a population is described as aging，which means that the birth rate is either failing or growing very slowly，and as people retire from the workforce，there are not enough young people entering it to replace those who are leaving itThe population is topheavy with older peopleSo the percenLage of the population in the workforce declines when there is either a rapid increase in births or a failing birth rateThe age distribution of the population has several important effects on the economy.If the population is aging and there is an increase in the number of people retiring without a corresponding increase in the number entering the workforce，this raises the problem of the ability of the economv to provide a reasonable level of social services to the retired group If the aged are to be cared for in special hc)mes or hotels，finances must be available for that purposeIf tbe size of the workforce is small relative to the total population，then the government tax receipts are relatively low and either the government has less money available to it or the workforce members have to be taxed more heavily41.Workforce is composed of_Aboth the employed and the self-employedBpeople employed to work for othersCboth employers and employeesDpeople avai lable to work and earn incomes42The factor that does not influence the size of the workforce is_Athe size of the total populationBthe age distribution of a populationCthe national economyDthe natural population growth43It can be concluded from Paragraph 2 that一Aa population growth leads to a greater proportion of workforceBa 1arge population does not necessarily mean a high proportion of workforceC.the size of the aged determines the proportion of workforceDthe Droportion of the very young determines the size of workforce441 he size othe workforce declines when_Amany people reach the retiring ageBthe birth rate falls rapidlyCthe number of retirees exceeds that of new workersDthe death rate increases45The last paragraph focuses on_Athe factors that influence the workforce structureBthe importance of workforce distribution to the economyCthe relationship between the age distribution and the economyDthe influence of population growth on the national economyPassage FourHonesty is the best policy，as the English saying goesUnfortunately，honesty often desertsus when no one is watchingBritish psychologists reported last weekResearchers at UKs Newcastle University set up an experiment in their psychoiogy departments coffee roomThey set a kettle with tea，coffee and milk on the counter and hung upa sign listing the prices for drinksPeople helping themselves to a cup of drink were supposed toput a few cents in the box nearbyThe scientists hung a poster above the money box，and itchanged each week between images of gazing eyes and pictures of flowersThe researchers foundthat staff paid 276 times more for their drinks when the image of the eyes was hung“Franklywe were shocked by the size of the effect，”said Gilbert Roberts。one of the researchersEyes are known to be a powerful perceptual(感官的)signal for humans“Even though theeyes were not real，they stitl seemed to make people behave more honestly”said Melissa Batesona behavioral biologist and leader of the studyResearchers believe the effect sheds light on our evolutionary past It may arise from behav-ioral features that developed when early humans formed social groups to strengthen their chancesof survivalFor social groups to work，individuals had to co-operate。rather than act selfishly“Theres an argument that if nobody is watching us，it is in our interests to behave selfishlyBut when were being watched we should behave betterSo people see us as cooperative and behave the same way towards us，”Bateson saidThe new finding indicates that people have a striking response to eyesThat might be because eyes and faces send a strong biological signal we have evolved to respond toThe