2012年同等学力人员申请硕士学位外国语水平全国统一考试英语试卷

|2012年同等学力人员申请硕士学位外国语水平全国统一考试英语试卷ENGLISH QUALIFICATION TESTFOR MASTER-DEGREE APPLICANTSPaper One (90 minutes)Part I Dialogue Communication (10 minutes，10 points)Part II Vocabulary (20 minutes，10 points)Part III Reading Comprehension (45 minutes，30 points)Part IV Cloze (15 minutes，15 points)考生须知1本考试分试卷一和试卷二两部分。试卷一满分65分，考试时间为90分钟；试卷二满分35分，考试时间为60分钟，本考试及格标准为总分60分，其中试卷二不低于18分。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本试卷一为 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监考员宣布试卷一考试结束后，请停止答试卷一，将试卷一和试卷一答题卡反扣在自己的桌面上，继续做试卷二。监考员将到座位上收取试卷一和试卷一答题卡。6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。Paper One 试卷一Part Dialogue communication (10minutes, 10points)Section A Dialogue completionDirections: in this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.1. Speaker A: Would you please close the window? I feel a bit cold.Speaker B:A. All right. I hope someone will close it.B. Oh, Im sorry, but maybe you should put on your sweater. We need some fresh air.C. Who has opened the window? I feel cold too.D. If you feel cold, you can put on more clothes.2. Speaker A: Excuse me, can you tell me where the Princes Building is?Speaker B:A. The Princes Building? Why do you want to go there?B. Sure, if you like, I can show you how to get there.C. Well, turn to the left at the first corner after the crossroads. Its there near the corner.D. Strange！Whats going on there? Three people have asked me how to get there.3. Speaker A: Can I help you?Speaker B:A. Sorry, I dont need your help.B. What help can you give us?C. Thanks. Its very kind of you to offer us help.D. Id like to try on these shoes, please.4. Speaker A: I cant stand the school cafeteria. The food is terrible.Speaker B:A. I agree with you. Its quite difficult to find a seat in the cafeteria.B. Yeah, you will feel more comfortable if you sit down.C. Yeah, but thats not the worst thing about it. Its also very dirty.D. I dont see why they dont supply some seats for us.5. Speaker A: Fairly mild for the time of year.Speaker B:A. Which season is it now？B. Yes, usually it is very mild at this time of the year.C. Have you ever had this kind of weather before?D. Yes. Quite different from the forecast.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 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the 4 choices by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.6. Man: Betty is always complaining about her son.Woman: She should take care of my three teenage boys and see what its like.Question: What does the woman mean?A. Bettys life is easy compared with her own.B. Betty has a more difficult life than she does.C. Betty would like to take care of the three boys.D. Taking care of her three teenage sons is easy.7. Woman: I paid 50 dollars for these books at the Eaglewood Bookstore. Theyre really too expensive.Man: Too expensive? They cost a lot more in other bookstores.Question: What does the man mean?A. He thought they were expensive.B. He didnt think they were expensive.C. He wanted the woman to buy books in other bookstores.D. He thought books in other stores were just as expensive.8. Woman: Did you think it was a good play?Man: What I didnt understand was the very beginning.Question: What does the man mean?A. He didnt know how to begin to write a play.B. He didnt like plays very much in the past.C. He didnt want to talk about it right away.D. He wasnt sure what the first part was about.9. Man: Im frustrated. Were supposed to do our assignment on the computer, but I have difficulty getting access to the computers in the library.Woman: I understand the way you feel. Im looking forward to the day when I can afford to get my own.Question: What does the woman mean?A. She cant finish her assignment, either.B. She cant afford a computer right now.C. The man can use her computer.D. The man should buy a computer right away.10. Man: Im sorry I missed the football game, but I had a terrible cold.Woman: You didnt miss anything We couldnt have played worse.Question: What does the woman mean?A. Shes never watched a better game.B. Football is her favorite pastime.C. The game has been canceled.D. Their team played very badly.Part II Vocabulary (10minutes, 10 points)Section ADirections: In this section there are 10 sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the 4 choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.11. Although this book claims to be a biography of George Washington, many of the incidents are imaginary.A. fascinatingB. factitiousC. fastidiousD. fictitious12. The trade fair is designed to facilitate further cooperation between Chinese auto industries and overseas auto industries.A. promoteB. protect C. preserveD. prolong13. He was concerned only with mundane matters, especially the daily stock market quotations.A. rational B. obscure C. worldly D. eminent14. The earthquake that occurred in India this year was a major calamity in which a great man was lost.A. casualty B. catastrophe C. catalogue D. crusadeI5. The doctors were worried because the patient did not recuperate as rapidly as they had expected.A. withdraw B. emerge C. recover D. uncover16. The purchaser of this lorry is protected by the manufacturers warranty that he will replace any defective part for five years or 50.000 miles.A. prohibition B. insurance C. prophecy D. guarantee17. The boy could not reconcile himself to the failure. He did not believe that was his lot.A. submit B. commit C. transmit D. permit18. In some cities of North China, the noise pollution is as pronounced as that in Tokyo.A. contemptuous B. contagious C. conspicuous D. contemplated19. Trivial breaches of regulations we can pass over, but more serious ones will have to be investigated.A. exceed B. wither C. overpass D. neglect20. We were discussing the housing problem when a middle-aged man cut in and said, Theres no point in talking about impossibilities.A. intersect B. interject C. penetrate D. adulterateSection BDirections: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentences there are 4 choices marked A. B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentences. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. The body apparently resents being dosed with unusual amounts of a vitamin or mineral and its first_ is to excrete them.A. reaction B. impulse C. response D. instinct22. It is true that there are still abundant reserves of metals which have not yet been , but it is necessary to take steps to ensure that alternative materials are substituted whenever possible.A. utilized B. mobilized C. acquired D. cultivated23. Researchers that genes may determine the strength of the immune system, which could help explain how an infectious disease could have a hereditary link.A. speculate B. estimate C. evaluate D. anticipate24. She had on the dress that I used to admire more than anything else in her possession-a light blue oneprettily with lace.A. ornamented B. trimmed C. furnished D. decorated25. In a sense, tennis and Taijiquan are similar in that they both require your full attention, and if done , take your mind off daily problems and preoccupations.A. successfully B. consecutivelyC. conscientiously D. compulsorily26. Such apartments as she saw were either disgustingly dirty or dear, or both.A. exceedingly B. substantiallyC. unaccountably D. excessively27. Deprived of the financial means to remain independent, Thomas Edison was compelled to _ employment as a night telephone operator.A. obtain B. chase C. explore D. seek28. Under her administration, claim the critics, high-rise construction has destroyed the of the citys downtown, darkening its streets and driving business.A. property B. character C. personality D. quality29. When the tank can carrying poisonous gas ran off the rails, the firemen tried to the village from all traffic.A. dismiss B. insulate C. isolate D. expel30. We object to the idea that it is military force that should be in settling international disputes.A. applied to B. resorted to C. fallen back on D. restrained from Part Reading Comprehension (45minutes, 30point) Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 6 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 with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.Passage OneThe study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly immersed in a vast sea of names, dates, events, and statistics. The students skills are then tested by examinations that require them to show how much of the data they remember. From this experience a number of conclusions seem obvious: the study of history is the study of facts about the past; the more facts you know, the better you are as a student of history. But in this way students may become confused upon discovering that historians often disagree sharply. They discover that historians dealing with the same event may come to quite different conclusions about it.Obviously, there is no easy solution to this problem. Historians disagree because each historian views the past from a particular perspective. Once students grasp this, they have taken the first step toward being able to evaluate the work of various historians. But before they can take this first step, students must consider a problem they have more or less taken for granted. They must ask themselves what history really is.The word history has several meanings. In its broadest sense, it denotes the whole of the human past. More restricted is the notion that history is the recorded past, that is, that part of human life which has left some sort of record such as folk tales, artifacts, or written documents. Finally, history may be defined as that which historians write about the past.31. What is the meaning of the word fat in Line 1？A. Big. B. Hard. C. Thick. D. Well-filled.32. What do most history teachers require their students to do, according to the first paragraph?A. They ask their students to read a lot of history books.B. They make their students show interest in names, dates, events, and statistics.C. They ask their students to take many examinations.D. They make students get involved in many names, dates, events and statistics, and keep them in mind.33. Why do students become confused?A. They can not understand the fact about the past.B. They are confused by their teachers.C. They find the descriptions and explanations of the same historical events are different from one historian to another.D. They dont know that the quite different conclusions may come out from the same event.34. Why do historians disagree with each other?A. They stand in different places.B. They just pick up the most important facts they believe.C. They are not good friends.D. Both B and C.35. What does a problem in Line 4 para.2 refer to?A. the connotation of the history itselfB. The historian has different views towards the past.C. The historys meaning is various.D. The students have the ability to judge the history book.36. Which of the following statements is NOT perfectly true?A. There is no way to solve the problem of disagreements among historians.B. If the students want to evaluate the work of various historians, they should first know what history really is.C. History is of course written by historians.D. The concept of history in students mind is different from that in historians mind.Passage TwoPersons with disabilities typically face extraordinary obstacles in finding employment. This is evident in their significantly higher levels off unemployment and underemployment than the general population. Employment levels vary by type of disability, but the Harris Survey of 2004 reported that 35% of persons with severe disabilities are employed up slightly from the 31% employment rate found by the same survey in 2000, but very low compared to the employment rate of about 78% or 80% of the general population.Employment involves matching potential employees with job opportunities. To the extent that employment does not occur, the root of the problem may lie with the employee, with the job opportunities, or with the mechanisms that match the two sides together. The strategies that vocational programs for persons with disability typically use to address the problem off unemployment among persons with disabilities already, recognize many of the causes that contribute to a high rate of unemployment, but there is one major cause they overlook.On the job opportunity side of the relationship, employment programs offer solutions to address specific problems that deny persons with disabilities an equal opportunity to get the job. These may include education programs to counter negative employer or coworker stereotypes, workplace assessments to identify accessibility concerns in the physical layout and organization of the workplace, workplace supports to encourage employee integration with coworkers, and financial incentives and legal initiatives to counter externalities that would give employers a disincentive to hire an employee with a disability.On the employee end of the relationship, job training, teaching off specific work skills, and technological assistance are mainstays of many disability vocational programs. These solutions address perceived deficits in the skills and talents of the potential employees who these programs serve, based on the assumption that consumers would be employed if they had stronger marketable skills. These factors are what some sociologists and labor market economists refer to as human capital.In matching employees with employers, existing programs often teach consumers how to write a resume, improve interview skills, teach people bow to find a job and assist in locating job opportunities. Some programs also try to teach typical office culture. While they may not be directly relevant to the job function, these elements make employment more likely and in the case of office culture, can improve success at the job. These factors are what some sociologists call cultural capital. One major factor in the matching aspect of employment that very few, if any, vocational programs for persons with disabilities seem to include is what sociologists call social capital. Social capital is the set or network of social relationships by which most people find employment.37. What did the author want to tell us in the first paragraph?A. Persons with disabilities cant find a job.B. 35% of persons with severe disabilities are employed.C. Persons with disabilities employment rate of 2004 are higher than the year 2000.D. Disabled persons employment rate are very low compared to the employment rate of the generalpopulation.38. Which factor does relate to the other two when the author mentions the factors of employment?A. Employee. B. Job opportunities.C. Mechanisms. D. The extent of the employment.39.According to the second paragraph, which of the following is true?A. Matching potential employees with job opportunities is one part of employment.B. The root of the problem that employment does not occur may lie with the employees.C. Persons with disabilities lower employment rate may lie with the mechanisms.D. Persons with disabilities lower employment rate is a social problem.40. Read the third paragraph carefully and find out which of the following is a good method for an employerto hire employees with disabilities?A. The employer must be a kind hearted person.B. The disabled employee can suit for the job.C. There must be a employment program for disabled persons.D. The employee was not a severe disabled person.41.Which of the following is not mentioned in paragraph 4?A. Disabled people should g