2017同等學(xué)力英語講義模擬題一

1、2017年同等學(xué)力人員申請碩士學(xué)位 外國語水平全國統(tǒng)一考試（模擬試卷）ENGLISH QUALIFICATION TEST FOR MASTER-DEGREE APPLICANTSPart 1 Oral Communication (15 minutes 10 points)Section A:Directions: In this section, there are two dialogues between two speakers , each has three blanks and three choices marked A,B, and C taken from the dia

2、logue. Fill in each of the blanks with the choices to complete the dialogue. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Dialogue OneA.B.C.Is she the same ageYou call your parents by their first name He' s retid nowA : Here in the middle with the beautiful white hair is my mother. We call her Joy.B: (1

3、)?A: Yeah, we always have. Here next to my mother on the left is Andrew, my father.B: With the glasses?A: Yeah, with the glasses and the bald head. Isn ' t he cute? Actually, he looks pretty good for someone 70 years old, don ' t you think?B; He sure does. And your mother(2)2j?A: No, she 

4、9; s five years younger. e turned 65 just last month.B: Does your father still work?A: No.Dialogue TwoA. That ' s not quite rightB. I need something for my daughterC. Money doesn t matterA:Can I help you?Q:Yes, (4). It ' s her birthday, so I want something special.A:Well, how much do you wan

5、t to spend?Q: Oh, (5).A: Oh? Well, how about a nice ring?Q: That ' s a good idea. Mmm how much is this one?A: That ' s, er, $1,259.Q: Oh, er, well, it ' s er, not the right design for my daughter.A: Well, here ' s a beautiful bracelet. It It '' sseigiiye$45at gold.Q: Hmm, wel

6、l no. (6). I don ' t like the shape. How about that calculator over there?A: The calculator? But I thought you wantedQ: Oh, it ' s beautifuwHmuch is it?A: It ' s, er, $7.85.Q: It ' s perfect! I ' ll take it. She ' ll love it!Section B:Directions: In this section, there is an

7、interview between two speakers , which has four blanks and four choices marked A,B, C and D taken from the interview. Fill in each of the blanks with the choices to complete the interview. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.A. When it is hotB. Well, that is a good questionC. Just how many people a

8、re overweight?D. the hotter the climateA: Mike, why are so many Americans overweight?B: Well, (7),Yume. You'd think that with the current fitness craze in the U.S., there wouldnt be so many overweight Americans.A:_(8)B: About 40% of Americans are overweight. Interestingly, one study says that lo

9、w-income groups have a higher percentage of overweight people than higher income families.A: are there any other facts like that in the study?B: Yes. The study also said that (9), the lower the percentage of obese people.A: That makes sense. (10), you usually don't feel like eating a lot.Part II

10、 Vocabulary (10 minutes, 10 points)Directions: 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 b

11、rackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.11. Most people would agree that, although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no correlative increase in wisdom.A. improvesB. precedes C. imposes D. exceeds12. The survey does not allow for the fact that some students are

12、 attending part-time.A. explainB denyc. considerD recognize13. Witnesses were allegedly tortured or subjected to pressure to fabricate evidence against him.A. fix upB. take upC. pack upD. make up14. I couldn Work out why anyone would invent something so boring.A draw upB bring about C put forward D.

13、 figure out15. You can easily find out the benefits of flexible working for both you and your employer.A. looseB. effectiveC. elasticD. resourceful16. The State Department has issued a regulation abolishing the special privileges for government officials.A. grantsC. rightsC. advantages D. interests1

14、7. W川 Americans go for AT&T S plan of pushing the wireless services in the U.S?A. supportB. adoptC. hinderD. attack18. What lies in pieces around them represents, in effect, a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few .A. in shortB. in particular C. in factD. in turn19. The weekend event wil

15、l be centered around Wye college in Ashford, Kent, but the outing to the docks should be the highlight.A. climaxB. pleasure C. expectation D. surprise20. The researchers have come up with numerous explanations to justify their failures.A. lead to B. charge for C. call for D. account forPart III Read

16、ing Comprehension (45 minutes, 25 points)Section ADirections: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 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 t

17、he square brackets on your machine-scoringANSWER SHEET .Text 1Office jobs are among the positions hardest hit by computation. Word processors and typists will lose about 93 000 jobs over the next few years, while 57000 secretarial jobs will vanish. Blame the PC: Today, many executives type their own

18、 memos and carry their " secretaries " in the palms of their hands. Time is also hard for stock clerks, whose ranks are expected to decreaseby 68 000. And employees in manufacturing firms and wholesalers are being replaced with computerized systems.But not everyone who loses a job will end

19、 up in the unemployment line. Many will shift to growing positions within their own companies. When new technologies shook up the telecomm business, telephone operator Judy Dougherty pursued retraining. She is now a communications technician, earning about $ 64 000 per year. Of course, if you' v

20、e been a tollbooth collector for the past 30 years, and you find yourself replaced by an EZ Pass machine, it may be of little consolation to know that the telecomm field is booming.And that jusst it: The service economy is fading; welcome to the expertise economy. To succeedin the new job market, yo

21、u must be able to handle complex problems. Indeed, all but one of the 50 highest-paying occupations air-traffic controller demand at least a bachelor ' s degree.For those with just a high school diploma, it gsoing to get tougher to find a well-paying job. Since fewer factory and clerical jobs wi

22、ll be available, what' left will be the jobs that computation can t kill: Computers can t clean offices, or careAlzheimer stipeants. But, since most people have the skills to fill those positions, the wages stay painfully low, meaning computation could drive an even deeper wedge between the rich

23、 and poor. The best advice now: Never stop leaving, and keep up with new technology.For busy adults, of course, that can be tough. The good news is that the very technology that s reducing so many jobs is also making it easier to go back to school without having to sit in a classroom. So-called Inte

24、rnet distance learning is hot, with more than there million students currently enrolled, and it s gaining credibility withemployers.Are you at risk of losing your job to a computer? Check the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is available online at .21. F

25、rom the first paragraph we can infer that all of the following persons are easily thrown into unemployment EXCEPT .A. secretaries.B. stock clerks.C. managers.D. wholesalers.22. In the second paragraph the author mentions the tollbooth collector to.A. mean he will get benefits from the telecom fieldB

26、. show he is too old to shift to a new positionC. console him on having been replaced by a machineD. blame the PC for his unemployment23. By saying “computatiorcould drive an even deeper wedge between the rich and poor ” (Line 5, Para. 4) the author means.A. people are getting richer and richerB. th

27、ere will be a small gap between rich and poorC. the gap between rich and poor is getting larger and largerD. it s timeltose up the gap between the rich and poor24. What is the author ' s attitude towards computers?A. positive.B. negative.C. neutral.D. prejudiced.25. Which of the following might

28、serve as the best title of the text?A. Blaming the PC.B. The booming telecomm field.C. Internet distance learning.D. Keeping up with computation.Text 2Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won t look any different from those awar

29、ded their luckier classmates. Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate.Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational-repair shops adult-literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. Ther

30、e, high-school graduates and high-school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school. They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.I will never forget a teacher who got the attention of one of my children by

31、 revealing the trump card of failure. Our youngest, a world-class charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by until Mrs. Sifter became his teacher.Our son was a high-school senior when he had her for English.“ Hte sits inback of the room talking to his friends," sh

32、e told me. “Why don' t you move him tthe front row? ” I urged, believing the embarrassment would get him to settle down.Mrs. Sifter said, “I don ' t move seniors. I flunk them. " Our son ' s academic life before my eyes. No teacher had ever threatened him. By the time I got home I w

33、as feeling pretty good about this. I t was a radical approach for these times, but, well, why not? "She' s gtongunk you, “ I told my son. I did not discuss it any further.Suddenly English became a priority in his life. He finished out the semester with an A.I know one example doesn ' t

34、make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angry for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up. Of average intelligence or better, they eventually quit school, concluding they were too dumb to finish.“I should have been held back, " is a comme

35、nt I hearfrequently. Even sadder are those students who are high-school graduates who say to me after a few weeks of class,“I don ' t know how I esehgot diipligma. ”Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employerswho expect graduates to have basic skills. We excuse t

36、his dishonest behavior by saying kids can ' t learn if they come from terrible environments. No one seems to stop to think that most kids don tput school first on their list unless they perceive something is at risk. They d ratihnegr. be sailMany students I see at night have decided to make educ

37、ation a priority. They are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one theyThey have a healthy fear of failure.People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Young people generally don t have the maturity to value education i

38、n the same way my adult students value it. But fear of failure can motivate both.26. What is the subject of this essay?A. Viewpoints on learning.B. A qualified teacher.C. The importance of examination.D. The generation gap.27. How did Mrs. Sifter get the attention of one of the author' s childre

39、n?A. Flunking him.B. Moving his seat.C. Blaming him.D. Playing cards with him.28. The author believes that the most effective way for a teacher is to.A. purify the teaching environmentsB. set up cooperation between teachers and parentsC. hold back studentsD. motivate students29. From the text we can

40、 draw the conclusion that the authors attitude toward flunking is.A. negative B. positive C. biasedD. indifferent30. Judging from the content, this text is probably written for.A. administrators B. students C. teachers D parentsText 3Names have gained increasing importance in the competitive world o

41、f higher education. As colleges strive for market share, they are looking for names that project the image they want or reflect the changes they hope to make. Trenton State College, for example, became, the College of New Jersey nine years ago when it began raising admissions standards and appealing

42、 to students from throughout the state.“All I hear in higher education is,' Brand , brand , brand, ' " said Tim Westwho specializes in branding and is managing director of Lipman Hearne, a marketing firm based in Chicago that works with universities and other nonprofit organizations.“Th

43、ere has been a sea change over the last 10 years. Marketing used to be almost a dirty word in higher education.”Not all efforts at name changes are successful, of course, in 1997, the NewSchool for Social Research became New School University to reflect its growth into a collection of eight colleges

44、, offering a list of majors that includes psychology, music, urban studies and management. But New Yorkers continued to call it the New School.Now, after spending an undisclosed sum on an online survey and a marketing consultant creation of “namingstructures,“"brandarchitecture and "identi

45、tysystems, " the university has come uptwia new name: the New School. Beginning Monday, it will adopt new logos, banners, business cards and even new names for the individual colleges, all to include the words“the New School. ”Changes in names generally reveal significant shifts in how a colleg

46、e wants to be perceived. In altering its name from Cal State, Hayward, to Cal State, East Bay, the university hoped to project its expanding role in two mostly suburban counties east of San Francisco.The University of Southern Colorado, a state institution, became Colorado StateUniversity at Publo t

47、wo years ago, hoping to highlight many internal changes, including offering more graduate programs and setting higher admissions standards.Beaver College turned itself into Arcadia University in 2001 for several reasons: to break the connection with its past as a women' s college, to promote its

48、 growth intoa full-fledged university and, officials acknowledged, to eliminate some jokes aboutthe college ' s old name c-nighe television andmorningdizoo.ho wsraMany college officials said changing a name and image could produce substantial results. At Arcadia, in addition to the rise in appli

49、cations, the average student score has increased by 60 points, Juli Roebeck , an Arcadia spokeswoman, said.31. Which of the following is NOT the reason for colleges to change their names?A. They prefer higher education competition.B. They try to gain advantage in market share.C. They want to project

50、 their image.D. They hope to make some changes.32. It is implied that one of the most significant changes in higher education in the past decade is.A. the brandB. the college namesC. the concept of marketingD. list of majors33. The phrase “come up with "(Line3, Para.4) probably means. A. catch

51、up withB. deal withC. put forwardD. come to the realization34. The case of name changing from Cal State, Hayward, to Cal State indicates that the university.A. is perceived by the societyB. hopes to expand its influenceC. prefers to reform its teaching programsD. expects to enlarge its campus35. Acc

52、ording to the spokeswoman, the name change of Beaver College.A. turns out very successfulB. fails to attain its goalC. has eliminated some jokesD. has transformed its statusText 4It looked just like another aircraft from the outside. The pilot told his young passengerswhat it was built in 1964. But

53、appearanceswere deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who board the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, bu

54、t lights along the padded walls 川uminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young scientists quickly took their place with a look of fear.For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invita

55、tion of the European Space Agency. The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions.For the next two hours , the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lost its reason, shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing towards Earth. T

56、he invention was to achieve weightlessness for a few seconds.The aircraft took off smoothly enough, but any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45-degree climb which lasted

57、 around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut out and we became weightless. Everything became confused and left or right, up or down no longer had any meaning. After ten seconds of free-fall descent the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss,

58、 but was still sudden enough to ensure that some students came down with a bump.Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless, a new team conducted its experiment. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that cats always land on their feel. Then the German team who con

59、ducted a successful experiment on a traditional building method to see if it could be used for building a future space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites.After two hour of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments, the predominant feeling was one of excite