云南師范大學(xué)學(xué)位英語(yǔ)試卷

1、精選專業(yè)PAPERONEPART I VOCABULARY ( 20 minutes, 10 points)Section A ( 0.5 point each)Directions: In this section there are ten sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Then mark the correspo

2、nding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1.Outbreaks of teenage violence here are confined to technical schools students fighting mindless.A. restrictedB. confirmedC. relevantD. dedicated2.Something clearly disturbs Thai youth and parents who need to do something before

3、 things get worse.A. boostsB. disruptsC. annoysD. stuns3.They came from different backgrounds, but both resorted to the use of handguns to resolve their problems.A. objected toB. took toC. amounted toD. turned to4.Children do not learn what it is to lose and will seek violence to restrain their disa

4、ppointment.A. releaseB. checkC. eliminateD. restore5.Streep possesses a fragile, fleeting beauty that allows her to be as earthy and plain as she can be glamorous and radiant.A. fragmentaryB. permanentC. delicateD. tender6. Faced with such a dilemma, the top executives had to weigh one option agains

5、t another.A. scaleB. seekC. balanceD. reject7.Despite conflicts and disagreements, the fundamental sympathies and similarities between the two countries will continue.A. essentialB. intenseC. necessaryD. difficult8.The car broke down about five kilometers short of the destination, so they had to go

6、on foot.A. lacking inB. except forC. up toD. away from9.Kant revolutionized philosophy, questioned established authorities and placed reason and freedom at the center of his thinking.A. foundedB. acceptedC. overthrownD. stereotyped10.The freshmen will be introduced to some methods of coping with str

7、ess and depression.A. handlingB. executingC. cooperationD. consumingSection B (0.5 point each)Directions: In this section there are ten sentences. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best completes each sentence. Then mark the correspon

8、ding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.11.I had expected to win the race, but things did notthat way.A. break outB. work outC. pass outD. figure out12.Anyone employing people and paying them a fair wage, in my view, makes a(n)contribution to society.A. immenseB. gigant

9、icC. largeD. spacious13.I have time to enjoy family and friends, activities such as reading, writing, listening to music and playing sports.A. chaseB. involveC. pursueD. capture14.And not one of these pleasures is taxation under the Internal RevenueCode.A. committed to B. subject toC. attached toD.

10、indifferent to15.Middle-aged ladies somehow tend to weight more easily even if they arevegetarians.A. put onB. put upC. put forwardD. put away16.AsChina, reform and opening-up have led to substantial improvement oflives.A. in the case of B. in the face ofC. in the name of D. in the middle of17. Niag

11、ara Falls is a great tourist _, drawing millions of visitors every year. A. attention B. attraction C. appointment D. arrangement18. The manager spoke highly of such _ as loyalty, courage and truthfulness shown by his employees. A. virtues B. features C. properties D. characteristics19. Some old peo

12、ple dont like pop songs because they cant _ so much noise. A. resist B. sustain C. tolerate D. undergo20. Since the matter was extremely _, we dealt with it immediately. A. tough B. tense C. urgent D. instantPART II CLOZE TEST ( 20 minutes 10 points)Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back

13、 and choose one item of suitable word(s) marked A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Deaths and injuries from motor-vehicle accidents are reaching epidemic proportions in developing countries around the wo

14、rld, according to the World Health Organization. Traffic accidents in the young nations of 21 amount to a “social scourge（禍害)”, and all too often the victims are young, educated Africans 22 increased earning power has enabled them to buy a motorcycle or an automobile. Statistics 23 three Latin-Ameri

15、can countries, Chile, Costa Rica and Venezuela, 24 that, as in the US, traffic accidents have become the leading cause of 25 among young adults.About 250 000 people throughout the world are _26_ in traffic accidents each year, and more than seven million are injured. 27 the US has the highest number

16、 of people killed in traffic accidents of 28 country (about 50 000 per year), it has one of the lowest rates of fatalities（死亡） per motor vehicle or passenger mile, 29 , in the US there are six fatalities per 100 million passenger miles, 30 in Kenya and Uganda there are from 55 to 65 fatalities per 1

17、00 31 passenger miles. In India the fatality rate per motor vehicle is 10 to 15 times higher than it is in the US. In all countries the death rate from traffic accidents is higher for 32 than it is for females.-The majority of developing countries 33 a higher incidence of traffic accidents involving

18、 pedestrians （行人） than of accidents 34 motor vehicles alone. Among the causes, the WHO reports, are 35 roads, pedestrian ignorance of road signs, lack of instruction in the use of roads and heavy pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the roads.To 36 the growing epidemic of traffic accidents, the WHO has

19、 37 a worldwide epidemiological study of road traffic accidents and is encouraging the development of preventive programs If traffic accidents are 38 by methods similar to those used against the great "killing diseases", the organization states, the present epidemic of road deaths could be

20、 made to disappear 39 as plague (瘟疫) and smallpox have now been 40 almost everywhere in the world.21.A. AmericaB. AsiaC. AfricaD. Europe22.A. whoseB. whichC. asD. that23.A. againstB. withC. uponD. from24.A. remarkB. revealC. involveD. doubt25.A. accidentB. jamC. crashD. death26.A. killedB. injuredC.

21、 woundedD. included27.A. Now thatB. ProvidedC. OnceD. Although28.A.everyB. someC. anyD.the29.A. at lastB. for exampleC. howeverD. in addition30.A. BecauseB.BeforeC. WhereasD. If311.A. hundredB. millionC. thousandD. billion32 A. inhabitantsB. driversC. malesD. injured33.A. possessesB.hadC. hasD. have

22、34-A. involvingB. containingC. resulting inD. existing in35.A. firmB. poorC. good D. dependent36.A. hardenB. studyC. struggleD. combat37.A. overtakenB. exploredC. undertakenD. regarded38.A. tackledB. recognizedC. shiftedD. threatened39.A. suchB.justC.soD. also40.A. eliminatedB. knockedC. soughtD. ad

23、justedPART III READING COMPREHENSION (60 minutes, 50 points)Directions: In this part of the test, there are five short passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully, and hen do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D and then mark the corr

24、esponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Passage OnePeng Gonglin wasn't an important man. He lived in a bare concrete house in a small village of Deng Zhuang where women stoop beside ponds to scrub clothes in buckets and the men often harvest crops by hand.When

25、his rice fields came up empty last October, Peng had no influence and little cash. The 43-year-old farmer had spent almost all of his family's savings and borrowed more to lease the land and buy seeds.County experts in the central province of Henan tested the seeds he'd planted and determine

26、d that he'd been sold inferior goods. Peng begged for financial or legal help from the local agricultural bureau and its county seed station.He took what remained of his family's money and tried to bribe two local officials to intervene. They accepted the meals, massages and prostitutes, but

27、 they did nothing in return, according to a letter he later wrote.Finally, on March 29 he returned to the county seed station to plead once more. Men there beat Peng about the head until he went home, humiliated.Facing financial ruin, he carried out one last act of protest. Early the next morning, P

28、eng Gonglin's body was found hanging at the seed station.The story of Peng's lonely suicide reveals the pitfalls beneath the glossy surface of China's booming economy. Ordinary Chinese who've been cheated or defrauded, especially in rural areas, find themselves trapped in neo-feudal

29、conditions with no protection beyond the mercy of corrupt officials.Outsiders are sometimes baffled by the emphasis Chinese leaders put on order and harmony, and their crushing response to any signs of unrest. From the turmoil in a village such as Deng Zhuang, though, it's clear that the nation

30、sits uneasily on deep social fault lines.41.People like Peng Gonglin _.A. live simple and humble lifeB. try to bribe officialsC. have no land and have to lease from othersD. hate the officials42. What happened to the seeds Peng Gonglin had bought?A. They were tested inferior.B. They were illegal.C.

31、They were cheated.D. They were too expensive.43. He bribed local officials hoping that _.A. they may help him get financial compensation or legal aidB. they may accept the meals, massages and prostitutesC. they may interfere the affairD. they may offer plea for him44. Which of the following statemen

32、ts is NOT the reason of Peng Gonglins suicide? A. He was beaten by the men at the seed station and felt humiliated.B. It was his final cry for protest in the face of financial ruin.C. The desperation was beyond his psychological endurance.D. He feared that his bribe may be discovered.45. Peng's

33、lonely suicide reveals that _.A. the ordinary people seize neo-feudal conditionsB. the ordinary people can get protection if the corrupt officials ignore themC. there are social problems under the fast developing economyD. people baffle the emphasis on order and harmonyPassage Two Computers have bee

34、n taught to play not only checkers, but also championship chess, which is a fairly accurate yardstick for measuring the computers progress in the ability to learn from experience.Because the game requires logical reasoning, chess would seem to be perfectly suited to the computer .all a programmer ha

35、s to do is give the computer a program evaluating the consequences of every possible response to every possible move, and the computer will win every time. In theory this is a sensible approach; in practice it is impossible. Today, a powerful computer can analyze 40 000 moves a second. That is an im

36、pressive speed. But there are an astronomical number of possible moves in chessliterally trillions. Even if such a program were written (and in theory it could be, given enough people and enough time), there is no computer capable of holding that much data.Therefore, if the computer is to compete at

37、 championship levels, it must be programmed to function with less than complete data. It must be able to learn from experience, to modify its own program, to deal with a relatively unstructured situationin a word, to “think” for itself. In fact, this can be done. Chess-playing computers have yet to

38、defeat world champion chess players, but several have beaten human players of only slightly lower ranks. The computers have had programs to carry them through the early, mechanical stages of their chess games. But they have gone on from there to reason and learn, and sometimes to win the game.There

39、are other proofs that computers can be programmed to learn, but this example is sufficient to demonstrate the point. Granted, winning a game of chess is not an earthshaking event even when a computer does it . But there are many serious human problems which ban be fruitfully approached as games. The

40、 Defense Department uses computers to play war games and work out strategies for dealing with international tensions. Other problemsinternational and interpersonal relations , ecology and economics , and the ever-increasing threat of world faminecan perhaps be solved by the joint efforts of human be

41、ings and truly intelligent computers .46. The purpose of creating chess-playing computers is _.A. to win the world chess championB. to pave the way for further intelligent computersC. to work out strategies for international warsD. to find an accurate yardstick for measuring computer progress47. Tod

42、ay, a chess-playing computer can be programmed to _. A. give trillions of responses in a second to each possible move and win the gameB. function with complete data and beat the best playersC. learn from chess-playing in the early stage and go on to win the gameD. evaluate every possible move but ma

43、y fail to give the right response each time48. For a computer to “think”, it is necessary to _. A. mange to process as much data as possible in a second B. program it so that it can learn from its experiences C. prepare it for chess-playing first D. enable it to deal with unstructured situations49.

44、The authors attitude towards the Defense Department is_ _. A. critical B. unconcerned C. positive D. negative 50. In the authors opinion, _ _ . A. winning a chess game is an unimportant event B. serious human problems shouldnt be regarded as playing a game C. ecological problems are more urgent to b

45、e solved D. there is hope for more intelligent computersPassage ThreeYou have to have lived in the 1950s and 1960s to have experienced a good economy. In the period between 1950 and 1970 it was the rulerather than the exceptionthat an ordinary family, without higher education, could sustain itself d

46、ecently on the income of a single breadwinner. In 1955, when I was 19 and living in Brooklyn, N. Y., my father, who had a sixth-grade education, maintained our family of five on a wage of $82 a week as a bookbinder. My mother taught us fairness and compassion; my father, discipline and enterprise.Th

47、e U. S. economy in those years was good. Then where did this good economy go? It was inflated away. The price of gold, which I take as proxy for the prices of all goods, was $35 an ounce in those years. It is at roughly ten times that price today.There is another answer, though: inflation caused the

48、 entire work force to be moved into higher tax groups, thus reducing after-tax purchasing power. That is, my fathers bindery job in1954 paid $82 a week, with $80 after deductions; today, at $ 820 per week the net would be $662.To ordinary people, the economy doesnt look very good at all. After-tax i

49、ncomes continue to decrease in purchasing power. The jobs offered in the employment ads pay only a little more than the minimum wage, maybe $5 an hour, which, after payroll deductions, yields $4 an hour. Compare that with minimum-wage jobs of the early 1950s, when 75 cents was worth todays $7.50 bef

50、ore and after taxes.51. In the authors opinion, a good economy, to ordinary people can be expressed in terms of _ _.A. the amount of wageB. after-tax incomeC. the actual purchasing powerD. the minimum wage per hour52. In the period between 1950 and 1970, _.A. there was not much difference in the liv

51、ing standards between people of higher and lower educationB. an ordinary family of five without exception could live on one person incomeC. the income of an ordinary family was more than enough for buying foodD. for an average family the income was sufficient to support all the members53. Today a bo

52、okbinders wage is ten times that of the 1950s but its income tax rate has increased _.A.50 times B.60times C. 70 times D. 80 times54. The worsening of a bookbinders livelihood results from _ _.A. his low education and the amount of wageB. the high-taxation and the income deductionsC. the high taxati

53、on and cost of livingD. the low wage and higher prices55. The passage implies that while the cost of living is getting higher_ _.A. the value of labor actually is shrinkingB. the minimum wage level is increasing likewiseC. the income tax rate is rising alongD. the employment ads naturally offer a hi

54、gher minimum wage Passage FourCulture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, mann

55、ers and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.The most co

56、mplicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn cultureone has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi a

57、nd McDonalds. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging.The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ tr