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.doc

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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  TEST
　　FOR  MASTER-DEGREE  APPLICANTS
　　Paper 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。
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　　Paper One 试卷一
　　Part ⅠDialogue communication (10minutes, 10points)
　　Section A Dialogue completion
　　Directions: 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, I'm 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 Prince's Building is?
　　Speaker B:
　　A. The Prince's 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. It's there near the corner.
　　D. Strange！What's going on there? Three people have asked me how to get there.
　　3. Speaker A: Can I help you?
　　Speaker B:
　　A. Sorry, I don't need your help.
　　B. What help can you give us?
　　C. Thanks. It's very kind of you to offer us help.
　　D. I'd like to try on these shoes, please.
　　4. Speaker A: I can't stand the school cafeteria. The food is terrible.
　　Speaker B:
　　A. I agree with you. It's quite difficult to find a seat in the cafeteria.
　　B. Yeah, you will feel more comfortable if you sit down.
　　C. Yeah, but that's not the worst thing about it. It's also very dirty.
　　D. I don't see why they don't 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 Comprehension
　　Directions: 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 it's like.
　　Question: What does the woman mean?
　　A. Betty's 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. They're 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 didn't 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 didn't understand was the very beginning.
　　Question: What does the man mean?
　　A. He didn't know how to begin to write a play.
　　B. He didn't like plays very much in the past.
　　C. He didn't want to talk about it right away.
　　D. He wasn't sure what the first part was about.
　　9. Man: I'm frustrated. We're 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. I'm looking forward to the day when I can afford to get my own.
　　Question: What does the woman mean?
　　A. She can't finish her assignment, either.
　　B. She can't afford a computer right now.
　　C. The man can use her computer.
　　D. The man should buy a computer right away.
　　10. Man: I'm sorry I missed the football game, but I had a terrible cold.
　　Woman: You didn't miss anything We couldn't have played worse.
　　Question: What does the woman mean?
　　A. She's 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 A
　　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 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. fascinating   B. factitious   C. fastidious   D. fictitious
　　12. The trade fair is designed to facilitate further cooperation between Chinese auto industries and overseas auto industries.
　　A. promote    B. protect    C. preserve   D. prolong
　　13. He was concerned only with mundane matters, especially the daily stock market quotations.
　　A. rational         B. obscure         C. worldly        D. eminent
　　14. 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. crusade
　　I5. The doctors were worried because the patient did not recuperate as rapidly as they had expected.
　　A. withdraw        B. emerge         C. recover       D. uncover
　　16. The purchaser of this lorry is protected by the manufacturer's warranty that he will replace any defective part for five years or 50.000 miles.
　　A. prohibition        B. insurance       C. prophecy       D. guarantee
　　17. The boy could not reconcile himself to the failure. He did not believe that was his lot.
　　A. submit           B. commit        C. transmit        D. permit
　　18. In some cities of North China, the noise pollution is as pronounced as that in Tokyo.
　　A. contemptuous     B. contagious      C. conspicuous    D. contemplated
　　19. Trivial breaches of regulations we can pass over, but more serious ones will have to be investigated.
　　A. exceed          B. wither         C. overpass        D. neglect
　　20. We were discussing the housing problem when a middle-aged man cut in and said, "There's no point in talking about impossibilities."
　　A. intersect          B. interject        C. penetrate      D. adulterate
　　Section B
　　Directions: 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. instinct
　　22. 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. cultivated
　　23. 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. anticipate
　　24. She had on the dress that I used to admire more than anything else in her possession-a light blue one
　　prettily with lace.
　　A. ornamented         B. trimmed              C. furnished         D. decorated
　　25. 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. consecutively
　　C. conscientiously                           D. compulsorily
　　26. Such apartments as she saw were either disgustingly dirty or            dear, or both.
　　A. exceedingly                         B. substantially
　　C. unaccountably                               D. excessively
　　27. 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. seek
　　28. Under her administration, claim the critics, high-rise construction has destroyed the            of the city's downtown, darkening its streets and driving business.
　　A. property           B. character             C. personality        D. quality
　　29. 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. expel
　　30. 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 Ⅲ 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 One
　　The 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 don't 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 itself
　　B. The historian has different views towards the past.
　　C. The history's 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 Two
　　Persons 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 id