2023年同等学力人员英语试卷真题无水印.doc

2023 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（A卷） Paper One Part I Dialogue Communication (10 minutes, 10 points, 1 for each ) 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.D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. 1. A: David said he bought a new BMW for 5,000!B:_ Sounds pretty cheap to me!A: Well, thats what he said.A. Are you sure? B. Come to think of it.C. Do you think so? D. Is he crazy?2. A: We just came back from Phoenix. And we had the best vacation in years.B: _ Im glad to hear it.A. Oh, my goodness! B. How was it?C. Oh, there you go again. D. Good for you.3. A: I just cant stand this class any more!B: _ Its required, and you have to sit in it in order to graduate.A. Well, why not just drop out of it?B. Why, you can say that again!C. Well, you might as well get used to it.D. Why, I couldnt agree more!4. A: I dont know about you, but I thought that film was terrific.B: _ The action was great, and so was the music.A. Just the same. B. Im with you there. C. More or less. D. I sure do.5. A: Dan gave me a free ride home, but I paid for the gas.B: You know what they say, _A. theres no free lunch. B. dont bite off more than you can chew.C. one good mm deserves another. D. its who you know that counts.Section B Dialogue Comprehension Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short conversions between a man and a woman. At the end of each conversation there is a question followed by 4 choices marked A.B.C.D. Choose the best answer to the question from the 4 choices by marking the corresponding better with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. 6. Woman: Id rather not talk about it. Just dont ask.Man: Come on. I think you need to let off some steam.Question: What does the man advise the woman to do?A. To talk to him about the problem. B. To keep the secret.C. To reduce the workload. D. To have a good rest.7. Woman: Julies dress looks funny. That style went out last year.Man: Oh, come on, as long as it looks good on her.Question: What does the man try to emphasize?A. Julies dress is not outdated. B. Julies dress does not suit her.C. Julie should follow the fashion. D. Julie looks free in that dress.8. Man: What kind of snacks do you prefer?Woman: Oh, Ive got a sweet tooth, you know.Question: What does the woman probably like?A. Sandwich. B. Hot dogs. C. Ice cream. D. Potato chips.9. Woman: Im tired of driving all the way to work and back every day. If only carscould drive themselves!Man: Well, some car manufacturers are working on them. I guess youll soon buy one if you can afford it.Question: What does the man imply?A. The woman will be able to buy an intelligent car.B. Cars that drive themselves may be very expensive.C. He is working with a car producer on intelligent cars.D. Driving to work is really a headache.10. Man: Annie, how does it not even cross your mind that you might want a futur with someone?Woman: Its simple. I dont mind being married to my career.Question: Whats Annies attitude towards her future?A. She will stay with someone unmarried. B. She will live a simple life.C. She will quit her job to get married. D. She will fully focus on her job.Part II Vocabulary (20 minutes, 10 points, 0.5 for each) 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.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.The news reports completely overlooked the more profound political implications of the events.A. neglected B. foresaw C. explored D. assessed12. Teachers and nurses who deal with children are obliged to report cases of suspected child abuse to authorities.A. reminded B. expected C. compelled D. requested13. Your grade will be based in large part on the originality of your ideas.A. creativity B. popularity C. feasibility D. flexibility14. We suspect there is a quite deliberate attempt to sabotage the elections and undermine the electoral commission.A. conscious B. desperate C. clumsy D. intentional15. So strange were the circumstances of my story that I can scarcely believe myself to have been a party to them.A. just B. hardly C. almost D. definitely16. Smoke particles and other air pollutants are often trapped in the atmosphere, thus forming dirty fog.A. constrained B. caught C. concealed D. concentrated17. Employees in chemical factories are entitled to receive extra pay for doing hazardous work.A. poisonous B. difficult C. dangerous D. harmful18. Curt Carlson, the wealthiest man in Minnesota, owned a hotel and travel company with sales reaching in the neighborhood of 9 billion.A. precisely B. merely C. substantially D. approximately19. The tendency of the human body to reject foreign matter is the main obstacle to successful organ transplantation.A. factor B. constituent C. barrier D. break20. Whenever you need Tom, he is always there whether it be an ear or a helping hand, so you can always lean on him.A. count on B. benefit from C. stand for D. stick toSection B Directions: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A.B.C.D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSERS SHEET. A. takes B. appears C. makes D. goes22. The world economic recession put an _ end to the steel market upturn that began in 2023.A. irregular B. illegal C. abrupt D. absurd23. Im _ about how you discovered my website, and am very glad if you enjoy it.A. mysterious B. furious C. serious D. curious24. The Labor Partys electoral strategy, based on an _ with other smaller parties, has proved successful.A. acquaintance B. integration C. alliance D. intimacy25. The new aircraft will be _ to a test of temperatures of 65 and 120.A. suspended B. suppressed C. summoned D. subjected26. The money I got from teaching on the side was a useful _ to my ordinary income.A. profit B. supplement C. subsidy D. replacement27. Chinese people are now enjoying better dental health, as shown by the declining_ of tooth decay.A. treatment B. incidence C. consequence D. misfortune28. Many countries have conservation programs to prevent certain _offish from becoming extinct.A. species B. sources C. numbers D. members29. Susan never took any cookery courses she learned cooking by _useful tips from TV cookery programs.A. picking up B. bringing up C. putting up D. pulling up30. The President _ his deputy to act for him while he was abroad.A. promoted B. substituted C. authorized D. displacedPart Reading Comprehension (45minutes, 30point) Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 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 NSWER SHEET. Passage One Until last spring, Nia Parker and the other kids in her neighborhood commuted to school on Bus 59. But as fuel prices rose, the school district needed to find a way to cut its transportation costs. So the schools busing company redrew its route map, eliminating Nias bus altogether. Now Nia and her neighbors travel the haft mile to school via a“walking school bus”agroup of kids, supervised by an adult or two, who make the walk together.Like the rest of us, school districts are feeling pinched by rising fuel costsand finding new ways to adapt. The price of diesel fuel has gone up 34 percent in the past two years. For the typical American school district, bus bills total 5 percent of thebudget. As administrators look to trim, busing is an inviting target, since it doesntaffect classroom instruction (or test scores). More than one third of American school administrators have elim/nated bus stops or routes in order to stay within budget.Many parents are delighted to see their kids walking to school, partly because many did so themselves: according to a 1969 survey, nearly half of school kids walked or biked to school, compared with only 16 percent in 2023. Modem parents have been unwilling to let kids walk to school for fear of traffic, crime or simple bullying, but with organized adult supervision, those concerns have diminished.Schools and busing companies are finding other ways to save. In rural areas where busing is a must, some schools have even chosen fourday school weeks.Busing companies instruct drivers to eliminate extra stops from routes and to mm off the engine while idling. They are also using computer software to determine the most fuelefficient routes, which arent always the shortest ones.There could be downsides, however, to the busing cutbacks. If every formerly bused student begins walking to school, its an environmental winbut if too many of their parents decide to drive them instead, the overall carbon footprint can grow. Replacing buses with many more parentdriven cars can also increase safety risks: A 2023 report concluded students are 13 times safer on a school bus than in a passenger car, since buses have fewer accidents and withstand them better due to their size. And some students complain about the long morning hikes, particularly when the route contains a really big hill.31. The“walking school bus” _.A. does not consume fuel B. aims to keep children fitC. seldom causes traffic jams D. is popular with school kids32. In America the responsibility for busing kids to school lies with _.A. individual schools B. school districts C. teachers D. parents33. As regards walking to school, modern parents seem much concerned with the_.A. time spent on the way B. changes in the routeC. kids physical strength D. safety of their children34. To save money, some schools choose to _.A. take the shortest routes B. shorten the school weekC. give drivers better training D. use fuelefficient buses35. Busing cutbacks may eventually lead to _.A. fiercer competition among bus companiesB. more students taking public transportationC. an increase in carbon dioxide emissionsD. a decrease in the safety of school buses36. Which of the following best describes the authors attitude towards busing cutbacks?A. Favorable. B. Critical. C.Objective. D. Indifferent.Passage Two People are living longer than eve Two r, but for some reason, women are living longer than men. A baby boy born in the United States in 2023 can expect to live to be about 73, a baby girl, about 79. This is indeed a wide gap, and no one really knows why it exists. The greater longevity (长寿) of women, however, has been known for centuries. It was, for example, described in the seventeenth century. However, the difference was smaller thenthe gap is growing.A number of reasons have been proposed to account for the differences. The gap is greatest in industrialized societies, so it has been suggested that women are less susceptible to work strains that may raise the risk of heart disease and alcoholism. Sociologists also tell us that women are encouraged to be less adventurous than men (and this may be why they are more careful drivers, involved in fewer accidents).Even smoking has been implicated in the age discrepancy. It was once suggested that working women are more likely to smoke and as more women entered the work force, the age gap would begin to close, because smoking is related to earlier deaths. Now, however, we see more women smoking and they still tend to live longer although their lung cancer rate is climbing sharply.One puzzling aspect of the problem is that women do not appear to be as healthy as men. That is, they report far more illnesses. But when a man reports an illness, it is more likely to be serious.Some researchers have suggested that men may die earlier because their health is more strongly related to their emotions. For example, men tend to die sooner after losing a spouse than women do. Men even seem to be more weakened by loss of a job.(Both of these are linked with a marked decrease in the effectiveness of the immune system.) Among men, death follows retirement with an alarming promptness.Perhaps we are searching for the answers too close to the surface of the problem.Perhaps the answers lie deeper in our biological heritage. After all, the phenomenon is not isolated to humans. Females have the edge among virtually all mammalian (哺乳动物) species, in that they generally live longer. Furthermore, in many of these species the differences begin at the moment of conception there are more malev miscarriages (流产). In humans, after birth, more baby boys than baby girls die.37. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?A. Mens lifespan remains almost unchanged.B. Researchers have found the causes of the age gap.C. The more advanced a society, the greater the age gap.D. The age gap was noticed only recently.38. As is suggested in Paragraph 2, the two factors relevant to womens longer lifespan are _.A. diseases and road accidentsB. industrialization and work strainsC. their immunity to heart disease and refusal of alcoholD. their endurance of work strains and reluctance for adventure39. According to Paragraph 3, which of the following statements is true?A. The great number of male smokers contributes to the age gap.B. The growing number of smoking women will narrow the age gap.C. Female workers are more likely to smoke than male workers.D. Smoking does not seem to affect womens longevity.40. Which of the following phenomena makes researchers puzzled?A. Mens health is more closely related to their emotions.B. Though more liable to illnesses, women still live longer.C. Men show worse symptoms than women when they fall ill.D. Quite a number of men die soon after their retirement.41. The word “edge”in Paragraph 6 means“_”.