同等学力英语模拟试题1答案.doc

同等学力人员申请硕士学位英语水平全国统一考试标准模拟试题一
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Part I Dialogue communication(10 minutes, l0 points)
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 best answer that 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. A: This toothache is killing me.
B: If 1 am right, this is the third time you have had it this month.
A: You are right.___________
A. It's all right. B. It'll be gone.
C. I have no method. D. I'm fed up with it.
2. A: Good morning. Highlight Booking Office.
B: ________
A. Thank you very much.
B. I'd like to book 4 tickets for the Friday night show.
C. I wonder when I can go home.
D. I want to make a reservation for a single room, please.
3. A: __________
B: Yes, it's not like what the radio said at all.
A. I think it's going to be sunny tomorrow.
B. Beautiful day, isn't it?
C. It's supposed to get windy and cloudy this afternoon.
D. This is the worst winter in my life.
4. A: I'd like to place a person-to-person call to Chicago. The number is 932-8647, but I don't know the area code
B: ________
A. Sorry. I can't tell you.
B．What's the name of the party you're calling?
C. This is operator speaking.
D. OK. Here you are.
5. A: Kennedy Airport, please. I have to be there by 7:00.
B: _________
A. What are you doing there?
B. Where were you just now?
C. $90.
D. I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best.

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: When are George's parents coming back?
Woman: My sister says both she and George's father will stay on for the weekend since George is all right here with us.
Question: What is the relationship between George and the woman'?
A. Grandmother and grandchild.
B. Mother and son-in-law.
C. Aunt and nephew.
D. Aunt and niece.
7. Woman: Does a half gallon of fresh milk still sell for $1. 50?
Man: Yes, but today if you buy two half-gallons, the second is only half price.
Question: How much will the man pay for a gallon of fresh milk today?
A. $2.75. B. $2.25. C. $1.50. D. $3.00.
8. Man: Did you make a reservation on the 9:00 flight for me?
Woman: I thought you wanted to take the 8:30 one. It's too late to change now.
Question: What's the problem?
A. The woman made no reservation.
B. The woman misunderstood the man.
C. The woman made the reservation for the 9.00 flight.
D. The woman changed the reservation.
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 (20 minutes, 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传记of George Washington, many of the incidents 事件are imaginary.
A. fascinating B. factitious C. fastidious D. fictitious
12. The trade fair交易会 is designed to facilitate further cooperation between Chinese auto industries 汽车产业and overseas auto industries.
A. promote B. protect C. preserve D. prolong
13. He was concerned only with mundane世俗的 matters, especially the daily stock market quotations行情.
A. rational B. obscure C. worldly D. eminent
14. The earthquake that occurred in India this year was a major calamity 灾难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复原 as rapidly as they had expected.
A. withdraw B. emerge C. recover D. uncover
16. The purchaser of this lorry卡车 is protected by the manufacturer's warranty担保that he will replace any defective有缺陷的 part for five years or 50.000 miles.
A. prohibition B. insurance C. prophecy D. guarantee
17. The boy could not reconcile 屈服himself to the failure. He did not believe that was his lost.
A. submit B. commit C. transmit D. permit
18. In some cities of North China. the noise pollution is as pronounced 显著的as that in Tokyo.
A. contemptuous B. contagious C. conspicuous D. contemplated
19. Trivial breaches违反 of regulations we can pass over忽略, 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 插嘴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 sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and 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 ANSWER SHEET.

21. The ____________of the spring water attracts a lot of visitors from other parts of the country.
A. clash B. clarify C. clarity D. clatter
22. Business in this area has been ___________because prices are too high.
A. prosperous B. secretive C. slack D. shrill
23. He told a story about his sister who was in a sad _____________when she was ill and had no money.
A. plight B. polarization C. plague D. pigment
24. He added a _____________to his letter by saying that he would arrive before 8 pm.
A. presidency B. prestige C. postscript D. preliminary
25. Some linguists believe that the ___________age for children learning a foreign language is 5 to 8.
A. optimistic B. optional C. optimal D. oppressed
26. It all started in 1950, when people began to build their houses on the _________of their cities.
A. paradises B. omissions C. orchards D. outskirts
27. The meeting was _________over by the mayor of the city.
A. presumed B. proposed C. presented D. presided
28. The crowd __________into the hall and some had to stand outside.
A. outgrew B. overflowed C. overpassed D. overflew
29. It was clear that the storm _________his arrival by two hours.
A. retarded B. retired C. refrained D. retreated
30. This problem should be discussed first, for it takes ________over all the other issues.
A. precedence B. prosperity C. presumption D. probability

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points)
Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

Passage One

The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in the refrigerator."
In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus剩余的 bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well tried techniques already existed-natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling…
What refrigeration did promote was marketing销售-marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price.
Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics热带 where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild温和的 temperatures Where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away嗡嗡响 continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house—while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.
The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in, a food cabinet and turn off your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers, but at least you'll get rid of that terrible hum.

31. The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." (Line 1, Para. 2) suggests that___________.
A. the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties
B. the author was not accustomed to using fridges even in his fifties
C. there was no fridge in the author's home in the 1950s
D. the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s
32. Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?
A. People would not buy more food than was necessary.
B. Food was delivered to people two or three times a week.
C. Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.
D. People had effective ways to preserve their food.
33. Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?
A. Inventors. B. Consumers.
C. Manufacturers. D. Travelling salesmen.
34. Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge's negative effect on the environment?
A. Hum away continuously. B. Climatically almost unnecessary.
C. Artificially-cooled space. D. With mild temperatures.
35. What is the author's overall attitude toward fridges?
A. Neutral. B. Critical. C. Objective D. Compromising.
36. Which of the following statements can be inferred from this passage?
A. The fridge is quite different from the refrigerator.
B. The fridge has more bad effects than good ones.
C. Despite its contribution to the environment, the fridge has defects such as the noise.
D. People invented the fridge so as to live better.

Passage Two

The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thou sand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss排除，放弃 the possibility of making a machine with humanlike ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software (软件) or by altering the architecture but that too will happen.
I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival比得上 and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand忍受 environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth （this new age will bring and the technology it will provide）, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.

37. In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A. By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space.
B. By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C. By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D. By reproducing it.
38. What does the writer think about machines with human-like ability?
A. He believes they will be useful to human beings.
B. He believes that they will control us in the future.
C. He is not quite sure in what way they may influence us.
D. He doesn't consider the construction of such machines possible.
39. The word "carbon" (Line 4, Para. 2) stands for"_________".
A. intelligent robots B. a chemical element
C. an organic substance D. human beings
40. A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when____________.
A. its intelligence and cost are beyond question
B. it is able to bear the rough environment
C. it is made as complex as the human brain
D. its architecture is different from that of the present ones
41. It can be inferred from the passage that___________.
A. after the installation of a great number of cells and connections, robots will be capable of self-reproduction
B. with the rapid deve