学位英语试题与答案.doc

学位英语模拟测试与答案（英语）
（50题，每题2分，满分100分）
Part One Vocabulary and Structure
Directions :
In this part there are ten incomplete sentences, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer, Mark you answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
1. He came all the way to China for promoting friendship ____for making money.
A. other than B more than
C. better than D. rather than
2. ___, I wroth a letter to Henry Ford II and told him what happened.
A. Desperate B, Despite
C. Inspiring D. Exciting
3,I was ____the point of telephoning him when his letter arrived.
A.to B.on
C.at D.in
4. In no country ____ Britain, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
A. other than B. more than
C. better than D. rather than
5. If I hadn’t stood under the ladder to catch you catch you when you fell.you__now.
A. wouldn’t be smiling B.couldan’t have smiled
C.won’t smile D.didn’t smile
6. All the key words in the article are printed in__type so as to attract readers’attention.
A.dark B.dense C.black D.bold
7. Living in the central Australian desert has its problems,___obtaining water is not the least.
A.for which B.to which C.of which D.in which
8. They are going to have the serviceman___an electric fan in the office tomorrow.
A.install B.to install C.to be installed D.installed
9. It is said that John’s two daughters of his wife___to the city where he had an accident.
A.going B.tense C.were going D.was going
10. The man in the corner confessed to __a lie to the manager of the company.
A.have told B.be told C.being told D.having told
Part Two Reading Comprehension
Directios:
In this part there are four passages,each followed by five questions or unfinished statements.
For each of them, there are four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your ANSWER SHEET with a single line trough the center.
Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:
Communication is the sending of information or news from one person to another. if human beings could not communicate with one another, each person would have to learn everything for himself, Although animals as well as men can communicate, so far as we know, they can express only the simple emotions like pain,joy,fear,huger of sounds and face movements, but we still have much to learn about these animal languages.
Speech is the most important means of communication between people. But it is not the onlyone.Nor is it the oldest.We use facial expressions,gestures and hand movements to express ourfeelings and to send signals to other people. Animals use this “body language”a great deal.Thesign language used by deaf people is an example of communication without speech,while blind people communicate largely through touch and hearing.
11,According to the passage, what would happen to us without communication?
A.We should learn everything for ourselves
B.We would become unable to speak.
C.We couldn’t live happily.
D.We might have to do everything by ourselves.
12.What does the passage say a about animals’communication?
A.They have their advanced language in form of sound.
B.They can express simple feelings such as hunger and pain.
C.Some of them can communicate with people very well.
D.All of them can use sound to express themselves.
13.Which of the following statement is true?
A.Humans do not have adequate knowledge about animal languages.
B.We are now very much aware of animal languages.
C.Most of animals use their facial expressiong.
D.All animals make sounds to communicate with each other.
14.What means of communication is used by most people?
A.Facial expressions.
B.Body movements
C.Speech.
D.Body movement and speech.
15.We can infer from the passage that the oldest form of communication between people is_____
A.speech
B.touch and hearing
C.sounds
D.body language
Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage;
No woman can be too rich or too thin. This saying often attributed to the late Duchess(公爵夫人)of Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times.Being thin is deemed as such a virtue.
The problem with such a view is that some people actually attempt to live by i. I myself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes.Consequently, I have been on a diet for the better——or worse——part of my life. Being rich wouldn’t be bad either, but that won’t happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly in some distant land,leaving me millions of dollars.
Where did we go off the track? When did eating butter become a sin,and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing,if not repellent?All religions have certain days when people refrain from eating.
and excessive eating one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins. However, until quite recently,most people had a problem getting enough to eat. In some religious groups, wealth was a symbol of probable salvation and high morals.and fatness a sign of wealth and well-being.
Today the opposite is true.We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue.The result is that being fat——or even only somewhat overweight——is bad because it implies a lack of moral strength.
Qur obsession(迷恋)with thinness is also fueled by health coneerns.It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before,and that,in many cases, being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease.These diseases,however,may have as much to do with our way of life and our high-fat diets as with excess weight.And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more of a dictary problem——too much fat and a lack of fiber——than a weight problem.
The real concern,then,is not that we weigh too much,but that we neither exercise enough nor
Eat well.Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and hing health.A balanced diet
Without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid many diseases. We should surely stop paying so
Much attention to weight.Simply being thin is not enough.It is actually hazardous if those who get
(or already are )thin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to their overall lifestyle.Thinness can be pure vainglory(虚荣)
16.in the eyes of the author,an odd phenomenon nowadays is that___
A.religious people are not necessarily virtuous
B.looking slim is a symbol of having a large fortune
C,being thin is viewed as a much desired quality
D.the Duchess of Windsor is regarded as a woman of virtue
17.Swept by the prevailing trend,the author____
A,had to wear highly fashionable clothes
B,had to seek help from rich distant relatives
C,had to go on a dier for the greater part of her life
D.could still prevent herself from going off the track
18.In human history,people’s views on body weight___
A,changed from time to time
B,led to different moral standards
C,varied between the porr and the rich
D,were elosely related to their religious beliefs
19The author criticizes women’s obsession with thinness__
A,from a historical and religious standpoint
B,from sociological and medical points of vew
C,from an economic and educational perspective
D,in the light of moral principles
20.What’s the author’s advice to women who are absorbed in the idea of thinness?
A.They should gain weight to look healthy.
B.They should be more watehful for ratal diseases.
C.They should be more concerned with their overall lifestyle.
D.They should rid themselves fantasies about designer clothes.
Qnestions 21-25 are baed on the following passage:
Even plants can run a fever,especially when they’re under attack by insects or diseasc,But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away——straight up.A
Decade ago,adapting the infrared scanning technology developed for military purposes and other
Satellites,physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to
Determine which ones are under stress.The goal was to let framers preciselhy target pesticide(杀虫剂)spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field,which invariably includes plants that don’t have pest(害虫)problems.
Even better,Paley’s Remots Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000feet at nigh,an infrared scanner
Measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-coded map showing
Where plants were running “fevers” Farmers could then spot-spray,using 40 to 70 percent less
Pesticide than they otherwise would.
The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984,after 40 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.
The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984,after only three years,Farmers
Resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find.But with the renewed conccrn about pesticides on produce, and fefinements in infrared scanning,Paley hopes to get back into operation.Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works,”This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States,”says George Oerther of Texas A&M.Ray Jackson, who recently retird from the Departnt of Agriculture,thisks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade.But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.
21.Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are____
A.sprayed with pesticides B.facing an infrared scanner
C.in poor physical condition D.exposed to excessive sun rays
22.In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely,we can use infrared scanning to___
A,estimate the damage to the crops B.measure the size of the affected area
C.draw a color-coded map D.locate the problem area
23.Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by___
A.rcsorting to spot-spraying
B.consulting infrared scanning experts
C,transforming poisoned rain
D.detecting crop problems at an carly stage
24.The application of infrared scanning technology to agriculture met with some difficulties___
A.the lack of offieial support B.its high cost
C.the lack of financial D.its failure to help increase production
25.Infrared scanning technology may be brought bafck into operation because of___
A.the desire of farmers to improve the quality of their produce
B.growing conccrn about the exccssive use of pesticides on crops
C.the forceful promotion by the Department of Agriculture
D.full support from agricultural experts
Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage:
The appcal of advertising to buying motives can have both negative and positive effects.
Consumers may be convinced to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement.For example,some advertisers have appealed to people’s desire for better fuel economy for their cars by advertising automotive products that improve gasoline mileage.Some of
The products work.Others are worthless and a waste of consumers’money.
Sometimes advertising is intentionally misleading.A few years ago a brand of bread was offered to turned out that the bread was not dietetic(适合于节食的),but just regular bread,There fewer calories because it was sliccd very thin,but there were the same munber of calories in every loaf.
On the positive side,emotional appeals may respond to a consumer’s real conccrns. Consider fire insurance.Fire insurance maybe sold by appealing to fear of loss.But fear of loss is the real reason for fire insurance. The security of knowing that property is protected by insurance makes the purchase of fire insurance a worthwhile investment for most people.If consumers consider the quality of the insureance plans as well as the message in the ads,they will bencfit from the advertising.
Each consumer must evaluate her of his own situation.Are the benefits of the product important enough to justify buying it ? Advertising is intended to appcal to consumers, but it does not force them to buy the product. Consumers still control the final buying decision.
26.Advertising can persuade the consumer to buy worthless products by__
A.stressing their high quality
B.convincing him of their low price
C.maintaining a balance between quality and price
D.appealing to his buying motives
27.The reason why the bread advertisement is misleading is that__
A,thin slices of bread could contain more calories
B,the loaf was cut into regular slices
C,the broad was not genuine broad
D,the total number of calories in the loaf remained the same
28.The passage tells us that__
A.sometimes advertisements really sell what the consumer needs
B.advertisements occasionally force consumers into buying things they don’t need
C.the buying morives of consumers are controlled by advertisements
D.fire insurance is seldom a worthwhile investment
29.It can be inferred from the passage that a smart consumer should__
A.think carefully about the benefits described in the advertisements
B.guard against the deceiving nature of adverisements
C.be familiar with various advertising strategies
D.avoid buying products that have strong cmotional appeal
30.The passage is mainly about___
A.how to make a wise buying decision
B.ways to protect the interess of the consumer
C.the positive and negative aspects of advertising
D.the function of advertisements in promoting sales
Part Three Cloze
Directions:
For each blank in the following passage,choose the best answer from the choices given below.Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
When television first began to expand,very few of the people who had become famous as radio commentators were able to be effective on television,.Some of the difficulties they exspericnced when were trying to 31 themselves to the new medium were technical.When working on radio.for example,they had become 32 to seeing on behalf of the listener.This 33 of seeing for others means that the commcntator has to be very good at talking.Above all,he has to be able to 34 a continuous sequence of visual images which 35 meaning to the sounds which the listener hears.In the 36 of television,however,the commentator seeseverything with the viewer.
His role,therefore,is completely different.He is there to make 37 that the viewer does not niss some point of interest, to help him focus on par