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研究生英语学位考试模拟试卷(三)
PART II VOCABULARY (10 MINUTES, 10 POINTS)
Section A (0.5 point each)
Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each has one word or a set of words underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrases marked A,B,C, and D. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Answer Sheet.
16. His parents died when he was young so he was cared for by his uncle.
A. brought up B. grown up
C. brought out D. taken out
17. The weather forecast was good so it should turn out fine after all.
A. appear B. prove to be
C. reveal D. make up
18. As son as his party came into power they changed the law.
A. force B. strength
C. position D. office
19. You can tell from his big ears that he takes after his father.
A. resembles B. looks after
C. likes D. takes care of
20. This breed of dog is very useful for hunting.
A. tribe B. stock
C. clan D. kind
21. We'll let you know as soon as we have any further information.
A. relate it B. notify you
C. communicate with you D. make it known
22. I'm sorry to interrupt you while you're working but I must ask you a question.
A. intrude B. interfere
C. bother D. molest
23. She made it plain that she didn't approve by throwing something at me.
A. clear B. sincere
C. frank D. revealed
24. The prince took over power on the death of his father.
A. presumed B. assumed
C. resumed D. consumed
25. Give me a sheet of paper and I'll write down the main points of the lecture.
A. fragment B. piece
C. blade D. leaf
Section B (0.5 point each)
Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the word or words from the four choices given to best complete each sentence.
26. The bank is offering a ________ to anyone who can give information about the robbery.
A. compensation B. prize
C. reward D. premium
27. She's fainted. Throw some water on her face and she may ________.
A. come round B. come back
C. come again D. come out
28. I couldn't ________ the meeting because I was so busy.
A. assist B. attend
C. attempt D. present
29. The printing of the book has been held up by the paper ________.
A. scarce B. shortage
C. lack D. deficit
30. I ________ you that the goods will be delivered next week.
A. confirm B. assure
C. undertake D. insist
31. There could have been a war over it but in the end reason ________.
A. induced B. counted
C. survived D. prevailed
32. Would you please ________ from smoking while the lecture is in progress?
A. avoid B. refrain
C. stop D. keep yourself
33. I was unable to ________ him to do as I said.
A. dispose B. prevail
C. persuade D. convince
34. He accidentally ________ fire to the house.
A. put B. set
C. gave D. started
35. He's always ________ the government but he never votes in the elections.
A. calling out B. calling off
C. running down D. running out

PART III CLOZE (10 MINUTES, 15 POINTS)
Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one item of the most suitable word(s) marked A,B,C, or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the words(s) you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your Answer Sheet.

There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those ___36___ seem hopelessly old-fashioned; this Christmas, there were a lot of personal computers under the tree. ___37___ that computers are the key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children ___38___taught to use them in school--as early as possible. The problem for schools is that when it ___39___ computers, parents don't always know best. Many schools are yielding to parental impatience and are purchasing hardware ___40___ sound educational planning so they can say, "OK, we've moved into the computer age." Teachers ___41___ themselves caught in the middle of the problem--between parent pressure and wise educational decisions. Educators do not even agree __ _42___ how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials ___43___ research has shown can be taught ___44___ with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should ___45___ to computers, warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation remains strong largely because young children ___46___so well to computers. First graders have been ___47___ willing to work for two hours on math skills. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. ___48___ school can afford to go into computing, and that creates ___49___anaother problem: a division between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for computer instruction in poor school districts,___50___ there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.
36. A. items B. toys C. sets D. series
37. A. Given B. Provided C. Convinced D. Believed
38. A. are B. be C. are being D. were
39. A. talks about B. comes to C. turns to D. mentions
40. A. without B. with C. through D. for
41. A. relied on B. relaxed C. freed D found
42. A. on B. with C. to D. about
43. A. however B. it C. what D. that
44. A. equally B. in the same way C. just as well D. not as well
45. A. be open B. have access C. look D. turn
46. A. adopt B. keep C. adapt D. develop
47. A. watched B. seen C. told D. taught
48. A. High B. Not every C. No D. Any
49. A. already B. of course C. in addition D. yet
50. A. for B. in any case C. although D. where

PART IV READING COMPREHENSION (45 MINUTES, 30 POINTS)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are several passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A,B,C, or D, and mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Animals have evolved sophisticated tricks to regulate their temperature. Many reptiles move black pigment cells to their top side, so that basking in the sun brings in more heat. Dogs route blood through their nose, which acts as a radiator and prevents blood from overheating the brain. And for emperor penguins the way to do the trick is simply going into a huddle. If a honeybee becomes overheated on a pollen-gathering trip, it regurgitates some nectar onto its tongue, which it wags to speed evaporation and hence cooling. Most of the time, thermos regulation operates automatically. When the common horned lizard gets cold, its skin darkens so that it will absorb radiation more effectively. Nature has given polar bears hollow hairs that turn their fur into a forest of heating pipes. The hairs carry ultraviolet rays to the skin, presumably to warm it. Dragonflies are threatened more by heat than by cold, because their furiously flapping wing muscles overheat. To prevent the muscles from failing, the blood in some species is channeled through the abdomen which, like the dog's tongue, serves as a radiator to dissipate extra heat.
51. By the first sentence of the passage the author means
A. Animals have gradually developed good ways to heat their bodies.
B. Animals have become highly sophisticated in adjusting their temperatures.
C. Animals are heavily involved in tricks to regulate body heat.
D. Animals control each other's temperatures by tricky means.
52. It can be inferred that emperor penguins crowd together because
A. they cannot fly.
B. they are friendly.
C. they want to keep warm.
D. they are sophisticated.
53. A lizard darkens its skin
A. to mix with the color of the environment.
B. to get more heat from the sun.
C. to radiate less heat.
D. to keep warm at night.
54. According to the passage polar bears
A. have hairs which always turn to a forest.
B. use hairs to warm the skin by heating.
C. perspire through their seamless pipes.
D. absorb sun rays through hairs to stay warm.
55. From the last sentence we gather
A. some dog species use tongues as well as abdomens to dissipate body heat.
B. some dragonflies route blood through the abdomen to dispel excess heat.
C. dragonflies, like dogs, make use of the principle on which the radiator
is made.
D. dogs and dragonflies regulate their temperature in the same way.
56. The title that best expresses the ideas of this passage is
A. Tricks to Stay Warm.
B. How Animals Weather Cold and Heat.
C. Automatic Thermos regulation.
D. Nature's Wonder.
Passage Two
Verbs are notoriously the foreign learner's chief obstacle. To cut them down is an even greater aid to him in the early stages of his painful progress than may appear at first sight. What he needs is unconfused practice with them until his mastery of their inflections becomes automatic. Mere drill with them is not enough. He must make active living use of them in ever widening varieties of communication. And yet we must avoid broken English as we avoid broken legs. Repeated complex fractures are almost inevitable if we give a learner too large a supply of verbs too soon. Once it is well broken, a man's English can rarely be put straight. The vast range and covering power of the basic words and the fact that one or another of them must come back in every sentence make the reduction of the verb the solution of this difficulty.
57. According to the passage
A. verbs are notorious as far as the foreign learner is concerned.
B. verbs that appear at first sight ought to be cut down.
C. fewer verbs should be taught in the initial stage.
D. fewer verbs should be taught for mastery of inflections.
58. The word "broken" in "broken English" nearly means
A. pidgin. B. crooked. C. imperfect. D. bookish.
59. It can be concluded that
A. English, like legs, fails to become straight after repeated fractures.
B. English ill taught can hardly be remedied.
C. It's well nigh impossible for a man to undo poor English.
D. English learnt in wrong ways tends to be rigid.
60. According to the passage
A. there is at least one basic word in a sentence.
B. mastering lots of verbs is not necessarily a good thing.
C. drills should be conducted outside class.
D. automatic inflections can be practiced early.

Passage Three
In science the meaning of the word "explain" suffers with civilization's every step in search of reality. Science cannot really explain electricity, magnetism, and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature no more is known to the modern scientist than to Thales who first speculated on the electrification of amber. Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces"really" are. Electricity, Bertrand Russell says, "is not a thing, like St.Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave. When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to tell." Until recently scientists would have disapproved of such an idea. Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated Western thought for two thousand years, believed that man could arrive at an understanding of reality by reasoning from self-evident principles. He felt, for example, that it is a self-evident principle that everything in the universe has its proper place, hence one can deduce that objects fall to the ground because that's where they belong, and smoke goes up because that's where it belongs. The goal of Aristotelian science was to explain why things happen. Modern science was born when Galileo began trying to explain how things happen and thus originated the method of controlled experiment which now forms the basis of scientific investigation.
61. The aim of controlled scientific experiments is
A. to explain why things happen.
B. to explain how things happen.
C. to describe self-evident principles.
D. to support Aristotelian science.

62. What principles most influenced scientific thought for two thousand years?
A. The speculations of Thales.
B. The forces of electricity, magnetism, and gravity.
C. Aristotle's natural science.
D. Galileo's discoveries.
63. Bertrand Russell's notion about electricity is
A. disapproved of by most modern scientists.
B. in agreement with Aristotle's theory of self-evident principles.
C. in agreement with scientific investigation directed toward how things
happen.
D. in agreement with scientific investigation directed toward why things
happen.
64. The passage says that until recently scientists disagreed with the idea
A. that there are mysterious forces in the universe.
B. that man cannot discover what mysterious forces like electricity,
magnetism, and gravitation "really" are.
C. that there are self-evident principles.
D. that we can discover why things behave as they do.
Passage Four
There are over 250 independent hospital radio stations in the United Kingdom and they serve about three-quarters of the UK hospitals. Recently a survey was carried out on a random sample of these stations concerning their staffing, broadcasts and finance. Three hospitals also contributed information about the listening habits of almost 200 patients. The findings have been of great assistance to the people involved in patient services and have stimulated them to think critically about the