2023年同等学力英语模拟试卷.doc

2023年同等学力人员申请硕士学位
英语摸底试卷
卷一 Paper One (100minutes)
Part I Oral Communication (15 minutes，10 points)
Section A
Directions：In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A，B and C，taken from the dialogue. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Dialogue One
A. I’ll put the presents under the tree later
B. I’ve put up the decorations
C. It won’t take long to make

A: Is everything ready for the Christmas party?
B: Almost. （1） , and we’ve decorated the Christmas tree with plenty of tinsel and baubles.
A: I like the big star on the top of the tree. （2） . And how’s the food?
B: I’ve prepared most of it already and we’ve got plenty of snack foods—you know, crisps, biscuits, and things. Are you going to make the punch?
A: Yes. I’ve bought all the things to go in it. ( 3 ) .

Dialogue Two
A. We’ll come back later
B. The restaurant is full now
C. No, I am afraid we don’t

Man: A table for two, please.
Waiter: Do you have a reservation, sir?
Man: ( 4 ) .
Waiter: I’m sorry. ( 5 ) . You have to wait half an hour. Would you care to have a drink at the lounge until a table is available?
Man: No, thanks. ( 6 ) . May I reserve a table for two?
Waiter: Yes, of course. May I have your name, sir?
Man: Bruce. By the way, can we have a table by the window?
Waiter: We’ll try to arrange it but I can’t guarantee, sir.
Section B
Directions: In this section there is one incomplete interview, which has four blanks and four choices A, B, C and D, taken from the interview. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

A. Weren’t you frightened
B. I was out fishing
C. I live near the big military base in Aldershot
D. It was behind some trees, but I could see it clearly because there was a full moon

Interviewer: Mr. Burton, you say that you have seen a UFO. Is that right?
Mr. Burton: Yes, absolutely right. It happened just over a year ago.
Interviewer: And where was this?
Mr. Burton: Near my home in Aldershot, in the south of England. ( 7 ) .
Interviewer: What time of day was it?
Mr. Burton: It was about nine o’clock in the evening. ( 8 ) . The weather forecast said it was going to be a warm, clear night with no clouds, and that’s perfect for fishing.
Interviewer: And what happened?
Mr. Burton: Well, I saw a bright light coming towards me at about three hundred feet, and then it started to land. ( 9 ) . Then I saw two forms coming towards me, and when they were about five feet away, they just stopped and looked at me for a good ten or fifteen seconds.
Interviewer: Did they speak to you?
Mr. Burton: Yes. The one on the right said: “Come this way, please.”
Interviewer: ( 10 ) ? I mean, weren’t you surprised that they spoke English?

Part II Vocabulary (10 points)
Directions: In this part there are ten sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

11. As stock prices plunged during the banking crisis, some investors were beginning to lose hope.
A. tumbled B. dispersed C. collapsed D. dripped

12. Some experts fear that these regulations will be so strict as to paralyze economic activities.
A. make…ineffective B. render…necessary
C. keep…strong D. leave…alone

13. The arrangement of the meeting has to be kept confidential for the sake of security.
A. confident B. secret C. flexible D. positive
14. The guilty verdict was widely expected, although harsher than many had predicted.
A. judgment B. crime C. jury D. convict

15. Once a political system has been corrupted right from the very top leaders to the lowest ranks of the government, the problem is very complicated.
A. rotten B. disintegrated C. boiled D. spoiled

16. As a master’s candidate, he was always diligent in his study and research.
A. instructive B. industrious C. intelligent D. intense

17. Three days later, the IOC announced that Johnson’s test had been positive and he had disgraced the sports movement.
A. dishonored B. destroyed C. discriminated D. disguised

18. In the months and years that followed as I transited the Northwest Passage, I came to accept such surprises as commonplace.
A. passed across B. passed away
C. passed on D. passed over

19. Before treating the injuries, the victim’s feet should be elevated, otherwise it might make the abdominal injuries more serious.
A. lifted B. lowered C. leveled D. separated

20. The loans were made based on fake certificates of deposit issued by bank branch officials.
A. artificial B. false C. dishonest D. pretended

Part III Reading Comprehension (25 points)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Come on—Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure. It usually leads to no good drinking, drugs and casual sex. But in her new book, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.
The idea seems promising, and Rosenberg is a perceptive observer. Her critique of the lameness of many public health campaigns is spot on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology dare to be different, please don’t smoke! Pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in. Rosenberg argues convincingly that public health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.
But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive. Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful. The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long. Rage against the Haze failed once state funding was cut. Evidence that the Love Life program produces lasting changes is limited and mixed.
There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits as well as negative ones spread through networks of friends via social communication. This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.
Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions. It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better behaved classmates. The tactic never really works. And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

21. According to the first paragraph, peer pressure often emerges as ______.
A. a supplement to the social cure
B. a stimulus to group dynamics
C. an obstacle to school progress
D. a cause of undesirable behaviors

22. Rosenberg holds that public advocates should ______.
A. recruit professional advertisers
B. learn from advertisers’ experience
C. stay away from commercial advertisers
D. recognize the limitations of advertisements

23. In the author’s view, Rosenberg’s book fails to ______.
A. adequately probe social and biological factors
B. effectively evade the flaws of the social cure
C. illustrate the functions of state funding
D. produce a long lasting social effect

24. Paragraph 4 shows that our imitation of behaviors ______.
A. is harmful to our networks of friends
B. will mislead behavioral studies
C. occurs without our realizing it
D. can produce negative health habits

25. The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is ______.
A. harmful B. desirable C. profound D. questionable
Passage Two
The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2023. For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least. “Hooray! At last！” Wrote Anthony Tommasini, a sober sided classical music critic.
One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.
For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one. To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music. All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.
Devoted concert goers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point. For the time, attention, and money of the art loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century. There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be consumed at a time and place of the listener’s choosing. The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.

One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record. Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into a markedly different, more vibrant organization. But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough. If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.

26. We learn from Para.1 that Gilbert’s appointment has ______.
A. incurred criticism B. raised suspicion
C. received acclaim D. aroused curiosity

27. Tommasini regards Gilbert as an artist who is ______.
A. influential B. modest C. respectable D. talented

28. The author believes that the devoted concert goers ______.
A. ignore the expenses of live performances
B. reject most kinds of recorded performances
C. exaggerate the variety of live performances
D. overestimate the value of live performances

29. According to the text, which of the following is true of recordings?
A. They are often inferior to live concerts in quality.
B. They are easily accessible to the general public.
C. They help improve the quality of music.
D. They have only covered masterpieces.
30. Regarding Gilbert’s role in revitalizing the Philharmonic, the author feels ______.
A. doubtful B. enthusiastic C. confident D. puzzled

Passage Three
It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, I Love My Children, I Hate My Life, is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment to moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past tense condition. Even though the day to day experience of raising kids can be soul crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight”.
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a baby is hardly the only Madonna and child image on newsstands this week. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom to be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten killing? Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world. Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their own.
It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress free, happiness enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting—the Rachel might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

31. Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring ______.
A. temporary delight B. enjoyment in progress
C. happiness in retrospect D. lasting reward

32. We learn from Paragraph 2 that ______.
A. celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip
B. single mothers with babies deserve greater attention
C. news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining
D. having children is highly valued by the public

33. It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks ______.
A. are constantly exposed to criticism
B. are largely ign