2023年在职硕士英语试卷真题.doc

在职攻读硕士学位硕士全国联考英语试题
英语试卷一
Part I Dialogue Communication (15 minutes, 15 points)
Section A dialogue communication
Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue. Mark you answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

1. Speaker A: Excuse me, but can you tell us where the conference room is?
Speaker B: __________ The conference room is located on the third floor of the hotel.

A. Of course, sir. B. Yes, please.
C. Right, sir. D. You are welcome.

2. Speaker A: __________
Speaker B: I’m running a temperature, and feel sick.

A. What can I do for you?
B. What seems to be the trouble?
C. What are you doing these days?
D. How long has this been going on?

3. Speaker A: Nancy, you look very well.
Speaker B: Thank you, Jane. You look wonderful too. Your weekend swimming must have done good to you.
Speaker A: ______________

A. You think so? That’s encouraging.
B. That’s very kind of you.
C. Are you serious? Thank you anyway.
D. Are you kidding? I don’t believe it.

4. Speaker A: It took me ten years to build up my business, and it almost killed me.
Speaker B: Well, you know what they say: _________

A. There is no smoke without fire. B. Practice makes perfect.
C. All roads lead to Rome. D. No pains, no gains.

5. Speaker A: Don’t you smoke?
Speaker B: ______________

A. No. Nothing interests me less than smoking.
B. Yes. I have never smoked in my life.
C. No. Only once in a while.
D. Yes. And I hate others smoking in my face.

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 four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the four choices given and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

6. Woman: I just found out at registration that the creative writing class is full. Now I have to wait a whole year to get in.
Man: Why don’t you check back after the first week? Somebody might drop it.
Question: What does the man suggest the woman should do?

A. Make sure the registration office didn’t make a mistake.
B. Decide whether to drop the course next week.
C. Find out if a place opens up in the course later.
D. Take the course next year.

7. Woman: I want to talk with Tom now.
Man: You can’t do that. He is in a bad mood.
Question: Why can’t the woman talk to Tom now?

A. Tom is terribly ill. B. Tom is in low spirits.
C. Tom is bad-tempered. D. Tom is very nervous.

8. Woman: You often complain a lot about your boss. But today you are different.
Man: We had a heart-to-heart talk and I saw him new eyes.
Question: What does the man mean?

A. He saw his boss as a real person for the first time.
B. He is now complaining in a different way.
C. He has made his boss change his attitude.
D. He has changed his opinion of his boss.

9. Woman: Maybe we should take the front street this morning. The radio announcer said that the traffic is very heavy on the freeway.
Man: Well, if he says to take the front street, we should go the other way.
Question: What does the man think of the radio announcer?

A. He’s humorous. B. He makes no mistakes.
C. He doesn’t speak clearly. D. He’s unreliable.

10. Woman: I didn’t see you at the concert last night. What’s wrong with you?
Man: That’s not my cup of tea.
Question: What does the man mean?

A. He is not fond of concerts.
B. He didn’t like the tea at the concert.
C. He left early to have some tea with somebody else.
D. He doesn’t want to tell the woman why he was not there.

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes, 10 points)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

11. The work has __________ the status of a classic among the composer’s admirers.
A. required B. acquired C. inquired D. inspired

12. Some people think they can read a man’s ________ from his handwriting.
A. attribute B. feature C. property D. character

13. The young heir was so _______ that he gave all his money away in a couple of years.
A. handsome B. genuine C. talented D. generous

14. Only by understanding the Web deeply _______ hope for people to grasp its full potential.
A. can there be B. can be there C. be there can D. there can be

15. What you’re _______ to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we live in.
A. around B. ahead C. above D. about

16. The goal is to use crops, weeds and even animal waste _______ the petroleum that fuels much of American manufacturing.
A. in terms of B. in favor of C. in spite of D. in place of

17. The _______ he said it he knew what a mistake he had made.
A. moment B. time C. occasion D. hour

18. I ________ rather solve the problems in my farm myself than seek the help of other people.
A. should B. shall C. would D. will

19. From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the _ that its disadvantages are far greater than its advantages.
A. solution B. conclusion C. answer D. attention

20. By the time you have completed the essential training, you _____ exposed to virtually every new feature of the course.
A. will have been B. will be C. would have been D. would be

21. Too often teachers’ _______ with parents involve complaints about children’s misbehaviors and laziness.
A. acquaintances B. associations C. conferences D. consultations

22. _________ I admit that the problems are difficult, I don’t agree that they cannot be solved.
A. When B. Where C. While D. Why

23. He should _______ be allowed to get up until he has completely recovered from his illness.
A. in case B. in any case C. in that case D. in no case

24. If nature does not provide man with the necessary material, it is the laboratory ________ he will turn to for it.
A. where B. which C. that D. what

25. All flights ________ because of the snowstorm, they decided to take the train.
A. were cancelled B. have been cancelled
C. had been cancelled D. having been cancelled

26. I really appreciate ________ to help me, but I am sure that I can manage by myself.
A. you to come B. that you come
C. your coming D. how you come

27. A new system of quality control was _________to overcome the shortcomings in the firm’s products.
A. invested B. informed C. introduced D. instructed

28. It may be worthwhile at this moment to_____ and see what results we have got after one year’s experiments.
A. look back B. look around C. look up D. look forward

29. I don’t think Mr. Watson will come here again today. Please give the ticket to ________ comes here first.
A. whomever B. whom C. who D. whoever

30. Far too many owners of electric appliances have a hard time ____ qualified repairmen to fix their machines.
A. finding B. to find C. to finding D. having found

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages 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 your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

Passage One
Don't have time to read anymore? Now you can get free, quick literature via email. More than 100,000 people open their email each day to read a chapter of a book, through Chapter-A-Day, an online book club created two years ago. It's a free email service that provides a short daily reading for busy people, exposing them to literature they may not find on their own, inspiring some to recommit to the reading habit. About 550 public library systems representing over 3,000 branch libraries already have signed up to offer Chapter-A-Day. Via email, participants get about five minutes' worth of reading every day. After three chapters are emailed, the installments stop, and those who want to keep reading can borrow the book at their public library or purchase it online. Chapter-A-Day has eight free book clubs, and sells thousands of books each month.
Chapter-A-Day started in 1999 when Suzanne Beecher, a lifelong book lover, realized how many of the women who worked part-time for her software development company didn't have time in their busy lives to read. She decided to type part of a chapter of a book, and send it to her employees through email. The next day she typed a little more, and continued to send literary installments each day. She says she started getting feedback from the staff about how reading made them feel. “They were interested, and realized that, though they didn't have time in their busy lives for reading, just reading that little bit each day got them back in the habit.” Realizing that many other people could benefit, she decided to take the idea even further and start an email “chapter-a-day” book club to help others ease their way back into daily reading. “Reading makes changes in people's lives,” Beecher says.
Pat Dempsey, a librarian at a public library in Ohio, has found Chapter-A-Day helps her library clients get back in the habit of reading. “It's a different way to get people hooked on books,” she says.

31. Chapter-A-Day is intended to help people _______.
A. get back into the habit of reading
B. relieve stress from office work
C. find interesting books online
D. buy books more conveniently

32. The passage was written in ___________.
A. 1999 B. C. D.

33. It can be inferred that through Chapter-A-Day _________.
A. public libraries have become crowded with readers
B. Ms Beecher made much money for her software company
C. people begin to read very slowly and patiently
D. people cannot finish reading any book online

34. The word “installment” in the passage probably means “ ________. ”
A. a library email B. a rare piece of literature
C. a free novel D. a part of a book

35. Ms Beecher decided to expand her Chapter-A-Day service because_____.
A. over 3, 000 libraries had joined
B. many other people could benefit
C. eight book clubs supported her
D. free email service was available

Passage Two
Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers—now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Rouses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine(巴勒斯坦), visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they’d hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hired.
The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership between Chicago Public Schools and the U. S. Government. Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using HI-B visas. The Government grants these visas only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can’t be filled with available U. S. workforce.
Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers from 22 different countries. Applicants must pass an English language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual(双语旳) education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the - school year.
What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom? Hannon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine. For one thing, he says, the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull. In Palestine, the class schedule changes each week. He says in Palestine, the culture forces students to work hard because if they don’t they’ll be kicked out and put in vocational schools, which limits their career options. There is not nearly as much pressure for American students to do well. He says he has to do double the amount of work just to get his students interested.

36. Chicago Public Schools began to employ foreign teachers because_____.
A. there were not enough American teachers
B. a program for foreign teachers was started
C. the school board was interested in foreign teachers
D. foreign teachers taught better than American teachers.

37. The American Government is involved in the program because _______.
A. the schools are public schools
B. the Government is to finance the program
C. the Government grants visas to the foreign teachers
D. the program involves bilingual education

38. It seems that the Global Educator Outreach will_____.
A. be difficult to continue
B. last a limited period of time
C. pose a threat to US workforce
D. be extended to other cities

39. Chicago Public Schools do not seem to lack teachers of _______.
A. English B. math C. science D. world language

40. Hannon as a GEO teacher, has found that _______.
A. class schedules in America and Palestine are very much the same
B. fixed class schedules make it easy for teachers to prepare lessons
C. vocational schools offer a good career option for American students
D. American students do not work as hard as Palestinian students

Passage Three
Workforce is defined as the total number of people who are available to work and earn incomes. The definition includes everyone who is employed or seeking paid employment, so it includes employers and the self-employed.
Although the size of the workforce depends a great deal on the size of the total population, there are several other influences which also affect it. The age distribution of the total population has a very marked effect on the available workforce. If the population has a high proportion of very young people or of those too old to work,