1月研究应用生英语学位课统考真题及题目分析.doc

1月研究生英语学位课统考真题
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GENERAL ENGLISH QUALIFYING TEST FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
(GETJAN0310)
PAPER ONE
PART Ⅰ
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Section A
Directions：In this section，you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be read only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
1. A. Nancy shouldn't be too busy.
B. Nancy should take a break from her work.
C. Nancy must be under great pressure.
D. Nancy must feel depressed.
2. A. After class.
B. The next day.
C. Tonight.
D. When the woman gets to the bus stop.
3. A. Because her grandmother was ill.
B. Because it was too late for her to go to the party.
C. Because she went to her grandmother's party.
D. Because she went to visit her doctor.
4. A. She expected to have a better time with Sammy.
B. She didn't get along well with Sammy.
C. She was very happy together with Sammy.
D. She wouldn't go out with Sammy again.
5. A. His wife is waiting for him at home.
B. His wife is angry today.
C. His wife is not home today.
D. His wife is sick today.
6. A. The man can make a random decision.
B. The man should decide later.
C. The man should forget about it.
D. The man doesn't have to be so serious.
7. A. He has won a big lottery.
B. He has passed an oral examination.
C. He is going to get his driving license.
D. He has been relieved from a big burden.
8. A. 10 dollars. B. 15 dollars. C. 20 dollars. D. 25 dollars.
9. A. The woman can only take some useful courses which are still open.
B. The woman will have to wait till the next week to take useful courses.
C. The woman will have to go to the registration building herself.
D. It's nothing because many students forget to register on time.
Section B
Directions：In this section you will hear two mini-talks. At the end of each talk，there will be some questions. Both the talks and the questions will be read to you only once. After each question，there will be a pause. During the pause，you must choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
Mini-talk One
10. A. Because she likes old programs on TV.
B. Because she was very bored.
C. Because she had missed the program earlier.
D. Because she doesn't like outdoor activities.
11. A. Because she doesn't feel like going out today.
B. Because she is very busy today.
C. Because she has to meet her parents for dinner today.
D. Because she doesn't like the man.
12. A. To go to a live outdoor concert.
B. To have a picnic for lunch.
C. To check out activities by the river.
D. To go fishing in the river.
Mini-talk Two
13. A. Because the small diamonds in the old setting are of different color.
B. Because the setting has been damaged.
C. Because they want people to see it in its natural beauty.
D. Because the style of the setting is too old.
14. A. In India. B. In France. C. In England. D. In the U.S..
15. A. Over 100 carats. B. 67 carats.
C. 60 carats. D. 45 carats.
Section C
Directions：In this section you will hear a short lecture. Listen to the recording and complete the notes about the lecture. You will hear the recording twice. After the recording you are asked to write down your answers on the Answer Sheet. You now have 25 seconds to read the notes below.
16. In this age of the keyboard，some people seem to think handwriting lessons are ______.
17. According to a survey conducted by Prof. Graham，about 90% of teachers teach handwriting in ______.
18. In today's thinking ______ are better for the practice of handwriting.
19. Handwriting involves two skills:
One is legibility，which means forming the letters so ______.
20. According to Prof. Graham，most of the writing done in school is ______.
PART Ⅱ
VOCABULARY
Section A
Directions：There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with one word or phrase 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 machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
21. Those prisoners at concentration camps were exhausted from a chronic lack of food.
A. recent B. acute C. constant D. severe
22. A winner achieves his goal without hurting others or compromising his beliefs and convictions.
A. changing B. endangering C. submitting D. composing
23. Failure is the direct result of poor self-esteem and the anticipation of failure.
A. elimination B. designation C. elevation D. expectation
24. The government's full public disclosure of the decision only swelled the chorus of protests.
A. checked B. diminished C. intensified D. retrieved
25. Their house was in close proximity to ours，so we became intimate friends in time.
A. vicinity B. contact C. relation D. community
26. Residents in big cities in China tend to dispose of some old furniture when moving.
A. get possession of B. get rid of
C. hold on to D. keep track of
27. This is a love that sprang up from friendship and blossomed into marriage.
A. diverged B. separated
C. distinguished D. originated
28. This hard-working couple was able to put their two sons through college on their own.
A. by their own efforts B. in their own way
C. in their own interests D. in their own light
29. Obama's high-profile failure to win the Olympics for Chicago could feed negative narratives nipping at his heels.
A. attitudes B. accounts C. impacts D. responses
30. Individual goals have to fit in with the family or business goals as a whole.
A. be converted into B. be superior to
C. be in accord with D. be different from
Section B
Directions：There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A，B，C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
31. I often wonder why some people won't do what it ______ to be successful.
A. involves B. means C. takes D. likes
32. The short story about the missing personnel during the civil war was adapted into a (n) ______ movie.
A. winning-award B. award-winning
C. won-award D. award-won
33. A person can explain his professional goals ______ position，prestige or income.
A. in terms of B. in case of C. in view of D. in honor of
34. Fear is the most destructive force in the world，for it ______ motivation and creativity.
A. clutches B. cripples C. compels D. conceives
35. There is some reason for not giving up my career and ______ a different one.
A. taking in B. bringing about C. arising from D. embarking on
36. Finally she decided to do something ______ the thing she disliked ______ herself.
A. with...in B. about...for C. about...about D. for...by
37. The self-image controls a person's attitudes or ______ of what happens to her.
A. interpretations B. approaches
C. commitments D. simulations
38. By the year 2040，Yale University will need over eight acres of land to ______ its library.
A. manipulate B. accommodate C. illuminate D. obligate
39. If you don't know where you're going in life，you are ______ to wind up somewhere else.
A. possible B. inevitable C. optional D. liable
40. As far as marriage is concerned，it is mutual care and love that ______.
A. mounts B. discounts C. counts D. calculates
PART Ⅲ
CLOZE TEST

Directions：There are 10 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then，go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A，B，C，or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
Researchers produced evidence to support what most of us already knew--that a cup of tea is the answer to any crisis.
Dr. Malcolm Cross，a psychologist at City University London，tested the anxiety levels of a group of people following a (41) situation and revealed that even a single cup of tea has a (42) calming effect. His team gave 42 volunteers a mental arithmetic exam and (43) offered half of them a cup of tea and the other half a glass of water. The water group's anxiety levels soared (44) 25 percent compared to before the task，(45) the tea group actually reported a four percent reduction in anxiety---despite the difficult test，they were more relaxed than when they started.
According to a survey carried out for the research，68 percent of Britons (46) tea in a dilemma，making it the nation's most common response to trouble of (47) kind. About 60 percent said the promise of comfort and warmth was the main reason for putting the kettle on. "The (48) of making and drinking tea--particularly during times of stress---is at the very (49) of British culture," Cross said.
This study shows that the social psychological (50) of tea enhance the effects of its chemical make-up on our bodies and brains.
41. A. light-hearted B. serious C. comfortable D. stressful
42. A. significant B. rigorous C. severe D. selective
43. A. previously B. afterwards C. besides D. lately
44. A. on B. in C. by D. at
45. A. while B. however C. meanwhile D. nevertheless
46. A. give up B. owe to C. look on D. turn to
47. A. whichever B. whatever C. however D. whoever
48. A. ceremony B. function C. ritual D. observance
49. A. beginning B. moment C. end D. core
50. A. aspects B. faces C. sites D. ways
PART Ⅳ
READING COMPREHENSION
Directions：In this part of the test，there are five short passages. Read each passage carefully，and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer from the four choices given and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
Passage One
From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare，Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study says at least one such tale might really have happened.
It's the fable about a thirsty crow. The bird comes across a jar with the water level too low for him to reach. The crow raises the water level by dropping stones into the jar. The moral tells：Little by little does the trick，or in other retellings，necessity is the mother of invention.
Now，scientists report that some relatives of crows called rooks used the same stone-dropping strategy to get at a floating worm. Results of experiments with three birds were published online by the journal Current Biology.
Rooks，like crows，had already been shown to use tools in previous experiments. Christopher Bird of Cambridge University and a colleague exposed the rooks to a 6-inch-tall clear plastic tube containing water，with a worm on its surface. The birds used the stone-dropping trick spontaneously and appeared to estimate how many stones they would need. They learned quickly that larger stones work better.
In an accompanying commentary，Alex Taylor and Russell Gray of the University of Auckland in New Zealand noted that in an earlier experiment，the same birds had dropped a single stone into a tube to get food released at the bottom. So maybe they were just following that strategy again when they saw the tube in the new experiment，the scientists suggested. But Bird's paper argued there's more to it：The rooks dropped multiple stones rather than just one before reaching for the worm，and they reached for it at the top of the tube rather than trying to reach the food at the bottom.
The researchers also said Aesop's crow might have actually been a rook，since both kinds of birds were called crows in the past.
51. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Animals are smarter than we have expected.
B. Aesop's fables tell real morals.
C. Necessity is the mother of invention.
D. Some of Aesop's fables may be true.
52. Aesop's fables have been popular for such a long time because they ______.
A. tell us the truth of nature
B. tell us interesting stories of animals
C. are teachings of life
D. are scientific literature
53. In the experiments，in order to eat the worm floating on the water surface，the rooks ______.
A. found a way to raise the water level
B. broke the tube with larger stones
C. counted how many stones they would need
D. cooperated peacefully
54. According to Alex Taylor and Russell Gray，it seems that rooks ______.
A. tend to follow the others' strategy
B. can remember their former strategy
C. can change strategy in different situations
D. seldom use the same strategy in experiments
55. According to the passage，crows and rooks ______.
A. are the same kind of birds with different names
B. are very different in behavior
C. had the same name in the past
D. were both used in the experiments
56. The word "spontaneously" (Paragraph 4) is closest in meaning to "______".
A. surely B. naturally C. voluntarily D. quickly
Passage Two
Too much eating. Too many unhealthy foods. Too many advertisements for food. Too little activity.
Different explanations are offered for America's weight problem--a problem increasingly shared by other countries. Almost one-fifth of American children and teenagers are overweight.
Schools have been urged to increase physical education，an important tool for public health. And many have. Yet now comes a study showing an increase in the number of injuries in physical education class. Injuries increased 150% between 1997 and .
he study involved injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. Only 2% were serious. The researchers did not try to identify the causes of the increase，but they have some theories.
Lara McKenzie from Ohio State University was the lead researcher. She says one possibility is a decrease in the number of school nurses during the period they studied. For example，a study showed that the number of school nurses nationally failed to meet federal guidelines. Schools without a nurse on duty may be more likely to send an injured child to a hospital.
Another possible reason for more injuries is a change in the traditional idea of physical education. This "New PE." expands the kinds of sports that are taught. But activities that some schools offer now，like rock climbing walls and skateboarding，can also expand the risks，says Cheryl Richardson. She is with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. Also，she says not all states require P.E. teachers to be specially trained. Untrained teachers could be less likely to recognize unsafe conditions.
Cheryl Richardson also points to one of the study's findings--that injuries