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2009年同等学力人员申请硕士学位B
英语水平全国统一考试试题
ENGLISH QUALIFYING TEST FOR MASTER-DEGREE APPLICANTS
(Time Limit: 150 minutes)
Paper One 试卷一
Part I Dialogue Communication (10 minutes, 10 points)
Part II Vocabulary (20 minutes, 10 points)
Part III Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points)
Part IV Cloze (15 minutes, 15 points)
Paper Two 试卷二
Part I Translation (30 minutes, 20 points)
Part II Writing (30 minutes, 15 points)
Paper One 试卷一
(90 minutes)
Part I Dialogue Communication (10 minutes, 10 points, 1 for each)
Section A Dialogue Completion
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 by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
1. A: Helen. you look great！You are much slimmer than last time I saw you.
B: ______ Actually, I’ve been on a diet and I’ve been doing a keep-fit class too.
A．No, thanks. B．Well, yes.
C．You are flattering me. D．Are you kidding?
2. A: I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have thrown your violin away. Why didn’t you tell me it was a birthday present from your Dad?
B: ______ What is done is done.
A．No problem. B．Don’t worry.
C．Forget it. D．That is fine.
3. A: It is really hard to maintain contact when people move around so much.
B: ______
A．You’re unlucky to have lost contact with your friends.
B．That is right. I have been out of touch with my friends.
C．Is it? People just drift apart indeed!
D．I ask them to keep me informed about what they are doing.
4. A: Hi, John, how are you? I heard you were sick.
B: They must have confused me with somebody else.______
A．I was sick last week. B．I could not agree with you more.
C．I have never felt better. D．So you are right.
5. A: It is not like George to be late for an appointment.
B: ______ He’s always punctual.
A．No way. B．Anyway he’s late.
C．I don’t think so. D．You’re right.
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 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the 4 choices by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
6. Man: That was an absolutely delicious meal. Your cooking is always superb but this time you have excelled yourself.
Woman: I am glad you enjoyed it. It is a recipe I haven’t tried before.
Question: What does the man think of the woman’s cooking？
A．It is as good as always.
B．It is good enough for something new.
C．It is good, but not as good as before.
D．It is better than usual.
7. Man: Do you think that Bob is serious about Sally?
Woman: Well, I know this. I’ve never seen him go out so often with the same girl.
Question: What conclusion can we draw from the woman’s statement?
A．Bob is serious about Sally.
B．Bob never goes steady with a girl.
C．Bob will soon change his girlfriend.
D．Bob is not serious about Sally.
8. Man: Everybody’s helping out with the dinner. Would you make the salad?
Woman: Anything but that.
Question: What does the woman mean?
A．She does not want any salad.
B．She will make the salad.
C．She wants some salad.
D．She’d rather do some other jobs.
9. Man: You know what? You should invest the money yourself.
Woman: That had crossed my mind.
Question: What does the woman mean?
A．The idea had bothered her. B．She had invested the money.
C．The idea had occurred to her. D．She wouldn’t give it a try.
10. Woman: Where do you plan to go for dinner?
Man: I was thinking of going to Joe’s. It’s a stone’s throw away. Besides, the environment is good.
Question: What can we learn about Joe’s？
A．It is not far from here. B．It is not expensive.
C．It is an interesting place. D．It is known for its specialty.
Part II Vocabulary (20 minutes, 10 points, 0.5 for each)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there are 10 sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the 4 choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
11. Like flowers that have been waiting all winter to blossom, tourists are eager to burst forth with their cameras.
A．survive B．breeze C．revive D．bloom
12. The applications of genetic engineering are abundant and choosing one appropriate for this case can be rather difficult.
A．sufficient B．plentiful C．adequate D．countable
13. The newly elected president has pledged $13 million to the automobile industry for its survival.
A．promised B．prepared C．disposed D．delivered
14. The Americans recognize that the UN can be the channel for greater diplomatic activity.
A．place B．medium C．resort D．tunnel
15. The growth of part-time and flexible working pattern allows more women to take advantage of job opportunities.
A．make use of B．catch up with C．cast light on D．get rid of
16. Nobody can help but be fascinated by the world into which he is taken by the science fiction.
A．impressed B．amused C．attracted D．puzzled
17. Senator James Meeks has called off a boycott of Chicago Public Schools, organized to protest Illinois’ education funding system.
A．reclaimed B．proposed C．indulged D．canceled
18. The new book focuses on the concept that to achieve and maintain total health, people need physical, social and emotional well-being.
A．gain B．attain C．acquire D．gather
19. The 16 percent fare increase would bring Chicago fares in line with those of other big cities.
A．in cooperation with B．in agreement with
C．in connection with D．in association with
20. It is true that London is often sunless, damp and raw, though the occasional sunny days seem all the more attractive by contrast.
A．mild B．chilly C．moist D．cloudy
Section B
Directions: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
21. Research shows heavy coffee drinking is ______ a small increase in blood pressure, but not enough to increase the risk for high blood pressure.
A．associated with B．compared with
C．attributed to D．referred to
22. A large ______ of the sunlight never reaches the earth while infra-red heat given off by the earth is allowed to escape freely.
A．proportion B．ratio C．rate D．fraction
23. It is amusing that she ______ her father’s bad temper as well as her mother’s good looks.
A．retained B．inherited C．preserved D．maintained
24. ______ the few who have failed in their examination, all the other students in the hall are in very high spirits.
A．In spite that B．But for C．For the sake of D．Apart from
25. The decline in moral standards, which has long concerned social analysts, has at last ______ the attention of average Americans.
A．clarified B．cultivated C．captured D．characterized
26. Our neighbor Uncle Johnson is a stubborn man. Needless to say, we tried ______ to make him change his mind.
A．in short B．in secret C．in danger D．in vain
27. The western media was astonished to see that China’s GDP ______ by almost 40% just in two years’ time.
A．flourished B．floated C．roared D．soared
28. Unemployment seems to be the ______ social problem in this area and may undermine social stability.
A．primitive B．prevalent C．previous D．premature
29. Many people, when ill, see their doctors and ask them to ______ something that will make them feel better.
A．prescribe B．describe C．revise D．devise
30. Facing growing costs and shrinking tax ______, the government is now threatening to cut funding for environmental protection programs.
A．budget B．collection C．revenue D．profit
Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points, 1 for each)
Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
Passage One
The other day my son asked me if he could ride up to his elementary school on his bike and meet his friend. He wanted the both of them to ride back to our house so they could play video games and jump on the trampoline(蹦床). I have to admit, part of me wanted to say no. We can go pick him up or his parents can bring him over here, I thought. But my son is eleven years old now. And after all, I do let him ride his bike to school. But I also drive my daughter to school and I can see him on the way, making sure he is getting there safely.
My husband thinks I am too overprotective. I don’t dare to let my children walk anywhere without one of us going along. As you pull out of our neighborhood，there is a shopping center across the street. My son always asks if he can ride his bike or walk over to the drugstore by himself. But crossing that street is just too dangerous. The cars fly around the corner like they’re driving in a car race. What if he gets hit? What if some teenage bullies are hanging out in the parking lot?
I want so much to give my children the freedom that I enjoyed having when I was growing up but I hesitate to do so because there are dangers around every corner. Too many kidnaps, too many sex offenders. I went online and discovered there are 41 sex offenders in my area alone.
I honestly don’t think my mom worried about such things when her children were young.
Growing up in the 1970s was indeed a different time. I never wore a helmet(头盔) when I rode a bike. We were all over the neighborhood, on our bikes and on foot, coming home for dinner and then back out again until dark. We rode in the back of the truck, didn’t wear seatbelts. I walked to and from school every day…
31. What did the author feel reluctant to let her son do?
A．Meet his friend. B．Play video games.
C．Ride his bike on streets. D．Jump on the trampoline.
32. What does the author mean when she says “But my son is eleven years old now”?
A．He is a bit too young to go out alone.
B．He is old enough to be given some freedom now.
C．He has reached the legal age for riding a bike.
D．He can’t protect himself from road hazards.
33. Given her husband’s attitude towards bringing up kids, he would most probably ______.
A．drive his son to school to ensure safety
B．follow his son all the way to school and back
C．ask the other boy’s parents to bring him over here
D．give his son more freedom in deciding what to do
34. Which of the following is NOT considered by the author as a potential threat to kids?
A．The drugstore. B．Teenage bullies.
C．Child abusers. D．Cars racing by.
35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．The social security back in the 1970s was no better than it is today.
B．Today’s children enjoy more freedom than those in the 1970s.
C．Children in the 1970s enjoyed more freedom than those today.
D．Children today are more obedient to their parents.
36. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
A．To show her concern over the increasing crime rate in her neighborhood．
B．To compare today’s social environment with that of the 1970s.
C．To describe her hesitation as to how much freedom she should give her son.
D．To express her worried about both safety and security in her area．
Passage Two
You may have wondered why the supermarkets are all the same. It is not because the companies that operate them lack imagination. It is because they all aim at persuading people to buy things.
In the supermarket, it takes a while for the mind to get into a shopping mode. This is why the area immediately inside the entrance is known as the “decompression zone”. People need to slow down and look around, even if they are regulars. In sales terms this area is bit of a loss, so it tends to be used more for promotion.
Immediately inside the first thing shoppers may come to is the fresh fruit and vegetables section. For shoppers, this makes no sense. Fruit and vegetables can be easily damaged, so they should be bought at the end, not the beginning, of a shopping trip. But what is at work here? It turns out that selecting good fresh food is a way to start shopping, and it makes people feel less guilty about reaching for the unhealthy stuff later on.
Shoppers already know that everyday items, like milk, are invariably placed towards the back of a store to provide more opportunities to tempt customers. But supermarkets know shoppers know this, so they use other tricks, like placing popular items halfway along a section so that people have to walk all along the aisle looking for them. The idea is to boost “dwell time”: the length of time people spend in a store.
Traditionally retailers measure “football”, as the number of people entering a store is known, but those numbers say nothing about where people go and how long they spend there. But nowadays, a piece of technology can fill the gap: the mobile phone. Path Intelligence, a British company tracked people’s phones at Gunwharf Quays, a large retailer centre in Portsmouth—not by monitoring calls, but by plotting the positions of handsets as they transmit automatically to cellular networks. It found that when dwell time rose 1$ sales rose 1.3%.
Such techniques are increasingly popular because of a deepening understanding about how shoppers make choices. People tell market researchers that they make rational decisions about what to buy, considering things like price, selection or convenience. But subconscious forces, involving emotion and memories, are clearly also at work.
37. In Paragraph 2, “decompression zone” is the area meant to ______.
A．prepare shoppers for the mood of buying
B．offer shoppers a place to have a rest
C．encourage shoppers to try new products
D．provide shoppers with discount information
38. Putting fruit-and-vegetable section near the entrance takes advantage of shoppers’ ______.
A．common sense B．shopping habits
C．shopping psychology D．concerns with time
39. Path intelligence uses a technology to ______.
A．measure how long people stay at a store
B．count how many people3 enter a store
C．find out what people buy in a store
D．monitor what people say and do in a store
40. What happened at Gunwharf Quays showed that sales ______.
A．was reversely linked to dwell time
B．was in direct proportion to dwell time
C．was affected more by football than by dwell time
D．was affected more by dwell time than by football
41. The author argues that shoppers ______.
A．exert more influence on stores than they imagine
B．are more l