2010年同等学力申硕英语模拟试题

2010年同等学力申硕英语综合水平考试模拟试卷

Paper One 试卷

Part ⅠDialogue communication (10minutes, 10points)

Section A Dialogue completion

Directions: in this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 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 brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

1. Speaker A: Your sister seems to be a bit under the weather.

Speaker B: _____________.

A. She has a slight fever.

B. Yes, it’s bad weather today.

C. No, she has a headache.

D. Thank you. She doesn’t like the weather.

2. Speaker A: _____________.

Speaker B: You’d better look before you leap.

A. I plan to quit the job and go abroad.

B. I’m crazy about basketball.

C. I looked for it everywhere but didn’t find it.

D. I love sports.

3. Speaker A: Where shall we meet?

Speaker B: ______________.

A. Will you pick me up at my place?

B. Just a moment, please.

C. It doesn’t matter.

D. Well, you are here.

4. Speaker A: Would you like to order now?

Speaker B: _______________.

A. Yes. I’ll have the shrimp cocktail to start.

B. Good. I’d like to ask you to send this letter to Prof. Owen.

C. Well. I have no instruction at present.

D. Ok. Here you are.

5. Speaker A: _______________.

Speaker B: I’d like to get this film developed.

A. What can I do for you?

B. What are you doing?

C. This film is wonderful.

D. Are you still working on the movie?

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: Hi, Jane, do you have some changes? I have to make a call on the payphone.

Woman: Payphone? Why not use my mobile phone? Here you are.

Question: What will the man most probably do?

A. Get some change form Jane.

B. Use the woman’s phone.

C. Go look for a pay phone.

D. Pay for the phone call.

7. Man: Can you tell me the title of this oil painting?

Woman: Sorry, I don’t know for sure, but I guess it is an early 18 century work. Let me look it up in the catalog.

Question: Where does this conversation most probably take place?

A. At a bookstore.

B. In a workshop.

C. At an art gallery.

D. In a department store.

8. Man: I am worried about those classes I missed when I was sick.

Woman: I will try to bring you up today on what we’ve done.

Question: What does the woman mean?

A. She’s bought the man a pair of glasses today.

B. She will help the man to catch up.

C. She is worried about the man’s health.

D. She has bought the man an up-to-date map.

9. Woman: Hey Dan. I hear you’re meeting Susan’s parents for the first time.

Man: Yeah, next weekend. Fortunately, her father loves to fish, so we will have so many things to talk about.

Question: What can be inferred about Dan?

A. He is going to give a talk on fishing.

B. He thinks fishing is a good way to kill time.

C. He has the same hobby as Susan’s father.

D. He is eager to meet Susan’s parents.

10. Woman: Professor White’s presentation seemed to go on forever. I was barely able to stay awake.

Man: How could you sleep through it? It is one of the best that I have ever heard on this topic.

Question: What does the man think of Professor White’s presentation?

A. He finds the presentation hard to follow.

B. He considers the presentation very dull.

C. He thinks Professor White has chosen an interesting topic.

D. He speaks highly of the presentation.

Part II Vocabulary (10minutes, 10 points)

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.  We felt very nice in the lobby, the more so since it was chilly out of doors that day.

A. cold                    B. mild                          C. moderate               D. hot

12.  Some measured all actions by the unalterable rule of night, and the eternal fitness of things.

A. external               B. permanent                     C. intermittent         D. simultaneous

13.  The Taoist believes that the senses are doors through which the freed soul rushes to mingle with the colors and tones of the universe.

A. collide                B. interact               C. assimilate               D. blend

14.        The insults from the reporters ignited her anger to the point where he became speechless.

A. quenched          B. swallowed                C. excited            D. disturbed

15.  Failure to control the growth of international debt will also constrain living standards.

A. enhance                   B. reinforce             C. restrain                   D. stabilize

16.  Applicants for this company have to be informed of the demands peculiar to the job.

A. specific                    B. queer                        C. special            D. universal

17.  Unable to break down the opposition, the president had to resign to bring order to the country.

A. overcome          B. digest                  C. undermine       D. dominate

18.  These students’ determination to face up to difficulties plays a crucial role in their success.

A. live up to                  B. stand up to                 C. go up to                D. add up to

19.  The police are good persons to turn to in case of trouble, especially in big cities.

A. in the event of          B. in the case of               C. in the course of   D. in the way of

20.  The debate as to which is the best way to lose weight has never come to an end.

A. considering        B. including                C. relating           D. concerning

Section B

Directions: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentences there are 4 choices marked A. B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentences. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

21.  Learners of a foreign language are advised to try to          the meaning of a new word from the context.

A. carry out             B. fill out                C. figure out          D. put out

22.  Yao Ming is          the best known basketball player in China, who is now playing for the Rockets.

A. so far                       B. by far             C. far from           D. far away

23.  These glass wares are too          to survive long transportation by land.

A. faint                  B. feeble                C. fragile                 D. fierce

24.  Moving parts of machines and motor vehicles have to be          regularly to reduce the friction.

A. lubricated              B. fabricated          C. embedded        D. dictated

25. The          of the space shuttle that had exploded in the air were scattered over a large area.

A. segments               B. fragments          C. elements                D. ornaments

26.  I can’t          your idea for the simple reason that I have no prejudice against the handicapped.

A. go into                B. go over                       C. go through         D. go for

27.  Studies have proved that it is not wise to try to lose weight by          breakfast.

A. skimming          B. skipping                   C. scrubbing              D. slapping

28.  Some surveys have suggested that the belief that the more money we have, the happier we are is a          .

A. myth                   B. religion                C. statement                  D. fable

29.  High schools teachers used to judge students          academic performance alone.

A. in favor of                 B. in charge of           C. in face of             D. in terms of

30.  It is          that effective measures be taken to curb the rise of food prices.

A. imposing             B. imperative               C. industrious        D. incidental

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (45minutes, 30points)

Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 6 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

If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different.If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.<!–nextpage–>

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself.” Who is that？”the new arrival asked St. Peter.” Oh, that’s God, “came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.”

If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’11 be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.

If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practise so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.

Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at first you don’t succeed, give up” or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggerations and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

31. To make your humor work, you should          .

A. take advantage of different kinds of audience

B. make fun of the disorganized people

C. address different problems to different people

D. show sympathy for your listeners

32. According to the text when you are talking to a group of managers you should avoid          .

A. refering to the disorganized methods of their secretaries

B. making a comment on disorganized bosses.

C. commenting on the competent bosses.

D. commenting on the competent clerk.

33. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are          .

A. impolite to new arrivals

B. very conscious of their godlike role

C. entitled to some privileges

D. very busy even during lunch hours

34. It can be inferred from the text that public services          .

A. have benefited many people

B. are the focus of public attention•

C. are an inappropriate subject for humor

D. have often been the laughing stock

35. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered___          .

A. in well-worded language

B. as awkwardly as possible

C. in exaggerated statements

D. as casually as possible

36. The best title for the text may be          .

A. Use Humor Effectively

B. Various Kinds of Humor

C. Add Humor to Speech

D. Different Humor Strategies

Passage Two

Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.

As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy-far greater precision than highly-skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone.

But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves goals that pose a real challenge.” While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error, “says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can’t yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic world.

Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.

What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented and human perception far more complicated than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can’t approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don’t know quite how we do it.

37. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in

A. the use of machines to produce science fiction

B. the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry

C. the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work

D. the elite’s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work