2004年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语预测试题(三）

Directions:
This section is designated to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C.
Part A
Directions:
For questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation between a customer and the clerk at an airport car park reception desk. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you’ve heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box. . You will hear the recording once.
Name Donald Brown
Reason for parking Going ________. 1
Period From the 5th to_____ 2
Car information The make of car Mini Metro
Color _________ 3
Registration Number _______630Y 4
Total fee $______ 5
Part B
Directions:
For question 6-10 you will hear a report about Girl Scouts. While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the question. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording once.
How much percent of all available girls that signed on as scouts? ６
How many members in the Westchester-Putnam chapter of the Girl Scouts? ７
The Girl Scouts, traditionally known for the three C’s of crafts, cookies and８
To earn the Ms. Fix-It badge, girls need to be able to repair a leaky toilet and replace
９
Other research has shown the extent to which the older girls in scouting are particularly interested in１０
Part C
Directions:
You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D]. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only.
Question 11-13 is based on an introduction of a book with music but no words.
11.What is the name of the book?
[A] " Dreamily Pretty Ballet".
[B] " Yellow Umbrella".
[C] " A Trip to School".
[D] " Parentless Adventures".
12.There’s a simple theme song, played on
[A] the violin [B] the organ [C] the piano [D] the flute
13.According to the introduction, which of the following sentences is true?
[A] Everything has to come with a CD or a CD-ROM or a tape or a video.
[B] Wordless book is great for children who can’t read to themselves yet, or who are new to English.
[C] The music just provides background noise.
[D] Following the music and pictures together felt like watching a hot movie.
Question 14-16 is based on a report about cannoning.
14.Who went cannoning with the author?
[A] His wife [B] His brother [C] His daughter [D] His friend
15. In which country that cannoning gained popularity first sometime around the early 1990’s?
[A] Switzerland. [B] New Zealand. [C] Australia. [D] The United States.
16. How high was the vertical rock that would be their entrance into the canyon?
[A] 20-foot [B] 30-foot [C] 40-foot [D] 50-foot
Question 17-20 is based on a report about the space shuttle Endeavor.
17.How long did the space shuttle Endeavor spend to stay at the International Space Station?
[A] Three months [B] Six months [C] A year [D] Two years.
18.The shuttle’s landing delays were caused by low cloud, rain and
[A] high wind [B] dense fog. [C] heavy snow [D] hard frost.
19. There were many people waiting the land of the space shuttle Endeavor, except_____
[A] their relatives. [B] their friends [C] doctors and nurses [D] their leader.
20. According to the report, which of the following sentences is NOT true?
[A] Earlier in the day, the crewmembers were awakened by Mission Control, which played a recording of "I’ll Be Home for Christmas" by Perry Como.
[B] Besides bringing the former station crew backs to Earth, the shuttle carried up a new team of astronauts who were scheduled to work on the orbital complex until March.
[C] The next shuttle launch is scheduled on a 60-day science mission.
[D] The next shuttle launch will include Col. Ian Ramon of the Israeli Air Force, who will be the first citizen of his country to fly in space.
Section Ⅱ Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C], [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Is the United States a melting pot? In other words, have immigrants to the USA meged with the native Americans and 21 to be Germans, Japanese, Poles, Irish, etc.?It has been 22 a "pot of stew" might be a more suitable word than "melting pot", 23 in a stew the meat and vegetables keep their own characteristics, but 24 to the spices and the 25 it is cooked, the stew has a distinctive flavor of its own.
The implications of "melting pot"26 American social workers and language teachers, many of 27 feel that racial and national groups should be encouraged to 28 their customs, traditions and languages. At the same time it is agreed that all American, 29 their origins, must learn to 30 themselves to the American way of life.
However, there are ethnic groups who still 31 together, who speak their own languages and have preserved many of their old customs. There are Hispanic 32 ,e. g. Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, most of whom still speak Spanish as their 33 language. There are the American Indians and 34 Asian groups,all of whom still speak their own languages. Then there are the 20 million blacks, who, 35 they speak English, for the most part live separately. Many blacks are beginning to 36 their roots right back to the African tribes 37 which their ancestors were torn in the days of slavery and some of them are 38 themselves more and more with Africa. Some black leaders 39 , reminding them that their culture and their language are not African. Thay are American. But many blacks are 40 bitter against white culture to feel American.
21. [A] ceased [B] halted [C] stopped [D] paused
22. [A] indicated [B] suggested [C] deduced [D] implied
23. [A] so [B] unless [C] for [D] though
24. [A] owe [B] due [C] next [D] thanks
25 .[A] manner [B] method [C] style [D] way
26. [A] disturb [B] terrify [C] puzzle [D] thrill
27. [A] them [B] who [C] whom [D] those
28. [A] submit [B] preserve [C] abandon [D] withhold
29. [A] whenever [B] wherever [C] whatever [D] however
30. [A] adapt [B] modify [C] reform [D] convert
31. [A] gather [B] glue [C] assemble [D] stick
32. [A] societies [B] establishment [C] communities [D] tribes
33. [A] fittest [B] first [C] best [D] superior
34. [A] alternate [B] variable [C] differential [D] various
35. [A] since [B] even [C] though [D] if
36. [A] uphold [B] trace [C] pursue [D] trail
37. [A] from [B] against [C] for [D] about
38. [A] verifying [B] identifying [C] realizing [D] recognizing
39. [A] reject [B] discontent [C] realizing [D] recognizing
40. [A] so [B] very [C] too [D] quite
Section III Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the question below each text by choosing A, B, C, D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET1. (40 points)
Text 1
Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality.
Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly4ine life" will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but loss productive) old French style. What will happen, they-ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life--to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe?
Since the late 1950’s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they feat that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.
In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the rorer’mm of the modem economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.
41. Which of the following is a feature of the old French way of life?
[A]. Leisure, elegance, and efficiency [B]. elegance, efficiency, and taste
[C]. Leisure, elegance, - and taste [D]. elegance, efficiency, and taste
42.Which of the following is NOT true about Frenchmen?
[A]. Many of them prefer the modem life style
[B]. They actually enjoy working at the assembly line
[C]. They are more concerned with money than before
[D]. They are more competitive than the old generation
43 .The passage suggests that _______.
[A]. in pursuing material gains the French are suffering losses elsewhere
[B]. it’s now unlikely to see a Frenchman enjoying a stroll by the river
[C]. the French are fed up with the smell of freshly picked apples
[D]. great changes have occurred in the life style of all Frenchmen
44. Which of the following is true about the critics?
[A]. Critics are greater in number than people enjoying the new way of life
[B]. Student critics are greater in number than critics in other fields
[C]. Student critics have, on occasion, resorted to violent means against the trend
[D]. Critics are concerned solely with the present and not the future
45. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
[A]. Changes in the French Way of Life [B]. Criticism of the New Life Style
[C]. The Americanization of France [D]. Features of the New Way of Life
Text 2
The train began to slow down among the fields I looked out and saw a wooden platform,
And a board with "Aberdeen" on it. And there, too, was Arthur looking anxiously up and down the train. With him was a large vicar, overflowing with loud greetings, as I got out.
"We may as well walk up," said Arthur, "I fear there’s no taxi to be had." As we left the station he pointed to a black box on wheels, drawn by an unbelievably old horse, driven by an unbelievably old man: ’What is the Aberdeen bus traveling between station and town. You tell old Russell where you want to be put down, climb in, bang the door as a sign that you are safe, and in time he starts. We shall see him presently on the road; it’s about all the traffic we have."
It was a goodish walk from the station, for the town straggled (蔓延)along between the hills and the port. I was amused with the walk and glad to stretch my legs after being cooped up so long. The vicar accompanied us most of the way, not from duty, as I at first imagined, but, as I learned latex; became he had nothing else to do, and my arrival was a bit of an event, a trifle to add to the gossip. I was amazed at the way in which both he and Arthur mined on Welsh, as though from a tap, whenever they met an acquaintance, which was about every hundred yards.
At last the vicar said good-bye. He was very stout and didn’t want to do our final climb. The tiny house that Arthur had obtained for his mother was at the end of a tiny row, lodged on the hillside. We could reach the house only by a rough and very steep row, lodged on the hillside. We could reach the house only by a rough and very steep path. At the open door stood ’Mrs., Hughes, with a "Well, well, well, and here you are at last? It is curious how a more tone of voice can make you feel at home at once. A meal was all ready, and as I fell upon it heartily I was able to
Amuse Arthur and his mother with the story of my journey; he, poor fellow, had been at the station since two o’clock, off and on.
46. The vicar who met Arthur at the station_______.
[A]. was bursting with news [B]. was overwhelmed with emotion
[C]. welcomed him cheerfully [D]. greeted him unenthusiastically
47. The writer and his friends didn’t think it was worth taking the bus because____.
[A]. it didn’t go far enough
[B]. they thought a walk from the station was good to them
[C] they didn’t want to ride in a black box
[D]. the horse was too old to walk uphill
48. According to Arthur, if you wanted to take the Aberdeen bus you had to_____.
[A]. be ready to start on time
[B]. be content to go when the driver was ready
[C]. get in and give directions to the driver
[D]. signal to the driver when to get in
49. From the passage we understand that the writer was glad to walk as________.
[A]. he liked walking long distances [B.he found walking amusing
[C]. he had long legs [D]. he was stiff after his long journey
50. What makes us think that the writer arrived later than expected?
[A]. He said the train had been delayed
[B]. Arthur had been waiting at the station since two o’clock
[C]. Arthur had had to make frequent trips to the station
[D]. He said the journey had been amusing
Text 3
The single greatest shift in the history of mass-communication technology occurred in the 15th century and was well described by Victor Hugo in a famous chapter of Notre-Dame de Paris. It was a Cathedral. On all parts of the giant building, statuary and stone representations of every kind, combined with huge windows of stained glass, told the stories of the Bible and the saints, displayed the intricacies of Christian theology, adverted to the existence of highly unpleasant demonic winged creatures, referred diplomatically to the majesties of political power, and in addition, by means of bells in bell towers, told time for the benefit of all of Pairs and much of France, It was an awesome engine of communication.
Then came the transition to something still more awesome. The new technology of mass communication was portable, could sit on your table, and was easily replicable, and yet, paradoxically, contained more information, more systematically presented, than even the largest
Of cathedrals, it was the printed book. Though it provided no bells and could not tell time, the over-all superiority of the new invention was unmistakable,
In the last ten or twenty years, we have been undergoing a more or less equivalent shift---this time to a new life as a computer-using population. All recognizes the gain in portability, capability, ease, orderliness, accuracy, reliability, and information-storage over anything achievable by pen scribbling, typewriting, and cabinet filing. The progress for civilization is undeniable and, plainly, irreversible. Yet, just as the book’s triumph over the cathedral divided
People into two groups, one of which prospered, while the other lapsed into gloom, the computer’s triumph have also divided the human race.
You have only to bring a computer into a room to see that some people begin at once to buzz with Curiosity and excitement, sit down to conduct experiments, ooh and ah at the boxes and beeps, and master the use of the computer or a new program as quickly as athletes playing a delightful new game. But how difficult it is--how grim and frightful! ---For the other people, the defeated class, whose temperament does not naturally respond to computers. The machine whirrs and glows before them and their faces twitch. They may be splendidly educated, as measured by book reading, yet their instincts are all wrong, and no amount of manual, studying and mouse clicking will make them right. Computers require a sharply different set of aptitudes, and, If the aptitudes are missing, little can be done, and misery is guaranteed.
Is the computer industry aware that computers have divided mankind into two new? Previously unknown classes, the computer personalities and the non-computer personalities? Yes, the industry knows this. Vast sums have been expended in order to adapt the computer to the limitations of non-computer personalities. Apple’s Macintosh, with its zooming animations and pull-down menus and little pictures of file folders and watch faces and trashcans, pointed the way. Such seductions have soothed the apprehensions of a certain number of the computer-averse. This spring, the computer industry’s efforts are reaching a culmination of sorts. Microsoft, Bill Gates’ giant corporation, is to bring out a program package called Microsoft Bob, designed by. Mr. Gates’ wife, Melinda French, and intended to render computer technology available even to people who are openly terrified of computers. Bob’s principle is to take the several tasks of operating a computer, rename them in a folksy style, and assign to them the images of an ideal room in an ideal home, with furniture and bookshelves, and with chummy cartoon helpers ("Friends of Bob") to guide the computer user over the rough spots, and, in that way, simulate an Atmosphere that feels nothing like computers.
51. According .to this passage, which of the following statements is NOT True?
[A]. It is because the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris had ninny bell-towers and could tell time to people that the writer regards it as an engine of mass communication.
[B]. Prom Cathedrals to books to computers the technology of communication has become more convergent, reliable and fast.
[C]. Every time when a new communication means triumphed over the old, it divided mankind into two groups.
[D]. Computer industry has been trying hard to make people accept computers.
52. The printed book is more progressive than the Cathedral as a communication means,
Because________.
[A]. It could sit on your table and did no longer tell time
[B]. It was more reliable and didn’t tell the stories of saints and demons
[C]. It was small, yet contained more information
[D]. It did not flatter religious and political power
53. The word "awesome" in the passage means
[A]. Frightening [B]. causing fear and respect
[C]. Amazingly new [D]. awful
54. People who feel miserable with computers are those
[A]. Who love reading books and writing with a pen or a typewriter
[B]. Who possess the wrong aptitudes of disliking and fearing new things?
[C]. Who have not been trained to use computers?
[D]. Who are born with a temperament that does not respond to computers?
55. Melinda French designed Microsoft Bob, which was to ease the misery of computer users
By_______.
[A]. Making users feel that they are not dealing with machines
[B]. Making the program more convenient and cartoon-like
[C]. Adding home pictures to the program design
[D]. Renaming the computer tasks in a folksy style
Text 4
In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. A good example of this is found in the kinetic molecular theory, in which gases are pictured as being made up of many small particles that are in constant motion,
A useful theory, in addition to explaining past observations, helps to predict events that have not as yet been observed. After a theory has been publicized, scientists design experiments to test the theory. If observations confirm the scientists’ predictions, the theory is supported. If observations do not confirm the predictions, the scientists must search further. There may be a fault in the experiment, or the theory may have to be revised or rejected.
Science involves imagination and creative thinking as well as collecting information and performing experiments. Facts by themselves are not science. As the mathematician Jules Henri Poi care said: "Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks earl be called a house."
Most scientists start m investigation by finding out what other scientists have learned about a particular problem. After known facts have been gathered, the scientist comes to the pan of the investigation that requires considerable imagination. Possible solutions to the problem are formulated. These possible solutions are called hypotheses.
In a way, any hypothesis is a leap into the unknown. It extends the scientist’s thinking beyond the known facts. The scientist plans experiments, performs calculations, and makes observations to test hypotheses. For without hypotheses, further investigation lacks purpose and direction. When hypotheses are confirmed, they are incorporated into theories.
56. Bricks are mentioned in lines 13--15 to indicate how________.
[A]. mathematicians approach science
[B]. building a house is like performing experiments
[C]. science is more than a collection of facts
[D]. scientific experiments have led to improved technology
57. In the fourth paragraph, the author implies that imagination is most important to scientists when they_________.
[A]. evaluate previous work on a problem
[B]. formulate possible solutions to a problem
[C]. gather known facts
[D]. close an investigation
58. In line 20, the author refers to hypothesis as "a leap into the unknown" in order to show that hypotheses__________.
[A]. are sometimes ill-conceived [B]. can lead to dangerous results
[C]. go beyond available facts [D]. require effort to formulate
59. In the last paragraph, what does the author imply is a major function of hypotheses?
[A]. Sifting through known facts.
[B]. Communicating a scientist’s thoughts to others.
[C]. Providing direction for scientific research.
[D]. Linking together different theories.
60. Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
[A]. Theories are simply imaginary models of past events.
[B]. It is better to revise a hypothesis than to reject it.
[C]. A scientist’s most difficult task is testing hypotheses.
[D]. A good scientist needs to be creative
Part B
Directions:
Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Your translation must be arrived clearly on ANSWER SHEET2. (10 points)
America’s new paradigm, which believes that the economy can sustain rapid growth without any risk of inflation or recession, cheered last week’s revisions to America’s national accounts. The new figures showed that productivity has been growing faster than previously thought. (61) If the long-term trend of productivity has tilted upwards, this will raise the limit on how quickly the economy can grow without igniting inflation-which would be good news indeed. However, inflation is not the only threat to America’s current expansion. Another is a pattern of severe financial imbalances, which no amount of statistical revision can erase.
A recent study by two British economists, Wynne Godley and Bill Martin, focuses on three imbalances: an overvalued stock market, the collapse in private sector saving and an alarming increase in debt. All three have touched unprecedented levels, for reasons that are closely connected. The massive increase in share prices has encouraged households to spend more and firms to invest more; this has been financed in part by new borrowing.
The best single measure of the impact of the stock market on America’s economy is private-sector net saving-the gap between the disposable income of households and films, and their spending on consumption and investment. On the old national-account figures, private net saving had fallen to a record low of minus 5.5% of GDP this year (I. e, spending exceeded income). The new statistical revisions have trimmed this financial deficit to 40% of GDP. But the trend-a huge drop in net saving-remains unchanged. Over the past four decades, private net saving has never before been negative.
This slump in private saving is also reflected in America’s widening current-account deficit. By definition, the sun of private and government net saving is equal to the external deficit. The recent fall I private saving has been only partly offset by the government’s budget surplus.
These trends are, of course, unsustainable. (62) Other countries-such as Britain, Sweden and Japan in the late 1980s-have also seen sharp slumps in net saving when they experienced property-prices rises (whether in housing or tock markets). (63) There economies were later severely damaged when falling property prices caused saving to re-bond, often to above normal levels, to correct previous over borrowing. In Britain, for instance, private net saving swung from minus 6%between 1989 and 1994. The result was deep recession, Messrs Godley swung from minus 6% of GDP to predict when the good times will end in America, but the bigger the financial imbalances become, the worse will be the final reckoning.
(64) Mot forecasters expect America’s growth to slow gently over the next few years, which might suggest that the imbalances could unwind gradually. But this may be wishful thinking. To demonstrate this, Messrs Godley and Martin feed the assumptions of America’s Congressional Budget Office for growth and fiscal policy into their own economic model.
Even with moderate growth (2.5% average over the next five years), the current-account deficit widens further, partly because of rising debt-interest payments. Official policy also assumes a rising budget surplus. Arithmetically, higher government saving and a bigger external deficit imply a further fall in private net saving. (65) Or, put another way, the drag on demand from trade and the budget means that private spending must continue to outpace private disposable income by a widening margin in order to keep GDP growing even at a more modest pace.
Section IV Writing
66.Directions:
You are required to write an essay entitled "Traveling with Friends or Traveling Alone?"
Your essay must be at least 200 words and written neatly on ANSWER SHEET2.

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