2004年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语预测试题(二)

Section I Listening Comprehension
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 are going to hear a talk given by a geographic lecturer about the general knowledge of two countries. 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 twice. You now have 25 seconds read the table below.
General knowledge about Australia and Canada
Australia Canada
Area (sq km) 1 4
Population 2 5
Population density 3
Part B
Directions:
For question 6-10 you will hear some information about Asian Americans in the United States.
6
According to the talk, the percentage of Asian population in California is
7
According to the talk, "soft" subjects refer to
8
Hard subjects are those that demand
9
In the Manhattan teacher’s opinion, for imaginative and creative works, rote learning is
10
Yang Chen Ming and Lee Stung Dao won the Noble Prizes in the year
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 the following radio program. You now have 15 seconds to read Question11-13
11.Which of the following is most probably the conclusion drawn from Chaplin’s silent films?
[A] The real theme lies elsewhere.
[B] Merely industrialization is criticized.
[C] The poverty of the workers is publicized.
[D] The dramatic performance is perfected.
12.Which of the following is true of Chaplin in terms of Modern Times?
[A] He insisted on interpersonal theme.
[B] He became tired of his perfect form of art.
[C] He was aware of saying goodbye to silent film.
[D] He gladly gave up his tramp character.
13.Modern Times is a silent film, but indicating.
[A] a decisive measure for talking clearly.
[B] a crucial step toward speech in film.
[C] a greater progress in filmmaking .
[D] a threat on the song verses of nonsense.
Question 14-16 is based on the following monologue.. You now have 15 seconds to read Question14-16
14.Which of the following may be NOT included in good books?
[A] They are the world of man’s thoughts.
[B] They are never alone.
[C] They decay and fade like statues.
[D] They possess a gist of immortality.
15.Which aspect may be given behind good books?
[A] The greatest minds.
[B] The actual society.
[C] Great men’s spirits.
[D] All the above.
16.Which word best describes the speaker’s tone?
[A] Opaque.
[B] Sentimental.
[C] Persuasive.
[D] Tentative.
Question 17-20 is based on a conversation about Scienists’Views. You now have 15 seconds to read Question17-20
17. How do most people feel about chess match according to the master?
[A] Considerate.
[B] Interested.
[C] Indifferent.
[D] Impersonal.
18. What is the point the chess master is making when he mentions computers?
[A] The Internet. [B] The chess champion.
[C] The wide coverage. [D] The sponsors’ comments.
19. What is the point the chess master is making when he mentions computers?
[A] The resources of computers have been run out.
[B] Computers have not yet entirely developed.
[C] The rate of computers hits the highest level.
[D] The revolutionary breakthrough is unlikely to apply.
20. When has the chess master increased his analytical base so well?
[A] Once variants are offered by the computer.
[B] If there is no mistake in the match.
[C] In the next two months.
[D] In the last two months.
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)
You may wonder why anyone would want to weigh a building! Well, engineers 21 a tunnel or underpass need to make it strong 22 to support the weight of the ground and any buildings 23. Building a tunnel under new building is 24 problems. The quantity surveyors will know how heavy the building is 25, it is different when old buildings are 26. Plans may have been lost, or perhaps they never existed. So surveyors 27 have to spend weeks or months measuring and 28. Even then, results might not be accurate.
When engineers in Moscow wanted to build to railway 29 under the huge marble and granite Hotel Muskrat, built in the 1930s, they decided to 30 cosmic rays from space to discover how much weight had to be supported by the tunnel.
Cosmic rays from outer space pour over us at a 31 rate from all directions. Some are 32 and penetrate right through the Earth; just 33 x-rays pass through our bodies. Weaker ones are stopped by soil and building. So 34 measuring how many cosmic rays penetrate through the soil and buildings above the 35 tunnels, the weight the tunnel will have to support can be calculated.
So the Russian engineers dug a tiny pilot tunnel under the hotel and placed cosmic ray 36 in it. By measuring how many rays had passed through the hotel and ground above the pilot tunnel the 37 that the Hotel Muskrat weights 45,000 tons. This 38 a ground pressure of 1.1 kilograms 39 square centimeter. So the railway tunnel will have to be strong enough to 40 this pressure.
21. [A]. designing [B]. making [C]. digging [D]. devising
22. [A]. sufficiently [B]. enough [C]. adequately [D]. completely
23. [A]. over [B]. below [C]. above [D]. on
24. [A]. not [B]. any [C]. a [D]. no
25. [A]. However [B]. Wherever [C]. Whatever [D]. Whereas
26. [A]. included [B]. covered [C]. involved [D]. contained
27. [A]. can [B]. might [C]. shall [D]. must
28. [A]. assessing [B]. evaluating [C]. estimating [D]. calculating
29. [A]. route [B]. carriage [C]. tunnel [D]. locomotive
30. [A]. use [B]. adopt [C]. apply [D. employ
31. [A]. steady [B]. frequent [C]. high [D]. constant
32. [A]. fierce [B]. forceful [C]. strong [D]. intense
33. [A]. likes [B]. as [C]. similarly [D]. alike
34. [A]. in [B]. at [C]. during [D]. by
35. [A]. announced [B]. intended [C]. suggested [D]. proposed
36. [A]. detectors [B]. inspectors [C]. surveyors [D]. examiners
37. [A]. worked on [B]. checked out [C]. worked out [D]. run out
38. [A]. carries [B]. originates [C]. creates [D]. takes
39. [A] every [B]. one [C]. each [D]. per
40. [A]. take [B]. absorb [C]. replace [D]. apply
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)
TEXT1
Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.
But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other Ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create condition in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs . The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns, which it brought, may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distance to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, man and woman had shared’ the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations alit [assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
It was not only. Women whose work. Status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded- a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people wants to live active lives.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the utopian goal of creating, jobs for ail, to the urgent practical, task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
41. Research carried out in recent opinion polls shows that
[A] Available employment should be restricted to a small percentage of the population.
[B] New jobs must: be created in order to rectify high unemployment figures.
[C] Available employment must be more widely distributed among the unemployed.
[D] The present high unemployment figures are a fact of life,
42. The article suggests that we should now re-examine our thinking about the future of the population.
[A] Be prepared to admit that being employed is not the only kind of work.
[B] Create more factories in order to increase our productivity.
[C] Set up smaller private enterprises so dust we in turn can employ others.
[D] Be prepared to fill in time at home by taking up hobbies and leisure activities,
43. The arrival of the industrial age in our historical evolution meant that
[A] Universal employment virtually guaranteed prosperity.
[B] Economic freedom came within everyone’s grasp.
[C] Patterns of work were fundamentally changed.
[D] People’s attitudes to work had to be reversed.
44.The effects of almost universal employment were overwhelming in that
[A] The household and village community disappeared completely.
[B] Men now traveled enormous distances to their places of work.
[C] Young and old people became superfluous components of society.
[D] The wok status of those not in paid employment suffered.
45.The article concludes that
[A] The creation of jobs for all is impossibility.
[B] Our efforts and resources in terms of tackling unemployment are insufficient.
[C] People should start to support themselves by learning a practical skill.
[D] We should help those whose jobs are only part-time.
TEXT2
Radiation from the sun and other stars is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
Doses of radiation are measured in units called ’rams’. We all receive radiation here on Earth from the sun, from cosmic rays and from radioactive minerals. The ’normal’ doses of radiation that we receive each year is about 100 millions (0.1rem) ; It varies according to where you live, and this is a very rough estimate. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than this without being damaged and this will not be discovered until the birth of {deformed} children or even grandchildren.
Early space probes showed that radiation varies in different parts of space around the Earth,
It also varies in time because, when great spurts of gas shoot out the sun (solar flares). They are accompanied by a lot of extra radiation. Some estimates of the amount of radiation in space, based on various measurements and calculations, are as low as 10 rams per year; others are as high as 5 rams per hour! Missions to the moon (the Apollo flights) have had to cross the Van Allen belts of high radiation and, during the our-ward and return journeys; the Apollo 8 crew accumulated a total dose of about 200 milligrams per man. It was hoped that there would not be any large solar flares during the times of the Apollo moon walks because the walls of the Elms (lunar excursion modules) were not thick enough to doses of radiation have been reported, but the Gemini orbits and the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far .At present, radiation seems to be the greatest physical hazard to space travelers. But it is impossible to say just how serious the hazard will turn out to be in the future.
46.Scientists have fixed a safety level of
[A] 10 rams per year [B] 60 rams per year
[C] 100 milligrams per year [D] 5 rams per year
47. The worst hazard for spacemen is
[A] meteors [B] heat
[C] radiation [D] gas
48.When men spend long periods in space how will they protect themselves?
[A] By taking special drugs.
[B] By wearing special suits.
[C] By using a protective blanket.
[D] No solution had been found yet.
49.Which of the following is TRUE?
[A] The grandchildren of astronauts are deformed.
[B] The children of astronauts have damaged sex organs.
[C] Radiation damage may show only in later generations.
[D] Radiation does not seem to be very harmful.
50. The phrase " comic rays" in lien 5 means
[A] Ray from spacecraft [B] ray from outer space.
[C] Sunbeams [D] ultraviolet rays.
TEXT3
It’s the strongest challenge yet to the opaque business practices of South Koreas major conglomerates , or cabal. Three foreign fund managers, led by Tiger Management Corp, are teaming up with a Korean shareholder activist group to take on SK Group conglomerate and is one of the most popular stocks for foreign investors on the Korean exchange. The reformers want a say in the management of SK Telecom, which the government ruled was being milked of its profits by group Chairman Chewy Jung Hon and his family to benefit affiliated companies.
If the investors are successful, they may force an end to a standard practice in Korea that’s abhorrent to most U.S. investors: shifting money within a group from successful business units to poorer sister companies to compensate for losses. Tiger Management, a group of hedge funds run by New York investor Julian H.Robertson J r. along with Scudded Kemper Investments Inc. and Oppenheimer Global Fund have accumulated nearly 10% of SK Telecom. In a Feb.3 filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, the U.S. group said it would seek to change how SK Telecom is managed in order to ensure that the company is operated in a way that benefits all its shareholders.
An SK Telecom spokesman pledges changes but wouldn’t comment on the specific demands.’It is not just us who have done this", he says. "It used to be common practice for the cabal to help out sister companies. Now, it’s time for us to depart from the past, and we will make efforts to achieve management transparency."A Tiger spokesman agreed that SK Telco’s management had been receptive to its concerns during preliminary meetings.
Tiger is joined by the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, which says minority shareholders in SK Telecom are being bilked by the money transfers. The Tiger-led group has proposed that, at a shareholders’ meeting in early March, SK Telecom appoint two directors from outside the company to monitor corporate activities .It also proposed that the company amend its charter so that shareholders must approve any overseas in vestments, loans in U.S. dollars or Japanese yen, or issuance of shares abroad. Those measures would keep a check on overseas expansion and borrowing-practices that caused the bankruptcies of several cabal last year-as well as dilution of existing share value.
Analysts say SK Telecom is likely to yield to appointing outside directors, although not necessarily foreigners. But it may not accept shareholder approval overseas investment and borrowing decisions. "Whether the foreign fund managers and Korean activist shareholders win an outright victory or not doesn’t really matter,"says Son Bin of Acts Capital Management. "The cabal may resist, but pressure will keep building to demand more and more transparency. There’s no way for the cabal to continue ignoring it."
In any case, the Tiger Group and the Korean shareholders will likely need the backing of the government to get their measures approved-state-run Korea Telecom holds 19%--as well as the support of other foreign interests that hold 23%. Chairman Chewy and his relatives control about 26%, with the remainder help mostly by Korean institutional investors.
The challenge to SK Group was made easier by a previous government ruling that shows the tide is already turning. On Dec.23, the Fair Trade Commission found that SK Telecom had paid inflated prices for equipment and services from its affiliates as a way of transferring assets to them. This lowered SK Telco’s operating profits-from 31% of sales in 1994 to 14% in 1996-and eased the pressure to pay higher dividends and corporate taxes.
People’s Solidarity not only wants the practice to stop. It wants foreign shareholders to back its demand that SK Telco’s improperly funneled money be returned. "The SK Telecom case is a typical example of cabal abuses,’ says Chang Ma Sung, People’s Solidarity leader and an economics professor at Korea University. Irregularities at other cabal, he says, include having successful units cover the costs of advertising revolts against Korea Inc.
51.The word "cabal" in the first paragraph refer to
[A] The challenge to South Korea’s major conglomerates.
[B] The opaque business practices of South Korea’s major conglomerates.
[C] South Korea’s major conglomerates.
[D] Conglomerates
52. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
[A] SK Telecom is a blue-chip mobile-telephone operator.
[B] SK Telecom is one of the most popular stocks for foreign investor on the Korean exchange.
[C] SK Telecom needs to change because it is operated in a way that benefits all its shareholders. It’s a standard practice in Korea.
[D] SK companies shift money within a group from successful business units to poorer sister companies to compensate for losses.
53. SK Telecom decides to "depart from the past "because
[A] They will make efforts to achieve management.
[B] They had been receptive to its concerns during preliminary meetings.
[C] They are forced to do so.
[D] They shifted money to poorer sister companies.
54. Practices that cause the bankruptcies of several cabals last year are
[A] Overseas expansion and borrowing.
[B] Overseas borrowing and dilution of existing share value.
[C] Loans in U.S. dollars and Japanese yen and issuance of shares abroad.
[D] Overseas investments and dilution of existing share value.
55. Chang Ma Sung warns to watch for more shareholders revolts against Korea Inc because
[A] Here are irregularities of having successful units cover the costs of advertising and even salaries at less successful businesses.
[B] SK Telecom may not accept shareholder approval over overseas investment and borrowing decisions.
[C] SK Telecom will yield on appointing outside directions.
[D] The SK Telecom case is a typical example of cabal abuses.
TEXT4
The custom of sending the gullible on fool’s errands and of playing other practical jokes on April 1 has been around since at least the middle Ages and has elicited more than its share of joking explanations. The two most popular ones in the nineteenth century, according to E. Cob ham Brewer, were that April was a month of fickle (that is, "fooling") weather, and that the Jews started the custom during Jesus’ passion, by sending him on fool’s errands to various magistrates (Annals, Caliphs, Herod, finally Pilate) before his crucifixion. An eighteenth-century journalist related the custom to Noah’s error of "sending the dove out of the ark before the water had abated" on a date that corresponded to our April 1.
William Walsh rightly ridiculed these speculations and offered a more plausible one. Until 1564, he pointed out, March 25 marked the European New Year, and the festivities associated with its arrival typically lasted eight days, until April 1. With the calendar change of that year, the New Year became January 1, but not everyone immediately got the message. Those who continued to make the New Year’s visits and to doffer the traditional presents on April 1 would have been accounted April Fools, and eventually these bona fide courtesies were replaced by " pretended gifts and mock ceremonial visits."
That explains why fooling should have become associated with the beginning of April , but , as Walsh himself makes clear , the concept of a day devoted to foolishness is older than the sixteenth century .Both the Roman Saturnalia(农神节) and the medieval Feast of Fools provided opportunities for the overturning of conventional reason, and indeed the overturning of the social order itself . Slaves were freed at the Saturnalia, and Boy Bishops, Mock Kings, and Lords of Misrule were elected during the middle Ages. Harvey Cox, in his provocative study of the Feast of Fools, emphasizes its " implicitly radical dimension," and places it within a social context whose flexibility was its capacity for self-mockery." The divine right of kings , papal infallibility ( 天主教皇百罪不侵) ， and the modern totalitarian state ,"he writes, " all flowered after the Feast of fools disappeared."
56.Which of the following can best tell the main idea of this passage?
[A] The custom of April Fools. [B] The history of April Fools.
[C] The account of April Fools. [D] The practice of April Fools.
57. Which of the following statements was NOT mentioned among the interpretations of April 1 festival?
[A] It originated from the Jess’ custom.
[B] It was related to Noah’s error.
[C] It came from the calendar change of the European New Year.
[D] It was the day of sending presents to foolish people.
58. Which of the following words can best describe William Walsh’s explanation on April 1?
[A] Reasonable [B] Factual
[C] Practical [D] Sensible
59. According to Walsh, April Fools can most probably be dated back to
[A] The middle Ages. [B] Earlier than the sixteenth century.
[C] The eighteenth century. [D] The nineteenth century.
60. What is associated with the Feast of Fools?
[A] The overturning of the Roman Saturnalia
[B] The disappearing of infallibility of the Pope.
[C] The production of totalitarism.
[D] The freedom of slaves.
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)
(61) Today’s young indeed resemble adults in their aspirations and even in their problems. Their foremost aspiration is often to get a job that will keep them going, and a growing number work while in school. Says Thomas Fulton, assistant superintendent of the Pleasantville (N.Y.) school system: "So many seniors work that it’s taking away from the total high school environment. (62)Their very grownup worries are about the uncertainty of the future in general and the danger of nuclear destruction in particular; almost none believe in the possibility of any worthwhile survival of nuclear war. Though on recent study showed a slight decline in the use of marijuana among high school seniors, excessive drinking is an ever-growing problem (an estimated 5.3 million 14-to 17-year-old are problem drinkers). So is teen-age sex (a million or so pregnancies occur each year among teen-agers).
(63) The breakdown of the traditional family has made many of the young feel that they are left with too much adult-like freedom. The increased number of families with parents working, as well as the high divorce rate and the number of one-parent households, has deprived the young of guidance they consciously desires. The casual character of many modern divorces leaves affected youngsters not only without adequate control but also without adult models to respect. Says Michael Peck, director of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles "Parents are leaving homes because they want an alterative life-style, and that is just knot very convincing child. In effect, the parent is saying, ’I’m more adolescent than you, which is a terrible blow to the child.’ On the other hand, what some parents do give the child might attitudes of many adults are now filtering do give the child might attitudes of many adults are now filtering down to lower age groups. Teen-agers don’t have enough good ego models."
(64) The situation of the young today, contrasted with earlier generations, raises the question of whether some fundamental revision of youth’s special estate in U.S. society may have occurred. It has been a long while since Americans rhapsodized about youth in the way of say, Thomas Wolfe, who saw it as a wonderful time of existence, full of "the strange and miracle of life."(65) Indeed, America has directed less and less sentiment toward youth as parents and authorities have more and more and more relinquished to the young what were once seen as adult folkways and vices. Youth, or adolescence, as a special, privileged stage or me, crystallized a relatively short time ago-around the turn of the century. Is it possible that society, moved first by alarm about its children and then by disenchantment, has subtly begun the process of disestablishing youth simply by turning everybody to adult ways promptly at puberty?
Section IV Writing
66.Directions:
You should write an essay on " True Freedom or Not?" Please carefully read the following outline and you must
1) Show your understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture below,
2) Give another example in daily life, and
3) Suggest the possible solutions.
You should write at least 200 words on ANSWER SHEET2.

培训教学参考信息

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