2004年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语预测试题(四）

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 course application interview; Claudio Gillian comes from Italy and wants to be trained as a professional pilot. He has applied for a course leading to a Commercial Pilot’s License (CPL) at the Oxford Air Training School (OATS). When he arrives at the school, he has an interview with one of the instructors. 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.
A Course Application Interview
The man’s nationality 1
His age 2
His major in the university 3
Place for his English study experience overseas 4
Reason for his choice of Oxford ATS 5
Part B
Directions:
For question 6-10 you will hear a story about how umbrella came into use as something to ward off rain.
6
According to the talk, what was umbrella first used as?
7
In Egypt and Babylon, using umbrella was a symbol of
8
Who first used umbrella against rain in Europe?
9
Where did the umbrella reappear in the late 16th century?
10
What is this passage mainly about in terms of umbrella?
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 talk given by the President of student society introducing the club. You now have 15 seconds to read Question11-13
11.Who are the listeners of the talk?
[A] Club members.
[B] College freshmen.
[C] Photographers.
[D] Film fans.
12.At about 7:50 every Tuesday and Friday evening you can
[A] go and see films on video.
[B] see documentaries on sporting events.
[C] watch news about campus life.
[D] attend a video-making lesson.
13.Members of the club can enjoy privileges EXCEPT
[A] using all the equipment any time.
[B] making their own video films.
[C] paying no membership fee.
[D] paying less for videotapes.
Question 14-16 is based on the following talk about carrots. You now have 15 seconds to read Question14-16.
14. What was the color of carrots in the earliest times?
[A] Yellow.
[B] Brownish.
[C] Purple.
[D] Orange.
15. Why were carrots valued by the Greeks and Romans?
[A] Carrots could be used as medicine.
[B] Carrots contained vitamins.
[C] Carrots could turn the color of their skins.
[D] They could use carrots to feed their cattle.
16. Why did people use to eat carrots as desserts?
[A] Their color was beautiful.
[B] They were people’s favorite.
[C] They looked strange.
[D] They tasted sweet.
Question 17-20 are based on the following talk given on an airplane about inflight service. You now have 15 seconds to read Question17-20.
17. What are Mary Morgan and Peter O’Moore?
[A] It’s the name of the film.
[B] They are the actor and actress.
[C] They are the names of cabin stewards.
[D] They are waiters and waitress in the cabin.
18.What kind of film is talked about by the speaker?
[A] A detective story.
[B] A humorous love story.
[C] A horror film.
[D] A comedy.
19. Why did the woman mention the airline headquarters in New York?
[A] To tell you which airline company this plane belonged to.
[B] To tell you where the headquarters of the flight was.
[C] To tell you that some of the scenes in the film took place there.
[D] To tell you the destination of the flight.
20. Besides the film and the bar, what other service does the plane provide?
[A] A concert.
[B] Meals on order.
[C] Money exchange.
[D] Duty-free shopping.
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)
Directions:
Most of the larger cities in the world have grown without plans and 21 London is such a city. Its streets zigzag, snake and circle. There is no reason or order to its 22 system. Indeed, no one but a veteran taxi driver knows the 23 of London. And before he gets his cabby’s license, he must first tour the city for months, street 24 street New York and Chicago grew in 35 the same way. Today in New York, even, a native-born Manhattan 26 of finding his way around Brooklyn.
There are a few modem cities, 27, that were created out of nothing. The book, according to detailed plans, built them strictly. The prime example of a city planned and built 28 scratch in the twentieth century is Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil.
Brasilia was the brainchild of Brazil’s President Jocelyn Kubitschek, who, like other Brazilian leaders, was concerned 29 most of Brazil’s people were crammed into its seacoast cities. Rio de Janeiro, then the nation’s capital and its second largest city, occupies a 30 beautiful site on the Atlantic coast. Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city is very near the coast. Consequently, this meant that riches in. timber minerals and hydroelectric power sources, in the 31 of the country were. Untapped. Recognizing that drastic action was needed to, build a new capital city, he chose a site that was right in the middle of the 32, on land that had never been plowed.
Its public buildings, monuments, and 43 apartment, complexes were magnificently modern. Every feature seemed logical, reasonable and right, but for more than a decade, Brasilia seemed all-wrong to the people brought there to live and work in government offices. While it was 34 a beautiful city, it was not yet a community.
For it is people and their history of habitation that turn a city from a 35 of streets and buildings into a community. It is people who give a city life and character and personality. Brasilia didn’t have those qualities for a long time.
But now, happily, its residents no longer feel they need to rush back to Rio or Sao Paulo 36 every opportunity. Instead, they visit, picnic and enjoy one another’s company. Brasilia is beginning to 37 like home to them.
Hoboken, and old 38 town lust across the Hudson River from New York City, is an urban planner’s nightmare. It has row 39 row of old dingy brick buildings, and grass and trees are few and far 50.
21. [A] reprints [B] yellow prints [C]blueprints [D] black prints
22. [A] street-numbering [B] street-numbered
[C] street-number [D] numbering-street
23. [A] whole [B] all [C] complete [D] entire
24. [A]to [B] in [C]Into [D] by
25. [A] very [B] ever [C] much [D] far
26. [A] despairs [B] despises [C] dismays [D] dispirits
27. [A] moreover [B] somewhat [C] somehow [D] however
28. [A] in [B] from [C]by [D] with
29. [A] with [B] about [C] what [D] that
30. [A] breath taken [B] breathtaking
[C] Breathtakingly [D] breath takes
31. [A] interior [B] inside [C] Inner [D] internals
32. [A] wild [B] wildness [C] Wilder [D] wilderness
33. [A] highly-rise [B] high-rise
[C] Highly-rising [D] high-risen
34. [A] undeniable [B] undeniably
[C] Undauntedly [D] undecidedly
35. [A] group [B]crowd [C] Patch [D] collection
36. [A] at [B] in [C] By [D] with
37. [A] touch [B] feel [C] Act [D] taste
38. [A] waterway [B] riverbank [C] Waterfront [D] sea beach
39. [A] of [B] with [C]On [D] upon
40. [A] among [B] within [C] Under [D] between
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
It is the fundamental act of contemporary journalism. Washington reporters depend so heavily on it that in most of the stories they write they use no documents at all. Yet the interview is a relatively recent invention.
Newspapers in America date to the late 1600s, but not until the 1820s did leading urban dailies even begin to hire reporters to gather news. With the rise of commercially minded penny papers in the 1830s, reporting of local news became, as the Boston Herald observed in 1847, "one of the specialties of the press."
Still, most reporting remained no more at first than the publication of official documents and public speeches. Reporters talked with public officials, but they never referred to their conversations in print. In Washington, politicians’ and diplomats’ confidences were regarded as inviolate. President Abraham Lincoln often spoke with reporters in informal conversation, but no reporter ever quoted him directly.
Journalism historians have tried to date the first newspaper interview-some credit James Gordon Bennett in 1836; others, Horace Greeley in 1859-but it is less important to identify an individual inventor than to recognize that a practice largely unknown as late as 1860 was familiar, and controversial, a decade later. From the beginning, this new journalistic form, in which a reporter questioned and then quoted by name a public figure, came in for heavy criticism. E. L. God kin, editor of the Nation, attacked it as "the joint production of some humbug (骗人的鬼话) of a politician and another humbug of newspaper reporter." Nonetheless, President Andrew Johnson himself submitted to the new practice in 1868, and "the idea took like wild-fire," as the Atlanta journalist Henry Grady, wrote in 1879.
Many veteran reporters found interviewing undignified, and everyone seemed to judge it vulgarly American-"this modern and American Inquisition," according to a New York World correspondent. Europeans noted it with disdain; Americans, with defiant pride in Yankee ingenuity. His editors lionized Thompson Cooper, supposedly the first reporter anywhere to interview the pope. "The Roman Catholic Church is the oldest, as the interview is almost the youngest, of the institutions of mankind," they wrote. "And the spirit of the Church and the spirit of the age have met together."
Questions 41 to 45 are based on passage above.
41.We know from the passage that modern American reporters depend heavily on____.
[A]. The journalism [B]. the stories
[C]. the documents [D]. the interview
42. No reporter ever quoted President Abraham Lincoln because______.
[A] Lincoln spoke with reporters informally
[B] newspapers only published official documents and public speeches
[C] Americans considered the confidences of politicians as inviolate
[D] Lincoln forbade reporters to refer to their conversations in print
43. According to the fourth paragraph, which of the following is more important?
[A] To identify the inventor of the newspaper interview.
[B] To know the development and influence of the interview.
[C] To practice the fundamental act of contemporary journalism.
[D] To recognize the different opinions about the newspaper interview.
44. It is inferred that E. L. God kin that_______.
[A] newspaper interview was attractive
[B] the new journalistic form was nonsense
[C] the interview would become controversial
[D] politician and reporter were unfaithful
45. According to the passage, the editors of Thompson Cooper_______.
[A]. found interviewing undignified
[B]. judged interviewing vulgarly American
[C]. noted him as an important person
[D]. expressed appreciation for his interviewing
Text 2
The government and Microsoft plan to sell around the world Britain’s new system for online transactions between citizens and government after its successful launch in the UK. A key step in the government’s $1.4bn e-government program has seen online payment for the Inland Revenue’s pay-as-earn scheme, some Customs and Excise(关税与消费税局)value added tax procedures, and claims for European Union subsidies for farmers all olive in the past month. At a presentation in Seattle today, Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder and chairman, will demonstrate the British system to 400 government officials from 80 countries to show how citizens and businesses can interact with government over the Internet.
"Although some US states are using leading edge technology, Europe in general, and the UK in particular, is well ahead in implementing e-government initiatives. It should put the citizen at the center of government," says David Vigano, general manager of public sector at the software group. "The projects have been implemented in just 15 weeks using Microsoft’s net technology," said Andrew Pander, the government’s e-envoy(电子特使). "This is a key piece of infrastructure, brought in on time and on budget," he said.
The secure transaction technology is to be rolled out through about 200 central government departments and agencies and 482 local government institutions over the next five years in the drive to have all of the government online by 2005. The successful implementation is a coup (突然而成功的行动) for Microsoft which is trying to build up its enterprise software Business and has targeted e-government. It has about 1,000 staff dedicated to government business.
"This is a milestone(里程碑) for Microsoft," said Barry Gaffe, group manager,.Net enterprise solutions at the Redwood, Washington state-based company." Two years ago, when the technology for successful integration did not exist, we would have walked away." Dell supplied the hardware, and Cable and Wireless manage the servers. The technology is bases on XML, a new language protocol(协议), that allows information to be labeled and then easily exchanged between computers on different platforms. "People want to hang on to their legacy systems which have been massive investments, but integrating these has proven difficult and expensive in the past. It’s astonishing how the friction has been wiped out by XML, which reduces paperwork, reduces complexity and slashes costs," said Mr. Gaffe.
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the passage above.
46.What has the British government accomplished in the last month?
[A]. It has paid for the Inland Revenue’s pay-as-you-earn scheme.
[B]. It has added tax on the office called Customs and Excise.
[C]. It has claims European Union subsidies for farmers.
[D]. It has realized some online transactions.
47.There are 400 government officials from 80 countries in Seattle today in order to____.
[A]. Pay a visit to the Microsoft’s co-founder and chairman
[B]. See how Britain’s new system for online transactions is used
[C]. Celebrate Bill Gates was elected as the Microsoft’s co-founder and chairman
[D]. Show the world how citizens and businesses interact with government online
48.Which of the following is in the lead in e-government technology?
[A]. Some US states. [B]. The citizen. [C]. Microsoft. [D]. Britain.
49. According to Barry Gaffe, the new trend in online transactions stems from____.
[A]. the development of the technology for successful integration
[B]. the successful implementation of the enterprise software
[C]. the use of the hardware supplied by Dell
[D]. the efforts made by about 1,000 staff of Microsoft
50. Mr. Gaffe said that XML______.
[A]. is capable of integrating legacy systems easily
[B]. is capable of making paperwork more complex
[C]. is astonishingly difficult and expensive
[D]. is massive investment having various frictions
Text 3
There is evidence that the usual variety of high blood pressure is, in part, a familial disease. Since families have similar genes as well as similar environment, familial diseases could be due to shared genetic influences, to shared environmental factors, or to both. For some years, the role of one environmental factor commonly shared by families, namely dietary (有关饮食的) salt, has been studied at Brookhaven National Laboratory. These studies suggest that chronic excess salt ingestion can lead to high blood pressure in man and animals. Some individuals. however, and some rats consume large amounts of salt without developing high blood pressure. No matter how strictly all environmental factors were controlled in these experiments, some salt-fed animals never develop hypertension where as a few rapidly developed very severe hypertension followed by early death. These marked variations were interpreted to result from differences in genetic constitution.
By mating in successive generations only those animals that failed to develop hypertension from salt ingestion, a resistant strain (the "R" strain) has been evolved in which consumption of large quantities of salt fails to influence the blood pressure significantly. In contrast, by mating only animals that quickly develop hypertension from salt. A sensitive strain ’("S" strain) has also been developed.
The availability of these two strains permits investigations not therefore possible. They provide a plausible laboratory model on which to investigate some clinical aspects of the human. Prototypes of hypertension. More important, there might be the possibility of developing methods by which genetic susceptibility of human beings to high blood pressure can be ’defined without waiting for its appearance.
51.The main idea of this passage is that______.
[A] genetic constitution, or hereditary factor is an important factor that may underlie hypertension
[B] excessive use of salt may cause high blood pressure
[C] shared environmental factors may lead to familial diseases
[D] there are two different kinds of strains in animals which cause their different reactions to excess salt ingestion
52. The study made by Brookhaven National Laboratory shows
[A] shared environmental factors can cause hypertension
[B] dietary salt can lead to high blood pressure in men and animals
[C] some animals do not develop high blood pressure by consuming
large amounts of salt
[D] high blood pressure can be developed as a result of too much con-
sumption of dietary salt
53. The main difference between the "R" strain and the "S" strain lies in their
[A] quantities of salt consumed
[B] choice of mating partner
[C] blood pressure
[D] reaction to salt
54. In the second sentence last paragraph, the word "they" refers to
[A] scientists engaged in the experiments
[B] investigations made by people
[C] the resistant strain and the sensitive strain
[D] the availability of the two strains
55.What can you infer from the passage?
[A] The experiments show that salt ingestion does not necessarily cause animals to develop hypertension with the environmental factors being equal.
[B] Dietary salt is harmful to human being’s health.
[C] The two strains being available, high-blood pressure can be easily put under control.
[D] in order not to develop hypertension, man should consume chemically pure salt.
Text 4
Strip cartoons in newspapers are immensely popular. Some people only buy certain newspapers in order to follow the adventures of their favorite cartoon characters. Generally speaking, strip cartoons are neither subtle nor unkind. Their appeal rests largely on the fact that ordinary people can identify with them--the "little man" in the office, the ups and downs of suburban married life, the domineering behavior of neighbors, children, relations and household pets, to say nothing of cars, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and similar contraptions ( 奇妙的装置 ) which frequently seem to have a will of their own.
Weary commuters battling with public transport, harassed housewives underpaid secretaries and clerks--hardworking people who don’t live glamorous and exciting lives-can laugh at themselves in these cartoons. Sometimes a strip cartoon represents a world of pure fantasy in which Superman or Woman always emerges triumphant in spite of the most hair-raising adventures. We know we aren’t really like that, but it’s fun to think we could be if we had the chance.
Political cartoons are essentially topical and pull no punches. Their wit mirrors the absurdities, prejudices and blunders in law and order and current affairs. The physical characteristics of prominent men and women in Government or State are mercilessly caricatured (讽刺). Since the English with the inborn independence of an island race, have a healthy contempt for bureaucracy and are cheerfully critical of whatever government happens to be in office, political cartoons provide an endless source of amusement. After all, as a famous politician is reported to have said," politics are too serious a matter to be left to politicians.
56.Strip cartoons people we know personally_______.
[A] represent people we know personally
[B] are a means of identification
[C] are not intended to be offensive
[D] bear little relation to ordinary life
57. In the opinion of the writer some household appliances_____.
[A] behave as if they were human
[B] are always falling to pieces
[C] are fitted with no controls
[D] are not designed to work efficiently
58. Cartoons of office or domestic life have a particular appeal for people____.
[A] have plenty of self-confidence
[B] like to indulge their fantasies
[C] have routine jobs
[D] envy their superiors
59.Political cartoonists are not afraid to_____.
[A] misrepresent public opinion
[B] ridicule government policy
[C] offend public opinion
[D] break the law
60. Whatever-form of government is elected the general public will invariably it______.
[A] ignore [C] reject
[B] laugh at [D] find fault with
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)
In his 1976,study of slavery in the United States, Herbert Gutman, like Fugal, Engrain, and Genovese, has rightly stressed the slaves’ achievements. But unlike these historians, Gunman gives plantation owners little credit for these achievements. 61) Rather, Gunman argues that one must look to the Black family and the slaves how crucial achievements, such as the maintenance of a cultural consciousness, were possible. His findings compel attention.
62) Gunman recreates the family and extended kinship structure mainly through an ingenious use of what any historian should draw upon, quantifiable data, derived in this case mostly from plantation birth registers. He also uses accounts of exclaves to probe the human reality behind his statistics. These sources indicate that the two-parent household predominated in slaves to probe the human reality behind his statistics. These sources indicate that the two-parent household predominated in slave quarters just as it did among freed slaves after emancipation. 63)Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent, he shows that the slaves’ preference, revealed most clearly on plantations where sale was infrequent, was very much for stable monogamy. In less conclusive fashion Fugal, Engrain, and Genovese had already indicated the predominance of two - parent households; however, only Genovese had already indicated the predominance of two- parent households; however, only Gunman emphasizes the preference for stable monogamy and points out what stable monogamy meant, for the slaves cultural heritage. 64) Gutman argues convincing; that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of-and so was crucial in sustaining-the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression from one generation to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning out of their African and American experiences.
Gutman’s examination of other facets of kinship also produces important findings. Gutman discovers that cousins rarely married, an exogamous tendency that contrasted sharply with the endogamy practiced by. The plantation owners. 65) This preference for exogamy Gutman suggests, may have derived from West African rules governing marriage, which, though they ,differed from one tribal group to another, all involved some kind of prohibition against unions with close kin. This taboo against cousins’ marrying is important, argues Gutman, because it is one of many indications of a strong awareness among slaves of an extended kinship network. The fact that distantly related kin would care for children separated from their families also suggests this awareness. When blood relationships were few as in newly created plantations in the Southwest, "fictive" kinship arrangements took their place until a new pattern of consanguinity developed. Gutman presents convincing evidence that this extended kinship structure- -which he believes developed by the mid -to- late eighteenth century- -provided the foundations for strong consciousness that existed among slaves.
SECTION IV Writing
66. Directions:
A) Word limit : about 200 words.
B) TITLE: How to Eliminate Fake Diplomas
C) Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below:
1. State the present situation : crazy for diplomas and flood of fake diplomas.
2. Suggestion and advice on solving the problem.

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