2004年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语预测试题(八）

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 will hear a conversation between a doctor and the patient. 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.
Illness He got a _______. 1
Treatment
Stay indoors and not to be __________. 2
Drink lot of _______. 3
Eat a little .
Prescription No medicine but it’s ok to take aspirin for the ______. 4
Take aspirin no more than once every _____ hours. 5
Part B
Directions:
For question 6-10 You will hear a research report on protection of wildlife . 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.
There are some important links between humans and the wildlife in the _____. 6
Scientists mix genetic materials from many different species to__________. 7
Different kinds of plants would not all be harmed by the same weather, insects or disease if we grow __________ of them. 8
How many kinds of cattle are found in danger of dying out in Europe? 9
The rare European sheep not only can survive in the very hot weather but also produce ________. 10
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 are based on the following conversation about water purifier device .
11.How does the man describe the water purifier?
[A] Small and light weight. [B] Solid and heavy.
[C] Bulky but weightless [D] Large but necessary.
12.According to the man, what does the water purifier remove from water?
[A] Minerals. [B] Chemical pollutants. [C] Salt. [D] Germs.
13.What sort of safety feature is used on the filters?
[A] They’re equipped with built-in measuring devices.
[B] They become clogged before losing effectiveness.
[C] Their safety limits are clearly marked.
[D] They change color when no longer effective.
Question 14-16 are based on the following talk discussing f\drinking problems.
14.In the early stages of alcoholism, alcoholics look quite normal because
[A] the early symptoms are not readily detected.
[B]they are clear-headed enough to hide the changes in personality.
[C] the early symptoms are clear-sighted.
[D]alcohol has no effects on the body at these stages.
15. What are the American attitudes about alcohol?
[A]Sophisticated and confusing [B] Detested but can’t help with it. [C] Subtle and difficult. [D] Acceptable and classic.
16.We can conclude from this talk that
[A] alcoholism is most common among office workers. [B] alcoholism is a purely modern phenomenon.
[C]more and more women are becoming addicted to drinking . [D] recognition of the alcoholic as a sick person is difficult.
Question 17-20 are based on the following talk about a building complex-Rockefeller Center in New York City.
17.According to the passage , Rockefeller Center was originally planned to serve as what kind of complex?
[A]Commercial. [B]Housing .
[C]Recreational [D] Tourist center.
18.Which of the following I TRUE of Rockefeller Center according to the passage?
[A]It was patterned after an ancient design. [B] It has been imitated numerous times [C] All shopkeepers were require to two-year leases. [D] 4,000 tenants are located in the complex.
19. What does the shape of Rockefeller Center building reflect?
[A]Architectural creativity. [B]City regulations.
[C] Practical considerations. [D] Decreased.
20. What is the main idea of the passage?
[A] The importance of a pleasant work environment.
[B] The purpose of Rockefeller Center building setbacks.
[C]The recreational facilities at Rockefeller Center.
[D] The architectural significance of Rockefeller Center.
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)
The "standard of living" of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country’s standard of living , 21 , depends first and 22 on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money , for we do not live on money 23 on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and " 24 ".
A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of 25 have an effect on one another. Wealth depends 26 a great extent upon a country’s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a 27 climate; other regions possess none of them.
Next to natural resources 28 the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well 29 as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and 30 wars, and 31 this and other reasons was 32 to develop her resources. 33 and stable political conditions, and 34 from foreign invasion , enable a country to develop her resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well 35 by nature but less well ordered.
A country’s standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed 36 its own borders , but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade. 37, Britain’s wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on 38 grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would 39 be lacking. A country’s wealth is , therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, 40 that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures.
21. [A] however [B] nevertheless [C] furthermore [D] therefore
22. [A] principal [B] uniquely [C] foremost [D] primary
23. [A] except [B] but [C] nor [D] or
24. [A] entertainment [B] recreation [C] refreshment [D] enlightenment
25. [A] them [B] which [C]that [D] it
26. [A] on [B] to [C] with [D] for
27. [A] virtuous [B] marine [C] favorable [D]neutral
28. [A]coming [B] come [C] came [D] comes
29. [A] off [B] known [C] done [D] furnished
30 [A] external [B] domestic [C] military [D] contemporary
31. [A] because [B] due to [C] for [D] because of
32. [A] proficient [B] unable [C] incapable [D] impossible
33. [A] Robust [B] Strong [C] Sturdy [D] Sound
34. [A] prevention [B] liberation [C]liberty [D] freedom
35. [A] breaking [B] breaking out [C] breaking down [D] breaking in
36. [A] near [B] within [C] with [D] around
37. [A] For example [B] Firstly [C]In short [D] On one hand
38. [A]what [B] that [C] those [D]it
39. [A] otherwise [B] certainly [C] likewise [D] likely
40. IA] given [B] provided [C] depended [D]supposed
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
Banking is about money； and no other familiar commodity arouses such excesses of passion and dislike. Nor is there any other about which more nonsense is talked. The type of thing that comes to mind is not what is normally called economics, which is inexact rather than nonsensical, and only in the same way as all sciences are at the point where they try to predict people’s behavior and its consequences. Indeed most social sciences and , for example, medicine could probably be described in the same way.
However, it is common to hear assertions of the kind " if you were left alone on a desert island a few seed potatoes would be more useful to you than a million pounds" as though his proved something important about money except the undeniable fact that it would not be of much use to anyone in a situation where very few of us are at all likely to find ourselves. Money in fact is a token, or symbolic object, exchangeable on demand by its holders for goods and services. Its use for these purposes is universal except within a small number of primitive agricultural communities.
Money and the price mechanism, i.e. , the changes in prices expressed in money terms of different goods and services, are the means by which all modern societies regulate demand and supply for these things. Especially important are the relative changes in prices of difficult goods and services compared with each other. To take random examples: the price of house-building has over the past five years risen a good deal faster than that of domestic appliances like refrigerators for students of the industry, trade unionism, town planning, insurance companies, fine-art auctions, and politics. Unpacking these implications is what economics is about , but their implications for students of the industry, trade unionism, town planning , insurance companies, fine-art auctions, and politics. Unpacking these implications is what economics is about, but their implications for bankers are quite different.
In general , in modern industrialized societies, prices of services or goods produced in a context requiring a high service-content (e. g. a meal in a restaurant ) are likely to rise more rapidly than prices of goods capable of mass-production on a large scale. It is also a characteristic of highly developed economies that the number of workers employed in service industries tends to rise and that of workers employed in manufacturing to fall. The discomfort this truth causes has been an important source of tension in Western political life many years and is likely to remain so for many more.
41.According to the passage , economics is
[A] similar to other social sciences because a lot of nonsense is talked about it.
[B] different from social sciences, which try to forecast, the way people behave.
[C] similar to other social sciences because it can foretell the tomorrow.
[D] different from sciences such as medicine.
42.In the writer’s view , the assertion that money would be useless on a desert island
[A] illustrates one limitation to the importance of money.
[B] is only of importance to people stranded in such places.
[C] proves that there are many situations in which money is irrelevant.
[D] tells us nothing of significance about money in a certain situation.
43.Modern societies control supply and demand
[A] by direct intervention in the pricing of goods and services.
[B] by means of money and the price mechanism.
[C] by keeping a watchful eye on relative price changes.
[D] by fixing prices in specific industries.
44.The writer suggests that economics is concerned with
[A] explaining to bankers the price changes.
[B] understanding the effect of relative price rise fast.
[C] trying to understand why some prices rise fast.
[D] the same financial considerations as banking.
45.In developed economies, service industries
[A] tend to employ an increasing number of people.
[B] employ more people than manufacturing industries do.
[C] cause problems for the white-collar unions.
[D] try to reduce their employees to combat rising costs.
Text2
The high-tech revolution has inspired a seemingly endless stream of new and exciting electronic products that we just can’t live without. In fact, the dizzy speed of technological innovation can make last year’s must have this year’s junk. And that’s the problem. The average life span of a personal computer has shrunk to around 18 months--and this has nothing to do -with worn-out mice or damaged disk drives. Simply put, electronic products can become out-of-date before you’ve even figured out how they work. So what happens to all those old keyboards, monitors, organizers and CPUs? Most are stashed(隐藏) away in the attic or forgotten in a corporate warehouse, taking up valuable space. But many end up in landfills(垃圾填理地), and that is where the trouble really begins. computer monitors can contain up to 3.5kg of lead and can actually be considered hazardous waste once they are no longer in use. ①Circuit boards in electronic products contain cadmium, chromium and mercury, all of which are toxic substances that can leach (渗入) into groundwater if left in a landfill. Unfortunately, this disposal problem is not going to disappear anytime soon -- in fact, it is growing by the minute . In Japan alone, consumers throw away some 20 million TVs, washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners each year. In Europe, 6 million metric tons of electrical and electronic equipment were generated in 1998 alone, and that volume is expected to increase three to five percent per year -- which means by 2010 it could nearly double.
What’s to be done with all this techno-trash? One way to reduce waste is to avoid throwing things away in the first place. Many companies reuse parts from old products in new models. This is not cheating - it makes both environmental and economic sense. Techno-trash can also be reined in during the design phase. ②This concept, called "design for the environment", is in evidence at Kyoeera Mita, whose Ecosys laser printers do not use disposable toner cartridges( 色粉盒 ). Using advanced ceramic(制陶术) technology, these printers include a durable print drum with a super-hard coating that can produce up to 300,000 pages of high-quality printing. Not only does, this make ecological sense and keep cartridges out of landfills, but it saves the customer money.
Question 46 to 50 are based on the passage above.
46.According to the first paragraph, the problem is .
A. technology develops at a high speed
B. people depend too much on the electronic products
C. it’s difficult to figure out how new electronic products work
D. new electronic products quickly become trash
47. The real trouble lying in techno-trash is that
A. it takes up valuable space B. it contains toxic substances
C. its life span is very short D. the attic is too small to store it
48. We learn from the passage that techno-trash
A. becomes less than before B. will become more and more
C. has been controlled effectively D. was more than now
49. Which of the following groups is dealing with the techno-trash problem IA
paragraph?
A. Technological innovator, B. Economical commissions.
C. Electronics manufacturers. D. Environmental organizations.
50. The author’s intention in writing this article is to
A. condemn the needless waste of new and exciting technological product,
B. call on keeping today’s technological marvels from becoming tomorrow’s trash
C.help people understand how electronic products work before they become obsolete.
D. teach electronics manufacturers to solve the disposal problem of techno-trash.
TEXT3
Sometimes the U. S. government goes out of its way to prove it can be an absolute nuisance. Take the case of Southern Clay, Inc. , which has a factory at Paris, Tennessee, putting out a clay product for cat-boxes best known as "Kitty Litter."
It’s a simple enough process, but the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration insists that since clay comes from the ground--an excavation haft a mile from the Kitty Litter plant--the company actually is engaged in mining and milling. Therefore, says MSHA, Southern Clay is subject to all the rules that govern, say, coal miners working in shafts several hundred feet down.
The company has been told to devise an escape system and fire-fighting procedure in case there is a fire in its "mine." Southern Clay estimates it will lose 6,000 man-hours in production time giving its 250 factory worker a. special training in how to escape from a mine disaster.
One thing that has always impressed us about cats, in addition to their tidiness, is that they seem to watch the human world with a sense of wise and detached superiority, as though they wondered what the hustle and bustle is all about, lf they grin from time to time, as some people insist, it’s no wonder.
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
51. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to______.
A) explain how Kitty Litter is produced
B) describe the Mine Safety and Health Administration
C) show how tidy cats are
D) show that the government can sometimes be a nuisance
52. The clay excavation is______.
A) half a mile underground
B) several miles from Paris, Tennessee
C) worked by miners in shafts several hundred feet down
D) half a mile from the Kitty Litter plant
53. What is the meaning of "man-hour"?
A) The time needed in finishing the work by one man.
B) The work done by one man in one hour.
C) The man needed in finishing the work in one hour.
D) The work done by one man.
54. judging from the passage, has the company devised an escape system
and fire-fighting procedure?
A) Yes, the company has done so because it is an order.
B ) Of course, the company has done so although the company is reluctant.
C) No. the command has not done so.
D) We could not judge from the passage.
55. What does the author mean by the passage’s last sentence?
A) Cats sometimes seem to be amused by human antics.
B) People sometimes appear to be laughing at the antics of cats.
C) Some people think cats are laughing at the Kitty Litter plant.
D) Some people think cats are laughing at the futility of fire-fig[
TEXT4
Many Americans suffered a ruinous disease--alcoholism. For 13 years, between 1920 and 1933,there were no liquor stores anywhere in the United States. They were shut down--abolished by an amendment (改良，修正) to the Constitution (the 18th) and by a law of Congress (the Volstead Act). After January 20,1920,there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of "intoxicating" (醉人的)liquors. Without any more liquor, people could net drink it. And if they did not drink it, how could they get drunk? There would be no more dangers to the public welfare from drunkenness and alcoholism, it was all very logical. And yet prohibition of liquor，beer, and wine did not work ,Why?
Because, law or no law, millions of people still liked to drink alcohol. And they were willing to take risks to get it. They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law. And gangs of liquor smugglers made it easy to buy an illegal drink--or two or three. They smuggled millions of gallons of the outlawed (被禁止的) liquor across the Canadian and Mexican borders. They hid the stuff under the seats of cars, in hot-water bottles, in the trunks of Christmas trees, and in large blocks of ice. Drinkers were lucky to know of an illegal bar("speakeasy") that served Mexican or Canadian liquor. In those bars ,there was little danger of being crippled and blinded. But if you
drank alcohol crudely distilled in a gangster’s (歹徒) garage, you could be paralyzed (使麻痹) or even killed.
Under the prohibition law, paint and chemical industries were permitted to make a poisonous kind of alcohol for their products. Gangsters quickly invented clever schemes for illegally obtaining millions of gallons of industrial alcohol. They added flavoring to the alcohol and removed most of the poisonous chemicals from it . But deadly doses of the poison sometimes remained in it. Anyone who unsuspectingly drank this sickening stuff would become nauseous(恶心的)。His skin would turn bluish and cold. He would lose control of his muscles and maybe go blind. If he had drunk enough , he would die.
56． Which of the following statements reflects information in the passage?
[A] People liked to drink but they did not defeat Prohibition.
[B] The liquor sold in speakeasies could kill or paralyze.
[C] Liquor made and distributed illegally caused many deaths during the Prohibition Era.
[D] The success of Prohibition made many people give up alcoholic drinking.
57. Which of the following was not a characteristic reason for the proposal of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act?
[A] There would be no further danger to the public from alcoholism.
[B] There would be a rise in the cost of alcoholic drinks.
[C] People would have no more liquor to drink.
[D] People would not create a public nuisance because of getting drunk.
58. Crude alcohol was characterized by its .
[A] added flavoring.
[B] ability to cause nausea, blindness, or death
[C] bluish, cold quality, which was very appealing
[D] use as a poisonous chemical
59. During Prohibition, people ______.
[A] lived in fear of the law
[B] were willing to risk being arrested for the pleasures of liquor
[C] recklessly endangered their communities
[D] were respectful of the legal sanctions placed on them
60. When enacting the prohibition laws, government officials assumed
that________.
[A] every American would buy alcohol illegally
[B] all criminal activities would cease
[C] patrols of the Canadian border would halt the sale of alcohol
[D] the social threat from drunkenness would decline threat from
drunkenness would decline
Part B
Since the invention of the electronic digital computer in the United States 32 years ago ,the computer has found more than 2, 000 specific applications in academic science, engineering, business, industry and the government. 61 ) In virtually all areas of use, the new tool has rapidly proven indispensable, and both the scope and intensity of the application have steadily increased.
In 1950,the total number of computers, in the entire world was only 12.62)By 1960,the total has grown to 65, 000 and by the early 1970’s the worldwide total had Climbed to 90, 000 of which about 60 percent were located in the United States. Because the computer is one of the most powerful amplifiers of human productivity, rapid growth was inevitable. The industry now employs one million workers in the United States, making it the nation’s eighth largest industry. It is expected to become the third largest U. S. industry by 1990.
63 ) Because universities have played a leading role in the development and use of computers for scientific research, and because the computer is the keystone of the information-based society toward which the United States appears to be evolving, there has been keen academic interest in computer science as a discipline in its own right as well as in the use of the computer as an educational tool. It is estimated that schools and universities are presently spending large sums annually on computer activities and that a substantial part of this, perhaps as much as one-thirds, is devoted to instructional applications of the computer.
64 ) The chief attraction of the computer in the educational setting is its potential for constructive interaction with the student in helping him master important procedures and routines. In can not take the place of readling,writing,memory drill and other forms of study, and it cannot be any more effective as an instructional tool than the teacher who programmed it; yet the computer has the potential to serve as a surrogate teacher.
65 )It can provide individualized and responsive tutorial assistance to students for the development of the analytical and problem-solving skills they will require in later business and professional life.
Section IV Writing
66.Directions:
Study the following chart carefully and write a composition of no less than 200 words on the title Income Differences Between Chinese and American Students. Your composition should meet the following requirements.
1. Describe the differences of the income sources between Chinese and American students.
2. Analyze possible reasons for these differences.
3. Predict future tendency.
Source of Income
Percentage
Of Total Income Parents Part-time job Fellowship or Scholarship
American students 50% 35% 15%
Chinese students 90% 5% 5%

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