2013年在职人员攻读硕士学位全国联考 英语试卷一

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2013年在职人员攻读硕士学位全国联考 英语试卷一

Part I Dialogue Communication (15 minutes, 15 points) Section A Dialogue Completion 1. Speaker A: You think Sara can tell me where I can go for some shoe shoping? Speaker B: ______ She has all the info for shopping.

A. You bet. B. Try yourself. C. Why not? D. I double. 2. Speaker A: Do you mind waiting while I grab my wallet? Speaker B: _______ We’ve still got

time. A. Take it easy. B. Yes, please. C. I sure do. D. No hurry.

3. Speaker A: Chinese or Italian, what would you prefer for dinner? Speaker B: _________, as far as I don’t have to cook.

A. That sounds good. B. You said it. C. Either one. D. I like the former. 4. Speaker A: Well you can see dolphins ahead of you if we don’t run out of fuel. Speaker B: Is that right? _________. Speaker A: Maybe about another two and a half hours.

A. I couldn’t wait to see them. B. When would it be? C. How long will it take? D. How fast should we do?

5. Speaker A: Do you have the notes from last week’s class? I was sick last time. Speaker B: ________ Here you go.

A. Oh, yes. B. Why not? C. What’s wrong with you? D. I didn’t know. Section B Dialogue Comprehension

6. Bob: She is a great teacher! John: You can say that again! Question: What does John mean? A. He doubts what Bob says B. He entirely agrees with Bob. C. He totally disagrees with Bob. D. He fails to understand Bob.

7. Rita: Susan, you could become a model. Susan: Don’t make me laugh! Question: What does Susan mean? A. She is amused by Rita. B. She is interested in Rita’s suggestion C. She is confused by Rita’s words. D. She is unlikely to become a model.

8. Woman: Have you got your TV set fixed? Man: I haven’t missed it enough yet. Question:

What does the man mean? A. He hasn’t learned how to fix the TV. B. He doesn’t like watching TV. C. He hasn’t finished fixing his TV. D. He hasn’t found his TV set yet.

9. Woman: What do you think of the new novel by William Golding? Man: Well, that one takes a really close reading. Question: What does the man mean? A. He doesn’t like reading the book. B. He’d love to have time to read it. C. The novel is difficult to understand. D. The novel is well worth reading.

10. Woman: I don’t think it’s a good idea to discuss our problem with your sister.

Man: I feel it’s done me good to get it off my chest. Question: What does the man mean? A. He welcomes the challenge posed by the problem. B. He felt much better after talking to his sister. C. His sister helped him solve the problem. D. His sister managed to ease his burden.

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes, 10 points)

11. Smith has repaired the roof to ______ the house is wind-resistant. A. improve B. prove C. insure D. ensure

12. He was influenced by a biology teacher to ______ the study of medicine. A. make up B. take up C. hold up D. pull up

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13. Because his movements were so ____ I was hardly aware he was moving at all. A. swift B. obvious C. graceful D. slight

14. Student journalists are taught how to be _____ when writing in a limited space. A. concise B. proper C. complex D. perfect

15. She had no appetite, and _____ toyed with the bread and cheese. A. specially B. rarely C. randomly D. merely

16. For their own safety, household pets should be ______ to their own yard. A. confined B. reduced C. exposed D. led

17. I’m keeping my _____ open; I have not made a decision on this matter. A. questions B. options C. schedules D. chances

18. It’s what he did _____ what he said that impressed all at the meeting. A. except B. but also C. instead D. rather than

19. _____ a few years ago, the existence of sexual harassment in many businesses was scarcely

acknowledged. A. Before B. Since C. Until D. Up to

20. Jim was _____ asking his mother to buy him a new bike, so she finally gave in. A.

hesitant about B. concerned with C. eager for D. persistent in

21. The whole village ______ by a sudden flood, they had to stay in tents. A. having been

destroyed B. has been destroyed C. was destroyed D. had been destroyed

22. Good morning, class. ______ of you wants to do the presentation first? A. Which B. Whom C. What D. Who

23. I’ve no idea when she’ll be back. _____ you wait or come back later is up to you. A. When B. If C. Whether D. That

24. We tend to think the men we like are good for everything, and ____ we don’t. A. ones B. those C. the one D. that

25. It is widely accepted now that having more children _____ a lower standard of living. A. imply B. implies C. has implied D. implied

26. When my computer suddenly broke down, I noticed that I _____ to save the document. A. would forget B. have forgotten C. was forgetting D. had forgotten

27. This is ____ the advertising for these products wants to make us think. A. why B. that C. how D. what

28. He _____ the exam, but he failed for his carelessness. A. hadn’t passed B. could pass C. could have passed D. had passed

29. The tanker broke in the middle, _____ out a great amount of oil into the sea. A. poured B. pouring C. to pour D. having poured

30. We used to work in the same office and we _____ have coffee together. A. would B. should C. could D. might. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points) Passage One

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“The moose (驯鹿) is odd and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head?” The 19th-century writer of those words, Henry David Thoreau, was hardly alone in his comment of the moose. Moose’s funny appearance makes us think that it is clumsy and slow witted. Is that true? Researchers in North American have uncovered many facts about this unusual animal.

No one denies that the moose is a giant. Adult moose can grow as high as 1.5 to 2 meters, and weigh as 816 kg. Although is has long legs that make it seem foolish, it can run up to 55 km per hour, and those legs can kick off an entire pack of wolves. Moose is vegetarian. It feeds on woody plants, leaves and water plants. It learns to swim within days of birth, and they have been observed swimming for miles and diving to a depth of nearly 6 meters to feed on water plants!

A moose can move its eyes and detect motion almost directly behind it without turning its head. Its nose is also effective tool. Researchers suggest that because the moose’s nostrils (鼻孔) are far apart , they may give it the unusual ability to locate the objects on a 3D scale. The moose’s hearing adds another merit to its sensory package. Its ears can turn to all directions, and they can pick up sounds from other moose as far as 3 km away!

Baby moose tend to be curious and carefree. Their mothers protect them by providing tender and loyal care. They will attack any who are too close to there young, including wolves, bears, and even humans. Finally, when the young is about a year old and its mother is newly pregnant, the mother aggressively drives it away so that it can begin caring for itself. 31. The moose looks odd and awkward, so ______.

A. many people make fun of it B. many people consider it foolish C. many researchers study it D. many people are afraid of it 32. The word “vegetarian” (Para. 2) probably means ______.

A. lovely B. kind-hearted C. huge D. plant-eating 33. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that the moose _______.

A. is a gentle animal B. is an aggressive animal C. has very sharp senses D. lives far apart from one another 34. We can conclude from the last paragraph that mother moose ______. A. take good care of their kids only for a short time B. take those approaching their young as a threat C. give birth to only one baby once in a year D. prefer younger babies to older ones

35. This passage is intended to tell us that ______. A. the moose is really a giant and quite animal

B. we should protect the environment for the moose C. the moose is not clumsy and foolish at all D. people should not disturb the moose’s life Passage two

I have a vegetable garden and every summer I enjoy eating my own vegetables. One day last summer I picked a dozen carrots. Usually, as soon as I have picked the carrots, I clean the dirt off them by washing them in a bucket of water. But this day, as I was getting up from the ground with my twelve carrots, I tripped (绊) and fell over the bucket. The water spilled out of the bucket, so I

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decided to wash the carrots quickly in the kitchen sink. I put the carrots in the sink, washed them with water, and watched all the dirt washed away down the drain.

The next day, when I was washing dishes, I noticed that the water drained out of the sink much more slowly than usual. It drained so slowly that I called a plumber (水管工) to come and fix my drain. The plumber tried a lot of different cleaners and equipment, but nothing worked. He had to cut a hole in the floor where the drain pipe was in order to try to find the problem. While he was cutting the small hole, he accidentally cut the hot-water pipe. Hot water sprayed over the plumber, onto the floor, under the refrigerator; water went everywhere.

My refrigerator stopped working because the water had affected the electrical wires. I called an electrician to come and fix the refrigerator. The electrician had to move the refrigerator to work on the wires. As she was balancing it, she tripped over the plumber’s tools. She fell down and the refrigerator tipped over. It crashed into the wall, resulting in a huge hole in the wall. I called a carpenter to come and fix the wall. In order to repair the hole in the wall, the carpenter had to tear down half of the entire wall. Meanwhile, the plumber was still looking for the source of the drain problem. Since the kitchen was in a terrible mess anyway, the plumber decided to remove part of the floor to look at the pipe there. In the middle of the floor, he found the problem: the dirt from the carrots was stuck in the pipe and nothing could go through.

Now I had a sink that did not drain, a refrigerator that did not work, a wall that was half gone, and part of a floor that was missing. I looked at this disaster and decided that what I really needed was a new kitchen. Finally, I called a house builder to come can fix my kitchen. Three weeks later I had a new sink, a new refrigerator, new cupboards on a new wall, new tiles on a new floor, and $10,000 less in my bank.

36. The carrots were washed in the sink instead of the bucket because _______. A. the water bucket fell over B. dinner needed to be made soon

C. carrots were always washed in it D. they could be washed more cleanly 37. The plumber did all the following EXCEPT ________.

A. cut a hole in the floor B. cut the hot-water pipe C. try different cleaners D. tear down part of the wall 38. Which of the following caused the hole in the wall? A. Water that sprayed on it.

B. The electrician who worked on the wires. C. The refrigerator that crashed into it. D. The plumber who used a wrong tool.

39. Which of the following items was NOT damaged?

A. The wall. B. The ceiling. C. The hot water pipe. D. The floor. 40. The best title of the passage would be “_________”. A. How a dozen carrots cost $10,000 B. What the dirt from carrots could do C. Carrots can be very expensive D. A careless homeowner Passage Three

More boys than girls are born all over the world, but a new study has found that the closer

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people live to the equator (赤道), the smaller the difference becomes. No one knows why. The imbalanced sex ratio at birth has been known for more than a hundred years, and researchers have found a large variety of social, economic and biological factors that relate to the sex ratio at birth----war, economic stress, age, diet, selective, abortion and more. But latitude (纬度) is a natural phenomenon, unaffected by cultural or economic factors.

To look at the effect of latitude, Kristen J. Navara of the University of Georgia used the latitude of the capital city in 202 countries, as well as 10 years of data on sex ratio at birth and annual variations in day length and temperature. Dr. Navara performed a statistical analysis which showed that there was a significant relation between sex ratios in favor of boys and latitude.

African countries produced the lowest sex ratios----50.7 percent boys----and European and Asian countries had the highest with 51.4 percent.

There are some possible explanations, but none entirely satisfactory. It could be that there is some survival value in producing more girls in warmer regions, but it is unclear what this might be. There may be genetic or racial differences that could explain it, but the connection persists over so many varied populations that this seems unlikely. Mice also produce more male offspring during shorter days or colder weather, but the reasons in these animals are just as mysterious as they are in humans.

“There’s a possibility that humans might be responding to factors they were programmed to respond to a long time ago----not cultural or socioeconomic, but climate and things like latitude,” Dr. Navara said. “What’s interesting is that we may be seeing something that connects us with our animal ancestry.”

41. What can be learned from the first paragraph? A. The closer to the equator, the more boys are born. B. Boys are more used to colder places.

C. Girls have a higher birth rate than boys near the equator. D. In warmer places the birth ratio between boys and girls is lower.

42. Out of all the influencing factors of birth ratio, Dr. Navara focuses on ________. A. culture B. economy

C. latitude D. stress

43. Dr. Navara reached her conclusion through _________. A. comparing data B. field study

C. conducting a survey D. map reading

44. According to Navara, which of the following probably explains the imbalanced sex ratio? A. There is cultural preference for boys.

B. Humans are designed that the way by nature. C. Different races have different birth ratios. D. Humans are different from animals in birth ratio. 45. What is the purpose of the passage?

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A. To tell a mysterious story.

B. To report a scientific experiment.

C. To explain an interesting phenomenon. D. To argue for a viewpoint. Passage Four

On July 15th India will become the latest country shut down its official telegram service. In Britain, telegrams were replaced by Telemessages, which were simply telegrams printed out and put into the post, in 1982. America’s telegram service, operated by Western Union, ended in 2006. Australia shut down its telegram service in 2011. Are telegrams dead?

Not quite. The honorable technology still clings to life, and not just in India. The mechanical telegraph dates back to 1790s. In the 1840s such mechanical telegraphs gave way to electrical telegraphs, which sent messages as coded pluses along wires, and the word “telegram” emerged shortly afterwards to describe a message sent by telegraph. The invention of the telephone in the 1870s did not result in the immediate decline of the telegram, because the technical difficulty and expense of making long-distance phone calls meant that telegrams were still the easiest way to send international messages quickly. Bus as long-distance telephony became cheaper and easier, it was only a matter of time. From the 1970s, the emergence of electronic means of communication, starting with the fax machine, and then followed by e-mail and mobile-phone text messages in the 1990s, restricted telegrams to ceremonial uses such as messages relating to births, marriages and deaths.

In India, the telegram held on a bit longer because it was used for internal government communications. Even after the shut-down of India’s official service, the telegram survives in a few other countries, including Belgium, Japan and Sweden, where it was kept as a nostalgic (怀旧的) service. So despite several recent reports to the contrary, the telegram is not quite dead, and will probably never die.

Moreover, in some ways the tradition of the telegram is healthier than ever. Tweets, like text messages, also require users to keep their messages brief and telegraphic. Such digital messages have undermined the business case for the telegram, but have preserved aspects of telegraphic tradition. Some mobile phones used to announce incoming text messages with beeps that sound like Morse code, the international alphabet of telegraphy. The 19th-century technology of the telegram lives on, in spirit at least, in our 21st-century devices.

46. Which of the following is the first country to end its telegram service? A. India. B. Britain.

C. America. D. Australia.

47. The second paragraph is a brief view of ________. A. the historical role of the telegram

B. the latest development of telegram service C. the beginning and declining of telegrams D. the development of modern technologies

48. The drastic drop of telegram services is mainly caused by ________.

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A. long-distance telephony and fax

B. long-distance telephony and Internet services C. fax and mobile-phone text messages D. Internet services and mobile-phone text messages

49. Telegram services are still kept in some countries for ______. A. reminding people of the good old days B. ceremonial uses for major events C. internal government communications D. communications between private firms

50. The main idea of the last paragraph is that _______. A. old technologies will be replaced by new ones B. the once great telegraphy is becoming history C. the spirit of telegraphy will last long D. telegram services will soon die out Part IV Cloze (15 minutes, 10 points)

A lot of people want their lives to change for the better but not everyone pulls it off mainly because they feel chained to their present circumstances. And _51_ external factors do play a role in how your life shapes out, the fact is, most of the things holding you back are living _52_ your head. Kick those ideas and mindsets (思维定势) out, and you’ll start seeing the world in a more _53_ light. Doors will open up, great _54_ will come to you more often, and you’ll have a much better life in _55_. The big positive changes _56_ you want your life to have can actually be achieved by making small adjustments _57_ how you think. And the best part is it’s not even that _58_. You just have to train yourself to think and look at life a little _59_. Here are few mind shifts that you can try right now to rethink your problems in order to start feeling more positive: Change” I need to spend less” to “I need to _60_ more”, “I can’t” to “I won’t”, and “I failed” to “I learned”.

51. A. while B. when C. if D. since 52. A. outside B. for C. inside D. with 53. A. negative B. positive C. radical D. rational 54. A. challenges B. events C. theories D. ideas 55. A. general B. conclusion C. secret D. practice 56. A. what B. that C. for which D. for what

57. A. at B. as C. to D. by 58. A. bad B. happy C. easy D. hard 59. A. logically B. differently C. realistically D. amusingly 60. A. spend B. look C. earn D. take 英语试卷二

Part V Translation (30 minutes, 10 points)

Going on holiday can be one of the most memorable events of your life. But it can be memorably good or memorably bad. The fact is that it can become a nightmare if you rely totally on travel agencies.

With access to the Internet, you are now able to research, to investigate the environment you

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plan to be in, and to adjust your plans to take local features into account. You can make bookings for flights, accommodation, tours and many kinds of services. Even if you do decide to book through a reliable travel agency, you can still do plenty of research and make informed decisions before doing so. In the end you will usually get lower prices and the result you want, rather than possibly being persuaded into something you may not like.

If they recommend certain airlines, accommodation, etc., check prices and alternatives elsewhere. The agency may be working on commission for business partners, and so prices can very considerably.

Part VI Writing (30 minutes, 15points)

You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic of “What I think of the Chinese dream”. You may base your composition on the Chinese clues given below.

新一届中央领导提出了“中国梦”的概念。 你心中的“中国梦”是什么？

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