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2003年全国硕士研究生人学统一考试英语模拟试题


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《考研英语第一时间--全国硕士研究生英语入学考试辅导用书2003冲刺卷》提供
section I Listening Comprehension
Directions:
This section is designed 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 Band Part C.
Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to answer sheet 1.
Part A
Directions:
For Questions 1-5, you will hear a talk about a university is library. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you’ve heard. Write only 1word or number in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points)
Information about the University’s Library
Library Stock(Volumes) 1
Number of Periodical Titles 4,500
The Library Opened (Year) 2
Charge for the Services 3
Closing Time on Friday p.m. 4
Opening Hours During Vacations 5
Part B
Directions:
For Questions 6-10, you will hear a radio advertisement. While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the questions. Use not more than 3words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. (5points)
What kind of people are wanted for the vacancy of hairdresser?
6
The working day required of the cook are
7
How often does the gardener have to work on Sunday?
8
The job vacancy in the office is that of
9
Any school-leaver will be fit for the job vacancy in
10
Part C
Directions:
You will hear 3pieces 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 wil have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only. (10 points)
Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk about choosing schools for study. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13.
11. what does the speaker suggest as to the place for study?
[A] Quality and price should be taken into first consideration.
[ B]It’s better to chose a different country rather than Britain.
[C] A popular place like Oxford or Cambridge is the best.
[D] One should be adventurous and go to a less explored destination.
12. According to the speaker, what schools can offer you rewarding study experience?
[A] The ones where you can find many townsmen.
[ B] The ones where there is mixture of different nationalities.
[C]The ones which can provide opportunities to meet famous professors
[D] The ones which have long history and beautiful surrounding.
13. According to the speaker, study in big places like London
[A] enables you to become a minority.
[ B]makes it easier to experience the language and the local life.
[C] proves difficult to get mixed with the local people.
[D]helps you avoid being homesick.
Questions 14-16 are based on the following talk about how to live a longer life. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16
14. What should we do to increase our life span?
[A] Do as much exercise as we can.
[ B] Keep a balanced diet.
[C] Go to health classes.
[D] Have more health food.
15. What is mentioned as harmful to longevity?
[A] Do away with red meat, sugar and coffee.
[ B]Quit smoking and alcohol.
[C]There is too much depression and stress.
[D] Stay away from others and lead a quiet life.
16. How can reading newspaper help us live longer?
[A] It enables us to keep contact with the outside world.
[ B] It provides more knowledge.
[C] It does good to our understanding of the society .
[D] It helps us to avoid the decline of our brain.
Questions 17-20 are based on the following lecture on British music. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.
17. In such an old country as Britain, what kind of music is popular?
[A] Classical music.
[ B] Folk music.
[C] Traditional music.
[D] Pop music.
18. How do some of the classical music become well-known in Britain?
[A] For reasons other than music itself.
[ B] There are quite a few famous classical musicians.
[C] Italian singer Pavarotti gave a performance in Britain.
[D] Many British people are dedicated to classical music.
19.Pop music developed rapidly in Britain in the 1960s because
[A] the Beatles made great contribution to its popularity.
[ B]British libraries had a large stock of pop music books.
[C] pop musicians combine pop with folk or classical music.
[D] pop musicians were highly valued.
20. What is said about the innovations of pop music?
[A] Pop music has improved sales of musical recordings.
[ B] Some pop singers are at the same time composers.
[C] British musicians created its unique style of pop.
[D] The performers sing songs while playing the musical instruments.
You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.
This is the end of Listening Comprehension.
Section Ⅱ Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B , C or Don ANSWER SHEET 1.(10points)
With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most 21 issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑)to murder , 22 others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.
The principal argument 23 by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman 24, that it is the mark of a 25 society, and finally that it is of 26 effectiveness as a deterrent to crime anyway.
In our opinion, the death penalty is a 27 evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were 28 of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others.
For example , it is one thing to 29 the life of another in a fit of blind rage, 30 quite another to coldly plot and 31 the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, 32 all other crimes , is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction, that the 33 in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the 34 type murder.
The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the 35 by evidence which shows that the citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is 36 by evidence which shows that the death penalty deters murder. 37, form 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was 38 imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100,000 population. Since 1964the death penalty has been 39 only once, and the murder rate has risen to 10.4 murders for each 100,000 population. The sharp climb in the state’s murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no 40.
21. [A] severe [ B] ambiguous [C] controversial [D]complicated
22. [A] however [ B] although [C] and [D] while
23. [A] abided [ B] approved [C] advanced [D] alleged
24. [A] measure [ B]punishment [C] behavior [D] tactics
25. [A] brutal [B ] civilized [C]democratic [D] liberal
26. [A] absolute [ B] relative [C] implicit [D] questionable
27. [A] dreadful [B ] necessary [C]fierce [D]prevalent
28. [A] capable [ B] liable [C] apt [D]possible
29. [A] murder [B ] take [C] execute [D] grab
30. [A] but [B ] and [C] nevertheless [D] or
31. [A] work out [ B] figure out [C] carry out [D]put out
32. [A] unlike [B ] as [C] like [D] alike
33. [A] victim [B ] suspect [C] criminal [D] latter
34. [A] last [B ] late [C] later [D]latter
35. [A]overwhelming [B ]predominant [C] superfluous [D]extraordinary
36. [A] rejected [ B] reinforced [C] incorporated [D]disproved
37. [A] For example [ B]As a result [C] On the contrary [D]In addition
38. [A] randomly [B ] rarely [C] scarcely [D]consistently
39. [A] suspended [ B] imposed [C] violated [D]claimed
40. [A] occurrence [ B]incident [C] coincidence [D]accident
Section Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A , B , C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)
Text 1
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child in a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick Ⅱ in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the infants died before the first year. But, clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most of the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant .whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly an the right time, but the process is slow and once the critical stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of ,say , a toy-bear with the sound pattern“toy-bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
But speech has to be induced , and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child , where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.
41. The purpose of Frederick Ⅱ ‘s experiment was to
[A] prove that children are born with the ability to speak.
[ B]discover what language a child would speak without hearing any human speech.
[C]find out what role careful nursing would play in teaching child to speak.
[D]prove that a child be damaged without learning a language.
42. What does the sentence “A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time…”(L.4, para.3) mean?
[A] A bird learns to sing and fly when at twelve weeks.
[ B] An infant learns to smile and make vowel-like sounds at twelve weeks.
[C] A bird learns to sing and fly when it is old enough.
[D] A bird learns to sing and fly fast at a certain stage.
43. The reason some children are backward in speaking is most probably that
[A] they are incapable of learning language rapidly.
[ B] they are exposed to too much language at once.
[C] their mothers respond inadequately to their attempts to speak.
[D]thir mothers are not intelligent about a child.
44. What is exceptionally remarkable about a child is that
[A] he is born with the capacity to speak
[B ] he has a brain more complex than an animal’s.
[C] he can produce his own sentences.
[D]he owes his speech ability to good nursing.
45. If a child starts to speak later than others, he will in future
[A] have a high IQ.
[B ] be less intelligent.
[C] be insensitive to verbal signals.
[D] not necessarily be backward.
Text 2
Money spent on advertising is money spent as any I know of.It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labour , and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television licence would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 per cent more.
And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven Acts of parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value.
Advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of.
There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing excessively fine distinctions. Of course advertising seeks to persuade.
If its message were confined merely to information—and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the colour of a shirt is subtle, perhaps that is what the well0-known television personality wants.
46. By the first sentence of the text the author means that
[A] he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising.
[B ] everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming.
[C] advertising costs money like everything else.
[D]it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising.
47. In the text, which of the following is not included in the advantages of advertising?
[A] Securing greater fame.
[ B] Providing more jobs.
[C] Enhancing living standards.
[D] Reducing newspaper cost.
48. The author thinks that the will-known TV personality is
[A] very precise in passing his judgment on advertising.
[B ] interested in nothing but the buyer’s attention.
[C] correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information.
[D] obviously partial in his views on advertising.
49. In the author’s opinion.
[A] advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing information.
[B ] advertising in forms people of new ideas rather than wins them over.
[C] there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer.
[D] the buyer is not interested in getting information form an advertisement.
50. What is the author’s tone in this text?
[A] Critical.
[ B] Appreciative.
[C] Supportive.
[D] Persuasive.
Text 3
That experiences influence subsequent behaviour is evidence of an obvious but remarkable activity called remembering. Learning coule not occur without the function popularly named memory. Constant practice has such an effect on memory as to lead to skillful performance on the piano, to recitation of a poem, and even to reading and understanding these words. So-called intelligent behaviour demands memory, remembering being a primary requirement for reasoning. The ability to solve any problem or even to recognize that a problem exists depends on memory. Typically, the decision to cross a street is based on remembering many earlier experiences.
Practice (or review) tens to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material. Over a period of no practice what has been learned tends to be forgotten; and the adaptive consequences may not seem obvious. Yet, dramatic instances of sudden forgetting can be seen to be adaptive. In this sense, the ability to forget can be interpreted to have survived through a process of natural selection in animals. Indeed, when one’s memory of an emotionally painful experience leads to serious anxiety, forgetting may produce relief. Nevertheless, an evolutionary painful experience leads to serious anxiety, forgetting may produce relief. Nevertheless, an evolutionary interpretation might make it difficult to understand how the commonly gradual process of forgetting survived natural selection.
In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible aspects, it is helpful to consider what would happen if memories failed to fade. Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration. Without forgetting, adaptive ability would suffer; for example, learned behaviour that might have been correct a decade ago may no longer be. Cases are recorded of people who (by ordinary standards) forgot so little that their everyday activities were full of confusion. Thus forgetting seems to serve the survival of the individual and the species.
Another line of thought assumes a memory storage system of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through forgetting. In this view, continual adjustments are made between learning or memory storage (input ) and forgetting (output). Indeed, there is evidence that the rate at which individuals forget is directly related to how much they have learned. Such data offer gross support of contemporary models of memory that assume an input-output balance.
51. From the evolutionary point of view,
[A] forgetting for lack of practice tends to be obviously inadaptive.
[ B] if a person gets very forgetful of a sudden he must be very adaptive.
[C] the gradual process of forgetting is an indication of an individual’s adaptability.
[D] sudden forgetting may bring about adaptive consequences.
52. According to the text, if a person never forgot.
[A] he would survive best.
[ B] he would have a lot of trouble.
[C] his ability to learn would be enhanced.
[D]the evolution of memory would stop.
53. Which is the proper explanation of the word “fade”(L.2, para.3)?
[A] Disappear.
[ B] Decrease.
[C] Demonstrate.
[D] Declare.
54. From the last paragraph we know that
[A] forgetfulness is a response to learning.
[ B] the memory storage system is an exactly balanced input-output system.
[C] memory is a compensation for forgetting.
[D] the capacity of a memory storage system is limited because forgetting occurs.
55. In this article, the author tries to interpret the function of
[A] remembering.
[ B] forgetting.
[C] adapting.
[D] experiencing.
No very satisfactory account of the mechanism that caused the formation of the ocean basins has yet been given. The traditional view supposes that the upper layer of the earth behaves as a liquid when it is subjected to small focus for long periods and that differences in temperature under oceans and continents are sufficient to produce movements in the upper layer of the earth with rising currents under the mid-ocean ridges and sinking currents under the continents. Theoretically, these movements would carry the continental plates along as though they were on a conveyor belt and would provide the forces needed to produce the split that occur along the ridge. This view may be correct; it has the advantage that the currents are driven by temperature differences that themselves depend on the position of the continents.
On the other hand, the theory is unconvincing because the movements do not normally occur along lines, and it certainly does not occur along lines broken by frequent changes in direction, as the ridge is. Also, it is diffcult to see how the theory applies to the plate between the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the ridge in the Indian Ocean. This plate is growing on both sides, and since there is no intermediate trench, the two ridge must be moving apart. An alternative theory is that the sinking part of the plate, which is denser than the hotter surroundings, pulls the rest of plate after it. Again it is difficult to see how this applies to the ridge in the South Atlantic, where neither the African nor the American plate has a sinking part.
Another possibility is that the sinking plate cools the neighboring mantle and produces motion currents that move the plates. This last theory is attractive because it gives some hope of explaining the neighboring mantle and produces motion currents that move the plates. This last theory is attractive because it gives some hope of explaining the enclosed seas. These seas have a typical oceanic floor, except that the floor is overlaid by several kilometers of sediment. Their floors have probably been sinking for long periods. It seems possible that a sinking current of cooled material on the upper side of the might be the cause of such deep basins. The enclosed seas are an important feature of the earth’s surface and seriously require explanation.
56. Which of the following titles would best describe the content of the text?
[A] Several Theories of Ocean Basin Formation
[ B] The Traditional View of the Oceans
[C] Motions and Ocean Currents
[D] Temperature Differences Among the Oceans
57.The author refers to a “conveyor belt”(L.6, Para.1) in order to
[A] illustrate the effects of movements in the upper layer of the earth.
[B ] show how temperature differences depend on the positions of the continents.
[C] describe the complicated motions made possible by the ocean currents.
[D] account for the rising currents under min-ocean ridges.
58. According to the traditional view of the origin of the ocean basins, which of the following is sufficient to move the continental plates?
[A] Spreading of ocean trenches.
[B ] Movements of min-ocean ridges.
[C] Sinking of ocean basins.
[D] Differences in temperature underoceans and continents.
59. Which of the following, if it could be demonstrated, would most support the traditional view of ocean basin formation?
[A] The upper mantle of the earth behaves as a dense solid.
[B ] Movements usually occur along lines.
[C] Sinking plates cool the surface of the earth.
[D] The rising motion currents keep exact pace with them.
60. Which of the following does the author seem to prefer?
[A] The traditional view of the origin of the ocean basin is thoroughly wrong.
[ B] The temperature of the sinking plate is lower than its surrounding.
[C] That the earth behaves as a liquid results in many great oceans.
[D] Neither the African nor the American plate moves according to the alternative theory.
Part B
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly an ANSWER SHEET 2.(10 points)many schools argue that “sticker” prices shown in the U.S. news index are misleading, since most students, not just those who might be described as truly “needy”, usually are eligible for some form of financial aid. 61) In face, tuition discounting has become so widespread that on many campuses what began as a subsidy (补贴) for the minority has turned into an entitlement for the majority. Some schools actually encourage students to bargain for larger aid packages by implicitly—or explicitly—promising “to meet the competition”. 62)Naturally, the something-for-nothing generosity of this strange system comes at a price, as increases in financial aid usually have to be funded by raising already high tuition higher still.
63)Unhappily, college loans have become as much a part of student life as Friday right beer busts. Between 1990 and 1995, the $ 103 billion combined total of undergraduate loans exceeded the sum of all the debt incurred by all the college students during the preceding three decades. 64)Statistics like these trouble Charles Manning, chancellor of the West Virginia University System, who worries that high levels of debt could “wind up negatively influencing students’ lifestyles, their choices of careers, their willingness to go to graduate and professional schools and their ability to buy homes, cars and other consumer product.”
Of even greater concern is that many of these debtors may also wind up, at least temporarily, in jobs that do not offer what have come to be thought of as college-level salaries. The disturbing truth is that there are simply too many college graduates competing for too few college-level jobs. In her latest study, Kristina J. Shelley, a Bureau of Labor Statistics specialist in the post—college-employment market, that at least 22 percent of all college graduates entering the work force between 1994 and 2005 were or will be either unemployed or in jobs for which a bachelor’s degree is not ordinarily considered a necessity. 65)Working with some big companies is an honorable first job, but the salaries they offer rarely enable graduates both to repay a student loan and to enjoy a lifestyle appropriate with their expectations.
Section Ⅳ Writing
66. Directions:
A.Study the following picture carefully and write an essay of about 200 words.
B.Your essay should meet the requirements below;
1)Describe the picture and interpret its meaning.
2)Give your comments on the phenomenon.
C.Your essay must be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

答案

Section Ⅰ Listening Comprehension
Part A
1. 900,000 2. 1975 3. free 4. 5:30 5. vary
Part B
6. experienced (ones/people) 7. Monday to Friday
8. once a month 9. a shorthand typist 10. a busy supermarket
Part C
11. D 12.B 13.C 14. B 15.D 16. D 17. D 18. A 19. A 20. B

Section Ⅱ Use of English
21.C 22.D 23.C 24.B 25.A 26. D 27.B 28.A 29.B 30. A 31. C 32. C 33.C 34.D 35.A 36.B 37.A 38.D 39.B 40.C
Section Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
41.B 42.D 43.C 44.C 45.D 46.D 47.A 48.D 49.C 50.D 51.D 52.B 53.A 54.A 55.B 56.A 57.A 58.D 59.B 60.B

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