2015年同等学力申硕考试英语真题

2015

年同等学力申硕考试英语真题

Part I Oral Communication(10 points)

Section A

Directions:

In

this

section

there

are

two

incomplete

dialogues

and

each

dialogue

has

three

blanks

and

three

choices

A,

B

and

C,

taken

from

the

dialogue.

Fill

in

each

of

the

blanks

with

one

of

the

choices

to

complete

the

dialogue

and

mark

your

answer

on the Answer Sheet.

Dialogue One

you know what a handicapped space is ?

signs always tell you how long you can park there and on what days.

you also need to be aware of the time limits on the street signs.

Student: Can you tell me where I can park?

Clerk: Are you driving a motorcycle or an automobile?

Student: I drive an automobile.

Clerk: can either park in the student lot or on the street. 1

Student: Yes,I have seen those spots.

Clerk:

well,when you see the blue spots with the handicapped sign,

do not park

there unless you have a special you going to be parking in the daytime

or evening?

Student: I park in the evenings.

Clerk: 2 Have you seen those signs?

Student: Yes ,I have seen those signs.

Clerk: 3

Dialogue Two

A. The hours and limitations are printed on the card and this handout.

B. May I have your driver's license,please?

C. Are you familiar with our rules and fines?

Student:Excuse me,I am interested in getting a library card.

Librarian:Sure,let me give you an can fill it out right here

at the counter.

Student: Thank you.I'll do it right now.

Librarian:Let me take a look at this for you. 4

Student : Here it is.

Librarian : You seem to have filled the form out all right.___5___

Student : Yes.I know what to do.

Librarian : ____6____

Student : OK . I see.

Librarian :

Thank you for joining the

library; We look forward to serving you.

Section B

Directions: In this section there is one incomplete which has four blanks and

four choices A,B,C and D , taken from the interview . Fill in each of the blanks

with

one

of

the

choices

to

complete

the

interview

and

mark

your

answer

on

the

Answer

Sheet.()

A. And fooled the boys for a while.

B. And I don't think the boys have minded.

C. Well , it's because my British publisher.

D. All this time I thought you were 'J.K'.

Winfrey : So , this is the first time we've met.

Rowling : Yes ,it is .

Winfrey : And my producers tell me that your real name is J.O.____7____

Rowling : (laughing) Yeah.

Winfrey : J.K is

…

Rowling : ____8_____ When the first book came out , they thought ' this is a

book that will appeal to boys ' ,but they didn't want the boys to know a woman had

written it . So they said to me ' could we use your initials ' and I said ' fine

'. I only have one initial . I don't have a middle name , So I took my favorite

grandmother's name,Kathleen.

Winfrey : ____9_____

Rowling : Yeah, but not for too long, because I started getting my picture in

the press and no one could pretend I was a man anymore.

Winfrey : ___10____

Rowling : NO-it hasn't held me back,has it?

Part II Vocabulary(10 points)

Directions: In this

part there are ten sentences, each with one word or phrase

underlined.

Choose

the

one

from

the

four

choices

marked

A,

B,C

and

D

that

best

keeps

the meaning of the sentence. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

11. There are several different options for getting Internet access.

A. choices B. definitions C. channels s

12. Earth has an atmosphere, which protects the surface from harmful rays.

A. minerals nces C. gases D. beams

13. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her hostile

attitude toward customers.

A. unfriendly B. optimistic C. impatient D. positive

14.

Since

it

is

late

to

change

my

mind

now,

I

am

resolved

to

carry

out

the

plan.

A. revise B. implement C. review D. improve

15. Security guards dispersed the crowd that had gathered around the Capitol.

ed B. stopped C. scattered D. watched

16. To start the program, insert the disk and follow the instructions.

A. take out B. turn over C. track down D. put in

17. The patient's condition has deteriorated since last night.

A. improved B. returned C. worsened D. changed

18. I couldn't afford to fly home , and a train ticket was likewise beyond my

means.

A. also B. nonetheless C. furthermore D. otherwise

19.

Despite

years

of

searching,

scientists

have

detected

no

signs

of

life

beyond

our own solar system.

A. within B. besides C. outside D. except

20.

I

prefer

chicken

to

fish

because

I

am

worried

about

accidentally

swallowing

a small bone.

A. intentionally B. unexpectedly C. anxiously D. hurriedly

Part III Reading Comprehension (25 points)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there are four passages followed by questions or

unfinished statements ,each with four suggested answers A, B, C and D. Choose the

best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Passage One

Sometimes a race is not enough. Sometimes a runner just wants to go further.

That's what happened to Dennis Martin and Brooke Curran.

Martin, 68, a retired detective form New York City,took up running after his

first wife died. Curran, 46, a philanthropist(

慈善家

)from Alexandria, started

running to get out of the house and collect her thoughts. Both she and Martin got

good at running but felt the desire to do more.

got,

a ccomplishment.

Eventually , they worked up to running marathons(

马拉松

)(and longer races) in

other countries, on other countries. Now both have achieved a notable -and

increasingly less rate - milestone;running the 26.2-mile race on all seven

continents.

They are part of a phenomenon that has grown out of the running culture in the

past two decades, at the intersection of athleticism and leisure:

which combine distance running with travel to exotic places . There trips ,as

expensive

as

they

are

physically

challenging

,are

a

growing

and

competitive

market

in the travel industry.

the

beginning,running

was

enough

,

Steen

Albrechtsen

,a

press

manager.

The classic marathon was the ultimate goal, then came the super marathons ,like

London and New York. But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge,it is

no longer exciting and adventurous .Hence, the search for new adventures began.

one

could

ever

have

imagined

that

running

would

become

the

lifestyle

activity

that

it

is

today,

said

Thom

Gilligan,

founder

and

president

of

Boston-based

Marathon

Tours

and

Travel.

Gilligan,who

has

been

in

business

since

1979,

is

partly

responsible

for the seven-continent phenomenon.()

It

started

with

a

casual

talk

to

an

interviewer

about

his

company

offering

trips

to every continent except Antarctica. And then in 1995,Marathon fours hosted its

first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island. Off the tip of the Antarctic

Peninsula;160 runners got to the starting line of a dirt-and ice-trail route via

a Russian icebreaker through the Drake Passage.

21. At the beginning, Martin took up running just to .

A. meet requirements of his job

B. win a running race

C. join in a philanthropic activity

D. get away from his sadness

22. Martin and Curran are mentioned as good examples of .

A. winners in the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents

B. people who enjoy long running as a lifestyle activity

C. running racers satisfied with their own performance

D. old people who live an active life after retirement

23. A new trend in the travel industry is the development of .

A. challenging runcations

B. professional races

C. Antarctica travel market

D. expensive tours

24. The classic marathon no longer satisfies some people because .

A. it does not provide enough challenge

B. it may be tough and dangerous

C. it involves too fierce a competition

D. it has attracted too many people

25. The first Antarctica Marathon on King George Island indicates that .

A. international cooperation is a must to such an event

B. runcations are expensive and physically challenging

C. Marathon Tours is a leader of the travel industry

D. adventurous running has become increasingly popular

Passage Two

Before the 1970s, college students were treated as children. So many colleges

ran in loco parentis system.

place of a parent.

in the interests of a child.

This

idea

developed

long

ago

in

British

common

law

to

define

the

responsibility

of

teachers

toward

their

students.

For

years,

American

courts

upheld

in

loco

parentis

in cases such as Gott versus Berea College in 1913.

Gott

owned

a

restaurant

off

campus.

Berea

threatened

to

expel

students

who

ate

at places not owned by the school. The Kentucky high court decided that in loco

parentis justified that rule.

In

loco

parentis

meant

that

male

and

female

college

students

usually

had

to

live

in

separate

buildings.

Women

had

to

be

back

at

their

dorms

by

ten

or

eleven

on

school

nights.

But

in

the

1960s,

students

began

to

protest

rules

and

restrictions

like

these.

At the same time, courts began to support students who were being punished for

political and social dissent.

In 1960, Alabama State College expelled six students who took part in a civil

rights

demonstration.

They

sued

the

school

and

won.

After

that

it

became

harder

and

harder to defend in loco parentis.

At

that

time, students were

not considered adults until

21. Then,

in 1971, the

24th

amendment

to

the

Constitution

set

the

voting

age

at

eighteen.

So

in

loco

parentis

no longer really applied.

Slowly,

colleges

began

to

treat

students

not

as

children,

but

as

adults.

Students

came to be seen as consumers of educational services.

Gary

Dickstein,

an

assistant

vice

president

at

Wright

State

University

in

Dayton,

Ohio, says in loco parentis is not really gone. It just looks different. Today's

parents, he

says, are

often heavily

involved

in

students' lives. They are known

as

parents.

They

always

seem

to

hover

over

their

children.

Gary

Dickstein

says

these

parents

are

likely

to

question

decisions,

especially

about

safety

issues

and grades.

They

want

to make sure their financial investment is

not being wasted.

26. Before the 1970s, many colleges ran in loco parentis system because .

A. they could take the place of the students' parents

B. parents asked them to do it for the interests of their children

C. this was a tradition established by British colleges

D. college students were regarded as too young to be treated as adults

27. Who won the case of Gott versus Berea College in 1913?

A. Berea College. B. Gott.

C. It was a win-win case. D. The students.

28. The word

A. extreme behaviors B. violation of laws

C. strong disagreement D. Wrong doings

29. In 1960

，

the court ruled that Alabama State College_____

A. had no right to expel the students

B. was justified to have expelled the students

C. shouldn't interfere with students' daily life

D. should support civil rights demonstrations

30. According to Gary Dickstein, today's

A. don't set their hearts at rest with college administrators

B. keep a watchful eye on their children's life and study

C. care less about their children's education than before

D. have different opinions on their children's education

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Passage Three

We

tend

to

think

of

plants

as

the

furniture

of

the

natural

word.

They

don't

move

they don't make sounds, they don't seem to respond to anything -at least not very

quickly. But as is often the case, our human view of the world misses quite a lot.

Plants talk to each other all the time. And the language is chemical.

Over the years scientists have reported that different types of plants, from

trees

to

tomatoes,

release

compounds

into

the

air

to

help

neighboring

plants.

These

chemical

warnings

all

have

the

same

purpose-to

spread

information

about

one

plant's

disease so other plants can defend themselves. But exactly how plants receive and

act on many of these signals is still mysterious.

In

this

week's

Proceedings

of

the

National

Academy

of

Sciences,

researchers

in

Japan

offer

some

explanations.

They

have

identified

one

chemical

message

and

traced

it all the way from release to action.

The scientists looked at tomato plants infested(

侵害

) by common pest, the

cutworm caterpillar(

毛虫

). To start out, they grew plants in two plastic

compartments connected

by a tube. One plant was infested and placed upwind and

the

others

were

uninfested

and

placed

downwind.

The

downwind

plants

were

later

exposed

to

the

cutworm

caterpillar.

The

results

showed

that

plants

that

had

previously

been

near

sick

neighbors

were

able

to

defend

themselves

better

against

the

caterpillar.

The researchers also studied leaves from exposed and unexposed plants. They

found

one

compound

showed

up

more

often

in

the

exposed

plants.

The

substance

is

called

Hex

Vic.

When

the

scientists

fed

Hex

Vic

to

cutworms,

it

knocked

down

their

survival

rate

by

17%.

The

scientists

identified

the

source

of

Hex

Vic,

and

sprayed

it

lightly

over healthy plants. Those plants were then able to start producing the

caterpillar-killing Hex Vic. Researchers confirmed that uninfested plants have to

build

their

own

weapon

to

fight

off

bugs

and

diseases.

How

do

they

know

when

to

play

defense? They are warned first by their friendly plant neighbors.

It

is

a

complex

tale,

and

it

may

be

happening

in

more

plant

species

than

tomatoes.

It may also be happening with more chemical signals that are still unknown to us.

For now though, we know that plants not only communicate, they look out for one

another.

31. What does the author try to emphasize Paragraph 1?

A. How plants communicate is still a mystery.

B. Enough attention has been paid to plant talk.

C. Plants are the furniture of the natural world.

D. Plants can communicate with each other.

32. According to Paragraph2, what remains unknown is ______

A. how plats receive and handle the signals from their neighbors

B. why plants spread chemical information to their neighbor

C. how many types of plants release compounds into the air