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全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试

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Section I

Vocabulary

Directions:

There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices

marked

A,

B,

C

and

D.

Choose

the

one

that

best

completes

the

sentence

and

mark

your

answers on

ANSWER SHEET 1

. (10 points)

1. The firm kept losing money and finally went ______ in that no one would buy its products.

A. bullish

B. profitable

C. broke

D. receivable

2. I phoned to the bank to ______ how much money there was in my account.

A. confirm

B. inspect

C. survey

D. check

3. The government manages to affect the level of aggregate demand through ______ and monetary policy

.

A. commercial

B. fiscal

C. sluggish

D. industrial

4. There is a serious border dispute between the two countries, so they have agreed to open ______ to try to settle

the dispute.

A. discussions

B. conferences

C. negotiations

D. treaties

5. It is reported that the inflation in that country has ______ the construction costs skyward.

A. kited

B. launched

C. granted

D. overdrawn

6. She was an ______ writer because she persuaded many people to see the truth of her ideas.

A. influential

B. optimistic

C. accurate

D. enthusiastic

7. The Bank of China is a bank by special ______ of our country to handle foreign exchange transactions.

A. mediator

B. reserve

C. posting

D. sanction

8. The President will ______ his message by radio so that a very large number of people will be able to hear it.

A. transform

B. transport

C. transfer

D. transmit

9. I shall expect that you will, before long, be able to ______ me the net proceeds in a good bill.

A. rebate

B. rationalize

C. remit

D. reject

10. There was not a ______ of truth in what they said; their deeds were not in the least consistent with their

words.

A. portion

B. fraction

C. segment

D. sector

11. The recent ______ in the market here makes it unavoidable for us to cancel the remainder of our order.

A. stock

B. slump

C. spiral

D. satiety

12. Keys should never be hidden around the house since thieves ______ know where to find them.

A. virtually

B. unavoidably

C. reliably

D. invariably

13. The shipment of 500 bales of cotton yarn will be ______ for delivery in July

.

A. convertible

B. invalid

C. due

D. void

14. The rich man had his lawyer ______ his will so that each of his children would receive part of his money when

he died.

A. figure out

B. work out

C. draw up

D. carry out

15. W

e are going to ______ you firm 2,000 color TV sets at US $$ 210 per set on the usual terms.

A. offer

B. invest

C. order

D. peculate

16. Many local authorities realize the need to make ______ for elderly people in their housing programs.

A. assistance

B. condition

C. admittance

D. provision

17. A typical MNC ______ all its resources to achieve the highest possible efficiency and obtain he maximum return

on investments.

A. prepays

B. pools

C. owes

D. ransoms

18. A book had been stolen but the teacher said he was sure Jack was ______.

A. sympathetic

B. involved

C. evident

D. innocent

19. Those washing machines have been ______ for several weeks because they are popular.

A. overdue

B. mature

C. out-of-stock

D. bonded

20. To ______ the students life, our university has established many recreational facilities.

A. enrich

B. verify

C. enhance

D. classify

Section II

Cloze

Directions:

Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C

and D. Choose the best one and mark your answers on

ANSWER SHEET 1

. (10 points)

Literature is a form of art that can be enjoyed without formal instruction. However, people with

21

knowledge of

literature

may

miss a

lot

when reading a novel,

short

story

, poem, play

, or

22

. These

readers are comparable to the

23

at a football game who watch the game and

24

it without really

understanding the complex movements occurring on the field. Although they may enjoy the

25

, many

spectators watch only the ball entirely, missing the contribution of other members

26

the total play as

well as the intricacies occurring within the

27

. A person who understands football

－

28

better yet,

has played the game-is more capable of judging when a team is playing well or

29

and is also likely to

enjoy

a

“good”

game

mo

re.

The

30

is

true

of

reading

literature.

Most

people

have

read

numerous

31

works, but many do not understand or appreciate the author’s skill in communicating. This book

32

intended

to

help

you

learn

to

33

attention not

only on what happens,

but on

34

it happens

and

how the author has

35

it

－

to analyze and evaluate literary works so that you can fully experience and

appreciate them.

21. A. abundant

B. informal

C. necessary

D. limited

22. A. fiction

B. poetry

C. essay

D. art

23. A. audience

B. spectators

C. coaches

D. players

24. A. like

B. appreciate

C. enjoy

D. evaluate

25.A. game

B. scene

C. work

D. art

26. A. of

B. within

C. to

D. about

27. A. offence

B. game

C. defense

D. team

28. A. but

B. even

C. and

D. or

29. A. skillfully

B. successfully

C. poorly

D. badly

30. A. same

B. reason

C. other

D. point

31. A. instructive

32. A. will be

33. A. pay

34. A. why

35. A. narrated

B. influential

B. has been

B. call

B. where

B. presented

C. wonderful

C. is

C. draw

C. how

C. maintained

D. literary

D. was

D. concentrate

D. when

D. explained

Section III

Reading Comprehension

Directions:

Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C

and D. Mark your answers on

ANSWER SHEET 1

. (40 points)

Passage One

Business has slowed, layoffs mount, but executive pay continues to roar

－

at least so far. Business Week’s

annual survey finds that chief executive officers (CEOs) at 365 of the largest US companies got compensation

last year averaging $$3.1 million

－

up 1.3 percent from 1994.

Why are the top bosses getting an estimated 485 times the pay of a typical factory worker? That is up

from 475 times in 1999 and a mere 42 times in 1980. One reason may be what experts call the “Lake W

obegon

effect”. Corporate boards tend to reckon that “all CEOs are above average”

－

a play on Garrison Keillor’s

famous line in his public radio show

, A Prairie Home Companion, that all the town’s children are “above

average”.

Consultants

provide

boards

with

surveys

of

corporate

CEO

compensa

tion.

Since

directors

are

reluctant to regard their CEOs as below average, the compensation committees of boards tend to set pay at an

above-average level. The result: Pay levels get ratcheted up

（一步步增加）

.

Defenders of lavish ECO pay argue there is such a strong demand for experienced CEOs that the free

market forces their pay up. They further maintain most boards structure pay packages to reflect an executive’s

performance. They get paid more if their companies and their stock do well. So companies with high-paid

CEOs generate great wealth for their shareholders.

But the supposed cream-of-the-crop executives did surprisingly poorly for their shareholders in 1999,

says Scott Klinger, author of this report by a Boston-based Organization United for a Fair Economy

. If an

investor had put 10,000 apiece at the end of 1999 into the stock of those companies with the 10 highest-paid

CEOs,

by

year-end

2000

the

investment

would

have

shrunk

to

$$8,132.

If

$$10,000

had

been

put

into

the

Standard & Poor’s 500 stocks, it wou

ld have been worth $$9,090. To Mr. Klinger, these findings suggest that the

theory that one person, the CEO, is responsible for creating most of a corporation’s value is dead wrong. “It

takes many employees to make a corporation profitable.”

With

profits

down,

corporate

boards

may

make

more

effort

to

tame

executive

compensation.

And

executives are making greater efforts to avoid pay cuts. Some CEOs, seeing their options “under water” or

worthless because of falling stock prices, are seeking more pay in cash or in restricted stock.

36. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. chief executive officers have dismissed many workers since business slowed

B. business has slowed for executive pay increased too much

C. pay of top bosses continues to increase while more workers are unemployed

D. pay of both CEOs and factory workers continue to increase

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7. The author mentioned “Lake W

obegon effect” in paragraph

2 in order to ______.

A. explain why all CEOs are above average

B. show the play named A Prairie Home companion

C. describe the town’s children who are above average

D. suggest one possible reason for why CEOs get high pay

38. According to the passage, Scott Klinger thinks ______.

A. all chief executive officers are above average

B. high executive pay reflects executives’ performance

C. the performance of high-

paid executives wasn’t satisfying

D. the CEOs have created most of corporations’ value

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9. The expression “cream

-of- the-

crop”

(Para. 4) most probably means ______.

A. creative

B. high-quality

C. delicious

D. cunning

40. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Still High in A Slowdown, Executive Pay Draws Looks.

B. Layoffs Mount While Executive Pay Roars.

C. The Story Happened in Lake W

obegon.

D. Defenders of Lavish CEO Pay

.

Passage Two

People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed. It’s not easy to

explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.

Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why

we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct

schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different

from one another, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory

. The controversy is

often conveniently referred to as “nature/nurture”.

Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are

largely determined by biological and genetic factors. That our environment has little, if anything to do with our

abilities, characteristics, and behavior is central to this theory

. Taken to an extreme, this theory maintains that our

behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts.