广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷
考试年度：2016年 考试科目代码及名称：613-英语水平考试
适用专业：050201 英语语言文学
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I. Cloze. Read the following passages and choose a proper word to fill in each of the blanks in the passage. (30 points in all, 1 point for each)
Passage 1
Until the Second World War there was no clear transition period between (1)____and adulthood in British society. Young people were (2) ____children until they were about 16 or before if they had started work. Young people and their parents often (3)____similar clothes, attitudes and (4) ____ life. All this began to change in 1950s.
In the 1950s the teenagers began to be seen as a special (5)____group and that was often characterized as a period of (6)____ from the family and (7)____ against the values of home and society. With increasing prosperity in Britain, many teenagers had increasing (8)____power and thus became the special (9)____for advertising, especially for music and fashion.
(10) ____the 1950s almost each decade has had a characteristic youth cult with the (11)____ of the rebellious teenager, identifiable(12)____ the particular style of clothes or music. The first cult to (13)____was the Teddy Boys in the 1950s, (14)____with early rock ‘n’roll music. In the 1980s it was the Acid House scene, associated with music and drug Ecstasy which (15)____ the rave culture and clubbing of the 1990s.
A. infancyB. youth C. childhood D. Toddlers
A. regarded B. seen C. called D. interpreted
A. wear B. choose C. obey D. shared
A. normal B. daily C. common D. social
A. community B.age C. association D. institute
A. joining B. connection C. alienation D. distraction
A. betray B. fight C. revolt D. revolution
A. socializing B. purchasing C. promoting D. marketing
A. purpose B. aim C. target D. hope
A. AS B. Since C. From D. With
A.image B. picture C. impression D. figure
A.by B. with C. in D. to
A.emerge B. happen C. appear D. expose
A.associated B. related C. bond D. afflicted
A.changed into B. expanded into C. decreased into D. increased into
Passage 2
Everyone seems to be in favor of progress. But “progress” is a funny word. It doesn’t (16)____mean that something has become stronger, wiser or better. It simply means changing it from being one thing to another and sometimes it (17)____out to be worse than before.
(18)____medicine, for instance. No one can deny that medical progress has enriched our lives tremendously. Because of medical (19) ____, we eat better, live easier and are able to take care of ourselves more efficiently. We can cure disease with no more than one injection (20)____a pill. If we have a serious accident, surgeons can put us (21)____together again. If we are born (22)____something defective, they can repair it. They can make us happy, restore our sanity, ease our pain, replace (23)____parts and give us children. They can even bring us back from the dead. These are wonderful achievements, but there is a (24) ____we have to pay.
Because medicine has reduced infant mortality and natural death so significantly, the population has been (25)____steadily, in spite of serious (26)____to reduce the rate of population growth. Less than a century ago in the United States, infant mortality (27)____more than half of the newborn (28)____the first year of life. Medical advances, (29)____, have now reduced that rate to nearly zero. A child born in the United States today has (30) ____than a 90 per cent chance of survival.
(16) A. necessarily B. nearly C. basically D. often
(17) A.comes B. gets C. makes D. turns
(18) A. See B. Take C. Consider D. Look
(19) A. improvements B. advancements C. movements D. care
(20) A. or B. and C. with D. of
(21) A. back B. up C. through D. over
(22) A. of B. from C. out D. with
(23) A. tired B. weary C. worn D. fatigued
(24) A. cost B. bill C. price D. check
(25) A. arising B. rising C. raising D. going
(26) A. efforts B. effects C. problems D. events
(27) A. exclaimed B. proclaimed C. clamored D. claimed
(28) A. over B. within C. between D. among
(29) A. however B. though C. moreover D. besides
(30) A. more B. greater C. bigger D. better
II. Proofreading and error correction. The following passage contains 15 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. Correct the errors and write the answers on the answer sheet. (30 points in all, 2 points for each)
“Art does not solve problems, but makes us awared of (1)
their existence,” sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said.
Arts education, on the other hand, does not solve problems. (2)
Years of research shows that it’s closely linking to almost (3)
anything that we as a nation say we want for our children and (4)
demand to our schools: academic achievement, social and (5)
emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable
opportunity.
Involvement in the arts is associated to gains in math, (6)
reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking, and verbal skill.
Arts learning can also improves motivation, concentration, (7)
confidence, or teamwork. A report by the Rand Corporation (8)
about the visual arts argue that the intrinsic pleasures and (9)
stimulation of the art experience have more than sweeten an (10)
individual’s life --- according to the report, they “can connect
people more deeply to the world and open them in new ways (11)
of seeing,” creating the foundation to forge social bonds and
community cohesion. And strong arts programming in schools
helps close a gap that has left many child behind: From (12)
Mozart for babies to tutus for toddlers to family trips to the
museum, the children of affluent, aspired parents generally get (13)
exposed to the arts whether or not public schools provide it. (14)
Low - income children, often, do not. “Arts education enables
those children from a financially challenged background to
have a more level playing field with children who have had
those enrichment experience,” says Eric Cooper, president and (15)
founder of the national Urban Alliance for Effective Education.
III. Gap-filling. Fill in the following blanks with the correct words and correct forms of the words given according to the meanings of the sentences. (30 points in all, 2 points for each)
(look) at his watch, he saw that it was one o’clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped.
Its (miss) head happened to be among remains of the fifteen century B.C.
Before (return) home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit.
Apart from an interesting - looking carved dagger, the box was full of crockery, much of it (break)
The temple which the archaeologists (explore) was used as a place of worship from the fifteen century B.C. until Roman times.
Physics (go) from studying the familiar things in our everyday lives like baseballs to strange things like atoms.
I often (wonder) some people, who had no intention of making purchase, (take) advantage of this privilege.
It is evident that the elderly gentlemen greatly (hurt) and will never come back to the store to sample pudding any more.
It (be) only twenty - five years since television came to control American free time.
I wish I (live) in Hainan
If I (have) the money now, I’d buy a new house.
With the help of a (fair) godmother and some animal friends, Cinderella goes to the ball in a beautiful dress.
Few of our modern novels are of great (significant).
The current welfare system has been (benefit) to most of us.
It has been used as much for improving the design and presentation of day - to - day documents as for producing (publish).
IV. Reading Comprehension. In this section, there are 6 reading passages followed by a total of 30 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then choose the correct answer. (60 points in all, 2 points for each)
1
1982 was the year of information technology in Great Britain. But what exactly is infotech? 85% of people polled recently had not a clue what is meant, although 53% of those polled said they thought it sounded pretty important. They were right. It is. So what is it? Well, put simply, it is the “marrying - up” of products from several key industries: computers, telephones, television, satellites. It means using micro - electronics, telecommunication networks, and fibre optics to help produce, store, obtain and send information by way of words, numbers, pictures and sound more quickly and efficiently than ever before.
The impact infotech is having and is going to have on our lives and work is tremendous. It is already linking the skills of the space industry with those of cable television so programmes can be beamed directly into our homes from all over the world. Armies of “steel collar” workers, the robots, will soon be working in factories doing the boring, complex and unpleasant jobs which are at present still done by man. In some areas such as the car industry this has already started. Television will also be used to enable customers to shop from the comfort of their homes by simply ordering via the TV screen, payment being made by direct debit of their credit cards. Home banking and the automatic booking of tickets will also be done through the television screen. Cable television which in many countries now gives a choice of dozens of channels will soon be used to protect our homes by operating burglar and fire alarms linked to police and fire stations. Computers will run our homes, controlling the heating, air conditioning and cooking systems while robots will cope with the housework. The friendly postman will be a thing of the past as the postal service and letters disappear with the electronic mail received via viewdata screens.
All these things are coming very fast and their effects will be as far - reaching as those of the industrial revolution. Infotech is part of the technological revolution and that is with us now.
From the first paragraph, we can infer that the author was .
unaware of the results of the poll
satisfied with the results of the poll
surprised at people’s ignorance of the meaning of infotech
deeply impressed with the wiseness of the British people
(2) The first paragraph is mainly about .
A. theimportance of modern technology
B. the products of key industries in the 1980’s
C. the British people’s knowledge of infotech
D. the exact meaning of infotech
(3) The second paragraph is mainly about .
A. the ways to link skills of space industry with those of cable television
B. the great effects infotech is having and will have on our lives and work
C. the future uses of computers and robots in both homes and industries
D. the comfortable life people will live in the near future
According to the passage, television will be used to to a lot of things EXCEPT .
ordering goods from shops for customers at their homes
running our homes and doing all kinds of housework
protecting our homes against fire and burglary
depositing money in a bank and withdrawing it from the bank
According to the last sentence of Paragraph 2, which of the following statements is TURE?
The postman has become a thing of the past.
Viewdata screens are being used now to receive electronic mail.
Electronic mail will disappear some day.
The postal service will not be used in the future.
2
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments --- the Treasury, the Patent Office, and so on --- which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designed federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many, he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly refereed to as Foggy Bottom; that bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago. Two port cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation --- Chaleslon, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem, and Portsmouth --- and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
(6) In line 6 (Para. 1), the phrase “charged with” could best be replaced by which of the following?
Attacked with.
Accused of.
Asked to pay for.
Given the responsibility of.
(7) Why was George Washington’s choice for the site of the capital not very surprising?
The site was close to George Washington’s own home.
The river would bring trade to the city.
The members of Congress had already stated their preference for the site.
George Washington had lived on the site before the American Revolution.
(8) It can be inferred from the passage that the term “Foggy Bottom” in the second paragraph refers to a section of Washington D. C. that .
used to be mostly swampland
lies at the bottom of Mount Vernon
has the lowest population in the district
used to be the site of the national weather station
(9) The author implies that Georgetown was important in the eighteenth century because it .
linked the federal district with the ocean
was a model for building the new federal district
defended the east coast against invaders
was the home of the Treasury and the Patent Office
(10) What is the main topic of the passage?
The role of George Washington in the American Revolution.
The first years of the United States Congress.
The founding of Washington D. C.
D. The governing of the federal district.
3
Ask Steveland Morris and he’ll tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling. Steveland was born prematurely and totally without sight in 1950. He became Stevie Wonder --- composer, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy awards, Stevie is widely acclaimed for his outstanding contributions to the music world.
As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the things he could not to, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join his sighted brothers in as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the visually disabled are so dependent.
Because sound was so important to him, Steve began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate the sound with his voice. Often relying on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica, and listened to radio.
Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues tunes on the front porches of neighbor’s homes.
One of Steve’s sessions was overheard by Ronnie White, a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie’s talent and took him to audition for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording company now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit “Fingertips” in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie’s story is music history.
(11) This passage could be entitled.
The Music World
Stevie Wonder
Great Musician
Blind People
(12) Which of the following is NOT true about Stevie’s childhood?
Stevie often tells people that a blind person is not necessarily disabled.
He learnt to concentrate on things that he could do.
He played as often as possible with his brothers, who had normal sight.
He tried very hard to train his sense of hearing.
(13) By saying “Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments”, the author means that.
Stevie finished his study at a toy instruments school
Stevie began to study in a real instruments school
Stevie gave up all his toy instruments and began to buy many real instruments
Stevie started to play real instruments
(14) The author mentions all the following fact EXCEPT that.
Stevie’s neighbors could often enjoy his playing and singing
It was Ronnie White who recognized Stevie’s talent and led him to a successful career
Berry Cordy helped him to set up his own recording company
Stevie’s parents played a very important part in training his sense of hearing
(15) The “Fingertips”.
recorded Stevie’s musical performance that won him instant fame
was a record that turned out to be great success
carried the message that the blind could work miracles with their fingertips
All of the above
4
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only “remembering” things like arithmetic or historical facts but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six - year old child learns to swing a baseball bat.
Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 “words”---ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.
The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person’s memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.
According to the passage, memory is considered to be.
the basis for decision making and problem solving
an ability to store experiences for future use
an intelligence typically possessed by human beings
the data mainly consisting of words and combinations of words
The comparison made between the memory capacity of a large computer and that of a human being shows that.
the computer’s memory has a little bigger capacity than a teenager’s
the computer’s memory capacity is much smaller than an adult human being’s
the computer’s memory capacity is much smaller even than a teenager’s
both A and B
The whole passage implies that.
only human beings have problem - solving intelligence
a person’s memory is different from a computer’s in every respect
animals are able to solve only very simple problems
animals solve problems by instincts rather than intelligence
The phrase “in terms of ” in the last sentence can best be replaced by .
“in connection with”
“expressed by ”
“consisting”
“by means of”
The topic of the passage is:
What would life be like without memory?
Memory is of vital importance to life.
How is a person’s memory different from an animal’s or a computer’s?
What is contained in memory?
5
Bobby and his master, farmer John Gray, were familiar sights in Edinburgh. Every Wednesday after a visit to market and exactly as the time - gun boomed one o’clock, the two would enter Traill’s Dining Room for their midday meal, a frugal lunch for Gray, and a bun for Bobby.
Then in 1858, the schedule was interrupted. Farmer Gray died. Three days after the funeral, exactly at one o’clock, Traill found himself looking into a pair of beseeching canine eyes. Bobby got his bun and disappeared. This was repeated for several days until Traill’s curiosity got the better of him. He followed the small terrier as he left and raced to his master’s grave. There he remained each day, fair or foul, despite the efforts of dog - loving townspeople to give him a new home. The graveyard’s caretaker, while sympathetic, was at first not so willing to let him in. But Bobby’s devotion and fidelity were so great that the caretaker provided Bobby with a shelter close to the grave to protect him from bad weather.
Then, after nine years, Bobby was arrested as a vagrant because he had no license. The restaurant keeper appeared in court with Bobby. He was released by merciful justice. But just to make sure the law could not touch him, Lord Provost William Chambers paid Bobby’s fee each year and presented him with a brass - plated collar inscribed “Greyfriar’ s Bobby from the Lord Provost, 1876, Licensee.”
After that, Greyfriar’s Bobby was allowed to keep his lonely vigil undisturbed. He never varied his mealtime. Each day he left the graveyard as the gun roared one o’clock to pick up his bun and take it back to eat at his master’s side. He must have been really hardy for he lived until 1872, having kept to his solitary post for fourteen long years. He was buried in Greyfriars’, of course, in a flower bed near John Gray’s tombstone.
An appropriate title for the passage could be.
Traill’s Dining Room
Farmer John Gray
Bobby the Faithful
Lord Provost William Chambers
The phrase “familiar sights” in the first sentence is nearest in meaning to.
“people who are familiar with the surroundings”
“people who enjoy sightseeing”
“people who have very good eye- sights”
“people or objects that are often seen around by others”
The phrase “fair or foul” in the second paragraph is used to describe.
the graveyard
the weather
Bobby
Traill
Which of the following is NOT mentioned or implied about Bobby?
Bobby had refused to live in other people’s home.
Bobby was devoted and faithful to his master.
Bobby was once arrested because he did something wrong.
Bobby was protected by Lord Provost William Chambers until his death.
(25) From the passage, we know that Bobby was.
John Gray’s servant
a dog
a vagrant
John Gray’s son
6
Insurance companies provide a service to the community by protecting it against expected and unexpected disasters. Before an insurance company will agree to insure anything, it collects accurate figures about the risk. It knows, for example, that the risk of a man being killed in a plane accident is less than the risk he takes in crossing a busy road. This enables it to quote low figures for travel insurance. Sometimes the risk may be high, as in motor - racing or mountaineering. Then the company charges a much higher price. If too many climbers have accidents, the price rises still further. If the majority of climbers fall off mountains, the company will refuse to insure them.
An ordinary householder may wish to protect his home against fire or his property against burglary. A shopkeeper may wish to insure against theft. In normal cases, the company will check its statistics and quote a premium. If it is suspicious, it may refuse to quote. If it insures a shop and then receives a suspicious claim, it will investigate the claim as a means of protecting itself against false claims. It is not unknown for a businessman in debt to burn down his own premises so that he can claim much money from his insurance company. He can be sure that the fire will be investigated most carefully. Insurance companies also accept insurance against shipwreck or disaster in the air. Planes and ships are very expensive, so a large premium is charged, but a reduction is given to companies with an accident free record.
Every week insurance companies receive premium payments from customers. These payments can form a very large total running into millions of dollars. The company does not leave the money in the bank. It invests in property, shares, farms and even antique paintings and stamps. Its aim is to obtain the best possible return on its investment. This is not as greedy as it may seem, since this is one way by which it can keep its premiums down and continue to make a profit while being of service to the community.
(26) According to the first paragraph, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A passenger by air will take greater risk of being killed than a man crossing a busy road.
A passenger by air will take less risk of being killed than a man crossing a busy road.
A passenger by air will have to pay more to the insurance company than a mountain climber.
A motorist should pay the highest price to the insurance company.
(27) From the passage we know that if accidents will happen nine times out of ten, the insurance company will.
charge a lower price
give a much higher price
quote the highest price
not provide its insurance service.
(28) If a shop owner in debt destroyed his own houses, his purpose would most probably be to.
lower the premium he should pay to the insurance company
obtain a large sum of money from the insurance company
clean up the surrounding circumstances
ask the insurance company to help him to rebuild his shop
(29) According to the passage, if an airline has accident - free record, it usually pays
to the insurance company.
no premium
less premium
a large premium
the same premium as the other companies
(30) The main idea of the last paragraph is.
that the insurance company is greedy of gain
that the insurance company makes a large sums of money every week
the insurance company makes a great profit by investing its money in different items
how the insurance company makes use of its incomes and the reason why it should do so
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