1月和6月研究生英语学位课统考真题

1、2002年6月研究生英语学位课统考真题：Paper One Part I Listening Comprehension (15 minutes, 15 points ) Section A (1 point each) 1. A A taxi driver and a passenger B A policeman a driver. C A judge and a criminal D A coach and an athlete. 2. A He doesnt want to be busy. B He likes staying up late. C He is not interes

2、ted in his job. D He doesnt have enough time to sleep.3. A They are a waste of time. B They dont deal with special problems. C They can reflect peoples real life. D They attract honest listeners. 4. A It has been completed B They dont deal with social problems. C They can reflect peoples real life.

3、D They attract honest listeners. 5. A Going to a theater. B Going to a game. C Listening to radio programs D Watching TV programs. 6. A 2:30 B 3:30 C 4:30 D 5:30 7. A Dave is talkative to strangers B Dave likes having pizza parties. C Dave is sociable and friendly D Dave is too absorbed in his proje

4、ct. 8. A Because she doesnt like the taste of it. B Because she cant sleep well after drinking it. C Because she has some heart trouble. D Because she doesnt believe what the article says. 9. A It is fun with exciting activities. B It is miserable with pressure. C It is interesting but challenging D

5、 It is full of anxiety Section B (1 point each) 10. A They know where snow will fall. B They can estimate how much snow will fall. C They sometimes cant forecast snow accurately. D They think snow is a difficult subject to study. 11. A The water particles in cold clouds. B The tiny ice particles in

6、the flakes. C The dust in the center of the flakes D The temperature and water levels in the air. 12. A It has as much water as 2.5 centimeters of rain. B It has as much water as 1.5 centimeters of rain. C It has as much water as 2 centimeters of rain. D It ahs as much water as 5 centimeters of rain

7、. 13. A A new study on lying. B The physical signals when people lie. C How to detect a person who is lying . D A new device to detect a liar. 14. A People change their behaviours when they lie. B People have some special gestures when they live. C Peoples pupils have some changes when they lie. D P

8、eople have more blood around their eyes when they lie. 15. A 12 out of 20 B 11 out of 12 C 7 out of 10 D 6 out of 8 Part II. Vocabulary ( 10 minutes, 10 points ) Section A (0.5 point each) 16. Many women prefer to use cosmetics to enhance their beauty and make them look younger. A reveal B underline

9、 C improve D integrate 17. What players and coaches fear most is the partiality on the part of referees in a game. A justice B bias C participation D regionalism18. The sale has been on for a long time because the price is reckoned to be too high. A considered B stipulated C raised D stimulated 19.

10、Smugglers try every means to lay hands on unearthed relics for their personal gains. A set foot on B lost their heart to C set their mind on D get hold of 20. There must have been round about a thousand people participating in the forum. A approximately B exactly C less than D more than 21. These ol

11、d and shabby houses will be demolished for the construction of residential buildings. A pulled out B pulled in C pulled down D pulled up 22. Readers are required to comply with the rules of the library and mind their manners. A observe B memorize C comment D request 23. Artificial intelligence deals

12、 partly with the analogy between the computer and the human brain. A likeness B relation C contradiction D difference 24. It is often the case that some superficially unrelated events turn out to be linked in some aspects. A practically B wonderfully C beneficially D seemingly 25. The alleged all-po

13、wer master of chi kong was arrested on a charge of fraud. A so-called B well-known C esteemed D undoubted Section B (0.5 point each) 26. It is hoped that pork can be made leaner by introducing a cow gene into the pigs genetic _ A reservoir B warehouse C pool D storehouse 27. The chairman said that h

14、e was prepared to _the younger people in the decision making. A put up with B make way for C shed light on D take charge of 28. Tom is angry at Linda because she _ him _ all the time. A sets.up B putsdown C runsout D dropsin 29. The ability to focus attention on important things is a _characteristic

15、 of intelligence. A defining B declining C defeating D deceiving 30. Our picnic having been _ by the thunderstorm, we had to wait in the pavilion until it cleared up. A destroyed B undermined C spoilt D contaminated 31. I was disappointed to see that those people I had sort of _ were pretty ordinary

16、. A despised B resented C worshipped D ridiculed. 32. One of the main purposes of using slang is to consolidate ones _ with a group. A specification B unification C notification D identification 33. The _ from underdeveloped countries may well increase in response to the soaring demand for high-tech

17、 professionals in developed nations. A brain damage B brain trust C brain fever D brain drain 34. This matter settled, we decided to _ to the next item on the agenda. A succeed B exceed C proceed D precede 35. Listening is as important as talking. If you are a good listener, people often _you for be

18、ing a good conversationalist. A complement B compliment C compel D complain Part III. Cloze Test (10 minutes, 15 points, 1 point each) Most American magazines and newspapers reserve 60 percent of their pages for ads. The New York Times Sunday edition 36 may contain 350 pages of advertisements. Some

19、radio stations devote 40 minutes of every hour to 37 . Then there is television. According to one estimate, American youngsters sit 38 three hours of television commercials each week. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have been 39 360,000 TV ads. Televisions advertise in airport,

20、 hospital waiting rooms, and schools. Major sporting 40 are now major advertising events. Racing cars serve as high-speed 41 . some athletes receive most of their money from advertisers. One 42 basketball player earned $ 3.9 million by playing ball. Advertisers paid him nine times that much to 43 th

21、eir products. There is no escape. Commercial ads are displayed on walls, buses and trucks. They decorate the inside of taxis and subways -even the doors of public toilets. 44 messages call to us in supermarkets, stores, elevators -and 45 we are on hold on the telephone. In some countries so much adv

22、ertising comes through the mail that many recipients proceed directly from the mailbox to the nearest wastebasket to 46 the junk mail. 47 Insiders Report, published by McCann-Erickson, a global advertising agency, the estimated 48 ofmoney spent on advertising worldwide in 1990 was $ 275.5 billion. S

23、ince then, the figures have 49 to $ 411.6 billion for 1997 and a projected $ 434.4 billion for 1998. Big money. What is the effect of all of this ? One analyst 50 it this way: “Advertising is one of the most powerful socializing forces in the culture. Ads sell more than products. They sell images, v

24、alues, goals , concepts of who we are and who we should be. They shape our attitudes and our attitudes shape our behaviour. 36. A lonely B alone C singly D individually 37. A commerce B consumers C commercials D commodities 38. A through B up C in D about 39. A taken to B spent in C expected of D ex

25、posed to 40. A incidents B affairs C events D programs 41. A flashes B billboards C attractions D messages . 42. A top-heavy B top-talented C top-secret D top-ranking 43. A improve B promote C urge D update 44. A Audio B Studio C Oral D Video 45. A since B while C even D if 46. A toss out B lay down

26、 C blow out D break down 47. A It is said that B Apart from C According to D Including in 48. A digit B amount C account D budget 49. A raised B elevated C roared D soared 50. A said B recorded C told D put Part IV Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points, 1 point each) Passage One For decades,

27、arms-control talks centered on nuclear weapons. This is hardly surprising, since a single nuclear bomb can destroy an entire city. Yet, unlike smaller arms, these immensely powerful weapons have not been used in war in over 50 years. Historian John Keegan writes, “Nuclear weapons have, since August

28、9, 1945, killed no one. The 50,000,000 who have died in war since that date have for the most part, been killed by cheap, mass-produced weapons and small ammunitions, costing little more than the transistor radios which have flooded the world in the same period. Because small weapons have disrupted

29、life very little in the advanced world, outside the restricted localities where drug-dealing and political terrorism flourish, the populations of the rich states have been slow to recognize the horror that this pollution has brought in its train.” Why have small arms become the weapons of choice in

30、recent wars? Part of the reason lies in the relationship between conflict and poverty. Most of the wars fought during the 1990s took place in countries that are poor-too poor to buy sophisticated weapon systems. Small arms and light weapons are a bargain. For example, 50 million dollars, which is ap

31、proximately the cost of a single modern jet fighter, can equip an army with 200,000 assault rifles. Another reason why small weapons are so popular is that they are lethal. A single rapid-fire assault rifle can fire hundreds of rounds a minute. They are also easy to use and maintain. A child of ten

32、can be taught to strip and reassemble a typical assault rifle. A child can also quickly learn to aim and fire that rifle into a crowd of people. The global traffic in guns is complex. The illegal trade of small arms is big. In some African wars, paramilitary groups have bought billions of dollars wo

33、rth of small arms and light weapons, not with money, but with diamonds seized from diamond-mining areas. Weapons are also linked to the illegal trade in drugs. It is not unusual for criminal organizations to use the same routes to smuggle drugs in one direction and to smuggle guns in the other. 51.

34、It is implied in the passage that _ A small arms-control is more important than nuclear arms-control. B the nuclear arms-control talks can never reach an agreement. C the power of nuclear weapons to kill people has been diminished. D nuclear weapons were the topic of arms-control talks 50 years ago.

35、 52. The advanced world neglect the problems of small arms because _ A They have to deal with drug-dealing and political terrorism. B They have no such problems as are caused by small weapons. C They have not recognized the seriousness of the problems in time. D They face other more important proble

36、ms such as pollution. 53. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the reason for the prevalence of small arms? A Small arms are cheap. B Small arms are powerful . C Small arms are easier to use. D Small arms are easier to get 54. We can conclude from the passage that _ A small arms are not expens

37、ive in the black-market. B it is unfair to exchange small arms for diamond. C Criminals use the same passage to smuggle drugs and small arms. D where there are drugs, there are small arms. 55. The best title for this passage is _ A Small Arms Talks, Not Nuclear Arms Talks. B Neglect of Small Arms Co

38、ntrol C Global Traffic in Small Arms D Small Arms, Big Problems. Passage Two In order to combat sickness, many doctors rely heavily on prescribing medicines that are developed and aggressively advertised by pharmaceutical companies. Significantly, the world market for such drugs has skyrocketed in r

39、ecent decades, from just a few billion dollars a year to hundreds of billions of dollars annually. What had been a consequence? Medically prescribed drugs have helped many people. Yet, the health of some who take drugs has either remained unchanged or become worse. So, recently some have turned to u

40、sing other methods of medical treatment. In places where modern, conventional medicine has been the standard of care, many are now turning to what have been called alternative, or complementary, therapies. “The Berlin Wall that has long divided alternative therapies from mainstream medicine appears

41、to be crumbling,” said Consumer Reports of May 2000. The Journal of the American Medical Association( JAMA) observed, “Alternative medical therapies such as the use of herbs, functionally defined as interventions neither taught widely in medical schools nor generally available in U. S. hospitals, ha

42、ve attracted increased national attention from the media, the medical community, governmental agencies, and the public.” In the past, conventional medical practitioners have been skeptical about alternative medical practices, but 75 medical schools in the United States currently offer elective cours

43、e work on alternative medicine, including Harvard, Stanford, University of Arizona, and Yale. JAMA noted, “ Now an estimated 3 in 5 individual seeing a medical doctor for a principal condition also used an alternative therapy. And outside the United States, alternative medicine is popular throughout

44、 the industrialized world.” The trend toward integrating alternative therapies with conventional ones has long been a general practice in many countries. As JAMA concluded, “There are no longer two types of medicine, conventional and complementary. There is only good medicine and bad medicine.”56. T

45、his passage suggests that pharmaceutical companies _ A pay doctors for prescribing their drugs. B have raised the prices of their products sharply in recent years. C spend more money on their advertisements than on their products. D have produced some ineffective drugs. 57. The sentence “The Berlin

46、Wall . Appears to be crumbling” in the third paragraph implies that _ A the restrictions on the practice of alternative therapies will be abolished. B there are still strict restrictions on the practice of alternative drugs. C conventional medicine and alternative therapies are incomparable. D conve

47、ntional medicine and alternative therapies are completely different remedies. 58. According to the passage, alternative therapies _ A are widely taught in the U.S. medical schools now. B have been approved by U. S. government. C have been used by many American patients. D are as popular as conventio

48、nal medicine. 59. JAMA seems to suggest that _ A U. S. government should meet the increasing demands for alternative therapies. B a medicine is good after it proves to be beneficial to the patients. C pharmaceutical companies should cover the cost of alternative therapies. D conventional medicine an

49、d alternative medicine should join hands. 60. It is implied in the passage that ._ A we should take as little western medicine as possible. B the prices of the prescribed medicine should be reduced. C herbal medicine will be accepted by more Americans. D without the help of alternative medicine, goo

50、d health can not be guaranteed. Passage Three Our Milky Way galaxy could contain up to 1 billion Earth-like planets capable of supporting life, scientists announced last week. The theoretical abundance of habitable worlds among the estimated 200 billion stars of our home galaxy suggests that more po

51、werful telescopes might glimpse the faint signature of far-off planet, proving that, in size and temperature at least, we are not alone in the universe. Solar systems such as Earths, in which planets orbit a star, have been discovered. Astronomers have identified almost 100 planets in orbit around o

52、ther suns. All are enormous, and of the same gaseous make-up as Jupiter. Barrie Jones of the Open University in UK and his colleague Nick Sleep have worked out how to predict which of the newly discovered solar systems is likely to harbor Earth-like planets. Using a computer, they have created mathe

53、matical models of planetary systems and seeded them with hypothetical Earths in “Goldilocks zone” orbits, where it is neither too hot too cold to support life. The computer simulates which of these model Earths is likely to be kicked out of its temperature orbit by gravitational effects of the monst

54、er planets, and which is likely to survive. The solar system most like ours discovered so far is 51 light years away, at the star 47 Ursae Majoris, near the group of stars known as the Great Bear. Astronomers have discovered two planets orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris-One is two and half times the size of

55、 Jupiter, the other slightly smaller. Both planets are relatively close to the Goldilocks zone, which is further out than ours because 47 Ursae Majoris is older, hotter and brighter than the sun. “Its certainly a system worth exploring for an Earth-like planet and for life,” said Jones. The requirem

56、ent for a life-supporting zone in any solar system is that water should be able to exist in a liquid state. NASA and its European counterpart, ESA, plan to launch instruments in the next 10 years which could produce pictures of Earth-sized planets. 61. It is suggested in this passage that _ A scientists have found evidence to prove there are many Earth-like planets in our galaxy. B Theoretically there are a great number of Earth-like planets capable of supporting life. C our Earth is the only planet in our galaxy that can support life. D with more powerful telescope