云南师范大学学位英语试卷

1、专业PAPER ONEPART I VOCABULARY ( 20 minutes, 10 points)Section A ( 0.5 point each)Directions: In this section 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. Then mark the correspon

2、ding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1. Outbreaks of teenage violence here are confined to technical schools students fighting mindless.A. restricted B. confirmed C. relevantD. dedicated2. Something clearly disturbs Thai youth and parents who need to do something bef

3、ore things get worse.A. boostsB.disruptsC. annoysD. stuns3. They came fromdifferent backgrounds,but both resortedto the use ofhandguns to resolve their problems.A. objected to B. took toC.amounted toD. turnedto4. Children do not learn what it is to lose and will seek violence torestrain their disapp

4、ointment.A. release B. checkC. eliminate D. restore5. Streep possesses a fragile, fleeting beauty that allows her to be asearthy and plain as she can be glamorous and radiant.A. fragmentary B. permanent C delicateD. tender6. Faced with such a dilemma, the top executives had to weigh one optionagains

5、t another.A. scaleB. seekC. balanceD. reject7. Despite conflicts and disagreements, the fundamental sympathies and similarities between the two countries will continue.A. essential B. intenseC. necessary D. difficult8. The car broke down about five kilometers short of the destination, sothey had to

6、go on foot.A. lacking inB. except forC. up toD. away from9. Kant revolutionized philosophy, questioned established authoritiesand placed reason and freedom at the center of his thinking.A. founded B. accepted C. overthrown D. stereotyped10. The freshmen will be introduced to somemethods of coping wi

7、th stress and depression.A. handling B. executing C. cooperation D. consumingSection B (0.5 point each)Directions: In this section there are ten sentences. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best completes each sentence. Then mark the

8、corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.that way.figure out my view, makesspacioussuch ascapture the Internal11. I had expected to win the race, but things did notA. break out B. work out C. pass out D.12. Anyone employing people and paying them a fair wage, in

9、 a(n)contribution to society.A. immense B. giganticC. largeD.13. I have time to enjoy family and friends, activities reading, writing, listening to music and playing sports.A. chaseB. involveC. pursueD.14. And not one of these pleasures is taxation under RevenueCode.A. committed to B. subject toC. a

10、ttached toD. indifferent to15. Middle-aged ladies somehow tend to weight more easily even if they arevegetarians.A. put on B. put upC. put forward D. put away16. As China, reform and opening-up have led to substantialimprovement of lives.A. in the case of B. in the face ofC. in the nameof D. in them

11、iddle of17. Niagara Falls is a great tourist , drawing millions of visitors every year.A. attentionB. attraction C. appointment D.arrangement18. The manager spoke highly of such as loyalty, courage andtruthfulness shown by his employees.A. virtuesB. featuresC. propertiesD.characteristics19. Some old

12、 people don 't like pop songs because they can't somuch noise.A. resist B. sustainC. tolerate D. undergo20. Since the matter was extremely , we dealt with it immediately.A. tough B. tenseC. urgent D. instantPART II CLOZE TEST ( 20 minutes 10 points) Directions: Read the passage through. Then

13、 go back and choose one itemof suitable word（s） marked A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage.Mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Deaths and injuries from motor-vehicle accidents are reaching epidemic proportions in developing countries around

14、the world, according to the World Health Organization. Traffic accidents in the young nations of 21 amount to a social scourge （木曷害）"， and all too often the victims are young, educated Africans 22 increased earning power has enabled them to buy a motorcycle or an automobile. Statistics 23 three

15、 Latin-American countries, Chile, Costa Rica and Venezuela, 24 that, as in the US, traffic accidents have become the leading cause of 25 among young adults.About 250 000 people throughout the world are 26 in trafficaccidentseach year, and more than seven million are injured. 27 theUShas thehighest n

16、umber of people killed in traffic accidents of 28 country （about 50 000 per year）, it has one of the lowest rates of fatalities（死亡） per motor vehicle or passenger mile, 29 , in the US there are six fatalities per 100 million passenger miles, 30 in Kenya and Ugandathere are from 55 to 65 fatalities p

17、er 100 31 passenger miles. In India the fatality rate per motor vehicle is 10 to 15 times higher than it is in the US. In all countries the death rate from traffic accidents is higher for 32 than it is for females.-The majority of developing countries 33 a higher incidence of traffic accidents invol

18、ving pedestrians（行人）than of accidents 34 motorvehicles alone. Among the causes, the WHO reports, are 35 roads, pedestrian ignorance of road signs, lack of instruction in the use of roads and heavy pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the roads.To 36 the growing epidemic of traffic accidents, the WHO ha

19、s 37 a worldwide epidemiological study of road traffic accidents and is encouraging the development of preventive programs If traffic accidents are 38 by methods similar to those used against the great "killing diseases", the organization states, the present epidemic of road deaths could b

20、e madeto disappear 39 as plague （瘟疫）and smallpox have now been 40 almost everywhere in the world.21 A. America22 A. whoseB. AsiaB. whichC.C.Africa asD. EuropeD. that23 A. againstB. withC.uponD. from24 A. remarkB. revealC.involveD. doubt25A.accidentB. jamC. crashD.death26A.killedB. injuredC. woundedD

21、.included27A.Now thatB. ProvidedC. OnceD. Although28A.everyB. someC. anyD.the29A.at lastB. for exampleC. howeverD.in addition30A.BecauseB.BeforeC. WhereasD.If31A.hundredB. millionC. thousandD.billion32A.1B. driversC. malesD.injured33A.possessesB.hadC. hasD.have34A.involvingB. containingC. resultingD

22、. existing in35A.firmB. poorC.goodD. dependent36A.hardenB. studyC. struggleD.combat37A.overtakenB. exploredC. undertakenD.regarded38A.tackledB. recognizedC. shiftedD.threatened39A.suchB.justC.soD.also40A.eliminatedB. knockedC. soughtD. adjustedPART III READING COMPREHENSION (60 minutes, 50 points)Di

23、rections: In this part of the test, there are five short passages foryou to read. Read each passage carefully, and hen do the questions thatfollow. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C andD and then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWERHEETvith a single line through the

24、center.Passage OnePeng Gonglin wasn't an important man. He lived in a bare concrete house in a small village of Deng Zhuang where womenstoop beside ponds to scrub clothes in buckets and the men often harvest crops by hand.When his rice fields came up empty last October, Peng had no influence and

25、 little cash. The 43-year-old farmer had spent almost all of his family's savings and borrowed more to lease the land and buy seeds.County experts in the central province of Henan tested the seeds he'd planted and determined that he'd been sold inferior goods. Peng begged for financial o

26、r legal help from the local agricultural bureau and its county seed station.He took what remained of his family's money and tried to bribe two local officials to intervene. They accepted the meals, massagesand prostitutes, but they did nothing in return, according to a letter he later wrote.Fina

27、lly, on March 29 he returned to the county seed station to plead once more. Men there beat Peng about the head until he went home, humiliated.Facing financial ruin, he carried out one last act of protest. Early the next morning, Peng Gonglin's body was found hanging at the seed station.The story

28、 of Peng's lonely suicide reveals the pitfalls beneath the glossy surface of China's booming economy. Ordinary Chinese who've been cheated or defrauded, especially in rural areas, find themselvestrapped inneo-feudal conditions with no protection beyond the mercy of corrupt officials.Outs

29、iders are sometimes baffled by the emphasis Chinese leaders put on order and harmony, and their crushing response to any signs of unrest. From the turmoil in a village such as Deng Zhuang, though, it's clear that the nation sits uneasily on deep social fault lines.41. People like Peng Gonglin.A.

30、 live simple and humble lifeB. try to bribe officialsC. have no land and have to lease from othersD. hate the officials42. What happened to the seeds Peng Gonglin had bought?A. They were tested inferior.B. They were illegal.C. They were cheated.D. They were too expensive.43. He bribed local official

31、s hoping that.A. they may help him get financial compensation or legal aidB. they may accept the meals, massages and prostitutesC. they may interfere the affairD. they may offer plea for him44. Which of the following statements is NOTthe reason of Peng Gonglin 's suicide?A. He was beaten by the

32、men at the seed station and felt humiliated.B. It was his final cry for protest in the face of financial ruin.C. The desperation was beyond his psychological endurance.D. He feared that his bribe may be discovered.45. Peng's lonely suicide reveals that.A. the ordinary people seize neo-feudal con

33、ditionsB. the ordinary people can get protection if the corrupt officials ignore themC. there are social problems under the fast developing economyD. people baffle the emphasis on order and harmonyPassage TwoComputers have been taught to play not only checkers, but also championship chess, which is

34、a fairly accurate yardstick for measuring the computer 's progress in the ability to learn from experience.Because the game requires logical reasoning, chess would seem to be perfectly suited to the computer .all a programmer has to do is give the computer a program evaluating the consequences o

35、f every possible response to every possible move, and the computer will win every time. In theory this is a sensible approach; in practice it is impossible. Today, a powerful computer can analyze 40 000 movesa second. That is an impressive speed. But there are an astronomical number of possible move

36、s in chessliterally trillions. Even if such a program were written (and in theory it could be, given enough people and enough time), there is no computer capable of holding that much data.Therefore, if the computer is to compete at championship levels, it must be programmed to function with less tha

37、n complete data. It must be able to learn from experience, to modify its own program, to deal with a relatively unstructured situation in a word, to think “ for itself. In fact, this can be done. Chess-playing computers have yet to defeat world champion chess players, but several have beaten human p

38、layers of only slightly lower ranks. The computers have had programs to carry them through the early, mechanical stages of their chess games. But they have gone on from there to reason and learn, and sometimes to win the game.There are other proofs that computers can be programmed to learn, but this

39、 example is sufficient to demonstrate the point. Granted, winning a gameof chess is not an earthshaking event even when a computer does it .But there are many serious human problems which ban be fruitfully approached as games. The Defense Department uses computers to play war games and work out stra

40、tegies for dealing with international tensions.Other problems international and interpersonal relations , ecology and economics , and the ever-increasing threat of world faminecan perhapsbe solved by the joint efforts of human beings and truly intelligent computers .46. The purpose of creating chess

41、-playing computers is.A. to win the world chess championB. to pave the way for further intelligent computersC. to work out strategies for international warsD. to find an accurate yardstick for measuring computer progress 47. Today, a chess-playing computer can be programmed to.A. give trillions of r

42、esponses in a second to each possible move and win the gameB. function with complete data and beat the best playersC. learn from chess-playing in the early stage and go on to win the gameD. evaluate every possible movebut mayfail to give the right response each time48. For a computer to think "

43、，it is necessary to.A. mange to process as much data as possible in a secondB. program it so that it can learn from its experiencesC. prepare it for chess-playing firstD. enable it to deal with unstructured situations49. The author s attitude towards the Defense Department is_ .A. critical B. unconc

44、ernedC. positive D. negative50. In the author's opinion,.A. winning a chess game is an unimportant eventB. serious human problems shouldn't be regarded as playing a gameC. ecological problems are more urgent to be solvedD. there is hope for more intelligent computersPassage ThreeYou have to

45、have lived in the 1950s and 1960s to have experienced a good economy. In the period between 1950 and 1970 it was the rule rather than the exceptionthat an ordinary family, without higher education,could sustain itself decently on the income of a single breadwinner. In 1955, when I was 19 and living

46、in Brooklyn, N. Y., my father, who had a sixth-grade education, maintained our family of five on a wage of $82 a week as a bookbinder. My mother taught us fairness and compassion; my father, discipline and enterprise.The U. S. economy in those years was good. Then where did this good economygo? It w

47、as inflated away. The price of gold, which I take as proxy for the prices of all goods, was $35 an ounce in those years. It is at roughly ten times that price today.There is another answer, though: inflation caused the entire work force to be moved into higher tax groups, thus reducing after-tax pur

48、chasing power. That is, my father's bindery job in1954 paid $82 a week, with $80after deductions; today, at $ 820 per week the net would be $662.To ordinary people, the economydoesn't look very good at all. After-tax incomes continue to decrease in purchasing power. The jobs offered in the e

49、mployment ads pay only a little more than the minimum wage, maybe $5 an hour, which, after payroll deductions, yields $4 an hour. Compare that with minimum-wagejobs of the early 1950s, when 75 cents was worth today s $7.50 before and after taxes.51. In the author's opinion, a good economy, to or

50、dinary people can beexpressed in terms of.A. the amount of wageB. after-tax incomeC. the ac tual purchasing powerD. the minimum wage per hour52. In the period between 1950 and 1970,.A. there was not much difference in the living standards between people of higher and lower educationB. an ordinary fa

51、mily of five without exception could live on one person incomeC. the income of an ordinary family was more than enough for buying foodD. for an average family the income was sufficient to support all the members53. Today a bookbinder 's wageis ten times that of the 1950's but its income tax

52、rate has increased.A.50 times B.60times C. 70 timesD. 8 0 times54. The worsening of a bookbinder's livelihood results from.A. his low education and the amount of wageB. the high-taxation and the income deductionsC. the high taxation and cost of livingD. the low wage and higher prices55. The pass

53、age implies that while the cost of living is getting higherA. the value of labor actually is shrinkingB. the minimum wage level is increasing likewiseC. the income tax rate is rising alongD. the employment ads naturally offer a higher minimum wagePassage FourCulture is one of the most challenging el

54、ements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institut

55、ions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To someextent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from th

56、e fact that one cannot learn culture one has to live it. Twoschools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. Oneis that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonalcTs. In somecases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cu

57、ltural differences are still far from converging.The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection.

58、 The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia or even blindness.Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quali