同等学力英语模拟试题1答案

1、同等学力人员申请硕士学位英语水平全国统一考试标准模拟试题一答案及简析（红色字为答案）Part I Dialogue communication(10 minutes, l0 points)Section A Dialogue CompletionDirections: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer that suits

2、the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.1. A: This toothache is killing me. B: If 1 am right, this is the third time you have had it this month. A: You are right._ A. It's all rig

3、ht. B. It'll be gone. C. I have no method. D. I'm fed up with it.2. A: Good morning. Highlight Booking Office. B: _ A. Thank you very much. B. I'd like to book 4 tickets for the Friday night show. C. I wonder when I can go home. D. I want to make a reservation for a single room, please.3

4、. A: _ B: Yes, it's not like what the radio said at all. A. I think it's going to be sunny tomorrow. B. Beautiful day, isn't it? C. It's supposed to get windy and cloudy this afternoon. D. This is the worst winter in my life.4. A: I'd like to place a person-to-person call to Chic

5、ago. The number is 932-8647, but I don't know the area code B: _A. Sorry. I can't tell you. BWhat's the name of the party you're calling? C. This is operator speaking. D. OK. Here you are.5. A: Kennedy Airport, please. I have to be there by 7:00. B: _ A. What are you doing there? B.

6、Where were you just now? C. $90. D. I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best. Section B Dialogue Comprehension Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short conversations between a man and a woman. At the end of each conversation there is a question followed by 4 choices marked A,

7、B, C and D. Choose the best answer to the question from the 4 choices by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoringANSWER SHEET.6. Man: When are George's parents coming back? Woman: My sister says both she and George's father will st

8、ay on for the weekend since George is all right here with us. Question: What is the relationship between George and the woman'? A. Grandmother and grandchild. B. Mother and son-in-law. C. Aunt and nephew. D. Aunt and niece.7. Woman: Does a half gallon of fresh milk still sell for $1. 50? Man: Ye

9、s, but today if you buy two half-gallons, the second is only half price. Question: How much will the man pay for a gallon of fresh milk today? A. $2.75. B. $2.25. C. $1.50. D. $3.00.8. Man: Did you make a reservation on the 9:00 flight for me? Woman: I thought you wanted to take the 8:30 one. It'

10、;s too late to change now. Question: What's the problem? A. The woman made no reservation. B. The woman misunderstood the man. C. The woman made the reservation for the 9.00 flight. D. The woman changed the reservation.9. Man: I'm frustrated. We're supposed to do our assignment on the co

11、mputer, but I have difficulty getting access to the computers in the library. Woman: I understand the way you feel. Im looking forward to the day when I can afford to get my own. Question: What does the woman mean? A. She can't finish her assignment, either. B. She can't afford a computer ri

12、ght now. C. The man can use her computer. D. The man should buy a computer right away.10. Man: I'm sorry I missed the football game, but I had a terrible cold. Woman: You didn't miss anything. We couldn't have played worse. Question: What does the woman mean? A. She's never watched a

13、 better game. B. Football is her favorite pastime. C. The game has been canceled. D. Their team played very badly.Part Vocabulary (20 minutes, 10 points) Section A Directions: In this section there are 10 sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the 4 choices marked A,

14、 B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.11. Although this book claims to be a biography传记of George Washington, many of the incidents 事件are imaginary. A. fascinating B

15、. factitious C. fastidious D. fictitious12. The trade fair交易会 is designed to facilitate further cooperation between Chinese auto industries 汽车产业and overseas auto industries. A. promote B. protect C. preserve D. prolong13. He was concerned only with mundane世俗的 matters, especially the daily stock mark

16、et quotations行情. A. rational B. obscure C. worldly D. eminent14. The earthquake that occurred in India this year was a major calamity 灾难in which a great man was lost. A. casualty B. catastrophe C. catalogue D. crusadeI5. The doctors were worried because the patient did not recuperate复原 as rapidly as

17、 they had expected.A. withdraw B. emerge C. recover D. uncover16. The purchaser of this lorry卡车 is protected by the manufacturer's warranty担保that he will replace any defective有缺陷的 part for five years or 50.000 miles. A. prohibition B. insurance C. prophecy D. guarantee17. The boy could not recon

18、cile 屈服himself to the failure. He did not believe that was his lost. A. submit B. commit C. transmit D. permit18. In some cities of North China. the noise pollution is as pronounced 显著的as that in Tokyo. A. contemptuous B. contagious C. conspicuous D. contemplated19. Trivial breaches违反 of regulations

19、 we can pass over忽略, but more serious ones will have to be investigated. A. exceed B. wither C. overpass D. neglect20. We were discussing the housing problem when a middle-aged man cut in 插嘴and said, "There's no point in talking about impossibilities." A. intersect B. interject C. pene

20、trate D. adulterate Section B Directions: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-s

21、coring ANSWER SHEET.21. The _of the spring water attracts a lot of visitors from other parts of the country. A. clash B. clarify C. clarity D. clatter22. Business in this area has been _because prices are too high. A. prosperous B. secretive C. slack D. shrill23. He told a story about his sister who

22、 was in a sad _when she was ill and had no money. A. plight B. polarization C. plague D. pigment24. He added a _to his letter by saying that he would arrive before 8 pm. A. presidency B. prestige C. postscript D. preliminary25. Some linguists believe that the _age for children learning a foreign lan

23、guage is 5 to 8. A. optimistic B. optional C. optimal D. oppressed26. It all started in 1950, when people began to build their houses on the _of their cities. A. paradises B. omissions C. orchards D. outskirts27. The meeting was _over by the mayor of the city. A. presumed B. proposed C. presented D.

24、 presided28. The crowd _into the hall and some had to stand outside. A. outgrew B. overflowed C. overpassed D. overflew29. It was clear that the storm _his arrival by two hours. A. retarded B. retired C. refrained D. retreated30. This problem should be discussed first, for it takes _over all the oth

25、er issues. A. precedence B. prosperity C. presumption D. probabilityPart Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points) Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose

26、 the best answer and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. Passage One The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in the refrigerator.&qu

27、ot; In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus剩余的 bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was

28、 wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country. The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well tried techniques already existed-

29、natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling What refrigeration did promote was marketing销售-marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price. Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be

30、 found, not in the tropics热带 where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild温和的 temperatures Where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away嗡嗡响 continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside a

31、n artificially-heated housewhile outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in, a food cabinet an

32、d turn off your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers, but at least you'll get rid of that terrible hum.31. The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." (Line 1, Para. 2) suggests that_. A. the author was well-fed and healthy even without

33、a fridge in his fifties B. the author was not accustomed to using fridges even in his fifties C. there was no fridge in the author's home in the 1950s D. the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s32. Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridg

34、es? A. People would not buy more food than was necessary. B. Food was delivered to people two or three times a week. C. Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily. D. People had effective ways to preserve their food.33. Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author? A. Inventor

35、s. B. Consumers. C. Manufacturers. D. Travelling salesmen.34. Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge's negative effect on the environment? A. Hum away continuously. B. Climatically almost unnecessary. C. Artificially-cooled space. D. With mild temperatures.35.

36、 What is the author's overall attitude toward fridges? A. Neutral. B. Critical. C. Objective D. Compromising.36. Which of the following statements can be inferred from this passage? A. The fridge is quite different from the refrigerator. B. The fridge has more bad effects than good ones. C. Desp

37、ite its contribution to the environment, the fridge has defects such as the noise.D. People invented the fridge so as to live better. Passage Two The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thou sand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cau

38、se us to dismiss排除，放弃 the possibility of making a machine with humanlike ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we wi

39、ll. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software (软件) or by altering the architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival比得上 and then exceed their human ancestors.

40、Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe. As the intelligence of rob

41、ots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand忍受 environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combin

42、ation of the great wealth （this new age will bring and the technology it will provide）, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.37. In what way can we make a machine intelligent? A. By making it work in such environmen

43、ts as deserts, oceans or space. B. By working hard for 10 or 20 years. C. By either properly programming it or changing its structure. D. By reproducing it.38. What does the writer think about machines with human-like ability? A. He believes they will be useful to human beings. B. He believes that t

44、hey will control us in the future. C. He is not quite sure in what way they may influence us. D. He doesn't consider the construction of such machines possible.39. The word "carbon" (Line 4, Para. 2) stands for"_".A. intelligent robots B. a chemical elementC. an organic subst

45、ance D. human beings40. A robot can be used to expand our frontiers when_.A. its intelligence and cost are beyond questionB. it is able to bear the rough environmentC. it is made as complex as the human brainD. its architecture is different from that of the present ones41. It can be inferred from th

46、e passage that_. A. after the installation of a great number of cells and connections, robots will be capable of self-reproduction B. with the rapid development of technology, people have come to realize the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability C. once we make a machine as complex

47、 as the human brain, it will possess intelligence D. robots will have control of, the vast, man-made world in space42. In the sentence of "the technology it will provide" (Line 5, Para. 3), "it" refers to_. A. the combination B. the great wealth C. this new age D. the robot Passa

48、ge Three After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report. The damage and death toll could have been much worse. More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed

49、 25,000 victims. Injuries and deaths were relatively less in Los Angeles because the quake occurred at 4:31 a. m. on a holiday, when traffic was light on the city's highways. In addition, changes made to the construction codes in Los Angeles during the last 20 years have strengthened the city

50、9;s buildings and highways, making them more resistant抵抗的 to quakes. Despite the good news, civil engineers aren't resting on their successes. Pinned to their drawing boards are blueprints for improved quake-resistant buildings. The new designs should offer even greater security to cities where

51、earthquakes often take place. In the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel and wood, that bend without breaking. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce

52、 the impact of ground vibrations. The most recent designs give buildings brains as well as concrete and steel supports, called smart buildings, and the structures respond like living organisms to an earthquake's vibrations. When the ground shakes and the building tips forward, the computer would

53、 force the building to shift in the opposite direction.The new smart structures could be very expensive to build. However, they would save many lives and would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes.43. One reason why the loss of lives in the Los Angeles earthquake was comparatively low is

54、that_. A. new computers had been installed in the buildings B. it occurred in the residential areas rather than on the highways C. large numbers of Los Angeles residents had gone for a holiday D. improvements had been made in the construction of buildings and highways44. The function of the computer

55、 mentioned in the passage is to_. A. counterbalance an earthquake's action on the building B. predict the coming of an earthquake with accuracy C. help strengthen the foundation of the building D. measure the impact of an earthquake's vibrations45. The smart buildings discussed in the passage_. A. would cause serious financ