2012在职MBA英语模拟试题及答案

1、2012在职MBA英语模拟试题及答案 PART I Structure and Vocabulary (10% )Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part.For eachsentence there are four choices marked A,B, C and D. Choose the ONEanswer that best Completes the sentence. Then blacken the correspondingletter on the Answer Sheet with a penc

2、il.1 . He didnt seem to mind _ TV while he was trying to study.A. their watchingB. them watchC. they watchingD. them to watch2. It is said that more than one person in this department _ going to lose his job.A. areB. wereC. willD. is3. When she _ all the magazines, shell come back home .A. has soldB

3、. will sellC. sellD. would sell4.Themanufacturer claimed that this engine is _ the Previous one.A. as twice pOwerfd8SB. powerful as twice asC. twice powerful asD.twice as powerfu1 as5. Nowhere else in the world_ more attractive scenery thanin Switzerland.A. are foundB. have been foundC. you can find

4、D. can you find6. 1f he had not been ill yesterday， he _to class.A. goB. would goC. would have goneD. went7. _ science and technology he1p the society to progress is a fact accepted by most people.A. ModernB. That modernC. There modernD. It is modern8. _ one of the leading novelists in America，Amy T

5、aylor has also written a number of poems and plays.A. ConsideredB. ConsideringC. Having consideredD. Been considered9. The streets are all wetlt_during the night。A. must be rainingB. had to rainC. must have rainedD. had rained10. Englands chief exports are coa1， cars and cotton goods，cars _the most

6、important of these.A. have beenB. areC. beD. being 11. Everything was so expensive during the war that it was Hardly _to save a penny.A.LikelyB. feasibleC.probableD. possible12.The automation has made it possible to_ great changes in dustry。.A. bring aboutB. bring downC. bring outD.bring up13.The po

7、lice stopped him because he_ the traffic regulation.A. damagedB. destroyedC. brokeD. corrupted14.All too_ it was time to go back to school after the glorioussummer holidays.A. fastB. soonC. quickD. often15.The chief manager refused to_ on the rumor that he was going to retire.A. explainB. commentC.

8、speakD. talk16.MrBrown gradual1y_aknowledge of the subject.A. requiredB. inquiredC. achievedD. acquired17.If I am not _ when you come to my office，ask for my secretary.A. suitab1eB. availableC. comfortableD. proper18.peasants supp1y workers with food， and workers_ supply peasants with manufactured g

9、oods.A. in turnB. by turnC.for returnD.by return19.Lets go out during the break to_ our legs。A. stretchB. expandC. moveD. extend20.I have just_abeautiful poem in that little book.A. come toB. come throughC. come acrossD. come up PART Reading Comprehension (50%)Section ADirections ：There are 4 passag

10、es in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each them of them are for choices marked A , B, c and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.Questions 21 to 24 are based on the following

11、passage ：Americans like to do business without leaving their cars. Youll see drive-in banks，drive-in restaurants， drive-in churches and drive-in movies.When driving in the U.S., its a good idea to have an international rivers license if you dont have a state license. Each of the fifty states has its

12、 own traffic laws。 Get information when you cross the border into a state at a tourist information center.There is a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour. Americans are generally polite about letting cars enter busy streets. They usually stopfor people who are walking to let them cross the stre

13、et. In many states you may turn right after stopping at a corner, even if there is a red light. On some roads there may be a minimum speed.If you rent a car, ask the company what to do in case your car breaksdown. Some companies will ask you to call a special number. Others will want you to have the

14、 car repaired. They will partly deduct the cost of the repair from your bill.Mileage can mean two things. It may mean the total number of miles a car has been driven. We say “This car only has 10, 000 miles on it; ithas low mileage.” On the other hand, “gas mileage” is the number of miles a car can

15、travel on one U. S. gallon of gas. For example, a big carhat gets 25 miles to the gallon gets very good mileage. A small economy car should get at least 35 miles to the gallon when its new.21. If you have a state drivers license,_ .A. you can drive anywhere in the U. S.B. you dont have to apply for

16、an international drivers licenseC. You cannot across the border in a carD. you must know the traffic laws of another state before you enter it .22. If your rented car breaks down, some companies will _.A. for you with free telephone serviceB. pay you a certain amount of your total cost of the repair

17、C. pay you the total cost of the repairD. send workers to repair the car23.“An economy car”here may refer to a car that _.A. can be bought at a rather low priceB. is easy to operateC. uses only a small amount of gas per mileD. is special1y designed for a small fami1y24.Which of the following stateme

18、nts is true?A. Americans are usually willing to wait for another car to enter busy streets.B. Americans car do anything without leaving their cars.C. American drivers can ignore a red light when they want to turn right.D. Americans can drive at 55 miles per hour everywhere in their country. Question

19、s 25 to 28 are based on the following passage ：There are robots all around us， Some do very complicated jobs like flying airplanes and driving subway trains。 And some do a simple job.When an automatic washing machine is switched on，water pours in. Themachine waits until the water is hot before washi

20、ng the clothes. It does this by“feedback.”Informationabout What is happening is“feedback”into the robot to te11 it what to do next.Our eyes， ears and other senses are our feedback. They tell us whatis going on around us. So robots are like people in two ways，They work and they have feedback.There ar

21、e robots all around， making our lives easier. Some of them，like the pocket calculator， can work much more quick1y than human beingscan. And they rarely make mistakes.In some ways robots are better than people. They work quick1y， but do not make mistakes， They do not get bored doing the same job over

22、 and over again。 And they never get tired.Robots are very useful in factories. They can be taught to do many different jobs. First their electronic brains must be shown how the job is done. A person moves the robots“arm” and“hand”through each part of the job. The robots brain remembers each move。 Wh

23、en the robot is put to work on its own， its brain controls the rods， wheels and motors which move its arm.When the robot is needed for a new job， its electronic memory is“wiped clean.”Then it is taught how to do its new task.If the robots hand stops working， or if something gets in the way， it canno

24、t do the next part of the job.So it stops and signals for help，Then a human engineer repairs it.The most“intelligent”robots can move and see. Their eyes are cameras. Their metal fingers can feel shapes and even find out how hot and cold objects are. These robots have computer brains，linked to their

25、eyes and fingers， which control their actions.25.In this story the author tells us that_.A. there are vervfewrO6otsB. we see robots only at certain tinesC. robot5are something new in our lifeD. ro6ots are all around us26.In this story we are told that_.A. we get feedback through our eyes and earsB.

26、we get feedback through the robotsC. only robots get feedbackD. robots are not intelligent because of the feedback27.What does the author of this story want you to feel about robots?A. They will probab1y take over in the future.B. They are very helpful and useful to humans.C. They are machines that

27、are often out of order.D. They are not friends of human beings.28.Since people like what robots do， what do you think this means for the future?A，More and better robots will be built .B. People will stop making robots.C. There will be laws against using robots.D. Robots will benefit nobody. Question

28、s 29 to 32 are based on the following passage：Tests conducted at the University of Pennsylvanias Psycho1ical Laboratory showed that anger is one of the most difficult Emotions to find out from facial expressions. Professor Dallas E. Buzby confronted 716 students with pictures of extreme1y angry pers

29、ons， and asked them to identify the emotion from the facial expression。 Only two percent made correct judgments. Anger was most frequently judged as“pleased”.And a typical reaction of a student confronted with the picture of aman who was mad was to classify his expression as either bewildered，quizzi

30、cal，or simplyamazed.Other studies showed that it is extremely difficult to tell whether a man is angry or not just by looking at his face. The investigators found further that women are better at finding out anger from facia1 expressions than men are. Paradoxically，they found that psychological trai

31、ning does not improve ones ability tojudge a mans emotions by his expressions but actually hinders it. For in the university tests， the more courses the student had taken in psychology， the poorer judgment score he turned in.29.The information in this passage centers around_.A. the re1ation between

32、anger and other emotionsB. the differences between men and women with respect to emotionC. the influence of psychology on human emotionsD. the discovery of anger from facial expressions30.when tested， students with psychological training_.A. marked less than two percent of their possible choices cor

33、rectlyB. did better than the average student in the groupC. seemed less able to judge correctly than the average studentD. performed in a manner not specified in the passage31.To achieve the greatest success in finding out anger from facial expressions，it would be best to_.A. use adults rather than

34、students as judgesB. ask women who do not study psychology to judge itC. ask men rather than women to judge itD. be satisfied with a two percent success，if such a percentage is guaranteed32.The last two sentences in the second paragraph show that_.A. such training has not resulted in better scoresB.

35、 we have really achieved the anticipated resultsC. the judgment is similar to what we have expectedD.we can expect such training to have the effect stated Questions 33 to 36 are based on the following passage：Wouldnt it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast righ

36、t away?Well, you Can. The forecast is written in c1ouds. If you can read that writing，you can tell something about the atmosphere. With some practice， you can become a pretty good weather forecaster.Who knows，you might even do as well as meteorologists.Meteorologists use much more information than j

37、ust the appearance of the clouds to make their forecast.They collect data from all over the world. Then they put it into powerful，high-speed computers.This does give meteorologists an advantage，because they can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country.But you have an

38、advantage，too.You can look at the sky and get your data directly.A meteorologist uses a computer forecast thats several hours old to make a 1ocal forecast.What are you seeing when you look at a cloud?”A picture of what moisture is doing in the atmosphere,” says meteorologist Peter Leavit . Theres mo

39、isture throughout the atmosphere. Most of the time you dont see it，because its in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor.Sometimes，the temperature of the air gets cold enough to cause the water vapor to change to liquid water.Thats called condensation， and we see it happen all the time (for

40、 example，when humid air from the shower hits the cold glass of a mirror). When enough water vapor condenses，droplets form in the air.These droplets scatter light.A cloud is seen.Watching c1ouds over a day or two tells you a lot more than a sing1e cloud about the weather to come， Changes in clouds sh

41、ow changes in the atmosphere.You should begin to notice patterns. Certain clouds， fol1owing each other in order， can signal an approaching storm. But dont take our word for it; see for yourself.33.This passage main1y tells us about how_.A. to become a meteorologistB. to keep an eye on the weatherC.

42、to be an assistant to a meteorologistD. to change water vapor to liquid water34.According to the passage，an ordinary person might do as well as a meteorologist in weather forecast_.A. with the help of the high-speed computersB. through a complex process of calculationC. with some simple practice loo

43、king up at the skyD. consulting a weather station35.Meteorologists make their weather forecast_.A. by collecting data from all over the worldB. by putting this date into powerfu1， highspeed computersC. by ca1culating and ana1yzirig this dataD. all above36.Your advantage in weather forecasts is that_

44、.A. you have more powerful computers at homeB. your brain works as well as a high-speed computerC. you observe the sky and obtain your data directlyD. meteorologists give their data to you as soon as they get them Questions 37 to 40 are based on the following passage：Security and commodity exchanges

45、 are trading posts where people meet who wish to buy or sell. The exchanges themselves do no trading;they merely provide a place where prospective buyers and sellers can meet and conduct their business.Wall Street， although the best known， is not the only home of exchanges in the United States. Ther

46、e are cotton exchanges in New Orleans and Chicago; the Mercantile Exchange， which deals in many farm products， in Chicago; and grain exchanges in many of the large cities of the Midwest. home exchanges， like the Chicago Board of Trade， provide market services for several kinds of products. These tra

47、dingposts where products may be bought or sold are called commodity exchanges.The security exchanges， on the other hand, are meeting places where stocks and bonds are traded. Like the commodity exchanges ， they help serve the economic life of t he country. But when their operations get out of hand，

48、they may become very dangerous.In l929， the security exchanges，or stock market， contributed to a crash a sudden， sharp decline in the value of securities. Many people lost fortunes;many corporations were bankrupted; many workers lost their jobs. The Crash of l929 has been attributed to many causes，

49、among them wild and unwise speculation by many people and dishonest practices on the part of some businessmen and of some members of the exchanges.Today，however，investing through security exchanges and trading on commodity exchanges has been made safer by regulations set up by the exchanges themselv

50、es and by regulations of the United States government， In l922，the government instituted the Commodity Exchange Commission which operated through the Department of Agriculture; and in l934，the Securities and Exchanges Commission， to protect investors and the public against dishonest practices on the

51、 exchanges.37.Security and commodity exchanges are meeting places for buyers and sellers of_.A. stocksB. grainC. securitiesD. all of these38. Among the reasons for the Crash of 1929 were_.A. unwise speculation by many peopleB. dishonest practices by some businessmenC. strict regulations of the Commo

52、dity Exchange CommissionD. both A and B39.1nvestinR in securities has been made safer by_.A. the Securities and Exchange CommissionB. the Commodity Exchange CommissionC. Chicago Board of TradeD. Chicago Mercantile Exchange40.Implies but not stated :_.A. Some exchanges provide market services for sev

53、eral kinds of productsB. The role of the government has been an important factor in curbing dishonest practices on the exchangesC. Investing in securities is unwiseD. Buying and selling securities is dishonest Section BDirections：Read the following passage and then give short answers to the five que

54、stions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Hunting was origina11yameans of providing food， but it has now become a sport. Though in so-me parts of the world there are stil1 people who hunt wild animals to provide them selves with food， in England, hunting is as much a social activity as anything

55、 else.A great many years ago， fishermen in Japan used birds to catch fish. This art of fishing is said to be at least a thousand years old and is mentioned in Japanese plays. Today， however， fishing in this way has simply become a sport，for the fisher men are not serious1y interested in catching fis

56、h.On summer nights the fishing boats set out on rivers in various parts of the country， At the front of each boat there is an iron basket in which a wood fire is kept burning， As the graceful curved boats float past carried along by the current， these fires， dotted here and there， make bright patter

57、ns on the water. Steering down the river，the fishermen beat the sides of the boat to encourage the birds， and people out for an evenings entertainment either sit or lie on the floor of the boats drinking beer and sometimes even cooking a meal for themselves over the flames of the fire， This method o

58、f fishing demands great skill， for the fisherman has to handle three or four birds in one hand. A long piece of string is tied round the neck of each bird and the fisherman must take care to keep the birds separate from each other. Every so often， the birds are set free and they fly close to the wat

59、er in search of fish. The moment a bird catches a fish in its beak it is pulled back on to the boat. The siring is held itght1y round the birds throat to prevent it from swallowing the fish it has caught. When there do not seem to be many fish in the river， the fishermen can sometimes be seen secret

60、1y throwing dead fish into the water for the birds to catch. No one really objects to this practice， as it is all part of this unusual sport.41. What was the original purpose of hunting?42. In which season of the year do the fishing boats set out?43. What do the fishermen do to encourage the birds?4