云南师范大学学位英语试卷
专业
PAPER ONE
PART 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 corresponding 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. relevant
D. dedicated
2. Something clearly disturbs Thai youth and parents who need to do
something before things get worse.
A. boosts
B. disrupts
C. annoys
D. stuns
3. They came from different backgrounds, but both resorted to the use of
handguns to resolve their problems.
A. objected to
B. took to
C. amounted to
D. turned to
4. Children do not learn what it is to lose and will seek violence to
restrain their disappointment.
A. release
B. check
C. eliminate
D. restore
5. Streep possesses a fragile, fleeting beauty that allows her to be as
earthy and plain as she can be glamorous and radiant.
A. fragmentary
B. permanent
C. delicate
D. tender
6. Faced with such a dilemma, the top executives had to weigh one option
against another.
A. scale
B. seek
C. balance
D. reject
7. Despite conflicts and disagreements, the fundamental sympathies and
similarities between the two countries will continue.
A. essential
B. intense
C. necessary
D. difficult
8. The car broke down about five kilometers short of the destination, so
they had to go on foot.
A. lacking in
B. except for
C. up to
D. away from
9. Kant revolutionized philosophy, questioned established authorities
and placed reason and freedom at the center of his thinking.
A. founded
B. accepted
C. overthrown
D. stereotyped
10. The freshmen will be introduced to some methods of coping with stress
and depression.
A. handling
B. executing
C. cooperation
D. consuming Section 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 corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
11. I had expected to win the race, but things did not that way.
A. break out
B. work out
C. pass out
D. figure out
12. Anyone employing people and paying them a fair wage, in my view, makes
a(n)
______ contribution to society.
A. immense
B. gigantic
C. large
D. spacious
13. I have time to enjoy family and friends, activities such as
reading, writing, listening to music and playing sports.
A. chase
B. involve
C. pursue
D. capture
14. A nd not one of these pleasures is taxation under the Internal Revenue
Code.
A. committed to
B. subject to
C. attached to
D. indifferent to
15. Middle-aged ladies somehow tend to weight more easily even if they are
vegetarians.
A. put on
B. put up
C. put forward
D. put away
16. As ______ China, reform and opening-up have led to substantial improvement of
lives.
A. in the case of
B. in the face of
C. in the name of
D. in the
middle of
17. Niagara Falls is a great tourist _______, drawing millions of visitors every year.
A. attention
B. attraction
C. appointment
D. arrangement
18. The manager spoke highly of such _______ as loyalty, courage and
truthfulness shown by his employees.
A. virtues
B. features
C. properties
D. characteristics
19. Some old people don’t like pop songs because they can’t _______ so much noise.
A. resist
B. sustain
C. tolerate
D. undergo
20. Since the matter was extremely _______, we dealt with it immediately.
A. tough
B. tense
C. urgent
D. instant PART II CLOZE TEST ( 20 minutes 10 points)
Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one item of 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.
21 A. America B. Asia C. Africa D. Europe
22 A. whose B. which C. as D. that
23 A. against B. with C. upon D. from
24 A. remark B. reveal C. involve D. doubt
25 A. accident B. jam C. crash D. death
26 A. killed B. injured C. wounded D. included
27 A. Now that B. Provided C. Once D. Although
28 A.every B. some C. any D.the
29A. at last B. for example C. however D. in addition
30 A. Because B.Before C. Whereas D. If
31 A. hundred B. million C. thousand D. billion
32 A. B. drivers C. males D. injured
33 A. possesses B.had C. has D. have
34 A. involving B. containing C. resulting D. existing in
35 .A. firm B. poor C. good D. dependent
36 A. harden B. study C. struggle D. combat
37 A. overtaken B. explored C. undertaken D. regarded
38 A. tackled B. recognized C. shifted D. threatened
39 A. such B.just C.so D. also
40 A. eliminated B. knocked C. sought D. adjusted
PART III READING COMPREHENSION (60 minutes, 50 points)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five short passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully, and hen do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D and then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Peng Gonglin wasn't an important man. He lived in a bare concrete house in a small village of Deng Zhuang where women stoop 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 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 or 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, massages and prostitutes, but they did nothing in return, according to a letter he later wrote.
Finally, 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 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 themselves trapped in neo-feudal conditions with no protection beyond the mercy of corrupt officials.
Outsiders 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.live simple and humble life
B.try to bribe officials
C.have no land and have to lease from others
D.hate the officials
42. 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 officials hoping that _______.
A. they may help him get financial compensation or legal aid
B. they may accept the meals, massages and prostitutes
C. they may interfere the affair
D. they may offer plea for him
44. Which of the following statements is NOT the reason of Peng Gonglin’s suicide?
A. He was beaten by the 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 conditions
B. the ordinary people can get protection if the corrupt officials
ignore them
C. there are social problems under the fast developing economy
D. people baffle the emphasis on order and harmony
Passage Two
Computers have been taught to play not only checkers, but also championship chess, which is 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 of 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 moves a second. That is an impressive speed. But there are an astronomical number of possible moves in chess—literally 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 than 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 players 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 example is sufficient to demonstrate the point. Granted, winning a game of 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 strategies for dealing with international tensions. Other problems
—international and interpersonal relations , ecology and economics , and the ever-increasing threat of world famine—can perhaps be solved by the joint efforts of human beings and truly intelligent computers .
46. The purpose of creating chess-playing computers is _______.
A. to win the world chess champion
B. to pave the way for further intelligent computers
C. to work out strategies for international wars
D. to find an accurate yardstick for measuring computer progress
47. Today, a chess-playing computer can be programmed to _______.
A. give trillions of responses in a second to each possible move and win the game
B. function with complete data and beat the best players
C. learn from chess-playing in the early stage and go on to win the game
D. evaluate every possible move but may fail to give the right response each time
48. For a computer to “think”, it is necessary to _______.
A. mange to process as much data as possible in a second
B. program it so that it can learn from its experiences
C. prepare it for chess-playing first
D. enable it to deal with unstructured situations
49. The author’s attitude towards the Defense Department is_ ___.
A. critical
B. unconcerned
C. positive
D. negative
50. In the author’s opinion, ___ _ .
A. winning a chess game is an unimportant event
B. serious human problems shouldn’t be regarded as playing a game
C. ecological problems are more urgent to be solved
D. there is hope for more intelligent computers
Passage Three
You have to 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 exception—that 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 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 economy go? It was 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.