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云南师范大学学位英语试卷

云南师范大学学位英语试卷
云南师范大学学位英语试卷

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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 violenee here are confined to technical schools students fighting mindless.

A.restricted

B. con firmed

C. releva nt

D. dedicated

2.Something clearly disturbs Thai youth and parents who need to do something

before things get worse.

A.boosts Be 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 violenee 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 agai nst

ano ther.

A. scale

B. seek

C. bala nee

D. reject

7.Despite conf licts and disagreeme nts,the fun dame ntal sympa thies and

similarities between the two countries will continue.

A. esse ntial

B. in tense

C. n ecessary

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. foun ded

B. accepted

C. overthrow n

D. stereotyped

10.The freshmen will be introduced to some methods of coping with stress and

depress!on.

A. handling

B. executi ng

C. cooperati on

D. con sumi ng

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.

11.1 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)

B. subject to D. indifferent to

15. Middle-aged ladies somehow tend to _ weight more

easily even if they are

vegetaria ns.

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. arra ngeme nt

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 n oise.

A. resist

B. sustain

C. tolerate

D. undergo

20. Since the matter was extremely _________ , we dealt with it immediately.

A. tough

B. tense

C. urge nt

D. in sta nt 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. Deaths and injuries from motor-vehicle accidents are reaching epidemic

proportions in develop]ng countries around the world, according to the World _____ contribution to society.

A> immense B. gigantic C. large

13.1 have time to enjoy family and friends , activities

writing, listening to music and playing sports. A. chase B. involve C. pursue 14. And not one of these pleasures is _ taxation Revenue

D. such D. un der spacious as readi ng , capture the In ter nal Code.

A. committed to attached to

Health Organization. Traffic accidents in the young nations of _21 amount to a “social scourge (祸害儿and all too often the victims are young, educated Africa ns 22 increased ear ning power has en abled them to buy a motorcycle or an automobile. Statistics 23 three 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 traffic accidents each year, and more than seven million are injured. 27 the US has the highest nu mber of people killed in traffic accide nts of 28 co untry (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 Uganda there are from 55 to 65 fatalities per 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 for

32_than it is females.

The majority of develop]ng countries 33 a higher incidenee of traffic accidents involving pedestrians (行人)than of accidents 34 motor vehicles alone. Among the causes, the WHO reports, are 35 roads, pedestria n ign ora nee of road signs, lack of instructio n in the use of roads and heavy pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the roads.

To 36 the growing epidemic of traffic accidents,the WHO has 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 ng diseases", the organization states, the present epidemic of road deaths could be made to disappear 39 as plague (瘟疫)and smallpox have now been_40 almost everywhere in the world.

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. in

eluded

27 A. Now that B. Provided C. Once D. Although

28 A.everv B. some C. anv D.the

29 A. 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. result!ng in 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. knoeked 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 importa nt man. He lived in a bare con Crete 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 cen tral provi nee of Henan tested the seeds he'd plan ted 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.

Fin ally, on March 29 he retur ned to the county seed stati on 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 Pengs lonely suicide reveals the pitfalls beneath the glossy surface of China's booming economy. Ordinary Chinese whove been cheated or defrauded, especially in rural areas, find themselves trapped in neo-feudal conditions with no protect!on 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, its 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 fina ncial compensate on 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 desperati on was beyond his psychological en dura nee.

D.He feared that his bribe may be discovered.

45.Pengs lonely suicide reveals that _________ .

A.the ordinary people seize neo-feudal conditions

B.the ordinary people can get protect!on 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 champi on ship chess, which is a fairly accurate yardstick for measuri ng the computer^ progress in the ability to learn from experienee.

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 an a lyze 40 000 moves a sec ond. 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 eno ugh people and eno ugh time), there is no computer capable of holdi ng that much data.

Therefore, if the computer is to compete at champi on ship levels, it must be programmed to function with less than complete data. It must be able to learn from experienc?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 sufficie nt to dem on strate the point. Gran ted, winning a game of chess is not an earthshaki ng eve nt eve n 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 in ter national 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.tearn 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 authorattitude 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 un imports nt eve nt

B.serious huma n problems should n't be regarded as playi ng a game

C.ecological problems are more urge nt 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 experieneed 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 sustai n itself decently on the in come of a single breadwi nn er. I n 1955, whe n 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.

There is another answer, though: inflation caused the entire work force to be moved into higher tax groups, thus reducing after-tax purchasing power. That is, my father's bindery job in 1954 paid $82 a week, with $80 after deduct!ons; today, at $ 820 per week the net would be $662.

To ordi nary people, the economy does n't look very good at all. After-tax in comes continue to decrease in purchasi ng power. The jobs offered in the employment ads pay only a little more than the minimum wage, maybe $5 an hour, which, after payroll deduct!ons, yields $4 an hour. Compare that with minimum?wage jobs 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 ordinary people can be expressed in terms of __ ?

A.the amount of wage

B.after-tax in come

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