1、 2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题 (一 ) National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates (2002) 考生注意事项 1. 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则 , 得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。 2. 答题前 , 考生应将答题卡上的”考生姓名”、”报考单位”、”考试语种”、”考生编号”等信息填写清楚 , 并与准考证上的一致。 3. 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题 (一 ) 、试题 (二 ) 。 4. 本试题为试题 (一 ), 共 4页 (1 4页 ) 。考生必须在规定的时间内作答。 5
2、. 试题 (一 ) 为听力部分。该部分共有 A、 B、 C三节 , 所有答案都应填写或填涂在答题卡1 上。 A、 B 两节必须用蓝 (黑 ) 圆珠笔答题 , 注意字迹清楚。 C 节必须用 2B 铅笔按照答题卡上的要求填涂 , 如要改动 , 必须用橡皮擦干净。 6. 听力考试进行时 , 考生应先将答案写或标记在试题上 , 然后在听力部分结束前专门留出的 5分钟内 , 将答案整洁地誊写或转涂到答题卡 1上。仅写或标记在试题上不给分。 Section I: Listening Comprehension Directions: This Section is designed to test you
3、r ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test
4、 booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. Now look at Part A in your test booklet. Part A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear an introduction about the life of Margaret Welch. W
5、hile you listen, fill out the table with the information youve heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points) Welchs Personal Informati
6、on Place of Birth Philadelphia Year of Birth 1901 Transfer to Barnard University (Year) 1920 Major at University 1 Final Degree PhD Year of Marriage 1928 Growing Up In New Guinea Published (Year) 2 Field Study in the South Pacific (Age) 3 Main Interest 4 Professorship at Columbia Started (Year) 5 De
7、ath (Age) 77 Part B Directions: For questions 6-10, you will hear a talk by a well-known U.S. journalist. While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the questions. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and
8、questions below. (5 points) Besides reporters, who else were camped out for days outside the speakers home? 6. _ One reporter got to the speakers apartment pretending to pay 7. _ The speaker believed the reporter wanted a picture of her looking 8. _ Where is a correction to a false story usually pla
9、ced? 9. _ According to the speaker, the press will lost readers unless the editors and the news directors 10. _ Part C Directions: You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each quest
10、ion by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only. (10 points) Questions 11-13 are based on a report about childrens healthy development. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13. 11. What unusual question may doctors a
11、sk when giving kids a checkup next time? A How much exercise they get every day. B What they are most worried about. C How long their parents accompany them daily. D What entertainment they are interested in. 12. The academy suggests that children under age two _. A get enough entertainment B have m
12、ore activities C receive early education D have regular checkups 13. According to the report, childrens bedrooms should _. A be no place for play B be near a common area C have no TV sets D have a computer for study Questions 14-16 are based on the following talk about how to save money. You now hav
13、e 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16. 14. According to the speaker, what should one pay special attention to if he wants to save up? A Family debts. B Bank savings. C Monthly bills. D Spending habits. 15. How much can a person save by retirement if he gives up his pack-a-day habit? A $190,000. B $33
14、0,000. C $500,000. D $1,000,000. 16. What should one do before paying monthly bills, if he wants to accumulate wealth? A Invest into a mutual fund. B Use the discount tickets. C Quit his eating-out habit. D Use only paper bills and save coins. Questions 17-20 are based on an interview with Herbert A
15、. Glieberman, a domestic-relations lawyer. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20. 17. Which word best describes the lawyers prediction of the change in divorce rate? A Fall B Rise C V-shape D Zigzag 18. What do people nowadays desire to do concerning their marriage? A To embrace changes of
16、 thought. B To adapt to the disintegrated family life. C To return to the practice in the 60s and 70s. D To create stability in their lives. 19. Why did some people choose not to divorce 20 years ago? A They feared the complicated procedures. B They wanted to go against the trend. C They were afraid
17、 of losing face. D they were willing to stay together. 20. Years ago a divorced man in a company would have. A been shifted around the country. B had difficulty being promoted. C enjoyed a happier life. D tasted little bitterness of disgrace. You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from
18、your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. THIS IS THE END OF SECTION I DO NOT READ OR WORK ON THE NEXT SECTION UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO CONTINUE 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试 题 (二 ) National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates (2002) 考生注意事项 1. 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则，得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。 2. 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题 (一 ) 、试题 (二 ) 。
19、3. 本试题为试题 (二 )，共 11 页 (5 15 页 )，含有英语知识运用、阅读理解、写作三个部分。英语知识运用、阅读理解 A节的答案必须用 2B 铅笔按要求直接填涂在答题卡 1上，如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。阅读理解 B节和写作部分必须 用蓝 (黑 ) 圆珠笔在答题卡 2上答题，注意字迹清楚。 4. 考试结束后，考生应将答题卡 1、答题卡 2 一并装入原试卷袋中，将试题 (一 )、试题 (二 ) 交给监考人员。 Section II: Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s)
20、 for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened _21_. As was discussed before, it was not _22_ the 19th c
21、entury that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic _23_, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the _24_ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution _25_ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading _26_ through the telegra
22、ph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures _27_ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in _28_. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, _29_, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, _30_ by the invention of
23、the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, _31_ its impact on the media was not immediately _32_. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as _33_, with display becoming sharper and storage _34_ increasing. They
24、 were thought of, like people, _35_ generations, with the distance between generations much _36_. It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the _37_ within which we now live. The communications revolution has _38_ both work and leisure and
25、 how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been _39_ view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed _40_ “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult. 21. A between B before C since D later 22. A after B by C
26、during D until 23. A means B method C medium D measure 24. A process B company C light D form 25. A gathered B speeded C worked D picked 26. A on B out C over D off 27. A of B for C beyond D into 28. A concept B dimension C effect D perspective 29. A indeed B hence C however D therefore 30. A brough
27、t B followed C stimulated D characterized 31. A unless B since C lest D although 32. A apparent B desirable C negative D plausible 33. A institutional B universal C fundamental D instrumental 34. A ability B capability C capacity D faculty 35. A by means of B in terms of C with regard to D in line w
28、ith 36. A deeper B fewer C nearer D smaller 37. A context B range C scope D territory 38. A regarded B impressed C influenced D effected 39. A competitive B controversial C distracting D irrational 40. A above B upon C against D with Section III: Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the fol
29、lowing four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Text 1 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audi
30、ence and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods o
31、f their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is b
32、eing shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, gra
33、bs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, thats God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks hes a doctor.” If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are
34、common to all of you and itll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairmans notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustnt attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or t
35、heir chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and u
36、nforced manner. Often its the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark. Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at
37、 first you dont succeed, give up” or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor. 41. To make your humor work, you should _. A take advantage of different kinds
38、of audience B make fun of the disorganized people C address different problems to different people D show sympathy for your listeners 42. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are _. A impolite to new arrivals B very conscious of their godlike role C entitled to some privi
39、leges D very busy even during lunch hours 43. It can be inferred from the text that public services _. A have benefited many people B are the focus of public attention C are an inappropriate subject for humor D have often been the laughing stock 44. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories sh
40、ould be delivered _. A in well-worded language B as awkwardly as possible C in exaggerated statements D as casually as possible 45. The best title for the text may be _. A Use Humor Effectively B Various Kinds of Humor C Add Humor to Speech D Different Humor Strategies Text 2 Since the dawn of human
41、 ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics - the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical versi
42、on of science fiction, they have begun to come close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done
43、at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain
44、 and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy - far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decision
45、s for themselves - goals that pose a real challenge. “While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,” says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we cant yet give a robot enough common sense to reliably interact with a dynamic world.” Indeed the quest for true artificial
46、 intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decad
47、es if not centuries. What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brains roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented - and human perception far more complicated - than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel
48、 by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth cant approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still dont know quite how we do it.
