广东外语外贸大学《623英语水平考试》历年考研真题(含部分答案)专业课考试试题

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第一卷第一部分：听力理解（共２０小题，计分２０分）第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，满分５分)听下面５段对话。

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例：Man: I wonder why the office is still not open.Women: But it's not yet eight. In fact, it's only a quarter to eight.At what time does the office open?A. At 8:30.B. At 8:15.C. At 8:00.答案是C。

第一段对话，回答第１题1. Why is the man complaining?A. The show is very difficult to understand.B. The room is too small for the audience.C. The crowd is very noisy.第二段对话，回答第２题：2. What does the woman mean?A. The results might be ready tomorrow.B. The man needs another test tomorrow.C. The results were called in last night.第三段对话，回答第３题：3. Who fixed Karen's hair?A. A neighbor.B. Karen herself.C. A professional hairstylist.第四段对话，回答第4题：4. What is the problem?A. There are too few houses in the northeast.B. People in the northeast are inexperienced in dealing with snow.C. Cold weather in the northeast has increased the demand for fuel.第五段对话，回答第5题：5. What does the woman think the man should do?A. Ask the stewardess for change.B. Move to another part of the plane.C. Put out his cigarette.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分１５分）听下面5段对话或独白。

广东外语外贸大学2008年研究生入学考试英语专业水平考试样题1. Fill in each of the blanks below with a word provided in the brackets. The words you put in must be grammatically and semantically appropriate. You can only use the words in the brackets ONCE. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30分)(and, absolute, anticipate, best, breaks, browsing, deliberately, enjoy, differently, feel, health, norm, patterns, potential, some, then, those, tiredness, well, with)Be realistic about time in your planning. And suit yourself-everyone works (1)______, and your personal (2)_______ working patterns may (3)_______ be different from (4)__those_____ other people might expect from you. The aim should be to develop your own (5)_______, not to regulate your working habits to a conventional (6)_______.Allow for unexpected (7)________ such as days when libraries are closed, delays while materials arrive through the post, days when you don’t (8)_______ like working, etc. And create breaks (9)_______. For example, you should allow for creating variation in your working (10)________ . Read for a while, then do some writing or some research (11)_______ in a library; this can reduce the effect of strain or (12)_______ with long bouts of writing, something which is particularly important for (13)________ reasons if you work at a computer.Remember that finishing off always takes longer than you (14)_______ , so allow enough time for this. Be careful with deadlines: some are notional (and extensions are possible); others are fixed and (15)_______ , with the result that noncompletion on schedule can mean failure. Check the rules to find out which of these your deadline is.II. This section contains twenty multiple-choice questions on antonyms. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet (20分)1. DIVERGE(A) relay(B) bypass(C) enclose(D) come together2. LEVY(A) relinquish(B) rescind(C) repatriate(D) revitalize3. ANCHOR(A) unwind(B) disjoin(C) dislodge(D) disrupt4. FATUOUSNESS(A) sensibleness(B) courage(C) aloofness(D) obedience5. GIST(A) artificial manner(B) trivial point(C) eccentric method(D) singular event6. PERSEVERE(A) put into(B) send out(C) give up(D) take away7. AMALGAMA TE(A) separate(B) terminate(C) calibrate(D) correlate8. ANARCHY(A) courtesy(B) hope(C) neutrality(D) order9. HAPLESS(A) excited(B) elated(C) delighted(D) fortunate10. ENDORSE(A) oppose publicly(B) provoke criticism(C) receive payment(D) submit unwillingly11. EXPIRE(A) evolve(B) come to life(C) grow to fruition(D) bring to light12. METAMORPHSIS(A) relief from strain(B) cyclical motion(C) continuation without change(D) dogmatic persistence13. FERMENT(A) solidity(B) purity(C) tranquility(D) transparency14. PLETHORA(A) narrowness(B) dearth(C) choice(D) confusion15. SURCHARGE(A) discount rebate(B) liability(C) decrease(D) shortfall16. PROFUSE(A) rare(B) flawed(c) real(D) scanty17. SUBSTANTIATION(A) dissent(B) delusion(C) disproof(D) denial18. FORESTALL(A) announce(B) precipitate(c) steady(D) prolong19. ESTRANGEMENT(A) reconciliation(B) dissemblance(C) consolation(D) negotiation20. OUTLANDISH(A) prolific(B) noticeable(C) transparent(D) conventionalIII. Read the following passages carefully and complete the tasks. Write your answers an the Answer Sheet (50分)TEXT ASOMETHING ABOUT NAPLES just seems made for comedy. The name alone conjures up pizza, and lovable, incorrigible innocents warbling “O Sole Mio”; a nutty little corner of the world where the id runs wild and the only answer to the question “Why?” appears to be “Why not?”Naples: the butter-side-down of Italian cities, where even the truth has a strangely fictitious tinge. One day a car rear-ended one of the city’s minibuses. The bus driver got out to investigate.While he stood there talking, his only passenger took the wheel and drove off Neither passenger nor bus was ever seen again.Then there was that busy lunch hour in the central post office when a crack in the ceiling opened and postal workers were overwhelmed by an avalanche of stale croissants. As the cleaners hauled away garbage bags of moldy breakfast, the questions remained: Who? Why? And what else could still be up there?But Naples actually isn’t so funny. Italy’s third largest city, with 1.1 million people has a much darker side. where chaos reigns: bag snatching and mugging clogged streets of stupefying confusion, where traffic moves to mysterious laws of its own through multiple intersections whose traffic lights haven’t functioned for months, maybe years-if they have lights at all. Packs of wild dogs roam the city’s main park. Nineteen policemen on the anti-narcotics squad are arrested for accepting payoffs from the Camorra, the local Mafia.To many Italians, particularly those in the wealthy, industrialized north, none of this is surprising. To them Naples means political corruption, wasted federal subsidies, rampant organized crime, appallingly large families, and cunning, lazy people who prefer to do something shady rather than honest work.Nepolitans know their reputation, “People think nothing ever gets done here,” said a young professional woman “Sometimes they say, “Surely you come from Milan. You come from Naples? Naples?”Giovanni del Form, an insurance executive, told me about his flight home from a northern. Italian city, the plane waited on the began to bear the comments around me: ‘Well here we are in Naples,’” he said with a wince. “These comments make me suffer”.Neapolitans may complain, but most can’t conceive of living anywhere else. The city has the intimacy, tension, and craziness of a large but intensely devoted family. The people have the same perverse pride as New Yorkers. They love even the things that don’t work, and they love being Neapolitans. They know outsiders don’t get it. and they don’t care. “Even if you go away” one woman said, “you remain a prisoner of this city. My city has many problems, but away from it I feel bad.”This is a city in which living on the brink of collapse is normal. Naples has survived wars revolutions, floods, earthquakes, and eruptions of nearby Vesuvius. First a wealthy, colony founded by the Greeks (who called it Neapolis, or “new city”), then a flourishing Roman resort, it lived through various incarnations under dynasties of Normans, Swabians, Austrians, Spanish, and French, not to mention a glorious period as the resplendent capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.It was a brilliant, cultivated city that once ranked with London and Paris. The Nenziatella, the oldest military school in Italy, still basks in its two centuries of historic glory, the Teatro San Carlo remains one of the greatest opera houses in the world. The treasures of Pompeii grace the National Museum. Stretched Iuxuriantly between mountains and sea along the curving coast of the Bay of Naples, full of ornate palaces, gardens, churches, and works of art, with its mild climate and rich folklore, Naples in the last century was beloved by artists and writers. The most famous response to this magnificence was the comment by an unknown admirer, “See Naples and die.”Today that remark carries less poetic connotations. The bombardments of World War II were followed by the depredations of profiteers and politicians-for-rent who reduced the city to a demoralized shadow of itself, surviving on government handouts, Until five years ago citygovernments were cobbled together by warring political factions; some mayors lasted only a few months. A cholera outbreak in 1973 was followed in 1980 by a major earthquake. Its famous port has Withered (though the U.S. Sixth Fleet command is still based just up the coast), industries have failed, tourists have fled, natives have moved out-it seems that only drug trafficking is booming “Unlivable,” the Neapolitans say.1. The two examples in the second and third paragraphs intend to show that(A) Naples has a high incidence of traffic accidents.(C) people there love to store food for years.(D) everything appears to be on the wrong side.2. The fallowing words are appropriate to describe traffic conditions in Naples EXCEPT(A) disorder.(B) overcrowding.(C) insecurity.(D) inefficiency.3. It can be concluded from the passage that the Northerners(A) are critical of what Naples represents.(B) sympathize with Neopolitans.(C) share many thins with Neopolitans.(D) make every effort to shun Neopolitans.4. The author implies that Neopolitans’ affection for the city(A) was unrealistic.(B) went a bit too far.(C) was extraordinary.(D) gave rise to concern.5. When the author says “Today that remark carries less poetic connotations.” he actually means that(A) the city can now boast very few poets.(B) artists and writers have left for London and Paris.(C) the city underwent heavy bombing during the War.(D) The city’s present problems obscured its glorious past.TEXT BOnce found almost entirely in the western United States and in Asia, dinosaur fossils are now being discovered on all seven continents. A host of new revelations emerged in 1998 that promise to reshape scientists views of dinosaurs, including what they looked like and when and where they lived.It is doubtful that Tyrannosaurus Rex had lips or that Triceratops had cheeks, says Lawrence Wittrier, an assistant professor of anatomy at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Witmer was a leading researcher for a study on dinosaur anatomy that was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, which concluded on October 3 in Snowbird, Utah.Witmer’s study reached its conclusions by using high-tech computerized axial tomography (CT or CA T) seans along with comparative anatomy studies. For example, the theory that Triceratops and similar dinosaur species had cheeks was based on past comparisons with mammals such as sheep. But Witmer’s careful analysis found the structure of the triceratops jaw and skull made it more likely that Triceratops had a beak like that of an eagle. Witmer said thatscientists should use birds and crocodiles as models when researching the appearance of dinosaurs.In early October scientists announced that they had confirmed the discovery of a new type of ceratopsian dinosaur. The dinosaur’s bones, found in New Mexico in 1996, are fencing paleontologists to rethink their, theories about when ceratopsians migrated to what is now North America.Scientists previously thought that ceratopsians, the group that included the well-known Triceratops, arrived in North America from Asia between 70 million and 80 million years ago. During this time, the late Cretaceous Period, the earth’s two supercontinents-Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south-were in the process of pulling apart, cutting dinosaur populations off from each other and interrupting migratory patterns.The fossilized bones, found by eight-year-old Christopher Wolfe and his father, paleontologist Doug Wolfe of the Mesa Southwest Museum in Arizona, date to about 90 million years ago. This could mean that ceratopstans originated in North America and migrated to Asia rather than the reverse, paleontologists Said. Doug Wolfe named the important new species of dinosaur Zuniceratops christopheri after his son.An expedition from the Universities of Alaska in Anchorage and Fairbanks has discovered a region in remote northern Alaska so rich in fossilized dinosaur tracks that team members dubbed it the “dino expressway”. The trampled area was found during the summer of 1998 on Alaska’s Norah Slope near the Brooks Range.The team found 13 new track sites and made casts from the prints of five different types of dinosaurs. The rock in which the prints were found dates to more than 100 million years ago, or about 25 million years older than the previously discovered signs of dinosaurs in the Arctic region. Paleontologists said that the new findings provide important evidence that dinosaurs migrated between Asia and North America during the early and mid-Cretaceous Period, before Asia split off into its own continent.Two rich fossil sites in the hills of Bolivia have been recently discovered, exciting paleontologists and dinosaur buffs .This discovery includes one of the most spectacular dinosaur trackways ever found.The discovery of a large site in the mountain region of Kila, Kila in southern Bolivia was announced in early October. Here scientists found the tracks of at least two unknown species of dinosaur. These included a large quadruped (four-footed) dinosaur that was probably about 20 m (about 70 ft) long.The other site, located not far from the Bolivian city of Sucre, was uncovered in a cement quarry by workers several years ago but was not brought to paleontologists attention until the middle of 1998. The site features a vertical wall covered with thousands of dinosaur prints representing more than 100 different species. The tracks date back to between 65 million and 70 million years age. Since dinosaurs are believed to have died out around 65 million years ago, the prints were likely made by some of the last dinosaurs on earth.Scientists speculated that the tracks were made at the edge of a lake or swamp and were then hardened and preserved. The rock containing the tracks was then pushed into a vertical position over millions of years of geologic activity. Dinosaur eggs have also been found at the site, which paleontologists are working to preserve before it falls victim to erosion. Paleontologists hope to study the site and learn about the diet and physical characteristics of the dinosaurs that arerepresented there.6. Witmer’s research leads people to believe(A) Tyrannosaurus Rex had lips and Triceratops had cheeks.(B) dinosaurs might have looked like mammals such as sheep.(C) dinosaurs might not have looked like what we thought.(D) dinosaurs must have looked like birds or crocodiles.7. The discovery of a new type of ceratopsian dinosaur suggests ceratopsians(A) migrated to North America around 70-80 million years ago.(B) arrived in Asia from North America about 90 million years ago.(C) originated in Asia and later migrated to North America.(D) could have moved to Asia from North America long ago.8. Newly-found fossilized tracks in Alaska proved that dinosaurs’ migration between Asia and North America took place(A) much earlier than experts previously thought.(B) much later than experts previously thought.(C) after Asia became an independent continent.(D) sometime around 25 million years ago.9. The discovery of dinosaur fossil sites in Bolivia is exciting because of the following reasons EXCEPT that(A) they are found in a continent other than Asia and North Continent.(B) the largest dinosaurs in the world are found in this discovery.(C) there are some unknown species of dinosaurs found this time.(D) the dinosaurs were believed to be some of the last ones on earth10. The passage focuses on(A) dinosaur’s geographical location.(B) shifting views of dinosaurs.(C) migration patterns of dinosaurs.(D) geologic activity of Earth.TEXT CIn sixteenth-century Italy and eighteenth-century France, waning prosperity and increasing social unrest led the ruling families to try to preserve their superiority by withdrawing from the lower and middle class behind barriers of etiquette. In a prosperous community, on the other hand, polite society soon absorbs the newly rich, and in England there has never been any shortage of books on etiquette for teaching them the manners appropriate to their new way of life.Every code of enquette has contained three elements, basic moral duties practical rules which promote effidiency; and artificial, optional graces such as formal compliments to, say, women on their beauty or superiors on their generosity and importance.In the first category are considerations for the weak and respect for age. Among the ancient Egyptians the young always stood in the young men bow as they pass the huts of the elders. In England, until about a century ago, young children did not sit in their parents’ presence without asking permission.Practical rules are helpful in such ordinary occurrences of social life as making proper introductions at parties or other functions so that people can be brought to know each other. Before the invention of the fork, etiquette directed that the fingers should be kept as clean aspossible, before the handkerchief came into common use, etiquette suggested that after spitting a person should rub the spit inconspicuously underfoot.Extremely refined behaviour, however, cultivated as an art of gracious living, has been characteristic only of societies with wealth and leisure, winch admitted women as the social equals of men After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.Provence had become wealthy. The lords had retamed to their castle from the crusades, and there the ideals of chivalry grew up, which emphasized the virtue and gentleness of women and demanded that a knight should profess a pure and dedicated love to a lady who would be his inspiration, and to whom he would dedicate his valiant deeds, though he would never come physically close to her. This was the introduction of the concept of romantic love, which was to influence literature for many hundreds of years and which still lives on in a debased form in simple popular songs and cheap novels today.In Renaissance Italy too, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a wealthy and leisured society developed an extremely complex code of manners, but the rules of behaviour of fashionable society had little influence on the daily life of the lower classes. Indeed many of the rules, such as how to enter a banquet room, or how to use a sword or handkerchief for ceremonial purposes, were inelevant to the way of life of the average working man, who spent most of his life outdoors or in his own poor hut and most probably did not have a handkerchief, certainly not a sword, to his name.Yet the essential basis of all good manners does not vary. Consideration for the old and weak and the avoidance of harming or giving unnecessary offence to others is a feature of all societies everywhere and at all levels from the highest to the lowest.Answer the following questions briefly. Please write your answers on the Answer sheet.11. One characteristic of the rich classes of a declining society is their tendency____________.12. Cite TWO elements of the code of etiquette.____________________________________________________.13. According to the writer, part of chivalry is that____________________.14. Etiquette as an art of gracious living is quoted as a feature of_______________________.15. What does the writer use “Yet” in the last paragraph? ___________________.TEXTDFred Cooke of Salford turned 90 two days ago and the world has been beating a path to his door. If you haven’t noticed, the backstreet boy educated at Blackpool grammar styles himself more grandly as Alastair Cooke, broadcaster extraordinaire. An honorable KBE, he would be Sir Alastair if he had not taken American citizenship more than half a century ago.If it sounds snobbish to draw attention to his humble origins, it should be reflected that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them. But the fact that he opted to renounce his British passport in 1941-just when his country needed all the wartime help it could get-is hardly a matter for congratulation.Cooke has made a fortune out of his love affair with America. entrancing listeners with a weekly monologue that has won Radio 4 many devoted adherents. Part of the pull is the developed drawl. This is the man who gave the world “mid-Atlantic’, the language of the disc jockey and public relations man.He sounds American to us and English to them, while in reality he has for decades belongedto neither. Cooke’s world is an America that exists largely in the imagination. He took ages to acknowledge the disaster that was Vietnam and even longer to wake up to Watergate. His politics have drifted to the right with age, and most of his opinions have been acquired on the golf course with fellow celebrities.He chased after stars on arrival in America, fixing up an interview with Charlie Chaplin and briefly becoming his friend. He told Cooke he could turn him into a fine light comedian; instead he is an impressionist’s dream.Cooke liked the sound of his first wife’s name almost as much as he admired her good looks. But he found bringing up baby difficult and left her for the wife of his landlord.Women listeners were unimpressed when, in 1996, be declared on air that the fact that 4% of women in the American armed forces ware roped showed remarkable self-restraint on the part of Uncle Sam’s soldiers. His arrogance in not allowing BBC editors to see his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his detriment. His defenders said he could not help living with the 1930s values he had acquired and somewhat dubiously went on to cite “gallantry” as chief among them. Cooke’s raconteur style encouraged a whole generation of BBC men to think of themselves as more important than the story. His treacly tones were the model for the regular World Service reports. From Our Own Correspondent known as FOOCs in the business. They may yet be his epitaph.Answer the following questions briefly. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.16. Which fact about Cooke is the writer most critical of?17. How would you describe Cooke?18. What does the writer mean by saying that ‘...most of his opinions have been acquired on the golf course with fellow celebrities’ at the end of the fourth paragraph?19. What does the word unimpressed suggest in the last paragraph?20. In what kind of tone does the writer comment on Cooke’s life and career in the passage?IV. This section contains two tasks. Complete the tasks according to the instructions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.TASK ONE (20 分)Supply a missing paragraph to the following passage. Your paragraph should be consistent with the tone, style and rhetorical organization of the given passage. The paragraph should be within 80 words in length. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.An acceptable essay must be unified. It must make one clearly identifiable point. The best way to ensure unity is to write a strong thesis sentence, and then to make sure that everything else you write in the essay somehow develops that thesis sentence.In addition to being unified, an acceptable essay must be cohesive. Its parts must stick together. Cohesion is obviously closely related to unity Unless the essay sticks together there will be-or will appear to be-no unity. Cohesion, however, is really a matter of connectives, of the glue or the strings that hold together the different parts of an essay. We sometimes use the word transitions to refer to the connective devices by which writers announce that they are finished with one part of an argument and going on to the next part We sometimes use the word sign posts to refer to the quite explicit information that writers give to their readers about where they are in the development of their support for their thesis. Whatever the terminology we use to explain conesion, your will appreciate your telling them, quite directly, where you are and where you are going.Finally, an acceptable essay must be organized. Some principles of arrangement must be made evident to your readers. If your readers are to know where they are at any given point in your argument, they must be given a clear notion of how you are structuring your essay. The structure of your essay, the organizational principle of it, can be shown by means of an outline, or skeleton sketch.TASK TWO (30分)“A man is known by the company he keeps.” First state what this means and then explain how far you think this statement is justified. You should provide convincing evidence to support your argument.Your response should be within 500 words. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.参考答案1.Fill in each of the blanks below with a word provided in the brackets. The wordsyou put in must be grammatically and semantically appropriate. You can onlyuse the words in the brackets ONCE. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1 differently2 best3 well4 those5 potential6 norm7 breaks8 feel9 deliberately 10 patterns11 browsing 12 tiredness 13 health 14 anticipated 15 absoluteII. This section contains twenty multiple-choice questions on antonyms. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet1-5 C A B A B6-10 C A D D A11-15 B C C D C16-20 D C B C DIII. Read the following passages carefully and complete the tasks. Write your answers an the Answer Sheet1-5 B B A C D6-10 C D A C AText C11 To preserve extremely refined etiquette12 basic normal duties such as respect for age; practical rules such as making proper introduction at a party13 A knight held platonic love to a lady and woman should be of virtue and gentleness14 wealthy and leisured society15 although common people didn’t have a complicated code of manner, the essence of politeness of common people doesn’t vary much from that of high society’s.Text D16 His character, or his moral quality, is the writer most critical of17 A scoundrel who did very well as a radio broadcaster18 Few of his political opinions were original, and most of them were copied from fellow celebrities19 From this word we can guess that women listeners didn’t like him20 In a sarcastic tone the author makes commentIV. This section contains two tasks. Complete the tasks according to the instructions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.TASK ONESo, from above we know three elements of an acceptable essay. Unity, cohesion and organization are what writers should try to achieve in the process of writing. With practice, you may compose good essays and have dedicated readers.TASK TWOA man is known by the company he keepsThis sentence is first come from Aesop’s Fables with the meaning that a person is believed to be like the people with whom he or she spends time.And I personally can’t agree more with this epigram. In China there is also a sentence with the same meaning: one who nears vermilion becomes red and one who nears ink becomes black. Thousand of years ago our ancestors had found out this truth, and we descendents have no reason to disbelieve it. And I have more than enough evidence to prove the correctness of this sentence.In animal world, if a duckling happened to be raised by a hen, it would deem itself as a member of chicken family. And its behavior would be to a large extent like that of chicks.While in human society, the situation varies little. A man would definitely be influenced by people with whom he spends most time. For example, a new graduate who goes to his new job and hangs around with workers for several months would speak in the way that belongs to workers. Why? Because workers are everywhere. Their way of living constitute a new environment for that graduate. Under the influence of workers, he has to change. Otherwise, he would feel isolated.Good environment exerts good influences on people; bad environment exerts worse ones. Ask any criminal taken prisoner for theft and you would in surprise find out almost all of them were abetted to steal. As we know, no one was born a criminal. From this point we know how huge the influence of company is.。

广东外语外贸大学出国英语培训入学考试真题全文共10篇示例，供读者参考篇1Hello everyone! Today I want to share with you my experience of taking the entrance exam for the English training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.When I first heard about the exam, I was really nervous because I didn't know what to expect. But after studying hard and preparing myself, I felt more confident. The exam was divided into four parts: listening, reading, writing, and speaking.The listening part was a bit challenging for me because the speakers spoke really fast. But I tried my best to focus and understand the questions. The reading part was easier for me because I love reading English books and articles. I was able to answer most of the questions correctly.The writing part was a bit tricky because I needed to write an essay about my favorite holiday. I wrote about my trip to Disneyland and why it was the best holiday ever. I tried to use different vocabulary words and sentence structures to make my essay more interesting.Finally, the speaking part was the most fun! I had to talk about my daily routine and answer some questions from the examiners. I practiced speaking English with my friends and family, so I felt more confident during this part of the exam.Overall, I had a great time taking the entrance exam for the English training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. I hope I did well and can't wait to start my English training soon!篇2Title: My Experience in the Entrance Exam for Studying Abroad English Training at Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesHey everyone! I want to share with you my experience in the entrance exam for studying abroad English training at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. It was such a fun and exciting day!The exam was divided into four parts: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. In the listening part, we had to listen to different recordings and answer questions about them. Some of the recordings were really fast, but I tried my best to pay attention and write down the answers.The reading part was a bit challenging too. We had to read passages and answer questions based on them. Some of the passages were quite long, but I tried to scan them quickly and find the answers.The writing part was my favorite because I love writing stories. We had to write a short essay about our favorite hobby and why we like it. I wrote about how much I love playing soccer with my friends and how it helps me relax and have fun.Finally, the speaking part was nerve-wracking but exciting. We had to talk about a topic given by the examiner for two minutes. I talked about my dream of traveling around the world and how I want to learn English to communicate with people from different countries.Overall, the exam was a bit challenging but so much fun! I can't wait to find out the results and hopefully get accepted into the program. Wish me luck!篇3Hello everyone! Today, I'm going to tell you all about the entrance exam for the English training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. It's like a big test to see if you're ready to study English and go abroad. Let's dive in!First, you have to know some basic English words and grammar. They'll ask you questions like "What's your name?" or "How old are you?" Don't worry, it's not too hard. Just study a bit and you'll be fine!Next, there will be a listening test. You'll hear people talking in English and you have to understand what they're saying. It's important to listen carefully and try your best to answer the questions.Then, there's a reading test. You'll read some passages in English and answer questions about them. Remember to take your time and read carefully. Don't rush through it!After that, there's a writing test. You'll have to write a short essay in English. Just think of it as telling a story or describing something you like. Remember to use proper grammar and punctuation.Finally, there's a speaking test. You'll talk to a teacher in English and answer their questions. Don't be shy, just do your best and try to speak clearly.So, that's the entrance exam for the English training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Remember to study hard and good luck on the test! You can do it!篇4Hi everyone! Today I want to share with you a really cool thing – the entrance exam for the English training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. It's like a super fun challenge that could help us get better at speaking English and maybe even go abroad someday!So, in this exam, we have to show our English skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. For the listening part, we have to listen to conversations and answer questions about them. It's kind of like a game where we have to pay attention and think fast!Next up is the speaking part, where we have to talk about a topic for a few minutes. We can choose a topic we like and just talk about it. Maybe I'll talk about my favorite food or my favorite superhero!Then there's the reading part, where we have to read some passages and answer questions about them. It's like a puzzle that we have to solve with our reading skills. And finally, there's the writing part, where we have to write an essay about a topic. I'll make sure to use lots of big words and cool phrases to impress the examiners!I'm super excited about this exam because I really want to improve my English and maybe even study abroad one day. So, wish me luck and let's rock this exam together! Go English! Go GDUFS!篇5Hi everyone! Today I want to share with you the entrance exam questions for the study abroad English training at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Foreign Trade. Are you ready? Let's get started!Question 1:Why do you want to study abroad and improve your English skills? Please provide at least two reasons.Question 2:Please write a short paragraph (around 100-150 words) about your dream study abroad destination and why you want to go there.Question 3:Imagine you are traveling in a foreign country and you need to ask for directions to a popular tourist attraction. How would you communicate with the locals in English to find your way?Question 4:What are some of the benefits of studying abroad, besides improving your language skills? Please provide at least three examples.Question 5:If you could choose any job in the world that requires English language skills, what would it be and why? Please explain your choice in detail.Remember to answer each question thoroughly and express your thoughts clearly. Good luck on your exam! Let's all work hard to achieve our dreams of studying abroad and becoming fluent in English! Go, go, go!篇6Title: Let's have fun with the GDUFS Study Abroad English Training Entrance Exam!Hey guys, are you ready to have some fun and show off your English skills for the GDUFS Study Abroad English Training Entrance Exam? Let's dive into the exciting world of English together!First, let's warm up with some simple questions to get our brains going. Can you tell me the English names of some common animals like dog, cat, and bird? How about the colors red, blue, and yellow? Don't worry, these are just the basics!Now, let's move on to some more challenging questions. Can you put these words in the correct order to make a sentence: I, like, apples, do, you? How about figuring out the correct verb tense to complete this sentence: Yesterday, Tom (play) ______ basketball with his friends.Next, let's test your listening skills with a short audio clip. Listen carefully and answer the questions that follow. Don't worry if you don't get it right the first time, practice makes perfect!Finally, it's time for the reading comprehension section. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions to show off your reading skills. Remember, take your time and don't rush through it.Phew, that was a lot of brain work! But don't worry, just do your best and have fun with the GDUFS Study Abroad English Training Entrance Exam. Good luck, my fellow English learners! Let's show them what we've got!篇7Title: My Experience Taking the Entrance Exam for English Language Training at Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesHey everyone! So I want to tell you about my experience taking the entrance exam for the English language training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. It was super exciting and a bit nerve-wracking, but I had a lot of fun too!The exam had a few different parts. First, we had to do a listening test where they played some recordings and we had to answer questions about them. It was kind of tricky because they spoke really fast, but I tried my best to listen carefully and write down the answers.Next, we had a reading comprehension section where we had to read some passages and answer questions about them. Some of the passages were really interesting, like one about a trip to a foreign country and another about a famous historical figure. I had to read carefully to make sure I understood everything.After that, we had a writing test where we had to write a short essay in English. I wrote about my favorite hobby, which isplaying soccer. I had to make sure to use good grammar and spelling, so I tried to be really careful with my writing.Finally, we had a speaking test where we had to talk about a given topic for a few minutes. I got a topic about my family, so I talked about my parents and siblings and what we like to do together. It was a bit nerve-wracking speaking in English, but I tried to be confident and speak clearly.Overall, the exam was a bit challenging, but I had a lot of fun showing off my English skills. I hope I did well and can get into the English language training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Wish me luck! Bye!篇8Title: My Experience in the Entrance Exam for Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesHey everyone! I want to tell you about my experience in the entrance exam for Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. It was super cool and a little bit nerve-wracking, but I had a lot of fun in the end.First, we had to do a listening test. The teacher played a recording and we had to write down what we heard. It was a littletricky because the recording was fast, but I did my best to catch everything. Then, we had a reading test where we had to answer questions about a passage in English. Some of the words were hard, but I tried to guess the answers based on the context.Next, we had a speaking test. We had to talk about our hobbies and favorite foods in English. I was a little shy at first, but the teacher was really nice and helped me feel more comfortable. Finally, we had a writing test where we had to write a short essay about our dreams and goals. I wrote about how I want to travel the world and learn about different cultures.Overall, the exam was a challenge, but I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I can't wait to see if I get accepted into the program. Wish me luck!篇9Title: My Experience Taking the Entrance Exam for English Training at Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesHey guys, do you want to hear about my experience taking the entrance exam for English training at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies? It was super exciting and a little bitnerve-wracking, but I had a lot of fun!First, let me tell you about the exam. It had three parts: listening, reading, and writing. In the listening part, they played all kinds of recordings like conversations, news reports, and speeches. It was a bit tricky because they spoke really fast, but I did my best to answer the questions.Next was the reading part. They gave us a few passages to read and then asked us questions about them. Some of the passages were really interesting, like one about the history of the English language. I learned a lot just from reading them!Finally, there was the writing part. We had to write an essay on a given topic. I wrote about my dream of studying abroad and how learning English would help me achieve it. I made sure to use all the vocabulary and grammar I had learned in my English classes.After the exam was over, I felt relieved but also proud of myself for trying my best. I hope I did well and will get accepted into the English training program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Wish me luck!Overall, taking the entrance exam was a great experience. It really tested my English skills and showed me how much I have learned so far. I can't wait to continue improving and become even better at English!篇10Once upon a time, I went to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies to take the entrance exam for studying abroad English training. It was super duper exciting, but also kind of nerve-wracking, ya know?The exam had a bunch of questions, like reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, listening, and speaking. It was like a big adventure through the land of English. I had to use all my brain power to answer the questions and show off my English skills.In the reading part, I had to read some stories and answer questions about them. It was like going on a reading journey and exploring different worlds. I had to really focus and understand the meaning of the stories. It was like solving a puzzle, but with words instead of pieces.For vocabulary and grammar, I had to match words with their meanings and choose the correct grammar rules. It was like playing a game of memory, but with English words. I had to remember all the words I learned and use them in the right way. It was a real brain workout, let me tell ya!Then, there was the listening part, where I had to listen to conversations and answer questions about them. It was like listening to a secret code and trying to figure it out. I had to really pay attention and tune my ears to understand what was being said. It was a challenge, but I think I did pretty good.Last but not least, there was the speaking part, where I had to talk about a given topic for a few minutes. It was like telling a story to a friend and sharing my thoughts. I had to be confident and speak clearly to show my English skills. It was a little scary, but I gave it my best shot.Overall, the exam was a fun and challenging experience. I learned a lot and had a great time exploring the world of English.I hope I did well and can continue my English adventure at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Wish me luck!。

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PART 1 GENERAL KNLOWLEDGE (20%)Choose the best answer and mark the answer ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET.1 One of the important themes of the 19th century English fiction was the feminine predicament,a common theme shared by the following novels except .A. Jane EyreB. Henry EsmondC. The Portrait of a LadyD. Daniel DerondaPART TWO: READING AND APPRECIATION (40%)Section I. Read the following poem and answer the questions given on the Answer Sheet.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARESonnet 73That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare [r uin’d] choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou seest the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west,Which by and by black night doth take away,Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.In me thou seest the glowing of such fireThat on the ashes of his youth doth lie,As the death-bed whereon it must expire,Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.Section II. Read the following short story and answer the questions given on the Answer Sheet.SHERWOOD ANDERSONPaper Pills1 He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time duringwhich we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he mamed a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor.Within a year after the marriage she died.PART THREE: ESSAY WRITING (40%)Read the following excerpt and write a comment in essay form in about 350 words.1 The word for ‘biography’has been universal in all European languages for the last twohundred years. Since it is derived from the Greek root ‘bios’ meaning life, there appears to be some serious error in my title. Surely I mean, ‘Biography and Life’?(Biography and Death---The text of the 1997 Huizinga Lecture by Richard Holmes)。

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广东外语外贸大学2010年研究生入学考试英语水平考试试题I. Cloze (30 points, 1 point for each)Read the following passage and choose a proper word from the Word List to fill in each of the blanks in the passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the word you choose for each blank on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way: ExampleI. Cloze1. paper2. continuously3. …Now, do the Cloze.WORD LISTbasically lack being gaining one breadth against vision while upon respond likely requirements better acknowledge also instead of formation who consistentof unresolved acquired as well as oneself cornerstone completely at times nonjudgmental towardScientists have found that the personalities of teachers have a powerful effect on how they relate to children and adults and how they behave in the classroom. In general, personalities grow out of complex interaction of temperament and past experiences. Early experiences are very important in the 1 of the ways that people feel about themselves and others and their ways of responding tosituations. The ability to 2 in positive and healthy ways appears to be related to a person learning to trust others in their early years and to see the world as a 3 good and nurturing place.Adults who have had their basic needs met in childhood and 4 have developed trust in themselves and in the world are 5 to have the ability to support the growth and development of others. People who 6 this basic trust may not have had their needs met in 7 ways in their early lives, and this may lead to 8 problems and the need for a great deal of support and reassurance in adulthood. They may have a difficult time 9 nurturing and supportive 10 others.Sensitivity to others and a positive sense of self are essential 11 for becoming a person, especially a teacher, who can support the development of children. Skills in 12 trust and developing relationships are 13 as you come to know yourself 14 , accept yourself, and then learn more about children and how to work successfully with them.In order to become an authentic person, 15 who possesses awareness and empathy and who is willing to relate to others in nurturing ways, it is necessary to know and accept yourself, 16 to realistically appraise areas in which change may be needed, and to see yourself in a lifelong process of growth and change. It is important to be open to new experiences, to 17 and deal withfeelings, and to experience relationships in ever-increasing depth and18 . This self-knowledge is, to a great extent, dependent on developing the ability to observe 19 in the same honest and 20 way that one learns to observe children. It also involves learning to accept criticism from others as valuable feedback that can provide a source of growth, instead of as something to defend 21 or to use to berate or belittle oneself. The capacity for self-knowledge and acceptance is the 22 for the quality of compassion that is so important in a teacher.We realize that no one of us is 23 self-aware, mature, wise, compassionate, and insightful all of the time. All of us have tendencies to be defensive. It is important to develop the capacity for self-awareness and some 24 of the kind of behavior and relationships 25 which we aspire. It is 26 important to understand that 27 everyone experiences strong and unpleasant emotions like anger and fear 28 , it is possible to learn to observe and choose how to respond to these feelings 29 acting 30 them in ways that may be destructive.II. Proofreading and Error Correction (30 points, 2 points for each)The following passage contains fifteen errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. Correct the errors and write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:For a wrong word, write the correct word on Your Answer Sheet.For a missing word, write the missin g word with a “∧” sign before it on Your Answer Sheet.For an unnecessary word, write the unnecessary word with adeleting line on it on Your AnswerSheet.ExampleWhen ∧art museum wants a new exhibit, it 31. _____ never buys things in finished form and hangs 32. _____ them on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition, it must often build it. 33. _____Write on your Answer Sheet:II. Proofreading and Error Correction31. ∧an 32. never 33. ExhibitNow, do the Proofreading and Error Correction.As with nations, governance matters profoundly the success of individual commercial enterprises. An examination of businesses that have sustained success over long periods reveal boards that have governed the affairs of the business effectively. Likewise, with businesses that have performed poor, it is rather commonplace to track the problems to boards that have not been addressed the issues confronting their businesses effectively. The popular press reveals examples of the latter with regular, whereas the business press less frequently highlights boards with (31) _______(32) _______(33) _______(34) _______(35)________strong performance.The management of a corporation is usuallyaccomplished under leadership of a chief executive officer (CEO), who reports the board of directors. While boards play a variety of roles, effective organizations acknowledge the board?srole in selecting the CEO, advising and consenting to the selection of businesses and strategies, overseeing results.An important distinct between publicly owned businesses and privately owned businesses is that privately owned businesses tend to owner-managed. Because of the owners of private businesses are directly involved in their enterprises, they are better informed about the affairs of the business and can reasonably represent their own interests. They have not delegated control on a representative board of directors. Thus the potential conflicts of interest that exist between investors and who have been hired to run the business are not as relevant. Even, many of the governance principles that apply to publicly owned businesses are also applicable to privately owned businesses. (36) ______ _(37) _____(38) _____(39) _____(40) _____(41) _____(42) _____(43) _____(44) _____(45) _____III. Gap-filling (30points, 2 points for each)Fill in the following banks with the correct words and the correctforms of the words given according the meanings of the sentences. Write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way: Example46. prolong, refuse, delay, postpone, lengthenI hope the __________ of the appointment will not cause you muchinconvenience.Write on your Answer Sheet:III. Gap-filling46. postponement 47. … 48. …Now, do the Gap-filling.46. abase, abate, abduct, abhorSuch a savage punishment is to a civilized society.47. benediction, beneficiary, benevolent, blessingA man is if his fame does not outshine his truth.48. communicate, commute, compare, compensateTired of wasting time , Mrs. Jones changes her job to be closer to her kids so that she can spend more time with them.49. distinguish, distinction, distort, distractThe animal is quite by the black stripes above its eyes.50. eligible, elliptical, eloquent, elusiveThis metaphor always the students; they feel it quite incomprehensible.51. fall, falsify, familiarize, fantasizeHe has a scheme that he could make a million dollars betting on horse races even though he is now penniless.52. withdraw, wither, withhold, withstandThe party is calling for the phased of troops from the island.53. vaccinate, validate, vanish, vanquishResearchers are trying to develop a against the disease H1N1.54. tumour, tumult, tuna, tunnelThe Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution that followed caused a transformation in Europe.55. snap, sneak, sneeze, sniggerWe are honest people and we will do anything above board and will never act .56. reveal, revere, reverie, reverseDon?t panic！The decline in this industry is completely and it won?t be as pathetic as now.57. permeate, perpetrate, perpetuate, persevereA contented mind is a feast.58. opponent, opposition, orderly, orthodoxThis writer is courageous enough to challenge many of the established .59.monopoly, monotone, monster, monumentLeonardo da Vinci spent years on his painting, which covered the whole roof of the church..60. loss, louse, lubricant, lullabyCredit is vital in trade. As a matter of fact, the availability of credit__________ the channels of trade.IV. Reading Comprehension （60 points, 2 points for each）In this section, there are six reading passages followed by a total of thirty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET. ExampleWrite on your Answer Sheet:IV. Reading Comprehension61. A 62. B 63. …Now, do the Reading Comprehension.Text AThe American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening, is now saying that the benefits of detecting many cancers, especially breast and prostate, have been overstated. It is quietly working on amessage, to put on its Web site early next year, to emphasize that screening for breast and prostate cancers and certain other cancers can come with a real risk of overtreating many small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly.The cancer society?s decision to reconsider its message about the risks as well as potential benefits of screening was spurred in part by an analysis published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the cancer society, said.In it, researchers report a 40 percent increase in breast cancer diagnoses and a near doubling of early stage cancers, but just a 10 percent decline in cancers that have spread beyond the breast to the lymph nodes or elsewhere in the body. With prostate cancer, the situation is similar, the researchers report.If breast and prostate cancer screening really fulfilled their promise, the researchers note, cancers that once were found late, when they were often incurable, would now be found early, when they could be cured. A large increase in early cancers would be balanced by a corresponding decline in late-stage cancers. That is what happened with screening for colon and cervical cancers. But not with breast and prostate cancers.Still, the researchers and others say, they do not think all screening will —or should —go away. Instead, they say that when people make a decision about being screened, they should understand what is known about the risks and benefits. For now, those risks are not emphasized in the cancer society?s mammogram message which states that a mammogram is “one of the best things a woman can do to protect her health.”The new analysis finds that prostate cancer screening and breast cancer screening are not so different. Both have a problemthat runs counter to everything people have been told about cancer: They are finding cancers that do not need to be found because they would never spread and kill or even be noticed if left alone. That has led to a huge increase in cancer diagnoses because, without screening, those innocuous cancers would go undetected.At the same time, both screening tests are not making much of a dent in the number of cancers that are deadly. That may be because many lethal breast cancers grow so fast they spring up between mammograms. And the deadly prostate ones have already spread at the time of cancer screening. The dilemma for breast and prostate screening is that it is not usually clear which tumors need aggressive treatment and which can be left alone.“The issue here is, as we look at cancer medicine over the last 35 or 40 years, we have always worked to treat cancer or to find cancer early,” Dr. Brawley said. “And we never sat back and actu ally thought, …Are we treating the cancers that need to be treated??”61. The first two paragraphs of the passage show the AmericanCancer Society ________.A. in shift concerning cancer screeningB. in strong opposition to cancer screeningC. focusing on the benefits of cancer screeningD. overtreating the risks that come with cancer screening62. The author turns to the statistics and follow-up reasoning, thepurpose of which is to tell the reader ________.A. how much American cancer medicine has done to prevent breastand prostate cancer deathsB. how hard it is for American cancer medicine to do to preventbreast and prostate cancer deathsC. cancer screening has failed to reduce late-stage breast and prostatecancers as has been promisedD. cancer screening has failed even to find early-stage breast andprostate cancers as has been promised63. As suggested in Paragraphs 6 and 7, the difference betweenbenign and deadly tumors lies in the fact that ________.A. benign tumors have not been noticedB. deadly tumors have been left alone in the early stageC. deadly tumors, when screened, are already in the late stageD. benign tumors, when they are found, are already in the late stage64. When hearing Dr. Brawley saying “The issue here is…And wenever s at back and actually thought, …Are we…?”, one may be left with an impression that American cancer medicine begins to ________.A. see that 40 years is not enough to find and treat cancers earlyB. doubt if it is the right thing to do to find and treat all cancersC. protest doctors have not felt relaxed when fighting cancersD. realize doctors have been asked to offer fruitless labor65. When finishing reading the passage, one may conclude that in thepast decades American cancer medicine has been ________.A. working so hard that the breast and prostate cancer rates havedropped to some extent after allB. using cancer screening to protect the health of people, especiallyof the victims to breast and prostate cancersC. trying to cure people of late-stage cancers, especially late-stagebreast and prostate cancers, although their efforts don?t pay much D. labeling and treating benign tumors as though they could be lethalwhen in fact they are not dangerous, but a change is in sight nowText BThe Obama administration and the Federal Reserve launched a two-pronged campaign to crack down on pay practices across the financial system Thursday, marking an unprecedented foray into the private sector by the federal government on a matter that traditionally has been left to veiled board room discussions.President Obama's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, announced drastic cuts in pay for 175 top executives at seven companies that received hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federal bailout money during the financial crisis. At a news conference at the Treasury Department, Feinberg said he hoped the new pay structures -- which tie compensation at the firms to their long-term performance and reduces the cash salary some executivesreceive by 90 percent -- would serve as a model for Wall Street and corporate America.Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve issued new guidelines that will restrict pay practices at all banks to prevent them from paying employees in ways that could endanger the firms' long-term financial health. Unlike Feinberg's plan, the Fed's guidance would cover all banks, even those that never received a bailout as well as U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies. "Compensation practices at some banking organizations have led to misaligned incentives and excessive risk-taking, contributing to bank losses and financial instability," Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said. "The Federal Reserve is working to ensure that compensation packages appropriately tie rewards to long-term performance."The two moves represent Washington's most dramatic push to reform executive compensation on Wall Street. The issue has long been controversial, but blew up into a firestorm in March when it was revealed American International Group, the recipient of a $180 billion bailout package, was paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to a trading division that nearly brought the company and the financial system to its knees.Unlike Feinberg's plan, however, the guidelines do not cap the amount of compensation that banks can give their employees, nor do they prohibit any particular pay practices. Rather, the effort requires that banks ensure that their pay practices do not encourage executives,traders, or other employees to take irresponsible risks, such as by offering huge bonuses for making bets without regard to the risks that such bets could lose money in the long term. "Incentive compensation practices in the financial industry were one of many factors contributing to the financial crisis," theproposed guidance said. "Banking organizations too often rewarded employees for increasing the firm's revenue or short-term profit without adequate recognition of the risks the employees' activities posed to the firm."The Fed, at this stage, did not propose one-size-fits-all guidelines for compensation, such as requiring that some fixed percentage of bonus pay to senior executives be deferred or come in the form of stock, rather than cash. Rather, the guidelines call for pay packages that balance risks and rewards, that judge performance over longer time horizons and that de-emphasize short-term performance.The pay issue has been particularly thorny for the Obama administration. Feinberg said he had to find a way to protect taxpayer interests and get the money paid back while not stripping the companies' ability to retain talented workers.Feinberg said his review of pay at the firms showed the amount of guaranteed cash paid to the top 25 employees was way too high, so he shifted significant amounts to stock that can only be sold in one-third installments beginning in 2011.66. In the campaign to crack down on pay practices across thefinancial system, one thing both the Administration and the Fed did, among others, was that they ________.A. announced cuts in executive payB. restricted pay practices at all banksC. reduced the cash salary executives receivedD. required the firms tie compensation to the long-term performance67. The causes behind the two-pronged campaign were perhaps many,but the immediate one was that ________.A. part of the bailout money went as bonuses to an AIG unit whoseperformance nearly brought the company to financial ruinB. incentive compensation practices in the financial industry becameone of many factors contributing to the financial crisisC. some companies were found paying employees in ways that couldendanger the firms' long-term financial healthD. compensation practices at some banking organizations led tomisaligned incentives and other things68. The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve took theirmoves separately. The following were some of the moves taken except ________.A. reducing the pay for 175 top executives at seven companiesB. asking for pay packages that could balance risks and rewardsC. suggesting the companies serve as a model for Wall Street andcorporate AmericaD. setting no limit to the amount of compensation banks could givetheir employees69. The moves the Obama administration took boiled down to________.A. cutting down on the pay for executives at companies receivingfederal bailouts and turning a lot of their cash salary into stock B. discouraging executives, traders, or other employees from takingrisks, such as by offering huge bonuses for making betsC. judging the business performance over longer time horizons andde-emphasizing short-term performance at the firmsD. asking the seven companies to submit detailed plans for how theywould plan to comply with the guidance70. The Fed?s effort was separate from the Obama administration todramatically reduce compensation for top executives at the companies that had received government bailouts. Compared with the administration?s actions, ________.A. it was a more hands-on thingB. it had a broader scopeC. it was a more stringent policyD. it showed a truer sceneText CThe nation's preeminent seniors group, the American Association of Retired Persons, has put the weight of its 40 million members behind health-care reform, saying many of the proposals will lower costs and increase the quality of care for older Americans.But not advertised in this lobbying campaign have been the group's substantial earnings from insurance royalties and the potential benefits that could come its way from many of thereform proposals.The group and its subsidiaries collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name, accounting for the majority of its $1.14 billion in revenue, according to federal tax records. It does not directly sell insurance policies but lends its name to plans in exchange for a tax-exempt cut of the premiums.The organization also heavily markets the policies on its Web site, in mailings to its members and through ubiquitous advertising targeted at seniors.GOP lawmakers point to AARP's thriving business in marketing branded Medigap policies, which provide supplemental coverage for standard Medicare plans available to the elderly. Democratic proposals to slash reimbursements for another program, called Medicare Advantage, are widely expected to drive up demand for private Medigap policies like the ones offered by AARP, according to health-care experts, legislative aides and documents."We are witnessing a disturbing trend of handouts to special interests like AARP," said House Republican spokesman Matt Lloyd, referring to Democratic negotiations over health reform. "In return, AARP is lobbying for a government-run health-care bill that will pad their own executives' pockets at the expense of its own members and other vulnerable seniors."AARP officials strongly dispute such allegations, arguing that the group's heavy reliance on brand royalties allows it to offer members a wide range of benefits -- from lobbying for seniors in Washington to discount travel packages and financial advice.Dean A. Zerbe, a former Grassley senior counsel who is nownational managing director at the corporate tax firm Alliant Group, argues that AARP's involvement in the sale of insurance plans "really hurts their credibility." "Either you're a voice for the elderly or you're an insurance company; choose one," Zerbe said.Republicans renewed their attacks on AARP this year after the group emerged as a vigorous defender of many of the reforms under consideration by the Democrat-controlled Congress. Nancy LeaMond, an AARP executive vice president, appeared at a press conference Friday alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to announce a new proposal for plugging gaps in coverage of Medicare prescription benefits.71. AARP has made its money primarily through ________.A. marketing its royalties on its Web siteB. granting use of its name to insurance plansC. selling policies, credit cards and other productsD. asking the ubiquitous advertisers to sell their policies72. GOP lawmakers lash out at the organization?s practices, showingthat AARP?s thriving business will have something to do with ________.A. democrats meaning to have it sell private Medigap policiesB. its marketing its branded Medigap policies alongside MedicareC. its supplanting standard Medicare with branded Medigap policiesD. democrats proposing to cut the payments for Medicare Advantage73. House Republican spokesman says “We are witnessing adisturbing trend of handouts to special interests like AARP”, inwhich “interests” may help describe AARP as _________.A. having certain rights for the handoutsB. showing interest in various insurance plansC. enjoying interest that accrues by holding the handoutsD. being a group of people working in the same business74. Republicans renew their attacks on the organization this yearbecause AARP ________.A. has turned into a division of the Democratic PartyB. cheers the passing in Congress of a democrat-drafted billC. lends its strong support to the reforms launched by democratsD. has one of its top executives appearing alongside Nancy Pelosi75. When finishing reading the passage, one may draw the conclusionthat the American Association of Retired Persons is anorganization ________.A. having monopoly on insurance businessB. owned by retired persons and their executivesC. working as a reform advocate and insurance salesmanD. looked on as handling its business in lobbyist activitiesText DWhen we say a person or an experience is “packaged,”we are complaining of a sense of excessive calculation and a lack of authenticity. Such a fear of unreality is at least a century old; it arose along with industrialization and rapid communication. Now that the world is more competitive, and we all believe we haveless time to consider things, the craft of being instantaneously appealing has taken on more and more importance. We might say, cynically, that the person who appears “packaged” simply doesn?t have good packaging.Still, the sense of uneasiness about encountering packaged people in a packaged world is real, and it shouldn?t be dismissed. Indeed, it is a theme of contemporary life, equally evident in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket. Moreover, public uneasiness about the phenomenon of packaging is compounded by confusion over a loss of iconic packages and personalities.Producers of packaged products have probably never been as nervous as they became during the first half of the 1990s. Many of the world?s most famous brands were involved in the merger mania of the 1980s, which produced debt-ridden companies that couldn?t afford to wait for results either from their managers or their marketing strategies. At the same time, the feeling was that it was fartoo risky to produce something really new. The characteristic response was the line extension—“dry”beer, “lite”mayonnaise, “ultra” detergent. New packages have been appearing at a rapid pace, only to be changed whenever a manager gets nervous or a retailer loses patience.The same skittishness is evident in the projection of public personalities as the clear, if synthetic, images of a few decades ago have lost their sharpness and broken into a spectrum of weaker, reflected apparitions. Marilyn Monroe, for example, had an image that was, Jayne Mansfield notwithstanding, unique and well defined. She was luscious as a Hershey?s bar, shapely as a Coke bottle. But in a world where Coke can be sugar free, caffeine free, and cherry flavored, just one image isn?t enough for asuperstar. Madonna is available as Marilyn or as a brunette, a Catholic schoolgirl, or a bondage devotee. Who knows what brand extension will come next?76. In Paragraph 1 is “the craft of being instantaneouslyappealing…importance”, by which the author means to tell the reader that people lay increasingly great emphasis on the art of__________.A. making the packaging look so good as to pertain to a particularpoint of timeB. adding to the charm of the packaging in no timeC. polishing the packaging quickly to hold much attractionD. showing the beauty of the packaging at the earliest opportunity77. In Paragraph 2 is “Indeed, it is a theme of contemporary life,equally evident in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket.”The sentence tells the reader that__________.A. writers become uneasy about the unreal and in their workscovering life in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket that they turn their uneasiness into a theme running through them all B. musicians become uneasy about the unreal and in their workscovering life in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket that they turn their uneasiness into a theme running through them all C. uneasiness looms so that people making a living, say, in politics,entertainment, and the supermarket can?t but talk about itD. uneasiness looms so that people making a living, say, in。

广东外语外贸大学全国硕士研究生入学考试专业课试题册专业：翻译硕士考试科目：汉语写作与百科知识考生须知1．本试卷共 5 页。

2．答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题册上无效。

3．答题时一律使用蓝、黑色墨水笔或圆珠笔，用其它笔作答不给分。

4．考试时间为 3 小时，成绩满分150 分。

第一部分百科知识（50分）请用汉语简要解释以下段落中划线部分的名词（共20题，每题2.5分。

）第一段据香港《文汇报》报道，在第61届的（1）法兰克福书展中，（2）Google表示有意透过Goolge Books计划，将数以百万计的书籍电子化，供读者在网上阅读。

书展中的另一热话，即Google 的另一计划──Google Editions，希望通过完善的网络连结设定令读者随时随地能以手提电话或电子书进行阅读，以挑战（3）亚马逊刚于上周推出的Kindle电子书。

正当Google的计划如箭在弦，（4）欧盟却提出在Google现存近100万本的典藏中，有近90万本仍受（5）版权法所保护，亦即是说，Google Books及Google Editions两大计划定必与欧盟法律龃龉。

第二段今年以来全世界主要（6）资本市场IPO的规模，中国的融资额是900亿元，全球所有的融资额加起来是3000亿元，中国当之不让的成为世界最大的（7）IPO市场，第二名是香港，第三名是美国，美国IPO的总额是（8）纽约交易所和（9）纳斯达克，因此我们是远远领先于其他成熟的市场。

分析市场和（10）创业板的时候，关键要看是否可以适应社会和经济发展的需求，换句话说，是否有足够的上市资源。

第三段（11）中国传统文化是一种理性的文化，越是科学发达，人们的文化水准提高，认识能力增强的情况下，越是有利于中国传统文化的传播。

在人们没有文化愚昧的情况下，中国传统文化是不易推广与传播的，因为它不具备传播这种文化的软件与硬件。

在中国历史上，无论什么时候，哪一个（12）封建王朝都没有真正彻底的贯彻中国传统文化，所以，中国的传统文化从来都没有像（13）《圣经》文化和（14）《古兰经》文化那样，左右一个国家的政治经济的命运。

广东外语外贸大学生2006年研究生入学考试英语水平考试试题I.Cloze(30%)Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.Marianne Montgomery was timid and undventurous, her vitality consumed by physical activity and longing, her intelligence_1_indecisiveness, but this had less to do with the _2_ characteristcs of the weaker sex (as her father, Creighton Montgomery, called it ) than _3_ the enfeebling circumstances of her upbringing. Creighton Montgomery, had enough money _4_ mould his daughters _5_ to his misconceptions:girls were not _6_ to fend for themselves, so he protected them from life, which is to say that Marianne Montgomery grew up without making any vital _7_for herself. Prevented_8_acquiring the habits of freedom and strength of character _9_ grow from decision-making,very rich girls,10 paents have menas to protect them in such a crippling fashion, are the last representatives _11_ Victorian womanhood._12_ they may have the boldest manners and most up-to-date ideas, they share their great-grandmothers’humble dependence.Most parents these days have to rely _13_their force of personality and whatever love and respect they inspire to _14_influence over their children at all, but there is still an awful lot of parental authority that big money can but. Multi-millionaires have more of everything_15_ordinary mortals, including more parent power, and their sons and_16_have about as_17_opportunity to develop according to their own inclinations as they would have had in the age of absolute monarch.The rich still have families.The great divide between the generations, which is so much taken for_18_ that no one remakes on it longer, is the plight of the lower and middle classes, whose children begin to drift away as_19_as they are old enough to go to school. The parents cannot control the school, and have even less say to what company and ideas the child will be exposed to; nor_20_they isolate him from the public mood, the spirit of the_21_. It is an often heard complaint of the middle-class mother, for_22_ that she must let her children watch television for hours on end everyday_23_she is to steal time for herself. The rich have no_24_problem; they can keep their offspring busy from morning to night_25_being near them for a minute more than they choose to be,and can exercise almost total_26_over their environment. __27_for schooling, they can hand-pick tutors with sound views to come to the children, _28_may never leave the grounds their parents own, in town, in the country, by the sea,_29_for an exceptionally secure boarding school or a well-chaperoned trip abroad. It would have been_30_for little Marianne Montgornery to go to Cairo than to the nearest newsstand.II.Proof-reading and Error Correction(30%)The following passage contains FIFTEEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should correct in the following way. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.For a _wrong_ word, underline the wrong word and writethe correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a _missing_ word, mark the position of the missing word with a”^”sign and wirte the word you belive to beMissing in the blank provided in the end of the line.For an _unnecessary_ word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash”/” and put the word in the blank provided atthe end of the line.ExampleWhen ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, 1._an__It never buys things in finished form and hangs them 2._never_on the wall.When a natrual history museum wants an_exhibition_, 3._exhibit_it must often build it.It is often said that learning is a two-ways street. The teacher 1._____________ can teach all day, but there is no response on the part of the 2.____________ student then no learning will take place. In the traditionalclassroom it is possible for the student to aviod dialogicalprocession, but on the computer it is no. It is indeed no 3.____________ incident that the premier computer eucation system in 4.____________ the world is named as PLATO after that famous teacher 5.____________ who believed in drawing learning out for the student 6.____________ through dialogue. Not only the student learn through 7.___________. computer dialogue,but the instructor, in writing a computerdialogue,learns similarly more than the student uses 8.____________ it. In the process of building a dialogue, the instructor 9.___________ must visualize the lesson from the student’s eye and 10.___________ must think about program responses to all possible wronganswers as well as responses to all right answers. In the 11.___________ fact, in writing a good dialogue, the insructor will likely 12.__________ spend more time dealing with wrong answers than right 13__________ onces. This can be a really learning experience even 14.__________ so an instructor who is an “expert”15.__________III.Gap-filling(30%)Fill in the following blanks with the CORRECT WORDS or CORRECT FORMS of the given according to the MEANINGS of the sentences. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.ExampleProlong, refuse, delay, postpone, lengthenI hope the _______of the appointment will not cause you much inconvenience.The correct answer is postponement.1.fancy, fantasy, revierie, dreamNo one moved in the bushes; it was only your imagination. Was it fact or ____?2.continue, endure, survive, perslst, lastHis _____ efforts to better himself from his first job as an office-boy to his evetual position as managing director are admired by every one in our company.3.inner, interior, internal, inwardLast year we bought the house, but we did not move in because we haven’t finished decorating the _____of the house.4.accomplishment, achievement, attalnment, involvementProfessor Johnson is a famous pianinst who is able to _____ the difficult passages in the sonata with ease and brilliace.5.capable, possible, likely, probableXiao Chen has been studying English for two years, but she is still ____ of misspelling longer words.6.data, fact, information, intlligenceWe have sent many people to enquire about your family members in different places and we will keep you _____ if we have any news.7.normal, natural, ordinary, regularAfter the great earthquake, the government tried to bring things back to ___ and people were settled down in their new homes.8.obedient, dutiful, subservient, well-behavedThe new teacher congratulated himself on having a class that he considered more than usually_____9.openent, adversary, antagonist, competition, rivalThe two men were not only ____ for the same job but also for the same girl, a situation which caused an extreme amount of ill will between them.10.priase, acclaim eulogize, extol, laudDuring the meeting, the parliament carried a motion by_______.11.orign, basis cause, root ,sourceKeats’s poetry, characterized by exact and closely-knit construction, sensual description and ___ thoughts, gives ttanscendental values to the physical beauty of the world.12.beliel , creed , religion, faithThe ____collision that started from the early nineteenth century continued and was intensifled by the dispute over evolutionary science.13.solution, decision, determination, resoleIf the police had acted more ___, the disaster could have been prevented.14.feeling, percept, perception, sense, sensationLast night I heard a ______ news report that a kind of mysterious disease was spreading in the country.15.accord, award, confer, grantThe Administrative Department of Students Dormitory _______ male students the privilege of entertaining women in their rooms during certain hours of the day.IV. Reading Comprehension (60%)In this sections, there are six reading passage followed by a total of thirty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.Text APopulation groups can be distinguished from one another biologically, but some of the old “racial traits “ do not stand up to scientific testing. Perhaps the most notorious of these is skin colder. There are too many non-biological factors that may account for the color of a person’s skin to make it standard of much use in distinguishing between populations. Other traits, like hair type, physical measurement, the form of the eyes, nose,etc. do have more validity as such standards. But here, too, external factors may modify basic biological tendencies. Scientists need something more precise uponwhich to base their conclusions. One answer to this need can be found in genetics. Anyone’s physical apperance is, after all, partly the result of genetic determiantion. What we see is called a phenotype, and the genetic constitution that lies behind it is called a genotype. Genetic bioligist seek to know the genotypes assosiated with racial differences, because the genes are the actual location of whatever diffrences we think we can see in phenotypes.1.Phenotype is another word for_____A.physical appearanceB.genetic constitutionC.racial traitsD.biological endencises2.It may be inferred from the passage that the author___A.judges people by their phenotypesB.believes skin color is a valid basis for determining raceC.believes basic biological tendencies don’t changeD.would not judge on the basis of phenotypes3.The shape of the eyes, nose, the type of hair, etc_____A.are not influenced by outside factorsB.are a precise means of differentiating between racesC.can be standards in distinguishing between populationsD.are determined completely by genetics4.The passage deals mainly with_______A.the difference between phenotypes and genotypeB.the drawbacks of phenotypesC.the advertages of phenotypesD.the measurements of phenotypes5.This passage would most likely be found in a book on ____A.psychologyB.medicineC.anthropologyD.criminologyText BNew York City has long held a special place in American life as a metropolis that perpetually renews itself with waves of foreign immigration. That has never been truer tan today, when the city is brimming with newly arrived residents. At the end of a decade in which one million newcomers swept into the city, 40 percent of New Yorkers are now foreign-born, the highest level since 1910. The city is enriched by the immigrants, but it also faces major challenges in helping to integrate them fully into the life and economy of the city.The earlier generations of immigrants who passed throuhg Ellis Island were largely from Europe. The fastest-growing groups these days are from South Asia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the nations born of the breakup of the Soviet Union. In Queens alone 167 nationalities and 116 languages coexist. That variety is one of New York’s most distinctive traits. While other cites tend to attract immigrants primarily from one or foreign regions, New York is a magnet for the whole world. The immigrants come because of the city’s reputation as a point of entry and the presence of friends and relatives.If it were not for immigration, the city’s population would be decreasing today. The newcomers culturally andeconomically revitalize abandoned neighborhoods, and their presence bolsters the economy and contributes to the tax base. But the surge has also brouhgt a slew of people are turned away from the too-few English classes sponsored by nonprofit organizations and community colleges. The inability to speak English keeps immigrants in very low-paying jobs. Many Mexcian and Dominican immigrants,for instance, earn less than $ 20,000 a year.Meanwhile, a shortage of affordably priced housing has led to overcrowding in poor areas. It is not uncommon in some Bronx neighborhoods for four or more people to live in a single room. Schools are also inadequate in these neigborhoods, with enrollments staining already sparse resources.Because newly arrived immigrants are not eligible to vote-and tumout is low among those who have becomme citizens many of thers problems do not receive the attention they deserve from politicl leaders. Naturalized citizens should be encouraged to register to vote, and local politicans need to make more effort to reach out to these traditinally ignored populations. In addition, immigrants are often unaware of the programs that do exit to help them. Public housing aid and child health insurance, for example, are not widely used by immigrants who are eligible for them. Many immigrants use emergency medical care but also rely on unncensed commutiy clinics, in part because they are unaware of the dangers associaled with such clinics.Poverty rates among immigrant populations are high, and if current problems are allowed to grow, they could lead to a permanent underclass of immigrants, with the city’s foreign-born population expected to grow even larger in the years ahead, the health of the city will depend in no small measure on how successfully it absorbs its newest residents.6.Different from other immigration cities, New York______A.has fewer nonprofit English classescks necessary medical careC.attracts people from all over the worldD.offers full citizenship on the arrival of immigrants7.What mihgt be the trouble of foreign-born newcomers to New York?A.EmploymentB.HousingC.FoodD.Future development8.The politicla leaders don't pay enough attention to the problems of immigrants, because____A.they will never have the insolubleB.their problems are insolubleC.most of them are not eligible to voteD.they can solve the problems by themselves9.Immigration is the cause of _____A.the decrease of New York’s populationB.the increase of New York’s pupulationC.the awkwardness of New York’s economyD.the unemployment of New York people10.The article aims to______A.describe the life in New Yorkment on the intemational port city—New YorkC.call for public attention to the suffering of foreign-born immigrants in New YorkD.find a good solution to the problems of New York foreign-born immigrantsText CDoes North Korea have the bomb, and if does, what should be done about it? Kim II Sung offered an essentially hollow capitulation last week, a promise to permit inspections of all but the key nuclear sites, which could settle the matter. So the world—and Bill Clinton---will be left to ponder those questions, perhaps indefinitely. What to do?First, assume North Korea already has two crude nuclear devives, as those who are paid to know such things assume.Second, understand the key player s’ views and motivations. South Korea, the presumptive first target of any attack from the North, is against backing Kim into a corner, a result it fears economic sanctions would accomplish. What Seoul wants least is reaponsibility for an economically devastated North, “We’re content with a divided peninsula,”says a South Korea diplomat familiar with the huge absorption costs borne by West Germany’s embrace of the East. Japan is happy with the status quo too. Tokyo’s joint security treaty with Washington allows its defense budget to remain low, and it abhors even thinking about developing a nuclear hedge against North Korea’s capabilities.Finally, despite its public huffing, the U.S. seems to be taking North Korea’s supposed nuclear capacity in stride. Whatever exists is “not militarily significant, “ says U.S. Pracific Commander Charles Larson. Yet, adds the admiral, it is obviously “ significant politically. “That is why no one tells the truth---neither the West nor the North Koreans. “As soon as the bomos is confirmed unamiguously, “ says a State Department official, “you have to do something about it. Better to let what is be and move to cap it at the present low-threat level.”“North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb,”Clinton said firmlly last November, no doubt recalling that the last time a U.S. Administration got Korea wrong, the body-bag business became a growth industry because Harry Truman took too long to give’em help. “Drawing a line in the sand early is what you should have done in the ‘50s, says a Japanese diplomat. “Today you should be softer. Kim’s bottom line is still his regime’s survival, but victory is defined defferently this time. Kim knows the way to win in the ‘90s is by joining the Asian economic boom rather than by armed conflict. Clinton has already made one mistake. He should have told Kim, ‘You say you don’t have the Bomb.O.K, we believe you.’ Then, quietly, be should have begun to deal. Now, when everything is public and so much pride is on the line on both sides, it’s harder.”11.What is South Korea’s attitude towards the North?A.It does not want a United Korea because of the fear of the huge absorption costs, according to a South KoreandiplomatB.South Korea wants to devastate North Korean evonomy.C.South Korea wants to see a cornered North Korea.D.South Korea will defend the North.12.According to the passage, how does Japan see the nuclear problem of North Korea?A.Japan is happy to see two nations struggle.B.Japan is content with the present state of things.C.Japan is eager for solution to the problem.D.Japan is taking some action against the North13.Finally, despite its public huffing, the U.S. seems to be taking North Korea’s supposed unclear capacity in stride.The underlined part means_______.A.be dealing with North Korea’s supposed nuclear capacity calmlyB.be dealing with North Korea’s supposed unclear capacity seriouslyC.be coping with North Korea’s suppoed nuclear capacity in a hurryD.be coping with North Korea’s suppoed nuclear capacity slowly.14.Which is true of the fifth paragraph?A.America is not afraid of North Korea’s having A-bombs.B.America makes light of North Korea.C.America only appears to be serious about North Korean nuclear weapons.D.America only appears not to take the matter seriously.15.When Clinton said that North Korea could not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb, his tone is ____A.arbitraryB.softC.threateningD.condescendingText DOn a wall in Assistant District Attorney Cecil Emerson’s tiny government office hangs a drawing of Martin Luther King Jr. with his simple message:” I have a dream.”Across downtown, in the spacious 26th- floor suite of defense lawyer Doug Mulder, sits a glass bell jar as big as a pumpkin. Inside it, according to Mr. Mulder, is $ 1 million in shredded U.S. currency.Two lawyers. Two wildly different styles and reputations. And one famous preacher.On Monday, Mr. Emerson and Mr. Mulder will square off in possibly the most anticipated courtroom drama in Dallas histroy: the trial that will determine the guilt or innocence of Dr. Walker Railey.Almost six years after the once-renowned Methodist minister told police that he found his wife sprawled on the garage floor of their Lake Highlands home, Dr. Railey goes on trial in San Antonio on a charge of attempted murder.The former senior pastor of First United Methodist Church of Dallas is the only suspect police have acknowledged in the attack on Margaret “Peggy “Railey, who was nearly strangled April 21, 1987. She remains in a persistent vegetative state in a Tyler nursing home.“Railey did it,” says Mr. Emerson, a rumpled former Justice Department attorney who once served in the Nixon White House. “I think the jury will find Railey guilty.”Mr. Mulder, of course, disgrees. The dapper one-time protege of famed District Attorney Henry Wade is equally sure that Dr. Railey didn’t do it.“All his statements to me have been consistent with his innocense,” Mr.Mulder said.16.Cecil Emerson is ______A.Railey’s defense lawyer.B. a Justice Department attoney.C.Assistant District Attorney.D.Margaret’s defense lawyer.17.Doug Mlder has a _____ office.A.tinyB.spaciousernmentD.jar-like18.The trial of _____ will possibly be the most anticipated courtroom drama in Dallas history.A.EmersonB.RaileyC.MulderD.Margaret19.Railey is the only suspect of the attempted murder of _____A.Margraet “ Peggy” RaileyB.Henry WadeC. a senior pastorD. a former junior pastor20.Emerson says the jury will find Railey_____A.innocentB.guiltyC.did not attack his wifeD.didn’t strangle his wifeText EBy now, just about everybody realizes that Atlanta will host the centennial Olympics in 1996. What few people realize is that just 12 days after the Games close, the city will bring on another Olympic-type event with 4,000 elite intermational athletes. The 16-sport Paralympic Games will look roughly similar, only they will be for athletes with a physical disablility that precludes them from Olympic competition.The Paralympics are not new; they began in 1960 in Rme. They are clearly growing, thougth, and in Atlanta will likely attract one-third the number of athletes who will participate in the Olympics.Andy Fleming, president of the Atlanta Paralympic Organizing Committee, says the Paralympics offer “a major opportunity for corporatiaons to capitalize on both the business and social issues represented by the Paralympics”and to connect with disabled Americans and their families.The Paralympics recevie little television exposure, yet attendence figures hint at the potential for attracting viewers. Organizers in Atlanta hope soon to sign a natioal TV deal that could include significant weekend nerwork coverage. More than 1.5 million spectators showed up over the 12-day Paralympics in Barcelona, this shortly after the city lavished attention on the Olympics for 16 days.Brain Williams, a spokesman for National Handicapped Sports in Rockville, Md., says that disabled sports are much more popular with European audiences than American ones. “They’re probably 10 years ahead of us as far as public interest goes, “ he says.The performance difference between the athletes in the two competitions is sometimes not as great as people might imagine. For example, double-leg, below-the-knee amputee Tony Volpentest of Mountlake Terrance, Wash, ran the 100-meter dash in the Barcelona Paralympics in 11.63 seconds, faster than the winning time of 12 seconds flat in the first modern Olympics held in Athens in 1896. And in the single-amputee, above-the-elbow category Ajibola Adoeye of Nigeria smoked the field sans prosthesis with a time of 10.72 seconds.21.Twelve days after the Games close, the city will hold another kind of Olympic Games with______A.4,000 handicapped international athletesB.4,000 healthy elite international athletes.C.4,000 referees.D.4,000 amputees22.According to the passage, which of the following statements is UNTURE?A.The Paralympics were 12-days longB.The Paralympics were held in BarcelonaC.The Paralympics were attended by more than 1.5 bilion spectatorsD.The Paralympics were 16-days long23.The 1996 Olympics will________A.succeed the Paralympic GamesB.include Paralympic GamesC.exceed the 1992 OlympicsD.make the 100th anniversary of the modern games24.The article infers that the Paralympic Games______A.have the same number and type of events as the OlympicsB.will be seen by 1.5 million fansC.have been in existence for more than 30 yearsD.are popular media events25.This article tells us that _______A.American audiences are interested in disabled sports than European onesB.European audiences are more interested in disalbled sports than American onesC.Disabled sports are less popular in EuropeD.Disabled sprots are popular in AmericaText FDispite wars, famines, and epidemics, Earth’s population is booming ahead to new records—with no end in sight.Every day, the world adds enough people to populate a medium-sized city in the US. In one month, the number of new world citizens equals the population of New York City. Every year, there are 90 million more that mouths to feed, more than the total populattion of Germany.Sevearl factors are propelling this rapid growth, including an element that is often overlooked: the huge number of teenagers who are becoming mothers, particularly in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.In four African nations --- Niger, Mali, Aierra Leone, and Ivory Coast ---1 out of every 5 adolescent females of childbearing age has a baby annually.Ths US Bureau of the Census says this high rate of motherhood among teens has helped to maintain the high pace of births across most of the African continent. By starting a family early, a typical woman in Somalia, for instance, has seven children during her lifetime. Equallly large families are the rule in Zambia, Zaire, Uganda, Mauritania, Mali, Malawi, and Ethiopia.The current record-holder for fertility is strife-torn Revanda, where a typical mother has at least eight or nien children.While population experts often focus on Africa’s problems, analysts note that teenalged mothers are also far more prevalent in the United States than in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, or Britain.This issus—“babies having babies”—has recently gained prominence in the US. Teenaged motherhood in the US has fueled an expansion of the state-federal welfare system and brought cries for welfare reform from lawmakers.With its high rate of teen births, the US now ranks alongside Indonesia and parts of South America, and only modestly ahead of Mexico, India, and Pakistan.Overall, the fertility rate among Americans remains relatively low at 2.1 births per woman—about the replacement level. Althugh the US population is expected to climb steadily, from 260 million today to 323 million by 2020, most of that growth will come from immigration.The Census Bureau estimates that in Haiti, where thousands of citizens are trying to flee to the US because ofmilitary oppression and poverty, AIDS will cut the annual growth rate during the next 25 years from 2.1 percent to 1.3 percent.The decline in growth is even sharper in the Centrai Africna, Republic, where rates will dip from 2.4 percent to 0.7 percent. In Thailand, which alreadly had low birth rates, AIDS will drive population downward to 0.8 percent a year.In the 16 countries that are hit hardest, AIDS will lower populations by 121 million over expected projections by 2020. In Africa, the impact of AIDS is so great that trends toward longer life spans during the past 40 years are being reversed. Some nations will suffer declines in average life spans of 10 to 30 years compared with expected life spans without AIDS.In the US, where AIDS is also a substantial problem, the impact will be lower because the disease is mostly limited to homosexuals and during users, says Peter Way, a Census Bureau researcher. In many African nations, AIDS is prevalent among the heterosexual population, which sharply boosts infant mortality.A compelling chapter in the research deals with aging. Today the median age in developed countries is 35, and in developing nations is only 23. By 2020, the corresponding figures will be 42 and 28.Today there are fewer adults over 60 (525 million) than children under 5 (636 million). As the world population ages, by 2020 the number over 60 will be more that 1 billion, while those undre 5 will total 717 million.26.Sub-Saharan African countries_______A.will have the largest world population by 2020B.have the highest reproductive rate in the worldC.are only modestly affected by AIDSD.will have increasingly long life spans27.The passage states that teenaged births are_______A.rare in developed countriesB.most prevalent in Indonesiamon in RwandaD.solely responsible for population increase28.The population growth rate in the US is______A.higher than that in IndiaB.lower than that in MexicoC.higher than that in IndonesiaD.lower than that in South America29.From the factual data in the passage, we know that by the year 2020________A.the population growth rates in Thailand will have increasedB.there will be a disproportionate number of older people population growth rate will stabilizeD.the average age of Europeans will be 3530.The passage implies that by the year 2020______A.birth rates will be curbed in developing countricsB.there will no longer be a population problemC.there will be too many young childrenD.the distribution of the world’s population will have altered。

广东外贸2010年MTI硕士入学考试第1卷：基础英语Part 1: Grammar and V ocabulary. （30 P）01. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.A. conventional / incorporateB. eccentric / deployC. traditional / excludeD. imaginative / disguise02. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never ____ them.A. excludedB. admiredC. collectedD. comprehended03. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.A. exaggeratedB. ignoredC. scrutinizedD. derided04. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.A. quenching / moderatedB. whetting / mushroomedC. slaking / increasedD. ignoring / transformed05. Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.A. divertingB. emotionalC. didacticD. romantic06. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.A. reformersB. discoveriesC. casualtiesD. beneficiaries07. The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ____.A. disseminate / suppositionB. withdraw / evidenceC. undercut / capriceD. document / conjecture08. Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to ____: the gags are fewer and subtler.A. understatementB. preciosityC. symbolismD. melodrama09. Bebop’s legacy is ____ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it ____ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.A. a mixed / alienatedB. a troubled / seducedC. an ambiguous / aggrandizedD. a valuable / refined10. The exhibition’s importance lies in its ____: curators have g athered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.A. homogeneityB. sophistryC. scopeD. farsightedness11. Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be____ read because its prose is so ____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.A. seldom / transparentB. carefully / pellucidC. little / turgidD. eagerly / digressive12. Carleton would still rank among the great ____ of nineteenth century American art even if the circumstance of her life and career were less ____ than they are.A. celebrities / obscureB. failures / illustriousC. charlatans / impeccableD. enigmas / mysterious13. Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle of relationships, and ____ documentary truth for dramatic power.A. conviction / embracesB. expressiveness / exaggeratesC. verisimilitude / sacrificesD. realism / substitutes14. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper witha uniquely ____ tone, avoiding the ____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.A. abstruse / scholarlyB. dispassionate / shrillC. argumentative / tendentiousD. cosmopolitan / timely15. There are as good fish in the sea ____ ever came out of it.A. thanB. likeC. asD. so16. All the President’s Men ____ one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.A. remainB. remainsC. remainedD. is remaining17. “You ____ borrow my notes provided you take care of them”, I told my friend.A. couldB. shouldC. mustD. can18. If only the patient ____ a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving19. Linda was ____ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.A. to startB. to have startedC. to be startingD. to have been starting20. She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A. must beB. had beenC. could beD. must have been21. It is not ____ much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.A. thatB. asC. soD. very22. The committee has anticipated the problems that ____ in the road construction project.A. ariseB. will ariseC. aroseD. have arisen23. The student said there were a few points in the essay he ____ impossible to comprehend.A. had foundB. findsC. has foundD. would find24. He would have finished his college education, but he ____ to quit and find a job to support his family.A. had hadB. hasC. hadD. would have25. The research requires more money than ____.A. have been put inB. has been put inC. being put inD. to be put in26. Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ____ a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.A. no moreB. not moreC. even moreD. much more27. It is not uncommon for there ____ problems of communication between the old and the young.A. beingB. would beC. beD. to be28. ____ at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookingB. LookedC. Being lookedD. To look29. It is absolutely essential that William ____ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues30. The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a _____ forgery.A. man-madeB. naturalC. crudeD. realPart 2: Reading Comprehension. （40 P）Passage AOn New Year’s Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated 3. 5 million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west, however, you may not be aware of it—the media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or semi-nomadic herders in this region, and they are fast becoming some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.How so? It comes down to the reluctance of governments, aid agencies and foreign lenders to support the herders’ traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into commercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again that pastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according to the seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in sub-Saharan drylands.Furthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian, American and other African ranches in similar climatic conditions. They make a substantial contribution to their countries’ national economies. In Kenya, for example, the turnover of the pastoralist sector is worth $800 million per year. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Eritrea and Ethiopia, hides from pastoralists’ herds make up over 10 per cent of export earnings. Despite this productivity, pastoralists still starve and their animals perish when drought hits. One reason is that only a trickle of the profits goes to the herders themselves; thelion’s share is pocketed by traders. This is partly because the herders only sell much of their stock during times of drought and famine, when they need the cash to buy food, and the terms of trade in this situation never work in their favour. Another reason is the lack of investment in herding areas.Funding bodies such as the World Bank and-USAID tried to address some of the problems in the 1960s, investing millions o f dollars in commercial beef and dairy production. It didn’t work. Firstly, no one bothered to consult the pastoralists about what they wanted. Secondly, rearing livestock took precedence over human progress. The policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors. They were based on two false assumptions: that pastoralism is primitive and inefficient, which led to numerous failed schemes aimed at converting herders to modern ranching models; and that Africa’s drylands can support commercial ranching. They cannot. Most of Africa’s herders live in areas with unpredictable weather systems that are totally unsuited to commercial ranching.What the pastoralists need is support for their traditional lifestyle. Over the past few years, funders and policy-makers have been starting to get the message. One example is intervention by governments to ensure that pastoralists get fair prices for their cattle when they sell them in times of drought, so that they can afford to buy fodder for their remaining livestock and cereals to keep themselves and their families alive（the problem in African famines is not so much a lack of food as a lack of money to buy it）. Another example is a drought early-warning system run by the Kenyan government and the World Bank that has helped avert livestock deaths.This is all promising, but more needs to be done. Some African governments still favour forcing pastoralists to settle. They should heed the latest scientific research demonstrating the productivity of traditional cattle-herding. Ultimately, sustainable rural development in pastoralist areas will depend on increasing trade, so one thing going for them is the growing demand for livestock products: there will likely be an additional 2 billion consumers worldwide by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries. To ensure that pastoralists benefit, it will be crucial to give them a greater say in local policies. Other key tasks include giving a greater say to women, who play critical roles in livestock production. The rich world should pay proper attention to the plight of the pastoralists. Leaving them dependent on foreign food aid is unsustainable and will lead to more resentment, conflict, environmental degradation and malnutrition. It is in the rich world’s interests to help out.01. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?A. Forcing Africa’s nomadic herders to become ranchers will save them from drought.B. The difference between pastoralist and agriculturalist is vital to the African people.C. The rich world should give more support to the African people to overcome drought.D. Environmental degradation should be the major concern in developing Africa’s pastoralism.02. The word “encapsulates”in the sentence “Their plight encapsulates Africa’s perennial problem with drought and famine.”（para. l）can be replaced by ____.A. concludes.B. involves.C. represents.D. aggravates.03. What is the author’s attitude toward African drought and traditional lifestyle of pastoralism?A. Neutral and indifferent.B. Sympathetic and understanding.C. Critical and vehement.D. Subjective and fatalistic.04. When the author writes “the policies and strategies of international development agencies more or less mirrored the thinking of their colonial predecessors.”（para. 4）, he implies all the following EXCEPT that the aid agencies did not ____.A. have an objective view of the situation in AfricaB. understand the unpredictable weather systems thereC. feel themselves superior in decision makingD. care about the development of the local people05. The author’s main purpose in writing this article is ____.A. to evaluate the living conditions of Kenyan pastoralistsB. to give suggestions on the support of the traditional pastoralism in AfricaC. to illustrate the difference between commercial ranching and pastoralismD. to criticize the colonial thinking of western aid agenciesPassage BCivil-Liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users’search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice（DOJ）has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government’s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act（COPA）, but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment—to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics—the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often “material that is harmful to minors” might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously,” said Google attorney Nicole Wong. DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. （The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched. ）Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth ofsearch queries.One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all along—you don’t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. “We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,”says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it’s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. “What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities?” Says the DOJ’s Miller, “I’m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper autho rities.” Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. “Search is a window into people’s personalities,” says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without w orrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”01. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users’ search behavior, the major intention is ____.A. to protect national securityB. to help protect personal freedomC. to monitor Internet pornographyD. to implement the Child Online Protection Act02. Google refused to turn over “its proprietary information”（para. 2）required by DOJ as it believes that ____.A. it is not involved in the court caseB. users’ privacy is most importantC. the government has violated the First AmendmentD. search terms is the company’s business secret03. The phrase “scaled back to”in the sentence “the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries”（para. 3）can be replaced by ____.A. maximized toB. minimized toC. returned toD. reduced to04. In the sentence “One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.”（para. 4）, the expression “sink its own case”most probably means that ____.A. counterattack the oppositionB. lead to blocking of porn sitesC. provide evidence to disprove the caseD. give full ground to support the case05. When Kurt Opsahl says that “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”（para. 5）, the expression “Big Brother”is used to refer to ____.A. a friend or relative showing much concernB. a colleague who is much more experiencedC. a dominating and all-powerful ruling powerD. a benevolent and democratic organizationPart 3: Answering Questions. （20 P）Passage AMillions of elderly Germans received a notice from the Health & Social Security Ministry earlier this month that struck a damaging blow to the welfare state. The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany’s ballooning pension crisis. Not surprisingly, it was an unwelcome change for senior citizens such as Sabine Wetzel, a 67-year-old retired bank teller, who was told her state pension would be cut by $12. 30, or 1% to $1,156. 20 a month. “It was a real shock,” she says. “My pension had always gone up in the past.”There’s more bad news on the way. On Mar. 11, Germany’s lower house of Parliament passed a bill gradually cutting state pensions—which have been rising steadily since World War II—from 53% of average wages now to 46% by 2020. And Germany is not alone. Governments across Western Europe are racing to curb pension benefits. In Italy, the government plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 57 to 60, while France will require that civil servants put in 40 years rather than 37. 5 to qualify for a full pension. The reforms are coming despite tough opposition from unions, leftist politicians, and pensioners’ groups.The explanation is simple: Europeans are living longer and having fewer children. By 2030 there will only be two workers per pensioner, compared with four in 2000. With fewer young workers paying into the system, cuts are being made to cover a growing shortfall. The gap between money coming in and payments going out could top $10 billion this year in Ger many alone. “In the future, a state pension alone will no longer be enough to maintain the living standards employees had before they retired,” says German Health & Social Security Minister Ulla Schmidt. Says Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti: “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves.”Of course, those population trends have been forecast for years. Some countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands, have responded by making individuals and their employers assume more of the responsibility for pensions. But many Continental governments dragged their feet. Now, the rapid runup in costs is finally forcing them to act. State-funded pension payments make up around 12% of gross domestic product in Germany and France and 15% in Italy—two percentage points more than 20 years ago. Pensions account for an average 21% of government spending across the European Union. The U. S. Social Security system, by contrast, consumes just 4.8% of GDP. Therising cost is having serious repercussio ns on key European nations’ commitments to fiscal restraint. “Governments have no choice but to make pension reform a priority,” says Antonio Cabral, deputy director of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic & Financial Affairs.Just as worrisome is the toll being exacted on the private sector, corporate contributions to state pension systems—which make up 19. 5% of total gross pay in Germany—add to Europe’s already bloated labor costs. That, in turn, blunts manufacturers’ competitivene ss and keeps unemployment rates high. According to the Institute of German Economics in Cologne, benefit costs reached a record 41. 7% of gross wages in Germany last year, compared with 37.4% a decade before. French cement manufacturer Lafarge says pension cost of $121 million contributed to a 9% fall in operating profits last year.To cope, Germany and most of its EU partners are using tax breaks to encourage employees to put money into private pension schemes. But even if private pensions become more popular, European governments will have to increase minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions. While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next generation of retirees may look back on their parents’ pension checks with envy.QuestionsParaphrase Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti’s statement “The welfare state is producing too few cradles and too few graves”? What is implied by the last sentence of the passage “While today’s seniors complain about reduced benefits, the next gene ration of retirees may look back on their parents’ pension checks with envy”?Passage BIn the old days, it was all done with cakes. For Marcel Proust, it was a visit to Mother’s for tea and madeleines that provided the access to “the vast structure of recollection” that was to become his masterpiece on memory and nostalgia, “Remembrance of Past Things.” These days, it’s not necessary to evoke the past: you can’t move without tripping over it.In an age zooming forward technologically, why are all the backward glances? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition of nostalgia reads: “acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.” With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no w onder we’re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. “People are looking for something authentic,” says McLaren. Trouble is, nostalgia has succumbed to trends in marketing, demographics and technology. “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be,” says Michael J. Wolf, senior partner at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. “These are the new good old days.” Baby boomers form the core of the nostalgia market. The boomers, defined by American demographers as those born between 1946 and 1964, are living long and prosperous lives. In both Europe and America, they remain the Holy Grail for admen, and their past has become everyone’s present. In a study on “entertainment imprinting,” two A merican marketing professors, Robert Schindler and Morris Holbrook, asked people ranging in age from 16 to 86 which popular music from the past they liked best. People’s favorite songs, they found, tended to be those that were popular when they were about 24, with their affection for pop songs diminishing on either side of that age. Doubtless Microsoft knows about entertainment imprinting, or at least nostalgia. Thecompany hawks its latest Explorer to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” just as it launched Windows 98 to the tune of “Start Me up” by the Rolling Stones. Boomers remember both tunes from their 20s.If boomers are one market that values memories, exiles are another. According to the International Organization of Migration, more than 150 million people live today in a country other than the one where they were born—double the number that did so in 1965. This mass movement has sources as dire as tyranny and as luxurious as the freedoms of an EU passport. But exiles and refugees share one thing: homes left behind. Type in “nostalgia” on the search engine Google, and one of the first sites that pop up is the nostalgia page of The Iranian, an online site for Iran’s exiles, most of whom fled after 1978’s Islamic revolution. Perhaps t he savviest exploitation of nostalgia has been the secondhand-book site alibris. com, which features stories of clients’ rediscovering long-lost books on it. One John Mason Mings writes of the glories of finding a book with information on “Kickapoo Joy Juice,” ad dreaded medicine of his youth. A Pennsylvanian waxes over alibris’s recovery of his first-grade primer” Down cherry Street.” The Net doesn’t merely facilitate nostalgia—it promotes it. Web-based auction houses have helped jump-start markets for vintage items, form marbles to Apple Macintoshes.Cutting-edge technology, designed to be transient, has even bred its own instanostalgia. Last year a $666 Apple I went for $18,000 to a British collector at a San Francisco auction. “Historic! Microsoft Multi plan for Macintosh” crows one item on eBay’s vintage Apple section. Surf to The Net Nostalgia Quiz to puzzle over questions like “In the old days, Altavista used to have which one of these URLs?”Those who don’t remember their history are condemned to rep eat it. Or so entertainment moguls hope, as they market “70s TV hits like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Scooby Doo,” out next year, to a generation that can’t remember them the first time round. If you’ve missed a Puff Daddy track or a “Sopranos” episode, panic not. The megahits of today are destined to be the golden oldies of 2020, says Christopher Nurko of the branding consultant FutureBrand. “I guarantee you, Madonna’s music will be used to sell everything,” he says. “God help me, I hope it’s not selling insurance.” It could be. When we traffic in the past, nothing’s sacred.QuestionsExplain the beginning sentence “In the old days, it was all done with cakes.” What is the other big group besides baby boomers which values memories? What do these people share? What is “nostalgia market”? What do they sell in the nostalgia market?Part 4: Writing. （30 P）Please reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title.Some people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that educations is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of “memorizing machines”. We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.。

广东外语外贸大学考研英语真题(网友版)
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雾霾
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四个全面
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广东外语外贸大学全国硕士研究生入学考试专业课试题册Part I. Phrase Translation (30 points, 1 point for each)Section 1Directions: Translate the following phrases into Chinese:1. CPPCC2. UNESCO3. ASEM4. China-ASEAN Expo5. SWOT analysis6. Global Sourcing7. Information Asymmetry8. Shanghai World Expo9. Innocent Presumption10. The Civil Law System11. The Book of Rites12. Mencius13. Consecutive Interpreting14. The House of Commons15. A Farewell To ArmsSection 2Directions: Translate the following phrases into English:16. 全国人民代表大会17. 外交部18. 会展经济19. 注册会计师20. 次贷危机21. 董事会22. 中国证监会23. 廉政公署24. 暂行规定25. 有罪推定26. 佛经翻译27. 百年老店28. 论语29. 三国演义30. 南方都市报Part II. Passage Translation (120 points)31. Translate the following passage into Chinese: (60 points)Population ageing has become a world-wide phenomenon. Moreover, it has not only come to stay but, especially in the developing countries, it will become more felt and acute with the passage of time. Its repercussions are so wide-ranging and manifold that they can only be ignored at a tremendous cost to society.The growing rate of population ageing poses many challenges which have to be faced realistically. A number of decisions have to be taken with the cooperation of every social institution, be it the State, Non-Governmental Organizations, the community, the family members and last but not least, the older persons themselves. Each has a very important role to play in ensuring a sustainable development for the elderly population.Governments and civil society including organisations of older persons, academia, community-based organisations and the private sector need to help in capacity building on ageing issues. As the Shanghai Implementation Strategy points out, “A life-course andinter-sectoral approach to health and well-being is the best approach to ensure that both current and future generations of older persons remain healthy and active”.The gap between the projected increases of the older population and the consequently required services, combined with the parallel development of the personnel needed to carry out these services, creates a pressing and urgent need to train appropriate staff. Training programmes have to be tailored to the nature of the participants, the work they are doing and the needs entailed. Though the basic issues dealt with might often be the same, the approach differs. It will be important in the not too distant future to explore innovative ways of providing education and training in rural and remote areas and to apply, as much as possible, the new and emerging communication technologies to facilitate and enhance these programmes.Every member of society should realize that aging is a process. Consequently, older persons are to be seen as equal citizens of any society, sharing the same rights like other citizens. Any form of discrimination is to be eradicated.32. Translate the following passage into English: (60 points)韶关市地处粤北山区，与湖南、江西交界，素有“三省通衢”之誉，是古代岭南通往中原的最重要关口，今天更是广东通往内地的交通枢纽——京广铁路、京珠高速公路、国道105线、106线、107线、323线、在建的武广铁路、规划中的韶赣铁路、广乐高速公路和韶赣高速公路均经过韶关。

2009年广东外语外贸大学硕士研究生入学考试初试笔试样题科目代码：601科目名称：英语专业水平考试英语专业水平考试试题I.Cloze (30 points, 1 point for each)Read the following passage and choose a proper word from the Word List to fill in each of the blanks in the passage. Each word can be used only once. W rite the words you choose for each blank on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:ExampleI. Cloze1. paper2. continuously3. …Now, do the Cloze.WORD LISTMost of Mark T wain‘s books bubbled out 1 him like water out of a fountain. 2 of his gifts was the capacity to take a scene and fill it 3 every sparkling detail of nature and of human action, to put in every spoken word and accompanying gesture, and to slowly exaggerate the successive moments 4 the whole episode reached a climax of joyous, sidesplitting laughter. 5 he had trouble weaving his incidents into meaningful plot patterns. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Mark T wain‘s masterpiece, came into __6 slowly. 7 in 1876, immediately after he had dashed off The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he wrote 400 manuscript pages quickly and 8 stalled; in disgust he meditated 9 the work. __10 the winter of 1879-1880 he penned further sections; again the spark of enthusiasm died. __11 taking a journey down the Mississippi River in April, 1882, he quickly completed Lift on the Mississippi (1883) and with unabated zest 12 the novel. The trip had reawakened his boyhood memories and suggested new episodes; the two books became 13 , the weaker travel account serving as scaffolding for the great edifice.__14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was 15 in 1884, it met a mixed reception. A Brooklyn lady protested 16 its presence in the children‘s room of the public library; the librarian reshelved the volume in the adult area to 17 Huck‘s and T om‘s ―mischievous and deceitful practices which made them poor examples for youth.‖ T oday the novel is among the world‘s 18 and vies with Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter (1850) for the position of American‘s _19 artistic work of fiction.The reader is reminded at the outset that in 1850 Huck Finn had been a playmate of T om Sawyer in St. Petersburg, Missouri, the 20 name of MarkT wain‘s native village of Hannibal. For three months Huck had lived with the lady21 lif e he had saved, the Widow Douglas, ―fair, smart, and forty‖; her hill mansion was ―the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities‖ that the town could boast. The lad 22 had run away from elegance was again a candidate for the major role in a rags-to-riches tale. Huck wanted it otherwise. Like T om, whose name turns up throughout the __23 . Huck wanted adventure. For six months Huck endured starched clothes and virtual imprisonment within the mansion. When Pap returned on April 1 and took Huck 24 from the Widow, Huck came to prefer his slovenly island home. 25 against Pap‘s cruelty led Huck to plan his own ―murder‖ and to decamp about two months later. He discovered Jim26 June 4 and started the rafting trip down the river on June 22. On July 7 he reached the Grangerfords and stayed __27 about a month. On August 10 the Duke and Dauphin came 28 the raft; their shenanigans ended at Pikeville on September 18. The 29 at Aunt Sally‘s lasted twenty-six days, until October 15. Then Huck decided to light out for Indian T erritory and forever depart from a ―civilization‖ that he30 .II. Proofreading and Error Correction (30 points, 2 points for each)The following passage contains fifteen errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. Correct the errors and write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:For a wrong word, write the correct one on Y our Answer Sheet.For a missing word, write the missing word with a ―∧‖ sign before it on Your Answer Sheet.For an unnecessary word, write the unnecessary word with a deleting line on it on Y our Answer Sheet.ExampleWhen ∧art museum wants a new exhibit, it 31. _____never buys things in finished form and hangs 32. _____them on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an ex hibition, it must often build it. 33. _____Write on your Answer Sheet:II. Proofreading and Error Correctionan 32. never 33. exhibit31.∧Now, do the Proofreading and Error Correction.Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in theworld average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, [31] ___ecologists have turned to historical datum in relation to [32] ___especially huge volcanic eruptions. T hey suspect that volcanoesaffect weather changes that are similar to air pollution. [33]___One source of informations is the effect of the eruption [34]__of T ambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, the Dutch East Indies, inApril 1815. The largest recorded volcano eruption, T ambora [35]___threw 150 million tons of fine ash into the stratosphere. T heash from a volcano spreads around worldwide in a few days [36] ___or remains in the air for years. Its effect is to turn incoming [37] ___solar radiation into the space and thus cool the earth. For [38]___example, records of weather in England shows that between [39] ___April and November 1815, the average temperature had fallen4.5 F. During the nex t twenty-four months, England sufferedone of the coldest periods of their history. Farmers‘ records [40]___from April 1815 to December 1818 indicate frost throughoutthe spring and summer and sharp decreases at crop and [41]___livestock markets. Since there was a time lag of several yearsbetween cause and effect, by the time the world agriculturalcommodity community had deteriorated, no one realizes the [42]___cause.Ecologists today warn that we face a twofold menace. Theever-present possibility of volcanic eruptions, such as those [43]___of Mt. St. Helens in Washington, added man‘s pollution of [44]___the atmosphere with oil, gas, coal, and other pollutingsubstances, may bring us increasingly colder weather. [45]___III. Gap-filling (30points, 2 points for each)Fill in the following banks with the correct words and the correct forms of the words given according the meanings of the sentences. Write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:Example46. prolong, refuse, delay, postpone, lengthenI hope the __________ of the appointment will not cause you much inconvenience.Write on your Answer Sheet:III. Gap-filling46. postponement 47. … 48. …Now, do the Gap-filling.46.affect, influence, effect, impactWe have tried our best to ________ a reconciliation between the two parties.47.attain, acquire, obtain, gain, secure, procureChrysler, including sales of newly ________ American Motors, delivered 1.01 million cars, down 17.7 percent and amounting to 9.6 percent of the market.48.ensure, assure, guaranteeThe Labor Department issued guidelines to_________ equal job opportunities for women on work paid for by federal funds.49.ability, capability, competence, capacity, aptitudeResearchers using the new measuring technique found the skull to have a ________ of only about 515 cubic centimeters (about 31 cubic inches).50.take part in, attend, participate in, enter for, joinT o the amazement of the organizing committee, so many professional singers ________ the singing competition to be held next month.51.insist on, persist in, stick/adhere to, persevere inDue to the bankruptcy of the company, they failed to ________ the original agreement.52.stable, secure, steady, firm, durablePolitical ________ and wars in many sub-Saharan countries have also contributed to poverty. As a result of such factors, the number of people living in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa grew from 217 million in 1987 to more than 300 million in 1998.53.manager, director, headmaster, proprietor, governorAs one of the four ________ of the company, he often had to attend Board meetings.54.permit, allow, approve, accept, consent, endorseEligible paper, as defined in 1951, is a negotiable note, draft, or bill bearing the ________ of the member bank, the proceeds of which have been or are to be used in producing, purchasing, carrying, or marketing goods in one or more steps of the process of production, manufact ure, or distribution55.income, wages, div idend, salary, earnings, pensionNow that he has retired, he lived partly on his ________ and partly on the interest on his post office savings account.plain, grieve, reclaim, grumbleThe peasants‘ many ________ resulting from ill-treatment by their landlords led finally to rebellion.57.renew, renovate, refresh, recreateHe had been completely exhausted but felt considerably ________ after a meal and a good rest.58.view, scene, scenery, sight, natureSwitzerland is well-known for its impressive mountainous ________.59.nevertheless, accordingly, however, yet, eventuallyHe has impressed his employer considerably and ________ he is soon to be promoted.60.gap, pause, space, interruption, intervalDuring the ________, the audience strolled and chatted in the foyer.IV. Reading Comprehension （60 points, 2 points for each）In this section, there are six reading passages followed by a total of thirty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET.ExampleWrite on your Answer Sheet:IV. Reading Comprehension61. A 62. B 63. …Now, do the Reading Comprehension.Text AT ommy Albelin, a Devils defenseman, was the team‘s most effective performer the night the Stanley Cup champions played their best game of the young season. Playing left wing instead of defense against the Detroit Red Wings last Thursday night, Albelin scored the second goal of the game and mad e the pass that set up the fourth one.Albelin played so well in the 4-2 victory that Coach Jacques Lemaire said, ―T ommy, you lost your job.‖―I was kind of surprised,‖ Albelin said today. ―When he saw the look on my face, he said very quickly ‗as a defenseman‘ and I knew then he was joking.‖Lemaire had Albelin right back on defense in the nex t game, last Saturday‘s 4-1 triumph over the Ottawa Senators. Albelin responded just as well, making the pass for the winning goal.With Brian Rolston leaving today‘s practice because of a foot problem and ready to join Bobby Holik and Bob Carpenter as inju red Devils, look for Albelin to return to left wing when New Jersey plays the V ancouver Canucks Wednesday night at the Meadowlands.This season, the 31-year-old Albelin has played left wing three times and defenseman four. In addition, because Albelin is so adept at skating and puck-handling, Lemaire has been using him for penalty killing and the power play.―It‘s a big advantage to have a player like him,‖ Lemaire said after today‘s practice. ―When you don‘t have the necessary pla yer to play against a player, you can use Abbey because he adjusts very well. He listens to all the things I tell the defensemen and all the things I tell the forwards. ―Lemaire‘s decision to shuttle Albelin is not prompted by a desire to find the best position for him. Rather, it is testimony to Albelin‘s versatility.Albelin was used as a left wing for the first time by Herb Brooks, the man whom Lemaire replaced after Brooks resigned three summers ago, but he played only a handful of games in that position.The Devils changed coaches frequently in Albelin‘s early years with the team. As a result, Albelin contemplated returning home to Sweden several times. But he said today he was glad he never did.Albelin came to the Devils from Quebec in 1988 and has been a solid player. Year after year, despite coaching changes, injuries and the presence of marquee names like Scott Stevens, Slava Fetisov, Stephane Richer and Claude Lemeiux, Albelin‘s dedication and consummate prof essionalism have made him an integral part of the team.―My philosophy has always been to play where the team needs me,‖ Albelin said. ―I don‘t question the decisions by the coaches. As long as I‘m out there on the ice, I don‘t care what position I play.‖Albelin has performed effectively at wing and on defense despite the different responsibilities. Judging by the way Albelin described them, it is clear he prefers to play defense.―T here are a lot of adjustments you have to make as a forward,‖ Albelin said, ―Y ou have to be a little more creative, do more things with the puck. Improvise somewhat, but to a poin t. As a defenseman, you can get by most of the time by giving the puck to your forwards and support the play.‖Albelin said today that the uncertainty over whether he will play defense or offense on any given night was not much of a con cern in terms of preparing himself.―I don‘t mind as long as I know before the warm-ups,‖ he said.61. T ommy Albelin is _______ defenseman.A. Red WingsB. CanucksC. DevilsD. Brooks62. Albelin has played defenseman _______ this season.A. three timesB. four timesC. two timesD. five times63. Coach Lemaire shuttles Albelin because he _______.A. is versatileB. is a solid playerC. is very dedicatedD. is docile64. T he Devils changed coaches frequently ________.A. in the late 1980sB. in Albelin‘s years with th e teamC. as many of them resignedD. during Albelin‘s stay in the team65. Albelin prefers to play _________.A. forwardB. left wingC. defenseD. offense66. Among the following titles, ________ is suitable for the article.A. The Defenseman Albelin in Red WingsB. The Best Player in DevilsC. The V ersatile Albelin in CanucksD. V ersatile Albelin Brings Devil V ictoriesText BThe effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought. How much water does it draw? If it awaken you to think, if it lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; if the pages instruct you not, they will die like flies in the hour. The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is, to speak and write sincerely. The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt, will fail to reach yours. But take Sidney‘s maxim: —―Look in thy heart, and write.‖ He that wr ites to himself writes to an eternal public. T hat statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity. T he writer who takes his subject from his ear, and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained, and when the empty book has gathered all its praise, and half the people say, ―What poetry! What genius!‖ it still needs fuel to make fire. That only profits which is profitable. Life alone can impart life; and though we should burst, we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man‘s title to fame. Only those books come down which deserve to last. Gilt edges, vellum, andmorocco, and presentation-copies to all the libraries, will not preser ve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date. It must go with all Walpole‘s Noble and Royal Authors to its fate. Blackmore, Kotzebue, or Pollok may endure for a night, but Moses and Homer stand forever. There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato: — never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them in his hand. ―No book,‖ said Bentley, ―was ever written down by any but itself.‖ The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic import ance of their contents to the constant mind of man. ―Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue,‖ said Michelangelo to the young sculptor; ―the light of the public square will test its value.‖In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment. But now, every thing he did, even to the lifting of his finger or the eating of bread, looks large, all-related, and is called an institution.67. T he following statements are wrong EXCEPT _________.A. Only the thing that is profitable profits.B. If the pages do not instruct you, they will not die like flies in the hour.C. Only the statement, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your reader‘s curiosity, is fit to be made public.D. He that writes by himself writes to an eternal public.68. ―How much water does it draw?‖ means__________.A. How much content does it have?B. How much influence does it exert?C. How much value does it have?D. How important is it?69. A writer‘s fame is decided upon by __________.A. partial and noisy readersB. a court of angelsC. an angel-like public not to be bribedD. a public to be bribed70. At any time in the world Plato‘s work are read and understood by__________.A. less than a dozen personsB. more than a dozen personsC. many peopleD. no one71. T he permanence of all books is fixed by__________.A. no effortB. friendly effortC. hostile effortD. their own specific gravityText CPsychologists study memory and learning with both animal and human subjects. T he two ex periments reviewed here show how short-term memory has been studied.Hunter studied short-term memory in rats. He used a special apparatus which had a cage for the rat and three doors. There was a light in each door. Firstthe rat was placed in the closed cage. Nex t one of the lights was turned on and then off. There was food for the rat only at this door. After the light was turned off, the rat had to wait a short time before it was released from its cage. Then, if it went to the correct door, it was rewa rded with the food that was there. Hunters did this experiment many times. He always turned on the lights in a random order. The rat had to wait different intervals before it was rel eased from the cage. Hunter found that if the rat had to wait more than ten seconds, it could not remember the correct door. Hunter‘s results show that rats have a short-term memory of about ten seconds.Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember vocabulary. T he subjects in his ex perimen t were 75 students at the University of California in Los Angeles. They represented all levels of ability in English: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and native-speaking students.T o begin, the subjects listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording, the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they remembered. Each question had four choices. The subjects had to circle the word they had heard i n the recording. Some of the questions had four choices that sound alike. For example, weather, whether, wither, and wetter are four words that sound alike. Some of the questions had four choices that have the same meaning. Method, way, manner, and system would be four words with the same meaning. Some of them h ad four unrelated choices. For instance, weather, method, love, result could be used as four unrelated words. Finally the subjects took a language proficiency test.Henning found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike; students with a higher proficiency made more of their mistakes on words that have the same meaning. Henning‘s results suggest that beginning student s hold the sound of words in their short-term memory, and advanced students hold the meaning of words in their shot-term memory.72. In hunter‘s ex periment, the rat had to remember_________.A. where the food wasB. how to leave the cageC. how big the cage wasD. which light was turned on73. Hunter found that rats_________.A. can remember only where their food isB. cannot learn to go to the correct doorC. have no short-term memoryD. have a short-term memory of one-sixth a minute74. Henning tested the students‘ memory of _________.A. words copied several timesB. words explainedC. words heardD. words seen75.Henning concluded that beginning and advanced students________.A. have no difficulty holding words in their short-term memoryB. differ in the way they retain wordsC. have much difficulty holding words in their short-term memoryD. hold words in their short-term memory in the same way76. T he following statements are wrong EXCEPT_________.A. The rat could find the correct door when the light of the next door was turned offB. The rat could find the correct door to get the food whenever it was released from its cageC. Each of the three doors had a light that was turned onD. The rat could remember where to find the food if it waited for less than ten secondsText DA Frenchman, the psychologist Alfred Binet, published the first standardized test of human intelligence in 1905. But it was an American, Lewis T erman, a psychology professor at Stanford, who thought to divide a test taker‘s ―mental age‖, as revealed by that score, by his or her chronological age to derive a number that he called the ―intelligence quotient‖, or IQ. It would be hard to think of a pop-scientific coinage that has had a greater impact on the way people think about themselves and others.No country embraced the IQ –and the application of IQ testing to restructure society –more thoroughly than the U.S. Every year millions of Americans have their IQ measured, many with a direct descendant of Binet‘s original test, the Standford-Binet, although not necessarily for the purpose Binet intended. He developed his test as a way of identifying public school students who needed extra help in learning, and that is still one of its leading uses.But the broader and more controversial use of IQ testing has its roots in a theory of intelligence – part science, part sociology – that developed in the late 19th century, before Binet‘s work and entirely separate from it. Championed first by Charles Darwin‘s cousin Francis Galton, it he ld that intelligence was the most valuable human attribute, and that if people who had a lot of it could be identified and put in leadership positions, all of society would benefit.T erman believed IQ tests should be used to conduct a great sorting out of the population, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement –hugely popular in America and Europe among the ―better sort‖ before Hitler gave it a bad name – which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people-deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing. The state sterilization that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes notoriously endorsed in a 1927 Supreme Court decision was done with an IQ score as justification.The American IQ promoters scored a great coup during W orld War I when they persuaded the Army to give IQ tests to 1.7 million inductees. It was the world‘s first mass administration of an intelligence test, and many of the standardized t ests in use today can be traced back to it: the now ubiquitous and obsessed-over SAT (Study Ability T est); the W echler, taken by several million people a year, according to its publisher; and T erman‘s own National Intelligence T est, originally used in tracking elementary school children. All these tests took from the Army the basic technique of measuring intelligence mainly by asking vocabulary questions (synonyms, antonyms, analogies, reading comprehension).77.According to T erman‘s theory, a twelve-year-old boy‘s mental age is 10, then his IQ number is about __________.A. 0.8B. 0.9C. 1.0D. 1.278.IQ test is originally used to ___________.A.find out the students who need extra help in learningB. assign young people to different majorsC. select the acceptable recruits for armyD.select the leaders for society79.The viewpoint that intelligence was mostly inherited and people deficient in intelligence should be discouraged from reproduc ing was held by___________.A.IQ-testing movementB. Eugenic movementC.HitlerD.both IQ-testing and Eugenic movements80.What does the author probably mean by ―scored a great coup‖ (see Para. 5)?A.FailedB. SucceededC. CriticizedD. AdvocatedText EHistorical developments of the past half century and the invention of modern telecommunication and transportation technologies have created a world economy. Effectively the American economy has died and been replaced by a world economy.In the future, there is no such thing as being an American manager. Even someone who spends an entire management career in Kansas City is in international management. He or she will compete with foreign firms, buy from foreign firms, sell to foreign films, or acquire financing from foreign banks.The globalization of the world‘s capital markets that has occurred in the past 10 years will be replicated right across the e conomy in the next decade. An international perspective has become central to management. Without it managers are op erating in ignorance and cannot understand what is happening to them and their firms.Partly because of globalization and partly because of demography, the work forces of the next century are going to be very di fferent from those of the last century. Most firms will be employing more foreign nationals. More likely than not, you and your boss will not be of the same nationality. Demography and changing social mores mean that white males will become a small fraction of the work force as women and minorities grow in importance. All of these factors will require changes in the traditional methods of managing the work force.In addition, the need to produce goods and services at quality levels previously thought impossible to obtain in mass production and the spreading use of participatory management techniques will require a work force with much higher levels of education and skills. Production workers must be able to do statistical quality control; production workers must be able to do just in-time inventories. Managers are increasingly shifting from a ―don‘t think, do what you are told‖ to a ―think, I am not going to tell you what to do‖ style of management.This shift is occurring not because today‘s managers are more enlightened than yesterday‘s managers bu t because the evidence is rapidly mounting that the second style of management is more productive than the first style of management. But this means that problems of training and motivating the work force both become more central and require different modes of behaviour.In the word of tomorrow managers cannot be technologically illiterate regardless of their functional tasks within the firm. T hey don‘t have to be scientists or engineers inventing new technologies, but they have to be managers who understand when to bet and when not to bet on new technologies. If they don‘t understand what is going on and technology effectively becomes a black box, they will fail to make the changes that tho se who do understand what is going on inside the black box make. They will be losers, not winners.T oday‘s CEOs are those who solved the central problems facing their companies 20 years ago. T omorrow‘s CEOs will be those who solve central problems facing their companies today. Sloan hopes to produce a generation of manag ers who will be solving today‘s and tomorrow‘s problems and because they are successful in doing so they will become tomorrow‘s captains of business.81.The author suggests that a manger should hold a _________ view on management.A.economicalB.geographicalC. internationalD. financial82.Speaking of the problems of training and motivating labourers, the author implies that __________.bourers should keep up with the rapid development of modern technology.B. labourers pay more attention to wages.C. labourers want to advance themselvesD.there is a radical change in management style.83.Which of the following statements is NOT true?A.Globalization and demography lead to the differences between the work forces of the last century and those of the nex t century.B. At present, white males make up only a small proportion of work forces in American firms.C. In the next century, women and minorities will become the major part of work forces in the United States.D.The need to produce goods and services at quality levels previously will call for a work force with much higher levels of education and skills.84.By the first sentence of Paragraph 7, the author means that __________.A.managers should master modern technologyB. managers should have access to technological knowledgeC. managers should focus on functional tasksD.managers should cooperate with technicians85.The main topic of this passage is __________.A.the new concept of managementB. the great shift of management styleC. the qualities of managers for the 21st century。

2020-2021学年广东外语外贸大学附设外语学校高三英语月考试卷及参考答案第一部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项ALOI English—English Conversation ClassesTake English conversation classes with native English -speaking teachers from theUnited States,IrelandandAustralia, live, 1 - on - 1.This is by far the best way to improve your real spoken English and listening abilities and get to a level where you can use it in real - life situations. Our teachers mainly carry on conversations about work in different fields, such as business, finance, politics and travel. However, if you like, you can have normal day - to - day conversations about events, weather, etc. If you would like to learn some grammar during conversation, we can do that too!Our English Conversation classes：• Your conversations will always be with a native English speaker.• You can choose the time, day and teacher for each class.• The classes are made for each student individually. They will be at your level, studying what you need and what interests you.Packages10 Classes Package $ 229.90Interested in taking 10, 55 - minute conversation English classes?Schedule a first free class with LOI English and talk to the teacher about it. After that, you can arrange to take our 10 - class conversation English course.20 Classes Package $ 439,80Interested in taking 20, 55 - minute conversation English classes?Schedule a first free class with LOI English and talk to the teacher about it. After that, you can arrange to take our 20 - class conversation English course.1. What do the classes mainly focus on?A. Daily conversations.B. Work - related topics.C. Grammar rules.D. Area - based accents.2. Which is NOT offered to the students?A. Native English - speaking teachers.B. Personalized courses.C. Choice of class time and teacher.D. Offline learning materials.3. What should a student do first if he decides on either of the packages?A. Arrange a free class with LOI English.B. Bargain with LOI English for lower fees.C. Choose an experienced LOI English teacher.D. Make a promise to sit through each class.BIn sportthe sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men.That at least is what people say.Women are called the weaker sex, or, if men want to please them, the fair sex. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker?The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women’s time is always slower than men’s, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 meters in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first ‘Tartan’ in film was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 meters was 4 minutes 49.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!4. Women are called the weaker sex because _________.A. women do as much as menB. people think women are weaker than menC. sport is easier for men than for womenD. in sport the two sexes are always together5. Which of the following is true?A. Boys and girls study separately everywhere.B Women do not run or swim in races with men.C. Famous Prime Ministers are women.D. Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.6. The underlined part “That at least is what people say” means people _________.A. say other things, tooB. don’t say this muchC. say this but may not think soD. only think this7. In this passage the author implies that _________.A. womenare weaker than men, but fasterB. women are slower than men, but strongerC. men are not always stronger and faster than womenD. men are faster and stronger than womenCMedha Gupta sometimes felt worried about making the 20-minute walk from the corner where the school bus dropped her off to her home in Herndon -especially during the colder months in winter.Her mother, Divya Gupta had a suggestion: write an app. Shewas half-kidding,but Medha didn't take the challenge lightly. So she set out to work.The result was Safe Travel, an app designed by Medha to help walkers feel more secure when travelling alone. Using the iPhone, a person can program it to send a warning to someone he or she trusts if he or she fails to arrive at a destination within a certain time.It was the first iOS app that Medha had created. While she didn't think much would come from the project, her effort caught the eye of judges for the annual Congressional App. Challenge, who selected her as the winner for Virginia's 10th District.The App Challenge is designed to encourage students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, and math by experimenting with coding and computer science. Winning students are invited lo attend a reception on Capitol Hill in April and also received $250 in Amazon Web Service credits.Medha said it took her about 40 hours to design, program and test the app. As for her next app? Medha's not certain. She temporarily has her app-development ambitionson holdbecause she's busy teaching herself artificial intelligence to help deal with improper words on Facebook. Yes,she knows that there are teams of engineers probably doing the same thing. But she figures it can't hurt her own part, too.“If we see something wrong with the world, we should do something about it,” she said. “After all, the only one stopping us from doing something is ourselves. ”8. Why did Medha Gupta feel worried?A. It took a long time to walk home.B. It was difficult to write an app.C. It was colder than ever in winter.D. It was unsafe to walk home alone.9. What is Medha's attitude to her mother's challenge?A. Serious.B. Casual.C. Uncertain.D. Indifferent.10. What does the underlined phrase “on hold” in Paragraph 6 mean?A. Developed.B. Delayed.C. Achieved.D. Satisfied.11. What's the main idea of the text?A. Medha signed up for the App Challenge.B. Medha designed Safe Travel successfully.C. An app Safe Travel guides walkers home.D. The App Challenge directs students to choose careers.D“One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” That’s a common expression, but the next time you throw something away, think about a twist on the old saying. What if your trash could become your own treasure? Many creative, thrifty, and environmentally minded people have come up with a way to makethathappen. It’s called upcycling. Our world would be a better place if everyone would begin upcycling.Upcycling is the practice of taking an unwanted item and turning it into something useful. For example, how about that pair of jeans with a hole in one knee? It could become a new pillow for your bedroom.Upcycling is not the same as recycling. Upcycling is actually much better for the environment. Recycling takes an item made of glass, paper, metal, or plastic, breaks it down to its base material, and then uses that material to make another product. This requires a great deal of energy. On the other hand, when you choose to upcycle, the only energy you use is your own. And upcycling not only reduces the amount of trash that goes into our landfills, but it also protects natural resources, such as oil and gas. Recycling is good for the environment, but upcycling is even better.Upcycling also makes a family’s budget stretch further. Of course, the idea of reusing items to save money is not new. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, many families lived on a tight budget. People had to use what they already had in order to meet their needs.As responsible citizens, we should all be concerned with protecting our environment and budgeting our resources. Upcycling is a fun and creative way to help. The next time you go to toss something into the trash can, stop and think about what it could become. Chances are, there’s a brand-new item in your hand just waiting to be upcycled.12. Why does the author mention an old saying in the first paragraph?A. To arise reader’s awareness of upcycling.B. To stress the importance of upcycling.C. To lead in the topic of upcycling.D. To show the idea of upcycling.13. Which one below belongs to upcycling?A. An old ladder is transformed into a bookshelf.B. Old tin cans are transported to landfill.C. A broken wooden door is chopped up.D. Old cloth is made into a paper bed.14. What is the difference between recycling and upcycling?A. Upcycling is much more creative.B. Recycling is much easier to achieve.C. Recycling is much more cost-saving.D. Upcycling is much more energy-efficient.15. What can be inferred from the text?A. Upcycling is popular at present.B. Upcycling is replacing recycling.C. Upcycling is worth recommending.D. Upcycling is a tradition in daily life.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。