中国科学院硕士英语-7_真题-无答案

中国科学院硕士英语-7
(总分65,考试时间90分钟)
Part Ⅰ V ocabulary
Directions: Choose the word or expression below each sentence that **pletes the statement, and mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
1. This leads **panies to treat musicians as contracted artists who are not paid a fixed sum for their labor-time, but instead receive royalties in ______ to their success.
A. addition
B. relation
C. percentage
D. proportion
2. Though it was less attractive, Ralph knew the metal box would be more______than the wooden box.
A. terminal
B. durable
C. persistent
D. bearable
3. Moshe Katzma, 24, denied any ______ with the beating given to the homeless man, who was found outside a National Headquarters office.
A. involvement
B. admission
C. isolation
D. access
4. The sentence given to the criminal was much too ______;murder should carry the maximum penalty.
A. negligent
B. solitary
C. lenient
D. tedious
5. A ______of this approach is that the variables are visually presented in a style that can be understood by generalists and specialists alike,
A. value
B. merit
C. factor
D. worth
6. As the sky lightened even more, they began to ______ their surroundings more clearly.
A. fall out
B. fall into
C. makeup
D. make out
7. Australia continued the fight to end Japan"s annual whale hunts, warning that its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctica could ______ outrage.
A. spark
B. lead
C. result
D. involve
8. At the moment every culture in Britain has a similar philosophy as far as size______;if you want to look good and be desirable, you"ve got to be thin.
A. shows
B. states
C. says
D. goes
9. There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to ______ income tax.
A. reclaim
B. recover
C. restore
D. return
10. In China, although people in many regions earn much less than those in prosperous regions, they also pay much less for ______ commodities, such as housing.
A. disposable
B. redundant
C. equivalent
D. interchangeable
11. Even if I won a million-dollar lottery, I would continue to live ______
A. subtly
B. frugally
C. explicitly
D. cautiously
12. Desperation, hunger, thirst, and resentment all make it more likely that people will ______ a more powerful figure who promises them help and / or salvation.
A. be prone to
B. give in to
C. live up to
D. put an end to
13. The matter is ______ settled; we may look upon it as being settled.
A. as long as
B. for good
C. for sure
D. as good as
14. In a materialistic and ______ society people"s interest seems to be focused solely on monetary pursuit.
A. adaptive
B. addictive
C. acquisitive
D. arrogant
15. Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with ______ from household routine.
A. distortion
B. diversion
C. dissipate
D. discount
16. China"s______cultural heritage should be better protected through increased efforts to preserve endangered art.
A. inalienable
B. intangible
C. intelligible
D. indivisible
Part Ⅱ Cloze Test
Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the four choices given below. Mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops, along with the health-diet and home-repair paperbacks. Some of them are so 21 with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function, that you"d think this was a new sort of 22 which all of us are now required to learn. The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary, 23 an exotic experience, something only the specially trained can do.
24 , you could be led to believe that we are the only 25 capable of being aware of death, and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying, one generation after 26 , it is a different kind of process, done automatically and trivially, or more "natural", as we say.
An elm in our backyard 27 the blight (枯萎病) this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight. One weekend 28 was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but 29 alarming, and the next weekend it was gone, passed over, departed, taken. Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his 30 of young helpers and their cherry picker, and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck, everyone 31 .
The dying 32 a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle I have beheld many times. It 33 to make me wince. However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks 34 the cat to make him drop the mouse, 35 the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.
1.
A. contained
B. embraced
C. packed
D. littered
2.
A. ability
B. skill
C. quality
D. technology
3.
A. and
B. even
C. yet
D. but
4.
A. Furthermore
B. However
C. Even so
D. Since then
5.
A. races
B. creatures
C. people
D. human
6.
A. the other
B. another
C. the next
D. the following
7.
A. caught
B. held
C. took
D. picked
8.
A. that
B. which
C. it
D. this
9.
A. something
B. anything
C. nothing
D. everything
10.
A. crew
B. members
C. corps
D. fellows
11.
A. sings
B. sang
C. sung
D. singing
12.
A. to
B. in
C. for
D. of
13.
A. was
B. was used
C. used
D. was about
14.
A. into
B. on
C. at
D. off
15.
A. but
B. because
C. while
D. in order that
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: Below each of the following passages you will find some questions or incomplete statements. Each question or statement is followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Read each passage carefully, and then select the choice that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark the letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
Passage 1
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, or so the saying goes. Sometimes attributed to Frank Zappa, other times to Elvis Costello, this quote is usually intended to convey the futility of such an endeavor, if not **plete silliness of even attempting it. But Glenn Kurtz"s graceful memoir, Practicing- A Musician"s Return to Music, turns the expression on its head, giving it a different meaning by creating a lovely, unique book.
Kurtz picked up the guitar as a kid in a music-loving family, attended the Long Island music school, and went on to play on Merv Griffin"s TV show before graduating from Tufts University. Motivating the young Kurtz was the dream of reinventing classical guitar, as if by his great ambition alone he could push it from the margins of popular interest to center stage--something not even accomplished by the late Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, perhaps the only artist of the form ever to reach anything resembling widespread celebrity.
This book reads like a love story of sorts: Boy meets guitar. Boy loves guitar. Guitar breaks boy"s heart or, more precisely, the ordinariness of a working musician"s life does so. "I"d just imagined the artist"s life naively, childishly, with too much longing, too much poetry and innocence and purity," Kurtz writes. "The guitar had been the instrument of my dreams. Now the dream was over."
Boy leaves guitar. Were the story to end here, this book would be a tragedy, but after nearly a
decade the boy returns to guitar, and although he has lost the enthusiasm he had in his youth, he finds his love of the guitar again in a way he never could have appreciated before.
Although Kurtz is writing about a unique musical path, his journey speaks eloquently to the heart of anyone who has ever desperately yearned to achieve something and felt the sting of disappointment. "Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream--of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete--lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs, "he writes. "Is that time and effort, that talent and ambition, truly wasted?"
1. The quotation mentioned in Paragraph I implies that writing about music is______
A. an ambitious attempt
B. a modem form of art
C. an impossible task
D. a rewarding experience
2. As a young man Glenn Kurtz wanted to______
A. surpass Andres Segovia"s achievement
B. Transform classical guitar
C. become a TV music star
D. live on arts
3. What does the passage say about classical guitar?
A. It is not popular with the public.
B. It is not an easy skill to master.
C. It is a favorite of many young people.
D. It is a craze in some countries like Spain.
4. According to the passage, Andres Segovia______
A. helped Glenn Kurtz to become a good guitarist
B. made classical guitar become a popular form
C. was a well-known classical guitarist
D. was Glenn Kurtz"s role model
5. Paragraph 3 suggests that what "the ordinariness of a working musician"s life" does to the boy is______
A. keep him in great excitement
B. bring him great disappointment
C. help him create great music
D. tell him a great musician"s duty
6. The book Practicing: A Musician"s Return to Music mainly tells that______
A. one will be made bitter by his frustration
B. reliving old dreams can be rewarding
C. without dreams life is incomplete
D. it"s inevitable for a musician to experience setbacks
Passage 2
A few years ago, in their search for ways to sell more goods, advertising men hit on a new and controversial gimmick. It is a silent, **mercial that, the ad men claim, can be rushed past the
consumer"s conscious mind and planted in his subconscious- and without the consumer"s knowledge.
Developed by James Vicary, a research man who studies what makes people buy, this technique relies on the psychological principle of subliminal perception. Scientists tell us that many of the **ing to or eyes are not consciously "seen". We select only a few for conscious "seeing" and ignore the rest. Actually the discarded impressions are recorded in the brain though they are below the threshold of consciousness.
There"s little doubt in Vicary"s mind as to the subliminal ad"s effectiveness. His proof can be summed up in just two words: sales increase.
In an unidentified movie house not so long ago, unknown audiences saw a curious film program. At the same time, on the same screen on which the film hero was courting the heroine a subliminal projector was flashing its **mercials.
"Get popcorn", ordered **mercial for a reported one three-thousandths of a second every five seconds. It announced "Coca-Cola" at the same speed and frequency to other audiences. At the end of a six weeks trial, popcorn sales had gone up 57 percent, Coke sales 18 percent. Experimental Films. Inc, says the technique is not new. It began research on subliminal perception in 1954. Experimental Films stresses that its equipment was designed for helping problematic students and treating the mentally ill. At NYU two doctors showed twenty women the projected image of an expressionless face. They told the subjects to watch the face for some change of expression. Then they flashed the word angry on the screen at subliminal speeds. Now the women thought the face looked unpleasant. When the word happy was flashed on the screen instead, the subjects thought the woman"s facial expression looked much more pleasant.
Subliminal techniques, its promoters believe, are good for more than selling popcorn. Perhaps the process can even be used to sell political candidates, by leaving a favorable impression of the candidate in the minds of the electorates subliminally.
How convincing are these **mercials? Skeptical psychologists answer that they aren"t anywhere near as effective as the ad men would like to think they are. Nothing has been proven yet scientifically, says a prominent research man.
1. Subliminal perception is when one______
A. has an attempt to buy with a good reason
B. recalls some past events and activities
C. enjoys seeing some images in his mind
D. gets a mental picture without consciousness
2. To advertising sponsors, the true test of subliminal projection is whether it______
A. proves worth the money spent
B. call create a mental impression
C. helps sell more of their products
D. can arouse anger in the audience
3. Subliminal ads are invisible because they are shown very______
A. fast
B. naturally
C. often
D. vaguely
4. Subliminal techniques have NOT been used for______
A. promoting sales
B. **mercials
C. curing mental illness
D. selling political candidates
5. Some psychologists seem to believe that subliminal projection______
A. needs a cautious application
B. has no effect on sales
C. benefits the customers
D. causes a mental confusion
6. What is the author"s position on subliminal projection in ads?
A. He reveals none in the passage.
B. He advocates its prohibition.
C. He considers it an exaggeration.
D. He acclaims its effectiveness.
Section B
Directions：In each of the following passages, five sentences have been removed from the original text. Sentences A to F are listed below the passage. Choose the most suitable sentence from the list to fill in each of the blanks (numbered 66 to 75). For each passage, there is one sentence that does not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
Passage 1
Honesty no longer seems to be the best policy with telling of lies becoming a common part of our daily lives. A new research by a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts has revealed that most people lie in everyday conversation when they are trying to appear likable **petent.
1 ______"People tell a considerable number of lies in everyday conversation. It was a very surprising result. We didn"t expect lying to be such a part of daily conversation," said Robert S. Feldman.
The study also found that lies told by men and women differ in content, though not in quantity. 2 ______ "Women were more likely to lie to make the person they were talking to feel good, while men lied most often to make themselves look better," Feldman noted.
As part of the study, a group of 121 pairs of undergraduate students were recruited to participate. 3 ______Participants were unaware that the session was being videotaped. At the end of the session, the students were then asked to watch the video of themselves and identify any inaccuracies in what they had said during the conversation. They were encouraged to identify all lies, no matter how big or small.
Feldman said the students who participated in the study were surprised at their own results. "When they were watching themselves on videotape, people found themselves lying much more than they thought they had," Feldman said. The lies the students told varied considerably. 4 ______Others were more extreme, such as falsely claiming to be the star of a rock band.
"It"s so easy to lie," Feldman said. "We teach our children to be honest, but we also tell them it"s polite to pretend they like a birthday gift they" ve been given. 5 ______."
A. The results showed that men do not lie more than women or vice versa, but they lie in different ways.
B. Kids get a very mixed message regarding the practical aspects of lying, and it has an impact on how they behave as adults.
C. Some were relatively minor, such as agreeing with the person that they liked someone when they did not.
D. They were told that the purpose of the study was to examine how people interact when they meet someone new.
E. Anyway, the knowledge that we are all capable of lying makes it really hard to trust people when they tell you things.
F. The study, published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, found that 60 percent of people lied at least once during a 10-minute conversation and told an average of two to three lies.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Passage 2
Customer experience is the internal and subjective response customers have to any direct or indirect contact with a company. 1 ______Indirect contact most often involves unplanned encounters with representations of a company"s products, services, or brands and takes the form of word-of-mouth recommendations or criticisms, advertising, news reports, reviews, and so forth. Such all encounter could occur when Google"s whimsical holiday loges pop up on the site"s home page at the inception of a search, or it could be the distinctive "potato, potato" sound of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle"s exhaust system. 2 ______
The secret to a good experience isn"t the multiplicity of features on offer. Microsoft Windows, which is rich in features, may provide what a corporate IT director considers a positive experience.
3 ______A customer"s experience with an Apple device such as the iPod begins well before the purchaser turns it on perhaps because of the dancing silhouettes in the TV advertisements. Furthermore, the origami-like (and recyclable) packaging enfolds the iPod as though it were a Faberge egg made for a czar. A small sticker, "Designed in California, Made in China," communicates the message that Apple is firmly in charge but also interested in keeping costs down. Even Windows users appreciate the device"s intuitive, Mac-like feel and find that downloading tracks from iTunes is easier than buying a CD on Amazon.
4 ______
A successful brand shapes customers" experiences by embedding the fundamental value proposition in all the product"s features. For BMW, "the Ultimate Driving Machine" is much more than a slogan; it informs **pany"s manufacturing and design choices. 5 ______ BMW would not consider developing such a feature unless it amplified rather than diminished the driving experience.
A. Every Apple product is designed with the, overarching purpose of making the time one spends
with Apple an enjoyable experience.
B. It might just be an e-mail from one customer to another.
C. Direct contact generally occurs in the course of purchase, use, and service and is usually initiated by the customer.
D. People"s expectations are set high in part by their previous experiences with a company"s offerings
E. In 2000. Mercedes-Benz introduced a system that automatically controls the distance between a Mercedes and the car in front.
F. However, many home users prefer Apple"s Macintosh operating system, which offers fewer features and configuration options.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Part Ⅴ Writing
Directions: Write an essay of no less than 200 words on the topic given below. Use the proper space on your ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ.
1. Topic
When do you think is the best time for a college candidate to decide on his major: before going to college or while enrolled in college? Provide your reasons and supporting details.。