中国科学院大学研究生学位统考英语a分级考试真题及详解get11--6教案资料

中国科学院大学研究生学位统考英语A分级考试真题及详解

G E T11-2007-6

Part I Listening Comprehension (25minutes, 20points)

Section A (1Point each)

1. A. He doesn't like classic music. B. He feels sorry to decline the offer

C. He is eager to go to the concert.

D. He hasn't got a ticket yet.

2. A. At the garage. B. At the restaurant. C. At the supermarket. D. At the office.

3. A. Tony doesn't always listen. B. Tony has hearing problems.

C. It's unusual that Tony missed the interview

D. Tony often forgets himself.

4. A. The weather is generally cooler and drier. B. The weather is generally warmer and wetter.

C. The weather is moderately hot.

D. The weather is usually changeable.

5. A. A doctor. B. An operator, C. A nurse. D. A dentist.

6. A. $0.35 B. $3.50 C. $3.05 D. $30.5

7. A. He had something wrong with his watch. B. He thought the meeting was for a different day.

C. His oral presentation was not well-prepared.

D. He was not paying attention to the time.

8. A. He didn't attend Professor Smith's class last time.

B. He thinks the class will meet as scheduled.

C. The woman should pose a more serious question.

D. Professor Smith often cancels classes for the long weekend.

9. A. The woman does not drink beer. B. It was not the woman's coat.

C. The woman just had her coat cleaned.

D. The woman is not angry with the man. Section B ( 1 point each)

10. A. 850,000 children, around two percent, are currently learning at home

B. School system provides teachers for homeschooling.

C. All the states in the U.S. permit homeschooling.

D. Homeschooled children are never expected to go to college.

11. A. Because their children do not like attending schools.

B. Because they love their children too much to send them away from home

C. Because homeschooling provides more time for the family to be together.

D. Because they are able to help their kids to learn more social skills.

12. A. A variety of honeybee. B. A geographic magazine.

C. A National Home School Honor Society

D. A national top competition.

13. A. Importance of biodiversity. B. Protection of wild species.

C. Farm pollution.

D. Agricultural methods.

14. A. Rice, maize, potato and wheat. B. Corn, bean, rice and wheat.

C. Potato, maize, bean and rice.

D. Rice, corn, wheat and sweet potato

15. A. They can harm wetlands, rivers and other environments needed to support life

B. They can destroy crops, native species and property.

C. They spread in areas they are not native to with natural controls.

D. They hardly survive different conditions.

Section C ( 1 point each)

Lecture Topic: Getting a good night’s sleep

16. There are several ___________ drugs available to help people sleep.

If you don’t want to use drugs, there are some things you can do on your own to help get a good night’s sleep:

17. 1)___________________________________________

18. 2)___________________________________________

19. 3)___________________________________________

20. 4)___________________________________________

PART II VOCABULARY (10 minutes, 10 points )

Section A (0.5 point each )

21. Nothing can be more absurd than to say that human beings are doomed.

A. compelling

B. rational

C. ridiculous

D. ambiguous

22. The Chinese government continues to uphold the principle of peaceful co-existence.

A. support

B. restrict

C. raise

D. modify

23. Patients are expected to comply with doctors' instructions for quick recovery.

A. improve on

B. abide by

C. draw upon

D. reflect on

24. Scientists have achieved findings substantial enough to remove our fear of GM foods.

A. abundant

B. controversial

C. conducive

D. convincing

25. Those students who have made adequate preparations for the test will be better off.

A. more wealthy

B. less successful

C. dismissed earlier

D. favorably positioned

26. If you hold on to a winning attitude, you'll make a greater effort and also create positive momentum.

A. influence

B. strength

C. outlook

D. consequence

27. Academic integrity is deemed essential to those devoted to scientific researches.

A. believed

B. discarded

C. advocated

D. confirmed

28. Customers in these markets of antiques are good at slashing prices.

A. assessing

B. cutting

C. elevating

D. altering

29. The public attached great importance to the news that prices of housing would be brought under control.

A. joined

B. ascribed

C. fastened

D. diverted

30. Thousands of people left their rural homes and flocked into the cities to live beside the new factories.

A. dashed

B. filed

C. strolled

D. swarmed

Section B (0.5 point each)

31._________this dull life, the full-time mom decided to find a part-time job.

A. Tied up with

B. Fed up with

C. Wrapped up in

D. Piled up with

32. In the letter, my friend said that he would love to have me as a guest in his _____ home.

A. humble

B. obscure

C. inferior

D. lower

33. Tom is sick of city life, so he buys some land in Alaska, as far from ________ as possible.

A. humidity

B. humanity

C. harmony

D. honesty

34. As an important _______ for our emotions and ideas, music can play a huge role in our life.

A. vessel

B. vest

C. venture

D. vehicle

35. The day is past when the country can afford to give high school diploma to all who

___six years of instruction.

A. set about

B. run for

C. sit through

D. make for

36. The wages of manual laborers stay painfully low, meaning digitalization could drive an

even deeper ______between the rich and poor.

A. boundary

B. difference

C. wedge

D. variation

37. A farmer must learn the kinds of crops best ____ the soils on his farm.

A. accustomed to

B. committed to

C. applied to

D. suited to

38. The sun is so large that if it were ______, it would hold a million earths.

A. elegant

B. immense

C. hollow

D. clumsy

39. This patient's life could be saved only by a major operation. That would _____ her to a high risk.

A. expose

B. lead

C. contribute

D. send

40. It takes a year for the earth to make each ________, or revolution, around the sun.

A. tour

B. travel

C. visit

D. trip

PART III CLOZE TEST (10 minutes, 10 points, 1 point each)

Harvard University's under-graduate education is being reformed so that it includes some time spent outside the US and more science courses, the US Cable News Network (CNN) has reported. For the first time in 30 years, Harvard is 41 its under-graduate curriculum. William Kirby, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, said this 42 what many people had said that Harvard's curriculum did not provide enough choice and encourage premature specialization.

"Harvard needs to 43 its education for a world where global connections, cross disciplinary research, and science in general are ever more important," said Kirby.

Particularly 44 is the idea that students need to spend time overseas, either in a traditional study-abroad program or over a summer, perhaps doing an internship or research.

Students can either find the program themselves or 45 some exchange programs offered by the university.

" 46 studying Chinese history without leaving the university, students interested in the subject should be spending a semester at a university in China."

It was also recommended that Harvard 47 its required "core curriculum". The core curriculum was an effort created in 1978 to broaden education by requiring students to choose from a list of courses in several areas of study. Classes often focused on a highly 48 topic and emphasized "ways of knowing".

Under a new plan, the curriculum would be replaced with a set of 49 "Harvard College Courses", emphasizing knowledge over methodology and 50 wider territory. A life sciences course, for example, might combine molecular and evolutionary biology and psychology, rather than focusing on one of those, said Benedict Gross, Harvard College dean.

41. A. inspecting B. reviewing C. searching D. underlying

42. A. in accordance

B. in line with

C. in charge of

D. in response to with

43. A. update B. uphold C. upset D. upward

44. A. trust-worthy B. note-worthy C. praise-worthy D. reward-worthy

45. A. turn out B. turn in C. turn to D. turn over

46. A. In spite of B. As if C. Let alone D. Rather than

47. A. perish B. destroy C. abolish D. denounce

48. A. appropriate B. imaginative C. special D. specific

49. A. optical B. optional C. opposite D. optimistic

50. A. sparing B. spiraling C. spanning D. sparkling PART IV READING COMPREHENSION (45 minutes, 30 points, 1 point each) Passage One

A report published recently brings bad news about air pollution. It suggests that it could be as damaging to our health as exposure to the radiation from the 1986 Ukraine nuclear power disaster. The report was published by the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. But what can city people do to reduce exposure to air pollution.'? Quite a lot, it turns out.

Avoid walking in busy streets. Choose side streets and parks instead. Pollution levels can fall a considerable amount just by moving a few meters away from the main pollution source--exhaust fumes(烟气). Also don't walk behind smokers. Walk on the windward side of the street where exposure to pollutants can be 50 percent less than on the downwind side.

Sitting on the driver's side of a bus can increase your exposure by 10 percent, compared with sitting on the side nearest the pavement. Sitting upstairs on a double-decker can reduce exposure. It is difficult to say whether traveling on an underground train is better or worse than taking the bus. Air pollution on underground trains tends to be, less toxic than that at street level, because underground pollution is mostly made up of tiny iron particles thrown up by wheels hitting the rails. But diesel and petrol fumes have a mixture of pollutants.

When you are crossing a road, stand well back from the curb while you wait for the light to change. Every meter really does count when you are close to traffic. As the traffic begins to move, fumes can be reduced in just a few seconds. So holding your breath for just a moment can make a difference, even though it might sound silly.

There are large sudden pollution increases during rush hours. Pollution levels fall during nighttime. The time of year also makes a big difference. Pollution levels tend to be at their lowest during spring and autumn when winds are freshest. Extreme cold or hot weather has a trapping effect and tends to cause a build-up of pollutants.

51. What is the passage mainly about?

A. How to fight air pollution in big cities.

B. How to avoid air pollution in big cities.

C. How to breathe fresh air in big cities.

D. How serious air pollution is in big cities.

52. According to the report, air pollution in big cities __________.

A. can be more serious than Chernobyl nuclear disaster

B. cannot be compared with the disaster in Chernobyl

C. can release as damaging radiation as the Chernobyl disaster

D. can be more serious than we used to think

53. When you walk in a busy street, you should walk on the side ___________.

A. where the wind is coming

B. where the wind is going

C. where the wind is weaker

D. where the wind is stronger

54. If you take a bus in a big city in China, you should sit _________.

A. on the left side in the bus

B. on the right side in the bus

C. in the middle of the bus

D. at the back of the bus

55. It is implied in the passage that ________.

A. people should not take street level transportation

B. tiny iron particles will not cause health problems

C. air pollution on an underground train is less poisonous

D. traveling on an underground train is better than taking the bus

56. While waiting to cross a busy street, you should ___________.

A. wait a few seconds until the fumes reduce

B. stay away from the traffic as far as possible

C. hold your breath until you get to the other side of the street

D. count down for the light to change

Passage Two

Global warming poses a threat to the earth, but humans can probably ease the climate threats brought on by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, global climate specialist Richard Alley told an audience at the University of Vermont. Alley said his research in Greenland suggested that subtle changes in atmospheric patterns leave parts of the globe susceptible to abrupt and dramatic climate shifts that can last decades or centuries.

Almost all scientists agree that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere created as humans burn fossil fuel is warming the planet. How to respond to the warming is a matter of intense political, scientific and economic debate worldwide.

Alley said he was upbeat about global warming because enough clever people existed in the world to find other reliable energy sources besides fossil fuels. He said people can get

rich finding marketable alternatives to fossil fuel. "Wouldn't it be useful if the United States were to have a piece of the action. Wouldn't it be useful if some bright students from University of Vermont were to have a piece of the action," Alley said.

Alley said that Europe and parts of eastern North America could in a matter of a few years revert to a cold, windy region, like the weather in Siberia. Such shifts have occurred frequently over the millennia, Alley's research shows. A gradual change in atmospheric temperature, such as global warming, could push the climate to a threshold where such a shift suddenly occurs, he said.

Alley told his audience of about 200 people in a University of Vermont lecture hall Wednesday evening that he couldn't predict if, when or where sudden shifts toward cold, heat, drought or water could occur under global warming, but it is something everyone should consider.

"This is not the biggest problem in the world. The biggest problem in the world is getting along with each other. But it's part of that because we're not going to get along with each other if we're not getting along with the planet," Alley said.

57. According to Ally the climate threats to the earth brought by global warming _________.

A. can be eased

B. can be ended

C. will become worse

D. will last for decades

58. Ally's research shows that dramatic climate changes may be caused by ___________.

A. abrupt changes in atmospheric patterns

B. subtle changes in atmospheric patterns

C. humans' burning of fossil fuel

D. increasing levels of carbon dioxide

59. The word "upbeat" (in Paragraph 3) probably means __________.

A. pessimistic

B. optimistic

C. worried

D. insensible

60. What does Ally suggest people do in order to reduce global warming?

A. To find other energy sources besides fossil fuels.

B. To start a political, scientific and economic debate.

C. To take action to burn no fossil fuels.

D. To call on people worldwide to protect our earth.

61. Alley predicts that global warming could turn Europe and parts of eastern North America into ______.

A. a region like Siberia

B. a warmer and warmer place

C. a tropical region

D. a place like North Pole

62. Ally thinks the biggest problem in the world is

A. lack of harmony

B. violence

C. global warming

D. climate shift

Passage Three

We're talking about money here, and the things you buy with it--and about what attitude we should take to spending.

Across most of history and in most cultures, there has been a general agreement that we should work hard, save for the future and spend no more than we can afford. It's nice to have a comfortable life right now, but it is best to think of the future. Yet economists have long known that things don't work out that way. They point to an idea called the "paradox of thrift." Imagine you are the owner of a big business making consumer goods. You want your own staff to work hard and save their money. That way, you don't have to pay them as much. But you want everybody else to spend all the money they can. That way you make bigger profits.

It's a problem on a global scale. Many people in the UK and the United States are worried about levels of personal debt. Yet if people suddenly stopped buying things and started paying back what they owe to credit card companies, all the economies of the Western world would collapse. The banks would be happy, but everybody else would be in trouble.

Traditionally, economists have believed that spending money is about making rational choices. People buy things to make their life better in some way. But in recent years, they

have noticed that people often do not actually behave in that way. We all know people who take pleasure in buying useless things. And there are many people around who won't buy things that they need.

In a recent series of experiments, scientists at Stanford University in the US confirmed something that many people have long suspected. People spend money because the act of buying gives them pleasure. And they refuse to spend when it causes them pain. The scientists discovered that different areas of the brain that anticipate pleasure and pain become more active when we are making a decision to buy things. People who spend a lot have their pleasure centers stimulated. People who like to save find buying things painful.

If you think you really want that product because it's beautiful or useful, you are wrong, say the scientists. The desire to buy something is a product of the reaction between chemicals released by different parts of the brain when the eyes see a product.

63. Across most of history and in most cultures, people are advised to _____________.

A. enjoy their present life as much as possible

B. spend every penny they have earned

C. save every penny for the future

D. save some money for later use

64. According to the context, "paradox" (in Paragraph 2) probably means “__________”.

A. contradiction

B. hypothesis

C. declaration

D. assertion

65. It is implied that many people in the UK and the United States

A. have to work hard to make ends meet

B. spend more than they can afford

C. have trouble in paying back their debts

D. don't pay back their debts on time

66. According to the resent studies made by economists, people__________.

A. take pleasure in buying useless things

B. won't buy things that they need.

C. spend their money irrationally

D. make rational choices while spending their money

67. It has been proved by the scientists at Stanford University that some people like to save money because_____.

A. they like keeping their money in the bank

B. they will feel safe if they save enough money for the future

C. they don't want to spend their money on useless things

D. spending money gives them pain

68. The passage mainly tells us_________.

A. how to spend our money

B. it is better to save some money for the future

C. it is the chemicals released from the brain that decide our spending

D. how to form a habit of rational spending

Passage Four

Trees are good. Good enough to hug. Planting trees will make the world cooler than it would otherwise be. This is the subject of a newly published study by Govindasamy Bala, of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, and his colleagues. Dr Bala has found, rather counter-intuitively, that removing all of the world's trees might actually cool the planet down.

The reason for this is that trees affect the world's temperature by means other than the carbon they take in. For instance forests remain quite a dark shade even after a snowstorm. They are certainly darker than grasslands, and thus they can absorb more of the sun's heat than vegetation which might otherwise cover the same stretch of land. That warms things up. Dr Bala and his colleagues took such effects into account using a computer model called the Integrated Climate and Carbon Model. Unlike most climate-change models, which calculate how the Earth should absorb and radiate heat in response to a list of greenhouse-gas concentrations, this one has many subsections that represent how the carbon cycle works, and how it influences the climate.

Overall, Dr Bala's model suggests that complete deforestation would cause an additional 1.3?C temperature rise compared with business as usual, because of the higher carbon-dioxide levels that would result. However, the additional reflectivity of the planet would cause 1.6?C of cooling. A treeless world would thus be 0.3?C cooler than otherwise.

No one, of course, would consider chopping down the world's forests to keep the planet cool. But having made their point, Dr Bala and his colleagues then went on to look at forest growth and loss at different latitudes. Planting trees in convenient places such as Europe and North America may actually be counterproductive. In Russia and Canada, cutting trees down led mostly to local cooling. The carbon dioxide this released into the atmosphere, though, warmed the world all over. Around the equator, by contrast, warming acted locally (as well as globally), so a tropical country would experience warming created by cutting down trees.

The results follow increasing criticism from climate scientists of the benefits of forestry schemes to offset carbon emissions. Planting trees to neutralise carbon emissions has become a big business: ￡60m worth of trees have been bought this year, up from ￡20m in 2005. By 2010 the market is expected to reach ￡300m.

69. According to the passage, trees make the world warmer because of their _________.

A. deep color

B. round shape

C. enormous size

D. high reflectivity

70. Dr Bala's Integrated Climate and Carbon Model____________.

A. supports the findings of other climate models

B. is based on the results of other climate models

C. uses a system different from other climate models

D. challenges the basic theory of other climate models

71. Based on Dr Bala's model, a treeless world would__________.

A. cause serious environmental problems

B. prove helpful in fighting global warming

C. make it difficult to deal with climate change

D. raise carbon dioxide levels and global temperature

72. According to Dr Bala, the best places to plant trees would be__________.

A. North America

B. Europe

C. High-latitude countries.

D. tropical countries

73. As is shown in the passage, criticism from other climate scientists__________.

A. should be taken rather seriously

B. is unreasonable and far-fetched

C. involves mostly economic interests

D. is voiced on behalf of the government

74. The best title for the passage is____________.

A. Should Green Trees Be Left Alone?

B. Why Green Trees Might Not Be Green?

C. How to Help Green Trees Survive?

D. How to Go Green with Green Trees? Passage Five

The patient needed a spinal tap, and a senior attending physician asked a medical resident whether a preparatory blood test had been checked. The medical student was stunned to hear him answer in the affirmative, because she was quite certain it had not been checked.

Well, almost certain.

Doctors in training sometimes confront situations in which they worry that their supervising physicians are making mistakes or bending the truth. Yet even though such acts can jeopardize patients, the inclination and ability of young doctors to speak up is hampered by the hierarchies in teaching hospitals.

On the top were the senior physicians who made rounds on the wards once or twice daily. Next were the overworked residents, who essentially lived in the hospital while training. Last were the medical students who were most assuredly at the bottom of the heap.

The student whose resident seemingly lied to the attending physician about the blood test did not speak up. The resident was a good doctor, she said, and so she had given him the benefit of the doubt. And, she added, both the resident and the attending physician would be grading her.

What should a medical student do in such a situation? One possibility is to take the matter up with a more senior doctor. Or the student might go directly to the patient or family, telling them that the physicians have a genuine disagreement and that they deserve to know about it. These options seem logical on paper. As the ethicist James Dwyer has written in The Hastings Center Report, "The practice of always keeping quiet is a failure of caring." But in the real world, it may be extremely difficult to go up the chain of command.

Fortunately, medical educators are increasingly recognizing the dilemmas that doctors in training confront when they witness behavior that makes them uncomfortable. Students and residents are now expected to provide routine feedback -- positive and negative -- about their supervising physicians at the close of their rotation.

Of course, physicians and students need to be educated about how to give feedback in professional and nonconfrontational ways. Medical educators are only now beginning to teach this skill. Still, it will be hard to change the unfortunate perception that constructive feedback, even for a patient's benefit, is whistle-blowing.

75. As mentioned in the passage, the hospital hierarchy______________.

A. is useful to the people on the lower layer

B. is built on a performance-reward system

C. is a barrier to the exchange of medical views

D. is an effective way of teaching medical students

76. "the benefit of the doubt" in Paragraph 5 shows that_________________.

A. the student was not quite certain that she was right

B. the resident did not respond to the student's doubt

C. the student was denied the chance to doubt the superior

D. the resident benefited from the student's suggestion

77. James Dwyer's words mean that___________.

A. students should learn to speak both kindly and professionally

B. students should challenge the superior for the benefit of patients

C. students should retain their faith even after facing some difficulties

D. students should be educated on how to care more about the patients

78. What is the attitude of medical educators toward teaching students to give feedback?

A. Confused.

B. Indifferent.

C. Reluctant.

D. Enthusiastic.

79. The author tends to believe that the problem faced by medical students

A. will remain for a long time

B. will disappear in the near future

C. should not be exaggerated

D. cannot be solved successfully

80. The passage focuses on_____________.

A. the development of teaching hospitals' hierarchies

B. the different roles in teaching hospitals' hierarchies

C. the future reforms on teaching hospitals' hierarchies

D. the problems caused by teaching hospitals' hierarchies

PART V TRANSLATION (30 minutes, 20 points)

Section A (15 minutes, 10 points)

In this book, we offer advice that we hope will seem reasonable and worth serious consideration. But as any experienced writer knows, there are occasions when even the best advice may not apply. The demands of writing for different audiences, with different purposes, on different subjects, at different levels of formality are so varied that they cannot begin to be anticipated in a book like this, and we recognize that what is appropriate for one piece of writing may not be appropriate for another. In most cases, you will have to avoid ambiguity at all costs so as not to leave your words open to misinterpretation．

Section B(15 minutes，10 points)

中国可持续发展依赖的有限自然资源正在锐减。一方面是生产规模在不断扩大，消耗更多的能源；另一方面是缺少能高效利用能源的生产设备。这迫使我们思考如何为后人留下足够的环境空间以使他们实现他们的愿望。

PART VI WRITING(30 minutes，10 points)

Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 150 words under the title of “Publish or Perish” Your composition should be based on the information given below：

Many universities require each graduate student to have at least one paper published before getting the master's degree．They say this is a good way to evaluate the graduate students．What do you think about this?

参考答案

Part V Translation

Section A

在本书中，我们提出一些建议，我们希望这些建议看起来合理并值得认真考虑。但有经验的作者都知道，有时最好的建议也可能不适用。写书要针对不同的读者，具有不同的目的，有关不同的题材，语言的正式程度也不同，所有这一切提出种种要求，本书是无法预见到的。我们也意识到对某一作品是合适的内容而对另一作品来说可能不合适。在多数情况下，你只好不惜代价把含义表达清楚(避免含义不清)，目的是防止人们随意曲解你使用的文字。

Section B

The limited natural resources on which China's sustainable development depends are declining sharply, on the one hand, the expanding scale of production leads to (results in) increased consumption of energy / the scale of production keeps expanding, consuming more energy. On the other hand, production facilities (equipment) that can utilize energy efficiently are lacking. That (This) forces us to think about how to leave enough environmental space to future generations (our offspring) so that they can fulfill their aspirations.