北京科技大学研究生英语考试真题
北京科技大学考研英语题目(含复试)
一As is vividly depicted by the drawing above, a boy is sleeping soundly① and comfortably in the sofa, with the television on, when his mother comes and turnsoff the television for him, blaming the boy for not having turned off the television again②。
This phenomenon can easily be found anywhere in our daily life. Many people are used to doing③ everything with the television on, not actually watching it at all. Such a habit can cause waste of much electricity and energy, and result in the emission of carbo n. This deviates from the popular concept of “low carbon life” — to reduce the emission of carbon, especially carbon dioxide, to protect our environment and realize sustainable development. According to statistics, if we can decrease the time for having the television on by one hour each day, we can deduce the amount of carbon emission by 4. 71 kilogram each month。
14北科211翻硕英语考研真题
2021 年北京科技大学 211 翻硕英语考研真题I.Vocabulary and Structure ( 30 points, 1 point each, 60 minutes)Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, orD.1.It was nearly always organized by the government, although some club members acted their own initiative.2.by B.on C.with D.in3.4.saving B.to save C.saved D.save5.Modern bodies are especially to cancer, because technology produces waste that inhibits their proper functioning.6.relevant B.invulnerable C.prone D.attractive7.Some of his plans were impractical and good for his work, but he never wavered in what he considered just.8.too much B.much too C.so much D.much so9.Supporters praised the action as a speedy and judicious solution, but critics condemned it as and unfairly influenced by recent events.10. A.delayedB.indisposedC.hastyD.imperious11.It is odd that a person’s worth is measured by his wealth, instead people’s character should be measured by their value to society.12.wh ile B.so C.because D.when13.Du ring the 17th century many artists became involved in color theory andpainting for enlightenment.14.looked up to B.looked out C.lookedon D.looked to15.No government can meet thedemand for ever more sophisticated medical technology by an aging population.16.intransigent B.insatiable C.ingenious D.inglorious17.It is difficult to distinguish between the things that celebrities do and those that are carefully contrived for effect.18.reluctantly B.publicly C.spontaneously D.prolifically19.The monkeys in the zoo are a group, because primates are inevitably and build their lives around each other.20.social B.independent C.stable D.curious21.When economy, language, culture and history interact, people begin to view them as subjects rather than isolated ones.22.idiosyncratic B.integral C.synchronized D.synthesized23.24.give out B.give away C.give of D.give off25.Even though formidable winters are the norm in this region, people wereunprepared for the of the blizzard that year.dness B.ferocity C.inevitability D.probability27.28.prolific B.prominent C.promising D.marginalized29.All are in the stages, until architectural historians survey each house to determine which have historic value.30.preliminary B.primary C.prevalent D.predicative31.He has unusual insight and imagination, which has made him succeed innew and fundamental principles well in advance of their general recognition.32.coordinating B.discerning C.acknowledging D.dispelling33.The storyline of the novel was extremely involved and included many lesser characters to the central events.34.consequential B.peripheral C.indispensable D.permeating35.Once I finally finding a definition, I see that it was never any such thing.36.get across to B.get away with C.get round to D.get in with37.Despite the fact that the life span of animals is conveniently divided into separate stages, those periods are not truly .38.distinct B.continuous C.reflexive D.codependent39.In spite of among scientists, and years of contentious discussion, the claim that earthquake can be predicted with great precision prevails.40.reception B.popularity C.skepticism D.antipathy41.No dictionary can really capture something as fleeting and as slang.42.equivocal B.equitable C.equable D.ephemeral43.They bought up pieces of old furniture and passed them as valuable antiques.44.out B.by C.away D.off45.46.in B.under C.to D.with47.48.infinity B.conformity C.affinity D.fluidity49.It is no accident that most people find his book disturbing, for it is calculated to undermine a number of beliefs they have long .50.cherished B.denied C.anticipated D.misunderstood51.Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to his poetry, even now only a few independent observers his works.A.52.The exhibition, though small in scale, succeeded in its members with a firm sense of self-worth and purpose.53.endowing B.imbuing dening D.providing54.We were all impressed by the style of his books which is strongly of Virginia Woolf’s novels.55.reminiscent B.symptomatic C.indicative D.imitative56.Historian can “Augustan peace” only by failing to recognize that this peace in many respects resemble that of death.57.demand B.ridicule C.applaud D.disapprove58.II.described B.acknowledged C.overlooked D.authenticatedIII.Section IDirections: In this section there are two reading passages followed by multiple choice questions.Read the passages and then write your answers on your answer sheet. Passage OneMuch of this eavesdropping has long been surmised, and none of it is necessarily illegal.America gives wide powers to its law-enforcement and spy agencies.They are overseen by Congress and courts, which issue orders to internet firms.Afghanistan and Iraq.And the public seems happy: if there were another attack on America, Mr Snowden would soon be forgotten.Yet because the spies choose what to reveal about their work, nobody can judge if the cost and intrusion are proportionate to the threat.One concern is the size, scope and cost of the security bureaucracy: some 1.4 million people have “top secret”clearances of the kind held by Mr Snowden.Is that sensible?A second worry is the effect on America’s ties with other countries.The administration’s immediate response to the PRISM revelation was that Americans have nothing to fear: it touched only foreigners.That adds insult to injury in countries that count themselves as close American allies: the European Union, in particular, fastidiously protects its citizens’ data.Fears abound that the spy agencies practice a cynical swap, in which each respects the letter of the law protecting the rights of its own people—but lets its allies do the snooping instead.Lawyerly officials denials of such machinations fail to reassure because of the third worry: the governments acting outside public scrutiny are not to betrusted.James Clapper, America’s director of national intelligence, told Congress in March that the NSA does not gather data on “millions of Americans”.He now says he answered in “the least untruthful manner” possible.Trawls through big databases may produce interesting clues—but also life-ruining false alarms, especially when the resulting decisions are cloaked in secrecy.Those on “no-fly lists”, which ban an unknown number of people from most air travel, are not told what they have done wrong and cannot clear their names.In desperation, 13 American citizens, including some who were exiled from their own country by the travel ban, are suing the government.Our point is not that America’s spies are doing the wrong things, but that the level of public scrutiny is inadequate and so is the right of redress.Without these, officials will be tempted to abuse their powers, because the price of doing so is small.This is particularly true for those who bug and ban.1.According to the passage, which of the following statements about vigilance is true?A.President Obama describes the spying as a defense of security.B.Americans differ in their attitude towards the government’s vigilance.C.The administration and Congress feel ashamed of the spying.D.America’s law-enforcement and spy agencies are not entitled to spy.2.The sentence in paragraph two “if there were another attack on America, Mr Snowden would soon be forgotten” probably means .A.Americans need divert their attention from the spying event.B.Vigilance would be accepted by the public if America was faced with danger.C.Mr Snowden’s revelation of PRISM would be forgotten sooner or later.3.Americans have the following concerns regarding vigilance EXCEPT .A.Spy agents leave Americans little privacy and less security.B.Spying will dama ge America’s relation with other countries.C.It is not sensible to devote much money and energy to vigilance.D.There lacks effective scrutiny of the government’s surveillance.4.The case that some citizens are banned from air travel in paragraph 7 is presented to illustrate .A.the efficiency of spyingB.the absurdity of the banC.the inadequacy of the spying systemD.the interesting findings of spying5.What is the author’s stance on vigilance by the government?A.Vigilance does more harm than good to American citizens.B.Protection of society is merely an excuse for illegal vigilance.C.The legitimacy of vigilance is still open to discussion.D.Vigilance is necessary but should be better scrutinized by the public.Passage TwoToo many of the findings that fill the academic ether are the result of shoddy experiments or poor analysis.A rule of thumb among biotechnologyEven when flawed research does not put people’s lives at risks—and much of it is too far from the market to do so—it squanders money and the efforts of some of the world’s best minds.The opportunity costs of stymied progress are hard to quantify, but they are likely to be vast.And they could be rising.every academic post.Nowadays verification does little to advance a researcher’s career.And without verification, dubious findings live on to mislead.Careerism also encourages exaggeration and the cherry-picking of results.In order to safeguard their exclusivity, the leading journals impose high rejection rates:in excess of 90% of submitted manuscripts.The most striking findings have the greatest chance of making it onto the page.Little wonder that one in three researchers knows of a colleague who has pepped up a paper by, say, excluding inconvenient data from results “based on a gut feeling”.And as more research teams around the world work on a problem, the odds shorten that at least one will fall prey to an honest confusion between the sweet signal of a genuine discovery and a freak of the statistical noise.Conversely, failures to prove a hypothesis are rarely even offered for publication, let alone accepted.“Negative results” now account for only 14% of published papers, down from 30% in 1990.Yet knowing what is false is as important to science as knowing what is true.The failure to report failures means that researchers waste money and effort exploring blind alleys already investigated by other scientists.The hallowed process of peer review is not all it is cracked up to be, either.Whena prominent medical journal ran research past other experts in the field, it found that most of the reviewers failed to spot mistakes it had deliberately inserted into papers, even after being told they were being tested.All this makes a shaky foundation for an enterprise dedicated to discovering the truth about the world.What might be done to shore it up? One priority should be forall disciplines to follow the example of those that have done most to tighten standards.Ideally, research protocols should be registered in advance and monitored in virtual notebooks.This would curb the temptation to fiddle with the experiment’s design midstream so as to make the results look more substantial than they are.Where possible, trial data also should be open for other researchers to inspect and test.6.Which issue about science is mainly addressed in the passage?A.Science calls for more verification.B.Flawed science research does harm to humanity.C.D.An objective evaluation of science is necessary.7.Which of the following statements can best explain the major issue in science?A.Scientific research is too flawed to be turned into productivity.B.Scientists are unwilling to get papers published for promotion.C.D.Peer review mechanism is not fully implemented.8.“cherry-picking of results” in paragraph five refers to .A.overstating the results to get papers publishedB.keeping only positive results to get paper publishedC.selecting only papers with the most favorable resultsD.safeguarding the high quality of experiment results9.According to the passage, negative results in scientific experiments should be.A.B.published to avoid unnecessary waste of money and effortC.D.adapted to incorporate with a new hypothesis10.The passage suggests the following solutions to the issue in science EXCEPT.A.implementing higher standards in scientific experimentB.carrying out larger scale of inspection and test of trial dataC.allocating more funding for the verification of science resultsD.speeding up the application of science results to the marketSection IIDirections: Read the following two passages and answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow the passages.Write your answers in the corresponding space on your answer sheet.Passage ThreeThe American dream has taken hit after hit the past half-decade.It just suffered another blow, based on a new poll.Yet young people seem determined to turn things around, giving us all cautious cause for optimism.When writer James Truslow Adams coined the phrase in 1931 he called the American dream “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” So it was all about opportunity, which largely has disappeared amid a poor job market, heavy debts, and wages that have stalled for 25 years.All this pessimism would be deadly troublesome if not for one thing: young people aren’t buying it.More than half of teens in the poll say it’s better to be a kid today, and nearly half say that when they are their parents’ age they will have more opportunity—not less.Maybe that’s because young people learned a lot during the Great Depression.They saw their parents get socked.But with no real assets at risk themselves they came through it unscathed, financially speaking, and yet took the lessons to heart and are more conscious about spending and debt than Mom and Dad have been.11.What is the passage mainly about?12.What specific aspects about American dream are discussed in the passage?13.How do you interpret the first sentence in p aragraph eight: “All the pessimism would be deadly troublesome if not for one thing: young people aren’t buying it.”?14.What is the author’s attitude towards the issue being discussed?15.Could you give a title to the passage?Passage FourIt’s an exciting notion that one’s very self could be broadened by the mastery of two or more languages.In obvious ways (exposure to new friends, literature and so forth) the self-reality is broadened.Yet it is different to claim—as many people do—to have a different personality when using a different language.A former colleague, for example, reported being ruder in Hebrew than in English.So what is going on here?Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers.Often called “Whorfinanism”, this idea has its skeptics.But there are still good reasons to believe language shapes thought.This influence is not necessarily linked to the vocabulary or grammar of a second language.Significantly, most people are not symmetrically bilingual.Many have learned one language at home from parents, and another later in life, usually at school.So bilinguals usually have different strengths and weaknesses in their different languages—and they are not always best in their first language.For example, when tested in a foreign language, people are less likely to fall into a cognitive trap (answering a test question with an obvious-seeming but wrong answer) than when tested in their native language.In part this is because working in a second language slows down the thinking.No wonder people feel different when speaking them.And no wonder they feel looser, more spontaneous, perhaps more assertive or funnier or blunter, in the language they were reared in from childhood.Many bilinguals are not bicultural.But some are.And of those bicultural bilinguals, we should be little surprised that they feel different in their two languages.Experiments in psychology have shown the power of “priming”—small unnoticed factors that can affect behavior in big ways.Asking people to tell a happy story, for example, will put them in a better mood.The choice between two languages is a huge prime.Speaking Spanish rather than English, for a bilingual and bicultural Puerto Rican in New York, might conjure feelings of family and home.Switching to English might prime the same person to think of school and work.So there are two very good reasons that make people feel different speaking their different languages.We are still left with a third kind of argument, though.People seem to enjoy telling tales about their languages’ inherent properties, and how they influence their speakers.A group of French intellectual worthies once proposed, rather self-flatteringly, that French be the sole legal language of the EU, because of its supposedly unmatchable rigor and precision.Some Germans believe that frequently putting the verb at the end of a sentence makes the language especially logical.We also see some unsurprising overlap with national stereotypes andself-stereotypes: French, rigorous; German, logical; English, playful.Of course.Many languages all around the world are heavily inflected, encoding lots of information in verbs.It would be a striking finding if all of these unrelated languages had speakers more likely to interrupt each other.Welsh, for example, is also both verb-first and about as heavily inflected as Greek, but the Welsh are not known as pushy conversationalists.16.Which statement or notion is under discussion in this passage?17.18.According to the passage, why do people feel different when they speak different languages?19.Why are Greeks likely to interrupt in conversation according to some scholar?20.Does the author agree on the causation from language to personality? How does he argue for or against it?IV.Writing ( 30 points, 60 minutes)。
北京科技大学-研究生英语口试6题
1.What is Big Brother? Give an example. (Unit 1)Any person, organization, or system that seems to want to control people’s lives and restrict their freedom(a figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by the government)camera phone,bugs3.Why is it risky to have multiple procedures at once? Give an example. (Unit 3)Generally,Having multiple procedures not only prolongs recovery but also increases the time a patient is anesthetized.,which can be risky.James mccormick undergo multiple procedures ,and the next day,he was dead.4.Why is it bad for children to learn too much at an early age? (Unit 4) Through early childhood and into adolescence this timetable is significantly influenced by myelin.Current reaserch identifies that the escalation of myelin occeurs in various stages and there is actually a 100% increase in myelin during adolescence.In other words,the bulid-up and acquisition of myelin towards full brain maturation is more marathon than sprint and no measure of extra tuition or early training in any activity will influence this developmental timeline.5.Do you think that free online lectures will destroy universities? (Unit 5)Freely available online lectures and textbooks give universities the opportunity to reduce costs and increase quality,while focusing resources on what really matters:contact time between teaches and students. the simple fact is that the education most universities provide isn’t worth the money. if they don’t have world-class reputations-and only a few do-then need to change fast,or watch an exodus of students away to cheaper, better alternatives.8. Why are manners important in our daily life? Give an example. (Unit 8) If we want to be good ,we have to get into the habit of being good.Just think about the nicest people you know and most of the time you’ll discover that you regard for them is not based on their tireless work to eradicate world poverty, but a basic decency expressed through their everyday dealing with others.Wrong numbers; travelling right; good loving; new age; social work9. What is the main idea of the book Essay on the Principle of Population? (Unit 9)Human population, he observed, increases at a geometric rate, doubling about every 25 years if unchecked, while agricultural production increases arithmetically-much more slowly. Malthus thought such checks could be voluntary, such as birth control, abstinence, or delayed marriage--or involuntary, through the scourges of war, famine ,and disease.。
北京科技大学考研翻译硕士英语真题
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====================================== ========================================= ============================== PART I GRAMMAR&VOCABULARY[60MIN](1x30=30POINTS) T here are thirty sentences in this section.B eneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C,D.Please choose the correct answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on the answer sheet.1.The day is past when the country can afford to give high school diploma to all who______six years of instruction.A.set aboutB.run forC.sit throughD.make for2.Anderson held out his arms to______the attack,but the shark grabbed his right forearm anddived.A.turn offB.ward offC.trigger offD.call off3.Small children are often______to nightmares after hearing ghost stories in the dark.A.definiteB.perceptibleC.incipientD.susceptible4.Automation threatens mankind with an increased number of______hours.A.meager/doc/e29863278.html,plexC.idleD.active5.It would be______their hospitality to accept any more from them.A.trampling onB.treading onC.trespassing onD.trying on6.We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refused to follow the advice of our______leader.A.venerableB.respectfulC.graciousD.famous7.A safety analysis______the target as a potentialdanger.Unfortunately,it was never done.A.would identifyB.will identifyC.will have identifiedD.would have identified8.These proposals sought to place greater restrictions on the use and copying of digitalinformation than______in traditional media.A.existB.existsC.existingD.to exist9.Despite the fact that over time the originally antagonistic response to his sculpture haslessened,to this day,hardly any individuals______his art.A.evaluateB.applaudC.denounceD.ignore10.The shortcomings of Mr.Brooks’analysis are______his clarity in explaining financialcomplexity.A.alleviated byB.offset byC.magnified byD.demonstrated by11.Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian______later Greek civilization,it would beincorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.A.imitation ofB.ambivalence aboutC.disdain forD.influence on12.Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to______experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.A.transcribe/doc/e29863278.html,plicateC.manageD.amplify13.Though science is often imagined as a disinterested exploration of external reality,scientistsare no different from anyone else:they are______human beings enmeshed in a web of personal and social circumstances.A.vulnerableB.rationalC.carelessD.passionate14.Not until Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave had been completely explored in1972______.A.when was its full extent realizedB.that its full extent was realizedC.was its full extent realizedD.the realization of its full extent15.You should have known better than______your little sister at home herself.A.to leaveB.leaveC.leavingD.to have left16.I cannot concentrate on my work with the prospect of the court case______me.A.hanging onB.hanging overC.hanging upD.hanging on to17.The fantastic achievements of modern technology and the speed at which scientificdiscoveries are translated into technological applications______the triumph of human endeavor.A.facilitateB.lead toC.attest toD.herald18.The new conflict between Man and Nature is more dangerous than the traditional one betweenman and his fellow man,______the protagonists at least shared a common language.A.whereB.whichC.whatD.that19.Even if automakers modify commercially produced cars to run on alternative fuels,the carswon’t catch on in a way______drivers can fill them up at the gas station.A.ifB.whenC.unlessD.because20.Having been isolated on a remote island,with little work______them,the soldiers sufferedfrom boredom and low spirits.A.occupyingB.to occupyC.occupiedD.occupy21.An institution concerned about its reputation is at the mercy of the actions of its members,because the misdeeds of individuals are often used to______the institutions of which they are a part.A.coerceB.honorC.discreditD.intimidate22.The newborn human infant is not a passive figure,nor an active one,but what might be calledan actively receptive one,eagerly attentive______it is to sights and sounds.A.asB.whatC.thatD.which23.For him______,what is essential is not that policy works,but that the public believe that itdoes.A.being re-electedB.to be re-electedC.re-electedD.to re-elect24.Mercury’s velocity is so much greater than the Earth’s that it completes more than fourrevolutions around the Sun in the time______takes the Earth to complete one.A.whenB.itC.thatD.which25.The mother would______her son doing his music practice if he could finish his assignmentbefore supper.A.let downB.let aloneC.let offD.let out26.When the streets are full of melting snow,you can’t help but______your shoes wet.A.gettingB.getC.to getD.got27.She could sing these songs______a moment’s notice whenever she was asked.A.withB.toC.onD.at28.As we see______political and national movements,language is used as a badge or barrierdepending on which way we look at it.A.in aspects ofB.in view ofC.in consideration ofD.in relation to29.The emergence of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution;______the newexpansion in literacy,as well as cheaper printing,helped to nurture the rise of popular literature.A.as a resultB.in turnC.thereforeD.in other words30.The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction;indeed,the phenomenon is not even______.A.real/doc/e29863278.html,prehendedC.rareD.observablePART II READING COMPREHENSION[60MIN](40POINTS)=20points)Section One Multiple Choice(2x10(2x10=20Directions:In this section there are two reading passages followed by multiple choice questions. R ead the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.Passage AOn Aug.14,2007a computer hacker named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that hedubbed WikiScanner.It’s a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia,the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia,and checks on who is making changes to which entries.Sometimes it’s people who shouldn’t be.For example,WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody from Wal-Mart had punched up Wal-Mart’s Wikipedia entry. Bad retail giant.WikiScanner is a jolly little game o f Internet,but it’s really about something more:a growing popular irritation with the Internet in general.The Net has anarchy in its DNA;it’s always been about anonymity,playing with your own identity and messing with other people’s heads.The idea, such as it was,seems to have been that the Internet would free us of the burden of our public identities so we could be our true,authentic selves online.Except it turns out—who could’ve seen this coming?—that our true,authentic selves aren’t that fantastic.The great experiment proved that some of us are wonderful and interesting but that a lot of us are hackers and pranksters and hucksters.Which is one way of explaining the extraordinary appeal of Facebook.Facebook is a“social network”:a website for keeping track of your friends and sending them messages and sharing photos and doing all those other things that a good little Web2.0 company is supposed to help you do.It was started by Harvard students in2004as a tool for meeting—at least discreetly ogling—other Harvard students,and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged-at-heart.Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow up.Whereas Google is a brilliant technological hack,Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering.(It wouldn’t be a bad ideafor Google to acquire Facebook,the way it snaffled YouTube,but it’s almost certainly too late in the day for that.Yahoo!offered a billion for Facebook last year and was rebuffed.)Facebook’s appeal is both obvious and rather subtle.It’s a website,but in a sense,it’s another version of the Internet itself:a Net within a Net,one that’s everything the larger Net is not.Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy,upmarket feel to it —a whiff of the Ivy League still clings.People tend to use their real names on Facebook.They also declare their sex,age,whereabouts,romantic status and institutional affiliations.Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook:it is a fixed and orderly fact.Nobody does anything secretly:a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities.On Facebook,everybody knows you’re a dog.Maybe that’s why Facebook’s fastest-growing demographic consists of people35or older: they’re refugees from the uncouth wider Web.Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order,and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internet’s founding vision of unfettered electronic liberty.Of course,it is possible to misbehave on Facebook—it’s just self-defeating.Unlike the Internet,Facebook is structured around an opt-in philosophy;people have to consent to have contact with or even see others on the network.If you’re annoying folks,you’ll essentially cease to exist,as those you annoy drop you off the grid.Facebook has taken steps this year to expand its functionality by allowing outside developers to create applications that integrate with its pages,which brings with it expanded opportunities for abuse.No doubt Griffith is hard at work on FacebookScanner.But it has also hung on doggedly to its coreinsight:that the most important function of a social network is connecting people and that its second most important function is keeping them apart.1.Which of the following is INCORRECT about WikiScanner?A.It can change or revise some entries of Wikipedia.B.It can trace the origin of some information on the Internet.C.It expresses people’s irritation with the Internet.D.It reveals people’s real selves on the Internet.2.The advantages of Facebook are mainly presented by comparing the differences betweenFacebook andA.WikiScanner.B.Google.C.the Internet.D.FacebookScanner3.What does the last sentence of Paragraph Four really mean?A.You are looked down upon by people on Facebook.B.If you misbehave on Facebook,everybody will know.C.You can pretend to be a dog on Facebook.D.Everybody knows who you are on Facebook.4.What is Facebook’s real appeal according to the passage?A.Only well-educated people can be allowed to register.B.People can do something different from what they do on the Internet.C.It is cleanly designed and has very powerful and diverse uses.D.Its real name registration system makes it difficult to misbehave.5.If you misbehave on Facebook,you will beA.forbidden to use Facebook forever.B.criticized by other people on Facebook.C.dropped out of other people’s lists of friends.D.cut network connections.Passage BClancy Martin knows a lot about lying.He’s now an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri,Kansas City,specializing in19th-and20th-century continental philosophy and business ethics,and he wrote his dissertation on deception.But he really learned how to lie in his youth,when he was a crackerjack jewelry salesman.Not as good as his brother,perhaps,but good enough to turn a fake Rolex into the real thing.“I do miss it,”Martin admits.“I miss that feeling of being on the edge.Say what you will,there is something fun about deceiving people.”Talking to Martin about deception can be unnerving.His voice,sweetened with sincerity,has the compulsive tones of a convert.Sincere people make good salesmen.So what to make of Clancy Martin—a man who wants to sell his debut novel while reclaiming his soul?When he was young,selling was simple—a matter of getting a customer to buy into his fictions.“He was a very gifted liar.”says his brother and former business partner,Darren.That much is still true,as Martin’s novel,How to Sell,makes clear.How to Sell is outrageous,theatrical and slicker than oil.It tells the tale of Bobby Clark,a high-school dropout who joins his older brother at a jewelry shop in Texas.It’s a festival of drugs,diamonds and sex.Prostitution,a saleswoman turned hooker suggests at one point,is a more honest kind of living than the jewelry trade(at least in t his book).“With what I do now,”she tells Bobby,“I sleep well at night.”Martin was born in Toronto,in1967.Like his protagonist,he left high school,moved to Texas and got a job at the jewelry store where his brother worked.“I would say that,unfortunately, m ost of the book is lifted directly from my life—with some exaggeration and lots of omission,”says Martin cheerfully.For a young man,the life had a kind of reckless glamour.“You sell a diamond,and boom,”he says.But Martin was a little different from most employees.He read,for example.Just as Bobby riffs on a Jorge Luis Borges story to sell a bracelet,Martin wove stories for customers from the plotlines of books,and he’d read Spinoza’s Ethics—between booze and bumps of coke.Bobby’s pain,too,comes from Martin’s life:his complicated relationships with his older brother and his charming but crazy father,Bill,who was never quite far enough out of the picture.“I think a lot of Clancy’s interest in self-deception came from his interest in who his dad was,”says his e x-wife,Alicia Martin.Martin tried to steer his life in another direction.He went to college,began graduate school in philosophy and married.Then,one day,when he was in Copenhagen working on a paper on Kierkegaard,his brother called and asked him to help with the business plan for expanding his jewelry store.Suddenly,Martin was out of school and back in jewels.Unlike the shop started by the brothers in the novel,the Martins’joint venture was clean,Darren insists.But the game,more or less,was the same:the process of turning a gem from a mass of matter into a narrative of possibility.In the seven years Martin worked there,life was never boring,but it wasn’t much of a life.“I had all this experience,and no sense of moral responsibility,”Martin says.His marriag e broke up. He despaired.But he began writing,and that seemed to offerthe promise of something worthwhile.He returned to graduate school.He wanted to understand deception—and self-deception—not practice it.Insofar as he could.Martin remarried and became a professor.In addition to writing fiction,he translated Nietzsche and had edited several collections on ethics(including the forthcoming Philosophy of Deception);his nonfiction book Love,Lies and Marriage comes out next year.When we spoke two months ago,he said his life was now“incredibly calm and domestic”.He did not say that he was undergoing one of the most trying periods of his life.With How to Sell,Martin has written a gem of a story.Selling it probably won’t be hard.The bigger challenge for Martin might be to learn how to stop selling.6.In Martin’s book,the jewelry business isA.an ideal place for high school drop-outs to start their career.B.like a party in which everybody enjoys the excitement and luxury.C.full of opportunities for knowledgeable people to prosper.D.a world where people rarely value the virtue of honesty.7.Which of the following is NOT true about Bobby Clark,the protagonist of the book How toSell?A.He makes use of what he has read to promote sale.B.He was born in T oronto and dropped out of high school.C.He has a brother who introduces him into the jewelry business.D.His relationship with his father is rather complicated.8.It can NOT be inferred from Paragraph Five and Six thatA.the sense of moral responsibility is important to marriage.B.the jewelry business has great appeal to Martin.C.philosophy is a much less interesting subject than deception.D.excitement is not the most important component of life.9.The sentence in the last paragraph“The bigger challenge for Martin might be to learn how tostop selling”implies thatA.once a person learns how to sell,the skill will never be forgotten.B.if a book becomes a best-seller,it is difficult not to stop selling it.C.cheating might become a kind of addiction that is hard to get rid of.D.books on cheating can always arouse people’s interest of purchase.10.Which of the following best describes the category of writing this passage belongs to?A.A book review in a newspaper.B.An introduction in a jewelry magazine.C.An extract from a biography.D.An analysis of deception from an essay.=20points)Section Two Answering Questions(4x5(4x5=20D irections:Read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage.U se ONLY information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your answer sheet.Questions1to3Think of the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at89.She was the last person who knew the language of the Eyak people as a mother-tongue.Or imagine Ned Mandrell,who died in1974—he was the last native speaker of Manx,similar to Irish and Scots Gaelic.Both these people had the comfort of being surrounded,some of the time, by enthusiasts who knew something precious was vanishing and tried to record and learn whateverthey could of a vanishing tongue.In remote parts of the world,dozens more people are on the point of taking to their graves a system of communication that will never be recorded or reconstructed.Does it matter?Plenty of languages—among them Akkadian,Etruscan,Tangut and Chibcha —have gone the way of the dodo,without causing much trouble to posterity.Should anyone lose sleep over the fact that many tongues—from Manchu(spoken in China)to Hua(Botswana)and Gwich’in(Alaska)—are in danger of suffering a similar fate?Compared with groups who lobby to save animals or trees,campaigners who lobby to preserve languages are themselves a rare breed.But they are trying both to mitigate and publicise an alarming acceleration in the rate at which languages are vanishing.Of some6,900tongues spoken in the world today,some50%to90%could be gone by the end of the century.In Africa,at least300languages are in near-term danger,and200more have died recently or are on the verge of death.Some145languages are threatened in East and South-East Asia.Some languages,even robust ones,face an obvious threat in the shape of a political power bent on imposing a majoritytongue.A youngster in any part of the Soviet Union soon realised that whatever you spoke at home,mastering Russian was the key to success.Nor did English reach its present global status without ruthless tactics.In years past,Americans,Canadians and Australians took native children away from their families to be raised at boarding schools where English rules. In all the Celtic fringes of the British Isles there are bitter memories of children being punished for speaking the wrong language.But in an age of mass communications,the threats to linguistic diversity are less draconian and more spontaneous.Parents stop using traditional tongues,thinking it will be better for their children to grow up using a dominant language(such as Swahili in East Africa)or a global one (such as English or Spanish).And even if parents try to keep the old speech alive,their efforts can be doomed by films and computer games.The result is a growing list of tongues spoken only by white-haired elders.A book edited by Peter Austin,an Australian linguist,gives some examples:Njerep,one of31endangered languages counted in Cameroon,reportedly has only four speakers left,all over60.The valleys of the Caucasus used to be a paradise for linguists in search of unusual syntax,but Ubykh,one of the region’s baffling tongues,officially expired in1992.The effort to keep languages alive can lead to hard arguments,especially where limited funds are available to spend on education and official communications.In both America and Britain, some feel that,whatever people speak at home,priority should go to making sure that children know English well.But supporters of linguistic diversity make strong arguments too.Nicholas Ostler,a scholar who heads the Foundation for Endangered Languages,a non-profit group based in Britain,saysmultilingual children do better academically than monolingual ones.He rejects the notion that a common tongue helps to avoid war:think of Rwanda,Bosnia and Vietnam.Mark Alber,a Canadian writer,says the protection of endangered species is closely linked to the preservation of tongues.On a recent expedition in Australia,a rare turtle was found to have two varieties;a dying but rich native language,Gagudju,had different words for each kind.Thanks to electronics,saviours of languages have better tools than ever before;words and sounds can easily be posted on the /doc/e29863278.html,cation techniques are improving,too.In New Zealand Maori-speakers have formed“language nest”,in which grandparents coach toddlers in theold tongue.Australia’s dying Kamilaroi language was boosted by pop songs teenagers liked.But whatever tricks or technology are used,the only test of a language’s viability is everyday life.“The way to save languages is to speak them,”says Mr.Austin.“People have to talk to people.”Questions:1.According to this passage,what has caused the disappearance or vanishing of some languages?2.Does the electronic age have any impact on language diversity?If so,what is it?3.What is the main purpose of this passage?Questions4to5Traditionally,the study of history has had fixed boundaries and focal points—periods, countries,dramatic events,and great leaders.It also has had clear and firm notions of scholarly procedure:how one inquires into a historical problem,how onepresents and documents one’s findings,what co nstitutes admissible and adequate proof.Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies.The currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog:childhood,work,leisure.The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative,it is now entirely analytic.The old questions“What happened?”and“How did it happen?”have given way to the question“Why did it happen?”Prominent among the methods used to answer the question“Why”is psychoanalysis,and its use has given rise to psychohistory.Psychohistory does not merely use psychological explanations in historical contexts. Historians have always used such explanations when they were appropriate and when there was sufficient evidence for them.But this pragmatic use of psychology is not what psychohistorians intend.They are committed,not just to psychology in general,but to Freudian psychoanalysis. This commitment precludes a commitment to history as historians have always understood it. Psychohistory derives its“facts”not from history,the detailed records of events and their consequences,but from psychoanalysis of the individuals who made history,and deduces its theories not from this or that instance in their lives,but from a view of human nature that transcends history.It denies the basic criterion of historical evidence:that evidence be publicly accessible to,and therefore assessable by,all historians.And it violates the basic tenet of historical method:that historian be alert to the negative instances that would refute their theses. Psychohistorians,convinced of the absolute rightness of their own theories,are also convinced thattheirs is the“deepest”explanation of any event,that other explanations fall short of the truth.Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history(in the sense of the proper mode of studying and writing about the past);it also violates the past itself.It denies to the past an integrity and will of its own,in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which events had a multiplicity of causes and effects.It imposes upon the past the same determinism that it imposes upon the present,thus robbing people and events of their individuality and of their complexity.Instead of respecting the particularity of the past,it assimilates all events,past and present,into a single deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in allcircumstances.Questions:4.According to this passage,how does psychohistory differ from traditional history in treating past events?5.What does the author of the passage probably intend to convey by putting the word“deepest”(in Paragraph3)in quotation marks?MIN]](30POINTS)PART III WRITING[60MINBig cities like Beijing,Shanghai or Guangzhou have been the top choices for many university graduates.But in recent years,much greater pressure of living in those big cities has made some people especially young men think about working in a smaller one.What is your opinion?State your viewpoint clearly and adequately.Write on ANSWER SHEET a composition of about400words on the following topic:Working in Small Cities vs.Big Cities。
北京科技大学综合英语2012年考研专业课初试真题
北京科技大学2012年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题================================================================================================= ============试题编号： 874 试题名称：综合英语（共 7 页）适用专业：外国语言学与应用语言学英语语言文学说明：所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。
================================================================================================= ============说明： This paper covers FOUR subjects: (1) A Survey of Great Britain and the United States, (2) British Literature, (3) American Literature, and (4)General Linguistics. You have 180 minutes to complete the whole paper.Please time your pace well.Part I. Survey of Great Britain and the United States (30 points)I. Fill in the blanks:Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished sentence or question four suggested choices marked A, B, C, and D are given. Choose the ONE that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of your choice in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (10 points)1. Thanksgiving Day is a historical, national and religious holiday that began with the pilgrims. The first was celebrated by the English settlers in __________ on December 13, 1621.A. Plymouth, MassachusettsB. VirginiaC. James TownD. California2. In the early 1960s hope had run high among millions of Americans. Kennedy’s call for a ___________ had inspired many Americans to work to wipe out poverty and end segregation and voting rights abuses,A. New DealB. the Civil Rights ActC. New FrontierD. the Law on Poverty3. Britain is one of the world’s major centers for theatre, and it has some world-famous contemporary playwrights like ____________ whose representative plays include The Caretaker and The Homecoming.A. Tom StoppardB. Harold PinterC. Arnold WeskerD. David Hare4. ___________ is uniquely related to the Crown in that the Sovereign must be a member of that Church, and it is not free to change its form of worship without the consent of Parliament.A. Christian churchB. The Church of IrelandC. Catholic churchD. The Church of England5. The post-war years were not peaceful to England. When Nasser, the Egyptian president, nationalized the Suez Canal in__________, British and French forces invaded Egypt. The action was widely condemned at home and abroad.A. 1960B. 1956C. 1945D. 19326. Under ________, the feudal system in England was established. One feature of the feudal system of England was that all landowners took the oath of allegiance for the land they held, not only to their immediate lord, but also to the king.A. King EdwardB. King AlfredC. Roman conquestD. William the conqueror7. The three conditions on which the Sino-US diplomatic relation was established are: the U.S.A must withdraw its troops from Taiwan and the Taiwan Straits, end diplomatic relations with Taiwan and cancel ___________.A. the Taiwan Relations ActB. the Mutual Defence TreatyC. American allianceD. Shanghai Communique8. The American Constitution is the oldest written constitution in the world. It was originally in the form of __________, which had little in common with the later officially adopted constitution in 1787.A. Common SenseB. Continental CongressC. the Articles of ConfederationD. Declaration of Independence9. During the last decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, some American writers in their works reported truthfully and objectively the life in the slums. They called themselves naturalists, and _______ who was famous for Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, was one of the representatives.A. Theodore DreiserB. Jack LondonC. Richard WrightD. Ernest Hemingway10. The 18th century was an age of Enlightenment in America. _________ was aspokesman of it: people still believed that God was the center of the world, but they began to see the importance of man, of reason and order.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Lord CornwallisC. Benjamin FranklinD. George WashingtonII. Answer the following questions in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet.(20 points, 5 for each)1. What is meant by the term “welfare state” in Britain?2. What do you know about James Joyce and his works?3. What were the causes of New Conservatism that led to the election of RonaldReagan as the president?4. Who were the first Americans? How was America discovered by Europeans inthe 15th century?Part II. British Literature (30 points)I. Fill in the blanks:write your answers on your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (8 points)1. The shift in English literature from emphasis on reason to instinct and emotion was intellectually prepared for by a number of thinkers in the later half of the 18th century. One is __________, the French philosopher who is generally regarded as the father of romanticism. Another two are Edmund Burke and Thomas Painer.2. Except for Satan in Paradise lost, the revengeful Heathcliff in __________ has no equal in English literature. His intense love for Catherine and his relentless revenge on his enemy mark him a unique figure.3. In the first two books of ________ the Christian God is described by Satan and his followers as a tyrant, while on the other hand all the fallen angels in council voice unanimously their determination to fight for their freedom and their will to defy tyranny and plot revenge.4. The title of Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair is taken from John Bunyan’s ________, in which the protagonist Christian passes a Vanity Fair, where all sorts of vanity are sold.5. Although the novel was the predominating genre of literature in the _______age, there were still some prominent romantic poets like Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning.6. The works by the Bronte sisters are marked by a new concept of women as heroines of vital strength and passionate feelings. In Jane Eyre, it is Jane’s rebelliousness, her dislike for servility, and her insistence on _______ that make the book unique.7. As the last important novelist of the Victorian age, Hardy was ______ in his view of life. His philosophy was that every thing in the universe is determined by the Immanent Will, which is hostile towards human beings’ desire for joy.8. In the last thirty year of the 16th century there was a flourishing of drama which England had never seen before. Several predecessors to Shakespeare were called University Wits, among whom the most prominent was Christopher Marlowe, who was famous for ____________.II. Identify the title of the work of the following excerpts: write the titles of the works on your Answer Sheet. (10 points)1. Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty…2. Jimmy: God, how I hate Sundays! It’s always so depressing, always the same. Wenever seem to get any further, do we? Always the same ritual. Reading thepapers, drinking tea, ironing. A few more hours, and another week gone. 3. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!4. Old Mrs. Linton paid us several visits, to be sure, and set things to rights, and scolded and ordered us all; and when Catherine was convalescent, she insisted on conveying her to Thrushcross Grange: for which deliverance we were very grateful.5. To record of Mr Dombey that he was not in his way affected by this news (his wife is dying), would be to do him an injustice. He was not a man of whom it could properly be said that he was ever startled, or shocked ….6. On nothing per annum, then, and during a course of some two of three years, of which we can afford to give but a very brief history, Crawley and his wife lived very happily and comfortably at Paris. It was in this period that he quitted the Guards, and sold out of the army.7. Go, and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me, where all past years are,Or who cleft the Devil’s foot…8. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.9. I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children. Infant’s flesh will be in season throughout the year....10. She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?Her eye discourses: I will answer it.I am too bold, ‘tis not me she speaks.III. Answer the question concerning the following paragraph from The Merchant of Venice: write your answers on your Answer Sheet. (12 points)The quality of mercy is not strain’d,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kingsBut mercy is above this sceptral sway:It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,And earthly power doth then show likest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice.Question: Paraphrase the lines above. (Pay special attention to the words and phrases underlined.)Part III. American Literature (30 points)I. Fill in the blanks:write your answers on your Answer Sheet after the numbers.(10 points)1. Culminated around the 1840s, from Jefferson’s death in 1826 to the Civil War in 1861, was the age of the literary giants. They developed the new national literature of America founded by__________ and______________.2. With open, fluid and long lines sweeping across the pages, ______ wrote in his poems about all kinds of things, the ants, leaves, our hearing and even breathing, expressing his love of life and philosophy about life particularly in the image of grass.3. Name two fiction writers in the first part of 19th c American literature:____________, ___________.4. The 1920s was another golden age of American literature, which boasted of a number of great writers. Among them, ________ is regarded as the spokesman of the Lost Generation; ____________ as an active participant of the Jazz Age, and ____________ as a representative of the Harlem renaissance.5. With _________ as his representative work, and depicting sympathetically about the poor, oppressed California farmers, migrants, and laborers, John Steinbeck is recognized as the foremost writer of the Great Depression in America.6. The 1960s are remembered as a time of widespread social disturbances in America. In the South, ________ organized the black Civil Rights Movement, demanding fully equal treatment for blacks under the law.II. Identify the title of the work of the following excerpts: write the titles of the works on your Answer Sheet. (8 points)1. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But ifa man would be alone, let him look at the stars.2. And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;3. A child said what is grass? fetching it to me with full hands,How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.4. A Slave Warehouse! Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions ofsuch a place. They fancy some foul, obscure den, some horrible Tartarus“informis, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.” But no, innocent friend! In these days men have learned the art of sinning expertly and genteelly ….5. “Miss Watson your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.”6. When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk,…It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of illusions of ignorance and youth.7. Down, down, he swam till his arms and legs grew tired and hardly moved… This hurt was not death, was the thought that oscillated through his reeling consciousness. Death did not hurt. It was life, the pangs of life, this awful, suffocating feeling; it was the last blow life could deal him.8. My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn’t pick upon some bough.III. Essay questions: write your answers on your Answer Sheet. (12 points)Read the except from Hemingway’s “In Another Country”, a story about the First World War, and then answer the questions.We all had the same medals…. The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them. I showed them the papers …. After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders. I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals. I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded, after all, was really an accident. I was never ashamed of the ribbons, though, and sometimes, after the cocktail hour, I would imagine myself having done all the things they had done to get their medals; but walking home at night through the empty streets with the cold wind and all the shops closed, trying to keep near the street lights, I knew that Ì would never have done such things, and I was very much afraid to die, and often lay in bed at night by myself, afraid to die and wondering how I would be when back to the front again.The three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart.Questions:1. What kind of writer is Hemingway?2. How different are the metals of the boys and the narrator? And what differentcourage is depicted in the paragraph here through the images of the three boys and the speaker? How can you understand the image of hawks in the secondparagraph?Part IV General Linguistics (60 points)Part I Define the following linguistic terms in your own words (20 points, 4 points each).1.Metalanguage2.Allophones3.Inflection4.The referential theory5.The illocutionary actPart II Finish the following according to the requirements for each (15 points, 5 points each):1.What is macrolinguistics? List no less than three branches of macrolinguistics anddefine them briefly.2. Discuss the difference between DEEP and SURFACE structures.3. What is the difference between sense and reference? Use specific examples toillustrate three kinds of sense relations.Part III Provide as much information as you know about each of the following topics (25 points, 12.5 points each).1.What are the central notions Halliday’s systemic functional grammar?2. What is the theory of conversational implicature? Discuss the characteristics ofimplicature.。
北京科技大学研究生英语口试8题
北京科技大学研究生英语口试8题Number OneWhat is “T he American Dream”? Give an example.Everyone has a unique interpretation of what the American Dream might be. American Dream in my mind, is a belief that as long as the United States after a hard struggle will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life. The American Dream is the dream of a land where all people can succeed through hard work. It is also an idea that suggests that all people have the potential to live happy, successful lives.One people can represent American dream was Obama. Obama was growing up in a poor family. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard University, through hard work, for the first time in 2004, he elected as a senator, and became the first black president of American.Number TwoWhat is Big Brother? Give an example.Big Brother, a character in the novel 1984 by George Orwell .Big Brother, An omnipresent, seemingly benevolent figure representing the oppressive control over individual lives exerted by an authoritarian government.In the article, Big Brother represents cameras such as closed-circuit televisions often track Your moves, your mobile phone reveals your location .your transit pass and credit cards leave digital trails, now there is the possibilities that citizens are being watched.例子：p20Number ThreeWhat is green architecture? Give an example.As the environmental impact of buildings becomes more apparent, a new field called green building is gaining concern. Green or sustainable building is the practice of creating healthier & more resource -efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and demolition. Research and experience increasingly demonstrate that when buildings are designed and operated with their lifecycle impacts in mind, they can provide great environmental, economic, and social benefits.Green building is the practice of: 1.increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials, and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better sitting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal—the complete building life cycle. Green building is an essential component of the related concepts of sustainable design, sustainable development and sustainability.Take ‘The Gherkin’,as example, it is formally known as ‘The Swiss Re building’ or ‘30 St Mary’s Axe’. This 40 storey tapering building is already a popular icon on the city skyline. What is most remarkable about the building is not its name or its shape, however, but itsenergy-efficiency. Thanks to its artful design and some fancy technology, it is expected to consume up to 50% less energy than a comparable conventional office building. Green architecture is changing the way buildings are designed, built and run.Number fourWhy is it risky to have multiple procedures at once? Give an example.Plastic surgery does means going under the knife, and lately there have been plenty of reminders of the risks involved.Number FiveWhy it is bad for children to learn too much at an early age?Nowadays Children are introduced to too much academic training too early. many parents require their children to participate in a lot of pre-school remedial classes or specialty classes. For example, the class of learn English, learn painting. But so many things to learn, which makes the kids feel very tired. Many of these children are shuffling from one form of tuition to another. It harms the children both mentally and physically.1. The development of myelin in the brain determines a child’s learning capability development. However, while we know that input from the environment helps shape the brain, we must also remember that brain maturation and overall development do not follow a nice neat agenda. Significantly, Outside stimuli will not help a child to learn until his brain is mature enough. each individual child is diffident and simply immersing a child in an endless bombardment of stimuli may do more harm than good.2. I strongly object to the competitive early childhood education and is convinced that too much, too soon and too fast may do more harm to children than good on the ground of recent neurological findings. The education and learning for kids are a step-by-step process, not a race. Playing is necessary for children; too much too soon may actually result in some form of breakdown.Number SixWhy are manners important in our daily life? Give an example.Good manners are very important in our daily life. Talking of manners, we always consider that how people manners in dailylife reflects a person's quality and accomplishment. There is no denying that Good manners are significant requirements in our interpersonal communication.To begin with,Good manners can make people happy. For example, you are waiting in line to buy a train tic ket. If someone suddenly jumps the queue, you will surely be angry with him.What’s more, good manners can help to bring people a healthier environment. Another case id that, if we litter everywhere, how can we have a healthy life? Just as the CCTV public service ads said, “Promote Civility and then Create a Favorable Social Environment”(讲文明树新风) Above all, good manners can help us to succeed more easily. If you are friendly to others, ev erything will go well. On the other hand, if you are rude to others, there will be a lot of trouble in your life.Number SevenWhat is the main idea of the book Essay on the Principle of population?课本p206Number EightWhat is the new venture in the study of happiness?Talking of the new venture in the study of happiness, I consider the real better understanding of happiness within the mind surly counts. Large numbers of people are focus on only the external conditions, which is regards as the venture.When it comes to happy, it’s seen that happiness is everywhere. Have a large laugh, get physical, treat yourself or do what you want every day makes people feel fulfilled, engage and meaningfully happy. Besides, as the saying goes, helping others is the source of happiness.Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering, which is the real venture. We tend to look for happiness outside ourselves, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our time adjusting the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes. All our life we have tried to surround ourselves with people and things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.However, it is time we sought happiness from a different source. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances.Above all, if we are impure and unpeaceful, we could never be truly happy, no matter how hard we try to change our external conditions. Consequently, we could change our home or our partner countless times, but until we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true happiness, which is the new venture we need to overcome in the process of pursuing happiness.。
北京科技大学2011年研究生考试真题-247英语(二外)
北京科技大学2011年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题============================================================================================================= 试题编号： 247 试题名称：英语(二外) （共9页）适用专业：外国语言文学说明：所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。
=============================================================================================================Part I Vocabulary (10 points, 0.5 point each)Section A (5 points)Directions: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. That part of the city has long been ________ for its street violence.A) notorious C) historicalB) responsible D) illegal2. The detective and his assistant have begun to ________ the mysterious murder.A) come through C) make overB) look into D) see to3. No one can function properly if they are ________ of adequate sleep.A) stripped C) deprivedB) ripped D) contrived4. Cultural ________ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generationto another.A) translation C) transmissionB) transition D) transaction5. The little girl was ________ by the death of her dog since her affection for the pet had been realand deep.A) sustained C) oppressedB) suppressed D) grieved6. A visitor to a museum today would notice ________ changes in the way museums are operated.A) cognitive C) rigorousB) conspicuous D) exclusive7. If you treat a child with consistent care and kindness you are bound to get some trust andaffection in ________.A) reply C) regardB) respect D) response8. All of us know that every time she tried to argue with her husband, Mrs. Brown ______ cryingher eyes out.A) looked up C) took upB) picked up D) ended up9. Many ecologists believe that lots of major species in the world are on the ________ ofextinction.A) fringe C) vergeB) margin D) border10. Although she’s a(n) ________ talented dancer, she still practices several hours every day.A) traditionally C) exceptionallyB) additionally D) rationallySections B (5 points)Directions:There are 10 questions in this part. Each question is a sentence with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.11. Mary is enormously fond of literature in all its diverse forms.A) poetic C) variedB) superficial D) contemporary12. It is often the case that some superficially unrelated events turn out to be linked in someaspects.A) practically C) beneficiallyB) wonderfully D) seemingly13. It stands to reason to say that a girl takes after her father while a son his mother.A) looks after C) learns fromB) cares for D) looks like14. South Carolina’s mineral resources are abundant, but not all of them can be lucratively mined.A) profitably C) convenientlyB) safely D) extensively15. The Red Cross’s primary concern is to preserve and protect human life.A) sole C) mainB) only D) brief16. The doctor keeps his patients’ health records confidential; only his nurse and the patient cansee them.A) provincial C) secretB) hazardous D) abstruse17. There is always excitement at the Olympic Games when a previous record of performance issurpassed.A) matched C) maintainedB) exceeded D) announced18. He has no incentive to make permanent improvement in spoken English.A) ability C) opportunityB) knowledge D) motive19. Don’t meddle in my affairs, and in fact I can handle them properly by myself.A) interfere C) involveB) interest D) attend20. The rosemary plant is an emblem of fidelity and remembrance.A) thoughtfulness C) tendernessB) faithfulness D) happinessPart II Cloze (10 points, 0.5 point each)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet..The United States is well-known for its network of major highways designed to help a driver get from one place to another in the shortest possible time. __21__ these wide modern Roads are generally __22__ and well maintained, with __23__ sharp curves and many straight __24__, a direct route is not always the most __25__ one. Large highways often pass __26__ scenic areas and interesting small towns. Furthermore, these highways generally __27__ large urban centers which means that they become crowded with __28__ traffic during rush hours, __29__ the “fast, direct” way becomes a very slow route.However, there is __30__ always another route to take __31__ you are not in a hurry. Not far from the __32__ new “superhighways”, there are often older, __33__ heavily traveled roads which go through the countryside. __34__ of these are good two-lane roads; others are uneven roads __35__ through the country. These secondary routes may go up steep slopes, along high __36__, or down frightening hillsides to towns __37__ in deep valleys. Through these less direct routes, longer and slower, they generally go to places __38__ the air is clean and the scenery is beautiful, and the driver may have a __39__ to get a fresh, clean __40__ of the world.21. A) Although B) Because C) Since D) Therefore22. A) stable B) splendid C) smooth D) complicated23. A) little B) few C) much D) many24. A) selections B) separations C) series D) sections25. A) terrible B) possible C) enjoyable D) profitable26. A) to B) into C) over D) by27. A) lead B) connect C) collect D) communicate28. A) large B) fast C) light D) heavy29. A) when B) for C) but D) that30. A) yet B) still C) almost D) quite31. A) unless B) if C) as D) since32. A) relatively B) regularly C) respectively D) reasonably33. A) and B) less C) more D) or34. A) All B) Several C) Lots D) Or35. A) driving B) crossing C) curving D) traveling36. A) rocks B) cliffs C) roads D) paths37. A) lying B) laying C) laid D) lied38. A) there B) when C) which D) where39. A) space B) period C) chance D) spot40. A) view B) variety C) visit D) virtuePart III Reading Comprehension (40points, 2points each)Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage OneQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage.We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming (把…按能力分班) pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work: it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.41. In the passage the author’s attitude towards “mixed-ability teaching” is ________.A) critical C) approvingB) questioning D) objective42. By “held back” (Line 1) the author means “________”A) made to remain in the same classes C) drawn to their studiesB) forced to study I the lower classes D) prevented from advancing43. The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the student’s________.A) personal qualities and social skills C) learning ability and communicative skillsB) total personality D) intellectual ability44. Which of the following is NOT MENTIONED in the third paragraph?A) Group work gives pupils the opportunity to learn to work together with other.B) Pupils also learn to develop their reasoning abilities.C) Group work provides pupils with the opportunity to learn to be capable organizers.D) Pupils also learn how to participate in teaching activities.45. The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________.A) argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same classB) recommend pair work and group work for classroom activitiesC) offer advice on the proper use of the libraryD) emphasize the importance of appropriate formal classroom teachingPassage TwoQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Normally a student must attend a certain number of courses in order to graduate, and each course which he attends gives him a credit which he may count towards a degree. In many American universities the total work for a degree consists of thirty-six courses each lasting for one semester. A typical course consists of three classes per week for fifteen weeks; while attending a university a student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester. Normally a student would expect to take four years attending two semesters each year. It is possible to spread the period of work for the degree over a longer period. It is also possible for a student to move between one university and another during his degree course, though this is not in fact done as a regular practice.For every course that he follows a student is given a grade, which is recorded, and the record is available for the student to show to prospective employers. All this imposes a constant pressure and strain of work, but in spite of this some students still find time for great activity in student affairs. Elections to positions in student organizations arouse much enthusiasm. The effective word of maintaining discipline is usually performed by students who advise the academic authorities. Any student who is thought to have broken the rules, for example, by cheating has to appear before a student court. With the enormous numbers of students, the operation of the system does involve a certain amount of activity. A student who has held one of these positions ofauthority is much respected and it will be of benefit to him later in his career.46. Normally a student would at least attend ________ classes each week.A) 36 B) 20 C) 12 D) 1547. According to the first paragraph an American student is allowed ________.A) to live in a different universityB) to take a particular course in a different universityC) to live at home and drive to classesD) to get two degrees from two different universities48. American university students are usually under pressure of work because ________.A) their academic performance will affect their future careersB) they are heavily involved in student affairsC) they have to observe university disciplineD) they want to run for positions of authority49. Some students are enthusiastic for positions in student organizations probably because________.A) they hate the constant pressure strain of their studyB) they will then be able to stay longer in the universityC) such positions help them get better jobsD) such positions are usually well paid50. The student organizations seem to be effective in ________.A) dealing with the academic affairs of the universityB) ensuring that the students observe university regulationsC) evaluating students’ performance by bringing them before a courtD) keeping up the students’ enthusiasm for social activitiesPassage ThreeQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Suppose we build a robot to explore the planet Mars. We provide the robot with seeing detectors to keep it away from danger. It is powered entirely by the sun. Should we program the robot to be equally active at all times? No. The robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any. So we would probably program it to cease its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning.According to the evolutionary theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason. The theory does not deny that sleep provides some important restorative functions. It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous. However, sleep protects us only from the sort of trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us. So we sleep well when we are in familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent.The evolutionary theory accounts well for differences in sleep among creatures. Why do cats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little? Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do. But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be attacked while they sleep. Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value. Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival depends on their ability to run away from attackers.51. The author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us ________.A) the differences between robots and menB) the reason why men need to sleepC) about the need for robots to save powerD) about the danger of men working at night52. Evolution has programmed man to sleep at night chiefly to help him ________.A) maintain a regular pattern of lifeB) prevent trouble that comes looking for himC) avoid danger and inefficient laborD) restore his bodily functions53. According to the author, we cannot sleep well when we ________.A) are worrying about our safetyB) are overworkedC) are in a tentD) are away from home54. Cats sleep much more than horses do partly because cats ________.A) need more time for restorationB) are unlikely to be attackersC) are more active than horses when they are awakeD) spend less time eating to get enough energy55. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage? ________.A) Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking.B) The study of sleep is an important part of the evolutionary theory.C) Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots.D) The sleeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eatPassage FourQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S., about half the urban pollution and one fourth the greenhouse gases. They take a similar toll of (损耗) resources in other industrial nations and in the cities of the developing world. As vehicle use continues to increase in the comingdecade, the U.S. and other countries will have to deal with these issues or else face unacceptable economic, health-related and political costs. It is unlikely that oil prices will remain at their current low level or that other nations will accept a large and growing U.S. contribution to global climatic change.Policymakers and industry have four options: reduce vehicle use, increase the efficiency and reduce the emissions of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles, switch to less harmful fuels, or find less polluting driving systems. The last of these—in particular the introduction of vehicles powered by electricity—is ultimately the only sustainable option. The other alternatives are attractive in theory but in practice are either impractical or offer only marginal improvements. For example, reduced vehicle use could solve traffic problems and a host of social and environmental problems, but evidence from around the world suggests that it is very difficult to make people give up their cars to any significant extent. In the U.S., mass-transit ridership and carpooling (合伙用车) have declined since World War II. Even in Western Europe, with fuel prices averaging more than $1 a liter (about $4 a gallon) and with easily accessible mass transit and dense populations, cars still account for 80 percent of all passenger travel.Improved energy efficiency is also appealing, but automotive fuel economy has barely made any progress in 10 years. Alternative fuels such as natural gas, burned in internal-combustion engines, could be introduced at relatively low cost, but they would lead to only marginal reductions in pollution and greenhouse emissions (especially because oil companies are already spending billions of dollars every year to develop less polluting types of gasoline).56. From the passage we know that the increased use of cars will ________.A) consume half of the oil produced in the worldB) have serious consequences for the well-being of all nationsC) widen the gap between the developed and developing countriesD) impose an intolerable economic burden on residents of large cities57. The U.S. has to deal with the problems arising from vehicle use because ________.A) most Americans are reluctant to switch to public transportation systemsB) the present level of oil prices is considered unacceptableC) other countries will protest its increasing greenhouse emissionsD) it should take a lead in conserving natural resources58. Which of the following is the best solution to the problems mentioned in the passage?A) The designing of highly efficient car engines.B) A reduction of vehicle use in cities.C) The development of electric cars.D) The use of less polluting fuels.59. Which of the following is practical but only makes a marginal contribution to solving theproblem of greenhouse emissions?A) The use of fuels other than gasoline.B) Improved energy efficiency.C) The introduction of less polluting driving systems.D) Reducing car use by carpooling.60. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A) The decline of public transportation accounts for increased car use in Western Europe.B) Cars are popular in Western Europe even though fuel prices are fairly high.C) The reduction of vehicle use is the only sustainable option in densely populated WesternEurope.D) Western European oil companies cannot sustain the cost of developing new-type fuels.Part IV Translation (20 points)Section A (10 points)Directions: Put the following paragraph into Chinese. Write your Chinese version in the proper space on the Answer Sheet.Whether you die at a young age or when you are older is less important than whether you have fully lived the years you had. One person may live more in eighteen years than another does in eighty. By living, we do not mean frantically accumulating a range and quantity of experience valued in fantasy by others. Rather, we mean living each day as if it is the only one you have. We mean finding a sense of peace and strength to deal with life’s disappointments and pain while always striving to discover vehicles to increase and sustain the joys and delights of life.Section B (10 points)Directions: Put the following paragraph into English. Write your English version in the proper space on the Answer Sheet.当代人最渴望的是安全感。
北京科技大学211翻译硕士英语2011-2014年(含答案解析)考研真题试卷
北京科技大学2014年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题=============================================================================================================试题编号：211试题名称：翻译硕士英语（共12页）适用专业：翻译说明：所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。
=============================================================================================================I.Vocabulary and Structure(30points,1point each,60minutes) Directions:Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C,or D.Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.Write your answers on the answer sheet.1.It was nearly always organized by the government,although some club membersacted_______their own initiative.A.byB.onC.withD.in2.He redesigned the process,thereby________the company thousands of dollars.A.savingB.to saveC.savedD.save3.Modern bodies are especially______to cancer,because technology produceswaste that inhibits their proper functioning.A.relevantB.invulnerableC.proneD.attractive4.Some of his plans were impractical and________good for his work,but he neverwavered in what he considered just.A.too muchB.much tooC.so muchD.much so5.Supporters praised the action as a speedy and judicious solution,but criticscondemned it as______and unfairly influenced by recent events.A.delayedB.indisposedC.hastyD.imperious6.It is odd that a person’s worth is measured by his wealth,______instead people’scharacter should be measured by their value to society.A.whileB.soC.becauseD.when7.During the17th century many artists became involved in color theory and______painting for enlightenment.A.looked up toB.looked outC.looked onD.looked to1。
北科大英语学试题及答案
北科大英语学试题及答案一、词汇与语法（共20分）1. The new policy will come into _______ next month.A. effectB. useC. serviceD. operation答案：A2. The teacher asked the students to _______ the sentences into English.A. translateB. transformC. convertD. transfer答案：A3. Despite his poor health, he managed to finish the project on _______.A. timeB. scheduleC. dateD. deadline答案：D4. The company has decided to _______ the price of its products.A. reduceB. decreaseC. lowerD. cut答案：C5. She is always the first to arrive at the office and thelast to _______.A. leaveB. goC. departD. exit答案：A二、阅读理解（共30分）Passage 1In recent years, the use of social media has become increasingly popular among young people. It has changed the way they communicate and interact with each other. Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have provided new opportunities for self-expression and connection. However, there are also concerns about the impact of social media on mental health and privacy.Questions:6. What is the main topic of the passage?A. The popularity of social mediaB. The impact of social media on mental healthC. The benefits of social media for young peopleD. The concerns about social media答案：A7. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a social media platform in the passage?A. FacebookB. InstagramC. LinkedInD. Twitter答案：CPassage 2The importance of a healthy diet cannot be overstated. A balanced diet is essential for maintaining good health and preventing diseases. It is recommended that individuals consume a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Additionally, staying hydrated by drinking plenty of water is crucial for overall well-being.Questions:8. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To emphasize the importance of a healthy dietB. To provide a list of recommended foodsC. To discuss the benefits of staying hydratedD. To explain the consequences of an unhealthy diet答案：A9. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT part of a balanced diet?A. FruitsB. VegetablesC. Fast foodD. Whole grains答案：C三、完形填空（共20分）In today's fast-paced world, it is more important than ever to manage our time effectively. Effective time management can lead to increased productivity, reduced stress, and a better work-life balance. To achieve this, it is essential to set clear goals, prioritize tasks, and avoid procrastination.10. What is the main idea of the passage?A. The importance of time managementB. The causes of stressC. The benefits of a work-life balanceD. The drawbacks of procrastination答案：A11. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a strategy for effective time management?A. Setting clear goalsB. Prioritizing tasksC. ProcrastinatingD. Avoiding procrastination答案：C四、翻译（共30分）12. 随着科技的发展，我们的生活变得越来越便利。
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2004/6 Listening Comprehension1. A. No women were allowed to take part in it.B.Women were only allowed to watch the Games.C.Unmarried girls were allowed to compete with men.D.Unmarried women were allowed to watch itsomewhere.2. A. She needs to buy new clothes.B.She cares a lot about what to wear.C.The man doesn't work hard enough.D.The man should buy some new ties.3. A. Takes a hot bath. B. Takes a long walk.C. Has a few drinks.D. Has more coffee.4. A. They have a very close relationship.B.They don't spend much time together.C.They are getting along with each other better.D. They are generally pretty cold to each other.5. A. His sixth sense told him.B.He is unskillful with his present job.C.His present job pays too little.D.His present job is too demanding.6. A. The accident caused injury or loss of life.B.Seven people were killed in the accident.C.Many people from other cars came to help.D. A lot of vehicles were involved in the accident.7. A. 2754201. B. 2645310.C. 2745301.D. 2654310.8. A. She had no chance to speak.B.She was speechless.C.She talked a lot to the star.D.She saw too many people around the star.9. A. Because it tells the truth most of the time.B.Because it provides a lot of information.C.B ecause it is the top one on the list of newspapers.D. Because it is an inside newspaper.10. A. Because other scientists had raised questionsabout these claims.B.Because some of its scientists had made falseclaims before.C.Because the claims were very important to thestudy of physics.D.Because some of its scientists published too manypapers a year.11. A. He made up false data in the experiment tosupport his new findings.B.He used information from previous work tosupport his new findings.C.He denied other scientists' involvement in hisexperiments.D.He was not productive in writing scientific papers.12. A. They dismissed all Mister Schon's publications.B.They asked Mister Schon to apologize to thepublic.C.They recalled Mister Schon's title as a Nobel Prizewinner.D.They removed Mister Schon from his position.13. A. The winner should write a report to the committeeof the foundation.B.The winner should report to the committee beforethey spend the money.C.The winner should not be a government official.D.The winner should be nominated by thefoundation's directors.14. A. For her achievements in environmental protection.B.For her achievements in developing computersoftware.C.For her achievements in developing warships.D.For her achievements in developing robots.15. A. He was recognized as a genius by the foundation'sdirectors.B.He helped the developing countries to fightagainst earthquakes.C.He helped the third world countries to developquickly.D.He ran a non-profit international organization.16.What did the several hundred college studentscompete to build recently in Washington D.C.? 17.Which department in the United States organized thecompetition?18.How many teams took part in the competition?19.How much did each team spend on equipment andother materials?20.What is the purpose of the competition?Transcript (Jun 20, 2004)1.A: I heard no women were allowed to take part in theOlympic Games in ancient Greece. Is that true? B: But somewhere unmarried girls were allowed to watch or even compete in the Games in those days.They could compete in a separate festival.Q: From this conversation what do we learn about Olympic Games in ancient Greece?1. A. No women were allowed to take part in it.B.Women were only allowed to watch the Games.C.Unmarried girls were allowed to compete with men.D.Unmarried women were allowed to watch itsomewhere.2.A: Now you are in the new company, you may needto buy some new clothes.B: As long as I work hard, nobody cares what I wear.But you may rethink your ties.Q: What does the woman mean?2. A. She needs to buy new clothes.B.She cares a lot about what to wear.C.The man doesn't work hard enough.D.The man should buy some new ties.3.A: What do you usually do when you feel tired?B: I usually listen to some classical music, or take a long hot bath. What about you?A: I usually relax with a few drinks or drink more coffee to keep myself going.Q: What does the woman usually do when she feels tired?3. A. Takes a hot bath. B. Takes a long walk.C. Has a few drinks.D. Has more coffee.4.A: How do you get along with your partner?B: Generally our relationship is pretty good but we both are aware of the importance of spending timealone.Q: What is the relationship between the man and his partner like?4. A. They have a very close relationship.B.They don't spend much time together.C.They are getting along with each other better.D.They are generally pretty cold to each other.5.A: It seems to me that you will switch to another job. B: How do you know?A: My sixth sense told me.B: You are actually right. I'm fed up with working anunskilled job for a minimum wage.Q: Why did the man want to change his job?5. A. His sixth sense told him.B.He is unskillful with his present job.C.His present job pays too little.D.His present job is too demanding.6.A: Did you watch the report about the accident indowntown?B: No. Where was it?A: It was on seventh street. It was a huge wreck and I saw a lot of ambulances at the scene.Q: What do we learn about the accident?6. A. The accident caused injury or loss of life.B.Seven people were killed in the accident.C.Many people from other cars came to help.D. A lot of vehicles were involved in the accident.7.A: Hello. My name is Nathaniel Mumford. I'm astudent of Professor Cohen's. May I speak to himplease?B: Oh, Professor Cohen is at a conference at the moment, but if you leave your phone number hemay call you back when he returns.A: My phone number is 2745301. Thank you for you help.Q: What is the phone number of the student?7. A. 2754201. B. 2645310.C. 2745301.D. 2654310.8.A: Did you speak to the famous star?B: I wanted to, but I was unable to speak when I wasface to face with him.A: Well, many people do that. Before they meet their favorite star they seem to have a lot to say. But when they actually meet them, they can't say anything. Q: What happened to the woman when she met the famous star?8. A. She had no chance to speak.B.She was speechless.C.She talked a lot to the star.D.She saw too many people around the star.9.A: Why are you so keen on this newspaper?B: It's really informative and it is the top one among those offering inside stories.Q: Why does the man like the newspaper?9. A. Because it tells the truth most of the time.B.Because it provides a lot of information.C.B ecause it is the top one on the list of newspapers.D.Because it is an inside newspaper.Mini-Talk OneInvestigators from Bell Labs Murray Hill, New Jersey have found that claims made by some scientists at the laboratory were not based on fact. The investigators dismissed results from a number of studies published between 1998 and 2001. Bell Labs appointed a committee to investigate the wrongdoing after other scientists raised questions about the claims. Some of the claims were once said to be major developments in the study of physics. They included a claim that scientists had created the smallest device to carry electric current ever made.The committee identified at least sixteen examples of scientific wrongdoing. It placed the blame on one Bell Labs physicist, Jan Hendrik Schon. Mr. Schon told the committee that he had no written records of the laboratory experiments. He also said much of the information in his computer had been destroyed.The investigators found that Mr. Schon used information from earlier work to support his findings. They said his did this without the knowledge of the other scientists involved in the experiments. The investigators noted that Mr. Schon and his group produced an average of one scientific paper every eight days. For most scientists, a few papers a year is considered productive.After the committee's report was released, Bell Labs immediately dismissed Jan Hendrik Schon from his position. He was once thought to be a future Nobel Prize winner. After his dismissal, Mr. Schon admitted he had made mistakes in his scientific work. He said he regretted those mistakes.10.Why did Bell Labs appoint a committee to investigatesome of the claims made by its scientists?10. A. Because other scientists had raised questionsabout these claims.B.Because some of its scientists had made falseclaims before.C.Because the claims were very important to thestudy of physics.D.Because some of its scientists published too manypapers a year.11.What did the committee find out when theyinvestigated Mr. Schon?11. A. He made up false data in the experiment tosupport his new findings.B.He used information from previous work tosupport his new findings.C.He denied other scientists' involvement in hisexperiments.D. He was not productive in writing scientific papers.12.What did Bell Labs do after the committee's reportwas released?12. A. They dismissed all Mister Schon's publications.B. They asked Mister Schon to apologize to the public.C. They recalled Mister Schon's title as a Nobel Prizewinner.D.They removed Mister Schon from his position.Mini-Talk TwoThe MacArthur Fellowship is a program that honors individual men and women for their creativity. American businessman John MacArthur used his own money to establish the MacArthur Foundation in 1970. It began to operate after he died eight years later.To be considered for the award, a person must be nominated. And they should not hold an elective or an appointed office in government.Each year, several hundred people are appointed to propose nominations. A twelve-member committee studies information about those nominated to identify the great creativity in their work and proposes winners to the foundation's directors. The foundation does not require or expect reports from individual winners. It also does not ask them how the money will be used.Six hundred and thirty-five MacArthur Fellows have been named since the program started in 1981. Between 20 and 30 winners are named each year.The twenty-four winners this year work in many different areas. They include scientists, writers, and musicians. Daniela Ruth is a professor in Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She is a computer scientist who develops robots that change shape to deal with changes in their environment.Brian Tucker from California is another winner. Mr. Tucker is an earthquake expert. He is the president of a non-profit group called GeoHazards International. His group works for local officials in developing countries to make their areas safer against earthquakes. Mr. Tucker says that being recognized as a MacArthur Fellow will make a huge difference for his company.13.Which of the following is one of the requirements fora MacArthur Fellowship winner?13. A. The winner should write a report to the committeeof the foundation.B. The winner should report to the committee beforethey spend the money.C. The winner should not be a government official.D.The winner should be nominated by thefoundation's directors.14.Why was Daniela Ruth awarded this year'sMacArthur Fellowship?14. A. For her achievements in environmental protection.B. For her achievements in developing computersoftware.C. For her achievements in developing warships.D.For her achievements in developing robots.15.Why was Brian Tucker given this year's MacArthurFellowship?15. A. He was recognized as a genius by the foundation'sdirectors.B. He helped the developing countries to fight againstearthquakes.C. He helped the third world countries to developquickly.D.He ran a non-profit international organization.Section CExperts say in the near future, many houses in the United States will be powered by energy from the sun. Many people in Washington D.C., recently were able to see what some of those homes might look like. Several hundred college students from across the country took part in a competition to see who could build the best solar-powered house. The United States Department of Energy organized the competition.Students from fourteen colleges and universities took part in this Solar Home Competition. Student teams competed in a series of ten contests to see who could design, build and operate the best house powered only by the sun. The solar homes were built on the National Mall, the grassy open area between the United States Capitol building and the Washington Monument. The solar houses were set up in the middle.Each team included at least twenty students of design, architecture and building sciences. The students gained the money to buy equipment and materials for their house.Each house cost as much as $250,000 to build.A solar-powered house has a roof designed to take in the heat of the sun and change it to energy. That power is then stored in a battery bank which supplies power to the whole house.As part of the competition, the teams were expected to spend most of the day in their homes doing normal activities. The activities used electricity powered by the sun. For example, the students cooked food, used computers, operated lights and washed clothes in machines. They even drove around the solar village in electric cars powered by a solar battery. The competition is designed to show Americans that solar energy works, because the use of solar energy in the United States is less than in other parts of the world. Only about 20,000 American homes are solar-powered.。