天津大学硕士研究生英语期末考试试题

ENGLISH FINAL EXAM

FOR MASTERS OF ENGINEERNING

NAME__________ MAJOR__________ STUDENT NO: ______________ Part one: Vocabulary and Structure (20%)

Directions: In this part of the test, there are 20 incomplete sentences each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one you think is the best answer. Mark your choice ticking the corresponding letter before the choice.

1.This issue ______ interesting reading because it tells how these people made their

money and, indirectly, how the country has changed over the years.

A. accounts for

B. serves as

C. makes for

D. makes use of

2.Jane used to be slow in class, but now she is ______.

A. getting along

B. getting ahead

C. getting by

D. getting above

3.Paul ______ me very much of a schoolmate I used to know at university.

A. remembers

B. reminds

C. recalls

D. recollects

4.Don’t count your chickens before they are ______.

A. hatched

B. harvested

C. hurried

D. hastened

5.Several car manufactures will ______ half of their workers because of economic

difficulty.

A. discount

B. dispose

C. boot

D. disclose

6.They had ______ funds to cover the cost of the trip.

A. ample

B. luxury

C. sample

D. superb

7.All living things have certain _______ that are passed on from one generation to

the next.

A. cells

B. viruses

C. flaws

D. attributes

8.She ______ her mother’s good looks and her father’s bad temper.

A. inherited

B. inhabited

C. hindered

D. objected

9.It is for this reason ______ he refused to take the job.

A. why

B. when

C. that

D. so

10.Who ______ that spoke first at yesterday’s meeting?

A. was it

B. was

C. it was

D. did

11.It wasn’t ______ personal interests that they did all this.

A. because

B. only

C. just

D. for

12.Hardly ______ the people ran toward it.

A. had the plane landed when

B. had the plane landed than

C. the plane landed before

D. the plane was landing that

13.No sooner ______ than he realized that he should have remained silent.

A. had the words been spoken

B. the words had spoken

C. the words had been spoken

D. had the words spoken

14.You’d rather not do it, ______?

A. shouldn’t you

B. wouldn’t you

C. would you

D. ought you

15.We never dared to ask him a question, ______?

A. did we

B. doesn’t it

C. dared we

D. daren’t we

16. Unlike hackers, who gain unauthorized ______ to computer or telecommunication

systems for the challenge or even the principle of it, crackers do so for malicious purposes.

A. password

B. entry

C. access

D. approach

17. There are four factories in our institute, _________ over 200 workers.

A. with each

B. each having

C. each has

D. with each has

18. By conservative ______ 80% of humanity still can’t use written language

effectively.

A. estimates

B. estimated

C. estimations

D. estimating

19. With ______ her do this, she will have no difficulty persuading them to accept her

plan.

A. my helping

B. mine helping

C. me helping

D. I help

20. Only rarely do people’s jobs, spouses and children ______ these imagined ideals.

A. live up to

B. agree with

C. meet with

D. realizes

Part two: Cloze (10%)

Directions: In this part of the test, there is an incomplete passage with 10 blanks. For each blank in the passage, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one you think that can best complete the passage and mark your answer by ticking the corresponding letter before the choice.

When Forbes published its first list in 1982, five of the top ten were in the Hunt family that drilled Texas __1__ holes and hit a lot of gushers, which reminds us of advice __2__ billionaire J. Paul Getty on how to get ahead in the world: rise early, work hard, strike oil. Getty got his big start the __3__ way—from his father’s money.

The original list 14 years ago was __4__ Rockefellers, and Du Ponts, a Frick, a Whitney, Mellon or two—all great family fortunes that stretched back to the 19th century. The word “inheritance” appeared in the biographies 75 times.

There weren’t as many old-money fortunes on last year’s list—which leads to some c onclusions about wealth in America. First, it’s not easy to __5__ money, even for millionaires. Taxes put a big __6__ in family fortunes, and unless the heirs are careful and invest wisely, they can lose their millions as fast as their ancestors made them. Second, the old ways to riches aren’t as __7__ as they used to be. Besides the three Du Pont entries, only 43 of the 400 entries on the most recent Forbes list represent people who got __8__ through inheritance. And only 18 in the latest 400 made their fo rtunes from oil, so Getty’s quote no longer __9__ as true as it once did. Third, America is still the land of opportunity where smart young people like Bill Gates of Microsoft can __10__ on top of the list of richest Americans ahead of the Rockefellers, Mellons, Gettys and Carnegies.