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2013年四川师范大学《211翻译硕士英语》考研真题及详解

Part Ⅰ CRAMMAR
&VOCABULARY (30 points)

There are thirty
sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four answers marked
A. B, C, and D. Choose one that best completes the sentence. Write your answers
on the answer sheet

1 Until then, his
family _____ from him for more than ten years.

A. didn’t hear

B. hasn’t been
hearing

C. hasn’t heard

D. hadn’t heard

【答案】D

【解析】句意：在那之前，他的家人已经十多年没有他的消息了。句中有个明确的过去时间点“then”(那时)，而“hadn’t heard”发生在then之前(包括then)，所以此句用的是过去完成时。

2 _____such subject,
the professor also taught mathematics and geography.

A. Out of

B. In spite of

C. In addition
to

D. Except for

【答案】C

【解析】句意：除了这门课，这位教授还教数学和地理。由also可知，“such subject”是包括在教授的课程之内的。

3 I _____Tom, my college roommate, in the last three years.

A. saw

B. have seen

C. haven’t seen

D. see

【答案】A

【解析】句意：在过去的三年里，我没有见过我的大学室友汤姆。根据时间状语in
the last three years可知应该用现在完成时。

4 The boss of the company _____ a rise in salary for ages, but
nothing has happened yet.

A. is promised

B. has been
promising

C. is promising

D. promised

【答案】B

【解析】句意：公司老板承诺涨工资好几年了，但是至今什么也没发生。“承诺”这件事从过去就开始了，直到现在还在进行，并有可能继续持续下去，因此用现在完成进行时。

5 Scarcely had the
boat reached the open water_____ it encountered high winds and heavy seas.

A. than

B. As

C. when

D. since

【答案】C

【解析】句意：船刚驶到开阔的水面就遇到了大风和巨浪。hardly/
barely/ scarcely + had sth. done + when sth. did一……就……。

6 _____has been
mentioned above, the height of the wall of the Palace has been already measured.

A. It

B. As

C. This　

D. What

【答案】B

【解析】句意：正如上文所提到的，宫殿墙的高度已经测量过了。这句话是as引导的非限定性定语从句，指代整个主句的内容。

7 The lightest element is Hydrogen, the atom
__ consists of a nucleus of only
one proton, around _____ revolves one electron.

A. of which/which

B. its/which

C. who/it

D. that/which

【答案】A

【解析】句意：最轻的元素是氢，其原子由仅含一个质子的原子核组成，有一个电子绕着这个原子核转动。第一个空为of + which引导定语从句，of表示从属关系。第二个空为which引导的非限定性定语从句，which指代上文的proton。

8 It’s reported that by the end of this year the yield of
rice in the area _____ by about 20%.

A. will have
risen

B. has risen

C. will be
rising

D. has been
rising

【答案】A

【解析】句意：据报道，到今年年底，该地区大米产量将增长约百分之二十。by
the end of表示“到……为止”，如果后面接将来的时间，句中用将来完成时。

9 “It is a long time _____ I saw you last.”

“Yes. And it will
be a still longer time _____ we see each other again.”

A. before/since

B. since/before

C. then/then

D. when/when

【答案】B

【解析】句意：“自从去年见过一面后，我们很长时间没见了。”“是的，再次见面恐怕还要过一段时间。”①“It is/has +时间+ since +含过去时的句子”表示“自从……已经多久了”。②“It will be +时间+ before…”表示“在……之前仍需要一段时间”。

10 Just as the value
of a telephone network increases with each new phone _____ to the system,
so does the value ofa computer system increase with each program turned out.

A. adding

B. to have
added

C. to add

D. added

【答案】D

【解析】句意：正如电话网络的价值随着新电话的加入而增加，计算机系统的价值也随着每个程序的出现而增加。这里考察的是with接复合宾语结构。phone和add之间是被动关系，因此用过去分词作宾补。

11 Please excuse my little son if he has left any of your
questions_____.

A. been
unanswered

B. to unanswer

C. unanswered

D. unanwering

【答案】C

【解析】句意：如果我的小儿子有什么问题没有回答你，请原谅他。这个句子考查的是“leave +宾语+宾语补足语”。any
of your questions和后面作宾补的动词unanswer为被动关系，因此用过去分词形式。

12 _____for the hurricane, the village has been greatly damaged.

A. There was no
alarm

B. There being no alarm

C. Being
without alarm

D. Without
being alarm

【答案】B

【解析】句意：由于没有飓风警报，这个村庄遭到了严重的破坏。这种结构为独立主格结构，一般充当状语，there是逻辑主语，相当于Because there was no alarm for the hurricane。

13 Nobody likes him because he _____ to curry favor with the
boss.

A. is always
trying

B. always tries

C. does always
try

D. has always
tried

【答案】A

【解析】句意：没有人喜欢他，因为他总是试图讨好老板。虽然句中有always，但是为了加强语气，应该用现在进行时。

14 Last year, George earned _____ his brother, though her brother has a
better position.

A. twice as
much as

B. twice as
many as

C. twice that

D. twice as
more as

【答案】A

【解析】句意：去年，乔治赚的钱是他哥哥的两倍，虽然他哥哥的工作比他的好。“倍数+ as + 形容词或副词原形+ as”的结构表示倍数。这句话中money为不可数名词，因此要用much。

15 _____enough money,
I would have bought a
large house.

A. Had I to
have

B. If I should
have

C. Had I had

D. If I had

【答案】C

【解析】句意：如果我曾经有足够的钱，我会买一幢大房子。由would
have bought可知，这句话是对过去的虚拟，因此从句应该用过去完成时，完整表达应为If I had enough money。如果if条件句中如有were,
should, had，可以省去if，并使用倒装语序。

16 In this factory, suggestions often have to wait for months
before they are fully _____.

A. admitted

B. acknowledged

C. absorbed

D. considered

【答案】D

【解析】句意：在这个工厂里，建议往往要等几个月才能被充分考虑。consider考虑；细想。acknowledge承认；答谢。

17 The boy slipped
out of the room and headed for the swimming pool without his parents’_____.

A. command

B. conviction

C. consent

D. compromise

【答案】C

【解析】句意：在没有得到父母同意的情况下，这个男孩溜出了房间朝游泳池走去。consent同意，赞成。conviction定罪；深信。compromise妥协，折中。command 命令，指令。

18 Our research has focused on a drug which is so _____ as
to be able to change brain chemistry.

A. powerful

B. influential

C. monstrous

D. vigorous

【答案】A

【解析】句意：我们的研究集中在一种药效强劲，能够改变脑部化学的药物。powerful可以形容药物的药效强劲。influential有影响的，有势力的。monstrous巨大的；怪异的。vigorous精力旺盛的。

19 The lost car of the Lees was found_____ in the woods off
the highway.

A. vanished

B. abandoned

C. scattered

D. rejected

【答案】B

【解析】句意：莱斯家丢失的汽车被发现遗弃在公路边的树林里。abandon放弃，抛弃。vanish消失；突然不见。scatter驱使，使分散。

20 Henry’s news report covering the conference was so _____
that nothing had been omitted.

A.
understanding

B.
comprehensible

C.
comprehensive

D.
understandable

【答案】C

【解析】句意：亨利写的关于这次会议的新闻报道十分全面，没有任何遗漏。comprehensive全面的，广泛的。comprehensible能懂的，可以理解的。understandable可以理解的，主要用来指人的行为。understanding用来指人时，表示“善于理解别人或别人问题的”。

21 She was afraid that unless the train speeded up she would
lose her _____ to Scotland.

A. ticket

B. place

C. seat

D. connection

【答案】D

【解析】句意：她担心如果火车不开快一点的话，她就来不及转另一班火车去苏格兰了。connection在这里指“联运（火车、汽车、飞机等）”。lose one’s
connection to误了到……去的（汽车、火车、轮船等）联运。

22 The ship was _____in a storm off Jamaica.

A. drowned

B. sunk

C. wrecked

D. submitted

【答案】C

【解析】句意：那艘船在牙买加海域附近的风暴中失事。wreck破坏；失事。sink可作及物动词，意思是“使下沉”，但是在这句话中不妥。drown淹死。submit使服从；主张。

23 More than one-third of the Chinese in the United States live in
California, _____in San Francisco.

A. previously

B. predominantly

C. practically

D. permanently

【答案】B

【解析】句意：在美国，三分之一的华人住在加利福尼亚州，其中主要是旧金山。predominantly主要地。practically实际地；几乎。

24 The new secretary has written a remarkably _____ report only in
a few pages but with all the details.

A. concise

B. clear

C. precise

D. elaborate

【答案】A

【解析】句意：新来的秘书写了一篇非常简明的报道，短短几页就包含了所有的细节。concise简明的，简洁的。precise精确的；明确的。elaborate精心制作的；详尽的。

25 The car was completely _____ and the driver seriously injured.

A. broken off

B. taken off

C. written off

D. picked up

【答案】C

【解析】句意：这辆车完全报废了，司机受了重伤。write off勾销；报废。break off折断；突然停止。take off起飞；脱下。

26 The managing director took the_____ for the accident
although it was not really his fault.

A. guilt

B. change

C. blame

D. accusation

【答案】C

【解析】句意：总经理承担了这次事故的责任，虽然并不是他的错。take
the blame for承担……责任。take charge of接管，负责。

27 The worker agreed to _____ the strike if the company would
satisfy their demands.

A. call for

B. call forth

C. call off

D. call up

【答案】C

【解析】句意：如果公司能满足他们的要求，工人们同意停止罢工。call
off取消；依次叫走。call for需要，要求。call forth唤起。call up打电话，召集。

28 He has impressed his employers considerably and _____ he
is soon to be promoted.

A. eventually

B. yet

C. finally

D. accordingly

【答案】D

【解析】句意：他给老板留下了非常深刻的印象，因此很快得到了提拔。accordingly因此，于是。

29 It was a great _____for him to
be pleasant to people he didn’t like.

A. attempt

B. trouble

C. power

D. effort

【答案】D

【解析】句意：对他来说，对自己不喜欢的人友善需要极大的努力。effort在这里作可数名词。

30 The firemen
managed to _____ the fire in time.

A. extinguish

B. prevent

C. suppress

D. rain

【答案】A

【解析】句意：消防员们成功地及时扑灭火灾。extinguish扑灭，熄灭。suppress抑制；镇压。

PART Ⅱ READING
COMPREHENSION

SECTION A (30 points)

In this section
there are several passages followed by questions or unfinished statement, each
with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think
is the best answer Write your answers on the answer sheet.

TEXT A

A recent study, published in last week’s
Journal of the American Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver.
Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as
likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone. By contrast, the
risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional
passenger.

The authors also
found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10
p.m., and especially after midnight. With passengers in the car, the driver was
even more likely to die in a late-night accident.

Robert Foss, a
scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center,
says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really
stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue”
he says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize
how complex and skilled a task driving is.”

Both he and the
author of the study believe that the way to mitigate the problem is to have
states institute so-called graduated licensing systems in which getting a
license is a multistage process. A graduated license requires that a teenager
first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult followed by
a period of driving with night or passenger restrictions before graduating to
full driving privileges.

Graduated
licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes according to recent
studies. About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing
system in place, but only l0 of those states have restrictions on passengers.
California is the stricter, with a novice driver prohibited from carrying any
passenger under 20 (without the presence of an adult over 25) for the first six
months.

31 Which of the following situations is
most dangerous according to the passage?

A. Adults
giving a lift to teenagers on the highway affair 10 p.m.

B. A teenager
driving after midnight with passengers in the car.

C. Adults
driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night.

D. A teenager
getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight.

32 According to Paragraph 3, which of the
following statements is TRUE?

A. Teenagers
should spend more time learning to drive.

B. Driving is a
skill too complicated for teenagers to learn.

C. Restrictions
should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons.

D. The
licensing authorities are partly responsible for teenagers’ driving accidents.

33 The present situation in about half of the states is that the
graduated licensing system ______

A. is under
discussion

B. is about to
be set up

C. has been put
into effect

D. has been
perfected

【答案与解析】

31 B  根据第二段句子“…increased sharply after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight.
With passengers in the car, the driver…”可以推断出，青少年午夜之后驾车载人是最危险的时候。所以答案选B。

32 D  根据第三段最后“…adults who are responsible for issuing
licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled a task driving is.”可以判断，Robert Foss认为负责发放驾照的成年人没能认识到驾驶汽车非常复杂且技术性很强。所以他们对青少年司机的车祸问题负有责任。

33 C  文中最后一段讲到“About half of the states now have some
sort of graduated licensing system in place”，据此可知，这种发证系统已经在半数以上的州得以实施。

TEXT B

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a
restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young
boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their
conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the
boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied.” Frankly,
I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately.”

This incident
stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are
changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were
“depressed”, that is, in low spirits, until we were in high school.

Undoubtedly a
change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem
childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and
behave more like adults than they used to.

Whether this is
good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it
once was no longer exists. Why?

Human
development is depended not only on born biological states, but also on
patterns of gaining social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another
usually involves learning the secrets of the new social positions. Children
have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages; traditionally,
we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

In the last 30
years, however, a secret-revelation machine has been equipped in 98 percent of
American homes. It is called television. Television passes information to all
viewers alike, whether they are children or adults. Unable to resist the
temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less
challenging, more attractive moving pictures.

Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great
deal of control over the social information which children will gain. Children must read simple books before they can read complex
materials.

34 According to the author, feeling
depressed is ________.

A. a sure sign
of a psychological problem in a child

B. something
hardly to be expected in a young child

C. an
inevitable has of children’s mental development

D. a mental
scale present in all humans, including children

35 The phenomenon that today’s children
seem adult like is attributed by the author to ________.

A. the
widespread influence of television

B. the poor
arrangement of teaching content

C. the fast
pace of human intellectual development

D. the
constantly rising standard of living

36 Why is the author in favor of
communication through print for children?

A. It enables
children to gain more social information.

B. It develops
children’s interest in reading and writing.

C. It helps
children to memorize and practice more.

D. It can
control what children are to learn.

37 What does the author think of the
change in today’s children?

A. He feels
amused by chair premature behavior.

B. He thinks it
is a phenomenon worthy of note.

C. He considers
it a positive development.

D. He seems to
be upset about it.

【答案与解析】

34 B  作者第一段讲述了听到一个小孩说自己“depressed”，作者对此很惊讶，第二段说到他和他的朋友直到高中才发现自己会情绪低落，由此可见作者认为对于年龄小的孩子来说，“depressed”是很难想象的。

35 A  根据第六段“Television passes information to all viewers alike, whether they are
children or adults.”可知，作者认为是电视的普及让孩子们出现了这样的特征。

36 D  由最后一段“Communication through print…control over the social information
which children will gain.”可知，作者认为印刷媒介可以控制孩子们所获得的信息。

37 B  文章中，作者提出了孩子们的变化并分析了原因，最后给出了解决措施，根据作者的语气和观点可以看出，他认为孩子们的这些变化应该引起人们足够的重视。

TEXT C

Hawaii’s native
minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs. But
much of the archipelago’s political establishment, which includes the White
Americans who dominated until the Second World War and people of Japanese,
Chinese and Filipino origin, is opposed to the idea.

The islands were
annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaii’s native peoples have fared
worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 percent of the
state’s homeless, suffer levels of unemployment and their life span is five
years less than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group
without some degree of autonomy.

But a
sovereignty advisory committee set up by Hawaii’s first native governor, John
Waihee, has given the natives’ cause a major boost be recommending that the Hawaiian
natives decide by themselves whether to re-establish a sovereign Hawaiian
nation.

However, the
Hawaiian natives are not united in their demands. Some just want greater
autonomy with the state—as enjoyed by many American Indian natives over matters
such as education. This is a position supported by the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent to natives’ interests
and which has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement.
More ambitious in the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in
1987 and wants full, official independence from the US.

But if Hawaiian
natives are given greater autonomy, it is far from clear how many people this
will apply to. The state authorities only count as native those people with
more than 50 percent Hawaiian blood.

Native demands
are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim
on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted. It is on this issue
that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In
1933, the state government paid the OHA US $136 million in back rent on the
crown land and many officials say that by accepting this payment the agency has
given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed
this.

38 Which of the following statement is true of the Hawaiian
natives?

A. They are the
only native group without sovereignty.

B. Their life
span is 5 years shorter than average Americans.

C. Sixty
percent of them are homeless or unemployed.

D. Their life
is worse than that of other ethnic groups in Hawaii.

39 Which of the
following groups holds a less radical attitude on the matter of sovereignty?

A. The Hawaiian
natives.

B. American
Indian natives.

C. Office of
Hawaiian Affairs.

D. The Ka Lahui
group.

40 Which of the following is NOT true of John Waihee?

A. He suggested
that the native people decide for themselves.

B. He is
leading the local independence movement.

C. He is Hawaii’s
first native governor.

D. He has set up
a sovereignty advisory committee.

41 Various native Hawaiians demand all the following
EXCEPT______.

A. more back
rent on the crown land

B. full
independence from the US

C. a greater
autonomy within the state

D. a claim on
the Hawaiian crown land

【答案与解析】

38 D  根据第二段第一句“…since then Hawaii’s native people have fared worse than any of
its other ethnic groups”可知，夏威夷原住民的生活比其他民族差。

39 C  第四段中提到Office of Hawaiian Affairs“has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement”，moderate与题干中的less radical相对应。

40 B  文章第三段中提到John Waihee是夏威夷第一位土著人州长，他建立了一个主权建议委员会，并建议夏威夷土著人自己决定是否要成立一个主权国家，但是并未提到他领导了当地的独立解放运动，所以选B。

41 A  文章第四段指出“… some just want greater autonomy within the state”，后面又指出“…more ambitious is the
Ka Lahui group, which…wants full, official independence from the US”，文章最后一段又提到“… they also want
their claim on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted”，由此可见选项B，C，D文章中都提到了，所以正确选项为A。

TEXT D

Many of the most
damaging and life threatening types of weather torrential rains, severe
thunderstorms, and tornadoes–begin quickly, strike suddenly, and disappear
rapidly, destroying small regions while leaving neighboring areas untouched.
Such event as a tornado struck the north eastern section of Edmonton, Alberta,
in July 1987. Total damages from the tornado exceeded $ 250 million, the
highest ever for any Canadian storm.

Conventional
computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting short lived
local storms like the Edmonton tornado, because the available weather data are
generally not detailed enough to allow computers to study carefully the subtle
atmospheric changes that come before these storms. In most nations, for
example, weather – balloon observations are taken just once every twelve hours
at locations typically separated by hundreds of miles. With such limited data,
conventional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general weather
conditions over large regions than they do forecasting specific local events.

Until recently,
the observation intensive approach needed for accurate, very short – range
forecasts, or “Now casts”, was not feasible. The cost of e quipping and
operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was extremely high,
and the difficulties involved in rapidly collecting and processing the raw
weather data from such a network were hard to overcome. Fortunately, scientific
and technological advances have overcome most of these problems. Radar systems,
automated weather instruments, and satellites are all capable of making detailed,
nearly continuous observation over large regions at a relatively low cost.
Communications satellites can transmit data around the world cheaply and
instantaneously, and modem computers can quickly compile and analyze this large
volume of weather information. Meteorologists and computer scientists now work
together to design computer programs and video equipment capable of
transforming raw weather data into words, symbols, and vivid graphic displays
that forecasters can interpret easily and quickly. As meteorologists have begun
using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices, now casting is
becoming a reality.

42 Conventional
computer models of the atmosphere fails to predict such a short- lived tornado because
______.

A. the computer
is not used to forecast specific local events

B. the
computers are not advanced enough to predict it

C. the weather
data people collect are often wrong.

D. weather
conditions in some small regions are not available

43 According to the passage, the word “Now casts” (paragraph 3)
means ______.

A. a way of
collecting raw weather data

B. a forecast
which can predict the weather conditions in the small area in an accurate way

C. a network to
collect instant weather data

D. a more
advanced system of weather observation

44 According to the author, the passage mainly deals with ______.

A. a tornado in
Edmonton, Alberta

B. what’s a
“Now casts”

C. the
disadvantage of conventional computer models of the weather fore- cast

D. a
breakthrough in weather forecast

【答案与解析】

42 D  第一段讲到，传统的大气电脑模式没能对此进行预测，原因在于可获得的天气数据细节太少，不足以让计算机进行研究和预测。故选D。

43 B  根据该词前面的解释“accurate, short-range fore casts”可以推断出Now cast的意思为“准确、及时的天气预报”。

44 D  文章一开始讲述了某次龙卷风造成的损失，并指出直到最近，由于高科技的发展解决了人们收集天气数据时的种种问题，才使得Nowcast这种准确、及时的天气预报成为现实。因此，文章主要讲述天气预报方面的一大突破。

TEXT E

I am one of the many city people who are
always saying that given the choice we would prefer
to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. I have
managed to convince myself that if it weren’t for my job I would immediately
head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village
buried in the country. But how realistic is the dream?

Cities can be
frightening places. The majority of the population lives in massive tower
blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community
tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your
window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and
nervous—cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel
isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the
inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on tire same
floor in tower blocks don’t even say hello to each other.

Country life, on
the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of
community generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People
have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they
need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you
may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from
the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There’s little
possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a
major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on
an expedition to the nearest large town. The city-dweller who leaves for the
country is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quietness.

What, then, is
the answer? The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from
the disadvantage of being cut off; the city breeds a feeling of isolation, and
constant noise batters the senses. But one of its main advantages is that you
are at the centre of things; and that life doesn’t come to an end at half past
nine at night. Some people have found(or rather bought) a compromise between
the two: they have expressed their preference for the “quiet life” by leaving
the suburbs and moving to villages within commuting distance of large cities.
They generally have about as much sensitivity as the plastic flowers they leave
behind—they are polluted with strange ideas about change and improvement which
they force on to the unwilling original inhabitants of the village.

What then of my
dreams of leaning on a cottage gate and murmuring “morning” to the locals as
they pass by? I’m keen on the idea, but you see there’s my cat, Toby. I’m not
at all sure that he would take to all that fresh air and exercise in the long
grass. I mean, can you see him mixing with all those hearty males down the farm?
No, he would rather have the electric imitation-coal fire any evening.

45 We get the impression from the first paragraph that the
author _____.

A. used to live
in the country

B. used to live
in the city

C. works in the
city

D. lives in the
country

46 In the author’s opinion, the following may cause city people
to be unhappy EXCEPT_____.

A. a strong
sense of fear

B. a lack of
communication

C. housing
conditions

D. a sense of
isolation

47 According to the passage, which of the following adjectives best describes those
people who work in large cities and live in villages?

A. Original

B. Quiet

C. Arrrogant

D. Insensitive

48 Do you think the author will move to the country?

A. Yes, he will
do so

B. No, he will
not do so

C. It is
difficult to tell

D. He is in
minds

【答案与解析】

45 C  第一段作者提到“I am one of the many city people who…”，后面又说到，如果不是因为工作，他可能会立马回到自然中，由此可见作者在城市里工作。

46 A  根据第二段中“…population lives in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and
impersonal.”，“their
mothers feel isolated from…”，“nowadays people…don’t even say hello to each other”可知B、C、D项均是城市居民不开心的原因。

47 D  文章第四段最后一句指出，这些人“have about as much sensitivity as
the plastic flowers they leave behind”(像塑料花一样的感受能力)，故选D。

48 B  最后一段中作者说自己的猫不会喜欢乡村的生活，也就是说他不会喜欢乡村的生活，因此他不会搬到乡下去。

TEXT F

Professional boxing has long been viewed
askance by the respectable elements of society. Generally
banned by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists,
and bouts often lasted forty or fifty rounds.

In 1882 John L.
Sullivan, a slugging fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight
championship from Paddy Ryan in a bare-fisted battle marked by hitting,
wrestling, scratching, and biting. Five years later, while fighting Patsy
Cardiff at Minneapolis, Sullivan broke his right arm in the third round, but he
continued fighting to a six-round draw. In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain
in the last bare-knuckle championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars
and a diamond prize belt. His admirers talked then of running him for Congress,
but he traveled to Australia for a boxing tour instead, coming back only to
lose his title in a twenty-one-round bout with a young Californian named James
J. Corbett.

“Gentleman
Jim’s” victory in this bout marked a turning point in professional pugilism,
for it demonstrated the superiority of scientific boxing over sheer brute
strength. But Corbett’s reign ended in 1897, when his opponent, Bob
Fitzsimmons, accomplished three epochal feats in less than three seconds.
Fitzsimmons knocked out an Irishman on Saint Patrick’s Day, won the heavyweight
championship of the world, and invented the terrible “solar plexus punch”.

49 The selection implies that professional
boxing has been viewed askance because _____.

A. boxing is
brutal

B. boxers are
not considered respectable

C. in the early
days boxing was illegal

D. the bouts
are too long

50 Boxing bouts in early days were_____.

A. brief and
bloody

B. usually
amateur competition

C. governed by
rigid rules

D. none of the
above

51 John L. Sullivan was_____.

A. the first
heavyweight boxer

B. a powerful
slugger

C. a boxer who
used scientific techniques

D. the biggest
money winner among boxers

52 “Gentleman Jim’s” victory over Sullivan
was a turning point because it _____.

A. demonstrated
the advantages of scientific boxing

B. marked the
first appearance of the solar plexus punch

C. was decided
on the basis of brute strength

D. dethroned
the long-time heavyweight champion

53 Implied but not stated is _____.

A. The solar
plexus punch is an effective blow in boxing

B. Bob
Fitzsimmons accomplished his epochal feats because he was an Irishman

C. Bouts in the
early days of boxing often lasted forty or fifty rounds

D. Boxing was
not very popular with Americans before 1900

【答案与解析】

49 A  由第一段可知，以前被禁止的拳击的进行方式是“bare fists”，即“赤手空拳地打”，由此可见十分残忍（brutal）。

50 D  由第一段中“bouts often lasted forty or fifty rounds”可知，早期拳击比赛并不简短，因此A项错误。B项在文中没有提到。根据第二段中“bare-fisted
battle marked by hitting, wrestling, scratching, and biting”可知早期拳击比赛规则不固定，C项错误。因此正确答案为D。

51 B  由第二段开头可知，John L. Sullivan是一名“slugging fighter of great power”。

52 A  由最后一段中“it demonstrated the superiority of scientific boxing over sheer
brute strength”可知，这件事证明了科学拳击优于纯粹的蛮力，因此是一个重要转折点。

53 A  根据最后一段，Fitzsimmons在三秒之内战胜了他的对手，他发明了“the terrible ‘solar plexus punch’”，由此可见这种方法是拳击的一种有效击打方式。

TEXT G

It is difficult for a man to imagine the
rate at which water is consumed throughout the United Kingdom. A single
industrial unit, for example, can use literally millions of gallons of water
every day just for cooling purposes. This means that industry alone uses
billions of gallons of water every year. The cost of this waste is
significantly high.

It should be
apparent, therefore, that a fully sealed cooling system would lose no water,
consume no water, discharge no water and would not require the application of
chemical treatment. Sealed water cooling systems are available and make it
possible for a teacupful of water to do a job normally requiring millions of
gallons of water.

Water Saver
Systems is a company that has pioneered the principle of sealed industrial
cooling in the UK and Europe. These sealed cooling systems, it is claimed, can
actually provide payback within a matter of months because of the water and
effluent cost savings and the removal of the need for a chemical treatment
plant and the resultant chemical costs. In addition, it is possible to recover
heat from a sealed system, allowing savings in boiler feed water and domestic
hot water supplies. A further advantage is that grayish-materials build-up is
prevented and rust minimized, so that the high efficiency of the sealed system
is maintained and the service life in- creased. A significant merit of a sealed
system, not yet fully appreciated, stems from the fact that industry can now be
more mobile in terms of location. Traditionally, with some industries, a main
consideration as regards a factory site would be the availability of a local
high volume water supply for cooling purposes. 72. With a sealed system, it is
claimed to be possible for a major user of cooling water to setup in the desert
with only a small truck of water to give the sealed system its initial fill.

Sealed cooling
systems also reduce water-related health risks. Chemical treatment does help to
reduce such risks but for various reasons, chemicals have not yet provided
total protection from disease. For example, Lehionnaires Disease which can be
propagated via the evaporation taking place in cooling towers. Sealed systems
do not emit contaminated vapor to atmosphere and this also means that thermal
pollution does not occur.

Sealed
industrial cooling systems were originally developed to offer efficient and
cost-saving cooling alternatives to industry, giving considerable operational
and financial advantages to the user. Fortunately, the development of the
sealed cooling system also contributes significantly to the environment and
health.

54 From the
passage, we may infer that
with the development of sealed water cooling system _____.

A. the cost of
water would be greatly reduced

B. the cost of
industrial products would be cut down considerable

C. factories
would be built in the desert

D. there would
be no air pollution

55 From the last paragraph we may infer
that _____.

A. the
advantage of a sealed cooling system to environment and health is an unexpected
one

B. the
development of the sealed cooling system does no good for environment and
health

C. the sealed
cooling system was initially developed for operational and financial purpose

D. it was not
expected that the sealed cooling system would be efficient and cost saving

56 The main idea of the passage is that
_____.

A. water is so
costly that people must economize it

B. a sealed
water cooling system may save much money

C. there are
many advantages to a sealed water cooling system

D. sealed water
cooling system are the best choice for factory

【答案与解析】

54 A  由第二段可知，密封的水冷却系统可以用一满茶杯水来完成数百万加仑水所做的工作，由此可见十分节约水。

55 C  由最后一段可知，密封水冷却系统一开始的设计目的是“giving considerable operational and financial advantages”，因此C项正确。

56 C  本文主要介绍了密封水冷却系统的各种优点，包括节省成本、节约水源、保护环境和人类健康等。

TEXT H

To paraphrase 18th century statesman Edmund
Burke, all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided
cause is that good people do nothing. One such cause now seeks to end
biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out
their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights
advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening
advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement
target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people
understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelly
to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would
deliberately harm an animal.

For example, a
grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was
distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that
opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal
research. When assured that they do, she replied, “Then I would have to say
yes”. Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, “Don’t worry,
scientists will find some way of using computers”. Such well-meaning people
just don’t understand.

Scientists must
communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way
in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear
the connection between animal research and a grandmother’s hip replacement, a
father’s bypass operation a baby’s vaccinations, and even a pet’s shots. To
those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these
treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems
wasteful at best and cruel at worst.

Much can be
done. Scientists could “adopt” middle school classes and present their own research.
They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights
misinformation go unchallenged and ac quire a deceptive appearance of truth.
Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals
receive humane care Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients,
the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only
well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous
statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical
treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an
uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

57 Misled people tend to think that using an animal in research
is______.

A. cruel but
natural.

B. inhuman and
unacceptable.

C. inevitable but
vicious.

D. pointless and wasteful.

58 The example of the grandmotherly woman is used to show the
public’s______.

A. discontent with
animal research.

B. ignorance about
medical science.

C. indifference to
epidemics.

D. anxiety about animal rights.

59 The author believes that, in face of the challenge from animal rights advocates,
scientists should______.

A. communicate
more with the public.

B. employ hi-tech
means in research.

C. feel no shame
for their cause.

D. strive to develop new cures.

60 From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is______.

A. a well-known
humanist.

B. a medical
practitioner.

C. an enthusiast
in animal rights.

D. a supporter of
animal research.

【答案与解析】

57 B  由第三段最后一句可知，对于那些不明白动物研究是这些治疗以及新方法和疫苗所必须的人来说，动物研究看上去至少是浪费，甚至是残忍的。

58 B  第二段中作者举了这个例子，后面作者便说到“Such well-meaning people just don’t understand.”，也就是说这些好心人只是不懂。

59 A  文章第三段指出“Scientists must communicate their message to the public…”，也就是说科学家们应该把他们的观点以耐心的、容易理解的方式，而不是用分子生物学的语言交流给公众。

60 D  最后一段对Stephen Cooper的介绍是“who has made courageous statements
about the value of animal research”，由此可见他是支持动物研究的。

SECTION B (10 points)

In this section,
you will read a passage. Answer the questions after reading the passage. Write your
answer on the answer sheet.

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her
sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed
in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It
was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad
disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of killed.
He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram,
and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing
the sad message.

She did not hear
the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to
accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in
her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to
her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood,
facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank,
pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach
into her soul.

She could see in
the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with
the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street
below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some
one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in
the eaves.

There were
patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and
piled above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her
head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a
sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to
sleep continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young,
with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain
strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away
off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of
reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

There was
something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She
did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping
out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color
that filled the air.

Now her bosom
rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was
approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her
will-as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.

When she
abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She
said it over and over under her breath: Free, free, free! The vacant stare and
the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen
and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed
every inch of her body.

She did not stop
to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and
exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

She knew that
she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the
face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.
But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that
would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them
in welcome.

There would be
no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.
There would be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with
which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a
fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less
a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

And yet she had
loved him-sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love,
the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion,
which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

Free! Body and
soul free! She kept whispering.

Josephine was
kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the key hole, imploring for
admission. Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door-you will make yourself
ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven’s sake open the door.

Go away. I am
not making myself ill. No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.

Her fancy was
running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and
all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life
might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life
might be long.

She arose at
length and opened the door to her sister’s importunities. There was a feverish
triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of
Victory. She clasped her sister’s waist, and together they descended the
stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.

Someone was
opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a
little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He had
been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one.
He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richards’ quick motion to
screen him from the view of his wife.

But Richards was
too late. She died of heart attack. The doctor’s said it was caused by joy.

Comprehension Questions

61 What is the main idea of this story?

62 Does the freedom she anticipates have any particular form or
content? Is it positive or negative? Give us the reasons.

【答案与解析】

61 The story tells how Mrs. Mallard felt in an hour after her
husband’s death. She was thrilled that she finally got freedom. But when she
knew her husband was still alive, she died of heart attack caused by sudden
sadness.

（文章讲述了马拉德夫人在得知丈夫死讯后一个小时内的心情，她为自己获得自由而激动不已，但是当她得知丈夫并没有死时，她心脏病突发去世了。）

62 The freedom means living for herself and no powerful will imposed
by her husband. The freedom is positive, because her husband always imposes his
will on her and itis no less than a crime.

（马拉德夫人所想象的这种自由指的是她可以不受丈夫意愿的支配，为自己而活。这种自由是积极的，因为她的丈夫总是将自己的意愿强加于她，而这不亚于犯罪。）

PART Ⅲ WRITING (30
points)

Some people hold the view that a student’s
success in university study follows the same pattern as that of arming which is
characterized by “sowing the seeds, nurturing growth and harvesting the
rewards” process. Write an essay of about 400 words on the topic given to
support this view with your own experience as a university student.

Sowing the Seeds, Nurturing Growth and Harvesting the
Rewards

【参考范文】

Sowing the Seeds,
Nurturing Growth and Harvesting the Rewards

It is believed
that a student’s success in university study follows the same pattern as that
of farming, which is characterized by the process of “sowing the seeds,
nurturing growth and harvesting the reward”. According to my own experience, I totally
agree with this statement.

First of all,
just as the farmers need to sow the seeds in the soil, students need to bear
professional knowledge in their mind. An indolent farmer who leaves out the
process of sowing will harvest no crop in his field. Likewise, a university
student’s refusal to knowledge will result in ignorance. Successful students,
however, act in the opposite way. They always attend classes attentively and
always read extensively after class. They never idle away their time for
nothing.

Besides, like
the growth of crops, the mastery of knowledge also requires reinforcement. A
lazy farmer often does not bother to fertilize the soil and weed, only to find
his crops in poor conditions and finally have a bad year. Similarly, a sluggish
student also fails because he does not make efforts to consolidate what he
acquires in class. In fact, learning is not acquired once and for all. It has
been proved by the experiences of those successful university students. They
review their lessons constantly and never hesitate to ask the teachers for
solutions to their puzzles. They also do a lot of reading related to what they
learn in class. Thus they have a better command of knowledge than those who do
not take the trouble. As a consequence, the industrious students generally have
a greater prospect of success.

In addition, university
study is also analogous to farming in that the more work you finish, the
greater reward you will get. A hardworking farmer who nurtures the plants will
finally have a bountiful harvest. Equally, a diligent student who has had an
immense intake of knowledge will succeed in almost every way. No doubt, he will
beat his opponents with ease in all kinds of knowledge contests. With abundant
and profound knowledge, he will have no trouble finding an ideal job when he
graduates. All this is but a natural result from the efforts he has made.

To sum up, the
course of successful university study is similar to that of fruitful farming.
Just as the saying goes, no pains, no gains. The farmers need to labor all the
way for a good harvest. As university students, we also need to work hard
throughout our university life.

【解析】

有些人认为，学生在大学学习上的成功遵循与种田一样的模式，即“播种、培育、收获”的过程，本题要求以“Sowing the Seeds, Nurturing Growth and Harvesting the Rewards”为题写一篇400字左右的文章，并要求结合自己在大学中的学习经验来支持这个观点。

范文第一段引出了这个话题，并提出自己支持这个观点。第二段指出大学生需要学习知识，就如同农民需要在土壤里播种一样。第三段指出像给土壤施肥一样，学习也需经常复习巩固。第四段指出像是辛勤耕耘后会有好收成一样，认真学习的学生也会得到理想的回报。最后一段作者总结了全文并重申了自己的观点。

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