2012年电子科技大学研究生入学英语分级考试（暂缺答案）及答案解析.doc

1、2012年电子科技大学研究生入学英语分级考试（暂缺答案）及答案解析(总分：90.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART I LISTENING CO(总题数：9，分数：9.00)A.She is conceited.B.She is too shy to apply.C.She is intelligent.D.She is in fashion.A.A car store manager.B.A mechanicC.A driving examiner.D.A shop assistant.A.Borrow her notebook.B.Check the dining hall agai

2、n.C.Buy a new notebook.D.Ask about the notebook at the information desk.A.Ask the graduate assistant for help.B.Talk to an assistant about dropping the course.C.Work on the assignment with a classmate.D.Spend more time working on literature course.A.He has already finished his report.B.He hasn?t com

3、pleted his report.C.The woman?s report is already long enough.D.The woman will have time to finish her report.A.He is curious.B.He is impatient.C.He is exhausted.D.He is content.A.To protect her from getting scratches.B.To help relieve her of the pain.C.To prevent mosquito bites.D.To avoid getting s

4、un burnt.A.The woman should decide where to eat on Friday.B.The woman should ask her sister for a suggestion.C.He will make a reservation at the restaurant.D.He already has plans for Friday night.A.Play in the tournament.B.Watch TV.C.Go to the cinema.D.Go to the tennis court.二、Section B Directio(总题数

5、：2，分数：6.00)Mini-talk one （分数：3.00）A.Encouraging.B.Boring.C.Exhausting.D.Useful.A.Passively.B.Positively.C.Critically.D.Doubtfully.A.It keeps haunting her.B.Her teaching was somewhat affected by it.C.It goes away the moment she steps into her role.D.Her mind goes blank once she gets on the stage.Mini

6、-talk Two （分数：3.00）A.The U.S. in the 19th century.B.International trade in the 19th century.C.Farmers in the United States.D.Farmers? loss of independence.A.They relied on themselves.B.They relied on others in commerce.C.They were controlled by banks.D.They didn?t work hard as before.A.Prices for fa

7、rm products increased.B.Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks.C.Jefferson established government projects to assist farmers.D.Farmers relied less on foreign trade.三、Section C Directio(总题数：5，分数：5.00)10.Scholars of the classical and medieval worlds almost didn?t know the idea of “reading t

8、o oneself”. （分数：1.00）A.TrueB.False11.Silent reading is based on the idea that reading aloud is a distraction to others. （分数：1.00）A.TrueB.False12.Both literacy and the number of readers were on a steady gradual increase in the 19th century. （分数：1.00）A.TrueB.False13.As reading for the benefit of liste

9、ners grew less common, reading became a private activity in some public places. （分数：1.00）A.TrueB.False14.The old shared literacy culture can even be found in today?s specialized readership. （分数：1.00）A.TrueB.False四、Section D Direction(总题数：3，分数：5.00)15.Question 21 is based on the following news. At th

10、e end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news. This year, _ skilled workers from outside European Economic Area will be allowed into UK. （分数：1.00）A.6,300B.21,700C.28,000D.40,000Question 22 and 23 are based on the following news. At the end of th

11、e news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).Four journalists are honored by the Committee to Protect Journalists because _. （分数：1.00）A.they risked their lives to do their jobsB.they went into prison to do reportsC.they were killed while doi

12、ng their jobsD.they traveled around the world to find out the truth(2).This year, the International Freedom Award will be awarded in _. （分数：1.00）A.ParisB.LondonC.New YorkD.WashingtonQuestion 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answe

13、r the questions. Now, listen to the news. （分数：2.00）(1).How many passengers are expected to travel by air during the Thanksgiving holiday period? （分数：1.00）A.About 1.3 million.B.About 2.5 million.C.About 24 million.D.About 69 million.(2).A large number of fliers in America are likely to go through _.

14、（分数：1.00）A.full-body scanningB.enhanced pat-downsC.parcel scanningD.metal detector lines五、PART II VOCABULARY (总题数：20，分数：20.00)16.The city will _ these buildings to make room for the new highway. （分数：1.00）A.tear offB.tear outC.tear awayD.tear down17.The newly-elected president is determined to _ the

15、established policy of developing agriculture. （分数：1.00）A.go forB.go onC.go byD.go up18.The Beatles, the most famous British band of the 1960s, traveled worldwide for many years, _ cultural barriers. （分数：1.00）A.transportingB.transplantingC.transferringD.transcending19.His companions have threatened t

16、o _ his crime to the police. （分数：1.00）A.imposeB.exposeC.encloseD.express20.You must insist that students give a truthful answer _ with the reality of their world. （分数：1.00）A.relevantB.simultaneousC.consistentD.practical21.He was _ admittance to the concert hall for not being properly dressed. （分数：1.

17、00）A.rejectedB.deniedC.withheldD.deprived22.George has a big coffee _ on the front of his jacket. （分数：1.00）A.spotB.markC.stainD.patch23.The scientists have absolute freedom as to what research they think is best to _. （分数：1.00）A.engageB.devoteC.seekD.pursue24.More often than not it is difficult to _

18、 the exact meaning of a Chinese idiom in English. （分数：1.00）A.exchangeB.transferC.conveyD.convert25.The motorist had to _ to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road. （分数：1.00）A.swerveB.twistC.departD.swing26. During the summer holiday season it is difficult to find a(n)_ room in t

19、he hotels here. （分数：1.00）A.emptyB.vacantC.freeD.deserted27.The old couple will never _ the loss of their son. （分数：1.00）A.get overB.get awayC.get offD.get across28.The _ of AIDS has led to an expansion in research seeking a cure. （分数：1.00）A.innovationB.selectionC.proliferationD.conviction29. Many aut

20、omobile accidents were _ careless driving. （分数：1.00）A.attributed toB.resulted inC.contributed toD.raised from30.Every year, one student in our high school wins a scholarship that _ one year of college. （分数：1.00）A.improvesB.subsidizesC.obligesD.inflicts31.He wrote the book in _ with his wife. （分数：1.0

21、0）A.proportionB.installmentC.correspondenceD.collaboration32.It was the driver?s _ that caused him to step on the gas instead of the brake after his car went over the curb. （分数：1.00）A.fraudB.alarmC.terrorD.panic33.Danny left this _ message on my answering machine: I must see you. Meet me at twelve o

22、?clock.” Did he mean noon or midnight? （分数：1.00）A.ambiguousB.responsibleC.implicitD.thoughtful34.Of course, most immigrants did not get rich overnight, but the _ of them were eventually able to improve upon their former standard of living. （分数：1.00）A.maximumB.minorityC.majorityD.minimum35.Our _ sens

23、itivity decreases with age. By age 60, most people have lost 40 percent of their ability to smell and 50 percent of their taste buds. （分数：1.00）A.sensibleB.senselessC.sensitiveD.sensory六、PART III CLOZE TEST(总题数：1，分数：15.00)It is all very well to blame traffic jams, the cost of petrol and the quick pac

24、e of modern life, but manners on the roads are becoming horrible. Everybody knows that the nicest men become monsters (46) _ the wheel. It is all very well, again, to have a tiger in the tank, but to have one in the drivers seat is another matter altogether. You might tolerate the odd road-hog, the

25、rude and inconsiderate driver, but nowadays the well-mannered motorist is the (47) _ to the rule. Perhaps the situation (48) _ a “Be Kind to Other Drivers“ campaign, (49) _ it may get completely (50) _. Road politeness is not only good manners, but good sense too. It takes the most cool-headed and g

26、ood-tempered of drivers to (51) _ the temptation to revenge when (52) _ to uncivilized behavior. On the other hand, a little politeness goes a long way towards (53) _ the tensions of motoring. A friendly nod or a wave of acknowledgement in (54) _ to an act of politeness helps to create an atmosphere

27、 of goodwill and tolerance so necessary in modern traffic conditions. But such acknowledgements of politeness are all too (55) _ today. Many drivers nowadays dont even seem able to recognize politeness when they see it. (56) _, misplaced politeness can also be dangerous. Typical examples are the dri

28、ver who brakes (57) _ to allow a car to emerge (58) _ a side street at some hazard to following traffic, (59) _ a few seconds later the road would be clear anyway; or the man who waves a child across a zebra crossing into the path of oncoming vehicles that may be unable to stop (60) _. Years ago the

29、 experts warned us that the car- ownership explosion would demand a lot more give-and-take from all road users. It is high time for all of us to take this message to heart. （分数：15.00）A.onB.aboveC.behindD.byA.exclusionB.exceptionC.modificationD.accessA.calls forB.calls outC.calls uponD.calls upA.more

30、overB.whileC.otherwiseD.tillA.out of handB.in handC.at handD.off handA.resistB.persistC.consistD.insistA.subjectB.being subjectedC.subjectedD.is subjectedA.dismissingB.relievingC.releasingD.removingA.appealB.approachC.reflectionD.responseA.commonB.rareC.extraordinaryD.uniqueA.ThereforeB.FurthermoreC

31、.HoweverD.ThusA.politelyB.carefullyC.vigorouslyD.violentlyA.atB.onC.toD.fromA.thoughB.whenC.whereD.whichA.on timeB.in timeC.at a timeD.at times七、PART IV Fast Readin(总题数：1，分数：6.00)Passage 1: The agricultural revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things: the invention of labor-saving machi

32、nery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce. “In Europe“, said Thomas Jefferson, “the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being abundant“. It was

33、in the United States, therefore, that the great advances in nineteenth-century agricultural machinery first came. At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs; by 1860, most of the

34、 machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1790 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire fortune in introducing his invention. The farmers, however, w

35、ere not interested in it, claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds grow. Nevertheless, many people devoted their attention to the plow, until in 1869 James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow. （分数：6.00）(1).What is the main topic of the passage? （

36、分数：1.00）A.The need for agricultural advances to help feed a growing populationB.The development of safer machines demanded by the labor movementC.Machinery that contributed to the agricultural revolutionD.New Jersey as a leader in the agricultural revolution(2).The word “naturally“ in line 3 is clos

37、est in meaning to _. （分数：1.00）A.unsurprisinglyB.graduallyC.apparentlyD.safely(3).Which of the following can be inferred from what Thomas Jefferson said? （分数：1.00）A.Europe was changing more quickly than the United States.B.Europe had greater need of farm machinery than the United States did.C.The Uni

38、ted States was finally running out of good farmland.D.There was a shortage of workers on United States farms.(4).What point is the author making by stating that farmers could carry nearly all their tools on their backs? （分数：1.00）A.Farmers had few tools before the agricultural revolution.B.People in

39、the United States were traditionally self-reliant.C.Life on the farm was extremely difficult.D.New tools were designed to be portable.(5).When was the iron plow invented? （分数：1.00）A.In 1790.B.In the early 1800s.C.In 1869.D.In the early 1900s.(6).The word “it“ in line 12 refers to _. （分数：1.00）A.scien

40、tific agricultureB.James Oliver?s inventionC.the cast-iron plowD.Charles Newbold?s fortune八、Passage 2:(总题数：3，分数：13.00)Lost for Words Many minority languages are on the danger list In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language i

41、s dying. Most of its speakers are middle-aged or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English. Street signs, supermarket goods and even their own newspaper are all in English. Not surprisingly, linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain i

42、n a hundred years? time. Navajo is far from alone. Half the world?s 6,800 languages are likely to vanish with two generations-that?s one language lost every ten days. Never before has the planet?s linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. ?At the moment, we are heading for about three or four lang

43、uages dominating the world,? says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading. ?It?s a mass extinction, and whether we will ever rebound from the loss is difficult to know.? Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with languages spoken by only

44、 a few people. Only 250 languages have more than a million speakers, and at least 3,000 have fewer than 2,500. It is not necessarily these small languages that are about to disappear. Navajo is considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers. What makes a language endangered is not just the nu

45、mber of speakers, but how old they are. If it is spoken by children it is relatively safe. The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly, according to Michael Krauss, director of the Alassk Native Language Center, in Fairbanks. Why do people reject the language of

46、 their parents? It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier society, says Nicholas Ostler, of Britain?s Foundation for Endangered Languages, in Bath. ?People lose faith in their culture,? he says. ?When the next generation reaches their te

47、ens, they might not want to be induced into the old traditions.? The change is not always voluntary. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. The former US policy of running Indian res

48、ervation schools in English, for example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list. But Salikoko Mufwene, who chairs the Linguistics department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalization. ?Native Americans hav

49、e not lost pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to social-economic pressures,? he says. ?They cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial activity is in English.? But are languages worth saving? At the very least, there is a loss of data for the study of languages and their evolution, which relies on comparisons between languages, both living and dead. When a