1、工程硕士(GCT)英语-247 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Vocabula(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.By the time he arrives in Beijing, we _ here for two days. A. have been staying B. have stayed C. shall stay D. will have stayed（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.2.You shouldnt be so _ I didnt mean anything bad in what I said. A. sentiment
2、al B. sensible C. sensitive D. sophisticated（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.3.I really appreciate _ to help me, but I am sure that I can manage it myself. A. you to come B. that you come C. your coming D. how you come（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.4.The fire was finally brought under control, but not _ extensive damage had been
3、 caused. A. after B. before C. since D. as（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.5._ that saw the trade between the two countries reach its highest point. A. During the 1990s B. That it was in the 1990s C. It was in the 1990s D. It was the 1990s（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.6.If you miss the cultural references _ a word, youre very l
4、ikely to miss its meaning. A. below B. before C. beyond D. behind（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.7.Picasso was an artist who fundamentally changed the _ of art for later generations. A. philosophy B. concept C. viewpoint D. theme（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.8._ my neighbors kid with his coming exam, I spend an hour working wi
5、th him every day. A. To help B. Helping C. Helped D. Having helped（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.9.Steel is an alloy composed _ of iron and carbon. A. primarily B. traditionally C. carefully D. partially（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.10.On the local market, _ fruits and vegetables are now commonly sold. A. exotic B. enough C.
6、limited D. famous（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.二、BPart Reading (总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Why are mobiles so popular? Because people love to talk to each other. And it is easier with a mobile phone. In countries like Russia and China, people use the mobile phone in places where there is no ordin
7、ary telephone. Business people, use mobiles when theyre traveling. In some countries, like Japan, many people use their mobile phones to send e-mail message and access the Internet. They use a new kind of mobile phone called “i-mode“. You can even use a mobile phone to listen to music.Mobile phones
8、are very fashionable with teenagers. Parents buy mobile phones for their children. They can call home if they are in trouble and need help. So they feel safer. But teenagers mostly use them to keep in touch with their friends or play simple computer games. Its cool to be the owner of a small expensi
9、ve mobile. Research shows that teenage owners of mobile phones smoke less. Parents and schools are happy that teenagers are safer and smoke less.But many people dislike them. They hate it when the businessman opposite them on the train has a loud conversation on his phone. Or when the mobile phone r
10、ings in a care or restaurant. But there is a much more serious problem. Its possible that the mobile phone can heat up the brain because we hold the phone so close to our head. Scientists fear that mobiles can perhaps be bad for your memory and even give you cancer.（分数：10.00）(1).Mobiles are popular
11、among people because _. A. they think mobiles are fun B. they believe mobiles are safe C. they love to listen to music D. they feel it easier to talk to each other（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).It is stated in the passage that in Russia and China _. A. ordinary telephone service is available everywhere B. peo
12、ple prefer mobile phones to ordinary telephones C. mobiles are used in places without ordinary telephones D. people use mobiles to send e-mail and access the Internet（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Parents buy mobile phones for their children because _. A. mobile phones are very fashionable with teenagers B. t
13、hey can call home if they are in trouble and need help C. they can use mobiles to play simple computer games D. mobile phones enable teenagers to give up smoking（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Why can mobile phone be a much more serious problem? A. Because people hate the businessmen using mobiles in public pl
14、aces. B. Because the use of mobile phones can be physically harmful. C. Because there is strong evidence for the problems of mobiles. D. Because people feel their privacy unprotected in a care or restaurant.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following can be the title of this passage? A. Why Are Mobi
15、les So Popular? B. MobilesUseful or Useless C. MobilesA Danger to health? D. Why Do We Design Mobile?（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.四、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：10.00)One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. Success does not necessarily mean mat
16、erial rewards, but recognition of some sort-preferably measurable. If a boy turn out to be a preacher(传真者) instead of a businessman, thats all right. But the bigger his church is, the more successful he is judged to be.A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan(清
17、教徒) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of Gods love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settled. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to ri
18、se through achievement. Here was the determination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what had been denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off the immigrant(负担) by still more success and still more rise in a fluid and classless society. Brothers did not comp
19、ete within the family for the favor of the parents as in Europe, but worked hard for success in the outer world, along paths of their own choosing.（分数：10.00）(1).According to the first paragraph, _. A. success is highly valued in American society B. success surely brings material rewards C. success e
20、quals measurable recognition D. people agree on what success means（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).In this passage, the author indicates that _. A. preachers are not so successful as businessmen B. businessmen are not so successful as preachers C. boys are advised to become preachers instead of businessmen D. m
21、easurable success can also be achieved by preachers（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The word “accent“ ( Line 1, Paragraph 2) most probably means _. A. dialect B. emphasis C. attention D. recognition（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Which of the following does NOT account for peoples desire for success? A. The Puritan belief
22、 in the virtue of work. B. Richness of opportunities in the new world. C. Lack of fixed social ranks and classes. D. Determination to deny the value of the new world.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).It is suggested in the last paragraph that _ in the old world. A. children tended to compete for the favor of the
23、ir parents B. children were determined to throw off their immigrant identities C. children were urged to achieve success in the fluid and classless society D. children worked hard for success along paths chosen by their parents（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.五、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Hunting for a job late la
24、st year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the sites “personal search agent“. Its an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them w
25、hen a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D. C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. “ I struck gold,“ says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house couns
26、el for a company.With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your c
27、riteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility. “ says one expert.For any job search, you should start with a narrow conceptwhat you think you want to dothen broaden it. “ None of these programs do that,“ says another expert. “ Theres no car
28、eer counseling implicit in all of this. “ Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again. “ I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is add
29、ed to a database that might interest me,“ says the author of a job-searching guide.Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. When Career Sites agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobsthose it conside
30、rs the best matches. There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find themand they do. “On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp increase in our traffic,“ says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for Career Site.Even those who arent hu
31、nting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at Career Builder. “You always keep y
32、our eyes open,“ he says. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.（分数：10.00）(1).How did Redmon find his job? A. By searching openings in a job database. B. By posting a matching position in a database. C. By using a special service of a database. D. B
33、y E-mailing his resume to a database.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents? A. Lack of counseling. B. Limited number of visits. C. Lower efficiency. D. Fewer successful matches.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The expression “tip service“ (Line 3, Paragraph 3) most p
34、robably means _ A. advisory. B. compensation. C. interaction. D. reminder.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Why does Career Sites agent offer each job hunter only three job options? A. To focus on better job matches. B. To attract more returning visits. C. To reserve space for more messages. D. To increase the r
35、ate of success.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is true according to the text? A. Personal search agents are indispensable to jobhunters. B. Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands. C. Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed. D. Some agents s
36、top sending information to people once they are employed.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.六、Passage Four(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking(搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the ca
37、r door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper. “Thank you dearieIm just going to Brockbourne. “Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head made Andrea uneasy about this
38、strange hitchhiker. She didnt know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something. dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? It was absurd.Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar o
39、f the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs. Thick black hairs? Hairy arms? Andreas blood froze. This wasnt a woman. It was a man. At first, she didnt know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the ca
40、r into a skid (刹车), and brought it to a halt.“My God!“ she shouted, “A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!“The “old lady“ was clearly shaken by the sudden skid, “I didnt see anything dearie,“ she said. “I dont think you hit anything. “Im sure it was a child!“ insisted Andrea. “ Could yo
41、u just get out and have a look? Just see if theres anything on the road?“ She held her breath. Would her plan work?It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three mi
42、les between herself and the awful hitchhiker.It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously.It contained o
43、nly one itema small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe and the inside of the bag were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream.（分数：10.00）(1).Andrea allowed the hitchhiker to take a ride in her car mainly because _. A. the hitchhiker was an old woman B. she was
44、 curious about the old lady C. the lady had a heavy bag D. she knew the old lady（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What made Andrea afraid when she looked at the old lady? A. She had a shapeless body. B. She had a harsh voice. C. She wore a dirty dress. D. She had hairy arms.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Andrea suddenly s
45、topped the car because _. A. she thought she had hit a child on the road B. she skidded on some ice on the road C. she wanted to trick the passenger into getting out D. she couldnt concentrate and nearly had a crash（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Andrea looked in the passengers bag to _. A. examine what was in
46、 it B. find out where the passenger lived C. use the passengers tools D. find out who the passenger was（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Andrea screamed because _. A. she saw the hitchhiker come back B. she realized she could have been killed C. she was scared at seeing blood D. she cut herself by the blade（分数：2
47、.00）A.B.C.D.七、BPart Cloze/(总题数：1，分数：20.00)I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an import UU 1 /U /Uof my work, but the real pleasure was in the work itself.Scientific research is like an exploration of a voyage of discovery, you are U
48、 U 2 /U /Utrying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead U U 3 /U /Uand you have to try something different, but sometimes an experiment does U U 4 /U /Uand tells you something new and that it is really exciting. U U 5 /U /Usmall the new finding may be, it is great to think “I am the only person who knows“ and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will U
