1、工程硕士(GCT)英语-248 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Vocabulary an(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.By the time he arrives in Beijing, we_here for two days.（分数：2.00）A.have been stayingB.have stayedC.shall stayD.will have stayed2.I really appreciate_to help me, but I am sure that I can manage it myself.A. you to come
2、13. that you comeC. your coming D. how you come（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.3.If the work_by the end of this month is delayed, the construction company will be heavily fined.（分数：2.00）A.is completedB.to be completedC.will have been completedD.will be completed4._that saw the trade between the two countries reach
3、 its highest point.（分数：2.00）A.During the 1990sB.That it was in the 1990sC.It was in the 1990sD.It was the 1990s5.On the local market,_fruits and vegetables are now commonly sold.（分数：2.00）A.exoticB.enoughC.limitedD.famous6.A baby might show fear of an unfamihar adult, he is likely to smile and reach
4、out to another in- fant.（分数：2.00）A.ifB.wheneverC.so thatD.whereas7.Steel is an alloy composed_of iron and carbon.（分数：2.00）A.primarilyB.traditionallyC.carefullyD.partially8.The fire was finally brought under control, but not_extensive damage had been caused.（分数：2.00）A.afterB.beforeC.sinceD.as9.Scarce
5、ly_those words when suddenly the monster was transformed into a very handsome youth.（分数：2.00）A.had he utteredB.did he utterC.he had utteredD.he did utter10.Many a delegate was in favor of his proposal that a special committee_to investigate the incident.（分数：2.00）A.were set upB.was set upC.be set upD
6、.set up二、Part Reading Compr(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 tile mobile phone in places where there is no ordinary telephone. Busines
7、s people, use mobiles when theyre traveling. In some countries, like Japan, many people use their mobile phones to send email 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 are very fashionable wi
8、th teenagers. Parents buy mobile phones for their children. They can call borne 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 expensive mo- bile. Research
9、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 rings in a cafe or re
10、staurant. 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 among people because
11、_.（分数：2.00）A.they think mobiles are funB.they believe mobiles are safeC.they love to listen to musicD.they feel it easier to talk to each other(2).It is stated in the passage that in Russia and China_.（分数：2.00）A.ordinary telephone service is available everywhereB.people prefer mobile phones to ordin
12、ary telephonesC.mobiles are used in places without ordinary telephonesD.people use mobiles to send e-mail and access the Internet(3).Parents buy mobile phones for their children because_.（分数：2.00）A.mobile phones are very fashionable with teenagersB.they can call home if they are in trouble and need
13、helpC.they can use mobiles to play simple computer gamesD.mobile phones enable teenagers to give up smoking(4).Why can mobile phone be a much more serious problem?（分数：2.00）A.Because people hate the businessmen using mobiles in public places.B.Because the use of mobile phones can be physically harmfu
14、lC.Because there is strong evidence for the problems of mobiles.D.Because people feel their privacy unprotected in a cafe or restaurant.(5).Which of the following can be the title of this passage?（分数：2.00）A.Why Are Mobiles So Popular?B.MobilesUseful or UselessC.MobileA Danger to health?D.Why Do We D
15、esign Mobile?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 up on success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards, but recognition of some sort-preferably measurable. If a boy turn out to be a preacher(传真
16、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(清教徒) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded
17、 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 rise through achievement. Here was the de- termination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what bad b
18、een 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 compete within the family for the favor of the parents as in Europe, but worked hard for success in the ou
19、ter world, along paths of their own choosing.（分数：10.00）(1).According to the first paragraph, _.（分数：2.00）A.success is highly valued in American societyB.success surely brings material rewardsC.success equals measurable recognitionD.people agree on what success means(2).In this passage, the author ind
20、icates that_.（分数：2.00）A.preachers are not so successful as businessmenB.businessmen are not so successful as preachersC.boys are advised to become preachers instead of businessmenD.measurable success can also be achieved by preachers(3).The word “accent“ ( Line 1, Paragraph 2) most probably means_.（
21、分数：2.00）A.dialectB.emphasisC.attentionD.recognition(4).Which of the following does NOT account for peoples desire for success?（分数：2.00）A.The Puritan belief 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
22、 the new worl(5).It is suggested in the last paragraph that_in the old world.（分数：2.00）A.children tended to compete for the favor of their parentsB.children were determined to throw off their immigrant identitiesC.children were urged to achieve success in the fluid and classless societyD.children wor
23、ked hard for success along paths chosen by their parents五、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Cant 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 int
24、eractive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when 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 open
25、ing. “I struck gold,“ says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel 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
26、to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, 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 yo
27、u think you want to dothen broaden it. “None of these programs do that,“ says another expert. “Theres no career 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
28、 it a reminder to check the database again. “I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added 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 th
29、ose who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobsthose it considers the best matches. There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them and they do. “On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp inc
30、rease in our traffic,“ says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for Career Site.Even those who arent hunting 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 ann themselves when negotiati
31、ng for a raise. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at Career Builder. “You always keep your 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?（分数：2.00）A.By searching openings in
32、a job databaseB.By posting a matching position in a database.C.By using a special service of a database.D.By E-mailing his resume to a databas(2).Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?（分数：2.00）A.Lack of counseling.B.Limited number of visits.C.Lower efficiency.D.Fewer successf
33、ul matches.(3).The expression “tip service“ (Line 3, Paragraph 3) most probably means（分数：2.00）A.advisory.B.compensation.C.interaction.D.reminder.(4).Why does Career Sites agent offer each job hunter only three job options?（分数：2.00）A.To focus on better job matches.B.To attract more returning visits.C
34、.To reserve space for more messages.D.To increase the rate of success.(5).Which Of the following is true according to the text?（分数：2.00）A.Personal search agents are indispensable to job-hunters.B.Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands.C.Personal search agents are also helpful t
35、o those already employed.D.Some agents stop sending information to people once they are employe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 dark ness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty clim
36、bing in through the car 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 Andr
37、ea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didnt know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, some thing 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 h
38、at, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs. Thick black hairs? Hairy arms? Andrea% 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 sudd
39、enly, she threw the car into a skid (刹车), and brought it to a halt.“My Cod!“ 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!“ insiste
40、d Andrea. “Could you 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
41、put a good three miles 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 curio
42、usly.It contained only 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 ear mainly because_.（分数：2.00）A.the hitchhiker wa
43、s an old womanB.she was curious about the old ladyC.the lady had a heavy bagD.she knew the old lady(2).What made Andrea afraid when she looked at the old lady?（分数：2.00）A.She had a shapeless body.B.She bad a harsh voice.C.She wore a dirty dress.D.She had hairy arms.(3).Andrea suddenly stopped the car
44、 because_.（分数：2.00）A.she thought she had hit a child on the roadB.she skidded on some ice on the roadC.she wanted to trick the passenger into getting outD.she couldnt concentrate and nearly had a crash(4).Andrea looked in the passengers bag to_.（分数：2.00）A.examine what was in itB.find out where the p
45、assenger livedC.use the passengers toolsD.find out who the passenger was(5).Andrea screamed because_.（分数：2.00）A.she saw the hitchhiker come backB.she realized she could have bean killedC.she was scared at seeing bloodD.she cut herself by the blade七、Part Cloze(总题数：1，分数：20.00)German zoologist Randolf
46、Menzel says bees arent as busy as people believe they are. “Bees are not par ticularly (31) . Instead they sleep a lot and are lazy. They spend (32) 80 per cent of the night sleeping. Even during the day they often fly to the nest (33) they rest their wings,“ said Menzel, a zoologist at the Free Uni
47、versity in Berlin, who has studied bees for four decades. But to (34) for their apparent laziness, they are actually very intelligent. They are (35) learners and able to recognize various smells.Menzel said bees learning, like (36) of many animals, was based on a reward system. “If a bee is re warde
48、d once for something, it remembers it for a week. But if it is rewarded three times, it will remember it for its (37) lifetime,“ said Menzel. He was awarded a (38) by the German Zoological Society.The memory capacity of bees means they can (39) among more than 50 different smells to find the one the
49、y want. “What is interesting is that what smells good to a bee, is also a (40) smell for humans,“ said Menzel.（分数：20.00）A.working hardB.hardworkingC.hardworkingD.working hardlyA.as toB.as muchC.up toD.such asA.whatB.to whichC.in thatD.whereA.compensateB.provideC.searchD.accountA.rapidB.swiftC.speedyD.quickA.thoseB.whichC.thatD.whatA.fullB.integrateC.allD.entireA.prizeB.praiseC.priceD.prideA.discriminateB.distinguishC.divideD.deriveA.sickeningB.pleasant
