1、在职攻硕英语联考（阅读）模拟试卷 84及答案与解析 一、 Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your an
2、swer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 1 There are two factors which determine an individuals intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin w
3、ith, an individual will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individual the sort of environment in which he is reared. If an individual is handicapped environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and h
4、e will never attain the level of intelligence of which he is capable. The importance of environment in determining an individuals intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their growth pr
5、ocesses were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster homes. Peter was reared by parents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor educational opportunities. Mark was reared in the home of well-to-do parents who had been
6、 to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Marks I. Q. was 125, twenty-five poin
7、ts higher than the average, and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, having identical brains, would have tested at roughly the same level. Question: The best title of this selection can be _ （ A） Measure Your Intelligence （ B） Intelligence and E
8、nvironment （ C） The Case of Peter and Mark （ D） How the Brain Influences Intelligence 1 The United States is a country made up of many different races. Usually they are mixed together and cant be told from one another. But many of them still, talk about where their ancestors came from. It is somethi
9、ng they are proud of. The original Americans, of course, were the Indians. The so-called white men who then came were mostly from England. But many came from other countries like Germany and France. One problem the United States has always had is discrimination. As new groups came to the United Stat
10、es they found they were discriminated against. First it was the Irish and Italians. Later it was the blacks. Almost every group has been able to finally escape this discrimination. The only immigrants who have not are the blacks. Surprisingly enough the worst discrimination today is shown towards th
11、e Indians. One reason the Indians are discriminated against is that they have tried so hard to keep their identity. Of course they are not the only ones who have done so. The Japanese have their Little Tokyo in Los Angeles and the Chinese a Chinatown in New York. The Dutch settlement in Pennsylvania
12、 also stays separate from other people. Their towns are like something from the 19th century. They have a different reason from the other groups for staying separately. They live separately for religious reasons rather than keep together in a racial group. Although some groups have kept themselves s
13、eparate and others have been discriminated against, all groups have helped make the United States a great country. There is no group that has not helped in some way. And there is no group that can say they have done the most to make it a great country. Many people still come from other countries to
14、help the United States grow. A good example is the American project that let a man walk on the moon. It was a scientist from Germany who was most responsible for doing that. It is certain that in the future the United States will still need the help of people from all racial groups to remain a great
15、 country. Questions: 2 The main reason why the Indians are most discriminated against is that_. （ A） they have tried hard to keep their religions （ B） they have tried hard to live together to keep their Indian custom （ C） they are the only ones who have tried to keep their identity （ D） they discrim
16、inate many other races 3 The Dutch live separately in Pennsylvania_. （ A） to escape discrimination （ B） to keep together in a racial group （ C） to enjoy themselves in their own towns （ D） for religious reasons 3 The comprehension passages on this course are designed to help you increase your reading
17、 speed. A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example , much more rapidly than a
18、physics or economics textbook but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gain will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with. The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for
19、 your stage of instruction. They are all approximately 500 words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a
20、 newspaper or light novel. If you read this kind of English, with understanding, at, say, 400 words per minute, you might skim through a newspaper at perhaps 650700, while with a difficult textbook you might drop to 200 or 250. Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among nati
21、ve English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, U. S. , for example, have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty, for example, Tolstoys War and Peace in translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250 w. p.
22、m. with about 70% comprehension. Minnesota claims that after 12 half-hour lessons, once a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no loss of comprehension, to around 500 w. p. m. It is further claimed that with intensive training over seventeen weeks, speeds of over 1 000 w. p. m. can be reac
23、hed, but this would be quite exceptional. Questions: 4 The average untrained native speaker at University of Minnesota_. （ A） reads at about 245 w. p. m. （ B） reads at 600 w. p. m. （ C） reads at about 300 w. p. m. （ D） cannot read difficult works in translation 5 The University of Minnesota claims t
24、hat in 12 half-hour lesson_. （ A） it can double a students reading speed （ B） it can triple a students reading speed （ C） it can increase a students reading speed four times （ D） no real increase in reading speed can be achieved 5 Chinese cinema is still the big unwritten chapter in world film indus
25、try. The gap is surprising, if only because so many other facets of twentieth-century Chinese history, culture and politics have been extensively analyzed. The past ten years, however, have seen a significant growth of interest in Chinese films both in China and farther afield. The China Film Archiv
26、e, forced to close by Red Guards in 1966, resumed its activities in 1978; it has now recatalogued its collection and begun facing up to the massive task of copying its large holdings of old prints on to safety-film stock. Two years ago, it organized a special season of pre-1949 films for internal ci
27、rculation to film professionals on the countrys leading production centers. This gave many of the younger film-makers their first glimpses of work done in the 1930s and 1940s. Later films, banned since the “anti-rightist purge“ of 1957, have also begun to reappear on Chinas screens. The western disc
28、overy of Chinas film heritage began at Londons National Film Theatre in 1980, with a 25-film season called “Electric Shadows“. Several classics had their first screenings outside China at this event, which established two important points. First, that the Shanghai film industry of the 1930s and 1940
29、s produced works of international standing. Second, that the films of the Peoples Republic, while hardly as remarkable as their predecessors, did offer much more than celebrations of successful works in the countryside and military field. The London initiative was quickly copied in a dozen or more c
30、ities, from Sydney to Turin, with the result that Chinese cinema has found a place on the map that it did not have in 1980. The decades of neglect and ignorance, however, have forced all such events to take the form of broad, general surveys, which has not helped the discovery of individual talents.
31、 London has now picked up the baton again with a second, larger season, to be held at the National Film Theatre throughout January and February. It is called, inevitably, “More Electric Shadows“. Unlike the first season, this has been organized with the co-operation of the China Film Archive; the re
32、sult is a program more or less evenly balanced between pre-1949 and post-1949 titles. It offers more 1930s films than have previously been seen outside China at one time and includes a number of western premieres. Questions: 6 The special season of pre-1949 films mentioned_. （ A） was shown in cities
33、 all over the world （ B） consisted mainly of films banned since 1957 （ C） was organized by the China Film Archive （ D） gave young film-makers a second chance to see films of the 1930s and 1940s 7 The London season of 1980 showed that Chinese films of the Peoples Republic era_. （ A） could rank among
34、international film classics （ B） were better than many Western films of the same era （ C） were remarkably inferior to the Shanghai 1930s and 1940s productions （ D） dealt mainly with agricultural and military themes 8 The new season in London in January and February will be special because it will_.
35、（ A） show more films from the fifties （ B） include premieres of most Westerns （ C） be the second held outside China （ D） be co-supported by the Chinese 9 Human beings act in a different way from that of animals just because they can speak while animals cannot. Even the cleverest animals cannot do th
36、ings which to us seem very simple and which small children, as soon as they learn to talk, would be able to do. A German scientist, who made experiments for many years with big apes, found that his apes could use sticks as tools to pull down bananas which they could not reach. But they only used the
37、 stick to get a banana when both the stick and the banana were in view at the same time. If the banana was in front of them and the stick was behind them, they could not use the stick. They could not bear the banana in mind long enough to look around and pick up the stick and then use it. The reason
38、 for this is clear. We have words for banana and stick which help us to think about these things when they are not in sight. Even a small child knowing the words “banana“ and “stick“ has an idea of their relationship and is able to think of “stick“ together with “banana“ and to remember this long en
39、ough to pick the stick from behind and use it on the banana. Unable to speak, animals cannot keep their knowledge of things for long. That is why they often interrupt one line of action to something else and later forget it completely. Human beings, on the other hand, use language and are able to go
40、 after one thing continuously and do it with a definite aim. Question: The German scientist made experiments in order to_. （ A） find that animals were as clever as human beings （ B） show that his apes could use sticks as tools to get bananas （ C） prove that animals had no words for keeping memory of
41、 something （ D） find out that some animals could use tools to get food but have no words to keep things in mind 在职攻硕英语联考（阅读）模拟试卷 84答案与解析 一、 Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinis
42、hed statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 1 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 阅读理解 【知识模块】 阅读理解 2 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 阅读理解 3 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 阅读理解 【知识模块】 阅读理解 4 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 阅读理解 5 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 阅读理解 【知识模块】 阅读理解 6 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 阅读理解 7 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 阅读理解 8 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 阅读理解 9 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 阅读理解
