1、研究生英语学位课统考（GET）模拟试卷 6（无答案）Section ADirections: There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with one word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one. Mark
2、the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.1 I didnt know it then, but this disruptive way of reading started with the very first novel I ever picked up.（A）harmful（B） persistent（C） interruptive（D）characteristic2 The problem is that the
3、loss of confidence among the soldiers can be highly contagious.（A）spreading（B） contemptible（C） contented（D）depressing3 The sales manager was so adamant about her idea that it was out of the question for any one to talk her out of it.（A）adaptable（B） anxious（C） firm（D）talkative4 Cowries shells were on
4、ce in widespread use as a token of value.（A）a symbol（B） an amount（C） a thing（D）an investment5 Adverse reviews in the New York press may greatly Change the prospects of a new Broadway production.（A）additional（B） encouraging（C） unfavorable（D）subversive6 The guest turned upside down his glass as a sign
5、al that he would drink no more.（A）conversed（B） inversed（C） traversed（D）reversed7 In the deserted factory several huge machines were left to rust and decay.（A）inaugurate（B） disintegrate（C） accelerate（D）disseminate8 In this monumental work the entire storehouse of the worlds art is surveyed.（A）impress
6、ive（B） expressive（C） progressive（D）possessive9 Their signing of the treaty was regarded as a conspiracy against the British Crown.（A）secret plan（B） bold attack（C） clever design（D）joint effort10 She was delirious last night, but she seems quite lucid this morning.（A）rational（B） peaceful（C） patient（D）
7、insaneSection BDirections: There are ten questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar acro
8、ss the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.11 A _ division of labor has contributed most to the increase of production, promoted general welfare, and raised the standard of living in industrial countries.（A）complicated（B） complex（C） sophisticated（D）regular12 All experts agree that t
9、he most important consideration with diet drugs is carefully _ the risks and benefits.（A）weighing（B） valuing（C） evaluating（D）distinguishing13 The magician picked several people _ from the spectators and asked them to help him with the performance.（A）by chance（B） at random（C） on occasion（D）on average
10、14 Although sports _ the household, Joe drew the line when they interfered with family traditions and routine.（A）overwhelmed（B） affected（C） dominated（D）influenced15 Many doctors have become _ with the possible long-term effects of birth control pills.（A）sensible（B） anxious（C） aware（D）concerned16 Wit
11、h the pace of change quickening, more and more scientists find it hard to keep up with the latest developments even in their own _.（A）disciplines（B） institutes（C） perspective（D）horizon17 The risk of chemotherapy must therefore be carefully _ the chances of spontaneous regression.（A）conflicted with（B
12、） compared to（C） reconciled with（D）weighed against18 Free breakfast is a small amount of money when you consider that it can be the difference between doing well in school or having your mind _ because youre hungry.（A）dispersed（B） disturbed（C） distracted（D）discouraged19 The hospital, though very new
13、 or young in its age, was somehow able to _ the severe medicine shortage.（A）sustain（B） suspend（C） tolerate（D）detain20 A large part of human activity, particularly in relation to the environment, is _ conditions or events.（A）in response to（B） in favor of（C） in contrast to（D）in excess of一、CLOZE20 Ever
14、ywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are (41) things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.Almost all fashionable clothes are (42) symbolic, so is food. We (43) our furniture to serve (44) visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and soci
15、al position. We often choose our houses on the basis of a feeling that it “looks well“ to have a “good address.“ We trade perfectly good cars in for (45) models not always to get better transportation, but to give (46) to the community that we can afford it.Such complicated and apparently (47) behav
16、ior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, “why cant human beings live simply and naturally.“ Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative (48) of such live as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanti
17、ng to (49) to a cat -and to a cat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to understand the symbolic process so that instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its (50) .21 (41)（A）many（B） some（C） few（D）enough22 (42)（A）highly（B） nearly（C） merely（D）likely23 (43)（A）make（B） get（C） p
18、ossess（D）select24 (44)（A）of（B） for（C） as（D）with25 (45)（A）earlier（B） later（C） former（D）latter26 (46)（A）suggestion（B） surprise（C） explanation（D）evidence27 (47)（A）useless（B） impossible（C） inappropriate（D）unnecessary28 (48)（A）passivity（B） activity（C） simplicity（D）complexity29 (49)（A）lead（B） devote（C） pr
19、oceed（D）return30 (50)（A）teachers（B） students（C） masters（D）servants二、READING COMPREHENSION30 For years, Europeans have been using “smart cards“ to pay their way through the day. They use them in shops and restaurants; plug them into public telephones and parking meters. In France smart cards cover an
20、ything from a biscuit bill to a swimming-pool entry fee. In America, smart cards are not nearly so common-only about 430,000 are now circulating in the US and Canada-but Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., predicts that number will balloon to 4.7 million by the year 2002.What is a smart card, ex
21、actly, and how does it work?Also called a chip card because of the tiny microprocessor embedded in it, a smart card looks a lot like the other plastic in your wallet. To make things more confusing, some smart cards pull double duty as regular ATM bank cards. The difference is that when you swipe you
22、r ATM (or debit) card at the grocery-store checkout, youre draining cash from your bank account. Smart cards, on the other hand, are worthless unless they are “loaded“ with ash value, pulled directly from your bank account or traded for currency. The chip keeps track of the amounts stored and spent.
23、 The advantage, in theory, is convenience: consumers bother less with pocket change and are able to use plastic even at traditionally cash-only vendors. The electronic transaction doesnt require a signature, a PIN number or bank approval. Downside: lose the card, lose the money.Most people are proba
24、bly more familiar with stored-value cards equipped only with a magnetic stripe, such as fare cards issued to riders on the Washington metro or the New York City subway. The newer Chip-enhanced versions armed with more memory and processing power, have popped up in various places in the past year or
25、so, from college campuses to military bases to sports stadiums. Other experiments are under way. A healthcare claims processor in Indianapolis, Ind., hopes smart cards will streamline medical bill payments. In Ohio, food-stamp recipients receive a smart card rather than paper vouchers.Smart cards is
26、sued for general commerce are rarer, unless you happen to live in a place designated for a test run, such as Manhattans Upper West Side. But big banks and plastic-purveying kings Visa and Master Card are hot for the idea, promising more extensive trials and more elaborate, multipurpose cards capable
27、 of rendering everything else you carry-plastic, paper or coin-superfluous.Todays smart cards may not be revolutionizing the way we buy the morning paper yet, but they could turn out to be the right tool to spur Internet commerce and banking. For the time being, though, smart cards are just another
28、way to buy stuff. And it could be a while before even that catches on. Remember: some people still dont quite trust ATMs either.31 The primary purpose of the passage is to _.（A）urge action（B） publicize a product（C） define a term（D）explain a theory32 According to the passage, Europeans use smart card
29、s to do all of the following EXCEPT _.（A）shop in stores（B） pay for meals（C） get into swimming pools（D）do research33 According to the passage, one difference between a smart card and an ordinary ATM card is that a smart card _.（A）has fewer functions（B） can double as a credit card（C） draws money from
30、your bank account every time it is used（D）requires payment in advance for its buying power34 The word “Downside“ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _.（A）however（B） drawback（C） lower part（D）feature35 The author implies that people today buy newspapers _.（A）with smart cards（B） in traditional ways
31、（C） to learn about smart-card test runs（D）without bringing pocket change with them35 Humor is a most effective, yet frequently neglected, means of handling the difficult situations in our lives. It can be used for patching up differences, apologizing, saying “no“, criticizing, getting the other fell
32、ow to do what you want without losing his face. For some jobs, it is the only tool that can succeed. It is a way to discuss subjects so sensitive that serious dialogue may start a riot. For example, many believe that comedians on television are doing more today for racial and religious tolerance tha
33、n are people in any other forum.Humor is often the best way to keep a small misunderstanding from escalating into a big deal. Recently a neighbor of mine had a squabble with his wife as she drove him to the airport. Airborne, he felt miserable, and he knew she did, too. Two hours after she returned
34、home, she received a long-distance phone call. “Person-to-person for Mrs. I.A. Pologize,“ intoned the operator. “Thats spelled P as in.“. In a twinkling, the whole day changed from grim to lovely at both ends of the wire.An English hostess with a quick wit was giving a formal dinner for eight distin
35、guished guests whom she hoped to enlist in a major charity drive. Austerity was a fashion in England at the time, and she had asked her children to serve the meal. She knew that anything could happenand it did, just as her son, with the studied concentration of a tightrope walker, brought in a large
36、 roast turkey: he successfully elbowed the swinging dining-room door, but the back swing bespattered the bird onto the dining-room floor.The boy stood rooted, guests stared at their plates. Moving only her head the hostess smiled at her son, “No harm, Daniel,“ she said, “just pick him up and take hi
37、m back to the kitchen“she enunciated clearly so he would think about what she was saying“and bring in the other one“.A wink and a one-liner instantly changed the dinner from a red-faced embarrassment to a conspiracy of fun.36 What is the main idea of the passage?（A）Humor is the key to success in our
38、 work and our lives.（B） Humor enables us to cope with difficult situation effectively.（C） Humor is the only best way to criticize someone without losing his face.（D）Humor makes fun of any difficult situations.37 Which of the following is NOT stated in the passage?（A）Comedians on TV are believed to h
39、ave done a lot in making people more tolerant of racial and religious differences.（B） To make up differences, humor is a most acceptable as well as a most effective means.（C） People often turn to humorous ways when meeting with difficult situation because of its effectiveness.（D）Only by adopting the
40、 means of humor can one succeed in some jobs.38 From the context, we may guess that the word “squabble“ means _.（A）accident（B） meal（C） joke（D）quarrel39 What caused the roast turkey to drop onto the door?（A）The backward movement of the door.（B） The sons hasty behavior.（C） Someone happened to be at th
41、e door.（D）The bird raised by the family.40 What do you think would probably be the result if the hostess got angry and scolded the son?（A）It would make the embarrassing situation worse.（B） The son would refuse to serve the guests any more.（C） The son would talk back and make the mother all the angri
42、er.（D）The guests would leave before the dinner was over.40 There was relatively little communication back and forth between colonies and homeland in the earliest days, and in consequence the majority of Americanisms were seldom if ever heard in England. By an unhappy chance the beginnings of more fr
43、equent intercourse coincided precisely with that rise of Parism in speech which marked the age of Queen Anne. The first Englishman to sound the alarm against Americanisms was one Francis Moor who visited Georgia with Oglethorpe in 1780. In Savannah, then a village but two years old, he heard the wor
44、d bluff applied to a steep bank and was so unpleasantly affected by it that he denounced it as “barbarous.“ He was followed by a gradually increasing stream of other linguistic policemen, and by 1781 the Rev John Witherspoon, who had come out in 1769 to be president of Princeton, was printing a head
45、long attack upon American speech habits, not only on the level of the folk but also higher up indeed, clear to the top. “I have heard in this country,“ he wrote, “in the senate, and from the pulpit, and see daily in dissertations from the press, errors in grammar, improprieties, and vulgarisms which
46、 hardly any person of the same class in point of rank and literature would have fallen into in Great Britain.“Withers poons attack made some impression but only in academic circles. The generality of Americans, insofar as they heard of it at all dismissed its author as a mere Englishman (he was actu
47、ally a Scotsman), and hence somehow inferior and ridiculous. The former colonies were now sovereign states, and their somewhat cocky citizens thought that they were under no obligation to heed admonitions from a defeated and effete empire 3,000 miles across the sea. Even before the Declaration of In
48、dependence the anonymous author, suppose to have been John Adams, proposed formally that an American Society of Language be set up to “polish“ the American language on strictly American principles, and on Sept. 30, 1780, Adams wrote and signed a letter to the president of Congress renewing this prop
49、osal. “Let it be carried out.“ he said, “and England will never more have any honor, excepting now and then that of imitating the Americans.“ He was joined in 1789 by the redoubtable Noah Webster, who predicted the rise in the new Republic of a “language as different from the future language of England as the modern Dutch, Danish, and Swedish are from the German, or from one another.“The English reply to such contumacy was a series of blasts that continued in dreadful fray for a wh
