湖州师范学院2011届学位英语考试试卷二以及答案
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湖州师范学院
2011
届学位英语考试试卷二
Part
I. Reading Comprehension. (40%)
Section
A: Fast Reading
Directions:
In
this part, you will be asked to go over the
passage quickly and then choose the best
answer from the four choices marked A,
B, C and D for each question.
What to
Expect from College Life
Congratulations!
Y
ou've
been
accepted
into
college.
Y
ou're
excited
and
maybe
a
little
bit
nervous. What can you expect? Read on
for our advice.
Prepare
yourself for a new life at college
Entering
college
is
like
starting
a
new
phase
of
life
where
you
have
to
learn
to
support
yourself. Y
ou will have to
adjust to your new surroundings, try to do
everything by yourself and
learn to
stand on your own two feet. As you negotiate the
ups and downs of student life, you will
learn how to manage the situations that
arise.
Learn to enjoy the
hardships
We
all know college life is wildly different from
middle school. It's the place where teenagers
become adults and academia meets
society.
Ideally
, your time
at college will help you mature
(
成熟
) physically
and mentally,
equip you with knowledge
and prepare you for your professional
career.
It's
a
challenging
process, so
it's
not realistic
to
expect
everything
to
always work
in
your
favor. Y
ou
won't win every prize and you won't be popular
with all your classmates all the time.
The
set-backs
and
challenges
–
like
failure,
betrayal
and
unjust
treatment
–
are
just
as
important
for your growth as the good times.
Only
once you have experienced these things will
you know what society and life is like.
Communicate with
others
College is just like a small society,
so you have to communicate with your peers to make
the
most
of
your
time.
Social
communication
is
easier
to
learn
than
technology.
Smile
at
your
classmates, show your concern and speak
with them. Then they will be happy to help you in
return.
T
ake on
your own responsibilities
Y
ou
are
becoming
a
fully-
functioning
adult
in
society.
Don't
count
on
others
to
make
decisions
or plans for you. Y
ou are your own
master.
As an active student, you
should plan your
life
and
manage
your
study
right
from
the
start
of
your
college
life.
Face
up
to
your
troubles
bravely and don't run away
.
College is a very important
time of your life and you should make the most of
it. Y
ou will
learn as much
from the real world as you will from textbooks, as
much from practice as theory. If
you
pay
attention,
you
will
acquire
precious
knowledge,
goods
sense,
social
experience
and
determination.
1. How would you prepare for a new life
at college?
A. Learn to support
yourself.
B. Adjust to new environment.
C. Try to be independent.
D.
All above.
college, the set-backs
and______ are of equal importance for college
students
’
growth as
the good times.
A. failure
B. betrayal
C. challenges
D. unjust treatment
3.
College
life
may
help
students
’
_______
physically
and
mentally,
equip
them
with
knowledge and get ready for their
professional career.
A.
mature
B. capable
C. ambitious
D. strong
4. According to
the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Entering college is like starting a
new phase of life.
B. Y
ou
can win every prize and be popular with all your
classmates all the time.
C. Social
communication is easier to learn than technology.
D. Y
ou will learn as much
from the real world as you will from textbooks.
5. To be a fully-functioning adult in
society, a college student should not count on
others but
take on their own______.
A. decisions
B. plans
C. responsibilities
D. future
Section B: Reading in Depth
Directions:
There are 3
passages in this section. Each passage is followed
by some questions. For
each of them
there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Passage one
As
regards
social
conventions, we
must
say
a word
about
the well[/color]-known
English
class system. This
is an embarrassing subject for English people, and
one they tend to be ashamed
of, though
during the present century class-consciousness has
grown less and less, and the class
system less rigid. But
it
still exists below the surface. Broadly
speak
ing, it means there are two
classes, the “middle class” and the
“working class”. (We shall ignore for a moment the
old “upper
class”, including the
hereditary aristocracy
, since it is
extremely small in numbers; but some of its
members
have
the
right
to
sit
in
the
House
of
Lords,
and
some
newspapers
take
a
surprising
interest
in
their
private
life.
The
middle
class
consists
chiefly
of
well-to-do
businessmen
and
professional
people
of
all
kinds.
The
working
class
consists
chiefly
of
manual
and
unskilled
workers.
The most
obvious difference between them is in their
accent. Middle-class people use slightly
varying
kinds
of
“
received
pronunciation
”
which
is
the
kind
of
English
spoken
by
BBC
announcers and taught to overseas
pupils. Typical working-class people speak in many
different
local accents which are
generally felt to be rather ugly and uneducated.
One of the biggest barriers
of
social
equality
in
England
is
the
two-class
education
system.
To
have
been
to
a
so-called
“public school” immediately marks
you
out as one of the middle class. The
middle classes tend to
live
a
more
formal
life
than working-class
people,
and
are
usually
more cultured. Their
midday
meal is “lunch” and
they have a rather formal evening meal called
“dinner”, whereas the working
man’s
dinner,
if
his
working
hours
permit,
is
at
midday,
and
his
smaller,
late-evening
meal
is
called supper.
As we have
said, however, the class system is much less rigid
than it was, and for a long time
it has
been government policy to reduce class
distinctions. Working-class students very commonly
receive a university education and
enter the professions, and working-class incomes
have grown
so much recently that the
distinctions between the two classes are becoming
less and less clear.
However,
regardless of one
’
s social
status, certain standards of politeness are
expected of
everybody, and a well-bred
person is polite to everyone he meets, and treats
a labourer with the
same
respect
he
gives
an
important
businessman.
Servility
inspires
both
embarrassment
and
dislike. Even
the word “sir”, except in school and in certain
occupations (e.g. commerce, the army
etc.) sounds too servile to be commonly
used.
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6. The middle class mainly refers to
people.
A. who
were born as aristocrat
B. who have the right to sit in the
House of Lords
C. who speak in many different local
accents
D. who
are prosperous businessmen or who work in some
professions
7.
The most obvious difference between the working
class and the middle class in English is
their.
A. dress
B.
work
C. accent
D. meal
8. Why
isn
’
t the word
A.
Because it sounds too servile and is likely to
cause embarrassment.
B. Because it can only be used in some
certain occupations.
C. Because it is an impolite word.
D. Because it
shows that the speaker is not a well-bred person.
9. The
A. are
extremely small in number so that media pays no
attention to them
B. still uses old words like
C. includes the
hereditary aristocracy
D. refers only
to the royal family
10. Which of the
following is not true about the English class
system?
A. It is an embarrassing
subject for English people.
B. Working-
class students cannot receive a university
education.
C.
The class system is much less rigid than it was.
D. The class system still exists below
the surface.
Passage two
One of the most interesting paradoxes
in America today is that Harvard University, the
oldest
institution of higher learning
in the United States, is now engaged in a serious
debate about what a
university should
be, and whether it is measuring up.
Like the Roman Catholic Church and
other ancient institutions, it is asking - still
in private rather
than in public -
whether its past assumptions about faculty,
authority, admissions, courses of study,
are really relevant to the problems of
the 1990’s.
Should
Harvard
or
any
other
university
be
an
intellectual
sanctuary,
apart
from
the
political
and
social
revolution
of
the
age,
or
should
it
be
a
laboratory
for
experimentation
with
these
political
and
social
revolutions;
or
even
an
engine
of
the
revolution?
This
is
what
is
being
discussed privately in
the big clapboard houses of faculty members around
the Harvard Y
ard.
The issue was
defined by Waiter Lippmann, a distinguished
Harvard graduate, several years ago.
“If
the
universities
are
to
do
their
work,”
he said,
“they
must
be
independent
and
they
must
be
dis
interested…
They
are
places
to
which men
can
turn
for
judgements
which
are
unbiased
by
partisanship
and
special
interest.
Obviously,
the
moment
the
universities
fall
under
political
control,
or
under
the control
of
private
interests,
or the
moment
they
themselves
take
a
hand
in
politics and the leadership of
government, their value as independent and
disinterested sources of
judgement is
impaired.”
This is part of the
argument that is going on at Harvard today.
Another part is the argument of the
militant and even many moderate
students: that a university is the keeper of our
ideals and morals,
and
should
not
be
“disinterested”
but
activist
in
bringing
the
nation’s
ideals
and
actions
together.
Harvard’s
men
of
today
seem
more
troubled
and
le
ss
sure
about
personal,
political
and
academic purpose than they did at the
beginning. They are not even clear about how they
should
debate and resolve their
problems, but they are struggling with them
privately, and how they come
out is
bound to influence
American university
and political life in the 1990’s.
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1.
The
issues
in
the
debate
on
Harvard’s
goals
are
whether
the
universities
should
remain
independent of our
society and its problems, and whether they
should
——
.
A.
fight militarism
B. overcome the widespread drug
dependency
C. take an active part in solving
society’s ills
D. support our
old and established institutions
12.
In
regard
to
their
goals
and
purposes
in
life,
the
author
believes
that
Harvard
men
are
becoming
——
.
A. more sure about them
B. less sure about them
C.
more hopeful of reaching a satisfactory answer
D.
completely disillusioned about ever
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3. The word
“paradox” in para
graph 1 is
——
.
A. a
parenthetical expression
B. a difficult puzzle
C. an abnormal
condition
D.
a self-contradiction
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4. The word “sanctuary”in
paragraph 3 is
——
.
A.
a holy place dedicated to a certain god
B.
a temple or nunnery of middle age
C. a certain
place you can hide in and avoid mishaps
D. an academy for intelligent people
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5.
In the author’s judgement, the ferment going on at
Harvard
——
.
A.
is a sad symbol of our general bewilderment
B.
will soon be over, because times are bound to
change
C. is of interest mostly to Harvard men
and their friends
D. will influence future
life in America
Passage three
Consumers
are
being confused
and misled
by
the
hodge-podge
(
大杂烩
)
of
environmental
claims
made
by
household
products,
according
to
a
“green
labeling”
study
published
by
Consumers International
Friday .
Among
the
report’s
more
outrageous
(
令人无法容忍的
)
findings
，
a
German
fertilizer
described
itself
a
s
“
earthworm
friendly”
，
a
brand
of
flour said
it
was
“non
-
polluting”
and
a
British
toilet paper claimed to be “environmentally
friendlier”
The
study was written
and
researched
by
Britain’s
National
Consumer
Council
(NCC)
for
lobby
group Consumer International. It was funded by the
German and Dutch governments and