全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题(一)National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates(2002)
考生注意事项
1.考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则,得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。
2.答题前,考生应将答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、“考试语种”、“考生编号”等信息填写清楚,并与准考证上的一致。
3.全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题(一)、试题(二)。
4.本试题为试题(一),共4页(1~4页)。考生必须在规定的时间内作答。
5.试题(一)为听力部分。该部分共有A、B、C三节,所有答案都应填写或填涂在答题卡1上。A、B两节必须用蓝(黑)圆珠笔答题,注意字迹清楚。C节必须用2B铅笔按照答题卡上的要求填涂,如要改动,必须用橡皮擦干净。
6.听力考试进行时,考生应先将答案写或标记在试题上,然后在听力部分结束前专门留出的5分钟内,将答案整洁地誊写或转涂到答题卡1上。仅写或标记在试题上不给分。2002考研听力mp3下载
12. The academy suggests that children under age two .
[A] get enough entertainment. [B] have more activities.
[C] receive early education.[D] have regular checkups.
13. According to the report, children's bedrooms should .
[A] be no place for play.[B] be near a common area.
[C] have no TV sets. [D] have a computer for study.
Questions 14 - 16 are based on the following talk about how to save money.
You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 - 16.
14. According to the speaker, what should one pay special attention to if he
wants to save up?
[A] Family debts. [B] Bank savings.[C] Monthly bills. [D] Spending
habits.
15. How much can a person save by retirement if he gives up his pack-a-day
habit?
[A] $190,000. [B] $330,000. [C] $500,000. [D] $1,000,000.
16. What should one do before paying monthly bills, if he wants to
accumulate wealth?
[A] Invest into a mutual fund.[B] Use the discount tickets.
[C] Quit his eating-out habit. [D] Use only paper bills and save coins.
Questions 17-20 are based on an interview with Herbert A. Glieberman, a
domestic-relations lawyer. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 -
20.
17. Which word best describes the lawyer's prediction of the change in
divorce rate?
[A] Fall. [B] Rise. [C] V-shape.
18. What do people nowadays desire to do concerning their marriage?
[A] To embrace changes of thought.[B] To adapt to the disintegrated family
life.
[C] To return to the practice in the '60s and '70s.[D] To create stability
in their lives.
19. Why did some people choose not to divorce 20 years ago?
[A] They feared the complicated procedures.[B] They wanted to go against
the trend.
[C] They were afraid of losing face.[D] they were willing to stay
together.
20. Years ago a divorced man in a company would have .
[A] been shifted around the country.[B] had difficulty being promoted.
[C] enjoyed a happier life.[D] tasted little bitterness of disgrace.
You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet
to ANSWER SHEET 1.
THIS IS THE END OF SECTION I
DO NOT READ OR WORK ON THE NEXT SECTION
UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO CONTINUE
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全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题(二)
National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates(2002)
考生注意事项
1.考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则,得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。
2. 全国硕士研究生入学考试英语分为试题(一)、试题(二)。
3.本试题为试题(二),共11页(5~15页),含有英语知识运用、阅读理解、写作三个部分。英语知识运用、阅读理解A节的答案必须用2B铅笔按要求直接填涂在答题卡1上,如要改动,必须用橡皮擦干净。阅读理解B节和写作部分必须用蓝(黑)圆珠笔在答题卡2上答题,注意字迹清楚。
4.考试结束后,考生应将答题卡1、答题卡2一并装入原试卷袋中,将试题(一)、试题(二)交给监考人员。
Section II Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and
mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th
century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet
much had happened ( 21 ) . As was discussed before, it was not ( 22 ) the
19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic ( 23 ) ,
following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the ( 24 ) of the
periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (
25 ) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading ( 26 ) through
the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures ( 27 ) the
20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees
that process in ( 28 ) . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, ( 29 ) , that the introduction of the computer
in the early 20th century, ( 30 ) by the invention of the integrated circuit
during the 1960s, radically changed the process, ( 31 ) its impact on the
media was not immediately ( 32 ) . As time went by, computers became smaller
and more powerful, and they became “personal" too, as well as ( 33 ) , with
display becoming sharper and storage ( 34 ) increasing. They were thought
of, like people, ( 35 ) generations, with the distance between generations
much ( 36 ).
It was within the computer age that the term “information society" began to
be widely used to describe the ( 37 ) within which we now live. The
communications revolution has ( 38 ) both work and leisure and how we think
and feel both about place and time, but there have been ( 39 ) view about
its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits" have
been weighed ( 40 ) “harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved
difficult.
21. [A] between [B] before [C] since [D] later
22. [A] after [B] by [C] during [D] until
23. [A] means [B] method [C] medium [D] measure
24. [A] process [B] company [C] light [D] form
25. [A] gathered [B] speeded [C] worked [D] picked
26. [A] on [B] out [C] over [D] off
27. [A] of [B] for [C] beyond [D] into
28. [A] concept [B] dimension [C] effect [D] perspective
29. [A] indeed [B] hence [C] however [D] therefore
30. [A] brought [B] followed [C] stimulated [D] characterized
31. [A] unless [B] since [C] lest [D] although
32. [A] apparent [B] desirable [C] negative [D] plausible
33. [A] institution [B] universal [C] fundamental [D] instrumental
34. [A] ability [B] capability [C] capacity [D] faculty
35. [A] by means of [B] in terms of [C] with regard to [D] in line with
36. [A] deeper [B] fewer [C] nearer [D] smaller
37. [A] context [B] range [C] scope [D] territory
38. [A] regarded [B] impressed [C] influenced [D] effected
39. [A] competitive [B] controversial [C] distracting [D] irrational
40. [A] above [B] upon [C] against [D] with
Section III Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by
choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Text 1
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know
how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant
to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or
that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of
view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different.
If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized
methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing
secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which
works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man
arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful
accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is
very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the
new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to
the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself.
“Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. “On, that's God," came the
reply, “but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a
position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you
and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible
canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties. With other
audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an
outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman.
You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office
or the telephone system.
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes
more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which
you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it's the delivery
which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a
raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a
light-hearted remark.
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a
familiar quote “If at first you don't succeed, give up" or a play on words
or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your
talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and
inject with humor. (447 words)
41. To make your humor work, you should .
[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience.[B] make fun of the
disorganized people.
[C] address different problems to different people. [D] show sympathy for
your listeners.
42. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are .
[A] impolite to new arrivals.[B] very conscious of their godlike role.
[C] entitled to some privileges.[D] very busy even during lunch hours.
43. It can be inferred from the text that public services .
[A] have benefited many people.[B] are the focus of public attention.
[C] are an inappropriate subject for humor.[D] have often been the laughing
stock.
44. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered .
[A] in well-worded language.[B] as awkwardly as possible.
[C] in exaggerated statements.[D] as casually as possible.
45. The best title for the text may be .
[A] Use Humor Effectively.[B] Various Kinds of Humor.
[C] Add Humor to Speech.[D] Different Humor Strategies.
Text 2
Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning
tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain
nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics—the science of conferring
various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create
the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.
As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent
gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has
removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly
arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with
mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled
by tireless robo-drivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of
electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can
perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy—far
greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their
hands alone.
But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will
have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a
few decisions for themselves—goals that pose a real challenge. “While we
know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error," says Dave Lavery,
manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can't yet give a robot enough
'common sense' to reliably interact with a dynamic world."
Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed
results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it
appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy
the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have
begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.
What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's
roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented—and human
perception far more complicated—than previously imagined. They have built
robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a
millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can
glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent
that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a
winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most
advanced computer systems on Earth can't approach that kind of ability, and
neuroscientists still don't know quite how we do it.
46. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in .
[A] the use of machines to produce science fiction.
[B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry.
[C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work.
[D] the elite's cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work.
47. The word “gizmos" (line 1, paragraph 2) most probably means .
[A] programs. [B] experts. [C] devices. [D] creatures.
48. According to the text, what is beyond man's ability now is to design a
robot that can .
[A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery.[B] interact with
human beings verbally.
[C] have a little common sense.[D] respond independently to a changing
world.
49. Besides reducing human labor, robots can also .
[A] make a few decisions for themselves.[B] deal with some errors with
human intervention.
[C] improve factory environments.[D] cultivate human creativity.
50. The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are .
[A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure.
[B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately.
[C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information.
[D] best used in a controlled environment.
Text 3
Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC
agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost
$26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil
prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices
quadrupled, and 1979-80, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks
resulted in double-digitinflation and global economic decline. So where are
the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil
exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the
northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be
less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now
accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the
1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price,
so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on
pump prices than in the past.
Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less
sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other
fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries
have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones
use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in
constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973.
The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, it oil prices
averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would
increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP.
That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the
other hand, oil-importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has
shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously
squeezed.
One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that,
unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of
general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable
portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The
Economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In
1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.
51. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is .
[A] global inflation. [B] reduction in supply.
[C] fast growth in economy. [D] Iraq's suspension of exports.
52. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will
go up dramatically if .
[A] price of crude rises.[B] commodity prices rise.
[C] consumption rises. [D] oil taxes rise.
53. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries .
[A] heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive.
[B] income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices.
[C] manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed.
[D] oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP.
54. We can draw a conclusion from the text that .
[A] oil-price shocks are less shocking now.
[B] inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks.
[C] energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.
[D] the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry.
55. From the text we can see that the writer seems .
[A] optimistic. [B] sensitive. [C] gloomy. [D] scared.
Text 4
The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important
implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and
suffering.
Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to
physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical
principle of “double effect," a centuries-old moral principle holding that
an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one
that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses
of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing
dosages will eventually kill the patient.
Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the
principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly
insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control
their pain if that might hasten death."
George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University,
maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate
medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient
uses the drug to hasten death. “It's like surgery," he says. “We don't call
those deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their
patients, although they risked their death. If you're a physician, you can
risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide."
On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the
assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients
for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide,
the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report,
Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the
undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and forced
medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying"
as the twin problems of end-of-life care.
The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in
hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to
develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new
standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.
Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning
medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians
seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably
suffering," to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse." He
says medical licensing boards “must make it clear…that painful deaths are
presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in
license suspension."
56. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that .
[A] doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients' pain.
[B] it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives.
[C] the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide.
[D] patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide.
57. Which of the following statements its true according to the text?
[A] Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients' death.
[B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless
recovery.
[C] The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be
prescribed.
[D] A doctor's medication is no longer justified by his intentions.
58. According to the NAS's report, one of the problems in end-of-life care
is .
[A] prolonged medical procedures.[B] inadequate treatment of pain.
[C] systematic drug abuse.[D] insufficient hospital care.
59. Which of the following best defines the word “aggressive" (line 3,
paragraph 7)?
[A] Bold. [B] Harmful. [C] Careless. [D]Desperate.
60. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if
they .
[A] manage their patients incompetently.[B] give patients more medicine
than needed.
[C] reduce drug dosages for their patients.[D] prolong the needless
suffering of the patients.
Part B
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments
into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
(10 points)
Almost all our major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be
solved by physical and biological technology alone. What is needed is a
technology of behavior, but we have been slow to develop the science from
which such a technology might be drawn. 61) One difficulty is that almost
all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to
states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on.
Physics and biology once followed similar practices and advanced only when
they discarded them. 62) The behavioral sciences have been slow to change
partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and
partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find. The
environment is obviously important, but its role has remained obscure. It
does not push or pull, it selects, and this function is difficult to
discover and analyze. 63) The role of natural selection in evolution was
formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago, and the selective
role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the
individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied. As the
interaction between organism and environment has come to be understood,
however, effects once assigned to states of mind, feelings, and traits are
beginning to be traced to accessible conditions, and a technology of
behavior may therefore become available. It will not solve our problems,
however, until it replaces traditional prescientific views, and these are
strongly entrenched. Freedom and dignity illustrate the difficulty. 64)They
are the possessions of the autonomous (self-governing) man of traditional
theory, and they are essential to practices in which a person is held
responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements. A
scientific analysis shifts both the responsibility and the achievement to
the environment. It also ra
ises questions concerning “values." Who will use a technology and to what
ends?65) Until these issues are resolved, a technology of behavior will
continue to be rejected, and with it possibly the only way to solve our
problems.
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