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1、GET试题Non-English Major Graduate Student English Qualifying TestDecember, 2001 PAPER ONEPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (15 minutes, 15 points) Section A (1 point each)Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question

2、will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.Section A1. A. David wanted to leave in the morning. B. He wished hed thought o

3、f David before. C. David can go to the amusement park himself. D. Hes surprised that David changed his mind.2. A. Because she is full. B. Because she is sick. C. Because she is worried about putting on weight. D. Because she doesnt like the apple pie.3. A. He is doing very well in the course. B. He

4、isnt having much trouble. C. He understands very little of the lecture. D. He understood the reading last night.4. A. Took a photo of him. B. Bought him a picture. C. Held a birthday party. D. Bought him a frame for his picture.5. A. He is still being treated in the hospital. B. He has had an operat

5、ion. C. Hell rest at home for another two weeks. D. He returned to work last week.6. A. He has edited three books. B. He has bought the wrong book. C. He has lost most of his money. D. He has found the book that is needed.7. A. Read the article while she waits in line. B. Have her copies made outsid

6、e the library. C. Use a different machine to make her copies. D. Look for a different magazine article.8. A. Writing an essay. B. Studying for a test. C. Shopping for shoes. D. Reading a magazine.9. A. She never keeps other people waiting. B. She wanted the man to help her with her assignment. C. Sh

7、es upset that the man didnt tell her hed be late. D. Shes glad that the man phoned her.Section A ( 1 point each)Directions: Questions 10 through 12 are based on a talk given by an American diplomat to a Chinese student audience. The talk and the questions will be read only once, so listen carefully

8、and then answer the questions that follow: 10. A. Education. B. Environment. C. Equality. D. Economy 11. A. They have reached an agreement recently. B. They have been trying to join efforts. C. They have increased their production. D. They have seriously limited their options. 12. A. Because it can

9、stimulate economic growth. B. Because it means another era. C. Because it guarantees us a hopeful future. D. Because it creates a good variety of jobs.Directions: Two speakers are being asked to give their views on the technology of cloning. Listen carefully and then answer questions 13 through 15 a

10、ccording to what you hear. 13. A. It should be limited to cloning animals only. B. It is acceptable to use it to clone human beings. C. It should be banned because of its potential dangers. D. It may create many identical twins in the world. 14. A. She totally agrees with Mr.Bradley. B. She proposes

11、 a careful preparation for its misuse. C. She holds an opposite view to Mr.Bradleys. D. She considers it a great cause and a new science field. 15. A. Cloning technology is inevitable despite peoples fear. B. Human beings will make good use of this technology. C. This technology is going to bring us

12、 disasters only. D. People will get tired of this technology eventually. PART II VOCABULARY (10 points)Section A (0.5 point each)Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has one word or a set of words underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C a

13、nd D. Choose the word or phrase that is closet in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET.16. The professor told Ken that because his ideas were disorganized, his composition lacked coherence. A. endurance B. consistency C. inference D. assurance17. The patr

14、ons of the museum contributed the money for the new museum building. A. leaders B. members C. sponsors D. managers18. New mineral resources may be discovered during the forthcoming Antarctic expedition. A. exploration B. perception C. migration D. expansion19. I should soon wear out my patience if y

15、ou continued to be so obstinate. A. excite B. exhaust C. exert D. extend20. Willa Cather obtained the inspiration for her fictional characters from the Nebraskan farmers among whom she was raised. A. endorsed B. deposed C. elevated D. acquired21. In the Navejo household, grandparents and other relat

16、ives play indispensable roles in raising children. A. dominant B. estimable C. essential D. demanding22. After its founding, the United States government followed a policy explicitly designed to aid national shipping. A. prematurely B. economically C. specifically D. practically23. Accountants recor

17、d all information pertaining to the economic aspects of an organizations activities. A. submitted to B. associated with C. coming to D. accounting for24. There are two radically different philosophies in the world, Eastern with its emphasis on Confucianism, Western with its foundation in Platonism.

18、A. fundamentally B. spiritually C. positively D. virtually25. He united with himself the characteristics of two distinct persons. A. generality B. styles C. indications D. attributesSection B (0.5 point each)Directions: There are 10 sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted.Choo

19、se the word or words from the four choices given to best complete each sentence. Markthe corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET.26. The area around the main railroad station and exhibition hall offers an _ combination of ancient history and natural history. A. arrogant B. agreeable C. ambitious D

20、. innocent27. You had better and not go beating about the bush like that. A. speak up B. bring about C. stretch out D. take for28. She had been charged with being an _ to the embezzlement of funds from a co- operative farm. A. access B. accessory C. accessibility D. accession29. Among all societies

21、legal marriage is usually accompanied by some kind of ceremony that expresses group . of the union. A. opinion B. consistency C. insistence D. approval30. The attack on Fort Sumter near Charleston _ a sharp response from the North, which led to the American Civil War. A. provoked B. awoke C. demande

22、d D. expedited31. He had read a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various_ by which a man could tell his liver was out of order. A. signals B. systems C. symptoms D. symbols32. In certain remote corners of the world, you may still sometimes stumble upon a small district which se

23、ems to have been forgotten and to have remained while everything around it is in motion. A. steady B. stable C. stationary D. stale33. When we watch a play or a film, we all realize that the characters are sometimes_ A. imaginative B. imaginable C. imagined D. imaginary34. The second reason why Mr.

24、Li went wrong lies in his failure to some additional complexities. A. take no account of B. give an account of C. turn to D. take into account35. I owe an to my uncle for his help in starting the business. A. assessment B. instruction C. influence D. acknowledgmentPART III CLOZE TEST (10minutes, 15

25、points)Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one suitable word marked A,B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET. Nobody likes insects. They are _36_ 36. A. wicked B. disgusted and sometimes dangerous. Some of them C. appalli

26、ng D. annoying bite us and give us diseases; others bite us 37. A. places B. points and give us big red 37. Some do not bite, C. spots D. tips but they just fly round our heads or crawl 38. A. living B. lovely round our houses and gardens. And we do C. livening C. loving not like any of them except

27、those 39. A. But B. So 38 butterflies. C. And D. Therefore 39 insects are interesting. First, 40. A. old B. young they are very 40 animals. Three C. small D. weak hundred and twenty million years ago there 41. A. mammals B. creatures were no men or other 41 in the world C. habitants D. inhabitants b

28、ut there were insects. Today, _42_ every 42. A. over B. with square mile of land there are millions of C. throughout D. in them flying and crawling about. Second, 43. A. suitable B. adaptable insects are very _43_ to their habitat, to C. agreeable D. variable their food and to the weather. Now there

29、 44. A. species B. samples are about a million different 44 in the C. models D. specimensworld. 45 do people use insecticides? 45. A. How B. Why Not many insects 46 us. In many C. When D. Where cases we do not see the insects and we 46. A. pierce B. wound do not think much about them. The 47 is that

30、 insects eat so much of mans food, C. hurt D. injure and there are so many billions of them. 47. A. fact B. condition We must use insecticides to get rid of C. situation D. reason them. 48. A. medicine B. component An insecticide is simply a special chemical 48 with some poisonous C. Compound D. mat

31、erial elements. Farmers 49 their crops very 49. A. spray B. cover often and the insects die quickly. Of C. disinfect D. splash course some poisonous chemicals may 50. A. drop B. Stay 50 on the crops or in the soil, and that is also dangerous. C. evaporate D. leavePART IV READING COMPREHENSION (45 mi

32、nutes, 30 points)Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages for you to read. Read each passagecarefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D. andmark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (1) Another critical factor that plays a part in sus