申请硕士学位外国语水平全国统一考试真题.docx

1、申请硕士学位外国语水平全国统一考试真题资料范本 本资料为word版本，可以直接编辑和打印，感谢您的下载申请硕士学位外国语水平全国统一考试真题 地点：_时间：_说明：本资料适用于约定双方经过谈判，协商而共同承认，共同遵守的责任与义务，仅供参考，文档可直接下载或修改，不需要的部分可直接删除，使用时请详细阅读内容1999年同等学力人员申请硕士学位外国语水平全国统一考试真题Paper One 试卷一(90 minutes)Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes, 15 points) （略）Part II Vocabulary (15 minutes, 1

2、5 points)Section ADirections: In this section there are fifteen sentences , each with one word or phrase underlined . Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line throu

3、gh the center.I6. Courageous people think quickly and act without hesitation.A. complaint B. consideration C. delay D. Anxiety17. Ive only recently explored Shakespeare with profit and pleasure.A. followed B. evaluated C. acted D. studied18. Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology t

4、hat would have seemed incredible 50 yeas ago.A. hard to invent B. hard to understandC. hard to imagine D. hard to believe19. You have to pay a (n) premium for express delivery.A. extra charge B. extra price C. extra tip D. extra bonus20. Arriving anywhere with these possessions, he might just as eas

5、ily put up for a month or a year for a single day.A. arrange B. manage C. last D. stay21. The salesman approached the house cautiously when he saw the vicious dog at the door.A. carefully B. deliberately C. nervously D. bravely22. A new technological process may be employed to this abundant supply d

6、irectly.A. produce B. reserve C. exploit D. search23. An international treaty signed several years ago bans trade in plants and animal of endangered species.A. forbids B. eliminates C. promotes D. protects24. It is not easy to remain tranquil when events suddenly change you life.A. calm B. upset C.

7、steady D. severe25. When faced with doubts from some advisers on the attempted invasion, Kennedy ignored them.A. failed to understand B. put up withC. stood up for D. refused to considerSection BDirections: In this section, there are ten incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are fourchoices

8、marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.26. Dont _while Im talking. You can ask what you want later.A. cut out B. cut in C. cut off D. cut down27. He misled management b

9、y giving it the idea that the older and more experienced men were not an _ but a liability.A. assistance B. advantage C. asset D. award28. In 400 A.D. Chinese children played with a fan-like toy that span upwards and fell back to earth as _ceased.A. rotation B. suspension C. emission D. motivation29

10、. As a good photographer, you must develop an awareness of the world around you and the people who _ it.A. innovate B. inhabit C. integrate D. inherit30. Children in the United States are exposed to many influences _those of their families.A. rather than B. better than C. more than D. other than31.

11、The fact that the earths surface heats _provides a convenient way to divide it into temperature regions.A. unsteadily B. unevenly C. infrequently D. irregularly32. You may never experience an earthquake or a volcanic eruption in your life, but you will _changes in the land.A. adapt B. adopt C. witne

12、ss D. define33. It is understood that the filming of Legends is almost complete and the film is not _ to be delayed.A. easy B. available C. great D. likely34. The first step before making any decision toA. interact B. integrate C. intervene D. intensify35. The television station is supported byA. do

13、nations B. advertisements C. pensions D. accountsPart III Reading Comprehension (45minutes, 30 points)Directions: There are six passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best an

14、swer and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Passage OneLateral thinking (迂回思维), first described by Edward de Bone in 1967, is just a few years older than Edwards son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the d

15、e Bone was so famous, Caspars parents worried that any time he would say something bright at school, his teachers might snap, Where do you get that idea from?We had to be careful and not overdo it. Edward admits. Now Caspar is at Oxford-which once looked unlikely because he is also slightly dyslexic

16、 (诵读困难). In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of his school teachers thought he had a chance. So then we did several thinking sessions, his father says, using my techniques and, when he went up for the exam, he did extremely well. Soon after, Edward de Bone decided to write his latest book,

17、 Teach Your Child How to Think, in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brain-storming businessmen into informal exercises for parents and children to share.Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence, and everybody knows that children arent ver

18、y logical. So isnt it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? You know, Edward de Bone says, if you examine peoples thinking, it is quite unusual to find faults of logic. But the faults of perception are huge! Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.Teach Your Child

19、How to Think offers lessons in perception improvement, of clearly seeing the implications of something you are saying and exploring the alternatives.36. What is TRUE about Caspar?A. He first described lateral thinking.B. He is often scolded by his teacher.C. He is Edwards son.D. He is an adventurous

20、 thinker.37. Caspar succeeded in applying to Oxford because _.A. he used in the exam the techniques provided by his fatherB. he read the book Teach Your Child How to think before the examC. he was careful and often overworkedD. all of his school teachers thought he had a chance38. It can be inferred

21、 from Paragraph 2 that Edward _.A. was prompted to study lateral thinking because his son was slightly dyslexicB. once taught businessmen how to think before he wrote for parents and childrenC. was likely to improve childrens logic with his bookD. gave a description of lateral thinking several years

22、 after his son was born39. According to Paragraph 3, which of the following statements expresses Edward de Bones view?A. We often think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.B. Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence.C. Everybody knows that children

23、arent very logical.D. h is an uphill battle trying to teach children to think.40. Lateral thinking refers to the following EXCEPT _.A. seeing the implications of what you are sayingB. exploring the alternatives for what you are sayingC. improving ones logic in thinkingD. improving ones perception in

24、 thinkingPassage TwoFor millions of years before die appearance of die electric light, shift work, all-night cable TV and die Internet, earths creatures evolved on a planet with predictable and reassuring 24-hour rhythms. Our biological clocks are set for this daily cycle. Simply, our bodies want to

25、 sleep at night and be awake during the day. Most women and men need between eight and eight and a half hours of sleep a night to function properly throughout their lives. (Contrary to popular belief, humans dont need less sleep as they age.)But on average, Americans sleep only about seven and a hal

26、f hour per night, a marked drop from the nine hours they averaged in 1910. Whats worse, nearly one third of all Americans get less than six hours of sleep on a typical work night. For most people, thats not nearly enough.Finding ways to get more and better sleep can be a challenge. Scientists have i

27、dentified more than 80 different sleep disorders. Some sleeping disorders are genetic. But many problems are caused by staying up late and by traveling frequently between time zone or by working nights. Dr. James F. Jones at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver says that sleep disor

28、ders are often diagnosed as other discomforts. About one third of the patients referred to him with possible chronic fatigue syndrome actually have treatable sleep disorders. “Before we do anything else, we look at their sleep,” Jones says.Sleep experts say that most people would benefit from a good

29、 look at their sleep patterns. My motto (座右铭) is Sleep defensively, says Mary Carskadon of Brown University. She says people need to carve out sufficient time to sleep, even if it means giving up other things. Sleep routines - l/ire going to bed and getting up at the same time every day - are import

30、ant. Pre-bedtime activities also make a difference. As with Eisner, who used to suffer from sleeplessness, a few life style changesavoiding stimulants and late meals, exercising hours before bedtime, relaxing with a hot bathyield better sleep.41. What is TRUE of human sleep?A. On average, people in the U. S. today sleep less per night than they used to.B. For most people, less than six hoers of sleep on a typical work night is enough,C. Most people need less sleep when they grow older.D. Most