陕西师范大学
2012级免费师范教育硕士英语试题
注意事项:
一、 本试题共10页，满分100分。答案一律写在答题纸上，否则无效。 二、 做选择题时，将所选答案书写在答题纸对应题号后的（ ） 三、 中英文尽可能做到字迹清晰、书写工整、疏密相间均匀、字体大小适当。 四、 英文作文必须逐行书写不得隔行或跳行。
Part I Vocabulary and Structure (20%)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.
1. My job varies between the extremely tedious and the annoyingly busy. ______ I think I am happier during the real busy times: no time to think about how bored I am. A. On balance B. In addition
C. Furthermore
D. Aside from
2. We are all in favor of your proposal that the meeting ______.
A. is called off B. should call off C. is to be called off D. be called off 3. ______, I walked my dear father.
A. Exhausted and hungry B. Having been exhausted and hungry C. Being exhausted and hungry D. To be exhausted and hungry 4. I stood still, trying to ______ a plausible excuse.
A. create
B. produce
C. invent
D. design
5. A new technique ______ out, the output as a whole increased by 15 percent.
A. working B. having worked C. having been worked D to have been worked 6. She thinks it?s time we ______ free school meals.
A. did for
B. did with
C. did without
D. did away with
7. He never regretted paying 300 Yuan for the bookcase. As a matter of fact he would
gladly have paid ______ for it.
A. as much twice B. twice as much C. much as twice D as twice much
8. He was attending a meeting, ______ come to your birthday party then.
A. unless he would have B. or he would C. nevertheless he did not D or he would have
9. He ______ the job ______ because it involved too much traveling.
A. turned…down B. turned…away C. turned off D turned…over 10. They have made changes in their plans for a new science park as you .
A. suggested B. have suggested
C. had suggested D. suggest
11．In some areas of northwest China, intensive farming has brought about severe_____
of the land, which accounted for poor harvest in recent years. A. deforestation B. dejection
C. delectation D degeneration
12．The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always_____ the scientist?s
time-keeping methods.
A. at the mercy of B. in accordance with C. under the guidance of D. by means of
13．Manufacturers raised the price of this product to ______ the increased cost of
material.
A. write off C. make for
B. offset D. abstain from
14．Among other things was the discussion to reach a_______ trade agreement between
the two countries. A. reciprocal C. marketable
B. merged D. mature
15．Nowadays more Chinese would like to hold their reunion dinner in posh restaurants,
despite the______ costs. They find it more enjoyable and physically less demanding. A. hyperbolic
C. exorbitant
B. inexorable D. protean
16. Christmas is a Christian holy day usually celebrated on December 25th _______the birth of Jesus Christ.
A. in accordance with B. in terms of C. in favor of D. in honor of
17. The _________ to overthrow the revolutionary regime was unearthed and promptly smashed.
A. conspiracy B. trick C. intrigue D. plot
18. In the last couple of days, a number of areas in China were hit by heavy snowfalls, powerful winds or suffocating sandstorms. The extremely bad weather has ________ the transportation system in the areas. A. constrained C. crippled of experiments. A. relevant C. protean
B. sacred D. meticulous B. cussed D. chucked
19. My father is researching the spread of AIDs. And he is ________ in his presentation
20. Mr. John made a very wonderful after-dinner speech. His ________ mind, graceful manner and fluent words moved all the participants deeply. A. awesome
Part II Reading Comprehension (40%)
Directions: There are 4 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. You should decide on the best choice. Passage One
When your parents advise you to \they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.
B. articulate
C. agile D. arbitrary
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully dropout in grade school.
Get a college degree, if possible. With a B.A., you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes. If you go for a master's degree, make sure it is an M.B.A., and is famous.
Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24000 while the full professors managed to earn just $23030.
A Ph.D. is the highest degree you can get. Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, if you pursue such a degree in any other field, you will face a dim future. There are more Ph.D.s unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.
If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or worst of all in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands.
Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes, driving cars, waiting on table, and endlessly filling out applications month after month. They may also take a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns.
You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.
21. According to the writer, what the society expects of education is to turn out people
who _____.
A. will not be a disgrace to society B. will become loyal citizens C. can take care of themselves D. can meet the nation's demands as a source of manpower
22. Many Ph.D.s are out of job because _____.
A. they are improperly educated
B. they are of little commercial value to their society C. there are fewer jobs in high schools
D. they prefer easier jobs that make more money 23. The nation is only interested in people _____.
A. with diplomas
B. who specialize in physics and chemistry C. who are valuable to the gross national product D. both A and C
24. Which of the following is not true?______
A. Bernard Shaw didn't finish high schools, nor did Edison. B. One must think carefully before pursuing a master degree. C. The higher your education level, the more money you will earn.
D. If you are too well-educated, you'll be overeducated for society's demands. 25. The writer sees education as _____.
A. a means of providing job security and financial security and a means of meeting a country's demands for technical workers B. a way to broaden one's horizons C. more important than finding a job D. an opportunity that everyone should have
Passage Two
In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States had tremendous natural resources that could be exploited in order to develop heavy industry. Most of the raw materials that are valuable in the manufacture of machinery, transportation facilities, and consumer goods lay ready to be worked into wealth. Iron, coal, and oil — the basic ingredients of industrial growth — were plentiful and needed only the application of technical expertise, organizational skill, and labor.
One crucial development in this movement toward industrialization was the growth of the railroads. The railway network expanded rapidly until the railroad map of the United States looked like a spider?s web, with the steel filaments connecting all important sources of raw materials, their places of manufacture, and their centers of distribution.