English Entrance Examination
For Non-English Major Doctoral Candidates
Model Test One November, 2010
Part I Vocabulary (10 points)
Directions: There are twenty questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with one word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across it on your Answer Sheet.
1.The large towers of the George Washington Bridge were not encased in masonry but were left exposed to reveal their handsome steel structure. A. harsh B. hoarse C. good-looking D. flagrant 2.The jewel was kept by the money-lender as a pledge. A. guarantee B. speculation C. pulchritude D. guise 3.The revolt was foiled by troops loyal to the king. A. blocked B. frustrated C. fluttered D. faltered
4. It is interesting to note how public opinion oscillates between the extremes of optimism and pessimism. A. swings B. hovers C. converges D. foils 5. G. Jung had a lot of to say about the human psyche. A. world B. mind C. enthusiasm D. determination 6. Caesar ridiculed his wife?s foreboding about the approaching of the family plague. A. forewarning B. predicting C. signal D. signification 7. I?m amazed at the imbecility of the readers of these trashy magazines. A. stupidity B. weak-mindedness C. potentiality D. idiosyncrasy
8. Though the subway system of the city has been well-planned for years, its funding is still in the air. A. widely spreading B. totally uncertain C. hysterically unconstrained D. already broadcast
9. As they crumbled back, he ordered everyone to sit down and keep quiet. . A. retreated B. crawled C. stumbled D. went
10. Add religion to the humblest of edifices and you have a sanctuary. A. offices B. adjuncts C. buildings D. chapel
11. They were asked to curb those orgies and resume the pose of self-deceiving innocence. . A. position B. air C. action D. bombast
12. Revolutions are often caused when the legitimacy of a government is questioned by the people. A.validity B.effectiveness C. bureaucracy D. prejudice 13. When they others went swimming, I followed suit. A. learned from B. secede C. did the same as others D. tried to follow the same rule 14. The counterfeit stamps were a good facsimile of the real ones. A. picture B. likeliness C. identification D. duplicate
15. Our football team is now contending with one from the University of British Columbia. A. meeting B. contesting C. conceding D. contemplating
16. After scrutinizing the Stern Hitler Diaries, handwriting experts proclaimed them to be forgeries.
A. examining B. judging C. protracting D. detecting
17. Hare Karishnas are a religious cult that is often charged with brain washing its members. A. church B.tradition C. culture D. sect
18. Your belligerent attitude is often the cause for your lack of popularity. A. aspiring B. courageous C. cowardly D. aggressive 19. The solution is there if you can reason it out. A. judge it out B. believe it out C. think it out D. prove it right 20. In public, Prince Charles has proven to be a scrupulous dresser.
A. unserviceable B. fashionable C. careful D. uncanny
Part II Cloze (10 points)
Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the right word or phrase from the list given below for each of the blanks. Change the form if necessary. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
where, signs, alive, suggests, manufacturers, concerned, someone, Some, whether, to, investigating, or, must, knowing, off, likely, for example, involves, loosely, well-spaced
Sleep laboratories around the world are finding that an alarming number of drivers on motorways may be falling asleep at the wheel. Although researchers have difficulty in 21 for certain 22 an accident has been caused by sleepiness, it appears that a driver who is on the road between 4 am and 6 am is about 10 times as 23 to have a sleep-related accident as someone who is driving in the middle of the morning or early in the evening. 24 British
police forces have become sufficiently 25 to launch campaigns to alert the public 26 the danger. Leicestershire police, 27 , consider sleepiness to be the cause of 20 percent of accidents on motorways and in the summer of 1990 ran a campaign with the slogan “Stay awake, Stay 28 ”. Major motor 29 such as Ford and Renault are 30 ways of incorporating sleepiness detectors and alarms into their vehicles.
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If an accident 31 only one vehicle, which runs 32 the road into the certain crash barrier, the embankment, a tree 33 a bridge, then sleepiness is likely to be the cause, especially if there are no skid marks or other 34 of braking. A driver who is alert to an impending crash grips the steering wheel and suffers different injuries from 35 who is asleep and holding the steering wheel 36 . This pattern of injury, combined with an absence of skid marks on the road, also 37 that the driver was asleep in accidents 38 one vehicle runs into the back of another, especially if it occurs where traffic is light and vehicles are consequently 39 on the road. Under these conditions, the driver?s “inattention” 40 have been more than just momentary.
Part III Reading Comprehension (30points)
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 one and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage One
On the morning of September 11th, I boarded the train from Washington Heights in Upper
Manhattan just as usual and went to the Body Positive office in the South Street Seaport of Lower Manhattan. While I was leaving the subway at 8:53 am, a man ran down the street screaming, \in disbelief. However, being an amateur photographer, and thinking that I might be able to help out, I ran directly toward the WTC. I stopped just short of the WTC at a corner and looked up. There before me stood the gaping hole and fire that had taken over the first building. I stood there in shock taking pictures, wanting to run even closer to help out, but I could not move. Soon I saw what looked like little angels floating down from the top of the building. I began to cry when I realized that these \
one-by-one, some even holding hands with another. Could I actually be seeing this disaster unfold with hundreds of people around me crying, screaming and running for safety?
As I watched in horror, another white airliner came from the south and took aim at the South
Tower. As the plane entered the building, there was an explosion and fire and soon debris ( 碎片) began to fall around me. It was then that I realized that we were being attacked and that this was just not a terrible accident. Yet, I still could not move, until I was pushed down by the crowd on the street, many now in a panic running toward the water, as far from the WTC as they could possibly get. All around me were the visual reminders of hundreds of people running in panic. There were shoes, hats, briefcases, pocketbooks, newspapers, and other personal items dropped as hundreds of people ran for safety. ……
Much has been written about the disaster already. We have learned so much in such a small amount of time about appreciating life. In some way we must move forward, bury the dead, build a memorial for those lost, and begin the coping and healing process for the survivors. But healing takes time. Some have been able to head right back to work, others seek counseling, while others remain walking through the streets with expressionless faces. However, we are all united in our grief.
41. According to paragraph one, the author?s office was ______. A. at Washington Heights
B. just beside the World Trade Center C. in the South Street Seaport D. far from the WTC
42. The passage tells us that the author ______. A. was a social worker
B. worked in the Body Positive office near the WTC C. was asked to take some pictures of WTC
D. ran toward WTC because he wanted to make out what was happening
43. What was his first reflection when he stood at the corner?
A. There was a terrible accident in which an airliner struck the first building. B. A terrorist attack against America had begun. .
C. People were floating down from the top of the building as if they wanted to break a world record.
D. He was just at a loss and could not make out what had happened. 44. What was the immediate reaction of the man on seeing all this? A. He watched in horror and cried, but couldn?t move. B. He ran nearer to help out. C. He ran nearer to take pictures.
D. He ran away to try to find a shelter.
45. In the last paragraph, the author?s attitude is that ______. A. different people have different ideas.
B. however difficult the situation is, people should unite and move forward. C. people should go back to work immediately. D. people shouldn?t walk with expressionless faces.
Passage Two
For the five passengers aboard an American Airline flight form Tokyo earlier this month, it was a dilemma worthy of reality television: Go with Santa Clara County health authorities and risk being held in quarantine(隔离) for hours for no good reason. Or go home, make the next connection or get to that business meeting, and risk spreading a potentially deadly new disease to family, fellow passengers and business associates. Emergency vehicles had the aircraft surrounded, and across the nation, Americans watching on live TV got a new look at an old weapon in the fight to protect the public?s health: the quarantine.
In an age of mysterious diseases like SARS, and of bioterrorism threats like smallpox, the quarantine is staging a comeback. By April 4, President Bush signed an unusual executive order that would add SARS to a list of diseases for which federal health officials may quarantine U. S. citizens against their will. It was the first such action since 1893, when the dreaded Eborla virus was added to a series of epidemics.
Quarantine was first used in Venice during the 14th century. In America, its history is long and periodic. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, outbreaks of tuberculosis（肺结核）, smallpox, scarlet fever, cholera and other plagues prompted periodic quarantines throughout the nation When these quarantines were challenged, courts invariably defended the state?s authority to act: Quarantine, the Supreme Court ruled in 1909, does not invade constitutional rights, since individuals have no right to harm others.
But though quarantines were frequently effective in protecting the public from the spread of illness, they can be a blunt (钝的) instrument, and have often been abused or misapplied. In 1900, the death of a Chinese laborer suspected of having bubonic plague（腺鼠疫）in San Francisco prompted authorities to quarantine that city?s entire Chinatown district. Trapped behind crude barriers and barbed wire, and experiencing food shortages. San Francisco?s Asian population successfully challenged the measure as an act aroused by racial prejudice rather than concern for public health.
Today, federal officials have broad rights, through the Centers for Disease Control, to examine and quarantine foreign citizens coming into the United States if they may be carriers of contagious diseases. And state and local officials across the country have broad powers to detain Americans if they are clearly ill with a contagious disease and they resist treatment. 46. What does the first paragraph introduce to us? A. A scene from a soap opera.
B. A piece of news about a shocking scene. C. A scene from a medical advertisement D. A piece of news item telecast live.
47. The five passengers were surrounded by emergency vehicles when landing because they were ______.
A. seriously ill
B. involved in some illegal dealings C. seriously injured in an accident
D. suspected to have some contagious disease 48. Why is the old weapon back again?
A. Because we are facing with the severe attack of some secret disease like SARS. B. Because we are facing with global bioterrorism attack.
C. Because the environmental crisis has made its coming back necessary.
D. Because we are in an age when we turn pale at the mere mention of something terrible. 49. From the passage we can see that ______.
A. quarantine has a very, very long history in America.
B. quarantine has been used several times in America to protect people from the spread of epidemics.
C. when quarantine is carried out, human rights are infringed upon.
D. American citizens have the right to protect their rights at any time and under any circumstances. .
50. From this passage, we can infer that ______.
A. faced with the threat of deadly unknown diseases quarantine is an outdated weapon B. quarantine is not very effective as compared with some other stronger measures C. just like other laws, quarantine can be abused for evil purposes D. quarantine is a weapon to harm others so as to benefit oneself Passage Three
He has been at the helm (舵) of the Securities and Exchange Commission for only three months, but William Donaldson has given individual investors reason to believe that he will prove to be an effective champion of their interests as a vigilant regulator of the nation's financial markets. The challenges ahead remain daunting, but Mr. Donaldson is steadily restoring the agency's credibility in the wake of its disastrous stewardship by Harvey Pitt.
The S.E.C. chairman passed his first big test by persuading William McDonough, the respected president of the New York Federal Reserve, to run the new accounting oversight board created by Congress last summer. He has also opened an important inquiry into trading practices at the New York Stock Exchange. The commission has issued rules to tighten corporate boards' oversight over financial audits. Mr. Donaldson should now see that more is done to shore up shareholder democracy.