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2004年MBA英语模拟试题1
Section I Listening Comprehension (20%)
Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B mad Part C.
Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers lama your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.
If you have any questions, you may raise your band NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started. Now look at Part A in your test booklet.
Part A
Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a news report on Radio I. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you’ve heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points)
News Report
Age of the girl with a shotgun (years)
1
Owner of the shotgun
Her ______
2
Number of pupils in the classroom
3
Fine for letting a rock band play overtimes ($)
4
Name of the natural disaster in the north of England and
Southern Scotland
5
Part B
Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a talk about the relationship between kwashiorkor （夸希科病奥）and bad eating habits. While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the questions. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and questions below. (5 points)
6
What organization brought a number of specialists on food to Geneva in October 1949?
Kwashiorkor is a disease caused by ______ in food.
7
It is difficult to discover kwashiorkor because it is
8
hardly distinguishable
9
According to the text, a simple but efficient way of
Curing kwashiorkor is to have more
How long has the disease been known in Latin
10
America
Part C
Directions: You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. YOU will hear each piece once only. (10 points)
Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk about language learning. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13.
11. What would be easy to do according to the advertisement?
A. Speak your own language better.
B. Learn a foreign language fast.
C. Pay nothing to learn a foreign language.
D. Spend a lot of money on learning a language.
12. What do most people want to learn these days?
A. About the country where a language is spoken.
B. To write in a foreign language.
C. To speak a foreign language.
D. To read foreign literature.
13. According to the talk, which is the only language that is easy to learn?
A. A native language. B. A special language.
C. A second language. D. A local language.
Questions 14-16 are based on the following talk about the Helen Keller Scholarship which encourages the disabled. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.
14. What is the speaker’s stated purpose?
A. To recognize unusual student achievement.
B. To encourage students to help the handicapped.
C. To present some facts about Miss Anne Sullivan.
D. To discuss a famous person’s accomplishments
15. The scholarship was named after Helen Keller because it was for _______.
A. a blind or a deaf student
B. the most intelligent student
C. the most intelligent student
D. a student who wanted to study at Radcliffe
16. According to the speaker, how have other people benefited from Helen Keller’s work?
A. They have been able to get scholarships.
B. They have learned a lot about the disabled.
C. They have been encouraged by her example.
D. The have promoted the welfare of the disabled.
Questions 17-20 are based on the following talk about the racial groups in the United States. You mow nave 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.
17. Where did most of the first white min in the United States come from?
A. France. B. Ireland.
C. Germany. D. England.
18. Which group of Americans is discriminated against the most?
A. The Irish. B. The Indians.
C. The Dutch. D. The blacks.
19. Why do the Dutch lice separately in Pennsylvania?
A. For being discriminated against.
B. To keep together in a racial group.
C. For religious reasons.
D. Because they have different customs.
20. What can be concluded from the talk?
A. Racial discrimination persists in America.
B. Americans are against racial discrimination.
C. America has many different racial groups now.
D. The U. S. needs all racial groups for its development.
You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.
Section II Structure and Vocabulary (10%)
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. Then blacken the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.
21. If you fail to deliver the goods to your corporation before Oct. 20, it will be regarded as a ______
of the agreement.
A. breed B. brand C. branch D. breach
22. His effort of decades began to . He came to be well-known for his findings.
A. pay off B. did off C. put off D. break off
23. According to the regulation, your wage is $200 a week, with an ______ of $50 for each of service.
A. incident B. accident C. increment D. evidence
24. Nothing is so uncertain as the fashion market where one style over another before being replaced.
A. dominates B. manipulates C. overwhelms D. prevails
25. The philosophy class began with twenty students but three after the midterm exam.
A. picked up B. turned out C. dropped out D. kept up
26. The following account by the author the difference between European and American reactions.
A. illustrates B. acquires C. demands D. deletes
27. An intimate and knowledge of how you are doing in the customer’s eyes is critical.
A. objective B. subordinate C. optional D. subsequent
28. Long to harmful pollutants is most likely to lead to a decline in health.
A. contact B. touch C. use D. exposure
29. The architectural differences may confusion or discomfort for the foreign travelers.
A. vary B. describe C. cause D. impress
30. being fun and good exercise, swimming is a very useful skill.
A. Rather than B. Apart from C. Instead of D. Owing to
31. I don’t mind the decision as long as it is not too late.
A. your delaying to make C. your delaying making
B. you delay to make D. you to delay making
32. Corn originated in the New World and thus was not known in Europe until Columbus found it in Cuba.
A. having cultivated C. been cultivated
B. being cultivated D .cultivating
33. This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen comfortably.
A. wears C. is worn B. are worn D. wearing
34. Wouldn’t you rather your child to bed early?
A. went C. go B. goes D. would go
35. Although Anne is happy with her success she wonders will happen to her private life.
A. this C. what B. it D. that
36. Mike’s uncle insists in this hotel.
A. that he not stay C. that he would not stay
B. staying not D. not to stay
37. We agreed to accept they thought was the best tourist guide.
A. whichever C. whatever B. whoever D. whomever
38. Although many people view conflict as bad, conflict is sometimes useful it forces people to test the relative merits of their attitudes and behaviors.
A. so that C. to which B. by which D. in that
39. she realized it was too late to go home.
A. It was not until dark that C. No sooner it grew dark than
B. Hardly did it grow dark that D. Scarcely had it grown dark than
40. in this way, the situation doesn’t seem so disappointing.
A. To look at C. Looking at B. To be looking at D. Looked at
SectionⅢ Reading Comprehension (40%)
Part A
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some 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 and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.
Questions 41 to 44 are based on the following passage:
Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking (搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper, “Thank you dearie –I’m just going to Brockbourne.”
Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head, made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something…dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? It was absurd.
Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with their thick black hairs…
Thick black hairs?
Hairy arms? Andrea’s blood froze.
This wasn’t a woman. It was a man.
At first, she didn’t know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing， terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid (刹车), and brought it to a halt.
“My God!” she shouted, “A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!”
The “old lady ” was clearly shaken by the sudden skid, “I didn’t see anything dearie,” she said. “I don’t think you hit anything.”
“I’m sure it was a child!” insisted Andrea. “Could you just get out and have a look? Just see if there’s anything on the road?” She held her breath. Would her plan work?
It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker.
It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously.
It contained only one item --- a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe, and the inside of the bag, were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood.
Andrea began to scream.
41. Andrea allowed the hitchhiker to take a ride in her car, mainly because __________.
A. the hitchhiker was an old woman B. she was curious about the old lady
C. the lady had a heavy bag D. she knew the old lady
42. What made Andrea afraid when she looked at the old lady?
A. She had a shapeless body. B. She had a harsh voice.
C. She wore a dirty dress. D. She had hairy arms.
43. Andrea suddenly stopped the car because ______________.
A. she thought she had hit a child on the road
B. she skidded on some ice on the road
C. she wanted to trick the passenger into getting out
D. she couldn’t concentrate and nearly had a crash
44. Andrea screamed because __________.
A. she saw the hitchhiker come back
B. she realized she could have been killed
C. she was scared at seeing blood
D. she cut herself by the blade
Questions 45 to 48 are based on the following passage:
Desperately short of living space and dangerously prone to flooding, the Netherlands plans to start building homes, businesses and even roads on water.
With nearly a third of the country already covered by water and half of its land mass below sea level and constantly under threat from rising waters, the authorities believe that floating communities may well be the future.
Six prototype wooden and aluminum floating houses are already attached to something off Amsterdam, and at least a further 100 are planned on the same estate, called Ijburg.
“Everybody asks why we didn’t do this kind of thing before,” said Gijsbert Van der Woerdt, director of the firm responsible for promoting the concept. “After Bangladesh we’re the most densely populated country in the world. Building space is scarce and government studies show that we’ll need to double the space available to us in the coming years to meet all our needs. ”
Before being placed on the water and moved into position by tugboats (拖船), the houses are built on land atop concrete flat-bottomed boats, which encase giant lumps of polystyrene (聚苯乙烯) reinforced with steel. The flat-bottomed boats are said to be unsinkable and are anchored by underwater cables. The floating roads apply the same technology.
The concept is proving popular with the Dutch. The waiting list for such homes, which will cost between euros 200,000 --- 500,000 to buy, runs to 5, 000 names, claims Van der Woerdt.
With much of the country given over to market gardening and the intensive cultivation of flowers, planners have also come up with designs for floating greenhouses designed so that the water beneath them irrigates the plants and controls the temperature inside.
A pilot project, covering 50 hectares of flooded land near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, is planned for 2005.
The opportunities for innovative developers look promising. “We have 10 projects in the pipeline-floating villages and cities complete with offices, shops and restaurants,” Van der Woerdt said.
45. The Netherlands plans to start building floating communities on water because ___________.
A. most parts of the country are covered by water
B. the country is constantly threatened by floods
C. it will promote the cultivation of flowers
D. people think it better to live on water
46. By citing “Everyone asks why we didn’t do this kind of thing before”, the author wants to tell us that __________.
A. building floating communities is a very good idea
B. the director of the firm didn’t want to answer the question
C. the Netherlands should follow the example of Bangladesh
D. people are not satisfied with the government’s work
47. The floating houses will be _________.
A. reinforced with steel B. made of concrete
C. constructed in water D. built on boats
48. According to the author, the floating communities on water ___________.
A. can promote market gardening
B. are beyond the reach of most Dutch people
C. will increase the cost of gardening
D. will be very popular by the year of 2005
Questions 49 to 52 are based on the following passage:
My new home was a long way from the centre of London but it was becoming essential to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the tube. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T. S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I would be a tube guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I would be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges --- those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test, I must have done all right because after half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The examiner sat at a desk. You were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You have failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position. ”
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs --- being a postman is another one I still desire --- demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.
49. The writer applied for the job because _______________.
A. he could no longer afford to live without one
B. he wanted to study in the centre of London
C. he had received suitable training
D. he was not interested in any other available job
50. The length of his interview meant that ____________.
A. he had not done well in the intelligence test
B. he was not going to be offered the job
C. he had little work experience to talk about
D. he did not like the examiner
51. What was the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?
A. He was inefficient at his job. B. He was unsympathetic.
C. He was unhappy with his job. D. He was very aggressive.
52. What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?
A. How difficult it can be to get a job.
B. How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be.
C. How badly he did in the interview.
D. How unsuitable he was for the job.
Questions 53 to 55 are based on the following passage:
For more than 10 years there has been a bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized (破坏) or stolen in the UK. Car crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that the trend is slowing down.
Although there are highly professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our carelessness. When the Automobile Association (AA) engineers surveyed one town centre car park last year, 10 percent of cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed up by a Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left their cars unlocked.
The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations while drivers pay for their fuel. The AA has discovered that cars are left unattended for an average of three minutes –-- and sometimes much longer --- as drivers buy drinks. Cigarettes and other consumer items --- and then pay at the counter. With payment by credit card more and more common, it is not unusual for a driver to be out of his car as long as six minutes providing the car thief with a golden opportunity.
In an exclusive AA survey, carried out at a busy garage on a main road out of London, 300 motorists were questioned over three days of the holiday period. 24 percent admitted that they “always” or “sometimes” leave the keys in the car. This means that nationwide, a million cars daily become easy targets for the opportunist thief.
The AA recommends locking up whenever you leave the car --- and for however short a period. A partially open sunroof or window is a further come-on to thieves.
Leaving valuables in view is an invitation to the criminal. A Manchester probationary (假释期) service research project, which interviewed almost 100 car thieves last year, found many would investigate a coat thrown on a seat. Never leave any documents showing your home address in the car. If you have a garage, use it and lock it --- a garaged car is at substantially less risk.
There are many other traps to avoid. The Home Office has found little awareness among drivers about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots away from street lights --- just the places thieves love. The AA advises drivers to park in places with people around-thieves do not like audiences.
53. The researches mentioned in the passage on car theft include all the following EXCEPT __________.
A. checking private garages B. interviewing motorists
C. questioning car thieves D. examining parking lots
54. The best way for a driver to avoid car theft is _____________.
A. leaving documents showing one’s home address in the car
B. locking one’s car in a parking lot at any time
C. not leaving the car unattended for longer than necessary
D. not leaving a sunroof or window partially open
55. In the last paragraph, the term “safe parking” means ___________.
A. not parking under street lights
B. not parking in front of a theatre or cinema
C. avoiding traps set by a possible car thief
D. parking where a lot of people pass by
Part B
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then give short answers to the five questions. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet .
For many women choosing whether to work or not to work outside their home is a luxury: they must work to survive. Others face a hard decision.
Perhaps the easiest choice has to do with economics. One husband said, “Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance (奢侈) we couldn’t afford.” With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters (临时照看小孩的人), transportation, and increased taxes, rather than having more money, they might actually end up with less.
Economic factors are usually the first to be considered, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the emotional needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and conflicting feelings.
There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned (被囚禁) if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. On the other hand, there are woman who think that homemaking gives them the deepest satisfaction.
From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. There are few decisions that I now regret more. I wasn’t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I had allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl’s eyes.
56. Which word in the first two paragraphs best explains why many women have to work?
57. Why did Marge and her husband think it an extravagance for Marge to go back to work?
58. What are the two major considerations in deciding whether women should go out to work?
59. Some women would rather do housework and take of their children than pursue a career because they feel
60. If given a second chance, the writer would probably choose to
Part Ⅳ Cloze (5%)
Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, ,there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
Red tides are a global phenomenon. They have been observed on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada. They have also 61 in many other places. Though relatively few people are 62 them, red tides are not new.
In the Philippines, a red tide was first seen in the province of Bataan in 1908. Since then, red tides have been seen in many other 63 . A Philippines red tide expert told us that “ 64 the fish kills, the Philippines has documented 1,926 cases of dead shellfish poisoning caused by red tides.”
The term “red tide” applies to the discoloration of water that sometimes occurs in certain areas of the ocean or sea. Although the color is often red, it may also be 65 of brown or yellow. The World Book Encyclopedia reports that “the discolored areas may range from 66 a few square yards to more than 2,600 square kilometers.”
What causes such discoloration? Red tides are generally caused by several species of single-celled organisms. There are about 2,000 varieties of these organisms, 30 of which carry poisonous 67 . These minute organisms usually stay in warm waters with high content of salt.
A red tide occurs when there is a sudden and rapid bloom of these organisms. The concentration of these organisms may 68 to 50,000,000 per quart of water! Although scientists do not fully understand why this happens. It is known that these organisms 69 when certain conditions simultaneously affect the water. These include abnormal weather, optimum temperatures, an oversupply of nutrients in the water, a generous 70 sunlight, and favorable water currents. When a heavy rainfall occurs, minerals and other nutrients are sometimes washed from the land into coastal waters. These nutrients can contribute to the breeding of the organisms. The result? Red tides!
61. A. occupied B. occurred C. acquired D. accused
62. A. assured of B. worried about C. concerned about D. aware of
63. A. sandy beaches B. river mouths C. coastal areas D. reef areas
64. A. except B. besides C. despite D. without
65. A. shadows B. shades C. shakes D. shapes
66. A. less than B. more than C. as much as D. as little as
67. A. materials B. substances C. masses D. objects
68. A. scale B. plunge C. gauge D. swell
69. A. accelerate B. accommodate C. accumulate D. accompany
70. A. means of B. amount of C. way to D. account for
Part V English-Chinese Translation (10%)
Directions: In this part there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the Answer Sheet.
71. Anyone who doubts that global financial markets control national economies need only look at the crises facing the “Tigers” of the Far East; Last year, the value of their currencies fell, after investors decided their economic policies were not tough enough. Mow the region is suffering slower growth, lower living standards and rising unemployment.
The situation in Asia shows how power has shifted from individual governments to the markets. 72. In theory, governments are free to set their own economic policies; in practice, they must conform to a global economic model or risk being penalized by the markets.
The trend towards globalization began in earnest in the early 1970, when the system of fixed exchange rates, set up after World Ward II, was dismantled --- this meant that the value of currencies would now be determined by the markets instead of individual governments.
73. Other factors contributing to the rise of globalization are new communications technologies, and better transportation systems, and these have enabled companies to grow into multinationals --- producing goods on one side of the planet and selling them on the other.
But adjusting to this new “economic order” is proving difficult. 74. Critics complain that, without the protection of trade barriers, jobs are being lost to workers in poorer countries, and wages for employees in rich countries are falling; while opponents in the European Union point to the positive effects that globalization has had in the US and Britain.
75. Developing countries, with their higher populations and lower wages, will concentrate on labor-intensive industries, such as raw materials and manufacturing, in much the same was as Western countries did during the industrial revolution. The richer countries, on the other hand, will diversify into hi-tech industries, where high productivity and specialist knowledge are paramount.
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72
73
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Section VI Writing (15%)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic : We Need to Broaden Our Knowledge . You should write no less than 150 words and you should base pour composition on the outline (given in Chinese ) below :
1. 有些人认为MBA学生需要的是理论知识。
2. 另一些人认为MBA学生需要的是更多的实践。
3. 你的看法是…….。
英语模考试题１答案
Section I Listening Comprehension (20%)
Part A:
1. 16 2. brother 3. 30/thirty 4.25 5. storms
Part B:
6. The United States 7. lack of proteins 8. from other diseases
9. meat or milk/eggs 10. ten years
Part C:
11---20 B C A A D C D B C D
Section II Structure and Vocabulary (10%)
21---30 D A C D C A D D C B
31---40 C B C A C A C D D D
SectionⅢ Reading Comprehension (40%)
Part A
41----50 A D C B B A D A A B 51---55 A D D B D
Part B
56. Survive
57. Because they might end up with less money by doing that.
58. Economic and emotional needs.
59. satisfied
60. stay at home
Part Ⅳ Cloze (5%)
61----70 B D C B B A B D C B
Part V English-Chinese Translation (10%)
71. 那些怀疑国民经济是否受制于全球金融市场的人，只要看一看那些远东“猛虎”们所面临的危机就明白了。去年，那里的投资者们认为他们的经济政策不够强硬，结果他们的货币就贬值了。
72. 理论上说，政府可以自由决定他们自己的经济政策，但是实际上他们必须顺应全球的经济模式，否则就有遭到市场惩罚的危险。
73. 其它促进全球化的因素包括新型的通信技术和更好的运输系统，这都使得众多公司扩展成为多国公司——他们在地球的这一端生产产品，然后在另一端销售这些产品。
74. 评论家们抱怨说由于没有贸易壁垒保护，工作机会正在向较穷的国家流失，并且使得富裕国家的雇员工资下降；但是欧盟中的反对人士却指出全球化给美国和英国带来好处。
75. 由于人口较多，工资较低，发展中国家会注重劳动密集型产业，比如原料和加工业，这在很大程度上与西方国家工业革命时期一样。
Section VI Writing (15%)
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