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

Paper One  试卷一(90 minutes)
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes, 15 points) （略）
Part II Vocabulary (15 minutes, 15 points)

Section A

Directions: 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 through the center.

I6. Courageous people think quickly and act without hesitation.
   A. complaint       B. consideration  C. delay   D. Anxiety
17. I've only recently explored Shakespeare with profit and pleasure.
   A. followed   B. evaluated    C. acted    D. studied
18. Hardly a week goes by without some advance in technology that would have seemed incredible 50 yeas ago.
   A. hard to invent     B. hard to understand  
C. hard to imagine         D. hard to believe
19. You have to pay a (n) premium for express delivery.
   A. extra charge    B. extra price    C. extra tip   D. extra bonus
20. Arriving anywhere with these possessions, he might just as easily put up for a month or a year for a single day.
   A. arrange    B. manage    C. last    D. stay                                       
21. The salesman approached the house cautiously when he saw the vicious dog at the door.
   A. carefully   B. deliberately   C. nervously    D. bravely
22. A new technological process may be employed to ~ this abundant supply directly.
   A. produce       B. reserve    C. exploit       D. search 
23. An international treaty signed several years ago bans trade in plants and animal of endangered species.
   A. forbids       B. eliminates    C. promotes      D. protects                          
24. It is not easy to remain tranquil when events suddenly change you life.
   A. calm       B. upset            C. steady       D. severe                         
25. When faced with doubts from some advisers on the attempted invasion, Kennedy ignored them.
   A. failed to understand               B. put up with
   C. stood up for                    D. refused to consider

Section B

Directions: In this section, there are ten incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four
choices 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. Don't _______while I'm talking. You can ask what you want later.                                                                                                   
   A. cut out       B. cut in        C. cut off      D. cut down                              
27. He misled management by giving it the idea that the older and more experienced men were not an _______ but a liability.
   A. assistance       B. advantage    C. asset       D. award                           
28. 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. motivation                                  
29. 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. inherit                           
30. 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 than                         
31. The fact that the earth's surface heats _______provides a convenient way to divide it into temperature regions.
  A. unsteadily   B. unevenly    C. infrequently  D. irregularly 
32. 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. witness       D. define
33. 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. likely
34. The first step before making any decision to
    A. interact   B. integrate    C. intervene   D. intensify
35. The television station is supported by
    A. donations   B. advertisements   C. pensions   D. accounts
Part 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 answer and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

Passage One

　　Lateral thinking (迂回思维), first described by Edward de Bone in 1967, is just a few years older than Edward's son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the de Bone was so famous, Caspar's 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 (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, "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 aren't very logical. So isn't it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? "You know," Edward de Bone says, "if you examine people's 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."