南京林业大学研究生英语期末试题(A)

2010年6月

Part I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (20 points, 1 point each) Section A

Listen to the conversations carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard.

1. a. The bookstore is rarely crowded.

b. The woman has bought all her textbooks for this semester. c. Many students have used books to sell.

d. Last semester’s books cost the woman several hundred dollars.

2. a. The graph is in the center of the page. b. She can’t discuss the problem until later. c. She’s only finished half of the document.

d. They should look for another graph immediately.

3. a. He’s supposed to go to the meeting.

b. He wants the woman to give George the message.

c. He doesn’t know why George can’t attend the meeting. d. He forgot to deliver a message.

4. a. End his conversation quickly. b. Make several calls for the woman. c. Take the phone off the hook. d. Write down his phone number.

5. a. Return his literature books to the library. b. Keep his books from the literature class. c. Sell his literature books to the woman. d. give his literature books to his roommate.

6. a. Fill out an application form. b. Apply for a different position c. File the papers in the cabinet.

d. Show her the advertisement from the newspaper

7. a. Go with her to the airport. b. Talk to her for a short time. c. Find out when the plane is leaving. d. Make the phone call now.

8. a. He will give the woman directions to Chicago. b. He will drive the woman to Chicago. c. He will get a map for the woman.

d. He will take the woman to the bookstore.

9. a. He didn’t show his paintings at the exhibit. b. He didn’t see the paintings.

c. He doesn’t understand Ted’s art. d. The exhibit was canceled.

10. a. The woman has canceled her trip to Iowa. b. The snowstorm is getting weaker. c. The man’s information isn’t accurate. d. They also may get a lot of snow.

11. a. She will spend some time to get ready for the dinner. b. She will join them for dinner on time. c. She will go out shopping.

d. She will need all the time she can get to prepare for a test.

12. a. Take the class this semester. b. Get permission to take the class. c. Take the class over again. d. Register for the class next semester.

13. a. He doesn’t like his new eyeglass frames. b. He hasn’t had a haircut.

c. He got his eyeglasses a long time ago.

d. He has been asked by several people about his new eyeglass frames.

14. a. He shouldn’t have applied for the job. b. He is disappointed with his interview. c. He performed well in the interview.

d. He doesn’t want to discuss the interview now.

15. a. She left the lecture for a few minutes. b. She was reading during the lecture. c. She may have fallen asleep.

d. She misunderstood the speakers’ last points.

Section B

Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each question you have heard. 16. a. To protect the United States from terrorist attacks. b. To investigate threats from other countries. c. To employ more people skilled in languages. d. To appoint more people to intelligence positions.

17. a. The FBI has failed to collect information about religious organizations. b. The FBI headquarters lacks skilled agents.

c. More hands are greatly needed in gathering information about terrorist attacks.

d. The FBI has been criticized for its actions in relation to the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks.

18. a. 11,500. b. 900. c. 500. d. 1,900.

19. a. People whose major is information technology. b. People who studied foreign languages in college.

c. People skilled in computer technology, science and languages. d. people skilled in gathering and studying intelligence information.

20. a. The new rules interfere with traditional American rights.

b. The new rules have threatened the safety of American Muslims. c. The new rules will bring efficiency to the FBI.

d. Under the new rules, political dissenters will be expelled from the U.S.

PART II VOCABULARY (15 points, 0.5 point each )

Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Each sentence has one word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four words marked A, B, C and D. Choose the word that is closest in meaning to the underlined one, and blacken the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.

21. I tried to explain, but he just gave me a blank look. A. funny B. expressionless C. generous D. attractive

22. There are literally millions of new acquaintances waiting to be picked up in a chat room to fill that void.

A. vacancy B. compensation C. competency D. completion

23. Far too often, even his parents, intimidated by the high-priced, high-tech gadget that has sucked their child’s humanity away, tiptoe around rather than disturb him.

A. united B. composed C. frightened D. maimed

24. The whole planet has become a war zone generating a bio-crisis not just for individual species, but for entire webs of life.

A. producing B. enforcing C. exemplifying D. clarifying 25. I don’t know what will become of the boy if he keeps failing his exams.

A. happen to B. blow down C. attribute to D. conflict with 26. Industrial contamination is pervasive, even in the fat cells of Antarctic penguins. A. critical B. widespread C. undoing D. frenzy

27. There are copious signs that our ability to feed ourselves is declining due to abuse and over-exploitation of our food sources.

A. ideal B. abundant C. contrary D. obvious

28. Our century has given a privileged layer or humanity an industrially organized life more opulent, more wasteful yet also more alienated and depressed than that of any ancient king. A. tangible B. hypnotic C. plentiful D. improbable 29. Eco-efficiency had directed business to restrict industry and curtail growth.

A. tout B. zinger C. threaten D. limit 30. Henry Ford, the American industrialist, was adamant about lean and clean operating policies. A. solemn B. unaware C. unyielding D. caustic

31. All biological nutrients should be designed to return to the organic cycle --- to be literally consumed by microorganisms and other creatures in the soil.

A. briefly B. wholly C. exactly D. hardly

32. As novel as eco-efficiency may have seemed at the Earth Summit in 1992, its roots go back to early industrialization.

A. awful B. hideous C. queer D. new

33. This paper presents some data from a survey of Open University undergraduate students carried out early in 1998.

A. offers B. inquires C. wads D. morphs

34. In a world where humans are the measure of all things, every unique manifestation of life becomes merchandise and rare butterflies have little chance of living out their own evolutionary destiny. A. impression B. demonstration C. exaggeration D. investigation 35. Sadly, such macrocosmic insults as dam construction, logging, the use of biocides, and urban sprawl function as a threat to butterflies and their habitat.

A. development B. gadget C. one-liner D. expansion 36. There is a wide divergence of opinion about planetary carrying-capacity. A. dilemma B. agreement C. disagreement D. irony 37. I have practised Tai Chi, an ancient meditative martial art. A. sporting B. macrocosmic C. thoughtful D. traditional 38. She feels great empathy with her little daughter. A. embassy B. carrying C. inspiring D. sharing

39. Their willingness to compromise, to accept the idea that such give-and-take is part of life, allows the game to proceed.

A. desensitize B. stalk C. suspend D. continue

40. The act of playing with the Play-Doh sparks other interests --- maybe she’ll work with modeling clay that she can bake into a permanent form, or paints.

A. incites B. forms C. smashes D. enjoys

41. Pragmatic self-interest alone should teach us that we must change before nature exacts inevitable revenge.

A. demands B. provides C. renews D. inspired 42. An optimistic, problem-solving attitude can sometimes conceal a deeper despair. A. diverge B. hide C. alter D. intercept

43. Although it is cheap, the original high-quality material is not retrieved, and it eventually ends up in landfill or incinerators.

A. improved B. found C. regained D. depleted

44. Manufactured carpets are normally made from nylon embedded in fiberglass and PVC, along with some biodegradable materials.

A. removed B. retained C. fixed D. replaced

45. The same ideal was promoted by the Business Council in 1992, but with the catchier term “eco-efficiency”.

A. refused B. criticized C. supported D. corrected 46. It is difficult to get reliable data about use and access to ICTs in the home.

A. exact B. proper C. compulsory D. dependable

47. Data from this group therefore gives some indication of what the similar population might be experiencing nationally.

A. sign B. privilege C. prize D. investigation 48. The data identifies a situation of unequal access to ICT hardware.

A. proves B. facilitates C. appeals to D. predicted

49. It is the potential of electronic communication which ICTs offer that open new possibilities for adult and continuing education.

A. advantage B. possibility C. inequality D. interaction

50. A slightly larger percentage of men are using the web for study: 15%, compared with 13% of women.

A. partial B. proportion C. number D. amount

PART III READING COMPREHENSION (20 points, 1 point each )

Directions: In this part of the test, there are four passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D and blacken the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. Passage One

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.

Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyze their embarrassing lapses ( 差错) in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings, nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random (随机的).

One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer,” explains the professor. \program themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman's custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the program,\incidents the volunteers reported were these \

Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing -- an average of twelve each, There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest (荒谬可笑的). These are two hours some time between eight a.m. and noon, between four and six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m. \when a changeover in brain 'programs' occurs, as for instance between going to and from work.\Women on average reported slightly more lapses -- 12.5 compared with 10.9 for men m probably because they were more reliable reporters.

A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse m

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