1995-2002学位英语真题

Non-English Major Graduate Student English Qualifying Test (GET)

December, 1995

PAPER ONE

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (15 MINUTES, 15 points) Section A ( 1 point each )

Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The questions and the conversation will be spoken just once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answer and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. Then on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and mark the letter that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

1. A. He was on vacation. B. He was moving furniture.

C. He was sick. D. He was working for a new company. 2. A. He does not understand it. B. He does not like it.

C. He is used to it. D. He does not have to take it.

3. A. He is interested only in her ideas. B. He will not accept a late paper from her. C. He wants her to hand in her paper immediately. D. He will accept a late paper from her. 4. A. In a kitchen. B. In a garden. C. At the pictures. D. In an office. 5. A. Five B. Four. C. Seven. D. Six.

6. A. She was experienced in riding a bicycle. B. She was riding very slowly at that moment. C. She was riding a new bike. D. Some passes-by help her.

7. A. She can't see. B. Her ears was hurt. C. She can’t hear. D. Her eyes hurt.

8. A. She feels that he won't accept anything. B. She thinks he has almost everything he wants. C. She's sure he already has a pocket calculator. D. She's afraid he wants more than she can afford.

9. A. At the jewelry store. B. Down the hall. C. From other customers. D. From a machine Section B ( 1 point each )

Directions: In this section: you will hear a longer conversation and short passage. At the end of each them, there will be some questions. All of them will be read to you only once. After each question, there will be a short pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter on your answer sheet.

Question 10 through 12 are base on the following conversation.

10. A. Peter's research paper. B. Peter's composition. C.A library book. D. Peter's take-home exam. 11. A. By studying in the library. B. He was absent that day. C. He did very well. D. He did very poorly.

12. A. Talk to the professor. B. Quit working C. Get a better-paying job. D. Try to get a job on the campus. Question 13 through 15 are base on the following passage.

13. A. The development of animals. B. The development of land animal. C. The origin of sea creatures. D. The origin of human beings

14. A. Stand on their heads. B. Swim backward. C. Move on their fins. D. Swim upside down. 15. A. The appearance of tile fish. B. The size and the color of fish. C. The way the fish swims. D. The way the Fish uses its fins. PART II VOCABULARY ( 10 MINUTES, 10 POINTS ) Section A ( 0.5 point each )

Direction: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has one word or a set of words underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Answer Sheet.

16. Frank and Jauntier asked their science teacher to settle the dispute once and for all. A. temporarily B. permanently C. cautiously D. decisively

17.The police found it difficult to apprehend the criminal because of the incomplete details supplied by the witness. A. sketchy B. complicated C. stern D. artistic

18.In order to maintain physical well-being, a person should eat wholesome food and get sufficient exercise. A. fresh B. stale C. well-cooked D. healthful 19. Not afraid of being fired, John Smith continued to defy the boss. A. avoid B. admire C. oppose D. guide

20. Many pure metals have little use because they are too soft, rust too easily, or have some other drawbacks. A. properties B. behavior C. disadvantages D. performances 21. After a number of disagreements with the committee, the chairman decided to quit. A. resign B. dismiss C. retire D. desert 22. The experiment shows this cathode emits electrons in a controlled environment. A. submits B. gives off C. rejects D. passes by . 23. To what place are you going to haul the furniture that you no longer need. A. sell B. put C. transport D. paint 24. The zealous demonstrators were ignored by all the media of this country. A. passionate B. colorful C. rude D. clever 25. In prehistoric times, eclipses of the moon and Sun were probably terrifying to people. A. meaningful B. fascinating C. frightening D. helpful Section B (0.5 point each)

Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the word or words from the four choices given to best complete each sentence.

26. Lisa objected to wearing her championship pin; she didn't want to be considered ______.

A. obscure B. vain C. dishonest D. humble 27. The meeting ended when a police officer told club members that the building was on fire. A. affectedly B. fatally C. exhaustingly D. abruptly Z8.Marie fainted in the store and found herself in the hospital when she ______.

A. came along B. came back C. came to D. came out

29.The boys knew they broken the rules and regulations, and they were______happy when they were called to the headmaster's office.

A. nothing but B. all but C. anything but D. all too

30. His parents gave him many expensive toys as some form of for his lameness and inability to lay active games. A. compensation B. remedy C. treatment D. gratitude 3l. The teacher was of his duty, and he was criticized for this. A. illegible B. negligent C. illegal D. negligible 32. What I am telling you is strictly______. Don't let anyone know of it.

A. secretive B. special C. individual D. confidential 33. The beautiful flowers in the vase through lack of water.

A. decreased B. sweated C. withered D. ripened 34. She's always the way I do things, so I can hardly get along welt with her.

A. making the best of B. finding fault with C. coming up with D. having the advantage over 35. The young lady speaks so softly that her voice is not really______. A. fragile B. audible C. brittle D. decent PART III CLOZE TEST (I0 MINUTES, 15 POINTS)

Directions : Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one item of the most suitable word (s) marked A,B,C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word(s) you have chosen with a single bar across the square rackets on your Answer Sheet.

Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do, and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready 36, washing can go to the laundry, food can be bought cooked, canned or 37 ,bread is baked and delivered by the baker, milk 38 on the doorstep, meals can be had at the restaurant ,the works' canteen and the school dining-room.

It is unusual now for father to 39 his trade or other employment at home, and his children rarely, 40, see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to 41 their father's occupation and in many towns they have a fair wide 42 of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money, and soon acquires a feeling of 43 independence. In textile areas it has 44 for mothers to go out to work, 45 this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual 46 in a child's home life the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his old children-draw 47 wages, father is seldom the 48 figure that he still was at the beginning of the Century. 49 mother work, economic advantages increase, but children lose something of 50 value if mother's employment prevent her from being home to greet them when they return from school.

36. A. made B. shaped C. set D. fixed 37. A. deserved B. preserved C. reserved D. conserved 38. A. arrives B. reaches C. transports D. transfers 39. A. persuade B. pursue C. purchase D. persecute 40. A. if ever B. if not C. if any D. if only 41. A. catch B. make C. get D. follow 42. A. distribution B. opportunity C. fate D. choice 43. A. economic B. economical C. personal D. living

44. A. customary B. essential C. fundamental D. unnecessary 45. A. or B. but C. so D. then 46. A. focus B. favor C. factor D. fear 47. A. inaccurate B. substantial C. inadequate D. standard 48. A. negative B. modest C. superior D. dominant 49. A. Even if B. Though C. Before D. When 50. A. little B. small C. large D. great PART IV READING COMPREHENSION (45 MINUTES, 30 POINTS)

Directions: In this part of the test, there are five 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 mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. Passage One

We use emotive language to express our own attitudes and feelings. We also direct emotive language at other people to persuade them to believe as we do or to do as we want them to do; and of course, other people direct emotive language at us to get us to believe or to do what they want.

We are subjected to a constant stream of persuasion day in, day out, at home and in school, on the radio and on

television. It comes from parents and teachers, from preachers and politicians, from editors and commentators, but, most of all, of course, from advertisers. Most of this persuasion is expressed in emotive language and is intended to appeal to our feelings rather than to be weighted up by our powers of reasoning.

We should look at the motives behind all this persuasion. Why do they want to persuade us ? What do they want us to do ? We are not thinking very clearly unless we try to see through the veil of words and realize something of the speaker's purpose.

An appeal to emotion is in itself neither good or bad. Our emotions on the highest levels and from the best of motives. A case in point is Churchill's wartime speeches: whatever people thought of Churchill as a politician, they were united behind him when he spoke as a national leader in those dark days their feelings responded to his call for resolution and unity.

It is a characteristic of social groups that the members have a feeling of personal attachment to the group -- to the family in earliest childhood and extending later to the school, the team, the church, the nation, in patterns that vary from time to time. Hence a speaker from our group will find in us feelings to which he can readily and genuinely appeal, whether our reaction is favorable or not. We are at least open to the appeal and we appreciate the context in which it is made.

51. The major functions of emotive language discussed in the passage are to______ A. extend our powers of reasoning and carry out a purpose B. advertise and produce the wanted social effects C. show one's Feelings and appeal to those of others D. make others believe in us and respond to our feeling

52. It is suggested in the third paragraph of this passage that we______

A. should keep a cool head when subjected to persuasions of various kinds B. need to judge whether a persuasion is made for good or bad C. have to carefully use our emotive language

D. should avoid being easily seen through by an appeal from others

53. The source from which emotive language flows upon us in its greatest amount is______

A. the mass media B. the educational institutions C. the religious circles D. the advertising business 54. Churchill is mentioned in the passage as______

A. an example of how people weighted up persuasion with reasoning B. a national leader who brought out people's best feelings C. a positive example of appealing to people's emotion D. a politician who has been known as a good speaker

55. What is NOT mentioned as relevant to our emotions in this passage ?

A. Social B. Personal experience C. The personality of national leaders D. Religious belief 56. It can be inferred from the passage that a persuasive speaker must______. A. find out what group his audience is attached to B. vary his speech patterns from time to time

C. know how to adapt his way of speaking to the needs of the audience D. be aware whether the listeners are favorable to his opinion or not Passage Two

As goods and services improved, people were persuaded to spend their money on changing from old to new, and found the change worth the expense. When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs (and therefore air fare) would go up, but the new planes meant such an improvement that the higher cost was justified. A new car (or wireless, washing machine, electric kettle) made life so much more comfortable than the old one that the high cost of replacement was fully repaid. Manufacturers still cry their wares as persuasively as ever, but are the improvements really worth paying for? In many field things have now reached such a high standard of performance that further

progress is very limited and very, very expensive. Airlines, for example, go to enormous expense in buying the latest prestige jets, in which vast research costs we might lose the chance of cutting minutes away from flying times: but wouldn't it be better to see air fares drop dramatically, as capital costs become relatively insignificant? Again, in the context of a 70 m.p.h. limit, with platoons of cars traveling so densely as to control each other's speeds, improvements in performance are virtually irrelevant; improvements in handling are unnecessary, as most production cars grip the road perfectly; and comfort has now reached a very high level indeed. Small improvements here are unlikely to be worth the thousands that anybody replacing an ordinary family car every two years may ultimately have spent on them. Let us instead have cars --- or wireless, electric kettles, washing machines, television sets-- which are made to last, and not to be replaced. Significant, progress is obviously a good thing; but the insignificant progression from model-change to model-change is not.

57. The author obviously is challenging the social norm that______

A. it is important to improve goods and services B. development of technology makes our life more comfortable C. it is reasonable that prices are going up all the time D. slightly modified new products are worth buying

58. According to this passage, air fares may rise because______.

A. people tend to travel by new airplanes B. the airplane has been improved

C. the change is found to be reasonable D. the service on the airplane is better than before 59. According to the author, passengers would be happier if they ______.

A. could fly in the latest model of reputable planes B. could get tickets at much lower prices C. see the airlines make vital changes in their services D. could spend less time flying in the air

60. When manufacturers have improved the performance of their products to a certain level, then it would be _____. A. justified for them to cut the price B. unnecessary for them to make any new changes

C. difficult and costly to further better them D. insignificant for them to cut down the research costs 61. In the case of cars, the author urges that we______

A. cancel the speed limit B. further improve their performance C. improve their durability D. change models every two years 62 The author's criticism is probably based on the fact that______ A. we have been persuaded to live an extravagant life today B. many products we buy turn out to be substandard or inferior

C. inflation is becoming a big problem in the world today

D. people are wasting their money on trivial technological progress Passage Three

Recent studies on the male-female wage gap predict that even though entry-level salaries for males and females in the same occupation are nearly equal because women's market skills have improved vastly, the chances of the overall gap closing in the foreseeable future are minimal. This is due to several factors that are likely to change very slowly, if at all. An important reason is that women are concentrated in occupation- service and clerical- that pay less than traditional male jobs .It is possible that more women than men in their twenties are hesitant to commit themselves to a year-round lifetime career or job for many reasons. There is lingering attitude on both the part of women and their employers that women are not cut out for certain jobs. Not only does this attitude channel women into lower-paying work, but it also serves to keep them from top management positions.

Another significant factor in the widening wage gap between men and women after entering the work force, even in comparable jobs, is that women often drop out at critical points in their careers to have a family. Women still have the primary responsibility for child rearing; even if they continue to work, they often forgo overtime and promotions that would conflict with home responsibilities. The ages of 25 to 35 have been shown repeatedly to be the period when working consistently and hard is vital to advancement and job security. These are precisely the years when women are likely to have children and begin to slide away from men in earning power. Consequently, a woman's income is more likely to be seen as secondary to her husband's.

63. According to recent studies on the male-female wage gap _____.

A. there is much hope of narrowing the male-female wage gap in the near future

B. working women will have many opportunities to hold high-paying jobs in the near future C. women's pay will still stay at a level below that of men in the near future

D. salaries for males and females in the same , occupation will be equal in the near future 64. Women are kept from top management positions partly because they______ A. decide to devote themselves to certain lifetime jobs in their twenties B. are inclined to rank family second to work

C. tend to have more quarrels with ,their employers D. still take an incorrect attitude towards themselves

65.Which of the following is implied in the passage as a partial reason for women's concentration in certain occupations? A. Social division of labor B. Social prejudice against them C. Employment laws D. Physiological weakness

66. The word \

A. give up B. drop out C. throw away D. cut out 67. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that______

A. men's jobs are subject to change B. women tend to be employed off and on at the same job C. men's chances of promotion are minimal D. women used to be employed ail the year round 68. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Women's market skills have improved greatly. B. child care is still chiefly women's work .

C. Women are typically employed in clerical and service jobs. D. Domestic duties no longer conflict with women's jobs. Passage Four

It seems that the life of a television reporter is fantastically admired by many people. But this is only one side of the coin. First, he never goes deeply into any one subject-he may be expert at mastering a brief in a short time and %up\seldom grasps with a full-scale investigation any one thing. He has to be able to forget what he was working on a few weeks before, otherwise his mind would become messed up.

Second, a reporter does not have anything lasting to show for what he does-there is no shelf of books, no studio full of paintings. He pours his life into something which flickers in shadows across a screen and is gone forever. I have seen people in many television jobs turn at the end of watching one of their own programs and say something like: \

that's all those days / weeks / months of work. Travel and worry sunk without trace.\like blowing bubbles- entertaining to do, and the bubbles numerous and pretty to look at, and all different, but all disappearing into thin air.

Third, the pace of the life is too fast. Not only is it destructive of one's private life; one does not even have time to give proper consideration to the things one is professionally concerned with not enough time to think, not enough time to read, not enough time to write one's commentary, prepare one's interviews and so on. When one disengages from it and allows one's perceptions, thinking, reading and the rest to proceed at their natural pace one gets an altogether unfamiliar sense of solidity and well--being.

Fourth, the reporter is at the mercy of events. A revolution breaks out in Cuba so he is off here on the next plane. Somebody shoots President Reagan so he drops everything he is doing and flies to Washington. He is like a puppet pulled by strings -- the strings of the world's affairs. He is not motivated from within. He does not decide for himself what he would like to do , where he would like to go, what he would like to work on . He is activated from without, and his whole life becomes a kind of reflex action, a series of high-pressure responses to external stimuli. He has ceased to exist as an independent personality.

69. A TV reporter never makes an in-depth study of a subject because______

A. he usually gets one side of the picture B. the subjects that he has to attend to often switch from one to another C. he does not know how to develop it to its full-scale D. that is the life that suits him 70. It is implied but not stated that many people______

A. know nothing about the work of a TV reporter B. think the life of a TV reporter dull and boring

C. have a biased opinion against the job of a TV reporter D. tend to underestimate the hard part of being a TV reporter 71. TV reporting, according to this passage , is something______

A. profitable for a person to take up B. interesting to do but quick to fade out C. causing a person to forget his previous work D. producing a lasting effect 72. A TV reporter is in most need of______

A. being a master of his time B. proper consideration of his profession C. a comfortable life of his own D. disengaging himself from work 73. The activities of a TV reporter are largely geared to______

A. his motivation B. his working style C. current affairs D. reflex to pressure 74. The title of this passage would best be given as______

A. What a TV Reporter Can and Cannot Accomplish B. The Sorrows of TV Professionals

C. The Confession of a TV Reporter D. The Drawbacks in the Life of a TV Reporter Passage Five

The urge to explore is innate in Man. Wherever his imagination wanders, Man seeks also to go. A large part of history is concerned with the exploration of the world in which we live. Time and again men have set out with amazing courage and resolution to probe into unknown regions and lands. They crossed the seas in flimsy boats, traversed

continents, scaled mountains, fought their way through jungles and swamps, endure untold hardships -- all to explore, to see what had not yet been seen, to make known the unknown. Nor did Man confine his movements to the surface of land and sea. With kites balloons and aircraft he left the ground to range through the lower atmosphere. Now outer space receives his attention.

The hard way to answer the question, why should Man bother about conquering space, is to attempt to list the specific practical benefits that will result. One knows, from past experience in other areas, that Man will surely see and discover new things in space, that will increase our store of scientific knowledge, and this new knowledge will find its way into valuable practical uses. What we learn about Man himself, from his experience in space, and from the effects of space and the space flight environment on him, will be invaluable. The new techniques developed to carry out the exploration of space, and to keep men alive in space, will inevitably find their way into valuable practical uses in everyday living. The areas that will benefit are manifold. They include communications, generation of power,

transportation and travel, food production, conservation of resources, navigation, human comfort and welfare, biology and medicine, materials, fuels and many others. But to state specifically just what the practical outcomes will be is virtually impossible.

75. Exploration of the unknown______

A. often results in Man's power of imagination B. is not common throughout human history C. is generally sought after by men with courage and strength D. is deeply rooted in the instinct of Man 76. Which of the following best sketches the process of Man's probe into the unknown world? A. Surface of the earth, the air and space B. Waters, mountains and forests C. Waters, mountains and forests D. Urge, imagination and courage 77. The benefits of space exploration are basically something______

A. well-specified B. hypothetical C. practical D. inevitable 78. According to this passage, the value of exploring the outer space will ultimately lie in______

A. its testimony Man's courage and resolution B. the knowledge it may help us to gain about our earth

C. the results it may bring about in the interests of Man D. Man's mastery of techniques to fly and stay alive in space 79. From this passage we can conclude that Man should have confidence in exploring space because______ A. we have directed our attention to the right object of study

B. we have accumulated experience from previous success to other fields.

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