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1、全国硕士研究生入学考试英语冲刺试题 Simulated Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates Model Test 5毕金献命制考生注意事项- 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。- 答题前，考生应按准考证上的有关内容填写答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、 “考生编号”等信息。- 答案必须按要求填涂或写在指定的答题卡上。英语知识运用、阅读理解 A 节、B 节的答案填涂在答题卡 1 上。填涂部分应该按照答 题卡上的要求用 2B 铅笔完成。如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。阅读理解 C 节的答案和作文必须用(蓝)黑色字迹钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔在答题卡 2
2、 上 作答。字迹要清楚。- 考试结束后，将答题卡 1、答题卡 2 一并装入原试卷袋中，试题交给监考人员。做 题 提 醒- 本试卷严格按照最新考纲的要求编写，针对性、权威性强，信度高，是备考训练的精 品。- 建议以临战状态进行自测，结束后仔细核对答案，自己评分并找出薄弱环节，在以后 的复习中重点突破。考试时间 180 分钟 满分 100 分 得分 英语冲刺试题 5 第页Section Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark
3、 A,B,C,or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason 1 this is that there are more different ways of looking at things 2 in the fir
4、st kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements 3 interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. 4, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater 5 in mixed societies. All these factors tend to 6 social change by opening more areas of life to 7. In a simpl
5、e-racial society, there are fewer 8 for people to see the need or the opportunity 9 change because everything seems to be the same. And 10 conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and 11.Social change is also likely to occur more 12 and readily in the material aspects of the 1
6、3 than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in 14; in the less basic and emotional aspects of society than in their 15; in form rather than in 16; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in 17 elements.Furthermore, social change is easier if it is 18. Fo
7、r example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous 19 rather than one with sharp differences. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference between them and their white 20.1. A of
8、B for C why D how2. A present B current C elapsed D emerged3. A to B on C in D with4. A In contrast B In brief C In reality D In addition5. A variety B capacity C tolerance D endurance6. A detain B promote C enforce D hamper7. A decision B reflection C meditation D contemplation8. A conversions B pr
9、emises C occasions D motives9. A in B to C at D for10. A as B if C when D though11. A undisturbed B undisputed C undisguised D unchanged12. A frequently B radically C routinely D sensibly13. A community B authenticity C culture D structure14. A features B values C notions D qualities15. A techniques
10、 B components C opponents D opposites16. A substance B consequence C competence D significance17. A distinct B obsolete C strange D ordinary18. A rational B gradua C irresistible D indispensable19. A flow B trend C array D scale20. A counterparts B inhabitants C colleagues D contemporariesSection Re
11、ading ComprehensionPart ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text1In order to understand childhood today, one must explore its history, an odd notion in many who instinctively assume t
12、hat childhood as we know it has always existed. In The Disappearance of Childhood, social critic Nell Postman constructs a socio-historical context by which to view childhood. He begins his analysis by differentiating the biological basis for the notion of childhood from the sociological. It is clea
13、r, he argues, that we can categorize as “children” those members of society below a certain age or level of physical maturity. But what is not so obvious is the notion that childhood can also be defined as a state of life in which the social development and intellectual awareness of societys young i
14、s markedly different from that of the rest of the community. Based on this perspective, Postman argues that childhood can be viewed as a social construction, one that finds favor and prominence in some cultures and time periods, but not in others. In his analysis, Postman concludes that today, child
15、hood is not merely evolving, but is in fact in danger of extinction.According to Postman, medieval Europeans perceived no clear distinction between children and adults. Since the idea that secrets could or should be kept from children was unheard of, children inhabited the same social and intellectu
16、al environment as adults. Community life was an “open book”, so to speak, accessible not just to adults but to the youth of society as well. The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, Postman argues, made possible a new symbolic world accessible only to adults. Effectively excluded
