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1、2022年考博英语-黑龙江大学考试题库及全真模拟冲刺卷（含答案带详解）1. 单选题On campuses, cheerful undergraduates are pressing leaflets into freshers hands. At Heathrow airport, where many foreign students enter Britain, the welcome has been less warm. Officials herded recent arrivals into a separate queue that at times took six hours
2、 to get throughand those were lucky ones. Many potential students are languishing at home, and will miss out on university places this autumn unless they receive visas in the next few days.Universities had seen trouble looming since March, when a new student-visa system was introduced. By insisting
3、that potential students prove their academic credentials and show that they have enough money to support themselves, the Home Office intended to deter those who were actually coming to Britain to work. It has hoped the reforms would keep out potential terrorists. But the advice it issued to applican
4、ts was poor (it has since been revised) and staff at many visa-processing centres were not properly trained.The result has been a backlog at many centersin Los Angles, for example, students waited up to 40 days for a visa. But the problem has been particularly acute in the Indian subcontinent. In Pa
5、kistan, 5,000 aspiring students have yet to have their applications processed and 9,000 more are appealing against outright refusals.The logjam affects mostly wealthy, well-educated folk in strategically important countries. The elite universities, some of which have long had a cosmopolitan clientel
6、e, are concerned. “We are extremely worried about the damage that this could do to the reputation of British higher education overseas, particularly in the Indian subcontinent. It comes at a time when universities finances are under enormous pressure, ” says Simeon Underwood, head of admissions poli
7、cy at the London School of Economics.International students are vital to British universities. Although British and European students pay tuition fees of up to 3, 225 a year, the cost of educating them is far higher. The state partially plugs the gap and, for that reason, it also caps the number of
8、these students. Fees from overseas students, who pay around 12,000 a year, contribute more than 1.5 billion annually, 8% of universities total income.To attract these crucial customers, universities offer to meet them at airports, run events to settle them in and arrange for police to visit campuses
9、 to expedite visa controls. But if students cannot make it into Britain, such canny marketing is in vain. This year, even though a weak pound makes British universities a cheap option, some have seen the number of new students from outside the European Union fall by a fifth because of difficulties i
10、n getting visas.On a visit to Islamabad on October 5th Alan Johnson, the home secretary, promised to cut the time it takes to process a visa from 60 days to 15 by hiring more staff, and to help Pakistan establish a national anti-terrorism agency, which would relieve the pressure on the visa system.
11、But his intervention will not help this years blocked students. And if problems persist, more foreign students may plump for universities in America or Australia in future.1.We can learn from the first paragraph that（ ）.2.According to the new student-visa system, an international student should prov
12、e all of the following EXCEPT（ ）.3.According to the text, the student-visa system may lead to（ ）.4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that（ ）.5.The authors attitude towards the new student-visa system seems to be（ ）.问题1选项A.Heathrow airport does not like the international students as much as
13、the university undergraduatesB.the unavailability of visa may force many students to lose their admission into UK universitiesC.students feel lucky to wait for only six hours in the airport to get into BritainD.many student will arrive at the universities much later than expected because they cannot
14、 receive the visa问题2选项A.he should have adequate financial resourcesB.he should meet the bottom requirements set by the universitiesC.he should provide birth certificate showing he is not from a terrorist countryD.he should convince the visa official that his purpose of coming to UK is to study问题3选项A
15、.a negative influence on UKs strategic relations with some important countriesB.more governmental subsidies to British universitiesC.an increasing pressure on Britains governmental financeD.the damage of the reputation of British higher education问题4选项A.the new student-visa system may undermine the c
16、ompetitiveness of British higher educationB.the new student-visa system will soon achieve a much better efficiency by hiring more staffC.the new student-visa system aims to send students to other countries such as Australia and AmericaD.the new student-visa system will help Pakistan establish a national anti-terrorism agency问题5选项A.biasedB.ind
