“Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin(毒素)that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. “The reform in changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic(道德观), which is much more important.”
Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards. ( D)61. From the passage, it can be seen that the author _______.
A) believes the reform has reduced the government’s burden
B) insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poor C) is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reform D) considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful ( C)62. Why aren’t people enjoying better lives when they have jobs
A) Because many families are divorced. B) Because government aid is now rare.
C) Because their wages are low. D) Because the cost of living is rising.
( A)63. What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that _______.
A) greater efforts should be made to improve people’s living standards B) 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years C) 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare D) the living standards of most people are going down
(B )64. From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at _______.
A) saving welfare funds B) rebuilding the work ethic C) providing more jobs D) cutting government expenses
(D )65. According to the passage before the welfare reform was carried out, _______.
A) the poverty rate was lover B) average living standards were higher C) the average worker was paid higher wages
D. the poor used to rely on government aid
(3)
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them \骗子)\
West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by \such people\To avoid outright(彻底的)lies, some job-seekers claim that they \means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that \associated with\for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from \rapidly for a degree from the \and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
( B)66. The main idea of this passage is that ________ .
[A] employers are checking more closely on applicants now
[B] lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem [C] college degrees can now be purchased easily
[D] employers are no longer interested in college degrees
( B)67. According to the passage, \ [A] students attend a school only part-time
[B] students never attended a school they listed on their application [C] students purchase false degrees from commercial firms [D] students attended a famous school
( D)68. We can infer from the passage that ________ .
[A] performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree [B] experience is the best teacher
[C] past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do [D] a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
(D )69. This passage implies that ________ .
[A] buying a false degree is not moral
[B] personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
[C] most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school [D] society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications ( C)70. The word \
[A] thorough [B] ultimate [C] false [D] decisive
(4)
Material culture refers to what can be seen, held, felt, used—what a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of material culture in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual
sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on music and, when it becomes widespread, on the music culture as a whole.
One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media—radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the \revolution\a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music cultures all over the globe. (C )71. Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because ________ .
[A] it helps produce new cultural tools and technology [B] it can reflect the development of the nation
[C] it helps understand the nation’s past and present [D] it can demonstrate the nation’s civilization
( B)72. It can be learned from this passage that ________ .
[A] the existence of the symphony was attributed to the spread of Near Eastern and Chinese music
[B] Near Eastern music had an influence on the development of the instruments in the symphony orchestra
[C] the development of the symphony shows the mutual influence of Eastern and Western music [D] the musical instruments in the symphony orchestra were developed on the basis of Near Eastern music
(A )73. According to the author, music notation is important because ________ . [A] it has a great effect on the music culture as more and more people are able to read it
[B] it tends to standardize folk songs when it is used by folk musicians [C] it is the printed version of standardized folk music
[D] it encourages people to popularize printed versions of songs
(C )74. It can be concluded from the passage that the introduction of electronic media into the world of music ________ .
[A] has brought about an information revolution
[B] has speeded up the appearance of a new generation of computers [C] has given rise to new forms of music culture
[D] has led to the transformation of traditional musical instruments (D )75. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage
[A] Musical instruments developed through the years will sooner or later be replaced by computers.
[B] Music cannot be passed on to future generations unless it is recorded. [C] Folk songs cannot be spread far unless they are printed on music sheets.
[D] The development of music culture is highly dependent on its material aspect.
Part VI Writing (15 points)
Directions: You want to apply for the following post/position: Waiter/waitress required for evening work. Write a letter of no less than 100 words to: 1) show your interest
2) describe your previous experience
3) explain shy you would be suitable for the job
Don’t sign your name at the end of your letter, using “Li Ming” instead.
模拟试题三
Part V Reading comprehension
(1)
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only \things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出) something suspicious in the grain pile.
Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 \of alphabetic or numerical characters--ready for instant use. An average . teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.
The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and combinations
of words. But while language greatly expands the number and kind of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals. (D )56. Which of the following is true about memory
A. It helps us perceive things happening around us every day. B. It is based on the decisions we made in the past. C. It is rooted in our past habits and skills.
D. It connects our past experiences with the present.
( C)57. According to the passage, memory is helpful in one's life in the following aspects EXCEPT that___.
A. it involves a change in one's behavior B. it keeps information for later use
C. it warns people not to do things repeatedly
D. it enables one to remember events that happened in the past
(D )58. What is the author’s view about computers and human beings in term of intelligence
A. Computers have better memory than a child does B. Computers are as intelligent as a teenager is C. Computers can understand as many as words D. Human beings are far superior to computers.
(A )59. What is the major characteristic of man's memory capacity according to the author
A. It can be expanded by language. B. It can remember all the combined words.
C. It may keep all the information in the past. D. It may change what has been stored in it.
(B )60. Human beings make themselves different from other animals by___.
A. having the ability to perceive danger B. having a far greater memory capacity
C. having the ability to recognize faces and places on sight D. having the ability to draw on past experiences
(2)
“Family” is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of “family” in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life.
For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one’s parents and starting one’s own life. The man’s first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife’s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife’s parents nor the husband’s, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, have any right to interfere with
电大工商管理专业《学位英语》套试题及答案
