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

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　　- 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。

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　　考试时间180分钟 满分100分 得分 英语冲刺试题5 第页

　　Section Ⅰ Use of English

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark 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 first 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 simple-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 13 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. For 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 [B] for [C] why [D] how

　　2. [A] present [B] current [C] elapsed [D] emerged

　　3. [A] to [B] on [C] in [D] with

　　4. [A] In contrast [B] In brief [C] In reality [D] In addition

　　5. [A] variety [B] capacity [C] tolerance [D] endurance

　　6. [A] detain [B] promote [C] enforce [D] hamper

　　7. [A] decision [B] reflection [C] meditation [D] contemplation

　　8. [A] conversions [B] premises [C] occasions [D] motives

　　9. [A] in [B] to [C] at [D] for

　　10. [A] as [B] if [C] when [D] though

　　11. [A] undisturbed [B] undisputed [C] undisguised [D] unchanged

　　12. [A] frequently [B] radically [C] routinely [D] sensibly

　　13. [A] community [B] authenticity [C] culture [D] structure

　　14. [A] features [B] values [C] notions [D] qualities

　　15. [A] techniques [B] components [C] opponents [D] opposites

　　16. [A] substance [B] consequence [C] competence [D] significance

　　17. [A] distinct [B] obsolete [C] strange [D] ordinary

　　18. [A] rational [B] gradua [C] irresistible [D] indispensable

　　19. [A] flow [B] trend [C] array [D] scale

　　20. [A] counterparts [B] inhabitants [C] colleagues [D] contemporaries

Section　Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

　　Part A

　　Directions:

　　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)

　　Text1

　　In order to understand childhood today, one must explore its history, an odd notion in many who instinctively assume that 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 clear, 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 society’s young is 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, childhood is not merely evolving, but is in fact in danger of extinction.