MBA英语模拟试题
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PART I Structure and Vocabulary (10% )
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this
part.For each
sentence there are four choices marked A,B,
C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best Completes the
sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the
Answer Sheet with a pencil.
1 . He didnt seem to mind ___________ TV while he was
trying to study.
A. their watching B. them watch C. they watching D.
them to watch
2. It is said that more than one person in this department
___________ going to lose his job.
A. are B. were C. will D. is
3. When she ___________ all the magazines, she’ll come
back home .
A. has sold B. will sell C. sell D. would sell
4.Themanufacturer claimed that this engine is ___________
the Previous one.
A. as twice pOwerfd8S B. powerful as twice as C. twice
powerful as D.twice as powerfu1 as
5. Nowhere else in the world________________ more
attractive scenery than in Switzerland.
A. are found B. have been found C. you can find D. can
you find
6. 1f he had not been ill yesterday, he ________to class.
A. go B. would go C. would have gone D. went
7. __________ science and technology he1p the society to
progress is a fact accepted by most people.
A. Modern B. That modern C. There modern D. It is
modern
8. ________ one of the leading novelists in America,Amy
Taylor has also written a number of poems and plays.
A. Considered B. Considering C. Having considered D.
Been considered
9. The streets are all wet. 1t_________during the night。
A. must be raining B. had to rain C. must have rained
D. had rained
10. England’s chief exports are coa1, cars and cotton
goods,cars ________the most important of these.
A. have been B. are C. be D. being
11. Everything was so expensive during the war that it was
Hardly ____________to save a penny.
A.Likely B. feasible C.probable D. possible
12.The automation has made it possible to_______ great
changes in industry。.
A. bring about B. bring down C. bring out D.bring
up
13.The police stopped him because he_____ the traffic
regulation.
A. damaged B. destroyed C. broke D. corrupted
14.All too________ it was time to go back to school after
the glorious summer holidays.
A. fast B. soon C. quick D. often
15.The chief manager refused to_________ on the rumor that
he was going to retire.
A. explain B. comment C. speak D. talk
16.Mr·Brown gradual1y_________aknowledge of the subject.
A. required B. inquired C. achieved D. acquired
17.If I am not _________ when you come to my office,ask
for my secretary.
A. suitab1e B. available C. comfortable D. proper
18.peasants supp1y workers with food, and workers________
supply peasants with manufactured goods.
A. in turn B. by turn C.for return D.by return
19.Lets go out during the break to_________ our legs。
A. stretch B. expand C. move D. extend
20.I have just___________abeautiful poem in that little
book.
A. come to B. come through C. come across D. come up
PART Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (50%)
Section A
Directions :There are 4 passages in this part.Each
passage is followed by some questions or unfinished
statements. For each them of them are for choices marked
A , B, c and D. You should decide on the best choice
and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a pencil.
Questions 21 to 24 are based on the following passage :
Americans like to do business without leaving their
cars. Youll see drive-in banks,drive-in restaurants,
drive-in churches and drive-in movies.
When driving in the U.S., its a good idea to have an
international drivers license if you dont have a state
license. Each of the fifty states has its own traffic
laws。 Get information when you cross the border into a
state at a tourist information center.
There is a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour.
Americans are generally polite about letting cars enter
busy streets. They usually stop for people who are walking
to let them cross the street. In many states you may turn
right after stopping at a corner, even if there is a red
light. On some roads there may be a minimum speed.
If you rent a car, ask the company what to do in case
your car breaks down. Some companies will ask you to call
a special number. Others will want you to have the car
repaired. They will partly deduct the cost of the repair
from your bill.
Mileage can mean two things. It may mean the total
number of miles a car has been driven. We say “This car
only has 10, 000 miles on it; it has low mileage.” On the
other hand, “gas mileage” is the number of miles a car
can travel on one U. S. gallon of gas. For example, a big
car that gets 25 miles to the gallon gets very good
mileage. A small economy car should get at least 35 miles
to the gallon when its new.
21. If you have a state drivers license,_________ .
A. you can drive anywhere in the U. S.
B. you dont have to apply for an international
drivers license
C. You cannot across the border in a car
D. you must know the traffic laws of another state
before you enter it .
22. If your rented car breaks down, some companies will
____________.
A. for you with free telephone service
B. pay you a certain amount of your total cost of the
repair
C. pay you the total cost of the repair
D. send workers to repair the car
23.“An economy car”here may refer to a car that
____________.
A. can be bought at a rather low price
B. is easy to operate
C. uses only a small amount of gas per mile
D. is special1y designed for a small fami1y
24.Which of the following statements is true?
A. Americans are usually willing to wait for another
car to enter busy streets.
B. Americans car do anything without leaving their
cars.
C. American drivers can ignore a red light when they
want to turn right.
D. Americans can drive at 55 miles per hour everywhere
in their country.
Questions 25 to 28 are based on the following passage :
There are robots all around us, Some do very
complicated jobs like flying airplanes and driving subway
trains。 And some do a simple job.
When an automatic washing machine is switched on,water
pours in. The mchine waits until the water is hot before
washing the clothes. It does this by“feedback.”
Information about What is happening is“feedback”into the
robot to te11 it what to do next.
Our eyes, ears and other senses are our feedback.
They tell us what is going on around us. So robots are like
people in two ways,They work and they have feedback.
There are robots all around, making our lives easier.
Some of them,like the pocket calculator, can work much
more quick1y than human beings can. And they rarely make
mistakes.
In some ways robots are better than people. They work
quick1y, but do not make mistakes, They do not get bored
doing the same job over and over again。 And they never get
tired.
Robots are very useful in factories. They can be taught
to do many different jobs. First their electronic brains
must be shown how the job is done. A person moves the
robot’s“arm” and“hand”through each part of the job.
The robot’s brain remembers each move。 When the robot is
put to work on its own, its brain controls the rods,
wheels and motors which move its arm.
When the robot is needed for a new job, its electronic
memory is“wiped clean.”Then it is taught how to do its
new task.
If the robot’s hand stops working, or if something
gets in the way, it cannot do the next part of the job.So
it stops and signals for help,Then a human engineer
repairs it.
The most“intelligent”robots can move and see. Their
eyes are cameras. Their metal fingers can feel shapes and
even find out how hot and cold objects are. These robots
have computer brains,linked to their eyes and fingers,
which control their actions.
25.In this story the author tells us that______________.
A. there are vervfewrO6ots
B. we see robots only at certain tines
C. robot5are something new in our life
D. ro6ots are all around us
26.In this story we are told that____________.
A. we get feedback through our eyes and ears
B. we get feedback through the robots
C. only robots get feedback
D. robots are not intelligent because of the feedback
27.What does the author of this story want you to feel
about robots?
A. They will probab1y take over in the future.
B. They are very helpful and useful to humans.
C. They are machines that are often out of order.
D. They are not friends of human beings.
28.Since people like what robots do, what do you think
this means for the future?
A,More and better robots will be built .
B. People will stop making robots.
C. There will be laws against using robots.
D. Robots will benefit nobody.
Questions 29 to 32 are based on the following passage:
Tests conducted at the University of Pennsylvanias
Psycho1ical Laboratory showed that anger is one of the most
difficult Emotions to find out from facial expressions.
Professor Dallas E. Buzby confronted 716 students with
pictures of extreme1y angry persons, and asked them to
identify the emotion from the facial expression。 Only two
percent made correct judgments. Anger was most frequently
judged as“pleased”.
And a typical reaction of a student confronted with the
picture of a man who was mad was to classify his expression
as either ‘bewildered’,‘quizzical’,or simply
‘amazed’.Other studies showed that it is extremely
difficult to tell whether a man is angry or not just by
looking at his face. The investigators found further that
women are better at finding out anger from facia1
expressions than men are. Paradoxically,they found that
psychological training does not improve one’s ability to
judge a man’s emotions by his expressions but actually
hinders it. For in the university tests, the more courses
the student had taken in psychology, the poorer judgment
score he turned in.
29.The information in this passage centers
around___________.
A. the re1ation between anger and other emotions
B. the differences between men and women with respect
to emotion
C. the influence of psychology on human emotions
D. the discovery of anger from facial expressions
30.when tested, students with psychological
training_________.
A. marked less than two percent of their possible
choices correctly
B. did better than the average student in the group
C. seemed less able to judge correctly than the average
student
D. performed in a manner not specified in the passage
31.To achieve the greatest success in finding out anger
from facial expressions,it would be best to__________.
A. use adults rather than students as judges
B. ask women who do not study psychology to judge it
C. ask men rather than women to judge it
D. be satisfied with a two percent success,if such a
percentage is guaranteed
32.The last two sentences in the second paragraph show
that__________.
A. such training has not resulted in better scores
B. we have really achieved the anticipated results
C. the judgment is similar to what we have expected
D.we can expect such training to have the effect stated
Questions 33 to 36 are based on the following passage:
Wouldnt it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast right away?
Well, you Can. The forecast is written in c1ouds. If
you can read that writing,you can tell something about the
atmosphere. With some practice, you can become a pretty
good weather forecaster.Who knows,you might even do as
well as meteorologists.
Meteorologists use much more information than just the
appearance of the clouds to make their forecast.They
collect data from all over the world. Then they put it
into powerful,high-speed computers.
This does give meteorologists an advantage,because
they can track weather patterns as they move from west to
east across the country.
But you have an advantage,too.You can look at the sky
and get your data directly.A meteorologist uses a computer
forecast that’s several hours old to make a 1ocal
forecast.
What are you seeing when you look at a cloud?”A
picture of what moisture is doing in the atmosphere,” says
meteorologist Peter Leavit . There’s moisture throughout
the atmosphere. Most of the time you dont see it,because
its in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor.
Sometimes,the temperature of the air gets cold enough
to cause the water vapor to change to liquid water.That’s
called condensation, and we see it happen all the time
(for example,when humid air from the shower hits the cold
glass of a mirror). When enough water vapor condenses,
droplets form in the air.These droplets scatter light.A
cloud is seen.
Watching c1ouds over a day or two tells you a lot more
than a sing1e cloud about the weather to come, Changes in
clouds show changes in the atmosphere.
You should begin to notice patterns. Certain clouds,
fol1owing each other in order, can signal an approaching
storm. But don’t take our word for it; see for yourself.
33.This passage main1y tells us about how__________.
A. to become a meteorologist
B. to keep an eye on the weather
C. to be an assistant to a meteorologist
D. to change water vapor to liquid water
34.According to the passage,an ordinary person might do
as well as a meteorologist in weather
forecast_____________.
A. with the help of the high-speed computers
B. through a complex process of calculation
C. with some simple practice looking up at the sky
D. consulting a weather station
35.Meteorologists make their weather forecast__________.
A. by collecting data from all over the world
B. by putting this date into powerfu1, high·speed
computers
C. by ca1culating and ana1yzirig this data
D. all above
36.Your advantage in weather forecasts is that____________.
A. you have more powerful computers at home
B. your brain works as well as a high-speed computer
C. you observe the sky and obtain your data directly
D. meteorologists give their data to you as soon as
they get them
Questions 37 to 40 are based on the following passage:
Security and commodity exchanges are trading posts
where people meet who wish to buy or sell. The exchanges
themselves do no trading;they merely provide a place where
prospective buyers and sellers can meet and conduct their
business.
Wall Street, although the best known, is not the only
home of exchanges in the United States. There are cotton
exchanges in New Orleans and Chicago; the Mercantile
Exchange, which deals in many farm products, in Chicago;
and grain exchanges in many of the large cities of the
Midwest. home exchanges, like the Chicago Board of Trade,
provide market services for several kinds of products.
These trading posts where products may be bought or sold
are called commodity exchanges.
The security exchanges, on the other hand, are meeting
places where stocks and bonds are traded. Like the
commodity exchanges , they help serve the economic life of
t he country. But when their operations get out of hand,
they may become very dangerous.In l929, the security
exchanges,or stock market, contributed to a crash a
sudden, sharp decline in the value of securities. Many
people lost fortunes;many corporations were bankrupted;
many workers lost their jobs. The Crash of l929 has been
attributed to many causes, among them wild and unwise
speculation by many people and dishonest practices on the
part of some businessmen and of some members of the
exchanges.
Today,however,investing through security exchanges
and trading on commodity exchanges has been made safer by
regulations set up by the exchanges themselves and by
regulations of the United States government, In l922,the
government instituted the Commodity Exchange Commission
which operated through the Department of Agriculture; and
in l934,the Securities and Exchanges Commission, to
protect investors and the public against dishonest
practices on the exchanges.
37.Security and commodity exchanges are meeting places for
buyers and sellers of__________.
A. stocks B. grain C. securities D. all of these
38. Among the reasons for the Crash of 1929 were__________.
A. unwise speculation by many people
B. dishonest practices by some businessmen
C. strict regulations of the Commodity Exchange
Commission
D. both A and B
39.1nvestinR in securities has been made safer
by__________.
A. the Securities and Exchange Commission
B. the Commodity Exchange Commission
C. Chicago Board of Trade
D. Chicago Mercantile Exchange
40.Implies but not stated :______________.
A. Some exchanges provide market services for several
kinds of products
B. The role of the government has been an important
factor in curbing dishonest practices on the exchanges
C. Investing in securities is unwise
D. Buying and selling securities is dishonest
Section B
Directions:Read the following passage and then give short
answers to the five questions. Write your answers on the
Answer Sheet.
Hunting was origina11yameans of providing food, but it
has now become a sport. Though in so-me parts of the world
there are stil1 people who hunt wild animals to provide
them selves with food, in England, hunting is as much a
social activity as anything else.
A great many years ago, fishermen in Japan used birds
to catch fish. This art of fishing is said to be at least
a thousand years old and is mentioned in Japanese plays.
Today, however, fishing in this way has simply become a
sport,for the fisher men are not serious1y interested in
catching fish.
On summer nights the fishing boats set out on rivers in
various parts of the country, At the front of each boat
here is an iron basket in which a wood fire is kept
burning, As the graceful curved boats float past carried
along by the current, these fires, dotted here and
there, make bright patterns on the water. Steering down
the river,the fishermen beat the sides of the boat to
encourage the birds, and people out for an evenings
entertainment either sit or lie on the floor of the boats
drinking beer and sometimes even cooking a meal for
themselves over the flames of the fire, This method of
fishing demands great skill, for the fisherman has to
handle three or four birds in one hand. A long piece of
string is tied round the neck of each bird and the
fisherman must take care to keep the birds separate from
each other. Every so often, the birds are set free and
they fly close to the water in search of fish.
The moment a bird catches a fish in its beak it is pulled
back on to the boat. The siring is held itght1y round the
birds throat to prevent it from swallowing the fish it has
caught. When there do not seem to be many fish in the
river, the fishermen can sometimes be seen secret1y
throwing dead fish into the water for the birds to catch.
No one really objects to this practice, as it is all part
of this unusual sport.
41. What was the original purpose of hunting?
42. In which season of the year do the fishing boats set
out?
43. What do the fishermen do to encourage the birds?
44. What is tied round the neck of each bird?
45.What does the fisherman do after the bird catches a
fish?
PART Ⅲ cloze(10%)
Directions : choose the right,word for each b1ank from
the list giver below. Make changes, if necessary.
come rare anxiety alarm glimpse
nervous behaviour horror about grateful
supply satisfaction awake in sleep
The strange behaviour of sleepwalkers has puzzled the
police and scientists for centuries. There is a sufficient
46 of stories about sleepwalkers, who have been said to
solve mathematical problems, do shopping and take a swim.
In 47 cases, sleep. walking is used as an excuse for some
radical 48 .
Is the sleepwalker actual1y 49 or asleep?Scientists
have decided that he is half-and-half.A sleepwalker can
walk 50 his sleep, move around, and do other, but he does
not think 51 what he is doing.
The only way to cure sleepwalking is to remove the
worries and 52 that cause it. So far, no 53 explanations
have ever been found. The simplest one is that it is the
acting out of a dream. The dream usually 54 from horror,
terror, guilt, sorrow or 55 .
Although sleepwalking itself is nothing to become
alarmed about,the problems that cause the sleepwalking may
be very serious.
PART Ⅳ English-Chinese Translation(15%)
Directions :Read the fo11owing passage careful1y. Then
translate it into Chinese. Write your translation on the
Answer Sheet.
Real recreation is something which not only gives us
pleasure, but also helps to renew, or recreate, mind and
the body. Therefore, the kind of recreation we engage in
is important to us all.It becomes increasingly important
as machines take over more of our work. Todays
man spends fewer hours earning his living than he did fifty
or one hundred years ago. The trend toward shorter working
hours continues,Thus,man finds himself with more and more
time for recreation, If he spends his time wisely, he
can greatly enrich his life. His recreation can help him to
discover new talents and to improve himself both
physically and mentally.
PART Ⅴ writing(15%)
Directions :For this part, you are asked to write a
1etter about buying a book from publishing house. You are
given the outline in Chinese。 Your part Of the composition
should be about l20 words. Remember to write clearly. You
should write this composition on the Answer Sheet.
1.此信是写给美国一家著名出版社的。
2.要求购买史密斯博士编写的《21世纪的管理学》。
3.购书原因。
4.付款主式。
5.寄书地址。