2016年同等学力人员申请硕士学位英语水平全国统一考试试题及详解Paper One 试卷一(100 minutes)Part ⅠOral Communication (10 points)Section ADirections: In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A, B and C, taken from the dialogue. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Dialogue OneA. Will you take care of that for me?B. Does it have anything valuable inside?C. How do you want to send it?Clerk: May I help you?Customer: Yes, I’d like to send this letter to my family in England.Clerk: Did you write your return address on the envelope?Customer: Yes, I did.Clerk: (1) _____Customer: I guess I’ll send it airmail.Clerk: (2) _____Customer: Yes. I enclosed a check and some photographs.Clerk: Then you’d better send it by registered mail.Customer: That’s a good idea. (3) _____Clerk: I’m sorry, sir. You’ll have to take your letter to the next window.【答案与解析】1. C 结合上下文,根据顾客的回答“我想通过航空邮寄信件”,可以推断职员在问邮寄方式。
C项“你想如何邮寄”符合语境,故选C。
2. B 结合上下文,根据顾客的回答“是的。
我附了一张支票和一些照片”,可以推断店员询问的是信内物品。
B项“里面有贵重物品吗”,符合语境。
故选B。
3. A 对话最后,职员回答“对不起,先生。
你得到旁边的窗口办理”,可以推断顾客询问是否能够在该窗口办理。
A项“你能办理吗”,符合语境。
故选A。
Dialogue TwoA. You can’t even stay in the sun for five minutes.B. I guess so.C. You want my advice?Winne: Oh, man! Nobody can stand this kind of scorching heat.Marc: Absolutely! (4) _____Winne: Anyway, I guess this afternoon there’s nothing we can do but stay home.Marc: (5) _____I don’t want to be taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion or something.Winne: (6) _____ Drink a lot of liquids and spare yourself the worst of the heat! Marc: Yeah, you’re right. Got to drink a lot of fluids.【答案与解析】4. A 结合上下文,温妮说“没人能够忍受这样的炎热”,马克回答“是啊”。
可知该空缺处出现的内容中仍与炎热的话题有关。
A项“没法儿在太阳底下呆五分钟”,符合语境。
故选A。
5. B 结合上下文,温妮说“哎,看来我们今天下午只能呆在家里了”,马克后半句回答说“我不想因为中暑被送进医院”,可以推断马克前半句回答是同意上面温妮的观点。
B项“我想也是”,符合语境。
故选B。
6. C 在最后两句对话中,温妮后半句说道“多饮水,注意避暑”,马克回答“对,你是对的。
必须喝大量的水”。
由此可以推断温妮在前半句中给出了意见。
C项“给你点建议”,符合语境。
故选C。
Section BDirections: In this section there is one incomplete interview which has four blanks and four choices A, B, C and D, taken from the interview. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.A. I literally can’t stop.B. But now I don’t need to worry any more.C. You’re known as the first billionaire author here.D. But that’s not just about money.Interviewer: You have published six popular books. (7) _____Interviewee: Yeah.Interviewer: So how has being the first billionaire author affected your perception of yourself?Interviewee: I dress better. Well, you can definitely afford better clothes.(8) _____ I think the single biggest thing that money gave me—and obviously Icame from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand tomouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get without beinghomeless at one point. (9) _____ Never.Interviewer: Are you in a place now where you can accept that you will always be rich?Interviewee: No.Interviewer: And will you be writing more?Interviewee: Oh, definitely. I can’t, yeah, (10) _____ Well, I mean, you could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mentalhealth, I need to write.【答案与解析】7. C 根据采访者第一句话上半句“你已经出版了六本畅销书”,可以推断下半句应该是出版畅销书的成果或影响。
C项“你是我们这里的首位亿万富翁作家”,可以作为参考项。
结合上下文,下文第三行采访者提及“成为首位身价亿万的作家对你有什么影响”,四个选择中只有C选项提到“首位身价亿万的作家”,再次印证了上文C项的合理性。
故选C。
8. D 对话中,受访者对自己之前窘迫生活的状况进行了描述:单亲家庭,勉强糊口。
可以判断对话此部分提及金钱。
D项“与金钱有关,不单单只是金钱”,符合语境。
故选D。
9. B 结合上下文,上文受访者说道“我曾是个单亲妈妈,曾有一时,我们生活非常拮据,只能勉强糊口,就差没有沦落街头了”,下文却说“Never”。
可知此处出现转折。
选项中只有B“但是现在我再也不用为此而发愁了”,符合语境。
故选B。
10. A 结合上下文,采访者提问的最后一个问题是“你还会继续写作吗”,可知空缺处回答是否会继续写作以及原因,并且下文出现“肯定会”。
A项“我简直不能停”,回答了上文的问题并与下文的“肯定会”态度一致,符合语境。
故选A。
Part ⅡVocabulary (10 points)Directions:In this part there are ten sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. 11. Such experience helps promote o ne’s alertness to other cultures, as well as a better appreciation of one’s own culture.A. preferenceB. adjustmentC. sensitivityD. response【答案】C【解析】句意:这样的经验有助于提升一个人对其他文化的敏感度,同时也加深对自己文化的认识。
alertness机敏。
sensitivity敏感;灵敏度,故正确选项为C。
二者意思相近。
preference倾向;偏爱。
adjustment调整;调节。
response反应。
12. If you always try to find fault with others, it means that you have gained another shortcoming.A. ignoreB. criticizeC. impressD. follow【答案】B【解析】句意:如果你总是想批评别人,这意味着你已经有了另一个缺点。